14 months - 110lb lost.. How I've done it!

Hey all, I just hit 110lbs lost, and I figured I'd give a run down of how I did it and my experience with MFP in the last 14 months.

Beginning of June 2015, I was 28, 6 foot 1 and 337lb. During a normal doctor visit my gp told me I had high blood pressure, and instead of going on medication, I refused and decided to lose weight, which she was pretty sure would solve the problem.

I looked online and found out about mfp, and started to log my food, while also researching what types of meals would make it easier for me to stay full and still lose weight. I also rode stationary bike about 2 hours a week but that was more for cardio health than for burning calories.

I elected to stop drinking anything with calories (I still love calorie free Mio, and diet sodas), and I started eating a lot more veggies, and baked chicken. Still those are a staple of my diet.

Pretty quickly I was losing weight, a few pounds a week typically and I started to realize I was only eating about 1200-1500 calories a day, when averaged throughout the week. After getting a ton of criticism while inquiring about this on the forums (which is a whole different topic I'm going to avoid here) I looked up a dietician and consulted with her. She was happy to allow me to continue doing whatever I as doing, as long as I paid attention to how I felt. If I got super hungry, she suggested i eat more, if I got lethargic or had sexual problems or had hair fall out, I needed to speak to her again...none of these issues happened, just fyi.

From summer to fall I lost about 60lb, and was super stoked about it all. People were noticing and my health stats, like blood pressure, all went back into basically normal states, which was one of the biggest accomplishments of my life.

As the holidays hit, I started to log less strictly, and eased up on the deficit...sometimes not logging for months at a time, but always using the skills and knowledge I'd gained through the last few months to keep my diet in check. Between October and April of this year I'd only lost about 25lb but I was very happy knowing that I can still lose weight (albeit slowly) while barely logging.

As of April I've been a little more diligent in logging, and I eat a lot more calories now than I did when I started...about 2000 a day averaged through the week. I still have days or weeks where I don't log, but with my deficit being much smaller now, I know that when I don't log, I'm probably not going to lose weight.

As of now, I'm 227lb, and extremely happy with my progress and accomplishments. However, I know that my route was not the easiest, or what some would consider the healthiest way. Still, my opinion is that losing weight is a very individual specific thing and what worked for me is simply that..not to be assumed it will work for anyone else.

I hope this is in some way helpful, or insightful, and might help motivate some of you to start your journey...feel free to message me if you'd like