Weight loss: Update #2 My Dad has to buy a lift for my Mom... |
- Update #2 My Dad has to buy a lift for my Mom...
- Cereal girl's biggest challenge yet - An accountability post
- Bedtime weigh-in is super helpful
- Found out I can do a real full push-up today without fail. Needless to say I'm happier than I've ever been!
- It's ok to spend a day on the couch. (A, hopefully, helpful perspective on just being worn out)
- 70lbs down in half a year!
- I’m sick of it, I’m sick of the way people treat me, I’m sick of being ugly and looked down upon, and I’m sick of hating myself. Today is day one for the hundredth time.
- 1 year into a binge journey
- NSV - My blood test results are looking good
- How I lost 30 lbs, thank you Reddit!
- Having to lose fat you already lost, because you had a setback - The most annoying thing ever!!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 5th, 2020
- [MM, SV] half, there is half of me now 39 M 244/492 6'1"
- I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been and I’m so scared
- Am I still skinnyfat?
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 05 July 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- I've reached a point where I'm fed up with my inconsistency. And this time I want to do it right.
- When did you know you were “done”?
- Eating at extreme deficit and still gaining
- Reached my goal weight, but not my goal body. Please help.
- For the first time in my life I see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is really weird.
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4
- Looking for Advice
- 5'9 212lb looking to lose weight for 1st time
| Update #2 My Dad has to buy a lift for my Mom... Posted: 04 Jul 2020 01:15 PM PDT Hello all! It's been a few weeks since I last posted. Mom is still stuck in her bed, but she's now capable of getting herself from a lay down position to sitting upright on the side of her bed. Her PT and OT people have been coming to help her. I'm told they have gotten her standing a few times now, and have a nifty device almost like a lazy Susan that they use to turn her around so she can then sit in a wheelchair or her reclining rocker instead of just hanging out in her bed 24/7. Once that's easier to do she'll be able to go out of the house to see her doctors in person when necessary. She says her back spasms seem to be improving, but she still has very little feeling in one leg. They're not sure why she isn't seeing much improvement there so they're gonna give her an MRI in the near future. Her diet is going great. No complaints, no begging for stuff, nobody bringing her bad foods, and she usually has calories left at the end of the day for a good size snack. I'm very happy. I'm still going over once a week to cook and prep portioned out meals, but my sister is grasping calorie counting so well that I only have to make a handful of preportioned meals now. The rest of the time I batch cook meats, veggies, and sides(I label the containers with how many calorie per ounce of whatever food) so they can just be weighed out based on what they feel like eating/what fits their calories for the day. My Mom and my sister are looking visibly thinner to me. My sister is tracking all her food but is afraid to weigh herself because she knows she will get obsessive/frustrated with the number. Mom can't be weighed yet but my sister said she noticed while bathing her that her stomach and legs are starting to look flatter to her. Progress! I've been teaching my sister a lot about the human body, calories, the food industry, and tips and tricks I use to try to stay on track/fool my lizard brain. She really seems to be absorbing it all, but sometimes I feel like I'm blowing her mind. The other day I told her about visceral fat, she had no idea that fat was around our organs or how that could be dangerous. I hope the knowledge she's gaining is enough to keep her motivated because she's been doing so well. My Dad is stuck in his old ways of over exercising and barely eating so that he'll lose weight, but he's weighing foods and asking for help with figuring the calories whenever he's the one getting stuff for my Mom. I'm hoping he'll catch on to CICO fully and start giving his body more nutrition, but for now I'm just happy he's taking care of Mom the right way. [link] [comments] |
| Cereal girl's biggest challenge yet - An accountability post Posted: 04 Jul 2020 05:08 AM PDT It has been a tough week. We said goodbye to the goodest of dogs on Thursday. 17 years of pure love and happiness. Gone in the blink of an eye. I feel okay. What would have been an 'excuse' to fall off that wagon and devour my feelings, I have fought it. I have stayed true to my new way of life. Instead of a McDonalds, I made courgette lasagne. And it was pretty good. But I come here today for another reason. I need the accountability from my online family. Tonight we are having a (socially distanced) get together for my Dad's 50th birthday. This means triggers. Lots and LOTS of triggers. Food, alcohol, food, people, food. Did I mention food? And I understand that it seems like a mundane feat, but put a buffet infront of me... I know what my caloric intake should be and I am aware of the calories I have left to use today. I am also the first person to tell anybody that you can have anything in moderation. But it's finding that line of 'okay, you have had your moderated amount' and walking along it instead of jumping off. I know me. I know that hours from now, I could be eating for the sake of it. So, I wanted to make a promise. To you. No matter what happens tonight. Whether I stay strong to my plan of 'the moderation game' or it all goes horribly wrong. I promise to try my best. I promise to use all the strategies and techniques I have learnt to make better decisions. I promise not to be so hard on myself if it doesn't go the way I plan. I promise to check in tomorrow and let you know how it goes. And if you don't hear from me - it's been a disaster, send help. [link] [comments] |
| Bedtime weigh-in is super helpful Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:20 AM PDT After reading Michael Greger's How Not to Diet, I decided to try weighing myself at night (in addition to the usual morning weigh-in). He said that people who do that lose more weight. While CICO still stands, I think it works on a psychological level because I actually did find it helpful. Since Tuesday, I was stuck at 192 lbs at my morning weigh-in. I know that weight loss isn't linear and I know that I must have been losing fat because of the calorie deficit but I want to see progress, dammit! I want the instant gratification of the scale saying "you're doing great, keep it up." While the morning weigh-in was a disappointment, the bedtime weigh-in did show progress: 197, 196, 196 and 194 lbs last night. This morning, I weighed in at 190 lbs. I recommend the book and I recommend adding the bedtime weigh-in to your routine, if you're ok with weighing yourself that often. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:23 PM PDT So here's some background: I'm a 17 year old male who has never really ever done any significant exercise besides gym class if that even counts. I was around 255 last August and had been hanging around 180 or so for the last couple months after losing motivation. I had and still kinda do have a lot of mostly stomach fat left and have virtually no real muscle. Within the last few weeks I got my motivation reinvigorated and on top of continuing some Intermittent Fasting and eating a bit more better, I've started some basic Calisthenics. For me it has mostly just consisted of doing about 10 wall push-ups, 10 sit-ups, Planks until failure and some squats. I'd cycle through each one and would do them repeatedly until I got overly tired. At times doing a little less as I got tired when I first started. Alongside this I've been using my standing Elliptical for between 30 minutes to 1 hour aiming for it being an almost daily routine alongside the Calisthenics. After working on all this for a few weeks I hadn't fully noticed that it was getting somewhat easier. Until today at least. After I attempted a few REAL push-ups I realized I have gotten a bit stronger already and I am just completely happy! I can't remember the last time I was capable of ever doing even one single Push-up! This is my first time posting on here. I only posted because I've never been so excited and proud of myself at the same time for something. I just felt like I needed to share it somewhere and to potentially even inspire others to just keep going even if you don't immediately notice a difference. These things take time. You may not see a difference for a few days or weeks. But the results will show eventually and once they do you will feel so great about yourself! TLDR: I can't remember the last time I could do even one single Push-up. The fact that I can finally do one has made me so happy! [link] [comments] |
| It's ok to spend a day on the couch. (A, hopefully, helpful perspective on just being worn out) Posted: 04 Jul 2020 08:01 AM PDT I think a lot of us know that this is a marathon and not a sprint but I think sometimes the number of "I lost 149lbs" posts can maybe obscure some of the day to day realities of the majority of us who are on our weight loss path. i.e we read posts about huge weight losses and, not infrequently, some very regimented approaches that work for that person but which, imho, are likely not going to be the norm for most of us. So I thought I would share my workout tale for today and hope somebody finds it useful. I've been working out 7-8 times a week for the last 9 weeks. I live alone, the pandemic has left me with huge swaths of time and it's really hard to kill massive amounts of time by yourself day after day. Luckily I bought a flat bench and some dumbbells pre pandemic (I was planning on going to Japan -I canceled- and was hyper focused on that area of the world and so was very virus aware in Feb and was worried I'd lose progress if the virus came here and so bought them...excellent call by me) so I can do a basic workout at home and I do 25 flight stair climbs (now with 24lbs on my back) for cardio (the bike I ordered is hopefully arriving this month so I can add that to the routine) and to train for my, I hope, Everest Base Camp hike in November of next year. In short, I am crazy motivated. Today was shoulders/bicep/tricep/squats and abs. My first shoulder set was good, 2nd was good, 3rd the wheels came off. My 2nd shoulder exercise was terrible. Three more crappy sets. I got ready to do biceps and stood there and thought "I don't want to do this". Like my brain just completely shut off. I sat on the bench and thought about fighting through it. Do the volume, weigh in tomorrow, start a fresh week with a stair climb and go from there. And I just couldn't do it. So I called it a day, had a shower, and decided that tomorrow is going to be a couch day. No walks, no exercise, no stair climbs, just a glorious day of resting my aching body. Monday, which normally is chest/back, is going to be a stair climb instead to give my muscles 2 full days off. My point is this. The body needs days off. If you exercise daily then fabulous. If you never go above your calorie goal then fabulous. I am 1000% not saying that tomorrow I am eating Doritos and lord knows what else. I may have a 2000 calorie day (my normal goal is 1700) and I am not going to move more than 10 feet all day. And that's ok. Being in "neutral" for a day isn't the same as being in reverse. And, being stronger through rest on Tuesday means a better perfomance when I do chest/back. Don't feel guilty if you need a day in neutral. Listen to your body. Mine was telling me it needs to veg. If it tells me it needs to veg on Tuesday though, that's when I slap some sense into it and lift some weights :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:36 PM PDT Hiya. At the beginning of this year I decided to make a change to my health and habits. I was drinking every week and not eating well. I had ballooned to my biggest weight ever, 278lbs. In January I started P90X3, and I couldn't be more happy with the progress I've made and my healthier lifestyle choices. I cut out alcohol, altogether, while doing the program. I just did my last weigh in after finishing my second round of P90X3, lean edition. I only took days off between the two rounds. My starting weight was 278lbs and I'm now down to 208lbs I lost 70 lbs in half a year! I'm so very happy! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:29 PM PDT I've started a hundred and one times by this point I swear, in my adult life the lowest I have ever been is 276 and the highest was 344, both weights I have felt like shit about myself. Currently I'm around 390, after months of eating healthy and being on my best behavior and not losing weight I got angry and quit. I've been eating like crap for 2 months now and I'm just so sick of living. I want to make a change and I know it's relatively simple eat less (and better) and move more. However as I know and you know it's a lot more complicated than just that. I live with 4 other people who don't need to take care of themselves as much as I do so they eat like garbage and keep said garbage in the house. Now I have ok self control (but not self confidence if you know what I mean nudge nudge) so it's only a mild problem for me. But the medication I need for my insomnia makes me peckish, so I end up binge eating because I'm retarded. I also have no motivation whatsoever and I'm severely depressed so life is just peachy. I have the benefit of both only working 4 days a week and not needing to be at work until 11. Now of course I struggle to wake up at 10am (waking up is always an issue. So I typically skip "breakfast" and don't eat until around 2-3. I would like to wake up at 8am (or 9am because I'm lazy and again insomnia) so I can eat a good breakfast and get a walk in and maybe some exercise. However I need some guidance and advice as well as some nice posetive words of encouragement to keep me going. I've been on this community before when I initially dropped the weight I lost a few years back, but that was an old account. I know how great this community is, and I hope to be a bigger part of it (but a smaller member) in the future. Thanks y'all in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2020 05:45 PM PDT I joined reddit a year ago today to post about avoiding a binge, and my life has changed dramatically since then. A month later I started prepping my food to take to work. Three months later I started walking on my breaks at work or casually when I got home. I have lost 20lbs/10% of my body weight. I started running again 3 months ago. Do I binge? Sure. It only happens every few months, though. I overeat but move on quickly. I learned with shelter-in-place that work stressors prompted previous binges and if I don't do pretty intense aerobic activity daily I am more likely to overeat. It isn't disordered - I just default to using food to calm anxious energy if I don't burn it. I remember feeling so hopeful last year after feeling hopeless for so long. You have to play the long game with binge eating disorder, but I think being gentle with yourself goes a long way. Good luck to everyone out there struggling. There is hope. [link] [comments] |
| NSV - My blood test results are looking good Posted: 04 Jul 2020 03:33 PM PDT I started losing thanks to this sub, so I felt like this is the place to share this accomplishment. Last year, when I visited my doctor, I had my blood tested and results weren't looking that great. My blood sugar levels were higher than they should, cholesterol levels weren't that great either. I had also high BP (even with medication taken twice a day) and resting heart rate was well above 100 bpm. My legs were swollen and I wasn't able to take a flight of stairs without getting pretty winded. My doctor was seriously concerned about my health. I found this sub and decided to start CICO and for the first time in my life I managed to lose pretty big amount of weight. My doctor noticed (we work in the same building) and decided to call me for my medical examination a little early. I'm pleased to say, that my blood work is looking very well. My blood sugar is perfect, my cholesterol is on the lower side of the normal range. I'm a tiny bit anemic, so I got some iron supplements, but other than that everything is completely normal. I also have ideal BP (with taking my medication only once a day) and my heart rate is around 65 bpm. My feet are no longer swollen and I have no problem to use them to get to work (even though to be honest, I'm still a bit lazy to do so, but hey, nobody's perfect). My doctor also sent me to get a complete ultrasound, just to be sure my organs aren't damaged, and I'm happy to say everything is looking normal here as well. I still have a good chunk of weight to lose, but I'm proud i got here and for the first time ever, I'm feeling optimistic about my chances. Thanks to everyone posting here to this sub, I wouldn't be able to get here without you. You keep me in check and help me to stay motivated. [link] [comments] |
| How I lost 30 lbs, thank you Reddit! Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:14 PM PDT I've been lurking on r/loseit for a long time and have used so many tips and tricks to lose 30 pounds during quarantine. I never thought I could do it, but every time I thought to give up, I came back here :) I thought as a way to inform, I'd make a little compilation of the things that were most effective for me. Here is what I came up with and what I did (it's a 6 minute read): https://medium.com/@asadjessani/how-i-lost-30-pounds-during-quarantine-a-12-point-guide-6171a15eb4d7 (If you don't have a medium account you can still access it for free!) Hope it helps and inspires! [link] [comments] |
| Having to lose fat you already lost, because you had a setback - The most annoying thing ever!! Posted: 04 Jul 2020 10:09 AM PDT Just a rant here. Been going strong for 2.5 years losing about 0.5 lbs per week, going down from 225 lbs to 167 lbs (36% BF to 15%, 5'10 male). Eating around 1900 calories per day and working out 5 days a week. CICO, still eating sugar and "bad foods". Sooo... Went to a cottage for the weekend and ate like 5000 calories every day. Total craziness. No one there cares about healthy food or moderation. 5000 may be an understatement (!) It's been a week since I got back and been eating and training proper again, but I am still 2 lbs heavier than before. I know it's a small amount and I've lost a bunch of fat already, but man it hurts. I'm working so hard, almost makes me not want to go to any cottages events or parties because I lose self control and go crazy. The only thing that works is my home routine where there is 0 chance of setback because everything is CICO and there's a "system" I can just follow. Would love for some tips on how to not gain fat while on vacation! Because this was a bit of a shock for me haha. ~end of rant~ P.S I know my problems are small and insignificant. I do feel privileged that my concern is having gained 2 lbs. I hope you can still listen and share your thoughts with me. Thank you 🙏 [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 5th, 2020 Posted: 04 Jul 2020 10:09 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] |
| [MM, SV] half, there is half of me now 39 M 244/492 6'1" Posted: 04 Jul 2020 08:16 PM PDT A few days ago I reached the point where I've lost more than I currently weigh. At my first appointment with the Dr I weighed in at 492. I had been trying since late September to lose weight. This Dr appointment was late November 2018. There is a chance I was over 500. She told me about Dr. Fung. I looked him up and started immediately to follow his intermittent fasting regime. I jumped right in at OMAD and multi-day fasting too. The longest I fasted for is 16 days. I lost 36 in that time. I stopped because the doc asked me to. I change up my fasting times often to not have a set schedule and keep my body wondering. It's gotten strange during pandemic. Based on what was available at the store determined if I fasted longer or shorter. When I do eat I keep it keto. Big parts of my diet are pecans, cream cheese, eggs, and cheddar cheese. Use popcorn seasoning and other spices to make the pecans more tasty and get some salt in. I make great omelettes now. It won't happen overnight, but with persistent effort and stubbornness you can do it. I do believe my success is partially based on being single and pet free. I can determine when to eat without being tempted by others eating. Other things to help. DON'T BUY IT. Don't buy the bad food in the first place. Worried you'll snack on something? Leave it in the store. I know easier said than done. For a goal, I don't know how low I can go. When you get that big your bones have to strengthen to handle it. So I'm unsure how much bone growth I have. I found out my chest is 12" thick and I don't have big muscles in my chest and back. So that much thickness is going to probably prevent me from getting into ideal BMI. I do have lose skin. IDC, but knowing it's hanging off me with it's own mass keeping me from ideal BMI too. I walk 5-7 days a week, 2-6 miles per day. Part of this is boredom. Skipping meals and all that goes with it frees up time and money. I did talk a break from weight loss from Nov 2019 until May 2020 to eat and try maintenance to see if I could do it. I saw the doc early in Nov 2019 weighing in down 207 in under a year. Anyway that's about it. [link] [comments] |
| I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been and I’m so scared Posted: 05 Jul 2020 02:54 AM PDT I'm posting this here because I'm too scared to talk about my weight fears with people I know. I'm 21F, 157cm (5'1) and 68kg (149lbs) right now which is the heaviest I've ever been in my life. Especially with quarantine, I haven't been moving at all since I'm out of school and the jobs I worked for stopped due to the pandemic. That means I've barely moved for about 7 months. Every day sitting on my bed and binging. I didn't gain any weight until these past 2 months, I think. Today, I got up and walked to the kitchen and my legs were trembling. I've noticed for a while that getting up feels harder and even just walking for a short while makes me out of breath. But feeling my legs tremble just by standing made me terrified. To be honest, I've been trying to lose weight for years but I don't have the discipline. Nowadays, I try not to tell people when I'm on a diet or exercising because I know I'll disappoint them and myself. My binging habit got worse, I can't go a day without snacks, I've even been eating more "regular" food. I think I gave up on myself sometime ago without realising it. But feeling my legs shake from the weight of my body is so scary. I feel like trying again. I feel like I'm willing to go through the struggle and pain of losing weight. I'm so scared. I'm still young and I don't want to wreck my body like this. I don't want to live the rest of my life eating heaps of sugary snacks every single day. I don't want to have multiple health conditions at a young age (or even old age at that matter). I'm going to try again and I'll try to think that I'll succeed and I'll try to persevere even though I've given up on so many things in life. Sorry for the rambling, I'm just scared. I'm scared I'll give up again and that no matter what I do it won't be enough. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2020 02:25 AM PDT In march I reached 77 kg (170 lbs) which made me look very skinnyfat (on the fat side) considering I'm just 1,77m (5 ft 9,75 I think) and my bones are very thin (my wrists are 16cm-6, 29 inches). In the last 4 months I lost 11 kgs (24 lbs) with a low calory diet and keeping the proteins at 1g per kg of bodyweight. I run and walk a lot, and do some body weight training. My goal is not to look muscular. My goal body is on the skinny side and very lean. Sadly I don't have a picture from march, but I got one from april in which I already lost a few kgs, but it was still a little bit fatter than the one from now: https://i.ibb.co/GQjmT9S/fisicoaprile.png Here is a picture from today: https://i.ibb.co/1JBvPwk/fisicoluglio.png I still don't like my body and keep stressing about the fat on lower belly, chest and love handles. I see the fat is less than before, but I want to eliminate it totally. The thing is I see my weight is already low, so I'm hesitant about losing more weight. I have a scale which states that I got 13% bodyfat and 45% muscle mass, but I clearly look worse than the people I see on internet at 13% bodyfat. I think the scale is broken, but at the same time I'm confused and don't know how to advance. I derailed too much, so let's go back to the question: Am I still skinnyfat or can I consider myself lean? And if I'm still skinnyfat, how much more fat should I lose? For reference look only at the second picture from the link. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 05 July 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 04 Jul 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've reached a point where I'm fed up with my inconsistency. And this time I want to do it right. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 08:02 AM PDT I've always wanted to lose weight. It has always been at the back of my head- yet each time I push it away saying, "Ah, you can get to it later. Besides, today's not the right day. You can start on the 1st of the next month. It's a nice date to start a journey on. Until then, eat all the good stuff- and then no more." The few times that I've convinced myself to begin a weightloss journey, I've always ended up stopping a few days in. And I only get back to it the next time that I feel that level of inspiration or motivation. Which is like months later. But that too ends up fading. How do I break out of this? I want to be consistent and I want to be able to rely on myself to lose weight for myself. Any advice is welcome, and thankyou in advance! [link] [comments] |
| When did you know you were “done”? Posted: 05 Jul 2020 01:53 AM PDT What made you realise you were done with losing weight and ready to start focusing on maintenance? I've (26F) lost 14kg (30 lbs) over the past 12 months. I am 175cm tall and weigh 70kg (154 lbs) putting me at a BMI of 22.86. My goal weight has always been 65kg. However, I'm starting to think this weight might be a little low for me. Everyone around me tells me I look great and don't need to lose any more weight. I feel healthy and I know I look slim. However, I can't seem to let go of that GW number. I keep switching my calories from maintenance to a defect - I can't make up my mind!! Please share your story. When did you know it was time to switch to maintenance? Did you stop before reaching your initial "goal"? [link] [comments] |
| Eating at extreme deficit and still gaining Posted: 05 Jul 2020 01:17 AM PDT Hello. I'm new to this sub but could maybe use some advice or insight. I'm 5'3 and put on a considerable amount of weight since October 2019 (around 35lbs) My overall diet has been at a net of 400-900 calories. Like once or twice a week it is more toward 1500 but generally stays in that lower range. (This has been consistent for about the past 2 months) I just started working out again this past week, walked 5.4 miles yesterday and did OMAD consisting of steak and rice to replace some of that protein and carb that my body needed. I'm up 5lbs from 7 days ago. And I'm not sure what's happening. My doctor even tested my thyroid levels because my current weight vs my diet doesn't add up, but those numbers were normal so I'm confused. It should be simple as CICO but my body isn't responding and I'm getting very frustrated. Stats for reference: 5'3 female. 133 lbs as of today. Trying to get down to 105-110 in the next 6 months [link] [comments] |
| Reached my goal weight, but not my goal body. Please help. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:22 PM PDT (I don't know if posts like this are allowed. If they aren't, take it down.) Possible TW for ED—I was never diagnosed, but from what I've researched, some of my past actions I described are ED-esque. I am only 17 years old. I'd been overweight for half of my life, and obese for the past 5 years. My heaviest weight was 209 pounds. Back in November, I decided that I wanted to lose weight for good. I was 190 pounds, and I was sick of hating myself in pictures, sick of eating my feelings every single day because of a deep depression unrelated to my weight, sick of feeling ashamed to have gotten so large when there was no excuse for it—so I took hold and started counting my calories. However, I went a little too far. I used the Lose It! calorie counting app and started out fine. Just ate a little less and cut out processed foods little by little. The weight dropped fast. I was looking and feeling better. Then I thought, 'hey, if I cut down to, like, 400 calories a day, I can lose way faster!' And so I did just that. I lived off salads and soups. I would freak out if I couldn't find a nutritional guide for a restaurant I would be eating at while I was out. I would only eat at home, I quit taking my lunch to school. I became even more irritable than I already was because I was running off a small fraction of the calories I required, and I hated what I'd become—weighing every gram of food, having to turn down anything someone would offer me to eat if I couldn't accurately measure the calories. Everyone was so concerned, but they didn't say much. And I didn't even realize I was starving myself until last month. I've increased my caloric intake to a normal amount, and I'm doing a lot better now. I've finally reached my goal of 135 pounds. And while I'm so so thankful that I've regulated my health, I'm still unhappy with my body. My stomach has always been my biggest insecurity. The bottom of it has looked like a butt ever since I became overweight in the third grade, and it hangs far down as if I've went through a pregnancy. I thought that maybe it would go away if I lost all of this weight, but it's still there, and it upsets me more than anything. It's not loose skin; it's fat that's accumulated around my stomach. I have no clue how I can get rid of it. I've tried so many home workouts but to no avail. I don't have a gym I can go to for lifting weights, and even if I did, I don't know a single thing about weight lifting. I have nowhere to exercise but my home, and even so, I can't really do anything because I don't have much room to exercise in my bedroom. Along with my stomach, my arms are flabby and my thighs are still huge. I went into this with the knowledge that there was a chance I'd still wind up with all this untoned fat. I know there HAS to be a way to fix it. If anyone has any suggestions at all, I'd be happy to hear them. I still hate my body, and I'm mad at myself for hating it. I know it does wonderful things for me. I know it looks way better than it did six months ago. But I resent it and myself. I'm sick of hating myself. Please help. [link] [comments] |
| For the first time in my life I see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is really weird. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:29 PM PDT Not sure if I even have a question, just came to a realization today that I have never had before. Wanted to get some of this off my chest. This post really is more of a selfish post for me to be able to process my journey so far. Before today, I looked at my weight loss attempts as an endless list of failures. Now I see the whole process as one very long road to where I am today. Up until this point in my life, I have always been overweight. Not so much so that it ever stopped me from doing what I loved, but it always made me feel self-conscious. I was bullied quite a bit for my weight growing up. The bullying never truly got to me, but it was always there. Even the comments of family members or others would often show that they knew I was fat. It is just second nature I think, eventually someone is going to make reference to your weight and it usually isn't derogatory at all. It just reminds you over and over that there is something wrong. Nearing the end of high school I developed tons of confidence which was good in a way. But I also started believing that my weight was just a part of who I am. I believed there was nothing really wrong with it and I blamed it on genetics. I got married and I let my weight slip even more. I did make countless attempts to lose the weight. Keto diet was the largest loss for me, before gaining double what I had lost because it simply isn't sustainable in my opinion (If it is sustainable for you, please ignore this. It's just that I know about 8 people who found the same thing. Huge initial loss, bigger regain). But I always blamed it on genetics and couldn't figure out how my healthy weight friends ate tons more food than I did but didn't gain weight. College only made everything worse. Sitting, studying and eating. No money, no gym, tons of Kraft Dinner and tons of weight gain. The first summer away from college I had a job in a city where I had access to a gym again. That summer I encountered a crazy reddit post in this sub that basically said, "your fat because you eat too much, eat less", and that is where I encountered CICO. At first I didn't believe it, but I started counting. Wow. I ate probably 3x the calories my wife ate. How on earth did I ever think my food intake was normal? I guess I bought into the lie that I am not the one to blame for my health. I always wanted to blame something or someone else. I am not saying that people dont have certain medical issue or history that are a factor, but it is still up to you what you are going to do about those things. They do not control you. That is where the next 3 years took a turn for the better in changing my lifestyle. I started to see more victories than failures. I soon realized that my ability to eat well and count calories was inextricably linked to going to the gym. Starting my morning at the gym set a standard of health for the day. Waking up was the next battle. I got a sunrise alarm clock and that helped but not enough. I would still stay up too late on my phone and was not able to get out of bed. So I learned to charge my phone on the other side of the room with another alarm. I noticed that my phone no longer became the thing I longed to see every night and morning. Eventually it became completely natural for me to get out of bed and go to the gym. But then another problem. I was counting but stopped losing weight. Apparently my "eyeballing" of portions needed to be replaced with a food scale, suggested one redditor. Got food scale, "Oh, I'm eating 600 calories of peanut butter not 200..." Queue me losing weight again. Each summer I got better and better at this rhythm of learning how to be healthy, only to see catastrophic failure as i went back to college and lost access to my gym every year. In my summer before my last year of college I lost over 30 lbs. Over the next college year I gained nearly 10 back. But through all this I had so much peace that it was soon going to be finally over. Covid and 2 months at home added another 10lbs. But it didnt matter because I was ready. This was so different from the norm. Looking back today I realize just how confident I was. That brings me to now. I'm officially fully moved into a new place, job and lifestyle. I haven't even remotely struggled to dive into it. I realize now that that is because of 24 years of collective experience both of failures and victories. Although my weightloss journey might have started the first moment I realized just how much bigger I was than the other kids at school, that didn't mean I would suddenly do a 180 and lose the weight. It took me another 15 years to learn how to do that. It doesn't mean I didn't want it before, it just means I had a lot more to learn. The biggest lesson of all, was that it truly was my fault. It wasn't the bullies, it wasn't genetics and it wasn't my family, it was me. I made decisions with food everyday that damaged my health. It doesn't mean that certain people aren't accountable for what they have done or how they have treated me, it means that I am accountable for how I react. That realization was the turning point. TLDR: Just read this part As I was thinking about this big crazy journey this morning, the weirdest feeling came over me. I realized that I have never in my life really felt like I could do it. I never felt like I was going to do anything more than lose weight for a period of time. I never thought of weight loss as related to a life change, but only a body change. I would tell myself, "this is it, this is the last straw, I am never going back", but I always had this gnawing feeling that it wasn't going to happen. But here I am today, and that feeling is nowhere in sight. I think it disappeared sometime last august. I am looking forward to hitting my goal sometime next spring and it doesn't even matter to me. I used to be obsessed with goal dates and now I couldn't care less (Im still pumped to get to my goal weight though!). Because now my life has changed, the benefits of which I have already experienced in droves. I have seen radical growth in my marriage, my spirituality, my faith, my health, my patience, my compassion, my productivity, my energy and countless other things. Not only am I already healthier today, but I am going to be healthy. One day I am going to weigh a normal weight for the first time in my entire life. I don't even think about the question of if, its only when. I never thought I'd see the day that I felt this way. I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is so much closer than I ever realized. I don't think there is a crash course that could have gotten me to this point. It took time and drive. Although I am positive there will be more battles down the road, a war has been won in my life. I know that I am going to have to stay alert to keep this "post-war peace". But I am so thankful that I can finally enjoy that peace. Healthy food tastes amazing, cooking is fun, going to the gym is exciting, CICO counting is becoming second nature and being healthy is what I want to do and no longer what I force myself to do. I guess I just want to encourage everyone here who is struggling not to judge your progress too harshly just on the fluctuations of the scale. Judge your progress by what you've learned and how your failures and victories have made you more prepared to be a healthier person today than you were a year ago. ...that was about 2 hours longer than the 5 minute post I had in mind haha...Also, re-reading it, I realize it might come across as a bit snobbish and that was not my intention sorry. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4 Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:32 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy birthday to America. Please play safe kids. Keep your fingers and other limbs safe & sound. Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. Uterus be scumbaging. 201.5 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1700 ish): Looking good today. Hamburgers for dinner. Exercise 5 days a week: Long, hot trail walk today. 3/3 days. Self-care time (JOURNALING, working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 0/3 days): Need to make some appointments. Spent some time journaling today. Feel better about things. Still a tough world some days & that's okay. Try a new recipe once a week: Always looking for new stuff to try! X/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not tonight. 0/50 pages. No fast food or candy from the work dish: Streak day 4. 1 candy related lapse in judgement. No candy bowl on the weekends so easy win. Listen to my effing body: I did not sleep well last night. Blergh. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Really grateful to have a wonderful river trail system near my place. Sometimes you just gotta let your brain shut the fuck up and listening to running water. How about you guys? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:07 PM PDT Hi! I(F27) lost 40 lbs on keto a year and a half ago. Here I am now, having gained it all and more back and am at a loss as how to proceed. I'm now at 220 lbs and have considered going back to keto but I'm scared it will wind up all being in vain like the last time. This morning, after hopping out of the shower I was getting dressed and noticed these hideous new stretch marks under my belly and was horrified. I've been wanting to cry all day after discovering them, they make my stomach look like I'm bruised. I look pregnant. I don't eat red meat aside from bacon and don't really eat fast food any more. My only real problem with keto is the fear that it's not a healthy diet. Would any one here happen to have any advice? [link] [comments] |
| 5'9 212lb looking to lose weight for 1st time Posted: 05 Jul 2020 02:47 AM PDT So i used to be about 5'9 140lb in 2016 but i gained a lot of weight over around a span of 4 years due to some mental health issues and a series of personal crises. I'm looking to lose weight over a long period of time with consistent exercise but I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've never tried to diet in my life before as I was naturally? skinny for most of my life until I let myself go and kind of gave up on life. I currently commute around 4~5 hrs a day to get to work and have a high work load. I dont have the money or time to sign up for a gym and im not interested in yoga or pilates. I like walking. I used to run 10km a day when I was fit and happy. I would like to get back into it but I cant run in my current state because of knee pain so Id like to know what I should expect at my current weight and what my goals/action plan should be. I know I need to decrease my calorie intake but I have a really hard time controlling my eating since its the only source of stress relief at this point in my life. I would like to lose weight through exercise. Im not expecting some magic miracle so Im okay with it taking a long period of time. So my current goal is to get back into the obese BMI category and then to the normal BMI (currently morbidly obsese). I would appreciate any and all tips from fitness gurus on this sub :) thank you... [link] [comments] |
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