Jon's Journey (not as good as Joe Hells)
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So, if anyone somehow happened to not see it you need to check this post from Joe Hell Big goals deserve big rewards and you will know exactly what can be accomplished with a good diet and a healthy dose of will. Well, I have fallen off badly from being in the best shape of my adult life a few years back and I want that back. I feel like I have fallen off in energy levels and in mental clarity.
So, my plan is this, I am going to commit to eating NOTHING but what I have made myself. This means I can have anything I want that I have cooked myself and 0 prepared foods. So, steak, chicken, salad, veggies obviously are all good. Packaged sushi. pizza (this’ll hurt) and anything that has already been cooked or preseasoned at the store is out.
I’ll try to a check-in every Tuesday on this post, whenever I reach my goal weight I will do some sort of fun/funny thing to celebrate, thinking of sky-diving!
Current weight (with clothes on): 201 (I knew it was going to be not good but yikes)
Goal weight: 175Jonathon great idea! I put on some extra covid and winter weight and I am also looking at eating better and restricting all extra sugars. No more pop or candy bars. I have always been a bigger guy. I played O line in college and I no longer need to carry around 275 lbs. My knees scream at me now to get down around 230-240 lbs.
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lkrfletcher and Chef and anyone else who wants to join in that’s not only fine it is awesome! Lets treat it not as a competition but as a cool/fun way to keep each other and ourselves accountable! Reasonable goals are the biggest thing in my mind. Dont set a goal that you don’t think you can accomplish or it just gets too frustrating.
Tex_77 1st of all, just reading that made my mouth water. I know it is ridiculous, I know they are trash but MAN do I want a double quarter pounder with cheese any time I think of them! Also, Austin doesn’t eat as many Totino’s anymore!
Jonathon Well. First I’m with you in that if I don’t make it, I don’t eat it. No process foods. That in itself should help.
Not tempting from the peanut gallery. This is hard enough,
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Jonathon great idea! I put on some extra covid and winter weight and I am also looking at eating better and restricting all extra sugars. No more pop or candy bars. I have always been a bigger guy. I played O line in college and I no longer need to carry around 275 lbs. My knees scream at me now to get down around 230-240 lbs.
@ndmike winter is always coming in North Dakota…
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks
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Tex_77 very true!!!
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Starting out at 201! Holy Cow! I’m sure you can handle the 26 lbs., Jon. It’s a one-day-at-a-time thing. I haven’t weighed that since I was a tackle on the eighth grade football team. I’m more in line with Joe Hell. I weighed in at 354 last June. 261 this morning. Down 93 lbs. in 11 months. I weigh every day. It’s the #1 priority of my entire day, every day. My method is simple. I got the idea from my sister, who had bariatric surgery. It forced her to eat very small amounts of food, many times a day. I figured I could do that, without having the pain and expense of surgery. I eat 100 calories/hr., every hour, from the time I get up till 7 pm. Anything I want. Turns out, 1 ounce of beef jerky is about 100 calories. Yum. I don’t eat to may sweets, mostly because 100 calories is usually not much volume. Lots and lots of foods are packaged in 100 calorie portions. This is all partly why you guys are driving me crazy with your pictures and descriptions of fantastic meat products. Good news is, they can all be cut into 100 calorie portions! I’m in, on the weekly check-in!
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Starting out at 201! Holy Cow! I’m sure you can handle the 26 lbs., Jon. It’s a one-day-at-a-time thing. I haven’t weighed that since I was a tackle on the eighth grade football team. I’m more in line with Joe Hell. I weighed in at 354 last June. 261 this morning. Down 93 lbs. in 11 months. I weigh every day. It’s the #1 priority of my entire day, every day. My method is simple. I got the idea from my sister, who had bariatric surgery. It forced her to eat very small amounts of food, many times a day. I figured I could do that, without having the pain and expense of surgery. I eat 100 calories/hr., every hour, from the time I get up till 7 pm. Anything I want. Turns out, 1 ounce of beef jerky is about 100 calories. Yum. I don’t eat to may sweets, mostly because 100 calories is usually not much volume. Lots and lots of foods are packaged in 100 calorie portions. This is all partly why you guys are driving me crazy with your pictures and descriptions of fantastic meat products. Good news is, they can all be cut into 100 calorie portions! I’m in, on the weekly check-in!
Jonesy good for you
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Starting out at 201! Holy Cow! I’m sure you can handle the 26 lbs., Jon. It’s a one-day-at-a-time thing. I haven’t weighed that since I was a tackle on the eighth grade football team. I’m more in line with Joe Hell. I weighed in at 354 last June. 261 this morning. Down 93 lbs. in 11 months. I weigh every day. It’s the #1 priority of my entire day, every day. My method is simple. I got the idea from my sister, who had bariatric surgery. It forced her to eat very small amounts of food, many times a day. I figured I could do that, without having the pain and expense of surgery. I eat 100 calories/hr., every hour, from the time I get up till 7 pm. Anything I want. Turns out, 1 ounce of beef jerky is about 100 calories. Yum. I don’t eat to may sweets, mostly because 100 calories is usually not much volume. Lots and lots of foods are packaged in 100 calorie portions. This is all partly why you guys are driving me crazy with your pictures and descriptions of fantastic meat products. Good news is, they can all be cut into 100 calorie portions! I’m in, on the weekly check-in!
Jonesy That’s an extraordinary story. You have much to feel good about that weight loss.
Interesting about the 100 calories per hour. I’ve been trying to do the intermittent fasting, allowing 14 to 16 hours between main meals. Sounds like your approach may be a better solution.
thanks for sharing.
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Jonesy That’s an extraordinary story. You have much to feel good about that weight loss.
Interesting about the 100 calories per hour. I’ve been trying to do the intermittent fasting, allowing 14 to 16 hours between main meals. Sounds like your approach may be a better solution.
thanks for sharing.
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Chef
100 calories isn’t a lot, but you only have to wait 50 minutes or so after you eat, and you can do it again!Jonesy It makes sense. I’m going to give it a try starting tomorrow morning. Any other factors to consider?
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Hell yeah Jonesy ! Great job man, you and Joe Hell both deserve a lot of credit for doing that much. Lord knows it isn’t easy. Honestly, 4 days in and I am already feeling better, better work outs, sleeping better and more energy!
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Nothing else, really, to consider. I did make a few rules for myself: I had to pick a time, every hour, to eat. I chose quarter till, every hour. I set the alarm on my phone for that time, for the entire day. I allow a 15 minute window, so if I done eat by “straight up”, then I gotta wait till the next ‘45’. I have packaged food in my truck, in my workshop, in my wife’s car, no excuses. My wife does it too. When I take her out to dinner, it’s McD’s drive-thru for 1 hamburger. (We carry a knife in the car.) I get the half with the pickle. Yum! It’s amazing how good everything tastes when you’re limited.
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Nothing else, really, to consider. I did make a few rules for myself: I had to pick a time, every hour, to eat. I chose quarter till, every hour. I set the alarm on my phone for that time, for the entire day. I allow a 15 minute window, so if I done eat by “straight up”, then I gotta wait till the next ‘45’. I have packaged food in my truck, in my workshop, in my wife’s car, no excuses. My wife does it too. When I take her out to dinner, it’s McD’s drive-thru for 1 hamburger. (We carry a knife in the car.) I get the half with the pickle. Yum! It’s amazing how good everything tastes when you’re limited.
Jonesy 8 hours into the 100 calories per hour. Feeling good about it.
Turns out that will work out to about 1300 calories per day. More than enough. and you are correct, 45 to 50 minutes or so is not too long to wait regardless of how I feel. Also drinking a lot of water. This is inspiriting.
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Week one went well. I already felt better just a few days into this and that continues. A big event on Saturday night for Walton’s was a slight setback, I didn’t eat anything I didn’t make as I made the sausage we were giving out as samples BUT there were some drinks involved. Still, all and all a decent week. An odd thing happened too, I am all of the sudden far more sensitive to caffeine. I don’t know what that could have to do with it but it does seem to be true. My pre-workout yesterday basically overloaded my system and I was jumpy and sort of weird all day.
Week 2 weight is 198, so that’s 1.5% of my body weight and 8.3% of my goal. I sort of figured it would drop more than that but I think with all the water I am retaining from drinking a ridiculous amount of liquid yesterday.
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My week went okay as well. I’m down 5.6 pounds to 239.8 Got to say I do feel hungry, mostly in the evening, but I’m dealing with it. Getting tired of vegetables and such, want a big pizza now. Was very tempted at a catering I did Saturday evening. It was one of those over the top events with too much great food and desserts. I resisted!
On the very plus side, my knees do not hurt near as much and looking forward to the other benefits of dropping this weight.
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As I cannot officially start until my blood work returns and meet with my doctor to discuss. I picked up additional exercise and more water intake. I have begun to limit excessive carbs in my cooking and more lien proteins and of course more veggies.
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Chef Awesome job man, 5.6 lb in a week is nothing to sneeze at! lkrfletcher its crazy how just drinking more water helps. My big issue is energy drinks, way too many of them…need to give them up but I think that’s gonna have to wait!
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Chef Awesome job man, 5.6 lb in a week is nothing to sneeze at! lkrfletcher its crazy how just drinking more water helps. My big issue is energy drinks, way too many of them…need to give them up but I think that’s gonna have to wait!
Jonathon I have never had an energy drink, but I hear bad things, like heart arithmia issues. Id say slow them down. If your looking for a kick, try green tea with a little honey.
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I have never been able to do energy drinks thankfully. They give me gut rot! I do however drink way too much coffee. Trying to do half caffeine in the afternoons! Glad I dont work nights anymore. I drank coffee all day when I did that.
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