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LogGrad98 said:
Poor One Love, gone into the ether.

But his thread doesn't have to be!!

I am embarking on an interesting journey. My wife is preparing for bariatric surgery. She has hip dysplasia and a few other ailments that are exacerbated by weight, and it makes it hard for her to engage in physical fitness. Until she can drop some weight, they can't tell whether she needs surgery for the hip dysplasia or if PT would take care of it. Either way, this is the path we are going down. So, to support her, but also for myself, I am mimicking her diet throughout this whole thing and will be working with her on physical fitness, so I thought I would drop this out there and track my progress here. Suggestions are welcome.

For prep for her surgery, her first diet change is to drop all forms of processed sugar, as well as grains and other carbs, especially processed carbs. They still let her have veggies and fruit (limited) but she is primarily doing what amounts to an Atkins or even keto diet. So I am going to be doing the same, only initially I am going full-on keto. Have been on it a week and am now in ketosis (if the strips from CVS are telling me the truth), and I feel it. Better energy, not much appetite, and much less brain fog, which was a nagging left-over symptom from COVID earlier this year.

I use a Renfro bluetooth scale, which tracks all kinds of body comp stuff through impedence, so I take it all with a grain of salt, but I have been professionally tested for body fat and other things in the past and the scale is actually damn close and consistent, so I will use it as my measure.

Week over week, in a table:

Week 1, Aug 15 - 287.0 lbs
Week 2, Aug 23 - 282.4 (-4.6)

Here was week 1, August 15th, 2022:

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Week 2, August 23, 2022:

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This is unique for me, because it isn't a wild hair or a new year's resolution I will likely just drop, but it is a permanent change for my wife, so I am making the change as well. I will see down the road how I adjust my diet once she is in her maintenance phase, but that is a good 6 months down the road. I should be able to drop 60 pounds or so in that time frame. This is a decent way to hold myself accountable reporting it here.

I think we will spend a lot more days at the beach. Don't eat much there and spend a lot of time in the water, so physical activity and relaxing. Love it.

Wish me luck!
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I miss trolling ONE LOVE....

My cousin has just had gastric bypass about 4 months ago he's lost around 60kg (135 pounds?) I think he probably has another 30 to 40 kg to lose. (My guess is his ideal weight is somewhere between 90 and 100kg.)

Im looking at getting back into training ive gained about 35kg over the last 12 months of covid and im feeling like ****. Gonna cut drinking to two nights a week and aim to do at least 10 sessions a week in the gym.
 
Rubashov said:
I miss trolling ONE LOVE....

My cousin has just had gastric bypass about 4 months ago he's lost around 60kg (135 pounds?) I think he probably has another 30 to 40 kg to lose. (My guess is his ideal weight is somewhere between 90 and 100kg.)

Im looking at getting back into training ive gained about 35kg over the last 12 months of covid and im feeling like ****. Gonna cut drinking to two nights a week and aim to do at least 10 sessions a week in the gym.
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So you mean 2 nights a week you will cut out one drink, right?


Sounds like a good plan though. I could stand to lose about 60-70 pounds, not sure what that is in kilos, too lazy to convert. My body shape and height and such cannot go much lower than 215, I look sickly. In fact when I had cancer I got down to 205 and looked like the grim reaper. I would be happy to settle in at 220-230 for the long haul. My playing weight for bball and fball in high school sat at right around 230, but with low body fat percentage, like <10, so lots more muscle. I carry nowhere near that much muscle now but I am working on it. Starting with body weight exercises and just walking more, and getting into more bball games, that fell off completely during COVID so I have hardly touched a basketball in the last nearly 3 years. Need to hit the gym after I get my pushups back to about 50 or so, and the other stuff at the same level.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So you mean 2 nights a week you will cut out one drink, right?


Sounds like a good plan though. I could stand to lose about 60-70 pounds, not sure what that is in kilos, too lazy to convert. My body shape and height and such cannot go much lower than 215, I look sickly. In fact when I had cancer I got down to 205 and looked like the grim reaper. I would be happy to settle in at 220-230 for the long haul. My playing weight for bball and fball in high school sat at right around 230, but with low body fat percentage, like QUOTE]

How tall are you? Im thinking you must be at least 6 foot 3 or so


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A few quick thoughts:

- Keto is great to jump start a diet and get some good losses at the beginning. You will eventually see this plateau and level-off so don't be disenfranchised if you stay on it and find you're not losing much else for weight. Ideally, Keto is very tough to adopt as a long-term diet as it just limits you so much on what you can eat. I don't recommend it as a long-term lifestyle specifically because of the kidney issues that can occur from it

- Once you either level out from keto or just get sick of it (the latter usually happens first), really strive for a diet with a caloric deficit of maybe around 1,500 a day as that will still let you lose 3-4 pounds a week which will again eventually come down to maybe 1-2 a week which is totally fine. Once you've hit your goal weight, really try and stick around 2k a day.

- Avoid snacking. I can't begin to tell you how valuable that is and how many calories you save just by grabbing a handful of chips, a couple cookies, etc. If you do have a snack, reach for some veggies or nuts but don't go crazy.

- Drink water - tons of water. You'll find your appetite usually filled if you just always stay hydrated as you'll be less prone to snack

- Don't eat anything after 8pm - and stick to it. Again, drink some water and you'll wake up feeling lighter

- Diet is 80% of weight loss. For exercise, just stick to walking and doing your best to get 10k steps in a day. An hour walk in the morning not only gets it out of the way, but wakes you up and you feel ready for the day. You're not 20 anymore and your body will remind you of this anytime you think you are

- Take the weekends off but eat in moderation. A cheat meal is a burger, not a double quarter-pounder with a large side of fries and a 32 oz. Coke. Stick to the 2k calorie number and you'll be surprised how much more you can eat than a weekday

- Weigh yourself once per week at the same relative timeframe (ex. Friday morning). Never weigh yourself at the end of the day or you'll be pissed

Excited to see your progress. It's a marathon - you might lose nothing one week and six pounds the rest. Remember, in the end, it really boils down to basic math and having a functional thyroid.
 
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@fishonjazz Looks like your comment fell in my quote. I am 6'2" ish now, depends on shoes. I listed at 6'3" in my playing days. Crazy how much spine surgery and **** takes off you. I lost almost 2 full inches of height with a permanent curvature in my spinal fusion.
 
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Rubashov said:
I miss trolling ONE LOVE....

My cousin has just had gastric bypass about 4 months ago he's lost around 60kg (135 pounds?) I think he probably has another 30 to 40 kg to lose. (My guess is his ideal weight is somewhere between 90 and 100kg.)

Im looking at getting back into training ive gained about 35kg over the last 12 months of covid and im feeling like ****. Gonna cut drinking to two nights a week and aim to do at least 10 sessions a week in the gym.
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Fatass.
 
Rubashov said:
Yeah its all beer. I'm 6'2 and built like a linesman its pretty easy for me to gain weight comes off pretty quickly once I sort my **** and train hard.
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I never knew coke was filtered on JFC. You also missed the ‘n’ in ‘snort.’
 
LogGrad98 said:
Week 0, Aug 15 - 287.0 lbs
Week 1, Aug 23 - 282.4 (-4.6)
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Week 2, Aug 29 - 276.8 (-5.6; -10.2)


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Not too bad basically 2 weeks in. Mostly water weight loss right now I'm sure since I'm severely restricting sugar and sugar retains a lot of water. But I am feeling it and seeing it in my waist size. Pants at size 40 waist starting to get a little looser. Feel like I have more energy. Started body weight exercises. Found it pretty hard to do 20 pushups which is bad. I have a pull-up bar in my garage and right now I'm using pushups, modified pullups, squats and lunges for strength training. After I see some progress beyond what body weight can do for me I'll move back to the gym. Walking around one of my warehouse a few times every day, trying to hit at least a couple of them for walkthroughs with facility management and that gets me 6-8k steps minimum up to a hell of a lot more depending on what's going on there. Then going for a walk with my wife every night once it cools off just a little, you know to like low-90s. lol

Not bad so far. But the hard part with this is getting in enough fiber so I'm trying to build my meals around keto-friendly veggies as much as I can but I might need to start taking a fiber supplement to help regulate BMs. Gets weird on keto. Cycles from one extreme to the other. No fun. And with IBS it can be much more extreme then you'd expect.

Anyway, that's my weekly report. We'll see where we end up in another week.
 
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One Brow said:
I'm more like a bell curve.
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Left-skewed.

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Week 0, Aug 15 - 287.0 lbs
Week 1, Aug 23 - 282.4 (-4.6)
Week 2, Aug 29 - 276.8 (-5.6; -10.2)
Week 3, Sept 6 - 274.0 (-2.8; -13.0)

I will take it for a third week. It was harder with sugar cravings this week. We went to Utah to visit family for the holiday weekend, lots of driving but spent a couple days with family, and I was careful with my diet. Feeling stronger, so I imagine I will start to see this taper off and get to a smaller weekly number as I add muscle. My 4 week goal was 15 pounds, and I am on track for that easily.

One non-scale win to note is that I am going to have to buy a new belt pretty soon. I am at the last notch now.

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