Hello! 27/f here with 55lbs to loose, trying TDEE - 20%!

mazmataz

Hey everyone,

I've been on here for quite a while now but it's getting kinna lonley so it would be good to have some online weight loss buddies! A quick background - I've never been a normal weight for my age/height...like from as far back as I could stand up! I was a 4 stone/56lb 4 year old! I've pretty much dieted my whole life, clearly to no avail lol! I've tried Aktins, Dukan, Weight Watchers, Scottish Slimmers, pills, Slimfast, the Juice Master diet, regular calorie counting etc etc

However, over the past year or so I've come to realise that it's all b%*l$h&t! After reading The Gabriel Method, and studying as many success stories as I can, I have finally come to realise that old school, conventional dieting doesn't work (27 years later - hoorah!). I kind of accepted this fact for a while without mustering up any kind of motivation to do anything about it - and then it just kind of started happening...

I moved from Scotland to Canada about five months ago, found some new roommates and started snowboarding. I started cooking meals with my roommates, pinching pennies as I'm currently saving to go traveling again (and groceries are frigging expensive in Canada!) and snowboarding every weekend. Over a few weeks I noticed that my clothes were getting pretty loose on me - I was even blaming the laundry room for a while! And then I realised, $h!t...I'm actually getting smaller!

So I'm currently riding the crest of this wave, trying to follow TDEE - 20%...which still scares the hell out of me! Despite my recent epiphany about conventional 'diets', I'm still pretty freaked out by that many calories!! I don't own a scale right now so my weight is pretty much a guestamite based on before I left Scotland, but here are the stats:

Height: 5'7"
Body type: Not really sure: large hips and ribcage, spindly wrists and ankles.

Heaviest: 209lbs
Current: Around 190lbs
Goal: 135lbs

So feek free to add me if any of this ramble is of any interest to you at all! Also, any advice, opinions, reassurance on TDEE-20/15% would be most welcome!