What was your first month like? What do you wish you'd known?

Hey everyone. I'm currently three weeks in to my first ever attempt to seriously lose weight.

It's a fascinating process. It involves a lot of learning–about nutrition, about food preparation, about personal psychology, about how to set up new routines and change longstanding habits that I didn't even know I had. I feel like I've learned more about personal health in the last three weeks than I have in the entire rest of my life.

I've had a range of challenges I didn't anticipate. Two days of incredible, mind-numbing tiredness. Moments of extreme hunger. Being shocked many times to learn which ingredients are calorie-heavy, and which ones are basically free. Learning how to space my meals in a way that works for me.

And I've also learned about a lot of the common experiences that we don't really know about until we start controlling our eating. I've had a rush of magical weight loss right at the start, then stagnation/gain for a week, followed by a surprising loss... and while experiencing those things I've learned about water weight, plateaus, and the "whoosh".

We hear a lot from people setting out on the first day of their journey, which is awesome. And we get a lot of inspiring reports of long-term progress. But what I want to know is–what was it like in your first few weeks, when you were transitioning from "today's the day I make a change" to "I have a long-term routine that's working for me"? What did you learn? What surprised you? What were the biggest challenges and how did you overcome them? What do you wish you knew?

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