I know everyone here is familiar with impatience to see results from hard work with exercise and budgeting, and the disappointment that follows when you aren't quite at what you thought you would be. I've kind of learned how to curb that impatience, but I still find myself being disappointed when I consider my results from everything I have achieved thus far. Today marks my 21st day since my lifestyle change. I have successfully built better habits by exercising 6x a week intermittently (5x with low intensity strength straining and 5-6x with 2 mile walking/jogging sessions), drinking 90% water (the only thing I had otherwise was 5 tall coffee frappes from starbucks at 160 cal since the 6th of Jan), and I've improved my diet. I used to eat horrible high-calorie meals from restaurants almost every night, or I'd go to a fast food restaurant, get nuggets, fries, and sweet tea, and then go to starbucks and get a caramel frappacino and a chocolate croissant almost everyday. Now I mainly eat lots of fruits and vegetables, beef jerky sticks for protein, tuna fish, nuts, et cetera. The only thing I struggle with is staying under budget (1600 cal) which I think is why i've only lost 3.1 lbs in 21 days. I know that's 1 lb per week, and it will take time to lose some weight with water retention considered, but I'm still a little sad. I know I've built much better habits with daily exercise, healthier food, and less mindless snacking, and that will eventually lead to more weight loss once I better budget my calories (that's my focus for February since exercise and water intake was my January focus), but I still want to feel like my effort is paying off physically. But I did have my Mom say my face got leaner, and a coworker randomly asked if I was trying to lose weight! :)
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