Weight loss: 101 pounds down in 10 months! Not done yet but this was a big milestone. |
- 101 pounds down in 10 months! Not done yet but this was a big milestone.
- After 100 days of calorie tracking, I'm down 31 lbs (40 lbs total)
- “You’re still fat” is what my mom told me
- I'm 470 pounds, and this weekend everything will change
- A stranger told me I look great!
- It doesn't matter if all the foods you are eating are "healthy"- if you eat too much, you will not see the results you want.
- “I’ll never lose weight” - me, 2019
- How I (27 M) regular lazy dude lost a bit over 50 kg (over 110 lb.) in 11 months
- Hello void. It's been 8 KG since we last spoke.
- It's ok to lose very slowly (e.g. 1/2 lb a week) if that is what is sustainable for you, especially closer to your goal
- NSFW Down 50lbs in 7 months
- I am now a size 16 (UK) jeans with muffintop!
- Lost 25 lbs since June! Very proud of myself.
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 21st, 2020
- An empty stomach isn’t a terrible thing.
- Broke up with myself last night. Ready to become the best version of me. F/26/SW:151.7/GW: 115-120
- Didn't think I could do it... but 6 weeks later
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 20
- Weight loss help for begginer
- Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers)
- My family is not supportive of my weight loss
- I was stuck at the same weight for almost two months. Finally dropped 2lbs. It’s not much but I’m finally out of the plateau
- Am I doing too much all of a sudden or is it good?
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Wednesday, 21 October 2020: Today, I conquered!
| 101 pounds down in 10 months! Not done yet but this was a big milestone. Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:16 AM PDT After so many false starts, I finally did it. For years I struggled with binge eating from stress and anxiety. It was a never-ending cycle. I tried many restrictive diets that ultimately failed because I was trying to fix a problem and not change myself. What helped it click The key to success, at least for me, was to work on my relationship food and myself. I made the decision to join Noom back in December 2019. I've learned habits and tools that helped me do just that. Many people are able to come to this resolution without a program, but this is what worked for me, finally. I don't restrict any food groups and have learned balance. I never feel deprived eating this way, because I still include all the foods I really love, I just incorporate portion control and have learned to feel satisfied with less. Edit to add: this is in no way an advertisement for Noom, I get nothing from posting on here or anywhere else. I just found success using their methods. I'm a real person going through a Weight loss journey and wanted to share how I was finally able to find success. I also realize that Noom's methods isn't for everyone and there is some flaws in the app, mainly the inconsistency in the food data base. So I now mainly track on MFP. Exercise I didn't include exercise at all until June of this year. I started working out with a personal trainer at the beginning of July. I'm lucky I have a husband who is supportive, dual income and no kids, because it is a privilege to afford a trainer. I see her once a week. I also do 45-60min long sessions at the gym myself 3-4 times a week. What I'm eating So Noom has a guide on food that helps with balancing diet, breaking them into 3 color categories: green, yellow and red. That helped me earlier on, and while I still keep that in the back of my mind, I now mostly focus on CICO and watching my macros. Trying restrictive diets before never worked because I'd always fail and it'd send me back into my binge eating habits. Now I'm able to fall back on my good habits if I have an occasional bad meal. Summary [link] [comments] |
| After 100 days of calorie tracking, I'm down 31 lbs (40 lbs total) Posted: 20 Oct 2020 06:27 AM PDT 41F 5'10 SW 227 CW 187 GW 165 TLDR; Knowing myself better and consistency have been the keys to a 40-lb weight loss in 4.5 months In June, I was at my highest weight of 227. After my last baby was born 7 years ago, I lost most of the "baby weight", then stopped paying attention, had a stressful few years, and started gaining, to the tune of about 45 lbs (WARNING: this is only about a half lb a month!). When I started trying to lose weight, for the first two weeks, I didn't track anything, just cut out all snacks and all alcohol. 10 lbs dropped off. Then I started tracking calories every day. Some stats: daily calories: started tracking at 1400, slowly increased to 1600-1700 daily steps: started at 8000, increased to 13,000 monthly weight loss:
# of days out of 100 that I was at my lowest weight: 53 Things I've learned:
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| “You’re still fat” is what my mom told me Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:17 PM PDT I'm 16, I've been pretty fat since middle school I'm just over 200ib now and my max weight was 220ib. A lot of the problem used to stem from my diet, my mom always ate the same foods, mostly rice and meats. Rarely we had a meal with vegetables other than a salad. My moms diabetic and she's lost a lot of weight, But she's always done it by eating vert small portions of food, and fasting. That never worked for me because as a kid I was tempted quite a lot, not to mention I was tired of rice and curry every days so I'd go to buy fast food with my friends. Fast forward to now, I went to see a dietitian that suggested a serious diet change. He spent a lot of the time talking to my mom about what I should be eating. My mom took this as "This doctor is blaming me for my son being fat" Now that im a bit older I've started the process of cooking mixed frozen vegetables and eating those instead of rice, potatoes and meats that I would usually be eating. I've also been trying to excercise a bit more by jogging in the morning. I made small progress and lost around 18 pounds and was very happy. I didint really share this information with my mother until she walked in on me cooking food after she returned from work. She ranted about how I'm "wasting the food she worked hard to cook, and I'm ungrateful, and I haven't changed." She asked if I actually lost any weight and when I said that I did she didn't believe me,so pulled out the scale and showed her, yet again she thought I was lying and thought the scale was broken. I was annoyed at this point because she kept going on and on about how none of the clothes she buys me fits me anymore and that I'm not making any effort to change when I really am. I'm doing what I can right now. I just wanted to share this because I saw someone else with a similar post the other day and I really sympathized with them. When my own mom claims that I'm ungrateful and I haven't tried it really does hurt. Thanks for reading you don't need to upvote this is a throwaway. [link] [comments] |
| I'm 470 pounds, and this weekend everything will change Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:07 PM PDT I'm not sure why I'm posting this, but I mostly wanted to log my thoughts somewhere about how and why I came to where I am. This weekend I'm moving from Ohio to Illinois for a 2-3 month makeshift "fat camp." My parents, who have been the greatest support system I could possibly imagine (though I have great friends/roommates, too), are going to be supervising my every move while I'm living in my dad's once-office building turned second home. This means daily exercise, healthy food, manageable portions, and no lazy habits for the duration. One of the biggest reasons I'm overweight is because I spend too much time lazing around on my computer, watching tv, or playing video games. Now I'll have access to none of that, and I'll be forced to find stuff to do that keeps me more active. I'm staying for 2-3 months to fully break the bad habits I have and fully adjust to the healthier ones. I'm really fortunate that I have this option available to me. I can continue work since I have a dedicated work computer (that my boss can track, so no playing video games or watching youtube on there) and my dad is pretty much retired and wants to spend time with me anyways, so it all works out so well. I've run out of excuses and now have the perfect opportunity to really start my weight loss journey. It ultimately came down to what they asked me, "Do you want to change or not? If yes, we're going to invest in whatever tools you need to succeed." And what I need to succeed is pretty extreme, it seems. I can't just "try out" keto, talk with a therapist while taking no action taken, or exercise with no change in diet. All the half-measures I've been taking haven't worked, so I'm going to go all in, even if that means putting my whole life on hold for a quarter of a year. If not this, then I'm going to pay for inpatient therapy, or bariatric surgery. I've always been afraid of these steps due to the money and effort of it, but that's not true anymore. I've posted elsewhere that I was afraid I was unfixable due to the countless attempts I made. But in hindsight, these just weren't enough of a change. I was trying to change my health without changing my unhealthy lifestyle. So I'm posting this here as a way of declaring I will start this, and I'm not backing down. If you're like me and have a stable income but are way too afraid of the pricetags of these major tools like I was, I also want to pass along the advice I got from my dad, a top-notch investment banker: Your health is an investment. What is a few thousand dollars compared to decades of a healthier life (or even just staying alive in general)? If you aren't finding success with the solutions you've been trying, think bigger. Sometimes you aren't going to dam a stream by tossing pebbles into it by yourself, no matter how many you throw and no matter with how much effort. You need to invest in the help and tools you need to build a proper dam if you want to stop the constant flow of water. It'll cost more, but it will be worth it in the long run to get it done and get it done right. I'll try and post an update when I return to Ohio. Wish me luck! [link] [comments] |
| A stranger told me I look great! Posted: 20 Oct 2020 08:05 AM PDT This morning on my local running trail a stranger who I don't know but always see told me "You look great, not that you didn't before but I see you out here killing it!" Wow, did that make my morning/day/week! I didn't even want to run this morning, as I was super tired/had a headache and just didn't want to go out. In a year I can't see my family/friends/support system it was validating that someone "saw" me. I also see this woman every day too and she is SO fast and so inspiring and I wish I would've told her "you inspire me" versus breathily saying "omg thank you so much!" I starting running on 1/1/20 and am doing the 2,020 miles in 2020 challenge and training for my first (virtual) half marathon. I've done about 1800 miles so far and have lost 60 lbs since the start of the year (F/28/SW 223 CW 161 GW 145). It's been SO hard to keep training when my race got switched to virtual but the miles are miles and there's nothing left to do but keep going. For anyone who thinks they're alone in all this, I see you, I commend you, and keep going!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:00 PM PDT I felt I needed to share this from this morning. I have been tracking calories and losing about 2lbs per week. I felt I had a good idea of what the calorie count of most items are, so I admittedly got pretty slack this week with putting everything in MFP...but that's neither here nor there... My husband made himself a breakfast burrito this morning and it looked SO GOOD. So I decided to make one of my own using all of my "healthy' food options. Used turkey bacon and sausage, egg whites, fat free cheese, low calorie tortilla...the whole bit. When I put everything in MFP, thinking it would be around 300 calories, I was SHOCKED that I racked up 700 just on that one burrito! When I added my husbands calories up, he only used 170 more than me using whole eggs and regular bacon and sausage. I felt I pulled the wool over my own eyes! So now I only have 900 for the rest of the day. Just wanted to share to show that it is easy to misjudge foods, and not pay attention to portion sizes like you should. [link] [comments] |
| “I’ll never lose weight” - me, 2019 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 04:18 PM PDT
1876: "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." — William Orton, President of Western Union. 1889: "Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." — Thomas Edison 1903: "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad." — President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company 1921: "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?" 1946: "Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." — Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox. 1955: "Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years." — Alex Lewyt, President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company. 1959: "Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." — Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General. 1961: "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States." — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner. 1966: "Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop." — Time Magazine. 1981: "Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems." — Marty Cooper, inventor. 1995: "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com. 2005: "There's just not that many videos I want to watch." — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company's long term viability. 2006: "Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, 'Probably never.'" — David Pogue, The New York Times. 2007: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin "heavier than air flying machines are impossible" - Lord Kelvin "Xrays will prove to be a hoax" - Lord Kelvin "Evolution is not possible because the sun is too young" - Lord Kelvin "Physics as we know it will be over in 6 months" - Max Borne 1920s P. Krugman 1998, "The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's" "We shall never be able to study by any method the chemical composition of stars" - Augusto Comte 1835 (If you're wondering where this is all from, it's a list I've been compiling for years in my iPhones Notes every time I hear a "bad prediction" quote like this because I like them so much. It just occurred to me today to add myself to the top about my weight loss 😀) [link] [comments] |
| How I (27 M) regular lazy dude lost a bit over 50 kg (over 110 lb.) in 11 months Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:56 PM PDT Image: https://imgur.com/7M0OR9H So end of November 2019 I was almost 120 kg (164 lb.) and sick of it. I am a 27 year old guy (26 at the time) and never had a gf. I felt my weight was the biggest inhibiting factor in this and after an endless amount of rejections I felt I had enough of it. So almost cold turkey I started exercising and dieting. I must stress that I don't like sports at all and I did some simple things like walking the dog every night and swimming for an hour twice a week. Although this probably added to my weight loss the biggest factor I would say was counting calories. I reduced my intake to about 1500 kcal per day. And over the course of the coming months I lowered it even more. At the lowest intake I was at about 1200 kcal a day. (definitely not recommended by nutritionists) but I was sick of the weight and loved the progress I was seeing. I also started tracking my exercise and was depending on my exercise burning about 2500-3000 kcal per day. This means that at the fastest rate I was losing well over a kilo per week. (Something like 1.3 per week during the months where I was losing the most) but there where definitely weeks where I lost over 2 kg. (Usually the number would be lower the week after or before because of natural fluctuations in weight). I made it a habit to weight myself every Wednesday before breakfast and after hopefully a big shite and a wee. Usually I would swim the night before. This means my bassline of weight was always kind of the same. Although it still fluctuated a lot. During the time where I was lowering my kcal to about 1200 I decided portions where getting to small. So I made the decision to make my portion size a bit bigger and skip breakfast. (I would have breakfast at 12 and dinner around 7) I had no idea that this was called intermittent fasting but basically it is what I started doing. (A lot of nutritionists advice against combining intermittent fasting and counting calories). The only reason I started doing it was because of convenience. I had no idea there might be some benefits to fasting for about 16 hours. (my younger brother who studies nutrition and food pointed this out to me). I work as a bat ecologist and I go to bed late at night and sleep in the next day. This definitely helps with intermittent fasting since I usually have to only wait for 2 hours before I can eat after waking up. So how did I lower my calories to such an drastic amount? It basically came down to finding food that was low in calories but I still liked. In the morning that usually meant 4-5 pieces of low calorie knackebrod with some low calorie jam or my own home made hummus. (Most store bought hummus here in the Netherlands has a shit ton of oil added and is basically as fatty as mayonnaise). Although I now have found a few brands that are lower in kcal. I used to be a bit of a fussy eater so it took some time to find recipes and stuff I both liked and where low in kcal. I must admit that I only paid attention to Kcal and did not check for vitamins, macro nutrients etc. I would also just eat unhealthy stuff I like, but in very low amounts to keep the calories down. I always say to my friends I did not lose the weight by changing what I eat but just how much I eat. Although this is not totally true because in the process I started eating vegetarian. Also I changed what I eat since I would like to feel full after a meal and just eating one piece of bread with some cheese as breakfast did not fill me up. A great tip I used is to drink a lot after eating (Obviously a drink that is low in kcal like tea, black coffee or water). Drinking after a meal definitely makes you feel full. The catch is you need to wait about 20 min for the feeling of being "full" kicks in. This is basically the period where I needed a bit of perseverance. These days as a guilty pleasure I drink a lot of Pepsi max which is probably also not the best. But at least it hardly has any kcal. So the way I did calorie counting was with an app called Fatsecret. Although I really dislike the name it was the first app that came up and I just downloaded it and it worked. The most important thing is not what app you use (You can also do it by hand its just more work). It is much more important that you are really honest in counting calories. That meant for me that I took the weight of my food with a little digital scale and put in the amount of grams for everything. I do a lot of home cooking and it definitely makes home cooking a lot more work. Although after a while you get a good understanding of how much calories something is I kept doing this till this day to avoid a slippery slope. It is important to understand that most people who count kcal are underestimating by about 20% then in a lot of places food companies are allowed a 20% margin of error in kcal (Which they are going to use of course) So this means that if you are not being precise you can underestimate by 40%. Basically the difference between 1500 and 2100 calories. which for a lot of people is the difference between losing 2 kg per month and not losing any weight at all. So last week I reached my target of losing 50 kg. This was not my target at first. When I started out losing weight I would have been so happy to end up at 80 kg but since I saw a lot of progress I kept moving my target weight. (I am now 68). At 80 kg I was not totally happy with the result and I am now right around the sweet spot in weight for my length. I must say that the last 2 months losing weight has gone a lot slower than in the beginning. My basic metabolism has probably crashed from around 2000 kcal to about 1700 which just means it takes more exercise to lose weight. (which sucks because I hate sports). So lately I have substituted swimming with going to the gym. I have done this for a couple reasons: swimming started to become very boring. Girls in my immediate surroundings where very honest with me (Dutch directness helps sometimes) and most of them are attracted to guys with a bit bigger arms. (mine are tiny these day's) Its shallow but still a reason I suppose. The 3rd reason is that by adding a bit more muscle I hope to upper my basic metabolism a bit. I still love food so much. I just started to dislike being fat a bit more. So as you would have probably guessed from the last comments I still don't have a gf atm. I am going to blame the Rona and not my lack of a good personality for this for at least a while. Now I am basically done losing weight I am going to continue counting kcal and intermittent fasting. A shocking statistic is that 90% Of people who have lost a lot of weight put 80% of it back on within 5 years, and I don't like that prospect. So I am slowly upping my intake to 1700-2000 kcal (depending on where my weight flatlines) I feel like keeping a close eye on my weight and calories is the best way to be in the 10% that keeps their weight. I might add a little weight in muscle who knows… I would like to finish this crazy long story with a couple of things I learned during all this: You don't need to be a super disciplined person to lose weight. I am definitely an extremely lazy person. The thing that changed for me is that I felt very strongly that being fat and single forever was going to make me more miserable then eating less. Since I am a bit of a nerd I liked to track my progress with kcal etc. so I could have a better grasp of what I was doing. Although my younger brother is a nutritionist I hardly consulted him on any of this. I guess my stubborn personality makes me too proud to listen to my little brother. I guess we only started talking about it a bit more when he started noticing the changes around 35 kg lost. You don't need to have a little brother who is a nutritionist either. Also don't do the crazy diet I did. 1200 kcal is a very unhealthy amount and eating so little is definitely not being healthy but being stupid. which I fully admit to being. Since I hate exercise so much my philosophy during all of this has kind of been: What you can eat in 5 min takes an hour of exercise to lose. Since I hate exercise I chose to mainly focus on eating less. Exercising more and building a bit of muscle is probably a better and healthier way of losing weight. I just could not get myself to do that. Also you don't need any fancy stuff or expensive personal coaches to lose some weight. You just need a bit of common sense and If anything it should be cheaper than being fat since the only thing you really need to do is eat less. [link] [comments] |
| Hello void. It's been 8 KG since we last spoke. Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:32 PM PDT I have things to get off my chest, dear reader. But I don't expect you to mind, jump along and go for it. I just need to state these things out somewhere. Things have been going... O.K.? I suppose that's the word I'm looking for. I've survived work so far. Found a new job, a better job. I move again soon, less than a month now. Last move was difficult with foods, not having access to a kitchen for days on end wreaked havoc on my caloric intake. But the last couple of months have been good. I've stepped down from a daily intake of 2K to 1.75K. I've been tolerating it well enough, no major changes. But I still can't give up the artificial sweeteners. Fuck me those things are addictive, no? I keep drinking diet drinks of various types. I suppose it's better than the alternative. ^ Workouts have been going well. I've had to abandon the pure cardio, it's gotten too cold to run outdoors and running that frequently on a treadmill is obviously not great for my joints. Fuck me, I've had to start making decisions like that. Age creeps up on you I guess. Strength training has been going fine, the 5/3/1 plan from /r/fitness has been working out alright. I'm focusing on form, just like they say I should. I already feel stronger - it's only been a few weeks. I finally feel safe financially. Well, safe is an exaggeration. But I feel like I'm not at immediate risk of starvation. I have spare money in my account at the end of a paycheck and I've started a savings account. It's not much but I'm slowly working my way towards the 4-month buffer I want to have in my account. Jesus, it feels so nice to not have that immediate peril breathing down your neck. It just really tears at you, day after day. It's usually quite small but it's this lump that lives in the middle of your abdomen, this goblin that lingers in your grey matter, whispering anxious little things. You can deal with it, sure, you know that it's probably fine but this constant convincing yourself that you're fine... It's tiresome. It takes up effort. I only have so much of it, but now it's free. Every day. I can shove that worry, that effort toward. Basically, things are well. Thanks for reading or maybe not reading, Schrodinger's reader. Stay safe, stay healthy and keep on. Slow and steady. -CameBackSad [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:31 PM PDT I've had to tell myself the title of this post because I can't even find much in the way of motivating articles searching online. Slow loss is usually defined as 1-2 lbs a week. Especially when closer to your goal, that can be tough to sustain. Circumstances are tough for me right now and I'm sure that's true for many of you during the pandemic. Any amount of sustainable weight loss is good. It's progress. When I've tried to do even a pound a week, I end up binging and gaining it back. Half a pound is working. Don't let the internet try to tell you that's not enough. I have a nursing toddler, strong cravings, and 2 other kids home with me nearly all the time right now. I gained weight back during quarantine I'd slowly lost over several months. Now I've lost 5 again. It's even slower than last time, but I'm not quitting! I had a small NSV of fitting back into an old pair of pants today, though they give me a little muffin top. Still... Progress! At this rate it will take me approximately 6 months to get to the weight I feel pretty good at and a year to get to my ideal. That's OK! It will happen this way and I don't think it would if I did it at a rate that's not sustainable for me! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:28 PM PDT 23M 6'4" SW 240 GW 190 CW 190 At the start of April I was ~240lbs and tired of the way I looked. After 2 years of gaining weight and me not thinking it was a big deal or just not caring, I finally wanted to stop that trend. In 7 months I lost 50lbs and am now ~190lbs, back to where I was those 2 years ago. Progress Pic: What I did:
I broke my elbow about a month ago and am now pretty much just doing CICO to maintain weight and hiking about 2 times a week. I can elaborate on some stuff If y'all want but that's pretty much all I did and I was extremely diligent about following that regiment, especially during the first few months. I did have a few hiccups along the way mainly due to having issues sticking to my CICO diet, but thanks to being extremely active I never gained back weight, only got stuck at a couple spots. Every time I lost 20ish pounds I'd be stuck there for a month or two. Once my elbow is completely healed my next goal is to start lifting again and try to add 10lbs of muscle to get to 200lbs. GL on y'alls journey <3 [link] [comments] |
| I am now a size 16 (UK) jeans with muffintop! Posted: 21 Oct 2020 12:45 AM PDT I'm very happy with that :) I never thought I'd see 16 again except on a house door ( I was 22/24). As my clothes get loose on me, I'm getting rid of them immediately. I find feeling things slightly tight is an incentive and I don't get a false sense of security (because I'm still fat, just not as fat!). Being honest my weight loss (and fitness drive) is HUGELY influenced by COVID and I'm hugely focussed on getting my BMI down. I still have 2 points to go before I move from "obese" to "overweight" but getting into size 16's is such a lift! Happy Wednesday people. Is anyone else COVID driven, or is it just me being a scaredy cat? [link] [comments] |
| Lost 25 lbs since June! Very proud of myself. Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:00 PM PDT That's halfway to my goal weight 150 lbs, at which point I'll be in the "healthy" BMI range as opposed to the "overweight" BMI range! I may even try to go lower than that, depending on how I'm feeling at that point. I've been wanting to lose weight for years, but I hadn't truly pushed myself until then. I'm so glad that I did. Its been a lot of hard work, exercising (at first, by the time school started back up again I just didn't feel like I had the time for it) and cutting calories, but the more progress I've seen, the more worth it all of that hard work seems. Honestly, I didn't think I could even lose 10 lbs, so even if this may seem like not that much in a short period of time, I'm proud. Really, anyone can lose weight if they put in the effort. Whether you have a specific athletic goal in mind, or just want to like the way you look, remember that it's all worth it in the end! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 21st, 2020 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 10:18 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] |
| An empty stomach isn’t a terrible thing. Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:45 AM PDT Hi, 32F here, I used to be a regular poster a few years ago (under a different account). With the help of his sub, I lost 90lbs over 2 years (SW: 240). After that I had a hard time figuring out what sustainable meant for me in terms of food + exercise combination over the past 1.5-2 years, and unsurprisingly my weight has been up and down. I'm getting there. Some of my new higher points included close to 180lbs in the last year. I don't know why but at some point the thought of having an empty stomach seemed anxiety inducing. I am autistic (late in life diagnosis in the last year - food has been a complicated issue for me on that front) and at some point that became a bit of a hyper fixation for me, so I've been working to adjust it. I've been working on not initially eating right when I wake up. I have a cup of tea first, prioritize other things I need to do and then when I'm ready for a break, I will have breakfast. So mostly I'm awake for 1.5-2 hours before eating. It hasn't been perfect, but it'd been working over the past few months to wake up and have a little caffeine boost before I eat. (A side note, tea is now one of my special interests and I've been replacing some dessert cravings with a dessert tea instead - it works very well.) Then I got to put it to the test - I had to do a fasting blood draw yesterday. It was late in the morning (husband had a 11am appointment), so I figured I could just sleep in a bit, and tough it out by 10am, bring some tea and a snack when I was done. Only drank water because I didn't want the caffeine to interfere with the results or anything (I'm also not sure I'm brave enough to drink black tea straight). We got to the lab an hour before his appointment, and it was packed. One of the phlebotomists was on her break, so there was only 1 person drawing blood for a while. I ended up having to wait until after his appointment. I didn't get my blood drawn until 11:30am. My stomach grumbled a lot but it was not the worst thing to have an empty stomach (I know that's a fortunate statement to make in our world). It definitely helped me understand the folks who skip breakfast and why it's so helpful to do so, CICO wise, I had a bigger dinner than I normally would. I'm a volume eater so it had a satisfying note. I really wish this had been a lesson I had learned earlier in my journey and wanted to pass it on to others. An empty stomach is not a bad thing. My stomach growled a lot yesterday morning but I realized it wasn't the boss of me. I know there's a lot of talk about our evolutionary lizard brain when we think we want to make choices that we know aren't right, and I wonder if this is one of them. Don't listen to your lizard brain. An empty stomach for an extra couple of hours is going to be okay. [link] [comments] |
| Broke up with myself last night. Ready to become the best version of me. F/26/SW:151.7/GW: 115-120 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 08:59 AM PDT Yesterday was my tipping point. I ate so poorly and feel like garbage. I keep trying and trying to start CICO because I'm getting married next August and my dress will not fit if I don't lose weight. However, after a day of pizza, garlic bread, chips and queso, and a steak quesadilla mixed with alcohol, I sat in the shower and sobbed. I'm so miserable. I'm tired of feeling sick all the time, I'm tired of feeling out of control and I'm sick of my body hurting all the time from eating poorly. I wrote a break up letter to myself saying goodbye to the unhealthy person who medicates with food, binges, and is angry/ has such low self esteem. Tomorrow is a completely new start. I'm ready to start counting calories, moving my body, and want to find a therapist to help. I will definitely be visiting this sub much more often and asking for advice/sharing victories. I'm ready to be the best version of myself. [link] [comments] |
| Didn't think I could do it... but 6 weeks later Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:40 PM PDT I have been dieting for YEARS. I've spent more than half my life, 17 years, at war with my body and with food. I've been on every diet you can think of; fasting, KETO, Atkins, WW, you name it I've tried it. And failed. And was hungry. And miserable. And if I DID lose weight, there was no way I could keep it off. At the beginning of lockdown I knew it was my time, so I went on a crazy strict diet and developed a home workout routine from YouTube videos and Pinterest and got real strict with myself. And still didn't lose a thing. I was obsessing and miserable and denying myself foods I adored and exhausting myself with endless workouts, for nothing. FINALLY, after I thought there was literally no solution to my body woes, I found something that WORKED. I didn't realize I'd been working out excessively and incorrectly, I couldn't grip that I'd been undernourishing my body. Finding an all around program that incorporated working out smarter, not harder, for 30 mins a day, curated nutrition and one on one coaching put it all into a neat, easy to follow package. After six weeks I noticed a huge change in my body composition. But also my sleep pattens, my hunger cues, my gut health, my anxiety levels, my appreciation for my body... everything improved with the confidence I gained from actually taking care of myself properly. I just want to let you know that even when you feel like there is no solution, that's not true. Maybe there is a different solution. Maybe it's time to show your body compassion, ditch the diet and move more mindfully. I can't express how excited it made me to feel like I'd unlocked the key and it's there for you too! Don't give up, don't give in. If you're not happy, you can make it happen!! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 20 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:10 PM PDT Hello lovely losers, Getting to it this week! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning. Stay within calorie range (maintain): Gonna close today with a deficit huzzah! Exercise 5 days a week: Brisk walk in the leaves. 14/20 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Did a lot over the weekend. 3/3 weeks. Self-care time (work on not using food as a reward): Tried a nap. Snuggled cat instead. Try a new recipe once a week: Turkey tacos, roasted parsnips & a hamburger casserole thingy. Still don't much care for rice. I'm still learning stuff in the kitchen so definite win. 3/3 weeks. Be more mindful, present in my body & express gratitude to avoid the hedonic treadmill: Grateful for good coffee and fall leaves again. Also horses & birds of prey on my drive! Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 10:05 PM PDT Hello and thank you for anyone who decided to stop by to give advice, I appreciate it more than you know!!! So some backstory, I am 24 years old and will be 25 in January and I weighed over 350 lb.....and that was 6 months ago. I have never really been worried about my health and allways put it off to do after, even know sometimes I want to keep doing that. I recently started to notice somethings about my body, it aches, my feet get swollen, and I just generally don't feel well and I know it's because of my health habits. I am starting to get worried that I may start to do irreparable damage to myself. I was recently married in march of this year and the thought of something happening to me and leaving my wife alone quite frankly scared the absolute shit out of me, I dont want to die from being unhealthy. Diabetes runs in my family from my father's side and the last thing I want is to have a leg removed. I dont know the first step to even begin, I have never even attempted to lose weight before. I dont know the first thing about this but I know that I'm tired of this and I dont want to die at 35 because I was too lazy to take care of myself. My work consists of remote IT work from home since covid and I sit 10+ hours a day for work and that's not counting the hours after work that I play games. I can tell that I need more activity in my life. Food for me is admittedly terrible, I eat when I'm bored, I eat between games, I eat to eat sometimes.....I am snacking CONSTANLY. It wouldn't be surprising if I can eat an entire bag if large chips in a single day if it's a weekend. If Anyone has any tips/advice for me I would appreciate it so much. I know its asking a lot but I really would like someone I could talk to sometimes about this as all my freinds are also.......fat. Thank you so much in advance!!! [link] [comments] |
| Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers) Posted: 20 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT Share Your Numbers!!!Welcome back to another week of weigh-in Wednesday. Share your +/- change from last Wednesday to this Wednesday, and a short summary of your week. Sometimes we get lost in the day to day ups and downs and it's good to see our week over week changes. Time to celebrate losses and lift each other up during possible failures. This is not a timed event or contest, feel free to jump in any time. This post was made a staple of r/loseit by u/Kahne_Fan and our thanks goes to him for providing a service that so many find helpful. [link] [comments] |
| My family is not supportive of my weight loss Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:56 PM PDT I am trying to get healthy and eat better and I have lost some weight, but my mom is being a b**** about it. I am doing it for myself and my health, but she's always making rude remarks about my weight loss. She finds small reasons to nag at me and even today she was like "let's see how long you keep this charade up" and it made me so freaking angry. As someone who has been overweight her whole life AND was constantly body shamed by her and the rest of my family, I feel so defeated. I've never felt beautiful or confident ever in my life. I want that now more than anything. I want to be strong and healthy. On top of that I am a grown adult who is trying to lose weight in a healthy way because I know it will help in other aspects of my life (energy, concentration on school work, stress relief, health, etc) so I don't know what her issue is. I want to feel confident so I am trying my best to keep going. I am trying to block out her rude remarks, but I broke down tonight. I still have 25 pounds to lose and I know I can do it, but the comments from her are really getting to me. It's like she's jealous that I am finally doing something about it. That she won't be able to criticize me about my weight once I lose it or something. My weight has always been something my whole family joked about and nagged at me about and I hate it. I am so angry with her. I am stuck at home this year because my college is closed because of COVID. I have no choice, but to deal with her nagging. Has anyone else experienced family members turning on them and being unsupportive of their weight loss/fitness journey? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 10:16 AM PDT I was getting very frustrated bc I lost about 12lbs over the summer and once September hit, I just stopped losing weight. I haven't been able to drop since. But today I stepped on the scale and saw that the number went down by 2lbs. It's not much but it means a lot to me to know that I am still capable of losing weight. It also motivates me to do better. I haven't been eating well or exercising but now that I see the number dropping, I want to work even harder. My goal is to lose 15lbs minimum by the New Years! I will look back at this post and be proud of myself for doing it because I am not going to give up. I will do it. [link] [comments] |
| Am I doing too much all of a sudden or is it good? Posted: 21 Oct 2020 01:20 AM PDT I've gained around 20 Kgs (45 lbs) in the past year. Most of my life I've been around 70-75 Kgs (155-165 lbs) and now I'm almost 200 lbs. I've been wanting to start walking, running and working out, since I don't like my body anymore, but I haven't been feeling motivated at all. Two days ago, I saw a friend and he told me he was going out walking, so I decided to join him, we walked around 5 kms, then when I went home, I was still feeling motivated and got my dumbbells out and did some weight lifting. On the next day, I woke up and decided to have fruits for breakfast, and had half the amount of carbs I usually have for dinner. then in the evening I walked the same distance, but with running up some stairs, along the way, and did weight lifting again. Now I'm trying to do the following:
I'm feeling amazing mentally, and I know it will take time to see changes but I want to keep going to see the changes, I'm really scared of losing my motivation and going back to my lazy life of going to the office and doing nothing when I get back home until the weekend comes and then drink. Any tips on how not to lose motivation and keep doing what I've been doing these past couple of days? and am I doing too much all of a sudden or is it good? [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Wednesday, 21 October 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 21 Oct 2020 01:08 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?)
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