Alex,
What the heck, in response to your goading, I'll accept your challenge.
Posting this pic for posterity
Ill check back in a few months and see if Ive made any progress.
(I wish I had one from two months ago)
Going on 54
About 6 weeks ago I started hitting the gym hard (really hard as some advised for my particular stress).
Ive lost a few pounds and started to build some muscle.
To me any visual improvement is all just a byproduct of burning off a bunch of stress (thats why I was at the gym)
I'd started to resemble a skinny legged pear. Cycling helped the legs but this push brought them up to size (and it hurt but not being at the gym hurt more).
Legs responded the most, but my pear shaped belly took a hike too.
Maybe soon some muscles will emerge there if I keep at it.
(I have to confess, there has been a ton of beer and wine consumed and I have NOT cut back on that but I should, and while I was drinking gallons of coffee, I have cut back on that and what I do have is black now instead of loading on the cream and sugar. I've also stopped drinking my coke a day which always seems to help when I stop that).
I'm 5'10 and just in the last three weeks am down from 175 to 165. I was probably a bit heavier a few weeks before that, and all this working is making me eat like a horse, at least 4 times a day but I've been pigging out on fresh broiled fish (cod and salmon) at the local grocery store lunch counter for almost every meal. That and a bit of rice and lots of water. not much bread other than in the morning. Im not trying to lose weight or be on a diet, its just that this food is easy for me to access right now.
