Inspire me!! I am tired. Anybody got before & afters losing 80+ lbs?

I don't have before and afters, sorry not much help. I did lose 25 pounds and holding.

But you say you are so tired. Are you fueling your workouts?

Biggest advice: Working out for 2-4 hours every day likely isn't helping as much as you think. Depending on the type of workout, it could even be doing harm.

For instance, strength training/resistance training quite deliberately damages your muscles. The damage is minor, but it does happen. It's the rest/recovery afterwards that causes the muscles to become stronger. If you're doing this for 2-4 hours/day, and never taking an off day, your muscles aren't getting the chance to heal. That will, sooner or later, cause a problem for you. Take time off between workouts, and you'll get better results there.

This does not mean you have to completely shut down during an off day. You can do "active recovery" days, where you keep your workouts lighter and shorter. This enables to get some caloric burn happening, while also enabling your body to recover.

For instance, I do bicycling. A serious workout day will see me go out for an hour and go all out, hold nothing back, push as far and fast as I can. An active recovery day will see me stay indoors, using an indoor bike, and restrict myself to under 50% of my capacity for that same hour (or even less, sometimes). I also listen to my body to see if I can do even an active recovery day (there are days that even that much is too much).

Doing this, and maintaining calorie deficit, I'm down 55lbs since I began trying to track, back in Sept of 2016. I'm still losing, and have wandered off track a bit, but that's a result of not focusing on my training the way I should. I'm getting back into it, not this week, but the week after (learning how to devise my own training program right now).

Don't treat foods as forbidden. Any food you like, you should eat, but in moderation, to keep you under your calorie budget.

Don't eat back all of your exercise calories. Depending on how those exercise calories are calculated, you could wind up with eating too much (the estimates can easily be way over your actual expenditure), meaning you don't actually spend your days at a calorie deficit, which means you'll add weight rather than lose it.

That's really all I've got to add. Good luck with it, and feel free to add me if you wish.

As of this week I've lost 76 pounds enroute to 100. It taken me about 18 months but I've done it without any crash/fad diets or multiple hour daily workouts. I've slowly learned to eat better with the correct portion control. I bought a food scale and started measuring out what I ate. I still have pizza and hamburger but maybe only once a month. The only thing I've completely cut out is soda of any kind. That includes diet as well. To honest I was never a big soda drinker anyway so this was not hard for me.

I workout 4 days a week for 45-50 minutes. I either go to the gym or walk/jog/trot around my neighborhood. Also I do things like park in the very last row of the lot at my job. I never used the elevator at work and when I used the bathroom I back downstairs to the main floor. I also bring my lunch 5 days week with something I prepared at home. My desk has healthy snacks I brought from home too so if I do get the urge I'm not at the vending machine.

Has it been easy? No but I've learned to be consistent. That's the key. Find something that is livable for you. Get a step tracker and count your steps. Understand that the weight won't come off in a day. Know that sometimes for maybe weeks at a time the scale might not move. Find and active activity you enjoy. Start a journal or a blog and chronocalize your thoughts of joy, frustration and pain. Celebrate a milestone but don't but beat yourself up if slip a day(or a week).

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This is all great advice. Remember weight loss is 80 to 90% what you eat. Working out is important but not essential. Listen to the advice above and cut it back to 1 hour.

Unfortunately I don't have any before pictures I never like to take my picture. Let me give you some hope January 1st 2016 my weight was 288 pounds. My current weight is about 208 which I've been maintaining for eight months.

A little background on myself, double hip replacement arthritic knee and shoulder that eventually have to be replaced due to arthritis.

Never once during that time did I exercise 2 to 4 hours a day. At most I worked out an hour a day, four to five times a week. That hour that I worked out was efficient. I lost the 80 pounds by simply lowering my calories. I pluged my stats into mfp and set my goal to lose 2 pounds a week. It took me 8 months but I lost the 80 pounds.

You could exercise 5 hours a day 5 or 6 days a week but if you don't adjust your calories for weight loss you won't lose any weight. It's a simple matter of eating less calories than your body burns. Also during that time I still had the occasional Wendy's hamburger beers on the beach and pizza. If I had to give those up I would have never been able to do it.