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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 hit 280.2 pounds Sunday morning, that was a real wake up call. I bought a large apple pie when I went shopping Friday, and ate it within 24 hours. It’s time to get serious about my diet, I want to get down to 269 pounds as soon as possible. I should be able to do that within about a month if I’m careful about what I eat. On Sunday, September 14, I weighed 270.6 pounds. My downfall was eating Mac and cheese with ground turkey and other junk foods consistently. A cheat day once a week turned into cheat days multiple times a week, with no end in sight! All day Sunday, October 19th I ate healthy, lots of vegetables. I had asparagus and broccoli for lunch, along with onions, bell pepper, and eggs. I had cabbage, onions, and ground turkey for dinner instead of spaghetti. I was planning on joining a gym about 2 miles from where I live. I went and looked through the windows, and saw what equipment they had. The following day, I decided not to join. I can train at home with my own equipment and it would be a lot cheaper, and the distance is too far on my bicycle. It was $125 for the initiation, and $55 a month. That’s $660 a year for things I can basically do at home. The only thing they have that I don’t is a lat pull-down machine and a squat cage. If I do change my mind eventually and join that gym, I would like to have $600 or more saved up. This isn’t something I want to jump into without a savings plan. On Tuesday I got down to 277 pounds. For lunch, I weighed out 2 ounces of whole grain pasta and made Mac, cheese and ground turkey. I used the cheese packet from a box of Annie’s Mac and cheese. When I ate it, I was satisfied without being overly full. I never would’ve naturally eaten that small of an amount of pasta on my own. This gave me a moment of clarity, I can eat foods that I love in moderation. On Thursday I cooked cabbage and onions in avocado oil with canned chicken breast from Costco. It was delicious and filling. This might be the key to eating in a caloric deficit for me, it’s not the type of diet you’re on, it’s the diet you can be consistent with. I’ve still been walking before breakfast each morning. Friday morning I was 276.2 pounds. |
| I was 279 pounds on Friday 10/10/25, but Saturday I went down to 277. I think eating healthy contributed to my weight loss, I had eaten some brownies before the weekend but for the couple of days after that I ate healthy. I’m trying to stay away from junk food for the near future to keep this weight loss trend going. I follow a fitness YouTuber and he mentioned venison jerky, so I ordered one for around $3 and it arrived Saturday afternoon. I tried it, and it was delicious. If you had two obese twin brothers, and one ate junk foods consistently while the other only ate healthy foods, within a short time you would see a huge difference. The healthy eater would be leaner and more muscular. I wonder how long I can keep a fat loss turned going? Could I lose more than ten pounds in a short time? Or even more? It was supposed to rain Monday, but I got my 50 minute walk done and less than a half an hour after I got back, it started raining! There have been days previously when I skipped my morning walk because it was supposed to rain, but it didn’t rain until later in the afternoon. From now on, I’m going to go on my walks unless it’s actually raining. This is a good mentality to be in. |
| From now on when I eat cheat foods, I’m going to train either legs or back before I eat. This will help mitigate some of the damage. It is known as zig-zag dieting to increase your carbohydrates on days when you are more active, and lower them on days when you’re inactive. This is a technique I learned from Jay Cutler, in his e-books. I cheated on my diet too many times and ended up at 279.4 pounds on Thursday morning. I really need to take this diet more seriously. I don’t know how things could’ve gotten so out of control, but I have broccoli and asparagus and I bought Kodiak protein pancake mix. They say no matter how many times you fall, you must get up. I don’t want to remain as the before photo of my transformation story. I know I can succeed at weight loss, it just takes time and effort. |
| I’ve thought for a long time that since I don’t have work or school, I have nothing better to do with my time than train with weights. Now that October is here, I can actually apply this philosophy, because I’m starting Liftober. Up until recently, I’ve been focusing on doing cardio by walking for an hour each morning before breakfast. Lifting weights by targeting a different muscle group every 48 hours sounds like a great plan to gradually get back into lifting. I hit 277 pounds on Tuesday, and when I checked my blood pressure, it was one of the highest readings since getting the blood pressure monitor. I ate pizza two days before, and two breakfast sandwiches and two hash browns from a fast food place the day before. Several journal entries ago, I mentioned buying steak, but I decided not to buy it any more because side it made my blood pressure go up. I was planning on buying chocolate milk, but scratched that off of my grocery list because of my high blood pressure. I did a leg workout for the first day of Liftober, then on October 2nd I wanted to have macaroni and cheese with ground turkey, so I trained legs a second day in a row. I went from 277 pounds in Tuesday, September 29th to 274 pounds on Friday, October 3rd. |
| 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. |
| I’m moving down in weight slower than I was previously. When I got paid, I wanted to eat things for lunch that were outside of my normal diet, like ground turkey burgers and on other days, spaghetti. On Saturday I got back to having three hard boiled eggs and one pouch of brown rice and quinoa. That is what I had for lunch during the days when I was losing the most weight. I didn’t weigh myself on Wednesday because the trash gets picked up and I needed to get up at 5:45 am to make sure the trash bin didn’t get knocked over. On Thursday I was having a problem with my scale, so I didn’t weigh myself, but Friday morning I put new batteries in and it worked. I lost a total of 3 pounds this week. We weren’t meant to sit around eating and not exercising, our ancestors moved around a lot more than we do, and we pay the price if we don’t follow their example. If someone let themselves get fat, they can’t fight or flee from danger if it arises. Walking for an hour daily and eating more vegetables is helping me get healthier. Discipline is something that is strengthened. Just as I once could only curl a 20 pound dumbbell, then worked my way up to 40 pounds, strong discipline is something you’re not born with, you gradually build it up over time. |
| I had a strong craving for cheese and pizza on Sunday. It got to the point where I was planning out how to make home made pizza with cheddar cheese I planned on buying from Costco. I made spaghetti instead, with about 12 ounces of ground turkey, and the cravings went away. If I gave into every craving, I would never lose weight. I’ve got to try to work these things out somehow. I believe that if I went whole hog and stayed completely away from all bad foods, I would eventually binge and regain the weight. My plan is to buy a package of small pieces of cheese and have one a day, to alleviate cravings. There are two ends of a spectrum, eating too many junk foods and staying completely away from them. There has to be a happy medium. I woke up 2.2 pounds heavier on Monday compared to my record low on Saturday, so I need to try to get back on track. Update: I went shopping and bought a package of rectangles of Tillamook mild cheddar cheese at Costco, and overdid it with them for several days. On Thursday, I finally cut down to having two with dinner, so I made progress. My weight was 276 pounds on Thursday morning, and Friday morning I got down to 275.6 pounds. |
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