So, I've always been kind of a husky individual, but in recent years, it's gotten worse. I'm a 5'9.5" male, and I've weighed over 200 pounds since high school, but that number has gotten even larger. For the past few years, it roughly stabilized at ~250 pounds, but last Saturday, I got on the scale and saw that I was now 277 pounds. That puts my BMI in the "morbidly obese" category (I know they don't use that term anymore, but still). That was truly a wake-up call for me, and I realized that - while I may be healthy in every other metric - this could cause long-term problems for me.
Now, I've lost weight before, but for several reasons, I could rarely ever stick to it. Largely because I just love food too much. So for this new journey, I decided to focus on two main things, at least for now: to exercise more and to reduce my portions. I'm not cutting out foods I love, just eating less of them, because overeating has been my main problem. Couple that with walking every day this past week, I've been feeling like I'm actually getting somewhere.
Fast forward to today, six days into my journey, and I got a random itch to go and weigh myself. When I stepped on the scale, I saw that my weight was down to 270.8 pounds! That means that, on average, I've lost more than a pound a day over the past six days! I could not be happier about this! Now, I know that my weight loss will likely slow down from here on out, since I'm so big to start out with, but now I feel confident that I can actually do this and lose a meaningful amount of weight overtime, which is a feeling I desperately needed!
For now, I'm gonna keep doing what I've been doing, and hopefully, even if not as drastic as this one, I continue to see results. I plan on weighing myself on the last day of every month, with maybe some periodic weigh-ins throughout the month if my curiosity gets the best of me like it did today, and we'll see how this goes! But for now, I'm incredibly hopeful, and I have reason to be!
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