This week has been a great week in terms of victories for me. It started with a colleague of mine pointing out how much weight I had lost and making a remark about me going for a beach body. As someone that's always hated hot weather it feels great to be put in that category. I'm at the point now where I can actually see the possibility of me having a beach body, which is crazy AF to me! I still have quite a way to go but it doesn't seem so fictional anymore.
The second came earlier today when I went out in the afternoon. Usually, I dread leaving the house when the weather starts to warm up. I've always covered up with hoodies and sweats because of a lack of body confidence, and naturally when its 20-30C outside I end up sweating buckets and being uncomfortably hot. Choosing between that and showing of how fat I was through short sleeve clothing, the former was a no brainer to me. When I went out today, I put on a pair of shorts and a hooded tee. First time since I was a preteen that I've left my house in shorts. It felt great! The sun was nice, I wasn't dripping buckets of sweat (I wasn't sweating at all), the breeze was nice, and I didn't feel as self-conscious as I usual do. Still not 100% there yet with the confidence but I wasn't feeling too bad today. I've always hated summers, but this may be the first in a long time that I'm actually looking forward to it, especially if I can continue with my progress over the next few months.
The third victory came when my landlord was asking me about me having lost weight. He mentioned that he had been noticing me lose weight since I moved in and was wondering about my progress as he’d noticed it a lot more recently. He was also congratulating me on all this and even went onto share it with his friends who were in at the time. The compliment and gesture were really great morale boosters as that hasn’t happened before. It really is true that people notice you more when you’ve lost weight!
As a guy I'm not too familiar with being complemented (especially this frequently) so it's been a real boost to hear all this. I was considering having a minor cheat day this morning, but fuck that! I'll ride this high and keep going until I reach my goal. I think the biggest thing that has helped me is from the offset I decided that I wanted to lose it slowly and steadily. A lot of people choose, and are easily able, to lose the same amount of weight I have in a third of the time and it works really well for them. My issue with body weight is more of an unhealthy relationship with food so I knew I had to take it slowly. I started with a 20% calorie deficit for my current body weight and re-evaluated it every couple of months, so it was adjusted and reduced for my weight at the time. I've lost weight quickly in the past, but I still felt fat and unhealthy. Looking in pictures I was unhealthy but the other end of the spectrum. I then ended up ballooning to my start weight which is the heaviest I've ever been. Taking it slowly this time around allowed me to gradually reduce how much food I was eating and not ending up binge eating like I did the first time around. It's also allowed me to appreciate how much time and effort I've been putting into losing weight and made me not want to throw away all the effort, so binge cravings are either shot dead quickly or made up for properly in terms of CICO. Losing 1 to 2lbs a week was really hard at the start as the visual progress didn't appear for months, but it really has been worth several months down the line. I'm a lot more invested this time around than I was the first, so I think it'll play a key role in helping me keep the weight off.
The only negative in all of this is that I usually wear winter clothes year-round, but now that I feel more comfortable, I'll be wearing summer clothes so I'm going to need to buy two new wardrobes worth of clothes. I'm not too mad about it right now as I’m still losing, but by Christmas my bank account will be cursing under the sun.
To anyone that is just starting out or has only been losing it for a short amount of time: If you don't see the physical progress or scale progress right away, try not to let it discourage you. Keep through it and you'll start to see all the benefits. Even if it's a slow progress, it'll be no time before you get to your target, wonder where all the time went, and never want to look back.
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