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On 10/7/2025 at 9:36 AM, partytimesausage said:

Still working to get out of the 200 pound club.  At 203 today.  Started at 250 which was my all time high.  Pretty damn happy with it.

Random stuff.  No longer snore.  Wife is super happy

High bp is now a normal 120/80.  I wish i would of done a blood draw prior to see what changes i could of seen.  I did take a picture at 250 with no shirt and its incredible the difference to today.  I do feel like i've lost some muscle so need to start doing some stuff for that.  But thats not on my current to do list.  Going to drop hopefully 10 more pounds and try to get it stable and then start working on the beach muscles.  

The body is impressively resilient.  

Still running a ton and started playing old man pickup basketball.  

Posting this mostly to just bookmark where i'm at.  Onward.  

Awesome!  Keep it up!  

I'm experiencing some positive feedback from colleagues at a conference that I haven't seen in a year.  It feels incredible to receive a few respectful 'atta girl comments.  That shit goes a long way when done right.

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For the Austin people, we’re in town for the race and staying out in the airport area. I’m looking for a place to go get 4-5 miles running in this afternoon because the kids want to go downtown to the pop up shops after the afternoon interview session. Is the McKinney Falls area a decent enough place? Not really feeling running the neighborhoods we’re in plus I would rather have some limited scenery.

Didn’t run at all until 2 months ago, down about 22 pounds since the beginning of August walking/running 30 or so miles a week and working out 30-45 minutes on top of that every morning.

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2 hours ago, Brew said:

For the Austin people, we’re in town for the race and staying out in the airport area. I’m looking for a place to go get 4-5 miles running in this afternoon because the kids want to go downtown to the pop up shops after the afternoon interview session. Is the McKinney Falls area a decent enough place? Not really feeling running the neighborhoods we’re in plus I would rather have some limited scenery.

Didn’t run at all until 2 months ago, down about 22 pounds since the beginning of August walking/running 30 or so miles a week and working out 30-45 minutes on top of that every morning.

These are some pretty good trails.

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On 7/2/2025 at 9:51 AM, Mittens said:

Next goal is 195.

On 8/11/2025 at 10:06 AM, Mittens said:

Hit it today.

Proud to say I've been at/around 195# for coming up on 90 days now. Still weighing myself every morning (came in at 194.2 today) and it's crazy to see a 4# difference on back to back days, going each way.  Went above 200 (200.1) once and got as low as 192.2.

As the weather gets cooler, we're going to need to hold strong!  As I write this, it's all I can do to stay the course and go eat the salad I have planned for lunch vs something hearty and warm.  Something about the cooler weather just invites comfort food and makes it harder to keep eating like a rabbit!

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Down from 256 in January to 218 with 13.8% body fat.  Last two weeks or so have been tough to get workouts in with a work project but checked and still at 218. Wrapping the project up so I should be able to get back to my routine.  

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Hit 58 straight days yesterday of some sort of weights and cardio after deciding the first of September to jump in the deep end of the exercise pool. The guy I’m training with convinced me to run a 5k with him this week which sure as hell wasn’t happening 2 months ago. Didn’t set the world on fire but finished in what I considered a respectable time of 35 minutes (had to take a couple of walks in the middle).

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Alright I don’t know which thread this conversation belongs in but I’ll do it here - a couple of years back we did a 10,000 burpees thing, that was very motivating. I don’t want to do fucking burpees but I am trying to come up with some year long metric based exercise goals for 2026 that will support a general goal of cardiac health and some strength building with a slight focus on core. Personally, I’m thinking probably some peloton mileage goal (easy enough) and then maybe…. 10,000 pushups? X minutes planked?

if anyone is looking for or has set a resolution/goal/whatever for 2026 and wants to do a surly challenge, within reason I’m game

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20 hours ago, Celery Man said:

X minutes planked?

I read an article a few years ago making the argument that planking is one of the most overrated exercises.  It commented that the world record for longest plank is something like 8 or 9 hours, and the fact that someone, even in great shape, can plank for that long shows that it's not a challenging exercise.  I don't know about all that, but it won't get your heart rate up anywhere near the level of pushups or burpees, and that's what you need.

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Was nervous about stepping on the scale this morning after going strong w/ delicious food the past week.  Only at 198.7 has me gruntled af!

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I’ve said it here before but for some reason it constantly has to be reaffirmed. You didn’t get fat/out of shape in a week. You won’t get skinny/ripped in a week either. And once you get skinny, you won’t get fat again in a week. MAYBE two pounds of a 10-12 pound jump in a week is fat, the rest is water due to inflammation. Get back on track and in a week to ten days you’ll be at most 2-ish pounds over where you were before you went off the rails. Progress, not perfection.

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17 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

I’ve said it here before but for some reason it constantly has to be reaffirmed. You didn’t get fat/out of shape in a week. You won’t get skinny/ripped in a week either. And once you get skinny, you won’t get fat again in a week. MAYBE two pounds of a 10-12 pound jump in a week is fat, the rest is water due to inflammation. Get back on track and in a week to ten days you’ll be at most 2-ish pounds over where you were before you went off the rails. Progress, not perfection.

It's a good reminder, not only for indulgences during the holidays, but for those of us who try to take a rest week every couple months or so.

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I have this argument with my wife probably once a month. She gets all spun up about a 4 pound increase (she weighs herself everyday, which is another argument in itself). I weighed myself fresh out of bed, at lunch, and again at night just to prove a point. Some days I am as much as 11 pounds heavier at bedtime than when I woke up that day. She still doesn’t listen.

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I need reaffirmation every day - that's why I weigh myself every day.  I didn't weigh myself over the weekend because I was giving myself a break and allowing myself to indulge.  I didn't think I was going to come in at 215 today, I just didn't want to be over 200, so I was happy w/ that.  The reality is that I was only up 2# from Weds, and I take that as a great sign - my body has settled in at that 195# mark.  

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On 11/30/2025 at 1:46 PM, Goofyboy said:

I don’t have a pelaton, but I do have the IFit bike and I ride outside. I’m shooting for 3000 miles in 2026. Breaks down to roughly 57 miles a week.

We just got a peloton at the end of October - we've had a tread+ for a long time (wife runs marathons) but I'm not interested in that. I had my bike on a stand in my office and was spending half an hour on it a few times a week (and usually on other nights taking a 2.5 mile walk with 40 pounds in a backpack). Wife decided we should get a peloton bike which was fine with me and holy shit I did not realize how easy the bike on the stand was in comparison to the Peloton. Anyways, I'm still fairly early in the peloton game but 3000 miles is like 8.2 miles a day, I'm doing more like 6-7 in a twenty minute class which I'm not doing every day. I could probably up the time and I bet I'll get better on the distance but that number is probably higher than what I'll aim for on the bike. Especially since I do also like walking around with the weighted backpack and won't hit it every night anyways.

5 hours ago, South Austin said:

I read an article a few years ago making the argument that planking is one of the most overrated exercises.  It commented that the world record for longest plank is something like 8 or 9 hours, and the fact that someone, even in great shape, can plank for that long shows that it's not a challenging exercise.  I don't know about all that, but it won't get your heart rate up anywhere near the level of pushups or burpees, and that's what you need.

I am not a learned man when it comes to most of the exercise stuff, but to the extent that I do planks it's something I hit for a few minutes to try and work my abs, not something I'm doing to try and burn calories or work up a sweat. I figure if you're exerting yourself lifting or doing pushups or whatever else to target muscles, that's going to get your heart rate up a bit, but I assumed that isn't the point of that kind of exercise? For me, I feel like if I'm on the bike that's good cardio and working on my vo2 max or whatever, rucking around is a mix of moderate cardio and moderate core strength, and doing planks is something I've tried to work a bit in just to try and build some muscle under the skin that used to hold more fat. I was doing some other stuff - situps, leg lifts, etc but I kept tweaking shit or just rubbing my back raw. I'm sure there's a lot of user error in there. I do feel like pushups would do that thing while also working other muscles and that will probably be one of my number targets next year.

 

I weigh myself every day, but I really like the Happy Scale app because it gives you a smoothed average. If I eat a junky meal for dinner (especially lots of salt), my weight will pop up the next morning but it's obviously inflammation, and the line doesn't creep up much.

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