I don’t really post a lot so please be gentle
I had been overweight for about 3 years prior to deciding I wanted to do something about my excess weight. Honestly, at first it was just because I wanted to look better, but that changed after a few months.
In July 2020 I decided I had nothing better to do so I decided to just start with some cardio and some diet changes to drop the weight. I went to a trail right behind my apartments and just ran as far as I could before I felt like I couldn’t run any further without dying (it was only like a tenth of a mile if that) and then I just walked home. Then the next day I walked to the part of the trail where I stopped the previous day, walked like an extra 30 feet or so and ran home. I did this 6 days a week increasing just a little bit everyday until eventually I could run a full mile, though my time was about a 11 minute mile at first.
The changes I made to my diet were super simple, I just decided to do CICO. I looked up the calories someone my height would eat at my goal weight and just tried to keep it around that. It came out to be around 2200 calories or so if I remember correctly (my original goal weight was 180).
After a few months of running I decided I wanted to get back into soccer which I hadn’t played since high school, so I signed up for an indoor team to add some extra cardio to my life, without it feeling like actual cardio. Ultimately soccer became the main motivator for me to keep myself strict with my diet and to keep me running.
After signing up for soccer I decided to start hitting the gym with a pretty basic bro split, chest Monday’s, back on Tuesdays, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s was now the only cardio days I did outside of soccer, and Friday’s was back day. Around this time I stopped counting calories and just started eating when I felt hungry.
Now I’m currently playing on 3 soccer teams, and doing the same split I mentioned previously. Cardio days are usually just 2 miles a day and then some stair stepper for however long I’m feeling it.
My typical diet is a bagel in the morning with cream cheese, lunch is eggs and oatmeal, dinner is whatever I can find around the house at the time, and I’ll snack throughout the day on various fruits like oranges and pineapple. If I’m feeling hungry outside of normal eating times sometimes I’ll make a pb & J.
Overall I didn’t go super strict with myself on anything. I wasn’t going hard at the gym with a specific plan in mind, I just made sure everyday I did some sort of exercise and made sure not to gorge myself like I had been previously. The advice of “consistency is the most important thing” is extremely true in my experience. I just made sure I was doing things everyday to better myself and improve my health, even when I REALLY didn’t feel like doing it. I still have a long ways to go, but I do know that it’s so much easier to keep yourself in shape than to get back into shape, so I wanted to make this post to help people know that it does get way easier as long as you can stick to it.
TLDR: Was fat, ate fruits and did some running, no longer fat.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/m6ovrg/m23_8_month_progress_july_2020_march_2021_220_lbs/
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