In May of 2019 I had just finished up my fourth year of college. I was on a five year track and had an extra year of eligibility to play basketball, but I was seriously out of shape from all the drinking goodbye to all my four year friends. As soon as I was home for the summer I knew it time to get serious about losing the weight.
I was a 6’5” relatively well built 22 y/o male that weighed about 285 at the start of that summer. Losing the weight came fairly easy. I was working 70 hour weeks as camp counselor by day, and a bouncer at a popular night club by night. I would normally lift heavy between my shifts.
None of my friends were home that summer, and between all the time I spent working active jobs I had no time or desire to go out and drink. Just by having an active, sober, summer I went into that basketball season at 245 and in the best shape of my life. I maintained around that weight for several months until COVID-19 restrictions locked everything down.
I was about halfway sad about college ending in a lockdown, halfway just super bored to be in my house all the time but I spent most of my nights just chugging beers and watching movies. The drinking itself wasn’t the biggest factor but I had no control over my eating once I reached a certain point. Once the restrictions lightened up a bit and restaurants opened again, I felt comfortable to see my best friends from home who enabled this behavior on the basis that “we’re in our 20s we should be enjoying ourselves,” or that “we earned it”.
The long story short is that too much fun and living in the moment and ordering Dominoes pizza when I’m 20 beers deep made me put all the weight back on. I hadn’t even noticed my body changing that drastically all summer / fall until I had to put on a pair of way too tight khakis to get a job. The job I got was a gym with an InBody machine that tells you your body composition, lean muscle mass, body fat percentage, etc. I used that machine today and my heart sank when I saw I had gained back more than I had initially lost and my body fat percentage was almost double what it was at my peak.
Today was a major wake up call for me, and as much as it hurt to see what I saw, I’m glad I did that. It’s really frustrating to know that I worked so hard and I just have to do it all again but I don’t have too many regrets. I had a lot of fun times but I want to think of that chapter as closed, and now it is time to work hard for a new one. I’m trying not think too far ahead of myself now. I just want to win each day, each workout, each meal. Going forward, I don’t want to think about getting in shape or losing weight for something in particular like a sports season. I think it’s time for me to just start being healthy.
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