Hi Lose it,
Ive been in my fitness journey now since April of 2019. I am a 5’10” male who started at 320LBs and got all the way down to 220Lbs using weight watchers.
Once COVID Hit, I gained back to 260 and was comfortably there until until September of 2021 where I restarted my journey. I was able to get to 225 by January of 2022 by having a friend coach me through a low carb focused diet. I was eating approximately 2400 Calories a day and losing 1.5-2Lbs a week.
After January, my body revolted and I started feeling lethargic, fingers and toes feeling cold, slow heart beat, and general uncomfortableness and my weight loss stalled again. I slowly worked my way up eating more until I was maintaining at 3500. I tried Low carb and restricting once again but I had the same bouts of lethargy, cold extremities and slow heartbeat. I went to my PCP and she recommended a heart specialist who found nothing out of sorts
Part of me wondered what I was doing wrong, what was wrong with me? I decided to eat more and pick up weight lifting. I fell in love with it.
I was going to the gym 4-5 times a week and seeing reasonable progress with my lifts over the next 6 months. I was eating Approximately 3400 on rest days and 4000calories on workout days. I was feeling excited, powerful and consistent.
Then Thanksgiving week hit and something in my body changed again.
I had my normal oatmeal, eggs and protein before my workout. That workout was different. I normally could do 12-14 reps at the bench press 4 times with a 150 weight but I couldn’t manage one round without being out of breath, fingers cold to the touch.
I thought maybe it was just not my day, we all have days like that. It continued and my fear was realized and I stopped going to the gym.
I have another appointment scheduled with my PCP to see if they can give me additional clarity on what’s going on.
I will never give up and continue my work to improve myself. This journey isn’t easy.
Would anyone have advice or point me in the direction of questions to ask my PCP to best support me and my fitness journey?
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