Hello! I am 21 years old, and I live in the US. I've been overweight since I was young. Playing Call of Duty on my ps3 growing up with a diet of Mountain Dew and Pizza Rolls really set my weight on a negative course for my life. I've always been incredibly insecure about my weight, and I've always wanted to lose it, though will power has always been the biggest issue for me. I've attempted to diet to give it up quickly since I like food too much. I've run for weeks without changing my diet, then not seen any difference in my weight, and given up. I've always had that desire to start, but I never set a date for myself, and then months would pass with me keeping up my unhealthy lifestyle.
I've finally resolved since yesterday to change my diet and work out.
I don't know too much about health or anything like that. I've just pushed together my diet and workout regimen based on what I've read online.
I bought a FitBit today, so I could keep track of how much I've run. I also downloaded the app MyFitnessPal so I can keep track of the calories on everything I eat.
I work as a server at a restaurant, so I'm always on my feet moving around. My goal is to walk 10k steps every day, only taking a day off on the weekends. Sometimes I work 10/11-hour shifts and already have close to 10k-20k steps from just my shift alone, but on my 3 days off I do next to nothing, and then I ate tons of unhealthy food. I've maintained my weight because of my job, but I'm still quite unhappy where I am weight-wise. So I've started walking at least 10k steps on my days off, and if I finish a shift and only have like 8k steps, I'll walk/run when I get home and get over the 10k marker.
The only issue is I live out in the country - the closest gym is around 20 minutes away, and I don't have a vehicle to drive there. (My family gives me rides to work - but I'm working on getting my license. I plan to have it in the next few months to make my workout routine even better.) Since it's a very rural area, there's next to no cement roads to run on, so I end up running on uneven ground. The last time I was walking/running to lose weight, I started to get sharp pains in my shin and had to stop running until I felt better, and then I just never picked it back up. To counter this, I bought a bike today, so I'm going to start cycling instead of spending the full time running.
With my diet, I'm going to focus entirely on natural/healthy food. Today I went to Walmart and picked up some TV dinner's similar to Weight Watchers, which are low in calories. I'm attempting to keep between 1200-1500 calories a day. I'm 5'11 and around 225 lbs.
I'm sure some people know weight loss here way better than I ever could, so if anyone has some useful advice for me, let me know! Or if it seems like my diet is on the right pace, along with my workout, let me know too. My biggest fear is this not showing results and me losing hope again.
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