the last few times i tried counting calories, i gave up after about a week. i've been vegetarian for the past 6 years and live a 12-hour flight away from my home country, in a place where every new bar code i scan requires me to manually enter nutritional information. a place where i don't know a lot of the components of various local dishes, or can't find different ingredients because i don't know the english names etc. i ate out a lot and felt super deprived and had a hard time telling what my body needed because fat bodies are pathological liars and will do anything to convince you that you need more food than you actually do.
this time has been different. i started counting on the 4th of last month (technically tried IF again in early december, but went on holiday to visit my family for two weeks + allowed myself to eat anything and everything) and have since tried to eat at home exclusively just to make counting easier. i cook SO much more than i did before. i don't really snack throughout the day and only eat what snacks i have calories leftover for at the end of each day. about two weeks ago i got a treadmill and every day since then i've worked out for either 30 minutes or an hour at 5km/h (~3.2mph). shortly after starting exercise i felt good, but also hungry and a bit more tired. now on days when i exercise for an hour i give myself an extra 100 calories on top of the 1200 i typically allow myself. that's been working well for me.
but the past few days, i've been eating away from home more than i'd like. my husband and i had mexican food a few nights ago, and i logged as much as i could in the middle of the meal and added an extra "200 cal" entry just as a buffer. last night we went to visit some of his nearby family for new year reunion dinner where i ate a whole bunch of local food i knew the general ingredients of but had a hard time finding listings for. i did my best, but i really don't like not being able to input direct information from packaging into the app, and i know there are probably going to be more meals like this coming up for us over the course of this week. fortunately we did bring our own store-bought dumplings, since i recently went vegan and didn't want to make my in-law's lives needlessly complicated during what was supposed to be a nice family dinner (they very graciously boiled them for us and everybody really liked them - score!). so i was at least able to log the calories for those accurately, haha.
and i've just lately been feeling upset about it, a little anxious, a little worried, because i hate not knowing and i know that's what threw me off the last few times i tried to do this. i got really discouraged because i didn't know if i was eating too much and merely convincing myself that it was fine, or if i was eating too little and could actually indulge a few of my cravings here and there. i'm only a month back into counting so it's still a new change and i'm just trying to remain vigilant and not let my guard down; i really don't want to f*** it up this time.
but i woke up this morning another pound lighter than yesterday. my CC app congratulated me for finally losing a full 15lbs.
i must be doing something right. :)
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