Friday, November 22, 2024

my slow (0.5lbs a week) weight loss is the most comfortable thing for me

I know it's possible to lose weight faster, because I did it already! I ate around 1300 calories a day as a 5'8 20F and dropped from 242lbs to my goal of 140lbs. I am a completely different person now.

And that person wants to eat

Any weight I lose from now on is just for vanity, and while it would be nice, I simply lack the motivation to restrict so heavy when it's not an emergency anymore. I am not morbidly obese. I am at the low end of a healthy weight, but I don't want to stop losing weight. I am okay if the rest of my journey takes me a year or more. It's important to me that I'm not gaining, and that I am focusing on my relationship with food and hunger that does not involve calories as much.

I could have stopped at 140lbs and maintained, but I haven't worked on my relationship with food enough to maintain. I have an undefined relationship with food and fear that without the weight loss to motivate me, I would gain it all back. So for the last few months, I have been losing around 0.5lbs a week to reach 134.4lbs.

I love being able to eat. I love not being hungry all the time (except right now... but I have dinner reservations soon and don't want to spoil my dinner). I love eating whole foods, and I love not craving ultra processed foods. I wish I could find more ways to focus on my nutrition in a way that didn't involve weight loss, but I like having the safety net of a slight deficit that is almost at maintainance until I can develop a more stable relationship with food and weight.

Any tips from maintainers or anyone else who has transformed their relationship with food, please chime in!!

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