Diet

What got me thinking about Stonglifts again were the idea of training with my son and this YouTube video I found about Terry Hollands and how he lost weight. He is a strongman competitor from England who was quite large and decided he needed to lose weight for health reasons. My biggest takeaway from this video was that you have to cut calories if you want to lose weight. I've read too many articles and blogs that said it's more about the types of food you eat and that counting calories is not healthy. The bottom line is: You have to cut calories to lose weight and you have to eat the right amounts of the macronutrients to have the right body composition.

I've been using the Livestrong MyPlate app on my phone to track calories. My goal was to lose 1 pound per week and get down to 210 pounds. I used an online caloric intake calculator at https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html and used that estimation to set my intake goals. I ate under this goal for a week and then had a few days where I was really under this goal because of stress (I had turned from a "stress-eater" to someone who didn't have an appetite when stressed). I dropped a lot or weight really fast and I've since tries to slow it down to my initial goal of 1 pound per week.