Hello Everybody,
I am joining this forum hoping that it will help me start a new chapter of my life. I have always been a big guy, I come from a big family so it was kind of destined for me to be big. Right now I am 19 years old 6'6" and I am 410 pounds. I have never been this heavy and I am not happy about it. I was always into sports when I was younger, I always played football and was on my high school's track and field team. I graduated high school a year ago, and have gained about 90 pounds.
I was a shot put thrower in high school and I was actually pretty good at it. We ran a half mile everyday and lifted weights for 2-3 hours 6 days a week. I was about 310-315 then. Unfortunately I messed up my shoulder half-way through my last season in high school. I was supposed to throw on my college track team but I can't throw anymore because of my shoulder. I never saw a doctor about it because I am not one of those people that likes going to the doctor. I still re-aggravate the injury every once in a while but it goes away so I don't do anything about it. Not being able to do track and field in college definitely contributed a lot to my weight gain. I haven't been forced to run, I haven't been working out at all because I am scared that I am going to hurt my shoulder again.
I recently told myself that I have to get healthier and that I am going to start soon. I just signed up for the local gym. I went today for the first time in about 6 months and it felt really good. I have lost a lot of my strength but I am still really strong, but unfortunately, lifting weights doesn't make you drop pounds. For the past 2-3 weeks I have been eating a lot better, A lot more veggies, chicken instead of beef, and brown rice instead of pasta. I don't usually eat breakfast and when I do it is either just a plain toasted bagel or a cup of oats with protein. I have a sandwich everyday for lunch and I stopped drinking soda and started drinking a lot more water (about 6-9Liters a day) and low calorie/sugar Iced tea.
It has been 2-3 weeks and I have not dropped any pounds and I don't know why. Once going into 8th grade I think, I lost about 45 pounds over the summer going from 250 to 205, with the first week losing 12 pounds, but it is not working now. Its been 3 weeks and I have barely lost anything. I would think it should drop faster because I am heavier so hopefully by joining this forum i will be able to get some motivation and some tips on how I can lose a lot more weight.
Right now I would like to try and get to 300 by the end of august. Then I want to eventually get down to 250 with a more muscle.
I am joining this forum hoping that it will help me start a new chapter of my life. I have always been a big guy, I come from a big family so it was kind of destined for me to be big. Right now I am 19 years old 6'6" and I am 410 pounds. I have never been this heavy and I am not happy about it. I was always into sports when I was younger, I always played football and was on my high school's track and field team. I graduated high school a year ago, and have gained about 90 pounds.
I was a shot put thrower in high school and I was actually pretty good at it. We ran a half mile everyday and lifted weights for 2-3 hours 6 days a week. I was about 310-315 then. Unfortunately I messed up my shoulder half-way through my last season in high school. I was supposed to throw on my college track team but I can't throw anymore because of my shoulder. I never saw a doctor about it because I am not one of those people that likes going to the doctor. I still re-aggravate the injury every once in a while but it goes away so I don't do anything about it. Not being able to do track and field in college definitely contributed a lot to my weight gain. I haven't been forced to run, I haven't been working out at all because I am scared that I am going to hurt my shoulder again.
I recently told myself that I have to get healthier and that I am going to start soon. I just signed up for the local gym. I went today for the first time in about 6 months and it felt really good. I have lost a lot of my strength but I am still really strong, but unfortunately, lifting weights doesn't make you drop pounds. For the past 2-3 weeks I have been eating a lot better, A lot more veggies, chicken instead of beef, and brown rice instead of pasta. I don't usually eat breakfast and when I do it is either just a plain toasted bagel or a cup of oats with protein. I have a sandwich everyday for lunch and I stopped drinking soda and started drinking a lot more water (about 6-9Liters a day) and low calorie/sugar Iced tea.
It has been 2-3 weeks and I have not dropped any pounds and I don't know why. Once going into 8th grade I think, I lost about 45 pounds over the summer going from 250 to 205, with the first week losing 12 pounds, but it is not working now. Its been 3 weeks and I have barely lost anything. I would think it should drop faster because I am heavier so hopefully by joining this forum i will be able to get some motivation and some tips on how I can lose a lot more weight.
Right now I would like to try and get to 300 by the end of august. Then I want to eventually get down to 250 with a more muscle.
