After lurking in this sub for months seeing other people’s success I decided it was time to try. It was not that I had tried and failed before, I truly had never tried, I always had a reason to wait, next month, after graduation, new job etc.
March of this year I finally decided it was time to try. I had been obese since elementary school and did not know where to start. I started with the only thing I know would help, eat better.
I stoped eating fast food, stoped putting to much butter on everything, stoped eating a bag of chip because why not.
For 3 months I generally had a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast, a wrap from subway for lunch, and chicken and veggies for dinner. Now it’s was not the tastiest food, and damn if it was not tough at times, but I was able to stick to it. March 5th - June 5th I went from 310 to 275 doing just this.
At this point I couldn’t believe that I had lost 35 pounds only from eating healthy. It was time to find out what happened if I committed. I swapped out the bagel for an apple and yogurt and started walking 2k / day. That first 2k. Oh my god I was sore. I went home and honesty took a nap. From simply walking 2k.
In the next 3 months I continued to walk and eat an apple, yogurt, wrap and chicken / veggies. June 5th - September 5th I went from 275 - 220.
All this time I continued to walk, simply walking further, when I could. Within no time I was up to 5k. Sometimes I would stumble, but that was ok. I had no specific targets, I had no specific goal. I was trying. I didn’t go for a walk? That’s ok there’s always tomorrow. I had a couple slices of pizza late Friday? That’s ok I logged it and moved into Saturday.
Sep 5 - Dec 5. Progress slowed down substantially, but it was there. I ran my first 5k ever (just under 30 min!) in October. But most importantly I hit my goal. I didn’t know it. But at 190 I feel comfortable in my skin. I never set a number, I simply wanted to lose weight until I was no longer fat. Turns out I think that is 190 and so here we are.
I have officially changed my goal from weight loss to maintaining. Time to hit the gym.
Please if you have been hesitating to try for the first time, or have been considering get back on that horse, just do it! It’s ok to have set backs, it’s ok to not meet a goal, the only thing that is not ok is failing to try due to fear of failure. I failed to try for years and I have no bigger regret.
Again, thank you r/loseit!
March - December 2018 https://imgur.com/a/MJgARfl
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