I lost 100 pounds in 11 months

Hi! I'm Kale, and I lost 100 pounds in 11 months. It's a very common question for me to get “how did you lose the weight?” or “how did you do it in under a year?”. I decided to write up a post explaining what exactly I did…and am still doing.

Diet:

• I count calories and track them thru my fitness pal app that is free. I ate between 1400-1700 in the beginning, it is just a varied day today.
• I eat eggs, ground turkey, apples, peanut butter, bananas, chicken, protein shakes, turkey burgers, broccoli, cauliflower, almond milk, low-calorie pasta, just basically as clean and healthy as I can be. It was a learning curve, in the beginning, to figure out what to eat, but that's why I love calorie counting because I can eat a piece of cake and still stay on my “diet”.
• I log what I eat. If you are wanting to befriend my fitness pal, my username is dianawinksmith.

Now with my diet, since I have learned quite a bit about myself and how my body is with certain foods, I eat 1300-1500 calories a day. Same types of foods. I used to have a cheat meal once a week but now I have limited that to twice a month. My body doesn't crave the foods anymore like I used to. I don't perform as well when I run and I get extremely sick.

Exercise:

• I started out walking 1-2 miles a day with my kids in the double stroller. I would use a pedometer to track my distance. I tried to burn anywhere between 200-500 calories per workout.
• As time went on and I got stronger, I started to try running. I got into running about 4 months into my journey and have just gotten stronger and built up my endurance. I eventually purchased a polar ft4 watch that tracked how many calories I burned. I highly recommend this watch and will be doing a post about it on Monday.
• I completed my first 5k in August of last year and then did my first half marathon in October. Through all of that training, I lost around 50 lbs.
• I joined a gym right after my half marathon and have now been incorporating weight lifting into my workouts which I know has made a huge change in my body.
• I try and burn now between 500-1000 calories a workout.

I get asked a lot about how I can do so much. Well, my body just craves an intense workout. I love to run and running burns lots of calories. I need to keep pushing myself and anything below that wouldn't be.

Determination:

Now this last one, I can't tell anyone how to obtain this. You just have to want it. If I didn't have the motivation and desire to try each and every day, I would not be where I am. I have had plenty of cheat meals and lots of days where I skipped my workout. I just got up every single morning wanting more. Sure, there were days even weeks where the motivation was just not there.

I was inspired by my favorite actress Rebel Wilson Weight Loss Transformation and decided to be hardworking like her.

However, I just had to remind myself that you will just digress if you don't continue, and that's extremely depressing especially since I had already lost so much. That has made a huge change in my weight loss because it's never been something I saw as temporary.

The thoughts of “If I work out really hard this week, I will reward myself with pizza and Ice cream this weekend.” were not something I tried to let myself think. I didn't let myself think that way because what's the point in putting in all the hard work and then backtracking. When I started seeing the results, it just kept motivating me to keep going.

I set goals for myself every single week and that made it more doable to try harder. I can remember plenty of times running and feeling so much pain in my legs but just thinking of the number I wanted to see on the scale on my weigh-in day. That motivated me so much to push above and beyond.

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