Your Vegas Diet and Work Out Plan aka "GTL" Thread

[boykster]

I've found that I like vodka/gin and club soda with a lime better than diet tonic. If you need a tad more sweetness add a touch of equal or other fake sweetener. After giving up soda, I've found I don't need/want things to be as sweet as I used to though, so the club soda + lime hits the spot.

Hardest thing for me to give up has been bread/potato/rice - the white carbs that are so tasty but are so laden with empty calories. Sure makes you enjoy / appreciate them though when you do get them

My friday is usually also a lifting day (if I'm on schedule), so I don't generally feel bad having a nice dinner and a cocktail afterwards. Saturday is my off day, so I try to keep it in check food wise that day.

[AK2Vegas]

All caffeine. I'm not a coffee/tea drinker. I've replaced my soda intake with water. And switched from vodka and seven-up to screwdrivers.

The next step is to cut out the calories from the OJ and switch to either vodka and water or club soda.

Or vodka with a vodka back.

Yea bro you have only dropped 8 pounds in 3 months and have 40lbs more in 2 months. Not gonna happen . You can lose 3 lbs a week no prob so maybe revise your goal to a even 200.

Or revise your dates. It can be done, but you'll have to go Charles~ like on that shit.

Hmm, what's This "Charles~" method you speak of.

Also, I agree with the swapping out the OJ for a Club Soda. When I need a drink I either drink it straight or with Diet Tonic Water/Club Soda. Gin & Diet Tonics aren't great tasting, but the end results are usually the same.

I think though I found out a good way to stop the weekend binging and that's to just simply allow myself one moderately safe cheat night on Friday night. It just so happens to be one of my lifting days, so i'll usually get a double cheeseburger and a small fries from McDonalds. Saturday's will be baked fish with some brown rice and cucumbers. It's what her mom cooks all the time and figured if we can do that, dropping the weight will be a breeze.

I can't actually speak for his methods, but I saw him three times over a 12 month period and he'd probably dropped about 40-45% of his weight in that time. It was fucking fantastic. I do know that he uses intermittent fasting and I agree with that technique as it's a great way to cut calories. I think he also has an iron clad workout routine, not in his style, but in his approach. I think the Charles~ method can be summed up in one word: discipline.

Tombrokaw is the one that turned me on to intermittent fasting, although he probably doesn't remember. He has a very low caloric intake as well.

I would suggest that whatever you do, you become extreme with it in order to meet your goal. It's a pretty steep one. Roughly 3 lbs a week. I'd cut out the McDonalds entirely. Fuck that place. It's cigarettes for the stomach.

[tombrokaw]

If you really need to lose weight here is what you do (it's what I did).

Enter into a substantial bet/pool with people you viscerally hate. For me it was coworkers.

Whenever you want to eat, or skip working out, just picture those fucktards taking your money and getting the satisfaction of beating you, and being thinner than you.

You will never eat and you will double your workouts. You will lose 5 lbs a week.

[AK2Vegas]

Holy shit ak, you get the "on Charles nuts of the year award"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov-1S...e_gdata_player

I don't know how often you've seen him, but if he keeps on the same rate he's been on for the past 16 months he's going to be nothing but muscle in May. Maybe he's using meth, I don't know, but his results are real.

[AK2Vegas]

The next step is to cut out the calories from the OJ and switch to either vodka and water or club soda.

Or vodka with a vodka back.



Or revise your dates. It can be done, but you'll have to go Charles~ like on that shit.

Hmm, what's This "Charles~" method you speak of.

Also, I agree with the swapping out the OJ for a Club Soda. When I need a drink I either drink it straight or with Diet Tonic Water/Club Soda. Gin & Diet Tonics aren't great tasting, but the end results are usually the same.

I think though I found out a good way to stop the weekend binging and that's to just simply allow myself one moderately safe cheat night on Friday night. It just so happens to be one of my lifting days, so i'll usually get a double cheeseburger and a small fries from McDonalds. Saturday's will be baked fish with some brown rice and cucumbers. It's what her mom cooks all the time and figured if we can do that, dropping the weight will be a breeze.

I can't actually speak for his methods, but I saw him three times over a 12 month period and he'd probably dropped about 40-45% of his weight in that time. It was fucking fantastic. I do know that he uses intermittent fasting and I agree with that technique as it's a great way to cut calories. I think he also has an iron clad workout routine, not in his style, but in his approach. I think the Charles~ method can be summed up in one word: discipline.

Tombrokaw is the one that turned me on to intermittent fasting, although he probably doesn't remember. He has a very low caloric intake as well.

I would suggest that whatever you do, you become extreme with it in order to meet your goal. It's a pretty steep one. Roughly 3 lbs a week. I'd cut out the McDonalds entirely. Fuck that place. It's cigarettes for the stomach.

3 lbs a week until the invasion. If you're looking to drop 35+ lbs by 4/1, you'll have to do something more drastic.

[WiscoBrad]

Thanks for the input on the club soda!!

And, funny enough, the other night I walked into the bar and tried to order a Ultimat and Vodka lol.

[darksideofjae]

I may try the intermittent thing. My calorie count is already low. I have a Breakfast: 80 Calorie low fat yogurt
Lunch: Usually Chicken Breast with some Vegetables
Dinner: Ceasar Salad
For dinner I usually have a drink as well so it's usually some like Whiskey or a Single Malt Scotch on the rocks. I'm consistent with that during the week. On fridays me and the wife use to have some kind of seafood either crabs or shrimp. We may need go back to that.

Then saturday rolls around, I can commit to the breakfast and the lunch being the same. But then it's the "oh, whats for dinner" question that I get hit with and usually at that point i'm tired and don't feel like doing anything so i usually reply Chinese food or Digorno, your choice.

I can make this work, i'll just need some help along the way haha. But as of now, my goal is still 175 by invasion in 3 months lol.

[somnambulated]

Strain/tore/basically fucked up my entire left side of back/shoulder/neck at the gym last week.. shit STILL has not healed. That area is one of the most brutal to injure and I hate when it happens. Really fucking with my schedule because I haven't been to the gym since and when I don't go to the gym, I tend to lapse on the diet... which I have been. Hoping it heals within the next week....


But yeah vodka sodas are the only way to roll. Who the fuck wants to waste carbs/cals on some sugary mixer.. plus I actually like vodka so keeping the taste there is win-win.

[gubuju]

241 lbs as of this morning.

I think i lean bulked instead of cutting by accident? oops

[NyceGuy]

Beginning my cut on Monday...see you guys in May.

[Cartel]

Started cardio tonight with a healthy dose of spin class. Im beat!

[WiscoBrad]

Ok, I need help from the Gurus. Need to know what my daily calorie intake should be to lose weight. I was thinking 1500 a day, but was told by someone else that I needed 2000 a day, which sounded like alot. I'm 42, 205 pounds, and am just a hair over 6' tall. My target weight by May is 185. Any input on how many calories I should be taking in on a daily basis? Any advice is much appreciated!!! =)

[Sweat_shop]

Ok, I need help from the Gurus. Need to know what my daily calorie intake should be to lose weight. I was thinking 1500 a day, but was told by someone else that I needed 2000 a day, which sounded like alot. I'm 42, 205 pounds, and am just a hair over 6' tall. My target weight by May is 185. Any input on how many calories I should be taking in on a daily basis? Any advice is much appreciated!!! =)

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

Just to give an estimate

[gubuju]

Ok, I need help from the Gurus. Need to know what my daily calorie intake should be to lose weight. I was thinking 1500 a day, but was told by someone else that I needed 2000 a day, which sounded like alot. I'm 42, 205 pounds, and am just a hair over 6' tall. My target weight by May is 185. Any input on how many calories I should be taking in on a daily basis? Any advice is much appreciated!!! =)

personally I cut around 2400-2600 a day.. but everyone is different. So many factors are taken into consideration, bf%, lean muscle %, endomorph/ectomorph/mesomorph, etc

http://www.muscleandstrength.com/art...endomorph.html

[IRockNvegas]

6' 205 sounds like your weight is perfect