Hi All!
I hope I'm doing this right!
I've been following r/loseit for a very long time but have never posted. I've been on this journey for 4 years almost to the day. My daughter turned 2, I was in a failing marriage that put me into depression. I swear everytime I looked in the mirror I never saw myself. I couldn't see what I had become.
I don't know how or when but one day it was like the fog lifted and I truly saw myself for the first time. In all my sadness, all my misery, and obese at 324 lbs.
I cried at the thought of the minimal life I could have with my daughter and immediately changed my lifestyle. I started with weight watchers and going to the gym and walking on the treadmill. 4 months later I walked/jogged a 5k. After that I continued going to the gym but added video workouts to my routine for weights and more than just treadmill.
My husband and I separated a month after that 5k and my focus became my weight. Working on myself and pushing forward. I will admit, the gym was more my jam than eating the right foods. I worked out so much and the smaller and fitter I got the more I worked out. I was burning 1000 calories a day but you eventually hit a point where you have lost all you can lose without adjusting your diet. Last year I probably Iost and gained the same 10 lbs and was hovering at 200 lbs the whole year.
Here we are in 2020 and on March 9 a week before we got locked down for COVID, I completely overhauled my eating. Restarted weight watchers and lost 40 lbs since that day with way less exercise. I am a runner now but as a single mom with my daughter most of the time, I can only do long runs (7-9 miles usually) on the weekends she is with her Dad. Otherwise with me working from home I just follow video programs daily. I mostly eat clean now. It's definitely 90% nutrition and 10% exercise (I know they say 80% but I swear it's 90 😂). I tried so hard to outwork a bad diet and could not do it!
I have about 10ish more pounds that I want to lose but I've started following the 2B mindset plan as it seems like a better way for me personally to live a lifestyle of healthy eating without counting calories or points until I'm dead and it's super easy to follow. I've gotten the last 10 pounds off with it so far.
Here is a picture of me from my daughter's 2nd birthday party right before I started this journey. And here I am (this past Friday) a month after her 6th birthday trying on a size 6 skirt at Aritzia.
This is my first time really talking about this publicly. And I've written and deleted this post so many times. Sharing it makes me nervous. Obviously my friends and family have been there through this journey, but there are so many new people in my life that don't know the whole story. Thank you for letting me share with you!
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/id17nx/4_years_and_165_lbs_gone/
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