This time for real. I owe this to myself.

F25 5'6" CW:75kgs GW:55

(Sorry if my english sucks, not my first language)

Hi. I've been lurking for a while here and the motivation i'm getting is insane. I just want to say you are all beautiful people and the amount of understanding you all got for everyone is astounding.

So a little background about me:

I came from a typical asian household. Grew up poor but my parents did everything they can for us to eat three meals a day. Food was a luxury rather than necessity growing up, so I ate everything. It made me obese my entire childhood. I remember when I was in grade school (I was an 8 yr old) and we took a class photo. Every girls crossed their legs, and I cannot do it. I was too fat. That's the start of me being hyper aware that i'm different. Since then, I was yo-yoing. I'll lose 5kgs, then gain 10. You get the idea.

I tried harder when I became a teenager (cutting my portions by eating only 900 cals a day, atleast going out for a jog 3 times a week). It was unhealthy and unsustainable. I dropped around to 60 from 80kgs but apparently, as my diet sucked that time, my hormonal and stupid teenage brain emotionally ate her way to 75-80kg. That's been my weight ever since.

Now I am here, a full grown adult with an office job. Living alone, I have control on everything. Eat high calorie breakfast with three cups of rice? Sure! Have a full bar of chocolate and cup ramen for snack time? Heck yeah! My eating was (still is, trying to work on it) garbage

All this time, I have an excuse as to why i'm not doing anything about my weight.

"I'm not THAT fat"

"I can't focus when i'm hungry, i've to eat"

"I'm too busy to make meals. Fastfood it is."

But being in this subreddit thought me one thing.** I can do things now.** I don't have to be fatter for me to change everything. Reading some of the stories here, (and by no means I am bashing) and seeing some people heavier than me, doing their best, motivates the hell out of me. Seeing people with the same profile as me but having their starting weight heavier, and reaching 75kgs as their first goal, lit up a fire inside me.

Starting today, I will count my calories and make sure i'm eating the amount recommended for a sustainable loss. Will do IF of 14:10 and hopefully increasing to 16:8. I'll also try to do even the slightest exercise atleast 3 times a week. That's a start, right?

I can do things now. I will do things now.

Thank you r/loseit.

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