Weight loss: Down 54pounds! Finally in the normal BMI range. NSFW |
- Down 54pounds! Finally in the normal BMI range. NSFW
- 622 pounds + Covid-19 = Horrible
- No longer obese! Here’s what I’ve learned
- Getting a weekly produce box delivery has radically changed my diet and nutrition for the better
- Just hit my first goal weight! Down 10%, time to shoot for another 10%!
- The importance of DOING
- How do you lose weight if food is the only thing you enjoy?
- Scale says "meh", but clothes feel good.
- I gained 90 pounds in 2.5 years without realizing it
- I'm 10 pounds overweight. Here's why I've decided it's time to maintain.
- [NSV] I think this pandemic has actually made me realize how badly I eat, shop and treat food.
- Finally no longer morbidly obese but still a long way to go
- I'm excited because I'm almost at my first GW
- So close, but yet so far..... ~70lbs lost, looking to lose an additional ~10lbs to hit initial Goal Weight. But still feel very fat, need some advice/encouragement for a Yo-yoing food addict (Current body pics included)
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 20 April 2020? Start here!
- Daily Q&A Post for Monday, 20 April 2020 - No question too small!
- Doing some calculations and personal accountability, feel free to ignore.
- Want to lose but my mom brings home food
- Today is my 21st birthday. And I'm almost 240 lbs. Yikes.
- Weight loss buddy / accountability partner?
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Monday, 20 April 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Where's the goal and what comes afterwards?
- losing inches but not weight?
- 100 lbs away from a healthy BMI.
| Down 54pounds! Finally in the normal BMI range. NSFW Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:10 PM PDT F(28) 5'8 SW: 212 CW:158 GW:145 NSFW Before and after: https://imgur.com/lFZKBGa Since high school, I kept gaining weight until my max of 212 lbs in 2015. I lost about 14 pounds but couldn't lose any more than that and kept getting frustrated. I wouldn't admit that I had reached such a heavy weight and kept denying. The largest size I wore was a size 18 bottoms and an XL top. I started taking my health seriously in May of 2019. Through a combination of keto, IF, OMAD, and some kickboxing I have managed to lose a total of 54 pounds from my heaviest weight ever. I started listening to my body: if I wasn't hungry, I wouldn't eat. If I was full, I would stop eating. Now I'm wearing between an 8-10 bottoms and a small to medium top. Biggest tip: be consistent! It doesn't matter if you have a cheat meal as long as you get back to your plan and don't let that derail you. If I can do it, you can do it!!! Don't get discouraged. You are changing your lifestyle and habits. That takes time. [link] [comments] |
| 622 pounds + Covid-19 = Horrible Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:02 PM PDT Hey everyone, I'v mostly been posting on fatpeoplestories but i decided this was important enough to make my first post here. Im only 20 y/o but because I am 622 pounds, Covid-19 almost killed me. My entire family & I tested positive for the disease. Thankfully, unlike me, my parents & siblings are actually thin and take care of their bodies. So, my parents symptoms were mild and my siblings were straight asymptomatic.....I got severe body aches, a 101 degree fever and eventually had to be rushed to an ICU were i spent 2 days on a ventilator. I cant put in to words just how fucking scary that was and i wont even try to. All i can tell you is that im not ashamed to say i cried for my mommy the entire time. I really thought i was gonna die and im so blessed to just be back home and typing this....i mean, a 24 year old obese woman in Utah died of Covid-19. It doesnt matter if you're young. IF YOU ARE FAT, THIS CAN KILL YOU! I havent fully recovered yet. I still have body aches, my sense of taste is just gone, and my energy levels are so low that i literally need my dad & little brother to lift me out of bed.... but at least im not in pain and i can breath. As for my family, they seem to have fully recovered 💪💪💪 I was always aware that my obesity was a threat to my life but coming face to face with the grim reaper was the "figure it out, stupid" slap i needed. Prior to the pandemic, i was doing well. My training sessions with my dad were fantastic and i was actually down 15 pounds. Unfortunately, post-pandemic, i gained it all back and more but once i fully recover I AM GONNA get back on that grind. PS: i wanna give a big shoutout to my dad because yall would be proud of him. Over the past 6 months, he's gone from 200 pounds with a beer gut to now a SHREDDED 160 with visible 6 pack abs. Even in quarantine, he's getting his cross-fit sessions done. He's a 50 year old cross-fitter! Dudes a fucking machine and definitely a "thinspiration" for me to look up to! [link] [comments] |
| No longer obese! Here’s what I’ve learned Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:21 AM PDT F(21) 5'1 SW: 198 CW:158 GW:115 I've started my weight loss journey since August 2019 and along the way I learned how to control my portions, how to love exercise, and that I don't like to snack so I either eat OMAD or two meals per day. However things have been quite challenging since quarantine started. First off I had to move back to my hometown where it is unsafe to walk outside, then I moved in with my boyfriend who eats like garbage and insists a 5'1 female should eat as much as a 6'0 male, finally between online college classes and going back to work I have been busy nonstop. Those are the challenges I had to face in addition to no longer being able to go to the gym. I'm sure many of you can relate to this struggle and I would like to offer some advice that has helped me through this journey.
It does not matter if you cannot workout as hard as you want to as long as you keep your diet in check. Weight loss is 70% diet anyway. Make sure that you are at enough of a deficit to make up for any lost fitness.
Over this past month I was able to make some changes to my diet that is significant. For example instead of fries with chicken tenders I switched the fries for grilled asparagus. It may not be the healthiest meal but it is definitely better than it was before and keeps me full longer.
I know that for many of you the pain of not being able to go to the gym is real. For a while I have found that I have no motivation to do any workouts. If I do a calisthenics routine in my apartment my neighbors will yell at me because it makes too much noise. Additionally, like I said before, I cannot walk outside due to the unsafe neighborhood. It's ok if your fitness level is not what you expect it to be during these times. I've learned to do yoga 3x a week and even though it's not perfect it's good enough.
Due to these unprecedented times I have noticed that my weight loss has slowed significantly. I used to lose 1-2 lbs per week but now I'm losing .5-1 lbs per week. This is ok! Even though it's not the levels I expect I have to remember that I'm still losing weight and I was never doing this as a quick fix. Weight loss can take a long time and that's ok. Being healthy is the ultimate goal and it does not matter how long it takes to get there. I hope you found this useful and let me know if you have any questions. I am not a professional or an expert in any way but hopefully my experience can be helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Getting a weekly produce box delivery has radically changed my diet and nutrition for the better Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:10 AM PDT This was something I started simply to reduce grocery trips during the pandemic, but it has led to incredibly positive changes in my diet over the past month. 1) I don't have to think about what produce to buy/whether to buy produce. It sounds stupid, but this is a big part of where healthy eating gets hung up for me. I go to the grocery store and am tempted to buy more unhealthy food and less produce, because I'm making decisions among a whole variety of food choices. Here, your only option is produce, you can have your box randomized or you can customize it, but there is no "do I buy the kale or do I buy some Oreos?" type decision making. 2) I've started eating a variety of "weird" vegetables that I didn't know existed. Sunchokes, watermelon radishes, celeriac, etc. This has led to some really fun cooking adventures in the kitchen. For example, I learned you can make a delicious pesto out of radish/turnip greens! 3) I now buy additional groceries to fit recipes that are produce-driven, not the other way around. This ends up being mostly grains, beans, healthy proteins just by nature of the type of recipes I find. A month in, and my skin looks better than it has in years, I'm down a few pounds, I have more energy, and my digestive system is so point. The best part is this all happened as a natural consequence of having more produce in the house, rather than feeling like a struggle to eat better and control my diet. Just wanted to pass on the tip in case it helps anyone else! [link] [comments] |
| Just hit my first goal weight! Down 10%, time to shoot for another 10%! Posted: 19 Apr 2020 05:21 PM PDT Hi folks, I posted last week about how I had lost 41 pounds since February after I lost my job. Today I stood on the scale and read the big 399. That's 44 pounds shed since I got this party started! Since I hit this goal, I have decided that 10% isn't nearly enough of where I want to be, so I will keep pushing for the next 10% which is 355 lbs. Feels pretty crazy to me, but I think I can do it. I don't think I will ever see onederland ever again, but I already have started feeling better (fewer headaches, fewer stomach issues, legs aren't as swollen,) and I feel like I have more energy in general, so that is a pretty big improvement. I think I still struggle for motivation to get up and get moving though, so I think that is going to be my next area of focus since this first chunk was mostly focused on just reducing caloric intake while keeping a balanced diet in place with lots of water, vitamins and minerals, and fiber, in addition to all my macros. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:37 PM PDT So I made a sticker chart of tracking my calories/healthy daily eating and only today have I had a revelation. The key ingredient that I was missing. The Binge Preventer 9000. The Aha! Moment. I cracked my code. I forgot the power of just keeping myself BUSY! This sounds so utterly simple but in practice it is more difficult than expected. I have a natural tendency to be gluttonous and lazy. A perfect day for me includes order-in, my favorite movies, doggie cuddles, video games, reading, and overall not leaving the comfort of my own bed. I'm sure plenty of you can relate - especially in a sedentary society (driving, working, entertainment) it's comforting to just...chill. But! It wasn't until today I really realized what my issue is. Being sedentary is hurting me. I don't mean sitting at my desk to do homework or whatever, I mean just chilling in my bed. On Snapchat, listening to music, browsing aimlessly through Reddit, YouTube, etc. I realize today whenever I do those things all day, I am much more likely to binge. Why? Because when your body is constantly at rest, eating is a complementary activity. Ironically, I'm hungrier when I'm sedentary than when I'm up and moving; doing chores, practicing music, painting/drawing, playing with my dog, overall just DOING something! I noticed on all the days I didn't 'smile sticker', I was doing just what I described before. And those days I binged and felt terrible, mentally and physically. This feels revolutionary for me. [link] [comments] |
| How do you lose weight if food is the only thing you enjoy? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 05:53 AM PDT I'm new here. Food is the only thing that makes me feel good. Sure, there are other things I do, such as going on walks, reading, watching videos, and volunteering, but they don't make me feel particularly good. They mildly interest me but I don't get pleasure out of them. But when I eat, I feel good. When I order food, I get excited about it. I'm overweight but since I only feel good while eating, I maximize the amount of time that I feel good by eating a lot. I eat until my stomach hurts much of the time and the foods I like are pretty fattening. To put this in perspective, I put on 50 lb last year. Lately I've been thinking that this has a detrimental effect on my health, especially because I recently ate so much that I was in severe pain for over an hour. I guess I'm wondering if anyone had felt this way before and what their journey and perspective is. If it's relevant.....35, living alone, teacher, stereotypical nerdy type! [link] [comments] |
| Scale says "meh", but clothes feel good. Posted: 20 Apr 2020 03:15 AM PDT Since the shutdown, I've been trying to get disciplined and avoid binge eating. I lost 10 pounds quick and then I've been losing/gaining the same 2 pounds. >_< Today I tried on my favorite summer festival dress that was uncomfortably tight the last time I tossed it on, and it feels good! :D I have no one to talk to about this since I'm afraid of the shame if I end up gaining it back, so this is my only outlet to share my mini achievement. At first I was a bit sad to lose so slowly compared to the other times I was so strict, but maybe that's why it never worked out before? Thanks for listening. [link] [comments] |
| I gained 90 pounds in 2.5 years without realizing it Posted: 19 Apr 2020 04:32 PM PDT In my last 2 years of high school I was incredibly stressed and depressed, which lead me to having issues with binge eating. My boyfriend at the time noticed that I was gaining weight and every time he mentioned it I felt horrible. After we broke up in my grade 12 year (for reasons unrelated to my weight) I felt like I completely fell apart. I finished off high school weighing a whopping 225lbs at the height of 5'7.5. This is huge difference than my weight in grade 10 which was 150lbs (I didn't even realize this is how much I used to weight until I logged into a old MyFitnessPal account). I became super self conscious and only wore sweatpants and hoodies. I am now in my first year of university and weigh 240lbs. I have come to terms with my weight increase and would like to change for the better. I am definitely doing better mentally and would like to be healthier physically. My goal is to get down to 180 pounds eventually. I am hoping for advice and motivation from others :) please leave some words of encouragement for me ❤️ [link] [comments] |
| I'm 10 pounds overweight. Here's why I've decided it's time to maintain. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:41 PM PDT I had a breakthrough with weight. I have been so focused on BMI for the last year that I've been fighting like hell to get back to a healthy weight according to BMI (I tend to float 10 pounds north of that right now). I was briefly 170 pounds when I was 22, but I realized this week that this was unsustainable. I was eating almost entirely raw vegetables and Israeli street food, and I walked up to 15 miles a day every day. While that sounds amazing, I was constantly sick (fevers, flu, parasites, constant fainting, chills, turned blue all the time). In fact, I was recovering from a middle eastern parasite when I hit my low weight of 170.4. That whole year, my hip bones and collar bones protruded. The hinge of my jaw stuck out of my face in pictures. My skin was grey. I wanted so desperately to be in the healthy BMI range that I ignored how skeletal and sick I was looking and how gross I was feeling, and I only noticed how scary I looked looking back on pictures from my year abroad this week. I realized this week that since bouncing around in the 180s for a year or so, I haven't been sick at all. My complexion is better. I have defined features, but not skeletal. I did my body measurements--everything I've used except BMI says I'm a healthy weight, body fat percentage, etc. My ratios are good, I have a flat stomach (except for a small pouch of loose skin in my lower tummy), and I wear a size small to medium on average, even though I'm nearly 6 feet tall. That, and my fitness is the best it's ever been. I exercise nearly every day, sometimes taking walks or hikes that last four or more hours in the hills of northern Manhattan. Because of all this, I've decided I'm done losing weight, and I'm done obsessing over the scale. I'm going to weigh myself every other Wednesday just to check in, and if I'm 190 or higher I'll weigh in once a week until I'm squarely back in the 180s. At the end of the day, BMI isn't the end all be all, and I refuse to be miserable and be a slave to a weight that isn't sustainable or healthy for me. I'd much rather live in a comfortable range that keeps me healthy, even if it is 10 or so pounds overweight according to BMI. After three years and two months of attempted or successful weight loss , I'm officially maintaining. And I've decided this alone, quarantined in my apartment. So I figured I'd share here, because I'm really proud. I've lost around 100lbs from my high weight and have functionally maintained that for a year, but now am officially making the switch. Hope everyone is safe and healthy out there. Be well, y'all. [link] [comments] |
| [NSV] I think this pandemic has actually made me realize how badly I eat, shop and treat food. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 05:31 PM PDT I've been out of work since 3/25, as a sous chef I've pretty much worshipped food the past 12 years but treated it with an attitude of 'I'm on my feet 10 hours a day running around I can do what I want". That attitude got me up to a solid 325lbs. At the start of the pandemic I ended up buying enough meat for a couple of weeks, butchering it and vacuum sealing it, actually planning out my families meals. Today is Day 25 and I've only been to the store 2-3 times. Making a lot more stuff at the house instead of eating constantly is making it a lot easier to account for everything. Signed up for my local farm bag and just eating like I feed my customers instead of the frozen pizza at the end of shift or taco bell on the way home. As a result I'm down 8lbs. Here's hoping that momentum can keep going. Lowest I've been in the last decade was 260 when I flirted with keto and started lifting weights. That's probably going to be my overall target in the next year! Hope y'all are hanging in there! [link] [comments] |
| Finally no longer morbidly obese but still a long way to go Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:41 AM PDT It's my first post here but i thought i share my latest reached goal. I was always big, when i graduated high school i was 149kg (330lbs) at 197cm (~6'6") but in college i did a lot of sports and got under 300, but with time i did less sports bc of graduation and university and more and more stress and still ate insane portions. So i gained and gained, 5 years ago i had reached 189kg (420lbs), that was the last time i stepped on scale until this year, in the meantime i am sure i gained much more, my size went up from 6XL-8XL (EU not US), exercise stopped more or less completly. Somewhat like a year ago i started controlling my portions a little more and did some exercise again, like swimming, walks and biking to work. That had some effect, i slowly went down to 6XL again. Then at the end of january this year i finally bought a bathroom scale and kitchen scales and downloaded a calories/fitness app. I weighed 189.5kg (421lbs) on Jan 28th. I started counting calories and restricted myself to 2000kcal/day and did swimming 2 times a week. Since then i started losing weight. With Corona and the swimming pool being closed i do (almost) daily walks (~5km) or bike rides (~25km). By now i dropped to ~1400kcal/day by myself, without forcing it, and eat mainly vegetables, some fish and tofu and little meat. I hope i can hold the habit of fresh cooked meals after the lockdown ends but i am determined to. Today i weighed in at 155kg (~344.5lbs) which puts me really slightly under 40BMI, so no longer morbidly obese but almost. I have a long way to go and weight loss has gotten slower, as expected, but i keep on going. It feels great and i'm the happiest i have been in years :) [link] [comments] |
| I'm excited because I'm almost at my first GW Posted: 19 Apr 2020 08:32 PM PDT F22 5'5.5 Since I was in middle school, I began gaining weight. I guess I just kept eating more and more, but I'm not an emotional eater at all. In fact, I can lose weight pretty easily, but until the past month or 2 I haven't really had the motivation to do it and actually keep going. I was about 163lbs when I actually lost weight in 11th grade from going to a summer camp at Penn State (no idea what I weighed before that, but ik I was physically bigger) I was on my own for the first time. The cafeteria always had really good, healthy food. On top of that, I had to walk everywhere and would drink a lot of water. Fast forward to high school graduation (2016) and I was about 185. Since then, the highest weight I saw on the scale was 189 last summer while I was on my period. Somehow after that, around November I stepped on the scale and it said 172. Idk what I did differently, but after that I tried to eat more healthily, even though I wasn't really trying to lose weight. I'm also very into water fasting btw. I don't even remember when I actually started trying to lose weight, but it was within the past month or 2. I started by just thinking about the quantity of food I eat since I already eat pretty clean, and I cut down on the amount of bread I eat (like I'll eat bread maybe 2-3x a week. I do intermittent fasting so I usually only eat between 1pm and 7-9ish. I'm not too strict about it. Since high school, my goal has been to get down to 155 for no reason in particular. This morning I stepped on the scale and it said 160!! Since this month I've set a new short term goal of 152 because I thats when I'll be 24.9 on the BMI chart, and a long term goal to get anywhere in the 130's. Wish me luck on my journey! I'm new to reddit, and I'm only on it now because of Luke's YT channel [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:28 PM PDT 28M, 6'2", SW 300, GW 220, CW 230 Started my weight loss journey a little over a year ago. I've mostly just adhered to CICO and sparse LISS cardio. Also pretty regular weight lifting during this. Bro splits for the first 5-6 months and a PPL split the last 5-6. Everything went well for the first 4-5 months. Steadily dropped from 300 to previous lowest of 237 in September. Felt pretty similar to how I feel now. Ballooned back up to 265-270 during the fall/winter. Bracketed back down on the diet and I have been doing 8/16 IF for the past 4 months. I've got my lowest weight in about 10 years and I'm now within roughly 10 lbs of my initial goal weight but I'm still very displeased with how I look. I still feel I look very fat (flabby stomach, man boobs, prominent love handles, overall pretty soft and pudgy) just a slightly scaled down version of it. I'm not sure how many more lbs I need to lose to get a relatively slim figure. 30? 40? Pictures [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 20 April 2020? Start here! Posted: 20 Apr 2020 03:24 AM PDT Today is your Day 1? Welcome to r/Loseit! So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started. Why you're overweightOur bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently. Before You StartThe very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week. TrackingHere is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it. Creating Your DeficitHow do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian. The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it. ExerciseIs NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight. It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes. Crawl, Walk, RunIt can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments. AcceptanceYou will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better. Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better. Additional resourcesNow you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
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| Daily Q&A Post for Monday, 20 April 2020 - No question too small! Posted: 20 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? that's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS:
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| Doing some calculations and personal accountability, feel free to ignore. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:01 PM PDT I'm posting this for my own personal accountability. Feel free to ignore it and go about your awesome days. Just posting this so I have an accurate day/weight/thought process of what's going on. I started actively losing weight on Jan 13 of this year, at 385 lbs. Today is 4/19 and I'm at 328 lbs. Averaging 3.8 lb/week. I'm eating between 1300 and 1700 calories per day, averaging a fairly strict 1500-1550. My next goal is to be at 300 by June 19th. My goal is to get to 250 by Jan 13 of 2021. My bonus goal is to maintain my current weight loss rate as best I can. Math shows that I can get to 235 (exactly 150 lbs lost) by mid-October. That would mean maintaining an average of 3.8 lb/week until then, which is doable if I begin to work out. If I can hit 235 by Thanksgiving, I'll be ecstatic. Most of my family won't have seen me since my Grandpa's funeral in February. For the first time in my adult life, I'll be able to indulge without feeling bad about it. I graduated high school at 6' 185 in 2004. I shot up in weight in my first two semesters at college to about 215. I went to a different school weighing 240 in 2007. I graduated that school at 330 in 2009. I maintained that except for a brief post-surgery stint at 299 up until the last three years, when I gained to 385. I was having trouble breathing while bending over to tie my shoes. My ass hit both sides of every chair I sat in and I had to be careful about smaller chairs catching my pocket knife clip. I was having trouble finding ANY shirt that fit in a regular store, and was basically relegated to overpriced XL stores. I was searching for a shirt to see a friend last minute, and I couldn't find one that fit at Target or Kohls. I couldn't find a dress shirt at all for my friend's 20's themed NYE party until I went to XL Casual Male. Even 3XL shirts from Duluth were getting snug. 44 pants were fitting tightly. 42s now fit better than 44s did then. Plus seeing 385 lbs on a calibrated medical scale, not to mention the fact that the truck scale at work read me at 380 was a big wake up call. Feel free to ignore this post, I'm just posting so that when I go back in my profile post history I can get an exact time/date/weight for where I was. I'll probably keep adding to this post later on. [link] [comments] |
| Want to lose but my mom brings home food Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:36 PM PDT I'm a 16 year old female and I weigh 147 pounds at 5'4. I probably don't really "need" to lose but I feel uncomfortable at this weight and want to get back down to at least 125, my lowest weight and the best I ever felt about myself. I just started counting calories today. I am aiming for a 1,200 calorie net everyday, and I usually burn 200 everyday by walking so I will eat around 1,400 per day. I was doing great until tonight. My mom brought home some popcorn which is one of the foods I always binge on and I ate so much of it. I definitely am over maintenance calories by now. What can I do when my mom brings home foods like this? I have really bad binging habits and usually it's fine to resist when I dont have binge foods in the house but then my mom brings home food like that. :/ [link] [comments] |
| Today is my 21st birthday. And I'm almost 240 lbs. Yikes. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:04 AM PDT 21 F / 5'8 / 237 lbs When I woke up today, and I felt a rush of happiness. Even with all the doom and gloom, it's my motherfucking 21st birthday. And I am SO lucky. Once all my classes became online, I moved back to my hometown to be with my parents. So waking up to their glowing faces wishing my happy birthday at the top of their lungs? Priceless. I realize how lucky I am to have them both in my life. To have a roof over my head, and to be ABLE to stay home during this quarantine. But what am I doing with all these amazing gifts I've been given? Nothing. Throughout today, as the birthday messages rolled in from my loved ones, I got this gnawing feeling. Last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that, I've promised myself that I'd lose the weight. I said I wouldn't enter my 20's overweight. I turned 20 at 230 lbs. I said I wouldn't turn 21 overweight. I am 237 lbs today. I REFUSE to turn 22 next year over 200 lbs. I'm not doing it. My New Year's Resolution was to lose weigh this year (same as the last 10 years of my life) but I'm not giving up. I'm not letting go of the dream of my 11 year old self who wanted desperately not to be chubby anymore. Quarantine is the perfect time to get this show on the road, because I want to go back to college in September looking amazing due to the hard work I'm putting in over the next few months. I wanted to buy into this whole self-love movement online to not 'pressure yourself' to lose weight during quarantine. But why do that? Why not work harder now that I don't have outside obligations? There is a lot of sadness in the world that I can't control. But I can control me. So I am starting even today. I'm taking it one step at a time. I'm going to take care of myself this quarantine -- not just to lose weight -- but to be healthier and happier. So 22 year old me isn't staring at 250 lbs knocking on her door. So I can run and jump and dance and lift weights at age 22. To anyone else starting today, I am with you. We got this. [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss buddy / accountability partner? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 02:56 PM PDT F21 5'1 SW: 206 CW: 201 GW: 140 I recently started my weight loss journey and have been super happy with my progress so far! None of my friends or family members are in the same situation, and I feel that I might be annoying them talking about recipes, my progress, or other things related to my health (understandable.) I would love to have a friend / accountability partner to talk with every now and then about our thoughts and feelings, and just to support each other! Whether you've already lost the weight, are currently doing so, or plan to in the future; I'd love to talk! Feel free to PM me. :) [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Monday, 20 April 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 20 Apr 2020 01:11 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?)
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| Where's the goal and what comes afterwards? Posted: 20 Apr 2020 12:57 AM PDT So my journey in short notes: - overweight girl who became an obese student in college - started in July 2013 (age 23) with 114kg (251lbs) at 1,63m (5'4'') - BMI 43 - 50kg (110lbs) down in August 2015, so now at 64kg (141lbs) - BMI 24 - problems at work, change of my job twice - new start in May of 2016 with 68kg (150lbs) - BMI 25,6 - lowest weight ever in December of 2016 at 53kg (117lbs) - BMI 20 - maintained this until ~ April 2017 -> then problems with job and relationship, break-up in April 2018 - break-up weight 68kg (150lbs) Since then I'm swinging back and forth somewhere between 59 (130lbs) and 68kg (150lbs). It doesn't go higher since my favorite jeans stop to fit at this point and I'm usually disgusted enough with myself to start working out again and eating better. But I also never again managed to get under 60kg (132lbs) longterm. I'm at this for almost 7 years now, last year I turned 30. Now with quarantine and all I'm back to 64kg (141lbs). I don't doubt that I can manage to get under 60kg (132lbs) once again. It'll take about 2-3 months, but I'm sure I can make it. The more important question is: How do I stay there and what do I do then? When my weight starts with a 5, I'm feeling good about myself. I like what I see in the mirror, I fit into a certain pair of pants that just look awesome. Life is good at this point. But whenever I'm there I need to change my diet. I still work out so I need more than the 1.600kcal (calorie goal while dieting) to maintain this. So naturally I eat more. And then I binge again. And then I think "it's just one kilogram, I can lose that easily!" And before I really realize it I'm back to 64kg and wonder how I got there so quickly. And then the cycle starts again. So: How do I continue after I reached my goal? It seems that as soon as I go from 1.600kcal to something like 1.800kcal my body thinks "Hey, we get more food, let's ask for it all the time!" and then I get such an urge to binge. And not just on sweets or junk, it's mostly "normal" food. Also there's a psychological side to this as well: Losing weight has become an integral part of me. Seeing the numbers on the scale going down is always nice. So I'm also kind of wondering what I'm doing when I've reached my goal weight. Like, what numbers can I watch to make me happy? Maybe some of you have some insight for this. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2020 12:54 AM PDT hi! i also posted this on xxketo but i thought i might try to get some more varied, non-keto centered advice here as well. to start, here's my stats and some background information: F / 21 / 5'5" / SW: 275 / CW: 269 I do 16:8 IF and I eat 1200-1300 calories a day (I measure my food out) and stick to a strict 30g of net carbs a day (I know most recommend 20, but I am 99% sure I'm still in ketosis at 30g), most of it being vegetables like broccoli and spinach. i do not exercise aside from light walking and doing chores around my home i've done keto in the past to great success (lost 70 lbs in 5 months 2 years ago, but gained 40 lbs back because of an eating disorder resurfacing) current issue: so, i've been following keto again for about a month and a half now. during my first two weeks I lost 6 lbs, which I was happy about at first, but now I feel like I'm stuck in a semi-plateau? I've been losing inches (my clothes are 100% getting looser by the day), but the scale has not budged from 269 at all! It's been extremely discouraging based on how much work I've been putting into teaching myself restraint and recovering from binge eating disorder. I know that it's not just weight being reallocated into muscle mass because as I said, I'm relatively sedentary aside from very light 30 minute walks and chores i've tried recalculating my macros on so many different calculators and I am eating at well below a 30% deficit according to most of them with 1200-1300 calories a day. i'm just so unsure of what else I could be doing. even if I'm not in ketosis, shouldn't the basis of CICO be working at the very least? i mean, i guess it is if I'm losing inches, but i just don't get why the scale won't change too! I'm so sorry for how disjointed this post probably is, if more information is needed please ask! [link] [comments] |
| 100 lbs away from a healthy BMI. Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:36 PM PDT 33 nearly 34 F. 4' 11" SW 210lbs. GW:119lbs. I have been here before. A few years ago I managed to drop to 145lbs. My lowest weight since I was 14. Unfortunately, I let bad mental habits creep their way in. Toss a bought of depression and grief and I'm back once again to my highest weight. I know it will take real dedication and mindfulness to lose the weight - and to become resilient enough to sustain any weightless. I have been in therapy and it helps. I am presently battling negative self talk, doubt, and feelings of failure. I never wanted to be this for my entire life. Fat has been my identity forever. I always liked to imagine myself as an evolved, better, healthier person in a remote future scenario. I'm too old and now the mental gymnastics and fantasies cannot even pull it off. I know my future if real change does not happen now. I will only ever identify myself as the fat one. [link] [comments] |
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