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As someone who lost over 100 pounds (6"2 and from 279 to 169 pounds), I can honestly say that loosing weight is way easier than it seems, provided you have a good work-life balance.

I lost the first 45 pounds in 3 weeks by doing the following daily routine:

- 4 hours of swimming

- 1.5 hours of weights lifting

- 3 hours of swimming

- 2 hours of table tennis

1 BIG lunch, no other meal for the day, TONS of water.

Apps, books and all are completely overrated. Just be motivated and listen to your body, stop exercise when you reach your limit, rest, repeat..

The other 55+ pounds were lost over 2 years and a half without much exercise, just find the arrangement of fruits, lightweight cheese and vegetables + tuna that you love and eat it as often as possible.

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> good work-life balance

> following daily routine

Honestly curious how you have 10.5 hours to spend at the gym every day, then 8 hours at work, and still have a life? Lost 85 lbs recently myself and have extremely flexible remote developer hours and still don't think I could find 10 hours a week to spend at a gym.

I took 1 month completely off to correct the trajectory of my health. Rest of the time I just do 2 hours of gym/swimming.

Were you working full time for those three weeks? How did you manage to find the time? That is over 10 hours of exercise a day, plus work, and commute, and everything else you need to do. Seems like there would be no time for sleep, which I would expect to need to sleep for a long time after 10 hours of exercising. I guess the real question is, what was the rest of your day like?

As mentioned, I took 3 weeks off. When you exercise 10hrs/day, even if you pick sports that you love (what I did), you don't want to work or do any "forced" commute. Take some time for yourself and your health, this is investment too.

I wouldn't consider that easy, scheduling aside 10.5 hours for exercise daily is unfeasible for a lot of us.

It doesn't have to be high-intensity, you can start pretty chill as long as you do something all day long, possibly in water to burn even more calories (beach paddles, surf, bodyboard, waterwalking...).

I may be reading it wrong, but do you perhaps mean the following 'weekly' routine? If you're honestly doing 10.5 hours of exercise per day, then consider me amazed, but 4 hours of swimming per day seems nigh impossible for all but the fittest.

As mentioned that was only during 3 weeks or so that I took off. Short self-commitment is the only thing that works for me.

Also you don't have to go full power mode for 4 hours, the important part is to be in the water and move as much as possible. I preferred on my end to do half-day at the beach and half-day at the swimming pool.

Over 10 hours of daily exercise sounds harsh…

Just commit for a short period of time, this helps. I'm the kind of person that makes tradeoff with its own brain.

Deal was: exercise A LOT but not for an extended period of time, eat less (once a day) but eat food that I like in quantities that I enjoy.

I am not sure I would call a 7500 calorie deficit for three weeks to be 'way easier than it seems.'

You'll just feel some hunger before sleep but all the gym has such a great impact that it becomes pretty easy to support it, then your stomach will get to a normal size again.

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