This is what 60 Pounds (27 KGS) Looks Like

[Vigilante]

Here's a 0 carb margarita for those of you following along at home

Three parts high grade tequila.

One and a half Parts fresh squeezed lime juice.

And a dash of pure orange concentrate.

If hardcore lime flavor isn't your thing you can also add a small amount of stevia for sweetener but I didn't want it or need it.

It's the first drink I've had in 3 weeks. Great drink and literally zero carbs. It's pretty sour though so if you don't like lime this isn't the drink for you.

Also I think it would be hard to order in a bar because I literally want fresh squeezed limes not gross dried out bar limes.

 

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[Vigilante]

I looked this up, and I was very surprised to see that I can have bacon and eggs for breakfast.

This is now my new diet plan as well.

The weight you have lost so far is beyond my expectations. Thanks for all the GREAT info, and the progress tracking. You are doing more good than you'll EVER know!

I might even take it a step further. I might buy 60 pounds of flour and put them in a pile. Every five pounds, a bag transfers to a different pile. THAT would be something to see every day that would keep me on track and excited.

I was thinking about that and think it would be an amazing visual.

I think the fatter you are the easier the early weight comes off.

I'm eating way more vegetables than I was but nowhere near the five servings they recommend you eat daily.

Another surprising bit about South Beach is that you can have V8 juice.

Sugar-free Jell-O fills in as an occasional snack. Go Canadian bacon versus regular bacon. I have picked up several turkey-based things to try. Some are good, some are terrible. No fruit for the first week, and then you can add back in a couple of low sugar fruits on occasion.

Reasonably sized lean steaks. Less fat cheese. 1% or skim milk. Once you get past the first week, chicken salad. Chicken. Fish. Steak.

We had taco salad the other night. All low carb. No worries.

Even though Phase 2 starts on the 8th day now I still haven't added back in a lot of the things that they would allow you to add back in.

If you're going to do it, after the first few days that really feel like a diet... Resolve then it's not going to be a diet. You could put my favorite old Foods right in front of me and I wouldn't eat them. I don't want them.

This sentence doesn't necessarily apply to the people that just need to lose a few pounds but to the people like me that are fat and don't want to be fat anymore. I had to get to the point where I was so sick of being fat that eating Cheetos and fat s***was no longer an option.

Untucking my shirt because I was self-conscious about what it looked like tucked in. Put on a shirt and pulling out some extra cloth so that it wasn't as form-fitting. Never ever for one minute considering what you were eating. Literally just eating anything I wanted when i wanted it. Becoming aware that it was harder to get up off the couch. Listening to a video that I made and noticing that I was breathing heavy into the microphone but not in the process of exercise or activity. Just living life was exerting extra energy when I was carrying around 75 lb too much everywhere I went. Being exhausted at the end of the day... Think about it though you're carrying around 15 5 lb bags of sugar all day. Some mornings I would notice that my face looked swollen. Just fat. And then I go about my day.

No more.

I don't want that. I don't want that life. Food is not going to dictate my future.

 

[Philip Marlowe]

Untucking my shirt because I was self-conscious about what it looked like tucked in. Put it on a shirt and pulling out some extra cloth so that it wasn't as form-fitting. Never ever for one minute considering what you were eating. Literally just eating anything I wanted when i wanted it. Becoming aware that it was harder to get up off the couch. Listening to a video that I made and noticing that I was breathing heavy into the microphone but not in the process of exercise or activity. Just living life was exerting extra energy when I was carrying around 75 lb too much everywhere I went. Being exhausted at the end of the day... Think about it though you're carrying around 15 5 lb bags of sugar all day. Some mornings I would notice that my face looked swollen. Just fat. And then I go about my day.

Truth. How I ignored this for so long is beyond me. So I'd add:

...Wearing the same clothes all the time because you hate shopping. Realizing you spend hundreds of dollars per month on sh*t food. Waking-up your significant other with your snoring. Sweating. Eating so much that you wake-up in the morning still full. Supplementing poor sleep habits with coffee/energy drinks. Wearing layers, even when it's hot. Walking for more than 20 minutes feeling like exercise. Feet/knees/back hurts after standing too long.

You're an inspiration. As is @Raoul Duke

Keep up the good work.

-PM

 

[Vigilante]

Truth. How I ignored this for so long is beyond me. So I'd add:

...Wearing the same clothes all the time because you hate shopping. Realizing you spend hundreds of dollars per month on sh*t food. Waking-up your significant other with your snoring. Sweating. Eating so much that you wake-up in the morning still full. Supplementing poor sleep habits with coffee/energy drinks. Wearing layers, even when it's hot. Walking for more than 20 minutes feeling like exercise. Feet/knees/back hurts after standing too long.

You're an inspiration. As is @Raoul Duke

Keep up the good work.

-PM

Great points. There have been times where I was sweating for no reason. And I now wonder whether or not my crazy energy drink consumption was because I needed the fuel. Caffeine though doesn't keep me up at night because I overworked my fat body all day long just walking around. I told you earlier I stopped wearing my wedding ring because my finger was too fat. Lack of drinking water meant that salt just stayed in my body. Waking up in the morning noticing the salt and water retention combined with lack of exercise meant swollen legs and ankles and feet for the first half an hour or 45 minutes.

We go to the beach a lot but I wear a t-shirt. It's been 20 years since I wanted to be shirtless in public. That habit now probably won't change but it's not going to be because I'm self-conscious.

No f****** submarine sandwich is worth that.

 

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[biophase]

Hi Dave, just wondering how your energy levels feel. When I eat clean I just have incredible amounts of energy. I'm talking like I would wake up, workout, work 4 hours, paint a room in the house (yes I did that one day) and not even be tired at 11pm.

I used to drink alot of Coke (still do on some days) and I could always fall asleep at 12am-1am (my normal sleeping time), but when I stopped drinking Coke which was my only source of caffeine, the difference that I noticed was that I would go to sleep at 1am and wake up at 8am without waking up once in the middle of the night. With Coke, I was always waking up 2-3 times at night and going to the bathroom or just waking up for no reason. So I'm guessing that my quality of sleep is now much better even though I get the same number of hours.

 

[Vigilante]

Hi Dave, just wondering how your energy levels feel. When I eat clean I just have incredible amounts of energy. I'm talking like I would wake up, workout, work 4 hours, paint a room in the house (yes I did that one day) and not even be tired at 11pm.

I used to drink alot of Coke (still do on some days) and I could always fall asleep at 12am-1am (my normal sleeping time), but when I stopped drinking Coke which was my only source of caffeine, the difference that I noticed was that I would go to sleep at 1am and wake up at 8am without waking up once in the middle of the night. With Coke, I was always waking up 2-3 times at night and going to the bathroom or just waking up for no reason. So I'm guessing that my quality of sleep is not much better even though I get the same number of hours.

Better. I am not sure if it is psychological or physical, but feeling just better overall.

Did a walking 5K+ this morning. Actually ran into my pastor and his wife out on the walking trail at the crack of dawn. Pretended like I had been there before.

I am fascinated by my body's adaption to less energy drinks. I think since I drank zero water my body was looking for hydration, and I would meet that with a sugar free rock star. I haven't gone to zero, but drinking them sparingly as now I would rather drink water. Drinking a little over 60 oz of water a day and need to increase that.

I am also staying up a bit later, and sleeping a bit more soundly. I wonder if even when fat guys rest, if their body doesn't get the full restore mode that non-fat guys get. Breathing must be easier when prone if your lungs don't have to fight fat, and your circulatory system doesn't have to push through donut glaze.

 

[Vigilante]

I read something recently that said that in the morning (assuming you cut off your consumption early enough the night before and actually got a decent sleep) that your blood sugar levels self regulated in the night, so the next morning when you wake up you're technically healthier than when you went to sleep... and your job for that day was simply to not screw it up. Obviously not the case for all, but for the majority. Concept being the day starts out as a clean slate and as long as you eat clean that day (and I would add a CICO deficiency) your body can take care of a lot of the rest of it's work for that day.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

No more.

I don't want that. I don't want that life. Food is not going to dictate my future.

Love it when the light bulb comes on, especially for someone I care about.

We always say that we want financial freedom early in life, not when we're 70 years old and living our last decade.

But the same can be said for our health. Financial freedom at 45 but shit health and zero energy is not much different than waiting until our last decade.

A great anchor for me has been the realization that the food lobby / industry has basically become an institutionalized drug dealer that incites addiction like responses with food. (This is true, albeit the analogy crude.)

And then the health care / insurance / pharmaceutical companies medicate the addictions.

It's one gigantic racket. Yes, a freaking scam.

You are more profitable fat and sick, than healthy and trim.

I'm not going to be LIVESTOCK for some industry.

 

[Vigilante]

When I was in Hawaii a year ago, I was too fat to paddleboard. Yeah, that's a thing. See, I couldn't easily get my balance. Combination of being out of shape, my weight swinging the board as I tried to mount it, and just generally the motion of taking 275# up and stabilizing and not having the girth and momentum throw me off when I was trying to stand. Think about how really fat people ROLL OFF A COUCH to stand up. Now apply that principle to a paddle board. Coudn't do it. Tried 20 times. Drank a lot of pacific ocean water.

You can bet your damn a$$ you will see a photo of me paddle boarding in the future. Not that I give a shit about paddle boarding, but it is another milestone out there.

 

[Real Deal Denver]

Love it when the light bulb comes on, especially for someone I care about.

We always say that we want financial freedom early in life, not when we're 70 years old and living our last decade.

But the same can be said for our health. Financial freedom at 45 but sh*t health and zero energy is not much different than waiting until our last decade.

A great anchor for me has been the realization that the food lobby / industry has basically become an institutionalized drug dealer that incites addiction like responses with food. (This is true, albeit the analogy crude.)

And then the health care / insurance / pharmaceutical companies medicate the addictions.

It's one gigantic racket. Yes, a freaking scam.

You are more profitable fat and sick, than healthy and trim.

I'm not going to be LIVESTOCK for some industry.

WOW - I could have told you who wrote this, without even knowing it first.

This is the kind of kick in the teeth response so many of us need to hear. Ninja Commando style!

I reread this three times, and got shivers each time.

Print out - this is one to hang on the wall FOR SURE!

 

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[million$$$smile]

It is so cool to read about your mind-shift.

To not just imagine how it would be like to use a paddle board, but to realize that the new direction in your life will eventually take you there. You will no longer need to imagine it. It will have happened.

That is mind-shift.

When recognizing that it isn't wish-fullness, but that is is in your future. Because it is already resolute in your mind.

You have resolved to evolve....

 

[Bishop]

@Vigilante

I had this same mind shift towards diet a couple of years ago. I was only about 15 to 20 lbs overweight, but I felt like shit constantly. My back was ALWAYS aching, and my joints would crack and pop.

I had to have something that was sustainable. I tried Keto for a few weeks and it does work, but it's damn near impossible to maintain. I decided that I would just switch to high fat, high protein, low carb, with zero bread/pasta/rice and the only sugar I have is natural from fruits and a tiny bit from yogurt.

I eat a KIND bar in the morning, with an apple/banana and coffee/water. For lunch i just swing down to the Albertson's salad bar and make my own little salad with kale/boiled eggs/bacon bits/cucumbers/tomatoes/olive oil. For dinner its something like fish/steak grilled in ghee or kerrygold butter and and kind of sauteed veggie (onions/peppers/asparagus, etc).

I replaced food that tastes good but made me feel terrible, with food that tastes good and makes me feel good. My back has not had a problem since I started doing this. NOT ONCE. My joints no longer crack and pop. I feel new again, and I'm 44. I feel 24.

I am now disgusted by sodas, donuts, and fast food. It reminds me of how shitty I used to feel when eating it.

 

[Vigilante]

@Vigilante

I had this same mind shift towards diet a couple of years ago. I was only about 15 to 20 lbs overweight, but I felt like sh*t constantly. My back was ALWAYS aching, and my joints would crack and pop.

I had to have something that was sustainable. I tried Keto for a few weeks and it does work, but it's damn near impossible to maintain. I decided that I would just switch to high fat, high protein, low carb, with zero bread/pasta/rice and the only sugar I have is natural from fruits and a tiny bit from yogurt.

I eat a KIND bar in the morning, with an apple/banana and coffee/water. For lunch i just swing down to the Albertson's salad bar and make my own little salad with kale/boiled eggs/bacon bits/cucumbers/tomatoes/olive oil. For dinner its something like fish/steak grilled in ghee or kerrygold butter and and kind of sauteed veggie (onions/peppers/asparagus, etc).

I replaced food that tastes good but made me feel terrible, with food that tastes good and makes me feel good. My back has not had a problem since I started doing this. NOT ONCE. My joints no longer crack and pop. I feel new again, and I'm 44. I feel 24.

I am now disgusted by sodas, donuts, and fast food. It reminds me of how shitty I used to feel when eating it.

Solid. Right on.

 

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[Vigilante]

In addition to doing the 5K next weekend on Father's Day, I will have broken through the 260 lb mark by that point. I'll celebrate 2 milestones on the same day with an ice cold glass of water.

 

[Real Deal Denver]

In addition to doing the 5K next weekend on Father's Day, I will have broken through the 260 lb mark by that point. I'll celebrate 2 milestones on the same day with an ice cold glass of water.

OK, I'll be that guy. Stupid question.

What is a 5K? (I know 5,280 feet is a mile) I'm assuming old guys like me can walk it. It's about 12 blocks, more or less.

But the question is why? I don't want to spend an hour or more walking. 20 minutes in the gym, and I think I've suffered enough. And I assume you pay for this too? Well, if it's for a good cause, great. But if not, why?

This is totally out of my world, so allow me to be stupid please. Sorry for all the ones here that know what this is about.

Maybe I'm missing out on something. Maybe not.

 

[NateKruse]

OK, I'll be that guy. Stupid question.

What is a 5K?

5 Kilometers. 3.1 miles.

 

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[Artie Bernaducci]

::May 16, 2018 : 275 pounds.::

::May 24, 2018 : 266 pounds.::

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Hey Vigilante -

GREAT post! I wanted to share something personal with you about the picture above...

When I was a little boy I WAS a Rollie Pollie. When my mother started taking my sister to the bus stop, I used to snag an extra BIG bowl of Coco-Puffs. Yum! Before I knew it, I had a spare tire around my waist and weighed 135 pounds in 3rd grade.

When 8th grade came I was watching Mike Douglas one day after school. He was interviewing a dude named Dr. Stillman who was pre-Atkins and was espousing the benefit of drinking tons of water and eating high protein to lose weight. Well, that was all I had to hear. The budding nutritionist in me decided to give it a try.

Mom used to ground meat in some kind of contraption attached to the kitchen table and make burgers in these 4 oz aluminum containers. So I took the burgers, cooked them until they were the size of and as hard as a hockey puck and ate about 10 per day, chasing them down with water by the gallon. Before I knew it I lost 60 lbs. WOW! Then I got into weightlifting and by the time I graduated high school, I was up to 210 lb.

In college I became a hippie/vegetarian and dropped down to 160. Graduated college, and I couldn't get a job, so I went into the thing all young Italian men with nothing to do with their lives do…become a bricklayer. Dad was looking for me to work with him, and I guess it’s a Rite of Passage of some kind too .

Fast forward over the next few years, my frame filled out again and I put on 30 pounds of muscle. I was back up to 190. When that career ended 12 years later and I entered my current profession, being that it was sedentary work, I went back to lifting weights. And so it goes, I grew again.

At my peak weight, I was the fat slob in the picture above. I was deluding myself thinking that I was getting bigger and looking good. I really had no idea that I was such a fatso! I was training and living the body builder life in my early 50’s… trying to find out how to get bigger. DUH! So, when the light of accurate-thinking finally opened my eyes, I saw a nutritionist and figured out how to drop 40 lbs.

So what's the point? I actually believed at 248 pounds, that I actually looked good. I couldn't see through the illusion that I created for myself. Sometimes, there is a difference between what you perceive to be true and what is true. This was a hard lesson to learn, but I’m glad I did because it has enabled me to look at many other areas of BS in my life that I thought were true and I found out I was wrong.

With an emphasis on the word “thought” in the last sentence, I would suggest that every accomplishment in life, whether it is good or bad develops first as a thought. In addition, our power of thought can be used destructively or constructively for success – at any age.

With that said, I always ask friends, "what beliefs do you hold that you think you should look at first?" It’s an interesting exercise to periodically analyze our beliefs. I got a lot of mileage out of it, and it’s the reason I am sharing this story!

Congratulations on where you are right now. What you have done is a MAJOR accomplishment! You should feel really proud my friend!



Artie

 

[eliquid]

Vig, wait until a few months have past and you eat something you enjoyed before, that you haven't had in a long time. Like, a choc donut.

Hopefully, it will taste disgusting and you will ask yourself how you ever liked it.

Taste buds do change for sure.

It's almost like your bodys way of reinforcing the change.

 

[Vigilante]

 

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[G-Man]

Vig, wait until a few months have past and you eat something you enjoyed before, that you haven't had in a long time. Like, a choc donut.

Hopefully, it will taste disgusting and you will ask yourself how you ever liked it.

Taste buds do change for sure.

It's almost like your bodys way of reinforcing the change.

Been full vegan for 3 months and just had a couple giant buttery chocolate chip cookies after lunch today. I went into a coma all afternoon, and my throat and sinuses are just now finally drained back out. I'm so hungover from it I feel like I'm having an "I'll never drink again" morning.

 

[Vigilante]

Been full vegan for 3 months and just had a couple giant buttery chocolate chip cookies after lunch today. I went into a coma all afternoon, and my throat and sinuses are just now finally drained back out. I'm so hungover from it I feel like I'm having an "I'll never drink again" morning.

Right towards the end of my stint as a fat guy I had two of the largest butteriest chocolate chip cookies you would ever see and I went into a sugar induced coma for the afternoon. Made me sick actually. Over the top and completely unnecessary.

 

[amp0193]

Been full vegan for 3 months and just had a couple giant buttery chocolate chip cookies after lunch today. I went into a coma all afternoon, and my throat and sinuses are just now finally drained back out. I'm so hungover from it I feel like I'm having an "I'll never drink again" morning.

I shared a small milkshake with my daughter today.

I felt like shit and the muscles in my upper body were aching pretty soon afterwards.

once you cut it out.... you can't really eat it anymore.

Which is good thing.

 

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[MetalGear]

Another benefit of dropping weight and eating clean is being able to think more clearly.

The food comas and sugar come downs that I used to put myself into killed my ability to pace my day as I wanted.

Some of my best business ideas and problem solving insights also come to me when I'm doing a light workout.

 

[LightHouse]

Right towards the end of my stint as a fat guy .

Your mind has already lost the weight and become the new you. Your body is just working on catching up at this point.

 

[Vigilante]

Your mind has already lost the weight and become the new you. Your body is just working on catching up at this point.

This

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Dave is the wife onboard?

It's one thing to change your dietary lifestyle by yourself, but doing it with a spouse who wants to continue the "normal" routine (hey, lets go to Wendys!) is nearly impossible.

 

[Supa]

Dave is the wife onboard?

It's one thing to change your dietary lifestyle by yourself, but doing it with a spouse who wants to continue the "normal" routine (hey, lets go to Wendys!) is nearly impossible.

Absolutely.
My fiancée and I do it together. The lifestyle change with the calorie counting aswell as hitting the gym.

Definitely makes it a lot easier to stay on track and also a lot more fun.

 

[Kak]

I have been drinking a gulp of apple cider vinegar every day. Just an FYI, it really keeps any bloating down so that your weight loss progress is more telling and they say it has all kinds of other health benefits. I can recommend it WITH a diet, not AS one like some people claim.

 

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[Real Deal Denver]

Dave is the wife onboard?

It's one thing to change your dietary lifestyle by yourself, but doing it with a spouse who wants to continue the "normal" routine (hey, lets go to Wendys!) is nearly impossible.

THIS is what I unexpectedly encountered yesterday.

I was at the Eagles Club for the monthly poker tournament (I didn't do good). I had a protein shake for breakfast on my way there. Once there, I gave UP my beloved rum and cokes. I had a chicken salad for lunch in my car - away from everyone else gorging on "the good stuff." I was pretty damn proud of my willpower, but the big test was yet to come.

As I left, they had just finished a private memorial service, and were putting out all the left over food for everyone else to enjoy. Not normal food. Every food you could ever want to make you happy - and fat. I took this picture to show my wife what I walked away from. This was only a small portion of what was there. It could NOT have been more tempting. But I took a picture and walked out the door.

I've already lost the weight in my mind, as was just stated. Once you do that, nothing is impossible anymore.

Notice the oh so little - I can have just one - cookies in the foreground? Not. Even. One.

My fat cells are going to die. One at a time. It might be a long painful death for them, and I might suffer along the way - but they're gonna die.

THIS thread has given me so MUCH resolve, that I hope this post will do the same for someone else. Not. Even. One. Cookie.

 

[Vigilante]

Dave is the wife onboard?

It's one thing to change your dietary lifestyle by yourself, but doing it with a spouse who wants to continue the "normal" routine (hey, lets go to Wendys!) is nearly impossible.

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