Spornosexuality

[Songbird]

How many SJ dudes secretly want to put the work in to sculpt their bodies like this AND the have the commitment it takes (nutrition included) to maintain?

 

[Vombatus]

I'm currently working on it. Lost 36 pounds since February. So the diet part is working. The getting ripped part is going to be tougher as I am fighting two injuries and, well, getting old as dirt sure doesn't help.

 

[BDC99]

It would have been a major upset if Vombatus wan't the first response. But get after it VB! I have no desire to put in that sort of work. But I could stand to lose at least 30 LBs. Just turned 44 yesterday so not getting any easier. Though if I wasn't sitting on the couch, drinking beer and surfing the web right now, I might have a better shot.

 

[SpeedTchr]

I'm old, 100+ pounds overweight, and simply don't care what I look like at this point. I can enjoy donuts when I want.

 

[BDC99]

I'm old, 100+ pounds overweight, and simply don't care what I look like at this point. I can enjoy donuts when I want.

Not judging in the least, but if you're 100 pounds overweight, you should work on that. It's not just about your looks ... Just not healthy.

 

[Riptide]

I was at a favorite burger joint Saturday, and there were 10 other customers there, and everyone
but me was at least 75 pounds overweight. In America, fast food and giant sugar drinks are winning.

 

[Vombatus]

Craft beer isn't helping either. And restaurant portion sizes.

But craft beer, man... it's a great time to be alive. It's not the 1970s anymore with mainly Bud, Miller, PBR and Schlitz as choices. I remember Michelob coming out and it was like some shiny new toy in fancy bottles.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I was at a favorite burger joint Saturday, and there were 10 other customers there, and everyone
but me was at least 75 pounds overweight. In America, fast food and giant sugar drinks are winning.

No, laziness is winning.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I was at a favorite burger joint Saturday, and there were 10 other customers there, and everyone
but me was at least 75 pounds overweight. In America, fast food and giant sugar drinks are winning.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I would work out 8 hours a day if I could. As it is, I'm lucky to work out 4 hours a week. I still eat pretty well, but a wife and two kids have been pretty fattening.

It also doesn't help that I fly a desk. Too sedentary.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I gained about 50 pounds between my wedding day and the day my daughter was born.

Actually, since I've had two kids around, I've lost 8-10 pounds in just a few months. If only because there's not enough time to sit down and really shovel it in.

 

[Wenders]

Since leaving sports for a desk job, I've become super lazy. So now I force myself to go to the gym at least 3-4 times a week. I try to mix in cardio with some weight-lifting. It should be said that I'm a girl and I'm not 20 anymore. I just want to be toned. I'm extremely petite and the downside to being 5'0 is that you have a small space to carry the weight in, so I'm almost overweight.

One thing that motivates me big time to stay in the gym and make myself be active is looking at my family history. There's a lot of heart disease in there, there's a predisposition to obesity, diabetes, etc. So I'm really trying to keep my weight in check and make healthier choices. I could give up alcohol tomorrow. But giving up Pepsi might be what kills me.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Not judging in the least, but if you're 100 pounds overweight, you should work on that. It's not just about your looks ... Just not healthy.

Apologies to BDC99 for my inelegant reply.

 

[cjericho]

I was at a favorite burger joint Saturday, and there were 10 other customers there, and everyone
but me was at least 75 pounds overweight. In America, fast food and giant sugar drinks are winning.

Daddy Michael Bloomberg needs to put an end to that.

 

[heyabbott]

I'm currently working on it. Lost 36 pounds since February. So the diet part is working. The getting ripped part is going to be tougher as I am fighting two injuries and, well, getting old as dirt sure doesn't help.

What's your diet

 

[Vombatus]

What's your diet

heyabb, I'm on a medically supervised diet through the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center. It's pretty intense, and I had been told by my Hopkins Preventative Cardiology team that if I followed JHWMC's directions to a T, I would have great results.

Of course, it all comes down to diet and exercise, taking in far less calories and burning more through exercise. Anyway, I am in a Quick Start phase, with a basic 1100 calorie diet. I dropped 25 pounds in four weeks - and it was EASY. If you and/or others are interested, I can post more details or send PMs.

Believe me, I have tried several other diets and exercises. This one is kicking ass. I thought I would starve with only 1100 calories, but the program is designed to keep you from getting hungry throughout the day. My long term goal is to get to 200. My initial short term goal was to get under 230 (from a peak of 258) and I've already met that goal. I should hit my next short term goal of 220 this week.

And I'm not just aiming to hit 200 now. I am convinced that if I keep this up, I can hit 185. I'm going for it.

 

[heyabbott]

heyabb, I'm on a medically supervised diet through the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center. It's pretty intense, and I had been told by my Hopkins Preventative Cardiology team that if I followed JHWMC's directions to a T, I would have great results.

Of course, it all comes down to diet and exercise, taking in far less calories and burning more through exercise. Anyway, I am in a Quick Start phase, with a basic 1100 calorie diet. I dropped 25 pounds in four weeks - and it was EASY. If you and/or others are interested, I can post more details or send PMs.

Believe me, I have tried several other diets and exercises. This one is kicking ass. I thought I would starve with only 1100 calories, but the program is designed to keep you from getting hungry throughout the day. My long term goal is to get to 200. My initial short term goal was to get under 230 (from a peak of 258) and I've already met that goal. I should hit my next short term goal of 220 this week.

And I'm not just aiming to hit 200 now. I am convinced that if I keep this up, I can hit 185. I'm going for it.

pm please. Love to jump start a weight loss

 

[BDC99]

heyabb, I'm on a medically supervised diet through the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center. It's pretty intense, and I had been told by my Hopkins Preventative Cardiology team that if I followed JHWMC's directions to a T, I would have great results.

Of course, it all comes down to diet and exercise, taking in far less calories and burning more through exercise. Anyway, I am in a Quick Start phase, with a basic 1100 calorie diet. I dropped 25 pounds in four weeks - and it was EASY. If you and/or others are interested, I can post more details or send PMs.

Believe me, I have tried several other diets and exercises. This one is kicking ass. I thought I would starve with only 1100 calories, but the program is designed to keep you from getting hungry throughout the day. My long term goal is to get to 200. My initial short term goal was to get under 230 (from a peak of 258) and I've already met that goal. I should hit my next short term goal of 220 this week.

And I'm not just aiming to hit 200 now. I am convinced that if I keep this up, I can hit 185. I'm going for it.

Best of luck, stud. A few years back, I dropped about 30 pounds to get to an adult low of 192. I am now back up to 230-ish thanks to too much beer and lack of activity/exercise. I wish the feeling I had back then provided more motivation, but even when I was going to the gym almost daily, I had little motivation, and it wasn't until the high kicked in that it really felt worth it.

 

[typefitter]

Best of luck, stud. A few years back, I dropped about 30 pounds to get to an adult low of 192. I am now back up to 230-ish thanks to too much beer and lack of activity/exercise. I wish the feeling I had back then provided more motivation, but even when I was going to the gym almost daily, I had little motivation, and it wasn't until the high kicked in that it really felt worth it.

Same experience here, BDC99. Good luck, Vombatus. Just remember that like BDC99, it's not about reaching a goal and then you get to take your foot off the gas (or the E-Z-Cheez tub). It's about maintaining the results of all that hard work. I went from 220 to my adult low of 177. Then I blew out my shoulder skiing, and in eight relatively sedentary weeks I went back to 200. It was almost shocking how easily that weight went back on. It's coming back off now, but it's a bit debilitating mentally, knowing how hard it was the first time and doing it again.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Is anyone familiar with this TV Show on Discovery Network called "My 600-lb Life"? Apparently it has been on for years and years, but we only discovered it a few months ago. They follow these morbidly obese people on their paths to this creepy, little surgeon in Houston who does various bariatric surgical procedures. In most episodes, he sends them home and tries to get them to lose weight on their own, and if they can get down to a certain weight, he'll do the surgery. Even the small single digit percent of people who succeed really struggle. It's kind of bad scripted reality TV, but still, watching how addicted to crappy processed foods the people are is sad and fascinating at the same time. Some of the people can't leave their bed, have a dumbass enabler bringing mountains of unhealthy things to them, and they can't find any will whatsoever to contain themselves. It's like the food is an opiate -- either physically or mentally or whatever is going with them that has them shoveling food in even when they are 700, 800 pounds and close to death from it. I feel guilty watching it, because it feels a bit like gawking at other people's misery -- it's just trainwreck TV. The doctor is kind of hysterical to me, so I have been doing imitations of him for the last month. Sometimes it just seems ridiculous. Some of the people are eating tens of thousands of calories a day and he basically lectures them and tells them to got home nad start eating 800 calories a day. It's "Lose 150 pounds and maybe I'll do the surgery." Then they come back a
few months later and they haven't lost a pound, or in a lot of cases have put on 50 pounds, and he's shocked. Shocked. In many episodes he ends up admitting them to the hospital, where they go on a forced diet and they lose weight. And he sends them back home and tells them to lose more. And so on and so on.

Another observation: Ms. Ragu and I have spent the last year + shuttling between home which is in NYC, and Philadelphia, where we need to be a lot of the time. Philly isn't even the most obese city you'll find, but even walking around center city Philadelphia we are often struck by how much heavier a lot of people are than they are in NYC.