faust jaeger
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2 years ago at 19 years old (male) I started to embark on my weight loss journey at 6'4 340 lbs. I was a noob at the time when it comes to all things health obviously and I found as time went on the only thing my body responded to was violent calorie restrictions. I went from 6000 cals a day in jan 2021, to around 2000 by june of 2021, then to 1750 or so by fall of 2021 and by the one year anniversary of trying to lose weight I had lost 115 pounds and got to 225. By this time I had developed a very odd skinny fat body and decided to take the gym more seriously and implemented some programs I learned of from natural hypertrophy along with a more bulk friendly diet of around 2500 calories a day. My new routine worked from a muscle building standpoint, all my lifts went up by nearly double in every field but I also gained probably 30 lbs of fat along the way which still puzzles me because 2500 cals a day at my height is still not outrageous. Fast forward to fall of 2022 I am 6'4 258 and happy with the muscle gains but displeased with the fat so I decided to go on the cut of all cuts.I get down to around 1200 calories a day by January of this year at 210 lbs and this is when I learn of Peats word. I read Generative energy, Mind and tissue, nutrition for women, Progesterone in Orthomolecular Medicine, and printed out a question and response book I created myself that is about 110 pages of Peat answering peoples questions. All of This was done in about 3 weeks, I was very moved by what he had to say. The thing is is that now I know what I did to lose the weight was not peated, I just don't know enough to try and reverse my destroyed metabolism without making another grave mistake and ballooning. So here I stand now, at 6'4 202, all my lifts at an all time high as I have learned to lift through weakness, eating 1000-1200 calories a day through cane sugar, milk, and ice cream mostly. Every time I try to eat slightly more I gain 3 pounds over night and that truly terrifies me and what has really lead me to this stalemate. Truth be told I never felt bad when I was at 340 pounds eating 6k cals a day, it just was neither an honorable, attractive, or aesthetic state so I had to make a change and am happy I did. I feel fine now at a 1000 cals a day at 202, I do all my school work, train 5 times a week, read hours a day at about a 100 pages an hour depending on what it is and am generally doing fine from that standpoint which is why I have not felt a great urge to buy any idealbs products. I just know this is not pro-metabolic or sustainable. I have also completely stalled when it comes to weight loss and have been hovering between 203 and 198 for nearly three months now and going below 1000 cals a day would be dangerous. Unfortunately I am also very prone to stress and anger and create an authoritarian environment for myself and others everywhere I go which I have tried to fix I just get very irritable without strict rules and guidelines when it comes to every aspect of my life from time, to calories, to my training regime, to how I read, the cleanliness of where I am, really everything. That has played a factor in the extremes I have gone to thus far but at least now I have learned to ease my way into and out of things to some extent. I have not seen one interaction with peat himself where he had to address someone in my specific situation so I came to the forums for some more experienced peater advice and guidance when it comes to restoring my metabolism from this wretched state without becoming obese again.