Fatties. My money where your mouth is.

[Dids]

Yeah, I thought about that too... it was so cool that broke ass Sponger stepped up, now he's super balling Sponger.

[GambleGamble]

Congrats Dids...nice sucess story...an inspiration

[JustinWilliams]

weldone dids, keep up the good work

[mikeczyz]

Wow. I just read this thread. Inspiring stuff. Keep up the good work dids! And jeff...whatever happened to him?

[bisonbison]

I don't know what happened to 3 of the guys I sponsored, because they don't post updates, so I'm just gonna put this out there:

this contest ends 5/12. I expect people to post their weight and pics on 5/12. If they don't post by the end of May, there'll be a penalty to the prize money: -5% of the original prize per day.

So if you don't post by 6/20, you get zilch.

Sound fair? Any objections to this?

[deadbody]

I'm still around, hovering about 330 or so. Dropped some weight, not as much as I'd like, and I'm gonna put in a crash month here at the end with the Wife so we look as good as possible for out HS reunion in June.

[hanster]

Inspiring thread.
I went back to Asia to see my mom this summer who I hadn't seen in a year. She couldn't recognize me because I had gained close to 40~50 lbs since the last time I saw her a year ago. She was just staring at me and getting raging mad. I came back to the States in August and worked off all those poundages and now am back to a bit normal now. (I still have the freshman 15 to lose). I am about Dciphrths's dimension basically, 5"8, ~170. (I would like to get to 160 and a 24 BMI and an ideal body fat percentage but recently it's been tough keeping my diet.) O ya, a friend of mine gave me a diet when I told her I was going on a diet and I was on it for the duration of close to four months. She was also a great motivator and gave me the support when I needed it the most.

Breakfast:
-1 whole grain toast (i switched to seven grain for a while)
-1 boiled egg
-1 cup of hot lemon water (half lemon squeezed)
-1 orange/half grapefruit

two snacks (one item per snack before lunch and before dinner):
-fat free yogurt from Yoplait
-low sugar cereal
-beef jerky
-fruit
-tea

Lunch:
-Salad with vinegrette (vinegrette is so gross it burnt my lips but I still downed it for three months because it cleanses your body and boosts your metabolism)
-Tuna/egg white
-Non-chowdery soup

Dinner:
-Grilled boneless skinless chicken breast (I bought a Foreman grill for this)
-Salad (more vinegarette)

One thing that I got out of this experience was that you should not see it as a sprint, but rather a marathon. If one day you feel like eating a cheeseburger then eat a freaking cheeseburger. Get fries while you're at it. But tomorrow tell yourself that you'd work extra hard, and the day after. (just make sure you don't eat cheeseburger 3 hours before you sleep) One thing that was really effective for me was that I did not have a weighing scale in my apartment. I just did my best and hardest to keep up with my eating plan and exercising plan (I ran for about 20 minutes [5 min warm up 10 min sprint 5 min cool down] three times a week and swam/basketball/soccer the other three days during summer for a month. The next 2~3 months I was playing basketball 4~5 times a day). So I weighed myself about once every 5~6 weeks when I go to my sister's place or my friend's house.

Now upon seeing this thread, I am speechless to see how well Dids is doing. Mad props. I will never see your posts the same way ever again. Keep up the good work. They say it will be tougher, but don't let that get to your head. You had a great start, and picked up the habits very well, and your body also picked up a higher level of metabolism. One thing I would suggest is that don't be mad when you gain/lose a couple of pounds, but rather set your eyesight farther down the road. Anything beyond this point is not going to be any harder than having the will and determination to lose the weight in the first place.

Hope that helps.

P.S: Just think the first time when someone tells you whether you've lost weight recently. That oughta get you going