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jads70

Joined February 2014

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Weight History

Start Weight

252.0 lb

Lost so far: 52.0 lb

Current Weight

304.0 lb
Performance: gaining 1.4 lb a week

Goal Weight

200.0 lb

Still to go: 104.0 lb

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January 2013 - 24 stone. Year of change.
Spent twelve months learning about foods and nutrition and excerise (mainly resistance / cardio) Learnt a lot about myself, kept a daily diary of food intake, moods, results, warts and all. Weigh day every two weeks along with topless photos from 2 angles (frontal and side) in same position each time.

Food is a very funny lover whith whom you have an odd relationship with. Ive realised and overcome the emotional ties food had with me along with some appallingy bad food habits. Like most addictions, you have to overcome the demons, but still keep them in check constantly, in my opinion.

January 2014 - 18 stone. Year of transformation.
A hell of a journey the last 12 months, lowest weight was 17st 4lbs 1 week before Christmas 2103. Average of 7 lbs a month weight loss!
6 weeks off since Christmas, Illness and injury leads me to where I am now, starting my regime again on February 17th.
My target this year? "To see my Abs" basically, not too hung up on scale weight as a number, lose inches off the waist and the number takes care of itself I have found. If pushed I would like to lose another 52lbs.

Ive spent 12 months doing meal plans and calculating macros, and learning how my body responds to certain things.
If only I had found this site 12 months ago, I would have saved hours tabbing out food values in word documents! (Chronic OCD!) :0)

RECENT EDIT!-

I've also learned so much that at 18 st I want to lose 3 stone and came up with 52lb?...

So in reality I want to lose 42Lb NOT 52! If I lose that 42lb that will be a total of 126lbs since Jan 2013.

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jads70's Cookbook

cals: 161kcal | fat: 7.75g | carbs: 16.62g | prot: 8.78g

Protein Cookies

Amazing cookies, definitely good to help you lose fat and bulk up.

cals: 384kcal | fat: 13.91g | carbs: 6.00g | prot: 59.68g

Chicken Julienne

Chicken and mushroom bake topped with sour cream and cheese.

cals: 138kcal | fat: 1.39g | carbs: 15.31g | prot: 17.83g

Protein Muffins

Quick and easy protein muffins.

cals: 165kcal | fat: 5.10g | carbs: 13.19g | prot: 22.23g

Spinach Patties

Makes one large spinach patty or divide to make smaller ones.

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jads70's Latest Posts

Counting Calories
Its "not just" calories, you can get your calorie intake with 4 Snickers bars, hardly healthy.
While it is as simple as Calories in V Calories out- you have to make sure you are eating enough Protein and fats for your size and build-
roughly .85 x per lb pf bodyweight for protein and .3g of fats per lb of bodyweight (protein is 4 cals per gram and fats are 9cals per gram)
the rest make up from carbs.
Eat quality protein in meat fish whey beans etc and unsaturated fats like nuts rapeseed and olive oils, carbs unprocessed and as whole as grains as you can.
I eat to the 80-20% rule (80% "clean" for want of a better word) and I make sure I hit my daily numbers with a varied diet.

I train 4 times a week with weights (Not bulking- cutting) and Im on roughly 2400 Cals a day.

Starve your body of essential macronutrients and it will hold on to every single thing you eat, as it doesn't know when its going to get fed again!

posted 03 Jun 2014, 05:57

Walden Farms- take a look!
Not sure if you are allowed to do this but feel a lot could benefit from this range of foods-

http://www.waldenfarmsinternational.com/

I have no link to teh company in any way at all- I just bought some of the range to try and they are awsome in my opinion!
Calorie free to help curb cravings! Add to fruit and shakes etc.

posted 16 May 2014, 02:14

Protein -- how much is enough?
a good rule of thumb is .85g of protien per pound of bodyweight, even better if you can calculate "lean mass" and to it to that.
Tinned Tuna is an exellent source, as are whey protien shakes. If you are doing Yoga in teh evening you may want to take a Cassien protien shake as this is more a long release and with supply your muscles with nutrients while you sleep to help prevent soreness.
You are right to prevent muscle loss during fat loss otherwise its only scale weight which could include lean tissue also.

There are also non animal derived protien powders should you wish.

posted 16 May 2014, 02:12

Intro-
Hi- allways struggled with my weight, as a child I was very fat, hit puberty and grew 18 inches and lost all the puppy fat, did some boxing training and weightlifting and at one point was quite athletic.
Life then takes over then I found myself in Jan 2013 at 42 and 24 stone!
A Challenge with a freind on a fishing forum I belong to resulted in us having a sponsored challenge to lose as much fat as possible, we both lost a lot of weight and raised over £1,800 for cancer research.
Lowest weight in 2013 was 17st 4lbs, 1 week before Christmas.

So last year was time for change, this year is time for transformation!

Ive read a lot on here the last 10 days and can identify with just about everyones posts re food and willpower and depressions that food and food abuse can bring.

For me food has been a crux, a way to deal with stress lifes pressures and and also as a medium for feeling happy. My childhood was built around falily get togethers where food played a huge role.
In later years at times liek Christmas I would not feel happy or secure unless the cupboards were full of nice things to eat- how odd whne surrounded by a loving caring family! Thats how food association can grab you.

Ive learned a fair bit over the last 12 months regarding excersize nutrition and understanding the physioligy of the body and my own phscological dependancy on food and the how to control and try to break that association.

To "thin" people it seems so alien to them, they just say "eat less then", but as we all know its far from as simple as that....

For me- I feel ive crossed a huge bridge, Im now self motivated enough to carry on this year without the motivation of a challenge and a sponsored bet, thats not to say its easy, far from it and being part of this community- you just feel that you fit "in" as everyone is on exactly the same road, some further on than others, but together, silently, vocally or whatever we will all help in our own way of helping each other get "there".

OK so where am I know? 6 weeks off since Christmas, Illness and injury leads me to where I am now, starting my regime again on February 17th.
My target this year? "To see my Abs"

Ive spent 12 months doing meal plans and calculating macros, and learning how my body responds to certain things.
If only I had found this site 12 months ago, I would have saved hours tabbing out food values in word documents!

Good luck to everyone, remember its not a "diet"- its a lifestyle choice! The word "diet" should be banished!

posted 08 Mar 2014, 03:07

looking for macro-tracking veterans
Hi Northermusic- whats the "zone diet" then?

Surely if you count specific macros to a total it should = total calorie intake target? (Pr 1g = 4 cals Ch 1g = 4 cals Fa 1g = 9 cals)
Im just interested thats all?

I count everything I put in my mouth ( a protien is a protien etc etc) I dont eat any processed food (save for Whey and Cassien- along with tinned tuna I suppose) but you have to trust those sources dont you?

I include all carbs and calories from veg as well ( eat 240g Broccolli 240 g of carrots and 200g or Cale and 80-160g of spinach a day) I have seen some instances where people dont "count" macros in veg etc wich to me seems mad?

I also have to add Im just trying to lose fat and using some sort of structure helps me, Im not planning on "being stage ready" for some physique competition any time soon so I may be 5-10% out on my macros once a week and my macros may be a little out daily BUT my daily calorific total is usually within a couple of percent- is that the kind of "slop factor" (sweat pants aside!" Wink