> Judah wrote: > I'll stick with Michael Pollon's advice: > > Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Vegetables. >
Heh, yeah. Wish I could, but I tried that and it just doesn't work. Back when I was ~260 I tried a fish-n-vegetables diet w/ cardio I lost 10 lbs right away but then was making like .25 lbs per week. I upped my cardio until I was doing 2 hours per day on a bike about 4 days per week. Didn't do much at all. I got frustrated, thought I was just meant to be fat, and chucked the whole thing. Then I got disgusted with myself again, so next I tried swimming and weight training at a gym, again using pollon's advice. After 3 months, same result, although I got down to 235 and then progress halted. Got discouraged again. Plus I hated the gym. Although I missed the weight training. So even though I decided I was just going to be a fatty, I thought I needed exercise to stay healthy so I dropped some dough on home gym equip: http://www.hoistfitness.com/products/consumer/equipment.aspx?c=3&sc=7&pid=353 When I really started focusing on lifting - and dumped the cardio - I powered through to 220. I also added in more equip like a hip sled, hyper/ab, power tower, et al. I also bought a Cybex ArcTrainer, mostly for my wife, but also for me. I use it occassionally. http://www.hoistfitness.com/products/consumer/equipment.aspx?c=3&sc=5&pid=349 http://www.hoistfitness.com/products/consumer/equipment.aspx?c=3&sc=5&pid=343 http://www.hoistfitness.com/products/consumer/equipment.aspx?c=3&sc=4&pid=342 http://www.cybexintl.com/products/cardio/630A/intro.aspx Hit the wall again. That's when I perfected the insane diet for me. Now I can do anything I want. I could drop down to 2% body fat if I wanted. Frankly I do, but I lack the discipline to do it right now. The BIG difference now is confidence & expectations in methodology. I am 100% confident that I know exactly what to do and exactly what to expect if I do it. That's huge peace of mind. Now I just need to find that discipline ... This is what I'm hoping can help me: http://www.hoistfitness.com/products/consumer/equipment.aspx?c=1&sc=1&pid=426 This thing kicks arse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274636 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
