Weight Loss Diary take III - road to Army fitness

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Birdcage

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Hey all...so, this is my third attempt at a weight loss diary. The other two failed miserably...because of a lack of preparation, and motivation to continue, I believe. So instead of just making another another diary when I got into the mood to lose weight this time, instead I just got on with it...and this time it's working. So this diary starts over a year into the process, rather than at the beginning.

Recently I've hit a bit of a wall, which is why the diary. I need to keep going, and encouragement/abuse would help a lot. So please feel free to post with whatever - it'll help.

So, the goal is to lose weight, but also to increase my fitness. As the title suggests, I wish to join the Army - I'm done with university now, and a career in the Army sounds like a good life...but, need to get much fitter still. I'm getting closer, but stalling recently, thus why I've come back here. Plan to do daily updates, with food and exercise. Any input about how to improve the exercise, especially with regards to my upper body strength [I really struggle with press ups] would be awesome. Big wall o' stats below.

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Name: George
Age: 22
Current weight: 255lbs
Start weight: 350lbs
Weight goal: 195lbs

Height: 6'2" [growth spurt at 21 made me go "wut?" Was just shy of 6' when I started losing weight.]
Build: broad
Large scar on right lower leg, from impalement then infection, resulting in tetanus and debridement. Only an issue nowadays if the scar is bashed though.

Best 5km time: 45 mins, 18 seconds.
Best 10km time: Not yet achieved.

Best 2.4km time: Not yet measured [goal = 12 mins]
Press ups in 2 mins: 8 [goal = 44]
Sit ups in 2 mins: 30 [goal = 50]

Other goals:

10km race, in armour, for charity in June
To feel comfortable walking around shirtless

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Current plan:

Calorie intake: currently 2,000 kcals a day. This is remarkably low for my build and exercise, but I've just not been losing weight at 2,500kcals...I'm not hungry at 2,000 kcals, so I'll stay with it until I feel negatively affected by it.

Exercise:

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays are running days.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are weight days - currently working only upper body, to give lower time to rest.

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If you've made it this far, thank you! It means a lot to me if you reply, and help with this.
 
Wow, good job on the loss so far! That's great :)

Not sure I'll be much help - seems you have a pretty good plan set and some great goals to reach for! As for advise, the best advise I can think of is to keep moving forward and don't dwell on the past. If/when you fall, forgive yourself and move forward. Beating yourself up because you ate too much, ate badly, or didn't exercise will help nothing and often hurts you. Instead try to find out why you did (or didn't do) what you did (or didn't do), then figure out how to prevent it in the future forgive yourself and push harder. Good luck with your army dreams!
 
Birdcage -- it looks like you have a good plan now. I like your goals!
"10km race, in armour, for charity in June
To feel comfortable walking around shirtless"​
The second one is mine, as well.

I have a scar on my upper left thigh. It was from a surfboard fin accident. About 50 mm long, and thick, like an earthworm tattoo or something, if you just glance at it without looking too hard.

Good job on your progress so far, and good luck!! We are here for you.
 
Thank you all for the replies. It means a lot for you guys to post. So! Day's gone well.

I started mixing up my running plan today. I've been using the "Zero to Hero" plan from Up and Running, but really struggled when I moved to their "Onwards and Upwards" plan [] So, I've gone back down to the last week in Zero to Hero, and I'm also incorporating some speedwork + core strength exercises from another plan, this one from the British Army.

The result was today I did my first case of two runs in one day, and I'm surprised it worked out if I'm honest. On Monday, I did a slow jog for 30 mins. Today, I did a total of 30 minutes running again, but this time at much greater speed overall.

10 mins of my usual jogging pace to warm up
10 mins of sprint 1 min, walk 1 min
Rest for 30 mins [there's a nearby kid's park with a giant bucket-seat-swing-thing, I like to take a nap in it when I run during school hours]
Finally, 3x fast jog 5 mins, walk 3 mins.

Food's gone well too.

Soup + bread and butter after run: 430kcals
Fruit between lunch and dinner: 300kcals
2x Maryland cookies: 120kcals
Roast chicken + baked potatoes + mushrooms + onions + broccoli: 850kcals
7:30pm now, so I'll probably have a piece of bread and butter before sleep as well: 130kcals

Total: 1,730kcals

Let's hope it keeps going this well. Today's workout song of choice: Twilight Tavern, Enisferum
 
Today went very well too!

4 sets of my weights routine...I'll list it another day, I'm exhausted now. Also cleaned my room, and re-arranged it. Got lots of recording done too...I'm an avid Magic the Gathering player, and a company I buy cards from are holding a competition - asking people to make decks that test the opponent's sanity. Just the kind of deck I make anyways. So got that made, and recorded a game to show it off.

Food was good:

Orange, croissant and baked crisps for breakfast: 350kcals
Soup with leftover chicken, some bread and butter and an apple: 630kcals
Orange + crisps again as a snack: 200kcals
Pasta, with green pesto, turkey, roast tomatoes and onions, with homemade garlic bread: 750kcals

Total today: 1,920kcals.
 
Yesterday went alright. Jogged for 30 mins, but feeling horrid now, and family are all ill. Might be time to rest for a few days.

Ate 2,100 kcals, so a little over, but not excessively
 
Friend's birthday, then Christmas party, so not eaten well the past few days. Ah well, been below my 3.4k maintenance calories each time at least.

Back to exercise tomorrow. I like the fact that I'm looking forward to it.
 
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