6M / 6'3" / SW 245 / CW 245 / GW 190
I did this 2 years ago, went from 240 to about 210 in about 12 months and got really complacent, stopped counting calories and before I knew it I was eating in excess pretty much daily.
Knew i was back around my starting area but just stepped on the scales for the first time in over a year and it hurts to see I'm actually heavier than I was back then, my worst BMI ever was genuinely 29.9, just under obese, but now I'm 30.4 so I'm technically obese for the first time in my life, time to make a change.
I'm not worried though, done it once can do it again, just gotta stick to it this time. I am a big advocate that diet is so much more important than exercise specifically for losing weight, so I'm going to immediately start with a calorie cap. My resting metabolic rate is 2600 calories so I'm going to start off with 2100 calories a day, exactly 3500 calories deficit a week should be 1lb weight loss before accounting for any calories burned from activity. My idea is that I'm ultimately happy with 1lb a week but any additional weight loss from exercise will be easy to spot and this will help me appreciate it so much more.
I do plan on some weight lifting and I have a 30 minute walk to work (that i never do), my plan is to start walking home from work every other day, start turning it into a partial jog, full jog, and when I'm fit enough that a 30 minute walk doesn't make me feel gross, I'll start walking/jogging to work as well as running from it, so that'll cover my cardio and also my boring commute becomes useful, so pragmatic!
As for my goal weight, it's tricky because my dream build is quite large and muscular, looking great over 200lb, but I think the best thing I can do right now is try to become a healthy weight with good muscle definition and good cardio, then if I want to bulk up from there I can do that, but at least I'll already be in peak health before I make the mostly aesthetic changes.
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