I spent my late teens early 20's hovering around the 190's. When I was 22, I lost my father. When that happened in 2015 I went from 196, to 233 in 8 weeks. I'd been around there ever since.
My life took a detour after that. I've been stagnant. Unhappy, and seemingly unable to do anything about it. In June I finished my studies without graduating and decided to change.
I changed my diet, deciding to do it quite drastically, I cut out all meat, but I love seafood so still incorporate that in my diet. For me it was easier that way, eliminating a large chunk of foods I overate rather then cutting back. Saying that though, I do still eat sweets, I incorporate roughly 150cals per day for sweets, some days i go significantly over 1200 and that's fine, you only need to be better, not perfect, and I try not to beat myself up over a little slip every now and then. My diet is much better now, I try to base my meals around fruit and vegetables, before if I got 4 portions in a day it was a good day, now I usually get between 7-10 portions a day. I've lost it through diet alone, I have no interest right now to start properly exercising, but I have been more active. I walk my dogs every day, before it was at the weekends only, and we're all enjoying it! (Less now that it's cold and dark so early!)
I feel better in ways and the same in others, it's weird. Day to day I feel great, I have energy, I feel more motivated, but I still don't feel like I've actually done anything. Because I was in the 190's for so long it's how I've always seen myself, and although I'm buying clothes in smaller sizes I still can't picture the weightloss on myself. I almost feel like now's the real start. I'm back to my original start weight, and now I can start really losing weight. I dunno, like I said it's weird.
I have relied on this subreddit a lot though. Thanks to everyone who's been supportive, it really helps on bad days. This sub really is full of the nicest people on the internet!
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