Weight loss: Yesterday whilst hungover and the heaviest I've been in months, I decided enough was enough and wrote out a 70 day basic diet and fitness plan for myself. Wish me luck guys! |
- Yesterday whilst hungover and the heaviest I've been in months, I decided enough was enough and wrote out a 70 day basic diet and fitness plan for myself. Wish me luck guys!
- 65lbs Lost = Insulin Resistance Reversed!
- Day 700: I am not an optimization problem (and other reflections)
- Update: 9 years after losing 100+ pounds
- So break ups really help...
- 18 days to skindependence day 459 to 234
- Only 15ish lbs from my goal weight!
- NSV - I started focusing on my health, not my looks, and suddenly my too-small dresses fit
- Feeding a family and trying to eat better SUCKS
- First 50 lbs Milestone Reached Today!
- For those who have lost weight and kept it off, how did you change your lifestyle?
- Update: diagnosis and treatment.
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: June 30th, 2020
- What I’ve Learned going from Obese to Healthy BMI!
- After losing 32lbs I finally see it!
- Has anyone ever been motivated by watching flirting?
- Looking at MFP history and realizing why all of my previous weight loss attempts failed
- Want to weigh 110-115 but I can’t stop eating?
- Many many NSV! What I’ve noticed after 50lbs weight loss...
- I can see my collarbones
- Weighed the most I've ever weighed (160lbs) and down to (150) in 4 weeks.
- M/21/6' [180lbs to 185lbs] (5 month)
- Gone of the rails since starting therapy.
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:51 AM PDT So I've planned out a workout routine that gets more and more intense over the next month. After 30 days, it will have evolved into a full body workout with 20 minutes of running every day. I know this sounds like overkill, which is why I'm slowly building up to it, but I want to really push myself. I've also limited my caffeine intake more and more each day until I'm only allowed one cup of coffee before 12pm, as well as allowing myself a maximum of 1500 calories, with the exception of 2000 on rest days. My goal over the next 70 days is to lose 10lbs (I'm 5'5" F, 140lbs) and gain muscle. Over the past year and a half I've lost 25lbs, but when lockdown hit I plateaued and gained 5lbs back. Day one has gone well so far, and I'm hoping that with a structured plan and a weekly rest day. I'll be at my goal weight and the healthiest I've ever been in no time! [link] [comments] |
| 65lbs Lost = Insulin Resistance Reversed! Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:51 PM PDT 23 5ft SW: 175 CW: 109.8 GW: 100 So happy because I haven't been this small in 8 years😊 Also met my quarantine weight loss goal, wanted to be 110 by mid-July or by the time my state fully reopened. I started this journey to look and feel better but improving my health was also in the back of my mind. 5 years ago, I was diagnosed with insulin resistance and PCOS at 140lbs. I was advised to lose weight and the doctor (an endocrinologist) offered metformin and birth control to control these conditions because it would be "hard" to lose weight without medication. Personally, I felt that the doctor was a bit pushy about the medications and negative about the prospect of losing weight without going on any medications. But I decided to skip the medication because I didn't feel it was necessary and told the doctor I would just lose weight on my own. Well I left for college a few months after that appointment and the college lifestyle (combined with me just not caring about my weight) led to me putting on 35lbs by the middle of my senior year. At my highest weight, I was likely pre-diabetic. Being alone on campus for a winter class led me to eat out of boredom and I put on a few pounds. I had also been buying whatever I wanted and it was a bunch of junk food like ice cream and cheesecake. Seeing myself in the mirror, I hated how fat I'd become and I knew I did not want to keep getting any bigger. For the first time in my life, I made a serious effort to lose weight and I'm glad I did it on my own (through college, a semester of grad school and quarantine) because it showed me that even with insulin resistance and PCOS, the weight can still come off by cooking healthier foods at home, counting calories, working out and having discipline (you won't always feel motivated). Anything is possible when you put your mind to it. At first, my goal was to just "lose weight" because I'd never done it before. But as I started making lifestyle changes and saw the weight coming off, I started to believe I could do it. I still have PCOS and I ended up getting a hormonal IUD 3.5yrs ago to get rid of my heavy, irregular periods after I had one that that lasted for 2 months. Truly one of the best decisions I've ever made. However, I'm 99% sure I no longer have insulin resistance since I'm 30lbs under my diagnosis weight and my Acanthosis nigricans aka. "dark neck" cleared up somewhere between 140-150lbs, approximately 6 or 7 months into my lifestyle change. All it took was making true lifestyle changes vs trying to "diet". Though I can't go to an endocrinologist to take an official test right now with covid going on. Maybe it's because I'm 5ft on top of my family history, but it doesn't take much extra weight for me to develop insulin resistance so even though I was diagnosed at 140lbs, it is entirely possible that developed it at a smaller weight. I share all this because I see a lot of women use PCOS as a reason they "can't" lose weight. While it can definitely make it harder to lose weight, hard ≠ impossible. Anyone will lose weight if they are in a caloric deficit. I've also heard of a lot of doctors being a bit eager to prescribe metformin to help with insulin resistance. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking it but please don't feel like metformin is necessary for weight loss if you are insulin resistant. I know someone who has been on metformin for years for their pre-diabetes. He has only kept gaining weight because he doesn't want to commit to a lifestyle change. Metformin can absolutely help you lose weight but *only\* if you put in the work. [link] [comments] |
| Day 700: I am not an optimization problem (and other reflections) Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:23 AM PDT I've been tracking my calories for 700 days now, and, as my title says, the most important thing I've learned over the past 100 days is that my weight loss is not an optimization problem. You might remember optimization problems from your high school math classes. There's a classic one involving how to create a soda can, using the least amount of aluminum possible (to save manufacturing costs). Since the amount of soda used is a constant (12 oz, or 355ml), you have to find the dimensions of the container that will use the least amount of aluminum (and therefore be the cheapest) to produce. The 'answer' to this problem (just minimizing surface area while keeping the fluid constant) leaves you with a right circular cylinder -- which is not, in fact, what soda cans look like. Why? Well, because even though the math works out, there is more to consider when making a soda can: is it strong enough to be stacked to display in a grocery store? It is nice to hold in your hand? Is it strong and stable enough to withstand the shipping process? And so on. The same is true for weight loss: there's more to consider. It's tempting to want to tell everyone who pops in here looking for advice to optimize themselves for success: set calories to the minimum (1500 for a man, and 1200 for a woman), and just keep going until it's finished. But, just like in the soda can problem, everyone has their own unique considerations. I know I do. I'm 5'6" (167-8cm), and in the first year of my weight loss, I absolutely played with all the calculators out there. How much will I weigh in 9 weeks, if I keep losing 2 pounds a week? What will I weigh by Christmas? My next birthday? How long until it's finished? How can I minimize time while maximizing my results? How can I switch my calories around so that I get there faster? I had a lot of weight to lose, and "being done" seemed really important. That was a part of my weight loss I needed to go through, and learn from, but things have changed since then, and I'm still learning. In looking back over some of my previous 100-day-update posts, I see that last summer I was still losing a kilo almost every ten days. That has slowed down now, and is closer to a kilo around every 20 days. My weight loss graph has big red spikes when I visited my family for vacations and holidays. I took those vacations and celebrated those holidays around the same time period in the first year of my graph, and also over-indulged. But, I don't have the corresponding red spikes a year earlier, because I was heavier, my TDEE was higher, and I could absorb an extra thousand or two calories within my weekly deficit and still lose weight. My response to this year's results could have been to "optimize myself," cut my calories down to 1200 (the minimum a woman should eat), and up my exercise. Because weight loss is just math, right? Well, yes. But, it's also my real life. I'm not a math problem. I have come to realize, it doesn't matter if it's 10 days per kilo or 20 days. As early as the fall of last year, I started letting go of treating myself as an optimization problem, and realized that I had to adjust my calories, even though it would "slow things down." I had just broken into the Overweight BMI category, after spending the majority of my life in the Obese category. I was delivering the mail during day, while working through the Couch to 5k program at night, trying to stay around 1400 calories. I was doing it. But, eventually, I started waking up feeling terrible. No matter how much water I was drinking, I woke up feeling dehydrated. A few days, I woke up with symptoms of extremely low blood sugar. I was pushing myself through that discomfort, doggedly trying to hit my goals. I didn't realize it at the time, but those goals were not worth hitting. One Saturday, I woke up and got ready to go do the mail, and I just felt terrible. I had eaten my standard 400 calorie breakfast (scrambled eggs and cheese), and was drinking water, trying to gear up for the route. I looked terrible, and my wife commented on it. She asked me if I had had enough to eat. I told her I had eaten my normal breakfast, but she gently suggested that I eat a little more. I got a slice of ontbijtkoek (it's a Dutch breakfast food kind of like pumpkin bread, which I really like). I ate the slice, and started to instantly feel better. The quick-acting carbs/sugars from the bread were just what I needed to perk myself up. The first slice had made me feel so much better, I ate a second, to see if I could actually be back to feeling "good." Within a few minutes, I was. I felt completely different. I did the mail that day on 600 calories instead of 400, and was genuinely surprised how much better I felt during my whole route. For the first time in possibly my whole life, I had eaten more food not because I was bored, or just because I liked the taste of it, or because I was just mindlessly eating -- but rather, because I was checking in with myself to see what I needed. It was an amazing feeling, and one that really 'clicked' with me: this is how I want to lose the rest of my weight. Not by running a spreadsheet to optimize myself, but rather to check in with myself, and give my body what it needs. I read a book a long time ago by an author named Thich Nhat Hahn who wrote one of the lines that has helped me keep doing what I have been doing for 700 days, and will continue to do for as many days as it takes to reach (and eventually stay within) a healthy BMI. Hint: it wasn't: "run the numbers, and cut everything down to the minimum so you maximize your success in the shortest time period possible." It was, rather, you get good at what you practice. So, if you practice doing the right things, you will eventually be good at them. 1200 calories is not the amount of calories my body needs. I don't want to practice eating 1200 calories. I don't want to be good at it. I need more than 1200 calories. I'm eating closer to 1600 calories these days, which is what the TDEE calculator says my daily caloric needs will be at the weight I would like to be (if I am sedentary). I want to practice that. I want to be good at that. I want to know how to feel satisfied and fine with that. Most of the time, I do. My TDEE is around 2000 right now, and I have no plans to stop exercising. I want to keep practicing (and getting good at) eating the right amount for my body. I don't want to wake up feeling terrible. So, I don't. If I'm hungry, I eat. I try to stay somewhere between 1500-1600 calories. If I go over, I just try again the next day. This has gotten longer than I intended, but the last important thing that has become clear to me within these past 100 days, alongside of letting go of my own impulse towards optimization, is that intentionally practicing what I want to be good at, is what will keep me successful in the long term-- when I'm not trying to lose weight anymore. Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield wrote an amazing book about his life experiences, and what I have learned from him is that no matter what your goal is (whether or be an astronaut or to lose weight), you have to set yourself on a path that you enjoy. If you want to be an astronaut to go to space, well, in your whole career you might never go. If you do go, the average space flight is maybe a month, after a whole lifetime of training. So, you better make sure you are interested and passionate about everything leading up to a space flight, because that's what you will spend the majority of your time doing. I think that lesson is equally as applicable to weight loss. There might be one day when I step on the scale, and see the goal weight I'm working towards for the first time. That will be a great day, for sure. But just as being an astronaut is more than about the month you (might) spend in space, losing weight is more than the day you stand on the scale and finally see the number you want. It is all of your habits, your attitude towards yourself, and your attitude towards food. For me, continually practicing those habits and attitudes, and letting go of my desire to race myself there, has been almost as life changing as losing over 50 kilos (around 113 pounds). I know now that I'll get to my goal weight when I get there. I'm not trying to make a spreadsheet spit out favorable numbers. I'm practicing what I want to be good at, and get a little better every day. [link] [comments] |
| Update: 9 years after losing 100+ pounds Posted: 29 Jun 2020 07:28 PM PDT Hey all, It's been many years since I posted, but I've decided to come back in hopes that I can start to make a positive difference on the world. Starting weight 325, current weight 200. https://i.imgur.com/xllIJIw.jpg < Pics My journey started in February 2011. I had raised my daughter from birth to 6 years old, and she had gone on to live with her mom due to my local school system being terrible. I was alone, overweight, a smoker, and now I was depressed. The year before my mom had lost 100+ pounds through a program called food addicts. Its basically AA for fat people. Eating is an addiction that you can't quit, etc. You get a sponsor, I picked my mom obvs. She was amazing and set me on the right path. In 6 months I dropped to my lowest weight of 175 pounds. I lost a pound a day during that time. Probably not the absolute healthiest way to go, but here we are. So How did I lose the weight? Structure meal plans - I weighed and measured everything I ate. I reported it to my sponsor / accountability partner / mom. Breakfast was 2 eggs, grits, butter. Lunch and dinner was 6 oz chicken, 12 oz veggies. After dinner I would have a piece of fruit. - Thats it. No cheat days, nothing fancy. No counting carbs or protein. Just clean eating. I didn't have any rice, potato, wheat, or corn while losing. For exercise I did stronglifts for a few years, and just kinda piddled around at the gym. I have a little home gym now. I also rode my bike everywhere, and a lot. I'm sure that helped. Since then I've been up and I've been down of course. I tried bulking and got up to 230. I'm currently right at 200 and trying to get down to 190. One of my goals is to get down again so I can get all the extra skin off. Fun subject there.... moving on. In the 9 years since I've lost the weight I've consistently not eaten terrible food terribly often. For the first 5 years I had no carby food at all. Now I allow myself cake and cookies as a treat, and the occasional Mexican night. I still bike to work, but I don't bike 20 miles a day after work. I still weigh my food and still talk to my mom about food fairly often. I'm approaching 40 now, and I've hurt my back and healed a few times. I had a bad bike crash and torn a few muscles here and there. I'm definitely using my body for all its worth! Benefits of the weight loss - I can play with my kids, I can move and run and go! I can still pick up heavy stuff. I feel a bit better. I was pretty happy before the weight loss, I am just happier now. Best perk of all, As soon as I lost all that weight I met my wife. Funny how that works when you start caring about yourself other people care about you too. Well I hope my story has helped you. I'll be around to answer questions and I'd love your kind feedback. I can't say to everyone to do what I've done, but hey, it worked for me. I wish you all the success in the world. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:41 PM PDT So while I might be in total complete breakdown mode because I have borderline personality disorder and my relationship of 5 years has ended. But at least it kind of kicked my motivation to get back to my old weight. Its only been a month, maybe month and a half and Ive lost at least 20 pounds. I'm not sure the exact amount because i didn't weigh myself immediately when I started. But comparing pictures just makes me so happy. I look back to what I looked like and im not sucking out or anything I was so bloated and was eating fast food like 4 times a day to feel like a person but it was actually making me feel so so far from that. Ive never shared pictures like this before but i dont really have friends so i wanna tell someone :) (Ive never posted before idk fully how to add pics) Adding another picture here (https://imgur.com/a/9CfEVW6) Eta: when i finally weighed myself i was 298 and now today i was 276. [link] [comments] |
| 18 days to skindependence day 459 to 234 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 07:44 PM PDT Hi, first time poster. In February 2019 I had a sleeve gastrectomy after decades struggling with my weight. My max weight was 459 pounds, 18 months ago when I had surgery it was 406. This morning I hot back to my lowest recorded weight of 234 pounds. In 18 days I am scheduled for a FDL abdominoplasty at Vanderbilt University Hospital. I'm very fortunate that I was able to get everything covered by health insurance. Today, an early shift to myself showed up in the form of my very first LBD, a bodycon Torrid dress from their Marvel Collection. I feel like I'm going to be a lady killer in this thing post-OP. The link goes to my high weight photo and current ones including the dress and some shots of the skin. http://imgur.com/a/dazAhAQ [link] [comments] |
| Only 15ish lbs from my goal weight! Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:03 AM PDT I guess I just wanted a place to share. I've been lurking this sub since I started this weight loss journey but never posted. I used to be almost 210lbs this time last year, lost almost 20lbs, then gained another 10lbs back due to stress eating again. Then this January I decided to really try and get at it again, starting at close to 200lbs roughly. Today I am 167lbs and have gone down 3 sizes in jeans and 2 in dress pants. I can walk for miles and I've started biking. I never thought my goal of 150lbs would be reachable, but now it is! I've started getting weight predictions in the 150s on MyFitnessPal. It feels so close!! If I really feel up to it I may try for 135lb eventually but I'm still saying 150 is my goal for right now, though I'd still be overweight even at 150 since I'm only 5'1. But regardless I'm still so proud of myself! You guys all can do it! 🥰 [link] [comments] |
| NSV - I started focusing on my health, not my looks, and suddenly my too-small dresses fit Posted: 29 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT Hi all! I just wanted to share an NSV that surprised me today. Like many of you, I've tried and failed many times to lose the weight that has piled on over the years. After college, I started gaining a steady 4 lbs/year due to an office job and no exercise + all the delivery I could order, until I was ~40+ heavier and just entering obesity territory. As a 5'1" shorty, it was much more noticeable on me than most, and I just weighed myself last month at 166, my heaviest ever. I liked to tell myself that I carried my weight well, and since I could still fit into petite sizes, smalls, and mediums (despite hugging and puffing over the zippers and sometimes feeling like 10lbs of potatoes in a 5lb sack), I told myself it was fine, I was just "thicc." So, I got a big promotion last summer and ordered myself a bunch of size 6 Anthropologie dresses as a treat. Y'all, I could not fit into a single one: some I couldn't even shimmy up my hips, and none came even close to buttoning or zipping. I was so ashamed, I didn't even return them, I just hid them in my closet. Recently, I decided to make a change: instead of focusing on weight loss for my figure and good looks (still a +, tho), I decided to do it for my health. I wanted to become strong again, I wanted to lower my resting HR and be able to do crow pose in Yoga again. I bought myself a good mat, booted up Yoga with Adriene and Fightmaster Yoga HIIT on YouTube, and did two every day, without excuses. I also downloaded My Fitness Pal and shot for 1,300 cal a day, since I was doing about an hour of cardio and strength work + 10,000 steps a day. Yesterday, after one month, I finally did it: I was able to hold an unmodified crow pose with my feet balanced off the floor for around 5 seconds! I was so proud of myself that I almost cried. This morning, I pulled out one of those old, untouched dresses from the "shame corner" in my closet on a whim, and dear reader: it not only shimmied up my thighs but zipped up with room to spare. It FIT. And so did the other two. I have a serious history of disordered eating, so most of my progress will be determined by fitness and clothes fit goals. I can't tell you the exact poundage I lost, or the macros I eat (lots of shirataki noodles tho). But I can tell you how absolutely radiant I felt as sweat poured off my brow and my arms shook like reeds while I lifted up my strong, deserving body for 5 seconds last night in bakasana. And I can tell you how worth it all the hard work was, and how worth it all the hard work will be to come. [link] [comments] |
| Feeding a family and trying to eat better SUCKS Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:37 AM PDT I'm a stay at home mom, I'm solely responsible for the food and meals of the family. My kids hate everything that isnt 100% American. My husband hate anything that's mixed together, or food that tastes like other food (for example, when you slow cook a roast with vegetables and the veggies taste meaty). I'm stuck with goddamn pizza, burgers, spaghetti, tacos, chicken tenders and maybe sometimes steak or salmon (which the kids bitch about every. Damn. Time.) I want so much to eat better. But it's so hard when every meal is not just a fight with yourself, but it's a fight with the entire family. I want to eat more ethnic foods. I want to explore my healthy options. I love seafood. I love trying new flavors and herbs and spices. But I just feel 100% fucked over and so, so tired of the fight... [link] [comments] |
| First 50 lbs Milestone Reached Today! Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:59 PM PDT Today marks my first big milestone! I have officially lost 50 lbs! I started out my journey back in February. I went to the doctor, and when they weighed me, I was shocked to realize I had hit 375. It was the biggest I had ever been. I've spent my whole life fat. Most of my adult life was spent sitting at 350 or just about. That additional 25 pounds was really showing, in my clothes and my energy. With the help of my best friend (now boyfriend), I started working towards getting to a healthy weight for the first time in my life. The first few months had a lot of stumbles, especially trying to push myself exercise-wise too hard and hurting myself. I also ended up in the hospital (it was related to a medication I was taking, not the lifestyle change luckily). That put me on hold for a month while I recovered. As soon as I was able to, I was back up, taking daily walks and cutting my calories down to 1500 a day. I was back on track, and the pounds started to melt off. I was fitting in clothes that hadn't fit in years, feeling more energized, and becoming more flexible. As of right now, my waist is starting to appear and my jeans no longer give me a huge muffin top. I was able to wear a 2x again, in a brand that I had only been able to fit in 4x for years. I should be under 300 by my birthday in September. My goal is 150, or somewhere about there. I know it gets harder as you get smaller, but I've already gotten this far. This community has helped me a lot. My boyfriend and I look through it every week and read the posts together, and it's given me so much hope and motivation. Thank you to everyone here and your stories. Things are only looking up! [link] [comments] |
| For those who have lost weight and kept it off, how did you change your lifestyle? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:45 PM PDT Did you incorporate healthy grocery shopping into your weekly ritual? Or a morning/nighttime walk into a daily routine? How did you replace or give up junk food? Did you learn moderation? (HOW?) I've lost weight before and each time my terrible eating habits come back. My fiancé and I are trying to lose weight right now and have a nice routine of going to Sprouts Wednesday, taking long walks together, and working out separately. But I want to really be proactive on making these LIFESTYLE changes - we both have terrible relationships with food and body image and if we have kids, I want them to have a better relationship with food and health. [link] [comments] |
| Update: diagnosis and treatment. Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:14 PM PDT I posted here about a month ago to say that I was going to get help - it was late at night at the time, not long after a binge, and I was crying because I felt so out of control. Nothing else was working, and all I knew at the time was that I couldn't fix my behaviors by myself. Well, I'm glad I did. I had my appointment last week and they told me that I had developed an insulin resistance. If I had just let myself struggle in silence I could have very well become prediabetic, or developed type II. Now I'm responsible for making sure that doesn't happen, but I don't have to do it alone. I choose a clinic that treats eating disorders - hell, they treated me for anorexia when I was 12 - and it's been amazing to have a team come together to help me with problems that I deemed too shameful, to the point where I didn't even want to go outside for a while. It's helped me validate and humanize myself to know that this is a real problem worth treating. This week I've been following the meal plan my dietitian gave me as much to the letter as possible - there's a few things I won't be able to get until grocery shopping day this week. :p I also just got off the phone with their mental health specialist, who recommended me for a partial hospitalization program followed by intensive outpatient. I guess I'm still a bit in shock, because even though I knew it was bad, I didn't expect anyone else to... agree with me, I guess. The reason I'm sharing this, in addition to processing it and sharing my anxieties with this diagnosis and going into treatment, is to say that the things that we struggle with aren't ugly or shameful or character flaws. They're illnesses just like anything else, and it's okay to reach out and ask for medical help with that illness. Sometimes it's the responsible thing you HAVE to do. Anyway, TLDR; I'm insulin resistant and (most likely) returning to mental health treatment for my eating issues for the first time in years. It's scary but validating to treat this with the seriousness it deserves. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: June 30th, 2020 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:45 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] |
| What I’ve Learned going from Obese to Healthy BMI! Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:53 PM PDT Hi everyone! 23F, Long time lurker, first time poster...you know the drill. Today I hit a major milestone - I am within the "healthy" BMI range. I know BMI isn't the best marker of heath and I've still got a good ways to go to get to my GW but this is about the halfway mark for me. It's especially special to me because not only did I stop going to the gym because of COVID but I also broke my leg while hiking and have been on crutches and pretty much unable to do anything. I was super crushed when this all happened and I stopped counting calories, and just eating whatever I wanted because what the hell. I was destined to get fat anyway. Except I didn't. I didn't realize it but all of the lessons I'd learned from doing months of daily workouts, strict Keto, CICO and intermittent fasting worked. I'm down 18 pounds since January. I weighed about 176 when I broke my leg beginning of June (SW: 186, CW: 168 with my cast). I sat down to think about how the hell I managed to pull off losing 8 lbs without doing anything and came up with a few things.
I know none of this is new info, but just thought I'd share to encourage anyone out there that CICO is truly the only thing that matters. Keto, IF, Paleo, whatever diet you want can help, but at the end of the day it's all about a deficit. You can do it! [link] [comments] |
| After losing 32lbs I finally see it! Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:24 AM PDT Hi guys! I'm 28F 5'5 SW:240 CW:208 and I've posted in here a few weeks ago when I had 15lbs to ONDERland and now I'm only 8 away. For about a month now my coworkers have been telling me how loose my clothes are and honestly I didn't even see it until yesterday. I finally saw and felt how loose my clothes actually are. So I dig into my closet to find all the clothes that have been too tight or just plain didn't fit and holy shit not only do they fit but some are actually loose on me! I was feeling discouraged a little by not seeing it or feeling it, but now I am and am on cloud 9. This is the lowest weight I have been in probably 6-7 years. Then I realized the shorts I bought last year don't fit and aren't flattering anymore and with changing rooms being closed around me because of Covid I didn't want to buy anything I couldn't try on. However I went to target and saw some cute yellow shorts and just figured I'll buy a size down than normal and see what happens, get home and put them on and they fit! Thanks to this sub and many others I follow I have stuck with my diet and exercise since March from just reading everyone's success stories so maybe this will help someone out like others have for me 💕 [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone ever been motivated by watching flirting? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:54 AM PDT I just recently went on 2 different camping trips. Both were in beautiful locations right on the lake. Each time, I ended going with a small group, and didn't know all of the people there. The first trip, I watched the entire group do an evening swim in the lake (I purposefully "forgot" my bikini as I just felt so embarrassed and uncomfortable to wear it in front of strangers). I remember standing on the shore and just watching them all hangout in the lake laughing, splashing....and watching the guys and girls flirt and play in the water. I literally had no reason to be standing there on the shore, and caused my own mental anguish. But standing there I vowed to never ever be that "fat" friend who is too ashamed to swim again, and gets to miss out on the fun/flirting. This same trip, I watched one of the guys who I didn't know spend the entire trip flirting with one of my good friends. I was so happy for her, but longed for the attention as I havn't been hit on by a single guy in well over a year. What killed me was him and I had more in common and would have probably had some wonderful conversations, but he chose to focus most of his attention on getting to know her (I am not speaking out of jealousy, just pointing out the fact that some people may miss making connections because they don't want to reach out for vain reasons). The second trip, I also watched as the girls freely and carelessly walked around in their bikinis, played in the water, and enjoyed flirting with the guys. Again, everyone was really nice to me, but none of the guys were interested in flirting. It may sound petty....as someone who was once healthy, fit, and looked awesome in a bikini, I know what it feels like to have men (or women, whoever) want to talk to you and get to know you because you look great. Maybe that's not the ONLY attention you want to get, but it sure feels good, and I really miss it. [link] [comments] |
| Looking at MFP history and realizing why all of my previous weight loss attempts failed Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:34 AM PDT I've been using MFP on and off (emphasis on off) to log calories for about 6 years. Every once in a while I'd start a "diet" (ie cutting calories), I'd stick with for a week or so then quit or have a ton of cheat days. I always felt like calorie cutting was sooo restrictive and I never got to eat very much. Well, I looked at some logs from 3+ years ago and I completely realize why. I was eating the same kind of junk as always (pizza, burgers, breads, fries, beer, ice cream), but in tiny quantities or eating nothing for breakfast/lunch then all my calorie budget at dinner. No wonder I never could keep it up for long. Now I've been on a 1200 calorie diet for almost a month and it's working! I'm eating more protein and filling foods (egg, chicken, fish, nuts). I'm eating actual meals (who was I kidding ever calling a Starbucks Frappuccino "breakfast?") and I still have budget for an occasional beer or ice cream. It's so much easier and I don't feel hungry. I think this time I've made the mindset changes that are going to help me be successful long term. :) [link] [comments] |
| Want to weigh 110-115 but I can’t stop eating? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 06:09 PM PDT I struggle very badly with my stomach and how I look. I'm not overweight, but I really hate my stomach pudge and I have always felt really insecure about it. I weigh about 128 and I am 5'3. I haven't gained or lost any weight in years, no matter what I've eaten. However, lately I just have been thinking about it more and more and how I want to look different but I'm so addicted to food that I can't stop eating. I see all these females my age with flat toned stomachs and I want one, but I also want food. Any advice on coming to accept the way I look or losing the weight I want to lose? I exercised/worked out from home during covid for about 2 months and then stopped and never saw any progress with my stomach the entire time, even with vigorous workouts. [link] [comments] |
| Many many NSV! What I’ve noticed after 50lbs weight loss... Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:04 AM PDT I'm making this post because when I first started my weight loss journey I loved reading through this subreddit and seeing all the positive things that weight loss had brought to people's lives - it gave me something to look forward to and push me to my goals!
So many small things that combine to eventually make you realise all that work is worth it. This is not me saying that you need to lose weight to be happy (and it's a shame society isn't more accepting of heavier people) but it's certainly come with some perks for me. (Just for background: 50lbs lost over about 18months using CICO and running a lot, SW:208lbs CW:158lbs GW:140lbs F/21/5'7") Let me know if you have questions or have had similar experiences. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 02:22 PM PDT 15 F, 201 lbs, 5'0 (previously 214) I thought it would take a lot more pounds to actually see my bones. Almost every week my family comments on how much weight I lost and I never believed them. I guess I just saw my overall body and not the little areas they have been noticing, so I just shrugged their compliments off, until one day I woke up and looked in the bathroom mirror, and I saw these long bumps being flexed in the mirror whenever I moved my arms. I didn't think calorie counting would work so well and fast for me, so I was appalled. I thought, since I'm on the shorter side, I would have to lose a lot more to even see a glimpse of them. I guess the last two years of working out but eating whatever I want and still expecting weight loss kind of clouded my expectations. That was about a week ago. Every so often I'll catch them in the mirror in the right lighting. Now? My collarbones are all I can notice every time I look in the mirror. I can't ignore them even if I tried. Honestly I couldn't imagine such a early and proud milestone. [link] [comments] |
| Weighed the most I've ever weighed (160lbs) and down to (150) in 4 weeks. Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:43 PM PDT I am 5'8 and normally would weight around 140-145 but the past three years I really let myself go. For the first year I was in a toxic relationship and was eating mostly fast food and then the last two years I didn't move what so ever in regards to exercise. I basically just sat at my desk working all day every day. I am turning 26 in 2 weeks and decided why not go back to being in the best shape I was of my life (like I was 3 years ago). I normally would skate 3 hours a day every day minimum on top of walking 5-7 miles. I could eat anything and it wouldn't affect my weight. So for the past 4 weeks, I've cut out most alcohol, as I was drinking a six pack every few days due to being unemployed, counting calories (aim for 1200 a day), skating 1 hour, and walking between 3-7 miles. Just a few more pounds to go to hit my target weight of 147/8! Here's some progress pics: https://imgur.com/a/3h0x2gA [link] [comments] |
| M/21/6' [180lbs to 185lbs] (5 month) Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:26 AM PDT Progress pics: So the rona hit and i couldn't go to the gym for a loooong time. This made cutting a lot harder. I gained weight but as you can see got back to my former fat level. Atm I'm going with 5x5 stronglift but only isolated movements because of a foot injury which prevents me from doing compounds. Im trying to hit the gym at least 3 times a week with a full body workout each time. While in lockdown I managed to loose a few more pounds but at one point I was like "fuck it". So I gained about 5 kg. Now I'm not as strict as before (1600cals a day) but trying to stay below 2000 each day with intermittent fasting. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Edit: I'm on mobile so sorry for the format. [link] [comments] |
| Gone of the rails since starting therapy. Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:08 AM PDT So I started CBT 3 weeks ago. Up until that point I was doing great, had lost 20lbs, was walking and doing some workouts, feeling good. But now I can't stop binging. The day or 2 after my sessions are worst. But most days I'll start of well, tracking everything. But then I lose all control in the evenings. I have regained about 5lbs. Does anybody have some words of advice? I've never really comfort eaten before. I just liked to eat a lot. My portion sizes have crept back up and I just feel gross. Now I can feel myself wanting something carby or salty and comforting as soon as i finish my phone session. Brains are tricky. How do i get back in the groove? [link] [comments] |
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