avcanada weight loss challenge

Pilot_adam · Post by **Pilot_adam** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:17 am

So as I am planing to start a career in aviation and becoming an airline pilot one day, I have decided to take my health seriously and start something positive ..

Right now I am at my heaviest ever (5'9" , 250 Pounds), I want to make this more exciting for those who want to lose weight, so join me and Lets start a weight loss challenge here on avcanada and inspire each others for better and healthier us.

Over the next few months (4-5 months) I am planing to get down to 200 pounds being my realistic goal (20% of my body weight).

2 years ago I lost 30 pounds just by watching what I ate and exercising ( from 220-190), so now I will do the same !!!

Who is in on that !!!

Cheers
Adam

desksgo · Post by **desksgo** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:33 am

WHO IS IN ON THAT?

ME and the cheeseburger locker. We're in.

kzcvtm · Post by **kzcvtm** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:09 pm

Started @ 215 on Sep 22/06 now down to 192 this a.m. Decided to join with the wife on Weight Watchers....she goes to the meetings and I follow the program with her.

Still have to lose another 10 - 15 lbs or so....gonna throw off my Weight and Balance calcs......oh well.

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:17 pm

My doc says I have to lose 10 lbs so I'll get in on it too. Currently 192 lbs at 5'11" need to be 180ish.

Axial Flow · Post by **Axial Flow** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:25 pm

Don't worry Bandaid, its been too cold there lately for Golf, once it warms up you will be gold.

Pilot_adam · Post by **Pilot_adam** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:50 pm

kzcvtm wrote:Started @ 215 on Sep 22/06 now down to 192 this a.m. Decided to join with the wife on Weight Watchers....she goes to the meetings and I follow the program with her.

Still have to lose another 10 - 15 lbs or so....gonna throw off my Weight and Balance calcs......oh well.

Oh nice, So what was your diet like and is weight watchers worth they money ??

Adam

JW · Post by JW » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:53 pm

I'm a shade over a duece and could stand to lose 15lbs or so...

Pilot_adam · Post by **Pilot_adam** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:56 pm

So starting today lets list our current weight and goal weight

Start : 250 Pounds February 7th 2007
Goal : 200 Pounds

Cheers
Adam

Dust Devil · Post by **Dust Devil** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:19 pm

I'll get in on this

6' 260 lbs

Shooting for 200 lbs

niss · Post by **niss** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:34 pm

Me too..

was doing .. since march of last year.....I kind of fell out of practice (not walking to work everyday anymore, a little more indulging so the weight loss wasnt as quick as I would have liked) I started @ 5'10" and 265lbs. Down to 235LBS...Gonna giver some more!

Apache64_ · Post by **Apache64_** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:39 pm

I'm in.

210 looking for a buck eighty five.

Apache

North Shore · Post by **North Shore** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:03 pm

163 ish looking for 155ish and a 3:00 marathon this fall.

chief · Post by **chief** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:11 pm

Lost 55 pounds. Watch what you eat and hit that cardio machine when sitting in motels. I reduced my intake to 2200 cals a day. Doesn't seem like much but if you count your calories and change your foods you will be full by the end of the day. By buring 600-800 calories a day on the cardio equipment, the reduced calories and the cardio sure burn a lot of fat off. AND STAY AWAY FROM TIMMY HO's MUFFINS! Those things are packed with calories. I used a program on my palmpilot to keep track of the calories and it makes a huge difference by being concious of what you eat. But I am sorry to say I laid off the beer a lot. Dropped that to about 4 beer a month on average. Took me about 10 months to lose it all but was worth it. I have tonnes more energy now but none of my clothes fit. So the most expensive thing about it all is having to get new clothes. Glad we had a pretty good uniform allowance. Don't even stap on the scale for the first 4 weeks. Ignore it all together. If you do lose weight your clothes will tell. It took at least 3 weeks for me to start noticing anything so if you are the type to step on the scale every hour you may get disappointed for the first month so thats why I say to ignore it. Anyways, good luck to you all and keep focused. You will do great!

North Shore · Post by **North Shore** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:33 pm

If you do have to eat at Tim's and need your sugar fix, try a Boston Cream, or Strawberry filled donut - lowest calories and fat on the menu:
http://www.timhortons.com/en/pdfs/nutri ... de-can.pdf

Axial Flow · Post by **Axial Flow** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:14 pm

North Shore wrote:If you do have to eat at Tim's and need your sugar fix, try a Boston Cream, or Strawberry filled donut - lowest calories and fat on the menu:
http://www.timhortons.com/en/pdfs/nutri ... de-can.pdf

So you can be the skinny guy who dies of a heart attack instead of the fat one

Invertago · Post by **Invertago** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:38 pm

Holy fatties on Avcanada... 6'1 215 lbs... looking to be 6'3 at 195lbs...

I think loosing the 20lbs will be easy... but I quit growing taller many years ago.

There should be a premium pay rate for people who can fit in and instruct on buck fiftys! After reading this post I think that would be the specialized flight training that Cat keeps mentioning.

Good luck to you all. I'll take all my laundry off the elliptical machine and start using it for its intended purpose.

Scuba_Steve · Post by **Scuba_Steve** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:26 pm

I've lost 205 lbs since the summer

35 from my own chuggy exterior, and 170 from my now Ex girlfriend...

Feels great to lose that much weight!

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:39 pm

Steve...you loose 15 lbs every time you hit the crapper!

I'm 5'7", could stand to be 15 lbs less....but will my ass look as good in my leather mini? We must consider these things.

PT6-114A · Post by **PT6-114A** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:53 pm

started nov. 30th 221 lbs 6'2"

this morning 199.5 lbs looking for 190

raven54 · Post by **raven54** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:11 pm

What a bunch of fat bastards!!!

DEFPOTEC · Post by **DEFPOTEC** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:23 pm

i'm 220 lbs and 8' 3" tall so I'm perfect!

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:28 pm

200 and 5'11

Want to be back at the 185 mark..

I'm working on it.. was up near 220 at the end of last season.. LOTS OF BEER! arrrggg

Bookem Lou · Post by **Bookem Lou** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:04 am

I'm thinking that most if not all of you aren't actually pilots. If you really were pilots, how could you afford enough food to get fat. KD doesn't have that many calories.

Sincerely,

A poor skinny underpaid pilot

peeelot · Post by **peeelot** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:06 am

6"4 200 But the spring time I would like to be 190. But the main thing is feeling better and back in shape. New job = More time off. Instructing made me gain 20 pounds. So now I have to lose it.

desksgo · Post by **desksgo** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:25 am

I think we should use Arty Lang as our poster child...

Makes me feel good about myself.