I will not go out like this.
This is going to be long winded, especially for a first post. It is my hope someone with knowledge will be bored enough to read it and point me in the right direction.
I am 34 and a straight up buttlerball fatass. I'm 5'6 and 235lbs. At my fattest I was 280lbs. I knew I was kinda fat but seriously did not realise how fat I was. I looked in the mirror and saw a good looking guy that was a lil chubby. Then one day I saw a picture. I had a fing fat roll on the back of my neck! Well I stared at that picture all night. This was not the guy in the mirror! I could'nt sleep. I decided "this gets fixed now!"
I have tried many times over the years to implement some discipline and failed everytime up to that point. That day I decided I would rather die than live like this. I went over the usual things in my mind. Diet: failed everytime. Exercise: failed everytime. I always fail w exercise because the shear boredom drives me mad.
My diet really isn't so bad if I were getting off my ass more often. The one thing I did wrong in my diet was drink. I liked my wiskey&coke and just drank a shitload of coke all day. That was actually very easy to stop. I stoped that 2 years ago.
To address exercise I quit my comfortable job and became a helper on a construction crew. I reduced my income by about %70 with that one lol. So in south MS heat my fat ass waddles out to the job site and everyone stares in disbelief "this is the new helper?!". My mission was simple, I would make it through the summer or die. Their mission was simple, come up with hard shit for the fat guy to do and see if he passes out. They through alot of insults and this was an odd thing for me. I have never been a guy that people would feel comfortable mouthing off to unless they were looking for a fight. I just shut my mouth and kept pushing. Told myself "If I break the boss I get fired and don't make it through summer."
The first 2 months were brutal. Basic in the Army was a joke compared to this.
I dropped 50lbs fast. I then began to bulk up on muscle and lose fat but stayed around 230lbs. I did this for 2 years and became fairly fit. I had always been muscular in my youth but weighed in at about 170lbs when I was lean. While my arms are bigger than they were then I am still carrying atleast 30-40lbs of fatass around.
I reached a point that I enjoy the sweat and the pain. I push myself as hard as I think I should. I also sleep well. So assuming my sweating and pushing 5 days a week is adequate exercise then the answer should be diet right? In the last year I have done Atkins (what I like to eat anyway ) to nothing but 3 slimfast a day. Either I do not lose any weight or or I start to lose muscle and feal like I cant get my blood going. Its not long before I am saying to hell with it and eating like a horse at lunch so I can have the energy I need to work.
I have had to get a real job now as I do need to make money even though I miss working outside. So I am in danger of losing what I have gained and I am nowhere near where I want to be. I need a diet and I need an exercise routine that I don't have to think about. If I think about it too much I will just think about it and not do it. I am hoping the info I need will be really simple shit to the guys in here. So I will continue to read and hope the "golden plan" lands in my lap. I have never been into weights as I never felt I needed them. My build even at 170 is pretty stocky at 5'6 and that was when I had <10% body fat.
I am ready to try weights protein whatever. I still need to get the rest of this gut off and I like my new arms. I hope to find guidance here to get to the next level.
