22 year old 5'7 male here. I was apparently 250 lb in March, 2025. As of today, my scale says that I am 150 lb, which means I've lost 100 lb.
Wow, looking back, I'm shocked to how I was this obese for this long. I was at least overweight-obese since 2nd grade of elementary school. I struggled most of my life in finding clothes that could fit me. And now I could fit in clothes that are considered small. My BMI is at the healthy range for American standards. My waist-height ratio is considered healthy. My body fat still seems quite high but I'm sure doing a lean bulk/cut cycle + lifting weights will fix it instead of continuing to cut even further. I can run for at least 30 minutes and once ran for a whole hour.
But obviously, my journey is not over at all. I still plan on losing 10 more pounds at 140 lb to try and see if I can lose a bit more fat as I still have quite a ton. But after that, if I still look quite fat despite at a really healthy weight which I'm assuming is skinny fat, I'll stop my long awaited weight loss and start doing a lean bulk to increase my muscle mass before doing another smaller cut and so on. Thought lifting weights on progressive overload and eating high protein would get me away from that but oh well. I've heard about recomping but I hear the results for that are extremely slow so I'd rather just do the bulk/cut cycle.
I do wish I had accomplished this weight loss before college as I'm in my final year. Perhaps my social life would've been a lot better and I would've been a lot more confident and done more physical activities that I enjoy. Perhaps I could've gotten a girlfriend. But the past is the past, and my weight loss journey is nearing an end while a new journey is starting. I just want to say thank you for this long, struggling, process to becoming healthy.
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