Persisting with Consistency

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At my heaviest, and this is really hard for me to type, I weighed in at 335 lbs. How I ever let myself get there… well, that’s a subject for other posts. On to my point for the night. It takes A LOT of calories to maintain that kind of weight. I don’t even want to try to figure out how many calories. But it’s an obscene amount.

When I first decided to try to lose weight, I dropped to 300 easily. Why? Because when you were eating an obscene amount of calories, and you reduce it to just a gross amount of calories, you’ll initially lose weight. You might have a meal plan, but if you cheat here and there it will still be okay, because even with that cheating you are still under the calories necessary to maintain that weight.

But then you hit that number that matches with the calories you’re eating and the weight stops dropping. It was at 300 lbs that I started working out 2 times a week. That was a lot more activity than I was used to. (Anything is more than nothing, right?) So again, I dropped weight—another 20 lbs—fairly easily. And yet again, I reached the point where my calorie intake minus my calorie burn was exactly what I needed to maintain 280 lbs. And there I sat.

Last May I got down to the lowest weight of my adulthood. It seemed easy at the time because I had “caught the fitness bug.” I was eating right, working out 6 days a week, life was good. But obsessions don’t last. Gradually from June of last year through 3 weeks ago, I was back up 30 lbs. My “status quo” if you will for the amount of food I like eating and the amount I work out.

On July 6th this year I recommitted myself, and since them I am consistently losing weight. And I am consistently losing weight because my calories in each day are consistently under my calories burned. It’s not rocket science. I consistently plan my week’s meals each Sunday morning. I consistently eat clean each day. I consistently workout each day. I consistently allow myself one cheat meal each week, but within reason. I consistently remove myself from situations where I want to cheat. I consistently journal how I’m feeling every day. Do you see where I’m going with this?

We are what we repeatedly do. So I will persist with this consistency until it becomes habit. Until my new status quo is a healthy weight. Who is with me? Who will help me stay consistent? Who can I help to become consistent? Let’s go!