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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 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. |
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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. 
