Female, 35, 164cm/5'4. Started at 100kg/220lbs and am now sitting on 67kg/147lbs.
I have been overweight my whole life. I was a fat kid who hated exercise, and my family was poor so a lot of meals came out of cans or were cheap junk food. I remember eating two bags of Doritos for lunch as a 10 year old and that being normal.
Then when I hit puberty, my latent PCOS kicked in which made me grow even bigger due to the insulin resistance. I never felt full and would constantly snack.
I tried going to the gym a few times with no results which was incredibly unmotivating. At the time I thought I was eating healthy, but I was just making shitty one pan meals like stir fries with pre-packaged sauces that were high in calories, then eating all of it in one sitting.
What finally worked was counting calories. At the end of 2018, I started reducing the size of my meals to fit onto smaller plates. Then in April 2019, I started calorie counting with My Fitness Pal. It was really hard at first to stay under 1200 calories a day, but after about a month the cravings weren't as bad and I didn't feel as hungry.
After 19 months of CICO, I am now at a healthy BMI for the first time in my life. My advice for anyone trying to do the same is this: It's okay to stop and start. This is my third attempt at calorie counting to lose weight, and I failed the first two times because I couldn't control my hunger. But I tried it again and this time it managed to stick.
So if you've joined the gym and quit (multiple times, in my case), or tried to get your hunger under control but ended up eating more than you should've, that's okay. I think more people do that than we realise. Keep trying. Keep looking for something that works and try and stick with it. If you've failed at something in the past, give it a try again and see how long you can stick with it. You might find that it becomes the change you were looking forward. Things get easier the longer you stick with them.
PS. Confession: I still hate exercise and avoid it at all costs, but should probably make an effort.
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