I started my weight loss journey on January 1st as a last minute decision to just go for it. My starting weight was 297lb and I am 267lb today. I had/have a pretty sedentary lifestyle.
I spent all of January just learning calorie counting and healthy eating. Finding what to look for and how to figure out exact calories. Also learning how to set things up so healthier food was the easy choice for me.
I spent February working on increasing my activity. Not working out, but actively working on sustainable movement like going on walks during my lunch break or riding my exercise bike while watching something in the evenings. Small choices each day to combine with eating choices.
Now in March I am going to focus on my attitude. I have noticed that stress and being overwhelmed significantly influence how well I stay on track with eating choices and my motivation to be physcially active. So I am working on mentally working to decipher what I can and can't control with hopes of letting things go. To essentially mentally get to a spot where things outside of my control don't have so much power over what I choose.
I feel like so far, even with bad days and some poor food choices, I am doing well overall. I feel like I am building habits that I can maintain for life, which is the ultimate goal. However, I have noticed more and more lately that even with a 30lb weight loss, I don't look like I've lost weight. Not to myself and I don't think to others, either. Those in my home know I am working on this, but I haven't told anyone else I am. 30lbs seems like a lot, but even now I don't see a difference in how I look from before. I did try to take a couple progress photos around week 3 and week 7 but that almost made me feel worse when it didn't seem to be any change in how I looked.
So my questions are:
1) When will I start to see visible changes in my body?
2) What mindset change helped you most to be successful on your journey?
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