DaDude waffles on his weightloss
Background info:
All my life was a skinny lanky kid, had to wear slim jeans etc. Through high school i averaged 5-6 hour
All sustained weight loss is reasonable. If you need to be less aggressive, that's fine but don't relapse or give up whatever are your most effective new habits.
I'm trying. Did ok this week diet wise. We're juggling the knee stuff, with new job, with house torn up and we can't get to areas on short notice for chunks of
the day with little kids. Just overwhelmed a bit. I wasn't able to get to the gym yesterday, and not sure I'll make it today. Need to try to get in late tonight and one day this weekend to get my 4 workouts.
For anything reasonable I meant, for any kind of weight that I thought I might be happy about, for a goal seems so far away. Something like 200, or even 220 seems an impossible distance away, I'm struggling with that mentally.
You’ve come a long way already — don’t underestimate that progress. Even small steps forward count. You’ve got this!
<3 Thank you
The number one thing you can do to help your lower body joints is to reduce your excess weight.
Remember when you do any sort of activity the amount of force on your joints is multiplied.
Even walking is 1.5x
Sports is much higher.
Yeah that's a big motivation for the weightloss overall. I want to be able to be mobile with my kids as they're growing up.
It's tough, the weight kind of came after the joint issues. First 4 or so of the surgeries i think when I was probably 160-180 or so and in good shape.
Month recap -
March 1st - 293.2lbs
March 21st - 283.9lbs
So lost 9.3lbs.
Week wise, I didn't do that great. I only worked out Monday-Tuesday and I was about 500 calories over my weekly plan, and I didn't walk except Monday-Wednesday.
We don't have access to our kitchen and managing this reconstruction with the kids is so much worse than we thought it would be. Luckily I think only 1-2 more weeks. My grandparents came into town so we were prioritizing them getting some time with the great grandkids.
I'm afraid I'm just using that stuff as excuses though. There were times at night where I could have gone to the gym instead of watching a show before bed, or I could have woken up earlier. I need to not relapse
I haven't been posting much, but haven't completely fallen off.
Just been super hectic as house work was getting wrapped up and a bit overwhelmed.
Good news - I haven't missed any of my 4 gym days per week in April, and I think I've done all my Wednesday walks. My weekend walks I haven't been doing, but have been doing a lot of housework, out with kids etc.
Eating has been mixed.... when able to meal prep its nice. When going to friends and out I'm still trying to figure out the best balance. I need to figure this out because we do a lot of social stuff, and with weather getting nice, the amount of bbqs and such is just going to go up.
I had 2 different days a couple weeks ago, where I just ate crap. All day, felt terrible, I don't know just kind of broke.
Weights been yoyo-ing a bit last couple weeks. Was 282.1 on Friday which was my recent all time low. I chose to relax a bit for some family celebrations both Saturday and Sunday, but didn't go crazy. Indulged in small amounts. Was 284.6 today, hopefully just some waterweight.
Knee news - Meniscus has a small tear, nothing really they can do surgery on. Also I guess pretty bad arthritis in both knees. Not much they could do other than a cortisone shot. Got that last week, feels good now. So I guess goal is just to work out (safely), and lose weight to make everything I can easier on the knee.
Here's the last week of workouts.
Monday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 145lbs 5x5
Incline DB Bench - 55lbs 8,8,6
Pushups - 10, 10, 6
Situps - 10, 8, 8
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Tuesday
1.5 mile walk
Leg Press - 280lbs 5x8
Pull Up Assist - 45lbs 5x2
Lat Pulldown - 120lbs 3x8
DB Curls - 30lbs 3x8
Back Flys - 30lbs 3x8
Wednesday
2.5 mile walk
Thursday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 145lbs: 5x5
OH Press - 75lbs 3x8
Pushups - 10,10,10
Situps - 10,10,10
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Friday
1.5 mile walk
Leg Press - 280lbs 5x8
Seated Row - 140lbs 5x5
Barbell Row - 85lbs 3x8
DB Curls - 30lbs 3x8
Back Flys - 30lbs 3x8
I did have a friend at the gym a couple weeks ago on a bench day. So I tried to push it a bit. Last time I tried to find a 5rep max beginning of March I got 175x3 . I decided to try it again, and got 175x10 (going to failure, couldn't get 11). Was suprised it had jumped that much, so I tried after that to go for a 1x225 and was able to do it which felt like a milestone.
This whole time I've been super setting the pushups and situps, but I think that may be limiting me. When I fail on pushups it's almost always because of my core failing, and not because of my chest/arms. I'm thinking of swapping the situps to after tripulldowns, or swap them to the leg day.
Thanks for reminding me to post yugo 😃
I'm trying. Did ok this week diet wise. We're juggling the knee stuff, with new job, with house torn up and we can't get to areas on short notice for chunks of the day with little kids. Just overwhelmed a bit. I wasn't able to get to the gym yesterday, and not sure I'll make it today. Need to try to get in late tonight and one day this weekend to get my 4 workouts.For any
You’re pushing through a lot and still showing up—that says everything.
Progress isn’t always linear, but your mindset and effort are rock solid.
Keep stacking those small wins; they add up more than we think.
You’re pushing through a lot and still showing up—that says everything.
Progress isn’t always linear, but your mindset and effort are rock solid.
Keep stacking those small wins; they add up more than we think.
Thanks, I need to be better about focusing on the small wins.
May I was feeling burnt out and losing motivation.
I did get to the gym almost every day planned except for a few days when I was sick.
Had a 2-3 week period where I went hard no cheating and wasn't losing weight and started to lose some motivation. I got a few comments still and thought I saw some differences so maybe some muscle building? But the number on the scale not going down was a bit defeating.
My plan was to go hard, so then I wouldn't worry about it at all for a couple days for a Vegas guys trip, and then my birthday. So last week was traveling and with friends/family.
Was 277.8 before I left which was a new (recent- this weightloss attempt) low. Luckily I think the ~9miles a day walked while I was there and heat counteracted some of it.
I'm not sure if the 3 vegas day break, and birthday break in the last week was a bad mindset to have. But thinking of that helped keep me focused leading up to the trip when I was getting burnt out. I felt if I cheated before the trip, I couldn't let loose and enjoy it because I didn't earn it.
Also now, I came back yesterday going hard, feeling good and way more motivated than I've been recently. Thinking about doing the same thing with 4th of July. That's my biggest family holiday, so go hard until then (aiming for 8lbs down in June) to earn a bit of a rest for a couple days to come back hard again.
Any thoughts on that kind of mentality/plan?
Yesterday was 281.3lbs - Goal of 273.3 on June 30th
If you "take a break" and maintain and then that helps you get back to an extended period of "going hard" then it's great. But if the "take a break" starts to become always, meh...
6/9
279.5lbs (-1.8 lbs last week)
Monday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 215lbs 5
Incline DB Bench - 55lbs 3x8
Pushups - 12, 11, 8
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Planks 4, 4, 4
Tuesday
1.5 mile walk
Leg Press - 180lbs 5x10 (knee still iffy so going lower weight)
Pull Up Negatives - 5x1
Lat Pulldown - 120lbs 3x8
DB Curls - 30lbs 3x8
Back Flys - 35lbs 8,8,6
Wednesday
2.5 mile walk
Thursday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 155lbs: 5x5
OH Press - 85lbs - 8, 8, 6
Pushups - 14, 12, 7
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Planks 4, 4, 4
Friday
1.5 mile walk
Leg Press - 180lbs 5x10
Seated Row - 140lbs 5x5
Barbell Row - 85lbs 3x8
DB Curls - 30lbs 3x8
Back Flys - 35lbs 3x8
Saturday
3 hours swimming with the kids and some yardwork
Sunday
7.5 mile walk - Walked 18 holes of golf for the first time. It was harder than I thought it would be!
Hit my 2000 calories every day except Sunday. Didn't eat before golf. We were at friends house after and I was somewhere between 2500-3000
6/16
276.4lbs (-3.1 lbs last week)
Monday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 155lbs 5x5 (was excited to try 225, but no spotter)
Incline DB Bench - 55lbs 3x8
Pushups - 12, 12, 8
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Planks 5, 4, 4
Tuesday
1.5 mile walk
Leg Press - 180lbs 5x10 (knee still iffy so going lower weight)
Pull Up Negatives - 6x1
Lat Pulldown - 120lbs 3x8
DB Curls - 30lbs 3x8
Back Flys - 35lbs 8,8,7
Wednesday
Nothing, got rained out
Thursday
1.5 mile walk
Bench - 135lbs: 3x8 (Was really sore and stiff, so took it easy)
OH Press - 85lbs - 8, 8, 6
Pushups - 14, 12, 12
Tricep Pulldown - 30lbs 3x12
Planks 5, 5, 4
Friday
Work last minute meeting I couldn't go during lunch like I usually do, and was booked up whole night after work. I should have made this up over the weekend, but I never did. Only got walks in because it was with the kids
Saturday
1.7 mile walk
Sunday
2.5 mile walk
I didn't eat that good over the weekend. I found myself night snacking, I'm not sure why. Also even more confusing why weight still went down
