The Official Lose 100 Pounds Thread

[Guest happycase]

I'm a bit overweight right now. Is anyone else trying to burn some extra blubber? I was thinking we could try to collectively lose 100 pounds. If you want to participate you could start by posting your starting and target weight, and then once a week or so you can post your updates, share weight loss plans, recipes, and whatever. I also think you should give yourself a fat-person moniker. For those of you in kg, I don't know. You need to use a converter. So it goes like this:

 

Name: Flubber

Start Weight: 160

Target Weight: 145

Total Losses: 0

[baph]

So 160 is fat now? Please tell me you're 5'3" or something.

[chim]

Are you a woman?

[Guest Lucy Faringold]

I was thinking we could try to collectively lose 100 pounds.

u should really wait to see how many people sign up before deciding on a number. Don't want to read about someone taking an arm off 'for the team'.

[Rubin Farr]

so if you weigh 100lbs is your target weight zero?

[Root5]

I'm down to 140ish, and I wouldn't mind gaining a few. Put me down for -10.

[Cryptowen]

some skinny mafuhs on watmm

spose i could get back down to 180 (currently 194). Doing a lot of strength training though so don't want to create too huge a caloric deficient (probably just ramp my running back up to 10 miles a day like I was doing last year instead of my current 5)

[hello spiral]

Do what I did a few weeks back and eat some reheated fish.

 

Lost about a stone in a week.

 

[Guest happycase]

I figure you all could shed a few pounds. Sign up, fatties.

[YO303]

I'm actually looking for advice to gain wight, i'm 6-4 160 pounds, i look so unhealthy and ill, i do like the skinny look but i could do with 20 more pounds.

[Guest Lucy Faringold]

I could really do with putting on weight too. I don't think my body is able to absorb fat.

 

I wonder if the Heart Attack Grill is looking for a new spokesperson.

[dr lopez]

at about 173 right now... definitely could stand to lose 10 pounds (I'm 6ft.)

 

I think 158 is my target. Was at 176 just two days ago so things are looking up. Just got back from kickboxing and was at 170 but that was just water weight

[Root5]

I'm actually looking for advice to gain wight, i'm 6-4 160 pounds, i look so unhealthy and ill, i do like the skinny look but i could do with 20 more pounds.

I have no idea. I was a bit over 150 when I was doing my undergraduate degree, but back then I had the luxury of time to eat and workout as much as I wanted. I also lived with some great cooks, so that didn't hurt. Nowadays it feels like a struggle to keep at 140.

 

For the record, I'm only 5'8", so I'm not unhealthy or anything. I'm just a skinny mafuh, as was previously observed.

[ghOsty]

I wouldn't mind losing a few a pounds, I'm 5'9 and pushing 200 wouldn't mind getting back down to 185ish, I've been trying to eat better lately and plan to become much more active this spring, cycling with the new bike, swimming, disc golf, etc...

[Glunk]

i look like lena dunham if she had bigger boobs. so no, i am already perfect.

honestly i'd gladly lose about 15 pounds. i'm getting a free gym membership from a relative fairly soon, hopefully i'll use it. i feel like an asshole complaining about my weight though.

[vamos scorcho]

I started at 265 or so

I am now at 210

 

If you need advice I have it all... and don't try to tell me you know more than I do. That shit pisses me off. Just accept my absolute authority on this subject and we can go from there.

 

 

Target weight:

 

190

 

No sign of slowing, easy as fucking shit honestly as long as you know what you're doing

[RichieBees]

can i gain weight to offset you guys

[gmanyo]

I'm gonna get Dance Dance Revolution, hoping to lose like 10 pounds if I'm lucky but I'll be fine with weight maintenance; 5'11'' and about 175 pounds, maybe a bit more. Problem is I'm on two medications that cause weight gain, so I need to start exercising more (I was 160 before I started the meds).

[Candiru]

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/77506-cocaine/

[OneToThirtySix]

I'm about 200lbs right now, but I have no muscle and a broad frame, so I'm flabby in the most obnoxious places if I'm looking in a mirror.

 

My goal is to fix my brother's bike and start biking about forty minutes a day, drop some of the flab before summer so I don't look stupid in a tank top.

[sweepstakes]

Current (well last time I weighed myself): 261

Target: 200

 

I was "serious" about it at the beginning of the year, then realized quickly that I couldn't be arsed to count calories (although that was working). I started walking to and from work (1.7 miles) which is probably helping. But during January when it was too fucking cold, I seem to have reacquired my old junk food habit. So I'm probably breaking even.

I started at 265 or so

I am now at 210

 

If you need advice I have it all... and don't try to tell me you know more than I do. That shit pisses me off. Just accept my absolute authority on this subject and we can go from there.

 

 

Target weight:

 

190

 

No sign of slowing, easy as fucking shit honestly as long as you know what you're doing

You sound like you're wayyy further down the same path I'm trying to get on. Lay it on me dude.

[ambermonk]

Everyone wanting to gain weight - I would gladly donate some of mine.

I'm probably in the 260-270 range myself. I rarely touch junk food anymore though. Being on a tight budget, I've adapted to eating smarter and healthier. I know I've shed a few pounds recently as a result.

My problem lately is lack of exercise. At least there are plenty of times at my job where I have to do work that involves physical labour.
I did lose about 70 pounds when I was a freshman in high school. In the summer of 2000 I got down to as low as 188. Then the pounds gradually crept back on since.

One advantage of being burly is that no one wants to pick a fight with me.

[vamos scorcho]

OK.

 

- I want to make it as simple and easy to follow as possible.

- You can begin any time you would like.

- There is no rush.

- Focus on how good you feel when you eat healthy.

- When you see results you will be extremely pleased.

- Your life will change in certain ways.

- Your mental state and feeling about food and yourself is important.

- Hunger is a sign of success.

- Do not trust what other people say, other than scientists and me.

- Achieving the goal is extremely easy in terms of how much thought you need to put into it.

- All you have to do is follow simple rules.

 

HERE ARE THE TASKS:

- At first, set a calorie limit.

- Under 2000 if you want to lose slowly, under 1700 if you want to lose rapidly.

- This will change your diet for the first 10-15 pounds.

- Once you see those results, you will want to continue.

- This part of the diet requires zero exercise.

- DO NOT EXERCISE. DO NOT THINK ABOUT EXERCISE.

- All you have to do is control your diet.

- You may get hungry.

- This is how to lose weight: consider hunger a new form of exercise.

- When you are hungry, you are losing weight.

- As long as you eat enough calories (so you are not starving), this hunger is a sign of weight loss.

 

If you eat under the goal calories even just 5 days a week, even just four, and have increased consciousness, you WILL see results. You will succeed immediately as long as at least half of the week you meet your caloric requirements.

 

 

NOW HERE IS THE CATCH:

It actually matters WHAT KIND of food you eat. You cannot eat shitty food to lose weight. You can, but it is much better to get most of your calories from foods that you may not enjoy. My method was extremely simple:

BREAKFAST ABSOLUTELY EVERY DAY IS THE SAME EXACT THING

the less thought you have to put into each meal, the better

 

BREAKFAST:

Oatmeal, blackberries or strawberries, cinnamon, vanilla, flax seeds, syrup or preferably that other sweetener that vegans like

LUNCH:

Salad with low calorie dressing, spinach, cucumber, some sort of seed or nut sprinkled. Add two hard boiled eggs (extremely easy to make). Have some baby carrots or a sliced up green pepper or red pepper.

SNACK:

Baby carrots, almonds, hummus and celery, another hard boiled egg.

DINNER:

Soup. Always soup. Soup without meat.

1. Creamy Tomato soup

2. Black bean salsa soup

3. Spicy Vegetable Soup

4. Vegan chili

5. chili with turkey

6. Thai chicken soup

(always skim the fat off and use the smallest amount of cooking oil humanly possible).

 

That's it. That's my diet. That's all there is to it. If you follow this at least 3-4 days a week, with added measures depending on how starving you are in order to give yourself success (chips with soup, crackers with chili, peanut butter celery with salad lunch) you will absolutely succeed. I have not exercised a single motherfucking time this whole diet (that's kind of a lie... I did COUCH TO 5K throughout and I can jog a lot farther now). But absolutely not consistently... lets put it this way: it's been 10 months and I've gone on about 20 jogs over that span.

 

Frankly, at various levels I have had to step it up a bit in order to pass a plateau.

 

Once I, or you, hit a certain level, exercise will have to be introduced. My plan is that when I hit 205, 200, or 195, I will begin exercising.

 

Here is my philosophy: at no point in my diet did I not cheat at least once a week. Absolutely no point. I would have days eating fucking Cheesits and fucking Chipotle and Indian food and italian food and fucking hearty chili and fucking stacked fucking nasty ass cheese shit. Only I would be CERTAIN to have the basic weekly plan of sticking to the above diet. I had taco bell last weekend, Chipotle last night, fast food chili the night before, some shit here and there. But I get right back on. I don't give a fuck what anyone says. I've had success. And I know by the end of next week I will be down another 2 pounds because I stick to the basic principal: that most of the time I have to eat vegan salad and soup and avoid carbs of all kinds. That is my core diet.

 

It is important to meet a caloric level. You have to really make sure you aren't going too far down. This is actually the greatest challenge for me, eating primary vegetables, no meat, no cheese, no dairy in general, and no carbs. The greatest challenge of the "hunger plan" is making sure you are not in starvation mode, in which case your muscles will begin to go down. Frankly, I think this whole concept is at least slightly over hyped. I have certainly lost a bit of muscle during certain weeks where I might have taken it too far, or was fucking broke out of money. But I can still the most pushups I've ever been able to do (maybe because my weight went down, but whatever). In the end, the muscle is easy. It's coming back either way. Just don't go below 1500 calores. So in my diet, generally, you are making sure you get enough calories, not making sure you don't eat too much.

 

The idea is that you are hungry, but you succeed. And you don't need to do it every day, just the majority of the week. If you exercise you will be way hungrier and your diet will be harder to control. Wait until you get to the level where you need exercise to continue before starting to go hard on that. Make adjustments for yourself (each week I would have a time where I couldn't take the carb withdrawal and I might get chipotle or something or eat Gardettos when I visited home).

 

I am very hungry right now but I go to sleep after meeting my caloric limit or whatever, knowing I stayed within the bounds of respectability and honor, and I know that in a week another 2 lbs will be gone, and in exactly a month I will be at the lightest weight I've been since before I graduated from High School.

 

FUCK YEAH!

 

The final rule is do not ask anyone for advice. Do what you need to do. Stick with other fatties. Read r/loseit. But do what you need to do. Do not ask friends or family. Do not even share what you are doing with friends or family. They don't know what's going on and 99% of the time they are vested in your failure (hate to say it). That's just how sex goes. Friends want to fuck the girls, and when you lose weight, whether they are aware or not, part of them, their ego, is saying: "he is becoming a threat." So don't worry about them and their shitty advice. Even if they seem like they are encouraging you, in fact they are mocking your efforts in order to push their bullshit theories on you. They don't understand. Family is better but generally just stay out of the house. Control your refridgerator. Do not shop hungry. NEVER LET SHITTY FOOD IN YOUR HOUSE. DO NOT SHOP HUNGRY. EVER!

 

Make a shopping list of healthy vegetables for your "diet days" or just "diet mentality."

 

Finally, I forgot to add: a multivitamin a day or every other day wouldn't be a bad idea. In fact, it would be a good idea. Who woulda thunk it?

[syd syside]

I'm not trying to lose weight but am trying to lose body fat/gain muscle. So I guess I will join in on this thread in the sense that I will probably first lose about 10 pounds than gain 10 pounds and maybe a little bit more in muscle... well whatever, had some wine tonight and didnt think this post all the way through. Anyway good luck and exercise and healthy eating regardless of weight is a good call for mental health as well so don't put aside such ideas if you have a good metabolism.

[markedone]

As with some others here, im trying to gain weight.. can i make it harder for you guys? jk, i'll leave you to it