I guess I'm sharing this both because I'm shocked at how easy it has been so far, and if anybody needs some motivation for the day, this might be your cup of tea.
I basically got to be the heaviest I've ever been last year, following some fad diets and eventually having to get abdominal surgery due to the damage they likely caused (spoiler alert: zero fiber = appendicitis). I was only about 20 pounds overweight, which probably doesn't sound like much, except for the fact that I've literally never been this heavy in my entire life, but I was suffering from some pretty crippling IBS symptoms that likely coincided with this.
I seriously couldn't lose weight, so I continued onward with the fad diets (which was a mistake). Every once in a while something like the keto diet would definitely lead to some form of weight loss, but the cost was extremely high; it's TMI for some, but having diarrhea everyday, pissing my brains out all night, and not being able to exercise due to extreme muscle weakness (I've been exercising for years now, but obviously I was still flabby) was way too high of a cost for losing weight on such extreme diets. Also, I never had to battle with nausea and heartburn before, so why did the keto diet force this upon me as well? Worst diet ever, for me anyway.
I was on the verge of giving up completely until I saw a menu for Chilli's, the place where I had been getting curbside meals from - multiple times per week, mind you - and started actually counting calories (a few youtube videos in the 'vegan propaganda' category admittedly helped me here as well, and possibly a book by (oddly) Carrie Underwood, although I'm not vegan at all). Long story short, I was eating way too many calories, because the same exact food when cooked at home turned out to be thousands of calories less than the restaurant version. Literally thousands.
Seriously, some restaurant appetizers are like 3,000 calories. It's like they're doing this shit on purpose.
My journey isn't over yet, and I obviously haven't 'beat the game' yet because I still have a few pounds to go, but I'm still losing weight effortlessly, and while eating more food than I was when I was fatter, and exercising even less; I feel like I can eat constantly now. exercise a few times per week and still be under 2,000 calories.
So this is what made it extremely easy for me: I just started looking at calories, and how much food I could eat per certain bracket. For example, an entire sandwich with loads of vegetables was probably the same amount of calories as a handful of chips, so I obviously went with the sandwich (this is an ex-gluten-free person talking, by the way). Peanut butter was obviously loaded down with calories, while some homemade chili and some saltines was about the same in terms of calories, but would fill me up much more.
Another thing for me was drinking; I was typically pulled in quite a lot to 'low carb options' when I was a carb-counter (which never worked, by the way), but now that I'm viewing it as a calorie war, there's no room for anymore than like 2 drinks per month, and even that isn't worth it. So this makes it easier to quit other unhealthy habits that obviously lead to weight gain, since I don't want to be fat anymore.
In conclusion, I basically just wanted to throw another piece of motivation into the pile because it doesn't have to be a struggle to lose some pounds quickly. I've struggled needlessly for years and I'm seeing results by eating all the 'wrong' foods I've been told not to touch, and loads of them, which taste amazing.
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