I'm a 17 yr old girl sitting at 162 lbs walking a minimum of two miles a day for exercise and four just to get around. My knees feel great, my back stopped hurting, and I've dropped from an extra large to a small in my shirts (all old-navy, so a low-end medium in most places).
I tried loseit alone one year ago (2015) with not much success. I lost about 8 lbs or so, but eventually fell off the wagon. I didn't find any accountability with myself, and because I have a health condition that doesn't allow me to exercise easily, I made excuses left and right as to why eating bad was okay just that day or why it would *all work out *. I was lying to myself, and by the end of the year I'd given up completely, putting me at 182 lbs. I had hit rock bottom.
Then I started using the fitbit I had sitting in my desk for a year. I'd like to make it clear that this is in no way an ad for the product, because a dollar-tree speedometer would've done the same thing for me, just with a little bit more tracking involved :). I put it on, and did whatever it said. I followed the calorie count to the ticket, and if I found myself twenty calories over at 11:30 pm I paced my room until it went back down. If it said I hadn't eaten enough, I ate more.
And although it isn't a shocker, I lost what feels like a miracle's worth of weight.
I know, personally, that my relationship with food is uncontrollable and incredibly unhealthy. Once I finally just acknowledged that, and accepted the fact that it will be years before I can even safely think about taking this band off of my wrist, I finally stopped making excuses and just did it.
Being a teen, it was pretty hard to stop social eating. For example, every Friday my English class holds a potluck, with pizza, fried foods, and liters upon liters of soda. But I realized that I can still socially eat... as long as I keep the consequences in mind. A slice of pizza means either no lunch, or a half-hour walk later to allow me dinner. Instead of going out to Panda Express I went to Panera. Instead of ice cream parlors, I filled up a gift-card to a tea shop.
The main change in me, to others, would be that I make "healthier" decisions. I'd like to put that myth to rest, because I make terrible decisions still. Instead, I just follow the app to the tee, and the healthy decisions have followed. I still love food more than... well, most things... but I gave over control of my food to an impartial third party that I know I can trust.
I don't know how you all do when it comes to meeting your goal. Maybe you're the type who can maintain those healthy eating habits you've developed without Loseit telling you as much. But if you're like me, you can't. You can't trust yourself to make the right decisions, so the best option is to switch your meal plan from "lose" to "maintain".
tl;dr: Eventually for some, Loseit needs to be switched to Maintainit, because will power doesn't appear out of nowhere.
progress pics: http://ift.tt/21YP7B9 . I know the old one isn't flattering at all, but it's the only one I could find of me at my heaviest that was full body. I was camera shy to say the least.
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