What did you do to lose weight, how long did it take you? How did you break any plateaus?

whatthehellamidoing

Hey guys, Im looking for all the inputs i can get.

1. What was your Starting Weight and goal weight?
2. what did YOU do to lose?
3. How long did it take you?
4. Any hurdles that you faced?
5. Plateaus? How did you break them?
6. what exercises did you do?

I understand that everybody is different. But it might be possible that what worked for you may work for someone out there?

Cheers

aarar

1. What was your Starting Weight and goal weight? 240lbs starting with a goal to lose 100lb

2. what did YOU do to lose? Ate at a 500 calorie/day deficit and became more physically active (took up running). I ate back all my exercise calories.

3. How long did it take you? About a year

5. Any hurdles that you faced? Every single day whether it was lack of motivation, being tired, my binging, eating out, holidays such as Christmas and birthday, cruise and resort vacations.

7. Plateaus? How did you break them? I don't personally believe in plateaus (for myself anyway, I'm sure other people have different experiences). I find anytime my weight loss stalled it was because I was getting lazy with logging, taking bites of food here and there and not properly measuring/ weighing. In the end it wasn't my body plateauing, I just wasn't eating at a deficit anymore.

9. what exercises did you do? Running. Lots of it.

pianoplaya94

1. SW: 145. GW: 113-115

2. I worked out (strength and cardio... but mainly cardio). I joined the gym. And I restricted my calories to about 1200-1300 a day

3. Technically, about 2 and a half years. BUT, when I started I was living in residence at Uni and it was very difficult to restrict calories. Even though I ate MUCH less, since the cafe food was so calorie dense, I didn't really lose any weight for months... despite going to the gym everyday. I didn't gain weight (phew... at least I didn't gain the freshman 15!) but I didn't lose until about May when I got home.

4. I wen't to summer school in Europe the summer that I finally started losing weight. I lost 5 pounds before I went and I wanted to enjoy myself while I was there (1 month) so I didn't really put any severe restrictions on what I ate. I gained 3 pounds. When I got back though in September, 2013, that's when my "real" weight loss started

5. YES! My biggest plateaus happen when I restrict for a while and then my body just craves sweets so I will end up binging a couple times a week and not actually lose any weight (perhaps even gain a couple over time). I managed to finally break this plateau last week by making an eating schedule the day before everyday and I was determined to stick to it. I did and I lost a couple pounds over the past week. But yesterday was a holiday and I had family over and I went a bit crazy on the food

6. Inclined elliptical I find is the hardest workout I do. I also run on the treadmill, sometimes the stationary bike, sometimes the rowing machine, and a couple times a week I will go for a 5 km run. I don't know the names of any of the strength training I do But leg lifts I think and crunches... but I use machines for all of it.