Hey everyone! New member of the r/loseit community here. Just wanted to share a bit of what I've worked on over the last four months with regards to (what else) fitness and weight loss.
First, a little backstory. In high school, I was a two sport athlete on the swim team and water polo teams at my school and I probably weighed around 210 at my lightest weight sophomore year. At that time I was probably around 6'1". Fast forward to November of last year. I had basically no training plan and was in a definite rut- I'd just graduated college but hadn't found a job after a few months of searching and turned to food to fill the lack of daily interaction with people. I'd skip breakfast, eat a big lunch of a large sandwich and pretzels, eat a large dinner of ground beef/tacos/burritos, and go out for a fourth meal at Taco Bell around midnight, where I'd eat another ~1200 calories.
I got on the scale one morning and it read 264.
I looked at recent photos of myself and noticed that my chest was starting to become more and more visible. I shouted "Enough is enough!" in the mirror and decided to meet with a dietician. We came up with a calorie plan and I promised myself I'd be more active. I started out at 2600 calories a day and over the weeks slowly decreased my calorie intake to 2200, 2000, and 1800. I'm proud to say that with 30-45 minutes of brisk walking 3 times a week and a big change in my diet (Cut way down on sugars, stopped eating after 8:30 pm, drinking around 40 oz more water/day), I've lost about 20 pounds since November. I'm nearing the 230's weight range that I was in during college. I'll be the first to say that sometimes I slip up and have cheat meals but I just log it in MyFitnessPal and move on to the next day. I've made a lot of good progress and there's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm confident about the future and know that I'm not just dieting- I'm making a lifestyle change.
For all my tall fellas out there packing on some extra weight, you got this!
Thanks for reading and good luck on your journey! Go get it!
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