Nice! Wish I had the same determination :p

Good stuff. I hopped on a scale yesterday and I've continued to drop as well. Down to 220lbs now which is 15 below the weight I carried in high school like 20 years ago... still want to get under 200 and chase off more of the fat to be a good N tight rubber pony! :D

hehe yes it works as great motivation XD

Wait, you're both 220+? Well, makes me feel slightly better about being 300. Slightly.

... Wait, you're in your mid 30s?

Late 30s... and I stopped looking after I hit 265 because it was depressing, so I was probably over that when I started.

Also reassuring, also reassuring. And sorry if I was sounding judgemental about your age, I actually like seeing guys with some mileage on me who're still into these sorts of things. One of the many things about the future I'm concerned about is that I'm gonna turn into that 40-something white guy who never wants to do anything besides watch football and complain about politics, y'know, I don't want to lose my interest in the few things I actually enjoy. Which is probably a silly thing to be worried about it, but... general anxiety disorder, cannot recommend it.

I guess this is a roundabout way of saying I like you and I'm sorry if I'm being weird about it.

No I get where you're coming from cause I always gave myself a pass on the weight vs youth angle of things and now that I am getting close to 40 I'm doing it for health and comfort. Playing hockey hasn't helped my knees any but I was sleeping with constant pain in my back and my knees were giving me trouble too. Now that I've shed weight and gotten more in shape it's eliminating those problems. The plus side being it makes for awesome looking rubber ponies too. I'm aware it would've been easier to try this when I was younger too. :)

That's excellent!
What are you're doing for exercise? That's my starting and ideal ending weight! I've just started going on a 5km fast walk every day, not sure if enough.

As for calories, the only excess I consume that aren't food at the moment are beers... and I can't give those up :D . Did give up sugary soft drink, almost all chocolate, all lollies, all snacks, no sugar in coffee and went from 115kg to 105 without any additional exercise at all.

Yeah thats actually how I've lost most of mine, it starts with dropping sugar from what you can (no more sugar in my coffee and I now have peppermints instead of sugar cubes as a treat)
The exercise I was doing was jogging to the shops when I wanted food. Usually to get a sub/kebab/stir fry from the local shops a couple of km away and then eat it as soon as possible or on the walk home.
The theory being that we supposedly burn more calories after a workout, so I thought it would be the best time to get a meal

Sounds pretty similar to what I'm doing, then!
Excellent, I have hope, thank you!

We had some argument at work about dropping/switching things as well. One of the folks there argued that calories are calories, so if he cuts calories then he's fine and he'll lose weight. While there's some merit to that argument, it's more than that. I've been swapping things to better choices with the biggest change of late being that I've stopped buying cold cereal and swapped to yogurt and fruit in the morning. I'm still getting the calories, but less processed carbs/sugar and more protein instead. It's pretty amazing how fast weight drops off even without working out when you stop putting 'junk' in your body.

Yeah for myself I stopped buying breakfast out and i have a nice coffee with weet-bit instead, oh and taking out bread and getting wraps instead for lunch

Yeah, I tend to buy the better choice, usually higher fiber, cereals + low-fat milk. And sandwiches are the bane of my existence. I love bread too much.

Congratulations and the best of luck to you. :D