The summer before freshman year of college when I was 19, I weighed 168 lb when I got my adult drivers license. In the nine years since, through college and graduate school, I have put on significant weight until I hovered around 250 lb. This isn't good. I decided I need to do something about this and do it before I do irreversible damage to my body.
At the beginning of 2012, I was about 240 lb and decided to participate in a "biggest loser" style contest with a group from my church. Over the course of three months motivated by regular weigh ins and the potential to win a small prize and the admiration of my peers, I was able to lose about 25 lb dropping down to 215 lb, mainly by monitoring food intake and exercise with myfitnesspal.
Unfortunately but predictably, once the contest was over, I no longer had the motivation to track my food (which isn't an insignificant task) and eventually drifted back to old habits of eating far too many sweet things in a sitting. By the time I got a new MN license in July, I was back up to 230 lb. In August, I started tracking meals again and dropped 5 lbs in a couple of weeks, but that didn't last long. By 2013, I was back up to 240 lb and eventually settled between 245 and 250 lb.
Near the beginning of July, after performing consistently at a lower level at ultimate frisbee than in the past, I decided I really was going to lose the weight and change my habits in a way that can be sustained long-term while still figuring out a way to make and eat delicious food and imbibements. After eating better for a week or so, I began tracking my food again as well as trying to take a 1.5 to 2 mile walk everyday. My start weight at this point was about 245 lb. Over the past couple weeks, I've been doing well and have lost 6 or 7 lbs and am below 240 lb for the first time in quite a while.
I created this blog as a place to document my progress in a public but essentially witnessless location and perhaps jot down a few notes or share a delicious meal.
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