Over 20kgs Down! - Weight Loss Update! (May 2024)

Hi guys, just a little update video for May 2024. I wanted to make this video because I haven't made an update video for quite some time and I just wanted to update you on my progress on my fat loss and how my fitness journey is going. So overall the fitness journey is going really well I'm nearly at the lowest weight that I've been for over five years now since I started my fitness journey, I've just gotten under 200 pounds which is about 14 stone and this many kilograms. I'm I'm so happy with the progress. I have one or two more months and then I will be the lowest weight that I've been since I started my fitness journey. In the last 10 years or so I haven't been this low in weight so I'm really excited to see what happens and I wanted to thank you guys for supporting me for such a long time. It's been nearly five years since I uploaded my first video which is this one which was running every day for 30 days and that video I just made for a record of myself just to see the difference before and after and it went viral and it really did That kind of changed the direction of my life and since then I've been making tons of videos of weight loss and different exercises and I hope you guys have really enjoyed them and there'll be plenty more coming from June 2024 so keep an eye out. But yeah I just wanted to thank you guys for supporting me all of this time. I get comments from the same people and I read all of my comments and I try to reply to every single one and Yeah, it just means the world to me. We just reached reached 65,000 65,000 subscribers, which is crazy to me and my dream is to one day hopefully with your help reach 100,000 subscribers so I can get the nice YouTube plaque That would be such a nice feeling to get that plaque I just wanted to thank you guys for sticking with me I know I've had some times where I've gained weight and I've lost weight and My fitness journey hasn't been as straightforward as I wanted it to be and not just a downward trajectory of losing so much weight. It doesn't really go that way for a lot of people, so hopefully you guys can see my struggles as well. But right now I'm feeling so good and I'm so close to reaching. My goal of being the lowest weight that I've ever been since I've started. So yeah I just wanted to share some advice on how I've managed to lose about four stone which is this many pounds and this many kilograms. I've tried a lot of different diets and exercises but I wanted to share what worked best for me so it might not work best for you but hopefully I'll give you some ideas. So my diet recently has been a lot of meat-based products so no good if you're vegetarian or vegan but I've been focusing on getting a lot more steak and eating a lot of chicken and eggs and I think it's really important to have high quality meat and eggs and animal products and dairy products when you can because I think it makes such a big difference. Recently I tried the keto diet which I was really impressed by. It's probably the diet that I felt the least restricted on and the least hungry and I also had a lot of energy to exercise as well. I found it really good and it helped me lose a lot of weight so I'm really impressed with the keto diet and I would recommend it to anyone. I was thinking about giving it a go. I've also tried the one meal a day approach to diet. I found that's really good as well, but I found it quite hard to time when I wanted the one meal a day. So I was trying to have it late afternoon and it kept going later and later. But overall, I think the one meal a day works really well if you're going out to a restaurant or having a big meal, then I believe one meal a day really helps with that sort of situation so you can go to a restaurant and enjoy yourself. You could even get up to 2000 calories and still just have your one meal a day and it still helps towards the weight loss because I've done it a few times and found really good results with it. I also tried a water fast for three days and seven days. Weirdly enough the three-day one was harder because I think it's quite a big adjustment and then once you reach four or five days your body gets quite used to it but yeah I found some good results from that. And I didn't gain back all the weight as soon as I started eating again because I gradually reintroduced food to my diet and I managed to keep most of the weight off. So that was really good. So another method in my fitness journey and my weight loss program is to do daily videos. I've been filming every day which has kept me really motivated and I will start uploading these videos. They're short videos. I'll start uploading them in June so hopefully you guys will enjoy them as well. It'll just give an idea of the exercises. That's what I'm doing every day and the type of food that I'm eating. But I've really enjoyed making these videos. I have also filmed myself weighing myself every week, which I'll be uploading soon again in June. And that's been really motivational. I believe filming yourself once a week is the optimal amount to... weight yourself because your weight fluctuates day to day so it's not the best indicator I found because it can be quite discouraging especially if you've had a really good day and done a lot of exercise only to find out that you've not lost weight or you've even gained weight but weekly weigh-ins I feel is the Sweet spot of weight management just to give yourself motivation. If you've been solid for a whole week and done good exercise and eaten well, you're pretty much guaranteed to have lost weight. So weekly weigh-ins has definitely helped me a lot. In terms of my exercise, I still love running, especially on the treadmill. I believe it's the best way to run. For me personally because I like the consistency of it, I like trying to beat my times and my speed and I just like the consistency of running every day for a week and then trying to add five minutes and five minutes and increase the speed and I like recording the results so for me it's the most motivational way. I know a lot of people don't like running on the treadmill but personally I really enjoy it and I just love the stats behind it and progression. I've also been trying out a lot of new different exercises in my gym. I'll show you a couple here just in the background but I wanted to mix up a bit. I felt like I was getting a bit bored of the same exercises so I've tried a few new machines. Some of my favorite new exercises are using the ab roller which I find really I've worked my abs the best. I find it's a really good exercise for your abs. And I've been trying to use the gym resistance machines a lot more as well, which you can see some here in the background. Oh, and the Stairmaster is one of my personal favourites as well. You guys know I love running upstairs, so a machine dedicated to stairs and tracking your stats is really ideal for me. It's like a perfect machine for me, so I really like the Stairmaster as well. And of course, you guys know I've kept up my planking. There'll be plenty more planking videos coming along. I can't believe my most popular video is this one and it has nearly 8.5 million views, which is crazy to me that 8.5 million people have watched me planking. But yeah, thanks so much again for the support on that video. I also have some more really good news, guys. I've recently, well, not so recently, about... Nearly a year ago I found my soulmate, my girlfriend and yeah I'm just crazy about her and she's been helping me a lot with my fitness program and my diet. She cooked me a lot of steak which is always good. She really likes walking in parks and stuff like that so we go on a lot of walks together and I really enjoy it. But yeah I'm just really happy that I found my dream girl and it's really motivated me to get healthy as well. and to lose weight and to look my best for her. So yeah, that's pretty much it for the update guys. I just wanted to let you know how it's going about my weight, my exercise and all of the new videos will be coming starting from June 2024. I hope you guys really enjoyed them. I'm so motivated. I'm so close to beating my record of my lowest weight, which was about 13 stone and this many pounds and this many kilograms. Give me a couple more months and I'll be there and then we'll see what happens beyond that. i'm really excited so i just wanted to thank you guys again for all of the support and the comments and the likes and everything all the times you shared my videos it's just meant the world to me and it's really actually changed the direction of my life and where i'm going in my life so i just wanted to thank you guys so much again i haven't spoken to you directly one-on-one for a long time i hope you've enjoyed the video and gained some knowledge from it and leave any questions or comments or feedback you have uh in the comments below and i've replied to all of them but yeah so in june you'll be getting a lot more videos from me and i can do some more update videos if you like this sort of one but yeah thank you so much again for watching and i'll see you in a bit