Weight loss: Don’t underestimate the power of 10,000 steps! |
- Don’t underestimate the power of 10,000 steps!
- NSV: Logged calories for one month straight
- I’m 6’2 M 31. Started at 260, fixing to break 200. Haven’t been this low since high school.
- Anyone else here fueled by spite?
- It’s going to take awhile to get used to this...
- Weight loss after 69 days of CICO
- M/24 Down 66lbs (30kgs) from 256lbs (116.7kgs) to 191lbs (86.8) in 3 months !
- does anyone else eat themselves sick by accident?
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 20th, 2020
- Week 2 Update - What a difference seven days can make!
- That Onederland feeling... Sooo good ��
- Aaaargh why
- Caloric (and nutrient) intuitive estimation teaching tool, would you be interested?
- Is anyone else not hungry at all anymore?
- Breaking point. Advice for someone just starting?
- How did you all get started?
- Monster Mash Challenege!
- There will be ups and downs, but you can always improve.
- Urges to binge/overeat happening too often... help!
- I didn't eat that midnight snack and still felt good about it.
- Trying to lose weight while battling severe depression
- Certain family members don't like that I'm trying to be healthy...
- I just don’t know how to do it or where to start
- Still a long way to go, but proud of myself anyway.
| Don’t underestimate the power of 10,000 steps! Posted: 19 Oct 2020 05:06 PM PDT I've been stuck at 150 lbs for a few weeks now and it was so frustrating. I was following the same diet, still working out 6x a week, basically doing everything that I was doing before. However, one thing changed—I let go of my 10,000 daily step count. It fell to a meager 2,000 or 3,000 a day. I just started it up again a few days ago and I pushed past my plateau with ease. What a difference it makes, let me tell you. I also noticed that I got my mental clarity and overall motivation back once I started walking again, too. It's crazy how much getting up from working at your computer and taking a walk can recharge you. Highly recommend. [link] [comments] |
| NSV: Logged calories for one month straight Posted: 19 Oct 2020 02:35 PM PDT I've been at an uncomfortable level of weight for about 2 1/2 years now. Prior to that I'd been at 175 (I'm a 5'5" woman) for 5 years, which I was actually okay with because I'm hourglass shaped and all the extra weight went to my bum, hips, upper thighs and breasts. But when I went through some pretty serious health issues I ballooned to 245 lbs. I've been trying off and on to lose it ever since. Let me say up front that I hate logging calories. Hate it. So for those 2 1/2 years I tried to get my weight down in ways that worked in the past as this isn't my first weight loss rodeo. Intuitive eating, OMAD, vegetarianism. I couldn't stick with any of them. I went on a camping trip with my family this August, and looking through the pictures of myself from that trip, I couldn't stand any of them. I decided I was going to have to bite the bullet and submit to calorie counting. After a shaky and non-commital start, as of today I've logged for 30 straight days. I haven't weighed myself in that time (I personally find it discouraging to only see small decreases in the scale) or taken measurements, but I feel like I can see a difference already, particularly in my waist and hips. In that time I've gone over my calorie budget 3 times by 100-300 kcal and plenty of days I've gone under. I'm still learning which meals/snacks work best for my goals, but overall I'm feeling pretty good about the future. I'm supposed to get married August 1st, and more than anything I want to feel beautiful and confident on that day. [link] [comments] |
| I’m 6’2 M 31. Started at 260, fixing to break 200. Haven’t been this low since high school. Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:22 PM PDT This seems absolutely insane to say. I've lost 50 pounds in 16 weeks. A little bit about my struggle with weight. This is a long story of basically me pouring my heart out so i hope you enjoy it: TLDR; there's a link to a subreddit detailing my journey and results in the bottom. It started before I understood anything about the world. I grew up obese, and addicted to terrible food. I didn't start actively thinking about what I was putting in my body until about 2013, 22-24. My wife and I started living together. We redid our kitchen, which was an adventure. We cooked out over the fire in the back yard for fun... and then we started going out to eat a lot because our kitchen was a mess. Sometime after we finished our kitchen we were addicted to fast food and garbage. So we started thinking about WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!? We are clearly not healthy and we need to change. Well for those that don't know, my wife is essentially a living embodiment of Hermione Grainger. She reads all the time, also she's a engineer, like myself, and I'm pretty convinced her and her aunts and cousins are a covenant of witches, like good witches, but witches none the less. So my wife does research, documentaries on Netflix, checks out books from the library. She thinks it's because we aren't doing whole food plant based. So we tried it, the engine 2 diet, 28 days of whole food plant based stuff. I played world of Warcraft primarily and went to work for those 28 days. I ate as much as I wanted. And lost 20 pounds. We felt like we figured it out. But, although we agree that it is very healthy, and maybe even arguably more healthy than my current choices as I write this, but it DIDN'T FEEL SUSTAINABLE. I respect people that can do it. You will probably live longer than me. Now you all know how it goes from there. We kind of turned our brain off and went on auto pilot for food. Eating relatively what we wanted when we wanted. Using little tricks like "well I was going to get the large combo but I only got the medium so I did good today". Just small failures to make good choices day after day. So my wife went back to the library. This time she said we need to be STRONG. Because muscle burns fat! Right?... well my wife found exercise books. We got a gym membership. She found a workout routine. I believe it was something called the 10 minute work out. It was slow controlled movements under tension for building muscle. My wife was yet again right. We started building muscle mass. We looked strong, felt fit. But for us it DIDNT FEEL SUSTAINABLE. There are people that can go to the gym and get fit. I applaud those people and I am glad it works for them. But my wife and I always seemed to fall out of the gym routine. Now you know the rest. You lose focus of what you're really eating, other stuff happens. We had a kid. We were tired. We needed convenience to make our life better because we didn't have the time or the energy. And we once again let terrible food choices happen, and ENTER 2020. Now this next part is important, because I want to mention the next part because I don't think it's talked about enough and I want to help be a part of the people that make that happen. My wife and I had to endure two miscarriages this year. We decided we needed to get healthy, we were ready, and motivated for change. And honestly I know everyone's path is different but you got to get to that point. Where you are broken and are finally ready to disrupt things in your life. You'll know when you hit it. Well for what I think will be the last time my wife and I searched for the answer again. We merely stumbled across a health plan that worked for us. And has given us amazing results. Essentially, DONT EAT ADDED SUGAR (or sugar substitutes). Fast at least 12 hours a day, and try to get 8 hours of sleep. That's it. I literally told my dad those few things. And he lost 25 pounds in 3 weeks, and he's like 50 something so age doesn't matter. I'm down over 50 pounds right now. I'm lower then I was when I was on the cross country team in high school. Not only does this feel sustainable, i realize how terrible I felt from eating sugar, and i look forward to more days being sugar free. I know it's not easy, I'm not going to lie that it wasn't a struggle. That I didn't have a few slip ups a long the way. But You are capable of doing this, I know because I'm one of the laziest people I know. My journey and results are in this sub. [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else here fueled by spite? Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:25 PM PDT I'm not saying spite about my self-image or food, or skinny people. I'm more referencing completely unrelated life issues that you use to fuel your drive to better your health. I have a really toxic family that was eating up so much of my energy and mental space. They are honestly terrible people that I have felt nothing but disdain for for years. Alongside COVID I just couldn't cope with them anymore and now it's been four and a half months since I last spoke to them and I feel freer than ever and motivated to use the energy they once took rent-free to instead better myself with exercise and a new dedication to healthy choices that will bring me joy as I reclaim fitness. I'm morphing all that negative energy into positive change. On top of it all I also lost my mother-in-law two months ago after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was in my life for 13 years- throughout high school, college, marriage, and everything in-between- and honestly was my true mother. Her strength and positive attitude even at the end is another inspiration to take every moment of wellness I am able to out of this life while I am capable of it. My husband, her son, also has joined in with my daily workouts to better himself in order to honor her memory and maintain his health alongside me. So yes, spite fuels me, but I feel like harnessing it is the spark I needed to take weight loss seriously in a sustainable and life-changing way. I have failed so many times in the past but apparently giving the middle finger to the haters and the universe is the drive I needed. 9 lbs down after one month as of today and ready to keep pushing forward! [link] [comments] |
| It’s going to take awhile to get used to this... Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:55 AM PDT I'm sure we all share that frustrating feeling for the first month or so of the new year where we write the date with the previous year, because for the past 12 months we've been writing 2019 not 2020. Well, imagine that but for 9 years. For 9 years I've had to say I weighed 3xx. I was almost to the point of having to tell people I weighed over 400, actually. For 9 years I told doctors, family, friends, inquisitive strangers that I weighed 3xx. For the first time in over 9 years I now get to say I weigh 2xx. It's one of the best feelings in the world. I'm 5 pounds away from having lost 100 pounds. I do find myself correcting myself. It wasn't that long ago that I weighed 385, so saying I weigh 390 sounds right in my head. I only know I goofed when people look at me in disbelief, and I have to correct myself. They still don't believe I weigh 290, which is flattering, and I'll take it as a compliment each time. I'll always be a 2xx because of my height and frame, and I'm happy with that. I'm just so happy that saying 3xx is now a thing of the past. Permanently. [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss after 69 days of CICO Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:59 PM PDT So I've gotten into CICO after a health check up revealed I was closer to obese (at least in terms of BMI). Mid- August I weighed about 84kg (185lbs) at 171cm (5,7) and did the whole calorie counting thing. I'm on about 20lbs lost and a few things jump to mind that I wanted to share.
Thanks to all the wonderful people who post here, it's great to read about people's journeys as we all strive to look after ourselves! [link] [comments] |
| M/24 Down 66lbs (30kgs) from 256lbs (116.7kgs) to 191lbs (86.8) in 3 months ! Posted: 19 Oct 2020 05:50 PM PDT Long time lurker, first time poster. I've struggled with my weight my whole life, always being large through high school and college, but I finally found a diet and routine that worked for me. For the last 5 years I had been working to get under 100kgs with little results. I had lost my job, and put weight on over covid, but refused to come out of this year with nothing I went from being a XL-XXL in shirts to a M. Pant size 38-40 to 34. I did a diet of keto (21g carb max) and IMF, mixed in with training 5 times a week Push/Pull/Legs. I also played soccer twice a week for cardio! (I'm from Australia where it's not too bad with covid) I'm nowhere being satisfied yet, but I'm super happy with my progress so far ! [link] [comments] |
| does anyone else eat themselves sick by accident? Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:41 PM PDT i used to be able to really pack it away. i mean, that's basically how i've been abusing my body for years, just taking in massive amounts of food and keeping them down. over the past year or so i've really changed my eating habits but i still have a very persistent issue: not knowing when i'm eating way too much food. this is usually fine at meals, i can make the call on basically what a portion is and how much it'll take to get full. the only time i snack or have dessert is after dinner and i always go way too far. this is when i eat myself sick. i think i can take way more than i really can. i honestly don't know how good the connection is between my brain and body at this point because i never get the signals and warnings until suddenly i feel like i'm going to puke. it's not like i'm binging because i'd stop eating way sooner if i just got the message. this is when i have to think like a 'normal' person not to over-eat. would a normal person feel sick after two slices of pie? maybe. would they feel sick after eating half the pie? absolutely. so stop after two slices then. i had a turnover tonight for dessert then another one. i stopped at that because that's probably pushing it for a normal person. and it brought me to the cusp of almost feeling sick later at night. before this, i was going to eat another pastry after the two turnovers!! like, no, i can't eat that way anymore, it's going to make me sick! still zero warning from my body, it was not telling me at all to stop. the thing is, i'd listen if my body was telling me i'd feel like puking if i kept going but everything besides common sense tells me i can keep on eating. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 20th, 2020 Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:17 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] |
| Week 2 Update - What a difference seven days can make! Posted: 19 Oct 2020 11:03 AM PDT You were all so incredibly supportive to me last week, and several of you have reached out in the last day or two, so I thought I should post an update today on how things are going. I started my weight loss journey seven days ago at 473.3. This morning I weighed in at 455.0, for a total loss of 18.3lbs! I am certain that much of this is water weight, and my progress will slow soon, but I'm absolutely thrilled with what I was able to do this week. I have also had three NSV's this week! First, I've lost 1.5 inches off my waist and need to add a few new holes to my belt to keep my pants up. Second, I was able to bend over and put on/take off the walking boot I'm currently using for a broken foot. Previously I needed to awkwardly put my leg up on a chair or the bumper of my car to adjust it. I know this may seem minor to some, but it's such a tangible improvement in my quality of life, I am overjoyed. Thankfully, the walking boot should come off Thursday pending any unforeseen issues. Third, while I am obviously still diabetic, my glucose numbers have begun trending downward. A user from /r/SuperMorbidlyObese graciously invited me to a Diabetes support group on Discord, and that community, like this one, has been immensely helpful as I began to make these long-term changes this week. I will mention that about half-way through the week I made the decision to follow a Keto diet. This is day four of that, and I have been experiencing some of the symptoms of the "keto flu" (though as of this morning I do feel a bit better; I hope that lasts!). Also, If anyone is looking for a good food log program, my Diabetes group friends turned me on to Carb Manager and I personally like it much better than MyFitnessPal. Alright, this has gotten long so it's time to wrap it up. Thanks again for all your help and support, folks. Have a great week! [link] [comments] |
| That Onederland feeling... Sooo good �� Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:18 AM PDT I'm a 6"3' male who just recently dropped under 200 lbs again after hitting a high of 250 lbs over a decade ago from eating the standard american diet and drinking in college and knew I needed to make a change. The idea of being closer to 300 than 200 really scared me and I didn't know how to slow it down. That was around the time Atkins was first becoming popular and I can't remember why but I decided to check him out after having no success and continually creeping up in weight with weight watchers and other diet programs. I tried his methods and started losing weight rapidly and was so excited to finally have something in the tool belt that I knew worked and would allow me to have some control. It was very difficult though to eat everything so lean so I had difficulty sticking with it for long periods of time. This began the yo-yo phase where I was basically in maintenance, go hard for a few weeks to a month low carb and lose 10-15 pounds then go back to my previous diet that I enjoyed and start creeping back up. Lesson learned: you can control your weight! It's just a problem you have to figure out. My time in college as an engineer studying mass and energy balances on a closed system helped here but it wasn't until I saw the results on the scale that I really hit home. Around that time I started reading reddit a lot and discovered /r/keto from someones comment. I had no idea what ketosis was but I looked at the top posts and was amazed at the progress pics! I went for it and fell in love, it was low carb, not as low as Atkins but it was sustainable because it embraced fats, something Atkins had basically villified. Eating meat & veg cooked in butter or olive oil was something I could do with a lot of variety and it was satiating, yes!! I stayed on/off keto for several more years as needed and sort of stair stepped my way down but also undid a lot of progress as I was also getting into home brewing as sort of a friendly competition between a few buddies of mine at work and not always being diligent about packing a lunch so would go out to eat with co-workers and make not ideal choices. The extra carbs added up and stalled me out for awhile. Lesson learned: Don't drink your calories! (which was crazy for me because I grew up on gallons of orange juice, milk, juicy juice, soda, etc.). Always though those were healthy, minus the soda I guess, so did my parents. Eventually I went through a somewhat messy divorce and decided I still wasn't happy with my body. I started lifting /r/stronglifts for about 6 months and made significant strength and size gains but overdid it with free weights and ended up injuring myself a couple times and had to step back to recover. More recently I have taken up /r/bodyweight fitness with some lighter free weights and slower progression and I and am enjoying it much more. In fact I just did my first ever chin up from a dead hang today! A longtime goal of mine! Shout out to Jerry Texteira on YouTube and Twitter, great guy, took time to give me personal advice and is just super friendly. Taught me just moving our own bodies through space is more than enough to get an incredible physique. Lesson learned: strength training and building muscle mass is important for everyone but injury will set you way back, as with diet listen to your body and you don't need to throw heavy weights around to get in great shape. Around the time I was recovering from my injuries I discovered Dr. Jason Fung, and learned so much about how our food supply has been manipulated for profit over time from his book The Obesity Code and also about the many benefits of fasting. /r/Fasting was the next step in my journey, I had always thought that was just unhealthy but after reading Dr. Fung it made so much more sense as something we have been doing through millennia burning fat for fuel while retaining muscle mass. In fact, if you are not eating right at this very moment you are fasting as well, congratulations! ;) I dove in head first and did a 7 day fast, it was a surreal experience and I felt pretty good over all because I was already "fat adapted" (burning your body fat for fuel instead of carbs) from keto which made it much easier. I actually only ended it because I was worried I was overdoing it but I know now those concerns were unfounded and I just needed to listen to my body. It was another breakthrough moment for me to learn the power of fasting, I saw significant reductions in fat, bloating, cravings, etc. and by the end it was very apparent to me that it was a very healthy state to be in. I did a few multi day fasts after that but more generally just adopted an intermittent fasting schedule where my first meal of the day would be a keto dinner after work (meat + veg cooked in butter), and then some snacks in the evening, mainly nuts but I had to be careful as they were really easy to overeat. Lesson learned: fasting is a natural thing we all do every day intermittently and every night while we sleep. It is another tool in the belt and has many beneficial effects, not something to be afraid of at all and worth trying out. I was still drinking at the time though so I stayed in maintenance for the most part, I kind of saw it as eating clean allowed me to drink and enjoy myself. Easy access to some homebrew taps in my garage took it's toll though and I again started creeping up. One thing I noticed around this time when I was experimenting with fasting is that whenever I would drink a beer within a few minutes my FUPA (lower GI tract) would swell up and I would get really gassy and uncomfortable. I loved brewing and drinking beer so this was a tough pill to swallow, I had never noticed it before because I never gave myself enough time without drinking for my system to clear itself out, fasting helped me realize that connection. In the end I decided my love for beer was not worth the discomfort, gas and weight gain it was causing me so I gave it up. I switched to wine/liquor which did not give me the same GI issues but soon I was overindulging there as well which ultimately caused me to stall on my weight loss goals (mainly because 2am drunk me didn't give a damn about keto and always went for the most greasy fried food I could find to "soak up" the alcohol or scratch that itch for sweet by eating all the sugar in the house). In the end I realized that if I wanted to achieve my goals of being healthy (and getting a 6 pack, not there yet but definitely getting closer and seeing some really good definition!) that I needed to give it up for good. I am happy to say that I just passed 1 year sober and plan to keep right on rolling, shout out to the app "I Am Sober" and the /r/stopdrinking community for keeping me on track and motivated. Lesson learned: if you really want to achieve your goals you have to be present in the moment at all times, quick slips when in the wrong frame of mind can certainly set you back, especially if it's a regular habit. I am so much more present and attentive with my children now and I can't imagine ever going back to how I was before, always regretting the previous nights decisions and dragging myself through my day just so I could finally "relax" that evening with a few drinks while not giving my kids the attention they craved. Everything is better sober and I am so thankful for making that change. A bit before getting sober I learned a few things from Twitter, the first was the dangers of seed oils from P.D. Mangan @Mangan150 which are in damn near everything!!! I am so thankful he brought attention to this as I had no idea before that how much the profit driven food industry has poisoned our food supply with this stuff. Lesson learned: seed oils are not natural and are very harmful, avoid at all costs, but good luck because they have been slyly introduced everywhere in our food supply. The only real solution is to not eat anything that has been processed in any way. Basically only the deli or produce sections are safe. Even fancy restaurants use seed oils for cooking and frying. To really avoid them you have to cook your own food from whole ingredients. I also started seeing more and more discussion about the carnivore lifestyle happening on twitter from Dr. Shawn Baker @SBakerMD and others who were recommended by several fitness people I was following and I started following the /r/carnivore and /r/zerocarb communities. Actually seeing Jerry Teixeira's before/after carnivore pics and reading the success stories on meatheals.com is what really sold me. Jerry mentioned that even though he had the same workout routine before and after the swelling around his midsection and GI tract never went away while he had carbs in his diet. I tried out carnivore not knowing what to expect and again had another breakthrough, my weight just started melting, my GI issues and FUPA disappeared, any cravings I had subsided and in general I just felt great, better than I ever had, energy and mental clarity to spare. I wasn't restricting myself either, whenever I was hungry I would eat fatty meat (steaks, slow cooked pork, burgers, brisket, bacon/eggs, cheeses, cooking with heavy cream and butter, etc.) until I had enough then just wait until I was hungry again. That's when I realized the connection that it was always carbs that were slowing me down or creeping my weight up, through the calories I drank as a kid and an adult to the sugar present in so many things that I learned to avoid from keto to even the nuts and veg that I kept in my diet on keto. I'm sure many people can keep the nuts/veg and do great on keto but for me it was obvious they were holding me back once I removed them. Lesson learned: carbs are not necessary and in many cases might actually be getting in the way of your progress (especially sugar). Carnivore is like an elimination diet, start with the basic most nutrient dense food that we have been living on for millennia and see how your body feels with only that for awhile, later on add back things that you might feel you're missing out on, probably veg, fruit, nuts, dairy, etc. and just observe how your body responds. Iterate, adjust and thrive! I'm still not at my 6 pack but getting very close and the goal is in sight. I would guess I still have another 15-20 lbs or so to lose to really get the definition I'm after but I have probably lost 60-70 lbs of fat overall when you add in the muscle gains as well. With some additional muscle I think an ideal target will probably be around 190 lbs for me as a 6'3" guy when I have the physique I want but YMMV so go with what you think is best for you. Final words of wisdom:
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| Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:13 AM PDT Hello everyone, long time lurker, first time poster: please, I need some reassurance today. I lost 20 kg over the last year, and have now started CICO to lose the rest, but it's so frustrating! I had two amazing weeks, lost about 3 kg, and then yesterday I had some bad news and I was so upset I had a cheat day (nothing super extravagant, two slices of cakes and a restaurant meal). I clocked 2400 kcal instead of my usual 1400 and today I'm back at my initial weight. I feel like 2 weeks of hard work were completely undone and I'm just so fed up...am I supposed to have a perfect kcal intake for the next six months? How is is possible that it takes 2 weeks to lose 3 kg and then 1 day to gain it all back? Does anybody know? Thanks and good luck with your own health journey. [link] [comments] |
| Caloric (and nutrient) intuitive estimation teaching tool, would you be interested? Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:19 AM PDT I am thinking of making an educational exercise app to teach users about the calories (and nutrients) in food items and meals. Imagine an app asking you "Which item contains more calories? An apple or a glass of milk." or "How much calories are in the following food?" with instant feedback how close you were (eventually working your way up to photos of entire meals). Essentially just applying classical learning aids to teaching about calories and nutrition. My thinking is: Right now learning about caloric density and nutrition is like learning a language with paper flashcards. It's just a lot more efficient to learn a language with more modern and specialized tools for learning. I think the same would apply to nutritional education, as it relies on a lot of rote learning. And just like a language it only becomes practical when you go from 'careful factual recall' to an intuitive sense. A wireframe mockup I made can be found here: https://whimsical.com/DbNruYJ7JDGSkCczhz8qpt The reason I came here is that I wanted to ask whether people would be interested in such a thing? I don't want to invest a bunch of time into making something that I will only use myself 😅 . And also welcoming any other ideas or things I should be careful about. --- Note for moderators: I think I triple checked that this post is allowed and that I am not breaking any rules with this post. Was especially careful around the self-promotion thing, but fairly sure I am not promothing anything (beyond an abstract idea). [link] [comments] |
| Is anyone else not hungry at all anymore? Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:22 PM PDT I used to eat total garbage every day. Just fat and carbs, all the time. As a PCOS sufferer, this meant that my blood sugar was all messed up, and I had to be on Metformin. Fast forward to today and Ive been eating healthy for three weeks. Getting enough fibre, tracking all my nutrients in Cronometer and making sure that anything I eat is nutritious in some way. I am no longer eating for pleasure, just for the fuel. I have tried so many diets and Ive always been so hungry that I cant continue. I no longer need Metformin, and I am just never hungry now. I eat 1000-1200 calories a day, only because I am forcing it down. If I didnt have GERD, I would skip most meals. Has this happened to anyone else? Im worried that I might just be sick, so Im just tryjng to see if its normal to go from like 3000+ calories a day, to around 1000, in a matter of weeks [link] [comments] |
| Breaking point. Advice for someone just starting? Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:32 PM PDT I (20 F) think I've finally reached my breaking point. I'm about 5'3" and 240 pounds and I'm so sick of my body and being this size. I looked back on old photos of myself and seeing myself at 170 pounds made me realize just how big I've gotten. I thought I was so so fat back then and I don't think I really noticed I was gaining so much weight because I just always saw myself as big. But looking back on pictures I can really see how much I've gained. I gained about 70 pounds in the past two years while in university, I gained a lot from being stressed and sleep deprived and a lot from awful cafeteria food because the healthy options were so very slim and not quick and I only had about 10 minutes to eat most days. But anyways, I dropped out (for a multitude of reasons) and am living at home so I am now able to cook for myself. Enough is enough and I want to get healthier. I've also joined the CICO subreddit, so I'm hoping I can learn stuff there too. Does anyone have any tips? Like diet tips, at home exercises, how to drink more water (because I find it so bland and all the add ins I've tried aren't great)? How to stay motivated? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:50 PM PDT I've been going on pretty long walks as frequently as possible since March, but when I ask about getting started, it's the other things that I'm unsure about. Losing weight seems hopeless to me right now because it seems like a toss up between enjoying life and being overweight or being thin and just counting calories, working out, and eating boring food forever. The biggest roadblocks for me are that counting calories and whatever else seems super time consuming and burdensome; baked chicken, vegetables, and really most healthy foods seem boring and bland; and working out is never fun no matter how I've tried to spin it. So I suppose I'm asking less about the logistics of getting started and more about how you convinced yourself to think differently about all of these things. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2020 03:07 PM PDT In the spirit of Halloween, I'd like to challenge you guys in the Monster Mash Challenge! Some days, exercising feels too hard and you really don't want to do it. Well, we all know some is better than none! So, get you a copy of the song, The Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett, and do the Mash for the entire duration of the song!! (The Mash is basically The Twist.) You can probably find it on YouTube. The song is about 4 and a half minutes long, so go as long as you can - you really will feel the burn! I love to dance, so this always gets me in the mood to at least be a little more active, and mentally picks up my mood! Let me know how long you made it! [link] [comments] |
| There will be ups and downs, but you can always improve. Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:18 AM PDT This post is mostly about motivation, and perseverance even though you've had set backs. In high school I was probably around 350? Once I graduated I set out to figure out how to lose weight. I stumbled on a little website that explained that it was all calories in vs calories out. They suggested I use one of those online macro calculators, and start lifting right away. I bought a cheap weight set and scoured bodybuilding websites for form videos. After a couple years I got down to 235lbs and was in the best shape I had ever been in at the time. I ended up getting some female attention for the first time ever and partying. I did have some fun catching up on lost time from when I was crazy overweight. Eventually I ended up married and had stopped lifting/ tracking my macros. As things started to fall apart in that marriage I had just started lifting again. See the bottom right picture. Ended up getting a divorce. I kept on lifting though, but never got my diet fully back on track. In 2017, I had started to get dangerously high blood pressure, and worked my way back up over 360lbs. That's when this next leg of the journey started. I got back to tracking my macros and calories, and ended up getting my mind right. I'm now engaged to a healthy, amazing person. We have great communication, and know how to work through things in a positive manner... that's not the point of this post though. It's taken me 3 years to get back down to 267. Even in that 3 years I've had a few stalls and breaks, but I've learned to not go fully off the rails even with a break. I'm headed for 242 to compete at my first powerlifting meet in 2021. For me the only way to make sure I'm on track is by tracking and making sure I'm being held accountable. If it's not in my sight it's out of mind and I start making bad decisions. Even when I mess up I still track so I'm forced to see the numbers. It works for me, and it might work for you if you have that personality type. Once it all became a math equation, I was could conquer weight loss. [link] [comments] |
| Urges to binge/overeat happening too often... help! Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:47 PM PDT Hi everyone. I'm a 14 year old girl currently in recovery from anorexia (a matter of dieting going too far). I've come pretty far and am at a healthy weight. Let's not talk about the whole ed thing since this community isn't really about that... but I do need help with something.... I've developed a bad habit of overeating, and have so many urges to binge. Right now I want to maintain my healthy weight, but the constant overeating isn't making it possible. Every time I have a snack, I always have to urge to just keep eating more and/or look for other things to eat. Most of the time this puts me in a 500+ calorie surplus. I don't even know where to start in order to stop binging/overeating. It's every day now, and I want to stop it before things get worse. It's funny because before, I had all the control in the world to not eat anything, but now it's the opposite. The stuff I'm mostly overeating on is junk food, like biscuits and other snacks. I'll be starting journaling, so I'll see if that helps... but I'm still going to need some more advice haha If anyone has any advice, tips, or personal experiences, please do share! I and many people in the community with appreciate it for sure. Thanks guys xx [link] [comments] |
| I didn't eat that midnight snack and still felt good about it. Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:59 AM PDT Hi, I've been on this subreddit for a little bit, but this is my first time posting. I've been trying intermittent fasting for a while now, but the thing that makes it hardest for me is not eating late-night snacks. I LOVE eating at night; quick ramen, cereal, leftovers from dinner . . . Eating at night while watching episode after episode of Netflix used to be a favorite activity of mine. I love food; it's a way my parents would show me love (making me my favorite snacks when I was younger), and it's a way I indulge myself (buying yummy desserts after exams). In a nutshell, food is a big part of how I make myself happy (for better or worse), and as a night owl, intermittent fasting can be for me. So, when I started doing intermittent fasting, I would do fine for a couple weeks before I started going back to late-night eating. However, I was finally able to hold back my temptation last night to heat up a few frozen chicken tenders. I was really tempted to, but what really did the trick for me was two things: 1) "Either you burn it or save it" (I do not enjoy intense exercise, so this thought was particularly effective) 2) Thinking about how much I'd regret it the next morning—especially when those chicken tenders would have been my lunch. I know it seems really simple, but after failing to intermittent fast for a while, the thought of falling back again, as well as trying to burn off the food, helped me make up my mind that I did not have to eat those chicken tenders; instead, I could watch my Netflix with some hot water. The next morning, I was really proud of myself for not giving in like I usually did, and I had the chicken tenders for my lunch. TL;DR: I'm a foodie who isn't fond of exercise, and I was able to keep intermittent fasting by resisting the urge to have a late-night snack. The next morning, I was really proud of myself. [link] [comments] |
| Trying to lose weight while battling severe depression Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:11 PM PDT I'm seeking advice from people who have dealt with depression-induced binge eating. I tend to eat a pretty good amount for weight loss during the day (for a college student), but for the past four or five years, I've really struggled with my weight. I have pretty severe depression (only slightly related to my recent weight gain) that always end in me binge eating chips and chocolate. It's honestly the only thing that can temporarily sate me when I'm feeling down. I don't really have access to a support system so food has become my crutch, but then an hour later, it just makes me feel worse about myself. I know this, but I still choose to binge. How do I stop the binging? I don't really have any other coping mechanisms and food is probably the only constant I have in life (sad as it sounds). I know that losing the weight and hitting my GW will make me at least less depressed about my appearance, but I just can't stop. [link] [comments] |
| Certain family members don't like that I'm trying to be healthy... Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:56 AM PDT For some concise background information: the majority of women on both sides of my family are either overweight or obese, and unfortunately, health issues/risks run pretty high (heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, and joint/bone problems, to name a few). I already have a few health issues regarding my respiratory and immune system, so I've always been cautious about my weight and health since I'm already at a slight disadvantage compared to the majority of my cousins/relatives. I'll start by saying I'm definitely not extremely healthy, but I'm no couch potato. However, since quarantine, I've packed on some extra weight, and two months ago, I decided that I needed to be proactive and shed the weight (and more) off. When I first weighed myself, sad to say that I was more than a little disappointed with the number on the scale. 165 lbs. Yikes. It's not the highest I've ever been (that would be in middle school when I was closer to 200 lbs), but it definitely was a much-needed shock to my system to get my butt in gear. While I eat relatively healthy (I'm a pescatarian and lactose-intolerant), I knew that I needed to exercise more if I really wanted to lose the weight. So, I started walking a mile every day, and once I felt comfortable, I started jogging for 30 sec every other minute and got to a point where I could maintain that interval of jogging for longer periods of time. (Now I can jog for a good 30 mins without stopping!) Initially, I hadn't planned on announcing any sort of weight loss journey or anything like that, but once I was down to 155 lbs, I felt the need to celebrate it. This would, in turn, be the starting point for snide and judgemental comments from my family. My family isn't new to gossiping about other relatively in front of others or badmouthing them. So, I should've seen it coming, in all honesty. The short post I had made on Facebook was, 'Down 10 lbs, only 30 more to go!'. And it was enough to have a flurry of passive-aggressive comments by my 'supportive' family members. Some of which were: 'I can barely tell the difference, great job!' '[Name], you don't need to lose any weight! You'd feel a lot better if you actually ate food!' 'Good for you! But don't lose too much, you don't want to be one THOSE people...' '👍 doing great, hunny! I hope you're having fun!' '[Name] everyone knows diets don't work! Be careful!!! You'll probably gain it all back after a few months of this, but best of luck!' While their comments I could tune out since I barely use Facebook at this point, when I talked to them over the phone, their disapproving tone was apparent, and they started making assumptions as to why I wanted to lose weight. The whole argument that I'm doing this for some guy and it's not healthy, and I'm losing so much weight too fast that I must be doing something else to lose weight. At this point, the comments are a bit ridiculous, but I know these people, so I really shouldn't be surprised. It's not like I'm throwing it at everyone or posting about it constantly. I don't bring it up at all in conversations or brag about it. (Because of personal reasons and body issues.) Yes, I'm proud of myself for losing weight but damn, I just wish they had something else to gossip about. I'd be lying if I said that it didn't bother me since this is my family. I guess this is just another obstacle to overcome (or, at the very least, ignore). But as of today that I'm writing this, I'm finally at 149 lbs! If anyone has any tips for dealing with this, I'd highly appreciate it or if you have experienced something similar!? P.s. They have said harsher and more vulgar things to me but I didn't want to include them because I didn't want this to end up being NSFW! Sorry! [link] [comments] |
| I just don’t know how to do it or where to start Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:29 PM PDT I'm 31 years old. Male. 205 lbs, 5 foot 11. I'm not obese, but I have an awful beer gut (although "junk food gut" would be a more appropriate term in my case). And I just don't know where or how to start. I have a mean sweet tooth and being a full time retail worker, pretty much run on caffeine. I have 30 minutes to eat on my lunch breaks and the food court has pretty much zero healthy options. Subway is the closest thing there is to a healthy option and even that doesn't really cut it. Especially since, you know, I'm still filling myself up on Coke. I'm a bit of a hypochondriac so I don't feel comfortable going to the gym right now given the pandemic. I'd had a planet fitness membership but I canceled it back when everything shut down and just don't feel comfortable yet opening it up again. I've been going out for long walks in the evening when I can lately, since I live out in the country and have a few backroads and streets to walk that are free of traffic. But I don't think it's gonna do much if I'm still eating trash all the time. It's the adjusting my diet part I'm having a hard time with. Especially since I use snacking to cope when my anxiety or depression act up, on top of the whole working in retail and always being in a hurry thing. Anyone have any insight or pointers? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Still a long way to go, but proud of myself anyway. Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:35 AM PDT TL;DR because I got extra share-y once I started writing. I have always had weight issues, and was not able to motivate myself to make a change. However, I have recently become very interested in budgeting and saving, so I have begun to treat calories like money. I found an online calculator to determine how many calories I should be eating daily to lose weight, and I use my calories like currency to "buy" the foods I eat each day. If I run out of money, I'm done eating for the day. This has caused me to think ahead and plan my days, rather than just eating whatever I feel like at the time. I am not restricting myself from any certain foods, so I never feel like I am depriving myself. If I have a bad day and make an unhealthy choice for a snack or dinner, it's fine as long as I adjust my other spending accordingly and stay in my budget. I understand that this may not work forever, and as I lose more weight I will have to start looking at more than just calories to keep losing, but for someone like me who has a very large amount of weight to lose, it has been a great starting point. Now for you readers, my backstory. I grew up with a single mom of three kids who worked her butt off, but barely made enough money to pay rent most months, let alone afford to keep fresh fruits and veggies in the house. She worked 2nd and 3rd shifts most days, so either me or my older sister would cook, and being young, dinners were often huge unhealthy carbohydrate and fat bombs like spaghetti or Hamburger Helper. The situation was made worse, because our mother felt guilty over not being able to buy us a lot of the new clothes/shoes, toys, or video games our friends parents bought them so she pretty much never said no when it came to snacks. The crisper drawer was never full, but there was always a bag of chips or a box of cookies around. It didn't help that she was an avid snacker herself. All of that (combined with no self control, I fully understand that I am not blameless in my situation) led to me finishing high school around 300 pounds. My problem then became what I can only describe as some type of reverse body dysmorphia. I knew I was fat, but I never felt as big as I was, because I was active, and my weight never kept me from doing the things my friends did. I could still run and ride a bike without getting winded. I was working in a warehouse and putting people half my size to shame. I even lost a little weight due to sheer physical activity, although I was living on my own now and still eating like crap. I eventually left the warehouse to work in a shop doing electrical assembly. The pay and benefits were better, but the majority of my day went from hustling up and down a picking line for 8-10 hours, to sitting at a bench working with small hand tools. The weight I had previously lost came back with a vengeance, and brought along backup. For the first time in my life, the effects of my weight gain were not able to be ignored. I would start to get winded on even short walks. I could no longer sleep through the night because no position was comfortable. I would avoid social situations if anyone outside my core group of close friends were going to be there. But I still just buried my head in the sand and did my best to ignore it. Fast forward to about a year ago. My health insurance at work started a new wellness program. Basically they tripled insurance rates, but provided credits that could bring you back down to the original cost if you met certain goals. The largest credit is for not smoking, however, you cannot receive that credit unless you are tested for the other credits as well. So I put it off as long as I could, but finally had to go get measured to receive the credits I was eligible for. At this point I had not stepped on a scale in probably 3 years, I stopped once I crossed the 330 mark. So I get to the office, and step on the scale, expecting it to settle around 350, and preparing myself for the rush of embarrassment. I never even got the chance to feel embarrassed, because I was shocked to see the scale shoot passed the 350 mark like the Price Is Right wheel spun by an over-caffeinated body builder. When the smoke cleared and the numbers settled I was speechless. 476 pounds. I thought it was a mistake, someone that big wouldn't be able to get out of bed, right? The only good news is i found out that through some miracle, my blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose levels were all normal. Yay for small victories. I took the results to my doctor and was told that if I didn't make serious changes soon that my life was at risk. They recommended a nutritionist, but the thought of having to tell another person my weight was embarrassing enough for me to try and go it alone. Over the next several months, I tried to do a complete 180 from my previous habits. No chips (my biggest weakness) or any other snacks. No fast food. No breakfast. Lunches and dinners were boneless skinless chicken with a salad of just lettuce and tomato, because I didn't like any other veggies. It worked at the beginning, like most diets, and over the course of about 3 months I was able to lose 35 pounds. It was around this time that Covid hit NJ hard. My work remained open, but we were worried about going to into any stores so instead of grocery shopping we started ordering takeout again for dinners, and eating fast food for breakfast and lunch. It is easy to blame Covid now, but I am sure that is at least 50% excuse, because I was really just miserable from the previous three months I had spent dieting. This brings me to my present path. It was August, and my birthday was approaching. My breathing was getting worse, to the point I would be winded after a walk to the bathroom at work, or out to check the mail. When my brother and I went out to do yard work, I would need to carry a chair around because standing for more than 5 minutes would send knife like pain through my lower back. I regained the 35 pounds I lost and put on 10 more. 485 pounds. I just became sick of my quality of life and decided this is it, it's now or never. So I started researching CICO. An online calculator told me that to maintain my weight I would have to eat over 3700 calories, which sounded ridiculous to me until I started to look into the "nutritional" info on some of the foods I had been eating. Bagel melt for breakfast, 600 calories; Mcdonalds for lunch, 1100 calories; cheese steak and french fries for dinner, 2000 calories; half a bag of chips for a snack, 1000 calories. It sounds dumb now, but I had never realized how much I was truly eating. The calculator also told me how many calories to eat for various levels of weight loss, and even for the extreme category of 2 pounds per week, I was allotted somewhere around 2600 calories. I knew if I went super restrictive from the get-go that I would eventually slip up, and go back to my old crappy eating habits. So this time I chose not to restrict anything I eat. I have been big into budgeting and saving lately, so I started looking at my calories like they were money. Like an allowance you would give a child who is just learning to spend and save. I can buy (eat) whatever I want, but I cannot spend more than my allowance in any given day. So now when I reach for that bag of chips I have to decide if it is worth cutting my dinner in half later because I don't have enough calories left to spend. Because I am so habituated towards snacking, this has led to choosing healthier snacks because they are cheaper (lower calorie) and I can fit more of them into my budget. I am still eating boneless skinless chicken breast and green beans for most dinners, but it is more for the sake of simplicity rather than a restrictive choice. I can still have a different dinner on nights where I'm just not feeling the chicken, but it still must fall within my daily budget. This all began on August 15, and as of this morning I am down 57 pounds. I never thought I would be proud to weigh 428 lbs, but I am. I am finishing most days with a remaining balance of around 800-900 calories without ever feeling like I am starving or depriving myself. I look at those calories as savings, not so I can spend extra the next day, but to save and buy me more years on this planet. This weekend I was able to do yard work without a chair, and I didn't feel like I was about to have a heart attack. I won't be running marathons anytime soon, but I no longer get winded during the 50 yard walk to the bathroom at work. I am actually looking forward to my future for once, and I can see the possibility of living life rather than just waiting around for it to end. Thanks to anyone who read this far, and I wish you all luck in your own journeys. [link] [comments] |
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