Hey all!
So long story short, I changed my diet back in November of last year to a combination of flexitarian content and calorie counting. In addition to all this I've been going to the gym 4 days per week consistently, doing a combination of cardio and ab exercises. From November to April I successfully dropped a total of 20lbs; this was a huge accomplishment considering the last time I lost decent weight was doing low carb and that was a very low point with regards to my mental health (physically I was doing great, mentally I basically lost all sense of joy with that diet). Mid April I had an unrelated necessary surgery that limited me to liquids for a solid two-ish weeks; I dropped another 10lbs which left me absolutely ecstatic. Shortly after recovery I had some out of town travelling to do, during which time I not only put the 10lbs back but have been fighting a fluctuating 5lbs the last two weeks.
What this post boils down to is: how do you personally regain inspiration once you've gone backwards or plateaued in your journey? 5lbs isn't much compared to the overall progress I've made but part of me is tired of seeing the number stay the same, go up 1lb, go down 1lb. I'm eating the same as I was before my surgery (this is a lifestyle change, not a diet. I've had enough experience with diets to know I don't want everything to come back the moment I stop eating a certain way), getting back into the gym as I was before (adding squats to the equation because my shoulder is a bit messed up so can't do anything with my arms), but progress has been absent since my return to normal schedule. I don't intend to stop trying, I really don't want to go back up even if I haven't lost as much as I'm aiming for, but this constant back and forth is wearing on me for sure.
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/v07k03/progress_lack_of_progress_determined_but_a_bit/
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