Errol_Flynn
New member
Hi! I'm a recent "joinee" and I thought I'd introduce myself.
I am a 21 year old Australian man living in Melbourne. I am 6ft tall and weigh approximately 107 kilos (235 lbs) meaning that my BMI is 32.0.
Given my body type I would estimate that I carry about 20-25kg (44-55 lbs) of extra body fat.
I have been overweight most of my life, when I finished high school in 2006 I was 110kg and determined to lose weight. Through diet and exercise I managed to get down to 89kgs, however half way through 2007 I slipped out of the necessary habits required to maintain that weight. Since then I have slowly gained weight to my present condition.
In my experience both diet and exercise are necessary for sustainable weight loss and the best way to maintain that is to form positive habits. Force yourself to do it for a month until getting up in the morning and running/cycling/swimming/walking comes as habitually as cleaning your teeth.
However this time around I am finding it much harder to form these routines, it is especially demoralising to have to lose almost all the weight I have already lost all over again. Anyway it is for this reason that this time around I have elected to get some community help from this forum, hopefully I'll fit in, get some help and be able give some as well.
Sorry for the essay!
I am a 21 year old Australian man living in Melbourne. I am 6ft tall and weigh approximately 107 kilos (235 lbs) meaning that my BMI is 32.0.
Given my body type I would estimate that I carry about 20-25kg (44-55 lbs) of extra body fat.
I have been overweight most of my life, when I finished high school in 2006 I was 110kg and determined to lose weight. Through diet and exercise I managed to get down to 89kgs, however half way through 2007 I slipped out of the necessary habits required to maintain that weight. Since then I have slowly gained weight to my present condition.
In my experience both diet and exercise are necessary for sustainable weight loss and the best way to maintain that is to form positive habits. Force yourself to do it for a month until getting up in the morning and running/cycling/swimming/walking comes as habitually as cleaning your teeth.
However this time around I am finding it much harder to form these routines, it is especially demoralising to have to lose almost all the weight I have already lost all over again. Anyway it is for this reason that this time around I have elected to get some community help from this forum, hopefully I'll fit in, get some help and be able give some as well.
Sorry for the essay!
I have a LOT of weight to lose and I have found this place to be very supportive and I'm sure you will too.