Had kind of a rough day, now I'm here. Ready to take the leap.

All day today I've been thinking about where I am in life and where I'm going to go if I keep up the same habits (not just dietary, like my entire lifestyle). It hasn't been the happiest day; I'm not a very good person in general but I know that won't follow me indefinitely. That's why today (March 7th) I will start improving myself. As you can tell by the name of the subreddit, I'm starting with weight.

I've never really been "fat" so to speak. I have never however been thin, fit or healthy by my standards. I'm 6'1" 190lbs (16 years old) and have been steadily climbing in weight. Granted I've also been steadily climbing in height (about a year ago I was 5'10" 170lbs) but it's apparent to me I'm not going to start losing weight any time soon. I'm also not really all that self conscious about my weight, I'm a pretty big dude and it doesn't surprise anyone I've got a bit of a belly (myself included). It does however hugely affect my self-confidence as I feel like girls don't find me attractive. If I feel like they don't like me I'm not going to have confidence talking to them, ya feel me? I know absolutely nothing about dieting and all that jazz but I can easily (very fucking easily) point out my bad habits. My plan so far is to squash those and get more serious about exercising. I don't exercise like you'd usually imagine what a 16 year old exercising would look like, I have a badminton class 2nd period (which if you know badminton you know the class is basically 99% cardio workouts). This year is my 3rd year (of 3) doing the class and I've never actually given it my all. I'm gonna start trying that. I'm going to give as much physical effort in badminton as I do mental effort in math.

I'm posting this mostly for myself (sorry reddit) as the ceremonial cutting ribbon of my new lifestyle.

To keep the analogy going though, it's cutting the ribbon to a void of uncertainty and winging it.

I'm looking for tippy-tips and pointers to get my diet started.

A bit of "mise en contexte" information:

I don't eat breakfast;

I don't bring a lunch to school;

I mostly drink water;

I eat a large dinner or snack from 3-10pm.

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Thanks and much love, I scrolled through this subreddit for 15 minutes before making this. Those 15 minutes btw only sealed the deal on this idea. I'm going to fucking lose weight.

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