Anthony Brown was always heavier than average, but at one point he decided to put an end to it. Instead of giving up his favorite junk foods, he just lowered the amounts he ate and hit the gym. He managed to lose 80 kilos since then and looks absolutely incredible.
"I decided to start trying to count calories. This would allow me to eat whatever food I wanted, whenever I wanted, as long as it kept track of the calories. I went online and found a calculator that could tell me an estimate of the number of calories my body needed every day to stay at the same weight. At my weight of over 375 pounds, I needed 3,400 calories to maintain my current weight, so I decided to eat at a 1,000 calorie deficit, which was 2,400 calories a day, which would allow me to lose around 2 pounds a week. What I ate for those 2,400 calories was pretty much whatever I felt like eating, as long as it was within my calorie limits. This included pizza, burgers, potato chips, French fries, candy, fast food, etc. My only rules were, stay in a caloric deficit, and if I can’t count it, don’t eat it."
"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."
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