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All of this is great, so I'll throw in the only two cents that I have for weight loss.

It takes 3 days to build a bad habit and 2 weeks to break one. Basically, my wife and I loooove to party it up on the weekends. Drink tons, eat garbage. That's a GREAT way to gain weight or hover. We stopped for two weeks, then you don't even have the desire to do it anymore.

Stay strong for two weeks and I promise you won't miss whatever was causing the gain. If it's easier, drop just one thing for two weeks, whether it's eating/drinking/not exercising and then drop or add the next thing the following week. All of the above advice is great for work-out plans and diets.

Oh, and my favorite thing right now for a work-out is iPad, bluetooth headphones, and starting Breaking Bad from season one on the treadmill. Doesn't even feel like I'm working out. :)

To piggy back on TMC...start slow and gather momentum. Don't take on to much all at once. To often, it gets overpowering and you just quit.
Your in this for the long haul

Definitely some good advice here.

Tracking calories is a big help, I've had success with the app called Lose It!

Remember everything in moderation. That piece of cake (reasonable size of course) is ok as long as you don't make it a regular thing. In general though try to cut out all soda (shit is garbage) and reduce sugar intake as much as possible. Water should be your new best friend.

As far as exercise try to find something you like to do. You're not going to stick with something you absolutely hate. It's easier when you have a workout partner too. Try to have a variety of workouts to rotate through, it's easy to burn out if you're doing the same thing all the time.

Working out with a goal in mind is helpful too, like training for a race. Just give yourself enough time to properly train.

Booze has always been my biggest enemy. I'm not a drunk or anything but even after just a beer or two it's tough to resist reaching for a snack. When I'm in a zone I find it best to just avoid drinking as much as possible. Easier said than done though sometimes lol

Eating out can be another stumbling block. Skip the apps and desert, and try to always bring food home. So many places give you portion sizes that are good enough for two meals. Eat half and bring home lunch for tomorrow. Try to avoid pigging out on bread and skip the fries when you can.

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I personally like Livestrong's calorie keeper. Great tool and helps me out a bunch. Best part. It's free.

You can do crunches till the cows come home. If you eat like a dumpster you'll still look like one.

I love this. It's so quotable.



Another often overlooked key to building muscle and burning fat...GET ENOUGH SLEEP! Rest is important to results.

Couldnt agree more. I hadnt worked out until i did 2 months of p90x a couple years ago. I followed the p90x with a few months of weight lifting. Followed that up with 18 months of binge eating/drinking with a special focus on avoiding walking at all costs. Ive been very slow to gain weight, i think because of the muscle ive built up. Although, i am offically fat again.

Last night i had a half of bag of ruffles with heluvagood ranch dip, followed by an entire bag of white chedder popcorn (farmers' chedder is wack), washed down with a mojito, along with a piece of cake, some receses pieces cups and a piece or 2 of short bread mixed in (recent bday gifts). But it wasnt until i got my drivers license out of the mailbox and saw my new picture that i realized how fat i am again.

I hate gyms. But i am planning on running a 10k in March. I only want to do the 10k so i can have the endurence to do a month or 2 of p90x right, in order to build up muscle, so that i can enjoy eating and drinking like a college kid again for another year or so.


Wow. This sounds like the Jamarcus Russell plan. Not even kidding.

lol yeah... working out for a few months isn't going to carry you through a year of bad habits.

Sounds like a recipe for a heart attack actually. Abuse the body for a year, then push the body beyond its limits suddenly...lets flip a coin, will he go in a bar with BBQ sauce on his face or in the street with a paper number pinned to his back? :D

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I was extremely religious in doing P90X, and I saw awesome results! But, it is one thing that you guys hit on. It's such an intense workout, that if you have been living a life of "sin" as a couch potato - burger in one hand, cold beer in the other, then suddenly shocking your body into doing something like P90X right away might cause more harm than good. I think what I am learning is if I am to get myself back into the exercise routine that I used to do, I need to start off with something to ease myself into. Such as getting on the treadmill and at least walking a few miles, or a light jog for a mile, even if it's just for 15 minutes or so. And certainly, diet is very important. I love diet drinks, I love beer, I love a couple of glasses of wine, but I realize you just can't be very successful with your weight loss unless you make a conscious effort in drinking more water and less of the other. Oh, and sweet tea is my kryptonite!