The story
I've always been the fat kid since school, and it got much worse since I got married and started working a sedentary job and reached 365lbs at 29 years old. I never really minded being fat, i've always been since 12 years old and for me this is normal, this is who I am and I'm fine with it. I've always been confortable with my weight, on how other people see me and I can laught to fat jokes or jokes about myself.
I've never had any motivation to lose weight I met my wife when we were 18, we grew older together and she didn't mind my weight, I never had to lose weight to "look good". I never had any health issues regarding my weight (luckily), and I didn't fear having any in the future (event if it is very likely to happen). I did try a lot of different way of dieting, but always without any real motivation and as you can guess, it didn't last long. I never had the motivation needed to keep going and it always had very little to no results. I thought it was too hard to lose weight to be bothered to do it.
I've never had any motivation, until I discovered r/loseit.I stumbled accross this subreddit, and I checked a few posts out of curiosity, I was not really looking to lose weight. I saw a a post from u/UnboundRelyks who was roughly the same weight as me and who lost a lot of weight in less than a year. I was very impressed by the sheer will needed to lost so much weight in so little time. But I realised that losing so much weight in so little time was possible if someone else did it, why couldn't I ?I also saw this post from u/fyrewal who was even heavier than I am, and who lost an incredible amount of weight. It was so inspirational to read, and I was shocked by the physical changes in the before / after pics. Losing weight can change a man.
These specific stories, also as others, inspired me so much. People who managed to do something I never dared to try. Thank you all for taking the time to share your stories. It made me realiser it is possible. I Always thought that the people who lost much in less than a year where we saw before/after pictures were myths and stories used to make you buy dieting plans. But it is not, here I can read the stories of real people who did it.
Full of motivation, the motivation to know it is possible and that other people did it before. The motivation to know after a lifetime of fatness how I may look as a thiner person, if maybe I could work out and build a body. The motivation to reduce the risk of weight related health issues as I get older. I started a diet.
Diet & results
The most important thing to me in the diet was to : not get frustrated (keep eating what I liked) and get results asap to keep the motivation flowing. So I started a CICO diet. I set the calories intake limit at 1700 per day (kept track in the app Lose It !). I also chose to do it in a 16-8 intermittent fasting which means only two meals a day and no snacking. With only 2 meals a day and 1700 calories, I was sure that I could eat nearly anything I want and still be under the calories limit. The point for me was to reduce the calories intake, but not force me the eat things I don't want to just to fit under the limit.Also, I'm not doing any sports or exercices right now, it has only been diet changes right now. I plan to get back in shape and do more exercices in the future, but now I really need to focus on my diet to lose weight before I can get active again.
It has been a month since I started doing that and what an incredible journey. I did so much good to me, and I learned a lot of things.
- I lost 23 pounds in 28 days
- My sleeping heathrate wen down 15 bpm
- I have less sleeping apnea
- By checking the calories of everything I ate to keep track of them I learned that some thing contains much more calories than I thought and that other contained so much less than I thought. It makes sense to think that vegetable are low in calories, and sugary of fatty foods is high in calories, but seeing the catual numbers made me realised the ditch between the two. Since the begining of this month, I changed my eating habits a lot.
- It made me cook more thing myself instead of buying processed food. Not only meals, but also things like housemade chocolate paste, fruit jams, peanut butter, iced tea, ...
- It made me eat a lot more of vegetable and fruits. My body feels good eating fruits for lunch
- I'm transitioning out of heavy meat diet, eating less of it in favor of more vegetarian alternatives.
- I'm still eating anything I want, no restriction on the food types. Since I'm eating only 2 meals a day, if I know one of them is going to be calories heavy, I make the other one very light. This balance allows me to eat anything I want while still being under the calories limit each day. No frustration (or at least not too much)
- And most important of all, I feel good.
I don't have any before / after pictures yet, because it didn't changed much physically yet, but I will post them in the future when we can see the changes.Thanks again everyone for the inspiring stories, keep sharing them maybe you'll inspire someone to start a weight loss journey just like I did.
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