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beevod · 01-11-2020, 08:33 AM

Dropping 80 pounds -- I feel for you -- the task is, as they say, Herculean. I was always a chubby kid and self conscious about my weight. I vowed I'd never have a paunch and, luckily, discovered running and live by Central Park. I try to watch my weight but, if the pounds creep up, I can always run/walk them off. (Now where's my Guinness Stout, pint of ice cream and a monster wedge of cherry pie?)

Rob G · 01-11-2020, 08:35 AM

I'm finding it hard just to drop 20.

BigO · 01-11-2020, 08:42 AM

I'm approaching 300. Not only important, but necessary. If for no other reason. It will take a lot of pressure off of my back and other joints.

beevod · 01-11-2020, 09:18 AM

My all time high was 265...At 6'2" my fighting weight is 215 - 220. Try to keep it around there.

jeepdad · 01-11-2020, 10:22 AM

Smoking two whole chix lower grate, whole cabbage stuffed with chix broth, bacon and butter and greenbeans in hamhocks for supper. First time smoking greenbeans. And a Padron.

grtrx · 01-12-2020, 07:05 AM

It'll be homemade, no Michelin stars, not on an airplane, not a day after bad oysters whatever it is I do tonight. About time to risk the ice in the parking lot and go to the grosto.

grtrx · 01-12-2020, 07:09 AM

I dropped about 60, it took eating way less and only eating junk food once a week, and it took running 4-5 times a week. Knees shot means no running now. Through yesterday I was doing 6+ miles a day. Good weather helped, cobblestones hurt, but only one day under 2 miles during that stretch.

And yes calories and exercise work to lose weight if you do them in the right order.

grtrx · 01-14-2020, 07:57 AM

last night I made soup for lunches this week (mustard greens, sausage, fennel and cabbage) and for dinner I made chicken thighs tossed with olive oil, pimenton, salt and pepper then oven roasted in rice wine vinegar with braised cabbage and oven roasted taters.

Tonight will be second cooking of the oxtail/beef shank braise and frying off sausage for the pasta later in the week...

jeepdad · 01-14-2020, 02:18 PM

Long day in the "War Room" death by PowerPoint. Drove through Chick-Fila. Chicken strips, fruit cup unsweet tea with Splenda.

Shadow · 01-14-2020, 04:27 PM

Shrimp and scallops over rice tonight.

01-11-2020, 08:33 AM	#1051
beevod Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 20,927	Dropping 80 pounds -- I feel for you -- the task is, as they say, Herculean. I was always a chubby kid and self conscious about my weight. I vowed I'd never have a paunch and, luckily, discovered running and live by Central Park. I try to watch my weight but, if the pounds creep up, I can always run/walk them off. (Now where's my Guinness Stout, pint of ice cream and a monster wedge of cherry pie?) __________________ "Moderation in all things. Excess in everything else."

01-11-2020, 08:35 AM	#1052
Rob G Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Camillus, NY Posts: 16,119	I'm finding it hard just to drop 20. __________________ Rob If people can tell me where to smoke, I can tell them where to go, too.

01-11-2020, 08:42 AM	#1053
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,765	I'm approaching 300. Not only important, but necessary. If for no other reason. It will take a lot of pressure off of my back and other joints. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

01-11-2020, 09:18 AM	#1054
beevod Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 20,927	My all time high was 265...At 6'2" my fighting weight is 215 - 220. Try to keep it around there. __________________ "Moderation in all things. Excess in everything else."

01-11-2020, 10:22 AM	#1055
jeepdad Club Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Stafford, VA Posts: 2,687	Smoking two whole chix lower grate, whole cabbage stuffed with chix broth, bacon and butter and greenbeans in hamhocks for supper. First time smoking greenbeans. And a Padron. Last edited by jeepdad; 01-11-2020 at 11:54 AM.

01-12-2020, 07:05 AM	#1056
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	It'll be homemade, no Michelin stars, not on an airplane, not a day after bad oysters whatever it is I do tonight. About time to risk the ice in the parking lot and go to the grosto. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

01-12-2020, 07:09 AM	#1057
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	I dropped about 60, it took eating way less and only eating junk food once a week, and it took running 4-5 times a week. Knees shot means no running now. Through yesterday I was doing 6+ miles a day. Good weather helped, cobblestones hurt, but only one day under 2 miles during that stretch. And yes calories and exercise work to lose weight if you do them in the right order. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

01-14-2020, 07:57 AM	#1058
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	last night I made soup for lunches this week (mustard greens, sausage, fennel and cabbage) and for dinner I made chicken thighs tossed with olive oil, pimenton, salt and pepper then oven roasted in rice wine vinegar with braised cabbage and oven roasted taters. Tonight will be second cooking of the oxtail/beef shank braise and frying off sausage for the pasta later in the week... __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

01-14-2020, 02:18 PM	#1059
jeepdad Club Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Stafford, VA Posts: 2,687	Long day in the "War Room" death by PowerPoint. Drove through Chick-Fila. Chicken strips, fruit cup unsweet tea with Splenda.

01-14-2020, 04:27 PM	#1060
Shadow Charter Member Herf Meister Join Date: Feb 1998 Location: Shelby, NC Posts: 5,400	Shrimp and scallops over rice tonight. __________________ Age, experience and deviousness will always overcome youth, exuberance and perceived mental superiority.