Weight loss: [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 5 |
- [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 5
- Lost over 40lbs, now when I walk it's not a waddle, also I can cross my legs now???
- I just hit “overweight BMI” for the first time in i don’t know when!!! I am 17, it feels GREAT!!!
- From 265 lbs to 155 lbs, one and a half years apart. Just thought I'd give back the positivity and motivation this community has given me.
- I just hit my GW today and I'd like to thank you all from r/loseit!
- 26F, 260lbs - Obesity is ruining my life.
- Yes I'm getting a Tummy Tuck, no I'm not ashamed
- Revelation: I thought it would take months/years to get to my goal weight and feel healthier..
- The ice cream is still there!
- Does it bother anyone else when other people you live with (family, roommates, etc) are “too interested” in what you eat?
- In the 160s!!!
- Anyone Got Someone Salty?
- I’m 6’1” - about 280 pounds (127kg) and have cut back on junk food but want to really shed some pounds before I hit 30.
- In the 70s for the first time in years, and had to pull up my pants today!
- I (23F) just received the news that my knee is permanently injured and can cause early onset arthritis. I need to change, now.
- I can do this again I can do it again
- i keep self-sabotaging and i don't know how to stop!
- How do I stop viewing exercise as a punishment?
- Theme Parks
- 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 15 August 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- Need help guiding my overweight little sister [11] into getting into a healthy weight range.
- What is skinny fat and what some early signs of the risk?
- About to start my journey (again)
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 14
| [Challenge] The Great Loseit Cookoff Challenge - Week 5 Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:05 AM PDT |
| Lost over 40lbs, now when I walk it's not a waddle, also I can cross my legs now??? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 01:18 PM PDT For context: 5'3 trans guy, SW 256.8 / CW 213.3 GW 150-170(ish, idk yet) When I first started losing weight, I was kind of self-conscious about my walk. Because of my weight and how it was positioned, it was hard to walk straight, and I kind of had to walk out a little (my feet would point out when I walked instead of straight). I also walked side-to-side. I knew it was because of my weight because I walked fine at smaller sizes. Well, today I was pacing around while on the phone, and I realized holy cow, I don't waddle anymore!!! My walk is straightening out. I also used to not be able to cross my legs above the knee because they were so big, and I couldn't bring my knee up to my chest. Now I can do both of those, and as the weeks go by, I notice myself becoming more and more flexible. I started physical therapy recently, and one of the stretches has me bring my knees to my chest. At first, I couldn't do it fully (because my upper leg met my stomach), but over the past month and a half I have been able to bring it closer and closer!!! [link] [comments] |
| I just hit “overweight BMI” for the first time in i don’t know when!!! I am 17, it feels GREAT!!! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 03:38 PM PDT I'm 17 and I'm finally at 160. I started at around 230-240, I don't quite know my highest. This post is for the other teens looking to lose. PLEASE! Don't give up. It's taken me a year and few months to get here, and so many other roadblocks that got in my way. It's so so so so so worth the little sacrifices you have to make. I promise I still struggle, and honestly have been since quarantine. But i've recently gotten back on the wagon and I'm really proud of myself because I haven't gone over my deficit for a few days out of the week. I'm also really proud of myself for not giving up because man was i CLOSE. Thank you all for being a source of support for the teens here when our families/friends couldn't. You guys rock. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 04:51 PM PDT [265 to 155 in 1.5 years](https://imgur.com/a/vNnsxuO) Started off at 265lbs, obese for a 5 ft 8in male. Went to a party eve of new year 2019, Got "ewwed" by someone who I did not even try to dance with. It affected me mentally so much and rewired my mindset to start a healthier lifestyle. Did intermittent fasting, swimming, and workout. One and a half years later, now at 155 lbs and 14.8% body fat. This community helped me a lot and seeing you guys loseit kept me motivated throughout my one and a half years. Still, a way to go but feeling so confident in everything I do; It was contagious to all other aspects of my life. Some tips that I thought I'd share:
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| I just hit my GW today and I'd like to thank you all from r/loseit! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:19 PM PDT SW: 190lbs/~86kg | GW: 143lbs/65kg | CW: 143lbs/65kg | CBMI: 22.8 First of all, I'd like to thank the people in r/loseit for sharing their experiences, thoughts and insights about losing weight and improving yourself. I've spent my life being obese or overweight, and I wanted to change that. My lifestyle used to be filled with terrible diets and was void of exercise. I have multiple health issues, and I knew that staying overweight / obese was just going to make it worse. In the past, I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I tried a couple fad diets and managed to go back to the overweight range, but I was still fluctuating between the overweight and obesity range. I felt so lost because I felt like nothing I tried was working. I wanted to blame other things for my weight and I gave up on losing weight. When the quarantine started last March, I was just browsing reddit and I stumbled upon r/loseit. I can definitely say that discovering this place is one of the best, if not the best, experience of my life. I saw that I was not alone in my struggle, and that there were others who were trying to improve themselves. After spending some time in this subreddit, I decided that I would improve myself this quarantine. I had a couple months before college started, so I decided that now was the time for action. I learned so many new things that I've never even thought of before to help me lose weight. I realized that I needed to change my lifestyle, and not just change what I'm eating for a short period of time. Losing weight definitely isn't easy, but seeing the people here in r/loseit made it much easier to not lose hope and give up. I just weighed in this morning and saw that I finally reached my goal weight! It took 6 months of relearning and changing my lifestyle and habits, but it was definitely worth the work! I feel much better than before and I can do more things now. I couldn't have done it without the great people here from r/loseit! THANK YOU SO MUCH! [link] [comments] |
| 26F, 260lbs - Obesity is ruining my life. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:29 PM PDT I'm 26F, 5'1" and 260lbs. I've been gaining ~20lbs/ year for 5 years. This past year I gained 40lbs. I'm extremely obese and it's ruining my life. I'm out of breath after putting on my socks. I have sleep apnea. None of my clothes fit. I have troubles wiping after the bathroom. I have really dark acanthosis nigricans on my neck, armpits and groin. Most recently it's spread to my breasts and under fat folds. I sweat even while I'm just sitting. Maybe tmi but I can barely masturbate anymore because my stomach is in the way. Basic every day tasks are exhausting to me because they're hard for me to do and then leave me out of breath. At all times of the day I just want to be laying down because that's the only position my body is comfortable in. I haven't looked at myself in a mirror for about a year. I had no idea just how big I am until I seen pictures of myself taken by other people. I think about my weight ALL day every. single. day. So! Today I've made the choice to try to start living a healthy lifestyle. I have a couple friends who go to the gym a few days a week and I've asked them to be my accountability buddies. I'm not a great cook but I stocked up on some premade salads and easy and yummy but healthy to make foods. Food will be the hardest part for me. I binge eat multiple times a week. I'm quite embarrassed about it and no one in my life knows about my binge eating problem. I only do it when I'm home alone. I know part of my healthy journey will be to get counselling for possible binge eating disorder but I'm going to wait until my benefits at work kick in to help pay for it. I'm embarrassed to tell any of my friends or family members about this so I wanted to share in a great community! I've lurked on this subreddit for years and it's been inspiring and eye opening for me. I'm finally ready to make the lifestyle change. I'm hoping to lose ~4lbs/month (1lb/week). I'd love to lose 10lbs by Canadian thanksgiving. Then maybe another ~10-15 by Christmas. My weight loss goal is to get back to around 150lbs. I know it's going to be a long and hard journey, but here's to day one! [link] [comments] |
| Yes I'm getting a Tummy Tuck, no I'm not ashamed Posted: 14 Aug 2020 04:14 AM PDT Hello all, Since June 2019 I have lost approx 71lbs I was hoping that my skin would bounce back and that I'd have a normal body, but I was sadly wrong. My stretch marks, which never bothered me appearance wise, have caused long term damage to my skin causing many parts of my body to sag and hang. My arms? Okay whatever, My chest? Doesn't bother me too much, but my belly? Yeah, it bothers me a whole lot. It is covered in marks and sags the most. Despite finishing Couch to 5k and starting 5K to 10K, despite losing 71 lbs and fixing my diet. Despite all that, here we are. Getting surgery. Sometimes weight loss isn't enough to get to your body image goals. And that's okay. Don't feel ashamed about it. At the end of the day you are healthier, physically stronger, and hopefully happier than you were before. Don't give up! And if you need a little bit of extra help like I do, don't be ashamed! [link] [comments] |
| Revelation: I thought it would take months/years to get to my goal weight and feel healthier.. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:59 AM PDT But feeling healthy can happen SO fast! I know this may be a really dumb and obvious thing to point out, but I honestly thought my health and energy levels were correlated solely to my weight. I have had 3 pregnancies in last 5 years and rather than a gradual slip downwards, my energy levels and general moods had become palpably worse after my third baby. It got to a point where I would be sitting down most of the day while my partner did the more active parts of parenting. I was so motivated to change and be a better parent, and feel like a young woman again, but was kind of bummed at how far I'd let myself go and how long it would take to get to even my pre pregnancy weight (I still needed to lose weight even before that). Especially as because we had completed our family and I didn't even feel in a position to really enjoy the life we had made together. My weight was really starting to hold me back in all aspects. But lo and behold, rather than just CICO like I've done previously, I combined it with IF, walking and eating just a bit healthier, and I already feel like a new woman. I need about 2.5 hours less sleep a night so j can actually chill with my partner instead of collapsing to bed soon after the kids have gone. I can get up and do stuff so much easier and get so much more done! I've lost around 30 - 35lbs so far, but have been feeling better since literally 2 weeks after I started my new routine in earnest. I just wanted to post this because I feel like I have put off starting my weight loss journey literally hundreds of times because of the notion in my sub conscious that it wasn't really worth it because I thought that the "finish line" of a slinky sexy body again was just too far away. It felt out of reach. So if you are looking for motivation to start your own journey, please don't hesitate for 10 years like I did! There are so many rewards for living a healthier lifestyle that come far before your goal weight does. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:12 PM PDT During quarantine, I got heavily obsessed with getting the 1.5 quart Kroger Deluxe ice cream containers. As a Ben & Jerrys pint lover, I thought the larger container would allow me to have more ice cream over time, but smaller servings individually. Well, it was a fat nope from me. I'd buy it on Sunday, it would be gone Tuesday at the latest. Instead of scooping it out into servings, I told myself "I'll know when to stop!" (Narrator: She did not) But the next week, I'd buy 2 more. (They were 2/$5 and I'm only human.) Anyway, I stopped buying them, but for the last month, I've eaten out constantly and terribly. Over the weekend, I FINALLY decided it was time to get my shit together. No fad or crash diets, just steady weight loss over time with CICO. In what I thought was a huge mistake, I bought the offending ice cream on Sunday. But this time, it was different. I'm on day 5 of the Lose It app for food and Alive by Whitney app for exercise, and I'm actually... doing it. I'm down 2lbs and it actually feels like I'm in it for the long haul. The reason I am more convinced this time? The ice cream I bought Sunday is still in the freezer. Half full. I haven't been restricting myself, I just scoop a serving into a bowl and put it back. I literally never thought I'd say this, but the pride I feel in myself right now tastes better than a full 1.5 quarts of ice cream in one sitting ever could. I'm trying to lose 60lbs in 1 year — so far, I think I'm on track for 5lbs/month. I really feel like I'm going to do it this time. Love this community! Keep going everyone. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 04:31 PM PDT Preface— I am aware that this might seem petty or small or silly. I do, however, think little things add up. And if you scrape away at one spot long enough, it starts to get sore. This is a sore spot for me. I currently live with my parents even though I am very much an adult (thanks corona + grad school). We live in a small house, so you know where everyone is at all times. She also doesn't work— and mostly camps out all day on her iPad in the living room (which you have to pass no matter where you're going). And I swear— this woman is a food MONITOR. She doesn't necessarily "police", but she always wants to know what I'm eating at all times. I find myself trying to hide from her at this point. I've talked to her about how I'm trying to think about food less (because I've been an obsessive on both ends of the scale— but it always ends in just constantly thinking about food). So I don't want to chat about it, think about it, anything. But my mom "forgets"... which means that any time I walk from the kitchen to the den, she looks up to see what I'm eating. If I'm in the kitchen longer than 1 minute, she will come in to either ask what I'm having or tell me something random that she has already told me (as a cover for coming in to see what I'm eating). This feels so silly to write out— but that's why I'm here as opposed to venting to IRL friends who I doubt would get it. I'm just... I'm finally in a good headspace where I'm not obsessing over food for the first time in my life and I find myself slipping back because I am so aware of how much my mom is watching me. It's not that I'm eating anything I don't want her to know about— it's just that she makes me think about it more than I would if I was just mechanically/nonchalantly getting food throughout the day. I know I need to work on whatever it is that makes me so averse to being watched... but I am not there yet. I would honestly just love some stories of commiseration or tips if anyone else has people like this in their life. Thx guys! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:41 PM PDT I live in the UK. Covid hit here about mid March and I responded by ordering takeout pizza and binge eating sweets. I'd had a bit of a stressful time as it was at work and I was regularly bingeing on meals that I have since worked out were around 4000 calories. I had one pair of jeans that fit me because they were stretchy. They were a UK 12 or US 8 (they were really stretchy...). I knew that I had gained weight but I had a phobia of the scales so I didn't know how much. I thought maybe I was around 175 lb. Anyway, after feeling like shit for a couple of weeks, I decided to weigh myself. I was devastated. The scale said 203 lb. I am almost 5'7". I was obese. Not just borderline either but right in the middle of the category. I only needed to gain another 20 lb or so and I'd be morbidly obese. I used to be a pretty consistent 155 lb and although I knew I'd gained, I didn't realise it was close to 50 lb. After shock and crying I took action. Lockdown helped because I wouldn't be going out anywhere and I could just focus on my goal. I decided to eat 1700 cals a day, walk 10,000 steps and do 25 minutes of yoga with Adriene a day. That was it. I also knew I could have no binge or cheat days. It was really fucking hard at first. I lost just 1 lb the first week. After that it came off a bit quicker. I kept at it and started turning some of my walks into runs. I was wearing mainly workout gear at home so I didn't notice any looser clothes sadly but I could see my body changing a bit. Anyway, it's now 4 and a half months since I started and I am 169 lb. 34 lb lost and about 11 to go. I feel proud of myself. The media keeps writing about how everyone has gained weight and I have reduced my body weight by over 16%. I am still slightly overweight but my waist is now 29 inches so I don't have any increased diabetes or heart risks. If you stick with it, it works! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 11:56 AM PDT TLDR: I've lost more weight than my coworker and she's taking it poorly. Share your stories of salty friends and family. I've seen it happen over and over both to me and to others: people should be happy for you when you succeed at weight loss, but sometimes people go the opposite way. They start claiming you're losing weight too fast or you're not using the right methods. They criticize how you look or claim you have an eating disorder. They invite you over and prepare a meal you've told them you can't eat or insist on restaurants without healthy options. Sure, some of this could be carelessness. But when it's being done on purpose, you know. So I decided that my wedding next year is the reason I need to buckle down and lose the weight. I had already been trying to eat healthier and be more active, but for the wedding I decided to up it a notch. I work in a small department with two women who are within 5 years of my age, 39, and one man who is late 50s or early 60s. I'm the heaviest person, 40 pounds heavier than anyone else at my high point. All four of us have struggled with being overweight in various ways. One day mentioned casually that I was going to really focus on weight loss. One of the women, let's call her Amy, says she used to be in an office weight loss pool. Every week they would weigh in and the person who lost the least would buy coffee for the person who lost the most. I'm not in love with the idea, but it would be nice to have a goal in common. I say I'm in, but I'm not going to weigh in at work. I'm only weighing once a day, naked, right after I wake up and pee. I can make my peace with sharing my weight with my coworkers, but I decide it's outside my comfort zone to get on the scale with people watching. Even at home I kick my husband out of the bathroom when I weigh in. I want that moment of privacy. Everyone agrees this is fine. I figure I better budget for buying coffee sometimes. I believe I will succeed at losing weight weight, but, for a lot of reasons, progress will be slow. I'm okay with that. I'm not doing it for the free coffee, and I occasionally buy coffee for my boss anyway, so it's not a big deal. I suggest that we go by % of body weight lost. It's easier for a 230 pound person to lose a pound than a 180 pound person to lose a pound because it's a greater percentage of their body weight. I thought we were all in agreement on that, but at the first weigh in I found out Amy misunderstood and thought I meant we would calculate our body fat percentage. I said I didn't want to get into the weeds with body fat percentage, I'm focusing on total body weight, but they could do that if they wanted and I would just not participate in that part. Anyway, we end up weighing in and going by number of pounds lost instead of percent. Fine, whatever, that benefits me anyway. Amy loses four pounds and the guy, Bob, has to buy her coffee. She's very pleased with herself, although less pleased when Bob just buys coffee for all of us--he's the boss of all of us, but he's also Amy's direct supervisor. I'm just pleased that I don't have to buy anyone coffee. Well, since then, Amy has gone up and down losing the same three or four pounds over and over. However, she claims she's losing inches and she looks legit skinnier. She looks great. She's into a lot of workout stuff and we've all talked about how she is probably gaining muscle and that's slowing down the progress on the scale. As of today, she's only down 3 pounds overall, and I know she's frustrated. I'm down nine since we started the competition and down 20 in the last year. I'm not being smug or celebrating or even really talking about it. I am pleased with myself, but I'm trying not to show it, especially since I have the body type where I lose 20 pounds and it barely shows. A few weeks ago I had a whoosh and she gained so she had to buy me coffee. She was NOT happy about it. It's hard to explain, but she was very brusque and dismissive about it when I won, but hasn't been that way when anyone else wins. Also, we have unofficially always bought coffee the next workday morning, but she got coffee for me in the afternoon. It felt a little passive aggressive, but not a big deal. I'm losing weight for the wedding, I can buy my own coffee. So we weigh in today. We're looking at the results and Amy says Bob and I both lost three pounds. I'm using my home scale, but both my scale and the one at work are digital and measure to the decimal. Me: Welllll, technically I lost 3.2 pounds and he lost 3, so I'm a little ahead, but I'm fine with a tie. Amy: Oh, we've been ignoring the decimals. This isn't really true. I've reported my weight to the decimal every week and the scale they use measures in decimal. It's just that no one else has been writing down their weight to the decimal in the log. Me: Okay, a tie, yay! Amy: Actually, we really should be doing it by percentage. Um, since when? Whatever. We calculate our percentage and Bob has lost 0.1% more weight than I have. I'm totally fine with Bob winning since I wanted to do percentage from the beginning, and I'm fine with a tie. I'm just pleased not to be last. Amy: So Bob's the winner! Margo (the 4th person here and my direct supervisor): Well, if 0.2 pounds doesn't matter than 0.1% doesn't matter. They're still tied. Amy doesn't really like this, I can tell. Fortunately, Bob was gone for the last weigh in and we had decided before weigh in that Bob was buying everyone coffee for missing the weigh in. I don't know how we would have decided to handle coffee otherwise. I would have suggested we just call it a draw and do no coffee. So now Amy is literally having a mini binge. She and Margo decided to go get fast food, which Amy rarely eats because of allergies as well as calories. Margo invited me, Amy pretty obviously wasn't going to include me. A few weeks ago Amy waited until I was away from the office, which happens the same time every day, and took Margo to go pick up lunch for the two of them and Bob. The task that called me away takes the same amount of time every day, but that day, when they came back, Amy said she wanted to include me, but if they had waited for me it would have been too late. I don't care what Amy thinks of me as long as we have a good professional relationship and I don't have to put up with too much passive aggression. I find it funny that she didn't want to calculate the weight by percentage until I was about to win. We got along a lot better before I started losing weight. I have had other people pigeonhole me as "the fat one" and, on past successful weight loss journeys, seen them grow unfriendly as my weight went down. I think some people compare themselves to others and take their value from that, and when the comparison changes they don't react well because they've attached their identity to someone else's identity. Edit: I agree it would probably be easier if I just dropped out of the competition, but dropping out would just be a source of more drama. I know this group and sooner or later we will forget completely about a weigh in day and it will all just be forgotten. Do you have anyone who is not handling your weight loss very well? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 11:56 PM PDT So it's been a rough couple years and due to stress eating, anxiety and some good ol depression, im at the heaviest I've ever been and don't really wanna pass into the 300 mark before I hit 30. I'm 29 now and would love some tips on how some of y'all lost some weight. I'm starting to walk more and my job isn't exactly active (though I'm standing most of the day) I do plan on seeing a nutritionist to build a diet that'll work for me as I tend to get headaches when I don't eat enough and get low blood sugar shakes if I wait to long to eat. (Could be diabetic but it's something I've always had and never put too much stock into so I'll also look into that) I've cut back majorly on junk food lately and have been trying to cut out fast food even though sometimes it's the only thing I have access too because of work and life, and have started eating more veggies... what else should I be doing? [link] [comments] |
| In the 70s for the first time in years, and had to pull up my pants today! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 05:06 PM PDT SW: 298lbs. CW: 279 GW: 200? I looked at the scale this morning and I'm officially in the 70s! The last time I was that low must have been 3 years ago? Started in June slowly, cutting fast food down each week until completely cut out. Learning how to make more advanced meals. Walking to close stores instead of driving. Taking the dog on a short walk (she's old and can't walk far) Gradually moving up to CICO. At the beginning of June I was eating 4000+ Calories a DAY?! Now, I'm at 800-1200 a day and I don't feel hungry or like I need to eat. I'm eating homemade versions of my favourite foods, and just learning about how many calories are actually in food. I can't believe I've already lost 19lbs! I'm not even exercising other than my physical job and a 5 min app. Once I recover from surgery in September, I'm going to start swimming at the local Y. P.S. Chicken breasts aren't dry! My Mum just didn't know how to cook them when I lived with them! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 05:32 PM PDT Sorry for formatting, I'm on mobile. Also, english is not my first language so mistakes will be made. TL;DR at the bottom. I've never been a small girl. Hell, even when I was at my lowest weight (~130ish) I was bulky and felt fat. I was at a healthy BMI and didn't have any pains, but I thought that I was a big girl and that was it. Because of that belief, I didn't find it so bad when I started gaining weight. I got in college, and gained almost 40 pounds. A mix of anxiety, depression, being overwhelmed by medical school and living alone for the first time made me eat like a madwoman and forget all about exercising, I felt too tired most of the time anyway. In my mind, I didn't look so different, so it shouldn't be that bad, right? Oh boy was I wrong, and how I want to smack my past self for ignoring this issue. I started feeling lower back pain, and needed treatment. I never thought it was about my weight, so I shrugged it off as bad posture and kept ignoring it. It never went away, so I learned to live with it. It couldn't be so bad, or so I thought. Then, my knees started making sounds (I don't know the English word, but it clicked when I moved), and I found it funny at first. When it didn't stop after months, I started worrying. Again, it never stopped so eventually I started ignoring that too. See a pattern? Yeah, me too. After years of denying my issues, they finally came to kick my butt. Three weeks ago, as I was going down the stairs, I tripped over and bent my right knee in ways that no human should ever bend. It hurt A LOT. I spent days limping because I was in so much pain. Went to the doctor, got some scans done, and the results came today. I managed to deeply hurt one of my meniscus, and I'll probably need surgery to take it off. Without it protecting the bones in the joint, they'll be damaged faster than normal. So I basically got myself an early onset arthritis for this amazing achievement. At 23 years old. The doctor said that I need to lose weight and I can't ever let it slip. I need to keep my legs strong through my entire life, or else I might need major surgery (prosthetics probably) by 40. This post is kinda my way to make myself accountable (I've got an issue with discipline), to start tracking my progress and to warn others. I am NOT morbidly obese, nor do I look obese. I have a BMI of 30.9 and that was enough to make a huge damage. Please, please, being overweight brings so many more issues than the ones that come later in life, don't let yourself get to where I got. It's not worth it. Loving yourself comes in many forms, and caring for your body is one of them. I am going to see a nutritionist next week to start a meal plan or something like that, exercise is on hold until the knee is fixed. I'm also in therapy and on meds for the mental health issues. I need to start this journey. If you're still here, thanks a lot for reading. Hope you'll see me again here posting my progress in a few months. Take care! TL;DR: let myself get obese through the last years, knees week mom's spaghetti, hurt my meniscus and probably got myself early arthritis because of it. At 23 years old. Gonna start my weightloss journey NOW! [link] [comments] |
| I can do this again I can do it again Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:05 PM PDT (20F) Last year I lost 30lbs in 6 months after peaking at 5'1", 180lbs. I was working my first part time job, active, eating right, and all was well. Then I went on campus and gained it all back. Not because the food was good, mind you- it was awful. Fried steak, fried fish Fridays, fried chicken Thursdays, pasta all week, burgers every day. Half the time what they served was borderline inedible. I almost chipped a tooth when I bit something tiny yet hard as a rock in my burger. I ended up eating nearly entirely french fries, burgers, cheezits, and Nutella for an entire year. I finally weighed myself again a couple weeks ago and I was right back to 180lbs. I panicked, immediately started TRF, and have lost about 5lbs since. But then I went to the doctor the other day for my physical. Turns out I'm 70lbs overweight. I mean, I knew I was, but hearing someone say it to me was like a bucket of cold water being thrown over my head. It's so hard to lose weight in this household. I live with my mom, and we've both been heavy for the longest time, but we differ in one major way- she's an emotional eater while I'm a boredom eater. And boy, is she emotional. I've begged her to stop but there's always cookies or ice cream or muffins in the kitchen and it's so hard to fight it. But I won't live like this. I won't live not being able to see my own feet when I look down, and feeling my arms squish over fat, and sucking my gut in every time I leave the house. I hate looking in the mirror and feeling sickened by my reflection. I REFUSE TO LOOK LIKE A THUMB FOR ONE MORE DAY GODDAMMIT. I do as many leg lefts as I can before bed, I walk the dog, and I'm working on building up the strength to do sit-ups and pushups as well. It's not much but it helped then, so maybe it'll help now. I'm also trying to eat more lean protein and eat less in general- I'm the sort to eat until I feel like I'm gonna be sick. I'm just posting this to say it I think. Advice is welcome and appreciated!! I've always done things pretty informally so I'm sure I'm unaware of a lot of things. I hope in a month I'll be making another post saying I've lost 10lbs :P [link] [comments] |
| i keep self-sabotaging and i don't know how to stop! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:52 PM PDT 23F 5'2 SW: 205 CW: 150 GW: 120(?)
Little bit of backstory: I was skinny for most of my childhood but my mother (who was obese) convinced me that I was fat. I developed severe body dysmorphia and an eating disorder. I truly believed I was really really overweight. Even when I weight 115lbs. Then in my attempt to recover from my eating disorder, I became obese.
I've lost a lot of weight now. But i've reached this threshold where i'm about to no longer be overweight. I'll be small and actually be able to see it in the mirror for the first time in my life. But because i'm so convinced that I've never been thin, my brain is also convinced that I can't ever be thin. So every time I try to continue losing weight, I come up with some reason why I can't/shouldn't. Like I'm trying to prove my mom right when I should be trying to prove my mom wrong. I don't know. I feel like Im messing myself up on purpose and I want to stop doing this. I want to be lean and thin in a healthy way. I feel uncomfortable being overweight. I don't want my mom to be right that I have to be overweight and that I'm always failing. [link] [comments] |
| How do I stop viewing exercise as a punishment? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 08:21 PM PDT Growing up I was always on the chubbier side but not too much larger than my elementary school peers. When I was in the 4th grade my parents got a treadmill and I was forced to run 2 miles daily on it after school Monday through Friday. This happened from when I was in the 4th grade until I went to the 7th grade. If I got in trouble (which was somewhat often), they made me run an extra mile on top of that, so a lot of days I was forced to run 3 miles a day. Keep in mind, I'm also a middle child and this was something only I had to do. I wasn't allowed to eat a snack, watch tv, or do anything fun after school until I ran my miles. Now like I said, this stopped in the 7th grade after I fell off the treadmill one day and injured my foot. After that I refused to get back on the treadmill. I started therapy last year to deal with my depressing and the subject of my weight and my hatred of working out came up and my therapist helped me to see that this treatment of being forced to workout and then having to workout extra as a punishment definitely gave me a complex about my weight. My question is, what are some ways to help me stop viewing working out as a punishment and start viewing it as a tool to help me better my health/life? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:22 PM PDT Hi everyone! Been through big changes in quarantine. In January I was close to 270lbs. Since I was around 17 I hovered above 250lbs. I'm in California and love going to theme parks or "did" until something happened... I was going on one of the popular rides at Universal and was asked to move to an outside seat because the overhead bar didn't click on me enough. On another fast ride, I remember the attendant spending an extra 15 seconds trying to push my seatbelt in because it almost didn't fit. I still got on but was so humiliated. I was with my friends when it happened. I think this kind of traumatized me in a way, and I lost all joy from theme parks because of that embarrassment. I know that my weight was somewhere around 255lbs when that happened because I weighed myself when I got home and cried for hours. I'm 19 now and this past quarantine I've lost a lot of weight. I weigh around 203lbs as of now and of course still losing every day! I'm 5'7 for reference. I used to get so much joy from going to theme parks and now all I can think about when I think of going is the fear of being too "fat" for rides. I recently decided to get the nerve up to get a pass again. I'm just scared that I won't fit or they are going to struggle fitting me in the ride like what happened last time. I know there are test seats outside but I feel it's fairly obvious what I'm doing? Testing to see if I fit because I fear I'm too fat? I guess I'm just looking for advice! I don't mean for this post to come off as depressed etc, more just advice. Should I lose more weight before I go? My main issue is that I have a really big stomach and thighs so for some rides that really scares me.. If there's any videos too of people going on rides that would be very helpful, also any measurements or experienced anyone has too! [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 15 August 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:08 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] |
| Need help guiding my overweight little sister [11] into getting into a healthy weight range. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:30 PM PDT So I'm back home for a 4 month stay after university due to covid and my little sister has gotten really overweight over the years. She's below 5' and is around 70kg! I really want to help her as she's so incredibly sweet and adorable and I can see her self confidence really plummet nowadays, and all my mom seems to do is vocalize her frustration at my sister by calling her fat all the time. I'm kinda lost in what to do since this is a scenario of a preteeen girl who's about to attend school in the fall too, and I'm male and have no clue on how to help her achieve this In a healthy fashion. Considering she's so young and growing up as a female. Not to mention how slow of a progress it will be and hence how it'll be kinda demotivating for her since her healthy weight is so far away. We live in a south Asian household and I can't meal prep for her with western foods as she'll have to eat the home cooked meals, but right now I'm planning on losing some weight along side with her to help her with motivation, although I'm in a healthy weight range, I do have a unsightly look underneath my shirt that I'm not happy with. I'm thinking of CICO with two small portions of home cooked meals a day with fruits for snacks. Very loose calorie counting and mostly judging by weighing scale movements. My biggest concern is, does an 11 year old even have the willpower to do this? And how can I help her in to this regard? Also will appreciate dieting help for her. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| What is skinny fat and what some early signs of the risk? Posted: 15 Aug 2020 12:36 AM PDT This post may be a bit of a rant, sorry! I'm male, 18 years old. My CW is 72kg, GW is 65kg. I began my diet right after my bday (late Feb) starting at 88kg. From late Feb until May I ate healthy without calorie counting, lost about 8 kilos. I took a break from May until early or mid April. I still lost 2 kilos though. Right now I've been eating a standard diet using the CICO method and have now reached 72 kg as of today. FYI: (My waist from the beginning was 104cm and now it is 88cm today). I've started to exercise about a month ago, 3 days lifting and 2 days of bodyweight abs/cardio. When I was at 75kg, I was eating at around 1450-1500 kcal. Right now I've began to eat a little more at around 1550-1650 kcal. I feel great and I am losing weight at a steady pace... ...However I am starting to worry that I might be at risk of 'skinny fat' because my BMI is at the top of my healthy range for my height (173cm), even though my waist is still 88cm. I look huge in my stomach/chest area. I've lost almost all the fat on my legs, arms and face. Am I worrying over nothing or should I do something about it? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| About to start my journey (again) Posted: 14 Aug 2020 08:42 PM PDT Female, mid 20's, SW: 224lbs GW: 165/170lbs It's been a rough journey. Food and weight have been serious barriers my whole life. I was never super overweight, just a little more plump than my friends. Post-college I was extremely stressed (getting my life together, starting career, fun stuff!!) and my weight wasn't a priority, so I let myself go a bit. Like, 40 pounds a bit. I look in the mirror and don't like what I see. It's not the best feeling. On top of that, I have Hashimoto's disease and was diagnosed when I was a child, which hasn't helped, since it makes it much more difficult to lose weight. In order to prevent health challenges in the future (many horrible health issues run in my family), my doctor and I discussed the immediate need to buckle down and take weight loss seriously. To that effect, she has given me a prescription for Qsymia to help get me started, and once I'm off of it, the hope is that I will be able to keep the momentum going. I started a vegetarian (I still eat fish and eggs) diet because I felt eating meat created an opening to eat poorly (think fast food). I slip occasionally but mostly keep to it (yay!) but I feel there needs to be more to it. What has helped you in starting your journey for the hundredth time? How do you get over feeling defeated? How do I get and stay motivated? How hardcore do I need to revamp my diet? Have you ever had problems/successes with Qsymia? [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 14 Posted: 14 Aug 2020 05:26 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Friday! We made it! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. Hectic morning. I gotta stop having those. Stay within calorie range (1500 weekdays, maintenance weekends): Should be okay today! Exercise 5 days a week: Lunch time walky walks. 12/14 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Prolly not tonight. 2/2 weeks. Self-care time (working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 4/14 days): TBD. Try a new recipe once a week: Baked donuts, enchilada casserole, bbq hummus, more different enchilada casserole & dressing(s). 5/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not today. 0/50 pages. No fast food or candy from the work dish: Streak day 12. Squeaking by. Be present in my body & accept the sensory feedback: Anxiety ahoy. Work raising my blood pressure over here. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Today I'm grateful for prairie dogs & birds of prey I get to see on my walks. Mother nature is pretty damn cool. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
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