My body refuses to go below 160. I know it doesn’t, not really, I’ve read so much about weight loss and CICO and all of that to know that I can go below, but I’ve been plateau’d since September, give or take four pounds. 160 is at the upper end of my healthy weight range so I could stop there, but it’s only giving me a 4 lbs buffer before I slip into overweight again, so I want to go lower. Not that much, just another 15-20. I’m down from 230, I know I can do this, but gosh, am I losing my motivation.
I’m counting calories, sticking to between 1200 and 1300, and I’m 5’9 so that cannot possibly be my maintenance range, it cannot be. I work out moderately, I used to run (I trained from nothing to running a 5K over the summer and into fall) and lift weights a few times a week but now that I’m quarantined I do yoga daily: not the most strenuous of workouts, but I’ve never used exercise to lose weight, only to get stronger. I’ve switched to OMAD, too, now that I’m free from social conventions and won’t be the weird lady not eating lunch with everyone else at work. With OMAD now I’ve loosened up on counting calories, but after two years of diligent counting I trust my estimations that I’m not going overboard. I keep telling myself to go back to strict counting, but I’m so tired of not losing that I can’t be bothered most days. Even when I was strict in my counting I wasn’t losing anymore, I tell myself, so what’s the point?
Tomorrow is another day, and maybe I’ll get a surprise and the 160.9 I saw on the scale this morning will have moved closer to 159. I got to 156 a few weeks ago, then I got my period and ballooned back up to 164, and I’ve been working my way down from there ever since. And guess who’s around the corner again? Yep.
If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading my rant. I just needed to get it off my chest.
For anyone curious, this is what a seven months long plateau looks like: https://imgur.com/a/i71Hwc3.
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