New guy in Arizona

[Little Luey]

hello everyone. I just registered to the forum.

My name is Luey and I am new to bw exercises so I am here to learn.
My main goal is to lose fat and keep it off for good. At 40 years old I have become the couch potato I swore I never be, but family, work and plain laziness got me at 225lbs.
I have been training with a kettlebell for the last month or so and I think I can use some variety in my workouts. I am now down to 212.5lbs and 33% bodyfat. My goal is to be down to 190lbs and around 10% BF.
I weigh in on Saturdays since it is more conviniante for me and this week I want to be at 210.
All help and encouragment is appreciated.;-)

See you around.

[Tgarber77]

I feel your pain... I too have Xtra weight I want to lose, and understand how much time and effort it takes to fulfill work and family obligations. Also, I too am relatively new to the forum. Over the past four months or so I started consentrating on my diet and exercise routine and lost about 30 pounds.
For me the diet habits was the worst part! I LOVE FOOD! However, I have managed to overcome most of the bad habits. And now if it is in a box, bag, or wrapper I do not eat it.

For variety in workouts I use the "Karl Gotch Bible" which is using a deck of cards to determine the number of reps, and excercises to do throughout the workout based on the numerical value of the card until the deck is finished.

I also use a kettlebell, and just started doing Tabatas. Hopefully this website can help you. It has helped me already to learn variations and types of many exercises. Enjoy!
:-x:cry::lol:

[Little Luey]

Thanks for the welcome.
30lbs in 4 months, that is very good!
I love food myself, I have to say I have come a long way in my eating habits. About 20 years a go or so, my dad was told he had really high bad cholesterol, I was still living at home when that happened and my dad had a hell of a time trying to change the way he ate and he was miserable. I promesed myself I was not going to have the same issues, so I started watching what I ate. My problem was that I eat a lot of food, even if it is not the fried up tuff it still puts extra calories in me and my body likes to store it.
Now, I am trying to cut sugar and alcohol out of my diet, this is hard, and for me they come together, when I drink I like to have something sweet with it, like chocolate cake or something like that.

[cheesedog]

Welcome Little Luey! Kettlebells are a great tool, I have a couple of them myself. A high-intensity circuit of KB moves, bodyweight exercises and sprints burns off tons of calories.