Currently I’m at 271.1(61lbs down). I’m 1lb away from completing the step 2 portion of my weight loss which is pretty exciting. I was off by about a month and a half but I did have a maintenance month so let’s say 15 days off lol. Let’s go over some changes or things I’ve stuck too since the last one:
- Stats- I haven’t come close to beating the streak of 53 days without being in a caloric surplus, but that’s ok. That’s never my intended goal and life started lifeing itself. I’m currently 176/196 days in being in a deficit for the year and 215/235 days since the start of my current weightloss push. In 33 weeks, I’ve lost an average of 1.84lbs a week and that includes one maintenance month due to a limited time double job and multiple events. I think I did go perfect in may though lol. Once again, most of the surplus days involved eating with friends, but I have since been able to even manage these days with how the last week went where me and a friend worked the fair and I didn’t go over once(tons of walking as well).
2.Nutrition- combining 2 and 3 of my last update because it’s really molded into something where all the food is the same. So, I used to eat breakfast mainly by cooking or a snack here or there or eating out here or there. I’ve since been integrating any type of food into my day to day. Frozen food, eating out, cooking, fruits, veggies, it really doesn’t matter to me. Carbs especially have gotten consumed more than any other macro and we’re talking about soda, candy, along with fruit or potatoes. Literally ate a burger, with a soda and a vitamin water, and I’ll probably have a snack later, a game to play, and dinner. I’ll go into why it doesn’t matter later. My goal here is to take control of all food rather than avoiding something because someone calls it “bad” or “unhealthy”. I treat food as “low performance” or “high performance” but even then simple carbs can be a valuable thing for someone heavy in cardio. This is something I will stick to u til my goal changes to eating for fitness reasons rather than weight loss.
3.Exercise- As I said above, exercise I do is all cardio but I could be walking, sprinting, etc. I play a lot of basketball so the high MET is really putting my caloric burn up a ton, especially since I’m playing for 1-2 hours as a runner. I still have the same knee issue and I’ve even gathered a couple more unique injuries I’ve had to deal with probably from the lack of muscle maybe, but I’m doing my best to adjust and stay healthy: however, given last weeks deal where I was only able to walk, I feel much more confident I can lose weight without the need for it. I’ve come to the conclusion that I will start lifting at the 210-230 mark with my brother or my friend so I can really turn the heat up, but for now it’s just weight loss.
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Motivation- no real change here. I don’t need motivation at all, but if I do feel there’s something off because you know emotions can take over, I always look over my data to keep me focused on the overall progress. I know, it’s never easy when you see the scale and see it don’t move, but with each plateau passed, it makes this much more easier the 2nd, 3rd, and so on time.
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Hunger Levels- anytime I’ve had issue with hunger, it’s when I don’t eat periodically enough throughout the day. Mostly happens when I have a pretty heavy breakfast from eating out somewhere cause my fam wants like a breakfast burrito or something like that or my own doing eating too many times before work and having to survive. I do treat it as a warning rather than needing to eat so it’s pretty easy to ignore it. However, I will just eat something small once every couple hours to manage it mostly in the form of a serving or two.
6- water intake- probably my biggest issue here. Not because I hate water or anything. It just feels like a chore to me lol. I have been trying to get in more and I know I do need it when exercising but just have trouble reminding myself to drink do something. I think Itol be easier when I’m in the maintaining stage so I’m not subconsciously worried about the weight since I know it doesn’t mean anything regarding that.
7-body measurements- my waist has dropped to a fluctuation of 52-50.5. That’s the only one I really focused on but yeah it’s about a drop of 4-5.5 inches since the last one. I think my arm dropped 1.5 inches, my leg still looks the same, but maybe there’s some change there. My neck lost an inch or two. I think I have a pretty good idea about how long it will take for there to be a change in inch, so I can start preparing for what clothes are gonna probably have to go.
8-clothing- which brings me to that. Kinda crazy. I have 114 on my sheet, and only 26 are left that can’t fit good for normal purposes. I’ve already gotten rid of multiple hoodies, I’ve added about 7-10 shirts to my gym wear, and I’ve modified the ones I was currently wearing. If you have seen my last update, there was this one flannel shirt hoodie I mentioned that I really wanted to fit in and I was shocked that I’m actually only about 1 inch away from it being a complete comfy fit. I had leave the bottom button off but other than that, loved it. Of course, I’m looking to fit into the other clothes, but not really sure where to go from there. If my trends are correct, I’m gonna have more clothes that don’t fit than clothes that do going the other way which will be bittersweet, but the clothes I like getting will be much more attainable. I really have an issue with shorts because I only have one pair that is pretty small when I get down while the rest of them will make my legs look like toothpicks. Time to look around lol.
9-mindset- this will be a new one I’m adding, but it will be more or less the same. I’ve now changed my mindset to a longterm life goal of how I want to navigate my body composition for now, later, next 10 years, and life. It could change but the habits I’ve now established will be implemented regardless of the mindset. The mindset being I don’t take food out of any of my diets unless they don’t support the goal I’m planning. So, for losing weight, I don’t need to take anything out especially with cardio, I just need to shorten serving sizes. Because basketball is prominent in the exercise, I’m afforded more forgiveness to simple carbs. If I were to take on fitness bodybuilding, I put more emphasis on protein intake and I will probably have to up my serving sizes for “bulking stages” and lower my sizes for “cutting stages”. If I were to get old where high intensity sports become a pastime to me, then I’ll look to eat more clean for the goal of longevity, but that’s how I’m gonna operate from now on. As I get used to each stage, it will be clockwork, but the way I eat will stay the same give or take.
So there’s my update I’ve added a couple changes to my current goals
Stage 1:300lbs✅
Stage 2:270lbs(1.1lb)
Stage 3:240lbs(31.1lbs) EST:11/25
Stage 4:210-220lb(51.1lbs-61.1lbs) EST:03/26
Stage 5:maintain/optimize fitness(foreseeable future)
Any questions about things I do in detail, you’ll see me in the comments 👍🏾 until the holidays
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