thomasj182

Great bump, would read again.

Boom ten total pounds today! Trying to be under 210 by next Saturday for my birthday dinner at Texas de Brazil, cause I'm gonna drop the hammer so hard!

HAHAHA Not a fan?

I'm going on the 28th in Clifton Park, NY let me know what you need.

Legit best looking vc'er

Up 2-3 lbs from the past two days, I've been eating like a beast since Friday night. Started with sushi buffet Friday night, Saturday morning i had a banana with peanut butter. Came home from coaching hammered down half a tub of edible cookie dough, a huge bowl of shrimp scampi with noodles, grabbed a huge ice cream frazzle (like a Mcflurry), and last night drank 4 guinness and 3 bud light at a st patty party. Then finished the night with a healthy serving of pulled pork, garlic mashed potatoes, and all you can eat peanuts! I'm pretty bloated to say the least hahaha i'd saying probably holding anywhere from 2-3 lbs of extra water. tomorrow I can guarantee i'll be back to 214 or lower. My goal is under 210 by my birthday on March 23rd.

Mojo Hand is really the one misstep that stands out the most to me. It sounds like an old nursery school song that I can't remember the name of right now. Wasn't a huge fan of Wonderful Life either, it took a long time to grow on me but it reminds me of Tom Petty which is ok in my book. Painkillers, Smoke, Nobody Wins, and Red Lights are standout tracks in my opinion.

Start to finish this album has few missteps, gonna get hate for this statement but I may like this more than anything he's ever put out!

That was a bit tougher and it took a few months to figure out what worked for me. Lots of trial and error I've always messed around with macros but it wasn't until December that I really started to hit pay dirt. Check out http://www.iifym.com/iifym-calculator/it'll give you a good starting point and then I can help you fill in the rest if you'd like.

My meals today so far look like this: Breakfast: 40g dry oats (oatmeal) Macros: 27c/2.5f/5p 32g protein (MTS Pumpkin spice) Macros: 1.5c/2.5f/25p 28g almonds Macros: 6c/14f/6p 2 fish oil pills Macros: 0c/2f/0p Total: 34.5c/21f/30p and a total of 453 calories Lunch: 75g Avocado Macros: 6.4c/11f/1.5p 93g asparagus Macros: 4c/0f/2p 5 oz. ground turkey Macros: 0c/10f/27.5p Total: 10.4c/21f/29p and a total of 340 calories Leaving me with 1,139 calories and 100g of carbs/33g of fat/102g of protein for the rest of the day. My afternoon snack will most likely be a Greek yogurt and fiber one bar, then I’ll kill the rest of my macros/calories at dinner. I’ll post the rest later tonight. I also track fiber which I'll talk about later as well.

First I’m gonna start off by saying this works for me and may not be for everyone and people may disagree with my methods but again this is tailored for me, created by me. I’m borrowing things from a few schools of dieting and fitting them into what makes most sense to me. I use IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros), intermittent fasting, and a little paleo. I’ll post links of the best sites I’ve found to explain each to help you understand a bit more. I count macros, macros are protein, fat, and carbs, each macro has a calorie point associated with it; protein is 4 calories per gram, fat is 9 calories per gram, and carbs are 4 calories per gram. I aim to hit within a certain range of macros and calories per day. Currently my calorie range is 1,931 calories per day which equals out to 169 grams of protein, 145 grams of carbs, and 75 grams of fat; so the break down looks like this: 145 grams of carbs x4= 580 calories from carbs per day 169 grams of protein x4= 676 calories from protein per day 75 grams of fat x9= 675 calories from fat per day 580+676+675= 1,931 calories per day In a few weeks I will drop carbs by 80 calories a day so 20 grams so I will be around 500 calories from carbs per day. I hate when people say I’m carb sensitive, no you’re just ingesting too may carbs. Often times people consume too much of one thing in their diet and not enough of another, most foods are high(er) in carbs and fat. Protein is just as important. This is where the paleo part comes in; paleo is a diet made almost entirely for whole foods; complex carbs, fats and protein. My body works well with higher fat and protein, for the first few weeks I’m a little sluggish from carb depletion but then I get back to normal as far as energy and feeling normal. By summer over the next 3 months I plan on being around 100 g of carbs a day which isn’t much, but getting these carbs from complex carb foods I should be ok. However, that’s the lowest I’ve ever gone on carbs so I’ll have to wait and see. 6 out of 7 days a week I’m very consistent with my diet, I log my food on myfitnesspal and weigh everything prior to eating. Honestly it’s not for everyone and people often think I’m crazy but it only takes a few minutes from my day and I spend maybe 2 hours on Sunday meal prepping for the week. One day a week I’ll indulge a bit, like my last post said I went a bit nutty on Saturday. However, with that being said I don’t go crazy and I make sure I’m super on the rest of the time. I also use a process called intermittent fasting (I.F.) which is simply going a certain amount of time with no food. There are plenty of people who call bullshit on I.F. but again, I enjoy it and like the challenge. My fast usually lasts 12-16 hours, now I don’t go balls to the wall with it and make sure I’m done eating by 6pm I have dinner when I have dinner whether it’s at 6-7-8 or 9 I have my dinner. The body doesn’t store more food as fat at night because we’re less active; it stores fat because we have an overabundance of calories during the day/night. Most people think this because they tend to binge eat at night, how many nights I have spent watching Netflix and killing a pint of ice cream or a bag of doritos is countless hahaha but it’s that overabundance of calories that leads to weight gain. I’ll post the rest of this later today and what a day of eating looks like for me.

I'm writing up what I'm doing today and I'll post it later, it works really well for me, I can't say it's for everyone but the proof for me is in the weight loss thus far. This past Saturday I still ate like a monster (dozen wings, bag of gummy bears, 3 peanut butter rice crispy treats, and a huge egg and sausage roll) but Sunday I was back on only gaining around .6 lbs. It's all about consistency, weight loss is the sum of your actions through the weeks, months, years staying consistent, not one day of eating like a mad man. The other end of it is keeping yourself in a caloric deficit which I'll explain more in my post later.

The problem with most activity trackers like the fitbit and fuel band is that they are worn on the hand and do count basically any movement as as a step. I'm a PE teacher and we have pedometers but they're just as unreliable. The kids shake them to get their step out up. I had a fuel band and I loved it, it was more of a motivator to get up and move especially if you set the (fuel/step) goal high.

Down a total of 6lbs, all water weight I'm sure, I stayed at 222 for most of last week and woke up this morning at 216, weighed in my lightest at 214 on Friday. Hoping to be around 210-211 by weeks end. Doing an old program I did a few years ago that I created myself that worked wonders for me, lost a total of 42 lbs last time! If anyone would like to know about it let me know.

bump, cause why not

AHHHH On the fence so hard about this! I wasn't a huge fan of the album aside from a few tracks but loved II and III

Updated the doc with weight good luck everyone!

I'm following a couple of you on instagram, drop your name here so I can follow you there too or follow me and I'll follow back, it's tjm182 I'll throw in a prize pack of supplements if anyone is interested pre work outs, fat burners, amino acids and stuff.

I'm in, why not.

A+ bump........

I hate live albums but that set list slays! I may bite the bullet on this.

38 for both shipped is awesome! Seeing them in NYC next month for the Rockview show, I talked to Buddy like two years ago at warped tour and he was saying they were in the process of trying to get these pressed but he wasn't sure when they'd be out. He also said they want to do a box set of studio albums. Then he rubbed it on my face that he had all og presses of their discography.

I'd hardly call not wanting to pay 11 dollars for shipping on a 20 dollar album "butt hurt". Butt hurt around here is not getting the variant you want because it sold out in 30 seconds.

Check the matrix numbers: Matrix / Runout (A): 72486E1/B PIRATES PRESS DOG129 A Matrix / Runout (: 74286E2/A PIRATES PRESS DOG129 B Matrix / Runout ©: 72486E3/A PIRATES PRESS DOG129 C Matrix / Runout (D): 72486E4/A PIRATES PRESS DOG129 D When I posted the discogs page I thought maybe there were two presses one on black and one on green.

http://www.discogs.com/Say-Anything-Is-A-Real-Boy/release/3324631