I started my weight loss journey at the end of March 2020 when the pandemic began. It started because I was walking my sister's dog a lot. He's very energetic and was driving people in our house crazy - he needed to be walked multiple times a day. I was shocked to see weight flying off me!
A year later, I am so, so close to -60lbs (off by 1.2lbs, so I know it's coming within a week). At the very beginning I weighed 240lbs and for my height was hitting the bottom of the morbid obesity range on the BMI. I recognize there are issues with the BMI, but I do use it to measure progress.
As of my current weigh-in, I am not only far away from the morbid obesity range, but I am also OUT of the obesity range. It's taken a bit to sink in for me, because accepting that I was classified as obese took me almost a full year to accept before I started losing weight. So to truly no longer be is really overwhelming - in a wonderful way.
I have been, and continue to lose weight in stages. This is how it worked for me:
- Long walks, removed liquid calories - first 2 months
- Stopped eating breakfast, started couch to 5k (it took me about eight weeks to get out of the first week of intervals) - second 2 months
- OMAD every other day - 3 weeks
- Unstoppable binge stopped OMAD - 2 weeks
- 2 month plateau
- Calorie counting and weighing food - 2 months
- 3 month plateau (mangled my foot and had to stop running and walking)
- Mix of OMAD and TMAD (past month)
While the plateaus annoyed me, I took solace in the fact that my weight did not increase. I am now able to run 5ks, have run a 10k and am working on building up to a half marathon!
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