Hi there. I'm new to this and I'm so sorry for all the questions.
I'm 5'3", 148 lb female, 30 years old. Just finding out my weight yesterday was honestly eye opening. I've been a healthy weight my whole life until the last few years. A few years of depression, illness, marriage issues and loneliness, and gradually I became someone I don't really recognized in the mirror anymore. I don't strength train (yet), so none of that weight is really healthy muscle.
The hard thing is learning to do this when it's... hard? I don't know. I have always had healthy habits and exercised until the last few years. Now it feels like something I've never struggled with is kind of insurmountable? Reading through this sub encourages me because of the successes I'm reading! But my most recent attempts have failed miserably.
What's crazy is I am actually getting emotional just typing this and I feel like I've never told anyone about this body insecurity because of some shame? I just act bubbly and happy.
My husband is incredibly athletic and feels "fat" when his crazy abs are buried under an extra couple of pounds. He tried to help me by giving me a pro fitness regimen that was really, really hard and discouraging because I wasn't even a little successful. He also is amazingly disciplined and is cool with eating only chicken/veggies without fat or carbs.
Now that he's deployed until the fall, I feel like I have this wonderful opportunity to do this for ME on my OWN terms. I know that might sound silly, but it feels exciting and liberating not to have his input and do what I think will work for me (encouragement/small goals/some fats and carbs allowed).
I joined Noom yesterday and am already dealing with feeling hungry eating less calories. I am thinking my body will adjust and that will change? But I'm already learning a lot. Like how some of the good foods I'm eating (like hummus) are healthy but also really calorie dense and I'm eating WAY too much.
I guess my question is, where do you recommend starting? What advice do you wish you had at the start. If you felt intimidated or emotional like I do, what did you do to overcome it? Fads to avoid?
Thank you so much for any advice/encouragement. I'm really excited to feel like I have some control back, and not to feel self conscious in photos or when meeting people. I'm intimidated to even say if, but I want to become STRONG too, not just thin. Starting point for that, too. So maybe 120 is my goal, but dang I'd be thrilled to gain muscle and not lose as much "weight."
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