After exactly one year, I am down exactly 60 pounds! (242 to 182), my New Years goal this year was to get to 180lbs. This is the 1st year i’ve ever lost weight

I’m 20, before this year I never lost any significant amount of weight in my entire life. Before starting my journey, I felt like losing weight was physically impossible for me.

Then after months and months of trying to eat healthy and failing non-stop, I got beyond frustrated with myself and hit my breaking point. I got into a mentality of I was gonna lose this weight no matter what and I didn’t give a fuck how hard I had to push myself.

At very first, I just straight up almost stopped eating, some days i’d just eat one small meal a day, but after a short amount of time, I saw the scale go down about 7 pounds and that feeling of it being impossible to lose any weight went away. I started to eat more again, but just healthier food. I started occasionally hiking and some light weight lifting, but I mainly leaned to my diet to lose the majority of the weight. I didn’t really have a set diet, I just tried to eat no more than around 1,800-2,000 calories a day, and I avoided anything with sugar, bread and anything that was obviously not healthy at all.

I had a few spans of a month of my weight loss being stagnant, but I just kept pushing myself and reminded myself about the person I wanted to be.

Some of my off the scale victories, I can now do “real” push ups, I can now eat food without feeling horribly guilty and hating myself, and I can now run half a mile without stopping. I do want to try running again though cause when I started jogging and ran half a mile for the first time, I had bronchitis from smoking a ton of weed and e-cigs non stop. My legs would be a little sore and I wasn’t too winded, but I had to stop cause my throat and chest was in horrible pain and after I ran I coughed for hours and my throat felt really really sore for days.

To anyone that feels like they can’t lose weight, YOU CAN DO IT. The key is determination and consistency. I never lost weight in my life and only ever watched the scale go slowly upwards and I felt hopeless and would completely give up even trying to lose weight at times. I just pushed myself as hard as I possibly could, you can to, I believe in you. Go out there and make life your bitch and give it your all and you will see results.

I now am going to try and lose 22 more pounds and get down to 160. My weight loss has been stagnant lately, but I am going to try as hard as I can to get this last amount of weight off.

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