Hey guys,
So mine's a bit of a long story but here it goes.
I'm a 26 year old chef 6'11' , who works currently for a catering company. My whole life i've been struggling with my weight, one year being overweight the next year coming back ( during high-school and college) mostly because i would swim or play water polo in a team. Since then like everyone else i kept eating and stopped working out and became overweight. I struggled with it for a while and the only way for me that seem to loose weight was literally not eating. I would work 6 days a week, and eat small scraps of bread and drink beer. On my 7th day i would gorge myself on a piece of steak or something like that ( it was mostly because i was poor and couldnt afford to eat alot everyday). At that point of my life i was about 24, and in the best weight of my life, weighing around 160-165lbs I was skinny and felt amazing. Since then its been a struggle, i moved to US, got some money started going out and gained my weight back to about 190lbs. After that i tried controlling myself but no matter what i do i kept gaining weight. After a year of living in LA i was at a 215lbs. I've moved to NY since. I bike to and from work everyday (35 min ride in the morning/ 45-1h ride back at night depending on location of my events) I always tend to push myself when i bike because i mostly enjoy the sweat and the fast ride. Ive been working 6 sometimes 7 days a week. Mostly 15-18 hour shifts a day (get up at 7am bike to work, get home around 11pm/12am) I don't eat a lot mostly because i just don't have time. Working as a chef for catering has made me a running machine. We get a 15min break for lunch, where i divide my food into portions of a mound of veg/salad, medium starch and least amount of protein. After that ill snack at night at the events, but they're small bites, really not a lot of food. I've bought this fucking UP24 band which counts my steps and i do between 25k and 37k steps a day, depending on how busy we are. The band tells me that i burn about 4000kcal a day.
Anyways this is a basic rundown of my life. I am now at a wooping 235lbs.
I love my job and i don't want to quit. But from how much i work and move it seems almost incredible to me that i can't loose weight. I feel and see the increase of muscles in my legs and thighs since i started biking. But i just feel like i'm not getting anywhere. My belly just gets bigger and bigger. I'm so upset with myself, i don't know what to do. I don't want to be some super skinny guy. And i don't want to be all fit. I just want to loose some weight so i feel better as a person. I just don't know what to do. I don't feel heavy and slow. I feel energetic as usual, but at this point i think its just my mind used to the work. Obviously i don't have time to work out. I cant sleep 3 hours so i can go for a run before i bike to work. I get one day off where i mostly just sleep and regain my strength i go for walks and keep my body in movement.
I'm on the verge of just not caring and giving up. I heard about some scientist working on bacteria that will eat the body fat or something like that and i'm considering it. That tells you how much i'm done.
So yeah.
Does anyone have any suggestions? any ideas? help? I'm on the end of the line here.
Thanks
Radek Zarebinski
So mine's a bit of a long story but here it goes.
I'm a 26 year old chef 6'11' , who works currently for a catering company. My whole life i've been struggling with my weight, one year being overweight the next year coming back ( during high-school and college) mostly because i would swim or play water polo in a team. Since then like everyone else i kept eating and stopped working out and became overweight. I struggled with it for a while and the only way for me that seem to loose weight was literally not eating. I would work 6 days a week, and eat small scraps of bread and drink beer. On my 7th day i would gorge myself on a piece of steak or something like that ( it was mostly because i was poor and couldnt afford to eat alot everyday). At that point of my life i was about 24, and in the best weight of my life, weighing around 160-165lbs I was skinny and felt amazing. Since then its been a struggle, i moved to US, got some money started going out and gained my weight back to about 190lbs. After that i tried controlling myself but no matter what i do i kept gaining weight. After a year of living in LA i was at a 215lbs. I've moved to NY since. I bike to and from work everyday (35 min ride in the morning/ 45-1h ride back at night depending on location of my events) I always tend to push myself when i bike because i mostly enjoy the sweat and the fast ride. Ive been working 6 sometimes 7 days a week. Mostly 15-18 hour shifts a day (get up at 7am bike to work, get home around 11pm/12am) I don't eat a lot mostly because i just don't have time. Working as a chef for catering has made me a running machine. We get a 15min break for lunch, where i divide my food into portions of a mound of veg/salad, medium starch and least amount of protein. After that ill snack at night at the events, but they're small bites, really not a lot of food. I've bought this fucking UP24 band which counts my steps and i do between 25k and 37k steps a day, depending on how busy we are. The band tells me that i burn about 4000kcal a day.
Anyways this is a basic rundown of my life. I am now at a wooping 235lbs.
I love my job and i don't want to quit. But from how much i work and move it seems almost incredible to me that i can't loose weight. I feel and see the increase of muscles in my legs and thighs since i started biking. But i just feel like i'm not getting anywhere. My belly just gets bigger and bigger. I'm so upset with myself, i don't know what to do. I don't want to be some super skinny guy. And i don't want to be all fit. I just want to loose some weight so i feel better as a person. I just don't know what to do. I don't feel heavy and slow. I feel energetic as usual, but at this point i think its just my mind used to the work. Obviously i don't have time to work out. I cant sleep 3 hours so i can go for a run before i bike to work. I get one day off where i mostly just sleep and regain my strength i go for walks and keep my body in movement.
I'm on the verge of just not caring and giving up. I heard about some scientist working on bacteria that will eat the body fat or something like that and i'm considering it. That tells you how much i'm done.
So yeah.
Does anyone have any suggestions? any ideas? help? I'm on the end of the line here.
Thanks
Radek Zarebinski