10 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting to Lose Weight

I lost about 40lbs in 3 months a couple of years back.

Before I found out what worked on behalf of me , I spent an entire bunch of your time feeling frustrated and bad about myself.

Until I finally started seeing results, I spent years “trying” to work out what worked.

Hindsight is usually 20/20, but I’m hoping I can save a minimum of 1 person from the mistakes that I made.

For reference, here’s my transformation:

andddd the mistakes I made……..

1. Not Having an idea

When you’re just starting out, the foremost helpful thing you'll do is to possess an idea .

I wasted such a lot time once I first began because I didn’t have one.

I would wander around not knowing what to try to to .

Even today, once I start a workout with a particular plan for that day, my workout is sooo far better .

2. Stressing an excessive amount of Over “The Right Plan”

When I first began , I spent such a lot time trying to find the right workout and diet plan.

You see other girls doing different workouts and wonder if what you’re doing is true .

Pick a solid plan with proven results and persist with it.

You’ve probably heard it 1,000,000 times, but consistency is everything.

If you don’t know which decide to pick, obviously I’m biased towards my very own .

2. dalliance On Quick Fixes

I am tons of things.

Patient isn’t one among them.

This isn’t new, so once I first decided I wanted to reduce , I wanted to break down NOW.

There are all types of weight loss..uhh, we’ll call them “tools” for now..that promise FAST results.

Wraps, diet pills, waist trainers…

You name it, i attempted it.

The only thing they did was delay my results and waste my money.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Trust me, save some time and money.

Proper diet and exercise will get you results fast enough.

Losing weight are often discouraging because it seems like this overwhelming challenge that’s getting to take for-evvv-er.

I promise if you've got the proper plan and stick with it, the load comes off much faster than you expect.

3. Stressing Over Things That Didn’t Matter

I think everyone overthinks the small print once they start out.

I definitely did.

You worry about if you ought to eat after a particular time, do you have to eat breakfast or no breakfast, do you have to lift weights or only do cardio, the list goes on.

Losing weight is tough mentally..

Resisting the cookies, actually getting up to figure out.. That’s what’s hard.

Knowing what to try to to is pretty simple.

4. Trying Unrealistic Diets

You know what’s really discouraging?

Failing.

All too often I see people trying these crazy diets in hopes of losing weight.

The diet is so restrictive there’s no way anyone could ever persist with it.

*only eat eggs for a week!*

*just don’t eat any carbs!! (cough, watching you keto!)*

So what happens?

They try it for every week or a month, find yourself binging, then feeling like they failed.

I’ve been there.

I wanted to reduce as fast as possible once I started.

I was only following calories and i used to be eating farrr too few calories for my size.

I was always starving, so once I couldn’t take it anymore, i might gorge .

Then i might feel terrible about myself after.

You didn’t fail.

You just chose an excessively difficult diet.

5. Lying to Myself

I have this nasty habit I’m trying to interrupt .

I mislead myself.

I think more people do than they need to admit.

Because we disguise the lies as excuses.

What do I mean by that?

When I’m having a tough time losing weight, i prefer to inform myself I did all I could.

This makes me feel better because it takes away that awful guilty feeling.

No one likes feeling guilty, so we come up with an excuse while we’re not meeting our goals.

“I don’t have enough time”

“I’m doing all I can, it’s just not working”

If you're taking a moment and really look deep.

Are you being honest with yourself?

Could you've got gotten up earlier.

Slept a touch less?

Ran an additional 5 minutes?

Lifted a touch more weight?

If you’re not seeing results, then the solution is perhaps .

It’s hard to face that truth, trust me, I still struggle with it.

But the thing is, your results will skyrocket once you are doing .

6. Not Tracking My Food

I mentioned that once I first started, all I knew was to eat less calories.

Besides my caloric goal being way too low, I had another problem.

I wasn’t actually tracking my food.

I would check out labels, guess at what proportion i used to be actually eating, and roughly keep track in my head.

Above and beyond, I even have found that the amount one explanation for people struggling to reduce that's that they UNDERestimate what percentage calories they’re eating and OVERestimating what percentage calories they’re burning.

Tracking your food seems like a pain within the butt.

I know.

Once you get the hang of it, I promise it's very easy .

I spend no quite 5 minutes each day tracking my food.

It also forces you to be honest with yourself which can also help your results.

7. Trying Spot reduce fat

Once I got right down to my goal weight, i used to be prettyyy happy.

BUT..

I still had a touch extra fluff on my stomach.

And I definitely didn’t want to be any thinner in my legs or bottom.

I wasted a bunch of your time on this illusion that I could somehow only lose more fat from my stomach.

To be fair, that myth is everywhere the place.

If you’ve ever seen ads telling you that you simply can burn beely fat, or simply leg fat, face fat, or any {insert part here} fat..

Unfortunately, it’s not true.

Trust me, I wish it had been even as very much like you almost certainly do, but I promise you it’s not.

When you burn calories, and ultimately fat, your body decides where to burn it from.

The good news is, eventually it'll come off of whatever it's your target is.

8. eager to Shrink My Waist & Grow My Butt

I mean…..

Can you blame me?

Who doesn’t want to shrink their waist and grow their hips and butt at an equivalent time?

This one goes hand and hand with the purpose above.

The problem, apart from not having the ability to identify reduce fat..

Is that these goals are completely conflicting.

9. Believing Other People’s Lies

This one quite goes hand in hand with #4 above, about the unrealistic diets.

I wont to get so discouraged because i might see of these articles about losing 10lbs during a week or 20lbs or whatever it had been .

Because I wasn’t getting those self same results, I felt like i used to be failing.

If you’ve encounter this, don't feel bad!!

There are sooo many lies within the weight loss community it’s sickening.

These crazy “results” sell better and obtain more clicks, so that’s what people promote.

Always take what you read with a grain of salt.

even this…*puts on tin foil hat*

Just kidding.

One of my goals is to be a minimum of one place you recognize you'll come and trust for the facts and real results..

Because i do know what it seems like to believe those lies and obtain down on yourself about it.

I never, ever want to try to to that to anyone else.

10. Being Too Strict

This one again plays off of the unrealistic diet.

Consistency. Is. Everything.

Being overly strict will eventually cause binging.

I know because I’ve been there.

Ya girl needs a damn donut and a few pizza once during a while.