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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 280.2 pounds Sunday morning, that was a real wake up call. I bought a large apple pie when I went shopping Friday, and ate it within 24 hours. It’s time to get serious about my diet, I want to get down to 269 pounds as soon as possible. I should be able to do that within about a month if I’m careful about what I eat. On Sunday, September 14, I weighed 270.6 pounds. My downfall was eating Mac and cheese with ground turkey and other junk foods consistently. A cheat day once a week turned into cheat days multiple times a week, with no end in sight! All day Sunday, October 19th I ate healthy, lots of vegetables. I had asparagus and broccoli for lunch, along with onions, bell pepper, and eggs. I had cabbage, onions, and ground turkey for dinner instead of spaghetti. I was planning on joining a gym about 2 miles from where I live. I went and looked through the windows, and saw what equipment they had. The following day, I decided not to join. I can train at home with my own equipment and it would be a lot cheaper, and the distance is too far on my bicycle. It was $125 for the initiation, and $55 a month. That’s $660 a year for things I can basically do at home. The only thing they have that I don’t is a lat pull-down machine and a squat cage. If I do change my mind eventually and join that gym, I would like to have $600 or more saved up. This isn’t something I want to jump into without a savings plan. On Tuesday I got down to 277 pounds. For lunch, I weighed out 2 ounces of whole grain pasta and made Mac, cheese and ground turkey. I used the cheese packet from a box of Annie’s Mac and cheese. When I ate it, I was satisfied without being overly full. I never would’ve naturally eaten that small of an amount of pasta on my own. This gave me a moment of clarity, I can eat foods that I love in moderation. On Thursday I cooked cabbage and onions in avocado oil with canned chicken breast from Costco. It was delicious and filling. This might be the key to eating in a caloric deficit for me, it’s not the type of diet you’re on, it’s the diet you can be consistent with. I’ve still been walking before breakfast each morning. Friday morning I was 276.2 pounds. |
| I was 279 pounds on Friday 10/10/25, but Saturday I went down to 277. I think eating healthy contributed to my weight loss, I had eaten some brownies before the weekend but for the couple of days after that I ate healthy. I’m trying to stay away from junk food for the near future to keep this weight loss trend going. I follow a fitness YouTuber and he mentioned venison jerky, so I ordered one for around $3 and it arrived Saturday afternoon. I tried it, and it was delicious. If you had two obese twin brothers, and one ate junk foods consistently while the other only ate healthy foods, within a short time you would see a huge difference. The healthy eater would be leaner and more muscular. I wonder how long I can keep a fat loss turned going? Could I lose more than ten pounds in a short time? Or even more? It was supposed to rain Monday, but I got my 50 minute walk done and less than a half an hour after I got back, it started raining! There have been days previously when I skipped my morning walk because it was supposed to rain, but it didn’t rain until later in the afternoon. From now on, I’m going to go on my walks unless it’s actually raining. This is a good mentality to be in. |
| From now on when I eat cheat foods, I’m going to train either legs or back before I eat. This will help mitigate some of the damage. It is known as zig-zag dieting to increase your carbohydrates on days when you are more active, and lower them on days when you’re inactive. This is a technique I learned from Jay Cutler, in his e-books. I cheated on my diet too many times and ended up at 279.4 pounds on Thursday morning. I really need to take this diet more seriously. I don’t know how things could’ve gotten so out of control, but I have broccoli and asparagus and I bought Kodiak protein pancake mix. They say no matter how many times you fall, you must get up. I don’t want to remain as the before photo of my transformation story. I know I can succeed at weight loss, it just takes time and effort. |
| I’ve thought for a long time that since I don’t have work or school, I have nothing better to do with my time than train with weights. Now that October is here, I can actually apply this philosophy, because I’m starting Liftober. Up until recently, I’ve been focusing on doing cardio by walking for an hour each morning before breakfast. Lifting weights by targeting a different muscle group every 48 hours sounds like a great plan to gradually get back into lifting. I hit 277 pounds on Tuesday, and when I checked my blood pressure, it was one of the highest readings since getting the blood pressure monitor. I ate pizza two days before, and two breakfast sandwiches and two hash browns from a fast food place the day before. Several journal entries ago, I mentioned buying steak, but I decided not to buy it any more because side it made my blood pressure go up. I was planning on buying chocolate milk, but scratched that off of my grocery list because of my high blood pressure. I did a leg workout for the first day of Liftober, then on October 2nd I wanted to have macaroni and cheese with ground turkey, so I trained legs a second day in a row. I went from 277 pounds in Tuesday, September 29th to 274 pounds on Friday, October 3rd. |
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