Soon I’ll be knocking on the door of 100lbs down. (I’m 5'11)
People
always ask me how, and here’s the truth: I spend 5-6 days a week making
sure I burn 4,000 calories, take 12,000 steps, have my HR in the
fatburn zone for at least 100 minutes, consume at least 170g of protein,
and don’t go over my calories. I spend the other day or two being a
potato recovering in my bed to do it all again. Off days mean something
different entirely to me now though— Cheat days can’t be the same as
recovery days because I want my caloric deficit every day. Yeah. It
isn’t easy. I feel a hundred different ways about doing this all week
long: sometimes I’m tired and hungry and start to wonder why I’m doing
this, and other times I am laser-focused on my future goals of kayaking
with our baby or lounging comfortably in a bathing suit on a cruise.
The
biggest thing that makes a difference for me now is the commitment to
ignore myself when I want to give up. Don’t let the toxic mixture of
depression, laziness, and self-doubt fuck up what you want for your life
and your body. Let one act of self-care be that you are skeptical of
your ability to make choices when you doubt yourself and that you will
believe the days you feel good, healthy, and strong. If you wanna give
up, go to the gym anyway and tell yourself you’ll decide whether or not
to give up tomorrow.
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