In 2017 the end of my sophomore year in college I weighed 300lb, due to eating only fast food and the nonstop academic and financial stress. I realized I hated it and was basically killing myself, so I dropped out. And I decided to join the Air Force.
Soon after I got a job as a shelf stocker at Walmart, and so I was on my feet throwing boxes at first I didn't change my diet, but I was able to lose 30 pounds in about 3 months. Then I started going to the gym every other day for an hour, another 30 pounds is lost in about 4 months. I get stuck at 240lb for about a month before I start meal prepping, eating 1500 a day calories 6 days a week and about 2500 on my cheat day. Six months later I was down to 180lb, where again I got stuck. The last twenty pounds where lost by a combination of intermittent fasting and increasing my gym exercise to daily.
Now I still meal prep(sub 2000 cal daily and cheat sub 3000), and go to the gym every other day, some times more, but I work a desk job so my activity level is generally lower. I gained 35 during basic and tech school (job training). But i am back down to 180lb, and have been maintaining that almost effortlessly while i try to decide if it is worth it to push back down to 160lb or if I want to focus on muscle gain.
Keep strong you can meet your goals, it is hard but very worth it.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/k5mccf/my_experience_losing_140lb_and_keeping_most_of_it/
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