I can't believe I've actually made this much progress. For years I would try to lose weight and get nowhere. Truth is, I was extremely ignorant on how to lose weight. At one point I thought all you needed to do to lose weight was do a bit of exercise, so I'd be eating burgers and nuggets and wonder why nothing was happening. I was even one of those people who thought if I have a meal that's heavy in vegetables that'd be good enough (despite all the chips and chocolate I ate...) I had an idea about calories, but again, extremely ignorant and the subject seemed complicated, intimidating and difficult to me, what's the difference between calories and kilojoules? Some packaging has one or the other, that makes it confusing. Even if I understand that how do I know how many calories is in a soup I make? How do I keep track of all this? And the big question, how do I know how much I can actually have? In 2020 when I finally got around to finding the answers to these questions, I found out how easy it all is. I used a weightloss calculator to work out how many calories I can have and I used myfitnesspal to keep track of everything and I worked out the formula to convert those packaging that only lists kilojoules.
That doesn't mean it's easy breezy, there's still a lot I don't understand, for example I have no idea how to calculate food that I deep fry (so I haven't done so), I'd love to make some deep fried battered fish again, but no idea how to calculate the calories on that. Also MFP has many foods with varying calorie amounts despite it saying it's the same thing, I've also come across foods that have differences when you select the 1.0g serving option and set it to 100 servings compared to the 100g serving set to 1 serving. So to accurately use the app I have to constantly be vigilant and verify what I'm entering is correct. My journey so far started off very well, I started off following keto and got really good results early on, I didn't calculate my calories back then because I didn't see many people saying I needed to. I understand why people can get success doing keto without counting calories, it's very easy to eat under your limit naturally. However I made a big mistake and after a few months I started eating more high calorie foods and less of the lower foods, for example instead of eating lots of rump steak I'd eat more cheese. If I was hungry I'd go and cut some cheese up. This made it so for a bit over a month I didn't lose anything. That's when I started calculating calories and since then I've lost a steady amount of weight each week! The 6 months of my journey averages out to about 1KG a week, it would have been more if I didn't stuff up, but that's how you learn and I still have a lot to learn, I've probably even said something stupid or wrong in this post.
Today is the day I'm testing the waters on going off keto and going back to eating normally (I'm going to go week by week to make sure I'm all good, if not I'll go back to being on keto), I've been craving some melted cheese on toast, so that was the first thing I had this morning. I used to have 4 pieces of bread with a very thick slice of cheese on it, today I had 2 pieces of the lowest calorie bread I could afford and I had a thin slice of the lowest calorie cheese I could afford, so my breakfast was very low in calories! And best part about it? Before I even finished it, I was feeling full, where before I'd have 4 slices and still want more. I also bought some chips (flaming hot doritos, because I missed them) and some chocolate (caramilk, because it's the most delicious chocolate there is) and I had 1 serving of each as a snack. Previously, I'd very easily eat the whole bag of chips and the whole block of chocolate, but I slowly ate the chips and even before I finished the serving, I was feeling full, so I put it to the side to eat a bit more later on. The fact that I wasn't desperate to just plow through the packet or even say to myself "one more serving should be okay" gives me hope that I should be able to succeed in the future and I shouldn't go back to my old ways. I'm gonna use the knowledge I gained from doing keto to make it so I can succeed once I've reached my final goal, I've learnt a lot about satiety and which foods fulfill that better.
One thing that's really annoyed me since starting my weightloss journey is my family telling me what I'm doing is unhealthy, or they're worried I'll become anorexic (we've had 2 people in the extended family do that, so I understand why they say it... but it's almost like they are hoping I fail) yet when I would eat bags of chips, blocks of chocolate, large amounts of fast food they never once said to me "what you're doing is unhealthy"... Whenever they'd offer me food and I turn it down they get a bit mad at me and I say "I'm counting my calories" they come back with "you don't need to do that" or "I've heard people get better results if they don't do that" and "it's okay you can just have this one". Nope, I'm gonna stick to my plan until I get to my goal.
My journey is far from over, I'm not even half way yet. My biggest hurdle isn't even here yet, I'm going to be starting a new job soon so there will be added stress from that, I won't be able to just eat whenever I need to and I'll probably be very tired after work, so I'm hoping I don't fall off the wagon when that comes around. Well I think that's all I had to say, best of luck to everyone else in their journey, I hope we all have great success in this. :)
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