I’m starting another weight loss journey, and I’m very upset that I’ve let myself get back to this point. I’m determined not to let it happen again. Just a disclaimer this is going to be long, if you do decide to read it, thank you, if not, no worries, I get it.
The first time I decided to really focus on getting into shape was in high school, with a purpose in mind, to be a better baseball player, well things worked out and I was playing baseball at the collegiate level, but I got content with where I was and let it all go, ballooning up into the 200s for the first time in my life. During the off-season of that year I realized I was not in any kind of shape for an athlete. I worked hard, mainly with old fashioned calorie counting and exercise and got myself back in the 190s.
Two years later my arm was damaged to the point I couldn’t really throw anymore at least not for that level of competition, and without that competitive motivation, I saw myself neglecting exercise and eating like trash again. I popped back up to 220 and decided it was time to do this again, once again, by restricting calories and doing at a very minimum some cardio every day, I managed to get myself down to 170 before graduating. I felt committed to maintaining a healthy weight and started either lifting weights or swimming every day. I gained weight, but it was about 15 pounds of muscle this time.
When work moved me to a new town, one without a rec center or an affordable gym, I once again lost my motivation to work out, and slowly the stress of this job and the horrible conditions I was living under, had me making worse and worse food choices along with stress eating. I wasn’t weighing myself regularly anymore but I knew my clothes were getting tighter. But I ended up moving to a town 20 miles away from work, and the better living conditions cleared my head, I made better food choices but still wasn’t working out regularly, I did enough to stave off the weight gain, but not enough to lose the amount I had already gained.
I ended up shifting careers, into something I really enjoy, moving back to my hometown, and I’ve had a lot of success with it. That being said, it can be stressful at times and I am traveling a lot, I’m not making excuses, I know there are ways to stay active and eat better on the road, but there’s no doubt it makes things harder, and having become obsessed with this new career, I neglected my health once again, to the point that I now stand at 6’ 1” and weigh in excess of 230 pounds (28M), and I couldn’t be more upset with myself. Although I did make a lifestyle change one year ago that has been for the better, quitting soda.
Beginning yesterday, I am shifting into judiciously consuming 1500 calories a day, and using intermittent fasting as a mechanism to help control my appetite, rather than just eating whatever and whenever. I will be spending a minimum of 30mins running or walking every day I’m at home and will be going on morning jogs or walks when I’m on the road. Once I’m under 200 pounds I will lower my calorie deficit and ramp up the exercise.
I plan to post an update here once a week in an effort to hold myself accountable. This yo-yo cycle for me needs to stop, and I intend to begin that process now.
For those of you that read through that, thank you, I appreciate the support, even if it is from strangers.
TL;DR: I’m a yo-yo dieter intending to buck the yo-yo trend.
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