Starting weight loss

This is going to be a long post, but I want to write down everything that's led to this point to hopefully hold myself more accountable starting today.

I recently moved to a new city for a job and admittedly went a little food crazy - going out to restaurants and bars often and didn't exercise all that much. I was an athlete through high school and even though I barely worked out in college, I still weighed on the lower end of the "healthy weight range". Since I moved, I've gained about 20 pounds out of nowhere and it shows very obviously as a ring of fat on my stomach which I'm extremely self conscious about now and I hate myself when I look in the mirror.

About a month ago, I aggressively upped how much I was exercising, to the point of going to the gym twice a day for about a week. I also bought a scale and ended up obsessively weighing myself and getting pretty depressed when it showed I'd gained 5 pounds since I started exercising. I've since shoved the scale in a closet and haven't weighed myself since then. A couple weeks ago, I started making an attempt to also eat healthier. I've been stocking my fridge with fruit and bought a couple big containers of nuts.

I want to actually commit to losing this stupid belly fat so that I can stop spending every waking moment trying to suck in my stomach around other people. I've gotten used to exercising at the gym every day - I typically alternate between weights and running on the treadmill. I downloaded the LoseIt app today to start tracking my calories and make sure I'm in a calorie deficit.

I have a couple questions: 1. I eat lunch and sometimes dinner at work, where the meals are cooked for us. How would you recommend accurately tracking the calories of these meals? I also hate wasting food and the meals are pre-portioned so I feel like I need to finish the meal even if it might be too many calories for me.

1. I know weight loss can't be done in like two weeks, any tips for staying motivated, especially if you don't see visible progress?

2. Any other motivational tips? I really really want to lose this fat.

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