Tyler Durden

I'm 5'11 and absolutely stacked on the weight after the summer. So much so that I zoomed up to 228lbs. That is staggeringly big for me. I started working out again six weeks back and have managed to take that down to 208lbs so far. Anything under 196lbs is fine for me but I really want to shift it down to around 182lbs, that would be as low as I've been for the last 15 years.

I find it easier to run to lose weight, which is basically what I've been doing on treadmills the last six weeks. It also screws up your knees less to run on the mills as opposed to the streets.

I do have to throw in some lifting too and some other weight machines because, hell it's not going to tone up too unless I put in some work there to compliment it.

Actually was doing two 20 minute runs but am finding it easier to do four 10 minute runs in each session at differing levels.

Everything else is just being sensible really. I've not dropped anything completely out because if you do that you just resent being on some sort of diet after a while, just cutting back on stuff so I'll just have some chocolate every now and then or just have one pepsi max can every couple of days or so. Dropped most of the caffeine out that I used to have. Another thing is working out in the early evening means I'm not in the mood to have a big dinner when I get in from the gym, so that helps. Tried to cut out having a lot of bread too.

My weight loss total is a similarly large amount to yours Nec, I do find though that it's easier to put it in context and set sights at like aiming for every 5lbs loss or something like that, when you think of it as having to lose nearly 70lbs, it's way too big, sure you'll get there eventually but just put that figure out of your mind for now and just aim for the small targets.

You also shouldn't aim to lose it in an unrealistic timescale. For example, an amount like that you should put it as distant as possible without being silly, like saying I'll lose it by this time next year, that gives you lots of time.

Lastly for my tips and advise (lol) don't sweat it when after four or five weeks you work out and weigh yourself and find you didn't lose anything that week. After the initial loss it'll slow and then for no reason four or five pounds will come off in another week when you didn't expect it to.

Oh and one more thing, nail some wench really hard all night long the night before you weigh yourself. Nothing like that for tipping the scales in your favour the next day.