I'm doing 31 things
So at one point I was down as far as 219lb, but I for some reason just lost interest… it wasn’t just too hard or something, I did it for like half a year. I just stopped thinking about it and ate and ate and ate. I was as high as 252lb. What a waste of effort last year. All that ground I lost. If I had just stayed on it for another three months I could have below 200lb. It’s in the past now though. I’ve been sticking with the right eating plan every minute of every day for about two weeks now. I know it’s just the initial water/glycogen loss from starting a low-carb diet, but it sure is nice to see 12 pounds just vanish into what surely now is not-so-thin air. I’m 240 today and shooting for a loss rate of two pounds a week. I can finally hit that 200 lb goal in five months if I just continue to work at it as I’ve proven I can do. At least I started again at 252lb rather than 262 or 282 or…
bjc5e6's Life List
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1. Believe in myself
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2. To live instead of exist
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3. get a six pack
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4. Get down to 8% body fat
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5. lose weight
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6. meet more people
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7. write a song
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8. sell something on ebay
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9. deadlift 500 pounds
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10. Play a solo singer/guitar show
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11. squat 405 Pounds
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12. learn to sing
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13. learn more about the bands i listen to
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14. Learn to play the guitar better
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15. Visit Italy
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16. visit new york
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17. stop biting my nails
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18. Visit England
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19. Learn to surf
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20. Go skydiving
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21. learn more languages
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22. travel somewhere new every year
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23. Visit Boston
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24. Spend New Year's Eve in Times Square
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25. grow a bonsai tree
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26. attend Coachella
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27. Get a PhD
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28. learn italian
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29. Take a moment each day to notice that I love my life
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30. run a marathon
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31. Have sex with someone who has fake boobs!
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How I did it: Electing a black president is a game changer. It'll force the remnants of an ugly part of a past generation to come to terms with the fact that the leader of the free world doesn't have to look or act like the ones before him. I think this election is was huge, not only for being a milestone for race relations, but for how it will shape future elections. The redneck party that caters to the interests of rich white people finally got&… Read how I did it…
I finally pressed it last weekend. I even did the pause at the bottom and used good form. It went up pretty easily. I warmed up before it with 155lb@10 reps, then 185lb 6 reps, then 215lb 4 reps, and then did the single 315lb, if anyone’s interested. I rested 1min, 2min, and 3min, respectively between sets. I saw this progression in an article from Flex magazine.
I’m down to 226.4lb. That’s about 35lb lost so far! I think I still have another 20 to lose so I’m hoping that I can keep from losing too much ground over the holidays. I’ve found that the body fat % numbers from the scale are unreliable since I’ve been taking them at different points throughout the day. I’ve been using a tape measure around the biggest part of my gut and tracking that since I started and it seems to be the best indicator of my progress. It doesn’t vary much day to day and there’s been a 6” difference since I started so far.
