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[jayswin]

Damn, it sucks when weight gain suddenly sneaks up on you. Im 6'3" and am generally around 195 - 200 unless directly after a meal.

Hadn't checked in a few days and felt bloated today and I was suddenly 110 lbs at the end of the night. Looking up diets, it mostoy seems scammy/sponsored BS. Anyone know a good diet to go on that's legit to just drop a few pounds over over a few weeks?

[jayswin]

Yes I'm heavy on carbs (beer/bread) so anything that attacks that is probably a good start

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Yes I'm heavy on carbs (beer/bread) so anything that attacks that is probably a good start

I have cut way back on alcohol and dropped weight without doing much else. It’s just such empty calories. It was easier than I thought too and I feel better.

[Geraldsh]

A brisk 10 minute walk after every meal will solve your problem. Classic literature refers to it as a constitutional walk.

And switch to whiskey

[SportsJunky]

It's amazing how fast it can sneak up on a guy. Before you know it you've packed on 10 lbs. Short of sticking needles in your belly (it works but it's expensive), cutting carbs and portion control should get you back on track. Of course, you are getting old and that makes it tougher.

[indes]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Damn, it sucks when weight gain suddenly sneaks up on you. Im 6'3" and am generally around 195 - 200 unless directly after a meal.

Hadn't checked in a few days and felt bloated today and I was suddenly 110 lbs at the end of the night. Looking up diets, it mostoy seems scammy/sponsored BS. Anyone know a good diet to go on that's legit to just drop a few pounds over over a few weeks?

Just start tracking calories. Grab an app like macrofactor and start punching everything you eat into it. You don't need a goal or anything, the biggest thing is just knowing how many calories you're consuming.

If you want to commit to it, I recommend a food scale as well. It's a tough go man. I thought I was eating pretty decent but once I was actually tracking it, I was easy 2500+ calories every day. I'm a cereal addict and had no idea that some of the cereals I was eating were a whopping 920 calories a bowl with milk. I switched to lower calorie cereals and unsweetened almond milk and can now have 2 bowls of cereal for 660 calories if I want. Peanut butter is crazy, barbecue sauce, cheese. On the flip side hot sauce is zero, gravy is next to zero, potatoes are solid bang for your calorie buck. Just last night I had a huge taco salad instead of using tortillas and it was 316 calories instead of 716 with 4 small tortillas.

[Weitz]

Most people just eat way too much. Which is why they put on weight.

People eat full meals for breakfast lunch and dinner and dont exercise. Just way too many calories.

[Shazam]

Also exercising consumes way fewer calories than people think.

[getbak]

Yup, it's much easier to cut calories than it is to burn them.

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by Geraldsh

When my sister learned how to text she thought lol meant “lots of love” and added it to every post. Her grandchildren, and great grandchildren, got clued in and lol’d right back at her.

OK. That's pretty adorable...

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I agree. I cringe when I see it. Kind of dismissive / troll thing to tack onto the end of a post.

I agree wholeheartedly. Hate it.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Not a lot different than the laughing emoji as used to mock posters on Facebook and forums with it enabled. I'm in a Ford Bronco forum and the rampant use of the laughing emoji is so lame.

When people use LOL, laughing emojis or describing other posts as “hilarious”, the emotion they are probably feeling is anger or frustration, not hilarity.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by getbak

Yup, it's much easier to cut calories than it is to burn them.

Not easy at all. Takes incredible discipline.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by troutman

Not easy at all. Takes incredible discipline.

Tuck tape over the mouth will work wonders.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Yes I'm heavy on carbs (beer/bread) so anything that attacks that is probably a good start

Tracking calories is absolutely the way to go. There’s a saying I heard before “you can never out run a bad diet” and it’s pretty accurate.

An average person can run a mile in 9-10 minutes and that will burn about 100 calories. That’s 600 calories an hour which isn’t a ton when you think about how many calories are in a single carb heavy meal (1120 calories for a Big Mac, fries and a coke). Not many people have the time of day to be running for 2 hours just to have a crappy lunch. Read up on calories contents of food, macros, and your caloric needs to be in a calorie deficit.

The most impactful things to cut out are alcohol (sugar and carbs), processed sugars and minimize carbs. Some exercise to build muscle will increase your metabolism and that will help too, but dieting is the easiest way to lose weight.

[Erick Estrada]

I'm in my 50's but have weighed the exact same +/-5 lbs since my 20's. Some of it is due to good genetics but I've worked out steady since my 20's and have always been pretty disciplined with my diet and intake. I'm actually down to my lightest weight since my 20's right now but that's largely due to me coming off the worst year of my life and more activity as I'm playing a lot more tennis right now.

[undercoverbrother]

It's ####ing hard.

For so long in my life I couldn't keep weight on.

Through my teens/twenties/thirties I fought to gain and hold weight.

It was ingrained in my brain to eat and eat a lot and eat anything. I was so active that I burnt through calories with no concern.

I was very fit and lean and strong.

In my forties, I started to slow a bit, but was still very active and weight really wasn't a concern.

I was still fit, a bit less lean, but strong.

At 48 I got slew footed in a hockey game and a dormant condition manifested in my neck affecting my left arm, neck and upper back. In short, it was 2 debilitating years of constant pain and discomfort. I stopped training.

I got weak, I got fat.

The issue is my brain feels hardwired to eat. For some many years all it told me was to eat and eating was fine.

I feel like at 53 I really need to re-train my brain.

[troutman]

People ingest so many unnecessary calories - pop, beer, coffee drinks, chips, sweets and desserts. Hard for most people to cut those out.

^ I think a person could burn 1000 calories running for one hour, or biking for 90 minutes.

Pro hockey players burn 6000 calories a day!

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

The issue is my brain feels hardwired to eat. For some many years all it told me was to eat and eating was fine.

I feel like at 53 I really need to re-train my brain.

Sorry to hear that. Injuries in middle age suck because they persist.

My old man passed, and I ate my feelings for a few months. Got pretty big.

Was out with a friend and he boasted he lost 9 pounds on Ozempic.

Decided to scoreboard him through diet and exercise.

Did 3 things:
1) Impulse control - stop eating the stupidest things. Like soda and fast food. Can still make whatever I want at home, but if it's really dumb to eat... just stop? We all know what the dumb sh-t is. Have a big assed coffee if you want... but black. Duh.

2) Alcohol is now 2 beers after hockey. Full stop. That's when they taste best anyway.

3) Filled my apple exercise ring every day. Too sore to go hard? Walk. Yoga counts. Doesn't matter what it is, that MF ring gets filled every GD day. Joined a 2nd hockey team - those days are automatic (and fun).

Lost 7 pounds the first 3 weeks. Have now decided to target 30 pounds before July 17th. That's when I'll next see my brother.

Who I'm also going to f-ing scoreboard.

(moral of the story - let the hate flow through you)

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by troutman

People ingest so many unnecessary calories - pop, beer, coffee drinks, chips, sweets and desserts. Hard for most people to cut those out.

^ I think a person could burn 1000 calories running for one hour, or biking for 90 minutes.

Pro hockey players burn 6000 calories a day!

Yeah, but most people can't run for five minutes, let alone an hour.

I can burn about 600 calories biking as fast as I can going uphill from DT to my house in RO. Takes about 50 minutes. OTOH my cardio is pretty good these days, I have to really, really, really push myself to get that HR up.