Having been 160+ my entire adult life and often 170+, my friends have really started to notice my weightloss. I often hear them make comments like "how'd you do it?!" "I wish I could do that" or generally that they have trouble losing weight or keeping it off even though they exercise and eat healthy.
Two in particular exercise a lot and eat "healthy" meals that they'll post on Instagram. But when I see these meals, I understand the problem.
You go the gym for an hour and burn 200-500 calories. You then have your healthy, post-workout breakfast of oatmeal and nuts and fruit, one or two eggs on toast with avacado, fresh juice, maybe a banana. That is 700-1000 calories! Lunch is chicken breast, but probably 10-14oz. And a large side of brown rice. And more nuts, or hummus.
Eating healthy, whole foods is amazing. But if people don't actually have a grasp on how much goes into their body compared to how little most work outs burn, it is easy to see the scale creep up instead of down.
I know counting calories doesn't jive with everyone's brains and obsessive impulses, but it has been invaluable to me. When I am honest with my behavior, the trends always reflect it in time. But if they don't ask for critiques on their current behavior, it would be so rude of me to offer it. So I hear them complain and I watch them over eat, and I try to find times to share my success in ways that might offer insight if they take it that way. But man...can anyone else relate?
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