Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts

Saturday, October 12, 2013

This is how I Lost the weight....

Joseph Valo III In the beginning I weighed 240 pounds. I never used to be at that weight. I was always around 200 pounds plus or minus a few pounds.  When I started my journey with the weight loss it was hard. I got really sore for the first 2 weeks because of my choices that I had made. but I pushed through it. And now I'm glad that I did. I remember in the past few years after fire calls where I would be going all out the next day I'd be so sore to the point where I was not able to move... 

This was due to not taking care of myself ie.. working out on a regular basis, eating properly and drinking too much beer.  The key to a good diet is eating healthy, all your major food groups in the right portions.  Good nutrition is the key to almost any diet. Second thing is if your a vegetarian  you need twice the protein if you need to bulk up. The third one is sticking to it and keeping the focus on the big picture.  If ya fail which some people do, just go back through and see what threw ya off and try again.

This is how I lost 60 pounds....

Hard work- Nothing in life comes easy.

I did a life style change.
I changed the amount of food I ate, what I ate, when I ate.
I stopped drinking alcohol, Pop, and started drinking water... LOTS OF WATER!!!
Quit smoking..
And became a vegetarian too..

For men who are over 30 yrs of age need to take a test booster also. It helps to speed up the metabolism and boosts over all energy and a bunch of other things too.

REMEMBER: that staying active will be productive in your weight loss journey..


Also consult your doctor before doing any type of exercises....  Doing that, you will be able to get a better Idea on where to start at.

This is what it did as far as exercising...

I walked everywhere I went. Did lots of cardio as well as lifting weights..  I did high reps with low weight..  I cut my food Portions down and ate 2 to 3 more times a day. , Why you ask... You body has a survival mode.. if you eat 1 or 2 large meals a day, your brain and body will interpret that it is not getting as much fuel to properly work. 

Hence fourth your body will store it for later on. Which results in a slow metabolism. Now... if you eat 3 to 5 smaller meals spaced out evenly through the day, your brain and body will think that it's OK to use the fuel to sustain the body.. which will result in a higher metabolism.

In a few days I will go over what supplements I used and the weight lifting routine i used...


REMEMBER:  Through HARD WORK, Keeping FOCUSED, and setting GOALS you can achieve anything!!!!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The beginning of the road...

Joseph Valo III
 I  never used to weigh 240 pounds.. in fact when I was young I always weighed around 140 pounds to 150 pounds and had a very high metabolism. I was able to eat anything I wanted to in my teenage years and early to mid 20’s. Then I had my Gall Gladder removed, and that’s where I had noticed a lot of changes. I still worked out and did everything that I used to, but since I wasn’t able to digest the fat, my body started to store it.
Now lets fast forward a couple of years..

About 2 years ago I joined a band which I thought; “wow I finally get to do what I always wanted to do”. Then I just left my self go because of curtain things that were going on in the band. I felt depressed, over ate and drank a lot of alcohol too. My weight went from 200 pounds to 240 pounds and then at my last show with the band I looked at the picture that was taken and about cried.. I thought to myself, ” What the heck did I do to my self, and what caused me to get that big?”.
At that point I had enough of how I had left myself go. I stopped drinking Alcohol, Over Eating, drinking Soda Pop, and became a Vegetarian too.
I started to work out and eat healthy.

I started that in the last week of April 2013, now it’s mid June 2013 and I had lost 45 pounds and feel way better. I lost 3 sizes in my waist, and not depressed like I used to be. If I can do it, You can too. All you have to do is put your left foot in front of your right and keep on moving. First, set small goals. Then as you start to see the changes , tweak them to fit your specific needs.

Remember: the first 2 weeks are going to be the hardest, because you are doing something totally different, and your body has to adjust to different changes..