Weight loss: I hit my first BIG GOAL WEIGHT! |
- I hit my first BIG GOAL WEIGHT!
- I hit rock bottom tonight (tw ED?)
- My weight loss has been less than half a pound a week for the last 4 months and I am good with that! Focused on lifestyle changes vs temporary
- 82 pounds down in 4 months
- Losing weight helps, but doesn't solve all of your problems.
- It's easier to gain 10lbs then lose 10 lbs
- SV: Down 91LBS since December 2019!
- First day of working out and I’m so happy with myself
- My belly fat won't go away even after losing 60lbs
- I can’t believe I used to drink this sh*t all the time
- I have lost 18 lbs!!!! (Since mid-July)
- A candid picture of me kickstarted me into making a change
- Did you guys have that picture. The one that shocked you?
- NSV Upping My Calories Has Made All the Difference
- Brand new here and loving everyone already
- A little bit of a rant...
- 4 months, 5’7” SW:185 CW:156
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 21
- I got engaged this weekend and the pictures made me realize I need to lose weight again
- I’m losing steam and I need help.
- I lost the weight I gained during 'le confinement'!
- [SV] 22lbs by my 22nd Birthday
- 6 months ago today I started counting calories (34lb lost)
| I hit my first BIG GOAL WEIGHT! Posted: 21 Sep 2020 11:17 AM PDT At my heaviest in April 2017, I weighed 260 pounds. When I got serious about losing weight in March of 2019, I weighed in at 250 pounds at 5'8. When I decided that this was it, this was the time I was going to lose the weight, I chose my goal weight as 175 pounds. This is 11 pounds overweight from the high end of a Normal BMI for my height, but I figured 'hey, I'm 30, I've had two kids, being a tad overweight isn't the worst thing, and it's much better than where I am now.' Since then, I've changed this goal to 150. I've been as small as 135 before, and while that's still a healthy weight for me, I don't like how I look at that size, and I hate hearing about how "sick" I look. I credit the tools of my success to the program Noom, r/loseit, and the book Conquering Fat Logic by Nadja Hermann. I eat between 1200-1500 calories a day. I tend to skip breakfast or just have some coffee, so no IF. I don't do well cutting out whole food groups either, so this has been CICO all the way through. I'm walking more, but a schedule with small kids makes that difficult. I'm hoping once they start school I will be able to focus more on my fitness, but for now, I've got 25 more pounds to lose. I started in a US size 20/22, and am currently in a US size 10. I kicked soda (for the most part, I still love to have some with pizza) close to 2 years ago, and I don't really miss it. I've never been a big drinker, so alcohol wasn't really a consideration either. Two photos attached: left, 235 pounds; right, 175 pounds. To that end: TAKE THE DAMN PICTURE! I deeply regret not taking a "Before" photo at my heaviest because I hated the camera so much; don't let this be you! Close your eyes if you want, and tuck that photo back in a hidden album so you don't have to see it until you're looking for it. But take it! Your "After" will thank you. [link] [comments] |
| I hit rock bottom tonight (tw ED?) Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:13 PM PDT I hit rock bottom. I ate myself sick. Literally sick, like to the point I started vomited and my belly hurts. I finally admitted to myself and my husband that I've been binging and that I think I have an eating disorder. I said it out loud. I admitted what I did while he was gone. And we made a plan. Separate meals for now. Water intake tracking. Meal prep. Not going to be cooking his meals. No food outside of ingredients for just a few weeks in the house. Nothing easy. Food scale is prepped and ready to track my stuff. I have a toddler. I want to see her grow up. I want to play with her. I want her to have a healthy relationship with food. I want to be the prettiest woman in her world like my mom was to me. I'm making a promise to myself and my husband and daughter and I guess the few people who read this too that I will do better. I'll slip up sometimes, it's only human. But I will do better. I will. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and I will make sure I can enjoy it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:22 AM PDT I finally saw 150 today. I have been trying to get myself down to 145 for YEARS! I just struggle past 155. The last small amount has always been the hardest and I feel like I would give up when I would hit 155. My weight loss journey has been a constant fluctuation for the last 7 years. Switching from an active job to sedentary was brutal on my body and weight. I know that weight loss is a journey and not just a short diet. All my changes are intended to be lifestyle changes, not temporary. I also work out quite a bit for my own mental health and well-being so my changes may not be for everyone. So here are my changes.
Details: I knew dairy always made my throat hurt and wheat/gluten caused minor skin problems. However, I gave those foods up 100% and so many other health problems went away (I will stick to the weight loss ones on here). For my body, I lost a couple pounds of bloat within the first few weeks, then finally I was able to start putting on muscle. I have struggled with absorption issues for years so putting on muscle was a struggle. So long story short here, if you know a food causes you problems, you may want to look into that more.
Details: of course restaurants closing and my diet changes above restricted me a lot. When I would go to a sit down restaurant I would order an appetizer and a meal. This was mostly just weekends, but I am realizing how many more calories I consume just sitting at a restaurant. I still do takeout, but for some reason it's easier for me to stop eating when I get full and put my food away at home. I also don't have an appetizer.
Details: I play sports every year and without that I had to get creative. Now that my diet changes gave me more energy my daily run went from 3 miles to 5-6. So I said screw it and did a half marathon and trained for 3 months. That break in my routine made me push myself differently. This also made me work on my body and force myself to stretch and work on weaker muscles (I.e. my hip would ache on long run days and I would know that I needed to strengthen it to get to my goal)
Details: I am usually good putting exercise into my fitness pal and underestimating it. Now the watch has made it easy to track, more accurate, and is nagging at me to do more. The goals and challenges supplement my own goals. I found my half marathon training program in it which got me motivated to keep at it.
Details: I have added a 1-3 mile afternoon walk. Just so I am not cooped up all day. Pretty simple.
Details: we used to go to the bar and grab drinks and sit around. Now it's hiking, walking, outdoor yoga class practicing/hitting a ball around.... that's been huge. It's so easy to get into a routine where you sit around and drink and consume calories. Now we are doing something active (still drinking afterwards a bit but we are up and doing things)
Details: I had some before but as I mentioned before I didn't gain much muscle until I fixed my diet. I ate protein, but my body struggled to use what I ate because some foods were not working for me to put it right. Once I saw the muscle come in it was addicting! The scale didn't budge, but I focused on my arms and shoulder definition. New definition in my legs. The scale totally plateaued during this time, but I didn't care because my body was changing! Figured I would share my changes for this year in case anyone else comes here and see people losing a ton of weight and feeling the struggle of that end point. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:27 PM PDT Just before Father's Day this year I finally got sick and tired of always being sick and tired. I survived cancer 11 years ago and weight got out of control. June 15th this year I was at 378.4 pounds and wearing a 50 waist jean. September 16th was my annual physical and I weighed in at 298.2 pounds. The doctor was able to take me off the medication for diabetes (my A1C was at a 4.9) I have done this by eating correctly, intermittent fasting and getting in 90 minutes of cardio 6 days per week. I set small goals and work for them. Make them achievable. I have a ways to go, but I am confident in the process and have the support to do it. [link] [comments] |
| Losing weight helps, but doesn't solve all of your problems. Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:32 AM PDT Almost a year and a half ago, I decided it was finally time to make a change about my life. 18 years old and 365 pounds, it was time. I was super unhappy and figured my quality of life would drastically improve. Now after losing close to 200 pounds, I've realized you gotta work on your mind too. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things that are better. Some days I even feel confident in myself. But please make sure your mental health is also in check if you're losing weight to better yourself. It is equally as important as your physical health. If you're like me, you'll finally be done and now you sit there and think "Is this it?". Losing weight won't make you instantly attractive, or suddenly solve your social issues. You gotta make that change separately. But I really believe in myself and everyone here. [link] [comments] |
| It's easier to gain 10lbs then lose 10 lbs Posted: 21 Sep 2020 09:58 PM PDT I know everyone always says, but here's another reminder: it is always easier to keep it off, then to lose it again. I've been losing weight since about Dec 2019 (330lbs) and I WAS at a new low a couple weeks ago (220lbs) but after being isolated with Covid, I easily fell back into overeating. After holding at 220lb for about a week or so, it started to creep on up and up and within another week I was holding steady at 230lbs. It's not like I was going crazy, still 2 meals a day (as I have been), it just became two larger meals. And with some snacking, popping a soda a few times, I quickly started to undo a month of weight loss. And now, instead of going from 220 to 210, I have to do 230 to 220 all over again, instead of at least keeping myself at 220 in the first place. So again, its so easy to slip up and undo a month of weight loss, stay strong, keep er up, and no matter what you're doing great 💕 [link] [comments] |
| SV: Down 91LBS since December 2019! Posted: 21 Sep 2020 01:08 PM PDT You might remember me from such micro-fame as: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/i9fqts/today_i_can_wipe_my_butt_without_having_to_lift/ I've been strictly working off of NSV/QoL improvements to track my weight loss on a keto (low-carb) diet and walking my dog as exercise. My last real weigh-in was December 11, 2019, when I weighed 458 (up from 455 that October). Today I had a doctor's appointment and got to use the big fancy scale. I was honestly not excited, as I have been cheating myself lately. I'm not even going to play it down, I legitimately started crying when I saw the scale. A grown-ass man, standing on a scale crying about the reading. "Is this accurate? **367**? This is my ***actual*** weight?!" I asked, tears welling in my eyes. "Well you're wearing your shoes and have stuff in your pockets, so it's probably a few pounds lower," the nurse said, trying to comfort me. "You don't understand. I haven't weighed below 400LBS in at least 5 years!" Tears now streaming down my face. Even writing this several hours later, I'm still welling up about it. My max official weigh-in was 495 in July 2018, when I started actually trying. By March 2019, I was nearing 500 again/still, when my roommate helped get me on a keto diet (started low-carb/high-fat, moved to low-carb/mid-fat). So just from official weight, I am down 128LBS since I started this journey. Despite my deteriorating mental health, my cheating, frequent laziness, and binge relapses I actually achieved something...and it's tangible! I have proof for myself, not just guesstimates. All from just cutting carbs and walking sometimes! I can't believe it. I am so stoked, I can't even articulate how stoked I am. [link] [comments] |
| First day of working out and I’m so happy with myself Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:22 PM PDT I've been dieting for about 3 months. I've been eating a balanced diet and been happy with it. But I didn't incorporate any physical activity. Today was my first session with my trainer and I couldn't be happier. I really feel like my life is coming together after 4 years of multiple health issues, obesity, and mental issues. There seems to be a clearer path emerging for me. I really started taking care of my skin and hair as well. All in all, I started to respect myself for the first time in my life. I just keep thinking about how amazing it will be after I reach my goal weight, and I realized I'm loving the journey as well. All in all: Life will get better. Creating small habits everyday can create a profound change. Whoever out here who needs to here this: you are worth it, it's never too late to make progress, your life is in YOUR hands, you are beautiful, you are worth living. [link] [comments] |
| My belly fat won't go away even after losing 60lbs Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:03 PM PDT You guys. I lost 63lbs. 63. That's a heck of a lot. But I only went down ONE SIZE in jeans. My stomach is huge, it's larger than my hips or my breasts, and it's mostly visceral fat. I don't even have a waist line. I really don't know else to do. I've been doing low carb (not keto) and cardio. Because of my scoliosis (which I'll have surgery for in December) I can't really do much weight lifting, so I've been doing some very basic body weight exercises. Has anyone else experienced this? Everywhere else I look much smaller, but my waist is just blob. Do you have any tips or advice? I have PCOS and hypothyroidism, if that helps. I'm on spiro and metformin. [link] [comments] |
| I can’t believe I used to drink this sh*t all the time Posted: 21 Sep 2020 05:55 AM PDT I was about town over the morning and decided to grab lunch at Costa, hoping the Autumnal seasonal drinks would be in already (they weren't). After checking the calories in the sandwiches and deciding I wasn't willing to bust 600cal plus whatever was in my drink on lunch alone, I opted for a salad pot (260cal) and a honeycomb cappuccino (211cal...meh, not bad for an occasional thing). I used to order Costa's fancy coffees all the time at work and that habit was probably a big factor in my weight gain. Lockdown took fancy take-out coffees off the menu, so this was my first in several months. ...It was cloyingly sweet. I didn't hate it, but I am kind of regretting it, just because I've drunk two large glasses of water since getting back home and my teeth still feel "weird" in that way that teeth sometimes do when you've assaulted your mouth with hot, syrupy liquid. After months of drinking unsweetened instant coffee at home, I think Costa has lost its magic. Good thing, honestly, the cost of takeout coffee is extortionate. I'll still be back in the winter for the black cherry hot chocolate, we'll see how that goes down. But my takeout coffee obsession is gone for good. [link] [comments] |
| I have lost 18 lbs!!!! (Since mid-July) Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:21 PM PDT I thought it would be impossible, but I lost nearly a third of my way to my target weight(~180)! At my heaviest I was 237-240 lbs this July, heavier than I have ever been. I weighed myself today at 218 lbs. I might be a little dehydrated, some of that is water weight, but I have not weighed this much for a while! The main thing that caused me to gain this weight was two medications. Last October I was 170-180 lbs and in great physical shape(I was chubby most of my life) but my bipolar disorder (type 1) was not being managed at all. I was put on two medications that caused me to gain ~50-60 lbs the first half of this year. My cholesterol was really high and I was miserable. My pdoc prescribed me a different medication and my appetite and metabolism went back to "normal". I am doing a bit of intermittent fasting from not really being hungry throughout the day, I am going on regular walks, and have been riding my bike around 14 miles at a time in a hilly city. It is working out well. If you are taking psychotropic medications that make you hungrier than usual or affect your weight, don't be afraid to talk to your doctor if your meds are doing this to you! There are different medications that can help you with your condition whatever it may be that do not affect your weight! I could not do anything but gain weight on the meds I was on, changing my meds has caused me to lose a ton of weight. Also moving around and eating way less food. [link] [comments] |
| A candid picture of me kickstarted me into making a change Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:39 PM PDT This is my first post on LoseIt - I just replied to someone's post on this subreddit asking if we had "that" picture - the one which started your weight loss - and I do. When the time is right I might share the photo with this subreddit, but for now I'm just sharing my reply to that post. It was taken on July 4th of this year, when I was visiting my partner's family. We took a group photo - I'm a tall guy, and it was taken from a "below looking up" angle. His mom texted it to him when we returned 2 days later, and he showed me. I couldn't believe what I looked like. That was my "it", after years of gaining and unsuccessful weight loss. As soon as I saw the pic, i knew it was time for a change. I was so ashamed, I couldn't even look at the pic longer than half a second. I immediately called a local hospital to inquire about surgical options. (By the way, about 2 weeks later, a package showed up from Shutterfly - his mom had had the picture made into a puzzle. I could have passed out when I saw it). Fast forward to July 23rd, and I'm in the doctor's office signing up for a VLCD. No surgery for now. I want(ed) to try a non surgical route. I'm down 60.2 pounds as of this morning, almost 9 weeks after I started. I'm 6'3, SW(lbs): 318.8 CW: 258.6 GW: 200. Still a ways to go but it's really quite motivating to see this large of a change in 9 weeks. I still can't bear to look at "that" picture though. [link] [comments] |
| Did you guys have that picture. The one that shocked you? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:10 AM PDT Have you all experienced that picture? The one that was taken candidly by a well-meaning friend or relative? The one that you can't ignore? My fiancé took a pic of me on New Year's Eve and I was floored by how big I looked. I knew I was getting bigger but that picture honestly shocked me. I've been fighting with my weight my whole life. During my teen years my weight creeped up to obese. When I left high school, I decided to lose the weight. After that I lost a good amount and kept losing weight slowly over the years through college and after. It wasn't too hard since I walked a lot in college and through my internship where I basically took my bike everywhere. Then I got the dreaded desk job. It's all been downhill from there. I always say that a stressful desk job is the worst thing for your health. I was sitting all day, and to mentally drained to cook or go to the gym. My weight has gone up and after a few working years and I found myself back at obesity. That picture was a wake up call. And during the pandemic I decided to get my stuff together. I am re learning how to eat and love exercise again. So far I have gotten out the the obesity range (overweight yay!) [link] [comments] |
| NSV Upping My Calories Has Made All the Difference Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:36 AM PDT I'm 5'1" and struggle with compulsive and emotional eating. Any time I try to lose I feel like if I'm not at the biggest deficit I can handle then I'm not doing it right or fully committing. Of course I'm impatient to see progress too! I gained about 15-20 lbs during quarantine (see emotional eating). I am physically uncomfortable and had to go up a size in jeans; a size I haven't worn in 6 years. This time, I decided I could handle progressing a little slower. I really need it to work. So I decided to go with just a 500 cal deficit a day, so about 1 lb a week. I figure I can keep repeating the same cycle over and over, or in a year I could be 52 lbs lighter! So now I eat 1500 calories a day. I made myself a little poster to hang up in the kitchen and got some stickers. Every day I succeed I put up a sticker and I can see right in front of my face how many days I made it. The most amazing things have happened! I can fit just about anything I want into a day with a little planning. That means if my family wants to have something special, or I want treat, I might have to work around that to plan the rest of my day, but I can have it. I don't feel deprived. It has done amazing things for my compulsive eating. I used to spend most of my day obsessing about food in one way or another, and I just don't now. It blows my mind! I know this was probably too long, but I wanted to share what a change this has been for me. It is so easy to be impatient and want to go for the fastest loss, but I love living this way so much more. [link] [comments] |
| Brand new here and loving everyone already Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:59 PM PDT Hello, I have been lurking here for about a month and everyone's positivity in the community has finally moved me to get serious about losing the weight. I am F28, 5'4", currently weigh 200 (my most ever) with a goal weight of 130 but also a massive desire to feel strong again. I was a dancer from basically birth until the age of 18 when my training workload caused stress fractures in both feet. These fractures have caused endless issues since due to healing poorly and I never went back to dancing. Even jobs that put me on my feet too much aggravate these old injuries. This led to me gaining weight in college but still not too badly. I have never learned how to drive so walking and biking at least kept the weight gain from ballooning out of control but by graduation I was at 170 and starting to feel negatively towards my body but still not enough to take it seriously. At the age of 22 I got a very physically laborious job that had me hitting 10,000 steps by 10am and kept my heart rate up the whole shift. At this point I dropped down to 140 in just the 9 months I worked there, though the job took its toll and a few months after leaving it my lower back gave out due to psoas inflammation and I went from being in the best shape I had been in years to using a walker and becoming basically sedentary (though the lack of car still kept me at at least 2 miles of walking a day at the slowest snail's pace ever.) With PT and modified pilates I got off the walker after a handful of months but I have never fully regained the ability to move unimpeded due to back pain- though I've always felt that if I could at least get my weight lower I could take the strain off and feel better. But instead I allowed myself to become lazy in face of the pain and it led me right back up to 175lbs again. After this I tried a few times to count calories with some pretty dismal attempts at exercising, but never made it more than a few days before getting distracted. The final straw was COVID and going from walking into work every day (about 1.5 miles one way) to remote working in my apartment and never leaving the house due to lung scarring bronchitis putting me at too big of risk. In that time I have gotten to 200lbs and feel uncomfortable in much of my clothing and just.generally unhappy. It was the thought of needing to buy new work clothes for whenever I go back to on-site work that has driven me to wanting to get into a better lifestyle. I miss how strong I was when I was a dancer and I miss seeing muscle definition in my legs. So that's how I found this subreddit and found myself addicted to scrolling through everyone's stories and reading the encouragement on this site that has me finally feeling like I can take control and accomplish my goals. My plan is to do CICO, making small and manageable changes like choosing a vegetable over a bag of chips at lunch time and not feeling like I need to finish everything on my plate to feel full, and beginning to work out with a goal of 30 min every day with cardio for 3-4 and weight training/ abs for 3, and pilates or yoga on the remaining day. My husband is stick thin minus a small beer belly but he has agreed to work out with me since he has become sedentary as well so we got the trial to Beachbody on Demand and started the 21 Day Fix yesterday (workout only, no meal plan) with a plan to modify to make sure what we are doing is working for our goals. We just both took our lunchtime to do Day 2 and it's amazing what having a workout buddy does to change my attitude about exercise and I hope our competitive nature's keep feeding into both of us from being our healthier selves. I look forward into continuing to read through everyone's posts and interacting with this subreddit as I start this journey. Thanks to everyone on here who's presence and stories have helped me find the push I needed to begin. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:06 PM PDT I've (25F) had such huge problems with anxiety my whole life and I'm so frustrated that now at 25 I'm only just realizing how much of a vicious cycle it has been in my life. I feel anxious about going outside so I don't get out to exercise and food is my main comfort so I overeat, and then I gain weight and become more afraid to go outside because I'm so self conscious and I eat more to feel better, etc... you get the drill. I've never held down a stable job because of it until the job I'm in now (have been here for 10 months, only maxed out at 3 months with the only 2 other jobs I've ever had) and my vitals have always been surprisingly normal, even bordering on good even though I'm medically obese and I've never had any doctors really tell me I need to make serious lifestyle changes. I've been given anxiety meds and that's it. I've decided now that I'm sick of being overweight and feeling like garbage all the time and I want to be better for myself, for my ability to do my job, and for my partner and family. So I started counting calories last week and wow, I cannot believe how much I used to eat. I'm not getting ahead of myself, I expect to screw up sometimes, in fact i know i will, but i can't believe the sheer amount i ate before. The amount of calories just in a subway sub that i thought was the HEALTHY option??? And I've discovered i don't actually need to eat all that much to feel full, i just need to drink more water. These are all such obvious revelations and i feel so stupid for not figuring it all out sooner. Anyway I want to thank both this sub and progresspics for helping me kick my own A into G. I know it's not going to be easy, I know I'm going to slip up sometimes, but I truly feel for the first time in my life I can actually do this and I look forward to being able to post here in the future when I hit my first goal of being "overweight" rather than obese. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 09:21 PM PDT First ever post. Backstory - in December 2017, my then bf and I decided to get serious about working out. I was at 215 lbs and he was way over where he wanted to be. We went to the gym constantly and then about 3 months later decided to watch/limit calories. A month after THAT, I started actually losing. Slow and steady, 1-2 lbs per week. Low fat this, lettuce wraps instead of taco shells, portion control, etc. I got down to about 168 at that time. Then things sort of went back to the old normal. I changed jobs so going to the gym wasn't as easy, started eating the old way again, and about a year later (Oct 2018) I was up to 170. Weight fluctuates within 5 lbs or so and I was around 170 in Oct 2018 so it's safe to say I was maintaining. Then COVID happened and I, like many others saw the scale creeping upwards. About two months of that and a scare that I would need to work in the office were enough to kick me in the pants and get me serious. I was up to 185.6 when I decided to do something. I had tried and failed keto twice before, but I decided since I was working from home maybe I could manage it. I started walking on my lunch breaks cutting out the carbs. I didn't go over 1200 calories either, except occasionally. Also, for added motivation, my husband and I made a deal. If I could get to my goal weight (155) by my birthday (Feb 2021) we would book a vacation to Cabo. 4 months later I'm closing in and I'm ready to set a new goal! I had a good chat with a guy in the r/keto subreddit, and I'm ready to up my exercise game. I've never been able to run for very long. My legs feel really heavy since hips, belly, and thighs is where I carry most of my weight. I'm really hoping I can overcome that hurdle and move my body. I am not sure what I want my new goal weight to be, but I think either way I will keep a fitness goal at the forefront. Anyway, if you made it this far in the post, wish me luck and drop your running training/workout advice for the absolute beginner! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 21 Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:47 PM PDT Hello losers, Late post & run today! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. Stay within calorie range (1500 weekdays, maintenance weekends, NO FAST FOOD): Maintenance. Still better than a previous version of me. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. 14/21 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Did some last night & today. 3/3 weeks. Self-care time (working on love journals, beauty treatments, staying on top of adulting, drawing 7/20 days): Went to work. Didn't come home with a bag of tacos. That's a victory enough for today. Try a new recipe once a week: Experimenting with pumpkin puree, slightly different chili recipe & an oil based vinaigrette salad dressing. 3/5 weeks. 50 pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Not tonight kids. 0/50 pages. Be more mindful, present in my body & express gratitude to avoid the hedonic treadmill: I am grateful for stability. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| I got engaged this weekend and the pictures made me realize I need to lose weight again Posted: 21 Sep 2020 11:33 AM PDT So, my boyfriend proposed to me this weekend. He got our friend to take pictures and I had a cute outfit on/makeup done so I thought I'd like them. Well, I hate them. I think I look disgusting and it's honestly such a wake up call. I've been overweight my whole life, in high school I lost weight and got down to 150, and then slowly through college went back up. Now, it seems every month I'm reaching a new high. After I saw these photos I decided to weigh myself for the first time in a year or so. This time last year I weighed about 215. Today, I weigh in around 260. I am completely mortified by this. I told myself if I ever got to 200 I'd change, and then that didn't happen. Now I'm so scared to get to 300 I know I have to start but I just feel so lost. I know how to lose weight-- eat less, exercise more. And I'm pretty good at counting calories, especially with the Fitbit app it's really easy. But I'm just so scared. I don't wanna weigh 300 pounds at my wedding. I'd like to at least get back down to 200 but preferably below that eventually! I'm only 5'5" so I know my healthy weight range is much lower than that but I don't wanna stress myself out too much with an excessive goal. Anyway just wanted to share here to find some support. Any advice or motivation is welcome! [link] [comments] |
| I’m losing steam and I need help. Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:56 PM PDT I'm Going on my fourth month of calorie counting, I started at 1800 and now i'm down to 1600. I'm a 5'2 female and my starting weight was 200lbs. The first ten pounds I lost fairly quickly, lost it after about a mont-a month and a half. But now i'm just stuck in the range of 186-191. I know it's my eating, I became a lot more lax and now i'm finding it hard to not want to eat junk or just stuff my face. I find myself craving really salty things, like french fries from mcdonald's or a hamburger. I've been super consistent with working out, just started to add in another day, I just don't know why the food is such an issue. At the beginning I was able to push through the cravings, but now I can't seem too. If this adds any context, I also just find it the hardest at night when i'm about to head to bed. I don't want to gain back all the weight, but i'm struggling to keep it up. Any suggestions on how to get out of this slump? Or even offer some support on if this is normal? I'll take anything, I just genuinely didn't know where else to turn about this. Thank you in advance if you respond! [link] [comments] |
| I lost the weight I gained during 'le confinement'! Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:07 AM PDT In mid-March of this year France was put under a strict lockdown (termed here as 'le confinement'). My usual exercise routine, which was based around my commute to/from work and lunchtime runs, was out of the window. Up until that point I was cycling 160km per week (100 miles) and running 16km per week (10 miles) but the strict rules of the confinement put that to bed. My problem was that I didn't take enough action to adjust. I didn't react fast enough to incorporate other exercises into my routine that I could do indoors, but I also made a far greater mistake of not changing my diet. That had bad consequences for me. Prior to the confinement I weighed 75 kg (165 lbs). Within a few months that shot up to 83 kg (183 lbs). I'd never experienced a rise like that in my life before, so it was a little worrying. At this point I stopped eating so many sugary treats, cakes and everything else and within a few weeks I'd lost a couple of kilos...but nothing special. Then in the middle of last month I decided to start taking it seriously and started the reliable CICO (1500 calories consumed, regardless of exercise per day). Yesterday, one month on, I had lost my confinement bulge. I've switched up my exercise routine too. I'm working from home now and I make sure to do something every lunchtime, plus some form of exercise on one day at the weekend. There's a small outdoor gym beneath a motorway bridge that is a short cycle ride away and that's terrific fun, but I'm also back to running properly and doing 2 long cycle rides per week as well. I bought a roller/home trainer for my bike during the confinement and I still use it in the basement. If lockdowns snap back in the coming months then I'm ready! I've corrected my mistakes of over-eating just my CICO. It works, people. It works. [link] [comments] |
| [SV] 22lbs by my 22nd Birthday Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:33 PM PDT Soo in June I started losing weight and thought my goal weight was super far away and it was discouraging to think of how far I needed to go. So I decided to set a goal for my self and it was lose 22 pounds by my 22nd birthday. Today, almost 2 weeks before my 22nd birthday, I reached my goal with 22.2 pounds lost! I am proud of myself and I owe a lot of my motivation to you guys. I'm lowkey a lurker but whenever I need to know that I'm not the only one out here this sub helps remind me that I'm not alone in this. I started with watching what I eat and weighing some foods while cutting out a lot of added sugars. I also started drinking hella water. Got myself a 32 oz bottle and now it's always by my side. In the beginning I walked and after a month of that I tried out C25K which has done a lot for me mentally. For me it's active evidence that I am getting stronger/losing weight. The day I could jog for 20 minutes without stopping was wild. I had to ask myself if I was the one jogging out there. I think one of the biggest things for me that helped me meet this goal is to not get upset about wanting to enjoy a bag of Hot Cheetos or sumn. Sure I try to stay within my caloric goal the majority of days but the days where I just needa have a comfort snack/meal I do instead of denying myself and later going way over the top. By being able to enjoy the little things without sweating it and by acknowledging that I'm a human and like other humans I have cravings has helped me be kinder to myself. One thing I'm finding difficult is being on Zoom for so long. I'm on camera for hours at end and I just look at myself like there is no difference and I have to remind myself that there is a difference, that my clothes are fitting looser and to stop being a negative Nancy about myself. I gotta be in my own corner because me as my worst enemy hasn't done me any good. Does anyone relate? [link] [comments] |
| 6 months ago today I started counting calories (34lb lost) Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:04 AM PDT I am 40F and started 6 months ago today. I lose very slowly, almost never more than a pound a week but those pounds have added up. I've lost 34lb, purely from CICO, exercising regularly and drinking more water. It took me 7 years to find my motivation. I am the laziest person ever, so if I can do it anyone can. I hate exercise (and that is OK) but the benefits it has brought to my mental health and crippling anxiety are amazing. I do short workouts that fit in with my busy lifestyle as a mum of 3 kids. It hasn't been easy, but it has been simple. My sleep is better, I have so much more energy and I feel like a completely different person. Where will you be in six months time? You can do this too! [link] [comments] |
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