Bit of back story: I started losing 3 months ago after really finally accepting that my eating was getting out of control. Over the following 9 weeks or so I lost 35lb just through CICO. I really wanted to make a change in my relationship with food, so I mostly kept my CO about the same - walking, little bit of cycling, not really going all out to lose weight at the gym basically. This was based purely on personal experience with my own struggle - many times I’ve dieted and hit the gym and lost weight, but I don’t solve my problem eating, so when the effort at the gym tails off the weight comes back.
When I was a bit over 30lbs lost I started to feel like I understood portion sizes, and what calories looked like and such, and I wanted to start swimming again, but was scared of that leading to increased appetite. My compromise was to try and maintain without counting calories for a month, I’d just check the scale once per week and see how I was doing.
Well good news! It’s been a month, and my biggest variance has been just over a lb! Currently I’m half a pound less than when I started the month. It hasn’t been always easy - 5 birthdays and two Christmas parties have happened plus our anniversary,so have had to really get in the habit of planning ahead. If I know we’re going to our favourite Italian restaurant for example, I eat a smaller breakfast and a snack for lunch so I could still eat the gnocchi lol. I’ve also definitely noticed that I think I need less food now. I’d been putting off eating pizza because that used to be my biggest weakness and I could eat a whole large one with sides no problem at all... actually I don’t think I’d not finished a whole pizza in about 20 years. But, last week I ordered a large half and half pizza with my wife, enjoyed it, and had two slices of my half left over the next day.
All in all I’m feeling in a good place. I’m half way on my weight loss journey, and a couple of people have started to notice. I also found taking this break and maintaining for a month really took a lot of pressure off - the people who watch what you eat/get annoyed by you being on a diet/don’t want you to lose anymore all chill out and leave you alone again!
The plan from here is to keep eating about what I am now, but add in the swimming and go from there. If I start loosing too fast again, I’ll up my calories, if too slow I’ll decrease. As I say I’m really looking for a positive, long-term change in life style and attitude from myself. I don’t care about being ‘ripped’, I just want a healthy relationship with food and to be active and healthy for a long time in all honesty.
Just sharing because all your stories help me so much, and I hope this can be of some help maybe to someone.
Starting weight: 247 Current weight: 212 Goal weight: ~180-190
(I’ve changed my goal weight to around 180 instead of a strict 180 as through doing this my biggest lesson learnt has been that BMI and TDEE are super inaccurate for tall people, so I’m first gonna aim for my better body mass index goal of 190 and see how I feel and plan from there).
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