Weight loss: I was 350+ pounds late summer/early fall. 325 this morning! |
- I was 350+ pounds late summer/early fall. 325 this morning!
- Here we are, again!
- Using the COVID-19 Outbreak to focus in on my health and weight
- Am I the only one who is super excited about reaching my weightgoal??
- Just wanted to share progress
- CONFESSION: Watching Mukbangers teaches me to calorie count and never give up on my goals.
- Gym Group Class Anxiety Conquered!
- Calories In Calories Out vs Exercise to lose weight
- It's so weird to get excited about the gym
- Lost 70 pounds, gained back 40.
- Water weight is so discouraging!
- I'm surrendering to a victim mentality and I need help to snap out of it.
- Finally I can see some progress! I can do push-ups and plank for more than 2 minutes
- Rude doctor undermining progress :(
- 24-Hour Pledge - Friday, 13 March 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- Free Talk Friday for 13 March 2020 - Come Talk About Anything!
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 13 March 2020: Today, I conquered!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 13th, 2020
- What big goals did you tackle successfully in small steps? Breaking down my goal and will update!
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 12
- Stressing about an off week / How long did it take you to see results?
- Am I eating enough calories (CICO)? Feeling very hungry after dinner :/
| I was 350+ pounds late summer/early fall. 325 this morning! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:40 PM PDT My husband got injured at work July 1st. He ruptured his achilles tendon and was out of work until November. I had to take care of him so I made a decision that I wasn't going to worry about losing weight at all and I wasn't going to worry if I gained either. I knew I had to lose weight because 350 pounds just wasn't healthy. I'm 5' 8" tall and almost 40, and I was at my heaviest. So I shoved the scale under my claw foot tub and concentrated on taking care of hubby over the next few months. I couldn't mentally handle a lifestyle change while my husband was healing. He recovered and went back to work in November. Since then I've been watching what I eat: being mindful of portions, not eating junk all the time, diet soda instead of sugar and instead of going to McDonald's once a week like I got into the bad habit of doing, I started going once a month. I had some really bad habits and I worked hard to stop those. I come a long way and I have a long way to go. I went to the doctor on February 20th and stepped on a scale for first time in months. 337 pounds is what I saw. Doctor did full blood work and thankfully nothing else is wrong with me. I'm just overweight. I downloaded the Lose It app and have been logging my calories since the doctor visit. I have it set to 1,700 calories and sometimes I go over, but I don't get upset and I just make sure I log it. Some days I'm under. Most days out of the week I do intermittent fasting (recommended by doctor) and eat between 10am-6pm, but weekends when the family is home I find it difficult. Most mornings I have an iced coffee for breakfast with 2 scoops of Creamy Chocolate Fudge Orgain protein powder and skim milk, sometimes I add a cup of fruit and Orgain superfoods powder and make it a smoothie. I've lost 12 pounds since February 20th and I go back to the doctor on April 20th for a weight check. I've been thinking about exercising but right now I'm just thinking about it. I had to tell this to someone, so I'm posting here... I lost 25 pounds so far. 25 pounds is the size of an average two year old!! My two dogs eat 30 pounds of dog food in a month... at 30 pounds lost, I'm going to dye my hair as a reward. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2020 09:07 PM PDT Well, r/loseit friends, it's been awhile but I'm gonna drop in and give the obligatory "Starting Over" post. I've dieted on and off for about 10 years now. I've always been a big guy, but now it's just out of hand. I'm 44 (in a few months), M, 6'3" and I started my newest journey a little over 2 months ago when my weight was at 493 lbs. My wife and I did keto for 2 months, knowing that while keto is great for a weight loss boost, for us it is unsustainable in the long run. Now we are adhering to CICO. As of today, I am at 481.3 lbs. I'm looking forward to dropping enough weight so that I can do some light exercise without hurting all over the next day. Anyway, this is me, checking in and being accountable. Even though I don't post often, I lurk here quite a bit. This is such a supportive and awesome community. I'll keep you guys updated! [link] [comments] |
| Using the COVID-19 Outbreak to focus in on my health and weight Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:17 PM PDT Hi r/loseit, Due to some serious stress and health issues, I ended up putting on about 15 pounds over the past year from my lowest maintained weight. Certainly not the end of the world, definitely caught it early, and I've already lost 5 of those pounds. But! With the Coronavirus, I am now given a gift I am never given: time and control. My work and my classes have been cancelled for five weeks, absolute minimum. I can cook everything at home from fresh and do a few home workouts a day (shoutout to PopSugar Fitness!), all while spending my classes and work sessions peddling away on my under desk elliptical. My ultimate goal weight is around 160, I never made it past 170 at my absolute lowest (and I had a parasite!). If I ate carefully and exercised regularly for the next five weeks, I could easily be back in the high 170s by the time school is back in session in late April (I'm 189.8 as of this morning), which means I could be at my goal weight of easily by the time school starts next year in late August. I am immunocompromised. I am not leaving my home (or at least my neighborhood) any time soon. I am taking this crazy thing that is happening to me and so many others, and I am making it a positive. Let's go. [link] [comments] |
| Am I the only one who is super excited about reaching my weightgoal?? Posted: 13 Mar 2020 01:40 AM PDT Female (25) from 75 kg to 68 kg: I want to send everyone I know my progress pictures, I want to tell everyone my weight right now, I want to help people get into excersize, I want to scream from the top of my lungs! Unfortunately, apart from a few "nice" comments, people around me aren't very bothered (or a little jealous perhaps) with my weight journey... For me this is a huge deal! I haven't been able to keep a good diet and excerise routine in... Never! It's one of the biggest things in my life that made me unhappy. And now I reached my goal. I did it you guys! It's March and I lost all the weight I wanted to lose this YEAR. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2020 12:23 AM PDT So im 3 weeks in on a journey to lose it. I don't really know what to say so I guess I'll start where it all did. I was a heavy kid in high school, I graduated at 295lbs. Not for lack of exercise but nutrition knowledge. All through high school I played basketball twice a day. Before school and during lunch. Not the easy toss the ball around and have fun kind, but the full sprint, full court type. I played football all four years and wrestled all four too. I remained that weight despite all this. 6 months after graduation I was 190lbs. I went from one extreme of eating to the next. I just didn't feel hungry most of the time and kind of forgot to eat. I dropped the weight fast, and payed the price for it as well. I managed to maintain 190lbs for the better part of 10 years. Up until 4 years ago I was fluctuating between 190-195. Then I started driving truck and the weight just slowly crept on. 3 weeks ago I stepped on the scale for my check to find not only had I broken 300lbs but I was 310... heaviest I've ever been. Im 6' 6" so I can hide it well enough that people were surprised when I told them. I started changes. Smaller portions, no soda, IF 18/6. 3 WEEKS. 20LBS GONE! Im not naive enough to believe it'll continue that way but I'm proud of myself for sticking with this plan. Once I'm below 250 I'm going to start running again. Until then, I'm going to keep going. Thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
| CONFESSION: Watching Mukbangers teaches me to calorie count and never give up on my goals. Posted: 12 Mar 2020 09:50 AM PDT I kinda don't feel bad about making this a part of my daily routine... especially since it makes me feel better about myself and my progress... but i can understand how some people might see it as "feeding the monster" by giving them my views. Mukbangers are the internets newest little trend where (as its been adopted/stolen by western culture) basically these Youtubers will order/ make copious amounts of food and chat while stuffing their face, some are more extreme than others, but the majority are very unhealthy people. Additionally, most of the popular ones will get fast food instead of make their own. I will watch these channels religiously before a workout or eating dinner, to remind myself of what happens when you become dependant or I guess, addicted to junk food. It seems cruel to hold someone else's body as an example, but I find it's the most alarming community these days because its ROOTED around overconsumption and excess. Whenever I have the temptation to eat something like McDonalds or Pizza Hut, I will sit down and watch one of these videos, especially something like Nikocado Avocado or Steven Sushi. They have this love affair with food that just weirds me out. Watching them act almost like they are having an orgasm when they eat, and scarfing down an entire pizza and handing out ridiculously off base health advice. Sure they are successful entrepreneurs I guess, but it's a bizarre thing to watch. I will sit and calculate how many calories they consumed in every video, to the point where I don't have to google it anymore. Some days its 3,000... other days its 6,000... but regardless its so excessive that it makes me feel queasy by the end of it. Especially watching them clutch their stomaches and go on about how full they are and how gassy they feel. So instead of craving junk food, by the end of the video I end up feeling like I need something nutritious and the diet gets much easier and more purposeful. 9lbs down this month, 8 more to go... [link] [comments] |
| Gym Group Class Anxiety Conquered! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 07:59 PM PDT Tonight I worked out at a gym for the first time ever, participating in their kickboxing class. I was going to back out because I was so scared I wouldn't be able to keep up and that people would make fun of me. I had an amazing partner and instructor and got through the entire hour! I signed up for next weeks class and am going to reserve the next 12 classes when I get paid :) I have lost a total of 45 pounds since my heaviest (210-165) with just purely diet and I feel it's time to start working out to help me lose the rest. If you are afraid of joining a group class, just go for it! The people are really nice and supportive and want you to do well. Plus the group actually made it easier because I didnt feel like I was the center of attention. [link] [comments] |
| Calories In Calories Out vs Exercise to lose weight Posted: 12 Mar 2020 10:09 AM PDT When I was talking to my father about losing weight, I described to him about the concept of my eating less calories than I was burning. And he told me that kind of scientific reasoning is obvious. Then he proceeded to tell me about when he was at his healthiest weight, how much exercise he was doing then. It was obvious he felt that one got into a burning calories mode through exercise. Even when I didn't care about my overweight self, my mother would make comments about how I should come over to use the treadmill at the same time she would ask me if I wanted to finish off the leftover pasta in the fridge. When I decided to get healthier last year, I decided to join a gym. I figured I'd get into the habit of exercising regularly and then the good eating decisions would naturally follow. I had no idea the amount of work that goes into properly monitoring one's eating versus calories burned, and I grossly overestimated how much working out would go towards losing weight. I only have my own personal anecdotal evidence to this, but my suspicion is that the general population overwhelmingly believes losing weight is tied to exercise. I see this often on this subreddit of people frustrated at their scale because they've been going to the gym for weeks and haven't lost a single pound and have even gained a few. I just saw a post where someone was devastated that someone would be shocked to see a fat person exercising, as if it wasn't a common perception of people that exercise = weight loss. I love exercise, it helps my mental health so much and I make smarter decisions about every aspect of my life when I exercise. In that way, it helps me lose weight. But I don't lose weight through exercise. If you frequent this sub often and you've been at this weight loss routine for awhile, you probably know that weight is lost in the kitchen. I know that if I run a mile this afternoon, and then go out and eat 3 pizza slices afterwards, I've more than cancelled out the caloric burn I did from the run. But does the average person know this? [link] [comments] |
| It's so weird to get excited about the gym Posted: 12 Mar 2020 02:13 PM PDT I've gone to the gym in the past and while I liked it and I was looking forward for the high it gave me, I never really stuck to it. For some context, in my country classes were dismissed for everyone for 2 weeks. Since I dont live in the city I go to school I had to go back home. But I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning so I had to come back, and when I realised that I would be back here where I can go to the gym got me so excited, even more so when I figured that if I leave a little earlier than planned I could even go twice. As soon as I got home I got my gym equipment and started walking there because it's close and the weather was very nice today. It was almost empty. And I feel like I did great today, at some point I even started looking around at some other machines to see if i was feeling brave enough to try them out. Now, I've been to the gym before, but I wasnt really introduced to everything in there and I'm too shy to ask, YouTube videos can only get you so far, but at least I'm trying. For the past few weeks I've been itching to try some barbell exercises, but I was too intimidated by some people hovering over them and the thought that I could be doing it really wrong. After realizing that I was done with my weightlifting routine, something struck inside me and I finally tried using some weird squiggly smaller barbell, figuring that I could work my way up. And when I was done with that, I also went to a pull up machine. It was amazing. I've never felt so euphoric, taking small steps is where it's at, you dont even realise when you double the weight you could initially lift. [link] [comments] |
| Lost 70 pounds, gained back 40. Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:31 PM PDT I was working out daily, eating healthy and I got from 270 down to 200. I was ecstatic and told myself I would never let myself get up there again. I stopped dieting around Thanksgiving and started eating out a lot and getting fast food like 3 times a week. My clothes seemed to get a little tighter but I thought hey it can't be that bad maybe 10lbs. Finally worked up the courage to step on a scale the other day and sure enough I weigh 240. I also looked at a few old pictures from last year and I looked way skinnier and I didn't even realize how much weight I actually gained back. I'm pretty disappointed in myself and I feel like crap but I'm motivated to get back down and then some. It hurts and it's all I can think about every minute of every day. See you in a few months lose it. [link] [comments] |
| Water weight is so discouraging! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 06:58 PM PDT Hey all, Just wanting to post my frustrations with delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS) and the water weight in muscles that comes with it after workouts. I know logically that I've not magically gained 3.5-4 pounds in 2 days, especially because I'm consistently in a calorie deficit (tracking all meal intake through MFP), but when I'm weighing myself and see numbers go up, it really sucks. I'm new to really working out with a set routine, so I know eventually my muscles will get used to the fact that they're being used and will not hold the water so much as they repair themselves, but until that point, I get so frustrated when I step on the scale. I have a weight watchers scale that reads BMI and such like that, so I'm going to start paying attention to those numbers a bit more to show myself that progress is still happening, but I just wanted to vent my frustrations out to people who have probably had the exact same frustrations as me! Also, any tips to get over muscle soreness more quickly would be appreciated haha [link] [comments] |
| I'm surrendering to a victim mentality and I need help to snap out of it. Posted: 12 Mar 2020 06:12 PM PDT TLDR; I can't get my emotional eating under control. I'm not cleared to go back to the gym for another week or maybe even two and even then I don't know if I want to go back to that gym. I know what I should be doing but I just can't make myself do it. My amazingly supportive and awesome husband is trying to so hard to help me but all he says is "you'll get back on track" "don't worry about it" and "you'll be fine". Do I even have to tell y'all that while I know the intention behind the words are well meant they do absolutely nothing to help or encourage me? I just want to scream at him I need help! but I know he can't do anything for me, I have to do it. Started doing CICO mid-December, got back into the gym in January. Did amazing the first two months, lost 22 lbs, and then I had surgery in the middle of February which stressed me out and I allowed myself to eat at maintenance for about a week prior to surgery and mentally I was perfectly comfortable with that. After surgery I was off work for 5 days and went back to my deficit same day and did amazing with it... then I went back to work and life has been miserable since. I've gained 3 lbs since surgery. I doubt it's all water weight as I've still be tracking my calories daily and I have been heavily over, repeatedly. I don't know if my hormones are just insane right now or if I actually hate my job (recent changes puts me more in contact with a coworker I don't like it, and it's a slow paced desk job) or maybe both? I'm on a birth control that doesn't really let me experience PMS symptoms but it's getting close to it being out of my system so I don't know if my body is just like RIOT! or what. I also had a salpingectomy (fallopian tubes removed) 3 weeks ago so maybe that has something to do with it? I have other symptoms that could be hormone related that I haven't had previously (in years) but I honestly don't know what's going on. All I know is I'm extremely miserable and all I want to do is eat but no matter how much I eat I still feel horrible. I'm hoping I get cleared to go back to the gym next week as I think being able to push myself there will help me get motivated again but even if I do I don't think I'll be very eager to go as I hate my gym. It's a small gym in a small town and the person who runs it is obsessed with who I've dated in the past. My husband and I started going there after we bought our house (45 minutes from where we met and lived) and when the person running it realized I used to a date a somewhat local celebrity who used to train there she makes it a point to tell everybody that my-husbands-name's wife used to date my-ex. She even made sure to tell the ex of somebody my ex cheated on me with who my husband was. She often asks the guys my husband trains with personal questions about us. WHY? What does that matter at all? It makes me really uncomfortable and I don't trust her at all as she's too invested in my past. Ugh, see? That gym is a snake pit and I hate it. I'm 33, I don't want to put up with unnecessary drama when I can take my money elsewhere but he doesn't want to change gyms and I don't want to be that wife that makes him. He's a competitive powerlifter and has a meet coming up next month so I don't want to throw him off. Things I have done to try to get myself back on track:
The thing is, on the weekends when I'm off of work, I can eat perfectly without even trying. But when I pull into this parking lot I get instantly hungry and it doesn't stop until I'm on my way home. Home is like my safety zone. I feel 100% happy there, I feel fine. I need help, I need somebody to tell me how to make this stop. I have never experienced anything like this. Any suggestions or advice? I'm sorry for being so whiny, nobody IRL understands how I'm feeling and I've been needing to get this out for a week or so now. [link] [comments] |
| Finally I can see some progress! I can do push-ups and plank for more than 2 minutes Posted: 12 Mar 2020 06:28 AM PDT male 21 6'2 | Starting weight:153kg Current Weight:122kg I complained a lot in the past, but finally I can see and feel like I made progress, before this I only saw progress in the scale, yes I lost 30kg or 66lbs but I still looked bad & obese in my opinion (even though most people have noticed my weight loss) which made me extremely depressed, during the past 2 months I was working out and prepping food like a robot every single day that I didn't notice the changes that happened to my body Last week I was changing up my workout routine, I tried to do the plank as a joke because I'm so used to me not lasting more than a few seconds, when I did it I was shocked! It felt like NOTHING until +60 seconds and I kept it for 2 minutes, this was completely new to me!! I felt so strong that I tried push ups too lol, when I started this was the impossible exercise for me, it was impossible for me to do it even once, now I can do it +5 fairly easily I still have a long way to go but at least I know I got stronger [link] [comments] |
| Rude doctor undermining progress :( Posted: 12 Mar 2020 07:22 PM PDT Hi I'm a 19F who just needs to get this off of her chest. Around October of last year I found out that I had PCOS and my options were hormone therapy or attempting to regulate my hormones through diet and exercise. I have struggled with my weight all my life (at the time I was 175 lbs at 5'3) and I've never been able to lose a single pound so I was leaning towards hormone replacement drugs to regulate my menstrual cycle. Honestly, the PCOS was really hard to deal with in my first semester of college especially because I was on my period for months at a time and I just felt really restricted by it. Unfortunately, I come from a really strict family who would never let me visit a doctor alone or speak to the gynecologist alone (it would become a big family issue if I even tried to go behind their backs and it's just not worth it imo) and my mom wouldn't let me get on birth control or try the hormone pills. So I decided to really commit to watching my diet and although it's been a really slow journey I'm really proud of myself. From late November to now I've lost 17lbs and it's not a lot but between trying to eat healthy at college and still enjoy freshman year and getting into my first real relationship (who knew there was so much snacking and food involved in those lol) I think I've been doing pretty well. Obviously I'm not done losing weight but I'm happy with the rate that it's going in. Okay so 2 days ago I visited my gyno again because unfortunately the PCOS bleeding was just getting worse and I recently became sexually active and I felt more comfortable just taking birth control to regulate everything. I couldn't bring birth control up to my mom but she finally relented and said yes to taking medication to ease the symptoms. In the doctor's office, the doctor was really rude to me. She saw I had lost weight and she said "do you honestly believe you're doing everything in your power to lose weight and giving it your all?" the tone that she used made me feel like crying on the spot- it felt like being reprimanded by your teacher after failing a test. She said that if I really committed to being healthier I would have given up most carbs and sugars and coffee. I'm a 19-year-old college student! I don't think it's worth giving up the small things I look forward to when it comes to food. I've been eating them in moderation but I'm not ready to give up my sweet tooth :( I have been working my ass off trying to become healthier and I really do think I have been giving it my best effort. Yes, I do think I could exercise more but I've been trying to incorporate workouts in my day and meeting my 10k steps and it's just really hard to balance everything. The worst part was asking if I was sexually active in front of my mom and I had to lie to her otherwise my mom would literally force me to commute if she knew. In the end, I didn't get birth control. I got Provera to regulate my cycle and felt humiliated about my progress. I was told to come back if I ever become sexually active to try birth control but I don't think that will be happening anytime soon. I don't know if this subreddit is the place for it but I honestly just feel really stupid right now. I've never been able to lose weight before and it's sort of a big deal for me that I found something that actually works and doesn't make me feel like crap but maybe it's not as big of a deal to others as it is to me :( [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Friday, 13 March 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 09:08 PM PDT Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing > I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me? Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. On reddit, your vote means, "I found this interesting" (...read more about voting on reddit) [link] [comments] |
| Free Talk Friday for 13 March 2020 - Come Talk About Anything! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 10:00 PM PDT Happy Friday everyone! Free Talk Friday is a free discussion post. Come talk about anything you want, whether it's health/fitness related or not. So tell us, what's on your mind today? Any fun plans for the weekend? (Credit to u/HermionesBook for running these in the past.) [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 13 March 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 13 Mar 2020 01:10 AM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily post the most read, most used, most interesting post on /r/loseit by reading, commenting, and participating often! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 13th, 2020 Posted: 12 Mar 2020 11:48 PM PDT Hi team Euro accountability, march 13th 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] |
| What big goals did you tackle successfully in small steps? Breaking down my goal and will update! Posted: 12 Mar 2020 11:14 PM PDT Have you tackled anything big by taking small steps? Weightloss or otherwise? If so, I'd love to know. A while back I made a rather depressing post about being frustrated with my weightloss, which has been going in the wrong direction for 2 years. It felt like this massive thing that I kept failing at, and I'd been feeling really hopeless about it. But I had a revelation today: If I break down my goal, its not so scary and impossible-seeming! Therefore, I've decided to post my goal here, in "bite-size" chunks (lol), then update when I manage one of my milestones. They're calculated to about 2.3kg or 5lbs per step. My aim is to lose weight for the last time, get fitter, and finally get into happy maintenance. Current Weight: 65.5 (144 lbs) GOALS My TDEE is about 1600, so I will be going slow, aiming for about 1300 per day. Also aiming to:- not snack 90% of the time- sleep more- some form of exercise 30 mins on most days (weights/running)- drink way more water- Pause when I feel a craving and ask myself if I really need it.- track everything until I'm well on my way Good luck with your goals!Will update as I go! Please tell me things you've overcome by taking small steps too :) [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 12 Posted: 12 Mar 2020 01:49 PM PDT Hello lovely losers! One day closer to Friday my fluffies. Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): 209 this morning. I maybe should be bummed but my period is about to start so, grain of salt with the scale. Because it's either period weight or I need to reassess my input. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): I should be okay today. Yesterday got derailed by some carrot cake. Shrugs. 7/10 days. 2/2-4 maintenance days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute walk at lunch. 12/12 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing, fancy coffee out no more than 3 times a week 6/13): It's my Friday. Paid spa day tomorrow. I'm going to get good sleep tonight. Try a new recipe once a week: Peanut butter hummus & a free form chicken noodle soup so far. I'm eyeballing a 15 bean soup recipe as a potential meal prep. 2/4 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not today. 20/50 pages. Drawing prompt every day: I have some specific ideas, just need to make some time. 4/12 days. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: I'm super grateful to be heading to a spa tomorrow on my employer's dime. I feel properly spoiled & am very lucky indeed. How are you guys doing? [link] [comments] |
| Stressing about an off week / How long did it take you to see results? Posted: 13 Mar 2020 02:25 AM PDT (19F, 5'1, 176lbs) Hi, first time making a proper post on this page. Though I've been lurking quite a bit. Anyway, just like the title says, this week I've slacked a lot and right now I currently feel so bloated and depressed. I've lost half a stone since January, (I can't honestly tell a difference in how I look so I think that just adds to how I'm feeling), but over the past week I've been stressing out with a really difficult essay for uni, causing me to go backwards in my healthy eating, and drinking more coffee and drinking far less water than I used to. I also haven't exercised in a week and a bit too. I know I've gained weight, and I really don't want to weigh myself because I'm so disappointed in myself. I've been wallowing in self pity all morning and I'm wondering if it's even worth it anymore considering I haven't seen any results in the way I look. How long did it take for you to see results? I think I need that as motivation to keep going. And also, how much does an off week really set you back? [link] [comments] |
| Am I eating enough calories (CICO)? Feeling very hungry after dinner :/ Posted: 12 Mar 2020 07:57 PM PDT Hey everyone, I've been lurking on the thread for a while but finally decided on the 1st of March of this year to take my weight loss seriously after reading about everyone's successes and journeys. CONTEXT: I'm a 22 year old female, 5'6" and I weigh 92kg. I had a brief stint with keto last summer and whilst it was effective, I've realised it's not something that I can maintain for the long-term. Would much rather make changes I can stick to. So I've decided to try CICO. Also - I strength train in the gym for an hour, once a week. This is currently my only form of exercise. CICO: After tracking my regular eating habits on MFP for about a week or so, I realised that I eat around 2050 calories per day. I've decided to cut down by 500 calories per day, as it seemed most sustainable. I've been at this for a few days and I can't help but notice how hungry I get. Like, an hour or two after dinner I'm so hungry, sometimes to the point where I get a headache. I've been trying to stay hydrated, so I know that it's not simply just dehydration. Maybe because I'm new to this etc, but I'm also finding it a bit hard? I suppose that comes with anything new, but I'm finding it a bit restricting and challenging having to constantly think about the next meal and whether or not it'll fit into my calorie allowance. I've always thought that 1500 calories was enough, but I just feel really hungry. I'm not eating smaller quantities of calorie dense food, but I've (maybe too quickly) changed my diet over to dishes like stirfry or naked burrito bowls (no rice). I don't know what to do and the feeling of hunger and headaches that I'm experiencing is worrying me a little. I don't want to crash. If anybody could give me any advice on this or point out where I'm going wrong, I would be eternally grateful. [link] [comments] |
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