Thursday, March 10, 2016

Lifestyle changes to maintain long term weight loss, having a window of oppurtunity.

Hello world, One of the greatest feats I felt I ever accomplished was losing 50 pounds over a 4 months period 5 years ago. I did this in the summer between high school and university... However what would happen is that I would BULK, only to find that by the time summmer rolled in again.. I'd put on mostly fat.

  • When I lost 50 pounds ,I Had no school, I was working partime at a donut shop. My diet was literally a donut or 2 as carbs, (or some other extremely unhealthy carbohydrates in low quantities) and then meat/protein.
  • I was playing basketball 3-4 hours a day, plus weight lifting
  • Then at one point I tapered off from weightlifting into martial arts, and then although my weight stayed similar, my body composition got a little worse.

I originally went from 205 to 155, over the course of the year (9 Months) I'll get back to 180, and usually at that point I'll start dieting to get to 165. Last couples of years, that's what the cycle has been.

Then, I took a year off backpacking.. I barley worked out. My weight fluctuated a lot, getting to 185lbs binging on food while in europe, and then averaging 170 while being is Asia, and I was also far more active in Asia.

  • I came home broke, and very skinny fat. I tried getting back to the gym as soon as possible. However, I felt very unmotivated, and was unable to push myself. It was really hard being motivated, pushing really light weights. When I started building some momentum getting back into martial arts, I started working full time while going to Grad school. All of the sudden I was working 60 hours a week, and then nearly all my free time was used for school.
  • After a few months, I tried working out 3 times a week with 2 kickboxing classes, and yoga on the weekends. I kept this up for a while, but doing these classes meant I would go to them after work at 9 PM, which usually meant I would get 4-5 hours of sleep. I did this for an entire semester, and then I screwed up at work.. Badly.
  • This made me anxious enough to basically stop going to these classes altogether. Then a few months later I was fired. Basically since coming come from traveling, my weight fluctuated from 170 to 180 ( which is my current weight) However my body composition is worsening.

  • Now I'm in gradschool full time which affords me the flexibility to go to the gym. So now I train martial arts 3-4 times a week. I'm going to be in school until september before getting back into work. I have a desire to compete in Martial Arts, however I'm also concerned about making long term decisions that will allow me to maintain a healthy lifestyle, even when I get back into the workforce. The dieting has been hard, I've tried counting calories, but its quite difficult. I'm eating less then even (with more then a few cheat days) however the weight loss have been extremely slow. I'm wondering also ( for long term purposes), that I should get into the gym, even thought my short term goal is to fight. For more context I'm 5'11, 180 lbs, 20% BF, I have an hourglass figure with wide hips, and a lot of the fat is in my ass. I'm terrified of living my live slowly descending into obesity.. and would kill to finally have abdominal s again.

  • Current Habits include-- 2-3 coffees a day, usually 300-400 calories from a snack (donut or cookie) and then I have one big salad, apple, banana, 2 meals of protein with minimal rice. I eat around 2000 calories at the moment, estimating from what I've calculated in the past.

TL:DR Have 6 months in school, out of corporate slavery, School is still tough, and have poor self-efficacy in general. Stressed about school, but want to use this 6 months to prepare myself to Box and also to get on the right path of having a healthy and lean lifestyle for when I get back into the workforce. Goals are to lose weight, get in shape, and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

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