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If you're not taking the scuba board challenge to lose weight.. this thread is for you.. or start your own. Thanks!

http://www.scubaboard.com/t52288.html
 
OK - Diets never worked for me. I just don't have the willpower to not eat when I think I'm hungry. When I find I'm getting too plump (like lately) I make a bit more effort to to spend some time in the workout room at work. It also helps if I cut back on the chocolate and junk food and just eat real food. Just doing that makes a big difference. Another thing that makes an even bigger difference is cutting back on the beer consumption. I like beer too much too give it up completely, but 2 or 3 every week or 2 is better than 2 or 3 a night!
 
Snowbear - I fall into the beer loop myself. I was once clocking in at er... I hate to say it.. but.... 250ish pounds! Then I dropped to a meager 176 and was way to skinny! I looked weird... but I had given up beer... and essentially food because I worked high energy in a night club as a bouncer/barback for 9 months and eating was a tough thing to do time wise. I finally leveled out about 200#, then after my wife got preg I shot up 25#, pound for pound with her, and hit 225. I hated it! Nothing I could do though. I tried cutting back on food, more exercise, etc.. and after 7 months of steady gain and no good reason for it I accepted sympathy weight. Now, a year and 2 months after my son is born, I'm just starting to lose what my wife dropped in a few minutes, and hopefully will get back down to my 200# area. I'm not cutting out all the bad stuff, just most of it. I do notice a difference in a lot of ways. :)

Keep in mind I am a stellar 5'5" tall. :)
 
Now that's a topic I can talk about! Beer!

Ok. Tony... listen up....

If you gotta be drinking beer, don't drink cheap beer, or what I refer to as hop-flavored drink... expecially that -less filling- stuff.

Go with some real beer, the higher alcohol content limits the amount you drink, and if you drink to much, you'll feel it in your head; and you'll feel it in your wallet. No matter how you calculate it, 3 microbrews are cheaper, and have less calories then 8 of those cans of fermented water.
 
Right on! I mix between Red Stripe, Bass, *Guinness* (official 1759 society member), XX, Sam Adams, and sometimes even some Key West Pale. My wife seems to slip me Corona as well. I'll have 2 or 3 when I BBQ and thats about it anymore, course I BBQ 3 or so times a week :wink: Rice beers such as Bud, bud light, miller, michelobe, etc., are all out!

This is far better than my 250# run where I had 6-8 pints a night! I *was* norm at my pub! Only they called me Silly.. still do.. amazing place! :)

I should mention that there is restitution for imbibement that includes an extra 5 on the bike or a few extra reps of ab work outs.
 
Spectre:
If you gotta be drinking beer, don't drink cheap beer, or what I refer to as hop-flavored drink... expecially that -less filling- stuff.
What's the point of drinking beer if it doesn't taste good? If all that was available to me was the "fermented water," beer would not be on my list of vices :D
 
I to at one time loved my beer. Never cheap, I'd rather drink less of the good stuff. I decided to quit eight years ago and have not touched a drop since, and I do not even miss it. Since then I became addicted to running, exercise and of course, SCUBA. I have also lost 40 pounds.

Plus my better half rationalizes my SCUBA purchases and trips as "much better than hanging out at the bars drinking".

I am not against it, just finally had my fill.

Mike
 
Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
 
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