I'm Getting Fatter By the Day

I'm becoming a product of American laziness, corporate short-cutting and Gov't neglect when it comes to the food I eat nowadays.

That is an absolute trash response for so many f**king reasons.

Are you in the natural gas business? 

People think it's hard to eat healthy, but I don't find it that difficult.  It's not that hard to do the sandwich thing for lunch....lower sodium deli meat.  Even peanut butter and jelly isn't that bad if you get real peanut butter.  Throw in a piece of fruit, some carrots and even some chips (which isn't bad if you don't eat the whole bag with a greasy burger).  Hummus is a great snack food.  Guac is great for you even if it's on tortilla chips.  

Get out of that trailer twice a day for 30-minute walks.

That's all you need to do. 

276....wow.

That's starting to get to O-Lineman territory...

If you aren't willing to eat right or exercise then there's no hope for you.  Those are the only two things that you can adjust to keep the weight off.  

I'm feeling skinny tony

Give us one last hi-hi-hiya!

Heyuhh :(

I was a 6'3 290 lb power forward in college. We....we weren't so good.

Weight has always fluctuated with me. I've gone on great weight loss/exercise plans in the past and got down to target weights. But this job is killing me. See, back then I was a Derrick hand, sweating my asss off 12 hrs a day. Best workout you could get.

Goose, I do walk around for 20-30 min an hour about 18 times in a day. Does nothing. In a position like mine I'm thinking it's gotta be mandatory Axe of carbs and sat fat or be clocking in as a Buffalo Bills o lineman waiting to be teabagged by Richie Incognito.

Easier said than done, but has to be done nonetheless.

Step one is finding the HONEST, consistent enthusiasm and drive.

boy you're fat....try to find depression, cures the fatness.

Probably better advice than the 3, 6, 13 theory.

Jesus.. go for a jog and eat salads. It's not rocket science.

It is hard to eat healthy because if you're used to eating garbage, After a certain while, Your body gets used to the garbage, Then when you try eating healthy, Your stomach will go through rollercoasters it has never been on before.

I'm a product of eating fast food, ready meals and then a few weeks ago I started eating healthy, Had a my cucumber smoothie, Casserole mix, All the greens, I went to a nightclub that day and my stomach was playing up as if I had Mexican for breakfast and Indian for Lunch, Never again I said. I'm happy eating the junk food I eat, I do so in moderation and I also exercise, Exercise is the biggest thing here, Basketball players eat more junk than you could imagine but they burn that crap off.

Eating healthy isn't all that it's supposedly made out to be, I suppose there's a middle ground between eating super healthy crap and eating junk food, I guess eating 'quality' food is what we should be looking to do.

Consider taking steps to become a vegetarian.

I did about 12 years ago.  It is much harder to be fat when you cut all of those bad choices out

You didn't mention your age.     But at 6'3" and weighting 276 is not good.

You probably don't work as hard as you used too, since you're supervisor.

There is a simple solution. ...

Run out and buy a treadmill with a TV attached, for your trailer. When a sports event comes on TV, walk at a little incline for the whole game. 2 hours.  TAKE A HALF TIME BREAK ALSO.  Do this every other day.

Don't expect the weight to come off over night. 12 pounds a month is the Goal, Write on the wall, next playboy pin-up. No women wants a fat guy, just like you don't want a fat gal.  12 pounds X 6 months + 72 pounds

Forget all that health food stuff . For your meals, eat what you like, but at smaller portions. eat about half.  You'll need the vitamins.

This works, Good luck

Well leave it to Mr. White Guilt to blame American laziness, corporate short-cutting and Gov't neglect for his own fat behind

Seriously though, since you are a serious gambler you probably have a knack for numbers.  Eat 2200 calories a day, no exceptions.  Count those calories like it's life or death.  Don't worry so much about how healthy it is because it will be tough to eat junk and stay at 2200 or below, and you will start to value the quality of those calories and be more thoughtful about how you consume them. 

Just as important, probably more important than what you eat, is when you eat.  Eat most of your calories earlier in the day.  Go to bed a little hungry. 

As for exercise, maybe while ur in that trailer every time you have a liberal white guilt thought start out by doing 20 pushups or lunges.  Then the next one of these thoughts you have increase to 25, and so on.  You will be improving your body AND mind

You have to decide if you'd rather have the short term gratification of eating or the long term goal of being healthy and fit.

Damn, you are one big unit. Remind me to be nicer to you in the future.

The killer for you is that your fellow workers go on their fast food runs and you get sucked into that trap. If they didn't do that then you would have no option but to eat your own food.

Eating healthy doesn't have to be expensive. Prep some soups and freeze them in advance if you have that option. Buy a garbage load of cereals ( preferably muesli and not the high sugar crap ) and snack on a bowl when you are hungry. Obviously fruit is another healthy snack option. Boil a buttload of eggs and snack on them. Tough to pig out on those things.

God only knows how big you would be if you were not doing those walks. Maybe pick up the pace a little on these walks for a little increase in cardio.

Try and turn those 2 week stints into a bootcamp for yourself. It's going to be tough but you have an option that other overweight people who are serious about losing weight would love to have.

Best of luck.

Good lord, I didn't realize we had so many professional health & fitness trainers here at Covers. 

The thing about those Atkins diets is you gain more weight back when you inevitably come off of it.  Plus you can get painfully constipated, and have no energy to exercise.

I really know no one, including myself, who lost weight on that diet and didn't put all of it back on and then some.  It's a temporary diet, your body can't do that forever and when it gets a taste for carbs again it will load up and store like there is a shortage

i didn't read much of this but one thing i find is people don't understand what eating healthy means, for the most part.  there are some good discussions in the food forum about this.  i might start by searching for posts by sharpaction.  i'm not sure anyone is more knowledgeable on this site on this subject. 

in my opinion, losing weight is one of the easiest things to do.  you just have to know how to eat, which most people don't. 

or, you could become a vegetarian like vanzack.  that'll would be a good start.

Club is right. Knowing how to eat is the key and it doesn't cost much. Food forum is good spot for ya.