| Ultra Peanut |
12-12-2011 12:07 PM |
hello time capsule of self-improvement, how are you?
I've lost ~14 pounds since summer thanks to meticulously tracking everything I put into my body and greatly increasing my activity levels. it's been a very relaxed, uplifting process and it honestly hasn't felt like as huge an adjustment to my lifestyle as it has apparently been.
I've been in the 150s for a few weeks now and it's weird to realize I honestly only need to lose about ten more pounds to reach what I always kind of saw as my ultimate impossible goal weight. Regardless, the mid-150s seem like a great place to camp out for a while if things plateau again, and it's nice to be secure in the knowledge that as long as I keep tracking my food intake honestly* I won't float back into the 170s like every other time I started dropping a few pounds in the past few years.
Plus the exercise is addictive (missing two days in a row is the guiltiest of feelings), and having to estimate my metabolic needs using the "moderately active" modifier honestly brings me to the verge of tears. I used to feel like "sedentary" wasn't low enough to describe my daily activity.
I think I'm actually more proud of this humble amount of weight loss than I was of losing ~80 pounds via Medifast, though there's zero chance I'd have had the opportunity to do this without that first step. Also, it's harder to lose weight when estrogen's running the show, so there's a 2x multiplier over 2006. It's also funny that my size L shirts and blousethings are starting to get too tentlike, and I only have one pair of jeans that doesn't instantly fall past my hips without a belt (shame that an awesome skirt i was planning on wearing in formal-type situations was collateral damage in all of this, but oh well).
bleep bloop i am a computer. ERROR: YOUR DAILY KCAL TOTAL WILL EXCEED 2100 IF YOU EAT THIS ITEM. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CONTINUE?
/brag
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