Hi loseit community. I have received so much encouragement and inspiration from the posts in this sub. I am emerging (like so many cicadas) from pandemic winter having gained 12ish pounds, after hitting my weight goal last June. Over the last 10 weeks, I have been cycling through strict CICO, running/not running, alcohol abstinence, playing around with intuitive eating, and generally hating my calorie tracking app and my scale. I lost barely 3 pounds.
My reaction to the early pandemic days (I also had a baby somewhere in there) was to strictly control my calories and optimize my exercise, which happened to put me in the best shape of my life and about 55 pounds off my heaviest. I am working incredibly hard now to remind myself of the following: 1)this is not a race to some mythical finish line. 2)if I’m taking good care of my body, then I’m winning. 3)every pound not gained is just as important as every pound lost. 4)choosing to do the work is the reward.
If you are choosing to care for yourself for the first time or the 59th time , you are winning, and I will root for you today and tomorrow!
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