Week one was a success

This is an update post that should hopefully help me stay on track and help reluctant people start.

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I started last week on Saturday. I am 22F and my starting weight was fluctuating between 189 and 187 (but mostly 189, 187 was a rare occurance in some mornings). I am now at 185. I weighted myself a couple of times a day which sounds a bit excessive but I found it helpful because it made me less worried if I saw the scale go up since I realized it was probably normal and not scary at all.

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For my first week my goal was to get into the habit of tracking my calories and try to keep them under 1500. I mostly succeeded (I had a birthday party on the weekend that was inevitably going to mess up my progress but I don´t think I did a bad job overall). I had two days over 1500kcal - one of them was the beforementioned birthday where I managed to keep it at 2000kcal and the other was a hangout with one of my friends and I didn´t go over 1700kcal then either. I also tried out IF - again, I only messed up there 2 times. I found it very helpful - without the breakfast I could have two bigger meals and a decent snack in between and I didn´t feel hungry at all. My last goal for this week was to drink enough water which I also managed to do.

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I decided to follow a similar easy plan this week as well and try to build up more habits as I go. Now that I have gotten into the habit of tracking, I want to make sure most of my meals are home cooked and mostly healthy. I also want to make sure I do some sport three times this week since I noticed most of my progress came after my dancing class last week. This week I will also start tracking my measurements and taking some progress pictures.

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Some other positive changes I incorporated are:

• I picked up my old photography hobby and deliberately tried to walk more because of it so I can get some cool nature shots.
• I went to the supermarket on foot. This is about a twenty minute walk every other day and it feels like nothing. I want to walk more in general so I thought that was a good start to building that habit.
• I made sure that most of my snacks were fruits and vegitables.

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Overall I am happy with my progress and hope to do even better next week.

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