Max: Zeroing In
I am fat.
Right now I am about 15 pounds shy of the most I have ever weighed. I lost those 15 pounds over the course of the last two months. I decided to do what I always knew I needed to do. I cut back on calories and started to exercise more. That is what it boils down to - burning more calories than one takes in.
I made two changes to my diet. One, I have started to eat way more fresh fruit and veg than I ever have. This has many advantages. One, fruit and veg are just plain healthy. Two, they are low cal. Third, and most useful, they have a lot of bulk per calorie. That means that instead of eating some miniscule diet bar that doesn't even begin to fill me, I can cram myself full to bursting with carrots, celery, apples, clementines etc while consuming way fewer calories than I used to. The sort of food that used to be the majority of my diet is now the minority. I have cut nothing out. Nothing is forbidden. I still eat the same stuff I did before. I have just increased the fruit and veg and decreased everything else.
The second change been switching to Coke Zero. One of my major vices has been fizzy caffeine, mostly in the form of Coke. Every now and then I have tried to switch to diet soda, unsweetened tea, black coffee and just about anything else to get my caffeine fix. The taste always drove me back to regular Coke. That changed when I discovered Coke Zero. I don't know what makes Coke Zero different from Diet Coke. The list of ingredients seems to be similar, but the taste is way better. It doesn't taste like regular Coke. It tastes more like it is half regular Coke and half Diet Coke. But it is close enough. Given that I used to drink 6 or more cans of Coke a day at 140 calories a can, finding an acceptable calorie-free alternative has been a big help in cutting back on calories.
Of course, I have only lost 15 pounds. Once I lost 40 pounds before giving up. We'll just have to see if I can lose the 150 pounds I still have hanging over my belt.
Right now I am about 15 pounds shy of the most I have ever weighed. I lost those 15 pounds over the course of the last two months. I decided to do what I always knew I needed to do. I cut back on calories and started to exercise more. That is what it boils down to - burning more calories than one takes in.
I made two changes to my diet. One, I have started to eat way more fresh fruit and veg than I ever have. This has many advantages. One, fruit and veg are just plain healthy. Two, they are low cal. Third, and most useful, they have a lot of bulk per calorie. That means that instead of eating some miniscule diet bar that doesn't even begin to fill me, I can cram myself full to bursting with carrots, celery, apples, clementines etc while consuming way fewer calories than I used to. The sort of food that used to be the majority of my diet is now the minority. I have cut nothing out. Nothing is forbidden. I still eat the same stuff I did before. I have just increased the fruit and veg and decreased everything else.
The second change been switching to Coke Zero. One of my major vices has been fizzy caffeine, mostly in the form of Coke. Every now and then I have tried to switch to diet soda, unsweetened tea, black coffee and just about anything else to get my caffeine fix. The taste always drove me back to regular Coke. That changed when I discovered Coke Zero. I don't know what makes Coke Zero different from Diet Coke. The list of ingredients seems to be similar, but the taste is way better. It doesn't taste like regular Coke. It tastes more like it is half regular Coke and half Diet Coke. But it is close enough. Given that I used to drink 6 or more cans of Coke a day at 140 calories a can, finding an acceptable calorie-free alternative has been a big help in cutting back on calories.
Of course, I have only lost 15 pounds. Once I lost 40 pounds before giving up. We'll just have to see if I can lose the 150 pounds I still have hanging over my belt.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 11/29/2005 08:37:00 PM
10 Comments:
Simple and easy to use. People get crazy about diets - you have reduced yours to a few simple rules - boiled it down to it's basics, and hey, look: it's working.
If everyone did what you are doing, they would all be thinner and heathier and the multi-billion dollar diet industry would vanish from the Earth.
I know ... crazy talk ...
I am 150 pounds away from declaring victory. But, the simple approach is pretty nice. Precut celery, baby carrots, banana's etc. are as convenient as any convenience food but a hell of a lot healthier.
What are you doing for excercise?
As I have been snacking all day on fruit and veg rather than having one lunch, I started using my lunch break to hike around the office park where I am enslaved. Now that it is starting to get colder than a brass nipple on a witch's titty, I am thinking about hitting the stationary bike instead.
Go, baby, Go! Get skinnier than me! No, wait... that would make you anarexic.
We should start drying some fruit with that machine. It'd last longer and make an even easier snack.
I'm not going for skeleltal. I was going for buff, but Laura objected. So, now I am shooting for bean pole.
I don't want a bean pole, either! Can you shoot for Bryan K's physique? :-)
Really, it doesn't matter- so long as you're healthy.
So.... what's the count now?
I guess I could shoot for "mass of muscles". I guess I'll have to sign up for that Health Center class next fall. Or would gym membership be cheaper?
Probably the health class would be cheeper, but you might have to take a test. But I suppose you could audit the class and they can't say anything to you.
I definatly prefer a "mass of muscles" to the "ripped" look. I hate when men have those nasty veins that stick out when they're all ripped. EW!
Health Center and muscular bulkatude, here I come.
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