100 Days Into Tracking Weight...21 pounds down!

On December 6th, I was 152.2. Today, I weighed in at 131.2!

I figured that making a post on my 100th day would help motivate others to start on their journey too. 100 days seems like a lot, but taking it one day at a time has really put everything in perspective for me.

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I started off the school year in August at 158 and got down to 149 by mid-October through constant running without tracking calories. I would wake up and run 2 miles in my very hilly neighborhood before getting ready for school.

I only got serious about getting to a healthy BMI in the beginning of December and did this by committing to taking a picture of myself every morning and weighing myself as soon as I wake up.

I have a wonderful Google slides compilation of my progress and I use HappyScale to track overall slope instead of day-to-day fluctuations.

I will say that throughout this process, my caloric limit has gone from 1400 to 1200 and my progress has significantly slowed. My plan is straight CICO, btw.

Something I should say: I definitely had days where I went over my limit. As a teenager involved in a few academically competitive teams, I would go out to eat with my teammates and have to work around the menu to stick to my goals. At most, this was once a month, maybe twice.

On some of these days, I wouldn't count calories at all.

Two example fun meals:

a Korean barbecue buffet where I ate a few pounds of pork belly, rice, and kimchi.

~30 boneless and bone-in wings at Taco Mac with blue cheese and a kids Steak and Shake milkshake

None of these discouraged me because I knew the next day, I'd stick to a deficit. Sure, it'd set me back a little. But what matters is that I kept consistent most of the time.

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Might add here: I went to the gym every other day in December and January, fell off mid-February because school and work got busy. I stick to my family's treadmill now, but I hope to get back into the gym so I can get a few consistent weeks in before summer vacation :)

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Anyways, I still have a bit to go until I reach 120. Who knows, maybe I'll aim for 115. I've lost 21; I can definitely lose another 10. Big thanks to this subreddit and its stories.

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