Please help me lose 20 lbs - Page 15

^^^ Keep up the good work and you'll be at your target weight in no time!

Keep it up Sho'Nuff. Sounds like you've found a routine and what works for you. I've put together my own routine over the past couple months and am down to 179 (this morning) from a high of 195.

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OK, so I'm 8 months late.

e: But seriously, I've seen a ton of people do amazing things on low-carb ketogenic diets.

Do aminoacids from Beverly Amino Tank, american brand.

That will you do loose weight while actually have harder muscles.

i'm not sure if this has been said before, but i think you need to start counting calories. It's the only way to be sure that you're going to lose weight.

If you're doing those walks, then it's pretty easy to calculate the amount of calories you're burning. So then you just have to make sure you're eating 500 calories less than the amount you're walking + your resting metabolic rate for the day.

there's plenty of internet calculators out there.


if you want to lose weight, you're going to have to feel hungry from time to time. If you ate to not feel hungry, that'd maintain the weight you're at right now.

Nice going!

One of the things I've done when I find myself reaching for snacks in the office is that I tend to get myself out of the office for a while and do something. Run errands, that sort of thing. I get hungry for a while, and then it passes as I do other things. Come back for a late lunch, and I'm good without going overboard.

I've been somewhat doing the same thing. I have never really eaten breakfast but used to get hungry a few days a week before lunch and wander over to the local liquor store and pick up a snack. Nothing there was healthy and I'd end up with a bag of chips. I changed that by keeping canned sardines at my desk, so now that is my go to breakfast (a can of sardines in the morning...the small 135 calorie ones)


Noice. Keep up the good work. What I found to be pretty fun as well is biking. This past Saturday I woke up early (so I could watch the Nigeria-Argentina game when I got there) and biked from Tustin to Costa Mesa. I took Redhill (turns into Santa Ana) all the way from Tustin to 19th Street in Costa Mesa. It was about 12 miles and took exactly an hour. After the game, my friend and I went from his house down to Sharkees in Newport (Newport Pier) to watch the US-England game). We did the same biking around Newport thing on Sunday. It's really fun. Good exercise, great weather, can stop off at a bar or two or the beach, and good looking women all around. Highly recommended.

It's the weekend so It's either my planned day of not working out, I already worked out before, or in the case of Saturday, it was before I was going to play in a softball tourney that day and night. So it's not in place of my workout routine. Why would I ride around the beach in an ocbd and pants? Are you stupid? It's cruising around the beach so I wore board shorts, flip flops, and an under armor sleeveless dry fit shirt (oh the horror). I'm not saying that this should be your workout. Just that it is a fun way to spend a day and offers more exercise than eating bon bons and watching tv.

You're really not that sweaty from cruising around the beach. I changed out of the shirt I wore from Tustin to Costa Mesa at my friends house before going to the beach.

^^^ yeah, there are a few garments that can help immensely in this regard. Cycling in particular has the best of all worlds since you have a good breeze going and never sweat/get smelly like you would if you were running. Keep a leisurely pace and stop inside once in a while, and you ought never get worn down.

One of the funny things is that Europe (as I'm told) is very walking-heavy. No one ever feels like they're working out, but they tend to keep the weight off pretty well from all the activitiy. Lots of bikes, too.

I'm going to do more of the biking from my house to the beach thing this summer as it really is alot of fun. Great way to spend the day.

I've been doing alot of running lately. Monday-Friday 40 minutes (4 miles) on treadmill using the setting that changes speeds 0.5 mph every 30 seconds (i.e. 5.5/6.0/6.5/7.0/7.5/7.0/6.5...etc). I put a movie on my laptop in front of the treadmill to watch and put on one of those elastic waist trimmer things (makes me sweat more) and a sweatshirt. Been doing this for a few months now and it has been working well and I've stuck to it. Sometimes I'll do it again on a Sat or Sun if I'm not playing in a softball tourney, out golfing, etc.

I know. I'm still contemplating stopping by your house and throwing eggs at your windows next time I'm in Costa Mesa.

I remember walking around in Paris about 10 years ago all day long and hardly ever seeing an elevator anywhere. Finally at the end of a long day, we were in a Metro station (Montparnasse Bienvenue maybe) and faced with the prospect of ascending a couple of flights of stairs, my wife (who was about 5 months pregnant at that time) asked someone, "Ascenseur, si'l vous plait?" and I remember the person looking at us as though we were from Mars...