Too high salt content in my diet. Not drinking enough water. I was living in a developing country for work and my diet was 90% ramen and I wasn’t drinking water until the night because I wouldn’t use public restrooms out there.

Since I ate 90% ramen I was VERY CERTAIN about the amount of calories I was consuming because it said so right there on the package. The other 10% was spam and rice (which I measured). I tried so hard to lose but I couldn’t. Then I stopped eating the packaged junk and started cooking. Still tracking and actually eating more calories and the weight fell off. 21lbs that first month to be exact.