Weight loss: Today, for the first time since I was 8 years old, I am “normal” (BMI) |
- Today, for the first time since I was 8 years old, I am “normal” (BMI)
- Today I can wipe my butt without having to lift up off the seat to lunge, and I have nobody to share the small victory with.
- A week before my best friend died, we started a weight-loss competition. 3.5 months later I've lost 60 lb's, and I'm taking this last week before I leave for college as some time to reflect.
- NSV: I took a "full" shower without being breathless/needing to sit down right after
- Lost 50lbs - hate how differently people treat me
- Progress pictures finally make sense! Like it's been said before TAKE TAPE MEASURMENTS
- I have nobody to share this with but im feeling proud.
- Lightest I’ve ever been. SW:90kg (198lb), CW: 78kg (171lb).
- That feeling when your cheat meal doesn't live up to your cravings at all.
- New scale leads to NSV
- Hello, void. I'm back.
- Is obese spouse trying to sabotage my weight loss efforts? I’m overweight.
- Looking for advice on losing weight in college
- Worried about a loved one’s weight gain
- Progress report: After a bunch of setbacks I’m down 20 lbs!
- randomly developed knock knees from obesity?
- 19 years old and morbidly obese. Need Help
- SV-Lowest weight yet
- 5’7, 145 lbs, M: skinny fat, wanting to get really lean.
- I've lost 25lbs fishing
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13
- [NSV] I actually /fit/ into straight sizing in a regular store!
- at a complete loss, incredibly discouraged. I need help. [f/22/120kg]
- Obese and seeking help
| Today, for the first time since I was 8 years old, I am “normal” (BMI) Posted: 13 Aug 2020 07:38 PM PDT Hopefully posting this the right way. Let me preface by saying I know BMI is not everyone's favorite metric but since my CW (~165) seems reasonable for my height I felt comfortable using it as a goal. I've been a lurker here for a while but have never posted anything. My story is a common one to most of you on this sub – I don't really remember a time when I wasn't overweight. Even as a little kid I was charitably referred to as "sturdy." Around 8 is when it started to slide into worrisome territory. At 13 I was just under 5' tall and weighed ~150 pounds. That was the year that 2 boys in my math class decided to make pig noises whenever I walked in. Terrific. I joined Weight Watchers, which was a good step in theory, as WW can and does help a lot of people, but at 13 all it taught me was the logic that if I skipped lunch I could have candy for dinner (spoiler alert, that's a bad plan). Over the 4 years of high school I grew a whopping 8 inches, but also packed on over 100 pounds. Senior year was especially bad as I had mentally "checked out" and various stressful situations basically ended with me binging McDonald's in my car before hitting up the video store for the next Buffy the Vampire Slayer dvd. It doesn't feel like it was so long ago but I remember how hard it was to find clothes – the trend at the time was those babydoll shirts with the ribbons under the bust and I definitely wasn't going to find one that fit. The only store in the mall I could feasibly shop at was Torrid – a sister store to Hot Topic that specialized in punk / rockabilly looks that did not fit my "please for the love of god don't look at me" aesthetic. It was even hard to find shoes, which seems so ridiculous. I felt like I had no friends, had never been on a date, and a girl in my scout troop complained to the leader that I "took up too much room" in the car on the way to a camp. I felt hideous and worthless. My mom (who has also struggled mightily with her weight) was terrified – she knew I was heading down a dangerous path but she didn't have any clue how to help me without making everything worse. The summer before college my parents took me on a cruise. During one of the longer legs I was going a bit stir crazy in the room so I decided to hit up the gym. I braced myself, and stepped onto the scale. 256. To this day I don't know why that number bothered me so much more than the others before it – maybe it was because I couldn't round down to 250 anymore. I was shook. I was starting college in the fall, it was supposed to be a fresh start not more of the same crap! I wish I could say that I immediately flipped a switch and dropped the weight like that (snaps fingers) but who are we kidding? In college I learned some good lessons and some bad – you can still lose weight if you "only" eat bagel bites and also go to the gym, but you will feel really really terrible most of the time. When I graduated college, I think I weighed around 220 – small and subtle changes of eating less junk (though still more than I should have) and moving more. After college I found some activities I really enjoyed – frisbee, hiking, and, for me, the most important step – I started to be nicer to myself. I tried to challenge myself to try new things, and meet new people, and not being so afraid of failing. Right before quarantine I was hovering around 190 and I decided now was the time to really push – no Chipotle to tempt me – no fancy chocolate bars from the gourmet store irritatingly placed on my walk home from work. I'm lucky enough to still have my job with relatively little disruption and my husband is a great cook. I've been trying to really think about my choices instead of taking my easy way out. When I go into the kitchen for a snack I ask myself "do I actually want this or am I just bored? Or thirsty?" 9 times out of 10 I walk out with a glass of water and no snack. I try to take regular breaks from whatever I'm doing to do some quick exercise – jumping jacks, push-ups, whatever I'm in the mood for. I'm not 100% done but I've never felt closer. I know that it will be a lifetime commitment to maintain and make sure I don't fall back into my old ways but today I was just so happy. You all are so inspiring – it's a long process but you've all got this! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 09:53 PM PDT Around March of last year, I was just about 500 pounds and gaining. Through keto (low-carb) and minimal exercise, I've lost a decent amount of weight. I don't own a scale (because I murdered the last one at 483, and I'm not strong enough to deal with breaking another), but based on QOL changes, I know it's working. This time last year, I had to buy a Bottom Buddy because I could no longer reach past my gut to wipe my own ass. For those that don't know, it's basically a stick with a nub on the end that you can scrunch TP/wipes into to take care of your business. My last weight reading was mid-October, at 455 pounds (had a doc checkup, so I could use a scale that wouldn't explode). By that time, I no longer needed the BB, but I had to lift myself off the seat to lunge and wipe. Unfortunately in December, I got struck with some emotional turmoil, coinciding with me running out of meds (thyroid and mental health) and losing my health insurance. It was a major stumble, and I reverted back to high-cal/high-carb garbage foods for a few months. It got pretty bad, and I almost had to use the BB again. But I've corrected course and pushed myself back on keto, despite both my roommates not being on the diet (makes it difficult, but I've thus far fought the urge to steal their tasty pizzas and pastas). The past few months, I've been pretty consistent on diet, very few cheat days, and I've been actually sort of exercising! I walk at least .4 miles each day (round trip to the nearby 7-11), and recently have been going on 1-2 mile walks with my roommate and our dog. I've had to retie some drawstrings a few times to make my fat clothes tighter, so that's nice. But what made me super happy today was I instinctively wiped my ass like I used to, and didn't strain my shoulder/back or have to lift and/or lunge at all! It's a small victory, but it's a milestone for me. Edit: Thank you anonymous redditor for the "Bravo Grande" award! I appreciate both the award itself and the giggle-worthy irony of it being a "grande," as I too am a grande. Also, damn, y'all are nice af. Thanks for all the support and praise. It's a stark and very-much-needed contrast to my roommate's "you don't need this stupid diet if you just eat better and exercise more." Like, thanks man, if I had willpower, portion control, and wasn't lazy af, I wouldn't have eaten myself into this mess of a life in the first place. I was kinda happy making this post, but reading all y'all's comments, I'm overjoyed. EDIT2: Damn y'all, I'm proper blushing and got the warm'n'tinglies. I don't know if I should make the shoutouts for the three additional rewards, (I don't know if that would lead to people hitting y'all up for shinies) so I'll err on the side of caution and not mention y'all by name. But thank all three of you, truly! Thanks for the "Take My Energy" award. I need all the energy I can get! Thanks for the Gold award with all that it entails. I definitely look forward to a whole week of not having to see the same garbage ads on the reddit app. And I'll make sure to pay those bonus coins forward. Thanks for the pandemic-safe Hugz award. As I always say "H-U-G, ya get 'em from me!" [I can't remember where that's from] But apparently ya get 'em from you as well. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 05:11 AM PDT For the entirety of high school I had the same, very competitive, best friend. We won the "best friends" superlative in all the clubs we participated in, and just generally it was clear that neither of us was really whole without the other. In April he was the passenger in a car accident that took his life, and in an attempt to channel his incredible work ethic and to fight the obesity both of us experienced our whole lives, I decided to "dedicate" myself to him by committing to losing weight before I left for college. It was right at the start of quarantine, and just generally between being a HS senior ripped away from the rest of the world, that period of weeks was some of the worst in my life. A week before the accident, he (220 lb) and myself (255 lb) started something we'd been talking about all of high school: a healthy long term weight-loss competition. Before our first virtual "weigh-in," I chugged 11 bottles of water (figuring I could pee it all out without any consequence), and a week after we had started, I was already down to 246 while he was down to 211. This isn't a post about how hard losing my friend was though, it's a post about how much harder losing my friend was than losing 60 lb of excess weight has been. Stats: 6'0, SW: 252, CW: 195, GW: 182 It feels pretty surreal what I've done these past few months. I started at 255, and with an extended family where the only thing that runs in it is diabetes, my family was cautiously supportive at best of me throwing all my energy into something so soon after my friend passed. I've never tried to lose weight in my life, and I grew up in a house with two "foodie" parents who were always putting enormous, delicious and well-seasoned and buttered portions on the table three if not four times a day. Diet: This was the hardest part for me because I've kind of always been a picky eater, and the foods I dislike are very often the healthiest ones. I don't eat many vegetables even now, and generally my approach has simply been to cut back on portion size and snacking between the 3 set meals I have a day. As a teen, I don't have 100% choice in the meals that are put in front of me, so there were times I just had to sigh and eat a small portion of whatever delicious food was for dinner, even though I was already hungry and would've preferred something a little more filling and calorically reasonable. I used an online calculator to deduce that as a 6'0 250/240/230 etc. pound male, my calorie intake started at 3,000 a day when I began and went down to 2600 now. With that in mind, I tried my best to eat roughly 2200 calories a day when I started, and I'm now down to 1900 or so. I think torturing yourself to count every last calorie isn't worth the stress, so I personally just google how many calories are in a certain food I'm having, and then I round to the nearest 50 cals and try and tally it in my head. I think anything stricter than these parameters would've lead to bingeing and cheat days, so, by allowing myself to still have whatever I want in moderation, I can think of just 2 days this summer where I had an unreasonable amount of food, and both were on vacation. Exercise Regimen: I was a really active kid all throughout elementary and middle school, and really only quit because I was becoming fat and uncompetitive. My first run at 252 I went a third of a mile all in all, and that was with stops for cramps and to breathe (I wasn't even stretching back then). I am still an absolutely horrendous runner and cannot do more than a mile at a time (I quit after I broke 7:30 in the mile), but quite honestly, since 220 lb I've just been playing pickup basketball and soccer with my old friends from HS and I'm having the same results with way less torture. I don't think I'm burning more than 200cal's a day from exercise, so it's important to understand that the exercise is there to exacerbate loss, rather than be the primary driving force. If you have a tablespoon of nutella to pay yourself off for an hour run, you're already in the hole. My last piece of advice is that once you've found your motivation, anything is possible. If you're trying to lose weight during the pandemic, remember that "when the escalator breaks, most of your peers will chose to remain on the ground floor. It's up to you to decide to take the stairs." TL;DR eat little run a lot and tell your friends you love them https://imgur.com/gallery/i0NvHgo attached pics at 250 and at 200-- I'm at 192 atm and take progress pics every 10 lb (can upload an album of every 10 lb at 180 lb) [link] [comments] |
| NSV: I took a "full" shower without being breathless/needing to sit down right after Posted: 13 Aug 2020 02:01 PM PDT I'm honestly still blown away that it's a thing, because I'm about 3 weeks into my weight loss journey and didn't expect to see tangible changes so soon! Up until recently I've been very breathless after taking a shower, even just a super quick body shower. I wash my hair 2/3 times a week and DREAD it because at the end of the shower I'm exhausted and sometimes need to sit down as soon as I get out because my lower back started to ache from standing too long. Cut to today. I was already so happy at reaching my first mini goal (I'm using the Happy Scale app and it has a really cool function that breaks down your goals into ten mini goals of equal length) and getting in a 15 minute walk and a 15 minute HIIT workout without quitting. I hopped in the shower and was almost done rinsing the conditioner out of my hair before I realised I was dancing along to the music I was listening to and didn't feel the least bit uncomfortable. I even shaved my legs and underarms and then left the shower and went straight over to the sink to brush my teeth and wash my face without needing to sit down! I know it probably sounds dumb and a really small thing but I'm so proud. It just feels like a really tangible health benefit and tbh I'm just glad that I managed to drag myself out of the hole I was in and get started on this journey, because there's more where that came from! [link] [comments] |
| Lost 50lbs - hate how differently people treat me Posted: 13 Aug 2020 07:51 AM PDT Hey guys, so I'm a woman in my mid 20's and I've lost about 50 pounds since my heaviest weight 4 years ago. I was overweight mainly because of an extremely abusive home environment and narcissistic father, but that's another story. Since I moved out, I've lost all the extra weight but since this has happened, I've been feeling so depressed by the contrast in how people treat me. I feel so sad to think that the same jokes I would make when I was fatter, make people laugh louder because I'm thinner. I feel uncomfortable when guys who never really messaged me before suddenly are trying to message me out of nowhere after 7 or 8 years. I hate that girls who were friends with me before now barely message, or make comments that "you're too skinny" when I'm just finally at a healthy weight. I hate watching men's reverential behaviour towards me while they casually comment about another girl we both know being "a whale". It makes me sick that they can act like this to my face and would act completely differently had they known me 4 years ago. I definitely realize that being good looking and fit is a blessing in society, but I can't help but feel paranoid that people are fake. Having been on both sides of the spectrum of attractiveness, I'm trying to maintain some faith in society and not just feel like a piece of meat as a woman. This isn't all I have to offer to the world. How do you find friends/partners who don't just like you for your looks, or the status or other intangible benefits it brings you? Sorry for the ramble-y post, this has been on my mind for a while and I had to get it out. Hopefully someone can relate! [link] [comments] |
| Progress pictures finally make sense! Like it's been said before TAKE TAPE MEASURMENTS Posted: 13 Aug 2020 11:05 PM PDT I have been using pictures, clothing fits and the scale to determine my progress so far (185 -> 165 in a few months) and so far the scale and clothes have shown good results but my progress pics haven't changed AT ALL! That was until I had a Eureka moment. I had just bought a quality sports bra for bigger busted gals, previous ones had lasted me a long time before they stretched out. Annoyingly, this one stretched out in a few wears...or so I thought. I then realised I must have proportionally shrunk! I retook my measurements on abrathatfits.com (I recommend to all the bra wearing people out there who have used traditional methods to find a bra) and all my my measurements had shrunk by ~10cm taking me from a 36 GG/h to a 32 GG/H in the two months since last measuring! It turns out all my proportion ratios are exactly the same (I was mainly using belly to boob ratio to see if my belly had shrunk 😂). And I've realised this is why I'm seeing no difference in the mirror but people are saying I look smaller! [link] [comments] |
| I have nobody to share this with but im feeling proud. Posted: 13 Aug 2020 08:30 PM PDT Hi all, I've struggled with weight a lot of my life and I won't sit here and make a bunch of excuses for it at the end of the day I just binge eat and wasn't taking responsibility. I got all the way up to 155kg and I'm only 23 years old and 6ft. My mum is a bodybuilder and so is my father but I guess I just rebelled as a teen and didn't want anything to do with it? I don't really know. It's strained our relationship for sure especially my mum being so active and healthy and then having an overweight son is very embarassing for her but I've really gotten into MMA/UFC and I decided to make a change with my life. I failed in the past with diets because it was always for the wrong reasons, I want girls to like me, I want to look good for others etc this time I have a sport I want to get into and yeah I am REALLY overweight so it's not going to be easy but I've already made so many changes. I am tracking and calorie counting everything I eat, I am working out although yes it's difficult at my weight I am hitting the bag for 1 minute then running on the spot for 1 minute and rinse and repeat I can only last 7 minutes but that's way up from where I started at 3 minutes. Slowly everyday im progressing and I am down to 146kg and I know it isn't a lot but I can see myself actively maintaining this for my life and for the first time I don't want to cheat, I don't want to break it because it isn't a diet, it's just a lifestyle change and I found a passion that will help me. I'm not the best with nutrition so i'll be sticking around the sub to see others journeys and advice but I just wanted to post this because I feel really proud of myself, I am hoping within the next few weeks I can drop down to 130 or so and have my workouts up to 30+ minutes but we'll see, baby steps! Tomorrow is 8 minutes im certain of it !!! [link] [comments] |
| Lightest I’ve ever been. SW:90kg (198lb), CW: 78kg (171lb). Posted: 14 Aug 2020 12:33 AM PDT My life and my weight have had ups and downs. 2013 - age 30; weighed 110kg/242lb. Through 5:2 diet, cardio, weights, I brought that down to... 2015 - weighed 79kg/174lb just before I got married. After that, I didn't watch my food or calories. We had more desserts. Wife didn't like me leaving early mornings to go to the gym. Weight slowly crept up and I was fed up by start of 2019. 2019 - age 36; was now 90kg/198lb. I restarted some weight training, did a combination of OMAD/IF/CICO as best as I could, trying to maintain a 500kcal/day deficit through diet but achieving only 200kcal deficit. With lockdown, I did more CrossFit type exercises at home. Today I weighed 78kg/171lb and that's the lightest I've been in the past 10 years (and realistically probably the last 20 years). Just wished I'd achieved this sooner. This sub has given me the motivation to keep going when I've felt like giving up so I hope others will be inspired too. Thank you to you all. [link] [comments] |
| That feeling when your cheat meal doesn't live up to your cravings at all. Posted: 13 Aug 2020 11:10 AM PDT Yesterday I was craving me some pizza BAD, So I finally decided to plan me a cheat meal. I had some extra exercise calories from earlier in the week I never used, so counting those and some exercise I did on the day I decided I would use it all for some pizza, instead of a little faster weight loss. None of it was worth it. Yeah it was pizza, but it just couldn't live up to the hype my brain created for it. I've done this to myself again and again, I know what happens. I hate that I keep tricking myself for something so not worth it. Oh well, time to exercise a bit more to clear out yesterday and hope I learn my lesson finally. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 10:24 PM PDT I bought a fancy new scale that measures body fat and is more accurate to the .2 lb rather than the cheap scale I had that measured to the .5lb and nothing else. I was treating myself to this upgrade for almost reaching my half way mark (SW 200, GW 150, CW174). Stepped on and i went from 177 on my old scale to 174 on the new one. I tested them both with a 20lb bag of flour and they both came in at the same weight. This made me question everything and got me looking for other 'proof' of my weight loss as I couldn't trust the scales. Old jeans that I grew too big to wear, now too small, my belt: I now measure 5 inches smaller than the hole I used to use. Bras no longer fit right, too big. Honestly I didn't notice. With COVID I have been wearing stretchy pants and workout tops every day working from home. But today I appreciated that the cute work out tops I bought are no longer stretched over me, they actually look cute. I'm only 3 months in, I hope to reach my goal by Christmas, which should be a fun test! I lost a lot of weight a bunch of years ago but didn't look how I thought I would so I went right back to old habits and now I look at this pictures and think I was crazy not to see the change. I just didn't look like my super thin sister who wasn't 'blessed' with my hips, curves, or chest. This time I'm taking it slow and appreciating the little things so I can keep it up. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 01:47 PM PDT Hey. I just need to get this out there, anywhere. I need the potential ear to whisper in, you know? Anyways, I'm back. Grew up fat. Real fat. Everyone made fat jokes. I did too. It hurt less when I joined in. Started eating my emotions at some point. Stress, guilt, loneliness, boredom... The solution to all these problems lie in a 8-pack of kit kats. Got really, really fat. Obese. Had a wakeup call about 10 years ago. Started browsing the internet, including reddit, for solutions. Started eating better. Started meal prepping. Eating nothing but lean means, vegetables, fruits, lean dairy, eggs... you know, good stuff. Started running. Got good at it. Did a 15 km run every two days. Lost over 30 kg from peak weight to bottom weight. Fuck me it feels good to be that healthy. Just makes life simpler, you know? And women started noticing me, for the first time in my life. I got my confidence back - so I shot for the stars. Joined med school. Moved far away. Worked hard. Failed hard. So fucking hard. Had to stay back a year. Started dropping the healthy habits. Who's got time for 10+ hours of workouts a week when you're studying 60 hours every week? And meal prep? Yeah, I'll prep a frozen pizza, no worries. Stress came back, with friends. "Hey, CameBackSad, have you met my friend anxiety? How about insomnia?" With no real way to deal, I fell back to old habits. Eating away emotions. Add the weed in universities and you have one hell of an appetite for oreos. Had a real wakeup a couple of months ago. This guy I study with, sweetest guy ever, doesn't say a single mean word in his life. He comments, in what I perceived to be a massive slight, that I'm fat. FUCK YOU, NO I'M NOT. But he's right, though. I realise now, with a cooler head, that he's just pointing out a fact. Birds fly, fish swim, and CameBackSad is fat. Weighed myself. BMI of 30.5. I'm not fat. I'm obese. Again. Fuck. Started up again a few weeks ago. Made myself some standard meals. Not loads of variation but it's all I can afford. I've lost a few kgs. Pocket change, but proof of concept. I have ages to go but I'm going. I avoid eating with others wherever I can. They keep commenting on the amount of vegetables I eat. Or try to force me into eating some calorie bomb. "No doesn't mean no if we're talking about DESSERT." "It's just a cheeseburger." "What's the point? Everyone gains weight with age." Fuck you, I'm a doctor now. I know what I did to my body. I know I need to undo this. Anyways. I got a job. Finally. I've been sleeping where I can, borrowing beds and couches. Hopefully I can be me once I have a stable income. And I refuse to be fat any more. No matter who I am that part of me will be gone. Thanks for listening, void. I'm just sad that I had to come back. [link] [comments] |
| Is obese spouse trying to sabotage my weight loss efforts? I’m overweight. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 01:14 AM PDT Since we got married, we have both gained weight. Me about 20kg, him enough to put him in the morbidly obese range. I feel very uncomfortable at this weight and have been unable to manage my weight like I used to when I was single. I gain weight easily and I love to eat, so I have always needed to manage it and pay attention to balancing my diet and exercise. Of course I know I that what I eat is in my control, but being more aware of his attitude is making me wonder if he is affecting me more than I realised. I've been confused about why I haven't been able to manage my weight like I used to but I'm starting to realise his lack of support, or fake support, may be a large contributing factor. I have started to pay attention to things he says to me regarding food and I think he may be sabotaging me, most likely unknowingly. He has very strange habits and beliefs about food and probably doesn't know he does it. The last two weeks I've been trying to eat better and he has tried to convince me to eat fast food multiple times. On one occasion : "Let's order a pizza." When I declined, "you're going to meet a friend tomorrow for lunch, it's not like you're going to eat healthy then. Be realistic. You know you're going to eat badly tomorrow. Why are you trying to pretend you're eating healthy?" He has also commented that I'm not eating enough at night and need to eat more. ( he likes to binge eat at night, but if I wrap up my eating by 8pm I feel amazing the next morning). "You need to have a cheat meal today." When I said I didn't feel like having one, he went off on a rant about what's the point in picking a cheat day and then not doing it, it defeats the purpose of it all...yada yada yada" If we are out and get a coffee, he'll often ask if I want a dessert too, and when I refuse, he'll buy one for us to share and get pissy when I don't have any. His whole family are obsessed with weight and dieting, at the same time they are serious food pushers. even though they are all overweight. I don't know how I'll handle them either. Any strategies for dealing with this? I just want to go back to my healthy weight that I felt good at. It feels like a battle. [link] [comments] |
| Looking for advice on losing weight in college Posted: 13 Aug 2020 08:45 PM PDT Hello! I am so anxious right now about continuing to lose weight when I go back to campus and would love some advice. When I was sent home from school in March, I got serious about losing weight and have lost about 35 lbs. I weigh my food and count every calorie. I used to give into my cravings a lot but I found that eating several small meals a day and allowing myself to have a Yasso bar almost every night has kept me on track. I eat whatever I want as long as it's in moderation and fits into my calorie goal. I'm afraid I'll stop losing weight when I break this routine by going back to school. I'm on a student meal plan and although the calories are listed online, they're definitely inaccurate. I mean some days they'll give you huge servings and other days the servings are small. I regularly see workers cooking with oil and highly doubt they include that in the calories. There's no way to accurately keep track anymore. We don't even have a salad bar. My meal plan is covered by a scholarship and I really don't have the money to buy groceries for myself. I do plan to buy protein shakes and have one for breakfast every morning. I'm definitely grateful that my meal plan is covered and I don't mean to complain too much, but I'm just worried that I won't be able to lose weight as efficiently. I'm hoping to lose an additional 40 lbs. Any advice?? [link] [comments] |
| Worried about a loved one’s weight gain Posted: 13 Aug 2020 09:34 PM PDT Hi all, While I have lost some weight recently, I (23F) have always been a healthy BMI. My brother (26M) has struggled with his weight our entire lives, but typically has honestly only been a bit overweight which people always made a really big deal out of. Our parents have nagged him about it since we were kids and I never (to my knowledge) have said anything to him about it except to empathize about how our family gave us both body image issues. I am a very blunt person and a little rude at times so I might have said something mean as a kid that I do not remember. We have always been very close and I love him very much. He is one of my best friends. I am seeing my brother for the first time since Christmas and he has gained a lot of weight rapidly. I think it is because of the stress and isolation of COVID. At 6'3" he's historically been like 240lb but looking at him now he could be pushing 300 which is 60lb of weight gain in 8mo. I'm really alarmed. I'm worried about where my brother's weight could go. I think it would be great if he even stopped gaining weight. His mobility is changing and decreasing, and he was always slower than me but now it is a lot. I am genuinely frightened for him. If he keeps gaining at this pace it will mean disaster for his long term health. Can I say anything or will it just make everything worse? I have a pit in my stomach every time we eat together. I am trying to include him in healthy activities but I know that you can't outrun your fork. This makes me want to not eat too much in the hopes he won't either, but I am not trying to continue losing weight currently. I have no idea how much he is eating but I am truly alarmed. Maybe it is sister-goggles but I think he really looks fine, he is an attractive man but the changes I notice in his mobility are freaking me out. Can I help in any way? I love my brother to pieces. I don't care what he looks like but I want to spend my life having a healthy older brother. I don't want to become his enemy on this front like our parents do or make him ashamed. I don't think he's a bad person but obviously he needs help (maybe from a professional?) to conquer this issue and I hate to sit back and let my brother fall victim to a bad consequence of a pandemic and isolation. [link] [comments] |
| Progress report: After a bunch of setbacks I’m down 20 lbs! Posted: 13 Aug 2020 01:19 PM PDT 18f, 5'2", SW: 180, GW: 130, CW: 159 I've been trying to lose weight for about a year now. The main reason my weight had gotten out of control was having an ACL surgery in January 2019. I was already overweight when I had the surgery, but after it I gained about 15 lbs from being inactive and eating my feelings. I had always naturally weighed more than other girls my size because I have a muscular build, but because I couldn't work out I was losing muscle and gaining fat at a rate I hadn't experienced yet. I could no longer blame my weight gain on my muscle. I hit the obese marker in the summer of 2019 and my doctor convinced me I really needed to change my habits. So I did. I was trying to move at a pace of losing about 1-1.5 lbs a week and was doing great at first. I wanted to move slowly because I knew that would be the most long lasting way to do it + I'm short so I knew it was naturally going to take a while. By calorie counting and working out I lost 10 pounds over the course of 3 months. Even after only 10 lbs down I was feeling fantastic and was healthier than I had been in a while. I was a senior in high school at the time so college applications and school itself started getting really stressful in fall/winter 2019. I didn't have much energy to spare so I decided to take a break from restricting my diet. I planned to resume weight loss in the new year and began calorie counting again in January. I wasn't weighing myself but I basically just maintained weight. Then February of 2020 hit and I tore both my ACLs. I was devastated. I was thinking the cycle was going to start again and this time with two surgeries, I presumed it was going to be worse. For too many reasons to explain in this post I had to delay my surgeries a few months, so once march arrived I was in quarantine with two torn ACLs and nowhere to go. (Unrelated but woo hoo def couldn't have asked for a better end to senior year 😑). I promised myself to not be hard on myself if I gained weight during the time as life was just a lot, so I ditched calorie counting and the scale again for my own sanity. I had my first ACL surgery in late March and the second one in late May, so by mid April I was ready to weigh myself again. I closed my eyes and braced for the worse, but once I looked I gasped bc I had lost about 2 lbs. Now I know 2lbs is not a lot, but just the fact that I didn't gain weight was astounding to me. It reassured me that the steps I was taking to establish a healthy lifestyle really were paying off. I couldn't run (still can't), but I began working out in the ways my knees would allow and started up with my fitness pal once again. I got really into yoga because it was gentle on my body and gave me some peace of mind with everything going on (heavily recommend). I started losing again at the rate of -1 lb a week and have been going strong since. When I started trying to lose weight again I was 167 lbs and all I wanted was to be in the 150s. Today I reached that point! This marker is incredibly important to me because I haven't been below 160 since the start of high school. It's also important because it marks me losing 20 lbs since the beginning! I'm starting to feel comfortable in my own skin for the first time in my life. Although I definitely have ways to go with tackling my insecurities and there's a ton of days where I hate myself just as much as I did when I was 180 lbs, I've realized that confidence doesn't come with losing weight, it comes with taking my care of yourself. Yes, taking care of yourself can sometimes mean losing weight, but it could also mean being gracious and forgiving to yourself when you aren't losing weight. Final comment: I've just felt so inspired by other users on this subreddit and have loved lurking in the shadows watching everyone figure out what motivates and works best for them. Much love to all of you! [link] [comments] |
| randomly developed knock knees from obesity? Posted: 13 Aug 2020 11:19 PM PDT Wondering if this has happened to anyone else: at one point this year, my knees started hurting like mad for no apparent reason, especially on stairs. Figured it was just some kind of stress related to my weight. Pain disappeared and went about my life as normal. No idea when it actually happened, but I noticed suddenly some months later that I have some pretty dramatic knock knees. They were not like that previously. Granted that my thighs somewhat get in the way, but if I stand with my knees together, my feet are a foot apart. The only explanation Google offers is that this happens sometimes with obesity. Anyone have a similar experience or know more about this? (FML, also according to google this is only correctable with surgery and will cause more knee pain sooner than later) [link] [comments] |
| 19 years old and morbidly obese. Need Help Posted: 13 Aug 2020 02:58 PM PDT Hi everyone. I'm 19, 5'8" and when I just weighed in at 320 pounds. I've had enough, I feel sick. I need to change. I've been in denial for a long time but this was the straw that broke the camels back. I've ignored a lot of red flags, I can't buy clothes in normal shops because nothing comes close to fitting. All the clothes I can find are so ugly. My moobs are bigger than a lot of girls boobs. I can't even go to the cinema anymore because i'm terrified i'm not going to fit in the seats. Lockdown hasn't helped, i've done nothing but sit on my fat ass and eat to pass the time. Now that things are easing I even have a hard time WALKING, i'm so ashamed that i'll walk for maybe 2 minutes? and my lower back, and my calves will be killing me, its so embarrassing because I need to sit down to rest so often. I can't even keep up with my friends. Even if it didn't hurt, I hate how people look at me, what they must be thinking when they see me :( And to be totally honest, my hygiene has suffered because its so tiring showering, and so hard to reach certain areas to clean, that I'll just skip or do a half-assed job. I'm so huge, I don't know what to do, I don't even look human anymore, I know I need to start working out but if I can barely walk, how am I supposed to run or whatever? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 04:38 PM PDT So it's been an amazing journey losing weight especially since I have never tried to lose weight before because I didn't think I was that overweight. I was under the misguided assumption that I carried my weight well. For reference I'm a 27 y/o F and I'm 5' 9". As stated in a previous post I started in November of 2019 and at that time I weighed in at my heaviest which was 265 but I didn't really, really start til March of this year. In that time I have incorporated CiCo, IF, cut out all sugar and going to the gym any time I get off work from EMS shifts anywhere from 24-48 hrs most of the time. I track all meals through the LoseIt! app which has been an amazing tool. I wear an Apple Watch to keep track of movement and try to close all rings as much as possible. I try to go to the gym at least 3-4 times a week when I can. I walk/run at minimum 3-5 miles using the treadmill 30-60 minutes, 30 minutes on the stair climber, 30 minutes on the stationary bike, and I try to lift weights every other visit. I stepped on the scale this morning and weighed in at 228! Shocked and super happy with the progress. It's crazy because there are points where I look at myself and I don't feel like there has been a huge change to my appearance but in the same token I notice small changes (that sound stupid) like seeing my collar bones, getting definition to my midsection and being able to wear smaller clothes sizes. I still have a little bit to go because I want to get into the normal weight for my height. Just putting this out there to hopefully inspire someone else. If you set a goal for yourself and have determination and want change for yourself, don't let anything stop you. [link] [comments] |
| 5’7, 145 lbs, M: skinny fat, wanting to get really lean. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 01:16 AM PDT My BMI is 22.4. I know I'm not overweight but I like that really lean/ skinny look. I used to look like that then lockdown hit and I gained 25 lbs in all the wrong places, got love-handles and bigger thighs now. Not happy about my legs mostly. My gym routine is one hour of cardio x2 to x5 times a week ( I'm working on getting to a consistent x5). I've restarted this two weeks ago. Should I add anything ? To achieve my goal I've settled on doing cico aiming for 1500 calories a day. My old diet was forgetting to eat all day then eating a box of 20 nuggets at night, it was garbage. So I see this as the perfect opportunity to sort it out long term even after I've lost the weight, I want something sustainable. What foods should I go for, so far I've been banning junk food and reducing carbs but added a lot of veggies and fruits. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 06:44 AM PDT I started fishing about a year ago. I caught a massive, trophy snook (safely released) about four months ago. That was the bug that got me completely addicted to the sport. I keep what I can to eat and release what's not in season or edible. Let me preface about my weightloss journey. I hit 250lbs near the end of my first marriage 10 years ago. During the divorce process I whipped my ass into shape running and watching my food intake. I got down to 215 and felt great but plateaued and stayed there for a long time. Remarried, two kids, working long hours, I got back up to around 230. I started running again, 3-5 times a week, usually around 3 miles. But I love food and I keep hitting the 220-225 spot and kind of lingering there. Now to the fishing. On Tue/Wed/Thur nights, when my kids go to bed, I pack up a backpack of fishing gear that weighs about 20lbs. I drive to a small beach and throw out a cast net that weighs 10lbs for about 20-30 mins. I'm sweating good at this point and arms are getting sore but I've got my bait for the night. Then I drive to a small beach parking lot and hike 1.25 miles out (2.5 total miles of hiking for the night) to a somewhat hidden cove. I'm sweating like crazy now, heart rate is really going. I spend 2-3 hours climbing around on the rocks and casting. Catching a big fish is a serious workout. 5-10 minutes of fighting with the fish, by the time I'm done I have to sit down and catch my breath for a couple minutes. Repetitive casting a 1-2oz lure adds to the burn. I also wake up at 4:30 on Monday and Sunday mornings and do this routine. It took some trial and error but I found a pattern and routine that didn't take much from my family time and gave me the freedom for some long fishing sessions. I weighed 195 this morning. I changed no other habits, still eat the same, still run the same, but adding this intense fishing has had the pounds just melting off. I'm running faster and harder now that I'm so much lighter. I feel amazing. I'm happier, I feel strong, sex life has been so good. I never expected to lose weight from fishing, was a super pleasant side effect. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 05:07 PM PDT Hello losers, Dear Lord someone shove this week onto the finish line, it's done. 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): Ended near maintenance yesterday. Still better than the slew of ice cream and bingeing feelings I was fighting. Exercise 5 days a week: 60 plus minutes of walky walks. 11/13 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 4/13 days): TBD. Did book a future day off work because mama is feeling some burnout. Try a new recipe once a week: Baked donuts, enchilada casserole, bbq hummus & dressing(s). 4/5 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 11. Squeaking by. Be present in my body & accept the sensory feedback: Is it weird I can tell I've skipped one too many vitamin days? Be more mindful & express gratitude, avoid the hedonic treadmill: Today I'm grateful for local businesses. Makes this entire business more tolerable. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| [NSV] I actually /fit/ into straight sizing in a regular store! Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:23 AM PDT To provide some context: As of right now, I'm living in Hong Kong, where I've always felt like somewhat of a titan, taller and bigger than everyone around me. I grew up in mainland China, where I felt similarly to an extent, but it's never as bad as it is in Hong Kong, if I'm being honest. In both cities, mainstream stores usually don't carry anything bigger than an L. In China, a lot of clothing sizes are sorted by height, where an L is the equivalent to 165-168 cm (about 5'5"-5'6"). I'm 172 cm, or roughly 5'7". Even going by height, I was a little past the range for an L, and on top of that I was fat. At my heaviest weight, I was 94 kg (207 lbs). Shopping then, for me, was terrible. I hated shopping. I hated my body. I only ever bought clothes that were baggy so as to hide as much of it as I could. It was rare that I could even find clothes that fit anyways, but I never tried particularly hard because clothes shopping made me miserable.I'm currently 77 kg (170 lbs). Still a ways to go from my ultimate goal, but I'll get there. A few days ago, I was at Zara with my mom, and saw a really nice pair of lavender jeans. I really liked those pants, but I was convinced I'd never be able to fit. Same old story, you know? Except, my mom suggested that I try on the largest size (L), equivalent to a US size 8. (Not sure if it was vanity sizing but oh well). I've been wearing the same clothes from when I was 94 kg, and I guess I'd lost weight slowly enough that whatever change in fit was imperceptible (my bra still fits about the same, my pants still fit, and I only ever wear hoodies so it's difficult to gauge any real changes). Even though I doubted that the pants would fit, I went to try them on anyways. And guess what? They fit!! Sure, they were a little bit tight around the waist, but they buttoned up no problem and they actually fit!! I kind of stood there in the changing room just staring blankly at myself, in vague disbelief. I'd avoided clothes shopping in Hong Kong for YEARS, just because I felt that I would never fit in anything, and yet here I was. I didn't end up buying the pants because they didn't look very nice on me, but my mindset had shifted, I think. In the past, I would always blame clothing that wasn't flattering on my fatness, which made me feel awful. Yet here, even though I didn't like the way the pants fit on me, I didn't feel the same visceral hatred of my own body, either. So now, even though I'm still hesitant to go clothes shopping, I'm not terrified anymore! [link] [comments] |
| at a complete loss, incredibly discouraged. I need help. [f/22/120kg] Posted: 13 Aug 2020 11:52 PM PDT I feel like an absolutely broken person. my weight has held me down for so long and I just want to be free, but I keep finding myself in the same patterns of binging. for every day I stick to my diet, I spend one day completely undoing it (and then some). I feel so out of control. please, anything anyone can offer is so much appreciated. I feel like a slave to my impulses and cravings. every negative feeling I have, I stuff down with food and I don't know how to stop. I've gained so much weight from the start of quarantine and I can tell it's mentally and physically straining me. I've been trying to lose weight for 6 years now and I'm worried it just won't be possible for me, ever. it feels like my brain just knows it's being restricted and I always get the backlash from that without fail. I can't trick my body into eating less because I've already memorized the calories in just about everything after dieting for so long. i feel like I always have to have a certain amount of food every day in order to feel satisfied or else I completely break down mentally, crying and inconsolable until I eat something. it feels like I'm both a toddler and a parent, one part of me constantly screaming and complaining and crying and the other part just trying to keep it from getting to the point of complete meltdown. I don't know what to do. I'm sorry if this is incoherent, I'm just panicking slightly because if I can't lose weight and soon, I could potentially die young. I feel powerless and I'm finally here to talk about it instead of lurking in the shadows as I've done for years now because I need help. if anyone is able, please point me in any direction that could help me dig myself out of this situation and hopefully an early grave. I surrender. please, I just really, really need help. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2020 06:46 PM PDT Hi everyone reading this. Im 17, male, 5'9 or 176 centimeters and i currently weight around 210 pounds or 95 kilos and I want to change for the better. I'm physically active like 4-5 times a week but not for a long period of time I dont do any exercises either. My physical activites are the likes of football (soccer) or doing some jobs I have to do. My current goal is to lose around 10-15 kilos for the better ( I know it is a big amount but I want to aim high because I waited for too long). Most of the times during my soccer games I can't run for long or I am not fast enough to get the ball first because of my kilos and I really want to get fitter so I can play better and by any means live a greater life.When I run for long I feel pain in my legs as if they want me to stop. I was trying to lose weight like a year ago and I lost around 33 pounds or 15 kilos but I eventually got them back and it really bothers me because I might have healt issues because of this. When I was younger like 4-10 I had always been in normal shape but the last years I've started to eat fast food and not exercise much because of video games and stuff. I have lost all confidence I have ever had because of my body and I really want to change that. Any exercises, tips, diets or anything basically will be helpful and I will really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Have a nice day! [link] [comments] |
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