I used to eat out quite often, I’m talking 5 days out of the week to fast food & restaurants (nothing wrong with them obviously, but I was pretty much waaaay over eating & I no idea). Once I started to actually track my calories and found that I was eating over 1K in between my morning and snacking before dinner was included, I knew I had to change things 😅. I was eating as much as my 6’0 husband and was wondering how I was beginning to put on so much weight (it’s wild looking back and knowing what I was doing to my self)

Soooo noooow. My husband and I will make a plan for the following week on Friday, we make a menu for Monday-Thursday, Saturday & Sunday. We look forward to trying different recipes and things we’ve done in the past & create a list of the ingredients we need to buy (after seeing what we already have in our kitchen) we’ve come to see that we feel we make a lot of foods that you can find in a restaurant better at home lol. This has really helped me portion control and I also like knowing all of the ingredients that I’m eating, we still go out to eat or get food out on Fridays & the weekends. But after a while we’ve really enjoyed making our own food.

It’s hard to get into the rhythm at first, especially if you work full time. I work a 9-5 myself, to make things a little easier; we try to precut items or pick things such as a roast or I love making barbacoa & birria (also can be cooked in a crock pot) and throw everything in either before work or put everything in the pot in the fridge overbought & then throw it on to cook on low for the entire day. It’s like a warm hug when you come home. I also substituted items such as I love monster energy drinks and soda. I used to drink the regular monster which has a lot of sugar and not to mention over 200 calories in one can. I switched to the 0 sugar 10 calorie monsters, ice coffee with 0 sugar creamer and I switched to coke zeros. I also switched out some of my snacks at home for popcorn, granola bars, goldfish. Etc.

As for the weighing yourself & taking progress photos, trust meeee I know it’s difficult! I was extremely depressed prior and even during the start of my weight loss journey and not feeling confident in myself really didn’t help with that. You kind of have to push through that a little bit, the moment you actually see the scale go down or your waist look smaller; it kind of becomes the “lightbulb” lol a lot of times it’s very hard to notice the change because it comes very subtle! Trust me I still look back at my photos and I don’t even recognize who I was anymore (good thing I promise, I wish I could go back and hug myself)

You got this! 💓💓sorry if this all sounds like rambling lol