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On 3/7/2025 at 6:44 PM, MichiganCardinal said:

I’ve battled weight my whole life, lots of yo-yoing. It was psychological hell in the latter part of 2024, where I was stuck in this vicious mental cycle where I wanted so badly to lose weight but couldn’t get past the mental block of thinking it was just too much and I was incapable.

Finally, October 18, 2024, I started calorie counting. I can’t tell you why that date, I just took the step. I didn’t tell anyone, not even my girlfriend of two years, for a month.

I joined a local CrossFit gym in December, and it absolutely Kicked. My. Ass. But I kept going back.

I was 312.4 on 10/18. As of this morning I’m 260.6. Down 51.8 pounds. I’m not sure my end goal, but I do think saying I lost 100 pounds would be cool.

I’ve told a few people. Thought I would share here. 🙂 

Counting calories is the best way to lose weight because you kind of treat it like money. You establish a goal, which acts like a bank, and you feel as though you can’t go into debt by going over your calorie count. I felt like that, any way.

I also weigh everything I eat at home on a gram scale before I eat it. I don’t trust my eyes to help me moderate. 

[MichiganCardinal]

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

Counting calories is the best way to lose weight because you kind of treat it like money. You establish a goal, which acts like a bank, and you feel as though you can’t go into debt by going over your calorie count. I felt like that, any way.

I also weigh everything I eat at home on a gram scale before I eat it. I don’t trust my eyes to help me moderate. 

It's counterintuitive, but I've found I can still have some fast food (Wendy's and Taco Bell in particular), as long as I'm still tracking. Those are actually easier than the mom and pop places that don't tell you calories because then I'm just guessing (and probably poorly).

I do Home Chef for most dinners though, which in the same way tells me how many calories I'm taking in.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

It's counterintuitive, but I've found I can still have some fast food (Wendy's and Taco Bell in particular), as long as I'm still tracking. Those are actually easier than the mom and pop places that don't tell you calories because then I'm just guessing (and probably poorly).

I do Home Chef for most dinners though, which in the same way tells me how many calories I'm taking in.

No matter how much weight you have to lose, you should always allow yourself one cheat day per week in which you get to eat what you want and don’t count the calories. It’s a great carrot to make getting hit by the stick more palatable—it’s good for your mental state. Of course, this works only if you are religious the other six days of the week. If you backslide a second day, that will blow everything up.

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