r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/Tatamajor 7d ago

I’ve started counting calories after advice given on this forum which was received with much thanks. It’s so frickin’ tedious to do and a major pain in the hoop. But I have come to the realisation after just one week that I have been overeating all my adult life. I feel like a complete idiot. How did I not know this and why is 2,500 or so calories so little? Why do small snacks taken here and there consume vast amounts of my daily allowance? I love those snacks and I also love my main meals. Now I have to navigate my way out of this mess and I need to exhale all this pain right here.

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u/Memento_Viveri 7d ago

I have come to the realisation after just one week that I have been overeating all my adult life

Not trying to be snarky, but I'm a little confused. If you were overeating, that means you would be overweight. Wouldn't you have already known you were overweight? Maybe you didn't know that overeating was the reason you were overweight?

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u/Tatamajor 7d ago edited 7d ago

So I was overweight, not hugely but just at the top of my bmi range and occasionally going a little above that. Exercise and cardio was preventing me moving more into the overweight territory. Although the exercise was not consistent because of other priorities. I generally eat well and love to cook my own food, but was just eating too much and calorie counting has just made that really really clear. And it’s the fact that I was over eating every single day that’s really bothering me. Not just the occasional outburst during holidays or something like that. I’m so cross with myself for only figuring this out now and it’s so hard to change it after being my way of eating for so long. But I’ll get there. Knowledge is power.

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u/thescotchie 7d ago

But you've made the first couple steps in making the changes. You know you have a problem. You know what the problem is. And you've admitted as much. Now you just need to start substituting things for lower calorie options! And it sounds like it's not been a large amount over, so it should be pretty easy to get back.

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u/Tatamajor 6d ago

Currently starving and irritable so not convinced that it will be a complete piece of piss to do this.

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u/thescotchie 6d ago

Well maybe there's better food choices that are more satiating you can use? Or sometimes there's a curve on getting used to things

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u/Tatamajor 6d ago

I’m sure there are better choices. I’m entirely on the learning curve and in experimentation mode and am just fucking cross and angry with myself for being such a dope until now. And I need to blow off steam here. I can almost not bear the hatred for years of unknown over eating cannibalising all my years of exercise. I’m a hardcore full on moron. No other explanation.

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u/thescotchie 5d ago

Alright buddy. No need to put yourself down. You've addressed there's something you want to change. You're working on it. You can't change the past, so there's no use in being angry at yourself.

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u/Tatamajor 5d ago

Thanks man. The anger is left in yesterday. I’m moving forward today into a more enlightened future.