Today I’m celebrating cake day and 35kg (77lbs) lost! Yeeeeaaaaah!
Exactly a year ago I joined reddit and this community and downloaded a loseit tracking app.
I must admit, I haven’t had too much hope that it will work. Why would it? Nothing ever worked for me. I have PCOS and I thought it was impossible for me to lose weight. But I needed to try, my BMI was 40. I was unhappy.
In fact, I always thought that I ate healthy: I don’t have a “sweet tooth”=almost never ate sweets, I don’t like fast food. I don’t like sodas and mainly drink water :) . I like home cooked meals with lots of veggies, soups and salads. So it was kind of an enigma for me what I was doing wrong. :)
But when I started with CICO and tracking calories, I learned that I ate too many calories of “healthy” food :-) I learned that some foods had much more calories than I expected (some obvious like dressings, dried fruits, nuts, dairy...but also my favorite fruit, - apples had more calories than I would like, haha).
Also, it happened often that I was skipping meals and was too hungry after work and bulked a lot in the evenings.
Tracking calories is not only helpful for losing weight, but most importantly, it helps a lot to LEARN how many calories each food is, how to portion different foods, and that is a very very useful skill for the future.
I have looked at my statistics and here are some of favorite foods which helps me to keep in track:
Zucchini, Tomato ,Cucumber, Peppers, Pickles, Watermelon, Carrots
Eggs, Greek yogurt 0%, Cottage cheese, kefir, chicken breast, different types of fish.
However, I have no special food restrictions, just controlling that I keep myself within the calorie limit.
Regarding training - yoga, walking and cycling are my favorite!
Special thanks to everyone in this community! Reading posts every day is so encouraging and it gives so much support.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/odm71r/one_year_both_on_reddit_and_of_weight_journey_f42/
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