I'm another obese determined to change his life
Hello everyone,
First of all the main reason I'm posting this to motivate me and I'll try to write updates every day or so. Also, if anyone has a suggestion please help a brother out to make his life better.
For the past few days I've been devouring the forum for information about diets and exercises, also other peoples story to see where did they struggle the most etc.
I am 28 years old from Turkey and I'm 194cm and I'm guessing around 200kg. according to google I'm about 440lbs and 6'4? To this day I only tried losing weight once around 12 years ago when I was in high school, which was going pretty good until I broke my ankle which prevented me from doing anything and I gave up.
I'm a pretty stubborn person so I know that being hungry or getting tired won't make me quit. The only issue I have I don't have any income(looking for a job for almost a year) and I can't pick the healthiest food every time or go in sign up to a gym.
With my weight I know It'll take a long time (around 1.5-2 years?) to get into shape but I'm ready to do the hard work. The only available exercises in my situation is walking, aerobics and maybe swimming in a month or so(depending on the pool situation in my building).
I believe I'm pretty agile for my weight I used to walk around for 6-7miles miles per day (without losing weight imagine my eating disorder xd) without being exhausted, of course I'd get tired but after transportation back to work I'd keep on with my day as usual, but now I feel I got less agile with sitting at home trying to get a job also I think I put on around 20kg since then. I don't know my exact weight as our scale is 140kg max and I didn't even try getting on it because It could break.
Today is my 2nd day and since yesterday I cut down my coke(coca cola zero nothing illegal here xd) intake to half a liter per day I used to drink only that no water no anything, now I drink at least 2-2.5 liters water. My other bad habit is that I smoke a pack every day but I'll try to cut it down. Though I'm scared I'm putting too much pressure by changing every bit at once.
As my training I'm thinking of something combined with walking and doing some aerobics I had a p90x video I'll try to start with these. Though I don't want to risk my health by doing heavy exercises right away. I need your help at this point if anyone has been in similar situation or knows how should I start it will help me immensely. I looked at workout programs but I couldn't find what i'm looking for, maybe I missed it. Also as I said I'm trying to lower my calorie intake but I don't know how much I need to aim for today I created a diary of food intakes I'll add how much I ate to here. For example I ate 400calories on breakfast according to myfitnesspal which was cheese tomatoes and cucumber with bread.(If it isn't allowed to mention this site I'm sorry I'll erase it.)
Anyway thank you very much if you read all of this I hope in some time I'll become a healthy person.