Well done mate, proud of you, keep to the routine, ditch the monster munch!

Thanks everyone!

Spinach and kale are your friends.

Way to go bud! Playing games after working out or exercising is much better because you are rewarding yourself for physical activity!

Damn! I will I take 2 hours a night away from ESO, and hopefully will lose 440lbs

Congratulations bro, that's a huge accomplishment!

Wing wrote: »

glad its working out for you! way to go!

personally switched to water and a high protein low carb diet so I could be on a hyper caloric diet and lose weight but still gain muscle, workout about half an hour every day and go for a run about every other day. lots of chicken and yogurt XD

nutrition is half the fight, best advice I can give you is don't go on a diet, change your nutrition for life. people go ON a diet and plan on getting OFF a diet, then they gain that weight right back (seen it personally within family :C )

if anyone is looking to get in shape I recommend looking at Athlean-X on youtube for men and Athlean-XX for women. great help great advice, cannot recommend enough and SAFE. changed my life.

https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24

This is great advice. Don't go on a diet, instead change your diet. Also, having one bad meal today doesn't mean you have to have 3 bad meals tomorrow. Set backs will happen, but they can be overcome if you are persistent.

And if anyone was wondering THEDKEXPERIENCE diet is as follows. It only costs a fraction of what you would spend in a day for junk food.

Breakfast: Light Yogurt
Lunch: Spinach, Kale, Tomatoes, and Carrots. Very little light dressing.
Dinner: Same as lunch but with a pound of skinless chicken on the salad.

Every 4 or 5 days I'll eat something dumb like a burrito or pizza so I keep my sanity, but then it's back on track. Mix in 1-2 cups of black coffee and a bunch of water and you're good. The whole thing should cost you less than $10 a day. Pre-making a week's worth of salads helps a ton. I leave one in my work refrigerator and one at home.

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Wing wrote: »

glad its working out for you! way to go!

personally switched to water and a high protein low carb diet so I could be on a hyper caloric diet and lose weight but still gain muscle, workout about half an hour every day and go for a run about every other day. lots of chicken and yogurt XD

nutrition is half the fight, best advice I can give you is don't go on a diet, change your nutrition for life. people go ON a diet and plan on getting OFF a diet, then they gain that weight right back (seen it personally within family :C )

if anyone is looking to get in shape I recommend looking at Athlean-X on youtube for men and Athlean-XX for women. great help great advice, cannot recommend enough and SAFE. changed my life.

https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24

This is great advice. Don't go on a diet, instead change your diet. Also, having one bad meal today doesn't mean you have to have 3 bad meals tomorrow. Set backs will happen, but they can be overcome if you are persistent.

And if anyone was wondering THEDKEXPERIENCE diet is as follows. It only costs a fraction of what you would spend in a day for junk food.

Breakfast: Light Yogurt
Lunch: Spinach, Kale, Tomatoes, and Carrots. Very little light dressing.
Dinner: Same as lunch but with a pound of skinless chicken on the salad.

Every 4 or 5 days I'll eat something dumb like a burrito or pizza so I keep my sanity, but then it's back on track. Mix in 1-2 cups of black coffee and a bunch of water and you're good. The whole thing should cost you less than $10 a day. Pre-making a week's worth of salads helps a ton. I leave one in my work refrigerator and one at home.

My big change was switching to salads for lunch most days (cucumber, carrot, tomato and either chicken or fish, no dressings).

I'm really bad for breakfasts as I tend to run out the house to grab a bus and sleep as late as possible. Currently it's an apple and banana just because I can throw them in my bag as I run out the door. Been thinking for a while to try and get yogurts which I can keep in the fridge at work and eat when I get in.

Dinner I am terrible for and still mostly have frozen throw in the oven for 20mins food because my current living location doesn't allow me much freedom to do longer prepared meals.

Lots of coffee on mine, two or three black coffees a day with a decaf in the evenings on work nights.

Most of my holdbacks are just due to general laziness, but hopefully I will find the drive to fix them soon.

lordrichter wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

We started a biggest loser campaign at my job on January 13th, and today was the first weigh in. I'm happy to report that I'm down 44 lbs and am at my lowest weight in 10 years.

While eating better had a lot to do with it, I also cut 1 hour a day out of my ESO play time. Instead of logging in from 7 to 10, I cut it down to 8 to 10 using the extra hour to walk about 10,000 steps a night.

As many of us know, playing MMOs is not exactly the healthiest activity. I recommend to virtually all of you to get a bit more exercise every day. You'll feel better, you'll look better and to be honest, you'll probably play better in the long run.

Good luck to all of you. Here's to being down 100 come December.

Awesome, but if you play ESO on a treadmill, you can get the 10,000 steps and not cut down on the play time. I must caution that this can be a problem if you can't move your feet in one direction and do something different with your character.

Haha. Sounds all well and good but I'd probably hurt myself. I think I'll just keep jamming out to Pandora for an hour!

I believe in being an omnivore, but in the end all that matters is balance. "We" lost the balance because we don't know what we eat anymore for the most part. Thinking this or that is healthy when in reality it is chock full of preservatives, sugar, salt and my all time favourite - modified corn starch.

Regardless that's not what I came here for - wanted to say congrats to the OP!

I add another exercise to the mix while walking, which is holding back roughly 120lbs of dog trying to say hi to other dogs

The best advice I can give is to always be hungry and only eat enough to make the hunger tolerable. During my weight loss period I averaged 400 kcal/day, eating mostly vegetable salads, with no dressing, just cut veggies with vinnegar, some fruit and very rarely a slice of bread. I only ate meat once every 10-15 days, and only a small serving, 1/4-1/3 lbs or so. I'm now averaging around 1200-1600 kcal/day but eat a more balanced diet, with whole grain brad, low fat yogurt, vegetables and lean meat. No way I will start eating chips, sweets and other empty calories. It's just inefficient.

This is a great thread and will provide motivation for many. I've seen multiple posts already with some sound advice.

Simply not eating is not a good diet, at least for the long term. Eating better and adding some exercise can make a big difference. The longer you're healthy the longer you'll be able to enjoy ESO!!!!

Well done OP!!!!

1 lbs (pound) = 0.453 Kg. I live in Europe so I use the metric system too. I had to convert before posting here.

Just chiming in to say this thread is awesome and congrats to all your efforts. Cheers!