Since I’m speaking at a cruise this fall, I figured it’d be good to drop some weight. Specifically, I’m looking to bring myself under 200 pounds. My “ideal weight” would be 180 pounds, but I’m not sure how realistic that is, given that I only have about 6 months to do this in, and don’t have the time for serious workouts every day.
So far, my plan is two stage:
Stage 1
Daily calorie intake: 1750
Daily calorie burn: 100
Weekly 1 hour workouts: 1
Stage 2
Daily calorie intake: 1500
Daily calorie burn: 200
Weekly 1 hour workouts: 2
I’ll let stage 1 go for 2-4 weeks, depending on how I feel. During stage 2 I’ll also up my vitamin intake, and alter my daily workouts to include more cardio than stage 1. I’m confident I can drop the 30 pounds if I stay at this, and maybe as much as 40 pounds, which’d bring me down to 185 or so. We’ll see how it goes though. Always hard to stay in shape and eat well when doing it on your own. So if anyone wants to join me, let me know 
March 25th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Let me recommend FitDay.com, which makes it easy to track calories consumed and burned.
March 25th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Good luck in meeting you goal!
I just found out that after nine months of sticking to my diet and exercise plan about eighty percent of the time, I dropped thirty pounds.
I’m sure you’ll be more successful!
March 26th, 2006 at 3:20 am
My only thought is: eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re not. I’d be interested to see what the numbers would be and how they’d compare to your daily goal…
March 26th, 2006 at 5:48 am
Good luck with your fitness plans, J.
March 26th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Good luck.
March 26th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
A buddy of mine is on a weightloss program as well. He’s been losing a lot of weight just by simply eating till he’s satisfied and not till he is stuffed. He still eats what he wants when he wants but he stops when his hunger has been satisfied. Good Luck!
cowardlyescape
March 28th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Good luck, I am celebrating this week the two year anniversary of my start to lose the eventual 200 pounds. The big thing is to keep commited with the program. Challenge yourself that you will not fail. I am sure you will do well.
March 28th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Good luck…
I have to start something soon too…cause working at home is making me balloon man…260 and rising…yikes.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Don’t call it a diet and/or excerise workout, consider it instead to be a lifestyle change.Diet are something you go on supposedly to lose weight, planning at the end to reward yourslf with more of what caused the problem in the first place. There is no magic bullet. If you ingest more calories than your body needs, your body stores it as fat. This fat is much easier to put on than to take off. This excess weight is at least a contribuitor to many problems such as type 2 diabetes, cardio problems, etc..
March 29th, 2006 at 3:56 am
shit.. I just weighed myself and I weigh 195 apposed to the 187 I weighed 2 weeks ago.. I need to jog
March 29th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I found that lunch hour was a great opportunity to get some excercise. Pack yourself a lunch that’s easily munched on the go (raw veggies and a sandwich for instance), grab your MP3 player and go for a nice walk.
An hour stroll each day is going to burn away a nice amount of calories. By using lunch hour for this you already have a chunk of time that’s pretty well dedicated so its easier to get into the habit of exercising. You also keep yourself from dining heavier at lunch than you should, as you’re limited to what you can comfortably munch on while walking.
I managed to take off about 10 pounds over a couple months this way.
March 30th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Jeremy, check out a new blog over at another network. The blog is Healthhacker.com and the tagline reads “Helping Geeks Get Healthy.” Heh.
March 30th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
I managed to get 27 pounds off in 2 months around 2 years ago and have kept it off ever since then.
I never counted calories.
Instead I exercised in the optimal way (which takes minimal time) and I ate whole foods and banished processed foods from my diet.