Goal Project Reflection

Goal Project Reflection When I started this project, my goal was to lose weight. Specifically, I set a goal of 15 pounds from around 165 to 150. I’ve never really ate “right,” and I’ve always been a bit chubby, and I decided this was a perfect opportunity to do this. To do this I decided to use an app called MyFitnessPal, with my input it tracks my daily intake of calories and amount of macro-nutrients like sugar and carbs. So my plan was to eat in a 500 calorie deficit each day, at 1500 calories. At this rate I should lose around 1.5 lbs/week. In hindsight, I only had 6 weeks to accomplish my goal, and 1.5lbs/week was not enough to lose 15 pounds. But going any higher could potentially be unsafe and overall I am happy with my results even though I did not accomplish my goal. I weighed myself weekly and saw my weight steadily decreasing. Some of the main ways I accomplished this goal was to cut back on chips and soda. Everyday I ate 3 meals at around 350 calories each, and that left me at 450 calories for snacks. And soda being at 200 calories, and chips being at 150 calories, it was pretty easy to choose to eat less or something else like granola or fruits.
This new fatigue messed with me mentally. At some points it would be hard to cope with it, and I would either break the limit of calories, or get worked up not doing that. If I were to do something like this again I would increase my daily allowance, and the time frame. Socially though, this was overall a good thing. To keep myself busy from not eating I would get on my friends teamspeak and play games with them to try to forget about it, and most of the time this worked beautifully, and when it didn’t I could find plenty of randoms on games to play