Hi All!
I wanted to make a progress post and thank all of you for your stories and posts that I've used for motivation for the last year. I appreciate all of the honesty and positivity within this group; it has kept me on track and helped maintain my journey!
I started at 221lbs (obese) and have gotten down to 171 (2lbs over overweight) using diet. I've been logging everything, including even a nibble, every day in myfitnesspal (MFP). I'm strictly maintaining a gluten-free diet (gluten intolerant) and go through phases where I do lower carb but not low or no carb. Sometimes I work on balancing macros and really tracking those in MFP. I find that I have better results within a week when I'm doing lower carb and tracking/balancing macros. A big thing for me in this journey has been addressing my emotional eating and binging which was brought on by childhood trauma as a technique to keep people away from me/let me be invisible. Now that I'm getting down into a weight where people look at me, flirt, want to engage and be friendly (they see me instead ignoring me when I was heavier), I'm having to continue addressing those traumas and self-protection tactics I've previously used (eating/being heavy). In addition to diet (primary tool), I've added indoor top rop rock climbing, couch 2 5k program, and bike commuting to work. The exercise was added to address cardiac improvement and has been great for improving my blood pressure and helping me sleep better at night. I have between 30 and 50 more lbs to lose; I've guesstimated that I'll need about a year to get to my goal weight. During this time I have goals to improve my 5k time, go up a couple grades in climbing, and train for a bike race (non-competitive for me).
Again, thank you all for your honesty, stories, being vulnerable and all of the positivity! Keep on keepin on for achieving those goals and making progress!
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