M, 27, 6-foot-one. I just started a new job, and other than the job being great, my office has a gym and I get off work at 3:30, meaning for the first time in years, I have time to workout every day. The energy and motivation from that has me counting my calories, IF-ing and eating pretty clean every day, too. I’m down almost 7 pounds in just over two weeks - still a long way to go, but I actually feel like this is sustainable and I’ve never felt that way.
The least I’ve weighed since high school was 260, and that was down from 295 after about a year of riding my bike and prepping to hike Kilimanjaro in 2015. I did - and summited! - and it’s been a downhill spiral ever since. I’m married, we just had our second kid, and now that I feel like I actually have time, it’s time to stop being so fucking fat. I don’t want my kids to have to bury me early because I died of congestive heart failure.
I’m at 313.8 now, down from 320 even a couple weeks ago. My goal is to make it to 200, however long that takes, and to reassess then. I don’t want to put a strict timeline on my goal because I expect plateaus to happen and don’t want those to wreck my commitment.
I’ve been skipping breakfast (maybe some fruit if I really need it) and eating only between noon and 8. Cutting out most refined sugars and empty carbs as much as I can help it, or when I do have them, still trying to stick to 1900-ish calories per day. It’s honestly hard to believe just how many calories I must’ve been eating every day to just steadily climb higher and higher.
Anyway, nothing much here, just needed to post this somewhere to have it in writing. I’m fed up with my weight and general unhealthiness and something had to give. Wish me luck.
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