Hi all,
Wanted to say that I love this sub, its really helped me along my journey the past few months. So many inspiring individuals here, even just being a member of this sub is an excellent first step.
My(24m) weight has always fluctuated since I was about 15. I’m 5’9 but have a tendency to pust on (and maintain)muscle/fat quite quicky. Helped also by the fact that I love food and am eating a minced pie as I write this. I tended to be either borderline overweight or 5-6kg overweight (doctor opinion not mine).
At the beginning of lockdown I was pushing 86kg (quite a bit for me where 75kg is where the doctor would stop telling me off) which is my heaviest since an all time high of 87-88kg at christmas. I had tried vegan + watching what I eat very roughly, whilst lifting weights 3 times a week for 30min, which is why I was slightly lighter.
What worked for me was a gentle approach with myself on how to get down to a heathly weight. Usually id go hardcore and start fasting then eating only salads with tuna twice a day. Needless to say, this didn’t ever work too well and only lasted a few days (or hours). This time, I decided to lower carb intake significantlly (borderline keto but without that goal in mind) and started doing 30min of cardio 3 times a week. I chose running which I’ve never been able to do and also saw as a mental challenge which I needed as I was on furlough. I also skipped breakfast and had black coffee, although this is something Ive always done. This time I made a point of sticking to it everyday. Which isnt too hard to do.
Low and behold, after doing this since the 28th of May, this morning I weighed in at 72.6kg. The point I’d like to emphasize here is that I truly stuck to this each day. I still ate cheetos sometimes, but not often. My gf and I would have chinese takeout now and then. I didn’t feel deprived of food because I’d stuck to learning to enjoy those great things in a healthy moderation.
The discipline I learnt in doing that helped me get into running and I went from getting out of puff and cramps from running 300m. To running 10k two weeks ago in 1h04min which I’m very happy with.
In general I’m much more disciplined and feel much healthier than I ever have. Have learnt, and hope to transmit in this post, is that once you achieve genuine weightloss and maintaint it. A goal which is great to pursue from the start. You learn along the way that people who are always trim, or are telling you about a 10k they ran at the weekend, is because they just feel so great all the time it would seem silly not to live any other way.
Thats where I’m now at, I cant ever imagine living like I used to. I genuinely get cranky if I dont go for a run in a few days. I don’t feel too great after smashing a Papa Johns one friday. Whereas before I’d have had my kebab,half of my gfs chips, then a full english and roast the next day. Now id not eat till 12 then have an omelette for lunch, short run in the afternoon, and feel better for it. My few health woes (high resting bpm which is now at 55 down from 69-73). Are gone.
So guys, hang in there, take it as a journey and everythings going to be ok. Dont hate on yourselves, you’ve made mistakes with food in the past, and you’ll make plenty more in the future. Just do try your best to do well from hereon out. Love yourself at all times, enjoy life no matter what, because its very short and you never know what life might throw at you. Plod along with your weight loss efforts, dont let it consume you and it will happen. The jeans get loser, the sleep gets better, the sex gets better, anxiety, mood, depression, the list goes on,
Aim to achieve the point where you feel it in your bones that, yep, this is the right way to live.
Hope this helps someones!!
Tl:dr Always kinda pudy guy, realises why people are thin and stay thin/healthy. Goes from couch to 10k (running) 86kg to 72.6kg in 4ish months. Writes this eating minced pie.
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