I've been a lurker here for around 2 months, but I guess some of my success so far has inspired me to post here.
Now for the story. I've always been on the heavier side. At 6'9, I was always hungry as a kid and didn't have the maturity to control myself. Frankly, my parents kind of enabled me(and if I hadn't been playing hockey I think I'd be obese).
I started my weight loss journey around early august of last year, when I left home and moved in with another family a few thousand miles from home for hockey. The summer before had been hard on me. My depression hit an all time low, and I coped a lot by eating. The week before I moved I weighed in at 315 at the doctors. I was at a low point.
I moved up two weeks before training camp started, hoping to regain a little bit of my former shape and maybe even lose some weight. I left my room maybe 10 times during those first two weeks. I was dearly homesick and since no one else had moved up yet, insanely bored. I was honestly starving myself. Maybe eating 1000 calories a day. After training camp started I upped my intake considerably, probably to around 2000-2500. I weighed myself at 295 two weeks into camp. Another three weeks later and I was at 285. My body hurt and my play suffered. There was no way I could keep this up.
I stopped my "diet" after I was moved to another billet house. My new billet family preferred poor food, compared to the food that my last billet family had served me. From that moment on, I was maintaining for the rest of the season. This wasn't the worst thing, as my play got way better from that moment on.
In March, I moved back in with my family and on 4/21/2019 I officially started my diet. It's currently a 1400 kcal deficit where I'm eating 1600 kcal a day. I try to eat at least 150g of protein per day up to 180g. the first week I lost 4 pounds. Second week 6.6 pounds. Week two was when I began skating again. On week three I gained .6 pounds, and I was concerned. I hadn't heard of a plateau starting after only the third week. I decided that it was water retention from the extra skating, and that if nothing changed the next week then I would change something. One week 4, I lost 6.2 pounds, bringing my monthly total to 16.2 pounds down. When I started, I aimed to lose around 3 pounds per week, but I think that I underestimated the amount of Calories that a hockey session can burn, so right now it looks like its more like 3.5-4 pounds a week.
In short, I'm really happy about this. I've never truly been able to lose weight like this and I am ecstatic so I thought I'd share with you guys!
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