Hey everyone. Started at 230, my goal weight is about 165. I'm a 5'11" 20 year old male. I've been at this a little over a month now and I've only been weighing myself about once a week at the most since I don't have a scale at the moment. I've just been tracking calories trying to stay around 1800kcal a day. For my needs that seems to be a healthy number to stay at. My biggest problem was just snacking I've realized, and I've noticed how much I ate without even thinking about it. It was like eating was just a subconscious background activity. Anyway, like I said the good news is I'm down about 8 pounds. When I was able to weigh myself yesterday I was 222. When I had just been going up consistently for I honestly don't even know how long it's nice to see that number go down a little bit. And it's nice to see that I guess my efforts have at least been working through how much it has sucked to log every bite that goes into my mouth and deny myself so much of the food I've wanted all this time.
The discouraging part for me is just realizing how long this will take. I know ultimately it's a lifelong mindset anyway but to get to the point of looking how I want to could easily take well over a year, and that's if I continue at the rate I've been going at so far, which I know isn't particularly likely. This amount of work and dedication for that long seems impossible, and that's just getting to my goal weight. I basically have to do this same thing plus maybe a couple hundred calories for literally forever to stay the weight I want to be. The thought of analyzing my food this closely for the rest of my life just seems daunting at this point.
Anyway, thanks for reading if you've gotten this far.
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