Hi everyone! I'm Cheryl, 30 years old, started at 240lbs, goal weight is 135, current weight is 177. I've been on my weight loss journey for exactly one year now, doing CICO and working out 5-6 days a week, in preparation for a breast reduction surgery. For a while I was losing a pretty consistent 1-2, even 3lbs per week. But in the last 4 months or so, I've been noticing a slow down. It seemed like my weight was dropping at a slower rate, and my body measurements haven't been dropping as drastically, either. Well, in the past two weeks I've actually gained 2lbs, and when I did my body measurements this past time I'd only lost .5 inches in 8 weeks. I'd actually gained an inch or two around my torso. So I was a bit frustrated, to say the least.
So I figured it was definite proof that I'd hit a plateau, right? I knew it was bound to happen eventually. Well, I decided to look through the data I've been recording in Cronometer for the past six months to get a better idea of what I've been doing. I exported it to excel and created a chart with a trend line so I could actually see what was going on. Lo and behold, the trend has been going up. Six months ago I was eating closer to 1500 calories a day. Now I'm consistently eating closer to 2000. Turns out being stuck at home for months on end with constant access to food hasn't exactly been good for my weight loss. I want to blame COVID, but I know better. I've been allowing myself cheat items, a bite or two (or three) of ice cream here, a sip of someone's fancy Wawa drink there, a spoonful of Biscoff cookie butter, 'as a treat', and they add up. It's no big deal if I'm a hundred calories over budget occasionally, but those 'bad girl' days have become far more common than my 'good girl' days, and they've been a lot more than just a hundred over.
So at least now I know why I've been hitting a snag. I need to tighten things back up and not allow myself those cheat bites. I have a deadline to lose the weight by March 1, so I can't afford to keep eating like I am now. Hopefully I can get back on track and maybe even get below my goal weight so I can be right about where I want to be after a few weeks out of commission.
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