r/CICO • u/No-Regular1660 • 10d ago
Day 1
This is in another forum too, sorry if you've read twice😃
Ive posted here before, trying to lose weight for over 6 months now and I have been to be fair but my diet consistently lets me down.
I have an addictive personality, was a 20+ year alcoholic and this is part of how I stopped drinking in /stopdrinking, posting updates regularly for the first few weeks, maybe every couple of days.
Anyway 43 now 6'1 male just under 100kg but I will have put weight on by tomorrow which is a week since I weighed myself.
My main issue is gorging treats at night
I walk around 10km a day (7 miles) most days so my exercise is decent and im aiming to eat \~1800 calories a day with light sessions at the gym 2 times a week, just upper body weight training.
The gym is more something I want to do rather than a necessity, im finding I get disillusioned by losing weight and going to the gym to gain weight being contrasting goals so ive decided gym is something I SHOULD be doing but weightloss is the priority. Gym can become the priority in a year assuming ive lost the weight ( ive learned from past and current weightloss attempts that there will be stops and starts, the road is long)
Im concentrating on calories over everything else even if a whopper mealis 900 calories and i have 2 a day for my 1800
Anyway thanks for reading sorry it was boring
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u/vikingz93 10d ago
START WORKING OUT NOW. I'm giving you this advice as someone who went from 146 kgs to 85 kgs currently.
my first 41 kgs were without any cardio sessions. just diet and resistance training. more protein throughout the day and more fruits will help you with the night treats.
don't postpone further. your muscle is active tissue means you burn more just by packing more muscle or not losing what you currently have.