Originally Posted by SamS (Post 108771)

Then you'd be saying "Cutting makes me feel good":bigtu:

Originally Posted by hustler (Post 108335)

Seriously, my stomach is eating itself. 1100 calories is not much food.

Originally Posted by jwarriner (Post 108672)

Here are some facts about diet and excersize that I have learned:

1) Fat people know the most, they are experts at losing weight. Unfortunatley they are also really awesome at gaining weight back.

2) Losing weight isn't everything. Look at Jarod from Subway. I bet he thought eating 1000 calories a day was going to get him laid; but look at him, he's a douche and he's still ugly.

3) Common sense is the only way to lose weight, there's no tricks, miracle diets, crash diets, pills, 8-minute a day workouts or new research that will beat common sense.

4) Dieting doesn't work. You have to permanently alter your lifestyle. Dieting is a temporary solution. Diets can invoke immediate change but you were fat for a reason and if you don't find out what that reason is, and fix it permanently, you'll be fat again.

5) There is no easy way out. If it sounds too good to be true it is, or it's temporary.

I am 5'10 and 230lbs so I know the pain of not having a magazine body. I know what I have to do to lose weight but I don't have the desire, I guess, to do it now and keeping it off has always alluded me as it requires so much effort/misery. I have a hot girlfriend though, because, for lack of a more precise way to put it, I'm an asshole. I think a lot of people want to change their bodies for the opposite sex. But you know, plenty of people with good bodies have no luck in that department. So if you're having issues there then it might be your attitude that needs a change rather than your body.

Originally Posted by savior (Post 108864)

when you are hungry, drink water

Originally Posted by rmcelwee (Post 108425)

I've gained every bit of this back PLUS an extra 5 pounds. I attribute it to drinking liquor every day...


http://www.lightweightmiata.com/ultimate/ultimate.htm

Originally Posted by hustler (Post 108642)

When bulking I work a 5x5 super set, focusing increasing weight weekly. I eat clean, with complex carbs in the am and lunch, then eat lots of protein at dinner. I eat a protein snack between which is a total of 1 can of tuna with coctail sauce on wheat crackers, or a salad with olive oil and vinegar. I total 4500cals per day on that diet, and it works well if I stay clean.

I do eat fattening foods when I go out to dinner, but only in small portions.

Originally Posted by savior (Post 108864)

when you are hungry, drink water

Originally Posted by kotomile (Post 109066)

I like doing pushups in pyramids over the course of an hour or so. Start @ 20, then rest a few minutes, do 19, rest, the 18, etc.

Do that all the way down to 1 and its 210 pushups! I've only managed 60 pushups in 2 minutes on a PT test so far, hoping to max for my age group (75) sometime before I ETS.

Originally Posted by guitarrc6 (Post 110969)

what do you guys do to motivate youself? everything i tried doesn't work out so well. doesn't help that i'm in college and drink like 4 nights out of the week, but hey its light beer, anyways i've tried dieting and excersising and it works good for a while but then i just get these binges where i eat whatever i want or i just don't want to go outside, or when i do i do activities that don't take a lot of energy, like fishing. at the beginning of the semester i was rock climbing 3 times a week, running 3 times a week, walking 2 miles every day, and eating healthy, umm now i think i went rock climbing last week, i drive to school instead of walk, and i can't find my left running shoe. so to sum upagain how do you stay motivated?