Weight loss: I think the most helpful thing for my weight loss journey has been realizing that I’m not going to gain all my weight back if I have a bad week or weekend. |
- I think the most helpful thing for my weight loss journey has been realizing that I’m not going to gain all my weight back if I have a bad week or weekend.
- I'm five pounds away from reaching my goal weight after 5 years of weight loss!
- I DID IT! I signed up for my first gym membership!
- LPT: Thanksgiving is right around the corner, instead of freaking out about overeating -- enjoy the holiDAY and meal prep the leftovers so you can enjoy the delicious food all week and still be on track to lose weight.
- My "bad" days got so much better!
- UPDATE: 1000 days since starting my journey!
- Day 800: Spending some time at Everest base camp, to combat body dysmorphia
- The weight is FINALLY coming off and I'm ecstatic. Down 7lbs for the first time in years.
- The bittersweet part of losing weight that nobody talks about.
- One-derland!
- Reached my goal weight!
- I just volunteered to lead a biweekly fitness activity at work and I'm so scared
- I hate exercise. There, I said it
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 6
- 40lbs down since February! Feeling excited.
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 7th, 2020
- I lost weight then gained it back now I’m too depressed to lose it
- What was "The Click" for you?
- I developed an unhealthy relationship with food during the pandemic and I’m not sure how to solve it.
- Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers)
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 07 October 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- Question: should I be eating more on days that I work out?
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:23 AM PDT Edit: I just want to say I'm not starving myself on purpose! Lol I know I'm not eating enough and I'm working on it. I'm planning on getting fatty snacks I can eat during the day and I'm starting to smoke a little at night to bring my appetite back. I don't want to starve myself and be unhealthy, and I'll have to start keeping my calories up when I get to my goal weight so I don't get underweight. I appreciate the concern from everyone, and I'm working on it! I've been losing weight kinda rapidly lately. I don't have an eating disorder, but I recently started adderall (shout out to figuring out you have ADHD in law school) and I'm kind of a smoker so I just haven't been eating. Not the healthiest way to lose weight, but I just can't make myself eat more than a bowl of cereal in the morning and bag of chips in the evening. Thankfully, I've got some extra lbs to spare. I'm not underweight. Anyway, I'm down 13lbs. I eat normally on the weekends because I don't take my adderall unless I'm doing school work and smoke weed occasionally, but last week everything kind of caught up to me and I was eating pretty badly. I was depressed, stressed, overwhelmed, not taking my adderall. Plus this weekend having a date and a girl's night. And smoking some tree. I haven't been on my scale religiously and I don't really want to weigh myself because I hate to see it move up even though I know it's sodium and bloating and water weight. But it really helps me to know that I'm not going to gain back 5lbs in a week. Maybe 1 or 2, but even that would take some pretty extreme eating. It makes me feel better to know that all my progress isn't going to come crashing down if I have a "break." So I guess that's my message to everyone. Keep counting your calories, and keep yourself accountable. Give it your honest to goodness best effort. But remember that you won't gain everything back if you crash for a couple days. Don't drive yourself to panic if you spend a week eating trash and drinking. Don't get on your scale if it's bad for your mental health but know if you're tracking it consistently, that uptick on your scale is maybe a 1lb or 2 gained back, but it's also just a physiological reaction to eating that trash and way too much of it. Continue to try and love yourself and forgive yourself. Drink some water. Get some fiber in you. And then keep pushing. It'll be okay. Edit: also just an edit because I realized I've actually lost 13lbs, not 10 and I just want to celebrate going from 162 to 149. Finally back in a healthy BMI, and only 15lbs to my goal weight. Hell yeah. [link] [comments] |
| I'm five pounds away from reaching my goal weight after 5 years of weight loss! Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:40 PM PDT Pretty much what the title says. 5'7 F. Started out at 230lb in 2015 and now I'm down to 155lb. 150lb is my goal for now. I can't believe I'm almost there and my work paid off. Took a long time. I'm super proud of myself. One diet that I found recently that has helped (although not a fan of) is low-salt diet (between 1500mg-2000mg). It's a sucky diet to be on (I have a possible inner ear disease), but I found that loosing weight is easy on this and good for your heart too. I lost 5 pounds in a month. I live in Japan, the land of salt, so if I can do it, everyone can. Just thought I'd share that if you're patient with yourself and your body and find what's right, it can happen. Keep going and don't give up! It may take a long time but you can do it! :) [link] [comments] |
| I DID IT! I signed up for my first gym membership! Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:27 PM PDT My anxiety was at peak level and I definitely took the scenic route but I did it anyway! Here's the steps I followed if anyone wants to do it too! Step 1: Decide that you need to join a gym. Step 2: Research as much as you can about the gyms around you. Step 3: Drive to the gym you picked out. Step 4: Chicken out and drive past it. Step 5: Change your mind again and turn around. Step 6: See someone in great shape walk out of the gym. Drive past it again. Step 7: Go home and commit to working out at home first. Step 8: Realize you still want to join the gym. Step 9: Google as many interior shots of the gym as you can find. Step 10: Sleep on it. And hope for courage in the morning. Step 11: Drive to the gym in the morning. Step 12: Chicken out again and drive past it. Step 13: Have a pity party and eat your feelings. Step 14: Say, "Screw it. I'm adult. I can do this!" Step 15: Drive to the gym. Step 16: Park at the gym. Step 17: Blast a pump up song in your car to motivate you. Step 18: Walk into the gym before your courage fails you. Step 19: Crap... no one's at the reception desk. Step 20: Awkwardly wait there for 10 minutes while people filter in and out of the gym. Step 21: Pretend to check Reddit on your phone. Step 22: Think about turning around and giving it a shot another day. Step 23: Call the store from your phone and have an employee answer from the back office. Ask if they can come out and sign you up. Step 24: Blackout during the entire interaction and forget everything he went over with you. Step 25: Go home with a little less money in your bank account but giddy at your success. Huzzah! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:42 PM PDT Wanted to post this here as well! A friend told me to do this a while ago haha. I did this last year. I made plates(in containers though) for brunch and dinner(with my pumpkin pie included too ahaha) of the left overs. Estimated/tracked the calories and still lost plenty of weight WHILE feasting on thanksgiving foods! Enjoyed the delicious food (and my pumpkin pie) every day, all week and still lost 2-3 pounds! Also watch the scale, that water weight will scare you but I promise it isn't fat gain haha, simply water..and all that food you just ate. Celebrate the day, and set the leftovers for meals for the next week and eat those! You don't have to literally save everything of course, just what you prefer! But regardless of what happens, don't be scared or feel bad AT ALL, as the saying goes I've seen around here: It's not what you eat(or drink ;) ) between thanksgiving and new years, it's what you eat between new years and thanksgiving. [link] [comments] |
| My "bad" days got so much better! Posted: 06 Oct 2020 07:34 PM PDT Yesterday, I was feeling upset that I had a "bad" day because I had an extra serving of sweet potato as a treat. Then I realized that my bad days aren't even that bad compared to what it used to be! My "bad" days used to be binging on 3-4 ice creams after dinner or having a sugary drink at work. My period cravings have gotten better too. I used to crave cinnamon rolls, cake, all the carb loaded goodies but now I very rarely have any cravings for processed things! Maybe I'll crave a blueberry bagel or a big bowl of frozen mangos near my period but that's as "unhealthy" as it gets. It's easy to beat yourself up because you've had too much of this or that, but I think it's important to step back once in a while and take into account the improvements you've made on your eating habits/mindset and celebrate that just as much as your weight loss. [link] [comments] |
| UPDATE: 1000 days since starting my journey! Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:34 AM PDT 1000 days ago, I stepped on a new bathroom scale, freshly delivered from Amazon. It read 214 lb. Given my height of 170 cm (5'7"), this results in a BMI (body mass index) of 33.6, firmly in the "obese" category. I resolved to return to a healthy weight range, defined as under 160 lb for a person of my height. I have been holding steady at around 155 lb the past couple of months now. Photo comparison of bathroom scales It has literally been a series of ups and downs the entire time. Body weight as reported by a scale will naturally fluctuate by several pounds over the course of a single day. That variation is caused primarily by food and water intake, and subsequent elimination of said products. Thus came one of my major rules: Rule #1: Individual weigh-ins don't matter, look at the long-term trend. Chart showing 3000 data points I suspect this is where most people fall off the wagon. They cannot see past the number on the scale and miss out on the big picture. It is hard to have enough patience to keep doing this for weeks and months and years, but you have to get through it. A popular saying goes "weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint". True results will not be apparent immediately. Any initial drop in weight (probably just water loss) is like dashing off at the sound of the starting pistol. Sure, you might be ahead of everyone else for the first few minutes, but you won't be able to keep it up, and eventually others will pass you. You might run out of steam and not even finish the marathon. Slow and steady wins the race. My old swim trunks before I lost 8-10 inches Another useful analogy pertains to the method by which long-lasting weight loss is achieved. I see a lot of news articles and blogs and posts on social media unequivocally proclaiming that "[METHOD] does not work, here's why!!!". The truth is, any method can work, as long as it follows the laws of physics and biology. Your body accumulates fat because it needs to store excess energy. That energy comes from food, and we often eat more than our body needs to stay alive and perform its functions. Conversely, your body will burn fat if it requires more energy than is immediately available. Therefore, the simple equation is "use more energy than you eat". That's pretty much it: Rule #2: A consistent, sustained energy deficit will result in weight loss. Exactly how you do that is why the "weight management" market has surpassed $250 billion per year worldwide. Compare this to the global movie and television industry, which only made a paltry $100 billion last year. There is a bewildering array of products and services and information out there. A lot of it is crap, but some of it works. Separating the wheat from the chaff is a huge part of the battle. This leads me to the third major lesson: Rule #3: The best weight loss plan is the one you can stick to. It doesn't matter if you do keto or paleo or raw food, whether you run or bike or swim or lift. Maybe you use this as a reason to switch to a vegan lifestyle. Or maybe this is your excuse to cook more at home and eat out less. As long as you obey rule #2 and keep rule #1 in mind, you will see results. I compare weight loss to debt reduction. You want your debt and your weight to go down. You also want your bank account and your health to go up. There are a zillion ways to achieve that. Maybe you need some tips on budgeting your spending. Maybe it's just a mater of not browsing Amazon so often. Getting a raise at work helps too. Or maybe pursuing your dream and being your own boss is the way to go. Perhaps you're looking into investing in real estate or playing the stock market. Bonds? Mutual funds? RRSPs? Commodities? Cryptocurrency? The point is, all of the above methods can work. They can also fail spectacularly. There is not a single one that is either guaranteed to work or guaranteed to fail. You just have to find something that works for you, and then stick with it. It's perfectly okay to try different methods, or even have a few on the go at once. I would hate doing keto, so I don't do it. But portion control generally works well for me, and I also will practice casual intermittent fasting on some days. Yet other days I may graze on snacks all day. Some weeks I'll avoid meat entirely, but then I'll follow it up the next week with a trip to the local BBQ joint and roast a bacon-wrapped turkey at home. I could eat nothing but ice cream and still lose weight, as long as rule #2 is satisfied. Now, I don't recommend the ice cream diet because of rule #4: Rule #4: A healthy diet does not imply weight loss, or vice-versa. You might think you're getting off to a good start by giving up alcohol for a month and drinking only juice. I hate to tell you, but there are just as many calories in orange juice as in a typical beer. Yes, juice might be healthier in other ways, but it doesn't necessarily mean you'll lose weight. And that ice cream diet? I could lose weight on it (again, see rule #2), but it certainly won't be healthy over the long run! Finally, this is something I've mentioned many times in the past: Rule #5: It is easier to eat less than it is to exercise more. You need to do both, but math and physics suggest that if you only have the willpower to do one thing at a time, eat less. Think about how easy it is to eat 1500 kcal in a meal. I could do that in about 15 minutes while lounging around on the couch in my PJs. But to burn off 1500 kcal means going outside, getting on the bike and riding 60 km. That'll take 3 to 4 hours. So think to yourself: how often do you eat a delicious meal, and how often do you bike 60 km? As they say, "you can't outrun your fork" and "weight loss starts in the kitchen". It's true! I'm down 60 lb since I started, now hovering around 155 lb. I've stopped daily logging of my food and my weight for the past two months to see how consistently I can stay within this range. The lowest I recorded was 142 lb on July 21. I may try to aim for 145 lb, as that is comfortably in the middle of the healthy weight range, allowing for roughly 15 lb leeway in either direction. My methods have changed over the past three years, but I've always stuck to the above five rules, restated as follows:
There are no guarantees of success, but if you also want to lose some weight, following these rules I believe will greatly increase your chances. [link] [comments] |
| Day 800: Spending some time at Everest base camp, to combat body dysmorphia Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:03 AM PDT When hikers set out to climb Mount Everest, they spend some time at "base camp," acclimatizing to the altitude changes, before getting ready for their final ascent. This period of my weight loss journey feels a lot like that, as I haven't really lost weight; I've essentially just been maintaining around 167lbs. Instead of just plowing forward, I've been focusing more on self-reflection, and getting myself 'acclimatized' to the changes I've worked so hard to make for myself. This has turned out to be a harder task than I expected, but one that has been absolutely necessary. A lot of things have changed for me in the last few months, and, weight loss aside, this has been one of the worst (personal) times in my life in recent memory. But, I really wanted to address some feelings of body dysmorphia that I have been dealing with. And, tightening down on my diet didn't seem like it would give me the boost I wanted. So, I decided to focus on building a strength training routine. I have lost a lot of weight so far (about 115 pounds/52 kilos), and am roughly 6.5 kilos (~15 pounds) over the top of a healthy BMI range. There's nothing dramatic that's going to happen from here on out, and I am also not in a hurry to get anywhere. As I wrote in my last post, I'm not an optimization problem, and, beyond that, rushing to the "finish line" is a fool's errand anyway. There is no finish line. I have to keep doing what I'm doing if I want to keep my weight under control. So, I have the rest of my life to keep fine-tuning. I'm fine if my daily deficit is not particularly large. The way I eat right now is sustainable, and, on day 800, that's all I care about. But, and, I have to say this, I don't look like I thought I would at this weight. Loose skin is real. It is contributing to my feelings of body dysmorphia, and it has started to make me feel a little negative about myself. I don't think that losing more weight will change my body substantially. My goal is still just to hit a healthy BMI -- and I will keep working towards that goal – but, I have started to think that pure weight loss should not be my primary focus. The last 15 pounds/6.5kg will happen when they happen. I wanted to change my focus to start feeling more comfortable in (and proud of) my new body sooner, rather than later. I thought that going to the gym, and looking at myself in the mirror while I do the exercises would be a good start. I made an agreement with myself that I would try to look at the person in the mirror neutrally: I was going to focus on my form during the exercises, not immediately look at my lumps and bumps, and feel self-critical. So, I started strength training seriously in July (aiming to go 3x per week), using the Push, Pull, Legs program. My diet was the same as it's been for a long time, 1600 calories (+ 1-200 calories or so, as needed). My weight trended upward during the month of July, by about a pound/half kilo. That was to be expected- it was the height of summer, so it was pretty hot, and I had started a new exercise program. Water retention happens. Maybe I made some "newbie gains" of muscle in the gym. It's hard to know, and, ultimately, doesn't really matter. By mid August, I got the whoosh I was hoping for, and saw my first goal weight on the scale for a day (74.8kg/165ish pounds). MyFitnessPal congratulated me with a brief pop-up, but Happy Scale, based on the July data, was a little more skeptical. At the end of August, I went on a hiking vacation for a week, where I roughly estimated my calories, and, as a result, my weight drifted back up nearly two kilos. I spent September back on the gym grind, staying closer to my 1600, and my weight drifted down again (settling in around 76 kilos/167 pounds). So, even though there was movement on the scale, it all eventually cancelled itself out. But, that's not my focus right now. Learning how to go to the gym, and, working on feeling less self-critical is. I did the PPL program for about 2.5 months, and it was a good start. I wrote a long post in r/xxfitness, talking about how I prepared myself to go to the gym (so, you can check that out, if you're so inclined). I liked the program, but after a few months of it, I was tired of doing 100 calf raises /100 "face pulls" in a workout. It wasn't very enjoyable to me, and I started to feel like I didn't have the muscular base that some of the low-weight/high-rep accessory-focused exercises were designed to enhance. So, I switched to the GZCLP program, which is more focused on the (fundamental) compound lifts, and therefore is a slightly shorter workout. I will stick with that for a while, and plan to give it a trial period of 3 months. My goal has always been to introduce changes, including exercise routines, that I am willing to do indefinitely. I might want to work on my strength more intensely at some point in the future, but for now I am happy with the time commitment and structure of GZCLP. Beyond the scale, and the minutiae of a workout program, what is mostly occupying my thoughts these days is working on feeling less self-critical. I think that's going to take long time. Losing weight can be a series of rapid changes, and especially in the beginning stages, the attention to building all the new habits can kind of blot out all of the rest. As I'm sure many people can relate, 2020 has been a difficult year, and in my personal life, things are extraordinarily stressful right now. I'm having a hard time. The body dysmorphia is certainly not helping anything. What I can be grateful for, however, is that the changes to my habits (that I have worked hard to put in place over the last two years) have been largely unaffected. Maintaining an 115-pound weight loss is certainly no punishment. So even though I'm not quite at a healthy BMI, I know it will just take time to get there, and it's fine to be where I am right now. Working on fitness goals is actually even more satisfying than seeing numbers go down on a scale. This feels OK for me, because my weight has always moved pretty slowly in time: I didn't gain weight very fast (became overweight in childhood, and slowly gained weight over the years). So, taking the time to go slowly on the way down feels necessary anyway, to learn how to adjust to the changes that have happened so far. I feel like I am in a very transitional stage of re-learning a body awareness I never quite developed (from having grown up as an obese child/teenager). For example, I was very used to clothes not fitting because they were too tight, but I still struggle with knowing whether or not something is too loose. To explain that a little more, and I know it might sound dumb, but I understand that I can't physically wear clothes that are too small. What I am faced with learning is how to adjust to clothes that are too loose. First, when are they actually too loose? This requires an understanding of "fashion," -- or at the very least, body shape -- which I have never really thought about before, and am just now starting to appreciate. Are the loose clothes contributing to my feelings of body dysmorphia? Are they hiding my body/making it look bigger? Does the next size down feel too small because it actually is too small, or because I have been used to wearing looser clothing? Writing it all out, it sounds really basic, but, I am still struggling with it. It doesn't help that I have some loose skin on my torso, which creates the appearance of a "muffin top" (from skin) if the waist of the pants isn't high enough (to tuck it in). Working on my self-image, adapting to changes, and accepting my body is just as much a part of my process of working towards a healthy BMI as losing weight is, and I have a lot more work to do. I think the strength training is really helping – and, to fix an error I made when I first began, I am going to take "real" progress pics for myself, to track the changes in my body from my gym routine, and help myself along in the process of dealing with the body dysmorphia. While I don't feel ready to call myself a 'maintainer' -- as I am still working to get to a healthy BMI, however long that will take – I also don't mind this period of maintenance right now at "base camp." Discovering that I have my core habits locked down, even during times of overwhelming stress, has been a real bright spot during this otherwise arduous time. [link] [comments] |
| The weight is FINALLY coming off and I'm ecstatic. Down 7lbs for the first time in years. Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:02 PM PDT I've been struggling for a few years now, watching the numbers on the scale slowly inch up despite any effort I made. It's like my metabolism completely abandoned me after having kids and being sterilized. My diet was varied and healthy, I wasn't sedentary, I didn't have any bad habits like midnight snack binges or daily fast food. I bought a treadmill and use it regularly, at least 30 min a day. We're a big outdoors kind of family with frequent hikes through the woods and countryside. And still the scale kept going up. Not gonna lie, it has been extremely disheartening. I've been doing everything "right" and I was still gaining weight. My doctor checked my thyroid because I have a fairly significant family connection. Nope. All my labs came back textbook perfect. I'm even on multiple medications (not specifically for weight loss) that act as appetite suppressants. One of them is a frickin' amphetamine. There's literally no reason on earth I should be gaining weight. And yet here I am. So I decided it was time to take a hard look at completely overhauling my diet. My Dr. and I are pretty firmly against most of the fad diets, fasting, and juice cleanses and what have you. I'm also not good at rigid structure and lots of rules so I needed to be able to really modify things to suit me. Call me crazy, but I just don't think that being miserable and feeling like I'm starving is A) healthy, B) effective, and C) maintainable long term. I tracked my food intake for a couple of weeks and then went over it with my doctor. We decided that I should try cutting out sugar and flour, and do weighted portions of everything else. I don't worry about counting calories, I don't stress over "have I met my daily limit for XYZ". I weigh everything I eat. Meals are restricted to 12oz, with no single item over 6oz. Breakfast and lunch are typically under 6oz because I can't handle food when I first wake up and by lunch my meds have kicked in so I'm not very hungry, but i still make sure that I eat something. As long as the ingredients list doesn't say flour or sugar (or corn syrup), it's fair game. I feel like I'm getting enough to eat of foods I like, and the weight is practically melting off. It's been one week and I've lost 7lbs. It seems like I've finally found the key to kicking my metabolism back into gear and I'm so excited. On Sept 30, I weighed 221 lbs. As of today, I'm down to 214 lbs. I have high hopes for the next 60. [link] [comments] |
| The bittersweet part of losing weight that nobody talks about. Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:30 AM PDT Okay I might sound very stupid but I just want to share. Firstly, good job everybody on losing weight and being one step closer to reaching your goal. I am proud of you all!! Secondly, I was going through my credit card statements today because I have an exam tomorrow meaning I gotta waste time on something, and I found out that the difference on my general expenditure is way WAY different in 2018 compared to 2019 and 2020. I went from 205 pounds to 165 pounds and as expected went through a lot of physical changes. But I didn't jump from 205 to 165 in one day, duh! Throughout the process, I went from wearing XL to L to M and now to S. That's so much money spent on buying clothes. Also I like wearing nice stuffs and that means things weren't cheap. Even the Jacket I had before (a Large), is too big for me now. I had to get a small sized one. And it's Canadian winter, so you know, I am talking about heavy jackets that don't really come too cheap. Really satisfied with the results, but damn, I can't believe I have spent so much money on apparels that I wouldn't even think of doing before. Feels good to be able to wear nice clothes and look nice eh? But damn, would have been nicer if u could drop sizes overnight and therefore are able to do more with same clothes. Good Luck y'all on your journey. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 07:21 PM PDT F25, been on my journey since my doctor checked me for high cholesterol in 2017. That was the minute I realized I had crossed a line. My results came back and I didn't have high cholesterol, but it was "elevated". I lost 20 lbs in 4 months (a semester), but the next semester I couldn't stick to my routine and plateaued. For the next few years, I graduated and started a full-time job, lived away from my husband for several months, and continued to not lose weight. After quarantine started, I felt like a greasy lump. I hadn't gained any weight, but I felt the lack of any exercise pulling on me. I started working out and convinced my husband to add salads to our dinners. I started losing weight again finally! I was struggling to get past 200 lbs. I was 200.6 for a few weeks, then 200.4, then 200.2, then finally 200.0. I was stuck there. My youngest sister got married last weekend, which required me to travel to the other side of the US. I figured I would gain some weight on the trip, at least in water weight. I knew there were a few days I ate more food than I should have, I wasn't sleeping, I was constipated, and didn't keep doing my exercises. Well, we got back home and finally had a reasonable night's sleep. I woke up and weighed myself to find I was 197.4! I don't know how much I trust this and the dip could be explained by dehydration, or something, but I'm happy that even for a minute I was able to break that barrier. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 12:11 PM PDT Hey everyone! So after a year and change of weightloss, I've gone from 100kg to 65. Hoorah! The maintenance battle is ahead. Regardless I have an issue. I have recently moved countries, and with the pandemic happening, I haven't really shared most of this with friends and family back home. Hell, many actually have no idea about this because we haven't gotten to see eachother, and I don't exactly bring it up in conversation. I'm thinking of making an "update" facebook post (mostly because my mother requested it so she can share with extended family). I never use it, but my family and friends do. Do you have any ideas that are simple, to-the-point, and doesn't "show off" too much? I appreciate all ideas! Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| I just volunteered to lead a biweekly fitness activity at work and I'm so scared Posted: 06 Oct 2020 03:26 AM PDT I started a new job a month ago. It's an open office plan and not much privacy. I'm used to working in places where I could go stretch or move around without the whole office staring at me, so I asked the executive assistant if there was somewhere private I could go to stretch during the day. She replied that she's been wanting to organize calisthenics for the office, but can't find anyone to do it. So I did what I normally, do - be the change I want to see. I offered to lead 10 min exercises based off of stretches on Darebee's Pocked Workouts twice a week. I'm slightly freaking out, but I know it will help me to not only get to know my coworkers in a less formal way, but also get my butt out of the chair for 10 mins twice a week. I kind of want to throw up, lol, but I hope it works out. [link] [comments] |
| I hate exercise. There, I said it Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:39 AM PDT I know, I know. Exercise is good for you, exercise can help with weight loss, muscle development, balance and strength and loads of other things, and exercise has nothing but benefits and zero downsides. But I hate it. I hate pretty much all forms of physical activity save from walking. I hate how I feel when I sweat. I hate how everything hurts for days when I exercise even for a few minutes. I hate that 30 seconds of exercise feels like 30 minutes to me because I'm so eager for it to be over with before I even begin doing it. I hate that unless I do seriously hardcore exercise, I'm only going to burn about 20 calories at a time, so it feels completely not worth the effort when I can just eat 20 fewer calories and sit on my butt. Maybe I just haven't found a form of physical activity I like doing because I imagine if a certain kind of exercise is fun, it won't feel like exercise. Problem is I haven't found one that's even remotely enjoyable. I've tried many things and I hate all of it. I hate yoga, I hate cardio, I hate running, I hate/cannot do dancing, I hate swimming (mostly because I hate being seen in even a t-shirt and shorts) and I hate aerobics. I can usually manage to half-ass pilates and lifting weights, but after about 5 minutes I am so done for about the next 10 years. For me, getting out of bed in the morning feels like a workout. Plus I have a weak ankle that's prone to rolling and I'm often scared to do anything that would put additional strain on that foot. And when I do force myself to exercise, I do it so half-assed that there's no way it's making any kind of a difference anyway. I'm kind of afraid to go to a doctor for my stalled weight loss because I know they're going to tell me I have to exercise and I'm going to argue with them about it because I am well aware that exercise is absolutely NOT necessary for weight loss. Helpful, yes, but weight loss can be achieved exclusively through diet. I know because I've done it in the past and my current loss has occurred without the aid of working out. As far as I'm aware, diet = weight loss and exercise = fitness. Any other lazy lumps in the house? Not really looking for advice, but just wondering how alone I am out on this limb and maybe hear how people's weight loss has progressed without exercising if anyone wants to share. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 6 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:30 PM PDT Hello losers, This week is so long already, I hope it's going well! Weight by end of month (199 lbs, preferably trend weight): 209.4 this morning. More where I expected to be. Stay within calorie range (1700 weekdays to practice eventual maintenance, maintenance weekends, NO FAST FOOD): hovering at 1500, about to have roasted veg and chicken thighs mmm. Exercise 5 days a week: Didn't make time for this, will wear sunscreen & do better tomorrow. 3/6 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Did some. Could use more. Self-care time (work on not using food as a reward): Made some time to handle adulting. Car tires, oil change, gas & wash. Made a grocery order. Getting it. Try a new recipe once a week: Not sure what I've got cropped up this week yet. I may make a veggie concoction for my SO or a mix up on some cowboy caviar. Be more mindful, present in my body & express gratitude to avoid the hedonic treadmill: Grateful for rivers & squirrels. Also coffee. How are you all kicking it? [link] [comments] |
| 40lbs down since February! Feeling excited. Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:53 PM PDT Hi all new to reddit and to this community. Started my weight loss journey in February of this year at 286lbs after having no success on dating apps I got discouraged and wanted to make a change. now down to 245 half of the 40 pounds were lost with using Intermittent Fasting and calories in calories out. When COVID started took a break from the weight loss for a few months because I lost my job, found a new job and decided to give Keto a try and it's working wonders for me, I love the meal plan. I still have 70lbs to go until my goal weight but am damn proud of my progress thus far! You can do it, it is possible in the words of Chris Pratt "It takes 8 months, who do you wanna be 8 months from now?" [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: October 7th, 2020 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:09 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] |
| I lost weight then gained it back now I’m too depressed to lose it Posted: 06 Oct 2020 11:22 AM PDT So I've been battling with depression my whole life. I'm 29. Around the age of 18 I lost 20 kilos because I was so depressed I stopped eating, stopped doing anything but like stare at a wall all day. My mom had to put pills in my coffee to get me to talk again. I lost weight, the medicines made me more balanced and I found a job around at age 20. I joined a gym and maintained my weight, watched what I ate, etc. Around 2016, I started to gain weight. Earlier if I even gained a kilo I'd be on red alert but in 2016 I stopped caring. I let go and fell back into depression. I overate, drank a lot of Pepsi and stuff and basically got a leg injury that prevented me from working out. I gained the 20 kilos back and got diabetes. I fell back into a depression spiral. Now I am trying to get out of depression and lose weight. I have joined a weight loss program a while back. It basically is a place where you log food and water intake, have an exercise routine, get a diet and exercise coach and have weekly calls with them. I feel lucky to be able to afford it but I am like totally demotivated. I don't know how to motivate myself to lose weight? How do I overcome the depression? I go to a therapist and take daily medication that help stabilise moodswings. I can't even get myself to care about my diabetes. What do I do? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:26 PM PDT By the click I mean your turning point, the minute you decided to turn your life around, for me it was near mid school year, last year. My brother who is a huge inspiration of mine (from skinny and weak to muscle building) was going to our local free gym and I was there, in the hallway seeing him put on his shoes and grab a water, fat, disguisted and simply tired, I didn't wanna be fat so I grabbed a towel, a water and got my shoes on and ran over there and exercised for 30 minutes, it was extreme, it wasn't long. But it was the click that told me something had to change, something had to give, and that was all up to one person. Me. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:27 PM PDT The pandemic forced me to move back in with my mom. I was almost done my degree when classes went online. It was stressful trying to complete my education while living at home. I became a babysitter/tutor for my younger sibling, and my mom has always had a toxic influence on me so living with her was detrimental to my mental health. I used food to cope. When I was stressed, I ate. When I felt overwhelmed with all my obligations, I ate. When I felt controlled or had my privacy violated by my mom, I ate. Before the pandemic happened, I never would have imagined I would be in the position that I am in now. I thought I would be able to complete my degree smoothly, find a job quickly, start working, and live in my own place, finally gaining freedom and independence with a self-directed lifestyle. I have none of that right now, and it's very disheartening. So I eat. Food is one of the few sources of pleasure I have to get me through these endless bleak days. I need to stop, but how? My situation feels hopeless, and there's few places I can look for comfort. I know how CICO works, and I've lost weight in the past. I just don't know how to tackle the root of the problem I'm facing now - how do I develop a healthy relationship with food? [link] [comments] |
| Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers) Posted: 06 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] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 07 October 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:08 PM PDT Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing > I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me? Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. On reddit, your vote means, "I found this interesting" (...read more about voting on reddit) [link] [comments] |
| Question: should I be eating more on days that I work out? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 11:04 PM PDT Hi guys! Quick question. I am trying to use a TDEE calculator to estimate the number of calories I need per day, but Im running into a bit of an issue. It gives me four options: sedentary, lightly active, moderately active, or very active, and the number of calories I need changes per day based on that. However the designation of sedentary -> very active is based on how many times per week one exercises and the intensity. I bicycle to work 3-5 times per week, 15 miles roundtrip per day that I do it, putting me between lightly/moderately active. If I select lightly active it tells me to eat at 1500 kcal a day. This feels like slightly too much on days I dont ride, but also far too little on days that I do. I tried MFP but it instructs me to eat back the calories I exercised, in full, which feels like far too much. Should I be using the "sedentary" setting to establish TDEE and then eating back calories like MFP tells me to? Should I use the "lightly active" setting and then just eat at that regardless of the day? How much am I supposed to be eating exactly? Any help you guys could give would be appreciated. It takes me a long time to lose weight, so I dont want to waste time, and I have low blood sugar as well so I dont want to fuck up and pass out on the road lol. I am 30, female, 5'7, 196 lbs FYI. [link] [comments] |
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