Dietary changes: Mostly I practices caloric restriction using myFitnessPal. Went from approximately 3,000 calories/day to 1,200 calories/day for about a year. And then ramped back up slowly. Note: I'm not advocating for anyone else to try and do the same. There's lots of important details around a high restriction caloric diet. Like I eat one salad each day for lunch for 600 calories and that's half my diet. And if I eat out with friends I pretty much ignore my diet to not become "that one friend".
Low-calorie snacks: For my kind of diet it was key to find low-calorie snacks with various textures and flavours that I can eat between meals. * Island Mango fruit roll-up - 90 calories each pack. * Ginger-carrot snacks - 90 calories each pack. * BBQ popchips - 100 calories each pack. * [Bamba peanut butter snack]() - 160 calories each pack. * Dang coconut chips - 120 calories each pack. * Miracle noodles with yakiniku sauce - 0 calories for noodles and 80 calories for 2tbsp. * Roasted seaweed with Teriyaki sauce - 25 calories each pack. * Watermelon: 30 calories per 100g. A quarter of a watermlon is 1lb and about 200 calories. Watermelons are fibrous magic.
Exercise changes: I bought exercise clothes, joined a gym and got a personal trainer to help me out. I'm at the gym 3-4 times each week. Went ahead and watched this course to figure out what exercise is all about.
Step count: Got a fitbit and started counting steps. Initially I was at 4k steps each day. Changed my routin so on average I'm at 17k steps daily.
New culinary interest: I enrolled in culinary and pastry cooking lessons once a week and now I'm in culinary school part-time. You can see pictures of my cooking on my facebook. Cooking classes also had the important aspect of creating a de-facto "cheat day" where I upcycled my metabolic intake with approximately 2,500 calories once each week. I was worried that going to culinary school would impact my weight but I've been able to maintain for over six months now.
Submitted February 28, 2017 at 07:41PM by JustinAngel http://ift.tt/2lmfMUq
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