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Originally Posted by TheDamnBoy
I’m 5’10” 180 with about 11-13% adipose tissue, been doing this since I was 18 back in 2001
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I'm 5' 10" and weigh 178lbs. This is down from over 200lbs...
No fancy diet. Well, I did cut out high calorie/low nutrition (highly processed) foods pretty much. (On doctor's orders I already was on a low sodium/low cholesterol diet and this included much reduced red meat consumption.) Just started counting calories and got as far under 2K per day as I could -- no pun -- stomach. (My target was 1K calories per day and I was in the 1.5K to 1K calories per day.)
To my surprise I was not hungry. Weighed myself every morning. Kept a diary. Weight came off. I continued to exercise -- some light jogging, bike riding, or rowing machine when the weather outside was not conducive to jogging/bike riding -- but not to burn mega calories but for the exercise/physical activity and for some cardio benefit.
Weight was going down and got down to about 177/178lbs. Then I got hungry. Started eating more. Weight loss stopped. But still avoiding high calorie/low nutrition foods.
Weight has stabilized.
While I would like to get my weight down to 175lbs or even 170lbs my doctor says he is quite happy with my weight. So I have a diet intended to maintain my current weight. Which is pretty much the same diet I followed to lose weight. The difference is now I eat more but calorie intake is still below 2K.
Update: Down to 172lbs. Oh and I'm 5 foot 8 inches tall. Guess I've shrunk some. Not sure what I did to resume my lower caloric intake and not get hungry.