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I now weigh 178 lbs. Just hopped off the scale. (72 inches tall)
I dont feel any smaller nor look any smaller, my muscles are better defined, not much but a little.
The flab is noticeably leaving my stomach area, the layer is noticeably thinner.

Took about a week. Just became super conscious about it what I was eating (and especially DRINKING).
No added sugars, no caff, none, I might have 1 cup of black tea today. I'm not sure I want to.
Very limited bread so far, was doing 1 piece of whole grain with breakfast, I stopped doing that now.

Breakfast is only sausage, no breads, no grits, I will add 2 eggs if I am hungrier.
Snacks are 1-2 Banana + 8oz whole milk blended in my ninja. I often add 1-2 frozen strawberries.
The bananas and milk make it very filling and satisfying, sometimes I add a scoop of peanut butter (which has added sugar btw).
My new coffee is peppermint herbal tea, 0 caff, its literally just peppermint in water. It's not at all bad once you get the taste for it. I crave it now, same as coffee.

I had one huge scare when I was 182lbs last week, I got all happy and ate 1 cup of brown rice and a can of hormel tamales. It's cheap and good, but wow. I gained 5lbs and shot up to 187. This is apparently normal, it fell right back off (though I avoided the scale for a day and ran twice as long). Today I am 178lbs and slightly less fat. My highest weight was when I was in mil and they feed you a lot so I was 220 when I got out, fairly muscly. Now I'm 178, 10 years older and once my diet is locked in(well on the way), I will go for some raw lean gains. I'm still lifting but not hitting too hard, just keeping my pace for now.

Lunch is salad or ham sandwich without the bread, one day I had a corn dog, but only one, no fries.
Dinner is either a salad or a single 1/4lb Steakhouse Onion patty cooked in air fryer 16min.

I enjoy feeling hungry now, I encourage it then I feed a bit of meat or fruit.
This shit works. I can totally understand how this happens now. I'm into it. I'm hooked.
There was a barrier in the mind, but I got over it, finally.

https://youtu.be/TPS6ImqK9cU?si=IfctPTV_eNKoXFbS

I have discovered the magic of the treadmill.
Was doing it occasionally, but started everyday over 1 mile (about 10 minutes).

Instead of just observing my weight, I'm going to try and change it, not much, just wanna see my 6 pack and burn down that last inch.
I've lost decent lbs on low-carb, high-meat in the past, but never felt a need to revisit.
I weighed 185 last week. 184 yesterday, took a big shit now I'm at 183.
Continuing mild lifting as well to keep from losing the gunshow.

This is my first structured attempt at losing even a single lb for probably the last 20 years.
I'm fit but I'm in the hole of burger debt and working my way to where I really wanna be (beach body).

Anyway, going to try and get fat burned down but not trying to get smaller.
Sitsups everday now, they dont even bother me anymore also home gym.

Yesterday had whole grain cereal at start(quick), after that only meat. Lunch was lunch meat without bread or condiments. Not too much, just enough to let me go back to work feeling ok. Dinner was 1 and a half pork burger patties (?steakhouse onion? idk its good tho). No caffiene all day and night, none, no soda, no sugar. Peppermint herbal tea. All these things except the meat are foreign to my latchkey mind, I dont care, it's working.

I'm usually 190lb. Today I am 183 and I have more energy than I ever had while swilling sugared coffee. I am calm.
I have not eaten today, but I am ravenous. I am going to not add the hash brown today, just sausages, maybe some grits for lunch.

btw, I'm over 40.

What the hell is going on:

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Tomorrow is real day for certain.. I need to heal so I can do damage again.

Push, Pull, Twist. Hinge, Lunge, Squat. Grip & Gait.

That stuff is embedded deep in your brain, excel at these movements and you can flee AND fight. You know we call anxiety a "fight or flight" response, what do you think happens when you suck at both of those? You produce more stress hormones and you actually get fatter.

They control the agriculture industry, they've thought your mothers to feed you wrong. If you're not doing anything to compensate for the fact that we went from hunter gatherer to cubicle dweller, how long can you sit at your computer every morning, put on your glasses, stare at your three monitors and try to convince yourself that you're not becoming some disgusting post-human cyborg?

The least you can do is:

Get on a standard regimen of creatine monohydrate
Work out with well-known compound movements every 2nd day
Tone down the excessive use of sweeteners (any kind but especially the shittier ones, cane sugar, HFCS etc)
Add a daily protein shake or two
* Take your multivitamin and/or least vitamin D and Omega-3