I knew she wasn’t doing well, but I wasn’t sure you’d reached this place with her. My heart goes out to you. I totally get the food thing. Sometimes there just isn’t anything left in the tank and you reach for comfort. Honestly it sounds like you’re doing really well holding yourself to your goal!
Congratulations on your loss, @Polar-Bear! As for everything else in your post, same. Same! I’m pushing hard (ish) at the moment, but I’ll always have balance issues. When someone says “Hey, do you want to go to a really delightful restaurant and eat really delightful food and drink really delightful wine?” it’s pretty hard to be like, “nah, that’s not my thing.”
I want to lose the 15 (I’m en route already) and then figure out how to balance day to day rather than having to endlessly repair weeks and months of carefree behavior.
For me, I have 1lb to lose to get to my goal- probably 10-15 to be shreded which I have no intention of doing.
What’s stopping me?
I get hungry, particularly after heavy squats and deadlifts
eating less would mean compromise training → not worth it
Edit: I fogot a third point. I am a foodie and like excuses to treat myself to food
Case in point, I’m going all out with mackerel tartare and various other indulgences to celebrate my final econ exam… EVER. I’ve spent well over 7 hours planning and prepping for the tartare stuff. For reference, I spent 4 hours total studying
what’s stopping me is that I’m enjoying gaining too much right now . . lifts are all going up steadily and I’m really filling out shirts like I never have . . program lasts for 6 more weeks then I’ll experiment with some carb cycling/restriction to attempt to drop some fat
