How did you lose the weight? - Success Stories

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Calories is ALL that matters in the grand scheme of things.

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As metabolic science is progressing this is turning out to be more and more false.

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As metabolic science is progressing this is turning out to be more and more false.

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Care to elaborate?

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As metabolic science is progressing this is turning out to be more and more false.

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You have to be a miserable bastard to criticize a person's real world results and you do that **** regularly.

Shut up about keto. Good for OP.

If you're eating 2500 calories of the best saturated fats nature can make, but only burning 2,000/day

you're going to gain weight.

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. I didn't know how bad i felt til i took it off.

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Ain't that the absolute truth!
good work man.

In 2002 @ 300lbs I started running on the levee around UNO. Lost 60lbs in 3 months. In 2004 I had gotten down to 180. Been btw 180-200 since then.

I was a freshman in college in 2002 so my weekday diet was 2 foot long subs from subway. One with chips and one with cookies. Would eat at 11am and 5pm. Weekends I drank most of my calories.

After Mardi Gras I’m going to try and start counting macros. Would like to get down to 175!

At my highest recorded weight I was 363 pounds. Obesity has been a lifelong thing for me. I got fat in the 3rd grade and never really looked back. I was a lonely gamer nerd that drank nothing but mountain dew and Monster, and plowed through entire bags of chips as I sat at my desk playing computer games. When I wasn't doing that, I was scrounging for food in my apartment or working. I worked in a restaurant, so naturally I got free or heavily discounted food all the time. I was also broke, so I would save any and all scraps from pots and pans to take home when I worked in the dishroom.

At the end of 2010 I had a few events that really hammered home how badly I needed to lose weight.

1) At Thanksgiving, my aunt pulled me aside and gave me a heart-to-heart, sobbing plea to lose weight because she didn't want to lose me and wanted to see me happy

2) At a Christmas family gathering, someone told a joke that everyone laughed at. I was so fat that when I laughed my fat cheeks covered my eyes. A family friend then pointed at me and belly laughed and said, "he looks like a little pekingese!". That cut deep

3) I got home from work and had to go up a flight of stairs to get to my apartment. I was so winded by the time I got to the top I had to lean on the rail and catch my breath. That was the final straw.

I found the putta thread, started Atkins and stayed in induction for about 12 months. I lost about 80lb. I did little to no exercise. After that I wanted to start lifting weights, and at the time I thought keto was bad for that so I switched to Paleo. At around 1.5 years I'd lost 113 pounds, got to 250.

Unfortunately, from there things unraveled. I've regained and have re-lost 40 pounds over and over again. I'm ready to break the cycle this time. I am currently sitting at ~265lb and my goal is ultimately 220, but currently set at 240.

Not matter how much I unraveled, I've never gained more than 50% of the weight back. I have beaten the 95% statistics for weight regain, but I'm not satisfied until I get to my goal.

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Losing weight to become someone that my son could be proud of drove me to reach my goals. 

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I now have this motivation as well. I want to set a good example for my son.

I think this is an a great topic. I’m sorry in advance for this overly lengthy post. Over ten years ago in high school, I was obsessed with weight lifting and eating a high protein diet. I grew quickly from a 150 lb 5-6 kid who kid bench 95 lbs to a 5’11, 195 lb man who could bench 365 lbs. In college, I almost entirely stopped lifting and started eating like shite. My weight yoyo’ed Between 205-235, and settled around 210 at my first job after graduation. It was a sedentary desk job and my weight started to increase over time. I ate “healthy” Monday through Friday at lunch and whatever during the weekends along with going out. I got up to 220 in 2014 and decided to do something about it. I started martial arts training for about six months. Without changing my eating habits my weight came down to 200. I then got a promotion and had to move cities. My work hours increased so I didn’t continue training and over the course of a year and a half I was back up to 220. One weekend in February of 2016 my wife and I watched My Diet is Better than Yours on Hulu. We watched all eight episodes in one weekend and I immediately gravitated towards Abel James’s The Wild Diet. We went to Barnes and Nobel that weekend and I bought his book, aptly names The Wild Diet. I read the whole thing over the course of that week after work and decided to try it. Spoiler alert, it is a Paleo based diet. I started eating only real whole food every day for eight weeks and I was down to 195. I was happy at that weight so I decided to follow the diet Sunday evening through Friday at lunch and leave my weekends open to eating how I wanted. My weight stayed level until August 2017. During this time I started listening to podcasts on my commute to work. I remembered that Abel had one called Fat Burning Man so I started with that one. It was fate that one of the first episodes was an interview with Dr Terry Wahls. For those of you that don’t know, Dr Wahls had secondary progressive MS which gradually debilitated her until she was forced to use a wheel chair. After a ton of research she refined a diet and lifestyle protocol for herself that allowed her to ditch the wheel chair and eventually participate in an 18 mile bike ride. I had never heard this was possible from my neurologists and was shocked. A feeling of empowerment that I cannot describe came over me. I bought her book, read it from cover to cover in three days and embarked on the diet right away. It is a nutrient dense Paleo diet that focuses on 9 cups of fruits and vegetables per day. Three cruciferous, three leafy greens, and three colorful fruits/vegetables. I haven’t taken a meal off of Paleo since. I dropped from 195 to 170 and from 36 waist pants to 32 by December 2017. I now hover between 172-175 with the same waist pants. I do work out more now and hope to hit 185. However, if anyone ever decides to go strict Paleo forever, you will find it hard to gain weight. I want to point out, I don’t stick to this diet for weight management; however, it is a nice side effect of an anti inflammatory diet.
I think there are a ton of ways to skin a cat when it comes to weight loss, but it all comes down to compliance. I found what works for me (for other reasons), now you all just need to find something that works for you. Happy to go into more details for those that have an autoimmune disease and would like to know more or who just want to lose weight via a Paleo diet.

Bro Science alert is more like it. Guarantee every social setting he’s a part of Keto and Marco dominate his topics. If Marco Rubio comes out stating he’s on a Keto diet, this guy might spontaneously combust.

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How did you lose the weight?

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I ate steak