Hey everyone! I've been doing CICO for a few weeks now, and I've been seeing some great results. I've been trying to stay between 1200-1500 calories every day, sometimes more if I've been particularly active. I've been at college, where it's been very easy to track my food, since my dining hall posts nutritional info online.
This weekend, I was home for Easter weekend. And with that comes a lot of candy and bad eating. For me, it's incredibly difficult to stay on track whenever I go home, because I have a strong mental association that links home and bad eating habits. Whenever I go home, I always eat way over maintenance, and feel too guilty to track.
This weekend, I decided to let myself binge on Easter, on purpose. I ate everything I would normally eat, and gave in to every craving, just like I used to. This time though, I forced myself to track EVERYTHING. Every single Jelly bean, every gram of candy and pizza, went into my tracker. I also took mental inventory several times throughout the day, noting how I felt. And at the end of the day, I was shocked at what I saw.
5500 calories, easily. I was blown away. I never realized how quickly everything adds up, and I realized that I was eating like this at least once a week before I began my new lifestyle, sometimes more. Suddenly, it made sense that I got as fat as I did. What's more, I also felt like absolute garbage the whole day. I had no energy, my head felt physically heavier, my movements were sluggish, and I was breathing noticeably heavier.
In the past, I never noticed any differences in myself when I lost weight, in either looks or feel. I lost over 50 pounds a few years ago with Keto, but I could never see any difference in myself, and I felt the same. I gained it all back in a year.
This time around, I'm down 35 pounds from the same starting point, and I'm noticing so much more. Moving was never hard before (yay for being young), but several things are just marginally easier than they were before. Cardio is easier and I can do it for just a bit longer, and I'm slightly less out of breath walking up the stairs. I see very slight changes in physical appearance, like the shape of my stomach fat has changed. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to see things that aren't there, but hey, it works. I know I'm headed in the right direction.
TL;DR: I binged on purpose yesterday and tracked everything. I can't believe I used to live like this.
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