Jeremy's Health

TLDR: I'm down 9 lbs. from 316 to 307 in the first week! They always say, "The first week is the worst!"  I have to be completely honest... this first week wasn't that bad.  I tried to keep changes small so they'd be barely noticeable, and I think that approach paid off.  Here's what I did: Stopped putting flavored creamer in my coffee  To be 100% transparent, the previous week before "officially starting", I was weening myself off of an average of 3 cups of coffee per day with flavored creamer down to 2 cups with flavored creamer just to prevent headaches.  Some might call that week-1, but I wasn't tracking progress between then and last week.  Also, I'm not trying to be crazy-strict at the moment. I had between 1 and 1.5 cups of black coffee when I woke up every morning Started intermittent fasting I began last Monday (February 14) with a 16:8 goal, only eating between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.  The rest of the time, I was only ...

I suppose a little back-story is needed before I launch this sucker.  I've battled with my weight ever since I stopped running for college.  Back then, I was doing 8-10 miles a day and spending 3 days a week in the weight room on top of that.  When I graduated high school, I was 6'0" and weight 145 lbs.  By the end of my second year in college, I was running farther and faster than ever before and weighed 170 lbs.  My diet has always sucked though. Over the years since, I got married and had two children with extensive medical needs between the years 2005 and 2018, requiring my wife and I to stay up all hours of the night to either administer medications through a g-tube or orally every 2-4 hours (depending on the year).  That's like having a newborn for 12-13 years straight.  We had no support system, so we would rotate.  My wife would do more rotations than me after she was forced to give up her job and I took on an extra one (sometimes two)....