So since late August a few weeks into my college semester I finally hit the right strides and began working out right.
Exercise: It’s not like I never worked out but I didn’t workout consistently and wasn’t eating right. I bought my elliptical months sgo but barely used it. When I first started, getting to 4-7 minutes was like a milestone. Now I’ll do over 20 when I get on it. I workout 6 days a week now. Sundays I do a light workout, Mondays-Fridays I do regular workouts which last about 60-90 minutes usually with Friday being my most intense workout day. I’ll focus on legs Mondays and Wednesdays, arms Tuesdays and Thursdays and do both on Friday, both lightly on Sunday (about 15 minutes) and Saturday is my off day. For legs I’ll do squats, high knees, calf raises and for cardio I’ll get on the elliptical. I’ve learned that usually I’m kind of bored during the first 13 or so minutes but afterwards, I hit my stride and it’s like I don’t wanna get off. It took me a while to realise but also, the reason people quit is because they try running a marathon in their first workouts. You can’t become an olympian after one workout session. Hitting your strides and finding your pace takes time. No need to throw a 40 yard pass on 1st and 10 in a two minute drive. Patience and discipline is key, consistency is essential.
Dieting: Meals like steak, eggs, broccoli and avocado or salmon and vegetables. Sometimes I’ll do shrimp tacos or chicken burritos too. I’ve always eaten fruit but I replaced junk food snacks with fruit and nuts. I only drink water and Liquid Death. Sometimes Yerba Mate, maybe a Powerade here and there. I was never really a soda drinker, mostly drank iced tea, powerade or lemonade. I also wasn’t a big sweets guy either so giving up those things really wasn’t a challenge. I may have a sweet thing once a fortnight or so but I try to avoid it because usually I’ll feel like crap afterwards. I’m at the point where if I eat regular cereal or a cookie it’s too sweet for me. I was traveling and bought an apple juice but had to water it down because it was too sweet. I think I used to have a sweet tooth but I don’t have it anymore.
Progress: I think I weighed about 365 lbs when I started. In all honesty I really don’t know how much I weighed, it’s just an estimate. I now weigh around 340 (it fluctuates but it’s around there). Most of the weight was lost in October. I would lose 7 lbs one week, 4 lbs one week, etc. I kinda hit a wall when I went out of town in later October, I ate pizza and stuff while out of town so that kinda hindered my progress. It took about a week to get back into form but I got back. I lost about 6 lbs in the last 7 days.
Motivation: I’m 24 and feel sad that I wasted years of my prime being like this. I went through years of depression and stuff. I was raises eating junk food and bad things. But this year I started going to class in person, waking up early, and exercising more consistently. But I learned that you can’t look at the past, it won’t change your future. You must look forward, not back. The past is the past and I can’t change that. I wanna look like a video game character come to life. I wanna have the energy to be able to do so many things. I don’t have kids, but one day I want to, and I wanna give them the things I never had, teach them the things I was never taught. I wanna find a good woman one day too. I wanna have the confidence to be able to ask any girl I want out. There’s a girl I like but even then I’m still not at the most confident of stages in my life if I’m being honest. At the same time I accept that. I’ve always been of the mentality of whatever happens happens. I believe in destiny and if things aren’t meant to be, they’re not meant to be, and that’s okay. I’m a bit hopeful but I wouldn’t be that disappointed. But regardless, my main focus right now is myself. Usually I see potential in people but now I finally see it in myself. Now I know that one day I’ll pass the airport test, one day I’ll have that beach bod. And that day is coming soon.
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