A little backstory: I (29M) let myself go this year and am about a month into getting my shit back together. Through most of last year, I was about 240-250 which was a decently healthy weight for me at 6'2", since I was doing powerlifting-style workouts 6 or 7 days a week, so I was BIG, but not fat. Well this year I fell off the wagon and spent the first half of 2021 eating junk food and sitting on my ever-widening ass. Went from a large t-shirt to XXL, and gained almost 50 lbs. There's no excuse for this, and I really can't explain why, but I just fell off.
A month ago I decided enough is enough, so I went on a Whole 30 diet and actually stuck to it. I've always made fun of "trendy" diets, but I'm blown away by the results. Not just losing 18 lbs (I was 298 a month ago, 280 this morning), but the non-scale victories have been amazing. I feel way better, when I didn't even realize that I felt bad before! Better sleep, more comfortable digestion, no more random aches and pains in my body, more consistent energy throughout the day... I'm stoked!
Still a long ways to go to get back into the shape I want to be (the phrase "brick shithouse" comes to mind when I think about my goal physique), but I'm feeling so much more confident and capable now that I've hit the reset button on my eating habits! I don't plan to stick to this diet 100% long term, I just don't think it's sustainable to be this restrictive year round. But I'll definitely be eating mostly (like 85-90%) whole, unprocessed foods from here on out now that I see how much better my body feels and functions. I've finally been getting back in the weightroom and it feels great to be under the bar again after a long break.
Anyway, that's all, just wanted to share my success in this sub since reading y'all's stories has been giving me so much motivation!
TLDR: Fat guy gets slightly less fat, is happy about it.
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