I've been trying to get back into the weight-loss game. During lockdown, stress and depression over the year, it has been hard, and I've been comforting myself with food and alcohol.
Three weeks ago, I stepped on the scale for the first time in six months, and I did NOT like what I saw. I knew I had put on weight, but I didn't know how much until I saw that number, and I knew I had to start trying to lose again.
I don't know what it is that made me actually follow through this time. I've tried a number of times over the year, ending in me kind of forgetting about it and falling back into my old ways. But this time, I'm accountable.
I decided to start slow. I'm not counting, I'm just eating what I know would make me lose. I'm weighing my food, but I'm not logging it. Yet. I also decided not to weigh myself too often, as I used it as an excuse to eat too much the other other times (Oh, I lost weight since yesterday, it doesn't matter that I ate that cake!), and instead go for once or twice a week.
I'm sticking to that for now. I know most of the first weight I'll lose is water weight, and at some point it will slow down. When that starts to happen, I will go back to counting. I never reached my GW last time, I decided to stay where I was, because I liked it there. I might go for my original GW this time. I don't have as far to go as I did when I started.
I'm so happy to be back. I forgot how great my body feels when it gets the nutrition it needs. I forgot that hunger isn't something to be feared. It's just something that is there. I forgot not to eat to fast.
I wanted to than r/loseit. I haven't been posting a lot, but I've lurked around, and that has helped me remember that is IS possible. Thank you so much, and stay safe!
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