In April/May 2019 I started my weight loss journey at a BMI of 38.6. XL T-shirt’s felt pretty tight & I hardly wore jeans, mainly just tights and a stretch black skirt, big wollen jumpers.
I have been steadily losing since but only reached my goal of an BMI below 25 in June. I didn’t buy any new cloths until then as I knew I wanted to lose more, so kinda what’s the point. I went shopping once the stores opened again but due to COVID the changing rooms were closed. I honestly had no idea what size I was and was completely overwhelmed. I took like 6 pieces and returned half.
Last week I went back to my home country for Christmas and here the changing rooms are available. As I’m a bmi of 22.8 now I had an idea about my size but I wasn’t so sure. I took some jeans and couldn’t believe it. Everything fitted. Everything was so easy. One oversized Jeans was size 36, the others 38.
Never in my life have I worn a 38. At my lowest as a teenager I had size 40 which was like 15 years ago. And I still can’t believe I could just grab any top, any jeans. All where available in my size, in all stores. I made a decision on what to buy based on what I liked the most. Not what fitted bc everything fitted.
Im still so stunned that this World is now open for me. It really feels like a privilege.
Also my mum started asking me more questions on how I achieved this (she is overweight and her husband quite bad). So I could give her some tips. There are many things that I learned along the way that are important like getting enough sleep, regular exercise, a balanced diet (enough vegetables and protein! But not too acid heavy), the fact that I was in some way addicted to food.
But if I’d name one single most important thing that lead to my success was calorie counting and this subreddit. I looked at every label and for the first time really educated myself about everything before I ate it. The healthy lifetime change came automatically once I realised that a diet on fast food won’t make me stick to my daily calorie limit but home cooked meals full of vegetables will. I love vegetables now, before I lived for fat.
I looked at reddit everyday. Somehow I didn’t really believe before that people who were always overweight like me could lose weight. I thought it wasn’t on the table for someone like me but Reddit proved me wrong everyday and I was obsessed.
Thank you so much for the support!
If you’re just starting the journey: you can do it! Keep loggin your food. If you fuck up, be kind to yourself and just keep going! It is definitely possible and so worth it.
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