Afraid not, but yeah there is now a big, blank, empty black spot on their yard, with a partially melted and twisted wreck at the center of it.
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Thanks, I actually picked it up not long after I asked yesterday. I have quite a few games that will make you sweat a lot, like Gorn or Sprint Vector, was more looking for organized workout. Still need to charge up the old controllers and try it out.
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I am down around 35 pounds over the last year. I topped out around 255 (estimated) and after realizing the path I was heading down decided to adjust some of my habits to be healthier. I walk a lot at work (20-25k steps average) so I made my first change my diet. Bought a food scale and started measuring everything for breakfast and lunch with MyFitnessPal. No real calorie goal or macros or anything, just more to keep up with what I was actually eating and changing things that seemed excessive. I also changed what I was eating for those meals and stopped drinking alcohol during the week. From last July until about January I got down to ~230 and then plateaued. Around the beginning of March I decided to start biking again and also to try to start running. I had a couple of weeks where I was making good progress and then got slapped by the double whammy of COVID (not sick, the amount of work I do went up about 30% though) and the wettest 2 months we have ever had here. So that has pretty much put a halt to most of my weight loss. Work finally seems to be slowing back down to a manageable level and my goal is to start biking/running again. Currently I am down to 220 and feel so much better than I did a year ago. Glad I decided to make the changes and trying to get my wife motivated to join me, although she claims I am losing weight by “doing nothing”.
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Down under 230 finally. I’m not gonna say how much of that was due to a haircut, but let’s just say I was saving it for when I got annoyed at a plateau. So that’s just about 55 lbs down since Easter and 70-75 lbs down since early March.
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Awesome work @Mudcat. You are doing great!
This past few weeks I have been on a diet and fitness regimen…
No Booze, No Bread, No meat, running every other day (3 miles). Oh, no caffeine (that one hurt the most to be honest).
So far I have dropped from 218 Lbs to 203 Lbs, I can run (slowly) the 3 miles without stopping. Hopefully I can keep it up.
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I’m on week two of X3 and so far loving it. I think it’s a perfect match for my level. Can’t quite keep up to them yet, but I think I will by the end the 90 day program.
So before sunrise (too hot when sun is out), I wake up and do a fast pace walk for 60 minutes / 6000 steps while listening to audio book, then sometime during day time do P90X3.
On unrelated note. Decided to experiment with starving. So on Monday weighing at 207 stopped eating, but continued exercising. On Friday weighing at 195 lb ate again. Only “meal” to kill headache on Wed and Thu before going to sleep was an Ensure nutrition shake (220kcal). By Friday, I was completely empty. Exercise went like I was 90 years old.
It seems fasting more than 3 days is a bad idea…
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Holy cr@p, that is awesome!
Congrats and keep it up. We all know how hard it is, despite it being fairly simple…
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Awesome, man! Just check your ego at the door and do what you can with good form. You will get there.
Personally, I wouldn’t be fasting during the program. You’re burning a lot of calories and your body needs fuel. If your not feeding it, it will start breaking down muscle to get what it needs.
I just read your post again: 12 lbs in 5 days!!! WOW!
At least keep drinking the nutrition shakes. Your body needs proteins, carbs, and fats. Actually, the nutrition guide in the X3 Program is pretty good. I just think it’s more healthy to think of this as a long haul and aim for dropping 1 or 2 lbs a week through exercise and a reasonable diet. I know “reasonable” is different for different people; for me it means I still enjoy good food occasionally, but I try to limit desert to once a week (I made chocolate chip banana bread yesterday).
Anyway, nice job! Keep it up!
Thanks for the reply. Good info
I agree. It was a test and I’d rather not repeat it. I’m just maintaining 20 hrs fasting / 4 hours meals. Been doing it for few months now and body is used to it.
That’s impressive. I’ve been doing 17/7 for about a year an am very happy. If I run or bike at mid-morning 12-13 hours into the “fast” I feel like a beast. I don’t claim to ever be quick but in that configuration I am as strong as I can be. And that first meal at noon is appreciated with special vigor!
I did them all. 16/8, one meal a day. One or two no food days a week, 72 hours no food. They can all be very useful for breaking plateaus or getting into new habbits (some shock therapy). When the body is used to it, it is really not a problem (I was training through everyday of my 3 day fast even though I wasn’t at the top of my game).
However, nowadays, especially when I’m in a more active lifestyle, eating clean (mostly low carb), and even eating a little more than I would want (like forcing myself to eat some breakfast), has led to my leanest states…
I guess fasting made me have a healthier relationship with hunger but a relatively obsessive relationship with food. For me it is a great tool to clean up my act for a few months and even better for short term weight loss, but something to get in and out of from time to time…
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Morning walk before the heat and humidity got bad
If I wouldn’t start out slow and then have to tie my shoe 4 miles in i’d be real happy with the overall times. I’m going to have to try that whole keeping your heel off the ground thing some time or other.
Wife was on “vacation” (whatever that means anymore) last week so I was a total sloth and did absolutely nothing, but the good news is I only gained 1 lb over the week, which is now gone and then some.
Apart from the normal multi-vitamin I have been trying out Nugenix Total T and Thermo the past few weeks. Being on the north side of 40 I figured the Total T was probably something I should give a go regardless. Pretty pleased with it actually. Really puts a pep back in your step.
The Thermo… eh, overall I haven’t really lost much of anything at all since I started that, let alone anything extra. It’s made me hungrier, so where I normally would be fine with not eating I’m now starving. Whatever increase in metabolism it may have is just being off-set. If I was weight training, might be good, but doesn’t seem to be worth the cost for what I’m doing.
I bought a rower last year because in the past I always liked how training on them feels.
…I just don’t use it much these days.
I’ve got an older one I’ve added in my home gym- used to use them all the time in my Crossfit days.
They say its lower impact than running, and it might be on your joints, but its definitely not low impact on your heart. I did a 2000m row test the other day and I was totally smoked. Did it in like 7:40 or something.
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Yeah, it’s pretty brutal. When I was recovering after knee surgery I thought it would be a good idea to sub 500 m rows for 400m sprints.
That was a terrible idea.
I need to start getting back into my rower, maybe during long webinars when I’m just listening in anyway. Hmmm, that might work…
Not gonna lie, I’m really, REALLY missing swimming right now.
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Week 7 of P90X3! So far missed only one day (and mis-read schedule and did wrong exercise for the day)
Feeling good!
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I have gone off the rails a bit diet wise but I just knocked out 3 miles on the treadmill. I’m sure the pace is pedestrian to some of you guys, but I was quite pleased with it, and the fact that I didn’t have to stop.
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The small personal victories are what I aim for! I couldn’t run 3 miles 
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