Sigh. I'm a 5'4 F. My starting weight about 4 years ago was 153 pounds. After *very* diligent eating and exercise I was able to get down to 125 in a couple years and then trickled down to 116 over next several months. Honestly part of it was due to a health issue I was dealing with that caused me to eat not very much and also pretty low-calorie foods. I really liked how I looked at the time though .But I've been slowly adding more food to my diet and slowly my weight creeped up to 120, which I was fine with, then 125... 128.. then after a few months, 141 where I am now! I'm still at a "normal" BMI, though on the very high end, and do not feel confident and feel like my work has been lost. :( I also feel heavier and weight down when working out. As superficial as it sounds, it felt almost euphoric for those several months I was at my lowest weight to be able to just put on whatever and not have to worry about feeling self conscious or things being too tight. SO basically I'm up 20 pounds. This is from a mixture of glee at being able to eat properly again and mainly AGGRESSIVE stress snacking since starting college :/. I dont have a problem avoiding junk foods as I don't like too many of them anyway, it's more of the PORTION. Like I can go ham on the fruits and nuts and stuff- while healthy, the calories are still calories! I don't know why I'm positing this, maybe just to vent and to hope that publicizing this will keep me accountable! I've redownloaded myfitnesspal and will try tracking again. Ive had a problematic relationship with tracking in the past but I'm taking a more holistic, healthy approach now. I tried tracking today eating intuitively and tracked like 2100 cals which is probably too much for me! It feels like my baseline appetite has gone wwaaaay up so Il try to GRADUALLY scale it down. I dont think I should go back to 116, but maybe like 125-130. Best of luck to anyone else in the same boat! Cheers.Also would appreciate some tips/ words of wisdom/ inspiration from those who have dealt with regaining weight?
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