Hey hey all, Birdcage here. I have finally decided to lose some weight - since I injured my leg, I've put on too much weight, and gotten too unfit. After a couple of years of milling around, getting more overweight, and less likely to get back into rugby. I've decided that I want to be fit again by my this time next year - and by fit, I mean being able to run every day for three miles, like I could when I was 16.
I am 19, English, and a student. Last year, I injured my leg pretty horribly - fell in a pond, and punctured my shin, which led to tetanus, which was left for 2 weeks by a very incompetent doctor, which resulted in me having a lot of tissue removed from my right shin. Because of this, I've had to stop doing sports all together.
Right now, I want to get back into sport - rugby, maybe football. For the past few months, I've been doing some mild cardio to keep myself somewhat in shape, but not enough to stave off gaining weight. I actually weigh less than I did before...but I had a six-pack and biceps back then. Now it's just a belly, heh.
At 6 foot 1, I currently weigh 250lbs - not majorly overweight, but too much. I want to go down to 210lbs, and then hopefully build it back up with muscle after that. To facilitate this, I am having weekly physiotherapy sessions, calorie counting, and exercise three times a week - starting at 2 mile walks.
My biggest problem will be giving up Dr. Pepper, heh. That's stuff's way too tasty.
So, if you're still with me after this wall of text, thank you for reading, and feel free to heckle, or maybe even support me! Any nice words would be awesome, but I'm man enough to be told off by more experienced people, hehe. I was gonna post a before picture, but I figured that none of you want to see a hairy, pudgy stomach - maybe an after sometime?
I am 19, English, and a student. Last year, I injured my leg pretty horribly - fell in a pond, and punctured my shin, which led to tetanus, which was left for 2 weeks by a very incompetent doctor, which resulted in me having a lot of tissue removed from my right shin. Because of this, I've had to stop doing sports all together.
Right now, I want to get back into sport - rugby, maybe football. For the past few months, I've been doing some mild cardio to keep myself somewhat in shape, but not enough to stave off gaining weight. I actually weigh less than I did before...but I had a six-pack and biceps back then. Now it's just a belly, heh.
At 6 foot 1, I currently weigh 250lbs - not majorly overweight, but too much. I want to go down to 210lbs, and then hopefully build it back up with muscle after that. To facilitate this, I am having weekly physiotherapy sessions, calorie counting, and exercise three times a week - starting at 2 mile walks.
My biggest problem will be giving up Dr. Pepper, heh. That's stuff's way too tasty.
So, if you're still with me after this wall of text, thank you for reading, and feel free to heckle, or maybe even support me! Any nice words would be awesome, but I'm man enough to be told off by more experienced people, hehe. I was gonna post a before picture, but I figured that none of you want to see a hairy, pudgy stomach - maybe an after sometime?
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. Hope you continue to post regularly. This forum is great because there are so many encouraging like-minded people. 
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