About JayLoss

Why JayLoss?

Jayloss was created to help keep me accountable in my weight loss struggles and to hopefully motivate others to make their own changes. My blog starting weight is 268lbs and I hope to be bellow 200 pounds in about six months or less. I’ll document my successes and failures as they happen. I’ll post my tips and strategies as I lose the weight. You can see my weight loss progress here. :)

How I Gained The Weight?

As I get older I realized it all started with my parents. Yes, it started with my parents who did not know the value of eating healthy and therefore are unhealthy themselves. But it carried on as a life lesson for me, that eating whatever I wanted was okay. I was fine all the way up to freshman year of high school when I got my first job at a fast food place. At the time I didn’t know about calorie intake, or eating healthy. I was pretty much healthy and lean up until that point (sports helped). After a year of working there, I gained 40 pounds easy!

Then I started a new job in which the only food I ate was again fast food because it was all I knew. If I knew then what I know now I would have brought my own lunch daily instead of eating huge hamburgers, fries and sodas every day, but because of eating nothing but fast food I gained another 40 pounds easy in just a couple years.

By that time I was probably 250 pounds.

But the most dramatic change for me was when I started to work online, and worked for 16-20 hours every day. I was making great money doing it, thousands every day, but because I was tied to my work I ate whatever I wanted. I literally ate fast food 2-3 times a day! That’s all I ate because I still lived at home, and I didn’t want to mess with cooking my own food. I also ate to stay awake. Since I worked long hours I found food and sugary drinks gave me energy and kept me awake.

It wasn’t until one night as I was sleeping, that I felt as if I was dying. I actually felt myself, my soul wanting to leave my body. I wouldn’t believe it if I heard someone else said it, but I actually felt myself leaving my body as if I were dying. At that time I made a conscious decision that I didn’t want to leave (die), I said “no” and forced myself to sit up (struggling and in panic), and awoke with my heart pounding very hard at what seemed like 200 beats a minute. It was very freighting, and a wake up call that I needed to change.

The next day I joined a gym, got a personal trainer who said I was in danger (sales pitch which was true). I was 336 pounds and badly out of shape. I couldn’t even run for 30 seconds without having to stop. I was pretty weak, I was a challenge.

I worked out with my trainer for about a year. I felt better after that time, I gained a lot of muscle and was able to do much more cardio. I think I was about 22 years old at the time.

The ONE thing I regret during my training was that I didn’t change my diet. And because of that I didn’t lose very much weight. I got down to 300 pounds, but that was it. And I worked out five times a week for an entire year! It was at that point that I decided to try something else.

I quit working out with my trainer, and not TWO months later I was already up 15 pounds! Can you believe that? I’m sure you can. Like I said I didn’t change my eating habits so I ballooned back up very fast. My trainer didn’t recognize me when I came in two months later, and I felt bad not only for myself but for my trainer.

It was at that point that I decided I couldn’t do it anymore. I was giving up.

Six months or so went by, I kept working out and I lost a few pounds here and there, but nothing significant. I felt I was wasting my time and really I was. It wasn’t until I changed my diet, and I started eating better that I actually lost some weight. Instead of working out with a trainer, I started working out with a friend of mine. We worked out about 3-4 times a week and I limited my calorie intake to 1000 calories a day which isn’t very healthy for long periods of time.

I did this for about 4 – 5 months and lost 60 pounds like butter! Every month I lost another 10-20 pounds. After three months I was actually kind of scared because I was losing weight too fast and thought what if I keep losing weight and can’t stop? That wasn’t a problem I found.

So as you read already, I’m currently at 268lbs right now, up from my lowest weight of 260 which isn’t so bad. I have been able to keep around the same weight for a couple years now just by eating better foods. I can guarantee if I went back to eating nothing but fast food every day I would be back to 300 plus pounds in just two months. But because I try and eat better, and only have fast food once or twice a month and I exercise regularly I haven’t gained the weight back.

So again the goal of this website is to help myself lose weight (50-60 pounds) and at the same time help others if I can. My ultimate weight would be around 190-200 pounds. I think that would be good weight for me.

By the way I’m 6ft, male and 25 years old at the time of this writing.

Overtime I will be posting pictures of my progress and document my strategies, etc. I hope to make this blog a regular thing for many years.

If you’re interested in weight loss please take this advice. If you exercise without a healthy diet you’ll have trouble losing weight. Instead to lose weight you must eat less calories then what you burn in a day and do a mixture of cardio and weight resistance training 3-5 times a week. That’s how you do it… it’s how I’m going to do it.

And when I say diet, that means counting calories. You can eat whatever you want as long as it’s within your decided calorie intake. The average human consumes 2000 calories a day. For you to lose weight, you should cut your calorie intake to 1200 to 1700 calories a day (rough guess for an average person) and exercise 3-4 times a week. Write down what you eat as you eat it and keep track of calories. I can guarantee if you stick to this for several months you will lose weight.

Follow my blog and you’ll see for yourself.

Jay,