I can’t seem to find the time to maintain consistency. Do you consider it your full-time job? What has helped make things easier?
I had my baby in 2017 and continued to gain weight since then. I was solely breastfeeding my infant for 8 months, so I assumed my body need the same amount of nutrients. I would also indulge in comfort eating the incorrect foods on occasion. The weight just kept growing. Many of my family would make comments about my weight, which made me quite upset. I came to the conclusion that enough was enough and that I needed to take action! I met a wonderful lady in my local mothers’ group who informed me about a boot camp she was organising and asked if I was interested. I figured I would give it a try because I had
I have done this twice. The initial goal was to lose weight, and the second is to gain muscle and hopefully decrease fat along the way.
I discovered that performing the simplest possible thing (read: boring) was the best method for me. I’d exercise for 30-45 minutes a day and eat almost the same thing every day, enabling myself to go over my calorie allowance 2-3 times per month.
What helped the most was tracking my food consumption (mainly calories) and ensuring that it was far lower than what kept me at my current weight. For me, that meant consuming approximately 2200 calories when 2900 kept me stable.
I’m not going to lie, this was a chore. I’d jot things down in a notes app, continually fail to track them, and struggle to recall what I ate.
Now it’s even more difficult because I’m trying to track both calories and protein.
But do not give up! It’s a long path, but it’s worthwhile.
It’s a pivot on life and restart the way you do things the way you eat
Its a lifestyle bud
Once you have the process down its easy to cruise control and lose 1-2 lbs a week
I feel like a person who has never had a job in their entire life tries to work a part-time job.
When you prioritise your health and change your lifestyle for the long term it just becomes how you live life now and it comes second nature. If you approach it as just a temporary thing to order to shed a few pounds before you go back to your old ways, then it is going to be harder to stick to.
Definitely.
Logging and tracking food, getting all my daily steps in & training, it’s hard work but very rewarding.
Oh fat, my old adversary. Our past is long and full of wrong decisions.
It all starts with me, an overweight fifteen-year-old, coming off of a breakup with his maybe-sort-of-but-not-really internet lover. Amid this earth-shattering catastrophe, he resolved to stop being so miserably obese. He began by going to the gym and eating less. Genius, I know.
But that wasn’t enough for me, a hefty fifteen-year-old. Soon, he became infatuated. He needed to remove the fat. In a furnace of sweat and blood, he had to reinvent himself. Naturally, he ceased eating all but one fairly large meal a day, while lifting, walking to and from every key destination in his life, and performing Shaun T’s Insanity. His progress was astounding, dropping weight at a rate that could have almost been extremely healthy.
I weighed 245 pounds, wore 36 waist trousers, and felt really uncomfortable when I had to take off my clothes. I was unable to do a single pull-up. And I was just eating and eating…
Now I weigh 160 pounds and am completely jacked (it can be difficult to locate trousers for me because I wear a 29 waist size).
I call it transformation. It isn’t only how I look. It is how I feel, and what I believe I am capable of.
I felt like I had reached my life’s ceiling and was surrounded by unseen walls. Now I believe that if you work hard enough, you can achieve practically anything.
It’s definitely something that’s always on my mind; to be honest, I haven’t fully cracked it yet; I’ve lost a significant amount of weight thus far, but breaking old patterns has proven to be challenging.
It takes a lot of mental work to stay away from snacks and sweet delights and truly keep to the deficit, but I’ve gotten used to how my body operates, avoiding eating until I’m completely stuffed and finding ways to suppress hunger until my next meal.
It feels like it. I plan, prepare, and cook all of my meals, go grocery shopping every 2-3 days, and walk for 3-4 hours every day. I used to lift weights, but I’m not doing so right now owing to an injury. I reached my ideal weight in roughly 18 months after shedding 165 pounds.
Nope. However, it is one of many things I do in addition to my full-time work lol. Thinking about it adds to my exhaustion from education, travel, work, family time, social life, fitness, and so on.
Almost exactly. I recently decided to restart biking to burn calories, however I am the only car in my household. Furthermore, my wife has epilepsy, so simply going on a bike ride with her is stressful and unhelpful to weight loss. I, too, am feeling stuck, so you are not alone. Just be as consistent as possible, and you’ll get there.
I’ve lost nearly a decade of weight believing it was difficult and stressful; I wish I’d known from the start that I needed to be consistent and count my calories accurately.