Hello LoseIt!
I am currently 20lbs down with 20ish lbs to go, and I am so pumped!
My brief story: I love chocolate chip cookies and cookie dough.
2017: Reached the top of Overweight BMI (150lbs/68kg) and my mom kindly told me to turn around. I joined this sub, and I found a why - my (very active and fit) best friend was getting married in 8 or so months, and I did not want to be the dreaded "fat bridesmaid." I read the whole sidebar, started counting calories, started running. For the first time, with the help of this beautiful community, I lost 20lbs and I was fit for the wedding. It felt GREAT.
Holidays, new boyfriend, stress, more stress, more stress... Nov 2019: Highest recorded weight of 164.7lbs/74.7kg (obese category, uh oh).
WHAT I'M DOING
- I don't have a deadline this time. No deadline = no end point. I am very stubborn about rules, so once the "end" has been reached, I start eating whatever I want. What I want is all of the chocolate chip cookies.
- Weigh myself every day. I think it gives HappyScale a better ability to trend. I don't get caught up on days with gains, maybe because I no longer have a deadline, or I've just been doing it for six months and it's happened enough to alleviate any anxiety about it.
- Logging my calories every day. I've been doing this for 183 days now (half a year!) and this is the ONE thing that has kept me on track, because even when I eat at maintenance and beyond, I still have a daily reminder of the deficit I'm aiming for and daily self-accountability about what/how much I'm consuming. It probably took 2-3 months to feel this way, but I find it to be an easy and pain-free part of my day.
- Better choices? Instead of cookies, I have daily chocolate chips. Sometimes I even have berries or frozen mango cubes when I want a snack. I try to get a vegetable in every meal. I try to have a vegetarian dinner once a week. If I'm eating pizza, I prelog my calories so I know how many slices I can have before I decimate my deficit.
- Allowing myself to be bad at losing weight. I love the posts about being willing to be bad at it. I ate 500 calories over maintenance yesterday, whoops. I haven't been using a food scale for months (though, honestly, they are so helpful.) I exercise anywhere from 0-3 days a week, but usually one. It's something.
- Exercising/being active. Health is so much more about being active than it is about weight, and health seems to have prioritized itself over vanity, as there's no one to be vain for when you don't leave your house! So I'm trying, albeit inconsistently.
- Stress management. My boyfriend recently called me out (in a loving way) because we started arguing and I immediately went for chocolate chips. (I still ate them.) I've been writing more often and going for more walks.
It's all been said before, but I love rereading the same inspiring stuff over and over, so here's hoping you do too. You can do this!!!
Onto the next 20 lbs.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/j11unm/20lbs_down_over_6_months_how_im_living_the_slow/
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