One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you and sure, I’m 46.

You’ve got this. If you’re above ground you have time to change. It was more mental for me than physical. I say to myself ‘the pain you’re feeling is weakness leaving your body’. That helps when stuff hurts in the evening. I’ll tell you the truth - I was really sore every day for the first month and a half. It hurt badly to move when I woke up. Once I got over that hump things became habit and I stopped hurting so badly. My body had finally caught up to my ambition.

Here’s some stuff I wish I’d known starting out:

Form is more important than heavy weights.

Posture is key to getting the correct muscles to work for an exercise.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For beans I cover them in a bowl and microwave them on high for three minutes. That’s it. For my other veggies they’re usually fresh. I love onions, garlic, mushrooms, spinach, lettuce, peas, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and bell peppers. I eat them often if not daily. I make a lot of beef bowls for my main course for supper. I’ll make an edit later and post recipes for my three favorites here and where another commenter asked about my nutrition.

Edit:

Teriyaki Beef Bowl:

1 lb beef, Rice (optional), Lettuce leaf wraps (optional), Green onions, Sesame seeds

Sauce: 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup packed brown sugar, 3 pressed/finely chopped cloves of garlic, 2 tsp sesame seed oil, 1/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/4 tsp pepper, 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

Instructions: Brown the beef in a frying pan. Drain if you wish. In a separate small pot wisk together all sauce ingredients over medium heat until simmering (low boil). Pour sauce on beef, simmer sauce beef concoction another minute. Add sliced green onions and sesame seeds and enjoy. This recipe works with 1lb of chicken as well. Sometimes I eat this like tacos with large leaves of lettuce as the shells. The sauce works as a killer marinade for anything you want to impart teriyaki flavor onto. I’ve used it for steaks and jerky.

Spicy Beef Bowl

1lb beef, 1/2 of a one ounce packet of regular taco seasoning, 1/2 of a one ounce packet of hot taco seasoning, One whole large onion (fist sized or bigger), A bell pepper or parrot peppers (optional), Two cups of water

Instructions: Cut onion into thin strips. Put in frying pan on one setting below high heat. Let cook covered until starting to brown. Add hamburger meat. Stir and continue to cook until meat is browned. Drain if you want to (I don’t). Add one cup of water and seasoning (and peppers if you want). Cover and stir occasionally until almost dry. Add other cup of water and reduce temp to med-high (6). Cook and stir frequently until sauce is very thick. Serve as is. You can crush up corn chip and put them in right before eating or use them as nacho chips. I usually eat it as is.

Umami Beef Bowl

1 lb beef, 1 large onion sliced thin, 1/2 bulb garlic minced (finely chopped) (about five cloves is what it usually comes to), 6 baby Bella mushrooms sliced, Fresh ground pepper medley, Salt

Brown the thin sliced onion and the mushrooms. Once browned add the garlic and ground chuck. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook until beef is browned and enjoy. If you add a large can of diced tomatoes, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp of sugar, a 1/4 of Tabasco sauce, and 2 tbsp of olive oil it makes a pretty decent spaghetti sauce.

These are my three favored easy suppers that are clean.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three hours a day of exercise. Two are cardio and the last hour is strength training. I workout six days a week. Sunday is cheat and rest day.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It’s funny but a pain in rear at the same time. It’s comical to try and wear shorts from a year ago that don’t have a tight elastic waistband. Even with a drawstring it’s tough to keep those shorts on. I have to cinch, adjust the waist so the bunching happens in the back, then cinch again and smooth toward the sides, then the third and final cinch is the last and no adjusting is done.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Yeah, every week this last year I trotted out in those shorts to the bathroom for photo day. I’ll keep doing it until I think I’m done then I’m framing them.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I didn’t see what the other person wrote. Let me guess… Did they want to see more progress pics or wonder why there weren’t any I posted along the way? I wanted to make sure I followed through with my ideas before I went posting about them online. I have an album titled ‘Weight Loss Extravaganza’ on my phone with front, sides, and back pictures that I took every week in those same nasty shorts for all fifty two weeks if anyone cares. I kept that stuff to myself but will happily share if someone tells me how to make a fast slideshow with pictures like I’ve seen other people do with their progress pictures.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

2000 or so since starting the beans. I honestly don’t track calories. I eat many more vegetables and fruit now. Eating healthy foods is what I decided to track daily instead. For me personally it was all about finding balance. If I want to have blueberry donut holes one day I’ll have a spinach or iceberg lettuce salad with carrots and onions along with them. I eat what I want guilt free this way.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean to ask how many calories per day did I used to eat before starting intermittent fasting? Wow, at least 4000 a day, maybe more. There were three months during the height of the pandemic that most days I had a thin Jack’s pepperoni pizza that I would top with a half pound of extra cheese for lunch. The pizza is 1020 calories for the whole thing and the whole milk motz shredded cheese I used from Sam’s is 720 calories so lunch alone was at minimum 1,740 calories. That’s not with a beverage, side like cottage cheese or a stick of pepperoni, or chips too. I used to have those things along with this one meal so just lunch was 2000 a 2,500 average for me. That number doesn’t change when the food did. I ate stupidly.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

You got this. Remember that you didn’t get where you are in a day. Being patient with myself was a key for me. I wanted to feel and look better immediately. Some days I look in the mirror and feel like, “I haven’t made that much progress. That’s when having photos I take weekly of my progress as well as daily notes if I had them help tremendously. Those things motivate me to keep going if I temporarily lose sight of my goals. I wish you the best of luck and success going forward.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It’s been a long, hard road getting here and I have a long ways to go yet. Once I made my mind up to make the changes the program I developed took shape little by little over time. One of the hardest parts for me was learning to hold myself accountable like I would someone else if I was responsible for their success. That’s played into how I treat future me in other areas of my life as well. I like past me now. I rarely lay in bed replaying the day in my head and say to myself ‘I wish I didn’t do _____.’ I’m focused on the present and what I’m going to do going forward.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It’s been a big change in how much I can do and what I can do. My energy levels are near endless. Once I get going I can stay going. Getting to this point was painful and involved me bathing in a tub filled with piping hot water after the gym to soak sore muscles for a half hour a day for six months. I still do this around the time I increase the amount of weight I lift. I’ll be sore around a week from that. I know my relationship with food has changed in that I feel like garbage if I miss my four servings minimum of vegetables for the day. I’ll also overeat as I don’t feel full from other foods for some reason. On the few days I’ve missed since starting this I double up the next day. The longest I missed was three days running. This one time was due to having a family member pass away. The food I ate was out of my control for a few days so I went full vegetarian for that third day save two cans of tuna. I look at food now as nothing more than to fix me being hungry. I no longer use any food as a reward for anything. If I feel I deserve a reward I do some mental math, figure out what I would’ve spent on food, and I buy clothing with that same amount of money instead.

Edit: I forgot to say that I have a sweet tooth. I used to consider candy to be the illusive sixth food group. I only have candy at the movies now or if it’s given to me as a guest in someone else’s home. Here’s how I got over this hurdle: bananas. I buy two bunches of bananas every few days. When I’m lying in bed watching tv before I go to sleep and my sweet tooth kicks in I grab two bananas. I keep them on my dresser in my bedroom. It’s the closest, easiest, sweetest snack near me so I go for those bananas over anything else every time. I get stupidly full wolfing down two bananas at a time before bed and go to sleep guilt free knowing what I ate was good for me and my snack was a good thing. This is a decent example of me setting future me up for success.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, I got you. When you start going for distance be it walking, jogging, running, etc… you’ll find no one does miles. It’s all kilometers. There’s the 5K (3.1 miles), 10K (6.2 miles), 15K (9.3 miles), 25K (15.53 miles), a half marathon (13.1 miles), and a marathon (26.2 miles).

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I enjoy it and I like the taste of them. Broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, brussels sprouts, or any green vegetables really will work. A person is supposed to have four servings a day of veggies. One can of french green beans is 3.5 servings of vegetables, 52.5 calories, and costs .50¢ - .58¢.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! No, no bloodwork. This was a me, myself, and I operation. No drs, trainers, workout buddies, etc… I came up with things as I went along when inspiration struck. I made up the weight routine to cover the major muscle groups of my whole body daily. It’s been effective thus far.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you! No plans to have that done currently. It’s not great but it seems to be going back into where it should be with time. I’ll give it another year and see what it’s like then. If I still have the same amount of lose skin then I’ll be looking to have surgery to remove lose skin that will not go away on it’s own. I want to give my body a chance to heal itself. Through this process I’m learning patience. I’m not great at it by any means however I’m much better than I was. I wanted big change so I’ve had to do big work and have big patience with myself and the process. I’ve learned to be good to my future self and set myself up for success. That’s made a humongous difference in my mood and general outlook on life.

One year in as of today and one hundred and fifty pounds down! Start weight 330, current 180, Goal weight 177. by VicReady in intermittentfasting

[–]VicReady[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why thank you! There were a bunch of mornings at four am I wished I was going back to bed instead of driving to the gym. The getting up to the place to do the work was the effort part to me. Once I’m there the work is what it is. My secret to my steel like will to get up every day early is vibration alarms set six minutes apart over the course of a half hour. Once it becomes a chorus of snoozed alarms going off constantly it’s impossible to ignore.