As far as tracking, what I do most days, and it's probably not the healthiest... 

B - Protein bar

L - Protein bar

D - Whatever I want

Snacks - Whatever I want SMH

posted by ernest_t_bass

That's a lot of syrup!

If you want to lose weight fast, and I say this from personal experience.  Walk (fast paced) every single day.  Track your pace, and try to beat it every day, just by a little.  Do HiiT workouts in there too.  Then obviously change your eating.  Change, not diet.

Met Rx bars are high protein and filling.  I like those.

I was like 260-270 in my syrup chugging days.

I do walk a lot but don’t really pay much attention to pace. Mostly because I do a lot of walking with my wife and she’s 4’11”.

I’m finding the change in eating habits pretty easy so far. I’ve become a big fan of wraps with low carb tortillas. 

Scale said 208.2 today. 

posted by justincredible

Scale said 208.2 today. 

I'm a net -500 calories from today if my bike is accurate and my general assumption on what I burn working out. 

But, heading up to grab lunch, and its Friday, so alcohol will be consumed. 

I don't really track stuff beyond having a few go-to meals I cook that are in the 450-600 calorie zone.

My main weaknesses are eating big meals when on the road for work and occasionally gorging on pizza or the like. And beer/liquor. Basically, if I'm at home or the office and doing my own cooking and bringing in my stuff (office), I do great, but my general lack of discipline means I'll order a sub one day or have a pizza over the weekend while also going out and getting sloshed.

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that my best option is just to exercise more and more. HiiT-style stuff in the morning, be standing and doing stretches and bouncing around when watching whatever show/movie I'm watching at night and then bounce around more while playing music after that. With the latter two being a bit hit-or-miss due to me going out with friends about half the time. That at least maintains me and if I'd get some of the eating a bit more under control (drunken/high food binges are teh WORST and I need to curtail that shit...I just struggle with remembering that when under the influence...probably a sign I need to mix in more blow to my substance abuse!), there might be actual improvement.

Yesterday was a good test. We both took the day off and planned to go to 50 West Burger Bar for lunch and a beer. We pre-planned our meals based on nutrition info from Shake Shake since they are pretty similar so we knew what we had left for the rest of the day. A protein bar for breakfast and a shrimp wrap and blackened chicken for dinner, plus two 16oz beers during the day and I was still within all of my macros. 

Before this week I probably would’ve had at least 4 beers throughout the day. 

Just for fun, started tracking and watching what I was eating last Friday.

Weighed in at 181 to start. Down to 176 now.

No exercise. Get about 7500-8000 steps a day. Really cut out some of the unhealthy snacks. Interesting case study so far lol. Obviously, I can't keep this up but at 5'10", 30 years old I should probably weigh somewhere around 170-175.