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GaRebelRunner
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 Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:09 Post subject: I am so rediculously fat
I weighed myself at the gym just before my 5 mile treadmill run tonight. 167 pounds. I have never weighed that much in my life.
So, effective immediately I've cut out all soft drinks (and I'm craving a coke right now), cutting all meal portions in half, and picking up some fruits to serve as snacks rather than the chocolate I've been eating. I hate bananas but I guess they'll do in addition to a few fruit cups during the day. Maybe I'll pick up some slim-fast while I'm at it.
The tire size around my waist has gone from a size 13 for a chevy aveo to an R-17 for a Silverado. No wonder I'm slowing down even while getting my weekly mileage back to 35-40 miles/week.
My goal is to get to 150-155 within the next 3 months.
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TimRuns
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:15 Post subject:
What's your height?
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karlene
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:18 Post subject:
I also weigh the most i've ever weighed...
I've upped my miles, started walking to work and changed my diet.
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:23 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | What's your height? |
5'9"
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:24 Post subject:
I am still above my target weight of about 175 - 180 and I don't know if I will ever get there. I eat to much and i don't want to give up my beers.  Yes I know that makes it tougher to get my weight down and Ihave no excuses. Just stating a fact.
Good Luck!
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robp
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:37 Post subject:
I'm 5'9" and 166 lbs as of this morning. I'd look anorexic at 150.....
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:50 Post subject:
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I'm 5'9" and 166 lbs as of this morning. I'd look anorexic at 150..... |
I looked even worse at 145, and I'm only 5'7"
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:50 Post subject:
last week a doctor told me to gain 8 t0 10 lbs. 1st time i've ever been told to gain weight. 
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:50 Post subject:
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I'm 5'9" and 166 lbs as of this morning. I'd look anorexic at 150..... |
By all medical stats I'm fine. But my body build is such that I have a really nice tire around me at this weight. When I was 150-155, which was only 3 years ago I was doing fine in my races as well as not feeling so lethargic from time to time. Plus my jeans are getting way tight in size 34. Four years ago I was wearing 32.
I just feel bloated. I mean, when I do downhills maybe I should just roll instead of trying to run down them on my feet.
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 18:53 Post subject:
| GaRebelRunner wrote: | | robp wrote: |
I'm 5'9" and 166 lbs as of this morning. I'd look anorexic at 150..... |
By all medical stats I'm fine. But my body build is such that I have a really nice tire around me at this weight. When I was 150-155, which was only 3 years ago I was doing fine in my races as well as not feeling so lethargic from time to time. Plus my jeans are getting way tight in size 34. Four years ago I was wearing 32.
I just feel bloated. I mean, when I do downhills maybe I should just roll instead of trying to run down them on my feet. |
We have different builds. I wear a belt to hold up my 32's. I did weigh around 190 though at one time and I had a helluva spare tire.
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 19:02 Post subject:
Guys, I own a gym. Trust me, ain't any of you rediculously fat. 
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 19:11 Post subject:
I was reading your self flaggelation and immediately thought of Woody Allen's essay: THUS ATE ZARATHUSTRA.
I want to share part of the essay, then give you a link to the whole story:
Fat itself is a substance or essence of a substance or mode of that essence. The big problem sets in when it accumulates on your hips. Among the pre-Socratics, it was Zeno who held that weight was an illusion and that no matter how much a man ate he would always be only half as fat as the man who never does push-ups. The quest for an ideal body obsessed the Athenians, and in a lost play by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra breaks her vow never to snack between meals and tears out her eyes when she realizes she no longer fits into her bathing suit.
It took the mind of Aristotle to put the weight problem in scientific terms, and in an early fragment of the Ethics he states that the circumference of any man is equal to his girth multiplied by pi. This sufficed until the Middle Ages, when Aquinas translated a number of menus into Latin and the first really good oyster bars opened. Dining out was still frowned upon by the Church, and valet parking was a venal sin.
the rest of the story:
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/060703sh_shouts
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TimRuns
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 21:19 Post subject:
| GaRebelRunner wrote: | | TimRuns wrote: | | What's your height? |
5'9" |
That seems like an ok weight to me...
I'm about your height and weigh around 130-135 which is like close to borderline underweight.
I'm naturally slim though and running and weight training has helped me lost more weight and build more lean muscle...
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 21:58 Post subject:
I've slacked since this summer.....need to lose 20-30 pounds to be where I want to be again....... 
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Posted: 10/17/06 - 22:05 Post subject: Re: I am so rediculously fat
| GaRebelRunner wrote: | I weighed myself at the gym just before my 5 mile treadmill run tonight. 167 pounds. I have never weighed that much in my life.
So, effective immediately I've cut out all soft drinks (and I'm craving a coke right now), cutting all meal portions in half, and picking up some fruits to serve as snacks rather than the chocolate I've been eating. I hate bananas but I guess they'll do in addition to a few fruit cups during the day. Maybe I'll pick up some slim-fast while I'm at it.
The tire size around my waist has gone from a size 13 for a chevy aveo to an R-17 for a Silverado. No wonder I'm slowing down even while getting my weekly mileage back to 35-40 miles/week.
My goal is to get to 150-155 within the next 3 months. |
try to change one thing at a time. Cut out the soft drinks first. They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. So after 3 weeks go to the next thing...fruit replacing chocolate.
I had my doctor's appt on friday. My doctor comes into the room and I'm there because my history of low iron despite taking supplements. My looks at the nurses notes and says "your weight looks real healthy, we can rule out female triad" 
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