Saturday, March 12, 2016

SV: First flair update after a month of struggle + tiny little things that changed

I'm doing it! I'm doing the thing! I can't believe this is happening. My weight is going down.

I started two months ago, but for the first month, I didn't own a scale. Now I do, and I've been tracking my weight for 30 days. It was so frustrating to see my weight fluctuate like crazy over the month. I think it was mainly due to water retention, given that I started a weight lifting program that is more intense than what my body is used to. My weight trend curve on Libra is all over the place but I'm on the right track. I hope to lose 2 or 3 additional pounds by the end of March.

I don't know if I can trust my scale because it says I have a BF% of 23 and it seems very, very low. My body looks more like a 28-30% BF body.

I am 21F / 5'7'' / SW 156 / CW 151 / GW 130. I do HIIT cardio twice a week, weight training 4 times a week. I bike to go wherever I need to go (on average 30 mn of biking a day, at minimum) and I do self-guided yoga every day to improve my flexibility and balance. Some TDEE calculators give me TDEE as low as 1900/2000, some others go as high as 2600. I concluded that I'm somewhere around 2300 so I eat around 1300/1400 calories a day.

There are things I started noticing as I began to lose weight (slowly, but still):

  • my skin is dry and itchy. It's crazy how dry it is, it's never been like this before.

  • I'm cold! I'm so cold! All the fat that dropped probably came from superficial layers close to the skin surface because now I'm cold as hell.

  • I sleep better. Maybe it's only due to the exercise? I don't know.

  • I'm fearless in the gym. I was so self-conscious before. Now the weight on the scale is down and the weight on the barbell is up; I bench press like no tomorrow and I stare at people if they make eye-contact when I do weighted glute bridges. I didn't stop myself so far so no one can.

I couldn't have started without you guys. This sub is fantastic, thank you so much fellow losers!

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