Hard to believe that this was just one year ago. Slacked off over the year and I’m back to zero 😭 Time to get into shape 💪
Diet time again
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@beko just had to pull the emergency brake again watching my kcal intake for a week very closely again. Cliché I know but it's really time to fix this.
@beko I feel this deeply ☹️
@bekopharm @beko Good luck!
My weakness is any snacks. The only way to definitely not eat them is to not have them in the house. Then I end up eating loads of the "fruit and fibre" cereal I buy for breakfast… but at least I'm getting a decent amount of fibre that way, right ? To be honest the main problem is a combination of evening meal being the largest of the day and then not sufficiently engaging my brain in the later evening.
After losing over 15kg quickly in a few months back in 2018 I now bounce around a ~5kg range (being cagey mostly in case anyone reading this has triggers from such… I'm still officially overweight, especially with respect to waist size, but around 23 BMI, for what that's worth).
@AthanSpod @beko can relate. Trying to endure Yazio (app) again. Logging everything helps 😀
@bekopharm @beko Oh yes! My original big weight loss was with the help of MyFitnessPal, as it meant I could log all food so as to actually know both my calorie intake and if I was still keeping up on micronutrients.
I was down to counting individual biscuits (UK, not US) at one point!
Presumably you've also found that diet control alone isn't enough, you do need some regular exercise too (and vice versa, exercise alone won't help).
Also, I managed to keep the mindset of "weigh every day, but only look at longer term trends, don't stress going up/down by up to 1kg day to day". Water weight, timing of bowel movements etc all make it too noisy over anything shorter than a week.
@AthanSpod @beko heh, guess I'm good there. Weighting ~once a month if at all 😆
@bekopharm @beko That feels like inviting some "eek!" weigh-ins if they happen to be on a 'bad' day of the month. I definitely prefer to have more data and train the discipline to assess it sensibly.
Having gained 2kg over the Xmas period I also know that only monthly would definitely be inviting "oops, I actually did snack too much, now I have 3 months of work to get that off again".
But now I'm starting to sound (too) preachy, I'll shut up 🙂 .