After reading so many of the threads here I felt like there was something I wanted to say in each and every one. Not that I think I have all the answers (cause if I did I would be selling them haha) but I thought that just maybe I be able to say one thing or add something it that might get it all to click for one person. I figured maybe putting everything that I could think of down in one place could maybe do some more good. It also doesnt really seem right for me to offer advice on a subject when for all anyone knows I could have been perfectly skinny and small my entire life. Maybe that wouldnt bother some but me personally I dont want advice about losing weight from someone who has never really done it...so here it goes.
I am currently a 24 year old male. I always say I am 5'9 but really I am a hair under it at 5'8 and I weigh about 220lbs. My issues with weight loss and being overweight started when I was very very young. I grew up in a military family my dads job was in the medical field and he was very good at his job, the down side to that is that the military moved us around a lot, 52 times before I finished 4th grade. We never once flew on these moves so there was often a lot of eating out and eating on the run that came with it. I started playing sports in first grade, it was clear that I was overweight and it didnt help that I was much shorter than everyone else my age. Everyone else in my family is also on the bigger side but, aside from my mother, they are also taller. I was always very very active, playing football, before that I played soccer, I wrestled from 2nd grade until my soph year in college, and ran track from 6th grade until I graduated but really nothing helped a whole lot up until high school. It didnt matter what dr I saw or for what reason they always said I was either obese or morbidly obese, depending on the dr. My diet wasnt great but it always wasnt horrible at that time. When I was in about 5th grade I discovered the most amazing thing in the world to me, Mtn. dew. Both of my parents grew up only drinking diet soda when they drank soda so the same went for me and my brother. Well I had mtn dew one time and from then on I was hooked. I would eat nothing from the time I woke up until about 8pm and just drink mtn dew and some water. During the school day I was drinking on avg almost 3 liters.
I went into high school at about 5'5 1/2 and 180 lbs. I always had a chubby face and I had very short arms and legs which didnt help the cause. Wrestling had become my sport of choice and this was when I started getting much more serious about it. I had an older brother who was a senior and he had shot up to almost 6'1 and a very well put together 265 so it was hoped that this was going to happen for me. I started eating better, wrestling year round on top of the other sports and trying to take better care of my body as a whole but not a whole lot changed. I lifted and ran all of the time and by the next year I grew maybe an inch but my weight was up to 220. Now I had lost a bunch of bad weight and put on muscle but according to Drs I was still very much obese. Over the next few years til I graduated I grew to my height that I am at now but my weight stayed the same. Losing more of the bad weight and gaining muscle. I graduated at 212 and 5'8, needing my body fast tested for wrestling I knew that at that time it was at 10%. yet, that height and weight made me still very much obese. I was going to wrestling in college but that summer needed surgery and, I really let myself go as they say and by the time the season started I was 269 lbs. The main problem was that my coach wanted me to wrestle 194 and an even bigger problem was that I only had about 45 days to get there. I got down to 193.2 on the day we had to weigh in, which is the smallest I have ever been my adult life, its also probably the worst I have ever felt in my life.
That was 2004-2005, sense then my weight has gone up and down. My highest being 325 lbs back in this past march sense then I have completely changed my diet. Some due to this and also issues with my stomach, acid reflux, and gout...among other things. I am down to about 220, I still have 20 more pounds to go, which will most likely be the hardest but, knowing were I was before, and how I felt is enough of a reason not to go back there ever again.
Now I hope all of that didnt sound too much like a jumble mess. I ramble a lot and when I try not too sometimes I can run things together. Reading some of these posts, one of the most common things seems to be about motivation, having that driving ability to actually do the work to lose the weight. Well, I would never try and speak for everyone but I know when I was at my biggest there were so many moments when I couldnt even stand to look at myself. I was literally ashamed of how I looked, to the point where I wouldnt take off any of my clothes around a mirror. I wouldnt only wear certain things because the truth was most of the other things I literally couldnt even get on. Now I am sure I am not the only person who has had those feelings or feelings like them. I was only 24 and I couldnt walk upstairs in my own home without sounding like I was having a heart attack or having chest pains. If those things arent enough or things like them arent enough, or just the thought of getting to that point isnt enough, then really what is? Our own physical and mental well-being, even if you have no one in this world (family, friends, ect.), your still here. Shouldnt you at least try and live this life the best way you can?
I was always the type that would "eat there emotions" as they say. I over ate when I was depressed, I over ate when I was happy, I over ate when I was in the middle. And really, this was just a cycle cause in the end I was always one of those things....generally depressed. Looking back I am not really sure how much I ate out of hunger, I was packed with all of these emotions and food was really the only comfort, unfortunately that comfort didnt last long and then it would start all over. I think this is something that almost every person who is or was overweight does or did. In my opinion being overweight is one of the hardest things, if not the hardest thing there is. It will effect every aspect of your life in every way. When your a kid you get made fun of and picked on and beat up, once you get to the age of dating it plays an effect on the opposite sex and most likely makes you self conscious, when your an adult it can still do the same things just at different levels, you can be treated differently at work or just in public in general, there are plenty of times when it can go as far as preventing you from getting a job or a better position, and none of this includes the effect it has on your loved ones. Spouse, kids, parents, ect. And again our own physical and mental well-being, to me there is no better motivation.
Another common thing seems to be, what is the best thing to do. That is my favorite type of question, the one that has no answer. No one knows whats best. We are all different, and we could all try the exact same thing and each and every one of us could get a different result. There are so many factors to bring into this, its impossible to give a good answer, but ill try haha. The best thing to do is, something. Your at a point where you know you need to, and want to lose weight, which is great. Clearly that means that whatever your doing isnt working so change it up, do something. If you drink a lot of soda (like me) trying cutting that back or even out if you can. We all dont have time or money for a gym so walk or jog at home. When I was a kid I used to put all my sweats and sauna gear on and jog in place in our basement in front of a heater while watching TV. Not ideal and I wouldnt recommend at all that you start with all of that but at this point doing something is better than nothing. Losing weight is an uphill battle, the only positive is that we all have to start at the bottom. As far as the fad diets and the pills and all of that stuff goes, I would personally never do any of it, 95% of it seems like its doing more harm than good and just want your money. At the same time, we are all different and these things effect our body differently. If you feel like this is something you want to do/try id say just be aware of what you are putting into your body and arent putting into your body. Wrestling as long as I did, I can say I have done some of the craziest and dumbest things you can think of to lose weight and I got away with them at the time but I am surely paying for them later. They were nothing more than a dangerous quick fix. Not saying the two are the same...just some, food, for thought. (I hope theres at least one person who laughed at that other than me)
Numbers, they seem to be everywhere when we are trying to lose weight. Cals, fat, sugar, carbs, body fat, BMI, height, and of course weight. I would suggest that anyone trying to lose weight not get caught up in the numbers game. I have been there and when your weight loss because all about the numbers I think we tend to forget why we are even doing it, it all becomes about that next number. I used to weigh myself at least 4 times a day, everyday. I knew my cal and fat intake at any point in time and every week I had my body fat checked. But, at the end of the day isnt losing weight about feeling better and being healthy? There's nothing wrong with monitoring and keeping track of some of those things but you shouldn't obsess. And truth be told what do a lot of those numbers even really mean? BMI seems to be the big one know days. Well I know when I was 19 I was 5'8 193ish, I put in that height and 195 on the BMI calc and it came up 29.6 which is on the high end of overweight, and 30.0 is obese (the weight for that would be at 197). At that time my body fat was at 6.7%, an adult male athlete should be at about 5-12% depending on the site. These things, while they can offer some help, are not at all an exact science. There is a good bit of gray area involved and in many cases it seems they are are viewed way too highly, in my opinion. Weight loss as a whole should be viewed more on a how you feel and how your health is, at the end of the day those are the important things, those are the things that really matter.
I guess thats really all I have to say at this point...wow, sorry that was a lot. I hope nothing I said here upset or offended anyone in anyway. This weight loss thing seems to be as much as part of my life as breathing, it seems and, I know how hard it can be. I just hope somewhere in all of this I said something that might offer some help or insight to someone else. If anyone has any information, questions, or interesting little quips they would like to add please feel free.
Thanks.
I am currently a 24 year old male. I always say I am 5'9 but really I am a hair under it at 5'8 and I weigh about 220lbs. My issues with weight loss and being overweight started when I was very very young. I grew up in a military family my dads job was in the medical field and he was very good at his job, the down side to that is that the military moved us around a lot, 52 times before I finished 4th grade. We never once flew on these moves so there was often a lot of eating out and eating on the run that came with it. I started playing sports in first grade, it was clear that I was overweight and it didnt help that I was much shorter than everyone else my age. Everyone else in my family is also on the bigger side but, aside from my mother, they are also taller. I was always very very active, playing football, before that I played soccer, I wrestled from 2nd grade until my soph year in college, and ran track from 6th grade until I graduated but really nothing helped a whole lot up until high school. It didnt matter what dr I saw or for what reason they always said I was either obese or morbidly obese, depending on the dr. My diet wasnt great but it always wasnt horrible at that time. When I was in about 5th grade I discovered the most amazing thing in the world to me, Mtn. dew. Both of my parents grew up only drinking diet soda when they drank soda so the same went for me and my brother. Well I had mtn dew one time and from then on I was hooked. I would eat nothing from the time I woke up until about 8pm and just drink mtn dew and some water. During the school day I was drinking on avg almost 3 liters.
I went into high school at about 5'5 1/2 and 180 lbs. I always had a chubby face and I had very short arms and legs which didnt help the cause. Wrestling had become my sport of choice and this was when I started getting much more serious about it. I had an older brother who was a senior and he had shot up to almost 6'1 and a very well put together 265 so it was hoped that this was going to happen for me. I started eating better, wrestling year round on top of the other sports and trying to take better care of my body as a whole but not a whole lot changed. I lifted and ran all of the time and by the next year I grew maybe an inch but my weight was up to 220. Now I had lost a bunch of bad weight and put on muscle but according to Drs I was still very much obese. Over the next few years til I graduated I grew to my height that I am at now but my weight stayed the same. Losing more of the bad weight and gaining muscle. I graduated at 212 and 5'8, needing my body fast tested for wrestling I knew that at that time it was at 10%. yet, that height and weight made me still very much obese. I was going to wrestling in college but that summer needed surgery and, I really let myself go as they say and by the time the season started I was 269 lbs. The main problem was that my coach wanted me to wrestle 194 and an even bigger problem was that I only had about 45 days to get there. I got down to 193.2 on the day we had to weigh in, which is the smallest I have ever been my adult life, its also probably the worst I have ever felt in my life.
That was 2004-2005, sense then my weight has gone up and down. My highest being 325 lbs back in this past march sense then I have completely changed my diet. Some due to this and also issues with my stomach, acid reflux, and gout...among other things. I am down to about 220, I still have 20 more pounds to go, which will most likely be the hardest but, knowing were I was before, and how I felt is enough of a reason not to go back there ever again.
Now I hope all of that didnt sound too much like a jumble mess. I ramble a lot and when I try not too sometimes I can run things together. Reading some of these posts, one of the most common things seems to be about motivation, having that driving ability to actually do the work to lose the weight. Well, I would never try and speak for everyone but I know when I was at my biggest there were so many moments when I couldnt even stand to look at myself. I was literally ashamed of how I looked, to the point where I wouldnt take off any of my clothes around a mirror. I wouldnt only wear certain things because the truth was most of the other things I literally couldnt even get on. Now I am sure I am not the only person who has had those feelings or feelings like them. I was only 24 and I couldnt walk upstairs in my own home without sounding like I was having a heart attack or having chest pains. If those things arent enough or things like them arent enough, or just the thought of getting to that point isnt enough, then really what is? Our own physical and mental well-being, even if you have no one in this world (family, friends, ect.), your still here. Shouldnt you at least try and live this life the best way you can?
I was always the type that would "eat there emotions" as they say. I over ate when I was depressed, I over ate when I was happy, I over ate when I was in the middle. And really, this was just a cycle cause in the end I was always one of those things....generally depressed. Looking back I am not really sure how much I ate out of hunger, I was packed with all of these emotions and food was really the only comfort, unfortunately that comfort didnt last long and then it would start all over. I think this is something that almost every person who is or was overweight does or did. In my opinion being overweight is one of the hardest things, if not the hardest thing there is. It will effect every aspect of your life in every way. When your a kid you get made fun of and picked on and beat up, once you get to the age of dating it plays an effect on the opposite sex and most likely makes you self conscious, when your an adult it can still do the same things just at different levels, you can be treated differently at work or just in public in general, there are plenty of times when it can go as far as preventing you from getting a job or a better position, and none of this includes the effect it has on your loved ones. Spouse, kids, parents, ect. And again our own physical and mental well-being, to me there is no better motivation.
Another common thing seems to be, what is the best thing to do. That is my favorite type of question, the one that has no answer. No one knows whats best. We are all different, and we could all try the exact same thing and each and every one of us could get a different result. There are so many factors to bring into this, its impossible to give a good answer, but ill try haha. The best thing to do is, something. Your at a point where you know you need to, and want to lose weight, which is great. Clearly that means that whatever your doing isnt working so change it up, do something. If you drink a lot of soda (like me) trying cutting that back or even out if you can. We all dont have time or money for a gym so walk or jog at home. When I was a kid I used to put all my sweats and sauna gear on and jog in place in our basement in front of a heater while watching TV. Not ideal and I wouldnt recommend at all that you start with all of that but at this point doing something is better than nothing. Losing weight is an uphill battle, the only positive is that we all have to start at the bottom. As far as the fad diets and the pills and all of that stuff goes, I would personally never do any of it, 95% of it seems like its doing more harm than good and just want your money. At the same time, we are all different and these things effect our body differently. If you feel like this is something you want to do/try id say just be aware of what you are putting into your body and arent putting into your body. Wrestling as long as I did, I can say I have done some of the craziest and dumbest things you can think of to lose weight and I got away with them at the time but I am surely paying for them later. They were nothing more than a dangerous quick fix. Not saying the two are the same...just some, food, for thought. (I hope theres at least one person who laughed at that other than me)
Numbers, they seem to be everywhere when we are trying to lose weight. Cals, fat, sugar, carbs, body fat, BMI, height, and of course weight. I would suggest that anyone trying to lose weight not get caught up in the numbers game. I have been there and when your weight loss because all about the numbers I think we tend to forget why we are even doing it, it all becomes about that next number. I used to weigh myself at least 4 times a day, everyday. I knew my cal and fat intake at any point in time and every week I had my body fat checked. But, at the end of the day isnt losing weight about feeling better and being healthy? There's nothing wrong with monitoring and keeping track of some of those things but you shouldn't obsess. And truth be told what do a lot of those numbers even really mean? BMI seems to be the big one know days. Well I know when I was 19 I was 5'8 193ish, I put in that height and 195 on the BMI calc and it came up 29.6 which is on the high end of overweight, and 30.0 is obese (the weight for that would be at 197). At that time my body fat was at 6.7%, an adult male athlete should be at about 5-12% depending on the site. These things, while they can offer some help, are not at all an exact science. There is a good bit of gray area involved and in many cases it seems they are are viewed way too highly, in my opinion. Weight loss as a whole should be viewed more on a how you feel and how your health is, at the end of the day those are the important things, those are the things that really matter.
I guess thats really all I have to say at this point...wow, sorry that was a lot. I hope nothing I said here upset or offended anyone in anyway. This weight loss thing seems to be as much as part of my life as breathing, it seems and, I know how hard it can be. I just hope somewhere in all of this I said something that might offer some help or insight to someone else. If anyone has any information, questions, or interesting little quips they would like to add please feel free.
Thanks.
Your personal story really helped me be more motivated to lose weight after having stopped exercising regularly for 5 months. I don't remember what kept me going when I began exercising two years ago, but your story reminded me that I did it to avoid becoming another diabetic in the family. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Sounds really good i like it very much.
This is a motivate story and really help those guys/people who think they can't lose his/her weight.
This is a motivate story and really help those guys/people who think they can't lose his/her weight.
There will always be somebody who will resonate with your personal experience. When it comes to emotional eating, one must be able to dig deep and face the factors that cause it. It is only with an honest approach and assessment of our situations that we can find true healing. In this case, losing weight will be less stressful and taxing.
Hello Friends
I can perfectly resonate with what mouse78 has said.I lost 110 pounds 11 years back and I have maintained myself for past 11 years. The reason is simple. I lead a healthy lifestyle of proper exercise, proper diet and proper rest.
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lose weight I think that this theme is one of the most popular in our days also the internet is full with many information about this kind.Before starting lose my weight I tried to do sport in the morning and evening, I reduced my food but the results I couldn't see.So I began to read many information how to lose weight but after do not take more weight than before. And my decision was to take Reductil pills because as I considered these were the best.And after the first month so was I began to lose weight which was visibly and now I know that pills can help to reduce weight better than sport or other kinds of this.
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