OP CONGRATULATIONS!!! You should be soooo freaking proud of yourself. The weight loss ‘war’ a lot of us fight is one of many battles and you have won a great one! I am totally here cheering you on. I can’t say keep on going because personally I used to hate people saying it.. keep on going.. what?!! 🙄 like I’m going to stop now after all this hard work, I found it super patronising, obviously you want to hit your goal! you are so close!!
It is such a hard thing to do, stick to and maintain when you’ve battled with being overweight your whole life!
And you’ve just passed a MAJOR milestone!!! You have EXCELLED!! I wish i could celebrate it with you and shout it from the roof tops hun!!! I totally feel you, I served my tour in the extreme weight loss war and am currently fighting in the, maintain the weight loss war 😂 I also totally get the flat feeling. It doesn’t feel enough, even when I got to my lightest I still felt like I should loose more. Loosing half your body weight is a bit of a wild ride isn’t it? Because that’s basically what you’ve done! Wow op. 30 bmi is so so amazing you have knocked 23 bloody points off your bmi that’s insane!!! Most people would struggle to do that. You have sacrificed and you have succeed. You are really not far from that exact halfway point.
Now my cold hard numbers to help you feel better and that you’re not alone, hopefully!! Annnnnnd for some comparison.. My highest weight was 28st 5lb, bmi 56 😳 My lowest weight was 12st 2, 24.3 bmi. I was very fixated on hitting healthy bmi. The nhs bmi calculator says that my ‘healthy’ bmi should be between 9st 3 and 12st 7. But at 12st 2 apparently I looked like I was dying.. 🤣 according to my sister! To be fair a lot of my bones were sticking out, which I slightly enjoyed a weeny bit for the first in my life. I was happy at that weight that I had hit ‘healthy’ range but I didn’t recognise myself at all in the mirror. Tbh I looked unwell. I looked much older and my face was sunken and angular. Everyone around me was telling I needed to put a bit of weight back on. I didn’t like it after being so rigid but I did and I usually maintain my happy weight between 12st10-13st2 which classifies me as a bmi of 25.4 at 12.11, which puts me in the overweight category by the numbers but only just. But I’ve put on weight in the last couple of months.. I’m looking at you 2 all inclusive holidays in August and October.. it was my 40th this year, we treated ourselves! so I’m currently standing at 13.9 bmi 27.3 but I’m working on that.. like I said it’s a war of many battles. Funny enough my dad gave me that analogy for it! But I told you the numbers for two reasons. One so you could see you’re not alone in your journey and two so you could see you’re perhaps not as far away as you think. Start looking in the mirror, start buying yourself some new clothes. Healthy bmi is just a guideline. A doctor told me when I was talking about my aim for at least 24.9 bmi, I really wanted in that ‘healthy’ range! That when you have been very overweight, for a very long time, 10 stone plus. Your body, your bone structure changes to support your weight. So someone that’s weighed in the ranges of 20+ stones for a long time. Will never have the same body composition as a smaller person that’s always been that weight, even if they get to the same weight. There bones apparently will weigh more, I wasn’t sure if this was true but this was a doctor at a London hospital. Someone from those weight ranges will also have a certain amount of excess skin weight to consider too. Sooooooo if you look at it that way maybe your nearer the finish line than you think😉
I hope seeing you’re not alone in the trenches has helped! Xx
ps.. for those asking for how to. Disclaimer I’m no dietician or health professional 😂 i’m just sharing what worked for me. Because I would have liked if someone had given me this advice a very long time ago. Walking, starting small, i know it feels like an effort but just start. Once you’ve done it for a while your’ll start to enjoy the achievement of it. I never thought I would, but I do, I like walking now.. eek who am I 😂 I got an app on my phone called zombies run, (I walked I did not run, I turned off chases. I have a few chronic illnesses and a back problem and use a crutch) which works with your music and breaks in bits of story as you walk. i prefer in the morning before work. Worked up to 10,000 steps a day and do it every day. The app helped as I wanted to know what happened next and I could only use it when I walked. I swam a couple of times a week too but haven’t in a while, I eased off the exercise when I was told I needed to put weight on. Move as much as you can even when waiting for the kettle, burn as many calories as you can walk in circles when your waiting have a little boogie whilst no one’s watching.. I have a rebounder, for when i can’t get out as much to walk. My fitness pal, for the first year or two I tracked every single crumb I put in my mouth. Use it until you can start to truly gauge the quantity/ content of things. Restrict your calories obvs, mine vary. But totally depends
on how much you weigh / how much activity you do so I don’t want to give a number. However specifically, personally I found limiting my carbs my magic touch. Watch your macros, fill up on protein. Fluctuating calorie amounts, so your body doesn’t get used to being stuck at the same amount. XXXX for 2 days, up it for a day, reduce it for a day. I also did 2 weeks stints at a time of under 90 carbs a day, 800-1000 calories to jumpstart things after a plateau. As let’s be honest when the scale just wont move that’s the worst! No sugar at all when I was dieting. I had no chocolate at all for a year and a half or crisps. Cut out junk food, as much processed food as i could. Looked at the labels of everything and be super mindful everything I consumed. It was so hard.. so hard and I got far too militant! Because I just wanted to get there. But once I hit that point I relaxed and and now I’m much more balanced. I eat crisps and chocolate etc just much smaller amounts than I used too. Life is about balance after all. My apologies all for the super long post.. 😆
pps YOU TOTALLY ROCK OP!! ❤️