from 215 - 185

b0t23
b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
edited October 3 in Success Stories
33 year old male here

210-215 is the heaviest I have ever been sometime around the end of this past winter.

beginning of summer I started to think about doing something about it. Maybe in June?

a month went by maybe and I started being a bit more active, did some traveling and camping and hiking...some walking, jogging, pushups, situps, jumping jacks, LOADS of cycling and more.... watching what I ate...

September 1st I got a scale and was down to 199. This felt so great, but I was still so dissappointed that I was basically still 200 pounds.

I am only 5'9" and stocky but the top of my ideal weight is more like 168 or something.

I pushed myself to Cycle more, strength train more, told everyone I knew what I was doing, and really just tried to focus on losing weight and getting stronger, feeling better.

The most important thing I realized was I needed to watch what I ate ... I didn't even know what this meant but the weight was slowly coming off.

Then I hit a stall. I hovered around 194 for a bit, I think maybe gaining muscle and not really losing much fat. Then I came on MyFitnessPal and read up on a lot of stuff and was surprised to think that maybe I wasn't eating enough and my body was in storage mode?

Anyways, September 17th I set up an account on this website and started keeping track of my exercise and food, with a plan to agressively be losing 2 pounds a week.

Today the scale read 185.8

about 4 years ago this is what I weighed. My driver's license still says 185.
i went from a size 36 pants to a size 32.
from a large and xL shirt to a medium.

I plan to bust my *kitten* and lose 15-20 more pounds. And more importantly I want to get stronger and feel better about myself.

thanks for reading and keep on it. if you have trouble eating less calories, just exercise more. walk or bike to get dinner
or go to work, or meet a friend. I used to drive everywhere... even 1 mile away to get a cup of coffee.

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  • sc1572
    sc1572 Posts: 2,309 Member
    AMAZING job! Keep up the great work! :D
  • lovinlife71
    lovinlife71 Posts: 230
    :happy:
    great job...keep up the good work!!
  • BlessedandBeautifulBrown
    BlessedandBeautifulBrown Posts: 464 Member
    way to go
  • mermx
    mermx Posts: 976
    Well done you...it is such an amazing feeling to get things under control x
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    thanks!
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    lowest weight my scale has registered lately is 181.8 but I have definitely toned up and slimmed down a ton.
    my friends comment on it all the time.
    getting a lot stronger too.
  • pattynava
    pattynava Posts: 331
    Excellent Success Story!....It's people like you, that post these stories of success that keep the rest of going....WE know there is a light at the end of the tunnel....but sometime we think it's a train...ready to run over our *kitten* :laugh: Keep up the great work~
  • Espressocycle
    Espressocycle Posts: 2,245 Member
    Good thing you started at 215. I started wanting to lose weight at 212, but didn't get my butt in gear until 235. Now I'm at 217 and my goal is 185.
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    the more fit I become, the better I feel
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    so I made the mistake of weighing myself everyday for awhile and it either stayed the same or went up every day
    fluctuations, I know

    today I weighed myself and the scale read 180.4
    really excited it went down again.
    I am definitely building muscle and eating my calories, which was making me wonder if my weight was going to plateau for a bit.

    anyways, that means that since september 1st my weight has changed from 200 to 180.4. and I feel great.
  • Noof91
    Noof91 Posts: 61 Member
    Great job man
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    179.8 today! finally broke 180! I really did not think this day would come.

    15 more pounds to hit my goal.
  • boston6
    boston6 Posts: 158 Member
    You're on a roll! Keep up the good work.
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    thanks!
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    175.8 today and feeling great :)

    Slowed down for a second there and did not really lose anything for almost 2 weeks.
    I had corrective eye surgery and could not really exercise much. Also I think I splurged a bit around Halloween.

    Now it feels like it is coming off again.
  • lrucks1952
    lrucks1952 Posts: 10 Member
    Congrats man and stay on it!!! I was at 289 and I have now lost almost 50lbs and losing about 2 pounds per week by following the MFP..There are weeks when with all the work you do it does not seem to be working from a weight perspective (don't weigh yourself every day) but its not all about the weight loss showing on the scale, its also about the inches lost... Stay on it no matter how difficult or boring it gets!!!........I am down from a 46 waist pant to a 35 waist since May..Watch the calories and stay on it and you will get it done!!!
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
    good job!

    november has kind of stalled for me

    i went down to 174
    then back up to 177-178 and now am back down around 175

    I think I did good not gaining weight over the week of thanksgiving but this month is not going to stack up to the other months where I was losing 8-10 pounds.

    I have gone over on my eating a bunch but still mostly within my maintenance calories

    I still have an average of 2 pounds a week lost since September 1st 2011.
  • ogottwald
    ogottwald Posts: 60 Member
    great job! i just started using MFP and we have close starting weights. Friend me if you like.
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