Hello,
So this will probably be a long post, but I just figured I'd share about myself and share what some of my goals are and maybe someone can help or has been in a similar situation. I am kind of hoping this might help keep me accountible, because my goals still feel impossible at this point. But, I have finally got to a point in my life I am on good medications for my mental health and my goal at this point is to improve myself for myself.
To start I have been overweight for most of my life. I grew up eating fast food and sweets all the time and for most of my teen years I was considered overweight to obese. As people know this can lead to other teens being ruthlessly mean and I was bullied pretty badly because of my appearance. Naturally this led to me being pretty depressed and I would tend to (like many do) eat my feelings and things only got worse because of it. In high school I really started to struggle with my weight because I started experiencing severe balance issues to the point I couldn't really walk on my own and this led to years of being stuck laying on the couch or bed and getting no physical activity until things started to improve a bit during my senior year. Which was the first time I started watching what I was eating and exercising. I did end up losing about 20-30 pounds at this point and graduated high school fairly happy and hopeful about myself. At this point the balance and dizziness came back and ended up leading to me being pretty seditary again and mostly just spending most of my time playing video games and old habits of eating things I shouldn't have been crept back in. I was finally able to find a doctor who was able to tell me why I got dizzy all the time and why it was so difficult to be able to walk around on my own for more than a few minutes, he explained in young men it has something to do with brain growth and by the time their brains are done growing by about 25 years old they dizziness would usually go away. For me I started to really start to feel better with the balance at about 22 years old at which point I decided to start going to school (I wanted to be a doctor at this point). It was at my locl university that I found happiness in improving myself and started going to the gym and eating a strict diet and I ended up losing 100 lbs to get down to about 220 lbs and felt great about myself. So I decided to go off to college away from home at BYU and with the hope that I might find someone to start a relationship with (this is highly encouraged in Utah in the LDS church which I grew up in). But the way the culture is at BYU I started to feel really inadequate and like I wasn't good enough for anyone there. I started to get depressed and decided to go off my mental health medications because they must not be working (bad idea). During this point I started really eating my feelings again. I started to not do so well in school and ended up going home during the summer, with the intent of not going back to somewhere that I felt could make someone feel so bad about themselves for just being who they are. At this point the lack of mental health medications really hit me and I ended up taking a trip to the psychiatric unit where I found out I had some pretty serious OCD. They got me back on medication and I started to do well again, but I kept eating my feelings and got to a point I weighed about 400 lbs. For many years not much happened, I continued to go to school with the goal of getting a degree to find a job in something I'd like, but it was a struggle to find motivation to keep working at school, I felt a bit hopeless to be honest. Then in December of 2021 I ended up losing my mother to complications related to COVID then 3 weeks later I lost my father as well to COVID complications. This point I hit the lowest I've hit in my life and ended up eating myself to even more serious weight concerns. I got to the point I weighed 480 lbs and could barely get to the back of a store without feeling like I was about to die because of how out of shape I was. This was the point I looked into bariatric surgery and ended up starting the process in 2023 and having a duodenal switch in March of 2024. To summarize the last 14 months I have lost a lot of weight and am feeling so much better. I have lost nearly 200 lbs but I'm concerned because the surgery doesn't change your brain and what you enjoy eating. So this brings me to why I'm here, I'm hoping for motivation to keep the momentum going while it's still possible. I really am wanting to start lifting weights and eating cleaner than I am. Ideally I'd like to lose 50-90 more pounds and get down to around 190-210 range. I just don't really know where to start again with the weight training, I do know what I'm supposed to be eating. My doctor says mostly weight training is going to be what's important to keep losing and maintain the weight loss long term.
TLDR: I had a duodenal switch at 480 lbs and have lost about 200 lbs and would like to get down to around 190-210 lbs. Any advice on lifts or a routine to try to work toward to help me maintain what I've lost and lose some more?
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