Have been doing loads of walking and moderate dieting since the start of August, I've lost around 1 KG per week on average between early September and today. Unfortunately this approach is very prone to plateaus.

TL;DR of Progress:

• I have no pictures of me at the start nor did I measure my weight, but in early August I would have looked pretty much like this and I'd guess that I would have weighed over 120 KG.

• After a month I started lose enough weight that I was getting encouraged. In early September, I started getting more serious and disciplined about weight loss. Here's a picture I took about that time , I weighed around 115 KG

• Around early to middle October, I would have weighed 106KG to 108KG depending on when I weighed myself, here is a picture I took on the 9th of October.

• Today, I weigh 104.5 KG, and here is a picture I took today.

I have a chronic injury that means I'm afraid to take up running until I'm under 95 KG at most. On top of that, I can't go to any gym because of COVID19. So I relied on walking, lots and lots of walking, combined with moderate to mild dieting. As I lost weight, I started to walk more. I'd estimate I'm burning over 1300 KCal a day walking on average.

In August, I just took up walking at least an hour every day and stayed away from chocolate bars as much as I could; in September, I was very motivated and counted every calorie; in October however, I didn't make much of an effort to control my eating and was probably eating around 2500 to 3000 KCal per day. I've only lost a little under 2 KG in the past 30 days according to the scale - maybe to all the walking has been basically getting cancelled out by eating!

While I think I've achieved a respectable amount of weight loss so far, there are two problems with the approach I took I've noticed. The first is that I'm not that toned nor am I that aerobically fit for someone who is so active. Obviously I'm not wheezing going up stairs or similar or waddling down the street like I was back in August, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

The second problem is that I've had problems with plateauing. Walking doesn't get rid of much water weight. I was careful to avoid ever working up a sweat in fact so I didn't make my waterproof clothes smelly - I don't want to wear out the waterproof coating unnecessarily by constantly washing it (even tech wash or pure soap will damage the coating over time).

In September it felt like I basically stayed the same weight for the entire month until it dropped. Even now, there is evidence of that I'm carrying a bit of water weight right and the scales are underestimating how much weight I've lost. I feel smaller than 105 KG - for example I'm only slightly too big to comfortably wear medium sized boxer shorts as you can see from the pair of boxer-briefs I'm wearing in today's picture, and skinny fit pants in large size are starting to look somewhat baggy on me. I was considering whether I should have delayed this post for a week or two to see if my weight suddenly dropped, but I decided not to bother.

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