From 229lbs to 132lbs in 287 Days

goofylove89 · November 2017

Great Job! You look amazing.

Bughunt · November 2017

Robertus wrote: »

Great job! Can you give us more detail on your eating and workout regimens? How much and what types of aerobic exercise? How much lifting? How much did your loss per week slow down toward the end? I'm sure others would find that interesting and helpful.

Hey of course i can do that : ) I'll keep you guys updated.

Bughunt · November 2017

So because Robertus asked and he is right , some of you are maybe interested in how i achieved my current state.

This could be long because i'll introduce you into my 405days of calorie counting.

Here is my weight report

sadly it just goes 365days back. so the "full start" is missing.

I started 24-26th September 2016 with 229lbs and as you can see i almost lost 2lbs (+/- 1lbs) every WEEK.

The first 1-2 Months i went with 1800calories just to see if i can adapt to it and it actually worked out pretty good.
After that i went down to 1500calories i couldn't get enough because i saw every week improvements and a significant weightloss.

All the time i ate what i wanted but with 1 rule. I weigh everything, each apple, each portion of rice and even seperated the brands from "which bread had more volume so i could eat "more" but had less calories".

I did not track any macro's on the "weightloss" journey. only calories.

I never fooled myself by saying "ah you just ate 10grams to much of that or this just keep it like that everything will be fine" nope, everytime i had the feeling i would fool myself i actually added more calories of this specific item just to be sure that i'm under my daily goal.

After the 3months on 1500calories a day, i went to a (by the way please don't do this) even lower daily calorie intake of 1200.I just wanted to make sure that i'll still lose more and more weight and was getting addicted (and still am) to calorie counting and adjusting of every single portion i eat.

This is also when i started with sports or more like "swimming" and tried to swim 2 times a week for 30 minutes straight. It kinda helped and also gave my muscles some work to do (working as designer sitting 8 hours a day).

Does it bother me or is it difficult to live like that? For me it's just something i went with over 1 year now and i can't see any bad things in it. (But other people do (friends,family,girlfriend etc.) But at this point i'm saying to myself "it is my life and no one will ever change me ever again just to eat these things which are full of sugar or industrial bs they give us in every store.

Funny enough i ate most of the time just simple whole grain bread and salami in the morning.
A ready to eat "chicken tikka masala" (Brand: Satori) for lunch.
For dinner whole grain bread and salami for dinner.

I know this sounds pathetic, but i went with it, i saw it worked and i sticked to that everyday.

Did i cheat? If u mean by cheatin drinkin' alcohol or eating something different. Yes i did, but i calculated everything and even asked my friend if i could weigh everything i would ate their house. (i know this sounds kinda crazy) But i didn't want to cheat on me.

When i had 140lbs i had a hard time my ex fiancée broke up with me after 5 years of relationship.

And this was the second breaking point for me and had to fight with very hard depression and suicide moments.

But i said to myself "you went through all this just to end at your new beginning?" and a good friend of mine convinced me to go the gym and gave me all the plans, all the new eating , watching on macros and calculating fats,carbs,proteins and try to ignore sugars as best as you can.

I started and i was weak, like a broken stick in the wind, i wasn't even able to do 1 pull up with my weight.

That's where the training really began with a 3split routine (so 6days a week training and 1 rest day).

First Day: Chest and Triceps
Second Day: Back and Biceps
Third Day: Abs & Legs
Fourth Day: Rest

Repeat.

Now i'm counting everything reading every nutrition information on every single fooditem which is available just to calculate the perfect amount of every macro i need.

Started with

2000calories (no gain in weight)
2200calories (still no gain)
2500calories (body are you kidding me?)
2750calories (this is gettin' ridicilous)

But i got stronger and i'm almost at my (do not fool yourself with kipping and stupid jumping) 10 straight pull ups and got so stronger and even the cardio went up the roof.

And now i'm at 2900 calories and eating a whole lot of protein and carbs and try to ignore as good as i can sugars.

I'm not gaining weight and i am still since i started with the training at 132lbs but i can feel the improvements and have a theory why i don't gain weight (that my body is still processing all the fats inbetween my organs and under the skin)

Now i'm here. Still progressing, everyday.

Hope this will help some people and you'll find something useful out of this.

Rule Nr.1° for me is and always will be "Don't fool yourself, be yourself and respect yourself."

Robertus · November 2017

Thanks for sharing the details. Wow, that's an amazingly consistent downward slope. I would have expected a slower loss toward the end, but you continued to adjust your intake downward until you reached your goal and then increased it as you started lifting. Excellent example of discipline and intelligent adaptation. My own experience was similarly dramatic but not as consistent as yours. I was not quite as obsessive about weighing and calorie counting ('though I was pretty darn strict) and I did not reduce my calorie intake as my weight went down, but, on the other hand, I had a very aggressive exercise routine from the beginning and continued to increase that as my fitness improved. Great job! Ever talk to your former girlfriend? Still on friendly terms? Hope you're keeping most of your old friends and making new ones.

Bughunt · November 2017

At the end we still got the Job done. It is hard and sometimes even depressing. But in the end when you see yourself in the mirror what you've accomplished is the best reward no one can give u with any money.

I do not talk to my ex and almost lost all my old friends (but i'm making new ones). Maybe because my personality and life moral changed completly.

mysteps2beauty · November 2017

Bughunt wrote: »

I do not talk to my ex and almost lost all my old friends (but i'm making new ones). Maybe because my personality and life moral changed completly.

You are making different life choices besides hanging out eating, drinking, TV non stop....nothing changes until something changes.

Great job!

Bughunt · November 2017

mysteps2beauty wrote: »

Bughunt wrote: »

I do not talk to my ex and almost lost all my old friends (but i'm making new ones). Maybe because my personality and life moral changed completly.

You are making different life choices besides hanging out eating, drinking, TV non stop....nothing changes until something changes.

Great job!