All, please help, I am at my wits end and my friend is not feeling very encouraged at this point. I will try to summarize the situation. Please ask as many questions so that we can help him out.
He is a 40+ year old man who just started to change his lifestyle in the Summer of 2006. He was 280lbs, a smoker and a drinker. He has stopped both smoking and drinking, (these are victories in itself). He talked to another friend who actually got the info from me, to change his eating habits to loose the weight. He went from 280 to 266 but mid-September.. GREAT!!!
He went to my doctor at this time and had a full set of blood work done. The results, type 2 diabetes, higher than normal blood pressure, and low thyroid. The doctor put him on medicine for the diabetes, and the thyroid, and also informed him that all problems would go away if he lost 30 pounds, with the exception of the thyroid.
On 10/14, I gave him a good workout plan to help with the leaning out while toning. (high reps, full bdy plan. Since then, his weight was 252. We adjusted the diet to a balanced 6 meals per day with clean eating. Calories were changed to 1840 per day. I also switched to 4 days a week weight training and 1 day cardio.
On November 1, he quit taking his thyroid medicine, because the pharmacist said it was about the same as the DHEA pills that he was starting to take. (25mg twice per day.)
As of today, Monday, January 08, 2007 his weight is at 245.5.
The last 3 weeks went as followed:
12/10/06 - 246.5
12/17/06 - 242.0
12/24/06 - 241.0
12/31/06 - 243.5
1/7/07 - 245.5
His Bf% is approx 25%, (hand-held monitor)
Please chime in as I respect your thoughts and opinions. Ask any questions you need to help fill in any gaps I may have left open.
Thanks in advanced.