tl;dr i haven't lost weight. pretty sure i've lost a fair bit of fat though
i lost a lot of weight in a very short period. at the very least 100lbs in 4 months. i checked in with the doctor regularly to make sure i wasn't destroying my body. he thought that level of weight loss was fine. considering my diet, exercise routine, and the amount i weighed
after that though i stopped losing weight. i've been fluctuating around 400lbs for 4 months now. i felt dejected and defeated. i kept trying new things. kept changing things up. nothing helped. something weird starting happening last week though that leads me to believe the scale isn't the be all as a fat loss metric
i found i was defacating on the back of the seat when i went to the bathroom. i couldn't for the life of me figure out how it was happening. do to issues i have to urinate sitting down. i have to distance myself from the front of the toilet seat. otherwise the urine streams out between the crack separating the seat from the bowl. i normally do that by slightly touching my butt up against the lid. after struggling for week to figure out what the issue was i finally realized my butt just isn't big enough any more
it hit me. people keep telling me i'm losing weight. i haven't been believing them. the scale shows i haven't. i've always trusted the scale as the last authority in whether i've lost weight. never realizing i'm not out to lose weight. i'm out to lose fat
in those 4 months i have gone from walking a average of 5 miles a day to at least 10. i burn 7,000 calories a day. i eat about the same amount. as much as i struggled i couldn't overcome my cravings any more. i'm still working on it. my two biggest issues now are eating healthy while getting in a massive amount of calories, and wearing through more shoes then i can afford
i found that eating healthy i just don't get in nearly as many calories as when i just eat whatever. i should likely explain my version of eating healthy. low processed naturally occurring foods. not exclusively. just the vast majority of what i ate was that. i had trouble eating over 2,000 calories when i was doing that. i would even have one meal a day where i skipped all that to get within the calorie range i had set. which was my downfall. as that was as much do to cravings as needing the calories i never really learned effective coping mechanisms to combat the cravings
as for shoes, this month has been horrible. i spent $200US on a new pair of shoes. i was hoping they would last and be better then the dollar store shoes i had been wearing. they didn't even last a week. now walking in them just a mile puts my feet in excruciating pain. i bought two pairs of dollar store shoes to replace them. one of those is already showing signs of to much wear. most recently i bought a pair of hiking boots from a thrift store. those are showing promise. i'm to afraid to wear them all the time though. thinking i should save them for snow and rain. all together i've spent $250US on footwear this month. that is not sustainable. i'm on a fixed income. hoping i can find enough shoes to keep up with demand, and that i can afford to buy them when i do find them
that was a bit of a ramble. anyways, yesterday i did my first set of measurements. going to stop worrying about progress on the scale as long as there is progress. especially work against that craving for losses like those first ones. i would vastly appreciate input, thanks
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