https://ift.tt/2JqcQmE Goal Weight Achievement Unlocked
Hey all, so I reached my goal weight that I set a few years back when I started on this journey, it's officially 80 pounds down from 255 to 175. It took me a few years to do but I am hoping that because of that fact that it is something that sticks, I am pretty sure it will since I am determined to never be that big again. Well little intro out of the way i guess it's time to explain.
So, the story begins a number of years before I finally decided to lose weight, I had sunk into a depression and for most of my twenties and a chunk of my thirties I was on medication for it which I never really felt worked but it was probably better than nothing at the time. Well 10 years of depression destroyed my body, self esteem, self confidence, and other self stuff? So through talking to someone I finally came out of my funk enough to decided to get off of my medication and deal with it a different way which has worked for me so far. I knew I was fat, I hated myself both physically and mentally, after fixing the mental part I started looking at myself differently. One morning while looking in the mirror something in my brain finally clicked (Cliche!) and I said out loud to myself, what the fuck have you done to yourself? (pardon the language but that's what I said).
Right around that time I had started cruising reddit and came across the r/loseit boards, it was amazing surfing and seeing so much love and support from complete strangers, it was overwhelming, but what really clicked for me was seeing people's progress pictures. I had always laughed at commercials that had before and afters, even if they were real I never really took them seriously because those were trying to sell me something, but here seeing real people with real results was such a huge inspiration that I started looking at a lot of the information on the board and changing the way I ate.
Starting out slowly, I cut out fast food, pop, and junk food, and just doing that I lost about 40 pounds in 5 months. After stalling for awhile I got into the r/keto board, and I found the same kind of support and inspiration as the loseit board. Doing this for awhile I was able to lose another 40 pounds to get to where I am today. I haven't been this weight in 20 years, since I was in high school, it still sounds weird saying that but there it is.
A few things I have learned and am still learning are a lot of the same things people have expressed in their own success stories: I look at food differently than I used to, I ate basically out of boredom i found for the most part, food is just fuel now, drinking lots of water keeps it that way, as I said above going slowly i think has instilled these new habits in me and I am going to try my damnedest to keep to them. Something I am learning now, which I suspected awhile ago, losing a lot of weight is not a cure all for your problems in your life, I am really proud of myself, but I am afraid I have some deep seeded issues that I still have to deal with or else this will all have been for naught. If you have mental/emotional issues and hope weight loss will fix it, it will not, please treat it as an issue just as important as weight loss and fix it at the same time because you don't want to be done and wonder why things aren't really different.
Ok this is getting too long so one piece of advice I will give that others have given, TAKE A DAMN BEFORE PHOTO, I DON'T CARE IF YOU HATE IT, DO IT, HIDE IT ON YOUR COMPUTER SOMEWHERE! I tried multiple times and I couldn't hold onto them because of the self loathing, I wished I would have, the before picture I have I had to dig for, I don't even think it was at my heaviest, and it looks like shit. Well sorry for the long post, I want to thank everyone on the loseit and keto boards for being so amazing in their support and inspiration, you are all amazing people. And now because for some reason I can't post the picture as the title, I will put it here, I will also try up there but it might not work. https://imgur.com/Y9QFbLY
Edit: that link is in the title and I can't get rid of it now lol, oh well
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