I wish I could hug everyone currently being victimized by that damn scale 🤬. Remember, delayed doesn’t mean denied. I’ve been on multiple weight loss journeys and they all ended with me weighing more than I did when I started 🙃. I focused on losing fat, not weight (which can be a combination of water, muscle, fat and other things) and took things slowly. I wasn’t diagnosed with autism or ADHD until 31. I spent most of my life having a binge eating disorder and being morbidly obese because of it. My diagnosis changed my whole life; it was the first time everything made sense. I didn’t start a weigh loss journey, I started a journey to be healthy. I am Autistic and I have ADHD so I had to create a healthy lifestyle that fit my brain. I started to chase healthy habits instead of results and these are the results that followed. If I couldn’t see myself realistically doing it for the rest of my life, I didn’t start. Healthy habits I started to follow: I stopped tracking my calories and started to heal my relationship with food. I eat anything I want regardless of the macros. I only track my protein intake up until 120g and then I stop tracking. I had a big mental shift summer of 2021. I decided to love and respect myself the way I love and respect my special needs son. When I didn’t feel like going to the gym, I would just tell myself to go to the gym, do 3 exercises, 3 times and if I want, I can go home. I put consistency above perfection now. I follow a push, pull, legs split and then I do a “choose your own adventure” type workout. I do whatever exercises target those specific muscles for 3-4 sets at a weight where I reach failure in 8-12 reps. I don’t do any cardio. The treadmill is definitely one of my biggest opps 😮💨
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