I’ve been wanting to drop some weight for a while now since over the last 4 or 5 years the pounds have been slowly creeping on until it reached the point where I put on over 40 pounds. I carry it ok with my clothes on since I’m so tall but I went from having abs to having at what at best could be described as the beginning of “man tits”. I also don’t feel very good either carrying around this bad weight. I found a website that lets you put in your goals and how fast you want to reach them and spits out the number of calories you can eat per day to reach that goal, with or without exercise. It has a database of foods with all their nutritional information and lets you track various kinds of exercise so you can be able to eat more and still reach your goal. I put in a goal of 180 pounds because that is a good weight for my height, just a skoshe on the thinner side of the middle on the healthy section of the BMI scale. For me personally I’m supposed to be eating 1930 calories per day in order to drop a pound a week and then I can bump it up to 2430 calories a day to maintain once I reach my goal. I thought “Hey, that’s no big deal, that’s got to be pretty close to where I’m at already right?” WRONG. It’s no wonder why I kept putting on the pounds through all my lackadaisical attempts of dropping a few. When I actually enter in all the crap that I put into my body every day it’s no wonder that I haven’t gained 100 pounds instead of just 40. I’ve just finished 4 full days of entering in all the stuff I eat along with any exercise that I’ve done without going over my allotment and quite honestly it suuucks. I’m having saturated fat and corn syrup withdrawals and I am HUNGRY. There was a day in there where I ate my allotment for the day by 7:30am. It’s getting somewhat better though as I go along and I’ve stuck to my limits through the whole thing (granted it hasn’t been that long). So far since I’ve started about a month ago I’m down 8.3 pounds and I’m back in the 190’s again, hoping to reach my goal of 180 around the time Alexander is born. I want to set a good example for him and be around when his children graduate from college. That’s all I’ve got for today, Jessica and I are going to Eagle Raceway tonight since I got some free passes so hopefully that is fun.
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Don’t worry about it too much Steve. Having a child will make you eat better because you won’t want to be feeding it to your child! You, as the role model, will be eating all those nice vegetables instead of fatty foods. The grocery list will be healthier and you will all be in good shape! Eating together as a family has it’s perks too, keeping you on a regular schedule as well as having that great family time. It’s the best habit we had growing up, and raising Lissy too!
And just wait ’till he makes his kid eat stuff that is good for him, and the kid hates it (like baked beans right Steve? lol).