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My journey from fat to fit! |
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I’ve been trying to lose fat and get fit for a long time. This will be my blog about my fitness journey! When a lot of people go from extremely fat to healthy and fit, they usually leave a lot out of their story. For instance, in online articles someone might have one paragraph describing when they were 300 pounds and sneaking fast food on their way home before eating a regular dinner with their family, then in the next paragraph they’re out running 5K’s and 10K’s. I want to show the fitness journey from beginning to end, with a lot of details and the philosophical outlook I’ve come up with on my own to guide me on my fitness journey. Hopefully, my experience can help others. |
| I’m moving down in weight slower than I was previously. When I got paid, I wanted to eat things for lunch that were outside of my normal diet, like ground turkey burgers and on other days, spaghetti. On Saturday I got back to having three hard boiled eggs and one pouch of brown rice and quinoa. That is what I had for lunch during the days when I was losing the most weight. I didn’t weigh myself on Wednesday because the trash gets picked up and I needed to get up at 5:45 am to make sure the trash bin didn’t get knocked over. On Thursday I was having a problem with my scale, so I didn’t weigh myself, but Friday morning I put new batteries in and it worked. I lost a total of 3 pounds this week. We weren’t meant to sit around eating and not exercising, our ancestors moved around a lot more than we do, and we pay the price if we don’t follow their example. If someone let themselves get fat, they can’t fight or flee from danger if it arises. Walking for an hour daily and eating more vegetables is helping me get healthier. Discipline is something that is strengthened. Just as I once could only curl a 20 pound dumbbell, then worked my way up to 40 pounds, strong discipline is something you’re not born with, you gradually build it up over time. |
| I had a strong craving for cheese and pizza on Sunday. It got to the point where I was planning out how to make home made pizza with cheddar cheese I planned on buying from Costco. I made spaghetti instead, with about 12 ounces of ground turkey, and the cravings went away. If I gave into every craving, I would never lose weight. I’ve got to try to work these things out somehow. I believe that if I went whole hog and stayed completely away from all bad foods, I would eventually binge and regain the weight. My plan is to buy a package of small pieces of cheese and have one a day, to alleviate cravings. There are two ends of a spectrum, eating too many junk foods and staying completely away from them. There has to be a happy medium. I woke up 2.2 pounds heavier on Monday compared to my record low on Saturday, so I need to try to get back on track. Update: I went shopping and bought a package of rectangles of Tillamook mild cheddar cheese at Costco, and overdid it with them for several days. On Thursday, I finally cut down to having two with dinner, so I made progress. My weight was 276 pounds on Thursday morning, and Friday morning I got down to 275.6 pounds. |
| I hit record lows for 2025 this week, I hit 271.8 pounds, but I’ve still got a long way to go. I was looking at some old photos of myself, and even though I weighed much less than I do now, I was still extremely obese. In the photo it was May of 2017, and I checked the date of the photo with what I weighed on my weight log for that date, and I was 259 pounds. It’s good to keep records of my weight so I can go back and see what I did right or wrong at that time. I started eating boneless skinless chicken breast with cabbage, onion and zucchini cooked with avocado oil, and my weight shot down faster than usual. It’s weird how I seem to have weight loss figured out now, but I couldn’t find a solution all the way back before 2017. The diet and exercise plan I’m on now seems to be working, I wonder why I couldn’t figure any of this out sooner. I guess that’s the lament of anyone who lost weight. Hind sight is 20/20. On Sunday night, someone gave me some sherbet ice cream after I had eaten all of my calories for the day. For most of my life, I would’ve eaten some of it or all of it as soon as I got it. I put it in the freezer for another day. I’m looking forward to seeing the scale at a lower weight each morning, and that is more important to me than the temporary thrill of eating something sweet. When I did finally eat some, I only had two thirds of a cup, the suggested serving size. We only get one body, and if we want to live as long as possible we need to eat right and exercise and maintain a healthy blood pressure. Thinking in those terms can be the difference between succeeding on a diet and failing. I went to do laundry and stayed away from the burrito truck and the convenience store. I checked my blood pressure the next morning and I was 124/94, which is the best reading I’ve had since getting my blood pressure monitor. From now on, I’m going to focus on how my choices will affect me the next day. |
| I can feel the difference at 277 compared to 297 pounds. At 297, I had trouble bending over from a seated position because my belly got in the way, but at 277 I was able to more easily. I’m also able to kneel and stand more easily. I displayed an image of my diet for one day from MyFitnessPal at a bodybuilding forum online, and someone pointed out that my macros were off. I needed to bring up my protein levels and bring down my fat for the day, so the next time I went shopping I bought some plain nonfat Greek yogurt and low-fat cottage cheese. I’ve also started putting a scoop of whey protein in my oatmeal in the morning. I only eat one measuring cup of cottage cheese a day. I also bought some shrimp from Costco when I went shopping, and had it for dinner. I’ve been eating broccoli every day for the past couple of days. I’ve got enough so I shouldn’t run out before I go shopping again. I’ve remained in the 270s. |
| Getting from fat to fit on your own is like trying to navigate a maze at night, blindfolded. One realization that motivates me is that once I achieve a fit physique, I want to spend more time as a fit person than I did as a fat person. I believe I was meant to be muscular and I’m cheating myself out of my destiny by being fat. If I visualize what I want to look like in a year, then that affects my daily decisions. Having a piece of junk food seems unpalatable if it will prevent me from reaching my goals. Having that mindset is the difference between success and failure. Being in the habit of overeating takes you down a road some never return from. This isn’t just an empty axiom or catchphrase, it’s a way of recognizing the problem and dealing with it. If overeating is a way of life for you, then you need to reevaluate your life choices and change your mindset. There is no intrinsic value in eating more than others. It won’t help you make money, and will jeopardize your health in the long run. You need to trade in the cravings for things like ice cream and replace them with cravings for vegetables like zucchini and broccoli. When I was younger, I equated eating a lot as a status symbol, but what I didn’t know back then is that it only has value if you’re lean and muscular. Even then, that would only happen on specific rare occasions and not consistently. There’s no reward for eating more than others, you just get fat over time. I hit the 270s on Wednesday and maintained it. |
| On Wednesday I went to go do laundry and there are two restaurants I’ve been to near there. One of them is a place where I can get a really good cheeseburger and fries, but I decided not to because the high sodium would be bad for my blood pressure. The other place is a burrito wagon, and I bought two bean and cheese burritos. One for lunch, the other for dinner. I also chose not to get a cup of horchata. Making healthier choices like these may seem insignificant, but over time they add up. For instance, on Tuesday, July 22, the day Ozzy Osbourne passed away, I walked for an hour in the morning and half an hour at night. I was going to skip my night time walk because I walked so much in the morning. This is the first time since I started doing my walks that I walked an hour and a half total during the same day. If I had been lazy, I wouldn’t have accomplished that. I reached my lowest weight so far of this year at 280.8 pounds on Friday, July 25th, 2025. I was reading an e-book written by bodybuilder Dave Draper, he said he got into lifting weights as a kid. It makes me wonder what would’ve happened to me if I had gone that route, instead of getting into drugs and alcohol. Figuring out how to get in shape has been like solving a Rubik’s cube. Just when I thought I had it almost solved, it gets more scrambled. I’ve slowly figured out how to set things right during the past five years. Going to bed early and waking up early every day during the summer so I can walk has been part of that solution. |
| When I went shopping last week I bought two pints of ice cream, and I think that having it and eating it helps because once it’s gone, I can’t have any more until I go shopping again. That allows me to go longer without sweets so I can lose more weight and still give in to cravings without going overboard. If I had a steady supply of ice cream my weight would go up or stay around the same, but by having small amounts, my weight spikes then goes back down. Eventually I would like to eliminate sweets completely, or to get as close to that ideal as I can. I would also like to avoid eating pizza. If I visualize winning the natural Mr. Olympia, it makes me want to take my diet more seriously. I bought bananas and froze some of them, that’s a lot better than thinking about ice cream because I can make protein shakes with them. I hit my lowest weight of the year so far on Thursday, July 17th. I was 283.6 pounds, and Friday, July 18th I was 283.4 pounds. |
| I’ve figured something out that I still don’t understand. When I’m dieting during the summer, I seem to lose more weight than when I diet in the winter. I’m unsure of why. Over the past ten summers, excluding this year, I have always dieted from January to April, and didn’t diet from June through August. When I did this, I would gain weight during the summer months. This year, I did the opposite. I didn’t diet from January through early April, but am dieting in June and July. I never would’ve figured this out unless things happened to turn out this way. I’ve stayed below 290 pounds despite eating pizza and ice cream. I’ve been eating junk foods in moderation, I ate a medium pizza on July 3rd and another medium pizza on July 4th, yet on July 6th, I was 286.4 pounds. I should weigh around 292 or even more, judging from past experiences, but I’ve been either maintaining the same weight or losing weight while I’ve been staying at my sister’s home watching her dog. I’m baffled by this, but I want this trend to continue. |
| I was reflecting on something I need to focus on daily. In the summer, I can’t go to appointments because it gets too hot here where I live. I have until December to get into shape so I can walk three and a half miles to the doctor to get a blood pressure screening and see the dentist to get a tooth pulled. If I don’t take this diet seriously and yo-yo diet and stay above 250 pounds, I’ll be risking my health. This should serve as motivation to stay on the straight and narrow as far as my diet is concerned. Another reason to take fitness seriously is that all of my life people have beaten me up. I want to get strong enough to fight back and overpower anyone who wants to be cruel to me. If I keep my mind focused in this, that should hell me stick to my diet. I ordered pizza on July 3rd, and this morning on the 4th I was still under 290 pounds. I was 288.4 pounds. I ate a pint of strawberry Halo Top ice cream, and it tasted just as good if not better than Dreyer’s. Halo Top only has a quarter of the calories as Ben and Jerry’s, the next time I visit my sister to watch her dog I’m buying Halo Top. I’ve been walking the dog daily. |
| I have an injury on my left ankle, I used the first aid kit and put a bandaid on it. I’ve been taking some days off to let it heal, so I haven’t been going on my walks. I’m going to my sister’s for 11 days on June 29th, I’m going to watch their house while they’re away on vacation. My weight has been going up since I stopped walking, but I’m still in the 280s. I plan on walking again when I’m at my sister’s house. |
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has oddly set off a motivating dopamine reaction that gets me going. Weights I can do at the house when I wake up or before bed. I'd like to be able to walk more, but my schedule is not that wide open where I can walk consistently. Right now I'm fighting a touch of a cold that's settled in my throat/sinus area so weights are good for me now. I'm also tracking on Weight Watchers since I started last DEC. While, I'm happy with my tracking habits, I do need to focus on more zero or 1 point foods. I agree - getting in shape is 90% diet. Sending you good vibes for meeting your goals. 
