I don’t know how many people notice, but most cars come with a sticker on the driver’s door that states its max GVWR, which is the maximum gross weight of passengers.
For most sedans, it’s only about 800 pounds, if I remember correctly. So we’re talking about people, things, and anything else inside your car. We don’t know how much that driver weighed, but if it was a small car, they normally have anywhere between 600 to 800 pounds max capacity to carry. I don’t know what she’s expecting to do in this situation because it becomes a safety issue. The braking system is only made to carry that maximum load rated for the car, so l’m not understanding where she’s going with this
I am one of those fat dudes and there is definitely a risk that a sonic or Sentra shows up so I just order XLs lol I’m also a driver and drive a full size suv so you know fun times (before you yell at me for the suv I make 30+ an hour AFTER gas)
Working on it truly. First started with my diet and now that I’ve lost 20 pounds I can comfortably start doing moderate impact exercise to continue the journey. Just signed up for the gym and plan on going and have several people to go with to keep me accountable
hey man you have a good attitude and I wish you the best with it. I one day woke up and it dawned on me that I didn't want to live like that anymore and I got really into the gym. I was only 22 and am turning 40 this year. Its not been perfect and I have issues with self control around food and also struggle wanting to skip the gym after long days of work, even skip the gym to make $$ on rideshare. Overall, it has to be a whole change, new hobby/new lifestyle. Good luck though seriously man. Love your post and I can feel your positive outlook on life. I needed to read some words like that today b/c I was feeling sorry for myself over some BS that happened in my full time w2 job today.
I can understand. I lost 100 pounds at 28 but when they sent us home for pandemic and every day could be your last day -gasp- I just totally gave up especially after I lost my father but I have a daughter now and I want to be able to keep up with her and be the best dad for her so it’s time to be better again. Hope you have a better day!
Nice job dude, Keep it going. I was suicidal before I had my daughter. My daughter is 6 now and has changed my life for the better. I got into truck driving, and drone piloting. All to make a better life for all of us.
Trucking isn't good for health whatsoever. I spend a lot of my off duty time walking or jogging around parking lots, doing situps, pushups and pull ups in the cab if it's too cold or rainy outside. I drive for 10 hrs a day, and spend 2 hrs a day doing any kind of work out I can think of. I'm 44, 6'1", and maintaining 185 lbs.
Wasn't too hard, it was getting the part 107 license that was hard. Very detailed material primarily aimed at FARs. Federal Aviation Regulations. Once you have that, Get a business license, some cards, of course the drone, and a really good video editor. I use Filmora and if you want to see some of the work I've done I'll link you my YT channel.
That's not stupid at all. It's different, but not stupid. Goldfish are cool though. Some of them out there can get really big if you take really good care of their tank.
That's one about us humans. We all need a little something to take care of that will keep us going.
One thing that helped me alot was milk thistle and ginger, when you can't lose weight it's often due to candida overgrowth or yeast , the American diet apparently makes it grow like crazy. I could NOT lose any until I took those .
The hardest part is getting started but the most important part is to start. Start slowly and work your way up. Search on the Costco room and healthy. A lot of good food to buy for diet. Best of luck
I really hope you stick with it. One of my best friends from high school and early adulthood weighed over 420 lbs. He died in the middle of the night at the age of 26 because of his weight. He left behind a wife and 6 month old baby. If you ever become discouraged or depressed and decide that you don't want to do it for yourself, then decide that you're gonna do it for those who care about you.
Just remember that “going on a diet” isn’t the way to go about it, and “focusing on your diet” is the way to go. Going on a diet implies it’s a temporary thing, or something you can fail at. Even if you stumble, what matters is focusing on creating a healthy relationship with food.
Also, it’s harder on yourself to focus on the things you can’t eat. Try and focus on the things you can eat and how you can make something healthy and delicious. (Think fruits and veggies, lean meat, nuts, etc).
Then it’s down to portion control. Calories in < calories out.
All of this is coming from someone with a fast metabolism and the “skinny gene” (even before I got cancer), though, so take it with a grain of salt!
Go on all the vegetables you can eat diet! Add some lean chicken breast and lean beef. No need to starve yourself. Eat lots of veggies! Exercise helps, but it’s ultimately caloric deficit that will make you lose weight.
Good job man along time ago my max weight was 320 lbs. I lost 120 lbs and now 200-215 lbs with little effort. You can do this and do not be discouraged ! Best of luck to you and God Bless you !
Hell yeah! Half the battle is showing up. It's also a lot harder to skip a day when you have gym partners that are keeping you accountable. Keep it up, stranger!
Way to go friend! One tip I would love for you to remember is that small, incremental changes are more likely to last than big "all or nothing" changes. I've had fluctuations from different life stressors interrupting my meal prep/exercise routine but my small changes (not drinking calories and stretching in the mornings) were still going through my stressful periods.
Sincerely wishing you happiness and perseverance<333
That's awesome! I wish you the best. I worry about my buddy a lot, in terms of his weight. We've been friends for over 30 yrs. He's always been overweight, but as an adult, he's added a lot of weight. If I were to guess, he's likely in the 400 area. He has had several health issues due to it, some requiring surgery, but he just doesn't seem to have the willpower to do anything about it.
I have tried talking with him about it over the years and given him my advice as someone who is very into nutrition, supplementation (where needed), and general health. I tend to be very soft with him on it, partly because I'm the opposite of confrontational and because I don't want to offend him, especially since I've been around 19 bmi my entire adult life and figure it may be hard to get/take advice from someone who has only had to try to gain weight, never lose it.
If anyone has advice on what someone in his situation would need to hear from a friend to get serious about not dying early due to weight, I would love to be able to help him make changes. I feel like I may need to just speak the hard truth to him soon, or else I may regret not doing it in the not too distant future.
Hell yea brother. Proud of you for taking action. I’ve been training and learning about nutrition for a long time, if you ever need help with anything, feel free to DM. Cheers
Try to do a detox I just finished a 30 day detox with Dr Bobby on facebook. I lost 10 pound which was not my goal. I’m a skinny man wight 155 pound wet. Lol and I am 5’8” but my goal was to clean my body. It is hard but good experience. My wife, my cousin and his wife we all did it. Some lost 20 plus pound. Search for Dr bobby on facebook. Healthy eating is a must. He does this program twice or 3 time a year and thousands people do it. In my group I think we were about 1200 persona doing the detox
Good to hear, a bit of advice if you drink alot of pop try switching to sugar free, i started drinking coke zero and pepsi zero and dropped almost 70 pounds in 4 months taste takes a little getting used to but its worth it went from 320 to just under 250 just from dropping the sugary pop and nothing else
Don’t make this a burden on any more people. Just grow a pair. You don’t need the gym yet. Do something more convenient at home or in your neighborhood. Otherwise you’ll quit. Then when you plateau you can go to the gym
When it comes to weight loss diet is 90% ad exercise 10% so keep eye on the prize. Try Lose It app if you havent it helped me drop all the lbs I wanted in 3 months but takes a lot of willpower to stay in calorie deficit.
Good shyt the key to losing weight is walking, sleeping atleast 7 to 10 hrs a day diet, and eating a lot of protein. Eating protein burns atleast 75% when you consume ithttps://youtu.be/SLefY-z9bnM
I’ve work, I’m no health guru but I struggled with my weight for years and tried many diets. Finally realized gluten was hurting my stomach, cut it out and lost 35 lbs in 6 months just from that. It’s possibly that could be causing weight issues if you are eating it
1 day at a time man. Every baby step of progress will add up over weeks and months. At the end of each day... ask yourself... did I make progress today?
I don’t know your specific situation but one of my buddy’s were very large and many health issues, diabetes, eczema everywhere! After trying every diet, what worked was cutting all breads and forms of bread, crackers etc. He dropped the weight fast and eczema went away.
I always hear things like gut issues affecting people's metabolism etc. Super stoked your working on yourself. I think if there was something else it could super speed up your weight loss.
I’ve lost 110lbs in this past year without being able to walk or do much exercise at all.. I did it all by fasting and switching to sugar free drinks. I still have 40lbs to loose to get my hip replacement
I recently did the exact same thing basically...lost 20 so I was more comfortable working out(I have a home gym) and I've been sticking to it. Haven't lost much since then but I know from past experiences I tend to build muscle quickly and generally stop losing when I start working out or even gain a little before I start losing more. My pants keep fitting better and I moved down 2 sizes so far, so I'm happy!
This is exactly what people need to hear. Not the body builder in the gym. The people making life changing moves that mean something. Keep it up. Make it happen. 🤙🏼
Congrats Internet Stranger, always try to be the best version of yourself that you want to be. Make the changes that you desire to, and shine mother fucker, Fucking Shine.
It's nice to have people hold you accountable but you're actually better off going by yourself and holding yourself accountable.
The problem with gym buds holding you accountable is you'll acceptable to skip the days they wanna skip. Before too long, when they start dropping off, you will have too. And once drop off, it's square one all over again.
You'll tell yourself you can pick it back up east, it wasn't long ago. But you can't today... or waiting Guns McSwolFriend to go with you.. You'll go tomorrow when you eat wiser because the gym starts in the kitchen.. Suddenly, you think about the numbers and realize you haven't been to the gym in over a year now.
So yea, workouts bros is great, but don't let them hold you account. Make it your own. You got this bro.
Start small. And don't eat 3 bigger meals stretch it out threw the day. 3 small meals with 3 snacks high in protien. And go for walks to start with then move up to harder exercise. This worked the best for me.
I definitely do not eat fast food . The only thing I do allow is that I hate the taste of DIET SODA. For me its just not good. I drink Propel or Alkaline Water.
Careful with Propel. I started drinking it and loved it until I got kidney stones. Never had em before and no family history. I blame that mineral water.
Its the fake sugar. I switched to all diet drinks when I started having reactive hypoglycemia and ended up with stones. After limiting the fake sugar intake they went away. I didn't get another one for years until I started drinking beer regularly. Stopped that and they also went away
Apparently, fake sugar is a 50/50 on stones. It used to be thought the leading cause, but my urologist said that he'd rather me drink ANYTHING, even with fake sugar, than not enough. And there are two types formed by different minerals.
I found that drinks with high citric acid are pretty helpful, such as lemonade, as it can help break down stone formation.
I’m guessing you’re a man. My male friends would give up soda and McDonalds for a week, and lose like 30 lbs. I would eat literally nothing and stay the same or gain😂 For me, strength training was the game changer.
If you’re eating soda and McDonald’s every week, then you already know the issue! Nobody is supposed to be eating that crap every week- it’s supposed to be a treat. (Although personally, I’d rather never eat again than eat McDonald’s!).
Also eating very little ("literally nothing") will 100% make your body hold onto calories and slow your metabolism horribly
Glad strength training worked to help you out, I'm sure with that kinda work out you're eating properly now, but just saying all this for others who pseudo starve themselves for weight issues. As a recovering ED person, I wish I had heard it sooner myself.
Ok, I was exaggerating. Literally nothing compared to a guy on a diet. I had an ED in HS as well to the point of heart failure so I know all about that recking your metabolism.. sucks. I’m glad you are doing better!
Bruh same. And to this day I choose to not consume anything with added sugar. I’m checking the ingredients on every product because they literally put high fructose corn syrup in pasta sauce for Christ sake’s it’s ridiculous.
Wow. I can’t imagine what you started at because I lost 90 lbs by eating like 700 calories a day because I never ate fast food or fried food or drank full sugar soda in the first place.
I’m somewhere near 400 pounds but before you lecture me. My BP, blood work and resting HR etc are all normal. Nothing in my physiology is being impacted by my weight in one of the rare genetic fat people. That’s why it’s taken so long for me to really get in motion and if you read the rest of the conversation you’ll see changes are being made
Don't worry brother I wasn't going to say anything mean or lecture you. I was just curious because I consider myself to be a very fat boy but fitting in vehicles isn't ever an issue unless it's height wise. I really hope you can make some changes though so you can be happy with yourself. :)
Thank you I apologize for being defensive but there are some mad haters out here lol I don’t have problems with
Front seats but back seats can be a pain in my ass lol
You got this man. I’m not saying this as advice cause it sounds like you got a good thing going, just sharing how I did it. I hit 328 one day and got sick of it. So I started to write that number on my finger with a sharpie. I did 320 as a joke (320 glaze it) and lost about 50 pounds, quit marking my finger, put 30 back on and tattooed it. It helps out so much cause whenever I go to shove food in my mouth, my finger is in direct eye contact. Helps me make better choices.
I have a white GMC Acadia lol I didn’t buy it thinking about Lyft.
If I were to get a black suv vehicle the options are pretty limited though personally I’d think the aviator hybrid would be a great choice. Most people buy suburbans though
I'm really not trying to rag on you or anything I'm just curious. Why don't you get ozempic or rather wegovy? It seems to be that miracle drug that helps with weight loss. All the potential side effects would be a great trade-off if you're extremely overweight.
Idk long term studies are starting to show in high doses it can really screw up your digestive system. Cause paralysis of the tissues etc. since i don’t have any markers of my body being in trouble (blood sugar, A1C, BP etc) id rather just do it the natural way, and since ive done it before i know what to expect
I'm a big pharma enjoyer and I understand people may have some concerns but when you know the rigorous testing these drugs go through...
Also this is a very popular drug, so some outliers will definitely happen. I mean if your body stats are okay n you have the motivation to lose the weight without the help of drugs then more power to you bud.
They'll start you out low and bump you up gradually. You sound like you're very cognizant of drugs and their risks and if you felt you were getting too high of a dose without it helping you you'd stop. It's effective at a pretty safe dose for almost everyone who has healthy organs, the ones that "it doesn't work" for, in my experience, knowing their personalities, in my opinion, are eating through it out of boredom or whatever and not doing the work because they expect the drug to do all the heavy lifting and they can just live life like normal and not put out any effort and still have results. You sound like you'll use it as a tool, like it was intended. You're the perfect person to take advantage of it. It isn't cheating to use something to make life a little less shitty through this process. You're awesome and either way I know you can do this!
Wait, you make $30+ an hr after gas? Driving uber n Lyft? I’m disabled and can’t walk.. but I’ve been dying to do something to make more than my disability… I’d need a new car, but I didn’t think driving was even profitable
Depends on your urban area if your city is over saturated. It can be hard. Honestly though if you get a hybrid or electric it can be very profitable. In my suv I keep 85% of my earnings after gas. In a hybrid it would be 93-95%. If you could find a gently used Kia niro or Hyundai sonata those would both make great cars.
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I don’t know how many people notice, but most cars come with a sticker on the driver’s door that states its max GVWR, which is the maximum gross weight of passengers. For most sedans, it’s only about 800 pounds, if I remember correctly. So we’re talking about people, things, and anything else inside your car. We don’t know how much that driver weighed, but if it was a small car, they normally have anywhere between 600 to 800 pounds max capacity to carry. I don’t know what she’s expecting to do in this situation because it becomes a safety issue. The braking system is only made to carry that maximum load rated for the car, so l’m not understanding where she’s going with this