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First Recorded Weight Loss 🎉

Originally I had intended to write a post when I hit a month of personal training. While there has been a great deal of progress, sadly I actually gained 2lbs in the first month of training. This was not particularly surprising, as I still hadn’t quite tackled food as I was getting started. I did make gradual efforts to learn and to improve on that front.

First Month update

Here’s the audio recording I recorded after a full month of personal training.

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6 Week Update

I feel like I’m getting better at this. I’ve really noticed that many things that have felt out of reach are starting to feel more possible. It’s very much a learning process on my end. I’m learning to live with the discomfort associated with making progress. I’m now active 3-5 days a week instead of merely potentially reaching 2 most of the day.

Progress Made

Challenges:

Other thoughts

Cooking

One of the more concrete gains I’ve made throughout this time has been being comfortable enough standing to actually prepare non-trivial meals. Cooking for myself was point #4 in my definition of a healthy relationship with food in my Why can’t I stop eating? post. Being able to stand for longer makes a big difference but I’m not too proud to admit I sometimes reach for a chair during long stretches.

Beef Fried Rice

I wanted to make something I enjoy eating for meal-prep. I’m not quite sure I got the sauce down this time, but I’ll definitely need to prepare more in the future. Lots of time to get this right. For a first attempt it turned out pretty good.

Eggs Benedict

I’ve been having a ton of eggs. So it naturally flowed to make egg-based meals. Having made the entire meal, I can wholeheartedly say that Eggs Benedict is absolutely worth the hype. Surprisingly it’s been the tastiest thing I’ve had since starting this journey. It’s a lot of effort, but absolutely pays off.

Maybe as I get better I’ll start contributing to based.cooking!


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