So yesterday I was lookin’ at my old notebooks, right? Found this dusty page scribbled “3Y 15 plan” from 15 months back. Totally forgot what that even meant at first. Had to pour myself some black coffee and stare at it for like 20 minutes before it clicked.
What The Hell Was This Plan Anyway
Turned out “3Y” meant 3 YouTube videos monthly, and “15” stood for 15kg weight loss target. Sounds simple on paper but boy was I naive back then. Just slapped those numbers on paper without thinkin’ how the sausage gets made.
First month was total chaos. Tried recording kitchen workout videos while intermittent fasting. Nearly passed out holding my phone camera doing burpees. Big mistake. Almost smashed the phone when my sweaty hands slipped. Lesson learned: don’t combine fasting and filming intense workouts.
The Reality Check Phase
Woke up one Wednesday to zero motivation. Decided to break it down:
- Ditched the combo approach – no more simultaneous filming and exercising
- Blocked Tuesday mornings just for filming when natural light hits my studio best
- Swapped burpees for walks until energy levels stabilized
Started tracking everything in this crusty spreadsheet: red cells for missed days, green for completed. That first month looked like a crime scene with all the red.
Embracing The Slooooow Progress
Around month 6, the scale hadn’t budged in 3 weeks. Felt like screaming at my dumbbells. My subscriber count? Stuck at 137. But then noticed my pants were looser even though weight stayed same. Turns out I was trading fat for muscle. As for videos, discovered shorts performed way better than long formats.
Made two big shifts:
- Stopped weighing daily – switched to biweekly measurements
- Focusing YouTube content on failure compilations (“Watch me drop dumbbells compilation”) got more engagement than polished tutorials
Present Day Status Report
15 months in now. Weight down 11kg not 15. Videos? Averaging 2.8 monthly instead of 3. But here’s the kicker – consistency beats perfection. Got 612 subs without any viral hits. More importantly, the routine’s baked into my life like morning coffee.
Still mess up sometimes. Last Tuesday filmed entire video with lens cap on. Again. But now I just laugh and make blooper content instead of rage-quitting. The scale’s collecting dust while I focus on how clothes fit.
Final takeaway? Any plan survives first contact with reality by bending, not breaking. That “3Y 15” scribble became my anti-perfectionism manifesto. Sometimes showing up sweaty and unprepared makes the best damn content anyway.