lorenzo_s
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hey, not sure if there are other brits on here... anyway.
I'm Lorenzo, I'm 26 and I went through a seriously rough patch in my life due to horrible family problems that stretched out over 6 years, nearly ruined my degree did ruin my relationship and... of course there was food, the one thing I could control and enjoy. One thing led to another and I put on around 50lb.
Cut to now, things are much better, and I've settled into a nice routine of calories cut down to around 1600-1800kcal and exercise at the gym 5 times a week for an hour a time, with 2 sessions full on cardio high heart rate, 2 sessions half cardio at lower heart rate for fat burn, half weights, and another full cardio session but at lower heart rate.
I've been doing this a month so far, and have lost near enough 18lb, with a noticeable change in appearance which has been commented on by people (though I never believe them!), and definitely an improvement in quality of life.
My strategy is to make PERMANENT changes, I'm definitely going to carry on with exercise whatever, I know I'm at way low calorie intake, but I'm gradually going to step it up as my metabolism improves due to the exercise and as I lose weight, until it's perfectly normal. I've managed to evade full on starvation mode so far so it's good, though sometimes I'm tempted to starve myself out of guilt more than anything.
Anyway I decided to randomly join here just for a bit of support and to give a bit of support to other people wanting to lose weight. It appears being overweight has a horrendous amount of stigma everywhere in the world pretty much (definitely in the UK), and it really annoys me that people think it must always be because the person couldn't control themselves. I, for one, used food as my only escape from horrible circumstances and I'm sure other people have done too.
Anyway in conclusion... hi people!
I'm Lorenzo, I'm 26 and I went through a seriously rough patch in my life due to horrible family problems that stretched out over 6 years, nearly ruined my degree did ruin my relationship and... of course there was food, the one thing I could control and enjoy. One thing led to another and I put on around 50lb.
Cut to now, things are much better, and I've settled into a nice routine of calories cut down to around 1600-1800kcal and exercise at the gym 5 times a week for an hour a time, with 2 sessions full on cardio high heart rate, 2 sessions half cardio at lower heart rate for fat burn, half weights, and another full cardio session but at lower heart rate.
I've been doing this a month so far, and have lost near enough 18lb, with a noticeable change in appearance which has been commented on by people (though I never believe them!), and definitely an improvement in quality of life.
My strategy is to make PERMANENT changes, I'm definitely going to carry on with exercise whatever, I know I'm at way low calorie intake, but I'm gradually going to step it up as my metabolism improves due to the exercise and as I lose weight, until it's perfectly normal. I've managed to evade full on starvation mode so far so it's good, though sometimes I'm tempted to starve myself out of guilt more than anything.
Anyway I decided to randomly join here just for a bit of support and to give a bit of support to other people wanting to lose weight. It appears being overweight has a horrendous amount of stigma everywhere in the world pretty much (definitely in the UK), and it really annoys me that people think it must always be because the person couldn't control themselves. I, for one, used food as my only escape from horrible circumstances and I'm sure other people have done too.
Anyway in conclusion... hi people!
