25M / 197cm (6'5") / SW: 132kg (291) CW : 101kg (222) / GW : 92kg (202)
I have been overweight most of my life because I've always loved food, but I was playing high level sports all the way until university so I was just a bit chubby. When I started uni I kept on eating lots and lots with no sports at all and became obese, a bit higher than 300 pounds. I managed to lose some, even reached 240 pounds at some point with very strict diets that almost made me cry every day.
In June 2021, 6 months ago, I decided I was done with being obese. I decided that from now on, I wouldn't be "dieting", but I would change all of my eating habits, and only eat healthy food. I started going to the gym, 3 times a week at first and since mid september 5 or 6 times a week. I counted calories for a while, just so I could get a good idea about quantities. Rice, Chicken, Turkey, Beef, Fish, Green beans, Lettuce etc... became my daily life friends. I started aiming at 1500 calories a day, now I'm closer to 2000 and will slowly adjust it to 2500-3000 when my body fat percentage will get around 5%.
Once a week I treat myself to a nice meal, whatever the hell I want in the quantities I want.
I'm weighting myself every single week, I use this as extra motivation. When I didn't lose weight, I think "I need to go the extra mile this week, let's focus" and when I do lose weight I think "I need to go the extra mile so I won't ruin all this progress I made this week !"
I'm gonna be honest, it was and it still is one of the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Every single morning I wake up like "Yo I can skip one day right ? I've been to the gym every single morning for the last 3 months, I can enjoy one lazy day..." and every single morning I still end up taking my gym clothes and leaving home. The hardest part is actually leaving home, not even the gym itself. I realized this is all about discipline and not motivation.
Food also was a big problem. Everything doesn't have much taste, I wish I could eat good sauce with my pastas or my rice, or even some butter. But it's getting easier as time goes, I still have very hard days but most of the time I don't mind eating this.
At the gym they have this ultrasound weighing scale, which you can use with a coach so you can make a complete check up, adjust your program etc. And even if I'm 222 pounds, I'm no longer considered overweight !! In terms of BMI I still am, but it's only because my muscular mass is higher than "Normal", I am at 13% body fat which is acceptable. I intend to go further though, since I'm already in it. I won't stop until I reach somewhere around 5% bodyfat, which would make me around 202 pounds.
Right now I'm probably the lowest I'll be in 2021, since Christmas and New Year's eve are coming I might not be able to lose any weight, so I tought I'd share with this sub ! You guys in this sub always give me motivation to keep going so I hope I can give some of that motivation back.
Thank you for everything, you made this possible (though not knowing about it) ! Merry christmas everyone ❤ I hope you'll achieve whatever you're aiming for !
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