a 100 year

[Samuel]

THis is my newest project .. for the new year. I would really like some support on this goal, I could use a few people to favorite this page and check up on me every so often.

Check it out.

http://100year.wordpress.com/

[americangypsy]

[Elise.m]

That's awesome! You have my support!

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

You''ll make it. Its only hard the first 2 weeks to a month. Once you get passed that you will already start feeling like a new person. Thats not long at all. Just keep reminding yourself of that and dont over do it.

[rocky88]

I lost almost 100 pounds in just over a year. And my best piece of advice.....No, fartin around, just do it. And when you want to quit. Just remember......... It's only one year. You got this!!!!!!!!

[Elise.m]

The motivation to keep going is hard. I have had trouble with it at times, and now that I'm only 10 pounds away from my "I'll be content then, but still want to lose more" weight, it's almost harder cuz now I think I can cheat a little more.

With the running though, going outside is alot different from what I've done on the treadmill, but I've found that saying "Well I've down it for 5 mins, why can't I just do that again?" It seems to work until I get the "stitches" pain, then I start walking on an incline.

[BPHERP]

I would say, its possible, but you cant really have cheat days. Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems to me you have to be strict.

Brandon

[withonor]

Since you are at the beginning and haven't started yet, I will offer you some information to help you do this the healthy way.

First thing you should do is find out what your EER (Estimated Energy Requirement) is. This will tell you what the minimum number of calories you should eat just to maintain healthy brain function. If you don't eat enough to keep your body alive and healthy, especially over a year, there are possible repercussions. Keep in mind if you spent every day lying in bed your body is still burning calories and you would need to eat calories to support the process of burning calories for energy. My EER based on my weight, height and activity level is in the range of 4-5,000 calories just to give you an idea of how ridiculously low the magical 2,000 calorie diet listed on every food label is, and it's most likely that way so they can round down the bad numbers.

Your diet should consist of 45-65% of calories taken in from carbohydrates, 20-35% from fats and 10-35% from proteins. Remember there are good fats, like monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. The bad ones to look out for are saturated and trans fats. Trans fats are tricky because a label could say zero but if it has 0.4 grams per serving or less, they can round down. Also remember that they choose what the serving size is. Look for partially hydrogenated oils in the ingredient list as that is the process that creates most trans fats found in food. Trans fats are really bad for you but that takes some chemistry to explain. Fish and vegetable oils are great sources of healthy fats.

Now for some math regarding your goal of 100lbs. There are 3,500 calories per pound of fat. So your goal is to burn 350,000 calories above what you're eating. That's 960 calories burned per day over your calorie intake. So look at what effort you will need to add to your normal daily routine to achieve that number. If I run 6-7 miles in an hour on a treadmill I will burn about 1,000 calories. You can do things like parking your car farther away and walk with purpose instead of letting your feet fall in front of you to keep you from falling over. Intensity is an easy way of burning more calories. If you have stairs in your house, go up them faster, take two steps at a time. The idea here is to burn more calories doing what you're already doing by going harder at it. Supplementing that with a morning run should get you to where you want to be.

Eating healthy without exercise or exercising without eating healthy will make it very hard to reach your goals. Keep a good balance of both and I am confident you can do it.

One tip to keeping yourself accountable to your friends, family and readers would be to keep everyone posted weekly or biweekly on your progress. I'll use an example I just saw on Julie and Julia and she used 435 recipes/365 days (Not positive on the recipe count). So on January 1st you'll start at 100lbs/365 days. Let the count down begin.

Two guys on The Biggest Loser this season lost over 100lbs in under 10 weeks, I think 7-8. While you might not be able to follow the 6+ hour workout regimen that they had or have trainer telling you exactly what to eat and have a fridge that magically fills itself with the right types of food, you are giving yourself 5-6 times more time to get it done. It's absolutely possible.


Good luck. You CAN do it.

[Elise.m]

I would say, its possible, but you cant really have cheat days. Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems to me you have to be strict.

Brandon

Cheat days actually rev up your metabolism if you eat right for a week. If you're eating healthy and pure, then you throw in a sort of sweet, your body says "WTH is this?!" and burns it super quick, and keeps that up for a while to make sure none of it is left in the system. I've talked to several personal trainers, and they all recommend to have 1 cheat day a week. Don't cheat all day, just give yourself a treat. Does a body good

IMO, I wouldn't do it in the beginning. I'd start the cheat days after about a month of eating right. If you really want to figure it out, personal trainers will have alot more information.

[Mike Schultz]

Good luck! If you are determined then you can absolutely do it.

I am trying to go the other way, however... I want to eat better and gain a little more muscle mass next year. I like being thin but there's nothing wrong with being thin and cut