If you need to hear this: it’s not too late to lose weight, and it’s not that hard. Counting calories might sound tedious but with the plethora of apps available it’s really easy these days.
The one thing you need to do is consume fewer calories than you expand. Just start there, replace any junk with healthy choices (doesn’t mean only broccoli! There’s tons of yummy stuff that you can eat, just don’t go over the calories).
You don’t even need to exercise at first if you don’t want to, just count the calories and weigh yourself every morning after the toilet/before breakfast. Look at the number steadily go down over weeks/months, don’t stress if it’s up one morning for no reason, fluctuations are normal.
Just take it one day at a time and keep educating yourself about nutrition and it gets so easy, trust me. When you realize how good you feel you don’t want to stop anymore. After some time you’ll probably want to add exercise but it doesn’t have to be everything all at once, the most important is to stick with whatever you decide long term and the results will come.
Combining calorie counting with intermittent fasting helped me lose 50+ lbs with relative ease. To support intermittent fasting I cut out evening snacks and breakfast, which gave me the 16:8 ratio (eating only from noon to 8 PM).
The calorie counting helps set me up for future success as well since I now have a much better idea of what is healthy and what isn’t.
One stupid thing to look out for is buying bulk snakcs/food items. If you look at the portion sizes for most snacks, it’s actually comically small. They do this so that they can put bullshit like 100 cal/serving, but the serving size is actually like 3 chips.
This is incredibly wasteful, but what I like to do instead if I want snacks is I’ll buy the pack of individually wrapped lunch sized snacks. So instead of getting a “family size” bag of Doritos, I’ll get the box of snack packs.
I get that it’s terrible for the environment, but it’s a lot easier to track how much of the snacks you’re eating. Instead of mindlessly downing a whole family sized bag of chips, you now see exactly how many calories you’re consuming…and you’re more mindful because you’re individually opening each package. You still get to have a treat, but it’s easier to be mindful of what you’re doing imo.
To be less wasteful, I suppose you could still buy these “family sized” bags of things, but then you’d want to immediately split the bag up into separate containers by portion size so you know how much you’re consuming.
If you need to hear this: it’s not too late to lose weight, and it’s not that hard. Counting calories might sound tedious but with the plethora of apps available it’s really easy these days.
The one thing you need to do is consume fewer calories than you expand. Just start there, replace any junk with healthy choices (doesn’t mean only broccoli! There’s tons of yummy stuff that you can eat, just don’t go over the calories).
You don’t even need to exercise at first if you don’t want to, just count the calories and weigh yourself every morning after the toilet/before breakfast. Look at the number steadily go down over weeks/months, don’t stress if it’s up one morning for no reason, fluctuations are normal.
Just take it one day at a time and keep educating yourself about nutrition and it gets so easy, trust me. When you realize how good you feel you don’t want to stop anymore. After some time you’ll probably want to add exercise but it doesn’t have to be everything all at once, the most important is to stick with whatever you decide long term and the results will come.
You’ve got this!
Combining calorie counting with intermittent fasting helped me lose 50+ lbs with relative ease. To support intermittent fasting I cut out evening snacks and breakfast, which gave me the 16:8 ratio (eating only from noon to 8 PM).
The calorie counting helps set me up for future success as well since I now have a much better idea of what is healthy and what isn’t.
One stupid thing to look out for is buying bulk snakcs/food items. If you look at the portion sizes for most snacks, it’s actually comically small. They do this so that they can put bullshit like 100 cal/serving, but the serving size is actually like 3 chips.
This is incredibly wasteful, but what I like to do instead if I want snacks is I’ll buy the pack of individually wrapped lunch sized snacks. So instead of getting a “family size” bag of Doritos, I’ll get the box of snack packs.
I get that it’s terrible for the environment, but it’s a lot easier to track how much of the snacks you’re eating. Instead of mindlessly downing a whole family sized bag of chips, you now see exactly how many calories you’re consuming…and you’re more mindful because you’re individually opening each package. You still get to have a treat, but it’s easier to be mindful of what you’re doing imo.
To be less wasteful, I suppose you could still buy these “family sized” bags of things, but then you’d want to immediately split the bag up into separate containers by portion size so you know how much you’re consuming.