About to shed weight - (CAR and DRIVER)
04-24-2008, 10:41 AM
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UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS:
Ok, it's been a week now and here's the update for my weight loss program:
Car: unweighed (last time scale showed 3,020lbs), Difference N/A.
Driver: Last week 243lbs, this week 237lbs. Difference -6,0lbs
Total weight lost (car&driver): -6,0lbs
Ok, it's been a week now and here's the update for my weight loss program:
Car: unweighed (last time scale showed 3,020lbs), Difference N/A.
Driver: Last week 243lbs, this week 237lbs. Difference -6,0lbs
Total weight lost (car&driver): -6,0lbs
04-24-2008, 11:17 AM
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I used to race bicycles, and there's a huge culture of cyclists who will pay $$$ to purchase a component that shaves 4 grams off of a bikes total weight. 99% of the riders out there would do better getting rid of that extra baggage around their waist!
04-24-2008, 11:50 AM
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Good progress. Be sure to keep your calorie consumption up so that your metabolism doesn't go into "starvation mode." If you cut calories too much you'll actually stop losing weight, but you will lose muscle as your body starts to canabalize itself. The human body is an amazing machine and it has evolved to do primarily one thing very well: adapt.
I used to race bicycles, and there's a huge culture of cyclists who will pay $$$ to purchase a component that shaves 4 grams off of a bikes total weight. 99% of the riders out there would do better getting rid of that extra baggage around their waist!
I used to race bicycles, and there's a huge culture of cyclists who will pay $$$ to purchase a component that shaves 4 grams off of a bikes total weight. 99% of the riders out there would do better getting rid of that extra baggage around their waist!
Good point! My most important method is exercise, lots of it. Then comes the food. I don't eat that much less but just a whole lot healthier (i.e. low fat, low carb, low sodium). Meaning more meat/chicken/fish for proteine, veggies and less bread etc.
It's not really even a "loose weight" thing but more like cleaning up my eating habbits. (=no hamburgers, french fries ect. ****).
04-24-2008, 12:26 PM
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Keep up the good work.
As a general rule of thumb, 2lbs loss of body weight a week is a good target, beyond that most dieting fails and there tends to be a super-compensation effect (you gain more in the long run than you lost). Set your target weight over time, not just daily and weekly.
You can usually achieve this without a radical change in your dietary intake, however, you must make changes to the amount of physical activity in your day to day routine.
Stay away from any chemically reduced food diets and pharmacological methods (if it says sugar free, fat free, low cal, high cal burning...just stay away).
Now the car. How about those carbon fibre wheel$?
As a general rule of thumb, 2lbs loss of body weight a week is a good target, beyond that most dieting fails and there tends to be a super-compensation effect (you gain more in the long run than you lost). Set your target weight over time, not just daily and weekly.
You can usually achieve this without a radical change in your dietary intake, however, you must make changes to the amount of physical activity in your day to day routine.
Stay away from any chemically reduced food diets and pharmacological methods (if it says sugar free, fat free, low cal, high cal burning...just stay away).
Now the car. How about those carbon fibre wheel$?
04-24-2008, 12:39 PM
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Good progress. Be sure to keep your calorie consumption up so that your metabolism doesn't go into "starvation mode." If you cut calories too much you'll actually stop losing weight, but you will lose muscle as your body starts to canabalize itself. The human body is an amazing machine and it has evolved to do primarily one thing very well: adapt.
I used to race bicycles, and there's a huge culture of cyclists who will pay $$$ to purchase a component that shaves 4 grams off of a bikes total weight. 99% of the riders out there would do better getting rid of that extra baggage around their waist!
I used to race bicycles, and there's a huge culture of cyclists who will pay $$$ to purchase a component that shaves 4 grams off of a bikes total weight. 99% of the riders out there would do better getting rid of that extra baggage around their waist!
I too started getting a bit obsessed in reducing the cars mass then realized I was a bit of a hypocrite as I too like Jason think that I need to lose weight before stripping it from the car. I started riding again a few weeks back and it's amazing how slowly a fat middle aged guy goes up a hill when he's a beefalotus. Cardiovascularly I am reasonably fit, muscularly a bit better as I skii two days a week all winter. I have taken about six pounds off the past couple of weeks and it's amazing how much easier the hills are because of this loss, a little more fitness helps too I'm sure. The car will "feel" the same way too in DE's. Target weight is 192-195#. Then if I magically acquire the skills of Alain Prost I might consider going nuts in the car.
04-24-2008, 04:12 PM
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04-24-2008, 04:14 PM
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04-24-2008, 04:59 PM
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Alright
I am going to join in, dust off my bike and my butt and join in.
6'2" and 245 Sounds like I am already 6 pounds behind
I would love to weigh right at 195. This thread will be good modivation for me. Keep posting your progress.
Jeff
I am going to join in, dust off my bike and my butt and join in.6'2" and 245 Sounds like I am already 6 pounds behind
I would love to weigh right at 195. This thread will be good modivation for me. Keep posting your progress.
Jeff
04-24-2008, 05:16 PM
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