First time poster, but have been lurking and cheering on from the sidelines for a while now. Since it is a milestone day for me, I thought I would try my first post. I have been overweight since puberty. I remember coming home from school, and my mom smelling my breath to make sure I hadn’t stopped at the corner store to get some chocolate. I was overweight all through high school, but when I left for university I really ballooned up. After I got married, and we were trying for a baby, we were having problems, and I thought, oh, it’s time to lose some weight. So I put my mind to it, and I lost 40lbs, while my husband lost 60. Then I got pregnant, and everything I had worked so hard on just flew out the window. That was 12 years ago.
Then, one year ago today on May 22, 2019, I took my kids to the park. A few days beforehand I had stepped on the scale, and frankly, the number on it was shocking. I was at 291 at 5’2”, the highest I have ever been, even through all three pregnancies. I wasn’t experiencing any pain or health problems (other than an under control broken thyroid) but I knew that I had to make a change. So while they played, I decided I could at the very least manage a few laps around the park. I am so grateful for those first few steps (figuratively and literally). Something just clicked, and I have kept going, being accountable to myself, for myself and for my family. I am so happy today to report I have lost 110lbs so far! While I still have a lot of work to go, I know I can do it if I just keep going as I am going.
I started out doing some light exercise, but that wasn’t enough and I knew it. CICO is the best and only way that I have consistently been able to lose weight. I started off at 1800 calories a day, and now am down to 1400 a day, and I never eat back my calories. I log everything that goes into my body but I don’t restrict anything. If I want some chocolate ice cream in the evenings I just have a smaller portion at supper. I find this helps alleviate any cravings or possible bing eating because my body isn’t missing what is used to have constantly. It still gets it, just in much smaller doses. I also am exercising 4-5 time a week, nothing major, an hour long on the indoor bike, or a walk down the road. I was swimming laps earlier in the year, about 80 laps a day 3-4 times a week, which is when the weight was just melting away, but all that has stopped since the quarantine and the pool closing. I am excited for the summer so I can get out and do some laps in the river. Even without the more intense exercise, I am still losing every week, just not the larger amounts I was before.
Tl;dr lost 110lbs so far!
Edited to help formatting - I am on mobile, and literally have posted to reddit only a couple of times!
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