Back in 2020, I was 480Lbs. Decided enough was enough. Completely cut-out carbs and intermittent fasted every week from Monday to Friday, then binged on whatever the hell I wanted on Saturdays and Sundays. No limits.
Doing this consistently resulted in me going down to 300Lb in about 18 months. Couldn’t believe how effective it was. At my peak, I went a solid month, 30 days straight without a cheat day and lost 35Lbs that month. I was on fire.
Then, out of nowhere, I suddenly got extremely depressed and stopped caring. No idea why at the time. Over the course of the last 4 years I completely stoped controlling my eating and ballooned back up to 480Lbs AGAIN.
At this point I figured my only hope against such extreme yo-yo-ing was some kind of extreme measure like gastric bypass or ozempic (which at the time was unaffordable for me) I began the long process of jumping through all the hoops they make you go through for gastric bypass surgery, one of which was a large battery of blood tests. This inadvertently revealed the REAL issue for my complete drop-off in motivation. My testosterone was in the toilet. It was like 140. Lower than low.
Unfortunately my doctor is absolutely useless. She called me to inform me that my testosterone was critically low and her exact words were “Sorry, but I’m not really sure what to do with this. I’ve never dealt with anything to do with testosterone before. Hope you can find help.” She didn’t even think to refer me to a Men’s Clinic or anything. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to find a specialist on my own.
I was prescribed TRT, I’ve been on it for 3 months now and it has completely given me my life back!! I’ve been in the gym doing intense cardio and strength training for 25 days in a row now and I am down 40Lbs.
It is hard not to be discouraged over losing so much progress, but hey, that’s life sometimes. No matter how far you fall, you can always get back up. Let’s goooo!!!!!
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