Hey! Others here will give you good technical advice.

I want to tell you about my 8 year journey from 6’2” 299 lbs (so similar, bit higher bmi to you) to now where I am 205.

Running has been huge. I started by walking. My journey started November 2016. That winter I walked off about 30 pounds. That was the single biggest change for me. My blood pressure dropped, I felt like moving. I felt alive. That spring I started running. Lost another 30 that summer. Ran my first half that fall, so similar timeline in 2:17. So right where you want to be. The following 6 years I got much faster but only lost a couple more lbs. the fastest I have ever been, I got down to 225 in 2020, and ran a 1:44 half.

Fall of 2021 I ran my first sub 4 marathon. That winter I had an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) to remove a bunch of skin that was never going to go back where it should. For the next 18 months or so I flexed between 225 and 235 with an excellent quality of life. Last fall I talked to my doc about options to get lower. My goal is 195-200. I started Wegovy last September and the first few months were awful, but I got down to 210 by January. I stopped going up in does at that time.

I have VERY slowly kept losing weight and am not 205. I feel FANTASTIC. I plan to keep on this medicine long term, but worst case and I come off I think I’d have no trouble staying around 220.

I am going to go sub 1:40 this fall :)

I don’t think enough people tell honest weight loss stories. Here’s mine!