Hello this is my first post. Please keep reading because the title was meant to be more of an eye catcher. Let me start out by giving you my story.
I am a 23 year old male and weight 135-140lbs but I haven't always been like this. My senior year of high school I weighed 225lbs and finally decided to do something about my weight problem. Within 4 months I lost 70lbs before my graduation. I did the wrong thing and stopped eating lunches and worked out 5 days a week for 1+ hour. After I meet my goal I made some serious changes by eating again, but more sensibly, and cut my workout to 4 days a week for 30 minutes.
In the last 5 years, even in college, I have managed to keep the weight off but I am always obsessed with what I eat and what the scale says. This obsession has made me feel even worse than when I was overweight. It finally hit a pinnacle this year when I started weighing myself 5+ times a day and counting every single calorie I eat. I would get worried when in the morning the number was up 2lbs and because of this I would eat very small lunch.
Well I've finally made the decision and I am going to give up. I am going to give up my obsession with the scale. I was away on vacation for 5 days and could not weight myself and eat more freely. When I got back I decided to not look at the scale right away because I knew it would be high right after vacation. What I've noticed is that I feel much happier now and I’ve only weighed myself twice in the last 9 days.
So here is my goal, I am going to cut down to looking at the scale only once a week until November and then I am going to go "cold turkey" and only weigh once a month. I am going to go by how I feel and how my close fit, which is more important than some stupid number.
Wish my luck guys and good luck to everyone else.
PS I will be visiting and posted a lot in the forum.
