Hey there folks, 30 year old male here. To keep this post from being incredibly long, I tagged some more irrelevant information as a spoiler
Today is the end of the first week I've successfully maintained a diet. I started Monday, 3/24.
This week has been very difficult, but I refuse to give up. Because giving up spells certain death.
Let's start by describing myself and my former eating habits. I am morbidly obese. My scale seems like it cannot register my current weight. Mainly because it is difficult to stand perfectly still with all this weight shuffling around. The readings fluctuate anywhere between 615 to about 640 pounds. The scale is rated for 700 pounds. I'm hoping I can learn some kind of trick to it, or with losing weight, it will be easier for the scale to register what I truly weight.
I've always been heavy set my whole life, but the majority of my friends have been athletic, and I've never had a problem keeping up with the skinny kids. School ended and it was time to get a job. I started off as a subway sandwich artist. The job always kept me running around. I started by walking to work a mile and back almost every day, then I graduated to a bike, and then an ATV. By the time my career at subway came to an end, I was a manager and I was working 6 10-hour days every week, so I was never in my own opinion "too big" or "too slow", which unfortunately translated to "eat whatever you want, you will just burn it off"
I started a new job where I worked behind a desk answering the phone all day. I made 3 times as much money for maybe 1/3 of the effort. It was a dream come true. And unfortunately, it is where my weight spiraled out of control.
These were my eating and exercise habits before I started my diet last Monday.
- BREAKFAST:
- I typically skipped breakfast, some times I would have burger king breakfast. Maybe once a week
- LUNCH:
- Exclusively fast food for lunch. And not just one meal, sometimes as much as 3 burgers from burger king, or two plates of food from Betos (fast food Mexican restaurant), or one and a half footlongs from subway. We would rotate between these three restaurants every day. On occasion my boss would treat us to something incredibly greasy from the next town over as well.
- DINNER:
- Dinner was typically my healthiest meal. My mother cooks fairly healthy meals. She hates grease so we rarely have anything crazy unhealthy. My problem is that she hates throwing away leftovers so I always felt guilty if I didn't make sure that every bite of dinner was gone. Which some days led me to having 2 or 3 portions instead of just 1.
- SNACKS:
- My boss and coworkers were very generous, there is always some cookies, chips, crackers, ice cream, any unhealthy snack you can think of sitting in the office open to my free consumption. So I would be typically snacking constantly
- On weekends, I would load up on snacks and drinks to consume at home. It would all be gone by the end of the weekend.
- BEVERAGES:
- Where I work, we have a discounted pepsi machine that sold normally 2 dollar bottles for 1.40. I would hit that thing every couple hours. So on top of the vast amounts of soda I drank around lunch time, I would also drink 4 or so extra 20 oz bottles a day
- I would drink water if it was the last thing on this planet.
- EXERCISE:
- I went from walking maybe around 10 thousand steps a day to like 500.
- No other exercise to speak of.
- I get winded from walking to the bathroom from my desk. It's incredibly pathetic.
Sounds like I should be dead, or bedridden, or diabetic, right?
I had a proper mental crisis a few days before I turned 30, and I decided that enough was enough. This time I meant business.
This week, these are the changes I made (I use the MyNetDiary app to keep track of everything I eat)
- BREAKFAST:
- No breakfast Monday or Tuesday. Had a bowl of instant oats on Wednesday. A banana and an apple Thursday. through Saturday. One small bowl of cereal today. (Sun.)
- LUNCH:
- Monday thru Wednesday, I had a Protein bowl from subway. (640 calories). Thursday I had a 930 calorie sandwich on flatbread instead of regular bread from subway. Friday I had an Impossible whopper (only sandwich, no fries) from burger king (630 calories) - This one made me feel very guilty. I might not have this again. Saturday I had a package of peanut butter crackers (380 Calories)
- DINNER
- Dinners were my highest calorie intake through the week, we had things like chicken and rice, baked hamburger patties on thin wheat bread, chicken enchilada with rice and beans and corn tortillas. Nothing fried or over processed.
- SNACKS
- This is where I am most proud. A handful of lightly salted nuts a day, And apples and bananas for when I felt very snack-ish. Absolutely nothing else in-between. My mini fridge that would be loaded to the brim with snacks remained completely empty all weekend
- BEVERAGES
- A TON of water. I've never consumed so much water before. I had one zero sugar soda and two zero sugar energy drinks when I was at my worst at work. But not one full calorie soda all week!
- EXERCISE
- I've purchased myself a workout kit consisting of resistance bands yesterday. Excited to give it a try and hopefully incorporate them into my daily routine.
Those are some crazy drastic changes. How do I feel?
Actually terrible. My body feels weak, I am more sleepy than ever, and the hunger pangs are near endless. I did some research and this is normal considering how I went from consuming 5000 calories a day to less than 3000.
I am alone in this journey and am going off of my own research, so my main question is, have I started right? I know that its going to take more than one single week to see some changes, but I feel like I did good by taking the axe to my excessive fast food and soda consumption. I would love to hear what you guys have to say, and sorry for the monster post.
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