Sat, Jul-18-15, 05:53
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Senior Member
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Plan: EF/Fung IDM/keto
Stats: 375/225.4/175
BF:
Progress: 75%
Location: NE Florida
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<Sigh>, when you are a TDCer 15 pounds here or there is probably more like a drop in the bucket.
When I first decided I had to do something about my weight I was close to 400 pounds. At that weight you can't even comprehend what it is to be "normal". Even my doctor didn't expect "normal". She merely said if I could just get below 300 it would be a huge improvement for me.
But when you are starting at 375+ even getting below 300 seems like a monumental undertaking. And of course when you start you want to see results *instantly*. Losing 5 or 10 or 15 pounds was as nothing, and got me discouraged at first. I found myself thinking "this is going to take me YEARS, and I want to see results NOW".
But what finally helped me get my head around it was saying to myself, "Well whether I work on changing my WOE or not the years are still going to pass anyway, so in five years do I still want to be almost 400 pounds? Or do I want to be somewhat lower?"
That mindset helped me take a longer view, which is something we TDCers have to accept. Not for us the crash diet to fit into our "skinny"dress for a party next weekend. Not for us the "get ready for bathing suit weather" beginning in early June.
So time will pass anyway, and won't it be nicer to be thinner then? What Mrs. K said above was totally true. For 40-50 pounds I really felt no different, even my clothes didn't really feel different, and I had not even dropped down into a smaller size. But almost overnight, at about the 50-pound mark, a bunch of people suddenly began noticing and asking me if I had lost weight.
Same with me, I "suddenly" noticed one day that a friend looked a bit thinner and asked if she had lost weight, and turned out she was down 35 pounds. I saw her every week at church, but never noticed until that point. And I got a lot of new clothes out of it as I was about the size then to fit into her "big" clothes and she gave a bunch to me.
It's still a struggle every day. Heck, my CURRENT weight is about your starting weight as per your stats, but I still have hope. Right now I've started on an alternate day eating plan and it seems to be working really well so far. Good luck!
Even though I'm still obese I've managed to keep 25-30% of my starting weight off for nearly 6 years which puts me ahead of over 95% of the people who go on diets, so I keep telling myself I'm not a total failure even though my goal still eludes me!
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