I used to be about 40 pounds over my ideal weight, and since I'm not very tall (5"10) that's a lot.
I then joined the Israeli military, and naturally that fixed my weight problem, at least for the three years I served.
Since then, I've been shifting between my ideal weight and 30-35 pounds over. And let me tell you what I've discovered:
The fatter you get, the harder it is to lose weight. Not physically, but mentally. It takes me tremendous will power to start taking care of myself when I am 30 pounds over because I know I wont see satisfying results for several months, and you'll have to stick with it for several months.
Now, when I get 10-15 pounds over that triggers a red light and I quickly get back to my ideal weight in a few weeks. God help me if I ever slip and get 50 pounds over - I may never be able to take it off. I know I couldn't take off my original 40 pounds until I joined the army and I had to.
After the army, it became slightly easier to lose weight because:
A. I knew I could do it.
B. I knew how great it feels to be in good shape and at your ideal weight.
But still, the farther you are from where you want to be, the harder it is to get there. Some people think being 100 pounds overweight would motiviate the shit out of you. It just doesn't work that way.
nope, i am only slightly over my ideal weight...but I am dealing with that now...i need to get back down to my regular 180....i hit 200 this week and that was the last straw...more yard work and bike riding, and less eating
I used to be about 40 pounds over my ideal weight, and since I'm not very tall (5"10) that's a lot.
I then joined the Israeli military, and naturally that fixed my weight problem, at least for the three years I served.
Since then, I've been shifting between my ideal weight and 30-35 pounds over. And let me tell you what I've discovered:
The fatter you get, the harder it is to lose weight. Not physically, but mentally. It takes me tremendous will power to start taking care of myself when I am 30 pounds over because I know I wont see satisfying results for several months, and you'll have to stick with it for several months.
Now, when I get 10-15 pounds over that triggers a red light and I quickly get back to my ideal weight in a few weeks. God help me if I ever slip and get 50 pounds over - I may never be able to take it off. I know I couldn't take off my original 40 pounds until I joined the army and I had to.
After the army, it became slightly easier to lose weight because:
A. I knew I could do it.
B. I knew how great it feels to be in good shape and at your ideal weight.
But still, the farther you are from where you want to be, the harder it is to get there. Some people think being 100 pounds overweight would motiviate the shit out of you. It just doesn't work that way.
Didn't think of it that way before. Good post. I'm a twig though.
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I weigh 330. My ideal weight is 250. Since I started working out and watching what I eat, I have lost between 70-80 pounds so far.
I've been overweight my whole life. Can't really blame anyone but myself, although, mom and dad never really instilled in us kids the importance of exercise and eating healthy. Hell, we ate McDonald's 2 or 3 times a week growing up. I can't blame them though, I am smart enough to read and understand literature about what being overweight does to you. But, I can say that once a cycle is started, it's tough to re-align your train of thinking on a subject to break that cycle. If you do something the way you always have, you're more apt to always do it that way. Skinny people who have never had to battle the bulge personally never seem to get this rational...it's always a case of we're "just to fucking fat and lazy to care bla bla bla..."
Now, I do south beach, ride my bike, play basket ball with my son, go for walks with my wife...it all seems to be working well but it has taken some severe mind re-training to get to where I am now.
I love the fact that skinny fucktards who have always been skinny and can eat like there is no tomorrow and never ever gain a pound earn the right to call any overweight person a "lardass". That always makes me smile inside. Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself...or something like that.
Real classy bringing someones kid into a GFY argument too.
I think I'll break your fucking jaw if we ever meet. Not like a scrawny fuck like you could stop me.
Don't get your panties in a bunch there, big guy. I sure am scrawny and you scare me. I sure hope that you take off that silly cap and bandana combo before you break my jaw.
Btw, did some American rape some gook slut to produce a fucking mutant like you? Or did some chink stick it into a white whore?
Enquiring minds wanna know.
Ciao.
I must be really pushing your buttons, James. First you threaten to break my jaw and then you have to go with racial comments. Simple people usually resort to simple responses when faced with challenges. You do not surprise me one bit.
At least I can say that my kid will grow up calling me and only me Daddy for the rest of her life. My kid won't have 2 daddys like yours. Ain't that right, pardner?
Btw, did some American rape some gook slut to produce a fucking mutant like you? Or did some chink stick it into a white whore?
Enquiring minds wanna know.
Ciao.
I must be really pushing your buttons, James. First you threaten to break my jaw and then you have to go with racial comments. Simple people usually resort to simple responses when faced with challenges. You do not surprise me one bit.
At least I can say that my kid will grow up calling me and only me Daddy for the rest of her life. My kid won't have 2 daddys like yours. Ain't that right, pardner?
See, this is part of the reason why I don't post much anymore. Look at what you guys are saying.
And for what? You'd seriously do and say just about anything right now to hurt the other... anything you can possibly do to really hurt the other person. And why? Because of something they've said on a message board.
You want to talk about your kids... talk about the examples you're both setting for them. Do you really hope and pray that someday, when they're older, they'll go online and spend time trying to say what ever they possibly can to hurt some person they don't know because of something petty they said on a message board?
I certainly hope not. But hey, this is your all important cyber battle... I hope you two make each other as mad as humanly possible. I'm sure you're both very proud of the things you've said.
Dude, in all honesty and seriousness I, and MOST, see it the other way.
Using my patent line "your mommy is a whore" is not the same as bringing peoples children into a bullshit fued on a forum.
What you show by doing that is that I have gotten WAY under your skin and that you arent capable of being amusing, or witty about it; but are feeling inferior and in fact arent able to do much more than to be lame and unimaginative. It speaks volumes about you man. For real.
When shall we expect you to follow the logical next step and call me a Pedo?
You keep saying I started this. Bullshit. I had no clue (surprise) who you even WERE until you started running your mouth. I slapped you around a bit and you've had your panties in a bunch since.
You seem to take so much pleasure in calling me white trash. I find that HIGHLY amusing from a guy who has a picture of himself chewing tobacco in a wife beater in his sig.
Also, you don't see me PS-ing pics of your idiot ass now you? So who's pushing who's buttons?
You're an insecure little shit and the only woman would ever consent to marry you prolly already HAS three kids and the stretch marks to match.
You seem to take so much pleasure in calling me white trash. I find that HIGHLY amusing from a guy who has a picture of himself chewing tobacco in a wife beater in his sig.
Umm, I don't think that is a picture of him.... It's from some movie if I remember correctly.
Umm, I don't think that is a picture of him.... It's from some movie if I remember correctly.
He's too much of a fucking idiot to know that.
Slap me around, James? Show me one fucking thread where you "slapped" me around. I find it highly offensive that someone lower on the intellectual food chain could make such an open accusation.
On the other side, I can show you a shit storm of threads where I slapped you around and called you Suzy.
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