Still going strong

I am finished almost one week of avoiding sugar and I am doing great. The craving are gradually going away. I am working out still sticking to the routine. One time last thursday  i went to spinning class twice! Once in the morning and again in the evening. My calorie counter said i was in the negatives of my calories.


My current weight 243.3!

SLOWW DAY TO WORK

I hate having slow days at work, they day just drags on and I have nothing to do, so I decided to add a post!

My sweet cravings are actually going down, I am doing a lot better in handling them. I am hitting the gym as often as I can and I am still calorie counting.

I read that loosing weight is 30% exercise 70% diet, and I am slowly believing this is true.

Here is what I had today

2 bowls of special K cereal which is 280 calories
Then Low fat Milk to go with my cereal 220

My breakfast was 480 calorie.

Lunch  I had a turkey sub from quiznos no cheese 500 calories.


After Each meal I am making it a habit to log it into my calorie counter, and its eye opening to see how above or below the total dalily calories I am close too.

Todays weigh in 245.5!

Determination

I am determined to loose my weight . I have tried many times in the past, which at one time I was successful is doing so but I unfortunately gained everything back.

At one point in my life, I use to drink a lot. I was going through somethings and drinking unfortunately helped ( even though it caused more problems for me besides my weight).  So if you start to drink a lot at one point because you are not feeling so happy, I would recommend to put that drink down and talk to a friend, ( a friend who has their head on straight and is not a drinker )

So I am exercising with my current routine, the one I said in an earlier post. I am calorie counting, everything I consume is measured properly and entered into my phone. ( I found the website, its www.myfitnesspal.com)

And I have not had a drink in the longest time ( at least more than 5 months now) and giving up alcohol for this project is the greatest thing I have done.

I am at work right now so I am not able to weigh my self

This morning I have consumed 758 calories, which means I have 1,542 calories left for the day.

Yesterday I was 449 calories under my goal ( the goal is 2,240 calories a day, to loose 1.5 lbs a week) 

Update

I am one day 4 of fighting my sugar cravings, I am doing better. I havent had anything. Had a wonderfu workout at the gym, where I burned almost 600 calories.

I am still using my app, and I love it. I think its great. I consumed 1664, which mean I have 1,149 calories left for the day. With this app, I feel like I am being watched and I am being really good and accurate about what I enter.

Today was an overall good day. Weigh in 247.7

New Years Resolution

My new years resolution is has already started, I am going to start tracking my calories to enhance my weight loss.

I have the app called, My fitness pal for my Droid. Not sure if it is on Iphone or not.

I really like it, the food database includes everything you can possibly imgaine, and its really easy to use.

so the achieve my weight, i need to eat 2700 calories a day and I am already at 1021 calories. The app will adjust everything when you enter your workout and things like that.

 I am going to try to stay close to my BMR, which is 2400.

Todays weigh in : 247.2

Weigh In

Went to spinning class and lifted weights, had about 2,200 calories.

weighing in at 248.2

Health Problems

From what I know, here is what being overweight causes:

 Diabetes Type II
 hypertension
High cholesterol
Cataracts
shortness of breath
fatigue
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
osteoarthiritis
some types of cancer
heart attack and stroke

FELL OFF!

I caved in on my sugar week, I had a fun size nestle crunch bar. Left over Halloween candy. That bites!


I am considering today my day 1 and going to start over again.

I am working and going to the gym as planned. My weight is still station at 249.5 still

Mind over Matter

Everyone get those sugar cravings.  Sometime out of now where I think to myself, " Man I could go for a scoop of Ice Cream"

 I read that these cravings will happen, but you have to fight them. If you are successfully fighting the sugar cravings in about 1 - 2 weeks they should be fully gone. I am on day 2.

Whenever I get a sugar craving, I found this to me a healthy alternative I go make or grab a protein shake. 250 calories, 24 gms of protein, 3 grams of sugar, I don't remember the rest. But for me it gets rid of that craving. So I am fighting these sugar cravings.

I stopped drinking regular soda, I ve switched from regular Coke to Coke 0. So I will keep everyone updated on how it goes.


With the time change that happened this past Sunday, I got up early and went straight to the gym.  They offer spinning in the morning on Sundays at 9 and I went to it. I went to spinning 3xs this past week!

Current weight  249lbs

FITNESS!!

So as apart of my journey I will be going to the gym as often I can. (4-5x a week) Here is what my workout consists of :

CARDIO:
  30 mins on the elliptical Machine: Average 450 calories burned
  Tues and Thurs: I try to do spinning class: |1 hour class where approx 575 - 1000 calories can be burned. NOT BAD!

ABS
  300 sit ups

Weights
  4 sets of Tricep Dip/Extension 15 reps per set ( all will be 15 reps)
  4 sets of biceps curl
  4 sets of 15 working out my Lats
  4 sets of Chest Press
  4 sets of Fly machine ( working out chest )
   4 sets of shoulder lift ( I hate working out shoulders so I do it every other day)

On days I go to spinning, I wont be doing my 30 mins on the elliptical, but I will still do the weights.

So this is my offical gym routine!!

MORE TO COME!

Weighing In

I have read from numerous sources, that the best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning, when you wake up before you eat anything. Your weight is most accurate then. The sources also say that you should weigh yourself 1x a week to know where you stand.

I am going to go rogue and d it my way:

 I will weigh myself everyday at these times:  After I come from the gym ( which is in the evening as I work throughout the day ) and on weekends I will follow the protocol of weighing myself first thing in the morning.

So as of right now me stats are: 26 yr old male, 6'4'' weighing in at 250 lbs.

The jouney begins....

Weight Loss Basics

Here are some weight loss basics we should know:

It burn 1 pound of fat, 3,500 calories are needed to burn/day. ( I am going to look more into this, seems like a lot to burn in one day)

BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) : Normal BMI is between 18 - 24.9, mine is 30 :( . Its a starting point to learn your BMI. You can google a BMI calculator to find out what yours is.

BASAL METABOLIC RATE : It is the amount of calories needed to carry out body functions, heart beating, lungs breathing etc.  Again you can find calculators on the internet. Mine is 2399.9. So if I eat about 500 calories than my BMR, it will aid my weight loss process.

This is going to be more work than I though! But nothing comes easy!

My First Post

Hello Everyone!

 This is my first post. This blog is going to be about my journey in weight loss. I will do my best to keep it updated as much as I can.

The reason why I want to write about my journey in weight loss is because it is a hard thing to do and hopefully what I do will help someone else.   I will write about what I eat, exercise and probably will post some random things as well.

Information about me to know my starting point:
I am a 6'4'' guy, weight 250 lbs. My ideal weight should be 200 lbs. I am going to do it, starting in this holiday season.