6 months of hitting the gym, ~40 lbs down. Halfway there!
In the middle of July 2018, I finally got a gym membership. I’d been in a new city for a year, gotten a desk job, and put back on the 30 lbs I lost in grad school. I also was applying for a military job (didn’t get it but that’s fine), so that was my kick start to lose weight and be active.
Starting stats: 24f, 6’0”, ~255 lbs, sedentary af Current: 25f, 6’0”, 214.1, hitting the gym 3-4x a week And the progress pic bc we know that’s what you’re here for: https://imgur.com/gallery/cUW2WEJ. (Edit: sorry if this wasn’t common sense, the too pictures are the “after” ones. My bad y’all.)
I was always a chubby kid. I sat on the couch all day and drank sodas like water. I developed a passion for cooking and baking, and with it, eating and eating and eating. I dealt with a lot of self-loathing throughout high school. Then when I got to college, something switched. I started joking to myself and my friends about how cute I was, and then I started to believe it. I started to learn to love myself, to love my body and all that it has gotten me through. I got on a medication that caused severe depression about halfway through undergrad, and I stayed on that med and didn’t do anything about it until April 2018 when that med ran out, and I didn’t have insurance the re-up my scrip. Suddenly, the fog lifted. I had so much energy, it was unreal. I did end up at a clinic that month, weighing in at 256 lbs. I was disappointed, because in grad school, I went to a clinic, weighed in at 262 lbs, and decided that was it, and lost 30 lbs through CICO. I was so disappointed to have gained it all back. So I started again.
I started going to the gym, walking on the elliptical and doing the weight machines I knew how to do. I kept eating as I had been, not too terribly bad nutritionally, but just in great excess, and with a ton of sugar. Slowly, I started tracking my food again with MyFitnessPal. I started meal prepping again. My meal prep game has gotten STRONG y’all. I joined reddit during my down time at work. This sub has given me so much inspiration, information, and gotten me back on track several times, so thank you. I just have to say, I would not have gotten this far if I hadn’t learned to love myself first, and if I hadn’t had the inspiration of friends and strangers alike who have learned to love themselves enough to treat their body well. I think that’s what made the biggest difference in making it all stick for once.
My current goal is to get under 200 lbs (I literally can’t remember the last time I weighed even what I do now honestly), and then into the normal BMI range, around 180. Most of the work is really in what I eat. I started around 1800 calories a day, then slowly lowered it. I played around with 1200-1300 a day for a couple months but that is sooo not enough for someone my height. Don’t do that guys, it’s dangerous. Now I’m back up to a decent 1500 a day. December didn’t hit me too hard, I lost a couple pounds, but I’ve been bouncing around the 2-teens for what seems like forever now. I’m getting my eating back in check and hope to make great strides in SVs in the next 6 months. As for the gym, I run for about 20 minutes on the elliptical and then do a weight training circuit that a gymnastics coach friend of mine wrote me. I now have a goal of taking aerial fitness classes, hopefully by the end of the year. I never want my body to hold me back from anything ever again. From here on out, we work together.
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