I don’t weigh daily anymore—I check the trend every Sunday and measure my waist once a month. Yesterday’s clinic printout put me in the standard BMI range for the first time since college. I know BMI is a blunt instrument and my body isn’t a spreadsheet, but I sat at my kitchen table and happy-cried into my coffee anyway. Down 58 lbs over about 14 months, and the habits that got me here are pretty boring: 30g protein at breakfast, a 20-minute walk after lunch, and pausing before snacks to ask if I’m actually hungry or just tired. The label change feels less like a finish line and more like proof the boring stuff adds up. For those further along: what habit kept you grounded after a milestone like this?
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