Taking my life back :)

Eoghan

Eoghan

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Em so I guess welcome to my diary, I heard it was a good idea to start one so why not

I started last week, tomorrow will be my second week in my weight loss journey. My goal is to lose 70lbs first, then when I'm happy with that, I'm going to keep going with bulking up a little. I want to be really fit and in form :)

I'm currently 6 foot, 260lbs. Been overweight since I was 11ish. What once was an energetic and outgoing me was diminished to an introverted pile of insecurity. So I'm tired of hiding from life, going to lose weight and go out and grab what I want

30 min jog every morning (90 seconds fast walking, 60 second jogging x n), and weight work every second day starting Tuesday (3 times a week). Play footy with my mates a lot and go for long walks too. Plan on upping my cardio if this isn't enough?

I've only been doing this one week but enjoying it, feeling more energetic and proud of myself, diet seems a lot lot cleaner and feel better about myself. Can't wait till I actually lose some weight and start noticing a difference, heh. Baby steps

My BMR is 2400 but I'm going to cut back to 1800 calories a day as I read that was a good solid and healthy figure for weight loss (now I think of it my calorie thingy, the other figure, was 3k+?)

Thanks !
 
Do you mean your RMR was 3000 calories? That would make sense I think.

I think 1800 sounds like a reasonable amount for you.

Welcome to the diary pages and i wish you good luck on your journey back to health and spunkiness.

Whatever happens don't give up. Don't stop. Get back the wagon quickly if you slip up. Analyse what went wrong and put strategies in place to avoid it again in future.

You are doing a lot of sports. That's good but don't worry if you slow down or stop this at some point. Don't let it change you from your eating program. YOu will still lose weight if you calories are low. Exercise is just a way of improving your fitness and well being and making it easier to lose weight. But often times life changes adn challenges can interfere with your exercise and this is when it can all come unstuck if you don't watch out. But it doesn't have to go that way.
 
Hey Eoghan

I know where you are coming from when it comes to hiding away from life and it's so mentally and physically draining...Ive been there.

You sound like you have it clear in your mind about what changes you need to make and whatever happens just keep going...If you have an off day don't give up just put it behind you and on to the next :)

Good luck and congrats on starting your weightloss journey.

-Minimee
 
Thanks for the support guys!

And yes it's not nice, I realized I had a problem when I started not wanting to go out with my mates, and would rather stay at home and just pig out cause I felt terrible. I avoided a lot of things and school was tough too. No time like the present as they say

Edit : Guess I'll fill in what I've eaten for today

I slept in till about 1 sadly, so I decided to combine my lunch and breakfast into one (is this bad or good?) Aimed for about 900-1000 calories (I try to get 500 or so a meal, 3 times a day, with some snacking in between if I'm peckish to make up 1800). I had 2 hard boiled eggs (70 or so cals?), then a small amount (maybe on small spoon)of pre cooked diced bacon I usually buy when I go shopping (google says 90 cals?), slice of wholegrain toast, on its own (pack says 110 per slice), a banana and an apple. I'd say there's just over 500 there?

Then for my second part, lunch, I had a chicken sandwhich (two x 115 calorie slices, and the pack says 75 calories in the chicken I used (measured amount), then an orange. Heh.

I'm eating some nuts now just to bring it up to 1000ish, is this ok, or is it bad? I feel like I estimated my amounts perfectly? Any feedback is appreciated

Off to exercise now, see you guys and gals later!
 
Just back from my run (left a t5)! I'm repeating week one of the couch to 5k as I don't feel ready for week 2 yet. I got really tired on the way back, but I pushed myself to the limit, felt great when I got home and was sweating, each day feels like I'm getting better and better. Put my dinner on, it consisted of

60g of brown rice
6.6 oz chicken (I take off the skin, give bones to the dog, heh)
And about a cup of salad (onions, carrots, leeks, I'm not sure what else!)

According to fitday etc, that's about 400 calories or so, maybe more. My allowance is 500ish per meal so I think I did ok. Ate an orange afterwards just to even out calories. Dranks lots of pints of water too!

I feel like I'm doing it right, I feel full, and more energy, feel fitter if even the smallest amount. Off to go for a long walk after I take a small break, then off to the shop to get some more stuff for the week!

Eoghan
 
I can totally relate! I used to feel so embarrassed about my eating habits that I'd spent a lot of my time at home piling up on junk food and just feeling bad about my appearance.

It's great that you play sports with your friends, so keep up with it! You might have an off day here or there, but that's OK...it helps to keep reminding yourself of why you embarked on your weight loss journey and of all the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle.

It sounds like you're off to a great start, so good luck with your goals! If you feel like you have more energy throughout the day, that's definitely a good sign :)
 
Today was good, I ate mainly the same as yesterday, and kept my calories around 1800. Did my 30 minute FBW after lunch (pushed my weight up to 7KG from 5KG!). It felt the tiniest bit harder but I was able for it, felt really good afterwards, exhausted, sweaty, and good burning sensations all over. I ate dinner after that

I'm thinking of implementing an extra 20 minutes of HIIT in the evenings on the days I don't do my FBW (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are my weight days). So on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I will be doing a total of 40 mins HIIT as opposed to twenty, but I tend to split these up by about 4 or 5 hours. Also, on my FBW workout days I don't do cardio, I plan to also implement a 20 minute HIIT session 2 hours or so afterwards

Anything wrong with this? This means my total HIIT time will come to, about, 160 minutes (none on my FBW on sat heh). Is this too much? Am I doing muscle damage by doing HIIT about 2-3 hours after weights?

Any response would be great.

Today was a good day, going to sleep soon, early start tomorrow!
 
Week 3

Started couch to 5k week two, kinda harder, pushed intervals up to 90 seconds of jogging from 60. Bit harder but think I can handle it

Diet pretty much same as always, kinda getting bored of same foods :L

Kinda down about the fact I feel like I'm not losing anything, been at it two weeks now and still eager for results, premature much?

Would like to do more exercise everyday but can't think of what, ideas? :)
 
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