Weight loss: Did anyone else realize just how fat they were after they started losing? |
- Did anyone else realize just how fat they were after they started losing?
- [210lbs->152lbs] How an anime helped me lose it with a simple quote: believe it
- 70 pound weight loss
- How it feels to lose over 1/5 of your body weight
- For those who have fell off the wagon during quarantine... It’s just temporary.
- taking progress pictures made me realize how much I've REALLY lost
- Thought I would clarify some common misunderstandings regarding naked juice to help people on their journey to lose weight.
- I feel like I shouldn’t bother.
- I Lost My Dog! Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 05 April 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- It feels hopeless
- Any tips for food anxiety?
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 05 April 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Are Body Combat and Body Pump efficient ways to lose weight?
- Anyone know of weight loss supplements that work?
- From 140 to 120 and back again... maintenance??
- Staying motivated while under quarantine
- New and Overwhelmed
- I thought this may fit here better
- 315lbs to 245lbs
- Overindulging like I used to just taught me how little I want to do that anymore.
- Before and After - 1 year of loss and 1 year of maintaining
| Did anyone else realize just how fat they were after they started losing? Posted: 04 Apr 2020 05:05 PM PDT After losing 30lbs (F 5'7" 31 years old/ 210 lbs -180lbs) I'm just now looking in the mirror and seeing how far I have to go to. I don't think I've had super high self esteem in the past or anything, Ive always known I was overweight, but it's like I just didn't REALLY see it when I looked in the mirror...almost like the opposite of body dysmorphia telling you you're heavy when you're thin. Anyone else have a similar experience? It's a bummer to feel the full weight of how much work lies ahead, but I'm grateful to at least be young enough and healthy enough to work on it. Thanks to this sub for the inspiration to keep at it even during isolation! We can do it! [link] [comments] |
| [210lbs->152lbs] How an anime helped me lose it with a simple quote: believe it Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:26 AM PDT February of 2019, I lost 54 pounds and went from 210lbs to 157lbs after starting my weightloss journey for the first time in June 2018 (5'7"). Then I proceeded to gain almost all of it back, sitting at 191lbs in November as a result of trauma and my binge eating disorder. At that point, I thought that I was just meant to be fat. That's why I was fat. I thought there was no hope, that "obese" was my default I would always turn back to. Some of you who've seen me 'round here before may know that last fall, I changed my life around, and for good this time. But I never really shared this funny part of the story: The main thing that pushed me to try again, was an anime called Naruto. And the main character, Naruto himself, declared that he would one day become the greatest Hokage of all time. The one phrase that stuck with me was how he always ended that proclamation, with the words: "Believe it!" Believe it. Those two words rung inside my ears, and it all came crashing down at me. I gained all of the weight back because I didn't believe in myself. Instead, I believed that I was meant to be fat. But taking those words, believe it, and claiming it this time around, has completely changed my perspective. And that's why I truly believe I have been so successful at losing weight, and how I now weigh less than my previous lowest weight. It's because I believed it. Last month, I was put to the test. My job shut down, I've almost been homeless due to my university evacuating all students, I had to learn to buy groceries, meal prep, cook, ration and save up on food. No gyms open as well. But I kept thinking about that quote, and it always kept me steady. I am proud to say I've maintained in the month of March, and actually lost 2 pounds since my last update. It might not be that big of a loss, but when you add it up, it makes a huge difference. Almost 60 pounds down total, 40 since restarting my journey. I believed it. Will you believe it too? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 06:30 AM PDT This community (sub) is something special. I joined on my main account about a year ago when I started to lose weight. Having a support system is a valuable resource in weight loss. Everyone in my life is obsessed with fad diets that don't last. Nobody believed me when I said I just eat less than I used to and I take more walks. Fad diets aren't super healthy and I didn't want to be like the people around me so this sub was awesome for me. I love the walks I take and I feel very happy I learned how to eat the foods I love in moderation! I'm a slushee lover! Now in quarantine it's very difficult to not eat out of boredom and I'm sure many of you can relate but looking at older pictures, even if it's only a 3 pound weight loss, can help encourage us to not undo our progress! We got this! We are a community! A family! A support system! Something amazing. [link] [comments] |
| How it feels to lose over 1/5 of your body weight Posted: 04 Apr 2020 02:51 PM PDT https://imgur.com/8QPT7Lh https://imgur.com/Te5tbQS I first found this subreddit a few months back as I was first getting into the swing of things with my weight loss journey that's I started last March 2019. I was feeling low on how my body always made me feel. My body felt like a burden, not fitting into chairs properly and being uncomfortable no matter how I was sitting/laying/etc. I never tracked my calories, weight, or anything. I barely worked out. I had a kick where my friend and I went and that was short lived. I got sick of things and told my boyfriend I needed his help to get me on the weight loss journey. He was the reason I finally started it, and helped encourage me along the way. When I found this subreddit, it was actually a couple months into my journey and from a link my bf sent me, since he was also on this subreddit. He would send me posts from this subreddit of other people and how their journey was. It was inspiring content every time, whether it was someone my size losing weight or someone even less losing 20 pounds. It was a relief to read words of struggles similar to mine. Sometimes he found a post that had someone else relating to me after I complained to him about how I felt LOL. So, I thought it was time I post something, in the hopes that it inspires other people! The month of March, 2020, marked my first official year of my weight loss journey. I was hoping to hit 250 by the time the one year hit, but I've been hovering between and stuck at 257-258. While part of me blamed the stuck at home orders in this quarantine time, another part blamed myself. I was going through old photos today and found the photo to the left (see link at the top). The photo was taken July 2017, and who knows how much I weighed then. I think it was more than when I first finally stepped on the scale a year ago after avoiding that thing like the plague. I was at 330 a year ago. Overall I've lost 73 pounds and 22.1% of my body weight. My weight loss graph (second photo link at the top) shows the trend that I've been on track as much as I could be, but sometimes you have to go up and down to get the downward slope. And it's okay!! I had cheat days and days when I didn't work out (especially now 🙃). All in all, I'm a different person. I track my calories, nutrients, weight, and exercise in MyFitnessPal. I've started to take measurements to measure the areas getting smaller even if the number stays the same. I make sure to check in with how my body is feel during meditation. I hope that showing that I could do, especially after all these years of being a big girl, can help others. Even if it makes not a single impact on anyone, I know that it makes an impact on myself looking back. I'm a happy, healthier person than I used to be. I have a better relationship with food and my body. I was even confident before, so you could imagine how much more confident I am now. Life is good, and while others have helped encourage me along the way, I have to thank myself for it too. Shoutout to me for being able to wear an old fat girl shirt as a dress. Pop off sis! 180 may be the end goal, but I'm happy to have hit the goal of being happy with myself. 🥰 See y'all next year!!! [link] [comments] |
| For those who have fell off the wagon during quarantine... It’s just temporary. Posted: 04 Apr 2020 08:09 AM PDT It's ok. This is a really stressful time for most, and a lot of us have been focusing on things that may be more important than our weight loss journey. For myself, I spent the first three weeks of quarantine stress-eating, to the point where I put on a total of 15 pounds in three weeks. It was a cycle of where I would tell myself that I would start eating healthy again tomorrow in which I would for most of the day, but come nighttime, I was so consumed by boredom I would just begin eating. Fortunately I was able to control myself this past week and get back to eating healthy again. Didn't cut carbs to compensate or put myself in a ridiculous deficit, just took it one day at a time. As of this morning weigh in, I lost 13 out of the 15 pounds I put on in the past three weeks, and expect to be back to my previous weight by sometime next week. Water weight is truly a crazy thing. So for those that have reverted back to old habits and may have gained some pounds, just stay calm and take it one day at a time and you'll be back to where you were before you know it. [link] [comments] |
| taking progress pictures made me realize how much I've REALLY lost Posted: 04 Apr 2020 04:49 PM PDT I went on an antidepressant that made me put on like 20 pounds, that's the before picture on the left, THEN I went on one that suppresses appetite, now I'm down 25 lol. I always looked in the mirror and thought I didn't look any different and all of this is a waste of time. but jesus, my gut itself and my obliques look SO much different. I have atleast 10 pounds of solid fat to go. but man if this isn't motivating then idk what is. my heaviest was 215, now I'm down to about 190.5. I don't lift weights anymore so I'm sure I lost a significant amount of muscle which is why I still look pretty fat but it is what it is. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 11:25 PM PDT This is a rant against Naked Juice, if you have info showing what I'm saying is wrong, please send it because I'm no food studies major. Of course naked juice isn't as bad as soda, but I'm gonna talk about why it's no healthier than any other juice out there. To start, they're owned by pepsico. This is no company that cares about its consumers health so you can count on them cutting edges and finding loopholes to maximize profit. In a 15.2 ounce bottle of mighty mango, the bottle says there are 58 grams of natural sugars. The bottle also says that it contains 1.25 mangoes, 1.75 apples, .5 of an orange, and 1/3 of a banana. If you add the sugar in these fruits up, you get 101 grams of sugar (which varies slightly but not 50%). So why does the drink only contain 58 grams? This is probably because their "smoothie" is mostly juice, and went through a small blending process to call it a smoothie. I emailed their customer support and they haven't responded yet. They were also sued in 2013 and settled for $9 million for lying about "all natural" sugars. They were sued again in 2018 for failure to fix the issue. Some websites say you can claim $45 with no proof of purchase for being lied to, however I don't know if this is true or not. Another thing to take into account is dietary fiber, of which one 15.2 ounce bottle of mighty mango only has 3.6 grams. If you think this is enough dietary fiber to slow your metabolic rate for breaking down 58 grams of sugar, then think about this. In 1 apple, which contains around 19 grams of sugar, there are 4.4 grams of dietary fiber, which is the main regulator of sugar's metabolization. If you have 3 apples, it would be about the same amount of sugar that's in one mighty mango 15.2 ounce bottle. However, the apples would have 13.2 grams of dietary fiber (25-30 grams is the recommended daily amount), whereas the naked drink only had 3.6 grams of dietary fiber (other naked drinks have even less fiber). My last point is the calories in the mighty mango drink. In one 15.2 ounce drink, there are 275 calories, which is quite a bit for a drink. Now if you took the amount of natural sugars in the drink alone, you would get 224 calories from 58 grams of sugar. This means that the calories in mighty mango are 81% sugar. If you think this is a healthy drink, then you're seeing exactly what Pepsi wants you to see. All this math was done using google's average nutritional facts of different fruits. [link] [comments] |
| I feel like I shouldn’t bother. Posted: 05 Apr 2020 01:10 AM PDT So for some background, i have always been bigger. Like 5'5" and 250lbs. i moved across the globe two and a half years ago. I then got wooed and screwed by a teaching agency and was broke. Like...really broke. So for a few months I was eating a packet of instant soup and two apples a day. So around 250 calories-ish? And I'd eat the instant soup for lunch because it wouldn't be as weird if I DID have work to eat soup for lunch. I lost around 50lbs. Yay! Then I met my now partner. He had more money than me and could afford actual food. In the past two years I have gained back the 50lbs I'd lost and have been trying hard to lose it again, but I've only lost 15 ish in the last three months. It's feeling like I shouldn't bother and that it doesn't matter. :/ [link] [comments] |
| I Lost My Dog! Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned Posted: 04 Apr 2020 10:11 AM PDT It's almost exactly one year since I officially began losing weight, and yesterday I achieved my final goal weight! I realized when I was thinking about having lost 62 lbs that that's about what my dog weighs, and god knows that feels like a whole lot when I have to pick her up when she refuses to jump into the car! I can't believe I used to walk around with all that extra weight all the time. I distinctly remember, many years ago during one of my failed weight loss attempts as a teenager, getting off the treadmill panting my ass off, and having the realization: "I'm never actually going to do this. I'll keep convincing myself I can, and I'll try over and over, but realistically, it's never actually going to happen." I am so, so glad I was wrong. Progress pics: https://imgur.com/a/CYlv1ir And, my dog (because I know better than to forgo the dog tax): https://imgur.com/a/Al8bRqW I'm happy to give more detail of how I did it in the comments if it would be helpful to anyone, but I mostly just count calories. I'm working out now to build muscle and because I enjoy it; for me it's much more of something to make me feel good and happy than to help me lose weight. But that brings me to my first tip: - Do what works for you. Weight loss is very individual. If you can't sustainably keep to a lower calorie budget, then try a bit of a higher one. If exercise helps you lose, then do that. If you hate exercise, don't do it. What works can even vary for one person across the course of their weight loss - for me, at the beginning of this I cut out snacking completely and didn't eat breakfast, and now I have breakfast and a bunch of little snacks spread out throughout the afternoon. It's totally okay to experiment with different things until you find what works for you. - Planning is key. I found that the times I was most likely to slip up were when I was faced with unexpected changes, or decisions in the moment. If I didn't have anything to eat for dinner, it was much easier to fall back on old habits than to make a healthy decision right there and then. But if I knew what I was going to eat each day, I just followed that plan. Same thing for treats or eating out- if I knew I was going to, I could work it into my calorie budget and feel absolutely fine about eating it. - The first few months and the last few pounds are the hardest. I found that after the first 2-3 months, it really just became an ingrained habit, part of my routine, enough that it didn't take as much effort and self-control as before. If you're struggling in the beginning, know that it won't always feel that hard. And the last few pounds have been sooo stubborn- I got down to 145 in 8 months, and it's taken me 4 to get the last 10 pounds off. It can be frustrating. Just keep at it, you'll get there. - Weight loss needs to fit into your whole life, not just your life when it's ideal. Things that happened during the course of my weight loss: Knee surgery, moving to a new state, starting grad school, being home for the holidays for a month, my best friends' wedding, a trip to Amsterdam – you get the picture. Weight loss is easiest when you can focus on it, when it's the only thing in your life that's different from your routine. But in order to be sustainable, you have to accept that life is going to keep happening, and weight loss needs to be compatible with it. Things aren't going to be perfect, but you can keep trying – accept that you might only maintain over the holidays, allow yourself to still enjoy celebrations, but maintain control and remember that this is a whole new lifestyle, not a temporary fix. You can absolutely do this. If you ever find yourself thinking like I did as a teenager, remember that this is entirely within your control, and that there are lots of people just like you who did it and are now here to cheer you on. Lots of love <3 [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4 Posted: 04 Apr 2020 05:09 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Saturday! Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): 208.2 this morning, 207.7 trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): 1500 ish calories planned for today, depending on the broccoli. X/X average calories weekly average. Exercise 5 days a week: Walked my pokemon. 4/4 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing, fancy coffee out no more than 2 times a week 2/10, no fast food): TBD. Try a new recipe once a week: I'm recipe shopping currently. I want familiar comfort recipes for meal preps so dinners may get weird around here! X/4 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Gonna hit it up tonight. 0/50 pages. Drawing prompt every day: Gonna put my sketchbook out on my nightstand tonight & I drew in my journal. 2/4 days. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: About to go pick up a grocery order. Limiting exposure & staying home even if it means I don't get to pick my produce. How are all you? [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 05 April 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 04 Apr 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] |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 01:17 PM PDT I'll be able to eat under my calorie limit all day until about 8pm and then it's like all of my goals don't exist anymore. I have no self control. I don't care about the conquenses and I just eat. And then right after I eat I feel like absolute trash. The next day the cycle repeats all over again. Why does my willpower just cease to exist after a certain time of day? I'm feeling very down right now. It all feels so hopeless. I'm trying but it feels like I'll be doomed to gain and gain because I can't control myself in the evenings. If anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it. I hate feeling like this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 07:12 PM PDT Hi all, I'm about 15 lbs overweight. I know it could be worse but i just think about all the clothes I want to wear and I would feel better if I lost those last couple of pounds. My biggest road block is my food anxiety. I had periods of starvation as a kid, I've gone on meal plans and would get so anxious because I didn't feel full after eating my allotted amount of food and instantly cringe realizing how long I would have to wait to eat again. On that meal plan, I was also extremely disciplined by going to the gym 4 times a week, riding horses twice a week, and really active. Although I lost 20 lb, once I stopped, I gained 35lb back. All I really remember from that 3 month period was feeling so stressed out, I was in school full time, working four jobs and taking care of my horse. There were days I would be up by 5:45 am, at work & school for 6:15, and finally roll home at 10:30pm. All the while blocking out times to work out and meal prep. Planning every second of my day is just so overwhelming to me now, idk how I did it. Now, I'm in medical school. We have a lot more time w COVID and I'm only working one day a week. My horse is boarded so I don't have to take care of every morning & evening. I have the time to workout & meal prep. However, the second I think about finding a new meal plan/work out schedule, I'm hit with this past experience and freeze w anxiety. Anyone else experience something like this/know how to overcome this? [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 05 April 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 05 Apr 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] |
| Are Body Combat and Body Pump efficient ways to lose weight? Posted: 04 Apr 2020 10:20 PM PDT I'm 19 years old, weighing at around 220 fat, and about 5'9. I've recently started my journey with weight loss with 3 body combat classes in a row and I've been feeling really good about it as it's fun n it feels like I'm taking care of my body. I am also thinking of maybe starting body pump. I'm not looking to get ripped, just healthy and much more confidence in the body I'm in. Would doing one of these a day everyday help with my goals? Also any recommendations on how i should be eating if Im just honestly looking to looking to lose some of that belly and chest fat so I can finally wear t shirts alone in confidence [link] [comments] |
| Anyone know of weight loss supplements that work? Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:50 PM PDT Okay so my partner is wanting some natural pill that is going to help her lose weight. She isn't looking for some "miracle drug" and she is currently eating healthy and doing cardio daily. She doesn't need to lose a drastic amount of weight. She just wants to drop qbout 15 to 20 pounds after water weight. I told her that she just needs to keep doing what she's doing and doesn't need said supplements but she's really hell bent on it. She has no interest in anything ephedrine based or anything like that (thank God). She does want something to also "flush out her intestines of toxins".... Anyway if anyone could recommend something safe and reliable for her to take while eating right and exercising she'll be happy and I'll be able to stop explaining that 90% of these "lose weight quick" pills are scams or very bad for your health. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| From 140 to 120 and back again... maintenance?? Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:24 PM PDT So I've had some really productive weight loss attempts in the last two years. The first time was between October and December 2018, and I went from roughly 137 lbs to 125 lbs. 10 pounds makes a big difference for me, so I was really quite pleased with myself. I mostly did this through IF and only eating dinner. I didn't do great at exercise at the time, though I did some lifting. After I got to 125, I slowly loosened up what I was doing and stopped counting calories, weighing myself, and restricting... and although I did keep better track of what I was eating, I slowly but surely crept up again to 135 (if I'm charitable) by July 2019. The second time: I made another big push, and this second time around I got to about 120 by October 2019. It felt great, and I looked amazing just those few pounds lighter. In addition, this time around I didn't overdo it on coffee and binge for dinner after a whole day of fasting... I learned how to control my portion sizes and ate most meals! And I did a lot better on exercise as well. This mostly happened through rather aggressive journaling and reflection whenever I would overeat— and I learned a bunch of new strategies that helped me not overeat, like taking breaks when I was tired, consciously helping my stomach "process" my food, and noticing how many bites it took me before I got 70% full. Often it was just two or three bites that made the difference between satisfied and full vs full and stuffed! But now it's April 2020 and I've really let myself go again. I'm probably right back where I started, somewhere between 135 and 140, though I'm quite honestly scared to weigh myself. I've noticed my body changing and I've kept trying to reverse the changes, but I haven't been very successful. A lot of my old eating habits have crept back in, and a lot of the new habits I've formed have dropped. I'm trying to get them back but it's really difficult. So I guess I'm wondering... how do you guys do maintenance?? I have a bit of losing to do for now, which I think I can do, but I'm really dreading losing weight and putting it back on again. The best advice I've seen here is from the book French Women Don't Get Fat, which among other things recommends eating joyfully and eating less of those things that aren't exactly what you want, as well as slowly cutting back over time. I think my plan for now is going to be to restart my food journal (maybe even here with you guys!), and trying to be consistent about eating breakfast, lunch, a snack, and dinner without getting bloated (and maybe counting calories as well as bites to make sure I don't overeat all the time, even by a little!). But I'm feeling really nervous that for some reason, I can't keep this up when I stop trying so hard. [link] [comments] |
| Staying motivated while under quarantine Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:50 AM PDT Goal: I haven't been 135lbs since 2005, my freshman year in High school. Background :Each school year I noticed I gained weight and I'm like oh it's only a few extra pounds it's not that bad and I never really saw myself as fat Just being a kid enjoying fried foods, and ignoring anything remotely healthy throughout the years. Fast forward to Nov 2019. I flew to Las Vegas to visit my sister and of course we took a ton of pictures and I realize holy shit I'm fat. When I got home I weighed myself and realized I was 200 pounds. I was so upset with myself. How did I let myself go this much? I knew I had to change my diet and workout routine which honestly was no routine at all. Motivation: So when work sent me home in March for the quarantine I decided enough is enough and have been working on myself every day. I'm lucky enough to have a treadmill and elliptical and a home gym 150 pounds stack at home as well as a few free weights. I've made a vow to myself that as long as we are quarantined to consistently workout and eat as healthy as possible given the state of my local grocery store these days it can be a challenge. My state is currently under quarantine until May 4, 2020 so I am going to check in here every day with my progress. Feel free to share at home workouts, suggestions, or tips! Stats: 29F, height 5'6, bust 40: waist 36: hips 45 thighs 27 Week 1 ( 3/30/2020-4/05/2020: SW 194.4 CW 188 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:50 AM PDT Hey everyone. For context, I'm 5'1, 18 years old, female and though I haven't weighed myself in a month or two I think I'm somewhere between 48-50 kg or 105-110 lbs. My TDEE is 1469. I guess I'd call myself skinny fat, I have thin arms and legs and no fat on my face, etc, but I definitely need to lose weight on my stomach. It's very obvious when I wear high-waisted pants/skirts or tight shirts and it makes me feel insecure. I'm not used to exercising but I've been trying out a beginner workout every other day for the past week, and I'm planning on keeping it up. Dieting is the hardest part for me. First of all, I'm in my senior year of high school, so I still live with my parents. That means that I can't control what I eat, since they cook for me and my siblings. I don't drink soda or really snacks, but I'm part of a baking club and I definitely eat goodies that I bake myself. I guess I'm just stumped and don't know how to lose this weight, and could really use some advice. Thanks to anyone who replies. [link] [comments] |
| I thought this may fit here better Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:47 AM PDT |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:58 AM PDT Hello, first time posting here, but wanted to share my loss. January of 2015 I was 315lbs and a mess. I had issues related to my heavy weight and like the old saying, I was "sick and tired of being sick and tired" January 1st I started going to the gym,which I happened to also work at but was to lazy to ever utilize, and started a regiment. Had no real plans or system, just wanted to start doing something. I was lucky to have friends at my gym who were gym guys and helped me with new lifts and machines so I didn't hurt myself. I would go at least 5 times a week for almost 2 hours at a time. My first goal was to just get back under 300 and see how long that took and how I felt. I started having so much fun going that it just became second nature to workout. About 6 months in, I had to get new clothes for work, and the pants I had been buying now we're almost like parachute pants on me. I nearly cried in the middle of Penny's when my size was under 50". The main steps I followed were: No more soda No more fast food (at all) Expanding my diet (more veggies, former picky eater) Cardio before every workout Limited how much I would eat, not starving myself but eating just enough. By October of 2016 I was down to 245lbs. The pounds seemed at one point to be almost melting off me. But I'm not trying to make this sound like an easy process, it was difficult. I had to commit to changing my lifestyle, a lifestyle that I spend the majority of my life at that time being used to. I have put some of it back on, new job and less free time. But I still work out at least 3 times a week if I can and try to do as much cardio as I can. Thanks for reading if you did, just wanted to share my story. Hope this helps you. [link] [comments] |
| Overindulging like I used to just taught me how little I want to do that anymore. Posted: 04 Apr 2020 06:29 AM PDT TLDR: learned that getting drunk and eating too much really isn't fun now that I'm in a healthier mindset. I started counting calories almost a year ago on MFP and was told to stick to about 1600 a day. Due to the stress of my engagement disintegrating I drank a lot and frequently went 200-500 calories over, especially because drunk me would order takeout, eat too much, bake cookies, etc. Well about six months ago my relationship officially ended and I quit drinking when I started taking antidepressants. Since January I've stuck to about 1200-1300 calories a day and lost 20 pounds! (Almost below 200lb now.) But part of me still longed for the carefree hedonism I used to get into. Yesterday I decided, screw it, my roommate had just passed his PQE for his PhD program and we wanted to celebrate. I finished the bottle of vodka I've had in my cupboard for months, I made cookies, I ordered out, I had about 1700 calories. And it was no fun. I felt weird, I felt lazy, I felt stupid, and I felt slightly sick. Recognizing that honestly feels amazing! It finally hit me how much my healthier lifestyle has improved the way I feel, and how motivated I've been to keep it going. It feels amazing to have one less temptation and to feel rewarded by doing what's best for my body! Sorry for the long post, I'm just excited! [link] [comments] |
| Before and After - 1 year of loss and 1 year of maintaining Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:28 AM PDT [Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/g9I4wcb.jpg) I hope that this gives people some hope that not only can they achieve their loss with CICO, but that they can maintain it. I lost about 13kg - 71.4kg down to about 58kg. The first photo is when I was a bridesmaid - the second is at my wedding this year. I am still logging every day to maintain, and I think I will keep logging for the foreseeable future. I found that the thing that helped me the most was that due travel for work I was required to shop for two weeks worth of groceries at a time. This made meal planning mandatory in order to avoid waste or running out, and this has been very helpful. The other thing which makes all the difference is a set of kitchen scales, especially with things like breakfast cereal, yoghurt etc. Meal planning makes a lot of sense at present for all sorts of reasons - social distancing means we should be avoiding too many trips to the shops, plus in the current economy for most people creating a budget and using meal planning to stick to it makes a lot of sense. In terms of exercise, it isn't needed to lose weight, but I quite like to feel more fit and have a few extra calories to splurge on a post dinner snack. So I run about 5km three times a week - just hit 1000km. When I am near the pool I do aquarobics and boot camp as well. I use a garmin to track my output and their running coach program is good for beginner runners like me. If you are starting out, or just reached your target and heading into maintenance, take heart that it is definitely possible to get there and to maintain. [link] [comments] |
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