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Hello fellow nerdballers,
New Years Resolution comes a bit early, mainly inspired by Sheths blog. So I set up a milestone system for my weightloss, not neccessary "rewards" in the usual sense but stuff that will improve my quality of life (but I wont tell you what since some of it is health related  ). As an added incentive every 5kg I will cook myself a more extravagant meal instead of the quick and dirty food of my daily life.
Im currently clocking in at 158kg (even lost 2kg over christmas lol). I still need rewards for 150, 140 and 120kg. The only criterium is that it should not cost much money, if any at all. And it should not be just a material reward, but something that improves quality of everyday life or an awesome experience.
As you can see, I already got my bases covered pretty much when I reach the lower waist regions  - especially if you consider the need for a completely new wardrobe and other stuff that goes along with it. The overall goal is to get down to 100kg in 2012. What would you suggest?
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Honestly I don't think you should do this on your own,you should seek a nutritionist in order to fully enjoy your weightloss.
I wen't from 113kg to 86kg but I didn't have a reward system of sorts,I just followed a diet and worked out like a robot.
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I went from 172 kgs to 98. (2 meters tall so it clocks in at what I should be weighing). And the first thing I noticed was that rewarding yourself sucks. Why? Becuase what you need to do is make the weightloss an everyday thing, something you don't pay attention to. If you set up rewards and shit all that happens is that you focus super hard on it as if it was something special and then you're fucked cause you won't stop thinking about it.
All you need to do is set up good habits, losing weight isn't hard at all. That is what you will notice once you start losing it. The hard part is setting up the habits and that is where the focus should be.
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Yeah, I think that if you really want to lose weight, the weightloss itself is a reward, you don't need anything else 
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Dropped from 115ish to below 80 myself and based on my personal experience:
- Rewarding eating less with extravagant meals in the future is a bad idea. Becoming lighter is a long-term lifestyle change and you need to accept that and the reward is that you feel healthier, happier, a better social life and simply put a better life overall. That has to be enough of a reward, otherwise you probably won't be able to keep it up.
- You're talking about losing 60 kg's over the course of a year, which might be too much Dropping more then a kg week is hard and requires both dieting and excersise to obtain, and even then 1 kg a week is hard. I would personally advise you not to set a timetable based on weight, but on excersise instead (which has an inherent reward system, you can notice improvement extremely fast).
Get yourself to exercise 3-4 times a week and adjust your eating gradually. I've personally never needed an intricate diet, but managed to lose weight by simply not drinking any soda, not eating anything like crisps and by cooking my own meals at least 5 times a week (actually cooking, not heating). You'll start noticing the rewards very quickly and it will motivate you to do more and you'll learn how to be better at it on your own. Hard part is the first month.
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Good luck on the journey, I'm in the middle of losing weight myself (lost 18kg since I've started) and rewards don't work for me. what does work is knowing I'm becoming the sort of person whose will dictates how they do things.
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There is nothing wrong with rewards if they help you to stick to the diet. But while sticking to the diet you do also have to realise that there is no going back to your old eating habits.
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100kg is definitely doable as long as you keep at it. I suggest you start strength training to preserve as much muscle mass as possible. If you have any weight loss or training questions, come to the Health & Fitness forum and ask
I'm not sure what rewards would be good for you but good luck on your journey.
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Enroll in a MMA class when you hit 150. By 100 you'll be a lean, mean, confident badass.
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Reward yourself every day by cooking good food all the time.
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(Mrafael, Hynda, Derez+++) I have a question to the people that have lost a lot of weight. As you've lost quite a lot of weight, i imagine your bellies were at least somewhat large before. Did the excess skin contract when you dieted? Im ca. 105kg's - soon to go on a diet - and going for about 78kgs. Im worried that dieting will make my belly all flappy and loose because the skin wont contract. I think age plays into it, im 24, how old were you guys?
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Reward yourself with new clothes, sports gear, shoes etcetc...
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On December 29 2011 04:24 Aphasie wrote:
(Mrafael, Hynda, Derez+++) I have a question to the people that have lost a lot of weight. As you've lost quite a lot of weight, i imagine your bellies were at least somewhat large before. Did the excess skin contract when you dieted? Im ca. 105kg's - soon to go on a diet - and going for about 78kgs. Im worried that dieting will make my belly all flappy and loose because the skin wont contract. I think age plays into it, im 24, how old were you guys?
I was a year younger then you were, and I lost 35-40ish kg over the course of more or less a year and a half. I have no idea how or why this works, but my skin contracted with me losing weight. Takes time and doesn't happen instantly, but currently no excessive skin flopping around anymore. I did have to specifically train my biceps/upper arms a little to 'fill out' the skin there, and doing exercises for abs helps seemed to have helped out also.
I didn't initially start off with a gym program (lost my weight running), but at a certain point a little 'targetted' exercise is definately worth it. That said, I don't think there is anything that even remotely compares to running (or cycling) in a gym setting. In the end it's about burning calories, and running is a very effective and convenient way to do so.
I wouldn't worry about it. Losing weight will only make you look better (even with a little excessive skin) and you will be happier for it, both physically, mentally and socially. I found it astonishing how much more open and positive people approached me afterwards (I was out of the country during the time mentioned), both friends and 'random' people.
So yea go do it ;p.
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On December 29 2011 04:24 Aphasie wrote:
(Mrafael, Hynda, Derez+++) I have a question to the people that have lost a lot of weight. As you've lost quite a lot of weight, i imagine your bellies were at least somewhat large before. Did the excess skin contract when you dieted? Im ca. 105kg's - soon to go on a diet - and going for about 78kgs. Im worried that dieting will make my belly all flappy and loose because the skin wont contract. I think age plays into it, im 24, how old were you guys? I was 21 when I did it and it contracted decently. I mean I will never have a super tight 6 pack unless I remove some but it doesn't look weird.
If you ar going for a skinny look rather than a well buildt one I think there would be a much larger problem. The skin is extremly stretchy at places, I can drag it out alot longer than your average person but if I just let it be it looks normal.
But then again I dropped my kilos very very fast, unhealthily fast. So I think it is better if you lose it in a decent tempo.
Weighed 152 the 15th of feburary, weighed 114 the 17th of may. (and yes people call bullshit on that all the time, but it's the truth, and no I didn't stop eating) that way I think the skin has a much harder way of coping. And I certainly don't advice you to lose weight that fast. My body took extreme ammounts of punishment from it and I'm real lucky I didn't get lasting means from it. Do it at a decent pace.
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How the hell did you manage to lose that much weight in such a short period? I'm not trying myself, I'm just curious!
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On December 29 2011 20:49 Arnstein wrote:
How the hell did you manage to lose that much weight in such a short period? I'm not trying myself, I'm just curious!
Said to myself that I was only allowed candy once ever 4 weeks, but at those times I could have as much as I wanted. I realised the problem wasn't what I ate but how much I ate, so I only ate once a day but I ate till I was full.
AFter that I started walking a 6.5 km set route every day After that I could just roll on that. After a while I would run the first KM then walking the rest. Then simply turn it to intervall training. Run set parts of it. And well that was it.
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