This is to share my experience of life after significant weight loss.
It is some time already since I am not overweight anymore. After passing that overweight barrier, I was long stuck at the same weight until I made another change to my diet. Last month, horrible increase of GD drove me 5 kg down in a single month. It is like 11 lbs. That was not healthy, but I take the weight loss per se as a good thing that came out of it. No, am not going to regain those! Still going down but slower.
And by taking down my weight, I discovered how hindering all that extra mass was. True, as an overweight 6' person, I was more like a tank that nobody wanted to hit on their way thorough the crowd. But like this, I don't have problem avoiding things and people, moving in a way average people don't expect, and let's forget about other people -- I feel such a beauty of move that I just enjoy going through big crowds and making my way around people without touching anyone. It is almost dancing. And it is time I got into dance classes. Soon.
Of other things, I used to have knee pain from standing. Not anymore. I used to have hip pain from walking normal speed in female walk. Not anymore, even at fast walk. Beard shadow or not, when I see my reflection in a glass, I am happy with how my body moves. Breaking sweat? Hardly.
So that is my exercise... just quick walking the streets of Amsterdam. My genetics is such that as a man I easy gain muscle, thus apply minimal exercise to preserve look as non muscular as it can be. That part is ymmv.
I feel freed from being overweight, and don't want to go back.
