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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. |
| 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. |
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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. 
