370 to 228; still need to get past plateau

The winter is weird.


I eat more than I did before.And not good food, either.

I don't exercise at all.


I've lost 7 pounds.
 
Mm


200~


Not really doing anything, but basic metabolism now knows how to kick ass. Been really lethargic in general, spending a lot of time with my new woman (yay <3). :)


Still losing weight though lol Probably my poor muscles decaying. :p
 
Gained maybe 5-10 pounds back.


Mostly rationalizing it because my mother passed away recently (2/27/12), and I have basically begun eating bad food and still not exercising -- which I really want to but I can't bring myself to withstand the cold.


Um, yeah.


So like, gotta get back on that. I can no longer see my hip bones :( which makes me sad lol, but it's not that much more to lose now, I just have to try and stop before it's too late...


Just dying between 3 jobs and school and my mother passing away.


I just need it to be around 40 degrees instead of 24 lol for me to go outside (my asthma acts up in the cold really bad and makes it really hard to do anything).


It's a lame excuse because I have a gym I can go to, but I really want to go outside and work on it. I know this will be the year I reach my end goal -- but man, I've been having terrible eating habits.


Like today


I ate


A Donut

A turkey wrap

Almonds

2 small square pieces of Pizza

A cookie

A mango Smoothie

A piece of Death Cake (i call it that because its from my moms funeral)




Yup. Im a fatty. I did goo until that pizza :p.


I haven't weight myself in a while, but I can feel the weight. I gotta start soon though -- i already bought the food to start, I just have to get back to it.
 
AFirst of all I'm sorry for your loss man, it can be tough after losing a family member.

The best advice I could give you is to just try to eat healthy and drink lots of water, the warm weather is just around the corner.
 
yup today was 53 degrees out so i went skating, walking, and jogging :) good day.


Need more of these >: )
 
AI'm very sorry for your loss. Not your weight loss...your family loss. I lost my mom a few years ago, and it was super hard. I still have moments where I am happy about something and want to call her. It does get better. :)

Congrats on your weight loss! I totally feel you on trying on clothes and being solutions that they are too big. It is an amazing feeling! I like having actual choices, instead of buying things because they're the only available things in my size. :)

I'm glad to see you posted a pic with a smile. You should smile more. :)


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Hey Kira.


I'm really sorry to hear about your mom's passing :( I know how difficult that can be and how easy it is to just let yourself fall back into bad habits after tragedy.


One of the main reasons I gained all my weight over the years was due to the depression I sank into after my mom died when I was a teenager. It was an awful way to grow up, but eventually I utilized that dark time in my life to transform myself.


Perhaps, in time, you can also do that to push yourself even harder toward your goals this year.


You've already done phenomenally though! Just do your best now to keep a good mindset. It'll be hard for a while, but things will get better :)


Take care, Kira!
 
hey bud, sorry to hear about your mom, I can't imagine.


try and turn that into motivation and making her more and more proud of you and what you accomplish each day. keep it up buddy
 
Originally Posted by JeremyRice


hey bud, sorry to hear about your mom, I can't imagine.



try and turn that into motivation and making her more and more proud of you and what you accomplish each day. keep it up buddy
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Thx man yoiu know youre my hero. Haha ;)


Last night I didn't have any eating things going on, but I did start crying because of this girl that looked like a miniature version of my mom... it just kept getting to me.
 
ADoing pretty good so far this week. Eating what I want (and not what I dont want lol) and getting lots of time outside (and avoiding studying lol).

Outside about 5 hours today total. Rawr. Pretty much sums up this week ;)
 
At least my neck is cool.




Most of my belly in that picture is now gone since restarting dieting/working out, but I thought I'd post a pic of me (the white shirt) of when I gained some weight back.:p So when i lose it this summer you can see :D
 
You know what? I would say, wow! Congratulations!


Originally Posted by kiramon


(I reposted this here, I guess since it's sorta an in-between post)

LONG STORY (not so) Short



I have been working on losing weight since oh sometime around last August.



I started off at a measly (lol) 370 pounds at 6'1" and 24 years old. I lost some weight just through a general increase in activity, eating way more salad and no fast food, and walking daily for several hours at a time (woops :p). After the winter, during which I walked mostly to my college and up the stairs instead of taking the elevators, I ended up at a nice 280 pounds. :)



When the Summer started, I tried my hand at walking, running, and interval stuff. I went from 280 to 260 relatively quickly, but then I kinda stopped losing anything. After that, I got a great offer from a friend to go to the gym, so I started to do that. My workout schedule is 2 hours every morning M-F, though the gym doesn't contain cardio. I lost very little weight from doing the gym stuff -- but I also began to do my own funsies, which means I started Rollerblading (what a nerd) for 1.5-3 hours two times a day, along with the occasional walking and general activity increase -- as in, I'm home for maybe 3 hours a day that doesn't include sleeping time, lol. I lost 30 pounds during this time, which brings me to today...



Today I weigh around 228 pounds, although most people are like baffled by that number. I feel (and I think I always will feel) way bigger than I am, though I know I certainly am not tiny, lol. I know I have some loose skin on my arms, and I'm pretty sure I have some on my stomach, though it's not all that bad there, but it's definitely not normal fat. I also still have an extra chin or something that makes me look like a goose from the side. :p



Anyways, I still rollerblade and go to the gym. I have begun to eat more because I got yelled at for not eating enough (and thus having very little gains in the gym). My arms have gotten slightly bigger ;). I still eat relatively way too little (and I am sure most people would tell me to eat more, as I'm probably at about 1000 calories less than I should be eating daily...). I don't eat so little because I';m trying to lose weight, now, though -- it's just become habit. Probably another bad one like overeating... I fill in most of the calories now with protein shakes.





ANYWHO.



I still have really big man-boobs. Urgh. They haunt me. My friend was actually commenting that it might be gynecomastia and not just fat, though I don't know. He thinks they should be smaller by my weight than they are right now. Ugh. My chest area is my largest area (and it makes finding shirts hard...), and it's not cuz I have a manly chest -- definitely booby, lol. I went from a 54 inch pant to a 36, and 4XL shirts to 1X (mostly the boobs lol).







I still rollerblade, I still go to the gym. But I am no longer losing any weight. I have been at 228 for 3 weeks now, and it's not budging. My original goal at the start of the summer (when I was 280) was 225, but I feel like I should be able to at least go down some in a month. My ultimate goal is 170, though my more realistic goal is 186.





I have a picture of me at around 350 (after I lost about 20 pounds) and one from me today. You can't see my boobs, but that's mostly the way I have learned to pose for the camera (the green shirt-pic is the newest). I added a blue-shirted one where you can see the boobs better :(. The black and white one was from around December! I was in a 3XL, and I thought I had lost most of the weight I would at that point!







If anybody has any tips on how to lose more weight or get myself started again, I'm always looking for advice. I am considering running again (I stopped when I started the gym) in the morning and at night, and perhaps filling in my days with walking in between Running and Rollerblading. Any other advice? I really am tired of plateauing and want to try and get these last 40 or so pounds out![/b]
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Down to below where I was before my mom died.


That weight came off quickly :3


Body feels better.


Lots of weight loss really fast. A winter of rest makes weight loss come back quickly apparently :-x
 
Floating 200- - deciding if I want to go outside today (its cold but beautiful out) or just take a day of rest... I am so tired (emotionally and physically) and have not taken a break since I started exercising again. I think it won't hurt me, but part of me is just like - 'that's a day wasted'


Who knows.
 
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