Background: 20M, 170cm, and at my heaviest I was around 165-170lbs. But when at the start of 2019 (when I decided to start losing weight) I weighed around 160lbs. And at my lowest weight I remember seeing 116lbs. Current weight is now 125lbs.
Intermittent fasting truly worked wonders in helping me lose weight. But when I started counting calories and decided to enter a calorie deficit is when I really started to rapidly lose the weight.
I’d be lying if I said I lost my weight in the healthiest and safest way. This is because I lost over 35 pounds with almost little to no exercise at all.
I decided to enter a calorie deficit of around 1200 calories a day, but would often eat below 1000. I didn’t really do any proper research and just read online that a 1200 calorie a day deficit would result in fast weight loss. And being kind of desperate to lose weight, I decided to follow it from about April - August, but it was at its worst from June - August.
And by worst, I mean that I was almost starving myself. I would get up at 7am for work and hold off until 1pm, where I’d eat 2 granola bars that amounted to 300 calories. I wouldn’t eat again until dinner, which is where I’d do the bulk of my eating but definitely not enough to give my body all the energy/nutrients it needed. There would even be days where I knew that I would have a big dinner, so I wouldn’t eat for the entire day. I was obsessed with only looking at calories and not other important factors like sugars, fats and sodium values.
I highly HIGHLY DON’T recommend the method that I used to lose weight. It wasn’t healthy both physically and mentally. And for a period of time my attitude towards food changed. There were countless times that I wouldn’t even feel like eating, in fear of gaining weight.
For the most part I would say that I’m eating much better now and have been since September. I have also started to exercise along with incorporating more fruits, healthier grains and organic foods into my diet and i’ve been feeling more energetic!
The main thing I wanted to share from my own weight loss journey with anyone reading this is: Stay safe and please don’t starve yourself!!
Yeah we all wanna lose weight, but make sure to do it safely and to do all your proper research or to even meet a nutritionist. Calorie deficits, while very effective, can also be very dangerous.
Also remember that your body is different than anyone else’s body. While a certain method or calorie deficit may work for someone else, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work for you as well.
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