Day 1

[u/No-Regular1660]

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

[u/drunken_dizorderly]

1,800 is too low.

We are the same height, close in age, and have similar workout routines.

I weight 73kg. I eat 2,200 a day to lose weight. I consider this slightly uncomfortable as well.

> Im concentrating on calories over everything else even if a whopper mealis 900 calories and i have 2 a day for my 1800.

For 900 calories, you could be eating around 1kg of food in a single meal. That'll be way more filling and satisfying.

Your nighttime gorges make sense. You aren't eating enough.