Hi everyone. I just turned 27 (male) and recently hit 305 lbs. I've decided to be active towards weight-loss, ...again. The only difference this time is I've decided to start a blog at Blogger. I've been doing it for about 9 days now (not long, I know). I've been trying to track my experience so far.
I started by walking 4 miles. It was pretty difficult to do right away at this weight, so I took the next day off to recover. Now, I've gotten into this habit of walking every other day. I've been reading about a lot of people that walk every day which I can't understand since I'm having such difficulty with my route. But, it's not difficult enough for me to quit (so far).
Furthermore, I've been attempting some portion control. I've changed what I eat at work, and cut my portions in half at home. If my family decides to eat out, I opt for a salad or something similarly healthy. I've completely cut out fast-food and soft-drinks and I'm slowly trying to cut out other processed foods. However, being completely new to this, I'm having a lot of difficulty tracking calories and things, or even knowing how many calories I should be taking in. I need some help!
I heard from somewhere that you should take your ideal weight and multiply it by 14, and that's how many calories you should in ingesting. Since I'm aiming for 230 lbs., I should be ingesting no more than 3,220 calories a day. That doesn't sound right to me. You can understand my confusion.
Anyway, a quick rundown of my story is this. My weight has constantly fluctuated. I started out skinny and started getting chubby around grade 4-5. By grade 7 I was one of the largest kids in class. By grade 9 though, I was really slim and pretty popular in high-school. By grade 11, I was fat again, for my age. A few years later, I was down to about 210, 220 lbs. (I really don't look very healthy being much smaller than that), and after quitting my job for a desk job, I grew to this weight (305 lbs.) 3 years later.
My weight change has always been so drastic and at such important stages in my life that if you were to put all my pictures together in a row, chronologically, you wouldn't be able to tell they were all of the same person. However, every change has been completely natural. I have never needed any sort of intervention to get me back down to a healthy weight. That is, until now.
I've been getting bigger and bigger and 300 lbs. is a weight I never though I'd hit. Realizing I've surpassed that point, I've started a blog called "Hitting 300". Like I said, this is only my 9th day at this, but I'm trying to blog every day. I have no real weight-loss plan to follow other than walking every other day (weather permitting) and trying to be more conscious about what I eat. I'm hoping to develop a routine as time goes by.
I think it's safe to say I've lost about 2-3 lbs. so far.
I'm reaching out to you guys here and at other forms. I'm just copy and pasting this message to see what kind of reception I get from each before deciding which forum to focus on, but I will always be at my "Hitting 300" blog. If anyone would like to check out my progress (I've been weighing myself every day), then head over to hitting300.blogspot.com and follow me! If that's not your bag though, I'll still be cruising these forums in search for tips and tricks (ie. I hear a glass of wine a day was good to lose weight, and then I hear it's not).
Anyway, thanks for your time and patience in reading this, and I hope I can meet a few people in my same situation, and possibly work together at our goals.
Have a great night!
I started by walking 4 miles. It was pretty difficult to do right away at this weight, so I took the next day off to recover. Now, I've gotten into this habit of walking every other day. I've been reading about a lot of people that walk every day which I can't understand since I'm having such difficulty with my route. But, it's not difficult enough for me to quit (so far).
Furthermore, I've been attempting some portion control. I've changed what I eat at work, and cut my portions in half at home. If my family decides to eat out, I opt for a salad or something similarly healthy. I've completely cut out fast-food and soft-drinks and I'm slowly trying to cut out other processed foods. However, being completely new to this, I'm having a lot of difficulty tracking calories and things, or even knowing how many calories I should be taking in. I need some help!
I heard from somewhere that you should take your ideal weight and multiply it by 14, and that's how many calories you should in ingesting. Since I'm aiming for 230 lbs., I should be ingesting no more than 3,220 calories a day. That doesn't sound right to me. You can understand my confusion.
Anyway, a quick rundown of my story is this. My weight has constantly fluctuated. I started out skinny and started getting chubby around grade 4-5. By grade 7 I was one of the largest kids in class. By grade 9 though, I was really slim and pretty popular in high-school. By grade 11, I was fat again, for my age. A few years later, I was down to about 210, 220 lbs. (I really don't look very healthy being much smaller than that), and after quitting my job for a desk job, I grew to this weight (305 lbs.) 3 years later.
My weight change has always been so drastic and at such important stages in my life that if you were to put all my pictures together in a row, chronologically, you wouldn't be able to tell they were all of the same person. However, every change has been completely natural. I have never needed any sort of intervention to get me back down to a healthy weight. That is, until now.
I've been getting bigger and bigger and 300 lbs. is a weight I never though I'd hit. Realizing I've surpassed that point, I've started a blog called "Hitting 300". Like I said, this is only my 9th day at this, but I'm trying to blog every day. I have no real weight-loss plan to follow other than walking every other day (weather permitting) and trying to be more conscious about what I eat. I'm hoping to develop a routine as time goes by.
I think it's safe to say I've lost about 2-3 lbs. so far.
I'm reaching out to you guys here and at other forms. I'm just copy and pasting this message to see what kind of reception I get from each before deciding which forum to focus on, but I will always be at my "Hitting 300" blog. If anyone would like to check out my progress (I've been weighing myself every day), then head over to hitting300.blogspot.com and follow me! If that's not your bag though, I'll still be cruising these forums in search for tips and tricks (ie. I hear a glass of wine a day was good to lose weight, and then I hear it's not).
Anyway, thanks for your time and patience in reading this, and I hope I can meet a few people in my same situation, and possibly work together at our goals.
Have a great night!
I'm going to try to find out my proper maintenance calories, and try to work on counting calories all together. I don't think I should be too concerned just yet with the specifics until I hit some sort of plateau. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to lose weight for a while by adding some extra walking (as opposed to none) and portion control (half of what I usually would eat) for the time being.