How I lost weight - Page 3

I've lost about 55 lbs and counting over the past couple years (last year was like 90% of the weight loss though. I've just started losing weight again the past few months). I've noticed a higher tolerance for hot weather (it was awesome to be able to go outside in the summer for a few minutes and not be sweating like a pig) and much more sensitivity to cold (this one sucks, but this year was my second 'skinny' winter and it was more tolerable than the previous winter). Actually I used to love winter and detest summer, but that's starting to even out.

Finally, my alcohol tolerance was almost totally shot after limiting myself to one drink once or twice a month for like 6 months, I noticed when I would have two drinks I'd already feel tipsy by the end of it.

None of these are actually bad. In fact, I kind of enjoyed noticing them as part of the process of transitioning to a new body type and getting to know my new self. I think it was heightened because I did lose the weight relatively fast (about a kilogram per week).

Yet I still have stretch marks from weight I put on very quickly in college (both muscle and fat, actually), like ten years ago...

I would guess that having loose skin is more of an issue when you lose weight exceptionally fast, bordering on dangerous. Kinda like the people on Survivor. But I'm not a doctor or anything, so that doesn't really mean much.

"Eat like your ancestors did and you'll lose weight!" I don't know where I picked this up but it makes sense. Look at pix of people in the early part of the 20th century and almost no one was fat. The other day I was looking at a documentary of some German sailors in WWII and some were around 6 ft and 150-160 lbs. The shorter guys were even less. They were examining the records of the recruits and their weights were there in documents.

We eat too many oversugared, overprocessed, oversalty foods. In the old days, the Irish ate cabbage and potatoes all the time. Mostly in soup. There was a potato famine which killed a good number of Irish people. That's how dependent they were on that staple food. And, they ate that mostly every day.

I've been practicing portion control and eating simple foods and I've lost 8 pounds in 3 months. (Me 5'7 and 170lbs). Today, I ate brown rice w/canned tuna for my 11 am early/lunch snack. My mid afternoon snack is whole wheat bread with 2 slices of sliced turkey (lofat mayo) no chips. Bland stuff. My 12 o clock lunch used to be a tour de jour of cheesburgerfries one day/KFC the next/Chinese etc. All washed down with a regular Coke (free refills at some fast food places!).
My goal is to get to 160 and see how that looks. I remember being 150-155lbs in college. (BTW, the most I've ever weighed is 180lbs).

I have a new maxim: unless someone invites me to lunch or I go to a company (free) lunch, I will eat bland simple foods like above. I do cheat on weekends mostly with friends and family, but all week I'm mostly keeping to the plan. (It's hard to eat lentils and brown rice in front of family/friends, ha-ha).

I do exercise, but not that much. I ride my bike to the subway 1-2 times a week (2 miles to station). I run 3 miles at least once a week, but my schedule and the humid weather has sometimes kept me indoor bound.