82 pounds in 6 months with pictures

Hello everybody. I am not one to publicly post about my weight but I am hoping to post my story to inspire someone. Like many people, I was overweight and out shape. I am a 34 year old 6'3" Male. I weighed in at 292lbs on December 29th of last year. Back in October I was playing with my 5 year son and realized that I was not fun to play with because I was unable to be active enough to maximize the quality of time I spent with him. I decided that enough was enough. I had let my self go from 235 to 292 in about 12 years. I was not looking like the guy my wife married and honestly was feeling guilty because my wife is a model of health. It was time to make a change. I convinced my work to hold a biggest loser contest that about 25 people joined. I decided to make it my mission to will this. I am a VERY numbers driven person so my HR manager introduced me to Myfitnesspal and explained that it helps a lot of people. I researched it, the science behind weight loss and decided it was just a matter of math and will power. My thought process was it is only 6 months, I can hit this hard. I committed to myfitnesspal and was able to eat almost 2000 calories a day to lose 2 pounds a week. I found out that I was satisfied with about 1400. If I needed more I ate more but never more than 2,000 calories. Here was my method. I know this won't work for everyone but it did for me as I now weight 210lbs on my goal of 200.



Month one: Follow myfitnesspal and ate only about 1500 calories per day with no cheating. The weighed started melted off...I understand it is easier for me because I am tall and big. I decided it was time to add exercise to the equation.

Month two: Started going to the gym and maintaining my calorie goals. I felt no need or desire to eat back my work out calories. I focused 100% on cardio and lost even more even faster. Started to consider weight training to ensure minimal muscle loss. I worked out about 4 days a week on average.

Month three: Bought a fitbit. Best thing I ever did since like I said earlier I am very numbers driven and can log almost all my progress easily. I become obsessed with hitting my daily fitbit goals and I still am. I start working out my upper body because I have gained a ton of leg muscle simply by using and adaptive trainer, elliptical and walking.

Month four: I begin replacing some gym time and started riding my bike outside. I find out I love out door fitness and how good I feel. I decided it was time to get more serious about bike riding since I enjoy it so much. I am now realized that this is no longer a temporary thing, this is now how I live life. Started a walking group at work and got 4 other people to walk everyday at lunch with my to lunch. We walk two miles to lunch every day and 2 miles back whenever we can.

Month five: Start doing fun rides. Completed my first 20 mile and 16 mile charity bike rides. I am down over 75 lbs at this point obviously weight is not coming off as quickly because I am now much smaller. My calorie deficit is much less but still making good progress and get full a lot easier.

Final Month. Final month I am truly a different person and think about food and fitness differently. I have purchased all new clothes. I started with a 40-42 pant size and now a size 34. is a little lose on me, I went from a 3XL shirt to an XL shirt. I have energy and feel great. I will the competition by losing 27.7% of my body weight and 82 lbs. I no longer snore. I used to have GERD and now show no symptoms of acid reflux at all. I can fly on an airplane comfortably. I can play and enjoy my children like I never have before. I am now a fun dad and not just the sit on the couch and watch TV dad. I went from a BMI considered obese to normal (using the new BMI scale, I will have to get to 200 to be considered normal on the traditional BMI scale). I no longer have high blood or cholesterol. I wish every person could experience how I feel now and the energy level I have now. If everyone could feel it for one day before they started, I believe it would change their life. I hope this helps someone. I am not done. I have 10 lbs to go and plan on maybe gaining some back through strength training in the future. I hope this helps some one. I hope it doesn't sound like a brag but if I inspire even one person, I will be thrilled.