All is said in the title, I just wanted to make a little celebration post for myself as I've been on this sub for a while now!! Long story short, I worked on getting rid of My ED, picked workouts I loved, taught myself about nutrition and Intuitive Eating and did CICO! [F29, 5'4, from 66kg to 56kg today!]
(For the long version, I got into food as a teen as a mean to cope with emotional issues and developed bulimia. I'd been on and off diets trying to lost weight without really knowing what I was doing nor paying attention to my nutrition. I was always in the healthy BMI range, just touched overweight for a bit, but unhappy with my body and how it looked, and those 10kg make a huge difference in my appearance. In 2018 I moved to the US and gained 5kg in just about 2 months, which sent me to the pits of bulimia. At some point, I realized I couldn't do it anymore and I wanted to get out of it. Came 2019/2020, I moved back to Europe and started working out more seriously, but it wasn't until a burn out in 2021, and seeing a therapist that I really started to dig. I decided that 2021 would be the year to get over my ED. I stopped dieting completely and for a while, and asked for help from my therapist to get to the root cause. I decided to re-learn to eat with intuitive eating, listening to my satiety cues and working with a PT to make my workouts more effective. I taught myself not just macros but nutrition, and picked up IF so I could re-learn what hunger was supposed to feel like and to teach myself it is OK to be hungry for a bit. It took a while, and I regained a bit of weight, but to my shock that summer I felt a lot better in my body and despite not restricting myself, I didn't balloon back like I feared. My body stabilised at a weight it was okay and since I know listened to satiety, I didn't eat and gained more. The last part (2022 to now) was getting to the gym with objectives to lose fat and maintain muscle but also become a runner. I love running but my Cardio was shit. I didn't stress out my CICO, just stuck to it most of the time and would take time to be 'OK' if I binged a bit. The weight just came off gradually. I'd do 'blind' weeks not counting calories, just my hunger cues, and pay attention to my cycle or emotions to analyse when I overate and why. Recently, I reached a plateau at 57, but I realized it wasn't a plateau, it was my body getting comfortable at this. For proof, I overate with a friend last week (PMS+Visiting my home country), and after gaining 1.5kg in the weekend, it fell right back down in 2 days of getting back. And today, the scale announced 10kg lost!!)
My objective is just to stabilise around that weight, become a better runner, support my friend trying to meet their objectives too, and enjoy my summer. Thanks if you've read all that!! :)
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/14igrzx/it_took_me_5_years_to_lose_10kg/
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