Weight loss: 8 months in, and I've lost 107lbs... 33lbs to go! |
- 8 months in, and I've lost 107lbs... 33lbs to go!
- Fat couple turned Fat wife ��
- I think I'm going to lose one of my best guy friends due to my weight loss
- Thank you all for the support! First update from my first 494lb weigh in.
- Everything started with a picture from last year’s Valentines. 1 year later and I’m down 86lbs!
- Trying to become healthy is driving me insane
- I reached one of my goals!
- I’ve hit 26 pounds lost today!
- [6 MO. UPDATE] (Ex) Girlfriend cheated on me and I went to a public gym for the first time in my life
- Developed an eating disorder after losing 55lb(25kg)
- A family member said they are concerned for my health
- Gotta recognize those non scale victories.
- Any percentage of healthy is better than zero. One slip up doesn't mean it's all been for nothing!
- Gotta love being chastised for healthy habits...
- [MtF20] 6'3" ~345 lbs to 300 lbs ( -45 lbs) 6 months Aug 2019 - March 2020
- I’m coming out of a fog from my medication & I feel so much better I finally feel losing weight is possible.
- I advised my MOH on using CICO to shed the 20lbs she felt were extra, and it worked! And today, I want to start walking the walk.
- 9 months of hard work - 111 pounds gone
- I'm going to start my weightloss today - no more restarts
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 2
- Set it and forget it goals
- Struggling to get back on track
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 3rd, 2020
| 8 months in, and I've lost 107lbs... 33lbs to go! Posted: 02 Mar 2020 08:51 AM PST I started this journey on June 15th 2019. So, 8~ months ago. 340lbs, couldn't breath, couldn't move great...overall... I felt like shit, I looked even worse. Unhappy, unfulfilled, no motivation. Depressed. For more than just a few reasons. Cue that moment of realization... 8 Months late, I'm at 233lbs with a goal weight of 200lbs. I have a 5k scheduled and planned, and I'm gonna shred it. Thanks for all your help and support, I look forward to learning more every day! EDIT: And now for the extra content, because the Auto Moderator doesn't like me. I'm not following any restrictive diet at the moment, and I likely won't at any point, unless something changes. I'm currently eating 1,700kcal/day which puts me at about 1000kcal deficit, since I work out 3 days a week doing heavy lifting for an hour. It's been pretty great. I'm seeing steady progress, and I'm regularly under daily, but not by a ton. Some days, I have to cram some popsicles in order to get closer to the 1,700. Other day, I'm right on the money. The process has been enjoyable. I got my blood pressure and the like checked recently. I would normally sit around 140+ for systolic. But I was in recently, I'm chillin' at 114/72. Such a great thing to see. EDIT: Thanks for the Gold, kind stranger. :) Can I turn in Reddit coins for protein powder somewhere? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:25 PM PST Started my journey today and joined this community last night. My husband and I had always been a fat couple together. I am so proud to say that he made the decision to change that back in 2014 and slowly but surely lost a significant amount of weight (130 lbs!) and has kept it off. He works very hard and is in the best shape of his life. He has used this community for information and inspiration. I am so happy for him and at the same time find it hard to cope with our new dynamic. I've been the big girl in every setting of my life except for my home. Now I feel the probably the worst about my physical self at home because I can't help but compare myself to him. I want so badly for my daughter to have two fit and healthy parents! I also want my husband and I to grow old together so I need to make the change for myself and our family too. Here goes! [link] [comments] |
| I think I'm going to lose one of my best guy friends due to my weight loss Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:43 AM PST I have a really close male friend who I've been tight with for a few years now. We tell each other everything and he has really become a valuable part of my life. We would talk about everything, but venting about family and dating has always been a big thing we connected on. I saw him for the first time in months this weekend, I've also lost a considerable amount of weight in this period of time. He acted totally different... constant sexual remarks, compliments, flirting. I was happy when he initially complimented me but as we started to have more drinks it started to get so weird. I also felt uncomfortable telling him about my current dating life. He was acting jealous and putting down the people I was talking about. I feel like I'm about to lose a great friend just because apparently he now views me as "fuckable?" It was really annoying to have to reject him a few times through out the night. I'm not going to be able to hang out with him again if this continues. I feel extremely frustrated by this. I've always thought he was a handsome person and never said anything weird to him in the past. I guess this rant is stupid since everything else in my life has been better since my lifestyle change but it definitely hurts. [link] [comments] |
| Thank you all for the support! First update from my first 494lb weigh in. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 08:32 AM PST Hello all! First, thank you to so many people who were supportive of my first post where I checked in at day one of this journey. [link] [comments] |
| Everything started with a picture from last year’s Valentines. 1 year later and I’m down 86lbs! Posted: 02 Mar 2020 06:48 AM PST I hope my transformation helps to motivate others as I got motivated by many of you during my weight loss journey. IW: 277lbs - BF%:~38 CW: 191lbs - BF%:~14.5 Picture on the left was taken on 04/04/2019, picture on the right was taken on 02/27/2020. The entire process took 1 year (02/27/2019 through 02/27/2020) however, pictures weren't taken 1 year apart. For those who are curious about the title: Also, something I wanted to add. Motivation works great as a jumpstart, usually lasts for days, maybe weeks. However, discipline and determination are the ones that will take you places in life. Get rid of the old habits, make new healthier ones. Go to the gym, start cooking at home and be conscious of your caloric intake. Stay healthy, guys! EDIT: added another picture - I wasn't upset or anything, lol. [link] [comments] |
| Trying to become healthy is driving me insane Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:03 PM PST Trying to become healthy is driving me insane. Everything is contradictory to each other. Eat your fruit and vegetables kids. As long as they're orangic. And you should actually really reduce your fruit intake. Nevermind all carbs are the devil, stick to LCHF. As long as the saturated fats don't kill you first (all those artifical sweeteners too). Oh wait, low carb doesn't give you enough energy and is too restricting. Just do the regular ol under 1200 diet. But hold on, if you don't eat enough your body will eat your muscle. Calories in, calories out is the way to go! Oh, you're worried about still having a fatty heart/liver? Guess you should go vegan. Better be careful about getting in your vitamins and protein though. repeat again Then the exercise. Do low impact work-outs like swimming or cycling. But also you should know that running is way better for you and you'll get more results that way. You know what? Forget cardio, just lift weights. Use the machines offered if you can. But not those ones and did you know most of these machines gradually injury you? You better do free weights. Don't know the proper form? This youtuber can show you. Wait no, that guy is outdated. Asdfghjkl 🤯🤯🤯 Anyway, I'm still trying and definitely not quitting. Just a little frustrated. P.S. (edit): I've been making progress losing weight (counting calories/trying to figure out what macros to aim for/hitting the gym) but I'm worried about going on with a plan, like keto and machines, that will negatively impact me later on. And it feels like that's everything. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 04:56 PM PST For reference I (21f) am only 5'4" my starting weight was 237-241lbs. I had been referred to as "Dora if she only explored the kitchen." So I decided to start working harder to lose the weight and over the course of the past year and a half to 2 years I have managed to get down to 172lbs! I am so proud of myself and this prompted me to go shopping and try on some new clothes to gage where I'm at in terms of clothes now. Most of my stuff is quite baggy and unflattering now so I wanted something new that fits to encourage me and give a confidence boost. Well I went around and grabbed my usual size 18, tried it on WAY too big. 16, same thing. 14, still huge. 12 kinda fits but still. baggy in all the wrong places. Finally I see a 10, one of my goal sizes I set for myself 2 years ago. I put it on over my ankles, then Claves, say prayer over the thighs and finally over the booty and hips. AND BOOM GOES THE MF DYNAMITE THEY FUCKING FIT PERFECTLY!!! BUTTONED AND ZIPPED AND I CAN MOVE AND SHAKE AND BREATHE! My ultimate goal is 150ish and size 8 but knowing I am so close now makes me wanna work twice as hard! I stared into that mirror taking note of my appearance and felt like I truly noticed how much my body is changing. My back is smoother and slimmer. My waist is smaller and my stomach is getting flatter. My legs look good but are looking better everyday. I am starting to truly notice and appreciate all that I have worked for paying off. [link] [comments] |
| I’ve hit 26 pounds lost today! Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:45 AM PST A little story, at my heaviest of last year I was 299 pounds on April 1st 2019, I got down to 269 in July. Well, I went on vacation to Georgia/Tennessee in July & started eating everything. Never got back on track. I decided I wanted to lose weight again. I weighed in at 286 on January 1st, so I signed up for a program at work. It's almost been 3 months & I've lost 26 pounds, I'm now 260! I've had some hiccups here & there but this time I make sure instead of feeling defeated by eating over calories to just have a better day(s) during that week. My current goal weight is 250 so I need 10 more pounds to go, my real goal weight is 230. Making it a section by section type of weight loss really helps me stay motivated! I mainly just wanted to share cause I'm really happy and to tell whoever reads this, you can do it & I'm proud of you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:27 PM PST Hey everyone! 6 months ago I posted this and I was flooded with love and support from you all, and I think it's only fair that I share my 32 lb. weight loss so far! First off, progress pics, because I know we all love those. It's been a really bumpy road for me these last 6 months, both emotionally and physically. I'll give a little timeline of what I've been up to as well as share some things I've learned along the way. So after I had made my initial post, I went to the gym everyday except on Sundays. Everything was great! I had never missed a day, my strength was increasing and after about a month in with daylight savings and winter around the corner, my friend and I had to stop playing tennis, so I began to implement cardio into my workouts. This went on for three months, and I was so f****** frustrated. Why? I had last 12 lbs. the first month, and didn't lose a single pound for the other two. In those two months, I tried to change a lot (probably too much) to see the scale go down. At the start, I was doing IF and OMAD, so I tried transitioning to CICO with three meals a day. When that didn't work, I tried being really really strict about counting my calories, including disregarding the calories I burned during my workouts and only eating my estimated calorie out for just existing, and that still didn't work. My friend and I concluded that it was probably (hopefully) due to me gaining muscle weight at around the same rate as losing fat weight. While that should've been enough reasoning for me to be happy with the changes I had made in my life, I couldn't shake the feeling that my efforts were in vain. But I still committed. Then, my commitment backfired a bit. After three months of working out 6 days a week consistently, I badly sprained my ankle doing squats at the gym. I only had about two hours of sleep the previous night, but I was persistent on going. Looking back, I realized that my form was substantially worse than it usually was, because I was more focused on getting the weights up, as opposed to focusing on the specific muscle to help me get the weights up. Heels were off the floor, I wasn't going down with the right form, I was just a mess. I hobbled over to the first aid room, and unfortunately they didn't have any wraps so I sat there icing my ankle for about ten minutes before calling an Uber to take me back to my apartment. I sat in my apartment, defeated. Unfortunately, that was my last time at the gym. This, was the start of my new relationship with food. I thought about how I was going to lose weight if I wasn't going to the gym. I'm a slave when it comes to numbers. More specifically, the calories I was consuming and my weight on a scale. I decided to challenge myself. I challenged myself to stop looking at the scale so much, and to be hyper aware of what my body was telling me. To elaborate on the latter point, I was focusing on listening to my body when it's full, and if it tried telling me that I was hungry, I would drink an absurd amount of water to see if that would shut my mind up. I tried eating foods that would keep me fuller longer, and forced myself to stop eating out so much, even if it would allow me to stay in my calorie budget. Now, three months later, I am officially down 32 lbs. and another 30 pounds to reach the goal weight I've had for the last 7 years. This is the lowest weight I've been since high school, when I also lost a bunch of weight, and I feel wonderful! Physically, I don't feel as drained doing typical activities, like walking to and from school, going up stairs, or even at work where I bus tables. Emotionally, I'm still struggling a bit with my breakup, but I do feel more confident in myself. Although I'm not sure if that's progress from my breakup, or from losing weight. Nonetheless, it's still a win. But, I have (inevitably) encountered my kryptonite. The same kryptonite that relapses me, especially when I lost a bunch of weight in high school. People have noticed. People have complimented. People have congratulated me. That's my kryptonite. I get into this "self feeding cycle" kind of mindset where people noticing my accomplishment of losing weight, makes me think that I've reached my goal and that I don't need to progress anymore. Well not this time. I am hell bent on staying on track, and I can only imagine it'll get harder from here as I continue to lose weight. So as I said before, please continue to do what y'all have been doing. This community has been a saving grace for me. All of your stories, all of your progress pics, everything has kept me on track thus far and I can't even begin to express my gratitude to this community. Thank you all for being wonderful people, and I hope to see you in another 6 months with another 30 lbs. lost. tl;dr Girlfriend cheated on me, went to the gym for the first time ever, sprained my ankle three months later, changed my relationship with food, ???, profit. [link] [comments] |
| Developed an eating disorder after losing 55lb(25kg) Posted: 02 Mar 2020 07:05 PM PST I started dieting and excercising for about a year now. Lost at the rate of 1 kg or less per week. Which is supposedly a safe range. And i had many pauses. After loaing that weight I still felt obese in my mind. People suddenly started complimenting me. Strangers. My professors. Distanced family members etc. Although it's very nice I'm still dumbfounded because in the mirror I see myself as the ugliest human being alive. Ontop of it I dont feel like my body changed. If anything the only thing is that im a smaller size. XXL to Medium. Im now 166lb (75kg) on 5'11 (180cm) aiming to lose another 5kg. My initial goal was to stop at 80kg. My parents think im crazy. Or developing anorexia which only makes me more insecure. I was insecure when i was obese and im still as insecure for being too skinny. People always talk about how good they feel after losing weight but for me it feels like it's never going away. People don't talk about the negative sides of losing weight that might apply to a lot of people or just myself. [link] [comments] |
| A family member said they are concerned for my health Posted: 02 Mar 2020 10:03 PM PST It happened. My brother told me he was worried about my health. I'm a 5'9" 245lbs woman, so yeah, I need to lose weight. I've done weight watchers, keto, Atkins, calorie counting, but nothing sticks. I decided it was time to see my doctor. She is sending me to a class provided by the network I'm in to help me learn about achieving a healthy weight. She scheduled a follow up for 6 months. I've signed up for orange theory fitness and have started a daily stretching routine. I'm always so excited and inspired on day one, but it never lasts through the weekend. Anyone have tips on how to push through the first weekend? I'm hoping this thread will be motivating too. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Gotta recognize those non scale victories. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 07:21 AM PST Just wanted to talk about February. I lost 10 lbs in January, and that's about it. I lost maybe 2 or 3 lbs in February, but there were some other great victories.
I still feel very encouraged to keep going. I had a little bit of a binge this weekend, so I'm working on recovering and focusing on how awful I feel after a binge like that. Either way, it's a marathon, and I'm doing good so far. I hope everyone else is as well. [link] [comments] |
| Any percentage of healthy is better than zero. One slip up doesn't mean it's all been for nothing! Posted: 02 Mar 2020 10:32 AM PST I'm on probably my thousandth fresh start for my second weight loss journey, and unlike the other times where I quit half way through the day, I lasted five days before a screw up, eating perfectly while still keeping myself full and walking 10k steps a day. I started seeing small changes in my stamina and body immediately, so I was feeling great and highly motivated. Today my depression hit me hard and I knew the second I woke up that I was gonna lose control. I still ate healthy meals, even baking kale chips for the first time to try and make a healthy snack alternative that I could binge on without it affecting my calorie total as much, but I accidentally oversalted the chips to the point where they were inedible and after that I gave up and ate what felt like tons of chocolate and sweets. In reality, I had ten small sweets and two Twirl chocolate bars. I don't know how the rest of my evening/night will go, if I'm being honest I'll likely eat more, but as far as binges go, that's very small for me, especially if you consider the following: Last week the straw that broke my back and made me fully motivated at last to lose weight again was that I ate eleven chocolate bars in one sitting, and while it's not the worst I've eaten, by far, it was how easy it was and how I didn't feel at all nauseous when I was done that scared me. I'm 5'6 and was 170lbs on Wednesday, having just about dropped to that from my heaviest, 175lbs, after Christmas. I've been this weight for eight months and it's been my first time properly living my life while overweight. Last time, even though I was 10lbs lighter, I shut myself away and isolated myself from everyone and everything for five months until I started losing weight again and got back down to 135lbs, my safe weight. This time has been different. Partly because I had a job that I couldn't avoid and forced me out in public, partly because I have a boyfriend who loves every inch of me and can make me feel confident even when I feel like no one has ever looked so gross. It's been better this time, but I still haven't been fully happy because I know I'm not being healthy and I don't look the way I want to. So that's why I know that after being reminded of how amazing it feels to walk and not be exhausted after ten minutes, to eat healthy, wholesome meals, to have the energy to go out shopping with my boyfriend, to model the underwear he got me for him and feel confident doing it, to not feel like a balloon blowing up bigger and bigger every day, to actually feel in control of myself... I know that tomorrow I will wake up and get out of bed and make my healthy breakfast and get out the door as soon as possible for an hour's walk. Because inevitably I'm going to have slip ups, but if I can live the healthy life I want to live 90% of the time, that's infinitely better than how I was living before. TL;DR: I had a small binge today after five days of perfection but I'm not letting it ruin my future. [link] [comments] |
| Gotta love being chastised for healthy habits... Posted: 02 Mar 2020 08:50 AM PST I am losing weight because I reevaluated my relationship with food. I see food as fuel now, and I want to make sure I'm using premium fuel so my body runs the best it can. This means I don't eat junk anymore, and I really don't want to. If I go out for lunch with friends I get salads with extra grilled chicken. I'll do a burger, but I'll get steamed veggies instead of fries. I don't do desserts, unless its the protein ice creams I get from my local grocer. Sure I know fried foods and sugary snacks taste good, but I also know how they're going to make me feel after I eat them, so I don't eat them. My weight loss is becoming very noticeable to people around me, and now I'm getting negative projections from them when they see my eating habits first hand. They can't understand how I'm torturing myself by not enjoying the good things in life. "Oh come on, a basket of fries isn't going to kill you." - No, but they'll make me feel bloated and upset my stomach. "But you loved mint chocolate chip ice cream! Just eat some and get over yourself." - I don't enjoy the crash after eating that much sugar, so no thank you. None of the repercussions are worth it to me. I get it, they're being insecure and feeling guilty about their habits so they need to try and bring me down to their level. I dealt with the exact same thing when I quit drinking. It's just super annoying and I'm getting sick of hearing it. Yesterday I spent the afternoon meal prepping all my lunches and dinners for the week. I am so over being chastised for my food choices, so I've removed the need to go out to eat. It's for the best anyways, meal prepping is a lot more wallet friendly and it takes the guess work out of caloric monitoring. [link] [comments] |
| [MtF20] 6'3" ~345 lbs to 300 lbs ( -45 lbs) 6 months Aug 2019 - March 2020 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:41 PM PST (Not the best comparisons but it's what I've got. I can really see a difference in nude pictures of myself but I'm not comfortable sharing those.) Anyways yall, I'm feeling very happy with myself right now! I still have a ways to go but I feel like I can do it. To give some back story I had something really horrible happen to me in 2015 that really impacted my mental health. Through stress, coping via food, and living a sedentary, depressed lifestyle I went from around 180 lbs to around 345 lb in about 4 years. I ended up with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. My dad's side of my family is prone to heart disease and heart attacks, so this is not a good position to be in. From about September 2015 to August 2019 I was continually gaining weight. I finally decided I was ready to get my health back. The majority of my changes and weight loss have happened in the last month, but I did lose a little bit of weight beforehand. May be important to note, I've been on hrt for the past 2.5 years. Anyways, here's what I changed: 1) Processed sugar I used to eat A LOT of processed sugary sweets. Honeybuns were a favorite, and so was ice cream. I now occasionally treat myself to sweets, probably around once every two weeks, as opposed to every day. 2) Smaller portions, more meals, cooking for myself I used to eat out a lot, especially fast food. Now, 90% of my meals are home cooked from simple ingredients. I usually do food prep or a few dishes on Sundays and eat off of whatever I've maid for the next week. I used to eat until I couldn't fit anymore without feeling like I was going to vomit. I now eat until I feel like I've had just enough. I also replaced my pattern of 3 huge meals with around 4-5 smaller meals throughout the day. Generally speaking I eat a larger breakfast high in protein (I'll get to that) shortly after I wake up (usually around 7 or 8 am), a light lunch around noon, a very light snack of fruit or something around 3-4 pm, dinner around 7 or 8 pm, and, if I'm up late, another meal around 11 pm should I get hungry. Making all these changes has caused my appetite to decrease a lot, which makes it easier to keep up the changes. 3) More protein, less fat, more vegetables My old diet consisted of a lot of red meat, cheese, etc. I now get most of my protein from either legumes (mostly beans and lentils) or chicken. My fat intake is nearly nonexistent 😂. I also make sure I get a variety vegetables in my meals. I still eat carbs, but I've decreased the amount, and it's almost never bread, mostly parboiled rice or pasta. 4) Exercise I just started exercising about a month ago. I don't do very intense exercise right now, but I usually walk 1-3 miles a day. It was hard at first but it gets easier every day that I do it. There's a gym in my apartment building so I'll start taking advantage of that soon. 5) Sleep apnea treatment If you're familiar with sleep apnea you may know that if it goes untreated it can really mess up all aspects of your health, including your ability to lose weight. I started wearing my cpap every night. It definetly helps me to have energy during the day, which makes it easier to exercise and be activate. Also for a misc thing, I used to smoke Marijuana every day. I barely smoke anymore. That has probably helped at least a little. So that's what I've changed that helped me lose around 25 lb in a month. I've probably lost more by now as I last checked my weight around 2 weeks ago but I don't own a scale atm. I'm definitely open to suggestions if you have any tips for me. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:32 PM PST At the beginning of 2020 I had a huge mental health break down and realized I'm not ok. I needed my meds changed and a therapist to help me through my life. I'm not sure how I even let myself get so bad except to say I think I got progressively worse in such small increments that I didn't realize I wasn't ok anymore. First i did 2 things, went to see my Dr and we decided to go off Vibryd. And I started talking to a Therapist. And holy shit going off Vibryd made such a huge difference. Turns out this med had stopped working for me and once I was off it I could see that it was also increasing my appetite - a side effect that only 3% of people on the max dose experience. Lucky me. Getting used to being off it took almost a month after the weaning off process. Then my therapist noticed I tell her I'm tired all the time and we realize I'm not sleeping. Chronic insomnia. I am terrible at falling asleep. So I go get blood work done because according to my therapist, 1) you can't expect good mental health if you aren't sleeping and 2) first we need to rule out physical problems before we assume it's mental. I was tested for a ton of things and everything came back fine. But when I looked up my iron levels( anemia runs in the family) I can see my levels are normal, but on the low side of normal. Queue researching anemia- turns out I have many of the anemia symptoms: fatigue, depression, nausea, light headedness/dizzy, hair loss, loose stools. So Changed my multi vitamin to allow me to take an iron supplement and a multi vitamin that had much much less iron rather than the obscene % my previous vitamin had. (don't want to od on iron) I started taking a vitamin called blood builder. I also started a supplement with insitol because PCOS runs in my family and I don't have it but I grow chin hair like a dude. I also only have 1 ovary so I wonder if that plays into why I don't have it. Because my mother, 2 sisters and daughter all have it. I'm the only one who doesn't. But When I read that insitol is supposed to help with chin hair, sleep, and depression I decided to give it a try for a month. This week I'll be adding a vegan probiotic to help the good bacteria in my gut. ( I'm not vegan. Just trying to take supplements made from the safest possible ingredients) And just today my doctor prescribed me something for insomnia. Which will hopefully be only temporary because I'm hoping losing weight will help my insomnia. I'm posting this because now I can see I felt like shit for years. And I think there are people, lurkers, here who maybe need to hear this. It is possible that part of how you feel isn't because you are mean to yourself about your weight. Body chemistry matters. I tried to lose weight but couldn't because I was always so tired. So incredibly tired. Everything made me tired. Emotions and actions exhausted me so easily. Yet I thought it was normal. And it isn't. I wouldn't even have tried to change this all if I hadn't been taking to my therapist who pushed me to see my dr about sleep. Now I feel like I'm waking up into an overweight out of shale almost 40 yr old body. I have more energy and while I still suck at falling asleep, (we will see if the sleep pill helps tomorrow) the sleep I get feels more restful. It's like waking up from a dazed dream. What the fuck happened to me? I can look down and see the 60+ lbs the medication helped me gain. And I see myself so overweight and bloated. But I finally feel like I have enough energy to deal with meal planning and eating healthier. And I finally want to workout. I feel like I can find the real me again. Not just remember her and hope life gets better. So if you are struggling consider trying to fix your sleep and rest. Go see a dr, get blood work. Look into nutritional deficiencies like anemia to see what your body might be lacking. Yes fat is a problem but I can now see that my problem is so much more than I hate being fat. And I now see how I can't address losing fat until I balance my body chemistry and give myself better health at my current weight. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:13 PM PST I've always projected a lot of confidence and body positivity, and have always been relatively fit (I can easily headstand in yoga, for example). However, over the past half decade starting "adult" work (aka office for long, gruelling hours), I woke up to find myself (almost without noticing) having gained 30lbs (now 163lbs, 5Ft4 Female, muscular build). I've somehow always put off starting a weight loss journey myself, citing "not wanting to buy into orthorexia culture" and my love of food (though I eat quite healthy - mostly veggies when cooking meals). However: I no longer feel as comfortable sleeping on my side because I feel my belly get pulled down by gravity. I always give an excuse to my SO about not wearing the delicate, expensive lingerie that we love. I had to put away many, many cute dresses due to having outgrown them. I have started snoring, and quite loudly to the point of somehow disrupting my SO's sleep. Two years ago, my best friend and MOH mentioned being very self conscious of her 20lbs weight gain. I advised (as someone with a health science background) to try CICO, which she has done successfully! So I can talk the talk to others. Today I start walking the walk. GOAL: 30 lbs in 12 months through CICO, IF 16-8, and being more assiduous with exercising. If I reach my goal, I should be able to fit into my wedding dress again! [link] [comments] |
| 9 months of hard work - 111 pounds gone Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:06 PM PST I used to always be a bigger kid growing up. While never necessarily obese throughout high school i was always overweight and would struggle immensely with sports which was rough since i have a deep passion for them. Came into college weighing in around 215 and i maintained that weight for a good portion of the first year of living on campus. At the end of my freshman year my grandfather passed away and between that and moving into my own apartment 5 minutes away from a Walmart a horrible pattern of overeating and binge eating started taking place. My weight peaked after i returned from a trip to greece at 278. I was drinking, smoking, and eating my way to an early grave, sometimes drinking up to 10 beers a day. I was suffering from multiple different illnesses including constant shortness of breath, high blood pressure, poor sleep patterns, severe blood blisters, and terrible dizziness and headaches to name a few. My journey started in June of 2019 when i was looking through photos of my trip and was disgusted at what had become of me. One of the main things that I focused on what making sure that i completely eliminated sugar from my diet, and made sure that I wasn't drinking my calories. One of the biggest steps i took was cutting off contact with almost everyone i had met and made friends with in college. I know it sounds a bit crude but a lot of my bad habits were produced in an environment where that sort of behavior was encouraged so in order to be able to focus solely on my weight loss and progress I stopped talking to alot of them, stopped hanging out, and went and made a completely new set of friends at the gym. Over time I was able to fully quit drinking, smoking and vaping, and started eating 2 very healthy meals a day consisting of: a breakfast of 0% fat greek yogurt, oatmeal, a scoop of peanut butter, and a banana; and a dinner that would range from chicken rice and veggies to steak and broccoli to the occasional ramen noodles :). I limited myself to eating fast food once a month as a reward if i would meet my weight goals and I am extremely happy with how well that system has worked out. In terms of workout It was extremely rough at first. I always had a love and passion for tennis and wanted to be able to play again so I started with running on the treadmill to be able to get some speed back. For my first week I wasn't able to make it even a 1/4 mile without feeling extremely winded. I kept hitting the treadmill hard along with a 3 day on 1 day off schedule of Push, Pull, Legs. As of yesterday i am able to run 5 miles comfortably at a 10 min/mil pace with a fastest time of 6:37. I hope to one day run a marathon and be able to bring that time down to 6:00 even. So here it is after 9 months 278-167. My end goal is to cut down to around 160 and then start a cycle of bulking and cutting so that by the time I graduate college I will be able to be physically fit enough to apply for the police academy and be able to meet their standards. [link] [comments] |
| I'm going to start my weightloss today - no more restarts Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:04 PM PST I've been trying to lose weight for the past 3 years - and instead of losing my initial goal of 10kg ive gained an extra 20kg. I'm a 154cm female who weighs 80kg. I'm aware of how unhealthy I am. I tend to not show how miserable and trapped I feel in my own skin - feeling so uncomfortable just by existing. I've become more recluse and never leave my house - I hate going outside and meeting people because Im so ashamed of myself. I've had enough and I've decided to change - no more restarts no more excuses I just need to start no matter what and keep going without quitting. It's going to be long and had and for the past 3 months I've been trying to figure out what works and doesn't and done some research. I'm planning on doing CICO and hoping to lose a total of 30kg and hopefully by the end of this year I can achieve that goal. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 2 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 02:57 PM PST Hello losers, Happy day two! I hope you're off to the races & feeling fine! Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in today. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): My buddy from abroad is in town so I'm likely taking a maintenance day. 1/1 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute walk at lunch. 2/2 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing, fancy coffee out no more than 3 times a week 2/13): Spending some time with some of my favorite people tonight. And I won't be out late, this lady is tired. Happy balance of social & self care over here for this introvert. Try a new recipe once a week: Peanut butter hummus so far. Here's the URL https://www.budgetbytes.com/snap-challenge-peanut-butter-hummus/ I will note, this recipe would make a savory hummus whereas I went sweet by using a honey cinnamon peanut butter, no garlic or cumin. I ended up adding some cinnamon, vanilla extract & honey instead. I also think to go full dessert hummus, coconut oil instead of olive & maybe a sweeter citrus juice versus lemon would really take it there. I like the lightly sweet version my changes yielded, so does my partner who is more a savory person. 1/4 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: I think setting a 50 page a month goal will keep me more honest on this one. 0/50 pages. Drawing prompt every day: I'm not sure this is in the cards today. 1/2 days. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: I'm grateful for the people in my life that really make me feel valued & important. How about you all? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 06:25 PM PST I realized today that setting goals, then completely forgetting them gives me a pretty good motivation boost. I have an app that I use that automatically saves and tracks progress from my weigh ins on my scale. I was 312 pounds at my heaviest a while back and with better eating habits, dropped to 270 for a bit and due to life in general stuck at that weight for a while. I set a goal for myself to reach 250 and when I constantly thought about it, getting down to that weight felt like a chore more so than a point to move towards. I did eventually hit that weight but after a lot of mental strain. After that, I used the app that tracks my weight to set a goal for 220 pounds (which was 10 pounds under what my drivers license says I am lol). But this time I set the goal in the app and didn't think about it anymore. I focused on just eating well and being active. I found that I got very into exercising and focused on improving that rather than any specific weight goal. The eating changes became second nature and I just continued on with my routine and focused on myself and just enjoyed the ride. Fast forward to this morning, I weighed in at 217 pounds. I decided to look at my app and see how my weight trend has been going over the last 6 months and was surprised to see the graph dip below a goal line that I completely forgot was there! Seeing that I reached below this goal weight that I had, at this point, completely forgotten about made me realize how well things were working when I'm not stressing over hitting a magic number, but still having that goal to surprise myself in the future when I do actually hit it. Setting my next one to 190 to have some comfortable padding into Onederland and I'm now even more excited to progress! [link] [comments] |
| Struggling to get back on track Posted: 02 Mar 2020 10:52 PM PST Hey guys, so currently I started today and promised to stay in my calorie intake. I'm 5'6 and 22 years old and 161lbs right now. I started out at 210lbs 2 years ago and dropped down to 150lbs in a year. And I gained 11lbs back in the past 4 month. I've gone days of going over and under and maintaining my intake. I eat 1700 calories. Breakfast and lunch I manage to get by easy, its dinner that ends it for me. My girlfriend makes really amazing food and sometimes I go crazy and eat more than I should. I used to be good at saying no and eating a small portion. I'm struggling badly right now, and I plan to go back to the gym next month once I get my check. I just want to work on my diet right now. What's the best way stay true to it ? What do you guys eat for breakfast, what snacks, please drop some in the comments so I can buy some as well. I successfully completed my first day today and tomorrow is another day to battle [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 3rd, 2020 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 10:34 PM PST Hi team Euro accountability, march 3rd is here! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! [link] [comments] |
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