"For the first 6 months of eating at this deficit, I was able to lose weight without setting foot in the gym or working out in the slightest. It wasn’t until I hit around 300 pounds that I decided to start working out, and that was only because I was afraid of getting loose skin due to the rapid weight loss. Like most overweight people, I was intimidated by the gym. I didn’t want to be the ‘fat’ guy that everyone was looking and laughing at, so I decided to just use my apartment gym. The first routine I did was a 3-day-a-week full body routine using primarily dumbbells, as my apartment gym didn’t have much else to work with. Using this plan for about 3 months, I was able to develop a good base and eventually get to the point where the weights we had in our apartment gym were no longer heavy enough for me to get a good work out. At this point, I started going to the gym, and began using a 5-day, one muscle group a day split, which is the same workout routine I still use to this day."