Warning long post ahead but I love you thanks for reading!
Hi guys!! I didn’t realize but today is exactly 30 days since I decided I couldn’t live with my weight anymore, couldn’t live hating myself and how I looked, and not being able to do a lot of outdoor activities without being self-conscious and slow.
For background, I am 24F, 5’7, and my starting weight was about 190. I was completely sedentary and eating probably around 3000 calories a day for about 7 months.
I knew I was gaining a ton of weight (last November believe I weighed about 165), I knew not being active and eating so much was destroying my body but I didn’t realize the extent. Seeing my weight so close to 200 pounds finally made everything click for me! So the next day I began all three things at once:
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CICO, for me just eating 1500 calories a day or below. Counting everything that I put into my body. Luckily I spent a few months baking everyday so I already had a food scale!
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Intermittent fasting, only eating between 12pm and 8pm.
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Going on an hour long fast-pace walk. In this hour I would walk about 3.5-4 miles. It was awesome!
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Weighed myself every single day. I use Renpho which I absolutely love.
I have continued these the entire month, honestly breaking my 1500 calorie limit probably about 10 times, either by 50 calories or 300. But I would always try to never go above 1900 (my maintenance calories). There were two days that I completely went over 2000 calories and that was thanksgiving and last Friday when my cousin treated us to dinner (we followed COVID guidelines). The important thing for me that really helped me was that when I broke my 1500 calories, I would just continue on the next day and not feel down. I would tell myself, you know what you’re close enough and try and do better tomorrow.
After 2 weeks of one-hour walks, I began doing C25K for one hour everyday and it’s INSANE how much stronger I am after 2.5 weeks of it! I really have always admired runners as 1. They’re cool as heck and 2. I have like 5 marathon runners in my extended family and they inspire the heck out of me! So I am stoked. I will say I started C25K three months ago and quit after 2 weeks so I just started from where I left off. Today I completed W4D1 which was amazing.
I stepped on the scale today and realized after 30 days of beginning this new life, I didn’t only lose 15 pounds- I STARTED A NEW LIFE! I’m so much happier already and while I know I have so much more to go and now that the “easy” weight is off, it’ll be much harder- I can’t help but feel so proud and excited.
Thank you for reading and if you made it here, I know you can do it!!! ☺️
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/kfddbr/30_days_into_cico_if_and_daily_exercise_c25k_and/
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