Weight loss: Turned a horrible February into a catalyst for changing my life |
- Turned a horrible February into a catalyst for changing my life
- Just a few pounds away from a 60 pound loss at 17. Never thought I would be able to do it.
- I think my mother is going to pass away from COVID-19 and I am distraught (ED Trigger warning) UPDATE
- HAES ruined my life (ED trigger warning)
- Calling all Yo-Yo's
- From 67kg to 55kg so far: little changes I’ve noticed.
- I'm losing everything. Why am I like this. How can I save my own life. FUCK. Please help.
- It really seems impossible at the beginning
- Finally a healthy morning routine!!
- People who’ve lost a lot of weight but also fixed their relationship with food: what’s that like?
- I don't have many people to celebrate this with
- [Tip] Be patient with you body.
- Vegetable soup really helped me lose weight!
- The big test of self control
- Right before, during and after I eat a meal all I'm thinking is no don't do this you know this is bad and I do it anyway and I feel guilty at every step
- I made a horrible mistake and it’s getting me so down
- Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!
- [F27 5'6" SW:246 CW: 224] The scale shows 10kg/22lbs down, but I see no difference.
- Do you ever transition from feeling like a fat person that always has a fitness goal and just start to feel like a normal healthy person without super weight-focused goals? Does that happen?
- PCOS and weight loss
- When someone compliments you on your weight loss how does it make you feel?
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13
- family, friends, and weight loss
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 13 April 2020? Start here!
| Turned a horrible February into a catalyst for changing my life Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:25 PM PDT Hi. I got let go in late February and have not yet found work. When I lost my job, I weighed 444 lbs, which, let me tell you, is not a happy place to be at. I had just purchased a rice maker and the thimble that it comes with has been my grain guide: one of those, plus a protein and any vegetables I want. Now two months later, I just clocked in at 403, a loss of 41 pounds! I did the math and on average, I am eating between 1300 and 2000 calories on any given day, which is way down from the 3500-5000 I was eating normally. The results have been pretty great! I don't have a job yet, but at least I feel better most of the time and I am striving to keep this change going...permanently. [link] [comments] |
| Just a few pounds away from a 60 pound loss at 17. Never thought I would be able to do it. Posted: 13 Apr 2020 10:34 AM PDT Major driving factors for me wanting to lose weight: (in no particular order)
But what really woke me up was going to the doctor for back pain, seeing my X ray, and how much fat was covering my body. I will never forget that. I asked the doctor, "Would that be what my body would look like without the fat?" And she told me yes. Obviously I'd still have some fat, but the short answer- yes that would be my silhouette. I never knew my body was that small. There were INCHES of fat layering my body. I could literally see what was on top of healthy muscle and what was crushing my bones. It was a visual of what I was putting my body through, and holy shit it scared me. I started tracking what I was eating and using CICO. I joined lose it on reddit (I love you guys!!!) and took it slowly. The first few months I tracked here and there and went over my calorie goal quite frequently. After the 3 month mark, I was fairly consistent. I got involved in weightlifting and became a HELLLLLL of a lot more confident in myself. I am still working on it. But here's some things I've gained:
I also stopped smoking, started attending college full time and dual enrolling and found new friends. I was alone for a majority of this "transition". It sucks man, it really does, but it is SO worth it. Edit: I accidentally pressed done before I was done writing hahah. Here's my progress photo!!! PROGRESS PICS For reference: I am 5'1 and went from 228-170 ALSO*** the duck face was a funny face. NOT A SERIOUS ONE. People on imgur have been very rude about it 😒 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 03:55 AM PDT Hello everyone. I wanted to just post an update about my mother situation. I am sorry to say that at 10am on Monday 13th April 2020 my mother passed away. She was 67. Suffice to say that I am beyond distraught. I don't quite know what I'm typing, so excuse me if some of this does not make sense. What I first want to say is :STAY AT HOME! Please, I know this is hard but you don't want to go through what I'm going through. Your life is so much more important and you will get through this. What I do know is that life is short. Hysterically short. If you're thinking about doing something, whether it be weight loss, or education or what have you, for the love of all that is good, please do it. You really do not know when it will all be over. In regards to my eating disorder... I don't know what to say or to do in regards to that. I'll just have to see. For everyone who send their best wishes, prayers and good thoughts in the original post, thank you. It means the world to me. Edit 1. Everyone, thank you so much for your kind support during this awful time. It really means a lot to me reading everyone's comments and stories. If anyone needs help please feel free to pm me. We can get through anything together! [link] [comments] |
| HAES ruined my life (ED trigger warning) Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:31 PM PDT For context I'm currently 27 and am a female. Okay I'm gonna start out with mentioning that I take full responsibility for my life choices. However, that doesn't negate the anger/regret I feel. So I struggled with my weight on and off throughout my life. In my late teens I was diagnosed with PCOS and was also put on antidepressants: two factors that made it extremely hard to lose weight and kept my cravings and hunger at an all time high. When I was around 21, one of my diets turned a bit into an eating disorder. Binging and purging cycled with extreme restriction. However, I was not underweight, probably smack in the middle of a normal BMI. I was tired of the cycle so I sought out a dietician who is also a therapist. Turns out she was very HAES and Intuitive Eating driven. She had me read a ton of HAES-y material and I believed it all. She also had me stop weighing myself. I was tired of my eating disorder so I decided to "intuitively eat" which basically for me meant binging and emotional eating. This went on for years. I also was on a pretty high dose of SSRI (I also have pretty bad OCD) which made me feel numb and kind of indifferent to my weight gain. I gained over 50 pounds. Fast forward around 5 years later, I decided to get off my SSRIs. The negative effects of the last 5 years hit my like a brick. My PCOS has gotten considerably worse (I don't get periods, my acne is bad, my hair is thinning) and I realized how fat and ugly I am. I have not seriously dated anyone in the past five years, I feel fat and unloveable, and I blame HAES, my dietician, my SSRIs, and most of all myself. My health issues are a testament to HAES being seriously flawed. My PCOS was under control while I was at a healthier weight. Also, how on earth can intuitive eating work for me if my diseases and medication make me constantly hungry while slowing down my metabolism? I don't mean to be super whiney. I have a plan for change and I've already lost 10 pounds in the last month. I just feel like I've wasted my early to mid twenties being fat and numb. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 08:49 PM PDT Feeling very blah today and could use some positive words / encouraging stories. About 2 years ago I lost around 30kg (66 pounds) and was in the best shape of my life. I was fit and healthy and full of energy. I got compliments all the time and clothes fit me and I ran my first half marathon. Then I got very depressed and stressed at a horrible job and now I am basically back to where I started give or take about 7kg (15 pounds). I have a new job and I am doing much better emotionally (well I was until the world went to shit). I know exactly how to lose the weight, I have done it before. My problem is that it seems so daunting, but more than that, boring to do it all again. The excitement i felt the first time as the numbers on the scale when down are gone. How did you guys find the energy to do the hardest thing in the world for a second time? [link] [comments] |
| From 67kg to 55kg so far: little changes I’ve noticed. Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:27 AM PDT
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| I'm losing everything. Why am I like this. How can I save my own life. FUCK. Please help. Posted: 13 Apr 2020 08:29 PM PDT Please help me. I'm 34, female. I'm about 350 pounds. My highest weight is 385. I've been fat all my adult life, but I've had problems with food going back to childhood. I don't know why I'm failing to save my life. I'm losing everything. My husband of 11 years, my best friend, he's divorcing me. I just found out. We don't have any children because I feel getting pregnant at this weight would be dangerous. He needs to be a father, and he's given up on me being able to have them. This well and truly takes almost everything meaningful from my life. He is my entire world, and I hate myself for not being able to just stop fucking eating so we can have kids and so he doesn't have to be scared of me dropping dead of a heart attack. It's not that I don't care. I fucking care. Why can't I save my own life? Am I just eternally broken? A child of abuse and neglect that never learned how to overcome anything, just doomed to play out this sad life alone. I already lost the person most important to me in my life once before; my brother. He died. This feels like a death too. And my brother-in-law and my niece.. they mean so much to me, and they'll be gone too. Why is losing nearly every person I love not enough to FIX ME? HOW do I stop being such a lost cause? If you have something to say, please be kind. Please. [link] [comments] |
| It really seems impossible at the beginning Posted: 13 Apr 2020 01:51 PM PDT I had been gaining weight my whole life pretty much, and by the time I was 17 I got to 310lbs (6'). No matter how much I hated my weight and wanted to do something about it, I thought it would take such extreme changes to my daily life that I would never be able to pull it off. After I got my first job and started sweating my ass off working on summer days, I noticed I was losing some weight. When I realized something I was doing actually helped me lose weight, it gave me new hope. I decided to start putting some effort into it, and slowly started lowering my portions at each meal, switched to drinking water instead of pop, and started doing more active stuff with my friends. Once I got moving and started seeing progress, I had a much easier time finding motivation to keep going with it. A year later, I still don't do much different besides working and eating less, but I'm down to 215lbs. It doesn't feel like I've really done much compared to the effort I thought it would have taken beforehand. I feel optimistic about my goal of 180lbs, I know I just have to keep doing what I've been doing and eventually I'll make it. :) I knew that I was on track to live a very obese, unhappy, unable life, and I'm so grateful that that is no longer the case. It's awesome being able to go out and feel good about how I look, I could never look past my weight before. All I want now is for corona to be over so I can ride all the roller coasters again!! [link] [comments] |
| Finally a healthy morning routine!! Posted: 13 Apr 2020 04:06 AM PDT SW: 203lbs CW: 194lbs GW: 160~ I finally have a healthy and consistent morning routine! And it's doing wonders for me! After trying keto at the beginning of the year and losing 12lbs, I fell off and gained it all back. But after only a week I am almost back to where I was! I've started building healthier habits for me to love my body and treat it right. When I wake up I make my bed (a must!), weigh myself, put on my workout gear and grab a water bottle and do a 30 min workout, if I can't do more then I don't beat myself up over it- anything is better than nothing :) Afterwards I make myself breakfast- a vanilla cream flavoured Protein shake. After this I refill my bottle with water to sip as I do some work at my desk. I've never been a water drinker but just by leaving water by my side has made me drink a lot more! I'm excited for another week of healthier habits. [link] [comments] |
| People who’ve lost a lot of weight but also fixed their relationship with food: what’s that like? Posted: 14 Apr 2020 01:11 AM PDT 5'9" SW:207 (Feb 10) CW: 176 GW: 140 So I've lost 30 lbs, and I'm really happy about that. I can't see a lick of difference in the mirror, though my clothes do fit better and I have things like collarbones and ribs now! My relationship with food has certainly changed. I used to eat anything and everything and if I wasn't eating, I was thinking about where my next snack would come from. I've been really good at sticking to CICO, and I'm quite a good cook so I've enjoyed making tasty yet healthy meals too. The only thing is I still think my relationship with food is not quite right. I still have a very 'all or nothing' mentality. I don't binge, as I used to, but if there's a bowl of something in front of me I'll finish it, and if I've got calories left for the day I'll use them whether or not I'm hungry. So: people with a healthy relationship with food, how did you get there, and what's it like? I think I'm more interested in this now that the actual weight loss, since I know that if I have a good relationship with food I will be able to maintain my weight a lot easier. Any tips would be appreciated. Will this just take time to form a habit? Should I completely cut junk foods out instead of having them when they fit my caloric goals? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| I don't have many people to celebrate this with Posted: 13 Apr 2020 10:09 AM PDT Hi guys, This is my first time posting here, but around Mid-January this year I decided start a keto diet. I've heard on a lot of different podcasts that it might be a good way to lose weight and at the time, I was 386 pounds. I wanted to do anything possible to stop myself from reaching 400 pounds. So I started it thinking it would be fun to see if the claims of higher energy levels and weight loss were true if I kept this diet going for two weeks. So I did it for 4 days, and let me tell you those were some of the hardest days of my life. I had a friend who is pretty healthy and did this diet intermittently and he told me it would take around a month to really feel the effects. As soon as I heard that, I thought it would be impossible for me to keep it up for that long. It would effectively stop me from going to fast food restaurants, eating ice cream, and having pizza. Knowing that eating one single thing that has too many carbs could completely erase all my hard work of staying in ketosis made me keep going longer than what i thought possible. Then, I started realizing that I was dropping weight really fast. Fast forward to now, I'm still on the diet and I weigh 319 pounds. I haven't been that weight in over 3 years. I'm really proud of myself now and I would love to tell all my friends, but I haven't ever really talked to them about my weight and I'm still embarrassed to talk about weight. I'm also in quarantine right now so it's hard to even see my friends. But I wanted to share this news with someone, and maybe one of you guys will be inspired to keep going and lose weight too! [link] [comments] |
| [Tip] Be patient with you body. Posted: 14 Apr 2020 01:08 AM PDT It's been about 33 days since I started counting my calories and running everyday. I started at 200 pounds and am now currently at 187 pounds. I wish it came down faster to my goal weight of 150 pounds but alas, it will not. Throughout these past days I've started to appreciate my body for what it can do. I never really had a positive relationship with my body but after exercising and seeing my progress I have actually become to appreciate and love the body I was given. I appreciate how my legs are strong enough for me to run 3 miles without stopping. I appreciate my arms for lifting me off of bed every morning so that I can go exercise. I appreciate everything my body does to help me be alive and well. At times I want to just give up and stop counting my calories, stop exercising, and just stop sweating but I know that will do a great injustice to my body and to my life. All I am trying to say is, be patient with your body. You may not be at your goal weight or be at that perfect shape you've always wanted, but slowly you will get there. I have a long ways to go but patience is key. Lokraken, just continue grinding on and keep at it. You'll forever be thankful for not giving up. [link] [comments] |
| Vegetable soup really helped me lose weight! Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:33 PM PDT First off, vegetable soup recipe: Ingredients:
Directions: Heat on stove until boil (~15 minutes) Basically, I've been making a pot of vegetable every morning and leaving it next to my computer. As a result, I end up snacking on vegetables all day long AND I end up drinking nearly enough water for the day, completely effortlessly. I am 6' 195lbs (from 210) and this meal plus 1-2 homemade coffees can keep me full all day long. Caloriewise, I could do r/1200isplenty without blinking! Add a chicken quarter for more protein! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 05:30 PM PDT Because of the Coronavirus I have no real access to a variety of food. Everywhere around me is closed except for one or two fast food places and my local cafeteria. Needless to say, I've been eating the same few things everyday for the past 2 months and it's gotten really old really fast. I asked some buddies of mine if they could send me some pizzas through the mail since I can't get any near me. Problem is, I don't have good history with self control around large portions of food. And I'm going to have 2 big pizzas sitting next to me. I've been doing pretty good as of lately with controlling myself around food, and I've felt pretty good about my self control as well. This weekend will be the ultimate test of my weight loss journey. If I'm able to limit myself and stop myself after 4 slices and then don't eat any until the following weekend, I'll count it as a success and my life will be able to change for the better. I'm not even kidding here when I say I might turn to a god to ask for help with this because I know it's going to be hard to do once I get hungry. Wish me luck and strength! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:12 PM PDT Even WHILE I'm preparing the meal I'm saying no no no no no this isn't good for you, pick something else. But I make it anyway and eat it and then I immediately feel guilty and sad. I'm a 23 female who is around 208 pounds, and im 5'4. I think of losing weight everyday. I've been big literally my whole life. I cannot remember a time I was even remotely skinny. I've attempted to lose weight so many times, but before it's even been a month I lose all motivation. I can spend the whole day not eating and then I either eat a whole lot in one sitting or I sorta binge at night. Like I almost can't stop stuffing my face. And I just feel like I have no control over what I'm doing. I have realized that I comfort eat a lot. And that has a lot to do with me just being a sad sack all around and feeling sorry for myself because of how overweight I am. In my opinion I don't really eat THAT much but the type of food I eat is very high in calories and I don't move around much because honestly I just feel so bleh everyday. How do I get started?? What is the first step?? All of the steps I've tried have failed. Do I need to get hypnotized so I can stick to a dang diet??? And the sad thing is I live with other peòple so I can't just throw out all the junk in the house and be forced to eat what's there. [link] [comments] |
| I made a horrible mistake and it’s getting me so down Posted: 14 Apr 2020 01:57 AM PDT I've always weighed myself in my bedroom on the carpet - I'm sure you can see where this is going. The carpet is cheap and worn down so it is very compact and not fluffy, so I assumed it was fine. This morning I decided to weigh myself on the tiles in the bathroom. It weighed me at 20lbs heavier than I thought I was. I feel so unbelievably crappy because I think about how all of my weight recordings until that one have been inaccurate. And now my goals no longer feel in sight, they feel so much less possible now. I don't know if I should continue to weigh myself in my bedroom and know that it's wrong but not have a breakdown every time I see how high the number is like I would do in the bathroom. Ahhhhh I feel. So stupid and big right now :( Working out and continuing my schedule as always- just feeling a lot less optimistic [link] [comments] |
| Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant! Posted: 13 Apr 2020 10:01 PM PDT I Rant, Therefore I AmWell bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants! Please consider saving your next rant for this weekly thread every Tuesday. [link] [comments] |
| [F27 5'6" SW:246 CW: 224] The scale shows 10kg/22lbs down, but I see no difference. Posted: 13 Apr 2020 09:54 PM PDT February - April - mildly NSFW // EDIT: I decided to take better photos, using the same top + trying to copy better the poses, still I can't really notice any difference, here. Also, maybe worth mentioning that I have PCOS. \\ I started CICO since December, but I wasn't able to track my progress in consistent manner and as I was moving, I was on and off with my calorie limit. Since February, however, I got firm with CICO and IF, I'm eating 1500 calories a day, and I was going to the gym daily until the lockdown in mid of March. Also, since February I've been weighing myself daily and I've been consistently losing weigh. I weighed myself firstly at 17 February, and I was 112 kg. Today, 13 March, I weigh 102 kg. The weight loss was consistent thorough the weeks, 1-1,5kg/week. Still, I see absolutely NO difference in myself. I had took photos on February, and I decided to take them again today to see if maybe comparing them side by side I would notice a progress – I can't see any. I understand I have a long way to go, and that even if 10 kg is a lot, it wouldn't make me skinny but I don't see a difference at all, and this is making me scared if I'm doing something wrong and maybe I'm just losing muscle and water? This is really putting me dow. I thought about measuring myself but I'm unsure if I can be consistent with that, once I can vary a few cm accordingly to how tight I put the tape. In my self image, I can notice a difference from December to now – specially in my neck and face, but I also did noticed it in February and I have no idea how much (if any) I had lost during this time, also I have no objective way to compare as I didn't took photos then. Is it really too early to notice a difference? Is there any difference? Am I doing something wrong? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 01:39 PM PDT Pardon me as I write because I want to explain what Im thinking and hopefully you guys get the gist and are able to answer. Sorry in advance if it doesn't make sense. I've always been a bigger girl - now its getting a little bit out of hand and I'm starting to make changes. I lost weight once before and got down to being really healthy and strong, but I never reached that point where I stopped working towards a fitness goal. I ended up gaining the weight back because of intense and improper working conditions. I work with a woman who genuinely enjoys working out - she's thin, and she's always been thin - she says she just likes it. She never really played sports, but she's healthy. I want to work out, yes, but the more I think about it, that's what I'm really working towards. If you're the type of person that ever went from overweight (presumably hating exercise), once you lose weight, do you ever become the person that just works out because it's a part of life, and not because you have this goal of fitting into something, or some other goal? I follow a page that is women's empowerment themed. They post about working (in all situations) to be your best self, but also to love yourself in each phase. The other day I saw a post the other day that basically said "your entire life is not about your weight". I felt a world wind of emotions regarding that statement. I guess part of my concern is, at some point, I'd like to feel like my existence wasn't spent working towards a goal that's fitness based. I have other things I want to accomplish, and whereas I feel that learning to love the gym, and learning to love healthy things comes with the journey, I guess I'm wondering: does the mentality ever switch? Where you don't approach life like a fat person trying to get trim forever? Hopefully this makes sense. The concept, in my mind, is oddly discouraging, and I just want to know/feel that maybe the barrier doesn't even exist once your life changes for good. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2020 09:11 PM PDT I have had PCOS since I was 13, and I'm 20 now. I've tried dieting, exercising, everything and things have worked for me and have helped me lose weight, but then I would stop or relax and the weight would come back. Because of all of this I have struggled with major self-esteem and self confidence issues and therapy really helped me overcome all of that and kickstart a healthier life. So I've been eating better, laid off the sodas, and have been exercising on and off. But when the quarantine was announced I decided now was the best time to transform. I have been working out for 2 weeks now - mainly doing yoga mat exercises (crunches, sit ups, mountain climbers , planks etc) everyday and going for brisk walks (4-5 kms) every other day. I eat 3 square meals, and avoid snacking but I'm still gaining weight and not losing. Is there a reason for this or am I doing something wrong ? [link] [comments] |
| When someone compliments you on your weight loss how does it make you feel? Posted: 13 Apr 2020 05:19 PM PDT The first time I was on my weight loss journey it happened in August 2017. I didn't tell my family about it. I remember I saw them at Christmas and the next time I saw them was May 2018 and they pointed it out asking me questions on how did I do it? How much weight did I lose, you look good etc and it honestly didn't make me feel good It made me uncomfortable. I just want to know does anyone else feel like this or do you like getting compliments?🌸 Turns out the writing above is too short so I'll give you a little detail about my own weight loss journey😁 I am a 19 year old girl who is currently on her weight loss journey, I started my weight loss journey on 16th December 2019 so far I have lost over a stone 😇 it has been hard work but it has been very rewarding when you see your clothes getting smaller and the number on the scales getting smaller too. I am 5ft 3 so I have a lot of weight to lose so I can have a healthy bmi. The foods I have cut out complete is dairy cheese because I loved dairy cheese and I had it all the time but it was very high in fat so I decided to switch to vegan cheese which has helped me a lot because It made me realise that I don't need to put cheese on every meal. I don't drink fizzy drinks anymore, I remember I previously cut it out for x amount of weeks and I tried it again and it didn't taste the same so that's why I cut it out fully. when I crave it now I drink flavoured sparkling water which I love! I'm still having hard time about chocolate... what do you do when you crave chocolate? I feel like It's a on going cycle with me. I have a unhealthy relationship with chocolate because I'll buy some so I can have it over the next couple of days but I'll eat it all in one day and feel shit then I do it all over again which isn't good ☹️ [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 01:43 PM PDT Hello losers, I hope your Monday has been kind. Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): 207 this morning, 206.7 trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): Ugh this weekend was not ideal. Maintenance both days. I'll do better today my friends. 4/4 maintenance days. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. 11/13 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing, fancy coffee out no more than 2 times a week 3/10, no fast food): Wanted drive through this morning & I did not procure any. Fighting the good fight friend! Try a new recipe once a week: Cheesy broccoli & rice casserole, beef burrito casserole for dinner, lentil spinach & sausage stew so far. 3/4 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not tonight. 40/50 pages. Drawing prompt every day: I've been enjoying some gel pen shenanigans. Takes me back to the fun parts of grade school. 9/13 days. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: I'm grateful that I was able to get to work safely despite a spring blizzard. Side note, it's not good snowball snow. It's very pretty though. How are you guys hanging in? [link] [comments] |
| family, friends, and weight loss Posted: 13 Apr 2020 11:21 PM PDT hello! just wanted to start a thread for people to talk about and share their experiences with friends or family and weight loss. i've noticed my own friends have gotten weird about me losing weight (despite being overweight myself) and claim im going back into my old bad habits when this is the best i've treated myself in years in regards to weight loss. i understand their point of view and why they'd be concerned, but their comments are about me not having a second helping for dinner and thinking im starving myself or if they dont see me eat through the day they think i dont eat at all. i eat a reasonable amount for my height, age, and weight but they think its unhealthy because i eat under my maintenance instead of just becoming a gym rat and working it all off (i eat around 1200-1300kcal. im 5'5" and currently 75kg down from 88kg.) i really hate going out (im hella antisocial) and i find its easier to just eat less instead of working out a lot. i've tried to explain CICO and that you can eat under maintenance and lose weight without it being considered unhealthy but they dont think it works that way and that i just have to "eat healthy" and workout a lot which is partly true but you're not gonna lose weight if you're not at a calorie deficit. i live with them so having people watch and judge how much i eat makes me very anxious but i'm sticking it out for myself so i can feel more comfortable in my own body. if you have any advice or just want to share your own experience with this topic that would be lovely! [EDIT: just so people dont get concerned about my motivation with my weight loss; im ftm and i need to be under a 30bmi to get top surgery (basically boobie go byebye) so being safely under that bmi is very important for me. plus i've never liked how feminine and curvy my body looks with all this extra fat in places my brain doesnt see as normal. cutting down on it has made me more confident in my own identity. plus i wanna be a handsome slim guy, not an average chubby guy. my dad is pretty large and i have his looks so i can confirm i would not look very good at a larger weight once i start transitioning haha] i dont see many of these threads around so feel free to share anything <3 good luck on your weight loss journey [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 13 April 2020? Start here! Posted: 13 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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