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  2. Request edited Signature banners/Action Photos/Profile pics

    in Forum Help & Support

    Posted

    On 10/4/2022 at 8:01 AM, Nairy said:

    Troopers!

     

    I want to help out the community and the people that doesn't have the time or have the necessary tools or skills to create a cool Signature banner or have the background of your Action Photo removed, or even if you have a request for a certain Profile picture!

     

    I don't know how popular this will be, or what requirements I will need, but we will learn as we go and if it turns out to be popular and it gets too much for me - I'm sure that we can find a few more that are willing to help out! 

    I totally need help! My banner is so cringe.

    I'll reach out via PM!

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  5. Trooper Fit Club

    in Off Topic

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    On 6/28/2022 at 11:44 AM, jsilvius said:

    My first appointment with the Medical weight loss group is Tuesday 5 July 2022.

    So:

    Official weigh in to start the program was 302lbs

    Official goal weight is 220lb

    In the two weeks since weight in I'm down 7 lbs and 1" on my waist.

    The adjustment period hasn't be easy as my wife ended up having to have surgery and my work schedule got all screwed up, so I haven't be able to stick to the diet or the exercise schedule. But with all that behind us (fingers crossed), we hope to be settling into our routine. 

    I've been averaging about 10k steps and "exercising" for at least 90 min a day (mostly just walking). The calorie intake is down to around 1200/day and the water intake is up to about 120oz a day. I'm hoping that once we get into routine the rest of this week, that I can get those numbers to move a bit more like I did the first time I did this program.

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  8. Trooper Fit Club

    in Off Topic

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    My son Jarod (TK-12140) is scheduled to start the local police academy on 1 Oct 2022.

    This weekend he and I sat down to work on meal plans and exercise schedules.

    We are starting out easy. The goal is 3 miles a day, two independently and 1 together after dinner each night.

    We'll visit a couple of the local gyms next week to see what they have to offer.

    My first appointment with the Medical weight loss group is Tuesday 5 July 2022.

    This program is 800 calories per day no more than 50g of carbs. It is a Medically supervised keto like plan. 

    I'm hoping in the 3 months we have until he starts the academy that we can get him ready for the academy PT and get me at least 1/2 way to my goal.

    This program is rapid weight loss, it was originally designed as an alternative to Bariatric Surgery for folks doing large joint replacement (Hips, knees, etc).

    They found if they coupled it with a maintenance plan after the original rapid loss they had a 90% success rate of keeping the weight off after 5 years.

    It worked great last time, except I wasn't able to start the maintenance plan, so I hope that I'll get down to weight goal, and start the maintenance plan to keep it off this time!

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  10. Trooper Fit Club

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Wow am I glad to found this thread.

    In Feb of 2019 my wife and I started a medically supervised weight loss program run by our local hospital. I was 320lb and very unhappy. After consulting with my doctor, we set a weight loss goal of 100lbs. She told me this was very conservative and very doable in this program. She wanted me to shoot for 200lbs, but I haven't weight 200lbs since I freshmen in College, so I didn't think that was a realistic goal.

     

    By Jun of 2019 I was down 50lbs and very excited about what could happen. I saw that ATA was having an anniversary sale, and I bought 2 ANH TK kits from him, and decided it was time to join the 501st. (There is a longer story here, but I'll tell that another time).

     

    October 2019 came  and I was down to 240lbs. I ran my first 5k at my son's college during the parent weekend. I came in 5th in my age group. It wasn't hard to beat the others as they walked the 5k. But I ran the whole thing and was amazed that I completed it. when we returned home I had 2 kits waiting for me. I was crazy excited. and figured my son and I would build them over Christmas break. I didn't have a clue, but I was just starting to read the forums and getting and idea.

     

    Nov and Dec I slipped a lot, We had a 10 vacation to Orlando where we did both Disney and Universal theme parks and then the holidays came. I gained about 20 lbs back and was a bit depressed, but was ready to work on my kit. My Garrison's Armorer lives near me and we spent every weekend in January together learning how to build my armor. I was back to 250lbs and fit the kit to me for my approval in Feb of 2020. I attended my first Convention as a 501st member and ran the both most of the weekend. I was so proud to wear my kit.

     

    Then Covid hit.

     

    Trooping stopped, the medical weight loss program stopped, my son's school went virtual so he has to come home.

     

    And the weight started to come back.

     

    So here I sit, June of 2022 and I'm back up to 300lbs. :(

    I hate how my armor looks on me, My second costume (my tie reserve) doesn't fit any more. So I'm miserable.

     

    Luckily the weight loss program is starting back up in July and my goal of getting to 220lbs is alive again.

    I don't have any pictures currently, but I'll update this post/thread later. I'm just happy to have found this thread so I can start participating and helping us all encourage one another! And hopefully by the time I lose the extra weight again, Dave's Darkside Depot (AM) or Troopermaster (TM) will have plastic again so I can order a new kit to build to at least EIB.

     

    Thanks in advance for the encouragement. I've seen some of the post and it make me thrilled to find another part of the FISD to participate with.

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  22. TFA Captain Cardinal

    in Captain Cardinal

    Posted

    1 minute ago, gmrhodes13 said:

    There have been a lot more references and conversations since this post back in 2019 ;) 

     

    You would need to reach out to our Detachment Leader for more information @Sly11

    Yeah, I just found Shawn's build post and it looks like it died a horrible death in June. :-( that is pretty disappointing.

  23. TFA Captain Cardinal

    in Captain Cardinal

    Posted

    On 7/11/2019 at 10:55 PM, gmrhodes13 said:

    Unfortunately CRL's are not built on assumptions, all we can hope is they bring out a figure or official images (front back sides) of Cardinal. 

     

     

    So can we not do the Cardinal CRL based on the black series figure as the model? I mean, it is from Hasbro and licensed by Disney, is it not?

  24. New from Sweden

    in New Member Introductions

    Posted

    18 hours ago, 1337 said:

    Came here because I love Stormtrooper but I'm also really bad at making a costume myself ;)

    I'm a lot better at computers and electronics than I'm at bulding stuff like this.

     

    So any suggestion on a nice armor that is not to far away from the movies but not as expensive as the ones licensed etc.

    Thinking of the helmet "Star Wars Black Series - First Order Stormtrooper Electronic Helmet" and build an armor for that.

    I hear ya. I'm a Network Engineer and had no clue what I was doing, but I got with my local Garrison members and they helped me figure it out. It was a lot of fun learning how to build the kit myself, and it also gave me the skills to repair it if something breaks. I don't think the Black Series helmets are approvalable with out some work, but I'll leave that to some of the crew with more experience with FO TKs, I highly suggest meeting with some local folks and seeing if they can help you build. There are sever great vendors for armor list her on the forums.  I'd check out these to links for help.

    1.  I want to be a Stormtrooper.  Where do I begin?  https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/38-getting-started-read-this-first/

     

    2.  Where do I buy armor?  https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/11538-the-various-types-of-armor-and-where-to-find-them/

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