2017 Obese drunk to 2021 Personal Trainer
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I had a relapse about two years ago. Anyway I quit again, had no plan except to quit. Needless to say when I relapsed I piled on the pounds, bordering BMI overweight and obese. Used to lift weights but started running this time around, still do a few weights tho not as intense as the running which gives me the adrenalin fix. At the start it was dead hard, like total torture to go running, still is a bit but hell I know after banging out 10km / 6.2miles the buzz I get is amazing. So running is my thing. Needless to say with exercise and diet the pounds just fell off over the last year. My calorie alcohol intake per week was around 10,000 to 11,000 calories, I only drank beer. (0.5liter 220 calories, do the math) so these calories were all removed. With running and no beer, my body was wakening up two ways - no alcohol and exercise. Also I really hated my job so much and really wondered how I would survive there, really I just wanted to quit. Anyway the job was not the problem, I was the problem, I created my own problem, it was as simple as that...
Now I feel great mentally and physically, like my job and it is the same job, its a laugh. Sleep - wow, words cannot describe the quality of life / day when you get real proper sleep.
If you are an alcoholic....... no alcohol and exercise will, over a period of time, improve the quality of your life / existence. Tho it is not easy, I still have to work at it, results or changes don't come over night or just like that.
For me having a better quality of life is way better than the other way.
Now I feel great mentally and physically, like my job and it is the same job, its a laugh. Sleep - wow, words cannot describe the quality of life / day when you get real proper sleep.
If you are an alcoholic....... no alcohol and exercise will, over a period of time, improve the quality of your life / existence. Tho it is not easy, I still have to work at it, results or changes don't come over night or just like that.
For me having a better quality of life is way better than the other way.
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Thanks Dejvice, the calories in alcohol are out and out shocking, and the body has to deal with the alcohol in your system before anything else so the metabolism is all messed up too.
Using logic, the 1500 calories or so a day that gets removed with no alcohol plus 500 calories a day from exercise (that figure would be a 30 minute run or a one hour walk for example), it’s no wonder the weight falls off. It just takes willpower and determination which you clearly have.
Good to read your story, and it’s good you’re happier now at work.
Using logic, the 1500 calories or so a day that gets removed with no alcohol plus 500 calories a day from exercise (that figure would be a 30 minute run or a one hour walk for example), it’s no wonder the weight falls off. It just takes willpower and determination which you clearly have.
Good to read your story, and it’s good you’re happier now at work.
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