morbidly obese to fitness freak......anyone

fitbulky

Has anyone gone from morbidly obese to fitness freak.Show me your progress.For how long have you kept the weight off

jackiecamarena

Kyle's story is always my favorite for motivation.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1092179-in-19-months-i-ve-lost-262-pounds-new-me-new-life

cindyhoney2

I've lost from 265 to 180ish...I have some before and now pictures on my home page...good luck!

pinkraynedropjacki

Yep..... well not morbid, but close. All the way to "if I don't workout I'm gonna scream"

ButterflyDame

Kyle's story is always my favorite for motivation.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1092179-in-19-months-i-ve-lost-262-pounds-new-me-new-life

yep, what a story!

CipherZero

Be 45
elevator out at work
climb three flights of stair to to get to the office I work in
breathing like a beached whale
oh****no
start walking to work
hard as **** to go just a half-mile
keep at it
starts to suck less
feels pretty good
humping 30-50lbs of work gear
get into a five-mile-a-day routine
Notice my mood is **** if I can't get the walks in
eat less crappy food
start lifting weights
**** around a bit
re-learn how weight lifting works
hit the home gym three days a week

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I was headed to being one of the landwhales before the epiphany smack me in the face at the top of the staircase: "Is this what you've become? Is this REALLY the best you can be?" I started less than 15 lbs from being categorized as morbidly obese. Today I'm merely lower-range overweight according to BMI and rapidly approaching normal bodyfat levels.

Fitness is simple, but it's not easy. Most of the work is really in the kitchen and the way you approach food and exercise. At this point - barring injury - I backpack 30-40 miles a week and lift three to four days a week. It doesn't matter if I slept badly, it's snowing, I don't feel like it, I have the sniffles, or it's pouring buckets outside; the habits so quickly ingrained in me that before my consciousness has a chance to protest my feet are moving under me.

I eat less but better food and still feel like I'm pigging out. It's odd listening to people say how hungry they are when they're losing weight when I'm not feeling that unless I make lousy food choices.

I'm guessing I have about another year to go before I'm at the fitness level I want to maintain - but god-damn it I *WILL* be fitter at fifty than I was a thirty.

63 lbs down, 7 to go.

6spdeg

i went from 300 to current 178 at 5' 5'' started in 2008