Weight loss: Made it a week without binge eating! |
- Made it a week without binge eating!
- How I Quit Binge Eating - A Guide for those who struggle
- My thoughts after a week of intermittent fasting, in relation to stopping bingeing and emotional eating.
- A non-scale win!
- Rant. This month has been the worst and I now weight more than I have in years.
- It's my slimmer-versary today! Here's my best tips 2 years and 9 stone (57kg) later ��
- I will lose 10kg during quarantine
- A potential breakthrough?
- Because of Lose It, I have lost seventeen pounds since March 1st (Male, 215 to 198 Pounds)
- CICO vs Low Carb/Keto
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 17 April 2020? Start here!
- Reveal yourself to you!
- Daily Q&A Post for Friday, 17 April 2020 - No question too small!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: April 17th, 2020
- Anyone else eat a ton of salad? Is that a good strategy?
- Is it healthy and sustainable to consume 1,000 calories a day as a 5’0, 59kg. female trying to lose weight?
- Question for the girls
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 17 April 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Bodybuilder to Obese. Down 16lbs in 3 weeks. 26M
- Update: So much better!
- 75kg By May. don't get off the fucking train.
- Free Talk Friday for 17 April 2020 - Come Talk About Anything!
- Day 18 without sugar.
- He finally said it.
| Made it a week without binge eating! Posted: 16 Apr 2020 09:17 AM PDT I met my goal weight around February and have been maintaining since then. I'd done pretty well when I was at school, but moving back home because of COVID has been causing me to struggle. I eventually figured out that IF eating from 3-8pm works for me, but in that window I've still been eating too much. The week before last I binge ate pretty badly, gained 2 pounds in 5 days, and felt absolutely horrible and out of control. I cried at my desk for an hour, then on Thursday of last week I decided I was going to make my goal just not binging for a week, not trying to loose or maintain my weight, but just stopping when I feel full. And I did it! 7 days today without binging. I had a couple spots where I ate a little more than I should have, and I let myself stress eat outside of my time limit once, but I stopped myself from going too far. I held on to my control, didn't punish myself for failing, and told myself that messing up didn't mean I had to keep eating. I could still stop, it wouldn't hurt me and I wasn't a bad person for going over a little. I didn't count calories, but I did notice that there were several trigger foods that had caused me to go on binges before, and I cut 5 of those out completely for the week- cookies, cake, chips, chocolate, and cereal. I have no idea why they all start with C lol, but it checks out- I have trouble with cinnamon bread, candy, and coconut bars too. I wrote down my '5Cs' on my arm every morning to help keep myself in check. This morning I weighed myself after not looking all week- I didn't loose any of the weight I'd gained before when I was binging, but I'm reminding myself that that wasn't my goal, self control was. I'm not sure what my goal for this week will be. I'm thinking about removing one of the Cs from my list and trying to see if I can incorporate it back into my diet and still not binge. I'm really hopeful that if I can work on managing my self control now it'll mean in the long run it won't be so much mental work to keep my healthy weight, it'll be automatic. [link] [comments] |
| How I Quit Binge Eating - A Guide for those who struggle Posted: 16 Apr 2020 09:33 PM PDT I used to binge eat 3x times a week in an excess of 3,000 calories or more. Food had an incredible amount of power over me. I was scared to go places because I was worried I would binge eat. I won't go over how it got to that place. But I'll tell you how I got out and now have the healthiest relationship with food that I've ever had. Step 1 - UnderstandingReading List *Kathryn Hanson - Brain Over Binge *Dr. Livingston - Never Binge Again *Jack Trimpey - Rational Recovery + Taming the Feast Beast *Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit The four books listed above are what gave me a good understanding of what binge urges really were and what was causing my binge urges. Insight 1 - All binges are caused by the urge to binge.You only binge to cope with the urge to binge and get the subsequent anxiety/anticipatory relief from the craving. This is explained best by Kathryn Hanson, although she is really taking Jack Trimpey's concept in RR and applying it to binge eating. There is no greater meaning to your binges. Thinking otherwise will actually validate your binges and make it harder to stop! Many things may trigger an urge, but the actual binge itself is always caused by the thought along the lines of "Hey let's binge eat right now". Everyone gets stressed, bored, angry, etc. But not everyone binges because they don't get the urge in the first place because they never developed that habit. Insight 2 - The urge to binge is not you, and comes from a different part of your brain that has no access to your voluntary muscles.This explains your ambivalence towards binge eating. Part of you REALLY wants to stop (why else you be reading a post called how to stop binge eating?), but part of you feels like it wants to binge eat. The part of you that wants to stop, is the real you, and the part that says binge eat can be dismissed. Insight 3 - You have total control over your voluntary movements and nothing - no thought, feeling, or sensation - can make you binge eat.Again going back to "all binges are caused by the urge to binge". Let's do a thinking exercise. Think about shaving your head right now. Really think about it and try to let that thought move your hands. No matter how much you try to convince yourself to shave your head, your hands probably haven't moved an inch. Because you actually don't want to shave your head. And you actually don't want to binge eat either, but you get tricked into thinking you do by thinking that thoughts that encourage binge eating have meaning or significance. If you can accept with 100% commitment that you NEVER want to binge eat and that all thoughts, feelings, and sensations telling you to binge eat are garbage, things become a lot easier. Accept that you have total control - NOTHING can make you binge eat, especially not mere thoughts. You are not powerless. Insight 4 - Binge eating is nothing more than a really bad habit.How your binge eating habit started doesn't matter because now it wired into your brain. Your cravings to binge are just generated neurological impulses to carry out a habit in the same way that your urge to brush your teeth at night is from the same process. There is no greater meaning to your binges. Recognizing the cue for the habit (binge eating) and the reward (relief from the craving) can give you the space you need to stop immediately acting on the habit. Again all of this makes a lot more sense if you read the books. Step 2 - Putting new beliefs into practiceMy pivotal moment was doing the crash course in addictive voice recognition technique (AVRT) on Jack Trimpey's website. Mentally replace alcohol/drugs with binge eating, when you read through it. That was the thing that did it - that empowered me to fully stop binge eating. I had the power to stop all along. Using Kathryn Hanson's advice in Brain Over Binge, I dismissed all thoughts that encouraged binge eating. Before, a thought about binge eating would make me wildly upset, I'd get in a frenzy, panic, get angry/sad/annoyed, cave, and binge. Now I hear those thoughts with detachment. They can't make me do anything. And once you stop binge eating and acting out on these thoughts, the cravings and urges diminish over time. Step 3 - Getting back to normal eating1. Neutralize Food: The single greatest thing you can do for your mental and physical wellbeing (after you stop binge eating, of course) is to not let food have so much power over you.Stop treating food like a drug, a medicine, like this great unstoppable force, like your reason for living. It's just a donut. You can eat it and the universe will not explode. You can also not eat it, and likewise you'll be fine. The importance and power you give to food creates stress and causes you to obsess over it. "Should I eat it or shouldn't I?" over and over and over debating in your head as if your decision will cause WWIII. It's not that high stakes! Seriously. No other inanimate object likely causes you this much stress. Think of food in the same way, i.e. neutrally. 2. Neutralize food obsession.Normal people are not thinking about food all day outside of their meals. They get hungry, but they don't treat hunger as an emergency. It's just a sensation that doesn't need to be immediately satisfied. If you find yourself anxiously waiting for your next meal or obsessing/fantasizing about food, 1) don't judge those thoughts, 2) accept that they are there/don't try to get rid of them, and 3) don't get so wrapped up in them (this is basically mindfulness meditation 101 btw). These thoughts are no different than thoughts about binge eating. Neutralizing these thoughts and not letting them have power over you will allow you to move on and get back to what you were doing. 3. Eating normally.My eating plan now is very simple - 2-3 meals a day, no snacks. Generally I try to eat when hungry, stop when I'm full, which sounds simple but it used to feel impossible to do. But whenever I feel those crazed, frenzied thoughts saying "Eat! Eat! Eat!" that encourage me to act impulsively around food, I take a step back and think "Bruh it's just food." I relax basically and don't listen to those thoughts. Now for those of you with more complex eating issues, this is where Dr. Livingstone's Never Binge Again comes in. He used to be obese and used the philosophy along Jack Trimpey's Rational Recovery to solve his bad food habits. https://www.eatlikeanormalperson.com/ is also a good website for a simple eating plan. She also had binge eating disorder for years and was obese but overcame her food issues.
Finally as a closing note, I'd like to say that all of these things are skills that you can develop. Having the right mindset -- believing that you can stop, that you never want to binge eat, that you have 100% power over your voluntary movements, etc. -- will be a huge asset in your journey. PS. All of the books listed can be found online for free except for Jack Trimpey's book, but he does offer a free course on his website. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 01:32 AM PDT I have been trying to lose weight since this time last year when I gained 10lbs going on holiday. Between May and December however I literally lost 1lb, because I would do a couple of days or maybe a a week, and think fuck it, and eat wayyyy over my calories. This would then become a week or two of over eating and bingeing, putting me right back to where I began. Then came Christmas (more excuses to over eat) and then I got really depressed, which co incided with a really tough placement (I'm a student nurse), and again I turned to food. I'd do ok in the day time but come evening I would eat and eat, whatever was in the house. Once the lockdown began, so began the day time snacking and binges too. Excuses, excuses, excuses. The weight crept on and so I found myself on my 30th birthday at the end of March weighing 181lbs, at 5'7. None of my pants fit, and I feel disgusting. Now I've got 30lbs to lose. Last Sunday I read on here about someone who had been doing IF and in a moment of desperation thought I would give it a try. I'd always shied away as the thought of fasting and being hungry filled me with dread. But I'm starting slow and so this week I've been eating between 9.30 am and 7.30pm. That may not sound like so much of a fast to some, but honestly its been a game changer! All my bingeing and emotional eating would happen of an evening, so if eating ends (with a little reminder from an app) at 7.30 , I'm not allowed to binge. I've been allowing myself up to 1600 cals a day, but finding without that evening snack (and the rest, the inevitable binge that would follow) I'm averaging around 1300. As of weigh in this morning I've lost 3lbs, and I honestly don't feel like bingeing. I feel like I can keep this up. Because I know I've got a limited eating window, I find I'm making better choices because I want to maximise my food enjoyment in the times I can eat. Never thought I would say this but I'm an IF convert! Can't believe I have lost 3lb this week and haven't really been hungry, except a normal amount before meals (which is a new feeling, I'm ashamed to admit). It's 9.27am here now so I'm off to have some breakfast! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 04:24 AM PDT F, 5'1", SW: 150 CW: 141 GW: 125 Context: last summer, I bought a pair of jeans while I was on holiday. I loved them so much. When I got back to the hotel, I couldn't even get the over my hips. In the six months after that, I continued to gain weight and the jeans were relegated to the bottom drawer, never to be seen again. Until today... I tried them on and now, THEY'RE TOO BIG! And by a good 2 inches on the waistband! I've lost 9lb so far since 8th March and I'm so pleased with myself! I mean, I'm gutted I can't wear the nice jeans but I'm so happy. I'm one of those people that never noticed my body changing when I lose weight so this is the kind of validation I needed. [link] [comments] |
| Rant. This month has been the worst and I now weight more than I have in years. Posted: 17 Apr 2020 12:14 AM PDT This month has been a full blown chaotic month. A pandemic, My grandpa died, I'm alone in a big city with a mental health disorder. No family in a 1 000 KM radius from me. Grandpa was the only one here and now he is gone. The weight I lost a few years back is creeping back in me. It seems like I cant stop eating and I hate myself for it. But that bag of chips looks so Good. That extra steak looks like a nice Midnight snack, event if I saved it for tomorrows lunch. I weighted myself today, been maintaining for 4 years. Not anymore I Guess. I'll try to lose ut again. Maybe that is exactly what I need, some controll over something in my life. [link] [comments] |
| It's my slimmer-versary today! Here's my best tips 2 years and 9 stone (57kg) later �� Posted: 16 Apr 2020 02:29 PM PDT Oblig pic to kick off: https://imgur.com/kj0ThzO.jpg I think I was even bigger when I first started! I weighed in at 300.5 lbs. I'd tried an failed multiple times throughout the years (slim fast, keto etc) and thought I'll pop down the local group, do the plan, and if I don't lose weight, it's THEIR fault! ....thankfully I lost the weight 😂 Top tips! • Every day you're gonna get hungry, every day you're gonna eat until you're satisfied - how many calories you do doing that determines if you gain, lose or maintain weight. • The aim is to create a roster of meals you can have day-in, day-out so you can go on autopilot and all this gets a lot easier! • Make meals yourself, so u know exactly what's in 'em. Companies don't care if you lose weight, just that it tastes good so you buy it again. Low fat could mean high sugar, low sugar but high fat etc. • Use 1-calorie oil spray, now frying is healthy! • Quark is a Godsend - I use this fat-free cottage cheese as a whipped cream substitute. • It's easier to pass the treats aisle once in the supermarket than every time you're in the kitchen • Aim for ½ of your plate to be vegetables • Water tax! Drink 2+ litres every day -- drink a pint when you get up - you're dehydrated. Pint while making meals. Taking a shower? Bring a nice cool pint with u! Bodies are dumb and can mistake thirst for hunger. A pint of water separates the two! • Exercise is great for clearing the head but crap at burning calories, so lose weight by what you eat - you can't out-run your fork. It's SO AMAZING and freeing to find out you can lose weight and still be lazy! • You can stuff yourself and lose weight, ya just gotta be picky! 💚 • You are your body, but you're not. You're the brain, you tell your body what it's having and it'll get in board. Making good choices begats more good choices, eat healthy and you'll start to crave healthy things, because you're enjoying the nutrients! Not at my target yet, but I'm now under 175 🙂 thinking of Slimming World as a health overhaul and weight loss as a consequence really helped. It's not magic, just an ingenious plan - emphasis on whole foods, fruit & veg and cutting back on bread & treats, but still allowing for them every day. It might not work for you (I see a ton of Keto, IF and other things here) but it's what works for me. The IRL group setting really helps with accountability. Whether you believe you can, or you can't, you're right 💚 Thanks for reading. Kick some butt this week! 🤗 [link] [comments] |
| I will lose 10kg during quarantine Posted: 16 Apr 2020 09:54 PM PDT F24 | 175cm | HW: 86kg | CW: 76kg | GW: 66kg Today is April 17th, hellish year 2020 and I'm turning 25 in July. I've had an awesome month of January and then, everything collapsed. January: IF, running a 5k three times a week, body never looked this good, feeling like a hot piece of ass, feeling of togetherness February-April: binging all day long, absolutely NO exercise, baking, sadness, loneliness, Rona, quarantine x no sex, family issues, messed up sleep pattern, etc. So yes, it hasn't been pretty lately but I decided that this situation will work in MY favor and I'll become a quarantine snack. The easiest way for me to stay in control is to IF, so IF I shall. I want to drop about 10kg so I will. Other than that, I just want that January feeling again. I've done it before, I can do it again. The most important is to make it a habit, a lifestyle. Anyone can make the choice of improvement. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 02:31 AM PDT I feel like something has clicked recently. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I always had the mindset that if I went over my calories/macros I'd 'blew it' for the day or the entire weight loss journey altogether. Eating something that would push me over my allowance would trigger frustration and the need to go completely off plan and quit. I guess I was kind of 'rage quitting' my diet. I'd been doing this for years, with the fear of progress being ruined by one day of too many calories. Flash forward to this week. I tried to quit because I ate something I didn't track, which I thought would have put me way over my allowance for the day. Instead of quitting at that point and eating anything I wanted for the rest of the day, I logged it anyway. Yes, it put me over my allowance, but not nearly as much as I thought it would. The next day I made up for it by being eating slightly less. I don't understand why it's taken me so long to realise that one or two days in a calorie surplus won't ruin progress in the long run. Anybody who shares this mindset and is struggling at the moment - consistency is key! Log it and move on with your life. Don't use it as an excuse to quit. [link] [comments] |
| Because of Lose It, I have lost seventeen pounds since March 1st (Male, 215 to 198 Pounds) Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:56 AM PDT Lose It has become a wonderful app for me. I also love that I can still eat foods that I love, while moderating food intake. My blood pressure is no longer hypertensive, and I feel a bit spryer on my feet. I also run five miles a day, but I was doing that before using this app. Yesterday I ate a large slice of Tiramisu for dessert and it felt great. I am noticing that weight gain, for me, are because of the unnecessary and unconscious snacking I had throughout the day. I am a sucker for Costco Macadamia Nut Chocolates and sometimes ate like seven nonchalantly - THAT'S 770 calories right there. I went back to the store and rebought a box, but I eat 2 (at most) per day. I manage to still eat a lot and enjoy junk food, but surveillance of my calories and macros have made a tremendous difference. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 05:01 AM PDT Ok guys so I can't find the answers I need on FAQ's and other sites so wondering if anyone can help me. We all know the basic law of calories in calories out - you lose fat if you are in a calorie deficit right? I've read that some people (particularly keto dieters) think this is oversimplified because of the role of insulin. I understand it's a two part process - fat won't be burnt until glucose is used up and insulin stores fat etc. So the role of insulin can affect your appetite and mood particularly if you eat a lot of carbs but if you can sustain this then why bother with keto or low carb? Yes the calories are all over the place and insulin is up and down but if you remain in a deficit you will lose fat? For some reason a lot of these low carb and keto dieters seem to think you can lose weight quicker on these diets. Lets say your TDEE is 2500 and you eat 2500kcal worth of butter. You will be burning fat all day but you've also consumed 2500kcals of dietary fat so how does this possibly speed up the fat loss? The author of the new atkins diet claims you can eat around 2000 calories a day and lose weight quicker but how is this possible when considering basic law of calories in out? [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 17 April 2020? Start here! Posted: 17 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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| Posted: 16 Apr 2020 03:46 PM PDT I am currently halfway through my at home work out, and decided to put on short shorts today for my workout. I'm in the comfort of my own room, and no one will see me wear them. I NEVER wear short shorts in public due to insecurities, but thought why not, right? Well , I currently feel a sense of confidence I've never felt before in myself. Seeing my body in the mirror the way that it is makes me proud (I haven't lost a noticeable amnt of weight, abt 4 lbs) , and it motivates me to reach my goal. I am beautiful the way I am, and I am just in the process of bettering myself and loving myself more. Anyways, I came here to say, if you are always too insecure to wear revealing clothes, start off by doing it in the comfort of your house. This is all a process, and I think this is a big step for me in the whole process. I hope someone can relate to this lol We got this! [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Friday, 17 April 2020 - No question too small! Posted: 17 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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| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: April 17th, 2020 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 12:13 AM PDT Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else eat a ton of salad? Is that a good strategy? Posted: 17 Apr 2020 04:20 AM PDT I get all my meals from a cafeteria, and they have a really nice salad bar where I've started to make most of my meals out of salad. When I'm talking most of my meals I'm talking 1-2 giant bowls of salad each meal in an attempt to fill myself up with green leafs. I try to do just plain salad for lunch and then for dinner I'll add a bunch of various veggies and usually some chicken along with it to spice it up. I've not only found that this has helped me a ton with feeling full on fewer calories, but it's helped me feel a lot better and increased my gut health a lot. I feel so much lighter after meals now and don't get that post lunch nap feeling. But is this a good strategy to do? I'm losing weight, but I'm just afraid it's a "too good to be true" type of thing. I just can't believe that the amount of salad I eat is really that few amount of calories. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 01:19 AM PDT I am 25 years old and I've lost weight before from 59kg-51kg in 1.5 years through boxing and tracking my calories. But then, I've put all the weight back in 5 months of losing track of my calorie count and eating enchiladas couple of times a week and not working out. I am also on BC pill starting May last year, skipping periods, so maybe that has an impact too. I started intermittent fasting 19 days ago, and did 16-minute Tabata workouts 4 days a week, and limited my calorie intake to 1200/day, and if ever I exceeded, it shouldn't be more than 1300. Throughout this period, my weight fluctuated 0.5-1kg, which I learned could be water weight. I also thought I might be underestimating my calorie count, so 2 nights ago, I started overestimating my calorie count a bit and checking labels of every thing I eat and put in what we're cooking, to do my best to ensure I stay within my calories. I've read so much about trying to lose weight and read so many concepts like BMR, TDEE, etc. I looked up my TDEE and it's 1490 at sedentary and my BMR is 1242. Now, the recommended calorie intake is 990 calories to lose 0.5kg per week. I didn't see that straight away, so I've been doing 1200 calories all this time, as that's what I'm seeing on other sites. Anyway, just wondering if 990 calories is sustainable in the long run? Won't it affect my metabolism negatively? Would love some more advice too. Thank you [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2020 11:41 PM PDT Hi all, sorry for the randomness of this post but I've heard of the amazing support available here and thought I'd ask something that's been worrying me. Is your period coming early a worrying sign after exercise? I admit I wasn't an active person before I started exercising, but since I started in Jan I've seen great results. But recently (roughly around the beginning of this month) I've started exercising more than usual (50 minutes to an hour) and a week afterwards my period came early, but what also's worrying me is that there's barely any blood at all. Is this normal? I can't see a doctor about this with the whole corona virus lock down going on. Should I be worried? [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 17 April 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 17 Apr 2020 01:09 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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| Bodybuilder to Obese. Down 16lbs in 3 weeks. 26M Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:54 AM PDT M26, 5 foot 11. Hi everyone, Stumbled across this thread and decided I would post to keep myself accountable. Background: I was always chubby and when I was 17 I decided I would change it. From the age of 17 to 21, I was a bodybuilder which allowed me to still eat a large quantity of food, however it was all clean and I maintained a BF % of 8-15 year-round. Role into January of when I was 22, I had a couple of bad injuries which allowed my weight to creep up. Whenever I hit the 240lb mark I would diet and get it back to 210lbs, so it was fluctuating quite a bit. Roll forward 4 years. Life got on top of me. I got a full time job which is high pressure, got a part time job (in order to pay off my college debt), finished my undergraduate and masters and had a kid. So it was a pretty busy 4 years. As I progressed with everything else, my personal health suffered. Moment that opened my eyes: 3 weeks ago I found it hard to tie my laces and that evening I was out of breath after carrying my child 17 steps up the stairs. This was a terrifying moment for me. I decided I would take my weight to see where I stood. 280lbs on the button. That evening I began. I ran. 2k, stopped 5 times, thought I would die. Salad for dinner. Next day I began Keto and have been on it since. Down 16lbs in 3 weeks from training and dieting. Have a pep in my step again. My ultimate goal is to hit 210lbs and maintain for good. Post is to keep myself accountable. I will update once a month. I wish everyone here the best. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2020 05:00 PM PDT Hey guys, I know a few people saw my previous post a few months ago where I was getting demotivated by my weight as I could never seem to get past 1/4 of my goal and things couldn't be going better. So what happened in these few months since my post? Well, I've managed to finally break the 210 lbs barrier, which means I weight the least I have in almost five years. I clocked in at 203 lbs when I weighed myself today, but something felt odd... and that was because I'd actually given up on exercising due to the increasing difficulty of my classes. I had to think for a long while, and I think it has to do with my food intake. I stopped eating a lot of food, as I've always eaten way more than I needed as well as cutting down at eating in late hours. My meals have been balanced so that my breakfast is my biggest meal and dinner is my smallest, and Beyond just limiting my portions to more reasonable sizes, I've also been eating healthier. I've given up most microwave food that I've eaten for toasted sandwiches and salad. I've also greatly reduced eating between meals, now not even happening once a day. From all of this my mental health has also gotten better. Everything about this has been great, and now that I'm on the brink of breaking the Hal way point, I couldn't feel any better. Thanks for hour help so far guys! [link] [comments] |
| 75kg By May. don't get off the fucking train. Posted: 17 Apr 2020 03:00 AM PDT 15F/ SW: 88.1 / CW: (fluctuates, in the morning:) 84.2 / GW: 60 (by December.)/ 172 CM hey, so its been a while since I've been on this subreddit and I kinda miss it. I've been trying to lose weight for all my life and only took it seriously for the past 2 years. I came back from holiday in December and put on 10 pounds. I managed to lose it and get back down to 84kgs. then I feel into a depressive episode and all I did was eat. I found comfort in the eating and that feeling of being incredibly full because at least it was what kept my mind busy instead of a life crisis you know? but now its quarantine and its as if my entire world has stopped. life doesn't feel like its going on anymore and its just one day after another. feeling almost imprisoned I've just been overthinking and like I had abit of a realisation. I eat for comfort, I see it as a coping devise. its never been fuel. its always been comfort. and I've been looking at for a bit different. but with that its still really hard to go cold turkey and not to be eating for comfort u know? so like for the past 2 days I've been so weirdly binging? like its eating better than last time but its such emotional eating and I can't enjoy it as much anymore. I don't know if it makes any sense what im saying. anyways, what has been keeping me going is this analogy I saw in a radio video. it goes like this: you were going to work on a train, and at every stop the train stops and some people get on and this takes time. You are frustrated because you just want to get to work because you are running late. But just because the train stops to pick up passengers doesn't mean you get off the train. then apply this to weightless. just because you fuck up once in a while doesn't mean you stop. you are going to get to you goal but only if you don't get off the fucking train. and that's what I've been saying to myself whenever I wanted to quit a workout or go on a huge binge. don't get off that train. so my short term goal is to get to 75 kilos by may. im going to Australia in December and they have beautiful beaches and I just want to wear a bikini and feel good about it. I can do this. does anyone have tips? that aren't the normal ones like calorie deficit n stuff like that? anything helps! thank you for reading this, good luck on your journey! [link] [comments] |
| Free Talk Friday for 17 April 2020 - Come Talk About Anything! Posted: 16 Apr 2020 10:00 PM PDT Happy Friday everyone! Free Talk Friday is a free discussion post. Come talk about anything you want, whether it's health/fitness related or not. So tell us, what's on your mind today? Any fun plans for the weekend? (Credit to u/HermionesBook for running these in the past.) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2020 12:44 AM PDT Sugar has always been my vice. I've never had a problem drinking or smoking too much, and definitely have never had a problem having too much sex (though a different aspect of my personality is probably responsible for that), but ive never been able to get off of the sweet, sweet, sucrose. The boredom munchies hit me hard when quarantine started, and i just happened to move home with my family before this virus mess happened, and they are notorious sugar hounds. So i decided to make something productive out of this time and abstain from added sugars for the whole month of april, with the exception of a max of two pieces of fruit per day. And its magical, guys. After day 5 when i considered licking the outside of a bag of marshmallows because i could SMELL the fuckers inside, my temptation to snack has nearly gone. I dont feel bloated anymore, my energy levels are up, and when i get hungry i crave FOOD. Real wholesome food, and my bowel movements are like Christmas presents. This is not a brag post. I just empathize with many people like me who are suddenly stuck in their homes with nothing to do and encourage all of you to take a break. Spend 30 days looking very closely at what goes in your body and you'll not only realize that sugar is in goddamn everything, but you'll realize that your body never actually wanted it in the first place. Think of this period in history less as a loss of freedom. Think of it as being given the gift of time to concentrate on our personal relationships with our body, and lets come out of this thing stronger mentally and physically than we went in. I love you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2020 09:22 AM PDT He finally said it. The truth I have known and that I was sure he had noticed before but knew better than to say something. Now here I am, complaining about being the same weight as he is and he said it..."You eat the same amount as me and you probably should eat less, because I'm bigger than you." He's right, of course. So why is it that when we have dinner I must have the same portion as him? I love to eat, always have and probably always will. My grandfather used to make comments when I was little too, "Kita is here! Better lock the fridge." You'd think that would've given me some intense body shame that would've made me anorexic or bulemic. I wish. Nope, instead I continued to eat like the chubby little American kid I was. Now, at 28 years old, I have an Irish boyfriend with Irish parents. His family understands how to eat proportionally and they love hiking, traveling, and being outdoors in general. So yes, I'm partially blaming genetics and upbringing for the way I am now...for this obsession I have with food. Even when I'm not hungry, and I know I'm not hungry, I never want to miss a meal for fear that I'm missing out on something delicious. It's like food FOMO, but it's also deeper than that. It's like...I feel entitled to have as much as my man. As a woman I want to be equal to him, but I guess not in every way. I want to eat as much as he does but not weigh as much. How does that make sense? I know it doesn't and yet, when dinnertime comes I must have the same amount as him or I feel like I got the short end of the stick. On top of that, if I love him then why am I so selfish about this thing, food? I should want him to get more than me, right? That's real love, not this weird jealous feeling I get when he has an extra scoop of pasta and I don't. Jealousy, that's the word I was looking for. I'm jealous if I can't have as much as him, or if I can but then he doesn't gain as much weight as I do. How do I stop that feeling? My rational brain understands the reality of what is happening, but I can't stop this fucking feeling of jealousy, of missing out. Is it discipline that I need? Or therapy? I've always felt out of control when it comes to food, but why is it so much worse when I'm eating with another person? Edit: I'm leaving the post in-tact as I originally wrote it, but I'd like to apologize for my insensitive comment about Anorexia and Bulimia. I was emotional when I wrote the post, which is a lame excuse, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't actually wish those awful diseases on myself in the past, but in reality I understand the severity of both conditions and they are not something I would seriously wish on anyone, myself included. I hope everyone can find love for themselves and the skin that they are in, I'm sorry to those I have offended. [link] [comments] |
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