Question for Mingo and other OT fat shamers

stop eating it

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stop eating it

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Which ones?

whats a jack a lit

Throw it back up... tastes good twice

Companies are at least partly to blame for engineering food to make you addicted to it. They just want you to eat more.

Simple, don't be a mental midget. I know that's hard for you retards as your total brain capacity is about 40% of normal people, but I believe in you

Mingo is skinny because he’s short

It’s easy to lose weight when you’re 5’4

Intermittent Fasting.


There’s some good info about it on the H/F Board. Losing lbs isn’t really too difficult once you get acclimated to it. Then you can focus on body composition once you hit your goal weight.

You have to track what you eat. There's no other way. The body is designed for stasis, to roughly track input with output. More calories you're burning, more you'll consume without even noticing it.

Feb 2016, I was 276 (on a 5'10 frame). Started strength weightlifting 3 days a week, but did not change diet at all. Lost about 20 pounds by doing that, but completely plateaued there.

In Sept 2017, started tracking intake on MyFitnessPal. Set it up to lose 1 pound per week. Changed nothing else... continued lifting 3 days a week. But I was religious in entering everything I ate in the app.

I steadily lost between 1/2 pound a week and 2 pounds per week through Feb 2018 . At that point I was 219. In Feb, I won a 6mo CrossFit membership at my kids' school auction. Started that, and kept tracking on MyFitnessPal. By the end of May, I was 195. 80+ pounds lost.

I've kept doing Crossfit since then, but stopped tracking... gained about 5 pounds back. (FYI, I've just started back tracking)

What I found by tracking my food was that even though I was on a calorie restricted diet (under 2200 per day for me), I still wanted to eat a lot. So, I found myself making better decisions so that I could still eat a lot of food. By cutting out calorie rich stuff (fried foods, ribeyes), and worthless unsatisfying stuff (think sweat tea), I was still able to eat a bunch of food.

I had it standardized. I ate the exact same breakfast every day. 5 days a week, I had a protein shake for lunch. Then when I got home after work, I could literally eat from the time I got home until the time I went to bed... and still be under 2200 calories in a day.

Another thing I found, when you're losing weight, there is absolutely no way you can avoid losing strength. In Sept 2017, I was basically as strong as I've ever been in my life (then at the age of 39). All my strength #'s across the board have plummeted since then. Just a part of it. But, now at 40, I'm in the best shape I've been in, in my entire life.

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worthless unsatisfying stuff (think sweat tea),

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This.

I can't believe the amount of empty calories and sugar people consume from drinks alone. It's ridiculous.

I did Keto for about 4 months (off it for the holidays but will get back on in January) and it taught me to look at nutrition labels on everything you put into your mouth, and to log what you're eating.

1) People are horrible at estimating or tracking what they eat without actually doing it. We underestimate portions all the time.

2) People don't understand how things like condiments, sauces, and dressings add up. A lot of people also don't take into consideration their beverages consumed as part of their daily intake.