Around this time, 5 years ago, I moved to the Netherlands from America. I was just shy of 280 pounds (at 5’6”), had spent a lifetime being obese, and wasn’t entirely sure what to do with my professional life. It was a really hard time.
I started reading along on this subreddit (most helpfully the Quick Start Guide in the sidebar) and started participating in the daily European challenge threads. I started losing weight. From august 2018-august 2020 I lost over 110 pounds.
The key to both my weight loss and my maintenance has been tracking my calories so I can keep track of my energy balance: https://imgur.com/a/yZdxxLc
I know it sounds like “one simple trick!”- kind of bullshit, but a calorie tracker that isn’t about being “over” or “under” or “good” or “bad” — but is just neutral — has been instrumental to my success. I started out doing this myself with a spreadsheet, but now I have an app (macrofactor) that does it for me.
That, plus a weight smoothing app (happy scale/libra) basically made this journey possible. Whatever food I want is fine; the message is just keeping it in balance. You can see bigger spikes and smaller spikes on my graph; I’m in a slight energy surplus (~100 calories over 30 days) right now which is fine; I am training for a 10k, and it will work itself out over the next 30 days.
Anyway, just wanted to post this as motivation/information for someone. Serious and sustained weight loss is just an energy balance. If you need to lose weight, get your balance to be negative. If you eat way too much one day, let the law of large numbers/averages soften the blow over the next two weeks or so.
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