I think i figured out why I haven’t been able to lose weight (self sabotage)

this is….wow. This might seem like a “well no duh” moment for everyone else looking at this, but for me i just didnt think about it or realize what was going on with me.

I’ve been in this hopeless cycle of sticking to my calorie budget for days or a week and trying to get some exercise, only to feel bloated all the damn time and never see any progress on the scale. And it would be so demotivating that I’d just say screw it. I worked really hard and zero progress? And this is the norm now? This has been so much its damn near impossible to lose weight. May as well just go on a junk food binge. Oh hello five guys. What’s up Taco Bell. We hanging with Burger King tonight homie.

I’ve done everything right. I counted my calories (even when i was a bad boy), i knew exactly what was going into my body and i got exercise everyday. I’d eat 2,000 and my total daily burn would be 3400. And still not losing weight! How can this be? I’m doing everything right. Well…

I looked at what i logged on lose it under the nutrients. A section i never really go to because i figured only calories matter. Calories in calories out right? And it shocked the hell out of me. Today I’d only eaten about 2,000 calories. My sodium? 4,960! That sounds like a lot but i didnt have any point of reference. So i googled how much i should have. “Try to limit to no more than 2300 a day”. Oh crap…let’s go back for the past few days.

Yesterday: 5,970 Wednesday: 4,020 Tuesday: 5,872

And it just goes on like this. I’m at a loss. How the hell can i be eating that much sodium and sticking to my calories? Like it just seems like so much? 2 packs of Japanese style yakisoba noodles from costco. 820 calories. 2,320mg of sodium for that one meal. That one…meal. 2 hot dogs with buns from costco that were within my calories. 3500mg. So just 2 hot dogs for lunch and noodles for dinner and I’m already at 5,820mg and i feel like i didnt even have that much.

I think what I’ve been doing is sticking to my calories thinking I’m doing everything right, but also feeling puffy and bloating because i eat so much sodium on the daily, that when i check my weight i have allllll this fluid retention and i got it in my head i cant lose weight. So i have this habit I’ve developed of trying to stick to my calories, not seeing progress and then going out and eating junk because i feel like its not working anyway.

I doubt anybody read this far. Writing this out was partially just for me anyway to understand what’s going on with me but wow. This was truly eye opening. Gonna try eating no more than 2300 a day and see how it goes. I bet this has happened to other people and they just dont know it

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