Well hello there

I believe it's about time I made an introduction. A little over a month ago, a friend of mine decided that he was going to try and lose some weight. Finding myself a 30 year old man at 6'1" and 281lbs, I figured it was time for me to have a lifestyle change as well.

We both had different approaches to this. He was looking for more of a get slim quick diet whereas I'm trying to go for more of a permanent lifestyle change. He restricted his calorie intake down to under 1000 cals a day, and when that left him too hungry he looked for some other miracle diet. He settled on the Keto diet, which is working for him, but I didn't feel like it was a diet approach I could maintain.

So I turned to MFP, put in my info my info in (incorrectly, at first...only noticed I had selected the wrong gender until I saw that the system refered to me as "her" and chose to lose 2lbs a week. I felt I could afford to lose that much considering my current weight. (Now I read in one of the forum posts that the info may not be super accurate, but it seems to work for me.)

Since then I've been logging my food intake every day to the best of my abilities. Two and a half weeks ago I've joined a boxing gym and have been making an effort to go. (Only managed once a week so far, since my muscles weren't used to be utilized like that...hoping to bring it up to 3 times a week.)

As of this post, I've lost a surprising 23 lbs in 37 days (I only weigh myself once a week, sunday morning), and (knock on wood) I will keep working on dropping the weight. I can tell I've gained some muscle as well, so I believe that's more than 23 lbs fat loss.

Hoping to meet a few good people on here so that we can motivate each other to keep going!

My only regret is that I never took a before picture for comparison.