so let me start this off by saying the whole reason I'm writing this post is to offer any advice I can. now how fast I respond to questions will vary but I'll try my best.id also like to state that I'm no professional and i dont claim to be any advice i give is stuff that worked for me. a bit of info about me I grew up fat always was just had a unhealthy lifestyle. for the longest time I was ok with who I was I had pretty much accepted that I would live and die the way I was. until around the time I was 18 a few things had finally clicked in my head that made me change my life. First my best friend joined the marines which I was and still am so fricking proud of him but when he joined it made me realize how useless I was second I met a girl who was really important to me and lastly I was listing to a podcast bouns points if you can guess it in the podcast someone said "people are uncomfortable with uncomfortabilty and if they could just embrace uncomfortabilty then they would be able to do anything ". after all of that I said fuck it so that next morning I woke up and went for a run. I was winded in 30 seconds I felt so fricking embarrassed but I knew I couldn't stop that day I ran on and off for like 40 minutes. at the end of it I was in pain but I felt good mentally and I was determined so the next day I ran for an hour and I forced myself to do it again and again after about a week I started to enjoy it. I didn't take a single rest day for about 7 months about 6 months in I knew I had lost a good amount of weight but I didn't know how much I had no scale but.one day i went to the doctors office for something or the other as side note I've had the same doctor since I was a few weeks old he and most of the nurse knew me very well when I went in the back the nurse who sees you before the doctor looked at me with a surprised expression she took my hight and weight and she said that I was 249 pounds! which means that since my last visit I had lost 50 pounds. even I was shocked I mean holy shit I know I'd lost weight cuz I had to get a belt to wear my pants and old clothes were fitting me now but like o said I didn't own a scale so I no frame of reference. when my doctor saw me he congratulated me and said that my progress was amazing and how I should be proud. that felt so awesome cuz while I've known this man my whole life he is still my doctor and authority figure on health so to hear him compliment me was trippy to say the least. that next week I bought a weight scale and started taking a log on my average weight each week in about 9 months since I started I was down to 199 finally under 200!!! I was so happy and a few more months went by at around 12 months so a year I was 175 pounds. al of my friends and family were super supportive of me (best part was compliments from family I hadn't seen in that time) this all took place in 2018 to 2019 as of today I'm trying to get to 180 to 185 iv been doing bodybuilding. so hopefully I can get some more gains.

THINGS THAT HELPED ME LOSE WEIGHT .lots of cardio

.weight lifting

.didn't necessarily count calories but tried to stay below 2000

.I did intermittent fast my first and last meal of day was in a 8 hour window

.drank only water

SIDE NOTES

as a side note when I worked out it was a 60 % of what I did was cardio 40%weights now its 90% weights 10% cardio

also I stated that I I tried to saty below 2000 cal I still eat what ever I wanted but this behavior did make me start liking healthy foods but for the most part it was what I wanted to eat I eat

for anyone wonder one thing fasting did was absolutely destroy my appetite most days i even today I just eat to eat its fuel to me now

I definitely left stuff out of this but I'll respond to any questions yall have and update the post if necessary.

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