The weightloss is accelerating and it is both motivating and unsettling. I started to recognise my face in the mirror and in photos again, but it also doesn't feel like me because I am unused to it. My goal weight is a number I have been in when I was quite active and muscled.

Comparison photo wearing the same dress (that magically fits, while everything else is getting donated): http://imgur.com/gallery/gAtFGxe

Photo on the left was my hughest weight. I was quite ill and on medication that makes you gain weight, but I was also struggling a lot and eating to sooth myself on top of it. This was a rare good day, being out with my partner shortly after my discharge from having been hospitalized for my illness.

Stats: 35F | 5'2" • 1.57m | SW 242lbs • 110kg | CW 199lbs • 91.2kg | GW 143lbs • 65kg

I had been doing low carb for a while. I have been chaging how I eat for months. I only started logging my food and switched to keto on 12 July. I also upped a rough 14-16h fast to tracked fasts of 16h. Nowadays I sometimes fast 18-20h without effort. I can see that my eating habits were really crap now. There was medication, sedentarism, bad food choices, stress and mental illness causing me to gain weight, but I grew up quite active and was quite active until my 30s. It has been a long climb to work on so many things, but I feel so on track this time. I am rarely hungry, and it is not a hunger that hurts. I grew up being grumpy when hungry too, but it almost doesn't happen anymore. If I am hungry, I drink some water, then eat early. It is okay. It is now time to ramp my activity levels and get back into an exercise routine. I always enjoyed exercise and hiking, and I hope to be able to be outside more when it is less cold (it has been freezing cold and wet winter where I live).

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