The BLF Get-in-Shape Thread: (formerly, "A Newer, Thinner Rusty" Thread)....

Good effort Rusty Joe. You are to be commended on this achievement. The kids will have a ball messing around with this new guy.

Awesome Rusty!!!

Just walk as far as that SP03 will throw each day and you will never have to worry again. :wink:

So youre 1/2 or 1/3 the man you used to be, awesome stuff.

Keep it going and don’t give a f* about anybody who is trying to talk you out of your way.
There are tons of possible ways, neither is better.
You found your way which is working.

Keep going and don’t slack off your whole entire life. This is something just achieved with a complete change of your mindset but as I see this already happened to you and might be the reason you’re now successful.

I’m from Germany and here we’re right now facing the first wave of obesity I call it “the american way”.

My personal opinion is that you can boil it down to sugar. All the sugar and especially the high corn sirup which is added to all processed food is in my opinion the beginning of the end… It doesn’t mean that you should avoid it, you just should not consume it vast quantities. It’s always the raw amount you’re consuming. Problem is, that this sugar/sirup is added to the food to seduce you to eat more. (Salt is also something you should be aware of!)

When I was in NYC last year, I was amazed what food you’re getting in NYC. It’s possible to eat healthy but it’s way more difficult than in Germany.
Now think of NYC as one of the “healthier” cities…

Dunno what to do but the food producing companies are going crazy in the states (my opinion) and I don’t know if regulation might be a possible option.

Edit: One example in NYC: We ordered two bagels with cream cheese. In the end we thought about ordering one bagel with cream cheese and three plain ones. The cream cheese would be sufficient for four bagels. :party: For me and my wife, NYC could be cheap, just order one regular one and three plain something and you have your meal! :bigsmile:
The portions are ginormous!!! Never ever seen such big ice cream buckets, Coke bottles and so on. What one person in the USA is consuming should be enough to feed two persons here in Germany. :open_mouth: (And we’re also not third world)
BTW, I’ve been a little fatter as a kid, started to do sports and kept my weight always below 75kg/165lb at a height of 1,75m/5,7ft. Right now I’m excercising at least three times a week in a gym just with small weights and my bodyweight and doing more freestyle stuff. So the weight and the problems with it are way bigger in the US as here in Germany albeit it’s starting here also…

Americans love regulation.

Yep. It’s a “sugardemic” over here. I’d still never be thin if it weren’t for the artificial sweeteners, I tell ya.

Congrats, RJ. that’s a great achievement.

Congrats man, keep up the hard work. :beer:

Good work. Sounds like you were battling alot more than just extra weight. Thats a heck of a fight.

New body?? Well perhaps a new forum Handle is in order too? Hows about: Rusty Joe 2.0 8)

It wasn’t as hard as everybody thinks, but I might seriously get Admin to change it to that or maybe Rusty2! :stuck_out_tongue:

Congratulations Rusty! Amazing turnaround.

I've been struggling with my weight for decades. I'm reading the approach you took and am seriously considering giving it a shot.

Thank you bro.

Well done, Rusty!
Looks great and I bet it feels even better! :slight_smile:
I lost only ~30lbs and the gain in ‘mobility’ alone was worth every darn craving I had. Can’t imagine what it is like to almost half one’s weight. :slight_smile:

Sometimes I think it is because actual cooking is somewhat of an ‘lost art’ in the younger generations.
People think making decent food has to be difficult, time consuming and/or expensive. So they stuff themselves with that ready-to-eat or fast-food stuff.
I recall fellow students in college who lived on instant-ramen, snickers bars and energy drinks almost exclusively because they ‘had no time’. They were always amazed how I managed to bring freshly baked bread rolls all the time. (Big deal - make moist doe 2 times a week, takes 10 minutes. Throw rolls in oven before showering in the morning, takes one minute. )
Add chips, soft drinks, candy, beer and a mainly sitting work day to that . . .

Congrats on your weight loss! You look great!

Well done Rusty.
Congrats on your will power.
You’re now a stronger man in more than one way.

:bigsmile:
That might be one big problem over there…
Know and working with some. The “personal view” is sometimes really hard to understand… For some of them the way we live in Europe is pure communism… Obamacare is the beginning of the end of the USA, we have something far more advanced in Germany for ages… Dunno what happened to some of the people over there…

Similar lifestyle change I made ten years ago for weight loss and just feeling right, don’t eat anything after 1pm. Nowdays when I do eat something late in the day my body revolts by not letting me sleep and I’ll take sleeping over eating every time.

Kudos for taking care of you, when the knees and feet start complaining many people don’t listen.

Congrats Rusty !! What an accomplishment. And you NOW are an INSPIRATION to those who need to do something about their health.

Congratulations on your accomplishment! :beer:

Congratulations!

There is a widespread misunderstanding that loosing weight is only a good thing when you also eat healthier. In reality it is only about eating less calories and nothing else. If that works by eating healthier food, all the better, but if it works for someone by with eating one big mac a day and nothing else, sure he will loose weight all the same.

And the health improvement of any lost weight is way way larger than anything healthy that you can eat.

So, if the one meal a day way works for you, that's the way to go. Very well done!

Wow Rusty, big change, really impressive! Good info for anyone interested in doing the same thing. You’ve mentioned a couple of times that the struggle now is to shovel in enough energy in one meal to last you all day and maintain your weight. Are you concerned that two meals could slowly but easily turn into too much food, or is there some other reason you are adamant about sticking with a single meal?

Again, GJ and it’s a really impressive change!