Pretty rapid weight loss, bit of a concern

6 foot 305 lbs and only a six pack of beer? Dude you are not fooling anyone that's a warm up for someone your size! I'm 5'9 230 and can down 18 to 24 no problem! But then again I do have a well managed drinking problem.

 

I'm 6' and 240 and am overweight. At one time years ago I ate right, rode a bicycle every day for 18 miles and lifted weights every day for an hour. This was before I started trucking. I was told to get down to 175. I got down to 180 and people said I looked real bad and sick. I went up to 200 and felt real good. Then I started trucking and that went right out the freaking window!

 

Cabwrecker, do you know what your body fat percentage is? I'll bet you that at 6' 2" and 265 lbs you still have about 20-25% body fat.

Compare that to a professional athlete that is going for maximum strength to weight ratio, and they are down in the 2-3% range. The average athletically active male is in the 3-10% range.

Measure your body fat. If it gets below 5% then monitor it more closely. Enjoy the "ride" in fat reduction.

By the way, as a young man I was a rock climber and had as little as 1.8% body fat. Fast forward to two years ago when I got back into driving and I was easily 35 lbs over weight on a 5' 9" body. I lost 35 lbs in the first six months of going solo. How did I do it? I stopped eating sugar or sugar laden products. No soda pop, no McDonalds, no sugared up bread, etc. etc. Instead I started filling up on a lot of raw vegetables, concentrating on eating leafy greens that stand up and slap your tongue around. Instead of lettuce I'm eating fresh basil, arugula, bok choi, parsley, dill, spinach, kale, etc. etc. I add sweet vegetables like sugar snap peas, avocado, cherry tomatoes, or sweet pepper and soak it all in olive oil and vinegar. The high fiber content fills me up and satisfies me, while getting maximum value from the vegetables by not cooking them.

Kicking the sugar and simple carb addiction is a great step. Good luck as you get healthy!

 

6'2", I'd bet he's more than that, I'm 6'2"and 230, my bmi is 26%

 

I'm 6' 3" and 240 pounds, I consider myself 40lbs over weight. My muscle mass is typical. When fat people tell lean people they look sick, they need to be slapped.

P.S. the profile picture is not me. It's one of those wing nuts from the failed Lets Truck site.

 

Don't forget that your body needs a certain minimum amount of calories every day from carbs. Exactly what it is does vary from person to person but a good basic rule of thumb is about 600 cals. If your body doesn't get that, no matter how many fats/proteins you eat, your body will think it is starving and start to mine it's own protein sources for energy, IE your muscles/structural proteins. Body builders in the 70s started thinking, hey, if muscles are made of protein, and and eating protein is necessary to build muscle, why not eat nothing but protein so you build nothing but muscle? Unfortunately, they actually started LOSING muscle mass. That's when docs found out that your body needs a certain amount of carbs every day.

As for your rapid weight loss it sounds like you hit a good combination of proper (more or less) exercise and diet. Doing one or the other can have a noticeable effect on your weight. Doing both together can be rather dramatic. As long as you aren't depriving yourself of essential nutrients I say enjoy the ride.

 

the way the dot is going i think its wise to take your complaints to a different doctor than the one who does your dot card.keep that long form clean and get good health care . and get a 2 year card everytime

 

Only if you're following the old way of determing body fat, height v. weight, which is horrendously flawed. When my brother, a Marine, was clocking in at 5% body fat the height v. weight method would determine him overweight.

I dropped 25lbs in a month hauling off a derailment job and seem to be okay.

 

The BMI method is really inaccurate. Submersion method is the best. Skinny people can be (and often are) obese, with over 25% body fat.

Remove refined sugar from your diet. Add probiotic sources like plain yogurt and fermented items like sauerkraut. This will help to rebalance the species in your gut. Once you have mostly "good" bacteria in your gut it will go a LONG way to burning off the pounds. A diet high in sugars and simple carbohydrates (like white bread) will result in a lot of bacteria in your gut that are actually toxic, create inflammation of the gut and other linings (think "common cold"), and boost retention of bad cholesterol.

There's lots of information on the internet about sugar addiction, sugar toxicity, and intestinal ecosystem. Read up on it and you will realize why you really need to avoid all the "convenience foods" in the aisles at the grocery store. I "shop the perimeter", going for produce, yogurt, etc. and rarely venture into those aisles unless I'm getting olive oil, vinegar, etc. Even bread that doesn't have refined sugar in it is extremely hard to find. More and more I'm simply heating up a batch of whole grains and avoiding bread altogether.

 

I weighed in at 325 when I first started as a company driver for the guy I'm leased on with. I dropped down to 300 over the course of a year. I'm not fat from being lazy,.. I just like to eat a lot.

I've since dropped down to 260 where I am now since last march when I became O/O. You tend to work that much harder when you have more risk on the line.

My wife took notice and I noticed I feel much better and have more energy. I've since modified my intake and trying to eat less and healthier while out on the road. I'd like to get down to about 200lbs. Thats where I was in my 20's and mid 30's before my divorce and I packed on the pounds afterward.

So yeah,.. I say if you are working harder and your consumption is the same or less,.. your body will get the calories it needs from somewhere.

Hurst