SWEET! It is working. Walking swimming and writing down my food.

Well. I have figured out what works for me. First of all I don't have to be obsesive on carbs. Just watch out not to go overboard on them. Workout in the morning before I eat some great big meal. And if I am a little bit hungry while working out then that is grear. I am trying to think of hunger as a positive while working out. Where else can my body get the energy from but fat if there us nothing to digest. It has to take it from my long term storage of energy and fat. So even if I eat later a bit too much it is still harder to convert it to fat. Walking seems to take it off faster than swimming and like swimming it is two things a net user of calories and keeps me from eating at the same time. Pkus I have more energy and oxigenating my system. Same with swimming.
It is working again. I HAVE LOST A SOLID TEN POUNDS OF FAT SO FAR. 12% of the way to Onesville.

Big Bones and 199 lbs is 23.8 BMI

Ideal Body Weight for a large framed person. I AM, I have always been and always will be. So when I talk to people and tell them how much I weigh, they are generally surprised by alot. If I ask someone to guess my weight, they are generally off by as much a 40 pounds. I do tell them, " Want your honest opinion and tell them I will not be offended if you say something too heavy so as to negate the niceness factor that most people embody.

Here is a great blog post for figureing out your correct BMI if you have a large frame.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/243072-ideal-body-weight-for-large-framed-people/

It is one of the first that seems logical to me. About twenty years ago I got down to 188 and I felt great, I looked great, and I was at the top range for what was acceptable for a weight to height range for a job I was trying to get. Didn't get the job but I was on a starvation diet for 60 days and worked out like crazy all day other than college courses. It was brutal. I lost 35 pounds and not in a healthy way either. But I did it. You can too, but if you are like me you want to keep it off.

I reversed calculated my BMI at 199 pounds and it came up 23.8 at 199. That's doable and that seems healthy to me. So for a little while I thought it would be cool to tell people that I lost 100 pounds, but what the hell for?????? I want the health not the merit badge for weight loss. Once I lose it I want to keep it off and forget that part of that chapter of my life. Not wear it as a badge of honor. So the goal still remains 199 lbs. I am well on my way, I hope you follow along and join me.

277 in the morning!

I don't have a picture, but I have to tell you I got my Mo Jo back and I am going to keep it. I have lots of fire in the belly so to speak. I have been walking alot. I know this works for me for some reason since everytime I have successfully lost weight, walking was part of the plan. Proud of myself since yesterday I knew I could only get in about a 15 minute swim, but I did and then it motivated me to do other things like not eat so much. Don't let yourself weasel out of things because you don't have much time.

only 15 minutes to walk, or only a few minutes to get to that meeting? Well, do it and then if you can park as far away from the front door to the meeting, restaurant, store, your house, etc. as you can. That extra 500 steps maybe not much but then I am guessing you didn't gain that extra 50 pounds at one sitting at the table, just a little too many calories that day, then a few hundred extra calories the next day, then just right, then 200 calories the next... you get the idea.

So start making those little deficits in any and all ways that you can, so that you start to not even notice it, except the weight coming off.

Without going into great detail, I have heard that the great industrialists of the early 20th century commissioned a study on how to get the most labor out of one man in a days work. They had people shoveling coal all day from one pile to the next, then when finished they would shovel the tons and tons and tons right back to where they started. There were two groups, ones with big shovels and constant work and were not allowed to take breakes in the work other than to eat lunch, and then another guy with a smaller shovel (read, impossible to take great big shovels full of coal) and was instructed to take breaks very often to rest. Who won?

There are several points to the results

• The guy with the smaller shovel won the competition
• The guy with the smaller shovel was not as tired as the other guy at the end of the day
• The guy with the smaller shovel did three times the work as the guy with the big shovel!

So you ask, why am I discussing this? Well, take this approach to weight loss, small, barely perceptable changes that you allow to become habitual for you, so that it is not a sacrifice in your concious mind, and you are always moving toward your goal, while doing other things. If you try too hard that is all that you are about, and we all know you are much more than a normal sized person with extra weight to lose. You have a life, bills, jobs, loved ones, a home to attend to, not the only goal of losing weight.

Very Best to you

Onesville.

So this is an old picture but it is close to my weight

Whoa! 284.6 new max weight, gotta get it trending the other way!

About January 1st, 2012

284.6 lbs

OK. New, worst, biggest weight. NO MORE I am going to lose it all this time. Doesn't matter that it didn't work, in fact worked against me, in the past. I got the fire lit under me again. Just because my previous weight was a struggle does not mean I should give up, if anything it is just cause to re-double my efforts to get to my supposed perfect weight of 178. Personally, I think that may be a little too small for me. Even my doctor says he would never have believed that I would weight that much. I just guess that proves that I am very dense. LOL (pun intended).

In all fairness to me. It was the end of the Holidays, I can cook very well, and I probably had way too much salt in my system and retained quite a bit of water and I was drinking a fair amount of beer the night before full of calories and water that needed to get out of my system. It will happen quickly in time. Oh yeah, the sedentary nature of the holidays for me is also a factor.

Very Best, in the new year to you and yours,
Onesville