It's crazy it doesn't feel like its been that long, I know it's just the first month and I will start to plateu and I'll have to work harder from now on...

I had off work this past week for spring break (the perks of being a teacher) and I moved to the northside of town, 20min away from the gym I was going too... there is another location about 10min up the road but I haven't been back in a gym since friday :( it makes me sad, but I am down to 253 now...

Good going!

Our districts spring break starts Friday (yea!).

253 is great--that's where I am right now, too. Of course, it's taken me almost a year to get there :D.

Regards,
Michael

Down to 250

I've been stuck at around 248 for the past two weeks... have I hit my Plateu? I'm going to switch it up this next week and see what happens

you probably need to change your diet up for a short period of time. I did that, I went high fat, high protein and low carb a while back and the weight fell off and I was in like a yr long plateau with my weight. It feel off so fast that I had to quit doing it after a few weeks. The diet was great though... grilled chicken with melted pepperjack cheese, sauteed onion and mushrooms with real butter, steak, nuts, veggies, 2 servings per day of fruit or milk or a combination of the 2, eggs (fried in butter), bacon, real ranch dressing (not that low fat BS). If you need to see my food logs during that time I can post it up.
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...7tomarch24.jpg

post # 202 I go into details about what I did and how I felt http://www.fitday.com/fitness/forums...7-11-a-21.html
posts 219 & on are charts of everything.

I'm not saying that it's the best route for you but it sure as hell worked for me. I hoovered around 174 lbs for the longest time. on occasion I would dip down a bit, usually to 171 ish (on 7/4/10 I dropped below 170) but I seemed to always drift back to 174... which is where I am now. I quickly dropped to 168.8 doing that "diet".

This past week I tried to break my "plateau" if that's what it was I'm not sure...

I was reading somewhere about tiring the muscles out before you actually life. So before I lifted I would do 3 sets of 25 reps at half weight (between 25-35) depending on the lift, then I would lift at the normal weight (between 50-75) I did this for 4 days taking a day of rest in between and no cardio.

Results:
1. Back to the original weight of 246
2. Added between 20-25 pounds to each lift, now around 75-80 vs 50-75
3. Feel a lot better knowing I'm back on track

So I lost track of this thread over the past few months... My official weigh in today was at 229.7! I haven't been under 230 since I was a Sophomore in College. I'm kinda excited

Congrats! :D

You'll be under 200 before you know it. I've still got around two pounds to go to be under my all-time low (in '01) of 184. Would sure like to see that before 01/01/12.

Keep on keepin' on!

Regards,
Michael