Total disaster of a place. I can only shake my head at the continuous churn of new grads who get conned into living there (or anywhere in Murray Hill, for that matter).
I am fully in on RXBars. 210 calories, satiating, good protein source, and most importantly all real food. If you’re eating snacks with a bunch of ingredients you can’t pronounce and sugar substitutes, it’s often just a way for food manufacturers to pack more sweetness into fewer calories, however ultimately those ingredients can have worse counteractive effects on weight loss as normal sugar.
In personal news, my 5 month diet/workout mark is tomorrow, just hit the 51lbs lost mark and ran my first half marathon in 1:47 and change. Next up, NYC Marathon in November.
This is all good stuff and I’m sure is useful for people who cook, and obviously you’ve been very successful losing 80(?)+ lbs, but for guys working a 8-7 or longer who don’t cook much and want to get in shape quickly without putting their whole lives on hold, I thought I’d at least share my routine.
I started working out on January 9th at 230lbs, so now I’m just about 15 weeks from when I got going and I weighed in this morning at 187.6. So down 43.3lbs in 15.5 weeks with noticeable muscle gains as well, over 2.75lbs per week. Still going to drop ~20-25 more before I maintain. Diet is the biggest part of this but you need to make a generally healthy lifestyle routine.
Diet:
Monday-Friday is CLEAN, no excuses, period. Every breakfast during the work week for me is an Rxbar and water (buy boxes of 12 on Amazon for $20-25), every lunch is a Kale Caesar with Chicken at Chopt. Breakfast and lunch M-F is almost half of your weekly meals, and there’s no way to mess those up if you eat the same thing every time. It’s boring but I like the food so it works well for me. If I’m really hungry during the afternoon on a day I have a workout, I’ll have another Rxbar or Clif Bar, but stay away from anything that uses a lot of fake sugar (Kind bars, ThinkThin, etc. Anything that’s ingredients list is mostly things you cannot pronounce).
Dinner is always after I workout after work. I bought a Ninja blender on Amazon and go to an organic market on my block to buy a bunch of frozen fruit, granola, and acai to make acai bowls at home which are cheap/healthy/filling dinners that taste good. That’s a third of my dinners probably. I also sometimes pick up sweetgreen/chopt or once a week grab an italian sandwich. If I go for a long run on Saturdays I’ll have something high carb at a restaurant on Friday night like Pasta or Indian food.
On the weekends, live your life. I don’t count alcohol calories because you’ll drive yourself insane doing that and obviously I’m making good progress anyways. If I’m not doing anything during the afternoon I’ll still try to get a salad or something light for lunch, but I love going out to dinner with friends and my girlfriend, and you can’t cut off your social life to lose weight or you’ll gain it back quickly when your diet “finishes” and your lifestyle returns to normal. Don’t order too many apps and you can easily make up for whatever you enjoy on the weekend during the week.
Exercise:
I’m training for a half marathon which is coming up in like 3.5 weeks, which has really helped me stay on track with my workouts as I’m actually training for a tangible goal. Big motivator. Running is tough on the body but obviously an excellent workout and gets hugely easier after the first couple weeks, and building up mileage slowly makes it easier to see that you’re getting better at it. I also signed up for classpass which helps significantly. My current exercise routine roughly looks like…
M- 5 mile run
T- 60 minute flywheel
W- 5 mile run
Th- Off
F- Swim laps at easy pace, 30 mins
S- Long run (build up mileage here slowly towards eventual race)
Su- Boxing
This is a rough schedule as life demands can vary it significantly, and of course you can’t start running 5 miles twice a week right away. I still maintain that the slow as shit 1.5 mile run I did for my first workout of all of this is the hardest I’ve ever done.
This all said, the main point is that if you don’t bullshit yourself and actually commit to a routine, it’s possible to make significant change in your body/health in relatively short order without totally disrupting your life. If I can do it, someone who’s not been an athlete since high school baseball and had never run longer than a mile in my life, you can too.
You know what, I’m also done allowing friends to be “not a sushi guy”. Excellent sushi is as good as it gets, just find high end stuff. A good Omakase in NY or LA is as good a dinner as you’ll ever have.
The second cheapest bottle is always the worst on the list – restaurants know that nobody wants to order the cheapest bottle and order their prices accordingly.
Nobody gives a shit about the TV or Movie remake musicals. American Psycho was on broadway for a second last year and it totally flopped – I’m a big fan of the movie but it would have been a waste of money to even check out. This will be equally bad. Hamilton is in a league of its own.
Running gets immensely easier if you keep at it more than a month or so. I was laughably (like 50 pounds) out of shape at the beginning of the year, started training for a half marathon and I’ve dropped 30 pounds in 11 weeks and just ran a 7:56/mile 10k on Saturday. I know it gets shit on a lot but it’s undeniably an excellent workout and gets way easier when you make it a routine.
Your first mistake was choosing to live in what sounds like Murray Hill or Midtown, and the second was using your own UHaul. Moving in the city is easier the second time around, just use a service to wrap up all your stuff and transport it to your next place same day. It’s well worth the cost.
This is horribly false. You’re not going to be close to the level of “starving yourself” necessary for this to happen by cutting out a few hundred calories every day. Limiting calorie intake to less than you burn over the course of a day is the absolute only guaranteed weight loss technique, and it works for everyone. If you’re doing this and not losing weight, then you’re counting wrong.
Referencing “the American dream” while linking a study done by a British research institution looking at British citizens, whose economy has not mirrored our own over the past fifty years. That’s the type of hard hitting journalism and fact checking we’ve come to expect on this site.
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Total disaster of a place. I can only shake my head at the continuous churn of new grads who get conned into living there (or anywhere in Murray Hill, for that matter).
If you’re getting a luxury 2br at that price I’m sure there’s nothing for you to do when you leave it anyways.
I have a small one bedroom (~450 sqft) in the east village for $2200, which is actually considered a good deal. Well worth it.
I am fully in on RXBars. 210 calories, satiating, good protein source, and most importantly all real food. If you’re eating snacks with a bunch of ingredients you can’t pronounce and sugar substitutes, it’s often just a way for food manufacturers to pack more sweetness into fewer calories, however ultimately those ingredients can have worse counteractive effects on weight loss as normal sugar.
In personal news, my 5 month diet/workout mark is tomorrow, just hit the 51lbs lost mark and ran my first half marathon in 1:47 and change. Next up, NYC Marathon in November.
This is all good stuff and I’m sure is useful for people who cook, and obviously you’ve been very successful losing 80(?)+ lbs, but for guys working a 8-7 or longer who don’t cook much and want to get in shape quickly without putting their whole lives on hold, I thought I’d at least share my routine.
I started working out on January 9th at 230lbs, so now I’m just about 15 weeks from when I got going and I weighed in this morning at 187.6. So down 43.3lbs in 15.5 weeks with noticeable muscle gains as well, over 2.75lbs per week. Still going to drop ~20-25 more before I maintain. Diet is the biggest part of this but you need to make a generally healthy lifestyle routine.
Diet:
Monday-Friday is CLEAN, no excuses, period. Every breakfast during the work week for me is an Rxbar and water (buy boxes of 12 on Amazon for $20-25), every lunch is a Kale Caesar with Chicken at Chopt. Breakfast and lunch M-F is almost half of your weekly meals, and there’s no way to mess those up if you eat the same thing every time. It’s boring but I like the food so it works well for me. If I’m really hungry during the afternoon on a day I have a workout, I’ll have another Rxbar or Clif Bar, but stay away from anything that uses a lot of fake sugar (Kind bars, ThinkThin, etc. Anything that’s ingredients list is mostly things you cannot pronounce).
Dinner is always after I workout after work. I bought a Ninja blender on Amazon and go to an organic market on my block to buy a bunch of frozen fruit, granola, and acai to make acai bowls at home which are cheap/healthy/filling dinners that taste good. That’s a third of my dinners probably. I also sometimes pick up sweetgreen/chopt or once a week grab an italian sandwich. If I go for a long run on Saturdays I’ll have something high carb at a restaurant on Friday night like Pasta or Indian food.
On the weekends, live your life. I don’t count alcohol calories because you’ll drive yourself insane doing that and obviously I’m making good progress anyways. If I’m not doing anything during the afternoon I’ll still try to get a salad or something light for lunch, but I love going out to dinner with friends and my girlfriend, and you can’t cut off your social life to lose weight or you’ll gain it back quickly when your diet “finishes” and your lifestyle returns to normal. Don’t order too many apps and you can easily make up for whatever you enjoy on the weekend during the week.
Exercise:
I’m training for a half marathon which is coming up in like 3.5 weeks, which has really helped me stay on track with my workouts as I’m actually training for a tangible goal. Big motivator. Running is tough on the body but obviously an excellent workout and gets hugely easier after the first couple weeks, and building up mileage slowly makes it easier to see that you’re getting better at it. I also signed up for classpass which helps significantly. My current exercise routine roughly looks like…
M- 5 mile run
T- 60 minute flywheel
W- 5 mile run
Th- Off
F- Swim laps at easy pace, 30 mins
S- Long run (build up mileage here slowly towards eventual race)
Su- Boxing
This is a rough schedule as life demands can vary it significantly, and of course you can’t start running 5 miles twice a week right away. I still maintain that the slow as shit 1.5 mile run I did for my first workout of all of this is the hardest I’ve ever done.
This all said, the main point is that if you don’t bullshit yourself and actually commit to a routine, it’s possible to make significant change in your body/health in relatively short order without totally disrupting your life. If I can do it, someone who’s not been an athlete since high school baseball and had never run longer than a mile in my life, you can too.
Three words: Banff National Park. I promise you’ll never have a better summer vacation in North America.
You know what, I’m also done allowing friends to be “not a sushi guy”. Excellent sushi is as good as it gets, just find high end stuff. A good Omakase in NY or LA is as good a dinner as you’ll ever have.
The second cheapest bottle is always the worst on the list – restaurants know that nobody wants to order the cheapest bottle and order their prices accordingly.
Nobody gives a shit about the TV or Movie remake musicals. American Psycho was on broadway for a second last year and it totally flopped – I’m a big fan of the movie but it would have been a waste of money to even check out. This will be equally bad. Hamilton is in a league of its own.
10 pounds is nothing. If it was 100 lbs in 100 days sure, but a quick drop like that isn’t problematic.
Running gets immensely easier if you keep at it more than a month or so. I was laughably (like 50 pounds) out of shape at the beginning of the year, started training for a half marathon and I’ve dropped 30 pounds in 11 weeks and just ran a 7:56/mile 10k on Saturday. I know it gets shit on a lot but it’s undeniably an excellent workout and gets way easier when you make it a routine.
Wooooo bonus hit the account today. Fuck a 46.5% withholding rate but still you’re looking at a multi-thousandaire.
We’ll see if you maintain that attitude when you leave Murray Hill in a year. Smart money is on no.
Your first mistake was choosing to live in what sounds like Murray Hill or Midtown, and the second was using your own UHaul. Moving in the city is easier the second time around, just use a service to wrap up all your stuff and transport it to your next place same day. It’s well worth the cost.
This is horribly false. You’re not going to be close to the level of “starving yourself” necessary for this to happen by cutting out a few hundred calories every day. Limiting calorie intake to less than you burn over the course of a day is the absolute only guaranteed weight loss technique, and it works for everyone. If you’re doing this and not losing weight, then you’re counting wrong.
This is the laziest writing I’ve ever seen.
Referencing “the American dream” while linking a study done by a British research institution looking at British citizens, whose economy has not mirrored our own over the past fifty years. That’s the type of hard hitting journalism and fact checking we’ve come to expect on this site.
“Soon”
…
“by 2050”
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Boston College vs. Georgia Tech starts at 7:30am eastern on Saturday. Better have a little spice in your morning OJ for that.
Amen and Go Blue