Weight loss: Only you guys will understand: |
- Only you guys will understand:
- I sometimes miss being invisible
- But it's so pleasant eating 3 - 4,000 calories a day!
- Maintenance Stories: Skinny people making fun of fat people
- I was able to do a full hour of cardio today for the first time! [NSV]
- selfishly worried about my progress due to covid19
- NSV: Finally fit into my dream dress!
- What's with the ultra long fasts?
- Thoughts on skipping breakfast
- The Extra Skin is Worth It, Don't Let it Get in Your Way!
- Small wins- 5lbs in 6 weeks
- ONEDERLAND!!! :)
- The beginning (again)
- Day 1 Began yesterday!
- coming to terms with how slow the process is
- F/22/6'0 [256 > 224.4 = 31.6 lbs] - I started a lifestyle change on January 5th of this year!
- Imposter Syndrome
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 11
- Be honest with yourself
- Am I a jerk for asking people to stop commenting on my weight loss progress?
- 24-Hour Pledge - Thursday, 12 March 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- If food isn't your comfort, what is?
- It's true: you don't have to wait for motivation
| Only you guys will understand: Posted: 11 Mar 2020 06:32 PM PDT I tried on a dress that I hadn't worn in two years today. It didn't bunch up on my chest, or get stuck being pulled over my butt. It slid on perfectly, just like it did 2 years & 35 pounds ago. I started tearing up in the mirror & immediately went to tell my friend who said "what? Did it just go out of fashion?" I went to my next friend & explained that the dress hadn't fit my arms in two years & they laughed "oh you got too buff?" Then I realized these people don't have to worry about clothes not fitting. They don't have to worry about something not buttoning or zipping up one day. They don't even question what they put in their mouths, so how could I expect them to feel how big of a victory this was for me? So here I am, telling people who might understand me!! I'm finally getting to put on the clothes that sat at the back of my closet & mocked me. Maybe not all of them yet, but today, I can fucking rock this dress! [link] [comments] |
| I sometimes miss being invisible Posted: 11 Mar 2020 08:30 AM PDT Weight loss comes with so many amazing benefits. Though one of the things that is particularly hard to adjust to is the newfound 'visibility' I have after losing a lot of weight. People treat me differently which is to be expected, we all do it... maybe it isn't conscious but it happens. Anyway, unwanted attention from men is hard to get used to. Especially men that I have known for years and never shown any interest before. It makes me uncomfortable. Though what surprised me most is how some of my friendships have changed. There is a certain level of competitiveness and jealously now. These friends were sooooo supportive of my weight loss journey when I was morbidly obese, not so much anymore. Whenever I started to get smaller, things did change. I even had one girl accuse me of flirting with her boyfriend, I don't even know how to flirt lol, I am awkward as hell. This stuff never happened before. When you are big, nobody feels threatened. You have this invisibility at times, it's hard to explain but I am sure a lot of you can relate. [link] [comments] |
| But it's so pleasant eating 3 - 4,000 calories a day! Posted: 11 Mar 2020 08:46 PM PDT I can eat 3,000 calories in a day easily. 4k is probably more than I would normally eat... but it's so doable. I miss eating with abandon, in this land of abundant cheap calories and plentiful foodstuffs where I dwell. This is just a shitpost because I had a hard day and I want to eat all the things right now. I'm fascinated by where the desire to eat endlessly comes from... classic emotional eating, to fill the void and self-comfort I suppose. I want to eat and eat and eat... I've always had a big appetite. I can sit down and eat a gallon of ice cream all by myself on any random Tuesday. I have self control and I know what I need to do. I've lost 11 lbs. since January 1 and there's a long way yet to go. But there's also the looming shadow of a rack of baby back ribs with a side of cornbread, mac and cheese, some creamed spinach, maybe some yams, aww hell probably some fried chicken too... I shall dream of you my pretties! [link] [comments] |
| Maintenance Stories: Skinny people making fun of fat people Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:35 AM PDT I've been maintaining for about a year now. I'm pretty happy with my body and by most modern standards you'd probably say I was in good shape. I go to this spin class and occasionally run into a coworker there. There's another guy we see all the time. He goes to many of the classes and he's honestly a joy in all of them. He amps up the class more than the instructor does. But he's also a bigger guy. I was singing his praises to my coworker and mentioned how astounded I was at how many classes he goes to. She gave me this coy look, a smile crept on her face, and she told me "it sure doesn't look like it, though" My heart sunk. I knew exactly what she meant. I still asked "What do you mean?" Hoping she'd get the point that I wasn't in on this party. She didn't. "He's fat!" she said glibly. I'm not out to get in fights with people. I told her simply that I still thought he was an inspiring person and then changed the subject. This kind of conversation really bugged me. She thought that just because I wasn't fat that I'd be willing to make fun of someone because they were. Worse still it's a dude that clearly LOVES doing something. You don't have to be skinny to spin on a bike. And despite being larger, he's probably in better health than literally most people. The conversation bummed me out. It made me wonder how many people did that to me before I lost weight. Anyway, this is my public service reminder that, if you're on a journey to lose weight, you remember the effort required, the discomfort that motivated you to start, and never ever turn your back on others who are on that journey as well. [link] [comments] |
| I was able to do a full hour of cardio today for the first time! [NSV] Posted: 11 Mar 2020 04:22 PM PDT SW: 285 CW: 215 GW: 130 I've been big my whole life and only recently have been able to personally reflect my relationship with food and exercise. I always *HATED* cardio work in gym class like running the mile or doing laps and would go through all sorts of measures like faking sickness to avoid it. I just didn't want to deal with the embarrassment and shame of being the last one to finish *everything* and have my entire class sitting there waiting for me to be done. It was humiliating and gave me a very poor opinion of exercise for most of my life I've lost a lot of my vision in the past few years after an injury and realized I couldn't do many of the things I used to enjoy, and I was going totally crazy being at home constantly. My neighborhood wasn't the best to go walking around in with bad eyesight and scrapes were becoming a very annoying norm on my hands and knees due to curbs and unseen cracks and debris (cue some more embarrassment from busybody neighbors). But then my dad offered to get me gym membership because he had just started going and I found my motivation I've never been able to do much cardio. I could walk for a long time at a lazy pace on a totally flat, even surface but it was boring. I bought some head phones, got into some podcasts and found a new use for my love of angry heavy music. Sometimes I'd just count over and over again to keep my mind off how much I wanted to stop and just sit my ass down somewhere. At first even just ten minutes was shockingly difficult. Anything that got my blood pumping could only go for a few minutes and I'd need to stop due to something hurting or dizziness or *something* after just a few minutes But I kept at it. Little by little. Recently I've become something of a gym rat even, doing cardio in the mornings and trying to return in the evening or late afternoon to do some muscle work and I feel GREAT. My endurance improved from just a few minutes to 15, then 20... and this morning I decided to push myself a little and I did a FULL HOUR on the elliptical trainer And I felt great!! A little sore, sure. Not too short of breath, knees weren't caving beneath me, I wasn't especially dizzy and I was sweating bullets. I almost cried when I realized I felt good enough to even keep going but the machine was prompting me to stop [Irony] Its been a few hours now and I still feel great! No significant soreness or tightness, no insane binges to undo everything, no major crash and I'm gonna go back to do upper body soon :) Everyone goes at their own pace. I was a terrible couch potato and now... well I'm the most active lazy person I know. Little by little. It doesn't have to be the craziness my boredom has driven me to [seriously 2x a day is probably a lot but we just moved and I have very limited options for a while]. I have been doing all of my cardio between the stair master and elliptical to try and strengthen my legs and also to fix some supination in my feet that makes a treadmill more difficult for me [constantly tripping even with insoles] I hope this helps somebody. This community is great and I know its been a huge help to me in this journey :) Next NSV goal: try to do more treadmill work now that I've lost some weight and my feet are in better shape. I ant to be able to jog for longer than 2 minutes Thank you <3 [link] [comments] |
| selfishly worried about my progress due to covid19 Posted: 11 Mar 2020 10:25 PM PDT I know this may come off as selfish in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like I need to get it out there in some way. I'm suddenly terrified that the progress I've seen, and was hoping to make this year is going to be unattainable due to the coronavirus pandemic. It took everything in me to finally get comfortable going to the gym (9 weeks strong!) but now as the number of cases grow, I get more and more paranoid about going to the gym. The amount of people who still don't wipe down their equipment, or who go to the gym sick is crazy. I get you don't want to miss a workout, but a few days off to recover is better for everyone else who has to use the same equipment. This is bad enough with standard colds and flus, but with this new virus going around I'm on high alert to how many people are guilty of this, and it's terrifying. Add to that the fact that I have 2 kids under 3 (who thankfully seem the least vulnerable) but who would be devastated if they couldn't see their grandparents for any amount of time if we were to get quarantined, or worse spread it to them, and suddenly going to the gym feels selfish. I was so proud of myself for missing a workout due to unrelated sickness but not falling off the wagon a week ago, but I don't know if I'm strong enough to take an undetermined amount of time off from working out. It felt like it was starting to become a habit. I get that the main factor in weight loss is diet, but the feeling I get from working out, and the strength I feel, and the improvements in body composition are such big factors that I don't know how good I'll be at one without the other. A huge motivator for my eating habits has been how active I've been outside the house lately and the fact that I work out early and every meal I can mentally ask myself "are you really about to waste that workout so you can have fries with that burger?" If that goes away I'm scared of what else may suffer. Again, I know this may come off as a woe is me thing in the midst of a global pandemic, but for once in my life I felt like I was getting control of my health and weight, and now I'm scared i won't be able to keep it up. Thank you for taking the time to read my rant/worries. I just had to tell someone how I'm feeling about this, and I hope it any of you are in the same boat, that we manage to work through it. I've come too far to go back. [link] [comments] |
| NSV: Finally fit into my dream dress! Posted: 11 Mar 2020 05:03 PM PDT Hi everyone, I'm just very excited and wanted to share this news with the loseit community :) I bought a dress last summer from Zara that just happened to be a tad bit too tight (I know people always say buy for the body you have) and I was determined. ABSOLUTELY DETERMINED. to fit into this dress. Well anyway, last night right before I went to bed I thought let's just see where we're at and I tried it on and it fit perfectly! My belly was flat, my chest looked great, and my waist really stood out! I ran to show my mom haha (it was 12 am) and she was pretty proud. I'm so excited to wear this dress to work and all summer once it gets a bit warmer :) This really made me feel ways because I had just got back on track after a 2 week overeating/no exercising period. I'd thought I'd gained weight but I was just bloated from my period haha excited to wear sooo many more nicer outfits :D For reference I am 5'4, started at 173 lbs at my highest (Dec 31) and currently weigh 155 lbs (GW: 125-30lbs) I started my weight-loss journey seriously on Jan 6, but I was meal prepping I'd say a few weeks prior to that. :) Meal prepping for lunch, calorie counting, and hitting the gym 4X week have all worked in conjunction to really help melt all of this off. [link] [comments] |
| What's with the ultra long fasts? Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:58 AM PDT I don't want to offend anyone, but I see people more and more doing these crazy long fast (like a couple of days) and I don't get what's that all about. How is that any different from 90s' supermodels just doing coke and not eating anything? I get it that you need to lose the weight fast and seeing a large weight drop gives you confidence , but I don't think this will give long term results, all I see is this leading you to an imminent huge binge, which just reinforces terrible behaviour and eating patterns. I think that 18:6 16:8 or even OMAD can be beneficial long term because they are sustainable, but people please stop punishing and starving yourselves. Real change takes time. [link] [comments] |
| Thoughts on skipping breakfast Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:02 PM PDT I found that skipping breakfast has helped so much, I'm no longer starving at 10am after breakfast and need a snack. I can wait until lunch which either fills me up until dinner or if I have a large (450 calorie) lunch I'm full all day and skip dinner. I use the remaining calories for snacks (fruit and a treat) and milky tea. Now i can easily stick to my 1200 calories m-f. Before i had 2ceggs (140 calories) and i would always be about 1800 calories because of the extra fruit /toast i needed about 10am. In about 6 weeks I've finally started losing weight, down 19lbs, 15lbs to go until my 1st goal weight. [link] [comments] |
| The Extra Skin is Worth It, Don't Let it Get in Your Way! Posted: 11 Mar 2020 06:36 AM PDT So I am a success story in that I lost a lot of weight. I went from 275 to 175 in a little over 10 months and have maintained it for about a year now (I'm actually gaining now but in a controlled way to build muscle). As a result, I have lots of loose/extra skin. Most of it is in my belly but it's all over. Once I began to share my success story with others, I was surprised at the number of people who were concerned about the skin. For many people, that was one of the first questions they asked and many admitted they were embarrassed to ask. I never even thought once about it while I was losing the weight and even now it doesn't bother me. However, I was surprised to hear from so many that they have purposefully not committed to losing the weight they need to from fear of the extra skin. You read that correctly. There have been many severely obese people who have told me that they did not want to lose the weight because they did not want to deal with the extra skin. If you are one of these people, I beg to change your mind. I plead for you to put your health before your perceived vanity because I promise you that once you do lose the weight, and you WILL lose the weight, your extra skin will not be seen to you as anything but a badge of honor. I certainly wish I didn't have it. I'll never be able to have the six-pack abs and I'll always look a little silly in a bathing suit but I wouldn't trade it back for the 100 lbs and I assure you that you will feel the same. I know you can do it. I believe in you. Pura vida [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:23 AM PDT I've been a lurker for a while and I've carried the same extra 20lbs around for most of my adult life (all of my 20s!). I recently moved to a new city started a new job and decided to jump start a routine. After 6 weeks of going to the gym 4+ times a week and being mindful of my eating, (trying my best to manage portion control, sticking to whole natural foods) I'm finally down 5lbs / 2 percent body fat. I know it's not a lot, but it's the biggest win I've ever had. I feel like I finally have something to share here. Thanks r/loseit for keeping me motivated!! 5'4 / 29f / SW: 152 / CW: 148 / GW: 135 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 09:59 AM PDT I've done it! After starting in January at 215, I stepped on the scale today and there is no better feeling than looking down at those blinking numbers that say 199.0! Of course I am still nowhere near my goal, but STILL! Seeing the progress week after week and finally achieving this feels awesome! I don't want to sound like I am just tooting my own horn, but I feel AMAZING and tbh if it wasn't for this community I probably wouldn't be here anyway, so thank you everyone who has shared their story and motivated me to persevere through the slip-ups, and I hope I can inspire others as many of you have done for me :) Incase anyone was wondering: I've been eating about 1500 calories a day, working out 4-5 days a week and also play rugby on my off days. I eat a lot of protein (>150 grams a day), and moderate carbs and fats. I am trying to reach 170 before school lets out, then I plan on lean bulking. Let me know if anyone has any other advice or questions! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 03:01 PM PDT Hello everyone, I am where I assume most of you have been at some point. I look in the mirror and I hate the way I look, but more importantly, I fear that I won't be there to see my daughter grow up. A few years ago I lost 120lbs (I even made a post about it over on progresspics) and I had never been happier. I didn't realize though that the hardest part of losing weight was keeping it off, so I found myself back at my heaviest weight, 470lbs. At the beginning of the month I decided this was the point of no return. My wedding is coming up at the end of the year, I am close to turning 30. Either I decide to change my life now, or my daughter will lose her father. I was waiting to make this post until I knew that I was definitely sticking to it, and after almost two weeks I can say this is the one! I feel great about myself and I'm happy to report that I am down 26 pounds in 11 days! Like many of you I have been a long time lurker of this subreddit, constantly coming here at my time of most desperation. Now that I have found the strength to change my life for the better I hope that this post and the progress updates I will post throughout this journey are enough to motivate anyone who thinks it's too late for them. Take it from me, it's not impossible, it's never too late. Do it for your family, do it for your future, but most importantly do it for yourself, you are worth it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2020 01:17 AM PDT I'm currently 230lbs. The biggest I've been, my goal weight is 180lbs. I gained all my weight when I got into a relationship, we both did. We decided we are going to try harder to lose it and started making healthy packed lunches for work and incorporating more vegetables into my dinner. The main reason for this post is to keep me accountable! I went on a jog for the first time Yesterday, only lasted 10 minutes but I was so proud. I've realised my biggest motivation is a picture on my phone screen of me when I was skinnier and having my workout clothes ready and meals prepped. This is what works for me but I want to learn of any other tips that can help motivation if I can. [link] [comments] |
| coming to terms with how slow the process is Posted: 11 Mar 2020 09:45 AM PDT Hi everybody! I need some inspiration from you. I have lost 13 pounds in 2 months with CICO and exercise 6 days a week. I am finally coming to terms with the fact that losing weight is going to be a much slower process than I thought. I want to hear stories about patience and perseverance. I need these stories to keep going. I am also looking for tips and advice. So tell me, what do you do to stay consistent? How do you keep yourself motivated? What are times when you have fallen off but gotten back on the routine? How did you do that? Pardon me if this is repetitive and please point me in the right direction. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| F/22/6'0 [256 > 224.4 = 31.6 lbs] - I started a lifestyle change on January 5th of this year! Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:57 PM PDT And because of it, I've lost 31.6 pounds I'm really proud of myself. I've had numerous 'failed' weight losses in the past where I've lost 20 pounds max and then tapped out and gained it all back. In 2019, I gained a ton of weight and by the beginning of 2020 I was 256 pounds, the most I've ever weighed. It was disheartening, to say the absolute least. I hated the body I was in and how much less mobile I was becoming. I could barely walk anywhere without getting utterly exhausted. I did no exercise whatsoever. I'm a different person now. You'll find me in the gym 4-6 times a week, sometimes even 7 if I'm feeling ultra motivated. I eat at a caloric deficit and don't follow any special diet. I just like to focus a bit on macronutrients to track my protein and fiber intakes to help me feel full inbetween meals. And now instead of ordering out, I make almost all my own meals! I'm a huge comfort food person and I don't like giving things up. I also love eating large quantities and I've dealt with a binge eating problem for a long time. So my solution has been to either look up or create low calorie versions of the foods I love. Honestly, there's some foods you really can't make as good without fattening ingredients. But there's plenty that are honestly just as good if not better without some of the ingredients that unnecessarily pump up the calories and fat content without much of a difference in flavor! And that's what it's about for me, making the calories worth it. If there's a good-enough tasting substitute, you best believe I'm throwing it in there! I cycle between eating healthy meals and meals that may not be the healthiest in the world, but sometimes I'm just having some serious comfort food cravings and need them to keep me sane while at a caloric deficit, and it's definitely better than binge eating extremely unhealthy food like I used to, so that's a plus. Some meals that are tried and true for me are burger bowls made with meatless crumbles, BOCA burgers (they're vegan and lower cal), shrimp scampi made with zucchini noodles, shrimp cocktail, ham and cheese quesadillas (a wedge of light laughing cow swiss cheese spread on half a tortilla, then 4 slices of honey ham put on top, seared in a pan and then dipped in low fat thousand island), lemon-garlic tilapia with spinach, sushi, or honestly even some Blaze Pizza (660 cals a pizza for a simple pie, and on special days I'll even have two and still be 500 calories under, and that's without working out! For snacks I'm a huge fan of finding the lowest calorie ones possible. I'm a huge fan of Albanese Sugar Free Gummy Bears, I also like Smart Sweets which are 80 cals a bag for numerous gummy products. And if I'm going to the movies and want something sugary/salty I'll go with some Rice Krispies Treats and a thick Slim Jim lol. They're the lowest calorie options I can find in most gas stations. If you can find GoodThins crackers, the corn sea salt ones, they're 120 calories for 41 crackers and you can pair them with some hummus for a nice snack. My absolute favorite cheat meal is an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant near me that's just...unbelievable. I don't limit myself until my stomach says no, it's the perfect indulgence and I can save all my calories of the day for it. And it satisfies a monthly binge eating craving, it's easy to get back on track after too! That's the thing, with my other diets I would often quit after a couple of cheat days, but now I can't imagine myself over-indulging every day like I used to! So yeah, I'm proud of myself and just wanted to post it. 31.6 pounds down, and 24.4 pounds left until I reach my goal weight of 200, and then I'll go from there. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 08:53 PM PDT Anyone else get imposter syndrome about weight loss? I'm 30 and this is my first time losing weight that isn't just some shitty crash diet kinda thing I did way back when. I've been faithfully tracking CICO and working out regularly all week, while allowing myself "cheat meals" in social situations and loosening the reins on what I eat on weekends. Since Jan 6th, I've lost almost 13 lbs, and 0.5-1 inch off all my measurements. It's still hard to see any difference physically - sometimes I do think I can notice a change but other times I'm not sure. Despite being able to see my weight going down on my fitness tracker app, I find that I am often second-guessing my weight loss - a voice in my head will try to argue that this really isn't that much, that it's probably just a fluke or scale/measurement error. It's so strange because I'm really not a person that usually feels insecure, but now I have to rationalize to myself that in fact these numbers are in fact due to consistent work & attention on my end (and if I had really lost 13 lbs on accident I'd be worried enough to see a doctor)! I think this imposter feeling may be due to the fact that I have been allowing myself somewhat regular cheat meals, however I think that not being too strict with my eating habits are what is ultimately making them sustainable long-term. I know that losing weight over a slower amount of time while not depriving myself is ultimately more rewarding as I feel like I am still living my life and not some miserable person "on a diet." Anywayyy I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has experienced this same weird issue! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 11 Posted: 11 Mar 2020 01:56 PM PDT Hello losers, I hope you're slaying the run way & otherwise kicking butt. Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): Fucking scale. I'll try again tomorrow. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): I should be okay today, steak planned for dinner. 7/9 days. 2/2-4 maintenance days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute walk at lunch. 11/11 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing, fancy coffee out no more than 3 times a week 5/13): Therapy 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. 3/11 days. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: I'm grateful for my body. I have spent a lot of time & effort relearning how to treat it with respect & kindness. I feel like the rewards are stacking up in a wonderful way. I'm capable, healthy & feel better in my skin than any other time in my life. How goes it for you? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 06:44 AM PDT I came to this subreddit last week to post, comment and do whatever else helps me stay motivated and keep myself accountable for my own weight loss. I have gone through this process before and done countless hours of research and I love using that knowledge and my own experiences to give my opinions on peoples problems. There are a lot of different problems in a weight loss journey that are common between a lot of people here and that I see over and over every day. I find the worst one, while maybe not the most common, is people lying to themselves, usually unintentionally. I don't mean this in a sense that someone is binge eating and says they have done well for the day, I don't think I've seen anything that extreme. I think the most common of a problem I see is people overestimating their calories burned. I just want to list a few things that I think people doing a CICO method will be able to identify where the issue might be if they aren't seeing any progress. 1 The first is activity level. This is really hard to measure on any of the calculators no matter where you generally look online. If someone is working out to increase their calories burned, they probably aren't selecting they have a sedentary lifestyle. The problem is when the calculator suggests certain amounts of workouts to be different activity levels, it greatly affects the calories per day that it suggests you burn. For me between BMR-sedentary-light-moderate-heavy-athlete. it's about 400-500 calories (i'm a big guy) but it doesn't explain what these workouts should be. There are days i've tracked on a fitbit that I didn't even burn an additional 400-500 to make it to the sedentary line. Researching online won't help this either because calculators vary, articles vary, and people definitely vary. recently i've done research and found links that show 10000 steps a day to be around sedentary-light and others that say it's highly active. I think BMR is the most accurate between these calculators and much like tracking calories that you intake, it is more accurate to look at the work outs you have done, input that in an app or do some research to see how many calories you may have burned at your intensity. Someone walking 10-20k steps a day and putting moderate-heavy activity levels in a calculator could be overestimating their calories burned. 2 The second is calorie intake. This one isn't as common but i see it at least a few times a day where someone has put they are pretty overweight, eating 1000-1500 calories per day, exercising at least a few times per day and not losing anything over months of being consistent. There are for sure cases of small people, usually women, who have a sedentary lifestyle and this is so close to their BMR that the weight loss is non existent or hardly noticeable. But I am writing this for those who know that at this calorie deficit they should be losing weight even without working out, to these people, I'm sorry but you have missed something. I'm not going to say a medical condition isn't possible, but it's not anywhere near as common as seeing people post about this and even then, it's unlikely that it's preventing any weight loss at all. So remember to count everything, don't lie and try to estimate on the higher side if you just eyeballing it.
I also want to mention that while nutrition labels are usually very reliable, they are allowed to be within 20% in either direction and not have to make a correction. I don't want to recommend taking this into account because it could cause someone to be eating at too much of a calorie deficit if they assume all calories listed at 20% more than they are. 3 thinking you can't do it. This is the biggest lie anyone can tell themselves. I told myself for years that losing weight was too hard, going to the gym was too hard, being seen out in public to get my steps in was too embarrassing at my weight, or saying no to buying that kitkat bar when i'm trying to be healthy wasn't possible. I lied to myself for my entire life up until the point I believed in myself, and nothing could have been further from the truth. For anyone reading this that is feeling this way, I want to believe that most of the people on this subreddit have felt the same. We have felt the cravings, the embarrassments, the struggles, and a lot of us have pushed through, for some it just takes a little more effort and a little more time. If you want to lose weight and have the determination, you can do it. Don't jump to the conclusion after a few months of being consistent that your body is just like that and you can't do anything about it. Take a step back from your position, look at every aspect of what you have been doing and find the mistake. There is no shame in making mistake, I myself have probably made more than I can count, but I needed to find and fix them to be successful. [link] [comments] |
| Am I a jerk for asking people to stop commenting on my weight loss progress? Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:21 PM PDT I used to be upwards of 210 kilos and I'm now down a significant amount, I'm at about 170 kilos now (at 189 cm in case you want a visual reference). I understand I'm doing the right things, and everything is going better. However, one of my friends (let's call him Bart) commented to me while we were out drinking that i "looked way grosser before", as if to help me feel like I'm progressing in my weight loss. He has always been a really fit person, as long as I've known him (we're 20, we met when we were like 12). I told him that saying that was a bit of a dick move, and I didn't appreciate being referred to as "gross" by someone I considered a close friend. He didn't really understand why I would feel that way, but relented and said he wouldn't say things like that again. This spilled into my interactions with other people too, unfortunately. Whenever my parents or family say "wow you look way better!" I no longer take it as a compliment, I see it as them saying I wasn't good enough before. It's even worse when I see people from high school or my old workplace comment on it, for the same sentiments as with my parents, except I don't even acknowledge things like that anymore. To be clear, I have let everyone I regularly interact with that I don't like comments like that. My family has stopped the comments completely, with the exception of my obese sister, who is also working hard towards losing weight. I don't mind talking with her about it though. Well, last night I was at a bar with Bart, and the bartender asked to see my ID. I handed it to him and I made a comment like "that's from a hundred pounds ago but the picture still works eh?" And the bartender just chuckled, said it was fine, and handed back the card. I thought it was kinda funny. But Bart pipes up and says "yeah man, you look WAY better now than you did! It's a crazy change!" To which I said "just shut the fuck up dude, stop talking about my weight loss". He was silent through his two drinks he had and left. Am I being an asshole for setting these boundaries? Am I overreacting? I understand he was coming from the right place, but I just don't like this feeling that people thought I was a lesser person when I was fatter. Obviously this isn't affecting me so bad I'm going to trash my progress, but it's still affecting me to the point where being around people I used to know makes me sort of miserable. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Thursday, 12 March 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 11 Mar 2020 09:07 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] |
| If food isn't your comfort, what is? Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:18 PM PDT I, like many others here, have a bad relationship with food. I'm much better than I was at the start of this journey but ive still got a ways to go. I was talking with someone else about this and food is used for everything. It's a way to say 'thank you', 'im sorry;' we use it when we've done something great and again when things go poorly. I live in the south (US) and this seems like a prominent theme here. Is this the same for other areas? If not, does something else take its place? I'm honestly not sure how to thank people now aside from baking them something. If you've used food for comfort in the past, what are you doing now for life's ups and downs? If you've never used food as comfort, is that the culture you were up in or is it something you developed early? Super interested to hear everyones thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| It's true: you don't have to wait for motivation Posted: 11 Mar 2020 05:32 PM PDT Up until a year and a half ago, I used to work out a few times a week and while I had extra lbs I still wanted to lose, I was happy with my body and didn't feel overly unhealthy. And then my mental and emotional health started to decline and I found myself wanting to drown my sorrows in food and preferring to go straight home after work to wrap myself up in blankets on my bed. I gained +20lbs (I know I lost muscle mass too so that was more fat gained) and I just didn't recognize myself anymore. It has been so hard for me to get back to my old routine of hitting the gym and eating to lose at a healthy pace or to maintain. I would complain to my husband, "I wish I had the motivation again." "I wish I lived near my sister, we would work out in college and I think I need a workout buddy to push me." And my husband would just say, "You don't need motivation. You have the desire, just do it." And it took literal months (and several failed fast diets) for me to really let that sink into me. I dragged myself to our work gym last week and even though every cell in my body was screaming at me to drive straight home, I just walked in. Just kind of muted my brain and it wasn't until the middle of the workout that I was accepting I was at the gym and feeling good. Same thing for the rest of the week and the beginning of this week. It felt like a chore. Yes, I felt so great afterwards but I was still dragging myself there. And today was the first day I didn't feel like I had to force myself. Finally accepted it as my routine and I was actually looking forward to it. My mind isn't fighting it. I've been packing healthier (but not extremely, a little at a time lol) lunches because it feels better to work out with the right food. I know I'm just starting but after 1.5 years of not being as consistent as I am now, I feel so happy. Just wanted to share :) [link] [comments] |
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