Hello! You may be wondering what I mean by unexpected weight loss.
So, since 2022, I’ve went from 145 lbs to 185 lbs due to life stressors, trauma and low-motivation. During this time, I would try to go to the gym, drink only water, no chocolate/sweets. I would definitely indulge in fast food, so you may be thinking, “oh yeah, that’s why!”
But I kept gaining instead of losing. I’m on birth control pills, but it’s been 10+ years on them and I was slender before. So I eliminated that. I thought about going to the doctor’s for a thyroid check because I seriously couldn’t understand why I couldn’t lose the weight. I was fasting, I drank water over pop 9 times out of 10, I indulged but I was even using a calorie tracker and I was always under for the day when I actively used the app.
Fast forward to the past few weeks. I’ve been really bad. I have been drinking 1-2 sodas a day, eating fast food 1-3 times a week, drinking alcohol, letting myself snack here and there and I don’t have a gym membership anymore.
I went from 185 lbs to 168 lbs. I haven’t been this low of a weight in YEARS. I’ve staggered from 172-180 forever. I could never get the scale to read less than 172 even on days I thought I was doing well.
How could’ve this happened? Well I realized something else.
I don’t eat breakfast, I wake up every day nauseous so it takes a few hours to even crave food. I don’t eat until about 2-3pm. Then I have a dinner when my boyfriend comes home at 7-8pm. I’ll have a snack in-between just because I know I can. When we grab fast food, my portions are way smaller. I don’t get the biggest burger or multiple meals (cough cough, Taco Bell lol) I eat until I’m full and then I stop and wait 10-15 min to make sure I’m truly done eating my meal. I am a very slow eater, it takes me a while to finish a meal because I just don’t like feeling rushed.
PORTION CONTROL PEOPLE. Listen, this isn’t a post recommending to go back to fast food, or drink alcohol/soda, or stop going to the gym. It just shows that one of the first steps I SHOULD’VE MADE was portion control!!
Once you learn this concept and you get your body used to eating smaller amounts at a time, you can then learn to focus on, hey, maybe I’ll just have a soda or two on the weekend, maybe I’ll save fast food nights for 1-2 days on a weekend as a reward. Maybe I’ll stop drinking for a week or so and see how I feel. Those first steps are SO IMPORTANT to see progress.
I post this with hesitation because I have fears I’ll just revert back to the 170’s and lose progress. But seeing that new number for the first time in 2 years really made me motivated that I am capable of losing weight, nothing is wrong with me, just my mindset.
I grew up with food scarcity and only having access to junk food and soda. Encouraging good eating habits weren’t there as we were all in survival mode in that household. I remember running to my room with the brand new box of Lil’Debbie’s and eating the entire box full because I knew by tomorrow, my Dad would’ve ate it all.
This has continued subconsciously in my mind that I’m worried if I don’t take the portions I want NOW, it’ll be gone and I won’t get more. I did that a lot with my boyfriend and when we would get Domino’s. He didn’t take over and eat everything, he always let me grab what I wanted first and when he was done with his first plate, he would wait for me to finish and let him know if I wanted more. He did this not because he was asked to, because he cares about me.
I knew I didn’t have to worry about rushing to get another plate. The food just tasted so good, I wanted more even if I was full. But now? We get pizza and instead of 3 pieces of pizza to START and a handful of bread bites and several slices of cheesy bread, I start with 1 piece of pizza, some bread bites and a slice of cheesy bread. I sit and wait 5-10 min after to see if I want more. Usually I got up for another slice. But instead of eating 4-5 pieces by the end of the night, I only had 2.
Sorry for the long post, I’m just shocked how I didn’t even have to change my eating habits at first to see progress, although health and what you put into your body is VERY important. I know if I take these steps, I can get into new habits.
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