Sorry for the lengthy post in advance!
A quick summary-- 33 years old, married with 2 kids, 1.5 hr commute each way to work daily. I felt like I had plenty of excuses to skip working out and dieting. After a recent family vacation, and me realizing my typically steady weight of 145 lbs (which I was already unhappy with) ballooned to 158 lbs, I decided to finally do something about it.
I understand the starting weight doesn’t sound like a lot, but I’m a 5’6” male, and I’ve always had the typical dad-bod skinny-fat body type pretty much since high school. I’m pretty frail in general, without much muscle and most of my weight sits on my love handles, lower back, with a bit on my belly.
Weeks 1-7: Began OG insanity and cut way back on carbs and sugar without actually counting any calories. Started tracking my weight but just weekly (Monday). You’ll see after the first week I lost 9.2 lbs. I’m chalking this up to the fact that I had just gotten back from vacation and I’m assuming a lot of that was water weight and my body just being completely at a loss with exercising in general. Lost 12.4 lbs total—definitely slower and steadier rate of loss compared to weeks 7-8. Avg daily weight loss of 0.25 lbs per day
Week 7-8: Began OMAD and tracking calories. Got a new scale and started tracking BMI, body fat, and weight % daily. Really saw the weight fly off with this diet and lost 7.2 lbs in the course of just 11 days. Avg daily weight loss of 0.66 lbs per day
With just 1 more week left to go of Insanity, I’m stoked at where I am now. Clothes fit better, I had to add a notch to my belt so that I could tighten it a bit more, my family and friends have noticed the weight loss as well and have been extremely supportive and encouraging, and I'm just feeling feeling healthier and making better choices in general. Only negative I can mention is that my coworkers poke fun at me for trying to lose weight because I’m “already skinny” and pretty much shame me and roll their eyes at me for eating healthier, dieting, and eventually switching to OMAD. Regardless, I’m happy with the progress and have decided to continue with Insanity Max 30 to hopefully get rid of whatever remains of my stubborn love handles and back fat.
As you can probably tell by the charts, I’m pretty data/analytics driven—makes sense considering what I do for work. These are just screen shots from an Excel file but if anyone is interested in getting the actual file just let me know. :)
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