I am quite curious how the new wii-fitU will work, and what kind of features it might have.
has there been any leaks so far?
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I lost 100 pounds using the Wii-Fit.
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I am quite curious how the new wii-fitU will work, and what kind of features it might have.
has there been any leaks so far?
The clothing was tight when he had the clothing on so its direct proof he's lost a shitload of weight.
Time for a new wardrobe OP
The dress shirt I am wearing is XLL, I wear XL now, I used to wear XLLL I still wear some of my old stuff occasionally, I did that picture in seconds, hence the dress shirt and gym shorts lol.
The dress shirt that I wore when I was really obese was so tight, i could barely fit into it, now it's to loose.
i guess I could have taken more time with the picture haha
superchunk
Member
That's fantastic.
Over the last 6mos I've changed the entire diet of my family in an effort for larger lifestyle change.
We've removed anything with high fructose corn syrup (like soda), moved to nearly all organic/non-gmo foods (with the rare exception of once a week eating out at nice restaurant,not fast food) and limiting the general amount of any food overall.
Now I need to get back into some regular exercise. With just the gradual food changes, starting with just no soda, then moving to no fast food, then nothing with dyes, then .... and so on... I've already noticed a slight change in weight. Still a fatty, but a slight change is better than none.
I think I may pull back out my wii fit as at one time it did help me drop 20lbs (gained back) but back then I still had horrible otherwise diet. Now that the diet is permanently fixed, getting back to some exercise would be great too.
Thanks for the inspirational OP. Congrats to you and you look fantastic man.
Over the last 6mos I've changed the entire diet of my family in an effort for larger lifestyle change.
We've removed anything with high fructose corn syrup (like soda), moved to nearly all organic/non-gmo foods (with the rare exception of once a week eating out at nice restaurant,not fast food) and limiting the general amount of any food overall.
Now I need to get back into some regular exercise. With just the gradual food changes, starting with just no soda, then moving to no fast food, then nothing with dyes, then .... and so on... I've already noticed a slight change in weight. Still a fatty, but a slight change is better than none.
I think I may pull back out my wii fit as at one time it did help me drop 20lbs (gained back) but back then I still had horrible otherwise diet. Now that the diet is permanently fixed, getting back to some exercise would be great too.
Thanks for the inspirational OP. Congrats to you and you look fantastic man.
Good point on the difficulty exercising for overweight or obese people. I forgot to mention that!
A small disagreement though: if you want to quit smoking and lose weight, I would deal with the smoking issue first before messing around with the diet. For many people quitting smoking leads to weight gain and can sabotage any simultaneous attempt to lose weight.
Your general point is right-on though, best to tackle these self-improvement projects one at a time so as not to overwhelm yourself.
Well Done!
Being fat is the worst thing you could ever do to yourself!
I would know, I too dropped from 120kgs to below 90kgs (+bodybuilding) which is around 60 pounds I believe ... And it simply feels Amazing, like being reborn
I truly advice everyone who's overweight to rethink their lives, it is wrong being fat, and sad
Again, great to know About your achievement, keep it up and don't ever stop, you don't want to go back, and you need to loose the excessive skin .
Being fat is the worst thing you could ever do to yourself!
I would know, I too dropped from 120kgs to below 90kgs (+bodybuilding) which is around 60 pounds I believe ... And it simply feels Amazing, like being reborn
I truly advice everyone who's overweight to rethink their lives, it is wrong being fat, and sad
Again, great to know About your achievement, keep it up and don't ever stop, you don't want to go back, and you need to loose the excessive skin .
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Congrats!
"Any decisions regarding dietary advice in favour of the adoption of nibbling or gorging
meal patterns should be dominated by a consideration of the effects on carbohydrate and
lipid metabolism (Jenkins, 1997; Mann, 1997), rather than on energy expenditure, where a prudent analyst would probably conclude that the metabolic effects are neutral."
I didn't have to go very far, it's the overall conclusion of the first paper cited
1) no need to get snippy
2) I didn't dispute your claim, just noted that it's irrelevant to the OPs post.
3) There are many benefits associated with eating more frequent smaller meals, including but not limited to reducing risk for obesity and type II diabetes, which is what I was getting at by talking about glycemic load.
Man, this is so on-point. I wish I could tell everyone struggling with weight loss to cut out all those sugary drinks they consume and replace them with water. I did this a few years ago and gradually lost 20-25lb doing nothing else. It's easy to underestimate how many calories are in these things and how quickly they can add up.
Congrats on your success moving your family to a more healthy diet.
Alcoholikaust
Member
awesome story and congratulations!
Son of a Witch
Member
That's outside the scope of that study, hence why there are no conclusions on it.
On the other hand, IF (20-4 in this study) actually increases insulin sensitivity, the contrary to type 2 diabetes.
Messofanego
Banned
For the Kinect, EA's Fitness game is a lot of fun (compared to the Ubisoft one). My sister uses it from time to time, this thread might convince me to use it regularly. Thanks!
Awesome job! Just remember, it doesn't end when you reach your goals. It's easy to pack the pounds back on. I would suggest you keep using WiiFit just to weigh yourself once a week or so. I find the graph pretty handy to see how things are going.
Wait, whoa, really? I am unemployed atm, and paying $50-60 per month for gym! I will PM you to see if you have any more info!
Wait, whoa, really? I am unemployed atm, and paying $50-60 per month for gym! I will PM you to see if you have any more info!
Your right about meal frequency especially in regards to preventing diabetes but SoW is also right about meal frequency's potential to derail weight loss.
It really depends on what you goals and priorities are. For most people trying to lose weight, eating 3 square meals is probably the way to go just because it's easier manage. If preventing diabetes is pertinent concern, eating 5 or 6 meals per day can make more sense. But it takes more effort to ensure you don't overeat.
That said, there is a neat compromise. You can eat 3 square meals and two low carb snacks in between meals to get the same effect. Regardless, the key is to keep the fat intake down.
Well the rec center I go to has this, I asked around and supposedly every rec center has this.
Ask your local gym about "Leisure Access Program", and see if they do it.
One thing I did was change the type of foods I eat.
For example instead of white bread, i go with whole wheat bread.
I eat a TON of wraps, with baby spinach and chicken daily.
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PsihoPerihelion
Member
Congrats, dude!
Send us a link to that tolerant GAF you visit, because I've never seen it.
Send us a link to that tolerant GAF you visit, because I've never seen it.
That study uses 20 hour fasts that last from 10pm until 6pm the next day. I don't see how that's relevant to regular people following normal dietary patterns.
Here is a study about meal sizes and glycemic index and how they affect insulin response. Figure 2 shows the difference in insulin response based on meal size controlling even for glycemic index of the food int he meals.
Here is a study that finds that insulin response is a modulator of weight loss in obese females.
put two and two together and you can start to make the connection that content of the meals held equal, smaller meals result in a smaller insulin response and thus more weight loss.
Smaller meals alone won't result in weight loss, which maybe is the point we're getting stuck on. What I'm trying to say is that if your diet/exercise plan is one that is putting you on the path to weight loss, you'll probably lose more on smaller more frequent meals assuming total intake doesn't change significantly.
The only interesting data I've seen on fasting is that people who exercise fasted (e.g. first thing in the morning) lose more weight than those who do not (which also makes sense if you think about serum insulin levels and weight loss), but there's no reason you can't also do that.
That's awesome man. A lot of people start tackling weight loss by buying all these vegetables and other healthy foods which they normally never eat in an attempt to flip their diet on a dime. It's no surprise then that this often leads to failure. Gradually changing your diet by substituting lower calorie/more healthy options in your everyday diet is totally the way to go.
It's about telling your body, Listen up I don't want you to starve, but I want you to make a change slowly.
I'm glad to hear that you lost so much weight!
I don't really enjoy fitness video games; I just go out running or biking. It helps that I live in Colorado, which has a lot of great outdoors locations. I think any form of exercise can be effective as long as you have the drive to do it.
I don't really enjoy fitness video games; I just go out running or biking. It helps that I live in Colorado, which has a lot of great outdoors locations. I think any form of exercise can be effective as long as you have the drive to do it.
Roland1979
Junior Member
If you exercise regularly you will keep on burning calories throughout the day. It's not only about how hard you train but how, how long and how often. I agree that in the beginning you mostly eat far less, and focus on calories and fat is evil. But some foods will keep hunger away for longer, like he chose whole wheat bread over white. Oatmeal is also very good in that regard. Most diets are not that good because most diets are hard to follow and have a jojo waiting to happen. It's also good to know what you eating. And health is important, isn't that why he is loosing weight in the first place? A lot of people blindly follow a diet and then what? Then they still don't understand food. So while i partly agree with you i also disagree with you.
Son of a Witch
Member
16 to 20 hour daily fasts are fairly common nowadays in fitness-minded individuals who eat, at most, three meals during that window. Even famous coaches like John Romaniello, who used to stress the importance of six meals a day, are now big proponents of 16-8 IF and longer fasts (up to 40 hours) once in a while because all the research supports its many benefits over "regular dietary patterns" in many aspects not limited just to fat loss.
Obviously both carbs and protein are insulinogenic, and meal size does have an effect that is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Also, there's the need to acknowledge that insulin spikes are actually benefitial during a fairly large window after exercise in order to replenish muscle glycogen. That doesn't apply if you are a sedentary obese person, but still, calories and macros are all that matter. Unless you have a shitty diet full of sugars, GI is nothing to be concerned about.
And again, you won't lose more with more frequent meals. That's well debunked in the studies I linked.
From what I've read and from my own experience, you will lose weight as long as you're eating at a calorie deficit.
Meaning your body needs a certain amount of calories per day to maintain your current body-weight. If you eat above that amount, you will gain weight. Eat below it, you will lose weight. You don't necessarily have to exercise because calorie consumption seems to be the most important factor in weight loss. But in my experience, I got hungry as hell and hated it. If you exercise and burn calories, you can eat more, not feel hungry and still lose weight.
Also, the type of food you eat doesn't really matter in terms of weight loss. You can eat pizza and nothing but pizza and still lose weight as long as you're not going above your calorie limit. Thta diet would still be hell on your health though. Funnily enough, there's a guy who made the news not too long ago by doing just that. He ate nothing but pizza, exercised A LOT and lost a ton weight.
I've only recently started counting calories, and have since then lost over 10 pounds where before I was seemingly never able to lose even a single pound no matter how much I worked out.
Anywho, a mix of counting your calories and exercise works best in my opinion. If you look like shit and lose weight but don't exercise, you're still going to look like shit, just smaller. By exercising, you change your body's shape into something awesome...
btw, that's an awesome drop in weight @ TC. I'm still not at my goal of 145... Just a few more pounds...
Meaning your body needs a certain amount of calories per day to maintain your current body-weight. If you eat above that amount, you will gain weight. Eat below it, you will lose weight. You don't necessarily have to exercise because calorie consumption seems to be the most important factor in weight loss. But in my experience, I got hungry as hell and hated it. If you exercise and burn calories, you can eat more, not feel hungry and still lose weight.
Also, the type of food you eat doesn't really matter in terms of weight loss. You can eat pizza and nothing but pizza and still lose weight as long as you're not going above your calorie limit. Thta diet would still be hell on your health though. Funnily enough, there's a guy who made the news not too long ago by doing just that. He ate nothing but pizza, exercised A LOT and lost a ton weight.
I've only recently started counting calories, and have since then lost over 10 pounds where before I was seemingly never able to lose even a single pound no matter how much I worked out.
Anywho, a mix of counting your calories and exercise works best in my opinion. If you look like shit and lose weight but don't exercise, you're still going to look like shit, just smaller. By exercising, you change your body's shape into something awesome...
btw, that's an awesome drop in weight @ TC. I'm still not at my goal of 145... Just a few more pounds...
I think we're talking about different things here. I'm not talking about fit people trying to get more fit. I'm talking about OP who was a sedentary obese person probably with a shitty diet full of sugars.
Anyway, there is clearly more than one way to look at this stuff based on existing data, so whatever works for the individual is probably going to wind up being the best.
Congrats Yondy604! That is really incredible and can't credit yourself enough for sticking with it. I can understand the pain and issues as I have a little brother is now over 300lbs and it kills me that he doesn't do anything about it. He just doesn't have any drive or motivation and I can't do anything for him since I live so far away.
I've also started working out since last year and have lost a bit of weight. Had to take a break the last couple months due to health issues but I think I'm just about well enough to start going to the gym again.
Congrats again, I love reading stories like this.
I've also started working out since last year and have lost a bit of weight. Had to take a break the last couple months due to health issues but I think I'm just about well enough to start going to the gym again.
Congrats again, I love reading stories like this.
MisterSamMan
Member
It's a shame I didn't find this thread sooner, but major congrats, I truly admire your willpower to continue working towards your goal. Well done!
Son of a Witch
Member
That's the point. Diet compliance is the most important factor when trying to lose weight, and making people adopt often uncomfortable habits (like eating five meals a day) when they have little to no effect is priming them for failure.
Do you want to lose weight? Do whatever allows you to eat at a deficit without much hunger, eat enough protein and fat, and don't worry about the rest.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Extremely impressive man. Congrats on the hard work.
Sorry 2 hear about the brother, different people need different motivations. Try hard to find his, everybody can do it, it's all in the mindset
Agreed. I'm not trying to say that everyone should eat 5-6 meals per day, I'm just saying that many people have success with that, and there is some physiological basis for it. Large scale meta analyses are problematic because they often don't factor in actual dietary composition or activity levels, so looking at just meal frequency alone is not very helpful.
If you google scholar through the recent literature you can find all kinds of contradictory papers arguing both the merits and pointlessness of increasing meal frequency, and in my opinion the inconclusiveness of the research comes down to differences in study design, and also the very small number of studies that look at active people.
joeygreco1985
Member
Great job, OP! I did the same thing back in 2009, but I tapered off with my Wii Fit use for physical activity since I didn't really feel like I was getting the workout I needed from it. But I continued to use it to keep track of my progress regardless since the graph that Wii Fit filled out was pretty handy. I took a few pics of the TV back then and kept them around to remind me of how I did:
I pushed myself really hard that year! My Wii broke a few months after I took these pics and I never did end up fixing it. I wish I had backed up that save somehow, it would be nice to scroll through that graph again. I always felt so good about myself when I would scroll through it.
At my lowest I got down to around 211 lbs sometime in 2010. I've been fluctuating at around 220-225 ever since, but I'd love to start going hard all over again to get under 200.
I pushed myself really hard that year! My Wii broke a few months after I took these pics and I never did end up fixing it. I wish I had backed up that save somehow, it would be nice to scroll through that graph again. I always felt so good about myself when I would scroll through it.
At my lowest I got down to around 211 lbs sometime in 2010. I've been fluctuating at around 220-225 ever since, but I'd love to start going hard all over again to get under 200.
Great job, OP! I did the same thing back in 2009, but I tapered off with my Wii Fit use for physical activity since I didn't really feel like I was getting the workout I needed from it. But I continued to use it to keep track of my progress regardless since the graph that Wii Fit filled out was pretty handy. I took a few pics of the TV back then and kept them around to remind me of how I did:
I pushed myself really hard that year! My Wii broke a few months after I took these pics and I never did end up fixing it. I wish I had backed up that save somehow, it would be nice to scroll through that graph again. I always felt so good about myself when I would scroll through it.
At my lowest I got down to around 211 lbs sometime in 2010. I've been fluctuating at around 220-225 ever since, but I'd love to start going hard all over again to get under 200.
Wow that's absolutely great man, keep at it man, reach the goals
http://videobam.com/VzXYK <-- make sure u click this link.
Can't be a virus, tons of people here already watched it. False negative?
Videobam has been around for awhile when updating videos
if you don't wanna risk, I can PM u a different upload.
Somebody just pmed me this.
http://gamingbolt.com/man-plays-wii-fit-loses-100-pounds#1YeDSR0OwtwOmDIe.99
Flattering to say the least that my story is getting out there.
If I can change at least ONE person into a more healthy way of living, then it's all worth it.
http://gamingbolt.com/man-plays-wii-fit-loses-100-pounds#1YeDSR0OwtwOmDIe.99
Flattering to say the least that my story is getting out there.
If I can change at least ONE person into a more healthy way of living, then it's all worth it.
http://videobam.com/VzXYK <-- make sure u click this link.
Can't be a virus, tons of people here already watched it. False negative?
Videobam has been around for awhile when updating videos
if you don't wanna risk, I can PM u a different upload.
No need, I just watched it on the mobile site.
Superb progress, man.
CrAzY FiNgErS
Member
Funny you posted this, because I was just thinking about getting a Wii Fit used at Gamestop with Wii Fit Plus. I weigh 240 pounds right now and am in need of losing at least 50 pounds and getting off my duff for me and my family. My sedentary lifestyle is going to catch up with me if I don't do something about this.
SafeinSound
Member
Good for you man. Stuff like these warms my heart. I hope your story motivates someone to make the same decision with their life, whether it be with a Wii Fit or just going for a run/walk. Living a healthy lifestyle is a wonderful thing.
We're in complete agreement about food. As you look for ways to reduce your calories and find substitutes for unhealthy choices, you start learning about food. Following a prescribed diet without any idea why you are eating the food you're eating is not sustainable. Eventually you will stop following that specific diet and risk falling off the wagon.
My only disagreement with you is on exercise. You will likely not be losing any calories throughout the day from exercise. To lose even a few calories in that way requires extremely hard work. The vast majority of people are just not going to that. Exercise to prevent heart disease, to lower your blood pressure, to boost your energy, to improve your sleep, even to control your weight. But exercising to lose weight is, well, an exercise in frustration. It just doesn't play a large role compared to running a calorie deficit. Choosing not to eat that 200 calorie cookie is a lot easier than doing 200 calories worth of exercise (approx. 30 min lifting weights).
First of all, congrats on your story! It's one thing to have a few extra k's, but when it's a health issue, it's good to lose the extra weight.
I borrowed a Wii from a friend around a year ago. He gave me some games and whatnot, didn't notice the EA Sports Fitness or whatever disc was in there along with the accessories.
Thought, eh, why not? Let's give it a shot, after I'm done playing Muramasa.
Was fucking extenuating and sweated a lot, I'm still wondering why I haven't got a Wii and get that and Fit as well.
I'm slightly overweight but it's becoming a problem for me and my self image, I recently bought a second-hand Kinect and just throwing it out here, do the Zumba or fitness games work as well or better than Wii Fit? Might as well use the damn thing to exercise , I can only jog around here, no gym's available or within short distance.
I borrowed a Wii from a friend around a year ago. He gave me some games and whatnot, didn't notice the EA Sports Fitness or whatever disc was in there along with the accessories.
Thought, eh, why not? Let's give it a shot, after I'm done playing Muramasa.
Was fucking extenuating and sweated a lot, I'm still wondering why I haven't got a Wii and get that and Fit as well.
I'm slightly overweight but it's becoming a problem for me and my self image, I recently bought a second-hand Kinect and just throwing it out here, do the Zumba or fitness games work as well or better than Wii Fit? Might as well use the damn thing to exercise , I can only jog around here, no gym's available or within short distance.