Weight loss: This is what 27 months of discipline can look like (201 lbs lost). |
- This is what 27 months of discipline can look like (201 lbs lost).
- You all know me as Cereal Girl for one reason.
- Girls find me attractive for the first time in my life xd
- 3lbs away from a healthy BMI after 5 years of obesity
- Thank you, this subreddit changed my life.
- At a healthy weight for the first time in 20 years
- I went from 212 pounds to 162 pounds in 11 months by simply counting calories and that’s it
- Proud of myself for staying healthy during quarantine!
- Back to my weight pre near fatal car crash.
- Finally at a "normal" weight
- my dad said "calories in, calories out" doesn't work and now I'm discouraged
- Not all comments on weight loss are good.
- NSV- Went down a pants and shirt size!
- What I learned about eating until you're full
- Some workout misconceptions I'm recognizing that inhibit me from moving my body
- Should I do something about my daughter's eating habits?
- Is a calorie deficit the ONLY thing I need to lose weight?
- Went to ICU for a few days - turns out I might have to stay fat for the rest of my life!!!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 28 June 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- I just want to be proud of the man looking at me from the mirror
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 27
- I want to start my journey to finally fit in a large white t-shirt without my whole upper body making what vaguely looks like a face.
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 28 June 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Losing faith in my ability to lose weight. Does anyone have advice?
| This is what 27 months of discipline can look like (201 lbs lost). Posted: 27 Jun 2020 11:20 AM PDT Before/After: https://imgur.com/8GUJffa I've posted here before, but I figured I would post again to show if anything whats possible if you tough it out from day 1. I found my reason to lose weight 3/14/18 and I'm glad I started when I did, because I often think to myself if I had to start today I don't know if I could do it. It'll take longer than you think, it'll be harder than you think, but it'll also be more worth it than you think. For reference I started at 478.6, and now sit below 277. I'm trying to reach 240 by September, and 220 by October if I'm lucky. There's no secret to this, you know what you need to do. Eat better, eat less, and move more. It'll seem like a chore at first, but trust me, you'll learn to love it. EDIT: sorry I haven't responded to any comments yet, I didn't expect this post to explode! I've been out hiking all day, I'll respond as soon as I can 🥰 [link] [comments] |
| You all know me as Cereal Girl for one reason. Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:31 AM PDT EDIT: I just wanted to thank everyone for their overwhelming support!! I didn't realise I was reaching this many people. You don't know how much you have just made my day! About 6 weeks ago, I hit a personal low. I hated my body. I hated myself. I just didn't care anymore. Whilst sitting in the depths of my own despair, I devoured 3 large bowls of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. I'm not kidding on the large, it was about half a box of cereal. I finished eating them and I burst into tears. My weight was the highest it had ever been. And I was just adding to it, feeding that physiological, mental monster within. I had two choices. 1 - Give up. I was a mess, failing uni, failing my job. Failing myself. 2 - Ask for help. Now I don't know about you guys, but asking for help is something I really do not like to do. But I knew I couldn't get out of the hole I had buried myself in alone. I needed someone to tell me what to do. Tell me how to get out of it. I came here. With my tail between my legs and told you my story. I wasn't met with judgement. Or hate. Nobody made me feel worse than I already did. Instead, I felt seen. You understood. You knew where I had been and you helped me see where I could go. You gave me a shovel. So I started to dig. The same day, I made a choice and signed up for Noom - as recommended by some of you. The day after, I made a choice to change the contents of my fridge. Healthier options that could kickstart something, anything. I made a choice, to TRY. This morning, I made a choice to have a bowl of cereal. One. Small. Bowl. I only had one. ONE! I was content. I was satisfied. I didn't want anything else. I hadn't eaten cereal since that day. I am down 12 pounds and nearly at a Stone lost. My favourite t-shirts are starting to fit me so much better. I can run a short distance (like 5 metres) without getting out of breath. I can nearly sing up to the second verse of 'You Can't Stop The Beat'. I look around me and the hole I was buried in...I'm stood on top of it. I am holding the shovel and patting the ground. And I know that, the metaphorical hole could easily be redug. But the shovel is now in MY control. And if it gets a mind of its own. I know I can come back here and ask my new family to teach it a lesson. [link] [comments] |
| Girls find me attractive for the first time in my life xd Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:02 PM PDT I know this sounds a little pathetic, but i have been obese for my whole damn life, i had to deal with the jokes and the bullying from everyone around me, so this kinda of a big deal for me and i feel like i want to share it. I have complained in this very subreddit multiple times, losing weight is tough!!, But i finally got some results, i didnt notice very much because i look at my self everyday, but in the last three weeks i started seeing old friends and coworkers again, they havent seen me in a long time, almost everyone said they could not recognize me complements left and right while i act cool about it in my mind im like hell yeah xD, and i literally never seen girls act so nervously around me laughing at every dumb thing i say even asking for my instagram lol, i did not do it for that but it feels hella satisfying for me ngl So if you are obese or overweight dont stop trying, it will feel so damn hard but eventually you will get there, if you start now you will see the scale changes in two weeks and it will motivate the hell out of you, 3 months and you see a different body in the mirror, and before you know it people will start to see you differently!! [link] [comments] |
| 3lbs away from a healthy BMI after 5 years of obesity Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:37 PM PDT 23F 5'2" SW: 172lb CW: 139lbs GW: 115lbs Before & After (Typo on the dates, 2019 not 2018!) My journey over the last few years is pretty long, to all who read it all the way through, I appreciate you choosing to hear my story. It's definitely not over but mentally and physically I have come a long way and want to share my story. 5 years ago I graduated high school, and 5 years ago I learned (without going into the 'why') there was no way I could go to college (a lifelong dream, would have been 1st in the fam) until I was 24 and legally considered an independent adult in the US to apply for financial aid. This waa absolutely crushing to me, and I had no backup plan. So I did what plenty of us do. I spiraled and shoved my frustrations and sadness down with pizza, McDonald's, anything I could get my hands on to distract myself from suddenly losing my sense of direction. For 5 years I did this. For an example of an average day, I would eat 1,100 calories at Chipotle for lunch (not a breakfast person), have a miscellaneous sandwich and chips or something for dinner, then head to popeyes at 1am for a "midnight meal" and binge food and tv to numb my brain. At 5'2 I don't need nearly this many calories to sustain myself, as anyone who has done CICO will know. I also worked a job that left me pretty sedentary and did little to no physical activity in my free time. I knew I had gained weight, but for a while the extent of the 60lbs I had gained didn't hit me, as I wore size medium in clothes due to being on the bustier side of petite my whole life and most of my (once loose fitting) clothes still "fit" me, albeit tightly. Then one day, after becoming winded while trying to walk and talk at the same time, it all came crashing down. Once I was alone I broke down crying, asking how I let this happen. Asking why no one ever said anything to me as I packed the lbs on year after year. After composing myself, I decided I was tired of my own bullshit. No more excuses. No more blaming circumstance. I let this happen, I am responsible for fixing it. So I started going to the gym. And it turns out, I love the gym! I loved the way I felt like I had actually DONE something that was worth something at the end of the day. No more wasted days. This kickstarted me wanting to better nourish my body, but I knew I had a lot of trouble with binging and self control regarding food, so I decided to go vegan. I definitely don't recommend a huge diet overhaul like this to everyone, but I had "tried everything" on and off over the years and quit 2 weeks in every time, so I wanted to push out of my comfort zone. I didn't love it but didn't hate it. It forced my hand in a way in terms of trying new foods (I'm very picky) and actually paying attention to macros (keeping an eye on protein is pretty important for vegans). This lasted 3 months and in the 3 months I lost about 20lbs, pretty steadily. Once I felt like I had made a habit of choosing healthier options and actually paying attention to what I put in my body, I started incorporating animal proteins back into my diet. And that leads us to today. So far so good, I haven't been vegan since March and I have lost an additional 13lbs to the original 20 I lost before, and my mentality surrounding food and my body is so much healthier than it ever has been, even when I was "skinny" in my teens. If there's any advice I could give, it would be 3 things. 1.) To really take a look at what you put into your body. Not only that, but how MUCH. 2.) Don't let one or two "bad days" derail your efforts to make a change. This isn't something to be ashamed of or punish yourself for. Lifestyle changes take time and no one is perfect. Allow yourself forgiveness, but keep yourself accountable. 3.) Exercise isn't the end all be all to losing weight, but cardiovascular health is super important, and 30 minutes a day of anything that gets your heart rate up can really make a huge difference in how you feel if you're living a sedentary lifestyle right now. [link] [comments] |
| Thank you, this subreddit changed my life. Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:57 PM PDT I'm really shy person, so I haven't have the courage to post this until now, but thank you, I remember my old self finding this subreddit by change, while just browsing reddit to get rid of my boredom on a Sunday afternoon, I never expected something like reddit to help me loss weight, there's a lot of things that I still need to do to improve myself and become the person I really want to be, but I can at least now scratch one off that list, If you are reading this I hope it encourages you to not give up, and believe in Cico, it works, yes it can be hard to control your eating habits, but at the end of the road I will be worth the effort. [link] [comments] |
| At a healthy weight for the first time in 20 years Posted: 27 Jun 2020 10:29 PM PDT 25 F 5'3" SW: 192 CW:136 GW:140 I've struggled with my weight since the age of 5. I have always wanted to be healthy growing up but I never wanted to put in any work. I got close to a 'healthy' weight at one point a couple years ago but it was because I had started eating 500 calories a day. My ex talked a lot about how I was the biggest girl he dated. I really wanted to lose that distinction. Fastforward a year, a broken engagement and a cross country move I ended that diet. Living alone made it easier for me to just order food and sit around and drink. I went into a repeated pattern of getting drunk, ordering taco bell, and laying around the next day due to hangovers. I've been sober since November. In the effort to make myself healthier at this start of the year I made a goal to complete an Olympic triathlon at the end of August. Having a goal helped me focus on eating right and working out. Since I had sunk money into the triathlon I knew I had to follow through. I traded all my sweets for fruits and my meals started consistenting of chicken, mix of roasted vegetables, spinach and rice. I did 20 minutes of strength training with 40 minutes of cardio 5 days a week and 1 day a week was dedicated to an hour run or bike ride. I lost 20 lbs in a couple months with the mixture of diet and exercise. When the pandemic hit I stopped strength training and focused a lot on cardio (I don't really have the equipment for strength training). I'm up to doing a 13 mi bike ride 5 days a week and a half marathon on Sunday. That routine helped me shed 38 lbs over 4-5 months. The weight loss has slowed as expected and I'm working on switching my diet so that I can start working on weight training again. The triathlon is canceled for the year but that just means I have a head start on training for next year's! The biggest thing that helped me on my process was having an achievement I needed to reach (like a video game haha). My before and after (i initially set it to public at first on accident) [link] [comments] |
| I went from 212 pounds to 162 pounds in 11 months by simply counting calories and that’s it Posted: 27 Jun 2020 08:46 AM PDT Last 4th of July, my family and I were celebrating. I got way too drunk and woke up the next morning feeling like crap essentially. I don't know why but I decided to weigh myself because I felt horrible looking in the mirror. I ended up being 212 and I'm 5'10. I was devestated. I honestly never worked out in my life anyways so I know it probably wasn't that shocking to my family and friends how out of shape I was. My cousin told me to just count calories and that it. No diet, nothing. Eat whatever you want but count calories. So that's exactly what I did! I started with 2,300 calories and walked 2 miles everyday after work and that itself already made me lose 10 pounds in 2 months. I then just brought it down by increments of 200 calories every month. Now I know what you're thinking, by the 11th month that means I would've only been eating 200 calories a day but I stopped bringing it down by the 4th month and stuck to 1,500 calories. I started to adjust my diet to eat high volume low calorie dense foods which helped a ton. I was now eating 2 cups of egg whites as opposed to 3 eggs with cheddar cheese. The egg whites were way less in calories and had way more volume. I got more full. Now for the last 7 months I've been eating 1,500 calories and lifting twice a week. That's all I did. I do ab workouts 3 times a week though bc I guess I always wanted abs haha. I stopped at 162 because my goal was to lose 50 pounds and honestly I'm happy with the result. Let me know what you guys think! [link] [comments] |
| Proud of myself for staying healthy during quarantine! Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:04 PM PDT 29F SW: 233 / CW: 173 Ok gonna toot my own horn real quick 🎉 In my late teens I fell into a crippling depression, became a complete recluse, and gained 100lbs in a year. So when quarantine first began, I panicked. I worried that I would lose all the progress I had fought so hard for the last 8 years, both physically and mentally. But when I started down this journey all those years ago, I made myself a promise that I would never return to this old way of life. Before shit got real, I had a feeling my gym would be forced to close down from this so bought some weights, bands, an exercise ball, and a yoga mat. I worked with a personal trainer (virtually) who created workout routines for me 5 days a week. I actually upped my caloric intake to 1800 (from 1200) and the only macro I really focused on was hitting 100 grams of protein daily. Happy to report that I didn't just maintain my progress, I actually continued to lost fat and gain muscle. I'm feeling really proud of myself right now. For anyone out there struggling just know you've got this and it's worth it! [link] [comments] |
| Back to my weight pre near fatal car crash. Posted: 27 Jun 2020 10:01 AM PDT So 2 years ago, I had a car crash which nearly killed me. A bus picked a fight with my car. Left me with a broken spine in several places and permanently disabled. Over the 2 years I couldn't move much as I recovered. February this year, I was cleared enough by my physio for "light physical activity" in the gym. Pre crash, i used to lift a lot and was incredibly active in the gym. My friend owns my gym and has been an incredible coach standing with me and encouraging me on. With his help and sticking to CICO with a huge deficit I have lost 15kg. I took my calorie deficit and rounded it down to 2500 which turns out to be absolutely plenty. I know this sounds weird but I haven't quite got the image of my head of being slimmer. Its been a long and incredibly frustrating/painful road but in some respects i think covid has helped me focus my mind and stick to my plan. When I shed a little more and feel comfortable in my body ill post some progress pics. Thank you, sorry it feels good to make this post. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2020 03:56 PM PDT Hi! this is my first post here so I guess I'll start by telling my story a little bit, my heaviest weight was around 220 lbs, (this is an estimate, as I used to be terrified of stepping on the scale back then at my highest), took me about a year to lose most of the weight, and that took me all the way down to 150, and I've fluctuated around 150 for about a year now, (right now I'm at 148 actually), and my goal is to get down to 130, but there is something I realized a few days ago that made me quite happy. I have this bmi table thing that I used to look at a lot when I started my journey, and it has like a list of heights and then three columns with weights, a green one, a yellow one, and three red ones. When I was at my hightest my weight was all the way in the last red column and I used to dream about my goal weight. It's been months since I last looked at it, so when I found it and searched for my weight in the columns I realized I'm now in the green one. Seems dumb to be happy about something so simple, but I thought I'd share it because it made me feel pretty good. [link] [comments] |
| my dad said "calories in, calories out" doesn't work and now I'm discouraged Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:22 PM PDT my mom was making toast today to use it up and my dad was saying he didn't want any because "I'm trying to lose weight and you can't eat bread and lose weight, it's impossible". I said, "yes you can, as long as you're in your calorie deficit." And he went off on this whole thing about how "people used to think that" but "different foods affect your body differently" and basically how calories in, calories out = garbage. And you will definitely never lose weight if you eat bread. I've been doing CICO alone for a month now, and I've lost 10 pounds. I'm still having pasta and bread and it's still working. I literally lost a pound yesterday and I had both bread and pasta. (I am trying to eat healthier, though.) Plus I've read so many success stories on here, old and new, some healthy some not. It does work, the evidence is right there. I didn't tell my dad any of this because he would probably say something about "you don't look like you lost anything" or whatever. I finally feel like something is working and actually sustainable for me, whereas he continues to change his diet every week and it's always "oh I bought this new supplement" or "I read this about coconut oil so I'm gonna start taking that". This week he's keto, I guess?? Last week he wasn't. I don't know. It's so frustrating. If he doesn't agree with whatever you're doing, that automatically makes it wrong. I hate it. I guess if anything, this is motivation to keep going. Maybe when I lose 50 pounds he'll believe me. Edit to say: I know that different foods affect your body differently, but he was saying that was the reason CICO wouldn't work. Meaning that no matter how little you ate, if you ate specific things you couldn't lose weight no matter. [link] [comments] |
| Not all comments on weight loss are good. Posted: 28 Jun 2020 01:43 AM PDT I met with friends yesterday, and they got drunk. While we were sitting there my one friend jokingly told me that I should lose some more weight so that she isn't the one with the smallest tits in the group anymore (she has a more athletic build and b cups, while I went from a dd to a b cup). My other friend added that the first thing she noticed when she saw me again after a few months if lockdown was that my 'ass just disappeared'. In the moment I laughed bc I did think the comments were funny but later that night I thought about again and ended up cryibg myself to sleep bc honestly that's one of my biggest insecurity rn, esp with my bf. And them pointing it out so bluntly hurt really bad in hindsight. Idk what the point of this post even is lol [link] [comments] |
| NSV- Went down a pants and shirt size! Posted: 27 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT Hey everyone, I've been a lurker on here for a bit but never posted. I am on my phone so sorry for any formatting issues. For details I'm 32F and at the beginning of the year I was 262 pounds. At the beginning of the year I got sick of weighing so much, but more than that I got sick of getting out of breath so easily and not being able to go on hikes with friends and other things I wanted to do cause I was so out of shape. So I decided to do something about it. Since the end of January I've been exercising 5 days a week and doing CICO, and it's been working! I'm down to 223 pounds! I have been getting a little frustrated though because I've been 223 pounds for about 3 weeks and can't seem to get down below that. But I've still been doing the same thing. And, I have been doing measurements and my measurements have been going down even when the scale isn't. But my clothes have been feeling baggy so today I went shopping. I now fit into a size 16 pants and a large shirt! I've been in a size 18 pants and XL shirt for years! I guess I just needed to take a step back and remember that not all success is shown by the scale. Thanks everyone for all the inspiring posts! Keep up the great work everyone! [link] [comments] |
| What I learned about eating until you're full Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:01 PM PDT I've started jogging. Normally I jog early in the morning before breakfast to avoid food cramps, and it starts the day off right. But with the heat level increasing, I've switched to jogging in the evenings. Of course, this means I've eaten at some point before I go for a jog. Today I went jogging two hours after dinner. I ate until I was full. During the jog, I had terrible cramps and I found it hard to breathe. What I learned from this is that I don't have to eat until I'm full. If I want to jog in the evenings, I need to eat enough that I'm satiated but can break into a jog if I need to. If I think jogging after eating is hard, then I ate too much. It has caused me to seriously reconsider the amount I'm eating. Suddenly eating until I'm full feels like such a gross feeling. It makes me feel unable to move, like I need to wait to digest something before I can do anything. [link] [comments] |
| Some workout misconceptions I'm recognizing that inhibit me from moving my body Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:49 AM PDT Just a few I'm listing, wondering if others have thought these.
Thanks all. Keep it up! [link] [comments] |
| Should I do something about my daughter's eating habits? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:48 PM PDT My daughter (13f) has always been slightly overweight her whole life. Sometime in the middle of May she weighed herself and was about 150. She then started dieting and calorie counting after realizing how bad her diet and weight has gotten and has stuck to it pretty well. She started off by eating around 850-900 calories a day and then walking in our balcony. Her goal was to lose 2 pounds a week. However, with the end of May, I noticed her eating less and while she was showing me some photos on her phone she went to the bathroom so I opened her fitness app and saw that she had only been eating about 300-500 calories a day and burning 1500. I am extremely worried about her but everytime I bring it up she just says that she feels full and doesn't feel the need to eat anymore. She also recently suffered and injury to her foot and can't walk for long amounts of time so she used that as a reason to eat even less. As of now, she weighs about 137 and her goal is 120. Should I let her keep going until she reaches her goal or should I do something about it? And if i should do something, what should I do? Edit: This is what she usually eats in a day Breakfast: 1 egg, half a cucumber, and an apricot Snack: A tomato and/or strawberries and grapes Dinner: Either beans or chicken/ some form of protein Edit: Thank you all for the advice and for caring about my daughter's health. I am planning on having an online meeting with her doctor in early July and will be asking for an appointment with a nutritionist and see where things go from there. [link] [comments] |
| Is a calorie deficit the ONLY thing I need to lose weight? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:14 AM PDT Hello, everyone. I would like to officially begin my weight loss journey today. I am a 5'9 male, 21 and I weigh 185 lbs. My goal weight is 167-165 lbs. I am also fairy active. I was just wondering if a calorie deficit is really the only thing that I need to lose weight. I hear that it is, but most of the time I also hear that you should cut out refined cards like white bread. The issue for me is that I do not want to remove all carbs only to gain a bunch of weight to back when I start eating them again. I would like to have a diet that I can maintain for the rest of my life, and that includes having some of my favorite foods like pizza. What do you guys think? Do you think I have to remove refined grains and carbs to lose weight or should I only focus on maintaining a calorie deficit? If you have any other tips to spare I'd love to hear them! I could use all the help I can get. Please and thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Went to ICU for a few days - turns out I might have to stay fat for the rest of my life!!! Posted: 27 Jun 2020 01:27 PM PDT The diagnosis isn't 100% confirmed, I have to be on medicine for a few days first and some tests run, but when I was in the ICU and during my surgery that landed me there - my body's blood pressure dropped dangerously low, my heartrate soared, I had fever. I was diagnosed with adrenal crisis. I was given extremely high dosages of corticosteroids very frequently to keep my body from shutting down organs and dying. (I almost died from this exact thing about 3 years ago) I had been having symptoms for months. Extreme fatigue (more tired than when my son was a newborn!!!), low blood pressure, fast pulse. We all thought it was because of my joint hip infection. Well, I have been living without a joint for a while now after they took it out to try to have me live without one to get rid of the infection once and for all, but my sick symptoms remained. Worse and worse. The Hospitalist put the symptoms all together and realized this is probably a rare case of adrenal insufficiency. Yay a diagnosis, right? Well, not so much. If this is what I have, which I'll find out in the next few days, I'll have to take a low dose corticosteroid for the rest of my life, and high dosages of it when I'm under bad stress (like sickness or death in the family) because my body would be unable to make its own cortisol. Taking corticosteroids every day causes weight gain for most people. I first-hand experienced it when I gained a TON of weight on Prednisone which was treating my autoimmune disorder. And guess what, I beat the weight gain (still have a ways to go) and lost 75 freakin pounds!!! But now, that hard work might all go down the drain. You see, with corticosteroids it isn't about CICO entirely. I know that some people will probably downvote me for saying this - but look it up - it's true. It changes the way your body metabolizes things like carbs and turns it into insta-fat. So this might be my life now. The body I long dreamed of, gone. I'm crying, and while I'm glad they are starting to have answers, I'm just so sad that all I worked towards will just have been a waste. And that everyone who looks at me, will think "what a lazy piece of shit, all she has to do is CICO and she wouldn't be so fucking fat." [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 28 June 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:07 PM PDT Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing > I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me? Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. On reddit, your vote means, "I found this interesting" (...read more about voting on reddit) [link] [comments] |
| I just want to be proud of the man looking at me from the mirror Posted: 28 Jun 2020 01:59 AM PDT I started answering someone else's query on here, but began rambling about myself. So obviously I need to talk. I'm 30-years-old. Growing up, I was always heavy. My parents didn't know shit about nutrition. I ate a lot of processed, carb-laden food, drank a lot of juice, etc. I started swimming competitively and eventually I looked OK. Not like guys on the team wouldn't still call me fat, but I was relatively trim. Around 170lbs and 5'11 with a fair bit of muscle. From there, my weight would fluctuate all over the place. I always had the attitude that I could eat whatever I wanted because I swam all the time, but I tried to keep it someone healthy. (Turns out I had no idea what meant, but that's beyond the point.) Flash forward to the present. After gaining a bunch of weight very quickly, I found out I've had hypothyroidism all my life. No excuse for me to not try to lose weight, but it explained a lot. (Why I could eat exactly the same food as my friends and they were skinny as rails and I was chubby as hell.) There was briefly a time in high school when I felt OK to take my shirt off in public. Even in college, where I played water polo, the guys took one look at me and said I needed to lose some fat. They weren't wrong. But I think I embarrassed them that I didn't have sharp six packs or pecs without a layer of fat. Again, I didn't change my diet, so I lose some of the weight, but not enough. Now things are different. I'm determined to be able to take my shirt off in public and feel proud. My girlfriend is beautiful and she deserves it. We're going to see her family and friends for a few weeks now in Ibiza and I feel so rotten about it. Over the past few months, I love lost a decent bit, but I'm nothing like the shredded guys she's used to being around. Don't get me wrong: I know it could be worse. But never in my whole life have I looked in the mirror and felt totally good about what I was seeing. Occasionally just 5-10 pounds away from looking good, but never there. This time, I'm determined. I will see my abs, just once. I'll bop around shirtless without worrying about the jiggle. I won't cringe when my gf wants to rest her hand on my belly. Also, since both my parents died of cancer, both within a few years of the other, I have new determination to be as healthy as possible. And I'm SICK of this fat. This gooey, gross stuff that hides my muscles and makes me look bad. It's completely useless and it's so hard to get rid of, at least as fast as I'd like. I need a hardbody to withstand the world. I hope I get there, guys. Thanks for listening . I just want to feel hard ripples. I'm trying to hard. And it's too late for me to look like that in Spain (yeah, can't wait to meet her ex's) but I'm just gonna keep on, and hopefully, one day, I'll know what it's like to feel proud of your body. I hope that day comes soon. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 27 Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:03 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Saturday! Weight by end of month (200 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning, 201.5 trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1500 ish): Hanging on today. Want to eat all the things. Exercise 5 days a week: Vigorous cleaning & a 45 minute standing abs/cardio workout. 23/27 days. Self-care time (journaling, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 0/27 days): Down time. Ahhh introvert thug life. Try a new recipe once a week: Curried chickpeas from dry beans, chickpea flour crepes (I helped, it counts), new recipe breakfast burritos, red sauce from semi scratch (canned tomatoes) & black-eyed pea soup so far. 5/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not tonight. 0/50 pages. No fast food or candy from the work dish: Day 24. 4 candy related lapses in judgement. Listen to my effing body: Body says HONGREY. Gotta be careful today kids. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Glad to have some time to handle home stuff. And be a little bit of a bum. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2020 05:07 PM PDT Sup Loseit I'm a 14-year-old male and 91kg (200lbs) and 5ft, 6in. As the title says, I want to cut down my body fat, as a starting goal preferably 85 kilos would be ideal and 65-70kg as an end goal. I have been working out for about 2 months now and I'm combining cardio and a callisthenics routine. But I haven't been doing as good in the dieting department. There are days where I eat a total of approx 2000 calories and other days where I eat 3000 calories, so far for a full week, I've been able to keep my calories in the 2000-2500 range (my willpower and discipline are weaker than bridge made of dry pasta trying to support a u-haul). My usual diet consists of rice and chicken and greens. I'm trying to cut down my carb intake but as an Asian, my rice cooker is like a father to me. Now my question is, what can I do to lose fat and develop my muscular strength. So any lessons or workout routines you guys can give me to help me achieve my goal to lose weight and be decently fit would be very helpful. I mainly want to lose fat in my waist, chest, outer and inner thighs (my thighs can hold at least 2-3 kittens on each lap) and my butt. And the areas I want to gain more muscular strength in are my back, shoulders, arms and my core. Thanks in advance and may you all achieve/maintain good health. Edit: I can't afford gym memberships or a personal trainer, so exercises I can do without equipment would be greatly appreciated [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 28 June 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 28 Jun 2020 01:08 AM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
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| Losing faith in my ability to lose weight. Does anyone have advice? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 12:55 AM PDT Hi reddit, I've (female, too nervous to say age and weight) never made a text post before so please let me know if I'm doing something wrong. I've been trying to lose weight for a year and a half and I've ended up heavier. I haven't given up at any point along the way - I keep trying every time I fail, no matter how many days I've been bad, but it's gotten to the point where every time I start trying again my mindset is 'I wonder how many days I'll be good before I mess up and I'm back to square one'. It's been months since I've been able to have self control for more than ~3-8 days without ruining everything and I read something online that it could be a mindset thing since I'm expecting failure now. Does anyone have any advice as to how to address this? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
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