jrosto
Level 1 Valued Member
Al asked the following in one of the Kettlebell threads. I thought I'd give my answer here.
At my heaviest I was 289 lbs. Six years later, after several faddish attempts to lose weight, I was still 251 lbs. In May of 2014, at 251 lbs, I started following the Primal Blueprint (basically Paleo + milk and chocolate). At that point I started tracking macros, mainly carb intake. Once I got into a groove I just did the occasional spot check to make sure there were no leaks in my program.
I lost the weight, had major surgery (double lung transplant in January), and started my journey towards getting strong.
Now that I've lost the weight (today I weighed 156 lbs) I track everything I eat religiously. I will not become fat ever again.
I don't vary my food intake based on exercise, I shoot for an average daily cal intake and certain macro goals. When I first started with maintaining my weight, my avg cal goal was 1800/day. I have slowly increased that goal to between 24 and 2500 cals/day as of this week. I expect that goal to increase to 2800 cals/day when I'm swinging a 32 kg 'bell. More important than cals though is my macros. I try to get 140+ grams of protein/day and around 150 grams of carbs/day. I continue to make good progress with the S&S program (5 days/week) and have lots of energy.
To ensure I do not get fat again, I keep an eye on weight, BF %, energy levels, workout gains and pictures I take ever 6 to 8 weeks or so. Documenting what I eat is just a small part of my program.
Here is a weight chart for the last 6 months:
I do expect to gain weight as I progress towards reaching the Simple goal, just not fat.
@beephsupreme exactly. I am curious as to what those individuals who track calories think that it means.
At my heaviest I was 289 lbs. Six years later, after several faddish attempts to lose weight, I was still 251 lbs. In May of 2014, at 251 lbs, I started following the Primal Blueprint (basically Paleo + milk and chocolate). At that point I started tracking macros, mainly carb intake. Once I got into a groove I just did the occasional spot check to make sure there were no leaks in my program.
I lost the weight, had major surgery (double lung transplant in January), and started my journey towards getting strong.
Now that I've lost the weight (today I weighed 156 lbs) I track everything I eat religiously. I will not become fat ever again.
I don't vary my food intake based on exercise, I shoot for an average daily cal intake and certain macro goals. When I first started with maintaining my weight, my avg cal goal was 1800/day. I have slowly increased that goal to between 24 and 2500 cals/day as of this week. I expect that goal to increase to 2800 cals/day when I'm swinging a 32 kg 'bell. More important than cals though is my macros. I try to get 140+ grams of protein/day and around 150 grams of carbs/day. I continue to make good progress with the S&S program (5 days/week) and have lots of energy.
To ensure I do not get fat again, I keep an eye on weight, BF %, energy levels, workout gains and pictures I take ever 6 to 8 weeks or so. Documenting what I eat is just a small part of my program.
Here is a weight chart for the last 6 months:
I do expect to gain weight as I progress towards reaching the Simple goal, just not fat.