Usually when someone sends me a picture of me I feel like I look way bigger than the other people on the picture and I secretly hate it. This is partly because I'm 175 cm and a woman and I don't have a very slender built, so if I stand next to basically any other woman who isn't Dutch, I look like a giant. I my mind I'm only slightly taller than average but when I look at a picture I can't deny I'm apparently really tall, so there is quite a big difference in how I view myself and what I actually look like.
A few days ago I was at a conference talking to some people about my project and someone snapped a picture and sent it to me. And holy shit, I looked skinny! For the first time in my life I was genuinely happy with how I looked! And for the first time I could really see how much weight I lost, especially since I'd come across some pictures of me at my heaviest just a few days earlier.
I haven't done any hardcore CICO, though I did try to count my calories for a while and mostly stuck with eating much smaller servings. I have also cut out added sugar, and sugar in general mostly (stemginger on pancakes is still too good to cut out completely, but luckily it isn't (readily) available in the country where I live). Although I think the main reason I lost the weight is because I'm much happier with my life in general as I have a job that I love and I'm more active than before so it's easier to make the effort to eat healthier. I'm no longer actively trying to lose more weight, but this was the first picture of me where I could really see what a difference those 12 - 13 kilos made. :)
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