How does one go about getting real thin again?

Well stopping with the EIGHT beers a day would be a good start.

Possibly amputate a major appendage. Don't quit the beer.

Massive cross training. You dont want to run massive miles, if you are much heavier than you used to be. So get on that bike everyday and just go.

To avoid injury, like Danny (legendarypegasus) had said, just start off with the crosstraining first. Biking and swimming, those two sports are up to 80% beneficial to lungs compared to running which is 100%, but are 2-4 folds lower risk of getting injured.

But you have to jog at least 30min at one go, maybe on the grass, lower impact compared than running on the road (you're heavier now right?).

Until you're in the 160-165 lbs area, then I think you can start bit by bit, start to reduce the other swimming and cycling, till you get to the point where you achieve your weight and shape goal.

G'luck.

ps: yeah and start running 100+mpw after getting a 150 shape.

go out and spend all your money on dope. Then wala no money

no food. You will look like Ally McBeal in a jiffy.

Stimulant are especially good for this. Remember always

consult your doctor before try out my dope diet :)

Better yet, spend your money on coke... you'll no longer have any desire to eat nor the money to buy food.

Runner guy is about the same as druggy guy after all...

giardia.

I used to drink 2-4 beers most nights between dinner and bed. I never really believed that drinking caused you to gain weight. I'm about 6' and in college I raced at about 134. For the past couple years, I've been more like 142. So for about a month or two, I just got too busy or lazy to go to the store and get a 12 pack. Suddenly, the fat started falling off like crazy! I'm now down to my racing weight.

This week I found an interesting article on the effect of alcohol on runners:

http://www.runohio.com/features/01-02-03ATHLETES_KITCHEN.html

needs to lose 25+ lbs,

Dude, what I am about to say is not to be inflammatory, but just plain old truth.

If you are drinking 3-8 beers every night, you need to consider that you might be an alcoholic. Do you crave it so much you can't stop?

I like beer as much as the next guy, but I can count on one hand the number of beers I've had so far this calendar year. I've also had probbaly 3 glasses of wine during that time.

But, if you are drinking 3-8 beers every night, you have a problem.

Certainly quitting the beer will allow you to drop some weight, but with the amount you are drinking, it should improve your overall health.

See if you can stop on your own. If you can't, you should talk to your doctor and perhaps get into an AA meeting.

Anyone who says that isn't a lot every day is flat out wrong. You should drink as many as 5 beers in a day perhaps once a year at a New Year's party or something. With regularity you have 8 beers in an evening? Too much - way too much.

I'll pray for you my man.

wheres asicsman when we need him?

who is this and how do you know my name?

i don't know how he knows it, but the rest of us know it 'cause your handle links to your e-mail.

mzungu

What people fail to realize is that it isn't the alchohol that causes you to gain weight its the crappy food you typically consume along with it, and the more fast food that you feed your face before you crash(pass out).

Most individuals can easily handle a 12 pack or more daily and not gain weight as long as they space their eating apart more. And instead of heading to the fridge and nuking up those nachos at 3:00 A.M. just grab a couple of cold ones and take them with you to finish off in bed and you'll sleep like a baby and not turn into a fat walrus.

You ever seen a fat wino?

This is all scientific.

No. The alcohol is high in calories and that adds to weight gain. Of course bad food is going to add to it, but you could gain weight simply by adding alcohol to your normal diet.

Boozehound,

Don't know what science you are spouting, but a typical non-light beer has 288 calories. Have a 6 pack and you've had 1728 calories or about the same amount a 150-pound man burns in an entire day if he does not exercise.

A 12 pack or more daily? Surely you jest.

They don't call it a beer belly for nothin'.

Flag Pole thanks alot, no harm taken with your ideas & thoughts.

I currently drink between 3-8 beers per day, mostly 16 oz cans @ 5.5% alc/vol. This is an assumed name & I post on here alot, my Prs are listed but ....let's just say it's been a hard year or two.

I used to be able to train very fast/hard, no jogging 7:30 miles for me, I guess old age, the abuse of running (injuries) for 26 years & a work/personal-life enviroments have slowed me down. I was never a 100+ mile/week runner but in the mid 60-70's/wk all fast.

I don't eat tons of food but the beer has to go, at least way down in volume per day. I guess the answer is the beer consumption is up too high & the miles are way down along with the intensity of the pace. Thanks again, anymore ideas just shoot them out here.

nice hint for danny from mzungu. I dont even know if danny is your real name, so just relax.

call me bort,

karangasem.

Flagpole Willy, a typical 12oz beer has 145 calories, about half the number you cite. Maybe you're thinking Big Bob Marley Beers?

Alcohol is a fat burning inhibitor. I wish it wasn't so but to lose some fat you may want to ..... I just can't say it. It's Blashemey.