Weight Loss

[JaxRolo]

Over the last six weeks I have lost 23 pounds.

Started at 223 and my first goal was to get to 200. Well, I did it! Today I'm at 200.

Just 23 pounds have made a tremendous difference on how I feel on the field. My knees used to hurt after a couple of games. Now I have no pain.

My next goal is to hit 180. Which will put me towards the high end for my height.

I encourage everyone that may not be in the best shape to do something about it!!!

My diet is call the 24 Day Challenge. It works! And the only exercise I have done is Umpiring. Had I been exercising along with the diet I might be closer to 180.

If anyone is interested on learning about this diet let me know. I can get you a good price for it.

[kstrunk]

Congrats Jax!!! Way to go Pal. 

From my own experience over the past 5-7 years (started at 240, now up and down between 185 & 195), make sure you continue using your upper body muscles. I noticed (the hard way) that some of my weight loss was muscle mass which led to upper extremity joint pain (shoulders &  elbows). I'm in the process of fixing that now. Perhaps your job allows you to use those muscles sufficiently??? Mine doesn't, so I have to make a conscientious effort. Just a caution. Again, way to go! 

[ricka56]

I am no medical scientist, but I believe that the longer one is at a particular size (weight), that size becomes the equilibrium that our body thinks is normal and will fight to get back to it, after the initial weight loss plateaus. Losing weight short term is great start, but it is only a start. If you have been at a heavy weight for 10 years, it might be a ten year struggle to convince your body that you should be at your new normal (lighter) weight.

Our addiction to sugar (present in most all of our prepackaged food) is probably as hard to kick as heroin (though I no experience there either)...as well as American's tendency (addiction) to over-eat.  

Congrats on the start of your new normal. Good luck with the struggle to maintain (improve) it.

[JaxRolo]

I am no medical scientist, but I believe that the longer one is at a particular size (weight), that size becomes the equilibrium that our body thinks is normal and will fight to get back to it, after the initial weight loss plateaus. Losing weight short term is great start, but it is only a start. If you have been at a heavy weight for 10 years, it might be a ten year struggle to convince your body that you should be at your new normal (lighter) weight.

Our addiction to sugar (present in most all of our prepackaged food) is probably as hard to kick as heroin (though I no experience there either)...as well as American's tendency (addiction) to over-eat.  

Congrats on the start of your new normal. Good luck with the struggle to maintain (improve) it.

​I used to drink 5-6 sodas a day, coffee, tons of sugars.

Nothing but water now. No coffee, sugars are less the than the Max daily allowance.

Eating no more than 1500 calories a day.

[fastfredyb]

Good job brother,  it's hard to lose weight but 10x harder to keep it off. Every year I lose about 20-30 to start off the year and by December I'm close to my original weight.  So  far this year however, I have been keeping it off.    Minimal fast food, minimal soda, minimal beer, and try to practice portion control. I say minimal because It's almost impossible to stay 100% away from this things.

 

  Do you have a copy of that diet?

[ricka56]

... sugars are less the than the Max daily allowance.

​My problem is that my max daily sugar allowance = Brazil's exports.

It is very hard to avoid. It is in most condiment that we use, and most every supermarket item.

[JaxRolo]

Good job brother,  it's hard to lose weight but 10x harder to keep it off. Every year I lose about 20-30 to start off the year and by December I'm close to my original weight.  So  far this year however, I have been keeping it off.    Minimal fast food, minimal soda, minimal beer, and try to practice portion control. I say minimal because It's almost impossible to stay 100% away from this things.

 

  Do you have a copy of that diet?

​My wife said there was no way I would give up soda!
so far I have proved her worng.

[gnhbua93]

I thought the diet that you did was Perucho diet.

[JaxRolo]

I thought the diet that you did was Perucho diet.

​No peruchos here

[Mick]

Glad to hear you gave up soda, Jax.  It's empty, unhealthy, useless calories.  I dropped 17 lbs after I retired by eating sensibly and exercising.  Plus, I learned that you can actually shed pounds just by being vertical.  Going from sitting behind a computer all day to jogging, yard work, and general physical activity.

I did, however, kick-start this with the 7-Day Cabbage Soup Diet.  You'll lose at least 6-7 pounds in a week.  The key is, following it up.  If anyone's interested, google Cabbage Soup Diet.

[ricka56]

... kick-start this with the 7-Day Cabbage Soup Diet.  ...  If anyone's interested, google Cabbage Soup Diet.

​Instead, I googled "chewing glass"

[MObetterBlue]

Well done!  I lost 25 lbs. from January to May as well in preparation for the season.  It sounds like you're motivated to keep it off so that's a big part of the battle. 

If anyone's interested, I used an app on my phone called MyFitnessPal.  I tracked everything I ate (and still do for the most part) and it allows to enter exercise as well. 

[HokieUmp]

I had let myself go, and got into the 250s - 256.8 was where I started to change, in fact.  I'd been in "pre-diabetic land" for a while with my blood work (90-108 in glucose, and in a safe-ish zone on the A1C), but then had one over the glucose limit.  I went in on 19 March, and the 2nd glucose was also bad, and the A1C was 6.8.  So they handed me a glucose monitor, test strips, and said I was diabetic.

Luckily, since the glucose wasn't TOO high, the nurse felt I could handle it with diet and exercise - no shots, no pills.  I knew that umpiring would be exercise-ish, so I started following the carb limits she gave me for meals/snacks.  In theory, it really hasn't been that hard - except that I'm a huge chocolate fiend with control issues.  So that sucked.  (And I love bread and rice, so there's that.)

This morning:  230.4 on the same scale.  So I've lost about 25 pounds.  In about 2, 2 1/2 months.  (I got down to the low 230s a couple weeks ago, and have managed to stay there.)  Now that our games are starting to go away, the challenge will be for me to stay here, and maybe break through the pateau I'm on, and get lower.  Trying to add more steps to my day in some form or another.

 

But I won't - repeat WON'T - have anything to do with ANY diet that seems to focus around Cabbage.  I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.

Edited July 1, 2015 by HokieUmp
clarity

[HokieUmp]

​Instead, I googled "chewing glass"

​Or try googling "punching yourself in the face".  About as satisfying as a bowl of cabbage soup.  Maybe more.

[JaxRolo]

Well done!  I lost 25 lbs. from January to May as well in preparation for the season.  It sounds like you're motivated to keep it off so that's a big part of the battle. 

If anyone's interested, I used an app on my phone called MyFitnessPal.  I tracked everything I ate (and still do for the most part) and it allows to enter exercise as well. 

I also use MyFitnessPal. It's great.

[Hawkman]

Congrats, nice job. Shedding the pounds can be hard work, feel proud and keep it up.

I let the pounds creep on myself over the past 15 years or so; although I'm a big guy at 6'2 and pretty broad across the back I had reached 300 lbs last fall which was way too much. Diabetes runs heavy in my family; even relatives who have been thin all of their lives have gotten it so I should have taken better care of myself. Doc gave me the bad news last October that I was diabetic which finally pushed me into a lifestyle change. I'd been lifting heavy weights for years but my cardio had been sporadic to non existent and my diet was horrible, so I was a really strong fat guy. Changed the diet, cut out sugar and restricted carbs, 1900 calories a day, lots of running and weight lifting. I'm down to 235 lbs now and feel a tremendous difference physically when working games. I'm moving so much better, legs feel better, and the heat doesn't bother me like it used to. I've run 3 5K's so far this year and had a blast. I can't wait to see how much better I move on the basketball court this year. Hope to get down to my ultimate goal of 220 lbs by October.

I will second what Jax said, if you need to drop the pounds just do it. I kick myself now for not having done it years ago.

[JaxRolo]

Congrats, nice job. Shedding the pounds can be hard work, feel proud and keep it up.

I let the pounds creep on myself over the past 15 years or so; although I'm a big guy at 6'2 and pretty broad across the back I had reached 300 lbs last fall which was way too much. Diabetes runs heavy in my family; even relatives who have been thin all of their lives have gotten it so I should have taken better care of myself. Doc gave me the bad news last October that I was diabetic which finally pushed me into a lifestyle change. I'd been lifting heavy weights for years but my cardio had been sporadic to non existent and my diet was horrible, so I was a really strong fat guy. Changed the diet, cut out sugar and restricted carbs, 1900 calories a day, lots of running and weight lifting. I'm down to 235 lbs now and feel a tremendous difference physically when working games. I'm moving so much better, legs feel better, and the heat doesn't bother me like it used to. I've run 3 5K's so far this year and had a blast. I can't wait to see how much better I move on the basketball court this year. Hope to get down to my ultimate goal of 220 lbs by October.

I will second what Jax said, if you need to drop the pounds just do it. I kick myself now for not having done it years ago.

Excellent!

. Keep up the hard work!!!

[RingEmUp]

Over the last six weeks I have lost 23 pounds.

Started at 223 and my first goal was to get to 200. Well, I did it! Today I'm at 200.

Just 23 pounds have made a tremendous difference on how I feel on the field. My knees used to hurt after a couple of games. Now I have no pain.

My next goal is to hit 180. Which will put me towards the high end for my height.

I encourage everyone that may not be in the best shape to do something about it!!!

My diet is call the 24 Day Challenge. It works! And the only exercise I have done is Umpiring. Had I been exercising along with the diet I might be closer to 180.

If anyone is interested on learning about this diet let me know. I can get you a good price for it.

Congrats!  I was just looking at your get trim website and I was almost sold on hitting you up and then I read this:  I have lost weight, gained energy, made friends, and come up with a long term solution for health and fitness.

 

Made friends?  You have no friends, just people you haven't ejected yet.   

 

 

On a serious note, I need to lose about 50 lbs at least.

[BillKen]

As you guys know, it isn't easy.  Last January (2014) I was #312 and looking down the barrel of another baseball season with pants that were approaching a 5 as the first number in the waist.  Despite me taking 2 meds to control my BP, it was starting to push into the danger zone once again and my liver was beginning to show the stresses of fatty liver disease.  Enough already...I wasn't about to buy a size 50 pant and I kinda like living!  So I started the Advocare 24 day challenge, bought a fitbit and synced it with MyNetDiary app on my phone and started with a 900 calorie/day deficit plan.  I hit the elliptical machine at the gym when I didn't have games and just dedicated myself to changing what I ate, when I ate (late after a ballgame is bad!), and how much I ate (double cheeseburgers were out).  I also dropped the beer consumption down considerably.  In September 2014 I hit #242 the 1st week of football season (I ref fb).  I bought new pants for baseball season this year (2015)...size 38.  I've since gained about #15 back but have been stable for quite a while.  I don't keep track on the diary any more because I know what I'm consuming in calories for the most part.  I still use Advocare every day...MNS vitamins and Spark.  These products have a solid effect on metabolism and allow your body to maximize nutrition and feel energized throughout the day.  There isn't a magic pill or a single pathway to success.  You have to know that nothing tastes as good as being thinner feels.  You have to change you!

Congrats to you guys above who have made the decision to walk a healthier path.  It is worth it!

[JaxRolo]

Congrats!  I was just looking at your get trim website and I was almost sold on hitting you up and then I read this:  I have lost weight, gained energy, made friends, and come up with a long term solution for health and fitness.

 

Made friends?  You have no friends, just people you haven't ejected yet.   

 

 

On a serious note, I need to lose about 50 lbs at least.

advocare 24 Day Challenge is awesome.

hit me up I get you a discount.

Edited July 11, 2015 by JaxRolo

[KenBAZ]

Guys:

I've been waiting to post this for quite a while.  I hit the goal I'd set for myself a while ago and want to let you in on it.  Last night at my weekly weigh in my body fat hit 9.6% of my 170 lb weight.  In December of 2015 I injured my knee stepping in a hole in the batter's box and was on crutches and a full leg brace for three weeks.  At that point I weighed 234 lbs and my body fat was at about 37%.   I have a background in Exercise Science so I knew what had to be done and I've learned a tremendous amount more in the past 10 months.  I have a number of advantages that made it possible for me to achieve the changes I've seen but I think pretty much anyone can improve their physical conditioning and enjoy the benefits on the baseball field and in their quality of life.  I don't have anything to sell but if I can help anyone I'd be glad to let them know what I've learned.  

[MadMax]

Good on ya, @KenBAZ! As I tell you every time I see ya out, you look in tremendously outstanding shape.

I'll have to think up some other celebratory thing to bestow... Us Sconnies usually use stuff like beer, brats, cheesecake... Yeah, I see the problem there.

[Mudisfun]

On 6/24/2015 at 10:15 AM, JaxRolo said:

My wife said there was no way I would give up soda!so far I have proved her worng.

I gave up sodas 4 or so years ago... other than a few mixed with rum/whiskey concoctions and some 7Up when I was battling the flu a few years back I have not touched one as a stand alone product at all... and I was on the 4-6 a day plan as well.

Water, tea or coffee which I drink black/unaltered.

Good for you on dropping the soda.

[gnhbua93]

@KenBAZ I will gladly take on your offer.

[KenBAZ]

@KenBAZ I will gladly take on your offer.

Sure, post what you'd like to know or PM me if you'd prefer. @MadMax saw me this weekend and I couple of the umpires we work with who had not seen me for a while couldn't believe the difference.

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