I have been slowly gaining weight for the past few years going from about 210lbs in 2000 all the way up to a not so comfortable 250lbs recently.<\/p>\n
I have tried eating a little less and I have tried going to the gym on occasions.<\/p>\n
I ride a bicycle too, but nothing was working – the weight continued to accumulate.<\/p>\n
In a recent photo I barely look like ‘me’. I look like a fat guy with a bad haircut and a misguided moustache.<\/p>\n
I pass that photo on the stairs every day.
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\nThe haircut and the moustache were easy to fix.<\/p>\n
The weight is less easy.<\/p>\n
I made many excuses for not dealing with it, I knew deep down that the only way to deal with it was to join a gym, engage the help of a personal trainer and cut down what I eat a little.<\/p>\n
Finally in July I checked in at LA fitness. My official weigh in was 250.1lbs. My BMI was an embarrassing 318.8 (very overweight) and my Body fat percentage was 30.9 (obese).<\/p>\n
Each friday at 6AM I meet my trainer for 55 minutes of hell. We plank and lunge and lift weights and generally exercise muscles that I never even knew existed. He talks of core strength and of balanced workouts.<\/p>\n
I ride my bicycle or work out again on a Sunday, then Monday and Wednesday evenings I head back to the gym. 40-60 minutes of cardio and random weights and core strengthening exercises finish off my routine.<\/p>\n
I track everything I eat and drink, plus my cardio workouts, using an app called ‘myfitnesspal’.<\/p>\n
I stay under the net calorie goal of 1700 calories per day.<\/p>\n
In july I set two goals to achieve by Christmas 2012<\/p>\n
1) Get back to a 34 pant size – back then the 38’s were rather too tight.
\n2) Change my shape to something respectable.
\n3) lose about 1-1.5lbs \/ week over about 20 weeks. aiming for 220ish, maybe a little less.<\/p>\n
Two months later……<\/p>\n
I am back to 36’s, they are comfortable and bordering on loose – According to my belts I am down about three inches off my waist. According to the tape measure I am down nine inches off my belly.<\/p>\n
My shape has certainly changed, but I still have some way to go…<\/p>\n
I weigh 231.5lbs as of this morning. That is 18.6lbs lost in 56 days or 8 weeks, better than my 1.5lbs pounds per week target.<\/p>\n
My body fat percentage is down from 30.9 to 23.7. This puts me at the high end of average and no longer obese…..<\/p>\n
My BMI is down to 29.8, no longer obese, just merely overweight.<\/p>\n
I really could not do this on my own,<\/p>\n
There are currently just fifteen weeks to Christmas, if I manage to lose 1.5lbs \/ week I could be under 210lbs for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n
Wish me luck !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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