Six months into my weight loss journey, and I'm almost down my first 30lbs. The pacing of about 1lbs per week is a perfect compromise for me between losing weight and lifestyle changes, instead of a hard-to-keep-up diet. (27F, started at 282lbs).
It's great. I sleep better, breathe better, move easier, my clothes fit better, my face looks a bit more defined.
I've been doing it by mostly keeping up CICO between 1500-1800kcal a day, having the occasional days where I just don't care (when we order food, go out, or have friends over). My husband - who initially grumped at the idea of dieting - has been incredibly supportive and managed to lose some weight himself (he went from slightly overweight at 154lbs to a healthy 135lbs).
It's a good pace, but sometimes I put my goal weight in Libra and just get very discouraged. I lost 30lbs. To get to a healthy weight which is at most 76kg/167lbs, there's another 40kg/90lbs to lose. That's a lot. That's early 2021 at the pace I'm at.
It's actually the pace I promised myself - to reach a healthy weight before I'm 30. That gives me until 2022. It shouldn't be this discouraging to see those high numbers - or to see how fat I still am (cause 255lbs is still very fat). I haven't been at a healthy weight in my 20's at all, mostly hovering in the overweight range.
For those who lost a lot of weight at a slow pace, what did you do to not get discouraged? How can you seperate "where I want to be" from "where I could be", and accept that where you are is a pretty good point already (come on, I did lose almost 30lbs!)
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