To curb my appetite between meals I drink water, alot of water. I drink 4 liters a day now. I have not had fastfood, even subway since July and plan to never again. Go to their web sites and look at the nutrition info, its all bad. BK $.99 Double Cheese Burger One thing I have done is to get out of the "going on a diet" mindset. If you go on a diet you will go off a diet, at least I will. I have changed the way I live entirely, I had too. I honestly dont miss the "good" food at all. I eat a max of 1200 cal a day now(That will make you frown at a Shiner Bock ). I work out everyday, no excuses unless my wife is at work and I am watching our son then we go to the park and walk weather permitting. That being said I know what you guys are saying. Thanks for the support, support is the key. Mark, Ripper keep fighting.

Jerry

I have a hard time drinking enough water, it was much easier when I was running and working out. Nice that the weather is turning warmer, that will help.

Jerry, I agree...no formal diet for me either. Although I have the occasional fast food indulgence, I still take it home and fix it up, thus I eat only half of that terrible nutrition info you quoted (vs. doubled or even tripled when I was gaining). Not claming to be Jared, but a lot of my ~80 lbs. weight lost was contributed to Subway's Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki on Honey Oat. Even then I would take it home and add a handful of sliced raw mushrooms (love'um) more tomato and olives. A 6" done my way with a few baked Doritos will fill me up good.

What I've packed back on has been mostly due to eating out, giving in to fried seafood (a delicacy here...fried Oyster PoBoys grow on trees) and not working out (not entirely my fault with our drastic environment change).

I started here (in FL)...



Cropped from this pic...
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And I'm back to this...



That pic was taken at 216 lbs. so I'm a little lighter, although nothing like August when I was 180 lbs. and starting to get buff.

The breakfast in the pic (Cheerios w/sliced banana and strawberry in skim milk) is what I'm having for breakfast lately, it was Original Shredded Wheat this morning. After gaining some weight back I started frying eggs again with instant grits and toast, some bad habits had crept back. Also, we were living at my mother-in-law's while looking for a house and that's what she had. I figured I'd enjoy myself for ~10 lbs. and then get back to work on it, I guess it doesn't work that way as I got out of control and 10 became 30!

Eating-wise (with my wife's help, it's harder that no grocery store is convenient to us anymore) I'm back to what got me to 180. What I'm considering now is growing a garden, adding fresh veggies to labor (a winning combination).

Cheerios are my savior! And Special K with almonds is very good. I had about 200lbs "creep" up on me I just weighed, down another 4 for a total of 115 lost. I am at 335 now my goal is to break 300 by the end of August. We shall see. I cant really eat the bread on sub sandwiches so I dont go there either. I eat whole wheat toasted or whole wheat bagles and tortillias(?sp).

Jerry

PS: The name change threw me man.

Down 118lbs today.

Weighed monday, down 129lbs!!!

Keep it coming! YOu can do, you can do, you're the black kni... errr.... go Jerry!

Keep it up!

Sweet!

Kind of an inspiration.

pfunk

Great job SpongeBob.


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