Since October 2024, I have lost 17% of my starting weight, amounting to some 15 kilograms, taking my BMI from 33 to 26.
I have done this through a very slow slog of -1) first calorie counting at 1200 a day and 2) then calorie counting at 1200 a day, cutting out grains and root vegetables and restricting eating window to 1-9 pm.
I believe I have done well. I look lovely. Feel better.
However that BMI is still 26 something and by my calculations losing another 5 kilograms is needed.
Unfortunately I just can’t even. Nothing I try is shifting these last 5. Frankly I don’t even want to try as such any more. Just eating “normally” by which I mean eating sensibly and still cutting out grains and most root vegetables is helping maintain where I am.
does anyone have any tips for this last 5? My life is incredibly chaotic currently and fitting in regular calorie burning exercise that isn’t a gentle yoga or something is not doable. I also have a knee issue since my adolescence which means a huge number of standard exercises are strictly prohibited.
one thing worth mentioning is that I currently have a very car dependent lifestyle but for various reasons this is due to radically shift permanently to a walking everywhere lifestyle in about a fortnight or so. Not sure what difference it will make.