Tips for a Great Big Fat Person?

I don't have advice on form -but I was literally in your situation at your starting stats so I wanted to chime in. My goal was to not be ham planet and live past 60. I didn't originally want to get strong or have muscle, you may be different.

I dropped a hundred lbs w cardio, Withings scale, Apple watch(gamification of goals), and LoseIt/MFP. I worked out never. I bought an elliptical to help since I actually (obviously) dig eating to an unhealthy degree. I kept myself w burn to about 1300+-calories a day+ vitamins used the watch and scale and LoseIT for accountability. I did about 30-60 minutes of elliptical a day. For me, it was all diet. I was still able to eat pizza, fritos etc.. whatever but I accounted for it and did it in moderation.

I got down to 185 after about a year or so. I kept the weighing, but stopped cardio and stopped tracking since I always kind of knew where I needed to be intake wise after doing it for that long. I started lifting 5 times a week, upped my protein and after a year i was at 198. I am now cutting down to 172 with muscle built over the last year and back on a deficit + tracking, but now no real cardio regimen, just heavy lifts, and protein. I am at 191.5 after 16 days and no noticeable strength loss yet. This is bro science, but in my mind, if even at a deficit, I am still stressing my muscles, hopefully, my body gets the message I need muscles and prioritizes fat loss? I can always build it back and repeat. NBD.

Someone more knowledgeable than me can probably correct this, but building muscle and strength while I was cutting hard seemed at cross purposes. So, right or wrong, I chose focused phases(100% lose weight, 100% gain muscle/strength, ). All roads lead to Rome though and keep your discipline because motivation fades.

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