re: PUTTHEFORKDOWN V. 2025- Weight Loss Support & Advice thread!

Definitely sounds like you need to get back home and enter a nice period of routines

Just do your best until you can stabilize and cut yourself some slack - it was always going to be difficult to accomplish great things on an extended vacation.

2.5 originally blasted me but yeah, it's waning after a month or so. I'll likely do one more 2.5mg and then bump to 5mg

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280/206.4/190

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280/206.2/190

I'm glad the summer is over. So may curveballs thrown into my routine the last couple months, I'm happy to have not gained weight. I've gone up and down a little since May, but I'm pretty much exactly where I was when summer started.

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Definitely sounds like you need to get back home and enter a nice period of routines

Just do your best until you can stabilize and cut yourself some slack - it was always going to be difficult to accomplish great things on an extended vacation.

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Definitely.
I've reached that saturation point where everything about everything aggravates me here in Ho Chi Minh City. But mostly, I've had plenty of time to think and plan and come up with a good set of steps for what I wish to do with my nutrition and I'm ready to do it, but I can't do it here so I'm really anxious to get home. Just need to hold the line as best I can until I do that.

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yep be really glad when this first week of school is over and get back in full routine.

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You’re right. It’s past time lol

Looks like I’ll be getting some assistance meeting my goal weight. Goddamn tonsillectomy at 40. I hear the recovery is a bitch. I need to make a grocery list and try to keep the protein intake somewhat decent afterwards. No lifting for 10 days though

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You’re right. It’s past time lol

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this summer has been stupid between trips and parties but now seems like every weekend we have a fundraiser of some kind we have to go to. Had a big one the last two weekends and another friday then another next week.

reminds me, support the local business you see at these events, those are the people supporting your kids.

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Looks like I’ll be getting some assistance meeting my goal weight. Goddamn tonsillectomy at 40. I hear the recovery is a bitch. I need to make a grocery list and try to keep the protein intake somewhat decent afterwards. No lifting for 10 days though

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bruh....heard thus is a mother fricker at our age. good luck man.

12 more pounds?!! I thought mid 180s was it for you?

If you do reach this magical level of rippage, you must post pics so I can use it as inspiration to maybe cut down to 30%bf from 35%

My end goal is in the neighborhood of 12.5%, that's less than 15% but greater than 10%(truly, I'd be happy to fall somewhere in between 12.5% and 15%). It sounds like a level of leanness that would definitely look good, but shouldn't be a major pain in the arse to attain and maintain year round. I estimate that I'll be 185-195lb if I get to there, but that's assuming I hang on to nearly all of the muscle I have now. I think that's possible, but we shall see. In theory, if I tried to obtain a BF% less than 10%, I'd probably be at a similar weight as you, but I have no such plans. It just sounds like too much to me from where I now sit. I've never once in my life successfully cut fat and kept it off long term, but if I can get the ball rolling through better habits...who knows. I hope you make your goal though.

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.highly suggest looking at mounjaro. will make things so much

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Starting to consider this. Got pretty fat over last 2 months recovering from surgery. Just starting to get back into working out/walking 10k steps. Hopefully some diet discipline follows.

I'm doing better with improving my habits in regards to food tracking. Don't ask me why, but I so often eat and don't immediately enter what I ate into Macrofactor. I plan to "do it later" but this leads to errors, forgetting, delaying other food logging, general anxiety about all of this, blah, blah, blah. Just log whatever you eat, when you eat it, no excuses. It's simple.

Weighed in today, logged that too. Currently, the Macrofactor algorithm is a bit confused by me because I'm not logging enough body weight measurements. I also should not have accepted the coaching program's reduction in calories, it has me at 1900 calories a day.

Waaaaay too low. I started using this app on 9/22/23 and because my weight has been stuck in this 255-265 range for that time, I know how many calories I can eat to maintain, lose, or gain. I can lose weight at any calorie level below 3000, so 1900 is too big of a deficit. But it's my fault, inconsistent and inaccurate tracking have got the algorithm a little goofed up for the moment. The solution is just to keep logging my weights daily, keep logging my eating ACCURATELY, and the algorithm will straighten itself out. Or I'll scrap this program and re-start. Doesn't matter because once I'm home in 5 days I'll restart a 100% coached(app driven) maintenance program for 8 weeks. As evidence to my claims about my deficit, average calorie intake for the past 2 days is 2788, and I've lost 3.1 bathroom scale pounds. Onwards!