[quote]JUSTLIFTHARD wrote:
Bro, what type of food are you planning on eating while following the v diet? [/quote]
Er…the V Diet stuff? Shakes, flax, Flameout?
Day Five
No problems. Walked two miles. Had a Pual Chek approved poo this morning.
That picture is from last year, im a little leaner now.
This is my first post on the forum, I can definetely relate to JWJordan, and I would like to hear from anyone willing to give me some constructive criticism and advice.
My Stats
Name: Jeff
Age: 18
Height: 5’8
Weight: 285
Race: Caucasian
Activity History: Very active as a child and throughout elementary school. Started Tae Kwon Do at age 10, continued for 4 years. Stopped when I joined my highschool Rugby Team. Played as a Prop for the first two years of Highschool and during my senior year. However, I missed the training season because i did not plan on playing that year, therefore missed out on all the conditioning. Team “needed me” so i joined up and played the best I could. I’ve also played tennis in the past but not regularily and not for the past 2 years.
Other History: We went out and got take out too often. My mother is overweight and my Father, who used to be a captain in the Canadian Reserve Forces (note: Their the ones in Afghanistan now) has put on a belly since quitting Militia and joining Boy Scouts with my at the age of 6. He currently does not eat well. My mother has type two diabetes.My father, no matter how much we ask him not too, continues to bring home shitty foods, sweets and pastry type stuff mostly. He is starting to turn his diet around. My mother has eaten relatively healthy for the last few years. (she put on weight after giving birth to me)used to be average.
I am 285 at 5’8 however i am told i look more 235 and a healthy 235. My legs are tree trunks and solid, i am strong and i do workout atleast a few times a week. I need to regularly incorporate cardio, that i know.
I eat pretty healthy and am attempting to eat Lean-Meat and high protein foods, and stick to Vegies and Fruit almost entirely for my carbs, but i do still eat some bread, that is 12 grain or Whole Wheat.
Now that that is out of the way, I would first like to know any exercises that are really good at burning stomach fat, as that is my main concern, other than loosing overall weight and improving health
(Doc says im healthy but need to lose weight, obviousely. Blood tests have come back good)
Very first piece of advice would be to start your own thread. Also, it wouldn’t have been much of a strain for most people to see that you’re caucasian from the picture =]
yeah, i wasn’t originally planning to put in the pic.
[quote]NorthRugby wrote:
yeah, i wasn’t originally planning to put in the pic.[/quote]
That wasn’t advice, I was just jokin with ya, but you really should start your own thread.
Hmm…
Picture test.
Sexifyin’
Both of those pictures involve alcohol, shockingly.
I was around 320 in those. I don’t have a digital camera, so I had to poach pictures from my friends, hence the drunkopics.
(I was never much of a drinker, but I’ve stopped entirely now, before anyone jumps on that.)
When I develop some shirtless pics I’ll post them.
I’ll bet you all can’t wait.
You look like you’re trying to keep from blowin chunks in that second one man ;-D
I really wish ya the best, but also wish you could see that you’re trying to turn this nut with a hammer. You’d even probably be better off going low carb/high fat/protein for a while with some scaled back carb days and cycling in your loads after you had your glucose regulation tightened up.
You’d lean up at an alarming rate and not suffer the metabolic impairment that’s coming.
WTF!
God damn you piss me off.
Firstly, why the hell do you think you know anything at all about exercise and nutrition that would even let you come to the conclusion that you are a good canidate for the V-diet?!?!
You obviously have not made good nutritional or exercise choices in the past, or else you would not be 300 fucking pounds! So why do you think you are equiped to make this decision?
Second, you shoo away all the good advice that was given to you about actually changing your behavior and habits because you don’t want to change at all.
Your setting yourself up so that when you fail at this “diet” you can say " I tried" and go back to swallowing down cheatos by the fist full. Yes this is a “diet” not a nutritional plan.
If you want to do this right, go back and read what everyone said again.
If you want to fail, please feel free to continue. You’ll just just quit, eat, go blind, lose your legs, be stuck on dialaysis from Diabetes and die of a massive coranary or stroke.
But your the expert, obviously.
BTW,
No one here wants you to fail, we all want you to succeed, and we are all willing to help when we can, but you won’t using this method.
[quote]JWJordan wrote:
What I’m hoping to accomplish here is to, yes, lose weight, but also get a good four week stretch where I get the exercise I need and eat right, to start building better habits than my fatass has had thus far.
So, off we go…[/quote]
Living off Biotest supplements is not “eating right”.
You aren’t looking to lose ‘vanity pounds’ - you have special needs being 300lbs and diabetic. Please listen to at least some of the common sense that’s been posted in this thread…
I don’t get why so many people seem to ask for advice…yet not want to listen to it unless it is what they really wanted to hear in the first place.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t get why so many people seem to ask for advice…yet not want to listen to it unless it is what they really wanted to hear in the first place.[/quote]
It’s quite elementary my dear Professor, if they actually listened they would have to change.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t get why so many people seem to ask for advice…[/quote]
I didn’t ask for advice anywhere in this thread.
[quote]JWJordan wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I don’t get why so many people seem to ask for advice…
I didn’t ask for advice anywhere in this thread.
[/quote]
You’re right. You didn’t ask for advice. You simply ignored the advice of health care professionals, personal trainers and experienced gym trainers who are telling you your approach is wrong. That makes much more sense.
And not just wrong, but in your case dangerous. Also try to see it from the other side. There’s a few guys a week that show up here sounding born again and then disappear.
I’ve got some in my PM’s. There was a guy here a couple weeks ago with a background frighteningly similar to my own. He pm’d me asking all kinds of questions. I spent probably an hour at work responding back and forth because he sounded like he was willing to do anything to get himself together and he had family issues too.
After the last pm that day, poof. Never to be heard from again. One does get a bit guarded after a while.
[quote]JWJordan wrote:
I didn’t ask for advice anywhere in this thread.
Professor X wrote:
You’re right. You didn’t ask for advice. You simply ignored the advice of health care professionals, personal trainers and experienced gym trainers who are telling you your approach is wrong. That makes much more sense.[/quote]
And you are ignoring the advice of the Type II Diabetics on this thread who have walked in your shoes, made stupid mistakes themselves, and who are now trying like hell to help a diabetic brother avoid bullshit mistakes. SO THAT YOU WILL GET AS HEALTHY AS YOU CAN BE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
What I admire about you – your tenacity, and your dedication to change your life.
What worries me – your obstinance, your insistence on plugging your ears to the damn good advice and WARNINGS people are giving you, as you dedicate yourself to a fad diet that at worst will screw your body/health up more than it is right now, and at best will only waste your time – time that you could be spending learning to eat healthy and to be healthy.
I get the feeling you are trying to prove a point to yourself. That finishing the Velocity Diet is some kind of test you have to pass. JUST WALK AWAY FROM IT.
The test you have to pass is taking back your life from this disease. The Velocity Diet is not the way to do that.
It just pisses me off that you are doing this to yourself, because I HAVE BEEN WHERE YOU ARE. I wasted YEARS before I got my disease under control. I don’t even want to think about how much stupid crap I did for how long, because I don’t live w regret.
I want you to avoid all that. Everybody on this thread who is trying to get you to listen wants you to avoid all that. They are not being negative with you or trying to make you fail. They are trying to help you live.
Crap everytime I think I am going to give up posting on this thread, I feel like I need to try to reach you one more time.
Please open your ears and listen.
At the risk of being severly flamed by some guys posting on this thread that I really respect, I’d like to commend you first at beginning to get a grip on your life.(I believe in positive criticism, rather than telling someone they are doomed to failure)
Anyway, I really don’t have a ton of experience with being obese or helping someone come down from that mountain; your chances of completing the V-diet are probably slim, but if you want to give it a shot than I say, go ahead.
Just really take this time that you are on the diet to make every possible change to your lifestyle nutritionally as soon as you come off.(fail or pass)
Starting with Berardi’s Precision Nutrition will help you tremendously if you are able to go until Christmas.
You said you have a plan once you get through this month; I hope it’s a good one that will bring you along for the next year and change you for the rest of your life.
Good luck, keep lifting and use any negativity to keep you motivated.
ps AND POST EVERYDAY…it will help you focus if you get weak
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Day Six
Damnit.
No, I didn’t fall off the wagon, but I had to cut my workout short again. I forgot that my gym closes an hour early on Fridays, and I was working later at my office.
I could have gone to the gym and then gone back to the office (which is how I got my walk in) but no.
Ah well.
Anyhoo…
Gym
Bench
45 * 10
135 * 5
155 * 3
205 * 3,3,3,3,3
Notes: Huh. Muscle memory is a wonderful thing.
Warmed up on the back machine at the gym between my last few sets of the bench.
DB Rows
100 * 4,4,4
Note: Not much to say. Hard.
Cybex Press
45 * 5
80 * 3,4
Note: Ran out of time on this. Not bad though. Looking forward to hitting ninety, because the four plates just looks cool.
Yeah, I’m shallow.
Walked three miles.
No complaints about the diet, same old same old.
First weigh in and first solid meal within spitting distance now.
Day Seven, a bit late.
Running smoothly, but I’m looking forward to today’s meal.
As of this morning…
Weight: 292.6
Waist: 52
Not bad.