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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
This morning I'm working on a meal plan and some slight adjustments to my current gym routine (mostly just adding jump rope to my existing workout). I'm building what I'm jokingly calling a "vision board"--as I mentioned in another recent comment I need to lose a fair amount of weight that I gained in 2024, after being fairly fit (for an old guy) in 2023.
Yesterday I learned I have a social event coming up on March 28th. For context, I could stand to lose about 30lbs. This morning I had the utterly insane thought of "if I had to lose 30lbs in 30 days, would it be possible, and how could I do it without doing something so drastic that it had a disastrous effect on my health?" I took it as a challenge and started doing some research and doing the math for calorie deficits, kcal burning, keeping macros up, and put together a sample plan in a document that I'm printing out and hanging on my pegboard in my home office.
That 1600kcal/day + exercise plan would technically get me to losing 25ish lbs in a month, without starving nutritionally or giving myself an impossible gym routine that I can't keep up with. Realistically, there's no way I'm going to be that orthodox about it, but it's actually not that much of a change in my current good exercise habits as much as it's a reduction of my (very) bad eating habits. So I expect to make some good progress, such that though I almost certainly can't get back to my fighting weight in 30 days, it would be very realistic to get there in 60, 90 at the worst assuming I'm sticking to the program at all. Here goes!
What a project! I like staying fit, but I don't think I have the discipline to count and limit calories (and luckily I've never had to). The closest thing I did was limit what I called Junk Food Servings (JFS). A serving would be a standard serving of ice cream, cookies, cream sauce pasta, etc. I started with an allowance of 5 JFS/week, and gradually brought it down to 3. Even that felt like privation.
Good luck, and I hope you can manage it safely without yoyoing.