i’m frustrated, y’all.
This is about to be long and boring.
When I began dabbling with veganism almost two years ago, I dropped about 17 pounds pretty effortlessly. That summer, I also started working out a lot more and continued losing weight up until I guess around May or June of last year. Then I went to Vegas and basically didn’t work out again until October, when I joined a gym, even though I had been back in SC since August. Miraculously, I didn’t gain any weight when I was in Las Vegas, but I did lose a lot of the muscle I had built up earlier in the summer.
When I joined the gym, sometimes I would work out 6 days a week but only one day in the next week, just out of sheer laziness. I also started being really lax on the veganism. I knew that this was definitely not the way to help myself get more healthy, so I started to make a conscious effort to actually be for real vegan and to spend a lot more time exercising. This was toward the end of December. And I feel like I’ve been doing a pretty good job.I generally work out 5-6 days a week, for anywhere from half an hour to 2 hours. I always do cardio, and am trying to force myself into doing more weights/resistance training. Admittedly, I have never been the most healthful eater ever, but for Pete’s sake, y’all. I’M VEGAN. Overall, I think I do okay, although my snacking can get out hand sometimes.
So what I want to know is WHY ON EARTH CAN I NOT LOSE WEIGHT? For the past few months, my weight has generally fluctuated within a four pound range. And the fluctuations don’t seem to be related to my eating or exercise habits. I honestly don’t understand. Based on what I’m doing, I feel like I should be losing AT LEAST one pound a week.
I am just so goshdarn frustrated. I don’t know what to do. I started keeping a food diary at the beginning of the month, in attempt to make more conscious decisions about the food I’m putting into my body. I really hope it starts to make a difference. The idea of trying to do an actual diet of some sort makes me nervous because I have kind of obsessive-compulsive tendencies and I feel like things could potentially get out of hand. I also don’t want to get TOO crazy with the exercising, because it’s actually something I enjoy. I don’t want to turn it into a miserable chore.
