Hit a big milestone this week. First time<250 that I can remember since some point in high school.

The picture attached was 2018 Christmas with an unknown weight. In January/February of 2019 I decided enough was enough and it's time to get my health in check. In mid-March for the first time in a long time I stepped on a scale and was greeted with 335, I'd assume that means in the Christmas picture I was somewhere around 340-355. I started logging on LoseIt at 335 and moved to MFP a few months ago since it syncs with another program I'm using.

For the last few days I've been safely under 250. Some loose skin here and there but to my surprise it's slowly bouncing back fairly well. My goal is 225, and 235 by Christmas this year at 6'6" tall. In the last couple months I've been feeling good enough to add some basic strength training to my regiment. Strength work really increases the visible gains notably compared to just weight loss alone. No gym or equipment yet but basic "bedroom" exercises like push ups, sit ups, planks, squats.

Today I ordered a StudBarPullup ceiling mount bar for my garage to start the www.twentypullups.com challenge. I haven't been able to do a pull up since like middle school so it's on my goal list to be able to do a couple before Christmas. I'm sure it'll take a notable amount of negatives to get there.

My current workout/exercise "plan".

• Adidas runtastic PUSH-UPS Pro App - Started at day 1 of easiest difficulty, 4-5 days a week. If I fail to complete a day I repeat the new day increasing reps until I pass it.
• Adidas runtastic SIT-UPS Pro App - Started at day 1 of easiest difficulty, 5-6 days a week. If I fail to complete a day I repeat the new day increasing reps until I pass it.
• Adidas runtastic SQUATS Pro App - Started at day 1 of easiest difficulty, 5-7 days a week. If I fail to complete a day I repeat the new day increasing reps until I pass it.
• During the above sets I actually just use NEAT style activites like folding laundry to not stop moving in my between set breaks except the SIT-UPS app breaks aren't long enough for that.
• Started Plank Workout app about 2 weeks ago. It started a little easy for me so I did "2 days" of the app in a single day for the first 3 days, so I'm entering week 3 of the program. I'll try to do this app daily but I suspect I'll miss a day here and there.
• Starting next Monday when my pull up bar will have arrived and be installed will be starting the www.twentypullups.com challenge at week -2 in the negative drops sets.
• Roller skating once weekly, sometimes I miss a week but a single session is good for a 1000-1500 calorie burn off.

I've got two young kids so my workout regime is far from structured. It's probably enough chaos in my patterning to make a gym nut cringe LOL!

My 2lb a week calorie count is 2110 and I've been consistently under that sometimes by 500-1000 calories depending on workout and activities of the day when the calorie burn is factored in. I know some will say I should eat more, but i've been averaging 2.5lbs a week through this so it must not be horribly too far off. No supplements other than a regular boring "One-A-Day" vitamin in the morning and 2x Glucomannan 575mg before breakfast and before dinner. Lunch is always really light, like a yogurt parfait or protein meal bar or something along those lines.

Nothing special or fancy by no means.

Just wanted to share this big milestone for me.