The Plan

So, in case it wasn’t obvious to everyone, I need to lose a bunch of weight. I was up to about 320 when I moved to Columbus, and had gotten all the way down to 240. I have since gotten back up to about 265ish. I was doing great, then I just crapped out. Why does food have to be so great? It’s always there for me. I never disappoint it, and it rarely disappoints me. It never asks questions I don’t want to answer. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Truly, I don’t think a relationship with a human being could possibly be as satisfying.
Unfortunately, food has the side effect of making you fat. And being fat is no fun. I’m not really looking to make friends. I’m not sure I really even enjoy human contact that much, so that’s not the point. I would like to be skinny once before I die though. Just to see what it’s like. I feel like people make assumptions about you when you’re tubby, and they’re not good assumptions. Also, I just feel better when I am lighter. I notice as I put the weight back on, I’m just uncomfortable. all the time.
The sad thing is, I know what I need to do. I spent the past couple years learning about nutrition, working out, all that stuff. It’s not that I don’t know what I need to do, it’s that I spend most of my time not giving a shit, then pissed off I don’t give a shit, then hating myself for not being able to do anything about it. It’s a problem of motivation. Mostly. So I decided to see if I could do a biggest loser type thing.
I am hopeful this will provide some motivation for me to finally get back on track. My hope is to lose 30 pounds over 12 weeks. That’s 2.5 per week. I’m not as much focused on how much weight I lose, but that I get back on track working out and eating right. The plan is to work out with weights 3 times a week, and do cardio 5 times a week. I have a really good app on my phone that counts calories (lose it). that I will use to keep track of what I eat. my maintenance intake is about 3,100 calories. I plan to start at 2,600 calories and cut 100 calories every week for the 12 week contest. I don’t know that the last couple weeks are possible I’ll have to see how it goes, I may stop cutting if I’m making good progress. 1500 calories just doesn’t seem like very much when you write a 1500 calorie day out. between the calorie counting and the working out, I should be at a 1000 calorie deficit minimum. I need to lose about 60 pounds total I think, so if I can lose at least 20 by April, that is a solid start to losing that this year. and nothing motivates like success, or so I’ve heard