> good work-life balance

> following daily routine

Honestly curious how you have 10.5 hours to spend at the gym every day, then 8 hours at work, and still have a life? Lost 85 lbs recently myself and have extremely flexible remote developer hours and still don't think I could find 10 hours a week to spend at a gym.

I took 1 month completely off to correct the trajectory of my health. Rest of the time I just do 2 hours of gym/swimming.

Were you working full time for those three weeks? How did you manage to find the time? That is over 10 hours of exercise a day, plus work, and commute, and everything else you need to do. Seems like there would be no time for sleep, which I would expect to need to sleep for a long time after 10 hours of exercising. I guess the real question is, what was the rest of your day like?

As mentioned, I took 3 weeks off. When you exercise 10hrs/day, even if you pick sports that you love (what I did), you don't want to work or do any "forced" commute. Take some time for yourself and your health, this is investment too.

I wouldn't consider that easy, scheduling aside 10.5 hours for exercise daily is unfeasible for a lot of us.

It doesn't have to be high-intensity, you can start pretty chill as long as you do something all day long, possibly in water to burn even more calories (beach paddles, surf, bodyboard, waterwalking...).

I may be reading it wrong, but do you perhaps mean the following 'weekly' routine? If you're honestly doing 10.5 hours of exercise per day, then consider me amazed, but 4 hours of swimming per day seems nigh impossible for all but the fittest.

As mentioned that was only during 3 weeks or so that I took off. Short self-commitment is the only thing that works for me.

Also you don't have to go full power mode for 4 hours, the important part is to be in the water and move as much as possible. I preferred on my end to do half-day at the beach and half-day at the swimming pool.

Over 10 hours of daily exercise sounds harsh…

Just commit for a short period of time, this helps. I'm the kind of person that makes tradeoff with its own brain.

Deal was: exercise A LOT but not for an extended period of time, eat less (once a day) but eat food that I like in quantities that I enjoy.

I am not sure I would call a 7500 calorie deficit for three weeks to be 'way easier than it seems.'

You'll just feel some hunger before sleep but all the gym has such a great impact that it becomes pretty easy to support it, then your stomach will get to a normal size again.