Progress pics at the bottom if that's all you wanna see lol.
Yep. Think so.
Started my journey on December 26th of last year at 299 pounds and as of this morning I'm 213. It's been a wild ride of people giving plenty of compliments and of course the "How did you do it"s. Along with the concerns that I was just gonna "wither away to become a stick of a person" (spoiler alert: I'm not lol)
Lately though as I'm nearing the home stretch of my weight loss extravaganza I'm noticing the scale moving less and less (albeit still fairly consistent overall)
After the first few months of knocking all the "bad stuff" out of my regular diet I started to slowly reintroduce stuff like a slice of pizza every so often and other "normal not every day foods" to try and teach myself some normalcy and also to reduce those random cravings you get to just pig out on bad shit. Was pretty successful considering I still am able to enjoy food and eat like a regular human without worrying about eating an entire box of cookies which (second spoiler alert: I'm beyond capable of doing it still)
I've gone down several pants sizes and t shirt sizes as well...I've run into that problem of "Shit I've got NO clothes at all to wear..." I've started to enjoy closer fitting clothing as well in the past maybe two months where I firmly believe my eyes have finally caught up to what my body actually looks like. I had to replace a belt because my last one just couldn't keep up with me adding holes anymore and after a while the excess belt just had to get wrapped under loops and STILL stuck out through my shirt.
I've gained confidence (I mean...not a ton I'm still a rather timid person) but I've actually started thinking about getting back into dating again seriously after several YEARS of just thinking I was some hideous creature undeserving of companionship ( seriously...why do we do this to ourselves...)
My general mood has gone up and I can notice more and more walking by people...girls *but really everyone* that I catch out of the corner of my eyes glances and if I smile at someone they smile back. I just feel people are more accepting and don't see me as invisible despite being smaller and arguably harder to see lol.
I was hoping to make this post at the end when I could say "I've done it! I'm done with this phase of the adventure and ready to start in the second part being the rest of my life of trying to sustain this healthier me" but I don't know. The past few weeks the scale just is I think causing more grief than it should be. Like I said, it's moving down a little slower..my losses just aren't "noteworthy" any longer (I know this isn't true...just being all dramatic) and so I decided to make this a little ahead of schedule. Mostly because I'm done weighing myself every day. I'm thinking maybe once a week or even biweekly from here on out. I would rather lose the last bit of weight even slower and be slightly happier than constantly worried about that goddamn scale. Every morning I would make it my ritual to go pee and then hop on and see what was in store. I've gotten used to the fluctuations and never took it with disappointment as I started to notice the trends of the ups and downs and then the down downs leading to the actual losses that stuck.
And maybe it's because I know I'm relatively close to being where I want to be and I'm just getting anxious about it and ready to begin the task of maintenance but it's just getting to be too much lol. Obsessing over it isn't doing me any good and I would rather take this opportunity as I did after a few months in to start trying to practice a little more normalized way of life. I realized not much has really changed about me other than I can tell myself when to stop and my body knows when I'm good with food and don't need anymore. I still only have a slice of pizza and limit myself to that one serving of snacks. I guess I'm looking at this as more of a "pre-maintenance" period. If it takes me until the end of the year to finish out then that's fine too. I'll get there when I get there as long as I know I'm on my way to getting there.
I still log everything I eat and I'm still only drinking water and coffee. I will still pay attention to the scale but on a much smaller scale...lol.
I guess what I want to say is thanks to this community for inspiring me. I can't tell you guys how many times I would wake up in the morning to have a little coffee and maybe some breakfast and feel like I wanted to just pig out but instead I would come on here and read some threads about peoples' success and maybe even more so the slipups. It gave me realistic expectations for how I would tackle the day and the days to come.
And to the people that are struggling to get going or just looking for that little push to start or keep on track...do it. You CAN do it. We ALL can do it. We shouldn't deny ourselves happiness and health. We owe it to ourselves, really.
So I guess with that I'll post some progress pics:...
December 2018
And...this morning
Thanks guys you all rock
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