How I Lost 100 Pounds - My Body Transformation

I’ve been asked quite a bit on how I lost 100 pounds - my body transformation. In this video I go over everything I have done from when I started to my 100 pound weight loss.

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[PInkW]

Walking is a superpower
Fasting is a miracle
Water is free
Sleep is priceless

[banjolacy]

520 down to 420 on low carb, this gives me hope to keep pushing. Wishing you continued health and many more miles.

[Truth-Seeker]

This was easily one of the most comprehensive, poignant, relevant, realistic, and well presented information on how a normal person can lose weight and sustain the weight loss. I commend you both for a great video, and for your personal journey.

[ocbyn]

“…I’m just a aft guy trying to lose some weight…”. Thank you Dave, you are now my new spirit animal.

[Wolfy-ixip]

Great job Dan! Thank you! I'm 65 y.o. and need to lose 50 lbs. You've provided the inspiration for me to get going and make it happen.

[friendlyfire]

You just summed up what I've been doing the last 1 1/2 years and i lost almost 50kg. This video is gold!

[unpavedexplorer]

Thanks for sharing this with us. I am proud of you for staying on track. I wish you continued success.

[jonny]

It’s awesome how close our experiences and thought processes are spot on. Currently 100lbs down, same process minus the hiking.

[markrico]

This is your best video to date, not even a competition. Bravo!

[davidjd]

this is actually taking me a long time, I was 230 a few years ago and I lost weight and got to a pretty lean and muscularly 175, long story short I gained the weight back lol, I lost the weight with fasting pretty much, and I felt healthy and strong, howver, I was not building eating habits for when I got down to my weight, I am now losing weight eating whole foods, so wish me luck.

[TraversyMedia]

Awesome video man. So much great info. I’ve been intermittent fasting for months and lost 35lbs. Its the only thing that worked for me. Got some great tips from this 👍🏻

[bucky]

Well done and great work!!! Simply walking, eating better, and going to the gym are topics missing from "beginner backpacking" videos. Should be obvious but since starting my journey with backpacking/hiking/weight loss a couple years ago it's something I noticed. Logging out after work and going for a walk!

[dougnevitt]

Thank You. Great video, common sense approach. I'm not trying to lose weight, but I 'm almost 65 Y.., and my strength has dramatically decreased. Sustaining more senseless injuries, and wanting to back pack in my retirement. This has encouraged me to start strength training, and improve my nutrition to be able to continue activities that I love well into retirement.

[DeliveringSolutions]

First, as others have said, "Great video!". Its the first of yours that I've seen. I subscribed. I have watched many health/ fitness/low carb videos since right before I started low carb last May, and yours is the first in a while that I watched all the way through, and additionally decided to take notes because routine is important and I want to incorporate walking and weight lifting.

I lap swim and am in great shape for my age, and plan to incorporate weights within a month. We have a YMCA membership, but my wife doesn't really like the YMCA and recently commented that she would work out if we had equipment at home.

Basically, I need to figure out what equipment I would use, and then invest in that. If she decides to start changing her lifestyle for the better, then its win-win.

I don't measure what I eat per se, but have been logging what I eat on my big dry erase calendar when I started BBBE last week.

Like everyone super low carb, I must take electrolytes, and a few regular vitamin supplements as well as eat a small piece of beef liver every day. We bought a localy raised and butchered cow last year. I sauteed the liver as medium rare, chopped it into small pieces and keep them in freezer bags, and eat one piece as close to my first meal as possible every day.

After starting low carb last year, I concur with you that there should be no cheat days, as they wreck you in subtle ways. When low carb, you don't crave sugars. I decided to accept that processed sugar is an addiction and 'a slow poison'. I stopped low carb for thanksgiving and Christmas, and all of my GERD, joint inflammation, plus other problems returned, and it felt hard to get back to low carb.

Lastly, I found that once I had fallened off the healthy lifestyle for the holidays, I noticed some relatives trying to continue to tempt me with sugary desserts regardless of me saying 'no thanks'.

Lifestyle changes sometimes require you to distance yourself from people who may prove to be subtly disrespectful (for various reasons) of your improvements or toxic to you in indirect ways.

Lastly, for people out there wanting to make a similar lifestyle change, there are additional changes that will make this easier. Like cokking for yourself. A month before you decide to go low carb, first just start buying more meat and cook every meal yourself. This may mean that you need to throw stuff in a crock pot before bed and then refrigerate it in the morning. But the important thing, is that you stop relying on other people to cook for you and you stop buying fast food or microwavable food from the grocery store.

If you do this and keep track of the expense, you will find that it also saves you money, and you will get to expiriment with different seasonings. I cut out all seed oils starting last May, so if I go out to eat with family or friends, I just order a water and hang out. I found that easier than asking the waitress what oils are in what dishes. Even steaks (at restaurants) are often supplemented with seed oils, and they are so much more expensive at the restaurants than at home...

Being able to cook for yourself is liberating and you will find that it has a small learning curve.

Yes, I have been the main cook at my home since 2016, and I do prepare pasta and rice dishes at every meal for the rest of the family who still very much enjoy the standard american diet and all of whom one or more medical issues that would be resolved with a low carb diet.

Everyone is on a different journey, and all you can do is lead by example, and not throw it in their face. If they decide to ask you your thoughts then, just make sure that you are ready to show them the way.

Its hard too, after a month of ketosis, you have so much energy and you have noticably lost weight... that you want to shout from the hilltops about how great you feel. Guess what, people don't want to hear it. :-(

Try to put yourself in their shoes.

[Packsalot]

Well done, Dan. Pretty inspiring. I did a similar Caloric deficit diet a few years ago with success. Now it is the maintenance that is the struggle. Great job on putting your health as a priority. Looking great! Have a wonderful day.

[hjk]

Lots of parallels between what you share and my experience. I was about 270+-ish in mid 2022, and I'm down to just below 200 now. For me the biggest factor was probably getting off of Lexapro. While I was on it I just couldn't sustain the drive or energy to do much about my weight. Off Lexapro, my energy came back, and I found I couldn't sleep without getting in a good workout once or twice a week. Over time that snowballed and I'm up to about four days per week of good hard exercise.
You are 100% right when you say that caloric deficit is the key. I've found I can lose weight without exercise so long as I keep my calorie count low. But then I have pent up nervous energy, I don't get to eat as much, and I'm probably losing muscle mass, so I've chosen to utilize exercise as one of my primary tools for keeping that caloric deficit.
Two differences between you and I, though. 1) I've pretty much abandoned lifting for strength or mass. The only weight lifting I do is in the form of high intensity interval training. I don't need to get any bigger or stronger, but I want to stay healthy and strong. And, 2) I don't have either the time or discipline to put in the amount of exercising you do. Two hours of walking, plus lifting every day of the week is WAY more than I could fit in. So I find that HIIT exercises allow me to get in a good cardio workout while also helping me to keep all of my body strong. Running and the elliptical are great cardio, but they just strengthen my legs and maybe my core a little. I use HIIT to hit my whole body while also burning more calories than I would if I were lifting high weights for low amounts of reps to failure for build muscle mass.

[beoz]

Congratulations on the weight loss and great video. I have been big on exercise since 1973 summer before freshman year and football is when my journey started. I turn 65 in March and the problem for me these last 2 years is gout and old injuries slowing me down. So frustrating as I write this my right wrist is shot at times 15 pounds is to painful to lift. I am not comparing just reality setting in. I have been doing intermittent fasting for 5 years. Lots of walking and swimming and my 2 favs total gym since 1997 and pilates. I watch videos like this for motivation, so thank you.

[geoast]

Congrats brother! I recently discovered your channel and notice that you had been losing some weight. I had a weight lose journey a while back, but have recently gain some back. You've motivated me to get back on it!

[georgeohwell]

AMAZING transformation....good on you mate

[hgrabows]

I love the way you overlayed a Gantt chart style timeline bars on the graph showing phases of changes. Awesome work on the transformatino too!