well, i've lost 52lbs...

[Journer]

a week before leaving, i weighed in at a steep 290ish pounds at 6'2". a little pudgy if i do say so myself. well, three months later living in the land of rice and fish (which, believe it or not, i haven't eaten much fish...) i've lost about 52lbs, which brings me to a slightly leaner 238lbs. doc said i should be weighing in around 200 to be pretty healthy. so there is still some more to go. i still feel fatty but friends say i look leaner than ever. i suppose i can see it in the face an belly, fuck, my pants don't fit any more. i've lost literally about 4-6 inches in the waste @_@ but not enough to fit into these damned skinny japanese pants. what a bitch. anywho, the man tits haven't seemed to budge much. i guess i'll actually have to work to get rid of these bad boys.

so, what have i done? well, nothing really. other than move to japan. I still don't watch what i eat, but i sure as fuck get a hell of a lot more exercise than back in the states. why? because there is no where to sit. ever. period. and you walk. a lot. a hell of a lot. fuck, i have a motorcycle and i still have to walk a lot. just the way this place works. but if you ride the trains like all the other drones, you would probably shed the pounds quicker. i did for the first month or two and they basically fell right off my body.

second, the diet. i have to admit, it is pretty different. i COULD be eating the stereotypical healthy live to 110 japanese diet, but fuck that. i still have my share of McDs from time to time and since i'm usually in a rush, the japanese fast food chains are cheap and considerably more healthy, IMO, than their american counter parts. but even at that, japanese McD is so fucking small, it's not half as bad. or, so it seems. I'm not sure how they did it to me, but i've noticed my stomach has shrunk a hell of a lot since being here.

I don't know if they put shit into their food to make it feel more filling or if it is just the overwhelming amounts of rice, but dammit, it is tasty and filling. I've gotten down to school girl sized portions leaving me filling like a stuffed christmas pig. wtf, right? I'll try and get some before and after pics up sometime...

so, here is the short and skinny (hehe):

pros:
loose weight with subtle effort
hot women

cons:
spend money (a DQP meal is going to run you around 9USD)
move to a land where no one can pronounce your name correctly
no more gargantuan steak shits that make you feel like the manliest man alive :'(

all in all, if you can use chopsticks, I'd say it is is worth it

fatties, pack up and move to japan. STAT!

/end Journer's success story. Hope you enjoyed :laugh:

also, pardon my crappy grammar. my brain seems to only have enough room for one language and no one here understands good english -_-

 

[Farang]

Exact same thing happened to me in Thailand. I was 6'3" 250, fattest of my life, then I lost about 20lbs over 5 months in the U.S. by stopping eating until it hurt like I used to, then I lost another 30lbs by having to walk everywhere, being in the heat, etc. for 7 months in Thailand. Then I came back and put on maybe 5lbs over 5 months, then went to India and lost another 20lbs. Now I'm at normal BMI so I'm taking advantage of it by exercising for the first time since I was a kid and actually starting to get in shape instead of just being somewhat thin.

To be honest if I had to start from 250lbs and get in the shape I am now I think I could never find the encouragement. The man boobs seemed impossible to lose back then, my stomach too big. I kind of got a get out of jail free card on my fatness and it seems you did too. I never intended to lose weight it just sort of happened

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: Farang
Exact same thing happened to me in Thailand. I was 6'3" 250, fattest of my life, then I lost about 20lbs over 5 months in the U.S. by stopping eating until it hurt like I used to, then I lost another 30lbs by having to walk everywhere, being in the heat, etc. for 7 months in Thailand. Then I came back and put on maybe 5lbs over 5 months, then went to India and lost another 20lbs. Now I'm at normal BMI so I'm taking advantage of it by exercising for the first time since I was a kid and actually starting to get in shape instead of just being somewhat thin.

To be honest if I had to start from 250lbs and get in the shape I am now I think I could never find the encouragement. The man boobs seemed impossible to lose back then, my stomach too big. I kind of got a get out of jail free card on my fatness and it seems you did too. I never intended to lose weight it just sort of happened

hmm. Thailand. Similar to japan in many ways (diet, hot women, and so on) but much cheaper. I might have to investigate this matter further >)

 

[brikis98]

Congrats! Calories in vs. calories out works its magic yet again

BTW, 52lbs in 3 months is a lot. Granted, your body was probably pretty well primed to burn fat as fuel, but with that much weight loss that quickly, there is a good chance you lost a decent amount of muscle mass too, which means your overall body fat percentage (which is what makes you look lean vs. flabby) may not have dropped as much as you would've liked. If you want to really make yourself lean, continue doing exactly what you're doing now (walking a lot, eating whatever you're eating), but up your protein intake and add some weight training.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Journer

Originally posted by: Farang
Exact same thing happened to me in Thailand. I was 6'3" 250, fattest of my life, then I lost about 20lbs over 5 months in the U.S. by stopping eating until it hurt like I used to, then I lost another 30lbs by having to walk everywhere, being in the heat, etc. for 7 months in Thailand. Then I came back and put on maybe 5lbs over 5 months, then went to India and lost another 20lbs. Now I'm at normal BMI so I'm taking advantage of it by exercising for the first time since I was a kid and actually starting to get in shape instead of just being somewhat thin.

To be honest if I had to start from 250lbs and get in the shape I am now I think I could never find the encouragement. The man boobs seemed impossible to lose back then, my stomach too big. I kind of got a get out of jail free card on my fatness and it seems you did too. I never intended to lose weight it just sort of happened

hmm. Thailand. Similar to japan in many ways (diet, hot women, and so on) but much cheaper. I might have to investigate this matter further >)

Are you teaching English or what?

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: Journer

Originally posted by: Farang
Exact same thing happened to me in Thailand. I was 6'3" 250, fattest of my life, then I lost about 20lbs over 5 months in the U.S. by stopping eating until it hurt like I used to, then I lost another 30lbs by having to walk everywhere, being in the heat, etc. for 7 months in Thailand. Then I came back and put on maybe 5lbs over 5 months, then went to India and lost another 20lbs. Now I'm at normal BMI so I'm taking advantage of it by exercising for the first time since I was a kid and actually starting to get in shape instead of just being somewhat thin.

To be honest if I had to start from 250lbs and get in the shape I am now I think I could never find the encouragement. The man boobs seemed impossible to lose back then, my stomach too big. I kind of got a get out of jail free card on my fatness and it seems you did too. I never intended to lose weight it just sort of happened

hmm. Thailand. Similar to japan in many ways (diet, hot women, and so on) but much cheaper. I might have to investigate this matter further >)

Are you teaching English or what?

nah, just studying Japanese for college credit. basically being a bum for a year and trying to learn this fucking impossible god damned language.

edit:
yah, i figured a good bit of this weight loss was muscle mass. i was working out for about a month before i left, so whatever i had built up is surely gone now. i've been considering hitting the gym again, but its expensive as hell in japan. i've considered throwing an afternoon jog into my daily routine however get out and see the neighborhood. if you know what i mean