My weight loss journey.

Hi Steemit,

Since I was a young teenager I have been overweight. Generally not a little overweight, quite overweight. I remember sitting in most of my classes in primary school on the first day of the year, looking around and thinking; "yep, I am the fattest person in the class."

Over the years as I grew in age, my waist grew in size. I am not one of those people that try and make excuses like a medical issue or something like that. Poor life choices led me to be where I am. Now I know I am not the biggest person around and that things could be much worse, however, it was time for a change.

My partner had always been good at dieting and creating meal plans, so we talked about what we wanted and set goals for ourselves. We made meal plans, food budgets and discussed cutting down or cutting our certain things in our lives. You may have read my post about quitting smoking, this was one of the changes we made. We knew it was going to be tough trying to lose weight and quit smoking at the same time would be difficult but we wanted to give this our best shot. We downloaded the My Fitness Pal app to keep track of our calories and off we went. There have been ups and downs but we are making good progress, progress that I wanted to share with the Steemit community.

The first thing that I needed to cut out was my daily energy drink and nearly daily breakfast. Every morning before work I would grab myself a Mother (energy drink) and sometimes a bacon and egg roll from the cafe downstairs from work. I loved these mornings, I would sit down there with my friends and talk about absolute nonsense. What made the instant transition from having these delicacies to not having them was the fact that my friends wanted to start being healthier as well. So, instead of sitting downstairs, eating, drinking and smoking we would just sit out the front and talk which was still nice.

For the first week or two of my diet I was constantly hungry. I was having around 600 to 800 calories per day, I was constantly told by everyone around me that this was far too low. Everyone was offering their advice, no root vegetables, starvation mode, drink water, go on this diet and go on that diet. Despite all of this, my mind was and is set on calories in calories out. I feel like the art of losing weight is made complicated by companies on purpose. Why? Well if diets are complicated and they don't work, someone moves on to another diet or buys part 2 of a diet. I could be wrong but that is my thought process.

My partner and I decided that we didn't want to have this diet consume our whole lives. By this I mean if we went to a family function or out for dinner we weren't going to be stressing about what we could eat and what we couldn't eat. We would attempt to make better choices than we had before and still make sure we enjoyed ourselves food wise. We also decided to pause our diet over the Christmas and New Years period because we knew that there would be way too many events and way too much temptation. We knew that if we didn't pause the diet and caved, we would beat ourselves up and go back to not caring.

Well Christmas and New Years is well and truly over and that means it is time to back jump on the horse and continue with my journey.

So far, I have lost 8KG, over the Christmas and New Years break I gained 2KG back. I feel that this is still a great achievement. I feel better, my clothes fit better and people say they notice a slight change. I know that this will take time, a bit like Steemit will. However, also like Steemit I am in this for the long haul.

Feel free to stick around and continue this journey with me. I will be posting updates to my weight loss journey weekly. I will be sharing how much weight I have lost and what sorts of foods I have eaten. I can even share some recipes if that is something that people would like to see.