I made a new year’s resolution this year to lose weight. I started at 265 at the beginning of the year. I have been making a lot of changes to my lifestyle, and I’ve been working really hard and very slowly losing weight. I am at 246 today, and I feel like my progress isn’t good enough. I spent 10 months really trying, and for what? Not even twenty pounds? I don’t really feel or look a lot different. I put in so much work and I feel really discouraged from continuing. How do you keep going? I feel like I’ll never get to a healthy weight.
Do you know how much volume 19 pounds of fat is? That’s a shit ton of fat! Go look at a 19 pounds turkey and then double or triple the volume because turkey muscle and bone is a lot denser than fat. That’s how much you’ve lost! The most you can lose healthily is 2.5 lbs per month and you hit 2/3rds of that, which is pretty good! If you’ve been exercising and not just dieting then you also gained muscle, which weighs more than fat, so you actually lost a lot more than 19 pounds of fat. Keep up the good work! If you want to accelerate your fat loss, then start weightlifting. Weightlifting increases your caloric needs and the fat loss will increase exponentially if you maintain the same caloric intake. Great job!