Weight loss: Officially lost 32 lbs today and am under 200!! |
- Officially lost 32 lbs today and am under 200!!
- Reminder: it's not about motivation, it's about discipline
- I refuse to quit.
- Interest in fresh, seasonal, macro oriented recipes and meal prep?
- If you were thinking about doing some exercise today...
- Will eating under your BMR and not getting enough protein for only ONE day still affect you even if you have been eating enough the rest of the time?
- I lost weight... and my life didn't change, but I did
- A positivity post: Have you found ways to make exercise and dietary change a more enjoyable experience for yourself? I would love to hear all about it!
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 25 September 2020? Start here!
- Daily Q&A Post for Friday, 25 September 2020 - No question too small!
- Folks, I had a NSV today
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 25 September 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Today's doctor visit begins the rest of my life
- I’m nearly there!!
- FTM (18) six pounds till onederland!
- Today is my 1 year Fit-iversary!
- Fat loss Plateau??? Help!!
- Post #4: ISO - need some kind, encouraging words
- Will eating under your BMR and not getting protein for only ONE day still affect you even if you have eating enough the rest of the time?
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: September 25th, 2020
- Three Years of Trying to Do More than 10 Push Ups (and the 60+lbs I Lost Along the Way)
- Lost 40 lb in 3 months - how do I stop!
| Officially lost 32 lbs today and am under 200!! Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:38 PM PDT Honestly for a little while now I had lost motivation due to a bad stomach virus, moving and not having a scale for a couple weeks, and getting slight craving thought I had gained. I started encorperating coffee candy into my calorie intake so that's helped alot as well as talking myself down from eating thing I know I don't need, this is a new lifestyle for me and in still adjusting but this is the lowest I've weighed in years. Thank you this community and all the others that have helped me, im not yet to my iltimate goal but hitting the first was amazing. Mostly just a caloric deficit and intermediate fasting was all I did. Thank you, all the advice on this sub has helped so much :) Sw:232 Cw:199.1 Gw:170 Edit: thank you to everyone who gave me awards and to everyone in the comments! ♡♡ [link] [comments] |
| Reminder: it's not about motivation, it's about discipline Posted: 24 Sep 2020 06:40 AM PDT I've made that mistake so many times in my life, waiting for "motivation" to kick in. I go to work every morning not because I'm motivated to do it, I do it because I have to. You have to treat your weight loss the same way. If I only count my calories or workout on the days where I'm motivated, it's going to be a long arduous roads. Discipline is about taking control of your life, of your body. So I make myself a workout schedule, and I do it whether I want to or not. And I keep managing my food intake properly not because today is a good day and I feel good, but because I decided that I will no longer let "motivation" or lack thereof control who I am and what I do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 09:07 PM PDT After a week and a half of "eating clean" and staying under my calorie budget, I fell back into my old habit of binge eating and consumed over 5,000 calories in one sitting. Stress, and many other emotions led up to this event and inevitably I sought out what I knew best; stuffing my stomach until I couldn't feel anything in the world except the physical exhaustion from the binge. I have been obese my entire life, and I refuse to quit on my dream to live a healthy lifestyle and see the day where I can finally look in the mirror with a smile on my face. I refuse to accept this reality of driving around and eating whatever garbage I can afford, laying on my bed for hours asking, "Why me?" and envying those who can walk outside without the fear of being judged for their weight. Did this relapse discourage me for a moment and make me question my journey? Sure. Do I regret ever taking that first bite? No doubt. Nonetheless, I refuse to quit. And so should you. [link] [comments] |
| Interest in fresh, seasonal, macro oriented recipes and meal prep? Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:31 PM PDT Hi all. My professional background is culinary arts, i graduated from culinary school last year and was eating everything (butter sauces, braises with buttered noodles, wine everyday, tasting deserts, leftover pastries, etc.). I was about 285 for my culminating project, but i didnt have a problem with that because, hey man, thats just being a cook. "Never trust a skinny cook" was something i used to take pride in haha. But after losing 40 lbs and losing my cool fine dining job. I find myself lacking a creative outsource especially since my new job is at a retirement community. That gives me the opportunity to possibly build recipes and meal prep ideas for you all! I love trying to get the most flavor from my food, while keeping everything as low calorie as possible, and thought it would be a waste to have all info of low calorie-flavor enhanced foods and not share with you all! Is there any interest of meal prep recipes that are seasonal, healthy, and macro oriented? TL;DR: You want pictures and recipes of cool healthy food? What are your favorite proteins? [link] [comments] |
| If you were thinking about doing some exercise today... Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:39 PM PDT ... this is your sign to do it. Go on. Off you go. I just dragged my ass off the sofa where I was watching TikTok, to the indoor bike to watch TikTok. An hour later and I feel so much better for it, and now I have a million random snippets of sounds and WAP in my head. What's not to like? It's all about those lifestyle changes. The time in my life when I lost the most weight was when I was doing a little something everyday, mostly walking, but sometimes swimming or jogging or yoga. I'll be using this autumn period as the UK heads back into semi-lockdown to get back on track with exercise and feel better about myself. After losing around 14lbs since March, I'm kind of excited about using this timeTo shed the weight I've always wanted to lose, feel better in my body and hopefully stun my colleagues in incredible new outfits whenever I see them again next year. So whatever will make you feel good and move you towards your goals, go and do it now. Good luck! Edit: I wrote this as a short and snappy 'hey you can do it!' post but the auto-moderator is telling me it's not enough content so while I'm here adding words I want to know, what exercise or movement makes you happy? I really miss not being able to swim at the minute (lack of pool access close to home and new cartilege piercings), but I can still dance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 01:48 AM PDT Around 11 pm or midnight, I was planning to have some Greek yogurt because I needed to get to my daily calorie and protein goals (1300-1400 calories and around 80 to 100 grams of protein daily.) But then I got into a fight with my husband and never ate my Greek yogurt. I started my weight loss journey a week ago and every single day except for last night I have eaten enough calories and gotten enough protein to retain as much muscle as possible. Last night was the first time ever that I ate under my BMR and did not get enough protein. I know that if you eat under your BMR and do not get enough protein for a few days, you will lose muscle. But what about if you do it for 1 day only like in my situation? Will I still lose some muscle anyways even though the rest of the time I have been eating enough calories and protein? [link] [comments] |
| I lost weight... and my life didn't change, but I did Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:25 AM PDT I have been overweight since high school (F, 5'1, 68kg at my heaviest). Not overly obese but still lugging lots of extra pounds of weight in body fat. I have an identical twin sister and to many people the only way they could tell us apart was to consider me the 'healthy' one and my sister the thin one. I have been fat-shamed by family members who thought they were being helpful, and have been the butt of relatives' jokes where my weight was the punchline. It wasn't pleasant and shredded my confidence a lot, to be compared to my twin in that way. It made me ashamed of being the way I was. Then in 2018 I decided to really start putting more effort on losing weight, instead of just feeling sorry for myself. My main goal was to develop a healthier lifestyle. I think before that I was in denial. I blamed my hormones, my genes, my metabolism on me being fat. I don't know how but I finally realized the culprit were my habits. So slowly I started changing them. The results took a while. I didn't have a magical transformation, a mind blowing before and after. There were months where I would gain back the weight I had lost. Days where I would cry about my weight, believing I would never be 'thin'. Then there were times where I would workout every day, eat better and be super motivated. It took a very long time to get to a point where I finally don't see myself as 'fat'. Currently, I'm 23yr and 59 kg. I lost a total of 9 kg (19-20 lbs) in over two years. I think it's the slowest weight loss 'transformation' ever, but I'm still happy with my progress. My bmi is finally normal, I feel strong, I have better eating habits, and I don't look fat anymore. Most importantly, I'm finally the same weight as my identical 'thin' sister. I love my sister, but its nice that I dont have to be compared with her over my weight anymore. Or so I thought. A month back, my family and I went to a relative's house. One of my relative complimented my sister on looking 'smart' and asked if she had lost weight. I don't know why but that moment completely shattered me. I realized I am still the fat one to people around me. Thankfully, my relative didn't bring up my weight in comparison and tell me I needed to be thin like my sister, like they have done in the past. I know I shouldn't have let that relative's words affect me so much. I know my weight loss is for me, not for my sister, not for the people around me, not for my relatives. But the words still got to me. I also lost weight, why couldn't they see it? I wanted them to comment on it maybe. Has nothing changed? It's been a month since that incident, but I'm slowly realizing that no, things have changed. Compared to 2018 me, 2020 me is working out. Trying to set up small goals for myself. My diet isn't perfect, but I'm eating good. My habits and lifestyle have changed a lot for the better. Mostly, my thoughts about never losing weight has changed, simply because I did lost weight. I lost weight and I can lose more to get to my goal. I know I shouldn't let other people get to me, but it's hard to change my reactions when I've been used to it for so long. Maybe my life hasn't changed. Maybe the people around me haven't changed in the way they percieve me. But my body has changed. I have changed. And I think that's all that counts. I think. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:27 PM PDT I've recently discovered the joys of walking on the treadmill and watching Forensic Files. It's become an (almost) fun activity where I get to watch something I really enjoy, then go for a lovely shower afterwards and use all my nice toiletries and skincare products. I've always struggled with disordered eating habits and thoughts but as of late my mindset is less about weight loss in the short term and more about success in the long term. This new part of my routine is now coming from a place of self care rather than self punishment and I love it! I've had years of therapy, mindfulness, and trying to be generally more mindful of my emotions when eating. Finally at the age of 25 I feel I've made a mental breakthrough of sorts. That coupled with my new routine and supportive family environment has been really beneficial for me. ps. Don't underestimate the power of a brisk walk! You can get a great sweat going if you up the pace 😁 [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 25 September 2020? Start here! Posted: 25 Sep 2020 03:24 AM PDT Today is your Day 1? Welcome to r/Loseit! So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started. Why you're overweightOur bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently. Before You StartThe very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week. TrackingHere is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it. Creating Your DeficitHow do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian. The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it. ExerciseIs NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight. It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes. Crawl, Walk, RunIt can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments. AcceptanceYou will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better. Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better. Additional resourcesNow you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
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| Daily Q&A Post for Friday, 25 September 2020 - No question too small! Posted: 25 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? that's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS:
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:27 PM PDT I've been taking time for myself these last few months. Taking a hard look at how I treat my body, how I talk to myself, what I eat, etc. In this process, I have lost 45ish pounds (Down to 298 from 345, as a 24F, 5'10). I am still (obviously) not where I want to be physically. But I've been feeling better about myself. I've been taking time to get to know what my body can do, and through treating it better I've been realizing that it's worth treating well. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, my NSV is that I went on a date today. A real date, with a boy (man, whatever). We hung out and walked around and chatted for over an hour and a half before other life obligations butted in. But throughout this, I hardly felt self-conscious. Actually, there was a time where I wouldn't even really go on dates because I just felt... bleh. I enjoyed my time with this person, enjoyed getting to know them and walking around with them, and didn't waste time or energy on feeling bad about myself. It's a nice change. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 25 September 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 25 Sep 2020 01:09 AM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily post the most read, most used, most interesting post on /r/loseit by reading, commenting, and participating often! [link] [comments] |
| Today's doctor visit begins the rest of my life Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:13 PM PDT Hi I'm F/27/5'7. Im also 10 months post partum. I visited the doctor today for pains and found out that Ive gained 20lbs since my workout challenge ended last month. Now I'm heavier than I was before the challenge and on top of that, my bp is higher than usual (for the second time in two months). My Dr said that I am borderline at risk for high BP and that if I don't lose weight by my next visit, I will get meds for it. I don't have bad eating habits. I don't drink as much as I used to. I have a vibration plate that I use 2-3 xs a week and I'm constantly running behind kids all day. I just don't understand why I'm not getting it done. I used to have a six pack 3 kids ago and I'm still recovering from the second child's weight gain. It never fell off, only yo-yo'd up until this pandemic. My vision is getting blurry and my brain is getting foggy. I'm sure this post looks like crap to the reader but I'm in a bad place and I don't know how to start. Yeah it's easy to say " just workout" and "stop eating" but I'm not seeing that as a good outcome right now. I just wanted to vent to you all because I know most people have been here before. Maybe this should go in a motivational sub. I just need a way to cut off 100 lbs in two weeks ha. It's do or die for me, literally. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:48 PM PDT I posted something here about 5 months ago saying that I was desperate to lose weight and that I was ashamed at how fat I had gotten and I was overwhelmed by the amount of support I received by everyone telling me how I could get started and how good it would feel to lose my first kilo ever since then I've lost 29 kilos and I've went from 128 kilos to 99 kilos while being 6'1and I just wanted to say I'm very thankful to everyone on here who encouraged me to push myself and would reply to me if I ever had any questions or reached a plateau and didn't know how to overcome it. I did all of this by training boxing 3 times a week and counting my calories but I've realized that I've obviously lost lots of weight but my belly has gotten saggy and I'm still kinda self conscious to take my shirt off at beaches etc. so i was thinking of starting to go to a gym and workout 5 times a week and lift weights and do some cardio and stuff while dieting would that help my stomach becomes less saggy and more toned in any way or should I just continue what I'm doing as in training boxing and jogging daily. Thanks in advance to all the advice I get💪💪 [link] [comments] |
| FTM (18) six pounds till onederland! Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:16 PM PDT back when i was 227, it felt like a marathon to even get these jeans buttoned up and i'd feel nothing but guilt when wearing them- which was a shame because they're my favourite ones! but after a couple months of shedding the weight off through exercise 5 days a week (consisting of a mixture of cardio, HIIT and strength building), CICO with 1200cals (i got the go ahead from my doctor with this, no worries! i'm on the smaller side, 5'2-5'3, and i feel a lot more energetic and full filling myself with good food ((my 5 a day, a good chunk of protein and fibre)) rather than processed food everyday!) and drinking a LOT of water, i'm now weighing in at 205! i feel the best i've felt in a long time, i battled with a pretty rough case of depression which involved me gaining a shit ton of weight, and now my mental health is improving day by day along with my fitness journey. as for the jeans, they fit extremely well! i'm even confident to say they're a little loose around the thighs now than they first were when I bought them [link] [comments] |
| Today is my 1 year Fit-iversary! Posted: 24 Sep 2020 06:44 AM PDT I'm so glad that I thought to mark on my calendar the start date of my weight loss journey! It's been a year of literal and figurative ups and downs, but I'm so glad that I took the plunge and committed to making myself healthier. I'm a 5'4" female, SW 247/CW 144/GW 145. I've never really been successful in weight-loss before, despite trying many many times. This time I went into it without any sort of plan, just started cutting back on fast food and take out, then slowly looking for ways to build up the fruits and vegetables in my diet. I don't have any banned foods. I'm not really following any plan. I kinda follow CICO, but am too lazy to track everything that goes into my mouth, so I mostly just aim for a lower than average daily calorie intake and then only track the calorie dense foods and real meals and snack on whatever I want for fruits and veggies during the day without tracking them. Once I got my nutrition kinda figured out, I started running and doing body weight exercises. I've worked myself up from only being able to jog about a minute at a time to now training for my first marathon. It's wild to me how big of a difference there is in my level of fitness between now and just one year ago. Can't wait to see where the next year gets me! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:44 AM PDT Hello! I'm a female 4 11" and I weigh 100 llbs I've been working out since March 2020 and up until June I've been slowly losing fat around my waist, hip, and legs around a centimetre (0.5 inch) at a time. But ever since July my measurements have stopped decreasing. Have I reached a plateau? And how can i lose more fat? My workouts plans constantly change every month (I follow one that I see on YouTube e.g. Emi wong) and i also take a week break in between workout plans My diet: I used to eat around 1,100 calories but last month I bumped it up to challenge my body a bit to lose more fat Any advice would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments] |
| Post #4: ISO - need some kind, encouraging words Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:34 PM PDT For the first time since I started calorie counting last week, I'm actually within my set budget today. It's around 8.30 pm here and usually by now I've begun to scrounge around for a second dinner... I want to be proud of myself for being under budget but I'm every cell in my body is itching to hop into the car and drive to the store to get a pint of ice cream or a bag of chips. I live in a small town and the store closes at 9, so after that I would have to drive to the next town if I wanted to buy food. I think I'm going to do a bit of yoga, and then come back to this post (to chat or vent a bit more) -- I guess this is what the next few weeks (or months) are going to be like until I get used to eating fewer calories and working on not-binge-eating. ~ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 01:44 AM PDT Around 11 pm or midnight, I was planning to have some Greek yogurt because I needed to get to my daily calorie and protein goals (1300-1400 calories and around 80 to 100 grams of protein daily.) But then I got into a fight with my husband and never ate my Greek yogurt. I started my weight loss journey a week ago and every single day except for last night I have eaten enough calories and gotten enough protein. Last night was the first time ever that I ate under my BMR and did not get enough protein. I know that if you eat under your BMR and do not get enough protein for a few days, you will lose muscle. But what about 1 day only? Will I still lose some muscle anyways even though the rest of the time I have been eating enough calories and protein? [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: September 25th, 2020 Posted: 24 Sep 2020 09:57 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] |
| Three Years of Trying to Do More than 10 Push Ups (and the 60+lbs I Lost Along the Way) Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:09 AM PDT IntroductionFrom "Day 1" in 2017 to Whatever-Day-It-Is-Today, I actually have only dropped from 301.1 lbs to 239.9 lbs. But, I didn't start at 301. I just happened to be at 301 when I started. This is a long-winded story I've been thinking about writing for a minute and finally have the time, the data, and some results and thoughts to share with others. Here I am today: https://i.imgur.com/APotoNb.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/nBO6Ndj.jpg Here I am at Day Zero: https://i.imgur.com/KGXuu3I.jpg So, we'll start from the beginning: I have always been "husky" or "big boned" or whatever other adjective that loving parents use to describe their morbidly obese children. I liked to EAT. Fundamentally, I lived to eat. And this was compounded by a number of factors:
Whatever the reason was, I very quickly got fat around age 10 and stayed that way (ask me today and I'll still say I'm fat, just less so). At my biggest, I KNOW I was tipping the scales at 330-340 lbs (this would have been 2009, 2010). I don't have any proof because if you don't weigh yourself, you can't be as fat as you know you are. I'm taking credit for the undocumented weight loss. If you don't want to count it, eh - 60 lbs is still pretty cool, too. StatsToday (September 24, 2020)
LifestyleI am a bread baker/pastry cook at a restaurant in Missouri and live in a secluded little apartment with my Wife. She Especially since I'm a baker - I wake up around 4am daily and leave work between 12pm and 2pm. The wife works 8am-5pm, so I have a good amount of spare time to myself. I also, because I know this matters, ALWAYS go to bed between 830pm and 9pm. As far as general fitness, I have just finished running a 4-day/wk variant of 5/3/1 (SSL, 5's Pro) which I did for the last 12 weeks. I've been lifting for most of my journey. I also took up running (on and off) for the last 6 months and have pushed and pushed from a 50 minute 5k to about a 30-32 minute 5k which I tend to mostly maybe run every other day regardless of what else is going on (so, Mon-Wed-Fri-Sun-Tues-Thurs-Sat, repeat). I also tried to include some Strongman conditioning twice a week depending on time. I also bought a bike in August and have generally enjoyed biking to-and-from work 3-4x/wk despite the ride being downhill in the morning and uphill in the afternoon. To put it simply, I'm active and I love it. Starting StatsDay 1 (August 6, 2017)
Why did you Start?So I've told you about me in High School. I've told you about me now. What is missing is everything in between. I was working in a BBQ Restaurant in Kentucky (where I'm from and grew up) and would regularly gamble with my coworkers over little bullshit things. Some of them were knowledge based, others were feats of strength, others were...look - we got REALLY bored sometimes and we had to pass the time. On my Day Zero, I specifically remembered being called out and challenged to do 10 push-ups. In a row. I could totally do that. Any person who couldn't do that was obviously a big dumb idiot or a Fatty McFatFat. Right? This was the mentality I went into this challenge with. I hadn't done a single push up in...ever? Since I thought about losing weight one time in college? Who does push ups for fun? Guys - I'm gonna level with you. I couldn't do 10 push-ups. I could do 5. I lost $50 that day. I was bet $30 that I couldn't do the push ups (I lost that one) and then immediately called out my similar-sized-Boss to do 10 push-ups for $20 (he did 15). Fuck. I was torn up. I went home that night and was like - yo, who can't do 10 push ups? That's like, basic shit. I've seen babies do push ups! Ugh. So I joined a gym. I started a MyFitnessPal. First workout selfie! Counting Calories - But Never Tracking WeightFor the first few months of my Journey, I tracked calories pretty okay, maybe. I guessed a lot at what I ate (didn't own a food scale) and assumed I was making progress in my weight-loss because my lifts were going up in the gym (I was so, so, so dumb about some of that shit). Oh! I didn't own a bathroom scale. I thought about buying one, but didn't because it was too expensive. HA! God I had excuses. Based on the exactly 6 data points I collected, I managed to lose 10 lbs between August 6 and Jan 1. Here I am in November 2017: https://i.imgur.com/fF60Kr8.jpg Here I am in January 2018: https://i.imgur.com/5bgM5v0.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/HYneJXh.jpg That's about 21 weeks and about 0.5 lbs/wk. Which is great, sustainable weight-loss. While I think that MFP overestimates your needed calories, I did manage to lose a good amount of weight at an okay rate over a reasonable time. Here's a major consideration though: I never once tracked exercise via MFP and I set my activity level to Sedentary. If you want slow, consistent results - I think that not tracking weight daily can work. Not for me, but hey - everything works for everyone. I also dropped 150 lbs of good-for-nothing girlfriend that I didn't much care for. That took WAY longer than it should have. It was a horribly toxic relationship and one that I was glad to be out of. Frankly, the more I focused on bettering myself, the less the relationship was "good" for me. She wanted to drink and drink and drink and I wanted to go to bed at a reasonable hour. My goals shifted and I realized that this particular girl was not The One. Mental health improved considerably. First SetbackDue to circumstances fully beyond my control, I was rendered bed-ridden and calorie deprived for 165 days. I had no physical activity and I lost 40 lbs in 24 weeks. There were entire days where I didn't stand up. I lost a ton of weight but this came at a huge cost: I lost all the muscle I had worked to put on. Remember how I looked in January 2018? Here's what I looked like in July 2018: https://i.imgur.com/5x8ViQG.jpg At this point, I was 245 lbs, fully clothed, Doctor Weight. And y'all know Doctor Weight is the realist weight. I was weak, fragile, and barely able to walk 50 feet without needing a break. When I finally did make it back to the gym, I was unable to squat the bar - seriously. I failed a squat with a 45 lb bar at 245 lbs BW. So I did what any reasonable human being does: bulking season, bitches! I bought a bathroom scale. I brought my weight up to 260 lbs by September and held it there through Jan 2019. This was important for me though - I went up and down a couple 5 lbs here and there but I really did try and keep my 7-day running average around 260 lbs. This took discipline that I was not used to - I realized that some of the cues I took to "eat" were just boredom. I stopped using food as a comfort, as a reward, or even as enjoyment. Food was fuel - and you don't top off the gas tank when the lever clicks. DietThis is what works for me, and I know this won't work for a lot of people, but I think it's an important note here, before I lose the weight again: I eat the same foods daily. I find that I cannot handle the mental stress of 1) losing weight 2) having to push hard in workouts despite being purposefully under-recovered and 3) counting calories. So I don't. I figure out what every day needs to look like and then I eat that diet every single day. Currently, I just finished 12 weeks of weight loss. I wanted to shoot for about 2400-2500 calories consumed on any given day. Here's exactly what I've been eating: Breakfast: Half a gallon of coffee, 6 eggs (ranging in size from peewee to jumbo, but all mixed), 1 tbsp butter, 40 grams of oatmeal, 1 tbsp brown sugar, 140 grams of frozen fruit (blueberries, strawberries, etc), 30 grams blanched slivered almonds. Lunch: 450 calorie protein shake (50 grams of carbs, 50 grams of protein, give or take) (if I make it at work, add 2 shots of espresso) Snack: two random yogurts ranging in caloric content from 90-190 calories. Dinner: 1 chicken breast (8-12 oz) grilled, 160 gram serving of cooked mixed grains (quinoa, barley, farro, and white rice), 180 grams of steamed peas. And I ate this every single day (with a few exceptions when my wife got bored) for 13 weeks. To maintain weight, I'll probably just add 6 eggs or yogurt or peanut butter to my snacks and see where that puts me. I like to make easy swaps (like, 2 servings of PB2 is basically 1 yogurt's worth of calories and it solves my peanut butter craving). I don't like to track my calories. And this works for me. YMMV. Oh! Also 5g of creatine. Every day. Fitness - and Fittin'-This-PizzaFor the most part, I do resistance training. In Jan 2019, I had a few goals:
By and large, I was able to go to the gym and lift weights for almost all of 2019 and it's during this time that I really did start to notice "changes" in the mirror and in my body. In March of 2019, I was starting to see a few muscles, my belt fit a little better, and I think I even took up trying to maybe consider jogging with my then-girlfriend-now-wife. Turns out, life is WAY better when you a partner with similar goals. We both wanted to be stronger and so we had a lot of fun weight training together. One particular instance stands out in 2019. The Lady and I were hungry and antsy on a rest-day from the gym. We wanted pizza but didn't really think we deserved it since we'd done literally nothing all day. Like, you know those days where you sit on the couch and do nothing while binge watching Game of Thrones? That kind of day. So we decided we were going to walk 5 miles to get a pizza, eat the pizza, and then walk 5 miles back home. And we did. Was it a bad use of food-as-a-reward? Sure. But the journey was really the more fun part! We both play PoGo and had a blast chasing pokemon down the road on a mission to get food. It's a great memory for both of us. Here I am in November 2019 (243 lbs) about 2 weeks before I proposed: https://i.imgur.com/WldpVU5.jpg And I know what you're thinking - that might be the outline of abs! BTW - she said yes, we were married in December, and life is good. 2020 - And the 90 Day Challenge (That We Failed Miserably)In December 2020, I proposed to my Lady (get the double entendre?) that she and I try and lose weight for the first 90 days of 2020. Here's how that went: January 1: 255 lb weigh in after a night of horrific binge drinking https://i.imgur.com/xaM1E9a.jpg Feb 23: 238 lb weigh in after my birthday weekend and the last time we tracked weight: https://i.imgur.com/IcMd32Q.jpg In January, we found out that we would be leaving KY and moving to MO in March. Like, we needed to be packed up and living in Missouri in the first week of March. So we canceled the gym membership in Feb, rented an apartment sight unseen in Missouri, and moved 500 miles away. Life was too hectic to also worry about things like our weight or the fact that we tried to lose weight in a crazy crash-diet for funsies. We moved to Missouri without issue and then - COVID-19. The gyms closed. I was unemployed. Deep depression set in as I unpacked our new home and did nothing all day. I must have spent a month in this horrific sneaky hate spiral. March came and went. April came and went. I started to go to the park nearby for a walk and that eventually became a good routine for me. There weren't many Pokestops, so I started to want to get between them faster. Walking became slow jogging and jogging became dedicated running and Pokemon fell by the wayside in that endeavor. Hey - do what works for you, right? My first attempt at a 5k (which happens to be exactly 5 laps at the local park) was 52:44 walking. I knew I could do better. (Spoiler: My best time to date is 30:30 with a 5-run average of 31:24). July 20: https://i.imgur.com/KYEaXKA.jpg 252 lbs. I had regained 15 lbs during COVID-quarantine. Losing the COVID-19So I set about losing the COVID-19. How hard can it be? I figured I'd lose weight at about 2lbs/wk (which at 250 lbs, should be easy enough). I did the math, figured out my diet (see above) and set to work. For the next parts of the story to make sense, you'll need a graph: https://i.imgur.com/4uec8KV.png I put my plan into place. A local powerlifting gym was open and I joined on their first day open. It's 24/7 and generally pretty empty when I want to be lifting, so it was going to be safe and had all the equipment and support that I would need to make serious lifting gains. You'll see that I had Setback #3 around the first week of August: I had literally burnt myself out. I started pushing the 5k times for faster and faster. I bought my bicycle and rode it more and more often. I wanted more conditioning. More cardio. Faster lifts. Heavier lifts. In short: I kicked my own ass. I had to readjust. The calories I was eating previously (about 2000/day) were not enough to support my activity level. So I bumped the calories to 2500ish/day and finished my training block. You'll also see big spikes in weigh-ins - yeah, those are days when the Wife was tired of chicken/rice/peas and demanded something more fun (pizza, chinese, spaghetti, nachos). And you'll see that even those occasional "oh my god why did I eat that?" days didn't really hinder progress. In fact, I will credit my wife with helping to fight the mental fatigue of losing so much weight so quickly. Milestones:
Conclusion and TakeawaysGuys, I see it all the time in r/Fitness. This is a fucking marathon. It's not a sprint. It is a lifetime of real, slow lifestyle changes that build and continue to snowball until you look back and cannot believe how far you've come. I could not do 10 push ups! Now I can do 20 in 30 seconds. If you told 27 year old me about what 30 year old me would be up to, I would not believe it. I don't have much in the way of advice. My lifts aren't stellar or even really impressive on the internet. My progress is okay, but I've seen people really crush it and lose more. I'm gonna run the full 21 week program Average to Savage and that should end around my birthday. See where I am at 31. But I do know that 1 day isn't enough to fuck up your progress. Hell, 1 week isn't even a big set back. 165 days bed ridden didn't hold me back. I have a completely rebuilt shoulder and that doesn't hold me back. Why would one day hold you back? So, take it one day at a time. Today sucked? Tomorrow you'll do better. Gotta make a sacrifice today? Tomorrow you'll do better. Be better. Do better. My wife jokes that I live by two rules: 1) Never lie to yourself and 2) There is nothing I can't do. I'll leave you with that great advice and here's a video of me failing a 435 lb deadlift attempt for shits and giggles: https://youtu.be/LbWHDkCuqjM I have plenty of excuses, but tomorrow I'll do better. [link] [comments] |
| Lost 40 lb in 3 months - how do I stop! Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:52 PM PDT I was almost 205 lb on 1stbJuly when I started my sub-1400 calories and 10000 steps walking schedule. The results have been incredible. I have hit 165.6 today (0.6 away from my target weight). Given my height (6ft), this seems to be the perfect weight BMI wise and I would want the weight loss to stop in and around this point. But, I don't know how I should ramp up my food intake? For one, I don't really feel hungry anymore and am satisfied with how much I eat. My second fear is if my metabolism has decreased and an increased amount of food or eating more calories would lead to a weight gain! How do I go about ramping up my food intake to ensure that I stay where I am and not risk weight gain? [link] [comments] |
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