Weight loss: One Year and 72lbs |
- One Year and 72lbs
- Keep walking!
- Just worked out for the first time in years.
- "Hunger is NOT an Emergency"
- I MESSED UP AGAIN! My Battle From 181lbs to 136lbs and now 149lbs!
- Got my first compliment today!
- The real reason I want to lose weight is....
- What were some easy switches you made to save calories?
- At a weird place... 5’7”, 25F - Began my weight loss journey at 350 pounds in June 2019 - Currently at 265 pounds 10 months later — feeling somewhat discouraged/confused?
- Rant: 4 months in and it’s still not getting easier.
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 5
- I am spending all of quarantine obsessed with (not) eating. Any tips?
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 6th, 2020
- Is HIIT bad for knees?
- Down 96.7 lbs in 5 months, hardly any progress in 3 weeks.
- Yoga alternatives?
- Favorite Cookbooks - A Discussion And Review
- A Tiny Break Through
- How I am losing weight during quarantine
- I'm looking to get healthier after dealing with depression which was very sedentary
- Not falling off the wagon!
- Woke up and realized I'm 50lbs overweight
- Week 1 update
| Posted: 05 May 2020 06:48 PM PDT A year ago today is when I decided to take control of my body and health (I wrote about reasons in my last post when I hit my first goal weight) . I bought a scale and weighed myself, I started logging everything I ate, and I started exercising as a way to manage stress and celebrate what my body can do. The longer I did this the easier it got, the less I craved unhealthy food and the more I wanted to be active. And now I'm just bragging, because I feel damn proud of how much I've changed in a year (and a very hard year at that) :D At 35 I'm smaller than I was in high school and far more fit. I ran 10k on my own after the sun run was cancelled, can bike 30k plus, and the biggest one is I finish my day with energy to spare instead of crashing on a couch to watch tv by 7pm. I still have goals but they're around performance, not the scale. I still log food, and will for quite awhile probably to keep me on track. I found eating around 1400 is my sweet spot for energy levels and performance and that seems to still be creating a slow loss, I'm not concerned with where I end up though. I have plenty of tips but they all basically come from this sub so I won't repeat them here, I just wanted to celebrate my success with a like minded community and thank all the people who post tips, encouragements and talk about their challenges here. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 07:04 PM PDT Hi all. After much procrastination and self loathing, I decided the least I can do is go on nightly walks. It's super calming to go when the sun is setting/down and I play a different movie or game soundtrack to get me pumped and just walk. I actually quite enjoy it now that I do it. Anyways, this is just a post to remind you to keep doing it. On my walk tonight I was torn, did I wanna go back and be lazy or go for an extra block? Well, I decided to go on that other block and could not be happier I did. I was walking and found a little beagle dog near my park, no owner in sight. So I calmly approached, got Maggie, checked her collar, and was able to get her home! Her owners where so appreciative, told me they didn't even realize she had gotten out since she wasn't that far away. If I had decided to not go on that extra block, I wouldn't have found her and been able to get her home safely. Just a small reminder to remember to keep going :) [link] [comments] |
| Just worked out for the first time in years. Posted: 05 May 2020 08:49 PM PDT F/21/CW:379.8 lbs Holy fuck. Even the most basic workouts are so freaking tiring when you're obese. I used to throw shot out and discus in high school, so I used to work out often. I was always fat and always struggled with my workouts, but I got shit done. I've packed on quite a bit of weight since then, and man have I let myself go (not that I ever really had myself together). I recently decided I'm finally ready to loose weight but haven't acted on it at all besides buying healthy food that usually goes to waste. I stepped on the scale two days ago and it said 375 lbs. Gross, but expected. Here I am two days later and I'm basically 380. I'm only 20 pounds away from 400. That really just hit me like a truck. That fact that I'm so close to a number I thought I'd never be near is frightening. I'm used to being in the 310s or even 320s, but 380? Nope. Can't do it. So even though I was tired, I hopped out of bed and did a 30 minute workout. Total fail. I had no clue what I was doing to be honest. I just did random stretches I remembered from school. Threw in some leg workouts and arm circles and that was about it. In total I probably spent 10 minutes out of the 30 just laying on the ground panting like a dog. At the end of the day I did. I did something. Even though it would have been easier to just lay in bed, I got up and did something and I'm really proud of that. I have a long way to go, but I'm ready for this journey. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 07:02 AM PDT Just for a little background, I am doing IF 16:8 + CICO (at least 1500cal/day, more if I exercise) I wanted to share a quick little bit of information that I came across reading a book called "The Beck Diet Solution". I love this book and I have found it incredibly helpful, but that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to talk about a something specific that was said in it: "Hunger is not an emergency". This resonated with me because I've been at the grocery store or just going through the day and at the first sign of hunger, I try to find whatever's closest to make that uncomfortable feeling go away. It's never life threatening and if I just wait until I get home, I can make something that follows my plan. But all too often I have given into that sensation instead of telling it to just hold on a little longer. Maybe I'll drink some water and see if it's that, but most of the time I won't. I feel like as long as I can remember, I have been afraid of being hungry. It's scary to feel hunger, especially when your next meal seems SOOOOO far away. It's slightly uncomfortable and it's just easier to snack on something. Even though it's not a part of my plan, I'm sure it won't derail my progress too much, right? As I'm going through this weight loss journey again (for the last time), I am starting to become more aware of my body's signals and embrace that hunger. All my years of being overweight and giving into slight hunger pangs has made it difficult for me to recognize the difference between a craving and actual hunger, and now I'm starting to realize when it's actually time to eat. I drink water, tea, distract myself with work and when that fails, I know it's time to feed the beast. I'm learning that my hunger is not an emergency. I don't need to find the first place in sight and grab food, I don't need to give into every bored snacking whim, I don't need to drop everything I'm doing just to silence the little rumbles in my tumbles. My hunger is ABSOLUTELY not an emergency. [link] [comments] |
| I MESSED UP AGAIN! My Battle From 181lbs to 136lbs and now 149lbs! Posted: 05 May 2020 08:41 PM PDT Ugh. Where do I start? When will it end? According to so many posts here, maybe it never will. I'm a 5'4" female that set a goal 3 years ago to hit a target weight of 125lbs. As long as I can remember I've had a horrible relationship with food; stress eating seems to have been my biggest issue. When I ultimately hit 181lbs and was diagnosed pre-diabetic, I knew I had to make a change I started hiking 5 days a week and set a food goal of 1400 calories per day. Those first few days were absolute hell. I remember attempting to walk a 6 mile hike and ended up completely out of breathe at mile 4. I thought I was going to have to be airlifted out. Funny thing is, 2 years later I ran those same 6 miles without stopping. Everything was working like clockwork until I hit the 130's. Then I lost focus. It started with a few drinks after work here and there which were ultimately followed by large restaurant portions of food I had no business eating. I told myself I would work it off in the morning. I said I looked fine at 136. Then the weight started piling on and I felt too heavy to exercise. Like I literally felt heavy and it hurt to workout. Then the pandemic hit and I lost my job and sulked at home in isolation, seemingly self medicating with food and drink. I gained 15 pounds in a month. 22 days ago I started exercising again, started counting calories like I used to, and lost 7 lbs. While isolating at home I got creative with some fun workouts in a makeshift gym I set up in my garage, compete with disco balls and colorful lights to keep it fun and entertaining. The trails finally reopened in my county a few days ago and I'm back hiking 9 miles a day (with a damn mask on) and loving it (not the mask part, but it's what I have to do as an asthmatic). I'm holding strong at 149lbs, but, I'm not going to lie, I'm starting to get restless. These extra 13 pounds are really pissing me off and it's going to take really hard work to get back to where I was. And even more hard work to get to my ultimate goal weight. So much wasted time and energy. I'm thankful this community exists and I'm humbly turning to it for any and all comments of support while I try and stay focused, yet again. [link] [comments] |
| Got my first compliment today! Posted: 05 May 2020 12:07 PM PDT I've taken this corona time to really focus on my weight loss. At my heaviest I was 265. I started losing some weight maybe a month before this whole shutdown. Once I was at home all day I figured I could really focus on losing weight so when I come back to my job everyone would be shocked. Well I was out doing errands today and ran into a coworker. She def noticed and complimented me about how ide def lost some weight. Felt good that she not only noticed but was like "holy shit you've lost weight". I checked my weight to see exactly how much I've lost and I'm 235 now. So a solid 30 pounds, prob atleast 20 of that being since we all went home on leave. We are scheduled to start back up in September so 4 more months, I could possibly be down to 210 or even 200. [link] [comments] |
| The real reason I want to lose weight is.... Posted: 05 May 2020 09:42 PM PDT It has very little to do with my body image, confidence, or most of the logistics of being over weight. I love my body, I really do. I don't hate myself for being fat. I don't agonize over love handles or double chins. My body has taken me through every life experience I hold dear, and to hate my body would be disrespectful. The real reason I want to lose weight is to have better sex. I'm a 23 year old bisexual polyamorous kinkster living in San Francisco. I have a healthy, active sex life and I have no problem finding partners who respect me, as I am, and value my pleasure when we have sex. But too often, I find myself unable to perform sex acts that I want to do! I want to be on top or give an enthusiastic blow job without getting worn out. I don't want to be a passive "pillow princess", I want to give my partners pleasure the way they give pleasure to me. I want to take sexy pictures to send to partners without agonizing over the angle or rearranging clothes. I want to be able to buy sexy clothes that aren't advertised as "Pin-Up style" that also come with a $80 price tag for a single piece. I know that loosing weight will not automatically make these things easier, but it's definitely a start in the right direction for me. My routine: I've being using MFP to track calories and CICO since late February 2020. I started with 1400 cals a day, but now I allow myself 1300 and usually only reach 1200. I started going for intense walks around my hilly San Francisco neighborhood in mid-March. I started weighting myself everyday mid-April. I started taking body measurements of my neck, waist, and hips last week (1 inch decrease on all three parts since Monday of last week). I'm lost 30 ponds! Thanks for reading through. Good luck to all of you. [link] [comments] |
| What were some easy switches you made to save calories? Posted: 05 May 2020 01:26 PM PDT I was thinking about this the other day and realised that through calorie counting I automatically adjusted a lot of things. This were some of the changes I made that didn't really hurt me at all and saved me calories:
Anyone has any other simple changes they made that saved them a lot of calories? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 07:11 PM PDT Hey all. I have a goal to lose 100 pounds before my one year anniversary of my weight loss journey in June of this year. I would like to be at or below 250 pounds. Not sure why, but lately I've been feeling super discouraged. Not sure if it's because of my dating life, slow weight loss, quarantine, or what, but I'm feeling a little down about this weight loss journey. I guess I thought I would lose more than 100 pounds before my one year anniversary and now I'm not even sure if I'll meet that goal... and I really would like to be thinner sooner and I know I can't pressure or speed up the process, but I don't know. Just feeling weird. It's also getting harder to lose weight and I of course understand, but that makes the weight loss journey scary. I'm also scared of lose skin and what to do. I've been doing Couch to 5K, calorie counting (kind of, not super strict), keto-ish, 100 oz of water per day, OrangeTheory, and at home workouts. I would like to try to focus more on strength training, but with the quarantine, I have limited myself to body weights. I've been hitting a lot more plateaus lately and sometimes I don't feel like my nutritionist points me in the right direction. She wants me to eat these Nature Valley protein bars, but I feel like it's just added sugar I don't need... I'm not sure... I don't know what I'm looking for, but I hope someone can relate and maybe guide me with how I can navigate all these thoughts/feelings. I think I desperately want to be at <150 pounds and this quarantine doesn't help me when I look in the mirror... I don't know haha [link] [comments] |
| Rant: 4 months in and it’s still not getting easier. Posted: 05 May 2020 07:32 PM PDT Hey all 27 M SW: 230 CW: 210. I've lost about 20 pounds in 4 months. Honestly, I am not happy. I had much higher expectations for myself and I am nowhere close to them. I very painstakingly lose about 1 lb/week but not every week and it is not getting easier. I am in a constant yo-yo and I feel that I am constantly fighting against my body. Whether it is mind driving constant cravings for salt/snack food, or my body wanting to retain anything that I eat , this is not getting easier by any means. I still have a very long way to but It is just becoming harder to stay motivated with such subpar results. Sorry for the rant [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 5 Posted: 05 May 2020 04:54 PM PDT Hello losers, Tuesday gonna Tues, fluffy monsters. Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): My morning routine is off losers so I forgot to weigh in. I'll get it together. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): 1516 planned. I owe this progress to myself, no ifs, ands or buts. Exercise 5 days a week: Lunch walk & will have another walk tonight. 4/5 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 0/5 days): Not a good day for this. Try a new recipe once a week: Sweet roasted chickpeas with nuts so far. 1/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not today. X/50 pages. No fast food, candy from the work dish or Starbucks: No fast food, no Starbucks but I did have a fun sized candy at work. Better than giving into the full binge urge I walked in with, still annoyed though. 5 day(s). Listen to my effing body: Nightmares & stress cost me some sleep last night. I'm also on a temporary prescription & it's making my body feel a little gross. I need to get this body to bed early. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: I'm grateful for 0 calorie Gatorade. It kept me from making bad coffee related choices today. How about you all? [link] [comments] |
| I am spending all of quarantine obsessed with (not) eating. Any tips? Posted: 05 May 2020 04:57 PM PDT Like many of you, I am currently stuck at home. What I've realized is I am spending so much time obsessed thinking about food and specifically on making sure I don't eat junk food. I am not sure what to do, but I believe I am not being super productive because of it. It's like every evening I am fixated on thoughts of food, thinking of when I can eat it, etc. It's non-specific cravings, so it's not like I want to eat a specific thing I just keep thinking of food at lot. The foods I think about are of course carbohydrates: pizza, grilled cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and baked goods. It feels I am craving all these foods in rapid succession. I'm on a low carb diet. I already succumbed to a quarantine binge that lasted three week. I gained 20 pounds from my pre-quarentine weight, lost those 20 pounds, and then lost an additional 17 pounds during these past weeks. I feel I am constantly on the verge of relapsing bad. I have things like books I can read but I spend each night obsessing over not eating and just thinking of all the food I want to eat. Any tips? I am currently doing everything right and have a fairly good schedule, so I am not sure what's wrong. My day goes like this: Wake up 6am. Go for a two hour walk at 7am-9am. I eat two meal a day, generally love my low carb diet, don't snack. I am not intentionally doing IF, but I've fallen into a comfortable schedule where I eat twice. But I am constantly planning my meals, and waste every night restraining myself from eating when I am not truly hungry one bit. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 6th, 2020 Posted: 05 May 2020 10:53 PM 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] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 10:36 PM PDT I'm a 5'3, 20 year old female who has been overweight all her life. I've been trying to consistently and slowly lose weight. Now, I'm overweight by less than 5lbs. This week I tried a HIIT workout but was able to get through about 40% of it. What I was wondering is that is HIIT safe for me considering my weight all my life? Will it have a negative impact on my knees? I've never really struggled with health problems related to knees/bones. The only time something like that happened was when my vitamin D was extremely low, but that's been dealt with and everything is fine now. This is the bit that I have to include to make my post long enough for it to get posted so honestly it doesn't matter if you read it or not. However, now that I have to fill up this space, I hope you're doing well and are healthy and I hope that all of us make it out of this situation safely. The world is an uncertain, scary place right now but I still believe that we're going to be fine, we'll be alright. [link] [comments] |
| Down 96.7 lbs in 5 months, hardly any progress in 3 weeks. Posted: 05 May 2020 03:59 PM PDT Yes, I know that's a lot and I'm definitely proud of myself. But... From 399 down to 302 today: https://puu.sh/FGLed/532d07c90f.png It's starting to get harder... I started my journey playing "ringfit" a game on Switch a bit like WiiFit. That's helped me a lot to just start moving at 399 things like moving or crouching is hard. I tried to walk a bit too during that time but was exhausted after 0.5 miles with back pain. Starting February I have started to walk about 4 miles a day 7 days a week. I went to the gym for two months in February (-22lbs), march(-25lbs) with a private trainer 1 time a week and went to the gym for 1h30 6-7 days a week. Stopped early April due to Corona.. I stopped completely eating junk, reducing my calorie intake of about 1000 per day. Stopped pasta, bread, butter, bacon or anything fried or junk food. Starting eating more vegetables and low fat, low calories substitute like Konjac pasta. For the past 4 months, I have 2% cottage cheese and some fruit (usually berry or orange, banana) for breakfast every day and at least one salad with chicken breast stripe per day. I eat about 1300 calories max per day for the last 4 months. Calculate everything via Fitbit app. I'm 36 H and now 302 but had almost no progress 307 on April 14th to 302 May 5th. Is there anything I can do better? It's hard mentally and physically to continue and losing 5 pounds in a month doing a lot discourage me. I won't give up but maybe /r/loseit can give me some tips on how to improve mentally and also physically before I lose it. Here the breakdown per month: Dec-Jan: http://puu.sh/FGLKC/da93b9f669.png Jan-Feb: http://puu.sh/FGLL1/ff9fa17778.png Feb-March: https://puu.sh/FGLLv/ac4141e9cf.png March-April: https://puu.sh/FGLLU/ab1dd04fcd.png April-May: https://puu.sh/FGLMz/73f9d865b4.png Edit: Hopefully my English ain't that bad, not my primary language. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 09:13 PM PDT Hi all! I'm hoping someone has a yoga alternative recommendation for me, google has proven itself to be useless in this effort. Basically, I find yoga boring. Unbelievably boring. Too crunchy granola, too "let's get close to the Earth Mother", too... bland. I find myself getting borderline mad when I try to follow a yoga video because it just seems like it's trying so hard to be something. To be fair, yoga is an excellent workout. I love that part of it. And I am a high stress, high intensity person. And I feel like I'm going to fall asleep listening to Moon Grass Leaf Flower tell me more about how the fetal position reminds her to bring reusable bags to the grocery store. Get off your high horse, Moon Flower! We all have bags! If anyone has seen the "f*** off: a guided meditation" on YouTube, that's basically what I'm looking for, but add some tree poses and shit. Or maybe the answer is I will never be a Yogi and will have to settle for some kind of stretchy thing with someone yelling the whole time, but I really want to like yoga! Any help is greatly appreciated, fellow losers. Appreciate you all!! [link] [comments] |
| Favorite Cookbooks - A Discussion And Review Posted: 05 May 2020 07:52 PM PDT Hello everyone! I am a 28y/o woman, 5'6", highest weight close to 180, and I've now surpassed my original goal weight of 135 and am now chugging down towards 125. There are a lot of things that have contributed to this (tracking CICO, quitting smoking weed every day, no longer being such a fucking alcoholic) but one of the biggest ones is learning to cook. I've slowly gone from someone who consumes a LOT of takeout to someone who cooks, all the time, with fresh vegetables, from scratch. And honestly, the biggest push towards doing this for me was investing in real, actual, physical cookbooks. One of my favorite "change point" memories is actually going to the huge university bookstore near my house, going to the cookbook section, pulling everything that looked interesting off the shelf, and flipping through all the pages for literally hours until I found a few that met my qualifications. Specifically: a. had recipes and pictures that looked really, really delicious b. hit the health halfway point between "bacon wrapped around fried chicken" and "lettuce covered in stevia" c. contained ingredients I could reasonably afford d. would stretch my cooking skills/make me learn new ones but was still achievable. I see a lot of threads where people post individual recipes, and some where people post favorite websites or blogs. But I don't see much discussion of actual cookbooks and I think that's too bad! I find that if I find a cookbook where the more "basic" recipes really line up with my tastebuds, I'm more willing to try (and more likely to end up liking) the more "out there" recipes. Also, many people do not know this, but actual cookbooks almost always have an "intro" section on cooking basics - what you should keep in your pantry, what tools are most important and how to use them, how to keep different vegetables fresh, paying attention to things in season, etc. Even if you're a relatively experienced cook, it's interesting to read different people's takes on these things! I also personally just find cookbooks more inspiring than online recipes. There's nothing like laying in bed next to a stack of your favorite cookbooks, flipping through the pages, looking to hit on something special where you say "wow, now THAT looks interesting!". The pages of the really good recipes are the ones that end up dog-eared and covered in sauce. You can scribble in notes and adjustments. It's wonderful. Below, a few of my favorite cookbooks. I would truly love to hear of yours! I'm hankering for a new one or two... Eating from the Ground Up - Alana Chernila This is my ALL TIME FAVORITE COOKBOOK. I have now gotten 5 people in my life to buy this cookbook. Several have proceeded to buy it for friends or usually mothers. It is a book devoted to the love of vegetables, and for those of you who think "yuck, vegetables", I cannot recommend any book to you more than this one. The author worked at a vegetable stand for many years, and these recipes are the result of her experimenting so she could tell her customers what the best ways to eat everything are. The entire first section is called "barely recipes", and it's pretty much the best simple way to prepare a TON of different vegetables. She's not obsessed with making everything as healthy as possible and it's not vegetarian - there's plenty of bacon, butter, and cheese. But you really come to appreciate the flavor and bite of every veggie in it. And once you move to the later sections, recipes like "Polenta with All the Greens" (and spoiler alert, plenty of breadcrumbs and white cheddar), "Fennel with Citrus, Mint, and Ricotta", and even "Carrot Celebration Cake" will completely win over your heart. If you hate vegetables and wish you didn't, buy this book. If you love vegetables and want to find new, delicious ways to prepare them, or even learn about veggies you didn't know existed (this woman LOVES hakurei turnips) then buy this book. Do yourself a favor. Buy this book. Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express - Mark Bittman Kitchen Express is a great cookbook for someone who likes to eat a wide and complex variety of foods but really has no idea how to cook and gets annoyed at the thought of spending hours following a recipe with a million exact and complicated steps. This cookbook is less "add 1/2 cup carrots and stir for 12 minutes" and more "add a handful of carrots and stir until they're soft." The recipes are incredibly varied as far as flavor goes, taking inspiration from a lot of cuisines, but manage to also be very simple and quick to prepare (hence, you know, kitchen express). I love this cookbook because so many "simple cooking" books seem to sacrifice rich complex flavor for simplicity and bro if I was just gonna dump broccoli on chicken breast I wouldn't need to buy a book first. If you're an aspiring foodie-cook but new and short on time, go for this. Oh, and the recipes are all ordered by season! However, there are reference sections for "brown bag lunches", "finger foods", "good for kids", "party recipes", "picnics", etc. Buddha Bowls - Kelli Foster Do you want to pretend you are a Cool Instagram Girl? Well now you can! This is an entire cookbook devoted to the concept of a Buddha Bowl, aka, a ton of really delicious nourishing stuff all shoved into one bowl together. IF YOU DO OMAD, I really recommend this one. This book is also incredible for people wanting to pack more interesting varied lunches. It really upped my meal prepping. It's another good for people who don't like vegetables very much but wish they ate them more, or people who have only 2-3 veggies that they like and want to expand their palette. It also has pretty pictures. And honestly, pretty pictures have gotten me to try a lot of new things. This was my first cookbook I didn't get as a present from a family member and so it also holds a special place in my heart for that. Food Lab - Kenji Lopez-Alt Do you hate everything that isn't science? Well, then this is the book for you. Food Lab is a TOME of a cookbook, where Kenji figures out the best way to prepare pretty much everything via experiment and study, tells you how to do it, AND explains the science of why. Although this book has many sections, what I find myself coming back to it again and again for is preparing different kinds of meat. His recipe for pork tenderloin is, I believe, the best meat-based dish I have ever prepared. But what's incredible is his exquisite detail in perfecting the basics. Take, for example, his section on hardboiling an egg. He places eggs into boiling water for 30 second intervals, then removes them from the water, bisects them, photographs them, and puts the entire thing into a visual so you can look at all these eggies and pick the one you think looks best and then know exactly how much boiling time it takes to get an egg to that amount of cooked. And then also explains egg proteins and what happens to them in boiling water. Neat! This book is also great because if you, like me, read a complicated recipe and then feel slightly annoyed and wonder if you are being tricked, because you don't know WHY the steps are there and you're a little suspicious they aren't necessary, Kenji a. specifically experiments to make sure it's all necessary and then b. tells you what it all does, and what happens if you don't do it. They are incredible recipes. XX Dinners - Schori Taylor This is a different kind of cookbook. It contains recipes for 20 different 3-5 course meals, 5 meals per season. The ingredients are expensive and hard to find. The recipes take a long time and constant attention. However, they are very clearly laid out with the intention of being read/used by people who aren't very experienced in the kitchen, and they all turn out AMAZING. I basically have this cookbook to impress people who come over for dinner. It works really, really, really well. The reason I also think people should own at least one cookbook like this is that it makes a new kind of celebration meal that isn't McDonalds/Burger King/skittles/whatever. It's deeply indulgent and a rare treat, but truly rewarding. An honorable marker of a festive occasion. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 09:00 AM PDT Hey, hi, hello So, as the title says, I've had a small realization that is helpful but now I need to figure out how to address it. A bit of background for everyone. I'm a 5, 3' female, who is fifteen, and 137 pounds (looking to be 120-115). Recently, I just started working in a family business that requires a moderate amount of manual labor. During the days I worked, I could sustain eating really small amounts of food. I would have some toast, a granola bar for lunch, and finish work without even thinking much about food. Then, I'd be done and have my majority of calories and be done for the night. Now I'm back home and despite not moving around much food is always on my mind. This has helped me realize I boredom eat, distracting me from school, or stuff that's important, and it makes it hard to stay on task. I'm not very active when I'm at home versus staying with family to go work at that family business. So now I need to figure out how to reconfigure my own home and behaviors so that I can get to be the person I wanna be. She's on track, efficient, uses her day productively, and has control of her situation so change can come about a bit easier when needed. I thank the people who are encouraging and leave comments, it's really helpful for myself so I get perspective. It's also nice to track my journey. I wish you all good luck on your path to being a better you. [link] [comments] |
| How I am losing weight during quarantine Posted: 05 May 2020 07:40 PM PDT Hi I'm 15 years old and Im 5'7 and currently weigh 167, Weight has always been a problem in my life, until recently its started affecting my life in every aspect, being mocked and bullied by my teachers and classmates, I used to be very athletic even though my diet was bad, but then my coaches started calling me out in front of everyone and I was ashamed of myself, so I stopped exercising and became very insecure, then I started to exercise again because I was bored of being lazy, I started seeing a doctor and lost a little weight. Then I lost motivation for some reason, and I became very stressed because my grandma died because of diabetes and that was always in the back of my head, my grades went down, but I didn't care, for two years I gave up. When I turned 15 I decided to go see a doctor and I realized I weighed 190 pounds, I was shocked. But this year I met a girl, and I realized that I liked her, but I thought why would she be with an overweight dude, when she could get anyone, then quarantine hit and I became motivated again, I started exercising at home, eating healthier, and after 3 years I have finally quit smoking. Right now I have lost 23 pounds, the most I have ever lost and I don't want to stop, because its not only to get with this girl, but I also want to be comfortable in my clothes again, and of course health. I have found a way to motivate myself and its surprisingly working so far, I haven't got to were I need to be but I hope I will, if you are trying to lose weight as well, think of it this way, when quarantine is over, a lot of people will be overweight, but if you start exercising and eating healthier during quarantine, you will be the difference! [link] [comments] |
| I'm looking to get healthier after dealing with depression which was very sedentary Posted: 05 May 2020 09:50 PM PDT Hello all, so as the title suggests I've been dealing with some mental health issues that I won't dive too deep into for the last 2 and half years (roughly) and although I've always been heavyset, basically chubby but not fat. However, I'm now looking at myself and I fear that my self image may cause problems for my physical and mental health in the future, I'm 22 and 6'4 but I'm sitting at about 22 stone which is over 300 pounds and I'm really not happy with it. Obviously, the fact that I'm overweight is my own fault and I want to commit to bettering myself but committing to things has always been a problem for me and Covid stops me from attending a gym but my fitness is and always has been poor and I'm just looking for some advice to help stay committed and to avoid hurting myself. Thanks so much for reading :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 11:22 PM PDT Last night i had a serious binge. I spent £40 on chinese food to be delivered and ate a massive amount of it. I could say it was a drunken mistake, but i was sober when i ordered it. I could say that every mouthful was heaven, but it wasnt. Sure, the first few mouthfuls were delicious, but after that, it was just a bit .... meh. That didnt stop me shovelling it into my mouth, past the point when i was full. I went to bed in serious discomfort, asking myself why i had just eaten all that. I cant purge as i have a serious phobia of vomiting. I slept badly too. There was some food leftover. That has been thrown in the bin this morning, and im putting on my trainers to go for a run now. Hopefully all the extra carbs turns into a few extra kms! My point is - i had a bad day. Ive spent a couple of hours beating myself up about it, but im moving on, getting back on track and not letting one bad decision derail the progress ive made so far. I hope anyone else reading this who might also have had a bad diet day can also realise that its a single day in a long journey, a small hiccup and in the grand scheme of things, it shouldn't hold up your weight loss progress. Keep strong and keep going! [link] [comments] |
| Woke up and realized I'm 50lbs overweight Posted: 05 May 2020 09:10 AM PDT It's crazy that I've been steadily gaining this weight for 2 years and totally ignoring the changes in my body. My clothes don't fit, my face has changed shape, my posture has gone to shit. I've been binge eating and drinking more than I ever have and just pretending there are no consequences. I think it's time to stop lying to myself. It's the first time in my life I'm over 200lbs. I honestly don't have a game plan yet I just felt like I needed some accountability or something. I'm sad and disappointed I've let myself go like this. I've been ignoring my health for the past 2 years. It's a tough realization but a necessary one. It's time to start paying attention again. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 May 2020 10:12 AM PDT I posted about a week ago about being stuck on the last 10 pounds. In an effort to keep myself accountable I want to update until I hit goal weight. I am down from 135 to 133.8. I have been using my fitness pal again to track my calories at 1200 a day. I realized over this last week that my estimating before wasn't good enough, I wasn't "stuck" on the last 10 pounds, I was being lazy with my tracking. Of course a lot of people do get stuck and plateau but me personally, I was eating and maintaining which is okay, but I was so sure I was stuck and that I was tracking perfectly. I am hoping by next week I'll be getting close to hitting 129, my goal weight being 125. My highest weight was 211 for reference also if anyone has any questions about skin, etc. [link] [comments] |
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