Weight loss: I've Lost 252LBS & FINALLY Enjoyed My Annual Family Vacation This Year! |
- I've Lost 252LBS & FINALLY Enjoyed My Annual Family Vacation This Year!
- NSV: I haven't ordered food delivery in six months
- Below 250 for the first time in 10 years
- Below 150 for the first time in my 20s!
- Had a bad cheat day? Here is what to do...
- Just remember that weight loss is for yourself. Not others. Don't let other people's bad comments add weight on you.
- Coming down from 400lbs, I've lost 120lbs in 383 days
- Stop stressing too much, it WILL happen.
- Got my weight # at the doctors today..
- Ten years ago, my best friend gave me a ring.
- NSV: The cheese cake is disappearing...and it isn't me!
- I’m no longer obese, just overweight! How do I celebrate?
- My (25M) boyfriend (26M) has been leading a somewhat unhealthy life the past few years. His work-life creates an environment for easy weight-gain, and he's put on 80+ pounds over the past 1.5 years. I can't do anything to get him to see why this is so concerning for his health.
- Is 1200 calories a day really doomed to be too low?
- Gained all the weight back and more during quarantine..
- Have you ever had to “start over?”
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: August 19th, 2020
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 18
- After years of saying "no," I want to be able to say "yes."
- Lost 15 Pounds!!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 19 August 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- I know I’m fat. But how bad is it?
- I haven’t weighed this much since I graduated high school. 40lbs. lost
| I've Lost 252LBS & FINALLY Enjoyed My Annual Family Vacation This Year! Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:58 PM PDT Hello! My name is Erika, I'm 26 years old, and I have lost 252 pounds. I'm writing this on the last night of my family's annual vacation to Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. This is our 16th year and I can finally say that I have truly and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this vacation. Lava Hot Springs is a tiny, wonderful tourist town with a huge swimming pool, natural hot springs, a fun river for tubing, and a bunch of cute shops. It's super small - everything is in walking distance! We come up every year and rent out a house for a week and have tons of fun just vegging out. Two years ago, July of 2018, was the most miserable year yet. I was at my heaviest of 425 pounds. I was wearing a 6X one piece swimsuit that was so tight that I had to have my mother help me squeeze into it every time I wanted to put it on. Going to the pool and the hot springs was absolutely miserable - it was embarrassing and I was uncomfortable and hot. The walk from the car to the pool was so hard. There's a ramp you have to walk down to get to the hot springs - walking up that ramp was too hard. I couldn't walk down tiny Main Street without having to stop every few feet for a break. The house we rent is at the top of a hill and I absolutely refused to walk up and down it. The town is tiny but I made us drive everywhere because I could not handle the walking. I opted out of several family activities (such as tubing down the river) because I just couldn't do it. I couldn't fit into the chairs out on the deck - the sides of the chairs squeezed into my thighs and left marks. I needed help getting out of them most of the time. I was hot and sweaty and I wanted to have fun and relax but I just couldn't. This wonderful vacation that I was supposed to be enjoying made me hate myself and my life even more. This year, August of 2020, I weigh 173 pounds. This vacation is everything I ever wanted it to be and more. We've had to make adjustments due to the current world situation (we did not go to the pool, spent a lot of time in our rented house, and wore masks and social distanced when going out) but I have had the time of my life. I am now in a size 10/medium swimsuit and I don't need any help getting into it. We have walked EVERYWHERE, largely at my insistence. I've taken walks every day, up and down some pretty steep hills that I never would have been able to manage before. The chairs out on the deck are perfectly comfortable and I need no help getting in and out. It's been in the upper 90s all week but I haven't been the slightest bit uncomfortable. I've had no worries about missing out, no worries about over exerting myself, no worries about people seeing me and laughing at me. I've just been... happy. Content. Relaxed. And that is not something I'm used to. I feel free. I think that's the best way to describe it; I feel free. I'm coming up on my two year anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery and I'm grateful every day that I made the decision to take my life back. I've made some serious life changes. I follow a very healthy diet - 1600 calories, 100g of protein, 100-125g of carbs, less than 60g of fat, less than 30g of sugar, lots of water, yoga every day, 10,000 steps five days a week. Surgery has been a tool but it's me who has made the changes and taken my life back. We head back tomorrow and I'm so excited to come back next year, hopefully at my goal weight of 150 pounds. I am grateful and happy and feel so lucky to be living the life I'm living now! Just for fun - here and here are some before and after pictures I recreated this year. Thank you for reading! I am more than happy and willing to answer any and all questions! [link] [comments] |
| NSV: I haven't ordered food delivery in six months Posted: 18 Aug 2020 04:33 AM PDT Earlier this year I (30m) had a strong moment of clarity and realised I ordered too much food delivery. I didn't really know how often I ordered*, but I just knew it was too much and I needed to break the cycle. It's really easy to order food delivery where I live, and pretty cheap too, so the threshold is really low. I just order through an app, delivery times are usually somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes, and more times than not there are no delivery costs (and if there are, it's just 1 or 2 euro). Obviously it wasn't just how often I ordered, but the type and amount of food too. Most of the time it was pizza with meat toppings, or pita bread with shawarma. My favourite -and probably the biggest calorie bomb ever- is the 'kapsalon' (it literally means: hairdressing salon, because it was invented by a hairdresser in Rotterdam). It's a layer of fries, shawarma or doner kebab and cheese, that got put in the oven for a bit, so the cheese melts on top of the rest; then a layer of some lettuce/tomatoes/onions (which I often scraped off). And then I'd just drown that thing in a garlic mayonnaise sauce. It's ridiculous, I loved it, and it's about 1800 calories. There were also days where I placed an order because I didn't have any soft drinks at home and I was too lazy to go the supermarket (which is only a few hundred meters from my house). I'd first add a few cans of cola or sprite to my order, and then some food, because they don't deliver drinks only. On other days I'd order lunch (most of the time it was two 30cm subs), and then later in the day I'd order dinner as well. And I can't forget the days where I ordered extra so I had leftover pizza for breakfast the next day. I've been trying to turn things around and improve my health for years, but every time I did, I always went all-in and tried to change everything all at once. It never worked; it was just unsustainable. I knew I had to break it up in parts; start to improve one thing, let it become my new normal, and only then start improving another thing. I looked at all the things I wanted and needed to change, and I found ordering food delivery -for me- was the most damaging, both in terms of finances (even if it's cheap, if you order a lot, it's still expensive) and amount of fat and calories. So that's where I started. I realised I needed to treat it as an addiction that I had to quit, so I downloaded an app to stay sober and purposefully turned on the daily motivation notifications, because I knew I needed them - especially the first few weeks. Some of them are a bit corny ("only dead fish go with the flow"), but they helped me to remind myself that I am making improvements to my health. I also joined a few subreddits for extra motivation; being able to see what sustained change can mean for my health and self-image really helped me realise it's a long, hard process, that eventually pays off. What also helped was seeing the number of days rise. If I had a tough day, I reminded myself to think of that number, how hard I worked for it to see it increase every day and how it would be a shame if I just threw that away because I felt like ordering a pizza, or a 'kapsalon'. So today, I haven't ordered food delivery in six months, I've been counting calories for three months (and making changes in my diet to lower them ever since), and haven't had a soft drink in 2,5 months. I've also been crying for the last half hour because I'm so happy and proud of my progress, which I haven't been of myself in a really, really long time. I'm definitely not where I need to be, yet. I was under 180kg (400-ish lbs) last week for the first time in a long time, so I still have a long road ahead of me, but reminding myself of these small victories -and seeing everybody else's progress- really motivates me to keep going. Thank you! (*I actually looked it up for this post. In 2019 I placed 137 orders for a total of 3,045 euros. The first 6 weeks of 2020: 22 orders, 439 euros.) Edit: thank you all for the kind replies and thank you for the awards! [link] [comments] |
| Below 250 for the first time in 10 years Posted: 18 Aug 2020 04:09 PM PDT I've been morbidly obese for as long as I can remember. I grew up on junk food so I didn't really know of any other way and it just became normalized for me. By the time I was 25 I was 370 pounds. It was the worst feeling in the entire world, watching my friends and family move around effortlessly enjoying life while I felt weighed down by 1,000 suns. My weight has always loomed over me and caused me sorrow throughout my life. From being bullied really bad to just missing out on things most kids get to experience. However, I am so happy to announce that as of today I'm below 250 pounds for the first time in 10 years!! The weight just keeps dropping off at a pretty rapid pace, I've lost about 50 pounds in 3 months. I tried a lot of things before I found something that really worked for me but what personally helped me the most was following a strict smoothie diet, you can find what I followed here www.upliftedvibe.com/smoothie-diet. I think it allowed my body to reset or something but ever since I've been on it for the past 3 months I've been steadily losing weight and have never felt better. I get so many comments now saying how amazing i'm looking and that I must be losing weight, for the first time I'm actually starting to feel loved and accepted. Thanks for reading, let me know if you have any questions [link] [comments] |
| Below 150 for the first time in my 20s! Posted: 18 Aug 2020 01:39 PM PDT My SW was 157, and I'm 8 pounds down in 2.5 weeks of CICO and 10 minutes of HIIT 3 days a week. My exercise is low for now but I'm working on it! This means I hit my first mini goal 2 weeks earlier than I expected- to get below 150 was my one month goal. I usually aim for 1400 calories a day, so I know the weight loss has been unusually quick but I know I'm not starving myself- I know the first week or two are sometimes unusually fast due to the sudden change. I am struggling because I wish I had more people to share this with. I started this weight los journey in the wake of a difficult breakup, and I wish I could text him the scale and get a congrats, but I decided to finally make an account and join this community I've been lurking in instead. [link] [comments] |
| Had a bad cheat day? Here is what to do... Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:12 AM PDT Maybe this weekend you went overboard. You were consistent for 5 or maybe even 6 days this past week, but then Saturday night rolls around and the pizza boxes are ordered in. So you binged. And you ate past satiety. Okay, no problem, you are going to be back on track tommorrow right? A few thousand calories cant hurt....but oh no...you gained 5 pounds in a day :o Well the truth is, it takes just as long to lose weight as it does to gain it. No, you didnt actually gain 5 pounds of fat. Theres roughly 3500 calories in a pound, so even if you did a 10k with the boys(or the girls), that's still under 3 pounds. And that's not even subtracting your maintenance or digestion. But still, how do you recover from a binge? 1) dont skip any meals the following days. It will make you feel even more hungry and make you want to binge even more. Just try to eat normally but mindfully. Maybe cut back a few calories here and there, but nothing crazy. 2) drink a lot of water. Sure, you may want to try to limit bloating, but water will help clear some of that excess "bad stuff" from your system 3) dont freak out with the scale. Trust me, your months or years of hard work cant be undone in a single night or even a day. Theres a lot of factors that make our weight fluctuate. Dont become fixated on a number. Instead, be fixated on how you feel! 4) USE.YOUR.CHEAT.MEAL. okay so you binged. But dont let it go to waste!!! You can use it to your advantage. You can train harder in the gym, go longer, faster, better than last time! At the end of the day, food is fuel, so you can use those extra carbs to get in a few more reps. Dont take it easy, instead perform your best! I'm not saying to try and burn off those excess calories because that is very unrealistic. I am saying to *perform better * in your workouts. This will give you an overall better feeling, and you will be motivated! The goal is to be healthier and stronger, so dont get so down if the scale says otherwise for a few days. And trust me, if you are consistent, the weight will come off. This also dossnt mean to go out and binge every weekend to "perform better", but you can use this tip at a moment of weakness. If you consistently feel the need to binge, then maybe you need to find a different diet that is better for you. The goal isn't fast weight loss, it's a healthier life style that naturally will get you to a healthier weight. Sustainability is key! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:47 AM PDT I'm 5'10", male, and 196 pounds right now. I started my weight loss journey at 282 pounds, a year and a couple of months ago. I want to start off by saying how happy I am with my weight loss, and how I don't let others feelings or opinions get to me. I am losing weight at a healthy rate, and before corona virus I would always get a good blood test result. I am not eating constant junk. The reason that I can handle hearing what I do from others is because my weight loss is personal. It's for me. For my health. For my desired looks. So long as I'm not losing weight unhealthily, or eating nothing but junk, others opinions don't matter. They may hurt in the moment, but ultimately I can't let them get to me. At first my family was supportive, but only when they assumed I would lose maybe 10 or 20 pounds. Enough to go down a single size. When I was 3 or so months in, my mother told me to my face that I would get cancer for losing so much weight. She herself is overweight, at 5'5" and 215~ pounds. We managed to move past that, but it definitely wasn't nice to hear. As time went on, my mother especially would constantly make fun of me by incessantly telling me how rail thin I was. When I was about a year in or close to it, around 215 pounds, all my family started telling me how I was basically a skeleton and I needed to stop. Whenever I hit a small plateau of two or three weeks I'd get told about how my body "had lost all it possibly could" and to just stop losing weight already. I always proved them wrong. Now in the current day, I get told how I'm absolutely going to get sick. Not any particular illness, just "sick". God forbid I ask them to explain why they think so. And as if they care when I lay out my calorie goals and the spread of food I eat. I just wanted to let you guys know my experiences, and maybe to vent a little. None of us are alone guys. There are others like us. I hope you all have a nice day! Keep at it! [link] [comments] |
| Coming down from 400lbs, I've lost 120lbs in 383 days Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:27 AM PDT SW: 400lbs CW: 280lbs 25 years old. 5'11. I've posted on this subreddit a few times in the past, but this is my first time posting here after breaking into and well-grounding myself in the 200s. It's been about a decade since I've been this light. It feels great, and I'm sure as hell going to keep going. What I'm doing: honestly, I'm just walking twice a day (mornings and evenings), and lifting dumbbells three times a week. Nothing crazy. When it comes to diet, I'm focusing on high volume, low calorie dense meals. Much of my recent progress can be attributed to having discovered Greg Doucette's YouTube channel. I definitely highly recommend him. I find a lot of his dietary suggestions to be highly sustainable, and sustainability is my ultimate goal here. It's crazy how much you can accomplish once you [link] [comments] |
| Stop stressing too much, it WILL happen. Posted: 18 Aug 2020 01:20 PM PDT I love CICO. After years of yo-yo dieting, finally understanding what causes weight loss seems like a miracle. But with great knowledge comes great responsibility, and at times it has gotten in my head. I recently went on vacation for two weeks. I think we all know how easy it is to let ourselves go during our getaways. No one wants to be stressing over how many calories we're eating, but we also don't want to "ruin" weeks of dieting either. During my vacation I tried to stick with my daily calorie allowance, but found it hard when we went out to eat. None of the menus kept calorie counts. I'm already an indecisive person as is, but this made it 10x harder. I'd spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what I wanted to eat, and then regret it after. When the food came out, it was delicious. But then afterwards I would be stuck trying to figure out just how much I ate. After the first time we went out to eat, I realized it was mentally draining trying to keep this guessing game up. I finally accepted the fact that even after I reach my goal weight, I won't be 100% sure of how many calories are in foods/drinks when I go out to eat with my friends. Although 2 weeks of vacation can set me back, as long as I tried my best to stick with my calorie allowance then I did my best on trying to prepare for maintenance. At this point I was expecting the worst but hoping for the best when it came to scale time. In that way I wouldn't be surprised if I had gained. I lost 5 pounds during that vacation, and surprisingly enjoyed myself while I was at it. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't stress yourself out. There is already enough going on in the world to stress you out, no need to put some extra stress and drain yourself. Even if the scale didn't move or if I had gained, it wouldn't have "ruined" everything. It'd take an extra week or so, but weight loss shouldn't be a race anyways. I know it can be hard to let yourself relax and have fun but I hope this helps to reassure someone reading. Even if you take two steps forward and one back, as long as you keep at it, you WILL reach your goal weight. Stressing too much doesn't do anything but hurt. You can reach your goal and have fun while you're at it too :) [link] [comments] |
| Got my weight # at the doctors today.. Posted: 18 Aug 2020 01:40 PM PDT I started on an 1500-1700 calorie diet about three weeks ago, stopped drinking sugary beverages and switched to regular coffee vs mochas. Weighed in at 395lbs today.. Down from 414 two weeks ago.. pissed off at myself to let myself get to where I am but hopefully life can get better. Keeping track with the MyFitnessPal has been easy, especially since I finally figured out how to scan stuff lol. Height: 6'3 That's what I'm wearing right now, however it's getting to be baggy on me.. However I don't want to buy any new clothes just to have to rebuy more a month or two down the road, buying Tall size items isn't cheap. [link] [comments] |
| Ten years ago, my best friend gave me a ring. Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:27 AM PDT My best friend gave me a ring of a butterfly. The ring is pretty intricate and detailed, but is completely made of silver. I rarely take the ring off. I've worn it nearly every day for the past 10 years. When I first got it, I put it on my middle finger. When I started gaining weight, it became too tight, so I put it on my ring finger. Eventually, it was too tight there and so I put it on my pinky. Today, my ring fits on my middle finger again. Weight loss has been such an amazing journey. Yes, I feel better. Yes, my clothes for better. Yes, I am happier. But the thing made me really appreciate how far I've gone is this ring being returned to it's original place. It's rightful place. I hope I never have to take it off this finger ever again. [link] [comments] |
| NSV: The cheese cake is disappearing...and it isn't me! Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:50 PM PDT I am 3 days into my 8,561st attempt at losing weight. My wife has basically started to ignore my attempts because I say I want to lose weight...but then 20 minutes later I eat half a cheese cake and say "Don't judge me." (True story, by the way.) But for some reason, this time it's working. My wife bought a cheese cake a few days ago, and I decided that if I can't refrain from eating it I'll just eat half pieces at a time. Small steps. Well, each day I noticed it going down, piece by piece...but it isn't me. My half piece is still there. I don't know what I'm doing differently this time, but it seems to be working. Just thought I'd share this small victory with y'all. [link] [comments] |
| I’m no longer obese, just overweight! How do I celebrate? Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:44 AM PDT Stats: 24F | 5'7" | 189.2lbs as of this morning Starting weight: 220lbs Goal weight: 150ish (just want to be in a healthy weight range) Hi all! First time I'm posting in this subreddit, but have been gaining confidence and inspiration from you all for the past 3 months. I've been working very hard to get down from my starting weight of 220lbs in April. I am very proud to say I'm below 190! Meaning I'm no longer considered obese, just overweight. I know BMI isn't the best way to track your health, but it's just one of a few ways I've been measuring my progress. I've been using myfitness app, eating at a healthy deficit, cutting out junk food and alcohol, drinking more water, and EXERCISING. Which I have found very therapeutic. Especially strength/resistance training. Also, a big thank you to everyone in this subreddit, I've found it so incredibly helpful! I've also been taking my measurements monthly and have a smart scale to track my percentages; I've made significant changes in both of these. But the BMI measurement (as much as I hate to admit) has been my most discouraging part of weight loss; it's not the most uplifting thing to be told your still obese every morning at weigh in even when you know you've made great progress. So moving into a new category really makes me feel like I've made a huge step towards my goal. So to the fun part, I want to celebrate reaching my first goal; and I plan on celebrating every 10lbs until I hit my ultimate goal weight, but I don't really want to celebrate with food or alcohol. I had thought about maybe going kayaking, taking a weekend to go on a road trip, or going camping at the local national forest. My boyfriend and I have been stuck in our house since the start of COVID and we want to treat ourselves with an experience. But with Fall/Winter coming I know we won't be able to do those things every time I hit a goal... So what do you all do to celebrate? Or do you have any ideas on how I should? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 06:57 PM PDT We've been together for about three years now. We've lived together for almost two. He works a job with long, hard, stressful hours, all from a desk. He doesn't necessarily seem to have TOO horrible of a diet, since I'm able to see pretty much everything he eats by means of living together, but he definitely needs more exercise. I'm truly all for body positivity and I'd love him no matter what he looked like; I'm more concerned for his health. He's put on 80+ pounds (150-230/240ish) in just about a year and a half. At our age - and at any age - that's extreme and incredibly concerning. He doesn't seem to get it, though. He brushes it off and makes excuses for everything. "These pants must have shrunk in the wash!" "As soon as I wrap up this project for work, I'll have some time to start running and biking again!" (Of course, that never happens). "Could you tie my shoes, honey? I slept funny and it hurts to bend forward." He's gained this massive belly that makes it beyond obvious to everyone he knows that he's gained this kind of weight, too. His parents have confided in me and asked many times about his mental/emotional health because of this sudden, rapid change. I think because he hasn't really had any major health repercussions of the new size yet, he hasn't been able to understand the severity of this kind of rate of weight gain. 5+ Pounds a month? And there seems to be no end in sight. I don't know if he's eating insanely unhealthy food at work that I don't know about, or when he goes out without me... Medium shirts to XL and XXL shirts? The biggest shock was this week's most recent events. We both see the same GP, who also has bugged me about his weight, and recently I convinced him to at least go in for a physical, and he let me go with him. Thankfully it doesn't seem like there are any underlying conditions to the weight gain; it's just situational. However, our GP wanted to take some measurements to more accurately get a body fat percentage and BMI for my boyfriend. The doctor and I were both shocked, to say the least. His gut is 55" around and he's surpassed 240 pounds, having been 150 at the beginning of 2019. His BFP is nearing the 40%s. I just don't know what to do or how to convince him. If I posted pictures you wouldn't believe it. Please, suggest whatever you can. I want to stay with him but not if I'll never be able to break this cycle. TL;DR - My boyfriend of 3 years has put on almost 90 pounds in 1.5 years. I don't even know how it's happened as we eat most of the same things at home, unless it's happening out of my sight. I can't figure out how to convince him that this cycle needs to end for his health. [link] [comments] |
| Is 1200 calories a day really doomed to be too low? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:01 AM PDT FIRST, I gotta make one thing clear: PLEASE don't recommend any kind of a Keto diet to me! I am a vegan, and I really value that and it's near impossible to combine the two. I avoid useless carbs, but I need to base my diet around things like oats, fruit, beans, legumes and vegetables. Thank you. Ok, so I've started the process of losing some weight, I am not very obese but clearly a little chubby, and carry all of my weight on my waist which obviously is BAD. To be honest, I have a horrible relationship with my body and food, and I plan not to weight myself until I feel mentally prepared to. I am F/27, 5'8 and estimated 180-185 lbs (not sure if I converted these correctly, I'm from a country that uses the metric system) as I used to be 143 lbs and consider that my goal. I've never really eaten a lot of junk food or sweet things, but I think portion control is my issue. I actually gained all this weight RAPIDLY trying intermittent fasting (an 8-hour eating window or even shorter) , so it clearly didn't work for me, and I got really sick. The thing is, I suffer from severe GERD (acid reflux disease) and got the advice from a doctor to eat tiny portions, the size of my palm, every 2-3 hours and stop eating at 7PM. I've eaten this way for a week (and together with medication it helps with my GERD) and counted calories. I eat the things I would normally eat, and it's impossible for me to surpass 1300 calories. One day I needed to have a big glass of juice to reach a 1000... I'm not hungry at all and have all the energy I need. So I'd assume eating 1200-1300 kcal a day I'd lose weight, but is that safe? So many pages say it's gonna put your body in a starvation mode and damage your metabolism etc. I also don't have a lot of muscle, and have never exercised seriously, but have an active lifestyle otherwise (spending all day on my feet). [link] [comments] |
| Gained all the weight back and more during quarantine.. Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:38 AM PDT I'm M(22), weight about 270, was 230 in November :(. Hey y'all, hope y'all are safe and doing well. This quarantine has been quite rough, as it is I assume for a lot of people here. Feeling pretty discouraged recently because I see on my Snapchat memories how much more better I looked. Nowadays I look meh, and it's hard for me to be like, "alright time to get back to work losing weight," when I was already there and now thinking about how much more time it will take to get back to where I was. Anybody else have the same kind of issue? What's the best way to look past where you were before and, (in a cliche way I suppose), just "do it"? [link] [comments] |
| Have you ever had to “start over?” Posted: 18 Aug 2020 06:05 PM PDT I started getting serious about my weight loss in March, when I weighed 193 pounds, started doing regular calorie counting on my own until May, when I joined noom at 184.8 pounds. Lowest weight I reached was 178.8 pounds on July first. My weight fluctuated throughout 179 for a while until I went right back to the 180s. I'm sure at first it was just normal fluctuations but then I had several days where I just ate like shit (family getting food from restaurants, my sister coming home with junk food, days where I just couldn't stop eating or didn't make the greatest choices, etc) so I've been in the high end of 183 for a while, weighing in at 183.2 today. I've been "off the wagon" with noom for a while I guess, but really fell off end of July/early this month when I got my wisdom teeth out and got to experience the bliss of eating things like pudding and ice cream without counting calories or reading articles or anything, so of course I got used to not being in the noom mindset and I've been having difficulty getting back to it. My noom app wanted me to celebrate 100 days of noom a few days ago and that was...rough...someone in my group chat mentioned that she lost 20 pounds in those 100 days, and while I'm super happy for her I'm obviously beating myself up about how terribly I've been doing. I know the weight loss journey isn't linear, but it would be nice if it was! I think it was easy for me to fall off since I was already feeling so discouraged and was starting to get into the "this isn't worth it, you'll never reach your goal weight or look how you want" mindset. I'm really struggling with getting back on it, especially now that I'm expecting my period soon, but I know I need to. I feel gross from how horribly I've been eating lately. I've asked my noom coach to reset me to week 1 so hopefully having that type of mental rewind will help me get back to it with the same energy and motivation I had in my first week! Needing to start over is so embarrassing for me...I've been struggling with weight loss for a few years now (I've never made it as far as I have this go around though, and I've never taken it as seriously for as long either) but I really thought I had it this time :( I'm embarrassed and feel gross. Has anyone else had to start over? Is there anything you learned that helped you significantly when it was time to start over? Any words would help lol [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: August 19th, 2020 Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:28 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! I want to shortly also mention — this thread lives and breathes by people supporting each other :) so if you have some time, comment on the other posts! Show support, offer advice and share experiences! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 18 Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:10 PM PDT Hello losers, Tuesday gonna Tuesday. Hope you're kicking butt! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. Stay within calorie range (1500 weekdays, maintenance weekends): Nope. Nope nope nope. Better today. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. 14/18 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Got some done last night will do more today. 3/3 weeks. Self-care time (working on love journals, beauty treatments, drawing 5/16 days): I am going to be early tonight. Try a new recipe once a week: Baked donuts, enchilada casserole, bbq hummus, more different enchilada casserole, dressing(s) & my meal prep is mashed cauliflower because my turkey is not defrosted. Whoops. 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 1. Be present in my body & accept the sensory feedback: I want to cry over silly things. Moving swiftly on body. Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Grateful for books & ear phones. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| After years of saying "no," I want to be able to say "yes." Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:17 PM PDT I'm 26F, 5'6, and my SW was 175 lbs and CW is 168 lbs. I'm going to take you through my past a bit before I get to where I am now and the realizations I've made during this past year. When I was a young kid into my late teens, I was a competitive fencer. I trained about 3 hours, 3-5 days a week and then almost every day during the summers for ~ 8 hours. Even then, I would never consider myself thin but I was strong. My legs were pure and solid muscle (it was a good party trick in high school). But I was always a bit bigger than my other female teammates and my coach never forgot to remind me of that fact. He'd ask me to take extra runs to try and lose some extra weight. And I did what he said, but I just got stronger, not thinner. The funny thing is, those words never bothered me back then. I was so healthy and fit, I could do whatever physical activity I wanted with ease. I was definitely one of the most fit girls in my PE classes. Because I was physically capable, I wasn't very concerned about my outward appearance. What made me finally quit fencing the year before college is another long story, but it boils down to not dealing well with the pressures of competition plus very serious illnesses in my family. After I quit and was in college, I became sedentary. I would rarely workout except in small spurts. I loved walking and hiking so those were my main areas of fitness. Even then, because I was still relatively fit, I felt fine about myself be cause I could do the things I enjoyed. I never really had issues with my body image. Then we had a family tragedy, my cousin's husband died only 12 days after their wedding. I was sent reeling into a 7 year long depression. It was the lowest point of my life and what little physical activity I did flew out the window. I stayed inside, watched TV all day, and isolated myself from my friends and family. But even during ALL of this, my body image was relatively positive. However, after hearing exercise helps with depression, I wanted to get fit and I mistakenly tried to jump back into the activities I used to do when I was an athlete. I couldn't do anything, I was out of breath and having chest pains after walking briskly. Suddenly I looked in the mirror and every positive thought about my body was gone. I felt so ugly and terrible. I only got professional help in September of last year and currently, I am at my healthiest mentally. What does this have to do with weight loss? I want to lose weight but even after getting into a calorie deficit and losing pounds, I felt no accomplishment or excitement and I still felt horrible about myself. I knew that I did not have a proper motivation and if this continued, I would not be successful. After a lot of soul-searching, I have realized that my body image is tied directly to what my body can achieve and how it performs. Because the scale is not my main motivator, I struggled setting long term goals for myself. Good goal-setting for health apparently requires something achievable long-term along with an emotional reason for that goal. So my goal is this: I want my body to be in a physical condition where I feel comfortable saying "Yes" to every request that comes my way. My sister wants to go swimming together? I'll say yes. My significant other wants to train for a half marathon? I'll say yes. My friend needs help moving boxes? It's a yes. As soon as I made that switch, everything changed. Just today, I was able to run a few minutes without stopping and I wasn't feeling breathless! I finished my run and I couldn't help but fist pump the air in the middle of the trail haha. It's changed my entire outlook on this weight loss journey and it has allowed me to actually enjoy the experience. tldr; The scale does not motivate me nor does losing pounds help confidence in my body image. I discovered that focusing on performance and ability and a ultimate goal of saying "yes" to any physical activity that comes my way has made my fitness journey achievable and enjoyable. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:13 AM PDT F/23 Sw:240 Cw:224 gw:??? Got some alarming (non fatal) health news from my doctor last month, and since then I've been on a journey to reverse everything he told me. I wouldn't say it's been hard, just more challenging. I've changed my diet completely and this has really opened my eyes. Salt / salty snacks had always been my enemy, I can recount sitting in my room, my ankles and feet would be tingling and extremely swollen, while continuously eating entire bags of family size chips, ramen noodles, and bread rolls as a meal. I was slowly killing myself. Since then I've become more plant based, with occasional fish. I've been doing strict cico (but I really need to buy a food scale lol) and I roller skate for exercise. I know it's a little weight that I've shed, but after many failed attempts In the past, I finally feel like I have control and I'm actually seeing the weight come off . Here's to more happy weight loss !!!! [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 19 August 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 18 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] |
| I know I’m fat. But how bad is it? Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:37 PM PDT Even though I don't eat much at all, my entire diet is based around fast food. It's been an easy way to eat when I'm hungry without having to go through the struggle of cooking and such. I never thought I would actually start developing a belly but I was wrong. I can't wear any tops that show my figure because my love handles and stomach stick out so much it makes me uncomfortable. I went with a few friends to a trampoline park and I wore athletic clothes because I thought I would be "comfortable and fitting" well, I was uncomfortable the entire time because my figure was entirely visible. I got slightly fat shamed by them. One of them told me "I thought you were skinny!" And she proceeds to slap my stomach and they laughed. Honestly I tried to make it seem like it was funny and it didn't hurt but it really did. As soon as I got home I went to my room and started SOBBING. Now I can't stop thinking about how stupid I am. Is it really that bad? [link] [comments] |
| I haven’t weighed this much since I graduated high school. 40lbs. lost Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:17 AM PDT Like the title says, I haven't weighed this much since I graduated high school. It's been a crazy journey and I'm almost 21. (My Birthday is October 4th!) I'm nowhere near the way I want to be honestly, but right now I am 258lbs. I really don't know where my highest weight was, I am going to guess above 300 but I know I did actually weigh in at 298lbs. in the beginning of the year. My next major goal is 180lbs. which was my lowest in high school (Sophomore Year), so keep an eye out for that update! A little bit of my story: I've been overweight all my life. When I was four, my parents were told to put me on a diet but didn't, after that I was always the chubby kid. When I injured my knee and had to quit basketball Junior Year, I just kept gaining weight. I know that I have a long way to go but I am so, so happy with how far I've gotten. It feels unreal, but I feel euphoric that it is! Thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
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