I started this journey back in July 2019, feeling like I was at a place of rock bottom, even though there were many positives in my life. I wasn’t happy with myself. My wife and I also had our first child and I REALLY wanted to turn my health around to be a good example for him.
I started out with intermittent fasting doing 16:8, which was very challenging at the start. After a month I started adding in cardio on the elliptical, because I was too heavy to run and didn’t want to risk injury.
I added in weights at some point in August 2019, but I was never consistent with working out. Some weeks would be 1 day a week, while others I would do 3-4.
One thing that never changed was my consistency to IF, which was pretty easy to stick to after the first month.
I felt like I plateaued during April this year at around 230. So, I made the decision to get stricter on my diet and up my workouts to 6 days a week, sticking mostly to cardio @ 140bpm pace and low weight/high rep weight lifting. My cardio sessions were about an hour. That seemed to do the trick and weight started coming off again.
My goal is 190 and I feel like I can get there in the next month or 2. One awesome side benefit of this whole journey has been my resting heart rate. When I started, my resting heart rate was around 80 bpm and it’s nosedived down to 47 bpm today!
This community has helped me a ton on this journey!! Thanks for letting me share this with you guys and I hope it can be encouragement to anyone else who finds themselves in a situation similar to mine.
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