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Below is what I wrote on Saturday, June 27th, right before going on a long walk and later in the evening on that day I forgot to finish the post so I'm just going to include it in the post for June 28th...
Written on June 27th:
So two days ago being June 25th, I still did my normal routine and decided to have a few drinks with some Chinese food and I definitely went overboard and I think it was yesterday that my weight on the scale came in at 242.5 pounds, which I kind of expected it to go up anyways because of all that food I ate the night before.
Today, my weight was 241.0 pounds and I guess I can't complain. I haven't really missed a day of walking for 2 hours or more so that's probably making a difference and also, I haven't missed following the OMAD routine either.
I honestly think that if I wasn't able to be able to have some breaks once in awhile and eat something very delicious, I would probably crash and burn on my diet goals. Today, I decided to start keeping track of my weight loss by creating a dedicated page on this blog where you can see on which dates, how much I weighed and that way everyone can track my progress. I should of started doing this a few months ago or maybe even from the very beginning but, I guess you can't be perfect.
I actually had some sort of spreadsheet that I had started before but it wasn't made public and I ended up deleting it at some point in the past. Anyways, I have one now and that's all that matters. I think today what I will be eating is maybe Spaghetti and Meatballs with a can of Zevia before I go on another long walk for the day.
According to the restaurants menu, this meal is some where around 1760-2000 calories so I may just eat only half of it and have the other half tomorrow maybe. It seems to be a sunny and cloudy day outside right now so I won't need to worry about bringing an umbrella and it's not going to be super hot either so that's great.
I checked my Workout app on my smart watch to see what the statistics were of my walk today when I got home but something didn't seem right so I decided not to share anything in this post because I don't even know if it's even accurate. I will see what it says tomorrow after going on a long walk, we'll see then.
Written on June 28th:
So I weighed myself after having a shower today after waking up and the scale showed 238.2 pounds which I am actually happy with for sure and honestly I had a few drinks last night with that large meal I had which I don't do this every single day, only once in awhile. Before those drinks I had a coffee crisp chocolate bar which was around 260 calories according to the wrapper.
What do I plan on eating today?, well I still have left over spaghetti in the fridge and I might just finish the rest of the perogies that are left in the freezer maybe. After a long walk today I may have a small 300-400 calorie meal later in the evening just to keep me going.
Today I did walk for about 10.53 km's for a total of 2 hours and 24 minutes with 1,290 calories burned and last but not least had an average heart rate of 114 BPM per hour. I did indeed get home and eat a 400 calorie meal which was some sort of Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese that I found in the frozen section at the grocery store. I had two beers as well.
Maybe tomorrow won't be a very good result on the scale because of those beers but when I got home tonight I was feeling kind of weak and it may have been because of the medication I'm taking but I felt that I should have something smaller to eat.
We'll see what tomorrow brings for the results on the scale and change some things if needed. I sometimes feel I'm not learning anything when I realize I've eaten too much, but, I still know that I have already lost over 90 pounds and there is a damn good reason for it. Persistence.
So here are the results for today and yesterday I weighed in at 239.1 pounds and today I was 237.9 pounds which totals a total loss of 1.2 pounds. I am happy with that result, and now let's get into how much I walked (it's insane really) but I'm not sure if I can do it on a daily basis.
The Workout app tells me that I walked today for a total of 4 hours and 6 minutes. The total distance I walked was 17.66 kilometers. The total calories burned was 2,282 calories and the average BPM per hour was 122. I think it's been ever since I reached the 260 pound range that I haven't really felt out of breath, which is a huge improvement.
What I ate today?, I had a small glass of milk before I left around 1PM and some sort of Masala frozen meal which was rice, chicken and some indian sauce on top. I knew today was going to be a hot one and that's basically why I made sure I ate something before I left.
While I was out and about walking, I did stop to eat some Chinese food which was Chow Mein and some battered fish and spicy chicken. I did drink some water along the way but I mostly drank that Gatorade you can get with 0 calories, so it basically has aspartame in it, and I also had some fruit juice from the grocery store that said "Zero Sugar" so that probably had Aspartame in it too. I had a tall beer when I got home to kind of reward myself in a way, and I think it was around 300 calories-ish.
I wore a hat today and it may have made a difference in keeping the sun off my face and I also have a fishing hat but I have yet to try it out. For the next few days it's supposed to rain so that should be easier on the my skin... hopefully. When it's sunny again I probably will start using sunscreen again (I should of started using it from the very beginning).
I don't know what my motivation was behind walking for over 4 hours today but if I can sustain this for more than one day I might try doing it every day. I think as long as I take it easy it might be achievable. I think tomorrow's results on the scale will be interesting, and hopefully rewarding.
Update:
It's pretty close to 12 at night right now and I kind of cheated and had some frozen korean dumplings that I found at the grocery store, and on the box it says that box was around 300 calories. I had some cravings... and according to a search online it's common for cravings to hit you when you work out for longer than you usually do, but the effect of this varies differently from person to person. Maybe it's just my lingering cravings from the medication I was taking?, I don't know. I think I'm done for the day for food and drinks, so that's for sure all I got for now.
So today was not really a good day for better results after stepping on my body scale. I weighed in a 239.1 pounds and that's only about .03 pounds less than yesterday. I have mentioned in previous posts that the body can be very unpredictable when it comes to losing weight, and I strongly believe this is the case here.
I did say before I would take a photo of myself after reaching 240 pounds and above you can see that, but to me, I don't feel a whole lot better but I did actually feel like I made a decent amount of progress. So I did actually go on a long walk today and it was probably the hottest I've seen it for a few days at around 30 degrees Celcius outside.
I walked for 2 hours and 36 minutes according to my watch but, I did not start the timer until about 10-15 minutes after I first started walking so I think the amount of time I walked was closer to 3 hours long. The distance was 10.34 kilometers and I burned 1378 calories. My heart rate was average 127 BPM per hour. The temperature outside according to my watch was around 28 degrees but honestly it felt hotter.
I did stay hydrated by drinking lots of water, but there was no escaping the sun. I think I should of wore a hat from the very beginning, as my face is quite red. I will start doing that tomorrow and I may use sunscreen too. It is supposed to rain pretty soon too so I may not need the hat but I'll bring it with me just in case in a couple days going forward.
I meant to also mention that the photo comparison of how my chest looks in the picture above doesn't look dramatically different in the before and after, I mean it's only a 10 pound difference there but it's definitely better than nothing. I was stuck in the 250 pound range for awhile because of a medication I was taking, but since I stopped taking it my results are getting better and better.
I know some people out there really like to push themselves as hard as possible and walk even further than I do every single day but I personally know that if I go beyond or past 3 hours of walking a day I could start getting blisters on my feet and that's not a good thing at all.
I think it's safe to say that I have almost reached the weight I was at before my weight spiked over 100 pounds in 2017 because of a medication and as long as I am able to get outside and keep walking and also maintain the OMAD diet as well, I am going to keep going.
What I ate today was two burgers that equalled about 1000 calories and I mostly just drank Zevia and Water and had a Buffalo Chicken frozen meal from the grocery store which I think was around 400-450 calories. So 1450 calories for today is in the right ball park range for someone like me according to some research I did and I may try to confirm this with my family doctor too.
I also read online that drinking Zevia or Water doesn't make a difference as they both have zero calories. Of course, my personal belief is that water would be the healthiest and would be a lot cheaper than buying and drinking Zevia on a daily basis.
So today I think is another set back instead of progress made but I may make some good progress tomorrow as long as my choices for food and drinks today were healthy, which I can honestly say I think they were. I had to go to the dentist and get some work done on my teeth which resulted in not being able to eat for at least 2-3 hours and so I walked with just water in my back pack and I admit I should have had something to eat before going to the dentist.
Because I slept in too much I was in a rush to get to my appointment, I only had time to brush my teeth. Anyways, here are the results coming from my smart watch and I did take a different route this time:
Total time spend walking: 2 hours & 39 minutes
Total distance walked: 11.73 KM's
Total calories burned: 1474 calories
Average BPM: 124
I guess you might be wondering what I ate... well about 2 hours after my appointment the freezing in my mouth was starting to wear out so I had a 4-pack of those Strawberry Shortcake Jello things which was about 110 calories per cup and yeah that's not totally a good meal to have but I had to eat something to get some energy that wasn't a solid food and that's the best I could do at the time.
I also drank lots of water on that walk but I was feeling pretty light headed since I didn't have much to eat before hand. When I got home I had a whole box of Mac & Cheese (only because I needed to eat something that was easier to chew again) and then I had some Zevia to drink with it. I think the total amount of calories for that box of Mac & Cheese was around 850-900 calories.
If tomorrow's results on the scale are not any good, I may have to change some things I suppose. I am going to keep trying to push for at least a 2 hour and 30 minute walk every day and maybe even up to 3 hours if I have enough energy. Like I said in my post last Saturday, what the scale says every day is completely unpredictable and you can only try your best to get the best result and even still you may not be satisfied with the result after grinding hard and trying your best in one day.
But as long as you keep trying your best, you probably will succeed and that's pretty much what I have been doing so far and I've obviously seen really good results. Another thing that I learned many years ago and I think I mentioned this on my About page, is that you really got to push yourself and go above and beyond to lose weight by following a realistic plan to lose weight.
I mean like what I learned is that fasting until 1:30PM or 2PM in the afternoon and eating about 1.5 meals per day equalling around 1400 calories is what it's taking for me to lose 1-2 pounds a day (and on the odd days I gain a pound of two if I cheat on my diet too much).
When I first started out trying to lose weight I was just a kid and riding my bike for 1-2 hours a day and I was not on a diet (just eating normally) and I never saw results, other than stronger legs and that was about it. That was the first time in my life I realized what I had to do, through trial and error.
Other than that I think I should mention that my newest routine is fasting from morning until afternoon then for my first meal is a bigger meal at around 1:30PM or 2PM then I go for a long walk for 2-3 hours then come back and have a small 400 calorie meal just to give me a boost for the rest of the night.
It feels more like a 1.5 meal per day routine instead of a one meal a day routine, but honestly 1400 calories is what I should be having all in one meal all at once and anything lower than that is not really a good idea. And my meals aren't the healthiest so don't take notes on what I am eating but actually buy ingredients and make something healthy for yourself obviously. Anyways, I guess that's all I got for today... ciao.
Okay so today I walked close to 3 hours again today like yesterday and these are the results from my smart watch on how far I went and all that other interesting info:
Total time: 2 hours and 49 minutes
Total distance: 11.76 KM's
Total calories burned: 1536 calories
Average BPM: 121
The results on the body scale were pretty good, coming in at 238.8 pounds. It's been years that I have been at this level and I keep breaking my own personal records every day. I do try my best to be perfect every day when following the OMAD diet but I can officially say that I am more like a 1 1/2 meals per day kind of person these days because when you follow the OMAD diet for a year you do get hungry after awhile.
Or maybe it's just my food cravings lingering after stopping my medication that I was taking in the past which was Abilify 2mg's and the day I stopped it was on the 29th-ish of May, 2026. These cravings are known to go on for 3-4 weeks according to some reviews I read online. I do believe that having more than 1000 calories in a meal every single day is vital to stay in good health while following this diet.
What I ate today was two burgers (I'm getting tired of eating this already I'll be honest), and I also had some Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese which you can get in the frozen section at your local grocery store if they have it. I assume I ate around 1300-1400 calories and I had a couple tall cans of beer along with one of those new Sprite 591 bottles of "Tea" which is a new product they launched recently I think and it was about 200 calories.
I assume tomorrow my results on the scale are going to be worse than what I got today but, I don't think I can really follow a solid plan in this battle of losing weight. I just kind of do what I want, when I want. Still, if anyone reading this is looking for the answer or the key to losing weight I would tell you this...
Trial and error is what it took me to lose 91.2 pounds to this day.
Persistence and dedication is what it takes to make a huge difference in your life.
As long as you don't give up you will succeed.
I guess that's all I got for advice on what it takes. I know in the future after I lose all this weight I will know what it takes to maintain it. Losing weight is one huge struggle but the biggest struggle I'd say is maintaining it once you've lost it.
Anyways, we'll see what my results are tomorrow and I will possibly report back here if I have time. Always remember, not to follow the same habits that I am doing on a daily basis because I am the worst example of someone trying to lose weight and always ask your family doctor first about losing weight before going on any sort of diet.
Alright so today I walked 2 hours and 30 minutes up and down the highway to the store and back again which felt a bit longer than my walk yesterday but when I looked at my smart watch it told me that after this long workout I burned 1386 calories and had an average of 115 BPM with the total distance that I walked being 10.68 KM's for a total time of 2 hours a 32 minutes.
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I think I should try to give you guys this information almost every day now going forward (as long as I can remember to turn on the Workout app on my smart watch, which I forget quite a bit). When I stepped on the scale before I walked out the door it said 241.6 pounds and according to yesterdays post I was 242.9 pounds and so I technically lost 1.3 pounds and that is definitely better than nothing I'd say.
After I got back I had one of those nutritional food bowls you get from the frozen section at the grocery store and I unfortunately did go to the liquorish store and bought one tall can of beer. I do know with eating a meal that is just under 1000 calories and having a second very small meal that is around 400 calories later in the evening and with 1 beer I usually do lose a good amount of weight and despite eating some what unhealthy I still make a good amount of progress.
Sometimes I am totally wrong though and I may not lose as much weight as I thought I did despite eating the right foods and drinking the right drinks. Our bodies are totally unpredictable so I can try to learn from my mistakes but I can even try really hard and not be happy with the results the next day.
Anyways, I have to say that the weather has been nice and hot out but it's not enjoyable for me because I sweat quite a bit and I honestly prefer the winter time where I am. It's hard to explain but I love the rain as long as it's not pouring for hours and hours, and it's easy to put on layers versus in the summer's hot sun all you can do is just wear a T-Shirt and Shorts and drink lots of water and relax in the shade while getting bit by a ton of mosquito's.
Since I didn't get much sleep this morning I plan on trying my best tonight to get more sleep so that tomorrow I can possibly go a bit further on a long, long walk and explore some places I've never been to before maybe. It will just all depend on how I'm feeling I suppose.
So for today I basically followed the same routine that I usually do except I ate something different than what I have been eating in the past few days. It's definitely not the healthiest I will admit!.
I ate two burgers, which obviously was a horrible meal to have and completely unhealthy, at just under 1000 calories though and this meal did pretty much keep me full from 3:30PM this afternoon until about right now, and I think I should be good until morning. I did have a small bag of chips and one tall beer which I think I might regret having this tomorrow morning... I guess it could be worse.
I'm not really expecting good results tomorrow when I weigh myself but I do feel much better now that I am past the 250 mark and I really look forward to getting closer to the 230 pound mark in the future because I remember this is where I was at in 2017 when my weight had started to spike. Even at 230 pounds I was thinking of ways to lose weight (but, the easy way out!) and I never succeeded to find that easy way out to be honest.
I guess that's why it took a few years for me to finally realize that I have to dedicate myself to this or else I will remain overweight the rest of my life. Aside from that, today I was going to try to walk a bit further than just 2 hours and I may have made it to around 2 hours and 20 minutes but I was carrying quite a bit of stuff and my back was starting to hurt.
So I decided to walk back home sooner and I think I will try walking for longer distances when I am carrying less stuff maybe. That's probably the key to longevity, carrying a light backpack with just water and sunscreen during the summer time. Anyways, I may add more to this post later tonight or tomorrow but I don't have much else to say for now.
Today, before I went on a long walk I noticed after weighing myself and seeing the results that I had made a good amount of progress. But it wasn't until later in the night that I fell into my habits again, which you can read about in my previous posts. I had a few drinks and had a little bit too much to eat.
I may consider weighing myself once or twice a week rather than every single day, just to reduce the stress. I know I mentioned in my previous post from yesterday that I would try walking for 3 hours per day but today I just wasn't feeling it at all and I only walked maybe just over 2 hours to the store and back and that's it.
I have enough food to last myself until pay day so I may walk further tomorrow or for the next few days, we'll see. As long as I am able to follow this routine that I have been doing lately on a daily basis I should be able to reach my goal of 170 pounds by either the end of this year or maybe in the new year or first quarter of 2027.
If there is any chance that my plans will be delayed in the future, it will not matter at all to me and I will deal with it. If that means I have to move some where else or anything like that. To me, life is worth everything it offers to me, and nothing is going to stop me from getting what I want.
Or if something does stop me, I guess I tried right?. I admit tomorrow's results are not going to be where I want them to be. I think today I definitely screwed up badly and I will learn from my mistakes the next day. Maybe it's just my food cravings lingering still that is what made me eat much more than expected tonight.
The better approach for my own diet going forward, ideally would be to not weigh myself every single day but only once or twice a week and to keep following the one or two meal a day diet while fasting still, and I think that would be a much less stressful approach to this routine for myself.
I have mentioned in other, previous posts in this blog that I have been following this routine of 1-2 meals per day during times when I was busy with other things in life and I still managed to lose weight and it didn't really feel like I was even trying. I was shocked to see myself go from 290 to around 270ish pounds from late December 2025 until the first two weeks of January.
Weight loss is definitely something that is so gradual that it is hard to think about. I know there are much more quick ways to lose weight like "water fasting" but you really need to be supervised by a medical professional in order to follow those kinds of diets and it could be very risky if you don't know what you're doing. OMAD (the diet I am following) is probably one of the most safe methods of intermittent fasting.
I did read some where about the 12-hour fast which is currently considered the safest method of fasting according to an internet search but I have never heard of it and if you want to try it make sure you talk to your family doctor first. Make sure you talk to your doctor before you do anything. Anyways, I can't think of anything else to mention so I hope I did not discourage my readers here to give up when you fall off the horse, and you should definitely get back up on it if you reach a setback like this one I had today.
Update:
I thought about this tonight and thought I’d mention something about it in this post. If I were to check my weight once a week instead of once per day I think I would get carried away with eating too much and I may not be able to control myself as much.
It’s probably a better idea that I weigh myself once a day just to make sure I am able to control my cravings better. One option in the future if this doesn’t work is weighing myself every second day or every third day but for now this will work for my lifestyle. I guess that’s all I was going to share. Ciao.
So today was a better result from the scale and I noticed I lost over a pound. One of my goals for today was to avoid buying any alcohol and to either drink only water or Zevia and Water, which I was successful at so far and now that it's 10PM in the evening I will probably go straight to bed after writing this post.
I think I actually walked for around 3 hours today and it was some what hot out but that didn't bother me too much. I did some grocery store shopping and made sure it was mostly after the majority of my walking so that my back wouldn't be too sore from carrying the groceries back home.
I think I completely avoided drinking soda which was one of my main goals which will definitely help with getting better results when standing on the scale tomorrow afternoon. I always have to remember to think back to what it took me to lose over 80 pounds so far to this day and I remember that ever since I started this diet almost a year ago, every single day was a bit of a struggle with fasting and having low energy.
Despite that I kept going, and kept eating only one meal per day. It's always a struggle to look into the future to see myself losing enough weight until I get to my target weight. It can be exhausting mentally and physically that's for sure.
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So anyways, here is a picture of a can of Zevia and you'll see the Nutrition Facts on the back of the can. These alternative sodas do not have sugar or even aspartame in them, it's all Stevia Leaf Extract and it seems to be a pretty healthy alternative to everything else out there from what I read online.
Here is an article from Medical News Today talking about the benefits of this type of soda, I hope you guys find it interesting. A box of 6 cans at the store here costs about $6.50-$8.00 which can be a bit pricey but if that's the price to pay for something that's actually healthier than Pepsi or Ginger Ale for example then I'm willing to pay that price.
This is what I wrote before I left on my walk today...
So unfortunately today after weighing myself I didn't make much progress because I went overboard last night drinking and eating chicken tenders from the grocery store so I kind of expected this to be a mistake for the next day that I would be weighing myself. So, it was only like about 2 pounds that I gained and I'm still under 250 pounds so I don't think that's all that bad if you ask me.
Today, when I go shopping, I might just get 1 tall beer just to satisfy my thirst for tonight and I'm definitely going to pick up something for tomorrows dinner that I won't be motivated to make tonight in case my food cravings kick in or something. Last night I honestly looked at those chicken tenders that I had bought just sitting there in the fridge... and yeah.
I ate them. And drinking only one or two beers when you have 4 more cold ones in the fridge too, well, I can never control myself with beer if I have more than just 1 can in the fridge. Anyways, before I left on my walk today I had enough perogies that it would equal about under 1000 calories which is about half a box that you can get at the grocery store.
7 perogies is about 410 calories according to the back of the box which is just under 60 calories per perogy. I'm going to pretty much finish the other half of the box tomorrow before going on my walk for the day tomorrow as I am sick of eating perogies to be completely honest with you all.
When I got back...
I ended up getting a few things at the store for the next few days for when I run out of perogies and they're all cheap things like a whole thin pizza for under $5 and those nutritional bowls that you can buy in the frozen section which are actually very tasty and some what healthy for you.
Like I have said in previous posts, I'm probably the worst example for when it comes to dieting but I cannot really afford to make food for myself and honestly I will admit that I am living proof that someone can lose over 80 pounds in a whole year without eating completely healthy so there's that to think about too.
I also picked up some Zevia at the store since I knew I would be craving alcohol and hopefully the 1 beer I had tonight will be enough and the Zevia can make up for the rest of the night. That last snack I had tonight around 9PM (the nutritional bowl) I think that had around 350-400 calories in it so I think I consumed some where around 1500-1600 calories today.
I am normally not the kind of person to count calories but I do like to do the math. Having only 1000 calories in one meal while following the OMAD diet is not really enough I have read online and around 1400-1500 for someone my size is definitely sufficient but don't take my word for it and obviously talk to a Dietitian or your family doctor please!.
What I think might throw off the scale when I weigh myself tomorrow is the bottle of orange juice that I had while walking and I also had one of those Starbucks Frappachino's in a bottle you can get conveniently at the store instead of walking into an actual Starbucks.
I usually learn from these mistakes and I sometimes go a bit overboard with rewarding myself but let me just say that I predict the next 80 pounds that I lose will possibly take another 6-8 months to even a year from this day before I reach my target weight 170 pounds which is where I originally was before the spike in weight gain from taking that horrible medication.
Before I went on my walk today, this is my update:
So it was just a few minutes ago that I weighed myself and the numbers are showing good results after making some gradual changes in my routine. I'm honestly always curious to see what the amount of calories is for what ever I may be eating if that's Pizza or a Burrito.
I always check the Nutritional Facts on the back of the package and I sometimes hold onto the package for awhile just to remember what it says. The results for today after stepping on the scale were 243.8 pounds and this was before eating or going for a walk so I am honestly happy with that result and I think I will be making a lot more progress going forward as long as I stay away from mental health medications and keep walking for 2-3 hours a day and stick to one meal per day.
Today I will probably eat around 4PM just so that I don't end up buying some fast food some where during my walk. Fast food always costs a lot more than buying home made foods anyways. I might start looking up recipes online, just to see if there is something I can make to save some money and eat much more healthier.
I also think that once I reach 240ish pounds I will post a picture in a post for everyone to see the difference I have made from using the OMAD diet so far.
After my walk, this is what I wrote:
This is not easy to write but I made some mistakes after going on my walk and this includes buying some fast food from the grocery store and yeah I still think my food cravings are still lingering and I also did stop by a liquorish store (if you know, you know) and bought more than just 1.
This is going to result in a spike in weight I think but I'd say this is something that I will try to learn from and yeah I know my addictions seem like I don't learn anything sometimes but I will always try better, I will always keep working harder the next day. I will try a different strategy like maybe I'll buy some soda instead of alcohol and for food I will buy ingredients instead of ready-made meals so that I can't snack on anything until I the next day until after making what ever kind of food it is.
I always think of a different strategy the next day, and I honestly never give up. If I give up on something that means it's something that was extremely difficult. Anyways, until tomorrow, that is all I have to say for now and if you like reading my posts, consider subscribing.
So here is an old photo I found while looking through my backed up files and when I first looked at myself from back 10 years ago I was shocked. I don't know the exact date that this photo was taken but I do know it definitely was over 10 years ago. The tile in the bathroom is something I definitely recognize.
Me back in 2017 before gaining over 100 pounds because of a medication...
I think in this photo I was some where around 200-230 pounds possibly?. It's crazy how one medication can ruin someones life just because they really aren't paying attention to themselves while taking the given medication. This is pretty much what happened to me and I truly thought it was a miracle drug. I found out later after a few weeks that it truly was the complete opposite of a miracle drug. It ruined my life in so many ways.
I don't know what else to say in this post, but I did basically want to show off to my readers to show what I really looked like in the mirror and I will probably bookmark this post in my browser just so that I can go to it on my phone and reflect on the past and motivate myself even more to keep working harder to lose the weight.
Alright so you will see in the last post I madethat I weighed 245.6 pounds, and today, even after walking for over 2 hours I weighed 246.4 pounds. I will explain where I think I screwed up here. I also think that since I have been following the OMAD diet for almost a year now my body is getting tired of fasting possibly OR it could just be the food cravings still lingering in my system since I only stopped that antipsychotic medication on May 29th this year and it's only been about two weeks.
Today I started off with getting out of bed around 12PM and having a shower to get ready to go for a walk, and then before I started my walk I went to Mcdonalds to get a Sausage and Cheese sandwich with a small Orange juice and that gave me enough energy to go on this long walk for over 2 hours to a local grocery store. Once I made it to the grocery store I bought the stuff I needed and then headed home.
I did weigh myself before leaving on this walk and I was 246.4 pounds and yeah I'll be honest I am of course disappointed with that result but yesterday I did have a few more drinks (alcohol) and some food late at night so that's probably what caused me to gain weight instead of lose weight. This is where I go back to the drawing board and figure things out so I can improve the next day and the day after that.
What I think will work better for me is to do what I did before, which is fast and not eat anything until around 3:30PM or 4PM and after that one meal I head out to the store again on that long 2-3 hour walk and come back to relax for the rest of the night. The last 2-3 days (including today) has been going for a walk much earlier in the afternoon and having a small snack before going out on that long walk.
I wanted to try and get that walk for the day over with so that I could do more things in the afternoon once I got back home. It makes sense if you think about it and can be more rewarding but I just don't see the numbers working for me right now so I think I might go with the method that I started out doing in the first place.
Tomorrow, on June 14th, I am going to eat around 3:30PM or 4PM then head out for a 2-3 hour walk and this way I only have one large meal and that's it instead of a large meal including a snack in the day. I will try to report back here tomorrow night to see if the scale gives me the right numbers and maybe I will weigh myself after eating and going for that walk.
So, I now finally have some good news and I have reached a record (in my books) of 245.6 pounds which means that so far I have lost 84.4 pounds so far. Before I went on a long 2 hour and 30 minute walk to the grocery store, I weighed myself so I might weight even less than 245.6 pounds right now.
The reason I'm not weighing myself again is just because if I weigh myself too much I will get obsessed and lose motivation when I don't get any where. I have actually lost motivation before by doing this, so I need to really take it easy on myself.
The above picture was taken today and honestly it might not look different from the other update I made a few weeks ago when I reached 244.3 pounds and I actually think this was the lowest weight I have ever been since my weight spiked almost 10 years ago.
I believe it was May 29th that I stopped taking the Antipsychotic medication called Abilify (2mg's) and I heard that it takes about 3 weeks to lose the food cravings side effect and with it being almost two weeks past since that day I feel like these cravings are almost completely out of my system so I can now finally start making progress again.
As long as I keep going out to get some fresh air and walking for 2-3 hours a day that will keep my mood at a good level so I can stay motivated. In the picture I uploaded to this post I do not feel fully confident within myself to be able to go to the beach or a public pool, I still feel like I'm not totally there yet and I of course will keep going and won't stop until I reach 170 pounds.
I should at least mention what I ate today and that was a small chicken wrap at Mcdonalds with small fries and a small ice tea, which I only got because it was only about $5 and I needed some kind of energy to get myself going to start the walk I was going on.
When I reached the grocery store I went to another cheap store to get a small bottle of Cream Soda which I thought I would treat myself and I will try harder tomorrow to drink maybe only water but that is a hard thing for me to achieve. I also bought one tall can of beer from a liquor store so that I could enjoy it and reward myself when I got home from this long walk.
I don't know if I'll actually be making a post on this blog every single day going forward anymore but it might just be for important updates on my weight loss journey. I was hoping to be able to put up some advertisements at some point if the traffic for this blog increased but it does take a lot of time to build that audience and I think it's not going to be one of my priorities for now.
Even though I had one beer today, I made progress by not having more than that as that was a routine for the last few days as I was buying and drinking 5-6 beers a day because I was trying to cope with life. I did however make a plan to cut the majority of the alcohol out of my routine and I may have the odd beer just to reward myself and to keep my cravings at a lower level.
Cutting alcohol out completely is not possible for me but lowering it dramatically is definitely very possible. I also can't afford to drink alcohol every single day so that actually might be beneficial if you think about it. Anyways, tonight I'm having a strange sort of snack and that is Mozzarella sticks which I bought in a frozen box at the store.
I will have maybe half the box and honestly I am just cleaning out my freezer and it's been a few days since I bought them and it's only once in awhile I eat unhealthy foods like this. I will be back to a normal healthy diet in just a few days once I finish the perogies that I have in my freezer (I think I bought too many because they were so cheap). I may try to actually start making healthy foods from scratch in the future, we'll see.
I know weight loss is a big struggle for the majority of people out there and this results in a huge amount of people that are not motivated to make that first step into walking or running or any sort of exercise and there is no magic drug out there that will take care of everything for you.
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There is no magic pill in the weight loss game. I'd say from what I have gone through the best advice I can give anyone would be that the best method of weight loss is Motivation. If you want something bad enough you will probably be able to achieve it. And for those who can't achieve certain things in life like weight loss I totally understand.
Some people cannot achieve certain things because of motivation and it is not because they are lazy but this kind of thing is actually an illness and they cannot help it. I have been struggling myself with motivation in certain different aspects of life, and it is hard financially andmotivationally(if that makes sense).
Aside from all that I can say that there is nothing more pure and real than motivating yourself to lose weight. I do know that some people like to try to find the "magic pill" when it comes to weight loss. But let me tell you that there is no such thing. The most realistic way to lose the weight is to do it yourself and it may be the hardest thing you have ever achieved in your life versus going to school to get a diploma in something if you know what I mean.
I can honestly say that I haven't achieved anything so far other than a high school diploma but I struggle with many things in my life that have prevented me from getting an education in something. I plan to eventually get an education in something but for now the routine in my life prevents me from doing that.
Like I said before in other posts, there are some people out there that can motivate themselves to lose weight and there are some people that can lose a small amount of weight and then there are some people out there that can't lose any weight at all. What I am saying here is that everyone is different and please don't judge the people that can't achieve certain things.
Laziness is not a choice but a difficulty for many people out there. If everyone could motivate themselves out there our country would have achieved many more things to this day if you know what I mean. If you can think of another reason why people can lose weight (other than the reason or topic of motivation) please leave a comment down below.
Thanks for reading and I hope you have learned more about me. Cheers.
So today was a very different one because I really didn't expect to reach the results that I was given AFTER eating all that I ate today and I can honestly say I think the 2 1/2 hour walk helped quite a bit and I may also be getting closer to losing the side effects from the Antipsychotic medication that I was taking. The one side effect that has been affecting me is weight gain and also food cravings.
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So the numbers for today were 250.6 pounds and I feel pretty proud of myself for not going back up to 255 pounds for example. This is a huge achievement for me for right now. I have been walking 1-2 hours every single day and without any breaks. I have also been eating 1-2 meals per day usually starting with my first meal around 12PM then my second meal around 4PM or 5PM.
The above image in this post is the best example I could think of for making just a very small amount of progress that actually means a lot since I have been bouncing back and forth in between 248 pounds and 255 pounds in the past 3-4 weeks. I do take four other medications for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and for treating GERD so it's great to know that these medications aren't really affecting me much in my weight loss journey.
I would say that I probably quite my medication called Abilify around May 28th or maybe even May 29th and it's been about 8-9 days so far and honestly, right now I still feel like I need to eat something but it's not a really severe kind of food cravings that I'm feeling. I can probably drink this can of Zevia I have here and make it through the rest of the night until I go to bed in about 2 hours.
I was able to get my aluminum or stainless steel water bottle back from my friend so I won't need to buy plastic water bottles anymore from the store and I may need to clean this bottle out which I do have a special brush for doing that. It's going to get even hotter out where I am pretty soon so I will need lots of water when going on walks.
The next priority is to always do my grocery shopping after I have finished my walk so that I can keep my backpack nice and light so it doesn't hurt my back as much. Too many times I have decided to do my shopping before going on a long walk and I feel the pain on the way to where ever I am going. It definitely isn't fun having a sore back.
I have also gone about almost 6 months without getting a back adjustment from a Chiropractor so I'll have to look into making an appointment at some point in the future. In the next few days starting tomorrow I may also try drinking only water and see how long I last. I think tonight I've had 1 beer at 5% and 1 vodka cooler at 7% and I think maybe 2 Zevia drinks which have no calories at all.
Of course when I weighed myself tonight, it was after I had consumed all that food and drank those drinks and for my weight to still only be at 250.6 pounds, that is clearly just amazing and I think I'm getting back on track again. I have also been trying to find a good route to walk on and it's been different every single day now which I guess this is a part of the process of trial and error but maybe the walk I went on today was a permanent one, or maybe I'll change it tomorrow we'll see.
I like to be close to all the amenities and today's route was right in the middle of where I was going so it was convenient. I also like how there are bus stops nearby incase I feel like I'm too tired and just want to take the bus home so that is also pretty nice to have. I usually make sure where ever I am going is on a road that has a bus route or bus stop nearby.
I forgot to get into what I actually ate today and it was a couple different things. The first meal I had was these frozen breaded chicken cutlettes that have ham and cheese in the center of them. Each one is about 300 calories each so I had that at 12PM and then around 4:30PM or 5PM I had a footlong Steak and Cheese sub at Subway which I think costed a bit too much at $15 but it was not bad.
I think after a Google search I discovered that this sub I had is only around maybe 750 calories for the whole foot long itself which is pretty good and it was good to know that. Other than that, I'm going to try my best to put up a post on this blog to keep everyone reading in the loop and document myself as much as possible during this weight loss journey.
I'm not sure where I am right now in terms of my weight levels but I know it's probably not lower than the last update I made on this blog. I still feel the food cravings from the last medication I was taking which was Abilify (2mg's) and I read that it takes almost a whole month for those cravings to go away.
It has been about 8-9 days since I stopped my medication and honestly after taking antipsychotics for about a decade almost I can see why I was never actually able to lose weight before. These medications are actually very bad for your health if your not at a healthy weight before hand. If your at a healthy weight when starting an antipsychotic you could gain quite a bit of weight if your not careful too.
Anyways, today I had a foot-long Meatball Sub from Subway (it's been my favorite for many years of my life so far) and then I had some sort of Cordon Bleu that you can get frozen out of the local supermarket. It's so cheap that I feel it's sort of worth getting if I need something to fill me up.
So in total that's around 950 calories + 500-600 calories if you read the calorie count on Google after searching for these meals there. It is for sure really frustrating to know that I have food cravings because of a medication I had stopped like about 9 days ago from this day.
I guess I have about 20 more days to go before I lose any weight and I have to struggle with these cravings, it's definitely not easy at all. Just knowing that because of a stupid medication I took I have cravings to eat more food because of that. I could of avoided this entirely if I actually did the research myself prior to starting this stupid medication.
I am not giving up and I'm going to keep moving forward with this diet (One Meal A Day) and in combination with about 1-2 hours a day walking for exercise. I'll definitely do my research next time before starting any medications, as this one took a huge chunk of time out of my weight loss progress.
I can definitely understand now why these Antipsychotics are so bad for people that have no choice but to take them just to control their symptoms. They can cause permanent side effects if taken for many years and the side effects while taking these medications make it unbearable to go through.
It's not a good feeling going for walks every day knowing that this exercise I'm getting is just going down the drain all because of a stupid medication that I wanted to take and it's going to take about 2-3 more weeks for the side effects to go away. Going forward I am only going to take the mandatory medications that I know won't bother me like this.
I can't imagine how many people out there in this world are going through this weight gain problem all throughout their lives, while having to motivate themselves to lose the weight after gaining it (for me it took many years to get to where I am now and I'm still working at it).
I truly believe I have an eating disorder, and the way I look right now is affecting me in my every day life which I just can't fix until I lose it all back again. I don't like to sound like I'm complaining about my life or anything but I just want people reading my blog to know what it's like to go through a life of being overweight.
I can honestly say that losing weight takes life dedication and for some people that are overweight, they just can't motivate themselves to lose anything at all but they are capable of going to school full time and getting a college degree. I myself can't take a course for more than a year and so I guess I have mastered the weight loss game in life.
Everyone is different, so I guess all I can say is do what you can. You can definitely achieve anything if you put your mind to it, and as long as you don't give up you will succeed.
So today I didn't bother weighing myself but I didn't think just a regular "Weight Loss Progress Update" post was necessary. Instead, I wanted to make a post about motivation itself, what motivates me, and maybe I'll talk more about how to motivate yourself during the process of losing weight.
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I've tried to sound inspirational in my previous posts to help better motivate my readers but I think I'm going to take the casual approach to writing my newer posts for the future. By casual I mean that I probably won't try too hard to motivate anyone, I'm just going to explain in detail on how I have lost weight in the past and what I did to get to my current weight.
What I Say When People Ask Me "What Motivates You?"
I actually don't get asked this question very much, but a very important person that I see regularly is my doctor and he asked me this before I even started. Maybe he knows my history from the past on losing a ton of weight which I have done at least three times already in my past, which you can read my About page here where I talk about that in a long 1000 word article.
I honestly have multiple reasons that I have lost weight in the past, and mostly similar reasons from the past to the currently most present. Some reasons I won't get into, but here are some reasons:
Being made fun of for being so fat.
Not being able to sit in a passenger seat on a small plane.
Unable to sit in a seat at a cafeteria on a really big ferry.
Not feeling confident about myself when I look at myself in the mirror.
Having horrible health issues.
Learning that I had fatty liver disease.
Not being in shape for going on long runs.
Not able to fit into a Kayak at all.
Felt a bit awkward getting into a two-person canoe with a family member at the lake.
Can't go to the beach and take off my shirt.
So there you go... and I'm sure a lot of people here can relate on this subject.
Why People Struggle With Motivation In My Opinion
I have seen a lot of people do awesome in school, but their biggest weakness is losing weight. They can get a Bachelors Degree in some course (which I would never be able to do myself), but losing even 20 pounds is just something they cannot do and I don't blame them at all.
Over the years I've learned that the lazy people I've met in my life (including some family members) are not like that because they don't care about themselves. Laziness is considered an illness now. I googled it and two words came up that might sound interesting. "executive dysfunction" is what I got in a Google search. In the description of this label for laziness in people it describes this sort of illness to be...
"Inability to start tasks, shift ones own focus, or even organize their thoughts. These are common symptoms seen in Autism and ADHD".
Since there is even more to read on people that suffer from this please check out this link.
How To Motivate Yourself To Lose Weight
Motivation is not achieved by taking a magic pill or anything easy like that. It's not an easy task to push yourself to do more, and if you want to do this yourself but your not used to it you could just end up burning yourself out. Maybe start out small and see what you can achieve. Move up more and more once you know what your capable of.
The process of motivation for me all started when I first lost weight during Middle School and I guess I can say it was from all the people that congratulated me on my achievements and complimented me on the way I looked that led me to be the person I am today.
I really don't want to brag about this, and I will admit that I have days where I don't want to get out of bed. People that know me will probably tell you that I am very persistent but I take things slow. I have just always been like this since that time frame of Middle School and I owe it all to myself, and the ones who saw what I could achieve and told me I did an awesome job.
The last thing I will mention is a Youtuber that I have been watching in the past here and there on motivating myself and he made a couple videos that really inspired me to do better and better. Take a look below...
Video 1:
Video 2:
I know some people that I have shown these videos too really didn't understand what the meaning was from watching them. So, I get it if you don't understand what the guy is talking about but, considering these two videos got thousands of views I can honestly say that it means a lot to me when watching these videos and I think that a lot of people have been motivated from watching them.
One last thing I will mention...
I will say that when I first started trying to lose weight that there was a learning curve to it that caused a huge realization that I made after trying some what hard to lose weight by riding my bike every day for over an hour or two hours. that 1-2 hour bike ride did nothing but make my legs stronger and made me more physically fit.
I don't regret having stronger legs but what I do regret is not knowing what it actually takes in the first place. I think a lot of people learn this in the very beginning though when they first try to lose weight for the very first time. After I learned that riding my bike with no portion control or diet at all you don't lose much weight at all I decided to take matters into my own hands and do something that I've never done before.
Fasting. And because of my routine at the time (going to Middle School from 8AM until 3PM and then delivering newspapers for about 2 hours after school) I was able to lose weight very quickly. I will admit though that this is something I don't recommend and I'm just admitting to what I did in the past.
It takes some energy to learn while attending school so maybe the best solution would be to fast at night time if you don't have much homework or the last thing I can think of is to just eat extremely healthy and hit the gym for 1-2 hours a day with a 1-2 day break on the weekends. Weight loss results with that routine takes a lot of time to lose weight though so results may vary.
So today was a less ideal day to make a post about my progress on losing weight. But I did check just a minute ago and the scale says 252.4 Pounds which it should probably be alot less tomorrow after fasting until around 3:30PM or 4PM. I think I could of handled today a bit better than I did.
I woke up around 7:00AM and had to get ready for an important appointment which went from about 10:00AM until 2:00PM and so I had to eat something. I had two burgers (I know, bad choice in selection) that were those Jerk Chicken Burgers you can get in the frozen section of some grocery stores, and this specific kind can be hard to find sometimes.
I'm on my second package (they come in 6-packs) and I think after I finish them I'm going to take a break. After a few hours I got the chance to get some food for lunch so I got two big Pizza slices from a nearby Pizza place and it was more affordable and convenient for me so I thought "what the hay".
After finishing the appointment I went to the grocery store and picked up some Zevia which in North America is a special kind of soda you can buy that has Stevia leaves in it which is an alternative sweetener to other sweeteners like Aspartame which I know is really bad for me since I have fatty liver disease. Zevia is good for Fatty Liver Disease according to articles I've read online.
It costs about $8 per 6-pack and I try to only have maybe two cans per day so that's about $1.30/can if you do the math. I kind of wish you could buy them in 12 packs and I get why they are so expensive, it's because there is only one company manufacturing this kind of drink with this kind of sweetener, and there is no competition, that's my guess.
Anyways. I have been busy for the past maybe three days including today so I haven't been able to follow the OMAD routine. Last night and tonight however, I did kind of skip having dinner since I ate in the morning both days and I may have had a snack last night still but it was not very much.
I feel that 252.4 pounds means I am stuck again and not really going anywhere for maybe a few more days but, this already happened during Christmas and the New Year of 2026 when I thought I was "stuck" at 290ish pounds, but look how much weight I have lost since then.
I do wish I could just go in a straight line and get the weight lost sooner but, like I have mentioned before I am not a gym person and I just like to go for long walks and also do the intermittent fasting. So far that's worked wonders for me.
I assume it's going to be another year from now that I will get back down to 170 Pounds and when I get to that point I will have to look in the mirror and see if it's right for me or I may go even lower to 160ish since men in their 30's at 6"2 range from 150 Pounds to 230 Pounds.
I just googled it though and for a man who is 6 foot 2 and in his late 30's it's actually about 174 to 210 pounds but I always get different results when using Google or AI for example.
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Above, you'll see a chart I found on the internet and for my height it says 190 pounds. Check yourself and see where you should be. But, I didn't make this chart and if you want to check out the website I got it from go here. You can also see other "Ideal Body Weight" examples if you look on Google Images. Make sure you verify the authenticity of the source of the image to make sure it's fully accurate obviously.
So the last thing I will mention in this post here is that it has been about a whole week since I have stopped taking the Antipsychotic medication called Abilify (2mg's) and I noticed that my food cravings have disappeared which is a great feeling I'd have to say. Now I can start making progress again hopefully.
I have of course been able to keep walking for 1 hours or 2 hours a day and that seems to be beneficial so far according to the Health app on my iPhone. But, there have been a few delays because of random appointments I suppose. So for now, I'm gonna end this update here but I think I might be able to provide some more frequent updates over the next few days and I'll see how I feel and how much weight I actually lose. Cheers.
