A call for help

[joshgambit]

Again - thank you for voting! It continues today, through Friday.

http://www.whipit180.com/semi_finalist/joshua-kraling/

I'm so lucky to have friends who are willing to help out, even though you don't know me!

You can also post a link via Facebook, if you would like. I appreciate everything!!

Thank you,
Joshua

[MrBlu]

You sure there's a limit?  I just voted like 5-6 times for you!

[Scott]

You could probably vote an unlimited number of times, but only 1 vote per day per IP address actually counts.

[MrBlu]

Lol...ok, cool...

[Scott]

So the voting is over... when do you find out the results?

[joshgambit]

I found out yesterday around 11 am.  I was not one of the finalists.  And, I was really bummed about it -- I'll still be losing a whole ton of weight, thought!!!

[Scott]

We'll all still be pullin' for ya.

I picked up a weigh scale on Friday night that also measures percentages for body fat, muscle, and water. Set up an Excel spreadsheet to track my progress and bought an elliptical trainer which will arrive at the end of the week. I'm tired of being 250 lbs and ready to do something about it.

[PSimon23]

Similar subject was being discussed at yahoo answers last week. I can post the link if needed.

[Captain Pedantic]

I've just lost 20kg in the last 6 months and have 6kg to go to my goal.

I worked out that if i have the time to watch a TV show on DVD while sitting on the couch (at least 2 a day) then i have time to watch a TV show while cycling on the exer-cycle.

You feel so much better about life and everything and it's so much easier to get motivated to do anything you want. To the result that now I bike the 11km to work (and back) and better still, this last weekend I climbed a mountain with my son.

The trick I learnt is that is you get your heart rate up to 80% of your theoretical maximum (which is 220 minus your age). If it is at that rate for 10 minutes then you have burnt up all your active energy and from then on you are just burning the stored energy (i.e. your fat). So 40 minutes on the bike took me 5 minutes to get to 150bpm, 10 minutes later I've burnt all the active energy so for 25 minutes it was just fat burning.


It just dropped off me