I(M 27) started last week on my journey to weight loss again. For most of my adult life I've always been around 280-300 lbs, it's just a weight range that I've been consistent around. Not more and not less.
I've tried losing weight before and I actually managed to get down to 260 lbs about a year and a half ago through calorie restriction. But I got off the rails and now I'm back at my 300 lb range.
What changed during this transition period is I was living with Aunt/Uncle and my aunt and uncle to kept me accountable. But then I eventually moved out and well I have learned that I am not skilled in keeping myself accountable. From my low of 260lbs I gained back everything. I realize the efforts I made initially were not because of my own self management. And this is a huge step for me. I used them as a crutch for my lack of self management.
So starting last week I made a commitment to log every single calorie and every single thing I ate without shame into a google spreadsheet. I am going to keep putting in everything manually and that will force myself to realize how much I was eating and what I was eating.
I thought surely, this will make it finally work for me, but I blundered yesterday, I gave in ate/drank over 4000 calories of taco bell. A huge setback mentally, a failure. But I realized over the average of starting I only had an average of 998 calories each day. And I realized I can't let the failure of a single day affect every effort made prior and all the effort I need to make going forward. I can stumble but I will not let myself fall this time.
Spreadsheet here for what I'm using to keep myself accountable https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mPRgzgMjAauUxRtv8eUjOzkTQY7PA1F_o3NV-dkjW2c/
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/mhikr4/i_blundered_yesterday_but_that_doesnt_mean_to_let/
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