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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 want to start an annual routine called Liftober. During the month of October, you do a full body workout three times a week, or at least a one hour weight training workout every 48 hours, and on the days you don’t weight train, you do an hour of cardio. I read something recently that said one hour of weight training burns more calories than one hour of cardio. That’s what made me think of this. I’ve been paying more attention to my cardio and diet the past few months, so I needed something to get me back into my weight training workouts. I ordered a pizza from the take and bake place, and only ate a quarter of a large pizza, and saved the rest for the next day. The next morning, I ate half the pizza and felt weird. It wasn’t a sickness like a cold or the flu, it was more like a cardiovascular thing. I decided to throw the last quarter of the pizza away. This motivated me to want to stay away from junk foods and fast food. I decided to plan my budget for early October, and I’m getting a 24 pack of 8 ounce chocolate milks for after my weight training workouts. They say a simple carbohydrate is best for after weight training. I’ll have to skip buying the cheese I usually buy, and that will work out better for my health. The lesser of two evils, as they say. |
| On Sunday morning I was 270.6 pounds, my lowest weight of 2025. Sadly, I seriously cheated on my diet that same day. My issue was that I didn’t have a wide variety of different foods, and was craving carbohydrates. I bought some stuffing and Mac and cheese. First, I cooked the stuffing with avocado oil instead of butter and ate it. I cooked the Mac and cheese with ground turkey and onions, and it satisfied me. I only ate half and saved the rest for the next day. I also bought two packages of cookies, and ate most of one package that day. I want to buy some Garafolo whole grain pasta from Costco and use it with the liquid cheese from the Mac and cheese boxes, instead of the enriched pasta that originally came with it. That way, I’ll be avoiding simple carbohydrates and eating healthier. It still isn’t completely healthy, but it mitigates some of the damage. According to bodybuilding champions Jay Cutler and Dennis James you should train heavy on high carb days, and that is what I want to start doing. I was supposed to train with weights that day, but the packages came too late in the day and I was starving, so I overate and was too full to work out. On Thursday I reached a high of 274.6, and Friday morning I was back down to 271.8 pounds. I’ve been eating popcorn the past couple of days, so I think that helps. It’s air popped, so there’s no butter or salt. |
| When I woke up Monday morning I had decided to skip walking for an hour, because I was expecting an important phone call at 10 a.m. After watering the plants I changed my mind, and went for my one hour walk. At one time, I made excuses not to go on my walks, but now I usually trade that way of thinking for a more victorious frame of mind. A champion doesn’t make excuses, he follows through on what needs to be done. You have to get rid of stinking thinking. I was in the low 290s three months ago and now I’m in the low 270s, it would be nice to hit the 250s three months from now or sooner. I’m exceeding my weight loss goals from June 13th, maybe I can keep it going. On Monday for the first time, I had spaghetti with ground turkey, tri-tip, zucchini and onions, and Tuesday morning I woke up at 271 pounds, my lowest weight of the year. I lost almost a pound and a half! I need to start eating that more often. I’m modifying my budget so I can buy tri-tip every time I go shopping. Ironically, someone gave me two slices of a medium pizza on Monday, and I ate them. I’m going to try that when I buy pizza, eating two slices at a meal instead of four. I can eat veggies of some type with it. |
| Now that I’ve figured out an optimal way to lose weight, it occurs to me that it would’ve been better to have figured this out two years ago. I don’t want to think that way, because two years from now, I’ll be grateful that I figured it out this year. I chose not to buy cheese when I went shopping, because my weight loss slowed down because of it. There is a lot of trial and error in dieting. One week it might seem like something might work, then some other time I might try something else. |
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