Weight loss: How washing my face helped me lose weight and keep it off |
- How washing my face helped me lose weight and keep it off
- My girlfriend broke up with me so the Dominos pizza stopped, this is what happened after 2 months
- I’ve logged everything I’ve eaten for a week!
- Down 40 pounds today! Don't forget to go easy on yourself sometimes.
- [NSV] I put the brakes on a binge before it escalated
- Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 27th, 2020
- Day 2 on Nutrisystem
- a bad weekend isn't always a bad weekend
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 27 October 2020: Today, I conquered!
- An Experiment To Break Through A Stall
- First day starting at 320
- My mental state has changed so much since I started losing weight
- I just saw a picture of myself from yesterday and it was so discouraging.
- 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 27 October 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- You don’t look fat you look cozy
- Update: I've lost 6lbs in 4 and a half weeks!!
- Anyone else find themselves back here after pandemic weight gain?
- Tip: if you're logging your food and have an Android phone you can use Google Keep to keep a food log easily with your voice -- just say "Hey Google, add 90 grams banana to my food log list"
- Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!
- Excerpt from my weight loss journal (deleted original post for security reasons)
- Muscular thighs that are disproportionate to the body M23 180lbs
| How washing my face helped me lose weight and keep it off Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:31 PM PDT To preface this, no, unfortunately there is not a magical face wash that sheds the Ibs. My whole life I have gone through weight loss cycles. The ingredient that is always lacking when I start to gain weight back is discipline. Mid last year I was my heaviest and decided I needed to change, and wondered how to change my lifestyle and stick with it. Instead of starting with my eating habits, I decided to add discipline into other "easier" aspects of my life that would also benefit me before I tackled the "hard stuff" aka food consumption. I vowed that every single night, no matter what, I HAD to do a face wash routine. On vacation? Face wash. Sick day? Face wash. Home from the bar at 4am? Face wash. I did not make any exceptions for myself. Crying? Face wash. Since then I had lost 20lbs in 3 months (5'1F) and maintained my weight longer than I ever have before. In the last two months I've gained back 5lbs and my face looks a mess, and you know why? Because I made way too many recent exceptions to my nightly face routine. That dissolved my discipline practice. So you know what I did tonight and I'm going to continue doing tomorrow and the next day and the next.....? Wash my face. [link] [comments] |
| My girlfriend broke up with me so the Dominos pizza stopped, this is what happened after 2 months Posted: 26 Oct 2020 05:59 AM PDT My girlfriend (17) broke up with me ( 5''11', 17) at the end of August of this year. She was a skinny girl, and I had (according to BMI) been obese. Nevertheless she knew that at home we didn't really have food. I used to eat the free school breakfast and lunch, but when quarantine hit, my mom continued to only feed me and my siblings once a day. My mom also rarely went grocery shopping so this is what my fridge typically looks like https://imgur.com/a/n2bkYn3 . I never really had money for food, but she did. This resulted in a very unhealthy habit in which she would buy me an entire dominos pizza with a 2 liter of coke at least 3 times a week to quench my hunger. This went on from around april till she broke up with me. This is what I looked like while we were together: https://imgur.com/a/Tz8ED1U But when we broke up I had my pizza cut from me. I also was addicted to soda and this was also cut. Since I had no money I couldn't enable my unhealthy food and soda. I was forced to drink water and figure out ways to feed myself for the other meals my mom didn't provide. Without working out and just by changing my diet I have lost some considerable weight. This is me now: https://imgur.com/a/YMLRIBM . I know for a fact that I weighed at least 220, but I could have easily been 230. I now weigh 185. So between 35-45 pounds were lost. I didn't notice the weight loss until people pointed it out. (I don't have any shirtless before and after pictures either which sucks) I know that I lost it without knowing but I want it to be sustainable so I've used this as a stepping stone, I joined the gym and started counting calories. I don't want this to be a temporary change, I am going to use this as a way to lose the rest of my fat. Just wanted to share this, it's funny that my ex cutting off my pizza supply would cause me to dramatically lose weight. [link] [comments] |
| I’ve logged everything I’ve eaten for a week! Posted: 26 Oct 2020 08:07 PM PDT I'm currently a 28 year old female who is 5'4 and 235lbs. There has never been a moment since I was a pre-teen where my weight wasn't at the forefront of my mind. I have tried calorie tracking, restrictions, killing myself at the gym, intermittent fasting, OMAD, you name it, I've tried it. (Except keto because carbs are one of my favorite things about life) I started Noom (for the second time) a week ago today and something just feels different. Maybe it's because I've learned to call myself out on my bullshit. I know I'm in the super-motivated beginning phase, but I've never felt this confident. I don't feel like I'm missing out at all. Today, my lunch break rolled around and I wasn't hungry, so I didn't eat. This is kind of huge for me...I've always been the person that eats just because it's time to eat or because food exists within my planetary orbit. The psychology behind Noom has actually made me stop and think "Am I hungry or is this the devil on my shoulder talking?" Thinking before I eat has made all the difference. The point of this post: I just wanted to brag on myself because even though I have tried calorie tracking probably a dozen times, this is the first time I've gone an entire week tracking EVERYTHING SINGLE PIECE OF FOOD I have eaten. Even the night that I went over my calorie budget. I would usually just say fuck it and start binging if I went over, but I recognized that this was a special meal that I rarely get to eat and that I should enjoy it, not feel guilty, stop when I'm full, and try again tomorrow. I'm already down 7lbs! I know this is mostly water weight and I shouldn't get used to seeing the scale move that dramatically all the time, but I am thrilled with how I've started off. Here's to the next 105lbs coming off! If you're reading this, you are stronger than your bad habits and addictions. The number on the scale is just your mass, not a measure of your worth. [link] [comments] |
| Down 40 pounds today! Don't forget to go easy on yourself sometimes. Posted: 26 Oct 2020 08:39 AM PDT Hi loseit fam! I posted a few days ago about being burnt out on weight loss and how I was binging too much. I had been trying to eat 1450 a day (I'm a tall woman at 5'10) and avoid "unhealthy" foods. I was also running 5 days a week and constantly looking at weight loss stuff online. I was so sick of everything and found myself becoming miserable and exhausted. I got some great advice to make things easier on myself and upped my calories from 1450 to 1600. I also took a few days off from running and allowed myself to stay in bed and watch Netflix. Lo and behold I found my urge to binge dwindling. It just made me realize how hard on myself I am and how that ultimately leads to self sabotage. By chilling out I made it to 168.5, which means I have lost 40 pounds from my initial weight and 48 pounds from my high weight in April! It just shows that perfectionism and beating yourself up is not the answer. It's kind of a mind fuck because I always felt that weight loss had to be difficult and I had to suffer through it. However I am starting to learn it can be way easier and I don't have to be miserable! This week on my grocery shopping trip I bought snacks for the first time in a while, and also ingredients for meals I actually like instead of perfectly healthy concoctions that I had to force myself to eat. I am looking forward to my menu for the week and I am losing weight! This journey has been a learning experience for sure. Keep on keeping on everyone! [link] [comments] |
| [NSV] I put the brakes on a binge before it escalated Posted: 26 Oct 2020 12:11 PM PDT I've struggled with binge eating my whole life. I used to hide food in my bedroom when I was little and used to call it "secret eating". When I started my undergrad I was a UK size 18, but I managed to get control of my diet and grew to love exercise, and got down to a 14, but a muscular, fit 14 - I genuinely think I'll never be "slim" but I think my body is probably happy around a 12/14, so I was happy. I then started a Masters while working full time, I started antidepressants to cope with long standing mental health issues, and then I moved to London to start my dream graduate job. The two years between finishing my undergrad and where I am now I've seen me pack all the weight I lost back on because I am a compulsive binge eater who uses food as an emotional crutch. I am aware of it. I've had enough and I'm getting my shit back together and I feel really, really good about it. And I had a major NSV today. My flatmate bought me some chocolate orange mini Daim bars from IKEA and I was starting to really binge at them - but I stopped. I put the bag away, and I stopped the binge in its tracks. I definitely ate far too many, but I stopped myself some getting more when I really wanted them. It's such a minor thing, but it feels so good to know that I could have more, but I've chosen to stop. Onwards and upwards!! [link] [comments] |
| Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 27th, 2020 Posted: 26 Oct 2020 11:19 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] |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:23 PM PDT Hi everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. Started Nutrisystem this week as a way to kick start some weight loss. Usually, I travel 2+ weeks a month, live in hotels, and eat at restaurants for the vast majority of my meals. Due to COVID, I am not going to be traveling for at least another 4-6 months. I may never have another opportunity in my career to eat every meal at home so I figured this is the best time to try something like this. So far so good. The food doesn't look very appealing but honestly it tastes way better than I thought it would. I'm 5'8" and 215lbs... hoping to shed 40-50lbs over time. Not sure what the time expectation should be for that goal on the Nutrisystem diet. My plan is to stick with it for the two months I signed up for and check the results at the end. If I like what I see, I'll keep going. I'm doing my best to do this by the book. Also, I plan to cut out all booze except for weekends and it's going to be strictly measured / reasonable. Here's to finding a better me :-) Edit: Context [link] [comments] |
| a bad weekend isn't always a bad weekend Posted: 26 Oct 2020 06:43 PM PDT So I had to share because im overjoyed Though my actual weightloss journey has been over for a while now, I had a "terrible" eating weekend. My boyfriend his parents came over and his mom is a bakker, so obviously she wanted to bake us stuff. There was baked goods every night though I did hold back but i still ate more and unhealthier than I usually would. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 27 October 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 27 Oct 2020 01:09 AM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily post the most read, most used, most interesting post on /r/loseit by reading, commenting, and participating often! [link] [comments] |
| An Experiment To Break Through A Stall Posted: 26 Oct 2020 08:35 PM PDT So I've been stalled on my weight loss journey for the past 6 or so weeks. I'm a scientist by trade so I figured I'd start to experiment and learn how my body reacted to certain health changes to keep myself motivated through the stall. I just finished my first week where I completely cut out diet soda completely (I'm literally ADDICTED, 2-3 bottles a day easy) and drank >64oz of water every day. I can literally not drink water for days so this was a major change for me. The first few days I had insane headaches and truly felt like I was dying, but after that I've felt INCREDIBLE. And the best part is I broke through my stall and dropped 4lbs on the scale this AM. I'm not sure that they're correlated but I figured I'd share and maybe this can inspire someone to switch things up to break through their stall! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2020 11:01 PM PDT Today I have started the hard road to weight loss. I have pulmonary fibrosis and I have gotten to the point that every day functions have become almost impossible because of my breathing. I am scared that if I don't make this change I will end up on oxygen or worse die because my lungs can no longer keep up with my body. Today was rough. I started nutrisystem after talking to nurses at pulmonary rehab who recommended. It feels like I am going from 0 to 60 with the changing of my eating habits and that is hard. I feel like the only thing my mind can think about is food even when I try distracting myself. Eventually I think I will have to do baritirc surgery because I can barely move and I need the weight off faster as my lungs grow worse. But I want to make some changes for me before that day. [link] [comments] |
| My mental state has changed so much since I started losing weight Posted: 26 Oct 2020 05:52 PM PDT I was sort of locked in the cycle of binge eating and just eating too much in general. I would get so frustrated because I should have been able to just stop myself from eating but every time I gave in. I would cry, I was depressed about it. It seemed like such a hurdle. A mountain to climb. But it's just completely gone now. I keep remembering these utter states of despair I would work myself into over not being able to exercise my own self control. I mean my mental illness is still here, but it manifests itself in a completely different way now. Anybody else notice how differently your mind works when you're not obsessing over your next meal all the time? [link] [comments] |
| I just saw a picture of myself from yesterday and it was so discouraging. Posted: 26 Oct 2020 03:29 AM PDT 38 f here. Over the course of 2018 and 2019 I went into a stress eating spiral and gained 50 lbs. When Covid caused a return to my hometown to wait it out, I decided I wasn't going to sit around and get bigger but instead I was going to start taking better care of myself. I started working out 4-5 times a week and I have noticed that I have gotten much stronger. However, after six months I realized I wasn't really losing any weight so for the past three weeks, I've been limiting my carbs, watch my portions more, and drastically reduced my wine intake. I felt like I was starting to get in better shape, felt stronger, feeling fit, and feeling good about my progress, albeit slow. Yesterday I was at a (outdoor) small family gathering and my cousin took a picture of me. I was kind of excited to see it because I haven't taken a picture of myself in two years and I felt like I'd see my progress. I just saw it on FB and I want to cry. I feel like I don't look any different, I still look exactly the same as I did six months ago. It was a horrible blow and for a second I thought, what's the point if after six months I still look that same?!? I know I need to be more patient because I've only been really really paying close attention to my diet for three weeks but I still can't believe there is no difference even after working out every week for six months. Looking for words of encouragement or even advice if any of you found yourself in the same boat. I feel like I should start measuring my food so I'm aware of just how much I'm eating. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 27 October 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 26 Oct 2020 09:07 PM PDT Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing > I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me? Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. On reddit, your vote means, "I found this interesting" (...read more about voting on reddit) [link] [comments] |
| You don’t look fat you look cozy Posted: 26 Oct 2020 06:01 AM PDT This was a little non scale victory that actually meant a lot to me. I was getting my hair done this weekend for the first time in like 6 months and I had one jeans and a sweatshirt and when I looked in the mirror I was like dang I look big today. Like you know those days? When it's just a fat day? So eventually I got so uncomfortable staring at myself in the mirror that I told my hair stylist "I don't like your mirror" and she was like offended haha because it was a new location and she'd got her mirror at like home goods or something but she asked me why and I said "it makes me look so wide" or something like that. And she was like "what? No it doesn't." And I said "I think it's this sweater I just look so bleh" And said "I don't think so. You don't look fat you look cozy." This is a new hair person btw. So she'd never seen me before so it was cool hearing this sort of blunt unbiased take on my body. It may sound like a weird statement but in my head I was like oh wow-I'm crossing into that territory where I'm getting small enough that when I wear big comfy clothes I don't look huge I just look super cozy/comfy? You know what I mean? It was just a cool little realization and I'm feeling grateful. [link] [comments] |
| Update: I've lost 6lbs in 4 and a half weeks!! Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:40 AM PDT Some of you in the comments of my last post were asking me to keep you updated on my progress. Well, I hit another exciting milestone on Sunday morning! It's not a huge amount lost, only 1lb more... But seeing those scales tip from displaying 13st 0lb to 12st 13lbs put me in the best mood for the day. Half a stone down, half to go (at my current rate of loss I expect to have lost my first full stone in another 5 weeks: just in time for the start of December! I also beat my own personal record at the gym yesterday: the stair climbing machine - first time I used it I only managed 20 floors with multiple breaks to catch my breath. This time I did 20 floors without pause, took a minute to cool down and then pushed on for another 5! I'm going to aim to add 5 floors to my total each week. By December I hope to have managed 50 floors in one go! The dieting app has been working so well, my husband allowed me to add a profile for him so he can join me in tracking his calories (though he's being less strict with his intake, he's so far doing well to keep under his limit of 2,000). His aim at the gym is to be able to bench press his own bodyweight eventually - which will be a much easier target if he loses some weight first ;) Keep at it everyone!! [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else find themselves back here after pandemic weight gain? Posted: 26 Oct 2020 11:14 AM PDT Just curious if anyone is in the same boat as me... I lost about 120 lbs over the course of a 4 year span (280-160) Hit me goal weight in mid 2017, and maintained it (+/- 5 or so lbs) for about 2 years. Slowly gained a smidge of weight in 2019, topping out at about 170 in January 2020 Since the pandemic, though things have gotten bad! Laziness (not going to gym) and worse habits have been exacerbated by the pandemic! I'm currently hovering at around the 185-190 mark, and fear an inability to run outside now that it's colder will make things worse. Making this thread mostly to see if anyone else has dealt with a pandemic-related road block. I'm slowly getting back on the health train that lead to my original weight loss - knowing that I did it once certainly helps. Edit: in case people are wondering: I'm a 5'8" 27 year old male. I was 280 at 20, down to 160 at 24-25, and up to 185-190 now. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2020 04:08 PM PDT That's it. The Assistant will make a list called food log and add 90 grams banana to it. Then you can add those entries to your calorie tracker later. Handy when you are making food and you don't want to mess with using your phone. [link] [comments] |
| Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant! Posted: 26 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT I Rant, Therefore I AmWell bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants! Please consider saving your next rant for this weekly thread every Tuesday. [link] [comments] |
| Excerpt from my weight loss journal (deleted original post for security reasons) Posted: 27 Oct 2020 12:56 AM PDT It's honestly surreal. I look in the mirror and don't recognize the reflection staring back. People call me tiny now. A coworker assumed I wore a small jacket the other day. My boyfriend can pick me up with ease and twirl me around, it's like a fairy tale sometimes. It doesn't seem real. Sometimes when I meet new people as this thinner version of myself, I feel that people aren't meeting the real me. They aren't meeting the girl that was humbled by a society that desperately tried to shut her out, to shut her up. I loved myself then and I love myself now. Simultaneously, I hate myself all the same. Weight loss is a trip. It isn't always rewarding. It isn't always rainbows. This is honest. This is real. Body dysmorphia is not. I'm not used to this new me. Sometimes I feel like I'm going through this weird identity crisis. What do I wear? Men notice me now. People notice me now. Life is easier and far more forgiving in a smaller body. I will say this though, I deserved love always. I'm glad to finally be giving that love to myself, just somedays I wish others had done the same courtesy for the girl on the left. (Photo link of transformation below) My physical being may have changed, but this soul of mine remains the same. [link] [comments] |
| Muscular thighs that are disproportionate to the body M23 180lbs Posted: 27 Oct 2020 12:48 AM PDT Hi guys, i used to weigh 200lbs at 5'8, now I am slim. But my legs are so muscular it looks disproporationate to my body. The outer thigh is so muscular when I flex it. How do i make make it smaller without losing my upper muscle? Hi guys, i used to weigh 200lbs at 5'8, now I am slim. But my legs are so muscular it looks disproporationate to my body. The outer thigh is so muscular when I flex it. How do i make make it smaller without losing my upper muscle? Hi guys, i used to weigh 200lbs at 5'8, now I am slim. But my legs are so muscular it looks disproporationate to my body. The outer thigh is so muscular when I flex it. How do i make make it smaller without losing my upper muscle? [link] [comments] |
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