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Originally Posted by wyndslash
@monts: i've been moody over my weight for the last few years and have just taken steps to actually get off my butt and do something about it :P i'm rather impatient too but i'm just trying to take it slow and easy. fast will make the fat come back stronger than ever 
but at the moment i am standing in front of my laptop and letting myself sweat from the heat :P |
For me it was less about taking it slow and more about finding habits of eating (eliminating my flawed habits, and getting into a pattern of good standard ones), and ways to exercise that didn't feel like exercise (I don't mind pushing hard, but it should be riding or walking hard up a scenic hill, not on a spin bike or treadmill). I think all plans have to be personal though, so I don't apply what works for me to others.
I've now lost 29kg/64lbs in the last 7 months, coming up to 33% of my former weight, and I've about 3.5kg/8lbs to go to a steady weight to hover around. My blood pressure has dropped a fair bit (though it wasn't that high to begin with), and I haven't had a migraine in about 6 months, which is very not normal (I'd go from periods of one a month to two a week normally). I was the heaviest of my family (sibs and parent, who all didn't mind that vulnerability in me), but now I am the lightest. At my goal I'll weigh slightly less than what I weighed when I first started work at 17.5yo (23.5 years ago).
And best of all, it's
expanded my taste in food - I find my taste less driven by cravings for sugar and fat, and just more interested in variety. I've still my sweet tooth, but I ration and concentrate it into specialness. Thus the pistachio macaron (my first ever macaron, for some reason that perplexes me).
Physically, I feel good, trim, fit, and that my general health is no longer a burden that can contribute to and conflate with other issues. But it is costing me a fortune in new clothes (everything's gone from XL to S).
Cheers,
Marc