I'm getting close to one year since I took my "before" pictures, and have been hovering at having lost around 30 pounds for months, i thought it would be nice to say i lost 50 pounds my first year. So I decided to only eat 1200 calories a day, and work out every week day. This was instead of my usual working out 3 times a week and eating between 1200 and 1700 calories without restrictions.
Long story short, my 1200 calorie weeks coincided with the most stressful week I've had at work in a long time, some wild pms, some family drama, all resulting in the fact that I've been stuffing my face as much as I can. Instead of losing weight I've gained 5 pounds, instead of going to the gym every day I've skipped KB class. Meal prep has flown out the window. Calorie counting? What is that? I've felt like total crap, I'm bloated, I'm squishy, my stomach hurts all the time.
Lesson learned! Strict restrictions may work for some people, but not for me. I have a lot of stress in my daily life and stacking hunger on top of that just makes me a neurotic, snacking, mess. I enjoy going to the gym but I'm not going to force myself to go at 4 in the morning. I might not have the rapid paced incredible weightloss that so many people have, but slow and steady has been working and if it ain't broke don't fix it. I admire people that have great control but I'm not there yet.
So I'm using this post as a little pledge to myself. I'm going to keep going slow and steady, I'm going to be nice to myself, and I'm going to stop giving myself weight loss deadlines. I have an open ended goal, to reach a healthy weight, and as long as I'm working towards that I'm doing okay.
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