Fitness Whole Pizza In My Mouth

[Steve85]

According to my research, I am 70 - 90 pounds over the recommended weight for my height and I hate it.

I've struggled a lot with this. I know the simple solution, eat less move more all that, but getting to how much less eating and how much more moving and trying to stick to it has been tough.

I lost a lot weight many years ago on Atkins which taught me the carb lesson so I've always been low on carbs since then (not ketosis low, but avoiding processed sugars and such). Excuses followed excuses...I would eat well all day, exercise pretty regularly and then after 9-10 o'clock hit the fridge and pantry. A lot of it was stress and some was replacing a drug habit with eating.

I did all the BMR calculators and stuff and something really clicked recently. I tried doing WW starting in March which worked great for my wife. I was given 50 points a day plus 42 weekly extra points. I monitored a single day without any changes and found I was already eating less than they said I should. The same thing happened when I looked into P90x, based on my weight etc. they recommended something like 2900 calories a day!

So, recently I decided to take a new tact and put in the BMR calculator the weight an avg 6' 2" male should be (I used 190, I've seen as low as 170...), added some calories based on burn for "just being awake", and then subtracted out what I wanted my deficit to be. Turns out if I want to lose weight with any good progress, about 1300 calories a day.

I've stuck to that and run / lift 4-5 days a week and have lost 10 lbs over the last 3 weeks. Being strict about my intake has and the resultant success has helped me stop eating at night. (Runs are anywhere from 3.2-4.5 miles, lifting is...not great, mostly push-ups, pull-ups, shoulder work, curls type stuff)

I remember my last check-up, being borderline obese I made sure to have all the blood work done before seeing the doctor. Despite being that overweight, blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, resting heart rate, all were well within the healthy range for a 44 year old male. It was frustrating because it kind of meant I was healthy inside, making good food choices (mostly) but fuck I was fat.

I just got back from the lab to get my blood work done as part of a health assessment to get discounted insurance through work and I'm really looking forward to the results. Blood pressure is down (111/70) to even better level so that's a good sign.

1300 calories seems ridiculously low, but whatever my body is doing for metabolism, that's all I can seemingly take in at this point to lose weight. I have a spreadsheet with all kinds of foods in it and I'm tracking everything, so far so good!

I need to work harder on the lifting to gain some muscle and turn up the resting burn.

TL;DR - I'm fat, I don't like it, and I'm finally making progress by cutting to way less calories than I thought I could eat based on BMR calculators and recommendations. Down 10 lbs in 3 weeks and I'll let you know how it goes from here.