52.5lbs in 92 days

Just went to my general physician this morning, and I'm very excited. I lost a total of 52.5lbs since I've started using myfitnesspal to monitor my meals and exercise. I've tried other diets in the pasts, which have had limited success, but with this I feel good, (don't think I look any different), and have ease following this system.

I'm a larger guy, started off at 350 lbs and was very disappointed I let myself get over 300. Granted I'm 6'3" and built like a linebacker, but even the NFL has large guys that aren't the most "fit" (search Paul Soliai), but for being someone who isn't the most active 350lbs was larger than I wanted. With my frame, I want to get back down to 280lbs, and I'm nearly there.

I'm so glad to be where I'm at at this time in my new lifestyle. I really don't like the idea of weight-loss, so I've never been much for tracking my weight. I think people get too obsessed about the arbitrary number of their weight. As such I try to only weight myself every few weeks just to get an idea of my progress. I really wished I had discovered this app months ago.

My "diet" had been a relatively simple one. To begin with MFP recommended like 2650 kcal/day for me, which I thought was obscenely high, so I spent a week logging my food (without any adjustments) to see about how many calories I was consuming on a regular basis. I'm a vegetarian, so I generally eat healthier already, but still a veggie sub sandwich, can still blow out your nutrition goals for a day depending upon what's in it. After seeing my daily (I don't recall what it was) I decided 1900 kcal, was the goal to do. I generally stay to my goal, with a little more exercise on the days I go over, and a bit more to eat on the days I'm doing a lot of physical work.

I do need to improve upon my exercise plan though. I take my dogs on a 35-45min walk 2.5-3mph about 2 times a week, and really this has been my only exercise regiment. I fear that my weight loss is going to slow down if I don't pick this up. After all, I'm exercising without the extra 50lbs I was hauling when I started. For me, I've been trying to change how I eat most of all. I really don't enjoy "junk food" so it's been probably 6 months since my last candy bar, 3 years since I had ice cream or anything similar, and probably 7-9 months since I've had a cookie. That being said, I was consuming far too many carbs with bread. Bread has been the only thing I have really cut from my normal diet. I order Jimmy John's as an unwich, stop putting croutons on my salad, and do without toast at breakfast. Other than that I eat almost all of the same foods, just balanced now.

Everyone at the doctors office today was asking what I was doing, and I am very proud to say, I'm not doing any crazy no-fat, liquid-only, or pill assisted diet. Instead I tell them I've made a change to start eating healthier, and balancing my calories and nutrition each day. Since I am less concerned about my weight, and more concerned about how to eat healthier, and how to exercise moderately, I believe this is a lifestyle change I can continue for years to come.

Thank you, myfitnesspal!