I only used to lurk on the CICO sub but as I hit a milestone today I thought I’d do my bit and post to lemmy.
Some info on my situation if anyone is interested, I have multiple chronic illness. I gained weight rapidly once I started to steroids and it’s been a battle to a) keep my weight down and b) get any of my doctors to take my concerns out the weight gain seriously.
Earlier this year I ticked over into the obese category (although tbf I’ve always been much heavier than I looked, I’m not sure I truly would have been obese if muscle was taken into account). On reaching my obesity milestone(!) my doctors finally put me on the waiting list to see a dietitian. That was 7 months ago, still no appointment and I’m not convinced they’ll be very useful anyway.
I started properly logging my calories 22nd April to get a baseline of how much I was eating. It wasn’t a lot: 1700kcals was my daily average (but remember I was barely getting out of bed). I weighed 100kgs (220lbs) at 173cm tall (5’8”) I’m female and 37 years old.
I dropped to ~1400kcals a day and the weight come off fairly quickly initially. I’d lost 5kg in a month and then nothing. Absolutely nothing for an entire month. I went away last week and had a cheat week. I was close to 2000kcals a day but my Fitbit informed me I was burning at least 2000kcals as I was moving a lot more.
Finally today the scale budged! I’m 94kg exactly so I’ve lost 6kg or 13.2lbs, or 6% of my body weight. My interim goal is to lose 10kg by October (I’m going on holiday for the first time in a decade!). My big goal is to reach 85kg (overweight but not obese). The max healthy weight for my height is 75kg but I can’t see that ever happening while I’m still on steroids etc tbh. Anyway, I’ve lost 6kg in just over 10 weeks and I’m pretty happy with the myself!
6% is a relatively large change, it’s just that the number seems low because it’s 6% of 100.
The cool thing about stuff like that is, that your experience and excitement create a self propelling effect and encourage you to go on.
Your loss of weight show that you do everything right. Keep going.
Thank you for that. It definitely helps to think it terms of percentage. I lost 10% of my body weight about 12 years ago on some ridiculous diet and the difference in my before and after photos was insane. 10% of my body weight then was also about 6kg so I tried to keep the differences in those photos in mind. I might not be able to see it like I did when I weighed 70kg as I’m still so overweight, but I can visualise the volume I’ve lost and I know it’s significant. I hope I’m able to see the difference in the mirror once I hit my new 10% 🤞🏼