Weight loss: I'm an RN taking care of COVID-19 patients. An experience I had with one of them has completely reshaped how my brain thinks about food and life. |
- I'm an RN taking care of COVID-19 patients. An experience I had with one of them has completely reshaped how my brain thinks about food and life.
- Quarantine has taught me a very valuable lesson about diet vs. exercise.
- Decided to lose 30 lbs in July 2018. Figured it would take me until October. 20 months later, I just hit my goal!
- COVID-19 is my wake-up call
- Day 600 of logging: Appreciating the new normal
- Being addicted to food is just like being addicted to drugs
- [Mini-rant] Didn't think about this until recently, but COVID-19 is the wake-up I needed.
- How I hit my goal weight, and how I still struggle (in a different way)
- Summer Birthday Countdown Challenge
- How to fight boredom snacking?
- I lost weight on a diet for the first time!
- A small victory
- Decided against keto...
- Cheat Meal Hacks.
- The “Limited Resource” Mentality
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 22 March 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Tips for keeping up willpower?
- How the current crisis is helping me to finally continue losing weight
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 22 March 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- People are telling me my 1200 calorie diet is too low... but how come many morbidly obese people are told to eat the same amount when preparing for weight loss surgery?
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 22nd, 2020
- Advice on specific workouts to tone and slim down?
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 05:12 PM PDT This is a throwaway account to protect my identity, my patients, and my employer. I'm willing to provide proof if mods request it. I work as an RN in a rather densely populated suburban hospital in the Northeast US. A couple weeks ago, we started getting COVID-19 cases in my unit. All of these patients we considered "rule out", as in we literally didn't have the tests to swab them with so we were forced to assume they had the disease if they were showing symptoms. So far, the large majority of these patients were negative and sent home (Great News!). However, that doesn't mean we haven't had our share of positives. These patients can seem okay, but a smaller number of them can slowly deteriorate. I had experience with one of them. He was a rather healthy and active 40-ish year old male, slightly overweight, slightly hypertensive (high blood pressure). He was complaining of a little bit of sharp pain in his chest when breathing in. Otherwise, he was stable, we were just giving him a little oxygen. My next night with him, he was on a little more oxygen because his oxygen saturation started dropping, but otherwise stable. The next night, he couldn't breathe if he talked for more than a few sentences at a time (very bad sign), but again, still stable otherwise. In the back of my head I knew he going to deteriorate further and probably would need to be intubated and attached to a ventilator eventually. I gave him a breathing treatments with little effect, I increased his oxygen with little effect, but again, he was still stable. I informed the doctors of this so they were aware, but there was really nothing further we could do for him at that point as I had given him every appropriate medication and intervention. Close to the end of my shift his call light went off and I can hear him in the room absolutely gasping for air. Without even going in the room I called for a rapid response (the emergency team in the hospital). Mind you, it takes a solid 2 minutes just to get inside these rooms with all the PPE (e.g. gloves, gown, N95 mask, and face shield) we're required to wear. By the time I got in, his lips were blue, he's gasping for air, and absolutely begging to breathe normally. He was immediately intubated by the hospitalist and sent to the ICU. He's currently sedated, intubated, on a ventilator, and on a rotoprone bed (a bed that rotates you like a rotisserie chicken to move accumulated fluid in your lungs). I currently have no idea if he'll make it through this. I understand this was only my first patient for this to happen to. There are going to be tens/hundreds more most likely. But, it's already completely changed me. I'm a big guy, I've always been overweight. I'm 6'2", 285lbs and have the same body type and a couple of the same co-morbidities as that patient. Hearing that COVID-19 affects people with hypertension and obesity harder than other people scares the absolute crap out of me after seeing it first hand. We're being forced to reuse PPE (only the N95 masks at this point), so I know I'm most likely going to be exposed to this disease at some point. I used to binge eat after work to calm the stress. Now, the thought of eating an entire frozen pizza or an entire bag of chips absolutely disgusts me to my core. I know that I'm at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and other terrible diseases but COVID is a slowly progressing, agonizing disease. It has completely scared me straight. I understand it's sad that it's taken this crisis for me to care about myself but it's forced me to reevaluate what is important in life. I guess as an RN, I've always thought about others before myself, but this has made me realize I WANT TO LIVE. I want to be healthy. If I get sick, I don't want it to be because I didn't care for myself. I want it to be because it was my time, and knowing that I did everything I could do for myself. I've been counting my calories. I've been eating way more salads, grilled chicken, rice, vegetables and I feel great. I've lost 7 lbs in the past week. With the quarantine situation, I've been taking more walks outside in the fresh air (which is great for my mental health). I know the weight loss will slow over time, but I'm in this for the long haul. Also, younger people, YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE. Take this disease deadly serious, because it is deadly. Don't play the COVID ventilator lottery because you want to go drinking or have a night out. Your night out is not worth tying up a ventilator for 2-3 weeks to keep you alive instead of someone else. TL;DR: Simply be happy you are able breathe because you never know when that will be taken from you. edit: This is so cliche as a redditor since the great digg-pocalypse of 2010, but I never expected for this post to blow up so much. I need to be responsible with the platform I guess I have right now. I realize people are scared and hungry for any information at all about what is going on. I absolutely encourage you to read all the official government information on this virus. Read all the information of official sites like the FDA, NIH, and CDC. Pay attention to what your local governments are doing and recommending and PLEASE follow what they are telling you to do. Stay safe, I need to sleep. [link] [comments] |
| Quarantine has taught me a very valuable lesson about diet vs. exercise. Posted: 21 Mar 2020 12:06 PM PDT My routine for the last several years has been pretty consistent and effective for me. I've been doing 2-3 very high intensity exercise sessions per week (full contact martial arts 2-3 hours each time) which burn anywhere from 1000-1500 calories. That was always my excuse to eat a large carb and fat heavy dinner after working out. Despite doing that, and not really tracking anything, I've been able to hold a very steady 190 lbs. for as long as I've been doing this. Generally pretty happy with my physique, level of fitness and performance in the gym. I've pretty much stayed at home the past 2 weeks, and since my gym is closed, my exercise routine has had to change dramatically. I'm still doing some exercise at home, but to nowhere near the level of intensity as usual. Been doing a few 1 hour bodyweight-exercise sessions burning between 300-400 calories. What I've noticed is that I'm WAY less hungry. Like... I'm literally shocked at how much less of a desire I have to eat. After my martial arts workouts I'm ravenous, and those after gym meals were usually half or more of my daily calories. Since I've been at home I've been eating less, but the food I'm eating is also much simpler. Been sticking to mostly meats and veggies, simple sandwiches, smoothies... stuff like that. I haven't been tracking anything, I've just just only been eating when I'm hungry (which is not often) and I stop when I'm full. Also, zero alcohol so far, although I wouldn't be opposed to some. Just doing that... I'm down almost 6 lbs. in the past 2 weeks. I can't believe it. I've tried to lose weight in the past, and while I was successful at it, it was a chore. This weight loss has just happened. And it's happened without the rigorous exercise that I thought was so necessary to maintain my weight. It's crazy how a few simple changes to your lifestyle can result in changes to your body. I'm also surprised at how much intense exercise creates hunger. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 08:25 PM PDT 28F, 5'9. SW: 177 lbs, CW: 147 lbs. Dang I've been dreaming about this victory post! But I thought I'd be writing it a year and a half ago, and I definitely didn't picture the pandemic quarantine plot twist... In 2018, I was in a funky spot. I had two marathons under my belt, landed my dream job, and was happily living with my SO. But, an injury sidelined running, I was hitting happy hour hard with my coworkers, and my love and I were regularly promiscuous with Pizza Hut. My weight slowly creeped up. I knew I wasn't happy with how I looked, but figured I was just getting older or some crap. When I finally stepped on a scale in July, I was up 40 lbs from my high school weight. I declared I would lose 30 lbs by my birthday in October. On Mar 19 2020, I finally hit my goal. This is what worked for me: 1) I joined r/loseit & r/progresspics. The calorie basics got me started, then I kept on track with loseit challenges & browsing progress pics. 2) I started with CICO but once I learned my portion sizes I only tracked when I needed a fresh start. I do weigh myself every day I'm home. 3) On Monday's I listen to two weight loss podcasts: We Only Look Thin & Half Size Me. Actually, they're basically maintenance podcasts, which helped shift my mindset to long-term goals. 4) Last summer I discovered Kelly LeVeque, a nutritionist that focuses on starting the day with a smoothie with protein, greens, fat, and fiber. I have one most days- it reduces meal planning stress and makes me feel good. 5) Exercise is key for my mental health, and for me to FEEL like I'm getting healthy. Group fitness is my jam- at different times during this process I've done kettlebell workouts, barre, yoga, and a stiletto dance class. 2020 is absolutely obliterating 2018 on the funky spot scale. I'm not injured, but my gym is closed indefinitely. I still have my dream job, but we all got a 30% cut on Friday. And my love and I are planning our wedding for July 25, but with every day that passes I'm less confident that will happen the way we've planned. My primal instinct is still to go face first into some cheesy breadsticks, but 20 months of tiny good habits dies hard. I have set up my home gym, actually have time to cook, and have been living for long walks outside. I'm trying to stay positive during this forced humanity slowdown to keep this slow, ploddy progress going. But I'm probably going to get some Hut soon because, apocalypse. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 07:53 PM PDT Has anyone else felt similarly? I've been waffling with calorie counting for a few months now... meaning most days I don't count, sometimes I do if I feel particularly "disciplined." But I can no longer afford to be so flippant with my health. I'm 26, F, 280 lbs. I have asthma, sleep apnea, and hypertension. All are pretty managed on medication (& a CPAP.) But the asthma & HBP in particular, as well as being 150+ lbs overweight, are all correlated to complications in COVID-19. After all, obesity is a factor in complications for influenza and other infectious diseases. They're finding obesity (& its common comorbidities) to be risk factors for Coronavirus as well. I read an article today on how obesity contributes to chronic inflammation in the whole body. There's no question internal fat is affecting my asthma by constricting my lungs. And my doc says my hypertension is almost certainly due to my weight. My mantra through this whole pandemic thing has been "control the controllables." I've been hydrating, taking vitamins, staying home from work, and distancing myself as much as possible. My health has some uncontrollable conditions, sure... but this is within my sphere of influence. As much as I hate facing my past self who has made terrible caloric decisions, my weight is within my control. I'm also fighting a defeatist attitude, ie "how much weight could I actually lose before COVID-19 affects me." It's already in my city, and while I'm not assuming infection is inevitable, it's not impossible. I could catch it tomorrow. But every bit helps, right? No better time to start than right now. To get existential, if I may: considering my own mortality and risk factors in light of this pandemic has made my resolve for life skyrocket. I want to LIVE. I want to THRIVE. I'm not done. I'm nearing my late 20s- my body's resilience is waning. I'm on a direct course for serious disease by age 40 or 50. There's too much I want to do and see in this world to sit idly by and leave my health up to fate. I've always chosen comfort over challenge- emotional eating, lack of physical activity, carb-heavy and sugar-laden food. The pursuit of comfort has been a major driving factor in most of my life decisions. But I've decided I want to live more than I want to be comfortable. [link] [comments] |
| Day 600 of logging: Appreciating the new normal Posted: 21 Mar 2020 02:53 PM PDT I have been working to lose weight for 600 days now, and wanted to give a little update/recap on how I'm doing and what I've learned. I'll start by recapping the biggest lessons I learned during each 100-day chunk so far. Each lesson/main takeaway from each portion of my journey so far has "rolled over" into the next segment, and only gotten better over time! First things first, here is a picture of my weight loss progress, from Happy Scale Day 0-100: Food tastes amazing. If you had asked me why I was fat, I probably would have said "because I love food." While that wasn't untrue, those first 100 days of eating at a calorie deficit made food start tasting better to me than it ever had before. This shift probably came about because I was really, genuinely hungry every time I had something to eat. Limiting my food made me appreciate it a lot more. This is also the time period when I really started getting used to experimenting in the kitchen, and scrutinizing my recipes to see what was adding flavor (and what was just adding calories). Day 100-199: This is going to be a long-term process, and a grind. But it works. During this second hundred days, I had to adjust my calorie target a little lower (I think I started off around 1900 calories a day). After the initial quick losses/whooshes of water weight, and general adjustment to this new lifestyle, I realized that I wasn't going to be finished any time soon. I got into habits of updating here regularly (shoutout to the daily accountability threads!), and trying to become better at the process of losing weight (estimating calories when I needed to, eating out once in a while, using My Fitness Pal more effectively etc.). Day 200-299: Whoa, I look different! During this part of my journey, I was down about 50-60 pounds. I had just started my job (as a postal carrier), and I was still wearing the pants I'm wearing in what I consider to be my official "before picture" to work. Then, seemingly all of a sudden, they went from "baggy as hell" to "definitely not appropriate to wear while leaving the house." A funny story on that point: I deliver mail by bicycle, and I went with someone a few days, to learn the route. As we got back up onto our bicycles, to go to the next street, my baggy pants got caught on the bike saddle, causing me to inadvertently moon (well, I was wearing underwear!) anyone who happened to be standing behind me. While definitely funny, it was also a new, and kind of weird experience for me. I was not used to clothes being too big -- that was just not a problem I had ever had in my life before. I definitely wore ill-fitting clothes for way too long (as evidenced by the wardrobe malfunctions I was starting to experience), but it took a little time for me to get used to that (as well as to get used to wearing smaller, more fitted clothing). This has been an on-going process: getting used to the changes in my body, and actually evaluating how clothes fit. I went from "this fits, so I better buy it" to "this fits, but I don't think it looks great; maybe I should try a different style." It has been a weird adjustment for me! Day 300-399: I'm ready to see what my body can do. After losing a huge chunk of weight through calorie counting and taking a walk a few times a week, I decided to step up my physical activity. I started the couch to 5k program, and stuck with it for the whole 8 weeks. I kept doing my mail route and added in the running on top of it. I was starting to feel reasonably athletic, and the 5k was a great goal to chase. Day 400-499: There is such a thing as diet fatigue. I had been going hard for a little over a year. I had a trip planned to visit my family in the United States, and I wanted a break. I allowed myself to just guess at calories while I was on a vacation I took during this time, but kept up with my athletic goals, and ran a 5k with my sister, which was one of the coolest things to happen so far in my weight loss journey. I also needed to contend with getting new clothes, for the second time. This was wild, as I was finally out of plus-sized things, for possibly the first time in my life. I went back to my deficit after the vacation, but also was a little more relaxed around the holidays. I also joined a gym during this time, to keep the good habits of physical activity I had built up during the summer and fall months going. Day 500-today: This is my new normal, and I'm fine with it. There is a second big blip upwards on my weight chart, which is from a vacation I had planned for a while to take with my family in February, (again back to the United States). Since I had fairly recently had a "diet break," I packed my food scale and my weighing scale, and did my best to eat around maintenance (or slightly under, when possible) during the vacation. I kept up with my athletic goals (I am planning on running a 10k, whenever race events are safe to be held again), and went running on about half of the days of my vacation, even setting some new running-distance records for myself. Even though I was counting my calories, and maybe ate 10-15k above my maintenance calories (for an expected gain of 3-4 pounds), my weight spiked like nobody's business while I was away (I took that photo from Apple Health, which Happy Scale writes to everyday; Happy Scale smoothed out that spike, but I thought it was worth showing it in all of its terrifying glory). I realized that part of that huge spike was my period (which happens, along with an associated spike in weight, every month--no big deal), but part of it was just from eating more than I normally do -- I have a fair amount of loose skin, and I realized that I am probably going to be very prone to water weight fluctuations. But, I'm glad I know this now, and not panicking in maintenance. Another thing I learned while on this vacation is how much less sleep I need when not eating at a calorie deficit. It was almost easy to wake up first thing and go running, because I had too much energy to sleep in. Speaking of maintenance, and my "new normal," I don't plan to change very much about the way I eat for a very long time. I eat about 15-1600 calories a day, and I work out quite a bit/have an active lifestyle. But, even if my job isn't always as active as it is now, someone who is my height, and wants to maintain somewhere around 65kg (~143lbs), should eat about 1600 calories a day (if they're sedentary). Maybe it will take me forever to get there, if I stick to this level of calorie intake, but -- isn't that the point? To find the way that you want to (and can) eat forever? To that end, I am not really worried about my rate of weight loss. I am trying to just enjoy eating the right amount of calories for my body, and not be afraid to eat a little more when life's occasions call for it. I have learned a lot from each distinctive phase of my journey so far, and I am sure I have a lot left to learn. I am really looking forward to hitting a healthy BMI, which will hopefully happen sometime this year. [link] [comments] |
| Being addicted to food is just like being addicted to drugs Posted: 21 Mar 2020 08:45 PM PDT I am u/ItsLilly22 I'm 17 years old and I am a food addict. I feel weird saying this, I doubt there is such thing as a rehab center for people who consume food obsessively and unhealthily. There are eating disorder clinics, but they mostly (or even exclusively I would say) treat anorexia patients. But the truth is food and carbohydrates can be as addictive as most mind-altering substances and this comes from someone who is also hooked on xanax. Just like drug addiction food addiction preys on the most vulnerable mentally. In my case I have bad OCD and pathological low self-esteem and depression and eating is my escape. Every day the only thing I look forward to is food, I wake up I got breakfast on my mind, I can chug down a dinner plate in 2 minutes, I eat when I'm sad I eat when I'm lonely. I eat because nothing else is enjoyable anymore. The other day I cried watching Amberlynn Reid, the 600 lbs "weight loss" youtuber who's failed more diets than she can count. Even though I'm exactly 1/4th of her weight I know exactly what she feels. For a normal person, like me before I started dealing with BED, it would be so simple to just stop. We would obviously be better off if we lost weight and it would be better in the long term in every way, still we can't not eat those 400kcal of ice cream at night or that second portion of buttered noodles. I guess I managed to fuck up more than anyone bc I'm both a food addict and a benzos addict, but I know there are loads of people who also deal with some sort of food addiction and some of them are on this sub reading this rn. If that's the case for you, I just wanted to say that I understand you, you're not alone. [link] [comments] |
| [Mini-rant] Didn't think about this until recently, but COVID-19 is the wake-up I needed. Posted: 21 Mar 2020 11:25 PM PDT On this sub and others I've been reading about how excess weight can be co-morbid with COVID-19. I'm a big guy, 20 y/o, but after some IF/CICO and weights, I dropped 20 pounds. I feel better than ever, however, I know my weight is still a risk factor, and it scares the shit out of me. Over the past two months, with the stress of school, depression, and life, I'd been "kinda" maintaining my diet, but my exercise has fallen to maybe once a week, with no calorie tracking. I've been thinking a bit too about how my 46 y/o dad dropped from ~260 to 210 lbs and now goes running for miles on the trail near daily. He's a big role model for me, so I feel that if he can do it so can I. So as tough as it is, COVID-19 is a sign that it's really time to fight for my life and hop back on the wagon. My girlfriend is also a bigger girl, and while I love her to pieces and do find her attractive, I worry about her health as well. I plan to talk to her about it, hopefully she doesn't hate me after lol. [link] [comments] |
| How I hit my goal weight, and how I still struggle (in a different way) Posted: 21 Mar 2020 12:09 PM PDT I'm sorry for my bad english. I joined two pictures, one taken by a colleague in december 2018. The other one is just a selfie I took today for comparison. I made a comment about two years ago on this subreddit, basically saying that it was the start of my weight loss journey. I was 78 kg (171 lbs) at the time. I needed to lose about 15 kg (33 lbs). Except that didn't happen. I gained 10 more kg (22 lbs) in the span of a very hectic year. I now needed to lose 25 kgs (55 lbs), and it seemed impossible. But, guess what (I'm really happy with myself), I did it Reddit ! Did I have a more motivating goal than a year before ? Absolutely not. The first time, I saw a girl at my goal weight, looking a bit like me, having a jawline, and I wanted that. The second time around, in june 2019, I was alone at the beach in a foreign country, free of pressure (I didn't know anyone there and thought I didn't care about what they saw), and I couldn't change into my beautiful bathing suit because I felt so bad about myself. The second time (the one that worked !), my need to lose weight came from the disgust I had with myself, which was not a good place to start, at all. But well, I guess it got me started for the second time, so there's that. What did I do better ? Well, the main thing I did was mealprepping. Instead of going to the bakery everyday at work, I made my meals at home and almost stopped going out. I also read this sub a lot, and here's what was the most useful to me : - Sustainable habits. I got that part with the mealprepping, and I came to like it. I also learned to allow myself to go out for drinks with my friends. I love it, and frankly as long as I plan the calories, it's allright with me ; - CICO, obviously ; - Reading a few posts on r/loseit in the morning (either people starting their weightloss, people having a SV or a NSV, or just everyday struggles) helps me getting in the « weightloss mood » : I'm more motivated to walk a bit more to go to work, or to resist the numerous croissants I'm offered once I get there ; - Weighing myself and putting it into an app (Loseit in my case). Seeing the numbers go down motivated me to continue, and seeing patterns helped me not to freak out when it went up (damn periods). It took me 7 months to lose those 25 kgs (55 lbs), and while it was really hard at the beginning, it didn't feel impossible after I lost the first 10 (22 lbs). Now for the struggles : - External validation (litteraly everybody noticed I lost weight… after the first 15 kg (33 lbs), before that people really were oblivious) unfocuses me. While I know I lost weight for myself, having people tell me I look good unmotivated me to lose the last 5 (11 lbs) ; - I'm still addicted to the scale, which is not an awful thing since I stopped calorie counting. But my relationship with food is not as relaxed as I'd like it to be ; And by far the worst : - I thought that with the weightloss, I would learn self control. After all, I prepped my meals, didn't snack, didn't take breakfast, planned outings. Control all over. But whenever there's snacks around, I can't stop eating them. For now, I avoid snacks like plague (or coronavirus), but sometimes it's unavoidable (when I'm with people who snack, mostly). So, for the moment, as I'm unable to have just one piece of chocolate, it's no chocolate at all. That's the main thing that makes me feel like weightloss's not over. I hope this post found you well, and I'll still be there upvoting posts in the mornings to focus on maintaining, you've got this ! I almost forgot : Main benefit : no thigh chaffing/burning/hurting like crazy. That is seriously the best thing, above sleeping better, generally feeling healthier (you can feel it ! it's amazing), my friends being really happy for me, and better cooking skills. I haven't noticed people treating me better/noticing me more. [link] [comments] |
| Summer Birthday Countdown Challenge Posted: 21 Mar 2020 11:38 PM PDT For some motivation to count down to a milestone (especially amid the chaos I know a lot of people are experiencing right now), I thought I would challenge myself to lose weight by my birthday coming up this summer - anyone interested in joining in? I've joined in several informal challenges with people and found it a fun and successful way to stay accountable in the past, so I thought I'd start up one! My 31st birthday will be on June 10th - just over 11 weeks from now - and my slightly ambitious goal is to lose 10-15 lbs by then. I recently gained about that much, after maintaining a weight loss for several years, due to some personal setbacks and situations, so getting back into my old clothes would be a great present to myself. If anyone wants to join in, comment with your birthday (doesn't necessarily have to be on the summer!) and goal or goals, weight-oriented or even not, and I'll make a post every week for everyone to check in on our progress. Any takers? [link] [comments] |
| How to fight boredom snacking? Posted: 21 Mar 2020 07:48 PM PDT Hey all! I am a long time lover of this community and have lost nearly 70lbs since joining, however I have gained about 15 back this winter. I am now home from uni due to the virus and in many ways I find it easier to eat healthier at home, except for the fact that I'm bored now. (I know that sounds very first world problemy) My school is on spring break now and we aren't going back this semester because of the virus. I have no classes, no assignments and nowhere to go due to social distancing. It's been very hard for me to avoid mindless eating to fight the boredom. I'd love to hear how you all approach this issue! Thanks all! ❤️ [link] [comments] |
| I lost weight on a diet for the first time! Posted: 21 Mar 2020 05:57 PM PDT I'm a 19F in college, was roughly 220.5 lb when I started school last year. I've been wanting to lose weight for the longest time, so I've been talking to a lot of friends and family about how to get around to it. I was told that I might wanna start with doing a better diet. I did some research and saw what I should eat and how much I eat. Because of the stupid coronavirus, I was sent home from school about a month after I started doing this, weighed myself, and saw that I lost around 7 pounds from better eating habits! Exercise is something I'm gonna try to start doing. I've got a couple of ideas brewing. :) I'm kinda proud of myself for the first time in a while. It's more possible than I thought to lose weight! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 11:55 AM PDT Hi! I'm a first time poster, long time lurker. I love this subreddit and decided I should finally post. As far as stats go, I'm female, 5'8. SW: 356.6 CW: 334.8 I normally get my groceries delivered, but with how crazy everything is lately they haven't been doing deliveries as much. I got paid yesterday and headed to the store for a big shopping day. I was a little worried about it, as I usually get tired when I have to pick up just a few quick items. My back and legs would hurt and I would get sweaty/tired. Yesterday, I spent literally all day shopping/running around doing errands. And to my surprise...my back didn't hurt! My legs were fine. I wasn't sweating. I felt totally fine! Just thought I'd share my small victory. I was so excited to feel the differences, since I can't quite see it yet. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 02:37 PM PDT Hey there. So obviously I am in self isolation at home, like everyone else. I'm currently overweight and could stand to lose 60 lbs. I did some self-educating on how the pandemic started, and learned how animal slaughtering could lead to another zoonotic virus in the future since cows/chickens/pigs are kept so close together and their own viruses can mix and infect us. Needless to say, this was enough to turn me off from meat, haha. Years ago I was vegetarian for 2 years, so I know I love it, and have decided to go ahead with it. At the same time, I had the urge to go vegetarian keto...lose a bunch of weight and emerge from isolation as a true skinny legend. So I got all the groceries I needed yesterday and I was planning on doing it... But honestly? I don't think I can do it. I don't think I SHOULD do it. Excessively restricting myself during a time of uncertainty in the world isn't the best idea, and to be honest, I LOVE grains. They keep me full and happy (and regular!) and as long as I continue to count my intake calories, I can still lose weight! Just wanted to share the decision I came to as I feel like I'm making the right choice for myself. :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 04:15 PM PDT I know everyone has their own opinions about the entire concept of a cheat meal. However I recently started cooking cauliflower rice and man that shit be hittin. So I was really in the mood for some Habachi but I knew the rice alone would blow my calorie and nutrition out of whack. So I got the idea to order the chicken and vegetables and the shrimp sauce (I know is high in calories so I used only 1 of the small cups they give you) and replaced the rice with Cauliflower rice. Blew my socks off. I'm not saying I discovered or found something no one else has been doing. In fact that's the purpose of this thread. Share your hacks or replacement of certain high calorie ingredients with something more healthy and low calorie to help mitigate the effects of cheat meals. [link] [comments] |
| The “Limited Resource” Mentality Posted: 21 Mar 2020 09:38 PM PDT Well this week was a bust. I was doing so well until my mom got three big tubs of ice cream with cones for quarantine. I've noticed my binging habits getting worse after this, and having a cup of each flavor per day as if it would disappear the next day. Then i realized that's why my habit has gotten worse, it's the "Limited Resource" mentality. When I was younger, my mom only bought us sweets on special occasions. Even if it was simple fruit like plums or peaches, my siblings and I would fight to plough through them in a few days. And ice cream? Forget about it. She only got one flavor in a blue moon, and that would disappear as fast as it came. Same goes for Ginger Ale (which always goes good with a bag of popcorn), bc she goes from never even buying fruit juice, to having boxes of soda cans stashed in the garage. My craving for fruit juice is not as strong as it used to and Pepsi and Cola lost their luster, but OH BOY is Ginger Ale a rarity! ON TOP OF THAT, I'm an adult now, and my parents don't tell me what I can and cannot eat anymore. So it makes it so much easier to binge now that I have more (less?) control. I'm not blaming my folks for my problems by any means. I just noticed that the "Rare" foods trigger my binging habits when they make themselves available. How to I change up my thinking out of that primal "fight for gold"? I used to binge on fruit juice and soda until I realized how they were always available, and i don't care for them anymore. It's novelty that gives me that rush of dopamine... Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 22 March 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 22 Mar 2020 01:08 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] |
| Tips for keeping up willpower? Posted: 21 Mar 2020 05:31 PM PDT So some slight background on me: I peaked at my heaviest of 170kg - I ended up getting gastric banding surgery done and it very quickly helped me lose 50kg. Within 12-18 months I was down to 120kg, and then I just stopped caring. For some reason I went from "hell yeah Im losing weight" to "fuck it treat yourself a little" and then pretty quickly that "a little" just dropped off entirely. I ended up putting 15kg back on and staying around 135kg for a few years. Towards the beginning of feb I decided enough was enough and I needed to get my shit back together. Since then I've lost 12kg and I'm stoked with my progress. (118kg this morning - lightest I can ever recall being in my adult life) I've mostly only made 3 changes to my diet; 1 - just eat less dammit - I used to treat meal times as an "excuse" to eat a big meal, often to the point my stomach would hurt after I finished. Lunches were just as big as dinners. Now I just have a small lunch that still satisfies me (because I'm generally not all that hungry by lunchtime... OMAD wouldn't be too hard for me if I gave it a crack lol) 2 - No full-sugar softdrink - I'm happy sticking with water for the most part, and I'm just as happy with a diet soft drink if I really want the flavour. I'll still have some fruit juice on the odd occasion, but I'll treat that as a "sugar water treat" and not a "health food" lol. 3 - stop the chocolate binges - really this is my major issue, and the one I'm still kinda worried about. For quite a while there I would just eat entirely far too much chocolate every night. Like, we're talking "I'm not even enjoying eating this anymore but it's almost finished so I may as well polish it off" kinda stuff... I feel like sticking with points 1 and 2 are pretty easy. I can still eat whatever I want, just a bit less. I can still have my flavoured drinks, they just aren't as bad for me now. When I go to make a meal I feel happy that I am proactively choosing to eat a bit less. When I go to have a drink I love water so it's no issue. But the chocolate... it's damn hard to quit it... I've noticed the late-night cravings for it slowly fade, but damn... every time I'm doing the grocery shopping I have to talk myself down the second I get near the candy aisle.... "dude, don't even look at the stuff, you don't need it. You're going great without it." "It doesn't matter if the good chocolate is on special, no chocolate is still cheaper." "Just say NOOOOOOOO". (And of course there are staples on the other side of the candy aisle so I can't just not go down the aisle) And so far it's been working... I haven't bought any chocolate in like 6 weeks, I'm stoked with my progress, and people I know are saying it's super noticeable how much progress I've been making. But I always feel like I'm gonna slip back into the old bad habits... Anyone got any Tips for holding on to the good habits and not backsliding? [link] [comments] |
| How the current crisis is helping me to finally continue losing weight Posted: 21 Mar 2020 05:31 AM PDT I started my weight loss journey last fall by starting to count calories for the first time in my life. Also, another weird hobby I developed out of sheer boredom was going to the supermarket A LOT. Very often a few times a day, just because I suddenly craved a certain kind of (always high calorie) food I didn't have at home, so I went out to buy and immediately eat it. I lost about half of the weight I actually want to lose by counting calories for a while, then I suddenly got very annoyed by it (I'm a small woman so I really need to make sure to only use ONE teaspoon of butter per slice of bread and things like that because my allowed calories are so low...) so I decided to take a break from losing and ate up to maintenance for a couple of months. In my country we now have not a complete lockdown but we are all required to go out as little as possible. Anyways, I wanted to share this, maybe it'll inspire some of you to act the same. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 22 March 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 21 Mar 2020 09:09 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] |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2020 07:32 AM PDT This confuses me... I am 5'4 and 155lbs. I'm not completely sure about my GW at the moment, I assume I will definitely end up somewhere between 125-135. But, a 20lb loss is the goal for now. Anyway, I am eating 1200 calories a day and exercising (I don't eat back calories). Many people are telling me this is far too low. Some say I will go into 'starvation mode' - is that even possible when I have excess fat??? and others are telling me I will get sick and if I get Covid-19, I will have a higher risk of becoming really ill (even though I am young with no health conditions). The last argument has me slightly scared and doubting my current methods. I honestly feel okay, I only feel unwell if I don't drink enough fluids (stationary cycling makes me sweat buckets so I get dehydrated WAY easier). From my own research on the internet, so many sites are saying NEVER go under 1200 and eat more if exercising. But whenever I watch any of these weight loss shows, these morbidly obese people who weigh 500-700lbs are put on 1200 calorie diets by medical professionals??? If me, at 155lbs (10lbs overweight) will get 'sick' on this diet, wouldn't they??? Can someone please explain this to me? [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 22nd, 2020 Posted: 22 Mar 2020 02:24 AM PDT Hi team Euro accountability, march 22nd 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] |
| Advice on specific workouts to tone and slim down? Posted: 21 Mar 2020 10:07 PM PDT Hi r/loseit! You seem like such a nice community so I thought I might ask for advice. I know very little about what workouts I should be doing in order to tone and slim down. It's not my goal to bulk up or gain muscle, but just to get rid of flab. I'm 5'4" 94 lbs but my build is quite bulky, especially around my arms and waist. Any good exercises you know of to do this? Right now I run (while in a fasting state) daily, but I don't think it's doing much for anything but my legs. I feel like I'm all fat zero muscle, and it's very frustrating. I would really like to change this for my personal confidence. Also yes this is a throwaway account because I feel very vulnerable articulating my insecurities, I hope you understand, have a good day! 😊 [link] [comments] |
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