<div class="bbWrapper">Wow, didn't realize that my last update is <b>THAT </b>long ago... let me give you guys an update on my journey <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /><br />
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In my last update my weight was at <b>108,2</b>kg (<b>239</b>lbs). Well, shortly after that I hit a stage in weight loss that I didn't know before I entered this journey: the plateau.<br />
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That's probably the phase where most people, including me in the past, give up. And I didn't know that that's actually a thing that got a name and that others experience it aswell, I always thought it's just me. For those of you that don't know what a plateau is, basically it means that you reach a point in your weight loss after losing some weight, where your weight stays at a specific point and doesn't go down no matter what you do.<br />
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For me that phase lasted for about 3 weeks.<br />
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If I remember it right it started end of June when I reached a weight of <b>107,6</b>kg (<b>237,22</b>lbs) and that damn number didn't go down for 3 freaking weeks no matter how much I hit the gym and stayed to my diet regimen. On some days it would even bounce up a bit, then bounce down again, but never below that number.<br />
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Because I knew of this phase in weight loss, thanks to several weight loss journey stories on reddit, I knew it was kinda normal and just kept doing what I knew is right, ignoring that number on the scale to some degree. It was still frustrating, but that frustration disappeared quite fast when I got the first compliments by friends I didn't see in a while. I won't lie, that definitely helped to ignore the scale and stay happy with my weight loss journey.<br />
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Then after about 3 weeks, early into my 2 week vacation I checked the scale and holy shit, my weight dropped down to <b>105</b>kg (<b>231,49</b>lbs)!<br />
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It felt amazing.<br />
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In that vacaction I mentioned above, I met a girl. Long story short: we are together now. And I gotta be honest I kinda lost some motivation to hit the gym as regularly and to follow the diet regimen as I used to BUT thanks to Belcher and his diet regimen I learned to count my calories and therefore I at least managed to keep my weight between <b>104</b>kg (<b>229,28</b>lbs) and <b>105</b>kg (<b>231,49</b>lbs) for the next few weeks after my vacation (I decided to take a pause of my diet and sport in the vacation).<br />
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I still lost some more weight, though. Not as much as I probably could with hitting the gym as often and eat as proper as I used to, but yeah it still goes down, slowly but it does.<br />
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Alright, here are the numbers:<br />
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Starting weight (1): <b>116</b>kg (<b>256</b>lbs) starting weight of this thread<br />
Starting weight (2): <b>113,5</b>kg (<b>250</b>lbs) weight when first applying Belcher's help<br />
Current weight: <span style="color: #00b300"><b>101,5</b></span>kg (<span style="color: #00b300"><b>223,77</b></span>lbs)<br />
Weight loss: (1) <b>14,5</b>kg (<b>31,97</b>lbs) and (2) <b>12</b>kg (<b>26,46</b>lbs)</div>