Weight loss: [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 1. SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED!!! |
- [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 1. SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED!!!
- My partner and I have lost 100 lbs!
- It's Been 6 Months Since I Started My Weight Loss Journey, and I've Lost 90 lbs!
- I Lost 100 Pounds in 1.5 Years
- Healthcare providers who assume anybody who is trying to lose weight must be eating unhealthy
- I had my photo taken for the first time in ages - Cereal Girl is slipping away and I like it.
- Weird Tips.
- A change in mindset that just helped me out, maybe it can help someone else who is just starting out their journey too. (:
- weight loss takes a while
- 17 lbs down from january 2020! my story + what helped me + thoughts on goals/maintenance
- I made a good food choice without even thinking about it!
- 7 years of weight tracking
- as someone who's never been active a day in their life and can't choose their food....how do i ease into things? is there even any hope for me? ;n;
- I've lost 53lbs in 4 months and I feel better then ever about myself.
- Read the labels carefully
- How do you deal with feeling ashamed and stupid when you start working out?
- Obese young male with no idea how to start losing weight
- Really struggling right now. Taking a much needed break.
- Joining Reddit to kickstart my weightless/health journey
- My boyfriend is unkind when I overeat
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 17
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 18 July 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Came across this youtube video about the science behind willpower and decision making that I though a lot of people here would find interesting
- The positive side of this pandemic: A cake day story
- [Q&A] Overwhelmed- can you help?
| [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 1. SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED!!! Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:46 AM PDT |
| My partner and I have lost 100 lbs! Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:03 AM PDT After attending a wedding in Saint Thomas, my partner and I saw this photo of ourselves. Horrified with how we looked (and how we felt the entire time we were there), we decided it was time to make a change. We've been on a CICO diet for the past 7 months and lost 100 lbs so far! We are both within about 5 lbs or so of our goal but I thought the 100 pound accomplishment was neat enough to brag about. Thanks to everyone here for your encouraging content and stories. It has really helped us through the weight loss journey, and will continue to help us on the next step, maintaining the weight! THE DIET NEVER ENDS! Here is a comparison of the original photo next to an updated photo.. Before you ask, I did end up ironing the tie after I saw this photo. I didn't realize how horrible it looked. [link] [comments] |
| It's Been 6 Months Since I Started My Weight Loss Journey, and I've Lost 90 lbs! Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:36 AM PDT F23 5'8 SW: 325 CW 235 GW 160 (I have PCOS as well!) I made this alt account with the cheeky name in January (started my journey 1/17/20) and it's strange how time has flown. In January I was seriously depressed, had symptoms of pre-diabetes/diabetes from the thick grey skin on my feet, itchy extremities such as the ankles, some acanthosis nigricans, frequent stinky urination, and constant exhaustion. My feet and back hurt when I washed the dishes for a few minutes. When I weighed in on the 17th, I saw exactly 325.0 lbs on the scale I felt the perfectness of the number was a call to action to start. So yes, it was imperative to reverse potential diabetes and I feel that was what helped me really focus. Before you ask about progress pics, I do have a starting one. BUT, the screen of my phone (iPhone) broke a few months ago. The phone works, but the screen doesn't, so I don't know if I can get my starting pics off of it unless I fix it (have a new phone) and since I don't think I backed photos up. If you have any tips, do let me know. I probably will just have to fix the phone. Then when COVID hit, I got even more serious. I live in the Northeast US which had a lot of cases. When it was surging, I was waking up at 6 am and going for 2 hour walks before most people got up. It felt like everyday would be the last day I could go out (fearing a total shutdown) so it focused me even more for the next couple months. I was also really focused on eating healthy despite everything (froze meat, eggs, cheese, yogurt, fruit, frozen vegetables). I knew the risks of obesity and COVID and I was laser focused to get the weight off due to the increase mortality rates for morbidly obese people like me. But I want to remark it's impossible to be perfect and it's something that ended up costing me a lot of time looking back. I have come to realize I struggle with binge eating. I am not really a spontaneous overeater and don't really have trouble with portion control, but I crave the out of control feeling of binges. I actually had two cheat days that turned into a 3 week binge and a 3.5 week binge (second binge was definitely a oh, you've bounced back from a 3 week binge fast, you can keep going). That's 6.5 weeks out of these 6 months + the collective 2.5 weeks it took me to re-lose the weight. That's when I realized being perfect rarely ever works out. Adding more balance has really helped me :) But yeah, I have nobody I want to share this with. I'm extremely private and haven't told my friends about it. Would rather love to surprise them in person when all this blows over. And I don't talk to my mother about my weight since she can be overbearing and I just love having this journey be for me completely. I am not sure I will tell anybody that I've lost 165 lbs maybe except doctors. Before I get asked a million times what I do. I just do a low carb diet with walking especially to help my PCOS. I learned about the whole blood sugar theory/insulin before keto became mainstream. I focus on whole foods that are minimally process and low sugar. That's it. I generally eat two meals a day with no snacks so I mostly fall into an IF window. But don't see my diet as an IF thing. Identifying with strict diets doesn't help me. I started with a goal at around 100g of carbs and have slowly wound my down intuitively. In the beginning, ate three meals a day and snacks if I was hungry. As my appetite mellowed out, I'm down to two meals. I don't track calories or macros anymore since I don't like tracking and it's kind of a disordered "race to the bottom kind of thing." I probably am somewhere near keto (have done it in the past semi-successfully, but hate the GI issues), but I don't particularly care to follow it (love 2% greek yogurt and dried cranberries too much) and it's not sustainable for ME. In the first month I didn't do any exercise, then started walking like 20-30 mins, and upped it to 2 hours a day. I also do a lot of walking, pacing, dancing in my house which can sometimes amount to 10,000+ steps. This is either by itself if I don't go out to walk or much less in addition to the two hours outside I do . I'd recommend if you are starting out, start gradually. I think that's a huge reason why this time feels so good. In the past it would be New Years and I'd bust my ass at the gym and then burn out. While being super strict with a diet. This time I took it slow, and somehow it's been fast. I like to tell people enjoy the initial water weight woosh. It will come off even if you don't feel you are going crazy. I don't want to make this post too long, but maybe later I'll share some tips at 100 lbs lost or something. It's crazy that I could be in the 220s by the end of the month. But yeah, I just wanted to celebrate. I still have a chunk of weight to go (75 lbs), but I'm still shocked about how I was able to tackle a huge chunk of it. If there was any doubt that I can lose the next 75 lbs, well, I've already done it! [link] [comments] |
| I Lost 100 Pounds in 1.5 Years Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:39 PM PDT I was just replying to a different post when I clued in on having completely not noticed the wildest milestone yet. End of January of 2019, the doctor weighed me at 276 pounds. This morning, the scale said 176. 100 freaking pounds! That's objectively a lot of pounds. Hell after 4 months of gym shut down, I can't even lift that anymore. But also that puts me at 18 year old me's weight. Like time travel. I don't exercise much, tbh. I was going to the gym twice a week for like a year but when it closed I basically did nothing. I can't exercise at home, the mental block is too huge. But still, despite that, I've continued dropping roughly 1 lb per week these last few months. Sort of. I lost nothing at all in June, plateauing for 5 to 6 weeks. But this week I suddenly started dropping half a pound a day and now it's all averaged out. Bodies are weird like that. I don't eat "healthy." I don't pay attention to my macros. I eat chocolate every day and fast food or pizza every couple weeks. I do watch my nutrition to make sure I'm getting enough vitamins at least. I eat 1400-1500 calories a day. I am living breathing proof that calorie is king. My goal is 150. I'm practically there. Maybe I'll go a little further, but I never wanted to be skinny, just healthy. If my lazy, chocoholic ass can do this. I really believe anyone can. [link] [comments] |
| Healthcare providers who assume anybody who is trying to lose weight must be eating unhealthy Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:24 AM PDT I just needed to vent. So I went to my annual checkup the other day. I'm not fat but I am trying to lose a few lbs to put me solidly inside my normal weight ranger rather than just below the cutoff for overweight and I told this to my doctor. He proceeded to inquire about how I'm achieving this which seemed fair enough initially... Him: Oh really? Great! What does your diet look like? Me: Well I'm eating oatmeal for bre- Him: We tend to steer people away from oatmeal because it has so many added sugars in it. Me: Oh no, I don't eat the prepackaged stuff ever. I make my own. Him: Well you still need to be careful with the added sugars and — Me (slightly direct at this point): I don't add sugar. It's just oats, half a banana, and 1/2 a cup of blueberries. We never got beyond the oatmeal before moving on to medical things. Sigh. I guess anybody who is trying to lose weight must be dumping a bucket of sugar in everything they eat? It just seems so bizarre that he'd fixate on prepackaged foods and added sugar when I never indicated I was eating prepackaged, sugar laden food. [link] [comments] |
| I had my photo taken for the first time in ages - Cereal Girl is slipping away and I like it. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:30 PM PDT So today would have been my Graduation Ceremony. Celebrating three years of hard work. But with COVID...it wasn't exactly the day everyone had been hoping for. However, I am extremely fortunate to work with a bunch of amazing ladies who, for the last 6 weeks have been planning a surprise Graduation party for me at work. I feel so humbled and flattered that they wanted to do this for me. I do my job just like anybody else and I don't expect anything in return. But for them to say they appreciate me and the work I do, it feels good. During the party, somebody took my picture. I haaaaate having my picture taken. No angle is right. I never look good and I avoid it all costs. But I looked at it afterwards. I loved it. The person smiling back at me looked genuinely happy. And I fell in love with her. I honestly can't believe this person is me. I'm only a stone down but already so much is changing. I can't wait to see what happens next :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:20 PM PDT So, I've been following this sub pretty closely the past two months and it's absolutely been a huge help and inspiration when losing weight. But, I have to say, some of the conventional tips didn't help me at all so I wanted to make a post laying down some of mine that might help a subset of people.
I'm only 20 pounds down or so but wanted to share in the hopes it might inspire more bleak and gloomy folks like myself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:12 PM PDT I am about a month and a half into my weight loss journey and have lost 14ish pounds. I started at 209 and now I am 195ish. I've been looking in the mirror and not seeing much of a difference, and you guys know how it goes... that cycle of negative thinking that starts with "I have so much more to do" "this is going to take so long" "what if I can't keep this up?" "what if I fall back into old habits?" Then I thought to myself: "Okay... so I lost 14 pounds, and with the way I was eating it definitely could have gone the other way... instead of sitting at 195 right now I could have definitely gotten up to 223." Just seeing how much of a difference 223 is from 195 helped me feel better. Hopefully that makes sense! So if you ever feel like you're not as far along as you wish you were, just look at what you've accomplished because it easily could have gone the other way and even just starting and deciding to get control over your health is amazing within itself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:38 AM PDT just need to vent/ rant. it took me 100 days to go from 185 lbs to 177 lbs. i got so discouraged because i see people losing that amount of weight in a month or two while it took me 3. i can partially blame my thyroid issue for this but i know i messed up with my eating habits. i work out almost every day 30-60 min but i don't always eat the best. i also lost the first 5lbs so quickly that i think i'm still holding onto that and thinking my whole journey is going to be like that. i'm only 5 months into this weight loss and i want to keep going. i have a goal in mind to get down to 130lbs and i will reach that. it will take me a long time, i know that now. i seem to have broken my plateau from 180 so i hope that this continues! i got a stationary bike and doing an hour on that every day, 15 miles. it's a nice break from all the youtube workouts i've been doing. [first picture is from october at around 200lbs, second is from today, third is 185 in april i didn't start my weight loss journey until end of february/beginning of march but that first photo really shows how far i've come. anyways, sorry this was all over the place but i just needed to vent and this sub is such a supportive place! [link] [comments] |
| 17 lbs down from january 2020! my story + what helped me + thoughts on goals/maintenance Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:27 PM PDT firstly, thank you to everyone on this sub. i've learned so much from reading everyone's advice and hacks and personal journeys, and i want to contribute in my own way as well. here are my stats: i am 5'3", started at about 130-132 lbs, and am currently at 113. my goal weight was/is 110, but i'll be maintaining for the next few months for reasons i'll detail below. my storylike most people, i put on weight throughout uni. the freshman 15 didn't happen to me in one year, but more so over the course of 4 years. at 130 lbs, i got a bit of a wakeup call when my doctor told me that if i kept putting on weight, i'd be more susceptible to developing diabetes based on my family history and other factors. i also just felt very unfit (couldn't run a mile without stopping) and i didn't feel comfortable in my clothes. my new year's resolution was to drop the weight. i decided that i'd just stick to CICO to do so. i also increased my cardio by starting to run/walk about 3-4 times a week, and taking exercise classes with my friends. i ate about 1200-1500 calories a day. from january to march, this worked out pretty well and i lost about 10 lbs. quarantine helped out with weight loss in the sense that i had a lot more free time to plan my meals and to exercise. at my peak, i could run 2 miles without stopping, which i was really proud of! when the summer heat started coming in, though, i started to exercise less. this is where i started to get into dangerous territory. because i wasn't running anymore, i adjusted my calories accordingly. burning less meant that i'd have to eat less. i think i overestimated my food's calories too much. i dropped 7 lbs in two months from may to june, but i also lost my period. i felt perfectly fine otherwise, but i'd never missed a period before. i dived into research and i figured that i had probably had exercise-induced or hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA). not having a period might seem convenient at first, but there are serious side effects like osteoporosis and infertility. most people with HA have probably heard of the book "no period, no what?", where the biggest takeaway is to eat more and move less. specifically, go "all-in" and eat 2500+ calories a day until three normal cycles occur. i confess that i was/still am scared of this. i didn't want to undo all of the work i'd done. although most people with HA advise against this, i decided to shift into maintenance mode instead, eating about 1500-1600 calories everyday, and stopping all exercise. i also added more fats into every meal (mostly cheese, nuts, and ice cream!) at the end of the day, i think i've still accomplished what i was striving towards, even if i'm not at the exact number i set out towards. i can't believe how well my clothes fit and overall how my frame and face look more healthy and not so puffy. what helped me
thoughts on goals/maintenancei'm writing this post because i got my period back. :) i think i'm going to stick to maintenance calories for the next few months, until my cycle proves that it's sorted itself out. (i acknowledge that me being afraid of weight gain is a cause for concern, and i am working on being okay with putting on weight for the sake of my period.) i'm not sure if i'll have to eat more to get my body back on track. if not, i might try to cut down to a hopefully more sustainable and moderate 1300-1400 a day to very slowly shed off the last few lbs once i've had two more periods. my goal of 110 lbs is a little arbitrary, but i'm the type of person that once they set a goal - wants to hit it, even if it takes longer than i'd thought. in general, maintenance is pretty fun! i love having an extra biscuit with my coffee, or having an extra snack in the middle of the afternoon. it was mentally hard at first, but i learned to trust the process after seeing that the scale stayed consistent. i'm keeping the healthy habits i've learned in the weight loss stage while adding in a few more fun treats. if you're still reading, thank you for making it this far. i hope this was helpful/encouraging in some way. i'd love to hear about other people's experiences with weight loss and their period if there's anyone out there that has a similar story. i'm also open to any advice about maintenance and keeping a healthy mindset! [link] [comments] |
| I made a good food choice without even thinking about it! Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:44 PM PDT I've been counting calories along with using a stationary bike to lose weight, but also to be more mindful about what I'm putting into my body. Today I made my own soup and ate a full bowl, but I wanted a little more (since it was only 200 calories). I decided to make a "sandwich" with no bread just salami and cheese. And instead I just omitted the cheese and thought to myself 'I'm making cheeseburgers for dinner I'll just wait to have cheese' and I did! I didn't feel bad about not being "able" to eat the cheese, all I feel is proud that I'm learning to make good decisions. I could not have done this without counting calories. I understand it's not for everyone but it's working so well for me - I only started 2 weeks ago. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:47 PM PDT https://i.imgur.com/1aKw0Sy.jpg TLDT; get your mental health right first then focus on the weight loss. 7 years of weight tracking and I am finally found something that works for me. Prozac. Okay, before you go off, Prozac is not a weight loss drug. But after suffering from depression and anxiety for over ten years, I went to the doctor. I discussed my anxiety (and the occasional panic attack) and depression, he prescribed Prozac. I feel like myself again. Which has enabled me to be focused on the goals I set for myself, and weight loss being a major goal. My highest weight was 333lbs, about a month later I am 313 lbs. combination of CICO and OMAD. 20 lbs down 80 more to go! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:18 AM PDT i'm sorry if i'm breaking any rules by making a "what do i do" post... i'm sure theres millions of these but i figured i'd be typing too much to put in the q&a thread. backstory: i've been depressed my entire life. i've always hated my body and everything about it. (F, 5'3, 170 as of a year and some change ago) just seeing things about weight loss would trigger my depression and self hatred so i couldnt even think about trying to get better. and even if it didnt, i wouldn't have enough energy or motivation to do anything anyway. i'm doing better now. depression has risen a bit since quarantine started but my self imagi e has improved a lot the past year. getting a boyfriend helped a lot. he loves my chubby body. while he likes my body which has done wonders for my self image, and i kinda like being a little squishy and find it cute, i still want to lose a little bit. not all of it, i just dont want a belly that protrudes this much. now that I like myself a little more i can safely say that i want to do this for myself, and not as a desperate attempt to get people to like me. i have 2 problems though
is there like...any hope for me? what can i do in the safety of my bedroom? i'm still nervous about people seeing my exercise so i dont know if i can go out and run. i probably wouldnt get very far anyway without feeling like i cant breathe. i just have no idea where to start. theres too many websites and forums and sources about losing weight and I'm so overwhelmed... (a lot which i assume arent right or safe... i kept getting recommended intermittent fasting but it seemed to close to an eating disorder for me to be comfortable with) again i'm sorry if i'm breaking any rules and i'll delete the post right away. i'm just very overwhelmed and i don't know where to start. edit: ah apparently diet is like 80% of the journey and i dont have control over that so i guess i'm stuck :( [link] [comments] |
| I've lost 53lbs in 4 months and I feel better then ever about myself. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:43 PM PDT Early 20s/Male/Fairly Tall. SW: 357lbs. CW: 304lbs. GW: 240lbs. I've been a chubby kid for as long as I could remember and being active, or trying to be, never worked. I had an abusive childhood and used food as a crutch forever. When I got older I made excuses because my mom was fat too that it just ran in the family and I would always be like that. I hate myself, I had/have low self esteem partly because of it and hated eating at restaurants because I always felt like people were looking at me and judging. I started this year determined to be better. I wasn't at my worst, that was when I was wearing 4XLT shirts and bordering on size 48 pants, but I was still very obese. I joined a gym, started working out regularly and eating less. I maintain that I was eating pretty health at home, it's just I would eat too much and go out 1-2x a week. I have been drinking mostly (80+%) water for 4 years, no red meat, etc. I was also doing ok at the gym but wasn't really keeping notes about weight loss or sizing. Then Covid hit. I continued going for a bit until I came down with flu-like symptoms right as Covid started spiking here in the US. I don't believe it was Covid but I have no way of knowing as it was impossible to get a test at the time. The thought of having it and the pain I was in sent me into a depression - something I'm very prone too. My eating dropped from 3000-3500 calories a day (est.) to literally just a bowl of applesauce, cup of noodles and tea twice a day. Once I recovered I noticed that I wasn't eating as much and thought my stomach and shrunk. So for about a week I was doing great... until it felt like the bottom opened up of my stomach and was turning back into an open pit. For the first time in my life I exuded self control and carried on. A few days later it stopped. Since then I've been eating less and less. I don't go back for seconds or, as I did often for pasta, thirds. I felt full eating about 2200 calories a day. That continued dropping, and dropping. Finally I started using a calorie counter and paying more attention to what I was putting in my body and how much. I began weighing and measuring portions. I've switched out a lot of carbs for more friendly options or cut them out entirely. I would go through a gallon or more of 1% milk in a week. I've stopped drinking it. I hated the taste of eggs and oatmeal. Now they're 90% of my first meal. Oh yeah, I dropped to eating two meals a day and doing intermittent fasting. The result? The shirts I wore to the gym just 6 months ago that I felt like I may pop out of now fit me like a a 5X used to. My 5X sleeping shirts I wore for comfort to bed are so loose it feels more like a piece of cloth draped around. Pants? Size 40 and underwear I'm down from XL to L. I looked at myself in the mirror. I'm happier. I'm thinner. My face is slender. I have a FREAKING NECK I never knew about. I went from tettering on the Obese/Extreme Obesity line to flirting with the Overweight crowd. I have just over 60lbs to go to my goal. I've set it where I think I won't look too taunt but I'll be just inside the 'overweight' category. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:25 AM PDT So I'm grocery shopping yesterday with my husband, and we're picking up bread for sandwiches. Right above my normal whole wheat brand is a loaf boasting only 40 calories per slice. I'm not one who has all the calorie counts memorized. Out of curiosity I start comparing the ingredients to see if there is any major difference between my standard fare and this new bread. I don't notice anything vastly different. I'm curious how they saved the calories, so I compare to see if the slices are thinner. To the naked eye, they look the same. I double check calories. My bread, 60 calories a serving. "Diet" bread, 40. And that's when I notice the serving size. My bread has a serving size of two slices. The diet stuff has a serving of one slice. That means my bread is actually 30 calories per slice. Tricky tricky. [link] [comments] |
| How do you deal with feeling ashamed and stupid when you start working out? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:24 PM PDT My sister and I have informally decided it's time to get healthier and lose some weight. I've tried this before several times and it's never worked and I've never been able to stick with a plan. I've got depression, and I always wind up forgetting or neglecting self-care. I've never been athletic or flexible, but when I was a teenager I used to be strong. I went on month-long canoe trips where I'd portage wooden canoes for miles with my friends. I miss feeling good in my body like that. I gained all this weight in college and grad school. My sister has pretty much exactly the same story. Today I started working out again, starting with a simple intro to tai chi video. Even though I was all by myself, I felt so ashamed and embarrassed that I could barely do the poses. I had no balance, I was too weak to crouch like the guy in the video, and in some cases I had too much belly fat or arm fat to even do the poses at all-- it just got in the way. I've literally never been good at exercise or working out, and maybe that's why I've never been able to do it for very long. I'm an ex "gifted kid" who learned early on that it was pointless to do anything I wasn't immediately good at. Working out made me feel out of my element, ashamed of how bad I was at it, and embarrassed to even be trying it at all. All I could think of is how dumb I probably looked and how pathetic it was that I couldn't do even simple stretches at a beginner level. Even though the whole time I told myself that, as long as I could stick with it, I'd get better. It didn't make me feel any less stupid. I was surprised, because normally I'm not self-conscious at all, and I don't do negative self-talk regularly. How do you deal with this? How do you push yourself to keep doing something you're terrible at, especially when you feel like you're doomed to fail? [link] [comments] |
| Obese young male with no idea how to start losing weight Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:49 PM PDT I'm sorry if this post isn't appropriate for this subreddit but I've been trying to find a community that seems inviting and this seems like the right place. I'm a 21 year old man, about 6 feet tall. I don't know exactly how much I weigh, but based on when I last weighed myself 2 months ago I would estimate I'm at least 340lbs and possibly even 350lbs. I look and feel like shit. I'm always sweaty and out of breath. The problem is, I have no idea how to change this. I understand that the single most important factor in losing weight is changing my eating habits. Right now I rely largely on takeout, fast food, and other unhealthy options. I want to start eating better, but I'm not quite sure where to start. There are so many different kind of diets and I have no idea which are best. I've heard calorie counting is a good way to go, but it feels like continuing to eat bad food in smaller quantities isn't the healthiest or most efficient way to lose weight. I guess I'm just looking for a little guidance. Sorry for all the ranting. Edit: Just wanted to add an edit to say I'm really shocked in a good way that so many of you have already given good advice. You guys rock! [link] [comments] |
| Really struggling right now. Taking a much needed break. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:25 PM PDT I lost 30 pounds. Gained 3 back (according to the scale.) I was getting really tired of calorie counting. It was becoming stressful and really felt like my fitness pal was a prison cell. I wasn't enjoying food or life so much counting everything like I have been doing for the last 3 months. My confidence was doing horrible too, despite the weight loss. I noticed calorie counting wasn't helping that entire week so 4 days ago I stopped using the app. I need a break from it. I'm going to use mfp again in about a week but I'm really tired and I'm scared of gaining my weight back. I haven't overeaten(I don't think lol) but I still don't know how much I've eaten. I felt like I need a break because of how tiring numbers can be. I just want to be able to eat my food sometimes without it being a number. I feel like I'm struggling to stay on track right now. Maybe this break will help. I lost weight after taking breaks before so I'm probably gonna so it again. I'm 30 pounds away from my goal weight. I do admit, I already feel a bit better and yesterday I got a killer workout in. Today for the first time in weeks I've felt more confident with my body and I was happy. I think I'm going to need to take breaks more often from counting because as much as it's helped me lose weight, it's really wrecked havoc in my life too. [link] [comments] |
| Joining Reddit to kickstart my weightless/health journey Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:20 PM PDT Hi guys, ive finally come to a mental place where ive decided I want to take action again and lose weight. Idk who's going to read this but if you do please message me I would love to make friends on here. But this is my backstory, if you can call it that. Previously I was pretty fit and healthy. I would go to the gym a lot and would eat healthy. I was also more comfortable in my body with the weight I was at that point of time. Then I went through a couple stressful events such as exam season and having the move homes into a temp accomdation due to being made homeless. During this time I had lost all motivation and everything that I worked to was lost as-well. Ive had a couple times during this year where ive been motivated to start working out and eating better but they've ended as soon as they started. My final straw was when I realised I couldn't fit in to the shorts I was wearing just last summer. I want to make my reddit my personal blog on my journey into losing weight and accumulating healthy habits again. If you have read this far please comment and tell me why you are here today and what your goals are :) Ur new friend. [link] [comments] |
| My boyfriend is unkind when I overeat Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:03 AM PDT I'm a female, 5'3" 130 lb. I'm not overweight but want to get down to 115. Last month I went through a hard time after my brother got into a car accident and overate for a week. I told my boyfriend about this and wanted to say that I was now back on track. However, before I could get to that, he laughed and told me I was stupid for overeating. He said I wouldn't have to lose weight if I hadn't put it on in the first place. I told him that I'd overeaten out of worry about my brother and he got angry, saying I was trying to argue and start a fight. My boyfriend regularly tells me he isn't attracted to me even though I've always been roughly this weight since the start of our relationship. He makes me feel like he's just tolerating me and doesn't like me that much at all. He also makes fun of my hobbies of reading and writing. What can I do to cope with the hurt feelings? By the way he hasn't talked to me for a week but this could be a problem if he gets back in touch. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 17 Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:19 PM PDT Hey losers, Happy Friday! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. 201.5 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1700 ish): Should be good tonight gonna try a new soup recipe. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute brisk walk at lunch & hopefully something extra tonight. 15/17 days. Self-care time (JOURNALING, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 0/17 days): My therapist pointed out that I spend a lot time judging myself. My new job is arguing with myself when I judge myself. Aka argumentative self-compassion. I'm not just a silly lady that bought myself roses. It was self-care because no one else buys this fabulous bitch flowers so I will. Boom. Try a new recipe once a week: An imitation crab salad with homemade sauce, a crock pot Italian wedding soup, Russian dressing & tonight a chicken lemon orzo soup. 4/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: I need to hit this up this weekend. 0/50 pages. No fast food or candy from the work dish: Streak day 16. 4 candy related lapse in judgement. Listen to my effing body: Nightmares again. But my body feels pretty damn fine. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Today I'm grateful for stability. I come from a traumatic childhood. I worked my ass off & have had incredible luck with the people I've known to build a solid foundation to my adult life (including a fuckton of therapy which I am very privileged to have access to). An acquaintance of mine has a similar origin story. But has had less of the luck & opportunity to heal & has done none of the work. Because healing is work, as kumbaya as that sounds. And I see what a different course of decisions could have led to. I am thankful to the universe & myself & every single person that has helped me along my path to this place in life. Stable. Safe. Slightly hongrey & still a bit fat but damn it, I'll take it! Your turn kids. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 18 July 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:09 AM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily post the most read, most used, most interesting post on /r/loseit by reading, commenting, and participating often! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:18 PM PDT Without a doubt the number one reason why long term weight loss has always been so hard for me is decision fatigue. That desire to mindlessly eat an entire bag of skinny pop while having a big glass of wine after work never really goes away completely. Every day I have to consciously make decisions: what I eat, how much I eat, what I can't eat. How many calories is this many grams? What if I eat this instead of this? What if I don't eat so I can order this when we go out later? What if I just make today a cheat day? What if I only eat one serving of popcorn, half this halo top, a single piece of pizza? Etc. (Then I'll think about how the rest is sitting in my kitchen and have to make the decision to resist eating it. If I don't have something I'm craving I'll think about going out and getting it- another decision I have to wrestle with) Its exhausting. I've tried to reach my goal weight many, many times at this point. Tried many different approaches to CICO like OMAD, IF, meal prepping, etc. After ~4 or 5 months, the longest I've stuck to CICO, I'm tired. And eventually I decide the stress isn't worth it and I'll give up. I'm sure there are some people who can relate. The thing is people who are normal weight, have been a normal weight their whole life, don't have to make half the decisions about food we have to make regularly. The question doesn't even occur to them. Disclaimer: I never studied psychology or sociology so I can't comment on how accurate the content is but sources are cited in the video [link] [comments] |
| The positive side of this pandemic: A cake day story Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:38 AM PDT So due to a couple confirmed cases of Covid at my apartment, I had to move back in with my parents around mid-March. At first I was super bummed because I couldn't smoke weed and drink beers all day like I used to. But after wallowing in self-pity for roughly a week, I figured I'd start working on myself. I was always overweight as a kid, but since I am 6'3" now, I held my weight pretty well. But after drinking 6-packs of IPAs and stoner-munching everything in sight for a long time, I ended up being 240 lbs when I moved back home. Even my mom, who never mentions negatives that can't immediately be changed, told me I was getting a beer belly. Since my parents don't really drink and are totally against weed, it was easy to cut those habits out of my life. It also helps that they are vegetarian, so I was eating healthier by default. I decided to cut alcohol out, practice CICO and intermittent fasting, and added workouts to my daily routine (hour long walks in the morning with my dog, and tennis 4/7 days of the week with my family). After 3 months, I am already down to 212 lbs! My goal is to get down to the 180 range, before I start lifting weights to bulk up. This just goes to show you that you can turn a negative into a positive, with the right mindset! So keep grinding, and remember that one cheat day won't kill you. It's a marathon, not a sprint, after all. [link] [comments] |
| [Q&A] Overwhelmed- can you help? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:18 PM PDT Eep! I currently weigh 265lbs/35/F I'd like to lose quite a bit of weight, but I'm overwhelmed and don't know where to go from here. I just tried to download the MyFitnessPal app but the username/pw got all bungled up, and I've been online for hours researching CICO which unfortunately has left me more confused than where I started. All the different calorie deficit calculators are giving me different answers too. This is where you come in, lovely people of Reddit! Do you have a reliable calorie deficit calculator you can recommend? A neat app that really helped you? Something obvious I'm completely missing? Unfortunately I feel even less motivated to get started now. Please help me out of this funk and on the road to motivation! [link] [comments] |
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