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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’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. |
| I have an injury on my left ankle, I used the first aid kit and put a bandaid on it. I’ve been taking some days off to let it heal, so I haven’t been going on my walks. I’m going to my sister’s for 11 days on June 29th, I’m going to watch their house while they’re away on vacation. My weight has been going up since I stopped walking, but I’m still in the 280s. I plan on walking again when I’m at my sister’s house. |
| I hit the high 280s on Saturday. I weighed 300 pounds on April 13th. Progress like this is tentative, because one week of binge eating can take me back to where I was before. That is what happened in March, when I went from around 286 to the high 290s because I bought $40 of junk food at Walmart. Walking an hour before breakfast seems to be working really well, that might be an important variable to consider. Last summer I didn’t do hardly any walking, and I went from 259 pounds in April 2024 to the 290s in September 2024. Another thing is eating home cooked Pinto beans mixed with brown rice and quinoa, in two burritos made with carb balance tortillas from Costco. I don’t eat more than two of those tortillas a day, the rest of the brown rice and beans I eat from a bowl. I ordered some Chía seeds and they arrived. I tried two tablespoons in my oatmeal Saturday morning with two tablespoons of powdered peanut butter and they tasted great! I ended up cutting out the Chia seeds because I felt they had too much fat. I ate ground turkey with onions and sugar free barbecue sauce, with two carb balance tortillas for dinner Thursday night, and Friday morning I was 284.2 pounds, I’m at my lowest weight of the year so far! |
| Losing weight is like playing tug of war. You gain some ground, then lose it all and go back to where you started. Over and over again, this process repeats itself. I think the key is to set boundaries, and not allow yourself to go above a certain weight after losing ground. So if I start at 290 and my record low is 259 pounds and I get down to 235, then I shouldn’t allow myself to get above 249. Every time I lose weight and gain some back, I need to set a boundary like this. This is the only way to make progress, because losing some ground is inevitable. I’ve bumped it up to an hour of walking before breakfast, I can really feel the difference compared to walking for 40 minutes in the morning before breakfast. My weight has remained stable for too long, so I’m cutting out guacamole and ordering Chia seeds to put in my oatmeal instead. That should also save me some money. I was going to skip my walk on Thursday, but changed my mind and decided to go. I wonder how long it will take to see results? Here is my weight loss plan: June 2025: -4 pounds 288 by the end of June July 2025: -4 pounds 284 by the end of July August 2025: -4 pounds 280 by the end of August September 2025: -4 pounds 276 by the end of September October 2025: -4 pounds 272 by the end of October November 2025: -6 pounds 266 by the end of November December 2025: -6 pounds 260 by the end of December January 2026: -8 pounds 252 by the end of January February 2026: -8 pounds 244 by the end of February March 2026: -8 pounds 236 by the end of March I hope to stick to this template! |
| I’ve lost 5 pounds over the past two weeks, so I’m doing better. I discovered a new way to make eggs, I cook diced cabbage and onions with a tablespoon of avocado oil and a quarter cup of water in a skillet with the lid on, then add three scrambled eggs. I use Italian seasoning, black pepper, and garlic powder. I heat up two carb balance tortillas and use a 2.5 ounce container of guacamole, half in each burrito. I’ve been maintaining my walking schedule, I walked for 960 minutes during the month of May. Yesterday I bumped it up from 40 minutes to 50 minutes. I walk before breakfast, so I’ve been striving to go to bed earlier because I can’t walk when the weather is too hot, so I leave no later than 7:30 a.m. I listen to the radio with headphones using my cellular phone while I walk. |
| The main reason I want to get fit is to defend myself. I can’t count how many times when I was younger people have beat me up for frivolous reasons, and I was too small and weak to fight back. I want to get lean and muscular to the point where people decide not to tangle with me if they can avoid it. On Saturday I trained arms thoroughly. I got a great pump. Later that night, I got to thinking. Every time I took time off from lifting, it started on a day I was supposed to train and I took the day off instead. Then I skipped another day, and a third day, until I had gone a week without training. Being able to look back and see that helps me to avoid making that same mistake in the future. My weight has remained stable for the past week at 297, so I’m cutting out the powdered peanut butter, to see if that helps. I was told a long time ago by a guy who lost a lot of weight that paying attention to different variables like this, then making adjustments, is crucial for successful weight loss. Getting a pump then stopping a workout is a waste, that’s like chewing gum that had a flavor burst after chewing it for 30,seconds, then spitting it out. Once you get a pump, you should try to maintain that for as long as you can! On Tuesday I woke up late but had a good weigh-in, so I thought I’d skip my walk this morning. I didn’t want to lose progress, so I changed my mind and went for my usual 40 minute walk. If there are two alternate realities, one where I didn’t train and one where I did, training will always be the better choice. If I’m thinking about skipping a workout, that first set primes me and makes me want to do more. Many hours after my workout I just feel better. It’s a natural high. I feel pity for people who live out their entire lives without knowing the ecstasy of weight training, and that lifestyle. I bought a blood pressure monitor and my blood pressure was high, so that changed my thinking about things. I’m eating less food, and over the past two days I’ve been losing weight. I’m eating a lot more fruits and vegetables, because that’s what’s recommended to lower blood pressure. |
| I ordered some powdered peanut butter from Amazon, it tastes great in smoothies. I think the combination of whey protein and plant protein works well. On Saturday morning, I was going to take the day off from walking, so I would have Saturday and Sunday off. I changed my mind and went for my 40 minute walk, because I have had good results recently and didn’t want to inhibit my progress. Sunday is the only day off from walking before breakfast, unless it is raining. Fitness is like a game, sometimes you win and sometimes you come in second or third place. If you can do everything right that day, you won. If you can win and maintain that for 20 days, then you’ll see real results. |
| On Sunday, my brother in law took me to Walmart, and I mitigated some of the damage by buying less junk food than I bought the last time I went there. I bought a quart of chocolate milk, a chicken pot pie, bananas, and some Dave’s killer bread bagels. I spent around $13. The last time I went there I spent around $40 on junk food when I was at my lowest weight of 2025. I went from 286 back up to around 300 pounds. I need to figure out how to avoid temptation when he comes around and not buy junk food. I did get some Dave’s Killer Bread bagels that I had been meaning to try, and they were great and didn’t make me gain fat. When it comes to managing your weight, you’re doing one of three things. Losing weight, gaining weight, or maintaining. When I look ahead to the summer or even further to after the new year, my goal is to be making progress in some way or another. I don’t want to regress again after making huge progress like I did when I got down to 259 pounds in April 2024, then got up to 300 pounds a year later. |
| You can either choose to exercise or not to exercise. If you choose to exercise, you need to progress to the point where you’re training twice a day. If you reach that point then stop training for a while, your stamina goes down and you have to start all over from a lower level. Once you reach a high point in your training, you must maintain it and practice periodization. This is the best way to build more muscle and keep it. I’ve been maintaining my walking schedule. I walk for 40 minutes before breakfast, every day except Sunday. I train arms one day, and shoulders the next, then take day three off. I’ve seen a lot of progress with my biceps and shoulders. I’ve been cutting up apples and grapes and eating them for a snack. This is better than having sweets in my opinion, I think this is a breakthrough. Getting in shape is 90% diet. The reason I started eating grapes is because I read a recent study in mice proving that grapes helped increase muscle mass. Here’s a metaphor: if you had to grab onto something painful to grasp, and after 20 seconds, for every second you held on, the amount of cash you get doubles, starting with one dollar. If you held on for a minute, you’d have at least one million dollars. The same can be said for getting your diet dialed in. If you figured out how to eat in a way that maximized losing body fat, you should hold onto that technique for as long as you could. Eating fruit instead of candy or other junk foods is the solution I’ve been looking for! |
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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. 
