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Post by Champ on Feb 8, 2010 20:49:14 GMT -5
I have to find a way to set alarms or something to stay on a regimine. My problem is I have a TERRIBLE sleeping routine. I always have. I can never sleep well at night and I'm always tired during the day. So in the morning I almost feel like shit and need time to come alive before I can do a workout. Next thing I know I'm ready for a nap. The sleep has always been a problem for me with staying on a good schedule. I look terrible these days, at least compared to what I used to look like. For an average guy I don't look bad but if I was a wrestler and had to go to the ring with my shirt off people would be saying, damn, Champ let himself go. But the good thing about the years of experience is I can get it right back in 6 weeks where as most people it'll take 3 - 6 months. I think it's very important to take at least a year early on in your life to really be dedicated. If I didn't bust my ass in highschool, it never would have come so much easier to me when I got older
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Post by Naitch on Feb 8, 2010 21:09:20 GMT -5
MS-I made a new goal today actually. Triathlon. Just for shits and giggles.
Champ-Try going to bed the same time every day. Less caffeine and shit like that.
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Post by Champ on Feb 9, 2010 0:44:18 GMT -5
I don't really intake caffeine. I can't go to bed the same time every night because I can't fall asleep unless mu eyes start closing on their own. Like say if I'm in the living room watching tv and my eyes finally start closing I'll get up and go to bed. Otherwise, I'll just lay there and think. If I'm in the habit of waking up 8am every morning, I could be ready for bed at 10:30 and other nights I can't fall asleep til 4am. Then I eventually start sleeping later in the day and going to bed later at night. Sometimes I don't sleep at all. That's the whole bipolar part of me. Sometimes I'll only sleep 3hrs a night for a week and other times I'll sleep 15 hrs a day for a week. But one thing that is always consistent is, no matter what time I go to bed and no matter how tired I am, I can't stay fully asleep for longer than 4 hrs. It sucks man. I've tried sleeping pills too. Some pills will get me to fall asleep but there's nothing I've ever tried that's gotten me to stay asleep. It's quite debilitating. It's extremely hard to live a normal life when every night is like that. I can't sleep in the same room as other people because of that. So anytime I go away on Vacation I have to always make sure I have a tv to watch in the room I'm staying in. Or else, I go crazy and pace around the room and start looking for beer or hard liquor. If I didn't have this sleep problem, I guarantee you I'd be 30lbs lighter. I know it sounds kind of stupid to associate weight loss with not being able to sleep at night but it really is a domino effect for the entire day
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Post by Naitch on Feb 9, 2010 12:56:56 GMT -5
I can't give you advice on this man besides see a doctor. But he'll just give you sleep meds and all we've done then is go full circle. Most people you tell to take up working out or cut out the sod and thats all they need. But you do those things.
Can you not sleep because your thinking too much? If that's the case I just think of strippers with huge tits and that helps me.
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Post by MasterSnit on Feb 9, 2010 18:24:12 GMT -5
I think it's mostly all mental when it comes to not being able to sleep. You can't do it if you are weighed down by countless worries and thoughts. Try to just take some time to yourself and evaluate everything to try and clear your mind and put it at ease.
Also, out of curiosity, when did you start lifting weights seriously, Champ?
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Post by Champ on Feb 10, 2010 2:07:02 GMT -5
Yeah it's a combination of that and just being wired at night. I have seen doctors for it. I just got sick of it
I've done it in bulks. I started really going strong right after my freshman year in high school a few months before I turned 15. I stayed strong til I was 17 and then I got really into a powerlifting program. Since I was never assertive, I never pursued it, meanwhile I was sick for my size. I was 138lbs and I cleaned and pressed 225lbs. I definitely could have won for my weight class. When I turned 18 and started college(from home and dropped out after 3 semesters) I started slacking and not really doing anything anymore. By the time I was 23 I fattened up to 185lbs. I carried it ok but I didn't look that great. So when my girlfriend broke up with me right around when I turned 24, that's when I started pursuing actual bodybuilding. Bulked up to 205(still overweight though) and then I lost fat and dropped down to 185 again, but I was a completely different 185 this time. Much more musclular. Then the past 2 years I've really been fucking around again. It's bad. I really have to get back on a schedule. I'd like to get down to 175 this time
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 1, 2010 14:03:01 GMT -5
Christ.
I haven't really done any exercise for a couple of months or so and - shocker - I've put on a bunch of weight as a result. I'm closer to Husky Harris than Piggie James now.
So as it's the 1st of August, my plan is to lose 5lbs a month. I need to get off my ass more and eat better.
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Post by Champ on Aug 1, 2010 16:59:09 GMT -5
I ran every day last week. I haven't been motivated either. I look the worst I have since I started going strong again 6 years ago. I definitely maintained more muscle this time around but I lost a lot of tone and definition. I want to get back into the pushups and calisthenics this week. I have the Bowflex so it's really just body exercises and cables. I don't care about weights and bodybuilding anymore. I want to lose weight and just cut up
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 1, 2010 21:26:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not very far off the weight I was 3½ years ago, before I gave a concerted shit about it. Not good. It's been slowly creeping up, but in the last couple months or so it's blown up ~10-14lbs or so.
It's too fucking hot to go jogging (at the times I'm currently able to do it, anyhow). My plan is to pound away on the exercise bike whenever I'm watching wrestling. That's twice a week, three times if I can be arsed to watch Impact. I'll try and do sit-ups and push-ups too. When it gets cooler in a few weeks, I'll start jogging on my days off.
And then I need to cut back on crap like chocolate. All that fucking ice-cream I ate last month didn't help. It was on special offer at the supermarket, so I stocked up. Of course I had to fucking eat it all in no time. If it's not physically in my house, then I usually don't have a problem not eating it.
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Post by Naitch on Aug 3, 2010 14:39:49 GMT -5
V, you know moderation and self control and blah blah blah things you've heard 800 times before you even knew I even existed. I guess the only thing for you to do is not to buy a shit ton of ice cream when its on sale. Try the smaller containers. Then if you rip through it, who cares.
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 3, 2010 15:35:40 GMT -5
All that fucking ice-cream I ate last month didn't help. It was on special offer at the supermarket, so I stocked up. Of course I had to fucking eat it all in no time. If it's not physically in my house, then I usually don't have a problem not eating it. Haagen-Dazs, eh? Two quid? Somehow I resisted that. Have you tried the Ben and Jerry's flavour called Baked Alaska? Vanilla ice cream with marshmallow and white chocolate polar bears inside? I've devoured a few tubs of that stuff in recent times. My absolute favourite was a Limited Edition flavour of Haagen-Dazs they brought out last year called Caramel biscuit and Cream. Holy shit I was addicted to that! I wish they would bring it back, but then again if it was a permanent flavour I would be injecting it into my veins by now. I actually have a little box where I keep various sweets. I've not touched anything for a while now though. Usually when I go cold turkey I can go for months at a time and eat really healthily, then I'll eat a bit rubbish then start again. Let's see what I have here: Fizzy cola bottles. Nice. Delicious fruity fruity delicious baw gawd they're fruity skittles. Milky bar buttons. White Buenos. They are good! A Dime/Daim bar. Double Deckers. Must resist... Milky Way crispy rolls. They are awesome just out the fridge. Galaxy Caramel. Needs to be in the fridge too. Mint Aero. Same. Chewy Noughat bars. Hershey bars. These little Disco bars. The trick with me is, if I am going to eat some rubbish then a doughnut is essential. So I won't touch any of that unless I am eating a doughnut. Not too crazy about fizzy juice. A Dr Pepper now and again does me. I'm a slut for tea so that does. Ok, I better shut up. I'm working myself up here, lol. Good plan though, V. 5lbs a month. None of this crash diet stuff. Steady success is the way to go.
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 3, 2010 19:51:26 GMT -5
V, you know moderation and self control and blah blah blah things you've heard 800 times before you even knew I even existed. I guess the only thing for you to do is not to buy a shit ton of ice cream when its on sale. Try the smaller containers. Then if you rip through it, who cares. Aye. Of course you're right, Naitch. I just needed to vent, really. Somehow putting it in the public domain (even if only 4 people are going to read it) will act as a better motivation than saying it to myself. Haagen-Dazs, eh? Two quid? Somehow I resisted that. Have you tried the Ben and Jerry's flavour called Baked Alaska? Vanilla ice cream with marshmallow and white chocolate polar bears inside? ... okay... that's just fucking creepy. Are you stalking me or something? You should try Ben & Jerry's "wich". It's ice-cream wodged between two cookies. I remember a few years ago (quite a long time ago, now I think of it) I got a box of them for free because they were at the sell-by-date... and... holy shit. If you told me the secret ingredient was crack, I'd believe you. And if I don't have goodies in my flat, I'm usually pretty good at not eating them. The stupid is when I convince myself I'll be able to "stock up" on stuff and then leave it the hell alone. Never works. Making the same mistake over and over is really stupid ![](http://a.imageshack.us/img17/7984/kapericbnx3.jpg)
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 4, 2010 18:25:43 GMT -5
I imagine the offers on Haagen Dazs must have been national offers. I think they were on special at ASDA and/or Tesco around here. I'll check out those Wich things.
I don't know if your own situation is similar to my own a while back, but I was piling in at over 16st towards the end of last year. I wasn't exactly huge and a lot of it was muscle but growing up I was always skinny so it was a big change. Basically I just cut out all the rubbish. Even if you aren't going to be exercising too much, as long as you are eating right then you will get rid of a lot of the weight. I lost most of it in about two-three months. I think the hardest part is getting out of the habit of picking at things at night. Once you get past that after a couple of days and get into a routine again it's usually fine.
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Post by Velkontés on Aug 4, 2010 19:52:28 GMT -5
Aye. It was just funny you mentioned Baked Alaska, because I did indeed try it. My favourites are Caramel Chew-Chew, Phish Food and Pralines & Cream.
I was ~15st 10lbs at the beginning of 2007 (I'm 6'), and I lost nearly 40lbs over 5 months or so (and got no fucking kudos from my friends or family for it, lol). I couldn't seem to budge it much below 13st, and still had a little bit of a gut, so I started jogging, and twisted my knee. Could hardly walk for a week, couldn't do anything strenuous on it for a while and by then I'd lost the urge.
So it's been up and down since then. I'll get into it and out of it. Apart from a month or so earlier this year I really haven't persevered with it enough this year, so the weight has been creeping up. Life-wise the last couple of months have been a drag, and I hate it when it gets really hot, it just saps me. So I really haven't given a shit at all recently, hence these extra pounds I've put on recently. Back up to 15st and 5lbs.
On the positive side, I was able to knock off 30 push-ups and 25 sit-ups without too much hassle today. I can still touch my toes. When I started 3½ years ago, I was literally exhausted after 5 minutes on the exercise bike. So it's not like I'm starting from zero again. I guess I still have some of the capacity there, I'm just carrying extra weight on top of it.
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Post by Champ on Aug 4, 2010 23:59:38 GMT -5
I'm 203lbs right now which is converted exactly to 14.5st. My goal is to get to 13.5st this time which is 175lbs. I haven't been 175lbs in about 8 years. I can just feel my body carrying the weight now. Plus I don't have the mass I had last time I was this weight, which is discouraging. My legs are struggling when I run. They don't burn or hurt. They just can't carry me anymore. Plus I get a lot of back pain when standing or sitting a certain position for too long.
I'm still pretty strong considering I had the worst year of my life. But I'm sure my bench max, for example, knocked off a good 60lbs(close to 3.5st). But, as I mentioned, I don't give a shit about the bodybuilding and size anymore. I just simply want to lose weight and cut up. I still have a lot of mass but my stomach is buldging out more. It's like big and hard with a 4 pack.
The main reason I really need to get it off now though is because I've been talking to a girl who's totally my type. Long curly light brown hair, about 5'7, sexy school teacher glasses, tight body(which is why I'm a little insecure right now) with the Daffney type smile(normal Daffney, not vamp Daffney). I met her at AA last week and we spoke for 45 min. The next night we spoke for another 45 min. Then I got her number afterwards and we spoke on the phone over the weekend twice. Tonight after our meeting, we spoke for 1 hr 15 min. So, if a hot girl isn't telling me to fuck off after all those minutes of chatting or making an excuse to leave, there has to be SOME interest. I'm taking it slow with her though. Not going to shit where I eat. Plus we're both going through a lot right now with changing our lifestyles so we both have to be selfish for ourselves and not shit where we eat. If something happens, awesome. If not, what can you do?
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