Start weight: 300 pounds
New diary weight:
(199)
Other stats:
age: 20 (21 march 8th!)
height: 6 feet
sex: male
start pant size: tight 44 or comfortable 46
start shirt size: XXL
current pant size: loose 36, so close to 34!
current shirt size: medium
Well... today was the day. I finally reached my original goal of 200 pounds or lower, and I'm at 199 according to the scale, so I am very content. I've been getting closer and closer and thinking about the actual numbers lately. I started at 300 pounds, I'm around 200 now. I lost 1/3 my original body mass.. that's 33% less of me than when I started. And looking at it now, that's 50% of what I currently weigh. I LOVE thinking about those numbers
So I had a diary before but in a fit of frustration deleted it about a month ago. This is round two. My current goal is to get to 180 pounds which will put me at a BMI of just below 25, meaning I'll no longer be considered overweight. After I get there I'll see how I like it and figure out what I want to do next.
So if you're curious as to how I lost the weight... it's kind of a long story. Not in a, "it'd take a novel to tell you" sense, but it just took me a good amount of time. Some of you may be familiar with what I'm about to say:
It started my senior year in high school when I was at my max weight, 300 pounds. On a routine trip to the doctors I found out that I had high blood pressure (160/100) and my doctor said that if I couldn't get it down naturally then he'd put me on medication. At 17/18 years old I didn't want to take medication for my health, so I started using an elliptical machine every day. I started out at four minutes and gradually increased to 60 minutes of the span of a few months.
I never changed my diet during this time, so I lost some weight (I believe bringing me down to about 280), but I didn't see huge results. My blood pressure dropped though, so my doctor was happy and I was happy.
I started college sometime shortly after. By that point I had moved on to actually running on the road or on a treadmill but it was limited to once or twice a week. I maintained that sort of running schedule for at least a year. During that time I didn't lose any additional weight.
So from when I started until then was about two years. Over that two year period I gradually began eating healthier. It started with carrots. I stopped buying chips and crackers and started munching on carrots... a huge, huge, huge amount of carrots. I was going through a few 4 pound bags a week at some point.
Slowly this developed. Soon enough I was eating cottage cheese and fruit for breakfast, carrots and a healthy sandwich for lunch, and chicken and vegetables for dinner. Because I did it so slow it didn't seem like a diet. The weight started flying off. My running began increasing as my weight decreased. As of now the furthest I've ran is 7 miles straight, and my goal by the end of this summer is to be able to run a half marathon (13.1 miles).
What can I say? I'm the happiest person I know. I see people I haven't seen in a while and they're shocked at how much I've lost. I've always carried my weight well, so people underestimated how much I weighed and how good I could really look. I'm glad I did this slow. It's never been a diet to me, it's been my lifestyle change.
So I'll use this to update my weight, what I've done for the day and how I'm feeling. Sorry if I get a little emotional sometimes, still trying to get rid of some of mental baggage I have from losing all this weight!
Here's to seeing where this takes me! Good luck to everyone!
PS: sorry this is so long! To those who read this, I applaud you!
New diary weight:
Other stats:
age: 20 (21 march 8th!)
height: 6 feet
sex: male
start pant size: tight 44 or comfortable 46
start shirt size: XXL
current pant size: loose 36, so close to 34!
current shirt size: medium
Well... today was the day. I finally reached my original goal of 200 pounds or lower, and I'm at 199 according to the scale, so I am very content. I've been getting closer and closer and thinking about the actual numbers lately. I started at 300 pounds, I'm around 200 now. I lost 1/3 my original body mass.. that's 33% less of me than when I started. And looking at it now, that's 50% of what I currently weigh. I LOVE thinking about those numbers
So I had a diary before but in a fit of frustration deleted it about a month ago. This is round two. My current goal is to get to 180 pounds which will put me at a BMI of just below 25, meaning I'll no longer be considered overweight. After I get there I'll see how I like it and figure out what I want to do next.
So if you're curious as to how I lost the weight... it's kind of a long story. Not in a, "it'd take a novel to tell you" sense, but it just took me a good amount of time. Some of you may be familiar with what I'm about to say:
It started my senior year in high school when I was at my max weight, 300 pounds. On a routine trip to the doctors I found out that I had high blood pressure (160/100) and my doctor said that if I couldn't get it down naturally then he'd put me on medication. At 17/18 years old I didn't want to take medication for my health, so I started using an elliptical machine every day. I started out at four minutes and gradually increased to 60 minutes of the span of a few months.
I never changed my diet during this time, so I lost some weight (I believe bringing me down to about 280), but I didn't see huge results. My blood pressure dropped though, so my doctor was happy and I was happy.
I started college sometime shortly after. By that point I had moved on to actually running on the road or on a treadmill but it was limited to once or twice a week. I maintained that sort of running schedule for at least a year. During that time I didn't lose any additional weight.
So from when I started until then was about two years. Over that two year period I gradually began eating healthier. It started with carrots. I stopped buying chips and crackers and started munching on carrots... a huge, huge, huge amount of carrots. I was going through a few 4 pound bags a week at some point.
Slowly this developed. Soon enough I was eating cottage cheese and fruit for breakfast, carrots and a healthy sandwich for lunch, and chicken and vegetables for dinner. Because I did it so slow it didn't seem like a diet. The weight started flying off. My running began increasing as my weight decreased. As of now the furthest I've ran is 7 miles straight, and my goal by the end of this summer is to be able to run a half marathon (13.1 miles).
What can I say? I'm the happiest person I know. I see people I haven't seen in a while and they're shocked at how much I've lost. I've always carried my weight well, so people underestimated how much I weighed and how good I could really look. I'm glad I did this slow. It's never been a diet to me, it's been my lifestyle change.
So I'll use this to update my weight, what I've done for the day and how I'm feeling. Sorry if I get a little emotional sometimes, still trying to get rid of some of mental baggage I have from losing all this weight!
Here's to seeing where this takes me! Good luck to everyone!
PS: sorry this is so long! To those who read this, I applaud you!
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