TL/DR: After reading the faq of this sub I realized I’m definitely not alone with exercise doing nothing. Six months of biking hasn’t moved the scale much. Need to start cutting calories.
I was healthyish before I started working nearly 100 miles away from my house for four years. Commuting two hours each way every day sucks soooo much. And during that time I gained 30% of my original weight. The whole time I was so mad about the commute and how it was killing my health.
So after 4 long years of commuting 1,000 miles a week, I was blessed with a great job 8 miles away that I can ride my bike to. In the past six months I’ve probably driven my car 5 times (actually not good for the car, I think it’s dead). This has transferred to a swap of 20 hours a week of driving to 6 hours a week of bike riding.
I feel great now, my clothes fit better, I sleep better, I’m tan from finally getting sun every day. I thought I was losing tons of weight, but didn’t check until today. 5%... in 6 months!
I was so disappointed and then I found the faq on this sub how exercise doesn’t actually do anything for weight loss and I feel like I actually have to cut calories.
So this is my day one of actually having a plan to lose weight. Cutting and tracking calories to 1,800 per day (I’ve checked and been eating around 2,800 per day). To deal with the hunger I’m going to start running a few miles at lunch every day instead of stuffing my face.
Cheers to day one! ☝️
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