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Congratulations! To lose weight, what approach did you take? Was it calorie counting or something else?
Absolutely. Finding out how many calories you burn during the day and then you count the calories you eat. It correlated with intermittent fasting for me as I only eat two meals per day but I don't care about that.
The best workout routine is cycling because it's gentle on your body so you can fit more calorie burning into the day. I also swim sometimes and now I'm at the point where I jog for 10 miles twice per week and I ride my bike for about 250 miles on top of that. But if you're fat you don't want to jog at all.
What I find noteworthy is that I think starting out fat made me a better, more efficient cyclist. If you really have to put in work to get up to speed you're really getting to think about how you can maintain your tempo. And the extra weight really amplified mistakes when you're confronted with uneven underground. Now I use my whole body as a shock absorber to glide over hindrances without pushing my weight into the ground which would otherwise cause me to give away precious energy into a downward direction instead of focusing it into going forward.