Tuesday, March 3, 2020

[M28] A long-time-coming progress pic. 4 years, but I hit my goal weight. 6'1". 280+lbs to 199.6lbs.

So I'm not one to post pictures of myself online, but I promised myself when I hit my goal weight I would make this post.

This has been a journey that took much longer than I anticipated. I haven't been 100% with it all the time. But I'm very proud to have reached my goal I set when I started.

I said 280+ in the title because I honestly wasn't weighing myself back then as it was just depressing. The last time I weighed myself, months before deciding to lose weight, I was pushing 280lbs. So I know I was higher than that.

Since then I tried a number of different "lifestyle changes" to help change those more negative aspects of myself. 15+ inches of hair later and I'm still working on it.

Losing the first 40+ pounds was easy, but I always seemed to plateau or find my way back to ~240lbs.

Everyone commented on the weight loss and said I looked great, but I had set a goal and not reaching it was just as damaging to my mental state as every resource online telling me I was still obese.

In October, I was preparing for my wedding (which was Feb. 1st of this year. Yay!) and had grown complacent/stressed/lazy/etc. I'd regained some weight and was back once again to that dreaded 240.

So I bit the bullet and said if I don't do it right now before the wedding while I have this motivation then I never will. So I started keto which I had heard a lot about. I stuck to it. And 1 day before the wedding (Jan. 31) I climbed onto the scale and saw a 1 in the hundreds place for the first time since I was a kid.

I've maintained since then and am upping my weight/exercise so I'm not just skinny fat. Sorry for the long post, but I had promised myself I'd make this one.

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