Just wanted to post a quick celebration. I weighed in after my nap today at 179.8. At my heaviest, I was 198, back in August. Lost a few pounds naturally when I started teaching and then kinda plateaued again, until I made a conscious effort. I had some false starts and stumbles until around mid-October, but the past ~3 weeks I have been really consistent and lost a solid 10 lbs. I know this because the new DEXA scale I bought three weeks ago says my recorded weight was 189.8 on day one. (I know some of it was water weight, I've lost about 6 pounds overall in fat since I got the scale).
The thing that changed the game for me was cutting out ALL extra sweets and junk food. I posted about my sugar addiction that replaced my drug addiction a couple weeks ago, and that really was a mental turning point for me. Now I feel so much better, there are no cravings anymore to even worry about. Like, taking away the choice has simplified things to the point of me going "is this all I had to do, this entire past two years I've been trying?"
I even tested myself on Halloween. I had a Reeses. Well, half of a Reeses, because I could taste the "fakeness" of the chocolate and that overly sweet kinda vomity taste, and didn't want anymore. I do still enjoy a really nice expensive piece of dark chocolate with sea salt as an occasional treat, but the gas station candy does not do it for me anymore. it's a lot like when I quit soda about 5 years ago, now soda makes me feel ill because I can taste the sugar.
I am gluten intolerant so my big weakness was gluten free breads and sweets (even more insidious than you'd think, because they have to add a ton of sugar to make them taste remotely ok). Once I realized that those honestly taste like sand and I was just eating them for the dopamine rush, it became super simple to cut them out of my diet. Two sandwiches and a sleeve of oreos or 500 calories in cookies daily... cutting those basically instantly put me in a 1000 calorie deficit from where I was eating at. Other than cutting bread, sweets, and potato chips, I really haven't changed my diet much at all. Less cheese and red/dark meats, more lean protein, complex carbs, and veggies is the overall shift. But I eat what I want and rarely make a decision around how much I have left in my calorie budget.
The holidays are coming up and I've already had two "fights" with my mother and grandmother, who seem to think I need my own personal gluten-free cherry pie for each occasion. I know they're going to make it anyways, and I'm not going to eat it. Not out of restriction, but because a sand-patty crust just doesn't seem worth it anymore. I'm having no second thoughts about that decision at all. I will however be making a small batch of my "infamous" sugar cookies that are actually really good because I tweaked the recipe, but I'm not going overboard and eating 15 a day like I did last year. One or two haha.
I do CICO just to keep myself on track and a "natural" eating day for me is at or under 1500 calories, usually more in the 1300 range. I'm 5'7" F and 30 years old, for reference. I know when I go to maintenance I'm going to have to bump those up but that's a bridge I'll cross when I get to it.
I've still got about 50 pounds to go before I start recomping, but this is a HUGE personal success for me and a big motivation to double down my efforts and keep going. I've been holding off on doing more intensive exercise until I get a few more pounds off, as I've gotten PF in my feet as well as knee and back pain due to the excess weight and being more or less sedentary for the past two years. I've already noticed a big improvement with just 10 pounds. This week I'm going to start pushing to walk 5 miles a day (I've been doing ~3). Once I get below 170 again I'll start skateboarding again, which is my biggest motivation.
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