Body Transformation Going Cucuy From Obese

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Double days

With my diet in place and results beginning to show I started to believe that I can really do this. Only I wanted it done faster. Every morning before work I would go to the gym and do my cardio. After work I'd go back to the gym and lift weights. By splitting up my workouts I was able to achieve more time on my cardio and more sets/reps on my weight lifting. The results were felt more like a fantasy than reality. On average I was losing 5 lbs a week this way. People say losing more than 2 pounds a week can be unhealthy. So was being over 300 lbs with all of my other health conditions. Healthy or unhealthy my goal was to lose 39 pounds and get under 300 lbs. To me nothing was worse than having to wear a knee brace, wearing a mask pumping air through my nose while I slept, and taking numerous medications just to live.

First Workouts

The time had come I joined a local gym. Nerves and anxiety were through the roof. The feeling of not belonging somewhere was at an all time high. What was I doing there? My first workout 15 minutes of cardio on an elliptical machine at the lowest level. Followed by a hour of roaming around machines and trying to figure how to use them. Eventually I'd work my way up to free weights but for now machines were going to be my best friend. As the week's went on my cardio improved. Every workout I'd aim for 1 more minute of cardio until I reached 30 mins. My weight sets (still on machines) increased from 3 sets of 6 to 3 sets of 8. Once I hit 3 sets of 10 my next goal was to go 4 sets of 10 and work my way up until I can hit 5 sets of 20. Remember I'm doing light weights. The weight loss didn't come right away but more importantly I started feeling better about myself. Sometimes the pain in my knee would slow me down. I'd remind myself the p

What are you taking?

The question I get asked most what did I take or what am I taking. " I have a friend named Jack and he knows a guy who sells magic seeds". There's no supplement or medication that's going to fix your weight. The key to supplements is they are made to supplement what your lifestyle. Drinking a replacement meal shake isn't going to help if you are taking in more calories than you are burning per day. With that being said when I first started I didn't take any supplements. Slowly I started researching and experimenting with different supplements. During my first year the supplements I felt effective for me included fish oil and protein powder. Protein is about as important as water to your body and fish oil is good for your joints. If you want to lose weight it comes down to burning more calories than you consume daily. Most people count all of their macros and I did for a while. Personally I feel calorie count is most important. If your body only burns x

Daily Diet

With soda out of my life losing weight became much easier. Losing 2 lbs a week was good but losing more would be even better. If I can go months without soda why not go months without eating out? My thoughts at this point were I've been overweight and miserable for nearly 30 years. Why not give yourself 6 full months of dedicated exercise, dieting, and no soda? If I can just give up 6 months I can live a better rest of my life. Now I needed to come up with a diet plan. Everyone has a magical diet plan and for the right price they can make it work for you. Getting the support of my brother we brainstormed and came to one conclusion. Who was the most fit athlete who wasn't selling something? Who isn't out there marketing themselves or some product? It took a lot longer than I ever imagined to answer those questions. Then it hit us...... ENTER THE DRAGON Bruce Lee, a man way ahead of the health curve. Not being big on dairy other than powdered milk for his protein

Good bye Pepsi, Coke, and Sprite

At this point im up to about 30 minutes of cardio working up a sweat. Although the calorie burn status on the cardio machine isn't accurate I use it to get a rough general idea. On this day I did some "serious work" burned 250 calories. I'm thinking to myself man 30 mins of cardio 250 calories that's got to be close to a pound of fat burned... WRONG! I searched how many calories burned are needed to burn a lb of fat. The answer 3,500 or 7 hours of cardio. I needed to increase my cardio but was physically limited and needed to find another answer to get under my goal of 300lbs. Previously I'd been given the option for bypass surgery given that I quit drinking soda for life. I couldn't give up soda but I can cut down. Instead of 2-3 sodas for dinner ( even more when I ate out) I drank 1 soda. With soda containing roughly 150 calories cutting out 1-2 sodas was equal to doing 15-30 mins of cardio. Now I'm thinking if I can give up soda completely fo

Starting point

A good part of my life I grew up overweight. It wasn't until I tore my lateral and medial meniscus that my weight passed the 300 pound mark. Once I hit 338 lbs I quit weighing myself because who wants to deliver bad news to themselves? Not only was I 338+ lbs, I had a fatty liver, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, limited movement in my knee, depressed, pre diabetic, and back pain. Not to mention stress from personal health, over 25k in debt, a child to raise, and no job. My surgeon insisted I had to lose weight but because of my knee limited me to 10 minutes of a stationery bike each day. First option was to get a bypass surgery to drop weight. After researching the types of gastric bypass surgeries I decided to get a lapband surgery where a ring would be surgically implanted around the upper part of your stomach. Excited to get the surgery done I had to attend my consultation. During the consultation I'm told that once I get surgery I'll have to quit drinking soda.

Breaking point

Having to sleep with a cpap machine and taking a handful of meds didn't inspire any change. Neither did having to shop at big and tall stores for 4XLT shirts and size 46 pants. Coming home with a custom made unloader knee brace is a whole new chapter. Not only was I big and bulky now there's a metal brace around my leg to make be even bulkier. Wearing shorts the brace would cause sweat to build up over my leg. Wearing the brace over pants and the brace would slide down causing even more pain to my knee. Figuring I'm going to be in pain the rest of my life I decided the pain should be rewarding and joyful. 10 minutes on a stationary bike wasn't going to do it. I needed the least impact on my knee while burning as much calories as possible. After plenty of vigorous research (Google searches) I came to the conclusion my highest calorie b urn with the least impact would be on an elliptical machine. Lifting weights with a 20 lb weight restriction was going