Dear reader,
I'm Almanio, a 22 y-o medical student and I need to shed weight.
Roughly two years ago, I was severely overweight, going into obesity actually. I was terrified of the scale and shied away from all cameras; mirrors were my worst enemy since I didn't want to see how overweight I let myself become but it was necessary to use them.
My confidence was ... well, I didn't have any confidence to speak of. I'd let anybody walk over me because I didn't respect myself, or feel worthy of respect. I know it's unhealthy and wrong to think that being overweight somehow makes me sub-human but that's just how I felt.
On November 2015, I finally decided to do something about it. I started doing some light workouts (PiYo, by beachbody) and had some results. I started wondering how much the results would be better if I actually ate healthy portions and foods and ... I don't know how to describe it, but something just 'clicked'. I started eating healthy, avoiding any and all processed food; I was feeling great and started to actually enjoy working out. It was the best time of my life; I started to grow more confident, not only because I was lighter but just because I DID IT. I was really proud of myself and it did wonders for my confidence levels.
All in all, I lost about 21kg (46.3lbs)and was satisfied with how I look. I managed to keep the weight off for a bit over a year and half; but the last months have been really hard. I started working out less and less, it became less enjoyable and now I'm not working out at all. My diet is all over the place; I already gained 5kg (~11 lbs) in just as many months and this has to stop. I can't go back to where I was.
So this is the start of my new Journey, and this journal entry is my statement that today is IT.
I have tried to do this a lot of times before to no avail; but I think I've been going at it wrong. Each time I tried these past few months, I've just stopped eating all the junk food and begun a high intensity workout and I'd stop two days later.
So this time around I'm going back to the beginning, do it like I did it that first time. First by just doing some conscious choices when eating without feeling guilty if I slip while doing some good old PiYo. That's what got me into working out and that's what'll get me back into it. Once I'm used to this new regimen; I'll try to bring it up a notch by implementing a new work out program and upping the quality of the food I'm eating (a.k.a no junk food at all).
I hope, no, I KNOW that this time, it'll stick.
Yours,
Almanio.
PS: I joined to this entry a before-after photo of my first journey's results.
