I'm so proud of myself! It doesn't seem like much and I still need to lose around 30 more before being at a healthy weight, but I'm honestly shocked I've even made it this far!
For the past four years I've been hovering around 230-240, but this past summer I hit 250 and decided to knuckle down and turn my eating habits around. I've been pescatarian for the past five years but I did it for humanitarian reasons and it didn't improve my health at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was detrimental in the long run as I was just frying everything. Tofu, chickpea cakes, mushroom bites, veggie dogs, all of it was fry fry fry. And even when baking veggies I would cover them in olive oil and add parmesan cheese after. Whenever I got the craving for junk food I would easily crush a whole dominos pizza, not to mention a bag of chips and sour candy I probably had on top of it.
So at the start of August I went head-first into a crash diet: no flour, no saturated fats, no dairy, no starch, no carbs, and absolutely NO processed sugars. My mom bought me an instant-pot as I was leaving home in a month for my fourth year of university and would need some way to keep up the healthy habits, so for the past four months I've been living off instant pot vegetable soup, veggie chili, raw fruits and veggies, and the occasional veggie sausage. And it worked like a charm!
I'm pretty sedentary during the uni semesters and it gets cold as shit here starting in October so I knew my physical activity would be low, so I've been eating one meal a day on top of an apple or some peppers/carrots, and keeping portions small. Calories in, calories out. If calories out are low calories in should be low, simple as that.
And whenever the intense craving for junk food came I would remind myself of the obvious truth: it costs money and it's unhealthy, it's a lose-lose. And I never want to willingly partake in a lose-lose scenario. And it's worked, this has kept me from buying any kind of junk food be it pizzas, ice cream, chips, cupcakes, or frozen dinners for the past four months. I instead spend that money on fruits, veggies, and cans of beans and chickpeas for my vegetable soup and veggie chili.
So whenever you find yourself in the grocery store and the rows of unhealthy abominations are beckoning you, remind yourself, you could spend money on something your body hates and be stuck in a lose-lose, or spend money on something healthy.
It was such a euphoric experience to step on the scale and see that I'm 194! And if I keep this up I will easily get down to my doctor recommended 170.
I'm back home for the fall break now so I'm going to be hitting the gym every day, even if it's just to jog for the whole time as my muscles are gonna be screaming after the first day, but I just have to keep this up.
Fuck junk food!
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