i use this app "MyFitnessPal" it helps track calories, you can scan in foods etc... plus when you exercise you can upload the calories you burn. Using this app and doing some strength training and riding my bicycle trainer i have lost just about 6 pds in about 6 weeks. I use a stationary trainer and rowing machine, low impact along with weights.
Perhaps I missed it over the last six pages, but what is the OP doing for exercise currently? I stopped weekday drinking and started interval training, and lost 12 lbs quickly.
Damn bro. At this point I think it makes sense to focus on your diet and getting off the booze. CrossFit might be an option, but since you haven't been active in five years, you'll need to be very careful. I think it might be better for you to get into spinning or yoga or something else low impact. Shit, at this point you could just walk a few miles a day at a good pace and you'd start feeling better.
iv been real easy at cross fit so far. not a lot of weights and lot of focus on form. Diet is a big problem so thought about dropping all food and sticking with bourbon lol.
Crossfit will just make you puke and/or pass out at your fitness level, or lack thereof. You need to work up to that much sustained and explosive effort.
Like I said so far so good doin it. It's a lot of fun but dam it's hard. Lol. Iv stayed sore the whole time though. Iv have watched what I ate lot better and cut down some of the drinking.
I have, and he was fast as shit! Had to be pushing 400 lbs. It was towards the end of a 2 hour sloppy mud fest too.
its not really that hard to make some changes... especially if you're trapped at work. Make a pound or 2 of chicken or tuna salad. Hard boil some eggs. Buy some inexpensive containers to portion the food out. If you do eat on the run... Jimmy Johns has "unwiches" (breadless)which can be had for $5. Whattaburger sells a salad with a grilled chicken breast for the same $5. Or if youre stuck with only mcDs... just get a chicken sand or 2 and ditch the buns. For breakfast you can have something like oatmeal or a bunch of eggs.
I have seen MANY fatties on the trail, usually just as they disappear down the trail in front of me. Then I'll see them again at the next junction as they patiently wait for me. I'm usually not that far behind them, but far enough that I know they are both fat and fast. I'm not slow, not fast (usually described as "half-fast"). Lots of big folks up here in the PacNW on dirty bikes who know how to ride at a very fast clip. Example: At a 500 minute team relay race last year (and the year before), the fastest lap was set by a member of "Team Double Stuft." And two years ago they were third overall after 500 minutes running two riders against teams of four or more. I think that the fat one was 265lbs, and he was 1 minute slower per 12 mile lap than the other rider on his team (fastest lap, not real skinny). That's not one minute per mile, that's one minute per lap, so 5 seconds per mile slower.
I was wondering, what do you guys consider "fat" on a dirt bike? 195? 225? 265? I guess I haven't seen any 400# riders, but I've seen plenty of 250+ around here. And we don't need too much insulation. The fast guys don't get cold, and the slow guys get too hot from picking up mud covered bikes all day.
Im defining it as roley poley with a gut hanging over pants kinda fat. Love handles unfurled, that sorta thing.
I've seen my share of really fat dudes riding off road. Respect. Can't imagine how hard that must be.
I'm going to a couple of poker runs in the next four weeks. I'll try to get some representative pics for you. Not of me (I'm not chubby anymore), but of the locals. There are some who fit your image, and a lot of them haul some serious ass.
