Hi Steve and all!
You made me do it! I’ll explain myself.
My weight problem is quite old although it started when I quit playing football (soccer) when I was 18 y.o. My weight was normal although my complexity has always been athletic (82 kg - 180 lbs, and 1,84 m - 6’04’’. To keep myself doing something I went to a gym and trained without any knowledge or guidance. I started to swell and got big, and then I quit but I still ate the same amount as when I trained. Needless to say it all turned into fat and my weight just soared to 242 lbs. Since then I have been able to start diets, loose weight, but only to get heavy again a couple of years later. This was killing me and my self-esteem hit even lower watermarks. And this has been my story until six months ago. I then weighed 225 lbs and had had it about the same old problem. This is when I found MTM podcast. And I loved it the first time I listened to it. It motivated me to do something about it. I’ve been going to a gym since then and workout 3-4 days a week. What I do is 45 minutes high-effort on a ski/treadmill sort of thing (don’t know what’s the actual name of it in English), and then I workout my muscles with a moderate effort but more repetitions. I am a bit scared to get big again. My goal is to get tonified (do you use that word in English?) and slim (taking into account my complexity). Anyway, as I loved the podcast I started checking out the web and found this community that gives the impression of being very sound, incredibly warm and motiivating, so I registered. It’s really comforting reading all the nice and motivating comments from all of you. And WOW!, the messages made my committment and motivation to boost! So I want to contribute as far as I can, and also seek some motivation those times when I might need it and some technical guidance. Getting back to my weight today… My weight is 205 lbs and I will be happy when I’m down to 185 lbs.
Talk to you soon!
P
