M24, 5’9, SW 311, CW 275
My journey started about five months ago when I finally landed my first “real” job. I finished up my masters last year and was lucky enough to get a fulltime analyst position despite everything going on with covid. Landing said new job finally allowed me to take control of my shopping, my diet, and ultimately my health.
From a very young age, probably around 10 or so, I’ve been overweight. I’ve previously tried dieting and had some success back in 10th grade. I went from 275 down to 225 in one summer. However I didn’t learn anything about cooking or forming better eating habits and I quickly gained it all back when I stopped following the strict dieting book I was given. Because of this experience, I knew I had to approach things differently this time. Dieting wasn’t the answer, I needed to change my relationship with food, understand what was and wasn’t good for me, and form realistic and sustainable habits that would also enable me to lose weight. Put more simply, my mantra this go around is “developing sustainable habits, not dieting!”
Back to the journey! With my newfound financial freedom and control of my food, I started by replacing unhealthy food choices with healthier options, i.e., instead of having two sandwiches with some chips at lunch I would have two sandwiches with a side salad, and then I moved on to having just one sandwich with some fruit and a side salad, etc. I kept making small changes like this for most of November but I wasn’t keeping track of calories or anything like that, just trying to alter the way I ate and the foods that I ate. At the beginning of December, I started noticing that my clothes were feeling a bit looser—things I had no longer been able to wear suddenly fit again. This inspired me to finally weigh myself and make things ‘official’. On December 11th, I got on the scale and damn near died from what I saw. I was expecting to be in the 270-280 range given that it was my previous highest weight and surely I didn’t think I could be above that. But, as you probably noticed by the SW at the top, I was a whopping 311! This was a major turning point for me. I become very depressed for a few nights then that depression quickly turned to anger—anger at myself for letting things get so bad—and then ultimately the anger turned into motivation.
With my depression/anger induced motivation in hand, I decided it was time to take things up a notch. I started looking into resources on how to change my diet, lose weight, etc. which is how I ended up finding this subreddit. Ultimately, I knew CICO was the way to go for me. I invested in a food scale, downloaded MyFitnessPal, and went to work. Since December 25th, just two weeks after I wanted to give up, I have weighed myself every single day to capture my weight trends and logged every single meal I have had. I’ve had weeks where I didn’t lose any weight, I’ve had days and meals where I broke and ate food I know I shouldn’t have, but I have stuck with it despite any obstacles and now I’m down 36 pounds in less than three months! Seeing my weight in the 270’s again, and soon to be 260’s, is really helping me learn to love myself again. My confidence is skyrocketing and my motivation is at an all time high!
I can’t wait to see what all this journey holds for me and where I’ll be months from now, even years, but I’m happy be finally become a part of this community and get my story out there!
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/m0we6h/down_36_pounds_by_developing_sustainable_habits/
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