Alright, rambling time.
So back in 2016-17, I was unemployed and just... Randomly decided one evening to spend the time doing something productive and start losing weight. I did a bunch of research and started going pretty hardcore, eating 1200-1400 calories a day pure keto and working out daily. I made great progress and lost a hundred pounds over a little over a year! However, it turns out it wasn't a sustainable method once I got a job - intermittent fasting got harder when having to get up early, eating keto got a lot harder when having to eat on the road a lot, and I just didn't have the energy to exercise. Crucially, I didn't really have any hobbies to keep me active and give me an incentive to keep the weight off, so I basically gradually stopped taking care of myself, convincing myself I could keep it off with intuitive eating. (I could not.)
Fast forward a few years, I'm pretty much back to my original weight, aand then I buy an apartment with a sauna. It's only proper and traditional to have a beer or many on sauna nights, and it makes you crave salty things, so chips it is... A few years again, and I've put on another thirty pounds. I wasn't keeping track of my weight at all, so it snuck on.
Enter, this trials bike! I'd always been interested in the sport of motorcycle trials, and finally got inspired to try it after meeting some riders at a motorcycling expo early this year. They told me it's a misunderstood motorsport and is actually quite accessible, easy to get into, and affordable. Relevant Fortnine video, if anyone's interested further. I bought this thing in March and, again, just suddenly decided I'm going to have to drop the weight again to ride it effectively. This time around I'd be easier on myself - Eat 1600-1800 calories a day, work out if/when I feel like it, keep enjoying sauna once or twice a week, but drink less beer and have a lighter salty snack after, and don't worry about carbs. Restrict them, they're calorie dense after all, but eat them if I feel like it. I already knew calorie counting, so getting back into it was easier than you might think. I basically just make regular old home cooking with less carbs and fat, and only cook one meal's worth at a time. Being a little older now than then, I realize a year or two isn't such a long time. Might as well take my time and make it sustainable.
Trials is excellent, hard exercise, tons of fun and a great motivator to keep me going. Every session is a 60-90 minute full-body workout that keeps my heart at 130-150bpm the entire time, and I hardly even notice from all the fun I'm having, until I look down and see a stream of sweat pouring out of my helmet. The lighter I get, the more I can do, and I'm already noticing myself feeling lighter on the bike and having an easier time maneuvering it.
Nine months in, I'm now 65lbs down and officially, steadily under 300lbs. I've gone from size 44 jeans to size 38, 4XL shirts to 2XL, had two links taken out of my watch band, I now slip inside my nice motorcycle jacket that basically didn't fit before... There's a long way to go still, but I'm damn happy.
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