LvL 9, except I have both hands in my pockets.
I didn't think I could do them until I did, but it wears me out so much.
So at my heaviest I was above 150kg which is a lot. I was actually very fit just before Covid, then I started dating a Filipina, and she fattened me up like a baboy.
I started generally trying to lose weight by eating less and walking more late last year, even considered some of the new drugs but I’m too terrified of needles. I ended up deciding I had to lose a lot as I was starting to see some really nasty symptoms.
Working out wasn’t nearly as effective as I had hoped, the food is really the issue for me so I took a pretty extreme approach.
900-1000 calories a day, two meals a day morning and night. I started with just eggs on sourdough toast. 3 boiled eggs, mashed up with Nandos hot sauce to make them spicy on two slices of unbuttered sourdough. It was easy to cook and I love it enough that I can live on it.
After a week or so I added a second meal, half a tub of Obela / Sabra Hummus with harissa on two slices of sourdough toast. I take multivitamins and mix on avocado and greens on sourdough about once a week but I’m now down to 124.8kg and from a snug 5XL shirt to a snug XL shirt. I can actually fit my suits again for the first time in 5 years, and I’m getting close to fitting in my good clothes again.
It’s not a great diet, probably not a healthy diet given how many nutrients I’m missing, it’s vegetarian, and I need to diversify it for sure but I’m logging every meal, logging my steps (about 5,000 per day) and with a relatively lazy lifestyle at the computer I’m still losing about 250g per day on average after losing the first 25+KG. It’s the first time I’ve just ignored exercise and focused on diet alone and although I always knew you can’t outrun a bad diet, it wasn’t until I saw it that I fully understood it.
I no longer feel exhausted at the top of the stairs, I no longer have half my arse overflowing the bucket seats in my car, I’m no longer “Pooh bearing” as my Mrs calls it, with my stomach hanging out the bottom of my shirt.
Still a long way to go, I’ll be wearing a tux for the first time on June 7th to my niece’s wedding, targeting 120kg for that, then aiming for under 95kg by my birthday in October. At 6’2 I can look solidly fit by 95 Kg, but I’m intending to keep going down further until eventually turning the calories up and hitting the gym a bit, maybe even looking at TRT options to enhance that a little without going too far.
Well, down to 122.6kg now, my neice's wedding is on June 7 and my target was 120kg for that, which I should be on track to hit at the current rate.
My next target after that is to be overweight. I've been obese for some time, morbidly obese for some of it thanks to my unhealthy relationship with food (especially pizza). The goal to become overweight is 107kg which is another 15.6kg, less than I've lost so far but still quite a ways. It'll get harder as the amount of calories I burn without working out much will drop a bit by then, but it should be about 62 days if I can maintain the current rate of weight loss. That would mean I would hopefully be overweight by August 1. Will see if I can stick to it, but I'm feeling quite good on the amount of calories I'm having at the moment.
If I can make it to 107kg, the next milestone would be getting back into the healthy range, which is 89kg for my height (189cm). IF, and it certainly is a big IF I can maintain the current rate of weight loss beyond 107kg at the same rate, I could theoretically hit that number by my birthday in October, which would really be something, being healthy for the first time in many years when I turn 38.
Time will tell I guess.
Well, down to 122.6kg now
Great work Ash 👊
Huge congratulations on the commitment. Results are nice but it's the strength to stick to a plan that as admirable and inspiring.
I've got a nieces wedding in July that is black tie. All of a sudden that seems really close.
I had well over a year to get fit enough to not sweat like a pig 10 seconds into any dance floor antics, but have done nothing.
I’ll just put this here to be helpful
I hade cheese scones today with lashings of butter!🧈
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If I can make it to 107kg, the next milestone would be getting back into the healthy range, which is 89kg for my height (189cm). IF, and it certainly is a big IF I can maintain the current rate of weight loss beyond 107kg at the same rate, I could theoretically hit that number by my birthday in October, which would really be something, being healthy for the first time in many years when I turn 38.
Time will tell I guess.
Go on you know you want some! They’re easy and quick to make…..
