Congrats Dave. Answering this from my phone so will be short. I will edit and add pictures later. I am (I guess you guys will say) young. 37 and was 6' and January 2nd started a biggest loser group competition with 9 other folks. My starting weight 256 as of this Friday (3/13/09) I am in 3rd place weighting in at 222
doing pretty close to what you are doing. Congrats and will share more later.
Okay, back to update.
So the group I got into has really made the difference. We have a Private group on Facebook and share emails and fun pictures as we go along. Strange as this sounds the group I am doing this with is all ladies and all more than a few years older than me. It started as being a bunch of guys and gals and all the other guys bailed out when time to start. I stayed and plan on staying until the end. As a guy I lost a lot fast and now after 10 weeks have slipped to 3rd place. We keep score via percentage of weight lost like the show.
Anyway, like you Dave I have cut down to no snacking at night, no beer pretty much Sunday thru Thursday, and really watching what I eat overall. Even when I have allowed for a beer or two I don't always do it. I feel great and had a stretch when I could not work out and was really bummed out. I am on the treadmill Sunday - Thursday for 45-65 minutes. I like to run and will be doing it outside once the weather permits.
One thing I do and the ladies are okay with it as it gives them incentive as well, is I take a picture of the scale every week. The ladies are not and will not participate in this
It really is incentive for me as I do not want to add the picture of the scale going the other way.
So, my wife and the doctors have always said eat right, exercise and you will be fine. I thought they were crazy
turns out they are right. Their always right
Start
Current 03/13/09
Again, congrats and one last thing. My group cost $50.00 a person to get in. Our time frame is 01/02/09 to 05/22/09. So that is a $500.00 pot at the end and I have my eye on a Bigma or a DA10-17. Funny when you thing about it, I won't be BIG(MA) or WIDE when this is done, but that is what I want
Good luck to all.
Last edited by vievetrick; 03-14-2009 at 07:00 PM.