First and foremost, the before and after. The before picture was from sometime in 2018 and the after is from today, May 19th. I randomly got to meet Tim Ryan, one of the people running for president in 2020. I live in a tiny tiny town so I was kind of suprised!
So, January 2018 rolls around and I get a physical. At this point, I know I'm really fat. Like, I'm having difficulties wiping fat. It was embarrassing and when I stepped on the scale, I weighed 364 pounds! YIKES!! Well, I decided to make a change and I had lost 30 pounds in a few months but fell off the wagon. So, I decided to try again later that year. I started a new job after coming home, I had attempted suicide, and just knew I had to do something. This is my third time doing all this but this is the heaviest I had ever gotten. So, I gained about 26lbs back. So, I start my new job and I can't even jog a tenth of a mile. I could barely do the elliptical or anything for more than 5 minutes without being winded. I was just lifting five days a week because I was so scared to do cardio and I just couldn't do it. Well, thankfully my gym came out with a lazy man triathlon and that's where things really took a huge turn in my progress.
This lazy man triathlon was to swim three miles, bike 112 miles, and walk, run, elliptical, etc for 26.2 miles. We had six weeks to get this done and I decided I wanted to do it in four. So, there I was, biking, doing the elliptical, and struggling to swim. One lap up and down counted as one and for a full mile it was 35 laps. Long story short, I finished that lazy man triathlon in 3 weeks and 2 days. My cardiac strength boomed in those three weeks and I was hooked on cardio again. Swimming improved tremendously where I could barely get 10 laps done in an hour to now I can almost do a full mile swim in an hour, not very fast, but, I'm not a fast swimmer.
So, long story short on the diet, I did a lot of intermittent fasting and it was going great. Did a 16/8 split and skipped dinner except for my cheat meal on Friday. I do low carbs and loosely track CICO. I'm very mindful of what I eat and the quantity, but, I have continued to lose. I now eat three meals a day that are all protein based along with protein shakes and I did recently start taking creatine pills to help with muscle growth as I'm currently huge into lifting as well as cardio.
This past Saturday was my chest day, one of my favorites, and I like to do a HIIT warm-up before I start to lift, but, this time I decided to run. I have some tendinitis in my ankles trying to support my big body so sometimes I can run and other times i can't. Just depends and that will come easier with weight loss. But, I've gone from not being able to run a tenth of a mile to I ran 1.25 miles just a couple weeks ago for the first time. I've ran 5Ks in the past and I've even done one 10K which I would love to do again. My average mile time as of lat is about 13 minutes and 45 seconds. I decided on Saturday to see how fast I could do it in and I shave a minute and fifteen seconds off my time for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm so very happy with my progress. I can finally see it myself and that makes it all the better.
It hasn't been an easy road as my mom passed away back on March 2nd and I was traveling all over for her doctor's appointments and hospital stays. One thing I promised my mom after she passed was that I would continue to lose weight and lead a health lifestyle. I still can hear her say how proud she was of me when I said I was when I was down 60 pounds. This journey is for both me and her now and I know she's looking down smiling. I am planning to do my first triathlon at the end of June so I'm looking forward to that, so here's to another 50 pounds! Hope this inspires someone to start, just like all you guys and gals helped me get up and take back my life! (:
TL;DR- Fat man down 72.5 pounds getting better each and every day trying to make his mom proud.
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