Weight loss story -

[PomegranateKing]

So about 4 and a half months ago, I got a scale. It was an impulse buy. I have no idea why.

I'm a big guy. I work full time, but past that I'm not terribly active. An ideal weight, with my age, height, etc. Would be about 200 (pounds. Sorry metric users)

I was at 367. The absolute worst I've ever been. My sleep apnea was terrible, according to my girlfriend, and I had frequent back spasms. I decided that I was done with that.

My aunt is a gargantuan woman. When I told her I planned to lose weight, she suggested we lost weight together competitively. I agreed.

When she found out I intended to lose 167 pounds, she gave up, and presumed I was doomed to failure. In the first month, I had no support. I got the sarcastic smile and awkward laughter from others - I don't blame them. How many people announce plans to lose weight and actually succeed?

My workplace is a starving man's salvation. Food flows in like water. People show up with pizzas and burgers as gifts to the employees. I made a habit of declining this food, but it's a willpower game. I decided to count my calories.

Calorie counting is hard to pick up if you've never done it. I like to be as accurate as possible. For me that meant no items without nutritional info printed on them. I haven't tried salads - I hate green stuff - but I stopped eating noodles. Eventually I limited my items to four main items : Eggs. Fish. Soup. And crackers.

A person my size needed 3600 calories to maintain my weight. I cut them to 2400 at first. It was easy really. My only rule was that if I felt hungry, I ate.

At the two month mark, I cut those daily calories to 1200. To the uninformed, that's about 6 packs of Ritz crackers. Or 5 cans of mackerel. I was also walking regularly.

It's been 4 and a half months, and now I'm down 70 pounds. If I had been told it was possible 5 months ago, I wouldn't have believed it. Now I'm almost at my halfway mark. People come in to my job and remark about how much I've lost. My clothes feel like boat sails.

Just felt like sharing. Honestly, I have some idea on why I've been successful, but it still astounds me thus far.

Edit because I didn't feel like bumping my post back to the top: I'm nearly at 100 pounds lost now, 12/19/2019

1/27/20: 115 pounds lost. 52 to goal

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Good work, buddy.

You've been successful because you have determination and self control. If more people had those two things there'd be a lot fewer problems in the world.

 

[Spl00gies]

Well done, man! Keep it up and be proud of your progress. Try to encourage your aunt a little again, see what she thinks now?

 

[Fliddaroonie]

That is incredible work and you should not only be proud of yourself, but look at your success thus far as proof conclusive that you've got this, OP.

Seriously. It's one thing to be overweight, but a whole other to recognise it, and realise you should do something about it, but then actually crack on with it.

And all the more so for the fact you've done it with that first month - the hardest and all! - with little to no support.

I know words are cheap and this is trite, but any time you need some words of encouragement and find them lacking, feel more than free (though by no means obligated) to send me a message. I've been in your position and I know it's hard when it feels like everyone is just waiting for you to cock up. But now I run a lot, in races, for shits and giggles and I've not gained it back.

Seriously, you're more than halfway there. You can not only do this but kick it in the nuts as well

 

[Babyspackle]

hellyea man get at it.
Also - Your metric for daily calories is either packs ritz crackers or cans of mackerel what in the fuck