Fat Wojack is Back

>I want to make it but the stressing and counting and trying to fit workouts in is exhausting me.
so you take a break for a couple days and get out of the groove of things, then you try to get back on the horse and it takes 3 months which is really 6 months and you realize you only lost half of the weight you wanted and that you should never have stopped doing the "hard" thing because you would have been so much farther along by now if you hadn't

Don’t count calories. It doesn’t work and here’s why:

>In the US companies are legally allowed to be off by as much as 20% in their calorie reporting on nutrition labels. That means a 100 calorie food could actually be as high as 120 calories.

>People almost always under estimate their portion sizes. Can you tell the difference between a cup of mashed potatoes and 3/4 of a cup? Doubtful, but people will log the calories of the 3/4 cup size.

>it’s just not a sustainable prectice. No one scans every single bite they put in their mouths. And, it becomes a tedious chore that acts as a gains goblin to your progress.

All you need to do is watch your portions. Eat half of what you think you want (portion wise). It’s ok to take a day here and there to log calories to get an idea of potentially how much you’re eating, but it won’t be exact because of reason 1 above.

>>People almost always under estimate their portion sizes
not if you purposfully over estimate
also
kill yourself.

>Don't count calories
Hello tumblr

Yeah, I can see that happening. I think im just depressed about someting, and its not the getting fit part. That makes me feel good and watching the numbers on the scale go down is exciting. I'm just having a bad day, I dont want to lose my progress just for a rough patch.

>People almost always under estimate their portion sizes. Can you tell the difference between a cup of mashed potatoes and 3/4 of a cup? Doubtful, but people will log the calories of the 3/4 cup size.

That's what a set of scales is for.

>it’s just not a sustainable prectice. No one scans every single bite they put in their mouths. And, it becomes a tedious chore that acts as a gains goblin to your progress.

Before I got into Uni, I logged consistently for three years, I'm about to hit 100 days again on MFP (put on 20kg at Uni whilst not logging over two years- have lost 10kg of that already). It's not a tedious chore, the more you use MFP the easier it gets as MFP remembers food items you put in 'frequently'. And yes, I "scaned every single bite" back when I logged for three years, and still do today.

I don't ever intend to stop logging, I can't keep the weight off without it- so it's just part of life.

This. I've been both rounding cals up and measuring portion sizes. I just feel like someting is missing or wrong. Its been almost 2 months and I though I'd start to feel better, more energy by now.

I wanted to eat above my deficit today, but I didn't.

I wanted to skip the gym, but I didn't.

I wanted to ditch my 17k step goal, but I didn't.

Stop focusing on your losses and focus on what you are doing right.

i recommend podcasts like "the guardians long reads" walk at night for 1-3 hours on non gym days.

>Its been almost 2 months and I though I'd start to feel better
you're still fat, and as of right now you're eating at a caloric deficit.
get to goal weight and learn your maintenance amount for that.

Don't expect to feel amazing so soon because weight loss is the epitome of /marathon not race/