How about we have a weight loss get in shape for moto 2026 contest

APLMAN99 wrote:

I stopped drinking last year when I had my heart issues.  I thought it was going to be difficult, because I love the taste of beer...

I stopped drinking last year when I had my heart issues.  I thought it was going to be difficult, because I love the taste of beer and had at least one every night it seemed.  Beer wasn't as hard as I thought.  I have had maybe 8-10 in the last 15 months and almost half of those were my daughter's wedding weekend.  I think beer was a habit for me, not an addiction, because I didn't suffer any cravings for it once I knew I shouldn't have very much of it at all.  I thought about trying some of the NA beers, but my past experience with them wasn't all that good so I'll probably just stay on the beer every couple months plan from here on out.  

Salt was the one thing that has been the toughest.  I used to salt EVERYTHING.  I mean everything.  Watermelon, cucumbers, apples, cantaloupe, etc.  I was really diligent for the first 6 months about staying under 2,000 mg a day, and if I went a little bit over one day I made sure that I was under the next so my weekly average was always under 2K per day.  My doctor gave me the go ahead to not be quite as strict with it but keep an eye on it, but now that I have gotten used to eating fruits and veggies without salt I actually prefer it that way now.  The tough part is that almost anything that is even slightly processed has a lot more sodium in it than you realize.  Even eating just meat is not always quick and easy because a lot of chicken has saltwater injected in it to maintain it's weight and firmness.  

Meister wrote:

How about using celtic sea salt?

APLMAN99 wrote:

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much...

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much care for the larger size and the crunchiness of it. For me it’s been better to just stay away when I can, otherwise I’ll want to go back to my previous usage. 

Meister wrote:

How about using celtic sea salt?

APLMAN99 wrote:

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much...

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much care for the larger size and the crunchiness of it. For me it’s been better to just stay away when I can, otherwise I’ll want to go back to my previous usage. 

cwtoyota wrote:

Salt is salt...  
The body gets NaCl (Sodium-Chloride) and it's the same chemical with the same effect no matter where it is sourced.

matze wrote:

end of last year around 14% body fat, now around 11% 👍

captmoto wrote:

Alright you lightweights, 68 years old, 266 lbs. I just went to Glen Helen yesterday. I rode about 30 minutes total and was spent. I graduated from...

Alright you lightweights, 68 years old, 266 lbs. I just went to Glen Helen yesterday. I rode about 30 minutes total and was spent. 

I graduated from my fire academy in 1981 at 190 lbs, about 6'1. I looked skinny back then. I really believe I have real good bone density. I only ever broke one bone riding or racing. I was as high as 290 but have slowly dropped, like over 4 years. I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic and am on metformin and just started mounjaro (GLP-1) 10 days ago. . I'll take full accountability for my T2 diabetes. I love food, donuts, big sandwiches sweets and so on. I have some decent (?) ortho issues that keep me from going ham with weights so I'll be going high rep weights but will work more on cardio. A personal trainer I know based her program around her belief that "you can't outrun a bad diet" so that has been my approach since Thanksgiving.

You can put me in the PED or cheater bike class but I'm in. Do we check in weekly to keep track?. Lets go with body weight percentage lost. 

I'll be back in a week. 

 

APLMAN99 wrote:

How is the Mounjaro working out for you?  My brother-in-law used it and he's been heavy all of his adult life.  He just recently retired as...

How is the Mounjaro working out for you?  My brother-in-law used it and he's been heavy all of his adult life.  He just recently retired as a Director for Meta and as you can imagine, he spent about 70-100 hours a week staring at a monitor and when he wasn't he was just too exhausted to do much.  It completely changed him, mentally and physically.  He challenged me to try it for a month.  I was skeptical........

....but not anymore.  

I started on it on May 6.  I had lost about 40 pounds last year after my heart issue but had gained about 15-20 back after the move with putting in extra time learning my new plant's processes, materials, etc.  And like most people know, Portland's winter doesn't exactly get you much Vit D to get you in the mood to get outside and be active (unless you are already a diehard, anyway!).  

Granted a decent part of it has likely been water weight (even though I am trying to maintain my water intake), but it hasn't quite been 5 weeks and I am down a little over 33 pounds.  I had set a goal of 50 by Sept 1, but I think I am going to have to revise that.  

The crazy part of it for me isn't really even the weight loss itself, it's the mental effects.  I am not any more disciplined than before, I am just not hungry.  The first week we had a dinner out planned and I ordered my usual steak with all the sides, and I felt like crap for 2 solid days afterward.  The feeling of 'fullness' was pretty instant (within 15 minutes of finishing) and overwhelming.  I don't think I had ever felt that full in my entire life.  And the reward trigger seems to have captured that sort of thing really quickly as now when I do think of having something like half of a Costco pizza, part of my brain instantly says "It might taste good for a minute, but it's not worth the uncomfortable bloated feeling afterwards.  Yesterday I made it a point to eat whenever I was hungry, but force myself to have a protein shake at 11AM and another at 3:30PM.  Even with those, I struggled to have an appetite for anything all day and ended the day at 1170 calories.  I just had no urge to eat anything else.  My doctor wants me to eat 1800 calories a day and I am not sure that I can do that right now.

I have read that scientists are looking at this and finding that people who tend to be lean naturally secrete significantly more GLP-1 hormone than individuals with obesity.  Whether this occurs before or after a person becomes obese isn't known, but most researchers now believe that the lower secretion levels of GLP-1 is probably more of a cause of obesity than a consequence of it.  It also helps explain why a lot of thinner people believe that it's just a case of willpower and discipline, but they simply don't fully understand that their bodies are not asking for the same things as an obese person's body might be.  Based on how this has changed my entire desire and relationship with food, I think the scientists who believe that it is a cause as much or more than a consequence are probably right.  It really is like flipping a light switch and almost forgetting about food at all.  

captmoto wrote:

Alright you lightweights, 68 years old, 266 lbs. I just went to Glen Helen yesterday. I rode about 30 minutes total and was spent. I graduated from...

Alright you lightweights, 68 years old, 266 lbs. I just went to Glen Helen yesterday. I rode about 30 minutes total and was spent. 

I graduated from my fire academy in 1981 at 190 lbs, about 6'1. I looked skinny back then. I really believe I have real good bone density. I only ever broke one bone riding or racing. I was as high as 290 but have slowly dropped, like over 4 years. I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic and am on metformin and just started mounjaro (GLP-1) 10 days ago. . I'll take full accountability for my T2 diabetes. I love food, donuts, big sandwiches sweets and so on. I have some decent (?) ortho issues that keep me from going ham with weights so I'll be going high rep weights but will work more on cardio. A personal trainer I know based her program around her belief that "you can't outrun a bad diet" so that has been my approach since Thanksgiving.

You can put me in the PED or cheater bike class but I'm in. Do we check in weekly to keep track?. Lets go with body weight percentage lost. 

I'll be back in a week. 

 

APLMAN99 wrote:

How is the Mounjaro working out for you?  My brother-in-law used it and he's been heavy all of his adult life.  He just recently retired as...

How is the Mounjaro working out for you?  My brother-in-law used it and he's been heavy all of his adult life.  He just recently retired as a Director for Meta and as you can imagine, he spent about 70-100 hours a week staring at a monitor and when he wasn't he was just too exhausted to do much.  It completely changed him, mentally and physically.  He challenged me to try it for a month.  I was skeptical........

....but not anymore.  

I started on it on May 6.  I had lost about 40 pounds last year after my heart issue but had gained about 15-20 back after the move with putting in extra time learning my new plant's processes, materials, etc.  And like most people know, Portland's winter doesn't exactly get you much Vit D to get you in the mood to get outside and be active (unless you are already a diehard, anyway!).  

Granted a decent part of it has likely been water weight (even though I am trying to maintain my water intake), but it hasn't quite been 5 weeks and I am down a little over 33 pounds.  I had set a goal of 50 by Sept 1, but I think I am going to have to revise that.  

The crazy part of it for me isn't really even the weight loss itself, it's the mental effects.  I am not any more disciplined than before, I am just not hungry.  The first week we had a dinner out planned and I ordered my usual steak with all the sides, and I felt like crap for 2 solid days afterward.  The feeling of 'fullness' was pretty instant (within 15 minutes of finishing) and overwhelming.  I don't think I had ever felt that full in my entire life.  And the reward trigger seems to have captured that sort of thing really quickly as now when I do think of having something like half of a Costco pizza, part of my brain instantly says "It might taste good for a minute, but it's not worth the uncomfortable bloated feeling afterwards.  Yesterday I made it a point to eat whenever I was hungry, but force myself to have a protein shake at 11AM and another at 3:30PM.  Even with those, I struggled to have an appetite for anything all day and ended the day at 1170 calories.  I just had no urge to eat anything else.  My doctor wants me to eat 1800 calories a day and I am not sure that I can do that right now.

I have read that scientists are looking at this and finding that people who tend to be lean naturally secrete significantly more GLP-1 hormone than individuals with obesity.  Whether this occurs before or after a person becomes obese isn't known, but most researchers now believe that the lower secretion levels of GLP-1 is probably more of a cause of obesity than a consequence of it.  It also helps explain why a lot of thinner people believe that it's just a case of willpower and discipline, but they simply don't fully understand that their bodies are not asking for the same things as an obese person's body might be.  Based on how this has changed my entire desire and relationship with food, I think the scientists who believe that it is a cause as much or more than a consequence are probably right.  It really is like flipping a light switch and almost forgetting about food at all.  

inthebadboycorner wrote:

Well done. Myself after months of surgeries and stalled weight loss on wegovy, I have throw in that towell. I have jumped ship to Reta, after a...

Well done. Myself after months of surgeries and stalled weight loss on wegovy, I have throw in that towell.

 I have jumped ship to Reta, after a month of dialing in my dose I'm starting to lose weight again. Slowly but surely.

Meister wrote:

How about using celtic sea salt?

APLMAN99 wrote:

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much...

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much care for the larger size and the crunchiness of it. For me it’s been better to just stay away when I can, otherwise I’ll want to go back to my previous usage. 

cwtoyota wrote:

Salt is salt...  
The body gets NaCl (Sodium-Chloride) and it's the same chemical with the same effect no matter where it is sourced.

APLMAN99 wrote:

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much...

I used sea salt a few times but it just seemed like I wanted to use more of it to get more taste. I didn’t much care for the larger size and the crunchiness of it. For me it’s been better to just stay away when I can, otherwise I’ll want to go back to my previous usage. 

cwtoyota wrote:

Salt is salt...  
The body gets NaCl (Sodium-Chloride) and it's the same chemical with the same effect no matter where it is sourced.

coopernicus wrote:

Potassium Chloride, Sodium Bicarbonate, Magnesium Chloride, and Calcium Carbonate have something to say about "Salt is salt...". There's also "hidden" sodium naturally occurring in plants and...

Potassium Chloride, Sodium Bicarbonate, Magnesium Chloride, and Calcium Carbonate have something to say about "Salt is salt...". There's also "hidden" sodium naturally occurring in plants and meat without chloride.  The hidden sodium in meat comes from eating plants that have it or digested sodium chloride (thus decomposing the compound), not just NaCl added during processing.

I'm not really a "know it all" douche: I just play one in real life!

 

EAmato88 wrote:

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost...

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost 0 weight loss. I have been weight training 3-4 days a week, I look great and feel good but I have noticed that belly fat is not decreasing. I am going to tighten things up for the month of July and see how it goes. I am currently 12 pounds away from my ultimate goal. Overall, Im not upset about the big picture, slightly frustrated at the moment but I also knew this would happen in the summer. We are currently preparing for out first trip to Lorettas, stress is slightly elevated as is the workload. 

EAmato88 wrote:

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost...

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost 0 weight loss. I have been weight training 3-4 days a week, I look great and feel good but I have noticed that belly fat is not decreasing. I am going to tighten things up for the month of July and see how it goes. I am currently 12 pounds away from my ultimate goal. Overall, Im not upset about the big picture, slightly frustrated at the moment but I also knew this would happen in the summer. We are currently preparing for out first trip to Lorettas, stress is slightly elevated as is the workload. 

EAmato88 wrote:

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost...

Currently at 224, down 88 pounds since January 1 and 180 days alcohol free. I am struggling right now, the last 3 weeks have shown almost 0 weight loss. I have been weight training 3-4 days a week, I look great and feel good but I have noticed that belly fat is not decreasing. I am going to tighten things up for the month of July and see how it goes. I am currently 12 pounds away from my ultimate goal. Overall, Im not upset about the big picture, slightly frustrated at the moment but I also knew this would happen in the summer. We are currently preparing for out first trip to Lorettas, stress is slightly elevated as is the workload. 

yak651 wrote:

Being steady and down 7 pounds, finally consistently under 160 at 159lbs. Wouldn’t mind getting to 155 (I’m 5-6) but will be happy to maintain where...

Being steady and down 7 pounds, finally consistently under 160 at 159lbs. Wouldn’t mind getting to 155 (I’m 5-6) but will be happy to maintain where I’m at.