And I though I was fat

[nh_mopar_fan]

Did you drink the PBRs to bring the steak back up?

[Old Moparz]

I've been fortunate that I never had to scrutinize my input of foods to keep my weight down. Had friends in high school on the wrestling team that wanted to kill me. One guy would eat celery & watch me eat 2 lunches & he was the one that gained the weight. That doesn't mean I can't gain, I once gained 22 pounds in one month in my early 20's when I had worked late for about 5 weeks. I ate dinner at 10:30 PM & went to bed, & couldn't believe it. Glad that stretch of time ended, & have stayed the same basic weight since.

Ability to lose & gain weight vary with people, & also what you consume makes a difference. I've always had a job that kept me active, but over the last 10 years I've been behind a desk. At 43 years old, I can still do a lot of what I used to do, but I do feel out of shape, or to better put it, I feel less energy. I know I need to do more physical activities & have been occasionally contemplating a new mountain bike to get back into it. (The old Schwinn 10 speed English racer just can't handle the dirt & gravel roads.)

I still wear the same size jeans as 20 years ago, but I know I can feel changes in me that if I don't do something about will catch up as I get even older.

Ive been cutting back on the brewskies at night and just having a glass of scotch or 2 beeing that theres no sugar in it. Im hoping to get down around 210# this summer.

Hey drailed,

Not to shock you, but drinking scotch isn't going to be any better than beer for weight loss. It may be sugar & carb free, but your body turns alcohol into sugar & stores it.

(You can read a bit here)
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/10/cocktails-calories-lifestyle-cx_sy_0810feat_ls.html

After a night of drinking cocktails, most people will not only wake up the next morning with a screaming hangover, they'll wake up fatter too.

That's because the average serving of one ounce of 80-proof alcohol contains about 90 calories. And that's before mixers are added.

While most alcohol doesn't contain actual fat, its calories tend to be stored in the abdomen. "It's hard for the body to process and eliminate many alcohols at one time, and sugar makes us fat," says Michael George, a fitness expert and author of Body Express Makeover


By the way, what happened in Carlisle? The rain wash you away? 

[89MOPAR]

  If I can add something to what dkn1997 said -  along with eating the 5 or 6 small meals each day , and allowing yourself 1 day each week to eat unrestricted [ eating out / double pizza w/ ice cream sundae + pepperoni , etc]

Plan out what you are going to eat.  Keep it in mind, bring a list to the grocery store.
Make a list, say I will eat THIS for my first meal , then THIS, then THIS, etc  on Monday
then I will eat THIS, then THIS, etc  on Tuesday.

Without a plan it is so easy to just forage in the fridge and cabinets and regress to old habits.

There is scientific backing to allowing one day of binging a week.  The human body for hudreds of thousands of years was used to eating more sparsely most of the time and then gorging for a day whenever a deer or mammoth or whatever was killed - and the human had to eat as much as possible before decay or predators got the kill.

DodgeChargerNeeded - a note for you - In the latest issue of Hemmings Musclecar Magazine there is a feature on a 78 RoadRunner with the Spectrum interior !!

[derailed]

By the way, what happened in Carlisle? The rain wash you away? 

Thanks for the info Bob. Sorry I didnt get to meet up with you down there, We cut the trip a little short after we found what we went down there for. Wish I had gone down a day earlier, talk about a washout!!