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[cantgetenough]

Hey guys,

I've used this website for personal info for a while now, so I think it's about time I join up and stop waiting for people to ask the qeustions I want to know haha!

So a little about myself, I'm early 20s, close to 2 metres tall and currently around 123kgs. Looking to shed the bad weight and put on the good, I find my biggest problem is consistency though. That and I hate cardio haha.

Got a nice big goal to head towards this year, so hopefully I can get some good advice and help from all the friendly people on here.

Cheers!

[biggurl27]

Welcome :grin:

[Gym rat]

Hi and welcome aboard :wave: .

[orange]

Good work setting some goals! Welcome

[1day]

hey dude, so wots ur 'big goal' u headin for so peps can start helpin in right areas

I'm close to 2 metres tall

:-s wots ur idea of 'close too' (2m tall)?

[cantgetenough]

Hahaha just trying not to be too specific bout my height and make myself seem taller :oops: , but im approx 1.96m.

The goal I've got is in August. Ive got an important physical due and I need to make sure I'm in the best shape I can be, whanau is worried about me developing early diabetes. That and I have a thick neck, last check its about 43cm and it affects my breathing at night - so dropping fat will help to lessen the pressure on my throat when I sleep.

That and who deosn't want to be buff?

[1day]

i have a thick neck, last check its about 43cm and it affects my breathing at night - so dropping fat will help to lessen the pressure on my throat when I sleep.

That and who deosn't want to be buff?

:-s tru , i have a 43cm neck too, but cant say it affects my breathing

:?

196cm, man if u got buff at that hight ud be a monster(hulk) :pfft:

[cantgetenough]

That's what I'm hoping for haha.

If I lie flat on my back, I snore real bad and struggle to breathe while I sleep. Ive had sleep tests to see if its apnea, but they reckon it ain't. At any rate, I make a lot of noise when I sleep haha don't know why my girl puts up with it!

[marky65]

Welcome and good luck with the goals. Shedding a few kgs will certainly help with the breathing/snoring.......I can vouch for that and went through similar prior to shedding the kgs that I have done. It doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.... :nod:

[Kevy_boi]

lol im shedding a few kgs atm.. only way even if u dnt like cardio is to suck it up and hardn the f*ck up.. only way its gna go lol... best way is also with a friend or club or somthing.. that way if they keep going put pressure on u to stay up with them n burn some extra fat..

[Pseudonym]

Welcome man. Cardio's important if you're trying to lose weight, but so's your diet. What does that look like? Pretty clean?

[cantgetenough]

I'd like to say it is, but it's not.

In the past month or so (and previous periods before, but I always fall off the wagon) I've gotten my body into eating smaller meals at 2-3 hour intervals. I have this terrible habit of eating large dinners, which I'm finding harder to break than anything.

Aside from that, I've cut out alcohol (didn't drink til I turned 18 - then I hit uni and turned legal) for 5 months now, drink around 3-4 litres of water a day (and If I get a soft drink kick, which was my hardest habit to kick, its diet) but it comes back to poor food choices.

A good day looks like this;

7/7.30am - 5 eggs, two pieces dry toast

10am - Protein shake

12pm/1pm - Sandwich, ham/chop chop/tuna + salad

3pm - Whatever I can get my hands on (under 500kj), protein shake

5pm - Another snack

7pm - Dinner (live with gf, so whatever gets cooked - try to avoid copius amounts of noodles/rice but can't afford steak and chicken breast every night!)

9.30/10pm - Protein Shake

On a non workout day, I don't do the protein - substitute it for rice crackers or something like that. Sometimes I'll make a homemade tuna pasta salad that subs in for my snacks. Days that I have sport training I don't get my 7pm meal, so end up starving come 10pm and do my meal and shake - bad I know!

I try to keep each meal around 500kj, but lunch, brekkie and dinner hit the 1000 mark.

A bad day (which there is more of than there is good) is junk food, malaysian/chinese takeaways, fish and chips, anything and everything - except McDs, working there in my high school days have resulted in an all out ban of that place.

[SoaringSwine]

That and I have a thick neck, last check its about 43cm and it affects my breathing at night - so dropping fat will help to lessen the pressure on my throat when I sleep.

Have you looked at getting a CPAP? If you want to get into the weights game seriously you want to be able to recover, sleep is vital for this. Maybe you should talk to your doctor about it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_airway_pressure

[cantgetenough]

That and I have a thick neck, last check its about 43cm and it affects my breathing at night - so dropping fat will help to lessen the pressure on my throat when I sleep.

Have you looked at getting a CPAP? If you want to get into the weights game seriously you want to be able to recover, sleep is vital for this. Maybe you should talk to your doctor about it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_airway_pressure

Well I'm not sure if I need a CPAP, I haven't seen my GP about it for a while, just the specialist I was assigned for the sleep study. They said I didnt have apnea, but recommended that I lose weight.

It could be any number of factors, one of the big ones is that I have gigantic tonsils - like, huge. They're supposed to stop growing at a certain age, but mine didn't. Chances are that when I sleep, those muscles relax and close off my airway - I was hoping the sleep study would show that, and they could bump me up the public waiting list for a tonsilectomy, because that waiting list is long and private surgery for it is too expensive.

So, the cheapest option is to try and lose weight. Thanks for the info though, do you have the same deal?

[SoaringSwine]

Haven't heard of that problem before! No I don't, just know others that do.