I won a biggest loser bet today. 500 beans.
We structured it as 500 for getting to our goal weight, 500 more for being the first to lose it, and 500 more for keeping it off for two months. If we're both successful then it's just 500 to me for getting there first.
We've been doing weekly weigh ins for months now and it's been really motivating for both of us. My friend is about 4 pounds away so he's almost definitely going to get there, and we both need to survive the holidays. I pushed a little extra to get done in October so my two months would be over before Christmas. He's got about two weeks to get there himself.
He did keto for most of it, i just monitored calories on myfitnesspal and gradually increased my exercise. I don't think he believed that i could keep up with keto while just watching calories. But it's all the same thing - setting a goal, having a plan to get there and sticking to it. I ended up cutting some carbs - i didn't have sugar in my coffee, and i didn't have as much pizza - but it was just incidental while i was tracking calories.
The main thing is making better choices. To "celebrate" today i had a nearly 1000 calorie breakfast at Dunkin - a maple bacon sandwich on a croissant, hash browns and an extra large hazlenut coffee with milk and sugar.
It used to be nothing to eat like this. I actually feel gross now. I think I just got used to feeling gross and thinking that meant "full".
Its not even like i haven't had breakfast at dunkin donuts. I've still gone there the whole time, but I've gotten a bacon egg and cheese on a bagel for 400 calories or English muffin for 300 and a large coffee with milk for 50. An egg mcmuffin is 300 calories. The maple bacon sandwich on a croissant is over 600.
I enjoyed having sugar in my coffee, which was 220 calories. I'll probably still do that once in a while as a splurge, but i don't want to get too used to it.
Honestly the sandwich wasn't even better. It definitely wasn't double the calories different. And the hash browns were just gross. There's really no excuse for eating a 1000 calorie breakfast on a regular basis but it's so easy to pick the "bad" food choices.
The flip side of that though is that it's also really easy to pick a lower calorie meal. I liked my 400 calorie breakfasts aGood jobs much as that 1000 calorie gut buster. I liked my 400 calorie bowl of chicken tortilla soup for lunch. I wasn't depriving myself at all. And i could have a huge 700 calorie buffalo chicken wrap for dinner, do literally no exercise, and come in at 1500 calories on the day while enjoying every meal. It's absurd to me now that I used to make so many bad decisions so consistently.