Sunday, June 1, 2025

Feeling demoralised today

Doing my best trying to google and work it out for myself but could use some input/ lived experience from those trying to lose it.

For context, I am a 28 year old woman, 5ft 4. Prior to starting my weight loss journey, I was not doing any exercise, maybe 10 mins worth of light walking a day, if that. Desk job, so completely sedentary. Eating habits were bad, I was usually having some form of take out once a day or even twice a day sometimes. Only ate at lunch and dinner so no breakfast or snacking but still obviously a wildly unhealthy lifestyle.

Starting trying to eat in a calorie deficit April 7th this year, aiming for about 1650 calories a day and stick to this most days. Have definitely had days where I’ve gone above this but for the most part I don’t think I’ve ever eaten over 2000 cals a day since starting, apart from approx 3 nights out drinking. Also started doing minimum 30 mins of cardio each day and began incorporating strength training once a week from the last week of April and then as of this week I’ve upped that to two strength training sessions a week ( I do full body for these sessions, not just targeting legs, core, etc.). Still early days with the strength training, my PT is switching up my program soon.

So in terms of my progress, my starting weight was 85.4kg, as of this week I weighed in at 82.8kg. I am happy to see the scale going down and ultimately I am feeling so much healthier as a result of the lifestyle change but I also feel like I should have seen more progress by now, considering the lifestyle changes I’ve made compared to what I was doing (or lack of) before. I could just be impatient or the obvious answer is I’m not tracking my cals as well as I thought I was but has anyone felt stuck like this in the early stages? I thought now would be when I would see faster weight loss and I might start to plateau later on.

Overall I’m still really committed to this journey and have surprised myself at how well I have already adapted and built these healthier habits into my life. I have no intention on stopping, just feeling demoralised today.

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