The fucking problem is the food culture in North America. When I left for Canada, I weighed about 96 Kgs, which is about 212lbs... which was very much overweight. After eating two fast food meals a day (a typical fast food meal is at least 1500 calories), I ballooned to 258lbs... in 4 years.
The other problem is that clothing sizes in North America are just wrong when compared to the rest of the world. If you go to Europe where people are generally taller and bigger in terms of bone structure, an L size at something like
Dockers or
Levis is often XL, XXL, or even XXL in brands that are generally found there.
That is a
huge difference. Think about it... L in American clothing brands is on average the same as XXL in European clothing brands, or XXL or
non equivalent in brands found in Asia.
Again, Europeans are generally taller and with larger bone structures, so yea.
Anyway I decided I'd get my weight down. I stopped lifting weights, and started only hitting the treadmill. It started with 15 minutes and then 20... and now I do 45 minutes a day, 4 days a week. I basically do 4 kilometers in every session.
I changed my diet only to veggies and grilled meat.
It was
hard. I basically lost about 1kg a week. Now I am finally at 176 pounds... but I am not skinny... I am average. My waist is down to 35. I'd love for it to be at 32ish.
Essentially, in total, I've lost 36kgs. It feels great.
It would have been much harder to do this had I been in the states. I really feel for you guys trying to lose weight there, because the food and clothing culture has just made it
easy to be so overweight. I know it is easy to blame everyone but yourself, but it is harder to be fat in Asia or Europe, where you have tons of delicious and healthy food choices. And then you can't get away with being obese at clothing stores as much.
You have a meal at MCDs... and a burger is 600 calories, fries are about 400 calories... if you get a shake you are looking at a 1500 calorie meal, which often doesn't even feel filling. Then you eat again the same day and you are basically fucked for life.
That's why I agree with imposing some restrictions on these fast food portions like super sizes etc. I know it is a free country, but food like that can be so addictive. I know... I've been there. And again, the other problem is that sadly, American culture fools people into thinking they are only overweight, when they are obese. It was shocking for me to go from Canada to London, or Thailand, and not even fit properly into an XL shirt.
Anyway, if you guys plan to lose weight, I hope this motivates you somewhat.
The first week is the fucking hardest. But once you get in the groove, it is so easy. Suddenly those burgers seem nauseating.
Edit: Is that a typo pug? You bench 120 kg? That's nearly 260 lbs.
I was at 100 kgs body weight when I could bench 120. I was able to do 8 reps a session... like 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 6.
I thought I was doing pretty well, until I went online and saw people saying I should be able to lift 1.5x my body weight at some point.
But yea, careful with the weight lifting. I don't even try unless I have someone to spot me, like you, I almost crushed my throat once.
Yea, my room is pretty big, and I have a bench and stuff in the corner. I just assumed I'd be able to do it. Having lost all that weight, I guess I lost a lot of muscle as well.
It was 6 in the morning, my room was locked, and I lifted and went OOOOOOMPH... the bar dropped on my chest basically and started rolling towards my throat. I couldn't lift it to save my life. Then I pushed it at an angle... it was scary.
