Weight loss: I never thought I would get skinny shamed |
- I never thought I would get skinny shamed
- NSV: I feel like an actual fit person
- Is it time I leave weightloss subs? I don't know what to do at this point...
- 60 lbs lost over 5 years today
- The unexpected surgery that changed my life
- I had my "cheat day" today and...
- Blessed be the infrequent flossers, for they have the power to unlock discipline.
- How do you cope with people who question your weight loss?
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 27 September 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- Being noticed by other people again
- Would you install a hypothetical “never have to eat body implant”?
- [Question] How to get enough protein as a mostly vegetarian/ pescatarian?
- 35 lbs down in 11 weeks, made an appointment with primary care to be safe and make sure it is not too fast
- I’ve figured out a way to keep my motivation
- I am a Little Piggy...
- I fucked up while hiking today
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26
- PMS turns me into a food monster!
- Lost 30 pounds so far on my weight loss journey
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: September 27th, 2020
- My scale doesn't budge until I take a cardio break - then I get a whoosh. Why?
- Feedback on my plan
- Feeling stuck...
- Weight loss plateau HELP
| I never thought I would get skinny shamed Posted: 26 Sep 2020 08:06 AM PDT I'm pretty sure a lot of people, if not everyone, has been criticized by their families over their weight. My mom constantly told me, growing up, that I need to stop eating so much. I need to stop eating so much sweets. Weirdly enough, I managed to maintain 165lbs all throughout highschool, but I was depressed. I was not comfortable with my weight and it completely destroyed my self confidence. I wasn't obese and I had a pretty good fat distribution so a lot of people thought I weighed way less than what I really did, but my weight and appearance still bothered me. Now I'm at 125lbs (I'm 5'4") and my mom was nagging at me the entire day yesterday that I was too skinny and I look terrible. She kept telling me I need to eat more. If I was 70lbs and bones I would understand, but my stomach if flatter, I've lost a lot of fat, and I feel more confident then ever. For the first time in my life I feel confident enough to wear a short sleeve shirt without a jacket to cover my stomach. Basically, I was told I was eating too much growing up. Now I'm told I'm too skinny (I'm really not, trust me). [link] [comments] |
| NSV: I feel like an actual fit person Posted: 26 Sep 2020 07:08 PM PDT Today I participated in a competition/ event at my local gym. BACKGROUND: I have ALWAYS been overweight and at times obese my entire life. I've always been un-athletic, uncoordinated, and an all around joke doing anything physical. However, I had become disgusted with how unhealthy I had become and decided to commit to change 5 months ago. Since May 1st I've been going to the gym 5x a week and eating in a caloric deficit. I've lost 40 pounds in that time. So when I heard about this competition coming up at my gym I thought why not challenge myself. I joined and it was today. You guys... I was dead! It was so incredibly hard and honestly the hardest I've ever pushed myself in my life. I burned 900 calories in less than an hour because I was working HARD. I was determined to not finish last. I am TIRED of being the fat/ chubby /un-athletic girl. I just want to be a normal person of normal ability. And I finished 6th place out of 12! I finally feel like I've made it. I feel like an actual capable fit person. I am just so proud of myself for making it this far and becoming this person I've always wanted to be. I want this for myself, so bad. And I can feel it getting closer. If you think something is hard or that you're incapable of it, please do it. You will thank yourself. [link] [comments] |
| Is it time I leave weightloss subs? I don't know what to do at this point... Posted: 26 Sep 2020 04:51 PM PDT This is sort of hard for me to write and I hope I don't offend anyone with what I'm about to say. I'm just looking for some advice on what to do. I started my weight loss journey about an year ago and I've lost a significant amount of weight (50lbs) but I still have a bit more to lose. I've frequented subs like 1200isplenty, cico, lose it, etc. since the beginning. Mostly for inspiration or to get that feel that I'm not alone in this. But I could never connect with the way the majority of people think there. I was active at first, posting recipes and commenting but after a while I just realized I don't fit with what's accepted in them. In short, I'm very laid back with my diet. I don't worry if I'm over today or I ate like crap, if I forgot to count something, if I don't know the calories of something and so on. I just don't aim to be perfect and it's the opposite in those subs and it's always made me feel insecure that I'm not doing something right. When I read a title like "I ran today so I can have thisI dessert" or "there's delicious food in the fridge but I didn't eat it, I'm so proud of myself" I get chills. It makes my skin crawl. I stopped participating and just lurk so I try to fast scroll by but it gets to me. I'm constantly torn between "those people have ed" and "if I was like them I'd lose faster". And I don't know it's just that I feel as if, if I stop visiting those subs, I'll let go of myself and I'm still not done losing. I need the motivation they represent but I hate the vibe in them. Any advice would be welcome. [link] [comments] |
| 60 lbs lost over 5 years today Posted: 26 Sep 2020 11:28 AM PDT In 2015 I tipped the scale the day before my best friends wedding at 301lbs. Needless to say at 5'-11" I could see in the eyes of my friends and his family that I had gone from being just the guy who put on weight after college to an unhealthy fat ass. The reasons for it are simple. I had been an avid weight lifter for a decade prior but had to have heart valve surgery in 2010 after a strep infection. All the ways I knew to stay fit didn't work. In five years I went from 215 to 300. I was traveling with work three or fours day a week and frankly I like to eat. Food has also been a stress reliever for me too. Wanting to take charge, I got the loseit app and had initial success. The first year I dropped to 283. I stalled out for 6 months. I then dropped the second year to 271. Another stall out and finally in 2017 and early 2018 I dropped to under 260. In 2019 I broke my neck in a freak accident. I'm fine but I began 2020 at 247. When the Covid quarantine started I had just finished a Caribbean cruise. Needless to say if you trap me in the house with nothing to do and boredom so I just ate what I knew how to cook. By then end of June I was back up over 260. On July 5 of this year after my partner and I got back from the beach we both decided it was time to get it back into gear. I'm high risk because of my heart valve and he is an elementary school admin so our risk factors for Covid are high. Last week I had to go to a funeral. I obviously had been losing weight but with working from home it is hard to gauge when I'm in shorts and t-shirts what the loss looks like. I tired on a sport coat I bought last year and it literally looked like I was David Byrne in a floppy suit from Stop Making Sense. I have dropped from a size 56 jacket to a 48-46. Now I'm a barrel chested guy so that may still seem big but the muscle from years ago is there in my shoulders. The gut on the suit is just hard to even believe. For me it's a massive mental accomplishment. Today after 75 days of non-stop tracking, re-learning portion control, listening to my body when I'm full and NOT BEING A HARD ASS ON MYSELF when I slip up, I stepped on the scale and weight in at 239.2! Granted, the journey is NOT done. Realistically I set my goal for 190lbs. It took me 15 years to go from 180 to 300. It took a string of bad things to get me started on losing weight. Finding the love of my life to keep me set on the right path and accountable has kick started the process. I'm holding off on pics today because I have not reached my goal yet and me at 301 is just scary. Stick with it people. It works 😬👍 [link] [comments] |
| The unexpected surgery that changed my life Posted: 26 Sep 2020 10:53 AM PDT I was 18 and obese weighing at about 116kg (255lb), it all started on a Sunday, trying to catch up on my uni work when I got this sharp pain in my lower abdomen. I thought nothing of it and tried to use the bathroom. After an hour it got so much worse so I told my parents about it. This pain was so bad, my parents didn't realise this until I started tearing up. So my dad and I got up to go to the ER. I saw the triage nurse who put me through to see a doctor within 20 mins. After some physical tests we found out the I had a torsion (testicle twisted) and had 6 hours to get this fixed in an emergency surgery (the testicle would die if I prolonged the surgery). God, I was so nervous. After 1 hour of being on IV I was dressed up and getting prepared for surgery. Every minute I waited in the theatre felt like an hour. Anyway, after I had the surgery (thank god, I had no complications) I spent 2 nights recovering in hospital. The day before I was discharged, I was told that I had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (they found it in my blood test). I knew I had this since I was 15, but my doctor downplayed the seriousness of the disease and me being careless in those 3 years made it so much worse. A couple days after I was discharged I went and saw a GP. I was told that I should start dieting lose some weight so that's what I did. I did some research and put myself on a calorie deficit (1500-1800kcals a day). After about 3 weeks I had lost 7kg and felt so good. So I stayed on the diet and then also signed up for a gym membership. It's been 4 months since I've been working out (mainly cardio) and on this diet and I'm proud to say that I've lose 26kg and weigh 89kg. I've never felt better. I've still got some work though as I'm still considered to be obese according to the BMI, but I'm so proud of how far I've come. I saw my GP 2 weeks ago and got my blood test to have a look at how my liver is doing, I found out my liver had gotten so much better. And on the plus side I've also learnt how to cook. TL:DR: I had an emergency surgery and found out my non-alcoholic fatty liver disease had gotten worse, so I went on a diet and worked out and have lose 26kg. [link] [comments] |
| I had my "cheat day" today and... Posted: 26 Sep 2020 06:51 PM PDT ... it was really underwhelming. I ate all the cheese and dessert I wanted. It felt like I was force-feeding myself because the day would go to waste if I didn't eat all the junk at once, and I didn't even eat that much today! I know this is a really unhealthy mindset, I haven't had a "real" relaxed day of food in 3 months so I ate a bunch of food that honestly didn't taste THAT great and made me feel weird and jittery.
I guess my tastes have changed a lot since my diet/lifestyle change and even though I could tell the food was "good" it didn't really give me that comforting high that it used to. I think having just a bit in moderation every once in a while is a lot better than having 1 day to go balls-to-the-wall crazy on food. That's not to say I haven't had cravings -- I literally dreamed about this day EVERY day since the start of my diet and sometimes my cravings made me want to rip out my own tongue or something, but really, it isn't that great. Eating decently tasty food and feeling great is a lot better IMO than eating junk.
Overall, I think just having a bunch of food freedom at my fingertips was the best part of today, actually eating the food was more of an afterthought. The high that came with planning today was much greater than the execution. Overall I would rate it a 3/10 in terms of fulfillment, where a good day on track is typically a 6.5/10. (It did give me the energy to go out for a run twice today, though, marking the 2nd and 3rd time I've run this year haha, not out of guilt but because all the carbs/sugar/fat/salt made me jittery and I had to burn off the energy somehow!) [link] [comments] |
| Blessed be the infrequent flossers, for they have the power to unlock discipline. Posted: 26 Sep 2020 08:26 PM PDT Realized I always get through the day just fine and after dinner, it all falls apart. First dessert, then second dessert, sometimes three. From both a calories and composition standpoint, this is no bueno. Separately, I've been trying to floss more. But I'm one of those floss-once-a-year-right-before-the-dentist types, so my gums bleed and my teeth hurt and everything. I've been flossing right before bed so I can sleep through the worst of it. Then one day, I thought that the last thing I wanted to do is put more pressure on my teeth after flossing. So I decided to move my flossing up to after dinner, and bam! Just like that - dessert craving cured. Hallelujah. [link] [comments] |
| How do you cope with people who question your weight loss? Posted: 27 Sep 2020 12:29 AM PDT Hello all! 28 y.o. female here. I started this jouney a few months ago, when I was obese class 2 (BMI was 35.2 then). I've just recently turned overweight, not obese anymore, but I still have a BMI of 29.4, so I'm really far from being skinny! But my mother-in-law, who has actually always been a good mother-in-law, can't stop talking about my weight loss, and not in a positive manner. She doesn't stop saying I must be starving myself and I'm actually damaging my body. Mind you, she wants me to eat cake and fried foods to prove otherwise, because they must eat a lot of cake and grease everyday in order to believe they are fed. The whole family is thin, so no, it's not them being jealous. But now I'm even frightened of meeting that part of the family, because all they talk about is my new "unhealthy" habits, and how it scares them to see me so "much thinner", and they can't stop trying to make me stop my weight loss. So they question my eating choices about twenty times a day, and each time I will explain my diet and they will appear to accept it, only to start it all again minutes later with them questioning my diet exactly the same way they did before, and with the same arguments I had already patiently replied to. Dieting is so hard and it takes a lot of motivation, but they are taking my motivation away. Besides, this non-stop talk is leaving me mentally ill and I don't what to do to cope with this. I can't avoid crying any day I see them now. For example, yesterday my MIL and her sister were discussing my diet right on front of me, as if it's up for them to decide or solve it, and her sister told me about a morbidly obese guy who lost weight and gained it all again, so my diet was pointless. I was left speechless... I know they didn't have a chance to have an education, that they don't even know what nutrients are, and especially that they just want what's best for me, but I just can't take ir anymore. After being with them I can't even sleep at night, but seeing them less is not an option. How do you cope with this, and how do you think I can stay motivated after seeing this part of the family? [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 27 September 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 26 Sep 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] |
| Being noticed by other people again Posted: 26 Sep 2020 01:44 PM PDT Background: after taking a bad medication, I went from weighing 105 pounds to weighing 147 pounds, and it made me absolutely miserable. I quit the medication and left the relationship that actually made me unhappy several months ago and have been working on losing the weight since then by counting calories. I'm down about 17 pounds, so I still have quite a way to go, and the loss has been much slower than I would like, so I've found myself getting frustrated at times. I also haven't really gotten any positive feedback from my family, which I know I shouldn't need, but losing weight takes a lot of work and I guess it would feel nice to know that someone noticed. I used to feel "cute" before gaining weight I guess, but because of my height (4"11) the weight gain was super super obvious. However, the other night I was studying outside (at a table a good distance away from other people) at a coffee shop I like. It was one of the only times I've left the house during the pandemic because a) there's a pandemic and b) I honestly just have felt embarrassed about the way I look for a while. But a few minutes before I was going to leave, the guy from the table nearish to me comes over and starts talking to me. He then tells me I'm really cute, says he wants to give me his number, and then writes it down in my notebook. I was just completely thrown off. It could have nothing to do with losing weight, but since I was ghosted a couple months ago after my one attempt at going on a date with a person I met online (which I can only assume was because of the weight since we had a nice conversation), it honestly just felt nice to hear that from someone again. It makes me feel like I've made actual progress and like I can go back to being the person I was before. I'm still ultimately doing this for myself, and this could all sound very vain, but there's just something nice about starting to be noticed in a positive way by other people again. [link] [comments] |
| Would you install a hypothetical “never have to eat body implant”? Posted: 27 Sep 2020 01:37 AM PDT If Elon Musk invented a body implant that delivers all the nutrition your body needs, including calorie deficit while you need it, and you always feel perfectly full and never hungry, and you would never have to eat. Would you get it? One of his companies (Neural Link) is working on a brain implant that lets you control things with your mind. And some other company is starting on human trials with cornea implants for blind people that will deliver digital pixels to their eyeballs so they can see. And of course the GB surgeries are nothing new but another example of human modification by technology. My point is that it's not so far fetched. Oh and of course there is the Soylent Foods thing that is some kind of smoothy replacing all meals that actually gives you exactly the nutrition your body needs. So that exists too. [link] [comments] |
| [Question] How to get enough protein as a mostly vegetarian/ pescatarian? Posted: 26 Sep 2020 09:51 PM PDT I'm 26, female, about 5'4 and 145 lbs. For a while now I've been aiming to get 50-80 grams of protein a day but I've recently come to realize that this might not be enough, especially as I'm aiming to put on muscle. It's challenging because the only meat I eat is fish and I can't afford to buy fresh fish all the time. I eat canned tuna and sardines, but it gets very boring and monotonous, plus with bigger fish like tuna I worry about mercury. I feel like as a short-ish woman it's challenging to meet my protein goals while keeping my calories at or under 1500. I guess I'm going to start aiming for 120 grams of protein a day. Does that seem right? I read somewhere that one gram per lb of your goal weight should be good. Sorry this is rambly. Just hoping for some advice, insights, or personal experience. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2020 08:13 PM PDT I started at 265 at 5'8" female, so losing 35 lbs in 11 weeks might be an okay start for beginning so high, but I want to make sure it isn't too fast. It's so hard to not dive right in and eat up the results right away, especially since I am still at 230 lbs and have a long way to go. But I have struggled with eating disorders in my youth and want to be healthy about this. So I made an appointment with my doctor for a week from now. I'm nervous he'll say to slow down and I will lose momentum. I so badly want 2021 to be the year I reach my goal. Looking for advice on slowing down without giving up. Currently doing 1200-1300 calories a day. [link] [comments] |
| I’ve figured out a way to keep my motivation Posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:41 PM PDT I dislike counting calories for each day in an app or on paper. I also can't guesstimate because I always end up in a calorie surplus and gain weight when I do. So I've been on a seesaw, counting calories for a few days, then giving it up for a week, and so on. Then I started making a schedule for fall term (I'm a college student) and realized I will have very specific windows when I can eat. And it dawned on me that I can just set a rough calorie target (plus or minus 50 calories in either direction) per "eating time slot" (I can't really call my eating times meals because of the odd timing) and not bother about counting for the whole day. I worked out how many times I would eat per day (4-5 depending on the day - I like spacing out my "meals" so I'm never too hungry or stuffed) and calculated proportions of calories for each time depending on how long it would be before the next time I eat (or I go to bed). I'm at maintenance which is about 1700 calories for me so I made sure my calories would, on average over time, be about 1700 at the end of the day. My schedule now looks like this: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 9am: 500-600 calories - 1pm: 500-600 - 5pm: 400-500 - 8pm: 100-200 Tuesday - 8am: 300-400 - 11am: 300-400 - 2pm: 300-400 - 5pm: 100-200 - 6:15pm: 400-500 Thursday - 9am: 300-400 - 11:45am: 300-400 - 2pm: 500-600 - 6pm: 200-300 - 8pm: 100-200 Saturday, Sunday - 9am: 200-300 - 11am: 400-500 - 2pm: 400-500 - 5pm: 300-400 - 7:30pm: 200-300 It's not as exact as a daily limit, but as long as I'm staying within the boundaries each meal - and not eating the upper limit each time, but varying it - my calories should even out over time to keep me at maintenance. My point in sharing this is, A) to remind people that you don't have to do exactly the same thing as everyone else as long as it works for you, and B) in case anyone else shares my sentiment and wants to try out this method. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2020 03:59 PM PDT I am a little Piggy, To be honest, this weekend there are so many people berating themselves ( unnecessarily) I thought you guys can have a bit of fun at my expense. I'm an ex-pat from the UK, and there's a place about 20 miles from me that serves the best Fish and chips this side of the Pond (the only issue is, they serve Guinness cold which is unforgivable). I refuse to feel bad, or allow myself to think I failed. I had a nice treat (stuffed though) - not like I'm going to eat that way all the time (like, seriously - it's expensive and a bit of a drive anyway) I had one meal outside my new norm and THAT'S OK!! Now someone pass the pink goo - I over did it... *groan* [link] [comments] |
| I fucked up while hiking today Posted: 26 Sep 2020 07:12 PM PDT TLDR: I fucked up while hiking today and had to sit down in the middle of the trail to keep from passing out. If you're going to be doing something strenuous, make sure you're eating enough to support yourself! I made a couple of big mistakes today, and I was lucky that everything turned out okay, but I wanted to post about it just to remind other people to keep an eye on their limits and make sure to keep well-fed and hydrated. I didn't realize anything was wrong until I was nearly back. I sat down on the side of the trail to rest for a minute on the last steep section and suddenly my ears were ringing and I started seeing black spots. I moved off of the rock I was on and into the middle of the trail and just sat there with my head between my knees trying to decide if I needed to call 911, but by this point I don't think I would have been able to actually make the phone call on my own. Eventually the dizziness passed and I was able to focus again. I thought it might have been heatstroke for a minute (and if it had been I definitely should have called 911), but the symptoms didn't seem right for that - no nausea or vomiting, no chills. I felt surprisingly okay, just weak. I grabbed a bag of sweet trail mix out of my pack and just started shoving handfuls of cashews and chocolate into my face. Usually when I'm hiking, I'll stop at some point for lunch, have a protein bar and some jerky. But I'd eaten all my protein bars over the summer and hadn't stocked up again, and the rest of my food was pretty salty. I'd had about an ounce of jerky and some Smartfood, but that had been it. It definitely wasn't enough to keep me going on a hike like the one I was on. After eating about half of the bag of trail mix, I felt well enough to keep going - slowly, and with plenty of rests. I finished the rest of my water and filled up again at a public rest facility on my way back to my car, then sat down in the shade in front of the water fountains and ate more trail mix until my hands stopped shaking and I felt ready to handle the last half mile to my car. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26 Posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:34 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Saturday! 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, NO FAST FOOD): Better today. Maintenance. Exercise 5 days a week: Light walk to clear my damn head will happen after dinner. 18/26 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Not today. 3/3 weeks. Self-care time (working on love journals, beauty treatments, staying on top of adulting, drawing 11/22 days): So much fucking adulting today. Over it. 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 internet things that reduce time spent on the damn phone blergh. Your turn kids. [link] [comments] |
| PMS turns me into a food monster! Posted: 26 Sep 2020 10:12 AM PDT Hello all, So I've been on this sub for a while (on an older reddit account) and lurked the entire time. I've gone from 68kg to 60.7 kg over the last year (5'4 female) and been maintaining for 2-3 months. I am ready to lose the next 2-3kg. But every month I've noticed exactly 10 days before my period I have this insatiable hunger and I eat like a starved child. I know this is purely hormonal because I am eating an adequate amount of calories (1400-1500kcal weekdays and maintenance calories of 1600ish on weekends). I normally feel satisfied with my portions. I normally just listen to my body and eat what I want and try not to eat processed foods. I wanted to ask for any advice on how to combat this hunger that I experience every month. Please help me. Thank you all in advance! TLDR: PMS causes me to overeat every month. Want advice please to help me overcome it. [link] [comments] |
| Lost 30 pounds so far on my weight loss journey Posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:04 PM PDT I'm not gonna post anything philosophical cause I'm not that type of guy lol. My perspective is; DO WHAT YOU THINK WORKS FOR YOU. What I'm currently doing is vegetarian diet and lots of jogging and pushups. I eat mostly raw veggies/yogurt. Cabbage, grapes, broccoli, beans, tofu. Overall I think I eat less than 800 calories a day yet I feel fine. Was only able to do 5-7 pushups when started. Now I'm able to do 30 pushups non stop. My routine is doing pushups and light jogging for 2 miles everyday.. unless I'm sore and need a couple days to recuperate. Still pushing my limits and trying to increase it. Started at 262, currently at 232. Height; 5'11. Age; 24. Asian male. I kind of have low self esteem so I'll post a before and after photo once I get to my target weight and look. (I'm only about 3 and a half weeks in the diet.) Edit; aiming for 170 pounds by the end of the year. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: September 27th, 2020 Posted: 26 Sep 2020 11:55 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] |
| My scale doesn't budge until I take a cardio break - then I get a whoosh. Why? Posted: 26 Sep 2020 09:42 PM PDT Hi everyone, I've noticed a weird thing happening and I'm curious as to whether someone can give me some insight as to why this is happening. For reference, I'm F29, 5'10, SW 230, CW 189.4, eating 1300 calories per day. At the start of lockdown I started with CICO and daily cardio. I actually moved my office to my home gym, and I've been in the habit of working while using my spin bike - I've been averaging three hours of moderate-intensity spinning every day, often more, sometimes a little less. I make sure to get in my cardio every day, with maybe 1-2 days every month where something comes up and I flake on it. I've been losing 2lbs per week since April. The longest I'll go without cycling is three days every month or so when my brother comes to visit and I want to hang out with him so I don't bother working out...whatever, yolo. For the past several months, I've noticed that my scale will *refuse* to move for weeks on end, six weeks being my longest plateau. What always breaks the plateau is my brother's visits when I'll continue to eat at a deficit, but I won't work out. Then I'll have a crazy whoosh that matches up perfectly to the weight I should have been losing the whole time - so if it's been three weeks since my last weekend-long break, my scale will drop 6lbs. If it's been six weeks, the scale will drop 12lbs, etc. So I'm not super concerned about the constant plateau/whoosh cycle, as I seem to be on track regardless of the scale's pace. I'm just really curious as to why my weight doesn't drop until I've had that long break from working out. Does anyone have any ideas? Edit: I also drink a shit ton of water if it makes a difference. I shoot for 3-4 liters every day! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:45 PM PDT Hi all, I am a 47 year old woman who has been overweight her entire life. I am one of those "tried everything, failed everything" types. I've lost weight but I always regain it. I have a lot of knowledge about weight loss (I'm a CICO, TDEE, the best diet is the one you can stick with advocate) so it's not a lack of understanding about the mechanics of weight loss that is the problem. Recently, I've sat down and thought about the behavioural issues that affect me. I put down some thoughts about it and I would love any feedback/extra advice about how to mange these ongoing problems. I thought they might be helpful for anyone who struggles with the same kinds of issues. For context, I'm a single mother who works an emotionally and time demanding job. If I don't organise food, we don't eat. I'm often exhausted when I walk through the door. I also struggle with my own mental health. Organising and planning food for me is and always has been an issue - it's not something that comes naturally to me and it takes mental energy and effort just to do that part. I've broken it into Calories In (Food), Calories Out (Exercise) and Unhelpful Thinking (obsessive thoughts about my weight): Calories in: Problem 1: Coming home late from work and being too tired/disorganised to cook Solutions:
Problem 2: Letting myself get too hungry and then overeating Solutions:
Problem 3: Using food as a comfort tool (this is a biggie) Solutions:
Calories out Problem 1: Feeling like I don't have the time or energy to exercise Solutions:
Problem 2: I just generally hate exercise. It's boring and repetitive. I'm asthmatic. I hate the heat. I hate sport and would never join a team sport of any sort. Solutions:
Unhelpful Thinking Problem 1: Obsessing over CICO (Yes, the evidence says that those who track and weigh regularly lose the most weight. However, for someone with obsessive thinking patterns, this can be a double-edged sword that can lead to spirals into negative thinking). Solutions:
Problem 2: Being unable to engage in life until I reach a magic number (Most of my clothes don't fit but I refuse to buy new ones because I'm definitely not staying at this weight so that would be a waste of money but not wanting to go out anywhere because i have no nice clothes - I told you obsessive thinking was a problem). Solutions:
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I'd love to hear any other suggestions you might have! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2020 11:07 PM PDT I have posted here two weeks ago but for reference im 15M/5'7/170. I started my journey exactly one month ago and went from 176 to 170. I don't feel like I went anywhere and i'm not seeing any improvements. I have been trying to incorporate exercising into my routine, but being a student is time consuming. When i'm not attending class, im doing work, and when im not doing work im sleeping. But that's besides the point, im having trouble tracking calories. For breakfast I will have a filling meal that lasts me a couple hours maybe until 9am to 3pm and only take up 400 cals (my goal is 1500 daily). Lunchtime is easy too i will just eat some fruit or something for 400> cals and a snack for 200. Dinner is where I start to struggle. Me, being a teen, it's hard to track dinner calories. If we aren't eating out, my mother cooks dinner which isn't bad its just hard to track every calorie that goes into everything. Especially when your background is diverse like mine so when we have dinner I can't just look at the nutrition facts of everything and gauge how much she used. On sundays, my grandmother cooks dinner for the whole family and then its even harder to track calories. Is there a alternative or something I can do? Maybe eating smaller, untracked portions for dinner? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2020 10:47 PM PDT I've been losing weight (low carb and CICO) for about 5 months now and it's been great I've lost about 18kg (40lbs). But over the past month I've only lost about 1kg and now the weight loss has pretty much stopped. I haven't changed anything that I'm eating or doing and still have another 20kg to lose so this is super frustrating! Before I would regularly lose about 1kg(2lbs) a week. From what I've read online I'm considering upping my calories for a week but the thought of eating more isn't very enticing because I'm very satisfied with the amount I'm eating currently and dont want to risk gaining weight but I can think of any other solutions (dropping my calories isnt an option since I currently eat 1200-1300 a day). Any advice would be much appreciated! [link] [comments] |
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