The Rich Green

Used to be a fairly avid hunter back home. Deer season always brought out my Remington 700 in 300 winmag. Duck, dove, and quail with an 870. As far as the "toys" XD 9M Yugo AK with matching serials. Yugo SKS with matching serials. Henry lever action 30-30 Savage arms 338 lapua 10/22 I love plain old shooting and hunting. Too bad Washington hunting laws are garbage.

oh. my. god. yes.

MAIN QUEST: - Start a new life with good eating habits and getting in shape. GOALS: - I will work out 3 - 4 days a week, trying to improve my reps and time. - I will maintain a diet of between 1400 - 1800 calories daily and keep a food journal. - I will write every day about how I physically and mentally feel. LIFE SIDE QUEST: - Make a proper budget and stop wasting money. MOTIVATION: -I'm tired of always being the butt of the joke and coworkers making fun of my weight. I've done harder things than this, and I WILL finish this quest.

I'm so ready to lose weight and get in shape so that I can start feeling like the person I am inside! Any thoughts or recipe ideas? I know that HFLC is somewhat controversial and that it may seem like I am not getting enough nutrients but I am making sure to supplement in what I am missing.

So I have had this problem for quite a while now, and it is what has kept me out of gyms for so long. I am unable to find any kind of work out shorts that fit me so that when I bend over it doesnt show my crack. I have tried tightening my shorts so hard and the still fall down by the end of the work out. I have a big belly and im not really able to wear things up around it because this just slide down around my "waist." I have thought about looking into lifting singlets to wear under shorts and a shirt, but the price on them and lack of being able to try one on is pushing me away. I wish I could find a workout shirt that was extra long but not also extra big around the body. Does anyone know of anything that I should look into to maybe help with this problem? I know the real answer is that I shouldnt care about what I look like in the gym and that I am there for myself, but it is a really hard thing for me.

Here is my 5 day a week meal plan for anyone interested. Weekly grocery purchases are anywhere from $40-$65 depending on ability to purchase in bulk vs sales.

I am going to be keeping my nutrient counts high by eating lots of super-foods and taking supplements. Once I am in ketosis I am going to be running on my spare tank and things will be a bit easier. I know where I am going to be deficient in my minerals and vitamins so I am going to be making sure I am getting all of them. My older diet I ate on average around 800cal a day and I actually felt really good. One of the things that really helps me is that I am unable to quench my thirst, I have been this way since I was very very little. I can continuously drink water until I am bloated and still be thirsty, so I keep my self very very hydrated. (also I have been tested for diabetes, it is always comes back clear. No doctor has ever been able to tell me why I am this way.) In addition to this, I am lucky to have friends and a girlfriend who are nutritionists and I have cleared this diet with my doctor to make sure I am not being too extreme. He said if I ever feel sick to just add a few more calories into my diet and see if that picks it up. Thank you very much for your concern and I will make sure to take care of myself. I don't want to hurt myself and I am being very careful.

Sorry for the late replies, I have been crazy busy this week. So I've been tossing about this battle plan for a while now but I haven't had the raw funds to do it. I am going back to doing a High Fat Low Carb diet. It is how I initially lost my first bit of weight and I am going to institute this to get myself down to around 240lb. I am cutting my diet to around 1000-1400 calories a day and exercising about 4-5 times a week. I have all my meals currently planned out, and im going to be spending around $200 a month on food, which I much better than I have been spending for the past year. Lots of veggies, lots of meat, and lots of exercise. Ive already let myself know that failing is going to happen, I will slip and I will trip but I have to keep my eyes on the goal and get moving forward. This is something I am wanting to tackle hard and I want to destroy the problems in front of me. It seems like the people are really awesome and Im looking forward to working with them. While I do dabble in WoW occationally when my friends and I get a wild idea to go back to it, I have pretty much given it up. I am so into dead lifting but I am so out of shape in the moment I believe I am going to start by just doing the body weight exercises until I can get my stamina back into HS football and hockey shape. I worry about things still like the loose skin and it mainly stems from being tired of having "manboobs." While I will wear my stomach like a battle scar, for my own sanity im going to HAVE to do something about my chest. Thanks for the words of encouragement and I hope to see both of us shed that dreaded Blizzard weight. Awesome! I want to mainly stay with weight lifting but I am not opposed to doing the occational walking or running. I have been considering buying myself an exercise bike so that I can park in front of the TV some nights and play games or watch movies. I am not going to give up my gaming time because it is my only real hobby at the moment. I used to race cars in SCCA but money got tight and I had to sell off all my cars and toys. Hope to hear from you all soon and that you all have a wonderful 2014! My middle name is Baeddan, which means Little Boar in welsh. I plan to live up to this name.

I guess I should start off with an introduction, you know, cause this is the introductions forum. Also it should be noted I have rewrote this about 5 times because I feel like a wrestling announcer when introducing myself at 1 AM. So I should start off with who I am, what I do, what I want, and the works. The name is Rich, 26 years old. I grew up on a farm in Tennessee but never really took to the farming life. Yes I was well versed in almost every aspect, but i'm a nerd and I could only get so much entertainment from feeding cattle at 5 AM. I took to a relatively reclusive life of PC gaming, everything from MUDs, to shooters, to MMOs. This coupled with the fact the nearest person my age was over an hour walk, I got a bit "husky" in my teens. Like I assume many of us here, I played dungeons and dragons 3.5 fairly regularly and got sucked into the heroin that is WoW. It was around college I started to get...... big. 380lbs big. I graduated college with my bachelors in Criminal Justice with a concentration in the Study of Terrorism and a minor in Photojournalism. After two to three years of not being able to find a job in my field and working as a delivery driver for a semi truck parts company, I decided to pursue another interest of mine. I packed my bags and moved to Seattle, home of aerospace machinists. Now I am an apprentice in a conventional machining shop, running machines that are 40 years older than me and learning a real skill and trade. As things are today, I am 6'2" and weigh 336lbs. This has to change and I have no more excuses for not doing it. 6'2" is not a normal height for anyone and I really would like to be down to 5'9" by the end of the year. No, but seriously, i'm done being a fatty. My goal is to be around 250 and have much more muscle mass (alliteration, awww yeah.) If that means that I have to fight tooth and nail and work out every single day, then I am truly willing to do it. I am not here to make excuses. I am not here to look for a pity party or someone to tell me that "its okay, it isn't YOUR fault you got fat." Yes it is, no one forced the fork into my mouth. My biggest fear with this is failure, so I am not willing to accept it. My other concerns may seem trivial, but I hope some of you might be able to shine some light on them. First: I worry about saggy skin. Yes yes, I know, its going to happen, and it probably wont ever go back to being fully normal without some kind of surgery. Second: I find myself getting very winded, very quickly. I recently quit smoking around 2 months ago, so I know that this will only get better, but I tend to push myself too hard. Well, this has probably gone on long enough. I look forward to talking to you all soon, and I hope to become a member of what seems to be an amazing community. Race: Orc Class: Warrior Motive: Destroy all set before me.