I started on New Year's Day 2024 and as of 16th May 2024, I have lost approximately 5st70lbs31.7kg.
My decision to lose weight came as a result of a few factors. The main one was that my weight was beginning to affect my quality of life, both mentally and physically. Another reason was that I had just turned 20 the month prior and after being obese most of my life, I wanted to really change my situation for what were supposed to be the best years of my life.
I heard about Nutracheck after searching for calorie counter apps in the App Store.
I have struggled with weight issues for most of my life, but once I had left school aged 18 for work and had the money to buy the food I wanted, my weight spiralled, leading to me gaining around 25kg in the space of two years. When I started my journey, I weighed 138kg - as a 6ft man, this meant I had a BMI of 42.1.
I have experienced huge improvements in my mental and physical health. In terms of physical health, it has made a massive difference to my sleep quality, and has almost eliminated my back and knee pain. My fitness, stamina and general energy levels have increased an incredible amount as well as my posture. As for my mental health, I wake up feeling energised, happier and a lot more optimistic. I enjoy the challenge of getting myself to be the best I can be whilst being proud of what I've achieved so far. In general, I feel more motivated, happy and determined.
I like to view all the changes I've made to my life as individual changes that contribute towards a common goal, and all these changes cannot be made in one go. With this in mind, I think that the first few changes to your lifestyle you decide to make are the hardest and require a lot of dedication. That being said, if you stick to it and begin to see progress it motivates you so much so that other lifestyle changes become infinitely easier.
The most difficult part of the journey for me so far is struggling with my new body image. I still have more weight to lose so I am far from the finished product, but in recent months I have had times where I am not entirely happy. In order to fix this, I have recently started to lift weights along with my standard exercises and it does help somewhat.
I feel much more motivated and energetic. I am much happier with the direction my life is going. I do have times where I have periods of feeling down, however they are few and far between. I never want to go back to the person who I was.
Some examples I could give are losing the first 10 kilos, first 10% and then 20% of my baseline weight. A milestone for me personally was getting below 108kg, which seems like a random number. In April 2019, I went on holiday and made an effort to lose weight and started that time at 108kg. This attempt failed and over the next 5 years, I climbed to 138kg. Being back below 108kg felt like I had undid 5 years’ (25% of my entire life!) worth of eating in the space of 4 months! An upcoming milestone I am looking forward to is being below 100kg for the first time in possibly 6-7 years.
Bonus tip: Think long term. Don't obsess if you have bad days or weeks. Just get up and go again.
* Weight loss is individual and your personal rate of loss may vary from any case studies shown on this website.
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