I’ve never posted about weight loss or any adjacent topic before. And for a long time, my weight didn’t bother me—it just existed. I previously had been a competitive long distance swimmer at 135 pounds of pure cardio driven muscle. And I took that for granted.
After quitting swim, I ate little—which made me not think to why I had gained so much weight. And I finally wanted to step up and think about it. I did a week long food journal to realize my one and a half meals a day were adding up to almost 3,000kcal. Which is…. Clearly not ideal.
I kicked it into gear doing 1800kcal a day, 33/33/33 on macros, and…. Saw no progress for 3 weeks. Thought to myself, “That’s okay, that happens” and kicked it to 1700kcal for another 2 weeks— not a single pound dropped, still 160. At this point I was panicking and was in what felt like a worthless death spiral. I kept with it, no cheat days at all in regards to calories and dropped to 1500kcal.
This was a struggle for the first week, I couldn’t regulate times when I ate very well and was incredibly sluggish and ill feeling the first week. I’m thankful that this got better and now it’s just part of my schedule. So 3 weeks later, I’ve lost about 7 pounds. And I’m finally so excited to see some progress and really wanted to share— as I didn’t think it was worth sharing before when I had not lost any weight—although I had been determined, dead set, and consistent.
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