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I need al the encouragement I can get....
« on: August 31, 2010, 06:07:42 PM »
...friends, as you've all seen on the various pics here, i have a weight problem. I was never too fussy about it but the last year I really started to hate myself for it.
Getting out of the car, walking up to Ully's place, it was all getting pretty hard for me and hey I'm only 42. Luckily my health itself is still very good. No sugar, no high cholesterol (a small miracle IMHO) and my heart is still doing fine as well. But I seriously want to keep it that way and not wait until bad things start happening.....

Now, I finally started today with a serious weight reduction program. This is not "weight watchers" or anything like that, but done with professional help etc.

The first part is either following a very strict diet or completely forgetting about food and using "meal-shakes" instead. I chose the last option because I'm not the kind of guy to weigh 130 grams of this and 50 grams of that before I actually eat.

Three shakes a day is much simpler.

However, this is just to reach a certain "starting" weight quickly. After that comes the serious work in getting into a much healthier eating habit.

The first start will take 20 weeks in this program....and that really only is the start... Habits that you built up in tens of years are not quickly "unlearned". It may take 3-5 years in total.

Anyway, I need your cheers for support guys :D

(And if you see some pissed off postings here, you know where it comes from ;) )
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Re: I need al the encouragement I can get....
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2010, 06:11:22 PM »
I wish you goodluck andre !

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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2010, 06:16:44 PM »
May the force be with you and please inform us time to time how is it go! ;D

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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2010, 06:32:48 PM »
good luck, andré, i totally support you!
i know how difficult it is to lose weight and - more importantly - to keep it, especially over the christmas period. i was up to 93.7 kilos again, couldn't get a single one of my trousers to fit anymore (at least not without one button open) and was out of breath quickly. started on the first of june with a "low fat 30 diet" and now, after 3 months, i'm down to 78.9 again, which means 15 kilos in 3 months. i've also started to restructure my eating habits and think about what i'm eating a little bit more. this does not mean that mc donald's is out of the question, just not 3 times a week ;).

as i've said: GOOD LUCK! it's hard, but i'm sure you will succeed!
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2010, 06:47:15 PM »
Good luck andré  ;)

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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2010, 06:49:38 PM »
Good for you André  :)  I know how you feel, and I could do with some less weight also, but I still have problems to find my backbone. I have done a few succesfull serious weight reductions in the past, and look where I'm now  :-\ I sometimes feel like a jojo. The difficult part is not to lose weight, but chancing your eating habbits so that the lost weight will stay away. Does this 'diet' has a special name?

Anyway, I wish you lots of luck. Please don't forget to post pictures of yourself now and then or else we might not reckognize you anymore in due time.  ;D

Toi toi toi.


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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2010, 07:12:26 PM »
Anyway, I wish you lots of luck. Please don't forget to post pictures of yourself now and then or else we might not reckognize you anymore in due time.  ;D

very important: take a picture of you NOW and compare it with where you are in a couple of months. believe me: this will give an extra boost!
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2010, 07:17:43 PM »
Go go!
Well, it´s always hard to loose weight - i know!
A really good way to loose weight is how i did it this year, not that i hope it will happen for you (the first part!!!)

Well, it started when i met a very VERY sweet, nice, etc girl which felt the same way i did!
2 months later over a period of 5 days it went from White to Black! and it really killed me! - so the next 2½ month i had a lump in my stomach all the time, reducing my eating to almost nothing (went from 96kg to 81kg)
Now i´m fine again, but i like to stay on 80-83kg so instead of eating a whole pizza, i only eat ½ a pizza, and that really goes for everything i eat....
The first 14 days to 3 weeks was a killer, but after that amount of time my stomach some how learned that no matter what it did, it did´nt get anymore food!
It also helps that no candy,snacks etc is in the house!!!!
And sometimes, 1 or 2 days in the week ill only eat lettuce for lunch (18.00 hrs) but ill eat 1kg of it!

But i will def. cheer on you so we get a success story!!!!

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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2010, 07:40:26 PM »
I wish you a lot of success in that André.
I'm sure you'll handle this, as you already handled a ton of things here.
Good luck... and don't start to smoke!

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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2010, 07:45:17 PM »
Waha, yes that's funny, I never smoked (well the occasional cigarette and cigar, let's say 2 or 3 per year...)  and I _know_ that it takes away any hunger feelings. But rest assured I hate smoke...

OK, although I hate seeing them, I said A, so I also have to say B:

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« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2010, 10:12:17 PM »
Good luck Level42!
I myself lost 10 kg total. Went from 91 kg to 81 kg with the Sonja Bakker program. It works just fine. Not using the program now anymore, but i stay around my ideal weight.
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« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2010, 10:42:55 PM »
Best og luck to you Level42

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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2010, 11:20:53 PM »
Good luck Andre, I'm sure you'll be able to pull this one off too  :)

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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2010, 11:56:58 PM »
Thanks guys !

Day one successfully completed HAHA !

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« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2010, 12:04:14 AM »
Thanks guys !

Day one successfully completed HAHA !

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