Maintaining a social life?!
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Find other activities to do with your friends. If they're not down, make friends at the gym. If your friends can't support your healthy lifestyle, are they really your friends?
Some ideas for social but active outings:
(Kind of dependent upon where you live/season)
Simply go for a walk in the neighborhood
Take a bike ride together
Rock climbing (I have an indoor facility nearby)
Roller skating... not just for middle schoolers! Lol
Ice skating
Pick up game of basketball
Join a rec volleyball team
SkyZone or the like (in my area... kind of like an indoor gymnasium, trampolines, etc. Again, not just for kids!)
Sign up for a 5k as a team and train together
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Quite frankly, at 1200 calories per day, I have to stay away from many social events. I am 45 years-old, and ALL social meeting involves food and/or drink.
Now you'll tell me that I could go, enjoy the company as I don't have to eat or drink, but when the activity is to go to the restaurant and/or "to have drinks", it's really too hard to just stay there watching others. Don't even get me started with the fact that if I go, I have to tell everyone that I am on a diet.
No thanks.
So most of the time, I skip.
My weight loss journey is a very lonely one. That's the toughest part for me.
Going back to your question, OP: you should try as much as possible to organize the activities yourself, so that it does not necessarily revolves around food and drinks. It should be easier if your friends don't have children yet so they have free time outside lunch or "happy hour" time.1
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