ButterFactor

New update: I'll be taking a little bit of time off to recover frommmmmmm... shin splints! I guess when you weigh 260 lbs and instantaneously switch from walking to jumping your body will quickly let you know how much it hates you! As soon as I recover, though, I'll be showing my shins who's boss!

This morning was a bit rough. I went to work out with a couple friends, and within 10 minutes of starting I was laying on the ground trying to keep the contents of my stomach where they belong! By the time I was feeling better it was time to go, so I didn't get a full workout. However, this has happened before and usually I decide to never workout in the morning afterwards, but this time I'm still motivated! Round 2 of "so you think you won't puke" resumes tomorrow morning!

That no added sugars is a toughie, but it's doable!! Good luck!!

What a great morning! This week I decided to start the vertical jump program a couple weeks ahead of my original schedule, and I feel great! I live in an apartment complex, and the hardest part about going out today was realizing that I'd be doing my workout in the middle of a large yard in the middle of the complex. So obviously I had to do it before people started waking up! But part of the way into it I realized that I don't care what other people think! I'm doing this so I can dunk in my cousin's face and by golly I'll do whatever it takes to get there!

Update for the past few days: So on Friday and Saturday it was difficult to stick to the "less meat" thing, so I didn't. Granted, I only ate chicken, but it was a bit more than I was planning on allowing myself. However, besides that goal, I've been nailing all of my other ones! This was the first week in ages that I woke up before 6:00 every day and actually got in the workout I had planned! Granted, right now it's not really a difficult workout, but within the next two to three weeks it should be kicking my butt (according to the plans I have)!

Day 3/4 in review: Yesterday was kind of a success. I was able to wake up early again, go for a walk and continue with my exercises. I did, however, have some sort of fried chicken with cheese sauce or something at a church lunch, so there's that. But I did make up for it with a couple salad servings later! I'm going to change my workout strategy and start working towards the kinobody aggressive fat loss program, which I've heard good things about. I'll focus on his upper body workouts, and tie those in to the Jump Manual!

I just started walking early in the morning and I loooove it! It's a great time to clear your head and plan your day!

Day 2: So far so good. I woke up at 5:30, hopped outside for a quick morning walk, did the exercises I've added thus far, and kept my eating window fairly contained (although there were a couple of suckers in a bowl that were just begging me to eat them, so how could I say no?) I'm a broke college student, so avoiding meats isn't too difficult (and by meats I mostly mean red meats and friend chicken. An occasional grilled chicken is fine, and eggs and fish are 100% still on the table). The difficult part is loading up on veggies, but I accomplished that with a salad at lunch (with light dressing, none of that ranch stuff). On top of all that, I played a pickup basketball game with some pals and am exhausted right now. Boa noite!

I just started walking in the mornings, and I love the idea of walking songs! I'll have to try that out instead of plugging in headphones!

The upper body workout I eventually plan on getting back to is one that I found online at marinestylefitness.com. On there it's labeled as a full body workout but all I can remember from it was my arms dying! And hopefully I can do all of the pullup sets this time around! It will take a while to work up to it, though, so I'm going to try slowly adding the exercises in. And as for the vertical program, my cousin and I used Air Alert and Natural leap, but I've found another one that's supposed to be ever better called the Jump Manual, so I'll try working that in.

I used to do this upper body tabata workout and a vertical jump program with my cousin. I stopped, he kept with it, and long story short he's jacked and I'm not! So I'm going to have to try to catch back up!

This is my first four week challenge, so I'm not too familiar with how these posts go. But here's my plan: Goal 1: Get Back In The Game A few years back I was doing some kickbutt workouts (at least they were in my opinion). After such a long period of inactivity, trying on of those workouts would mean certain death. So I've got an incremental workout plan I'll be sticking to in order to recondition myself. Goal 2: Early to Bed and Early to Rise means I won't skip any more classes This goal is going to be the backbone of my plan, as I'll need to use the mornings to get my exercise in. Also, more sleep = less eat, so 10:00pm-5:30am is my sleep habits goal. Goal 3: Intermittent Starving Right now, that's what it feels like. But I would like to cut myself down to a 10 hour eating window in which I'll stuff myself with the entire contents of my fridge (okay mayyyybe that's an exaggeration). Goal 4: Cows are friends, not food I've got nothing against a good steak here and there, but I'd like to refocus my diet around way more vegetables. So I'm going to try to cut out most meats and load up on vegetables until I can handle throwing some back in there. Hopefully those goals are specific enough, but I'll keep you all updated on how it's going!

I agree with Wolfen here. Just keep going at it step by step. Every little bit counts. You got this, just keep it up.

My last name is Butterfield, which is part of how the name came about. But my friend couldn't figure out how it was that I was able to snag such a hottie as my girlfriend and told me it could only be attributed to something I had that he didn't, and thus the Butter Factor was discovered.

In my experience, it depends on the type of weight it is. I could wear a large shirt from 195 lbs to 250 (it was the freshman 50 for me), but at 250 I could hear the stitches begging for mercy. Then I dropped to about 230 and fit back into a large comfortably, but now I've gained back to 260. This time, though, I don't feel like I'm stretching my shirts. I don't exactly know how this happens, but I know that I feel slightly thinner at 260 now than I did at 250 a little while back.