I'm an 18 year old male who has been overweight for as long as I can remember. Back in August I went to the doctors office to get a vaccination and I weighed in at roughly 225 pounds at 5'6". This put me very close to "obese", this of course scared me, but I didn't do anything about it for a while. This was around the time I was working at a pizza place, where I would easily eat half an entire large pizza for at least 2 nights a week. I left the pizza place for a different job soon after (for money, not weight loss). Sometime in October, my family decided to order pizza from this place, so I went to pick up the pizza and saw some of my old coworkers. I remember hearing "Wow, you are looking good, have you lost weight?" and not knowing how to answer. It hadn't crossed my mind in months, but it got me thinking about the possibility of losing. Fast forward to November, school was picking up and I was getting very stressed out, after failing a Calculus quiz I felt like a complete loser. Somehow this transitioned into determination to lose weight while I was looking in the mirror, disgusted with the person I saw. I started on November 11th, but first weighed myself November 17th.
I weigh myself every morning, right after I get out of bed and go to the bathroom. Nov 17th I weighed in at 205.6 lbs. Today, December 17th, I weighed in at 187.4 lbs.
I know this is a lot of weight to lose in a month. I mean that roughly translates to .6 pounds a day, or a 2,123 calorie deficit every day, which is actually insane.
Here is my theory as to why I have lost so much, so fast
I eat roughly 1000 calories a day, which puts my deficit with just BMR at 800 calories a day. Including short walks I take over the course of the day that can probably be rounded up to 1000, which puts my weekly deficit at just enough to lose 2 lbs every week. However, I work 40 hours a week at a job where I am walking 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I downloaded a step tracker which calculates that I roughly walk 10 miles a day, which should net me roughly an extra 1000 calories to add to my deficit daily. That puts my weekly weight loss at roughly 3.5 pounds, which is close to my daily weight loss at 1/2 pound per day, but there is still 1/10 of a pound unaccounted for, which over the 30 day period would translate to an extra 3lbs lost.
I'm incredibly proud of myself, and happy that I've lost so much, and cannot wait till the day when I can look in the mirror, and be happy with the person I see. My goal weight is 150lbs, and at this rate I will be within 10lbs of my goal by my 19th birthday.
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