Weight loss: [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - The End! |
- [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - The End!
- Things I did not expect out of weight loss
- NSV... I can button my jeans!!! (29/f/5’8, 187lbs->160lbs [-27lbs])
- Some thoughts on doctors always going for weight loss as your first priority (if you’re overweight)
- 30 LBS down. SW: 345 GW: 190 CW: 314 22M 6'1
- Why you overeat.
- First trip to Onederland in my adult life. 28M | 5'9 | SW: 235 | CW: 199 | GW: 170
- Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 21st, 2020
- Feeling discouraged with weight loss after moving in with boyfriend
- A new beginning.
- I lost my first 5 pounds and got my elliptical today!!
- It’s time to change.
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 20
- I’ve finally lost 19lbs towards my weight loss goal!
- I lost 3cm from my hips- small victories!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 21 November 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- NSV - I didn’t binge eat. SV - down 20lbs
- Being sick after eating even a bit of junk food?
- Calories are confusing!
- Help with feeling demoralised
- Today I purposely went over my calorie budget for the first time. And I enjoyed every bit of it.
- First Time.
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 21 November 2020: Today, I conquered!
| [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - The End! Posted: 20 Nov 2020 02:12 PM PST Hey Everybody. We made it to the End. Congrats to all and hope you had a fun journey! Let's jump right in! Week 7 Bragging Rights: Great work for this final weea! We had almost 12 MILLION steps taken and 71,072 activity minutes!!! Top 3 weigh in % as a team:
Top 3 Activity Minutes as a team:
Top 3 Total Steps Taken as a team
Week 7 Head to Head Winners! The Great Petra Tower demolished the Rocky Salt Sphinx's this week. Can they do it two weeks in a row though? The answer is yes...yes they can. Great job everyone! Timeline Each week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 12 pm EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.
November 20 - Results and next challenge announcement Stay tuned for details on the next challenge. Thank you all! [link] [comments] |
| Things I did not expect out of weight loss Posted: 20 Nov 2020 11:12 AM PST I've been heavy since a young teen. I'm 20f, 5'2. Went from my max of 200lb at ~13yo, to now 125lb. Went through lots of fad diets and finally settled on sustainable CICO a few months ago, with sucess. Here are some things I've noticed and didn't expect, besides the obvious.
Those are the few I have been thinking about recently. I am so proud of myself for losing the weight. But I'm shocked at how much I have to adjust to in daily life, just because I am a little smaller. Have a good day y'all. Edit: thank you to everyone who commented. Y'all are so sweet, I appreciate all of you. Thank you to the people who gave me awards. I've hopefully replied to everyone I can. Bless all of you in your journeys, congrats to every ounce of success, I love all of you! [link] [comments] |
| NSV... I can button my jeans!!! (29/f/5’8, 187lbs->160lbs [-27lbs]) Posted: 20 Nov 2020 12:10 PM PST I've been on my weight loss journey for the last year and a half, with what started as IF (OMAD) and working out (which helped me lose about 25 pounds to get to the 187) and has since transitioned into a dietician-lead nutrition plan. A few months ago, after being inspired by the style icon that is Katherine Ryan on The Dutchess, I found a pair of very sparkly jeans at topshop and had to have them. I bought the last pair the had, which was one size down from what I usually wear, but I figured I could squeeze. I was so wrong. No stretch at all, straight leg... I couldn't even get them over my thighs. I wanted to cry. I checked the label (instead of the tag) and they were actually 2 sizes down. I decided to make them my goal jeans. Tonight, after several months of hard work (and mental fortitude I didn't think I had), THEY BUTTONED! They don't zip, and the button is hanging on for dear life, but I'm over the moon!!! Last week, they didn't even come close. I hit a scale plateau this week, and haven't budged in days, but this was the perfect motivation to keep going!! [link] [comments] |
| Some thoughts on doctors always going for weight loss as your first priority (if you’re overweight) Posted: 21 Nov 2020 12:11 AM PST I've seen quite a few posts here over the last two months vilifying doctors for "ignoring the real issue" and instead focusing on telling a person to simply lose weight. While I absolutely do not agree that serious complications should be overlooked, it's worth pointing out that weight loss probably is the number one thing a person should change if he/she is overweight/obese. Being heavy really WILL deeply negatively affect and complicate pretty much any health issue you have. Therefore, being told that step 1 is losing some weight, adding some exercise and better foods to your daily routine, that's probably because it absolutely is the best and foremost thing you need to do. I've heard it said often that doctors listen to thinner people more and of course this can be ridiculous. It's possible to be thin and a smoker and eat only junk (just small amounts). But the great majority of healthy people are simply thinner. I don't think it's fair to say that medical professionals are just "out to get you". [link] [comments] |
| 30 LBS down. SW: 345 GW: 190 CW: 314 22M 6'1 Posted: 20 Nov 2020 08:46 PM PST Decided I needed a change for the first time. I weighed myself at an all time high a month ago and realized I should start. I started out by lowering my Carbohydrate intake to 20g or less a day. It's sort of keto, but with less focus on the fat:protein ratio. I also began logging everything that I ate or drank, and held myself to my daily caloric limit. The first thing I noticed was the amount of water weight/bloating drop, about 15 LBs of it came off in a matter of weeks as soon as I cut out carbs and lowered calories. Now it's steady, about 3 lb/s a week, and I couldn't be happier. I found that creating a graph and logging my weigh ins helped me look at the big picture. Some fitness apps graph, but in excel I was able to zoom out to the year ahead. It's good to watch the trend downwards, and I will be continuing this into the new year. 190 or Bust!!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 10:10 AM PST "This Thanksgiving, I am asking you to think about food differently. I want you to observe the reasons why you overeat. When you look around, what do you see? In the airport, at your child's soccer game, or waiting in the Starbucks line. What do you see? If you're in the grand ol' USA, you see obesity. It's clear that many of us are eating too much. So much, in fact, that today's children are now expected to live a shorter life span than their parent's generation. With 70% of the country now overweight, one has to pause and ask, "Why the hell are we eating so much?" The food and diet industry have responded with products like skinny popcorn, belly wraps, 8-minute abs, and detox diets. But this is completely missing the point. The reason we struggle to stop eating has absolutely nothing to do with food. And as a result, the solutions we've been offered by mainstream marketers have been embarrassingly misguided. Changing your diet isn't going to solve your desire to overeat, because the reason you overeat has nothing to do with food. We eat too much because what we're truly hungry for isn't available. But how can that be true? Fast food. Snack packs. Vending machines. In this, the age of hyper palatable convenience foods, food is never further than arm's reach. Everything we could possibly dream can be readily available within a moment's notice. Everywhere we go, food pushers are more than happy to profit of our insatiable appetites. But if we could choose anything, wouldn't we want an entirely different menu? Perhaps something that offered:
In other words, food isn't what we crave. What we truly want is to be fulfilled. To feel good enough. To feel complete. Happy. Satisfied. Valued. Respected. Desired. Admired and loved. But the restaurants where we dine don't offer that on their menus, do they? And the solutions we're being served are short-sighted and narrow-minded. We hear so much about diets, but so little of what we actually need. The answer can't be found in Thanksgiving turkey, cornbread dressing, or Grandma's apple pie. What we need is to feel supported and heard. What we're lacking is a place to go where we can be our most raw and authentic selves and be met with kindness and compassion. What we're looking for is a person who sees our talents and encourages us to pursue our true potential. We've eaten enough cookies and donuts to know that the solution to our problems isn't in the cream cheese filling. But most of us don't know where else to turn. There is comfort found in the short-term fix. At least in a diet, you get to experience a fleeting moment of instant gratification. A brief pat on the back for ordering a salad and skipping dessert. Our difficulty is not in managing our calorie intake. It's in developing the emotional and psychological tools that will fill our souls. It's in falling in love with ourselves so deeply that we no longer seek external validation to feel whole. The diet industry is clinging on to the symptoms of our unhappiness, not their causes — and as a result, their solutions are only temporary and end in frustration and hopelessness. Diets can't make us thin because they don't directly engage with what made us fat. We eat too much not because we lack "willpower" or aren't "trying hard enough." We overeat because the shelves are still empty with the ingredients we crave. This holiday season, before you take a bite, seek to understand your true motives for eating. If hunger is not the problem, food is not the solution." —lmh . (although I do disagree on one point- I think love and connection can be found in thanksgiving dinner, or grandmas apple pie. as long as you're eating mindfully and feeling the love baked into it, and enjoying the time spent being with your family. Especially this year if you're lucky enough to get that. I'm in Canada and had to miss thanksgiving with my family in October, so maybe I'm bitter!) [link] [comments] |
| First trip to Onederland in my adult life. 28M | 5'9 | SW: 235 | CW: 199 | GW: 170 Posted: 20 Nov 2020 12:32 PM PST Chart from my weight tracking: https://imgur.com/a/rjl5RSd When I graduated high school I was about 205 and held around there for a while. The last couple of years, I have been slowly but surely gaining weight. I think I peaked around 240 earlier this year, but that's an estimate. I used to go out for lunch with coworkers, not count anything, and generally didn't mind but the pandemic this year got me worried about my own health and I finally wanted to try to get healthy. So starting in June I began to diet and do some more physical activities. I knew from previous attempts that I needed something that would be sustainable and not a drastic change to my lifestyle. Some things were simple: limit any alcohol intake to one night a week, eat smaller lunches, etc. Some were less simple than that, like getting myself to exercise more, tracking calorie/macros, eating less fast foods. I started using a VR headset and games like beat saber to get some extra physical activity in my down time, which seemed to help. I weigh myself every Friday at the same time. There's a huge blip in my chart from my mid-week wedding anniversary; I went out the previous two nights eating food and drinking without a care and was very bloated come Friday. If I hadn't done that, I would have hit this goal somewhat sooner but I do not regret enjoying my anniversary without worrying about calories. Today was the first time in my adult life that I stepped on the scale and the first number was a 1. I know that the next 30 lbs will probably require further alteration than what worked for the last 35 but I'm confident that so long as I keep things steady I will reach it in time. [link] [comments] |
| Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 21st, 2020 Posted: 20 Nov 2020 10:57 PM PST 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] |
| Feeling discouraged with weight loss after moving in with boyfriend Posted: 20 Nov 2020 07:25 PM PST Hi all! I'm F22, 5'4. After a year of dieting in 2019, starting at 160lbs, I was able to drop down to 130lbs by Jan 2020- which was very close to my goal weight. I did mainly CICO along with some weekly bike rides. I was feeling really good about myself, I had cut back to only drinking a couple times a month and hardly craved anything over my typical 1200/cal daily limit since I lived alone and basically ate the same thing every day (which, though I love cooking new recipes, ended up saving me a lot of time to focus on things other than what I was going to eat for the day.) Then,, it all changed when I started dating again. I found a man I adored, we moved in together quickly, cooked dinner together every night- everything was fairy tale perfect... except, my diet went to shit. I've been calling it the fresh "man" fifteen. When I met him he was on keto, and had lost also about 30lbs. He was hot as hell. I could tell we were both in a place of being strict about dieting. He convinced me to do keto, and it was alright, I maintained and stopped counting calories. But we'd binge on booze every single night. I would open my closet where I kept the trash and boxes of Franzia wine would tumble down like a guilty avalanche. Im a heathen when it comes to alcohol- if it's in the house in going to drink it (chug it, even.) So, long story short, we quit keto, ate a lot of takeout, binged ourselves on alcohol and both gained back roughly 20lbs each. Now, he doesn't seem to mind at all, stating that he'd take those 20lbs on if it meant he could eat junk food again. But I feel,, yucky. I miss my old energetic self. I told him I'm going to start back on the 1200/day journey and he basically told me "Well it obviously isn't going to work, because you gained it all back in a couple of months. You need to be working out and developing muscle instead." I don't want this to devolve into a 'my bf is being mean' post, but he also said that our dinner of one bowl of homemade green chili and my two glasses of wine (the only thing I've eaten all day) was already 1500/calories, which "proves" 1200/day is unrealistic. Which,, is just plain false given that I know every ingredient that went into it and told him as much so. So I feel that he doesn't understand calories? Or hell, maybe I don't understand. I never know how to counter his arguments because he used to be a personal trainer and is very dead-set on the mentality that working out is mainly what you need to do. This past week I've been charting everything and sticking to 1500/ish a day. I already feel better. I joined a gym and do plan on running a bit, but that's moreso just to wiggle out my tense back and not to build any sort of muscle. I guess my long winded question being: is it unreasonable to think I could lose the extra weight I gained back by CICO alone and keep it off? And maybe the second question of how the hell do I curb the influence of this alcoholic, takeout eating man of mine might be better suited for a different subreddit, but any advice would be nice. I just feel so sad that I found something that did work for me, and now not only can I not get the support from my partner to pursue it again, but I have him constantly telling me why it won't be effective and isn't healthy. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 09:47 AM PST My toddler stole my phone and took about 500 pictures of me. I knew that I've gained some weight. In fact, I knew it had been roughly 40 lbs since last November. However, I didn't realize how I actually looked. I started walking/working out and being more active about a week ago. Maybe two weeks now. But I still ate everything that I thought about eating (usually looking for some sort of comfort). Anyway, today is my first day calorie counting again for the first time in years. (I had previously lost 80 lbs after my second baby just calorie counting.) The main point of this post was to confess that apparently I had been consuming 600+ calories of creamer for my coffee daily. I knew that I got a little crazy with it, but jeez!!! That's a way to save some calories. Sheesh. [link] [comments] |
| I lost my first 5 pounds and got my elliptical today!! Posted: 20 Nov 2020 04:30 AM PST Hi guys!! I am 5'10, 24f, 317 pounds. This is the most unhealthy I have ever been in my life. I began feeling scared for my health and thought I need to make a change, it's now or never! My fiance and I were planning on getting married on December 12 of this year. We got engaged last August. I told myself I would lose some weight (I weighed 309 when we got engaged), but covid hit and well...it was hard. We ultimately did decide to postpone the wedding, and I feel so much lighter inside! Like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. Because of the wedding postponement, I was very depressed and was eating a ton to make up for the sad feelings. But the other day, I decided to order an elliptical ( I have been saying I want to exercise, but I don't like going on walks too much and my fiance is asthmatic so he can't walk for long distances.) So i ordered an elliptical and got it today. I have a cool little setup where I put my laptop on the bookshelf and can watch netflix while I'm on the elliptical. I work up a sweat but can be entertained in the process, and man it feels like a gamechanger. I also life light weights (two 5lb weights) for about 20 mins a day just to work my arm muscles while I watch youtube. I'm so excited to go on this journey! I also have lost my first 5 pounds and feel very motivated, and I feel good. Even these 5 pounds have made so much difference. Also wanted to add that I drink a ton of water now, when I never did before. I got SO bad about drinking soda during quarantine. I have not had soda now for 7 days, and I hate to admit it, but I definitely feel the withdrawal from not having as much sugar anymore. I also fully cut out candy (honestly not the biggest loss, I'm not a huge fan of candy) but gosh I miss soda sometimes. I try to compensate by eating some dried fruit or making tea, and I have yet to cave :) My fiance and I have also been eating WAY healthier lately. I love to cook, but have been feeling uninspired with food lately. Well, I finally started cooking some nice healthy meals, like grilled tilapia with lemon and brown rice, tons of grilled chicken, and different salads. I have been trying to eat lowcarb for 2 meals and have some carbs like quinoa or brown rice for my other meal. Sometimes I have it for lunch, but most of the time it's for dinner. The last 5 or 6 days my meals have been (generally): Breakfast- 1.5 boiled eggs, a whole sliced small tomato, and 2 fig balls. Lunch- salad with grilled chicken and fruit. Dinner- grilled shrimp, tilapia, or chicken, with brown rice and a veggie. This has worked so well for me and I feel so much better after eating this food as opposed to huge ass plates of pasta or other stuff I would eat before that would give me major heartburn. I know I am only at the beginning, and sorry for the word vomit, I just wanted to share how I have been feeling and how happy I am. I can't wait to see more results <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 06:38 PM PST I'm 16/F, 5'6", and 240 lbs. Yes, you read that right. I'm sick of being obese. It's impacting my future and my happiness. I am embarrassed to shop for clothes, I'm embarrassed to look at myself. I haven't worn shorts for six years. I'm terrified of getting sick or having an annual checkup because I know I'll have to step on the scale. I eat too much and move far too little. Take today, for example. I ate over 4,000 calories and I only burned around thirty. The most exercise I get is going downstairs to my room. The scary thing is that I eat/move like that daily. I've gained a solid fifteen lbs since the last time I weighed myself, which was about a month ago. I'm a kid, literally. I have a future. I could die tomorrow and I would die never being happy or healthy. I'm so, so sick of myself. My goal weight is 140. I never thought I'd be faced with the task of losing 100 lbs as a teenager, but I have to do this. For me. For my health. For my future. It only gets better from here. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 20 Posted: 20 Nov 2020 05:20 PM PST Hello lovely losers, Happy Friday y'all! Hope yours was great & if not, it's done with! Stay within calorie range (maintain): Oofta. Not fabulous today kids. Exercise 5 days a week: Lunch walk. 14/20 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Getting after this one pretty well, including some lists. 3/3 week. Nanowrimo 1666 words a day: 19200/50000 words. It's becoming my routine to really hit it after this post. I'm lagging but still striving! Try a new recipe once a week: Fried parsnips, baba ganoush (different recipe/prep method this time, didn't fuck it up!), a mixed meat chili & a oven toasted vegetable ratatouille so far. 4/4 weeks. Express gratitude: Today I'm grateful for pick up groceries & the relative calm of a stable household. I hope you are all in good places with people you care for. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| I’ve finally lost 19lbs towards my weight loss goal! Posted: 20 Nov 2020 04:08 PM PST 20M, Start.W: 261.8lbs, CW: 242lbs I wanna hopefully get to 230lbs by mid Dec. I hope I can get there and I know I can, as long as I try my best as I've recently been slacking and either staying put or gaining a couple lbs here and there. But I wanna try and get myself into gear for my 21st birthday on the 01/01/2021, I know I won't be at my goal but I sure as hell will try to look the best I have in recent years. But yeah I'm happy to have gotten to this point again where I truly believe I can get to my goal as during my 'slacking period' I kinda lost hope as sticking to roughly a 1k calorie deficit stopped helping shed the lbs, probably because I wasn't exactly eating the healthiest of my macros and also the fact that (here in the U.K.) gyms had closed again. It just really kicked me out of the loop of shedding this weight. To everyone else who is down in the dumps because they don't see the scale numbers dropping, don't lose hope like I did, if you persevere you'll get to your goal no matter what. And also, when you want to enjoy naughty food, do it IN MODERATION, don't feel like you need to throw away a WHOLE day just because you had a burger, or that the next day is when you'll begin to be better again. Enjoy yourself, but don't hurt yourself and continue to do so! TL;DR - I've been slacking but have picked myself back up and have gotten back on track onto my weight loss journey. Hope others get even the slightest bit inspired by this. [link] [comments] |
| I lost 3cm from my hips- small victories! Posted: 20 Nov 2020 04:44 PM PST I struggled with disordered eating and scale obsession for many years. I can't get on a scale without it sending me into a spiral of anxious dispair, which is very hard for tracking weight loss! I have a chronic illness that has led me to gain much more weight than ever (both medication and the illness). I don't fit into my old clothes very well, if at all. So I've been taking a kind and gentle approach to weight loss over the last two months. Instead of tracking kg via a scale and becoming mentally debilitated by it, I decided to track cm lost. In some areas, the measuring tape doesn't move. And that's OK, I know it will take longer to see results in some areas. This approach has been so much better for my mental health. To my small victory: I haven't measured for a month and I lost 3cm from my hips in that time! Which is 7cm over the last two months! I am very happy with this and it makes me want to keep going even more. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 21 November 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 20 Nov 2020 08:08 PM PST 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] |
| NSV - I didn’t binge eat. SV - down 20lbs Posted: 20 Nov 2020 02:27 PM PST 24F 5'4" SW:265lbs CW:245lbs Today has been a day of big up and downs for me. I started off the day reaching 20lbs down! I've been doing CICO and walking for about a month and a half. Next, my bf got an exercise bike delivered and getting it up the stairs to the third floor was a real struggle. I am still physically exhausted from it! But after putting it together I am super excited to have an easy way to do cardio at home, especially as it gets colder outside. I have had some other stress going on with financial aid for school and between everything it was about 3pm and all I had eaten today was a popsicle. My boyfriend asked if I would be interested in some BWW for an early dinner because I had mentioned I needed to eat soon. I contemplated whether I should or not because restaurant food/fast food is a major trigger for me binge eating. At the same time I still had like 1200 calories to eat for the day so I said yes. Not too long ago the food arrived and I measured out a serving of fries, cheese curd, and grabbed 8 wings. I started inputting the portions of food I got into MFP as I sat down to eat. I could see from what I input into MFP, eating everything I grabbed was gunna be wayyyy too many calories. In past weight loss attempts I might justify this as just being a maintenance day. But eating 2000 calories in 1 meal because I didn't make time to eat in the day and I'm exhausted and emotional, is not a maintenance day, even if maybe the calories play out that way. It's binging and I know I will feel terrible after eating that much at once, and it probably wouldn't end there. In the past, single instances like this have sent me into a spiral and made me give up trying to loose weight. So I decided to cut the portion of everything I got in half and try that. That put me slightly under my calories for the day which I felt like was pretty good. I'd like to say I ate super slow and mindfully the whole time but I gotta say I pretty much inhaled the cheese curds and fries 😆. By the time I was done with them though, the feeling of hunger subsided some and I ate two wings more slowly. After I finished them I realized I really wasn't hungry anymore. I again adjusted my MFP entry for only two wings and put the rest of the wings in the fridge. I ended up eating about 850 calories for the meal and I still have enough calories left to have like 4 of those leftover wings later if I want them! Maybe getting BWW wasn't the best decision I could have made for the day, but I know I'm not going to always make the best food choices, and I'm glad I still kept control over my portions. This is not my first time starting a "weight loss journey" but I really want it to be my last. I think binge eating and the guilt associated with it is one of the reasons I have failed in the past so this is really something I am trying to be mindful of. If you read all of this, thank you! I hope you are having a good day and I would love to hear anyone's experiences or tips about struggling with binge eating and weight loss! [link] [comments] |
| Being sick after eating even a bit of junk food? Posted: 20 Nov 2020 10:52 PM PST (TW mention of Bulimia) Hi all, this has probably been posted before but I couldn't find anything on it but I was wondering if anyone else is or has been physically sick when eating something processed or fatty (burger, chips, all that stuff) I've been experiencing on weekends with friends or a special occasion when I go off and let myself relax and not be too strict on myself with food. But every time I do so, I end up feeling like crap or worse even vomiting it up later that day. My housemates are now concerned thinking I've developed something like Bulimia. However I'm not making myself be sick, it just ... comes out? I can understand their concern as it does seem a bit suspicious. I've tried limiting the portions, avoiding stuff like gluten just in case it's that as I don't eat a lot of gluten-based products anymore. Just want to see if anyone else has experienced this as searching up stuff on google is like going through a rabbit hole. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 10:23 PM PST Hi Everyone! I am a 24 year old 5'2 female who has always struggled with weight loss. I currently weight 155 lbs and have been eating health and working out (HIIT workouts) since November 1st and I haven't seen any results on the scale. My biggest issue is that I don't know how much calories I should be consuming to lose weight. I have used multiple 'Calorie Counter' websites and they all are drastically different. Some sites are saying to consume 950ish calories while others are saying 1500 calories a day. Does anyone know accurate websites? Hoping someone can help me out, calories to lose weight are super confusing for me :( [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 01:30 PM PST I've been feeling demoralised and frustrated so my husband sent me a picture he has of me from late feb... it's given me some much needed perspective and a good boost to carry on! Seeing these images side by side is exactly what I needed today (the 2nd pic is from about 2 weeks ago - apologies for super serious face, I was trying to take a professional pic for a new swipe card at work! I swear I'm a happy person) Progress can feel slow or non existent until something like this shows you the truth! I know some folk don't like before and after but it's really helped my little broken brain to see what I really look like, I still feel like the person in feb! If you're struggling to see the difference, look back at some old photos and I hope the perspective gives you a wee boost. [link] [comments] |
| Today I purposely went over my calorie budget for the first time. And I enjoyed every bit of it. Posted: 20 Nov 2020 05:32 PM PST Throughout my failed attempts at weight loss, I've always tried to remain under my calorie budget no excuses whatsoever. This of course has resulted in yo-yo dieting and never seeing the results I wanted. I have the LoseIt app and when you go over your budget the circle turns into the color red rather than green. This would always cause panic and a sense of disappointment within me. Normally when I go over budget I tend to binge eat and reset all of the progress I've made that week. But given this week's events I felt as if I deserved to enjoy some delicious homemade food today and didn't care about going over my calorie budget. For the first time ever. A healthy lifestyle is one of sustainability and I'm truly learning that as I go on. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2020 07:14 PM PST 36/F/5'7/238 lbs I've always been heavy since puberty. My mother told me women just blow up like that. No, they don't. Anyway, I really want to change things so I installed My Fitness Pal and I got a jump rope. As luck would have it, I sprained my knee so I'm waiting for that to heal. I was invited to the gym by a coworker but we haven't made any definite plans. My motivation for weight loss is I like sex. I like sex with my boyfriend. So, I want to be healthier, hotter, and a bit more flexible. "You should be doing this for you!" Well, I am. Because I enjoy being with him. There wasn't an "a-ha" moment or a "I really need to change my life," moment. Just something that's been in the back of my mind for a while. I've been lurking here a long time and never had the courage to post. I apologize if this is all over the place but I need to put this out there before I lose my nerve. I have an addiction to food and it comes from my mom and grandmother. It's how my family copes with, well, everything. I was doing good for a little while but I felt so deprived and unhappy. When it comes to eating food I'm not "supposed to have," an immense wave of shame torments my soul and eats at my conscious. When I'm stressed at work, I just want to consume anything I see and it's just an awful way to be - I'm am essential worker (CNA in a nursing home) and it's been hella stressful. Which means I'm hella hungry. I'm not so much uncomfortable in my skin - more like, I feel that there isn't any excuse. I've been drinking lots of water and I've been doing my best to learn when I'm actually hungry and when it's stress hunger. Also, my period gives me horrible food cravings that can become almost impossible to ignore. I set times for myself. "Yes, you're hungry but you can eat dinner at this time." I try to space out my meals a little bit and eat enough to where I'm full but not overly full. Exercise is boring and the thought of going to a gym is terrifying (thanks Covid) so I've been researching physical activities that look fun. I have my eye on some roller skates which I read is excellent cardio. I was a pretty active kid: bike riding, roller skating, jumping rope, walking when I could. It was the constant consumption that screwed me over. And my boyfriend hasn't said anything or treated me any different so that's not the issue either. This is strictly me. I'm happy but I could be happier and I want to make myself happier. I want to have a healthy relationship with food. I want to be a little more active. I'll never be a size 2 or a supermodel or anything. I'm not all that pretty but I'm smart and I'm kind to people. I work hard and try to earn some extra steps at work when I can. With the colder months, and my stationary hobbies (gaming, writing, crochet, reading) it can be a bit of a struggle. It's hard to get active when I'm already active at work. I've been thinking of buying a little elliptical thingie where I can cycle my legs while I crochet or play video game. Sometimes I think of a million reasons to do this and other times I think of none. I feel like I'm just helpless when it comes to food and I'm so ashamed of that. I don't know how to express that feeling inside where I eat one more chip and just want to bawl like a baby because I'm so disgusted with myself but I can't put the damn chips down. And the excuses! Stress at work. Election stress. Holiday stress. Always some type of stress (excuse!) to be Mrs. Piggy, right? I'm just tired of being like this and that's the best way I can describe it - I'm tired of feeling like this, I'm tired of being overweight or obese or whatever fat category I fall into... I don't have a scale at home but when I did (a long time ago), I weighed myself every day. And if I gained any weight, I would starve myself or skip a meal. Which is counter productive. Because I'd binge. And then cut myself as punishment for binging. If I were to be truly honest though, If I were to dig really deep, I kept the weight to hide. You see, my mother married a man that came into my room at night and when it all came out into the open, my mother blamed me, said I was "asking for it," etc, etc, etc. And the thought of any boy finding me "sexy" was downright terrifying. That's when I really started going downhill. In my early twenties, I realized if I wanted to make lasting changes, I had to accept myself as I am, and I did! Yay, confidence! But that's where I stopped. Now I'm to the point where it's like okay, I'm confident and feel good in my own skin but I need to make some adjustments to improve if that makes sense? I think, this time around, I want to be a happier, healthier, version of myself. Manage my stress better (and this might even mean finding a different job), exercise a little more, have a little more sex, and just be a more laid back, cooler version of myself. My struggle is my own and I won't lie or pretend - I've had to work through some serious misogynistic BS, iron out my own mental/emotional dysfunction, find a new spiritual path (overly religious parents: how's that for irony, ha!) and now I want to work on my physical self. I want my physical self to look just as good as my inner self. And it's not for any other reason than I want to be happy and people are happy when they're healthy. And people are happy when they have more (safe, consensual) sex. Which blows my mind because I never thought I would ever be this comfortable with any man, ever. He's really the best and I think him and I both deserve the best version of myself. So yeah, that's my story, and I plan to update every so often and take lots of pictures to track my progress. I know I can do this. I've come so far already; I feel like losing some weight is the last and biggest hurdle of freeing myself of some heavy baggage. Thank you so much for reading. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 21 November 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 21 Nov 2020 12:09 AM PST The habit of persistence is the habit of victory!Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?)
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