Weight loss: [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - Week 7 - FINAL WEEK! |
- [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - Week 7 - FINAL WEEK!
- How to handle my partner’s rekindled attraction to me
- I made a big improvement today. I didn’t binge.
- My journey has been twelve years in the making, and I finally reached my goal this morning.
- 270 lbs to 225 in 5 months! CICO WORKS!
- Day 20 at Fat Camp
- Buy Yourself Those New Clothes!
- [Day 1] Beginning my day weight loss journey and taking the steps to break my alcoholism.
- My mental health on this journey swings from one extreme to another
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 14th, 2020
- Finally hit "normal weight" in BMI scale - so why do I feel like nothing has changed?
- A testament to how I feel now - a public reminder if and when, I ever need it.
- What's wrong with counting calories?
- Realizing that the reason I'm obese is because I sabotage my diet after I binge drink alcohol. This is a pattern that has gone on for years.
- Goal reached, lost 19kg
- Self-sabotage
- 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 14 November 2020 - The Plan for Today!
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 14 November 2020? Start here!
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 14 November 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Daily Q&A Post for Saturday, 14 November 2020 - No question too small!
- A vent about seeing a bad photo, and thoughts about self love/lack of it
- Losing weight while being depressed
- [progress] 230lb to 193lb since March, feeling really good
| [Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - Week 7 - FINAL WEEK! Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:49 PM PST Hey Everybody. Welcome to Week 7 of the Fall 2020 Loseit Challenge: LoseIt World Tour! We made it, the final week! Loseit Challenges are a team-based competition that last for 8 weeks during which you set a weight-loss goal and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. There will be a new post every Friday with Links/Instructions for each week's activities. The challenge subreddit and your team's discord channel will also have all the information you need. This round your hosts continue to be u/hxcjosh23 and u/unrepentant_thinner Week 6 Bragging Rights: Great work this week! We had almost 15 MILLION steps taken and 95,030 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 6 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? Great job everyone! This week's Itinerary: This week we combine forces to make MEGA TEAMS. The challenge itself works the same way, but it will be 3 v 3 with the teams listed below. Compete for your team by logging your steps and activity (step 2 below). For this challenge, we are doing a Capture the Flag contest! Each step logged gets you closer to your opponents landmark! Whoever gets the most steps gets to capture their opponents flag and display it victoriously! Some landmarks will be farther than others, so if you don't quite reach it that's fine! Luckily each team has an automatic flag capture device that deploys if they have more steps than their opponent! Get stepping! Week 7 head to head schedule: REMATCH Team A Sphinx Rocky Mountains Uyuni Salt Flats Team B Petra Great Barrier Reef Eiffel Tower Challenge Tracker: Step 1 - Weigh in for week 7 Weigh in early! You can update your weight anytime during the week by submitting your weight again. Step 2 - Log your steps and activity All steps count. Intentional activity counts. -We define activity minutes as "intentional additional activity to meet your health goals". This may include things like weight lifting, running, yoga, walking to work instead of driving, etc. Things that are not already a part of your normal day. ***Your and your family's health come first. Adapt your activity to the current guidelines in your communities.*** 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 13 - Week 7, Last Head to Head Battle November 20 - Results and next challenge announcement If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/LoseitChallenges sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go. Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We're volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren't specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar on r/loseit. [link] [comments] |
| How to handle my partner’s rekindled attraction to me Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:58 AM PST My boyfriend(M23) and I (F21)have been together 2 years. Last winter my depression hit pretty bad, and I started eating to cope. (I'm talking a whole cake in one sitting). I went from 5'3, toned 140 to a soft high 170 ish in about 4 or 5 months. (I had back rolls, my ass, tits, and thighs got bigger and I lost my slight outline of abs). This caused problems with our intimacy. I wasn't getting the same number of compliments, he didn't instigate intimate situations as much (maybe at all at one point honestly) and he started to see behavior such as wearing big shirts and a pair of panties as not so desirable anymore. He even off handedly told me that everyone looks better with more clothes on one day (even though he used to love seeing me naked). Well, I've gotten back on track with my mental health, watching what I eat, working out, drinking more water, and sleeping adequately. I'm down to mid 140s with the goal of losing another 10 to get back to where I was. This is great, and I'm kind of starting to feel better about myself The problem is that my boyfriend is suddenly smothering me in affection and is back to being super sexual with me, and it makes me feel... bad? Like I was going through a really rough time and felt like he wasn't attracted to me (which after beating it out of him he admitted to this summer) and this just confirms how bad it was. And it hurts because he's gained a little bit of weight and it hasn't changed how I've treated him at all. He even talked about how he knows he's gained a lot of weight I still feel over weight so I've been wearing baggy clothes and keeps asking to see me and my body and while it feels nice to attracted to, it comes with a little bit of a sting. I think it hurts so much because it feels like his love is conditional on how attractive he finds me.. which I guess isn't too irrational. It just kinda hurts. I love his body because it's his body and I guess I've always assumed that's how it would be. My dad has seen my mom go from 110 pounds to 300 pound back to 200/180 pounds and the weight was never an issue. Any advice on how to get over it? Or perspectives of people who have gone through similar situations? Update: Just wanted to thank everyone who gave genuine advice for their responses. I didn't appreciate the insults, but what else can you expect when you post things on the internet. I truly was looking for ways to get over it and different perspectives and I'm happy to say I got it. I read every comment. To answer some common questions: Yes I've had in depth conversations about my dad's perspective on my mom's weight gain over the last 25 years. We're very close. Yes, in the beginning I was really sad and depressed so that could've had an impact, but even when I was happy and feeling the benefits of the weight gain (my ass) he was different and distant regarding snuggling and sex. I wanted to be sexual, I craved it (physical touch is my love language), so no, I was not rejecting his intimacy. When I'm sad, being loved that way is my favorite thing to do. No, my attraction to him has not changed. No, I am not covering up my true feelings about this. He suffers from sad and anxiety, I've stuck it through with him with sadness and severe paranoia. No, he didn't see me doing the extra eating, I hid it from everyone. It wasn't until a month ago that I opened up about how the weight gain happened I'm going to stay with him, but also talk to him about it. You all made great points about pregnancy and aging. I worry about it to. I'm not as convinced we'll be together for forever, but I enjoy being with him now, so I'm going to enjoy it. Thank you again. I hope you all have great holidays [link] [comments] |
| I made a big improvement today. I didn’t binge. Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:36 PM PST My boyfriend and I just started to go to the gym together and count calories this week. It's been great having a partner to support me and I feel a lot more motivated as well. Although, today I was having a really hard time wanting to binge on McDonalds, (my fav binging spot) and I waited until he left for work to go. I laid around for an hour or so and as I was about to leave I walked outside and smelled the fresh autumn air and realized how sad i would be later if I went through with this. So instead I made some air fried french fries and I didn't binge. I'm so happy and proud I could cry. I know it's just one day in the first week but old me would've gone with no worries. This is the last time I start getting healthy. I am succeeding this time around. [link] [comments] |
| My journey has been twelve years in the making, and I finally reached my goal this morning. Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST On 11/15/2008, I weighed 169 pounds at 5'3". And while that's still considered overweight, I thought I looked fantastic. Puberty gave me all the curves, wider hips, and a larger bust. I added all the extra weight myself over the years. On 11/15/2008, I went on a first date with a man who I thought was the bee's knees. He was everything I wanted in a guy, and guess what! We started dating right from the get-go. About a year and a half into our relationship, I got a job working in an office where my boss fed us ungodsly amounts of pizza, burgers, and fried foods. It wasn't easy to say no. I went on a downward spiral of overeating and ended up at approximately 213 pounds by November 2011. I had been to the doctors several months in a row for unrelated things, and each time they weighed me, the nurse aggressively crossed off my weight on the chart and handwrote in the new one. The straw that broke the camel's back was when the scale read 215 and not only did she scribble in the new, higher weight, but she audibly sighed as she shook her head. I was embarrassed. Her reaction to my weight gain was enough to make me finally do something about it. The next morning, the scale read 212 or 213 (I honestly don't remember), and that's when I decided no more being lazy, no more binge-eating, no more indulging left and right. Instead of wheeling my ass around the office on my chair, I actually got up to go to the fax; I took walks on my lunch; I brought food from home, even though I was in my infancy of cooking nutritious meals successfully and often relied on a lot of frozen meals. But I still allowed myself to go out and eat or have junk food, just all in moderation. I needed to make a change in my eating habits that I could sustain. I didn't want to go on a diet, I wanted to change my diet, in a way that worked long term. I calorie counted, I portion controlled, I gained some will power. Fast forward throughout the years: my weight went all over the place. It stagnated in the 180s for the longest time. We moved. I gained a lot of the weight back. I worked toward losing it and got down into the 170s. Stagnated. We moved again. I gained a lot of the weight back. Stuck in the 180s. It fluctuated for years. My jobs have always been so stressful and trying to incorporate any kind of meaningful exercise was difficult. My best friend through all of the journey was CICO. No matter what was going on, I could count (quite literally) on it to work every day, even when I was too tired to go for a walk after work or go hiking on the weekend. My dedication to CICO has wavered in recent years, but it taught me valuable lessons, including being mindful of the calories I'm eating and what a serving size looks like. I cut out soda probably four and a half years ago, but have a nice cane sugar ginger beer from time to time when alcohol is present. I don't consume artificial sweeteners (not that they're bad, but they're a slippery slope for me). Two years ago, we cut out red meat from our diet for cholesterol reasons, but occasionally indulge in a burger. We started eating waaaaay more vegetables and fruit over the years, and actively eat three to four vegetarian or vegan meals a week. We still enjoy our junk food like ice cream and potato chips, and we definitely still go out to eat, though usually only once a week since we live in the boonies. Most recently, this year, I've been stuck in the mid 170s. My goal weight of 169 was so close I could taste it. But stress at work, my anxiety, COVID, politics, the world... all these things felt like I was doomed, because I am an emotional eater and everything around me was imploding. Then, just in the last month or two, my weight was going down. Consistently in the low 170s. I knew I could do it. I was so close. I wanted to weight 169 pounds by my twelve year anniversary with my fellow. This morning, I got on the scale, feeling bloated and blah, and whaddya know? 169.4! I almost started crying. It has been a long time coming and a lot of hard work, with a lot of missteps and a lot of proud, and not so proud, moments. My flair says I've lost forty pounds, when realistically, I've probably lost more like a hundred over the years thanks to my chaotic life I chose not to take control of. Now here's the tricky part: for the last four to five years, I've been working in a physically demanding job that included standing for ten hours a day and carrying thirty to forty pounds at a time throughout a shift. I credit a lot of my weight loss to the job plus CICO and just generally eating healthier. Yesterday was my last day at work. After the years of retail hell and being abused so severely by customers in these current times, I finally had a mental breakdown in July and gave my notice that my very last day would be November 12th, but I couldn't guarantee my social anxiety and general malaise would let me get that far. Well, I'm proud to say I made it, and that the morning after, I also hit my weight goal. Last night was depressing for me - even though it's retail and kind of awful at times, I cultivated a family with my co-workers, and it was at least in a field that matters greatly to me and has taught me so much and made me passionate about something new. It was my last shift with my best friend and saying goodbye to her was tough. I cried the whole way home. All I wanted to do was emotional eat a bag of air fried mozzarella sticks. It was tough not to. But I told myself that if I ate sensibly last night, I could have a celebratory pig-out feast today, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. Then back to everything in moderation as I now navigate the next step of my life... unemployment by choice while I write and publish smutty romance books and take classes to become an editor. My only regret: I wish I had taken photos of myself at my largest to compare to what I look like today. I was so disgusted with how I looked that I deleted everything I could get my hands on to hide the evidence. I don't need photos to show the progress, because it's super obvious, but it'd still be nice to have. It may have taken me twelve years to destroy my health and recoup it (blood work late last year showed I was healthy as can be besides my weight), but I did it on my terms, without depriving myself of the things I love. If my stubborn, indulgent, rewarding-with-food ass can do it, you can too. Don't let setbacks deter you. Don't let a bad day, a bad week, or a bad month stop you from working toward achieving your goals. Tomorrow is a new day. It can be done. Now I'mma go destroy a plate of chicken katsu and a huge side salad of shredded cabbage to celebrate being free from retail and working toward a new career. Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| 270 lbs to 225 in 5 months! CICO WORKS! Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:27 AM PST Ever since I went through a rly bad breakup, I decided to start doing CICO and began losing weight at a pace of around 1.6lbs/week. This consistency and excitement of seeing a lower number on the scale gave me a reason to get out of bed tbh lmao. The whole calorie deficit was a huge pain in the ass but I soon realized that I wasn't eating bc I was hungry - I was eating bc the food was there! As soon as I started counting calories and portioning my food out properly, I found myself more satisfied by less food! I went from 2500 cals a day to around 1700. For reference I'm 18 years old and 6'4. My goal weight is 205-210lbs so I've still got a ways to go. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:31 AM PST I lost 22 pounds! That's 448 down from 470. Last post: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/jnbzor/day_10_at_fat_camp/ It's been 10 days since I last posted, and it feels like so much time has passed. But I'm still at this makeshift fat camp where I'm staying in my dad's old office in an effort to start some new healthier habits. My dad's been helping me pretty much every step of the way in making sure I don't get junk food and keep a nutritious diet. Unfortunately, my dad picked up an illness that may be COVID, so now I'm by myself for a few days, and things have been tough without him. I'm doing all my grocery shopping on my own now, and it's hard to not go down the aisles with junk food. I have access to money for the first time in two weeks and I'm scared of using it to order a pizza or something. I'm doing my best to avoid these temptations, but I'm looking forward to my dad's recovery all the more so I can be less tempted again while these cravings are still in my system. In brighter news, I'm pretty ingrained in the habit of going on walks every morning and evening, as well as eating oatmeal with fruit for breakfast. I do it almost without thinking now, which is a good sign. I'm still trying out new foods that are healthy for me for lunch and dinner, and while I'm struggling to get veggies into every meal, my calories have been consistently between 1900 and 2300 per day without much struggle. My days at work are awful to deal with though. I usually struggle with getting through the day in my boring office job (working from home), but I would always focus on something I'm looking forward to, to get me through the day. The problem is, I was usually looking forward to eating junk. Now I don't enjoy eating as much, so I feel like I have nothing to look forward to, making my days seem impossible. It's been so bad that my dad suggested that I quit. I've got some money saved up for rent so I could just spend my time looking for a more fulfilling career while working on weight loss. He says that work is interfering with my health at this point, making me do nothing but crave fast food all day, and I'm kind of inclined to believe him. At the same time, I'd feel like a loser by not being able to keep up a job and live my life healthily. Like, so many other people live healthy with crappy jobs, why am I incapable of it? There are a lot of nuances to this that I can't be bothered going into, but the point is, I have a major decision to make coming up, and I'm not sure how I'll handle it. Anyways, thanks for all the support in my last post. I'm still keeping at it, and I'm going to do my best while I'm here. Any questions on how this camp of mine works, let me know, I'm happy to share. [link] [comments] |
| Buy Yourself Those New Clothes! Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:39 PM PST I've been on a health gains journey for a long time, about 2 years (I'm choosing to not call it weight loss and I have a prior post about that, but that's largely irrelevant to this post) and I've lost about 65 pounds so far. But, I've largely stayed in the same clothes. In part, that's because most of my clothes were too small when I started this, but it's also because I was scared to move to smaller clothes too soon because I was afraid of disappointing myself. Well, I've noticed recently that those size 14 (all US sizes) jeans that were tight on me once were falling down. I could take them on and off without even unbuttoning. I could easily grab entire fistfuls of fabric from around my thighs on jeans that were supposed to be "skinny jeans." So I decided it was time to move down to a cautious 12. Well, long story short, I ended up actually buying and fitting in a size 10. I've felt such elation the last few days just putting on these cheap Target jeans and the size M shirt I grabbed on impulse. I think the big deal to me is that 10 is not a size you could find in a plus size store. It's "normal." When I grabbed the jeans, they were on the middle shelf. I'm so used to going to the bottom shelf or the bottom of the stack when grabbing clothes. It made me realize: I'm average. Yes I still can and should lose some more fat, but I've had the realization that I don't think someone looking at me for the first time would immediately think about my weight. Maybe they'd notice my great hair or fashion sense or the confidence with which I carry myself first. Living as a plus size person in society is itself traumatic. From unsolicited comments in public to everything being built just a little too small to issues in building friendships and relationships. I knew that inherently, but this is the first time that I realized I might be done with that trauma. When I walk into a room, I might just be...a person, rather than a big person. I'm so happy. [link] [comments] |
| [Day 1] Beginning my day weight loss journey and taking the steps to break my alcoholism. Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:01 PM PST I am 5"8 and am beginning my weight loss journey at 185 pounds. I used to weigh in at 150. Would love to go back to the 150 I was 5 years ago, maybe even shoot for 140. My diet...is ok, but I am extremely social and have spent years binge drinking with my friends. I drink everyday and probably consume between 30-50 drinks a week. I didn't drink today and tried to make healthy choices even though we ate out. Also walked 3.5 miles today. Small steps. Any advice for a beginner? Looking at gym options this week. I eat a lot of processed foods and don't like to cook. I guess that will have to change. I'm not planning to completely quit drinking. But drastically cut back. Increase the number of days in between. [link] [comments] |
| My mental health on this journey swings from one extreme to another Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:01 PM PST My entire life I've been obese with wildly unhealthy eating habits/diet. But these last few years, I've worked hard, managed to get on the right path and have seen some real results. However, losing the weight only revealed a lot of underlying mental health problems that formed how I put on the weight and why I'm struggling now. I wanted to share how important it is to make sure that whether you're just dieting, or working out as well, whatever it is - please, please make sure you're taking care of your mental health as well. I've struggled with anxiety and depression for a long time. When I lost those first 20lbs I was so happy, and then the next 20 fell and so did the next 20. But when things inevitably slowed down I became obsessed with weighing myself every day, hoarding a surplus of calories instead of filling my budget/allowance and refusing to eat even when I was hungry in case I didn't see progress on the scale the next day. Even when I maintained the weight, the progress I saw in my clothes and body meant nothing due to this obsession with the numbers. The reason I'm writing this now is mostly to try and ease my anxiety. Tomorrow is the first time I'm weighing myself in a week. That sounds so silly but the pain I caused myself obsessing every day, denying myself food or water in the mornings until I'd gone to the bathroom, sometimes for hours, was detracting from all the positive physical benefits. I'm going to keep losing weight. I have to for my long term health. But I also want to keep working towards weighing myself less frequently - every fortnight and then eventually once a month. Losing weight is a multifaceted battle on many fronts and you have to keep all of them up as best you can. All the love and support to you guys. You've helped me lose it without losing it! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 14th, 2020 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:55 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] |
| Finally hit "normal weight" in BMI scale - so why do I feel like nothing has changed? Posted: 14 Nov 2020 04:51 AM PST Hello you lovely people! (and please let me know if this doesn't go here!) TL;DR: Are there ways of helping my head to catch up with the fact that I've lost the weight I have lost, or do I just have to keep on dealing with it and hope for the best? Partially thanks to lurking in this sub for motivation, I've managed to achieve one of my major goals (although there's still a slight way to go for my actual goal weight), and have evenly slid down until I finally slid under 25 at the BMI scale. I did mainly CICO and some light exercise (the Nike Training Club app is now fully free and with an amazing range of workouts!!) over about 1.5 years (winter 2019-2020 was harsh and I gained some 5-10kg, so it was a bit of a setback). Now, a brief statement here: I know BMI scale isn't an absolute truth and hitting the "normal weight" doesn't magically change things for the better. I also objectively know I've lost a lot of weight. HOWEVER. I don't really feel like anything has changed. Looking back at pictures I can definitely tell the change, I can see my collarbones, all my pants are too big for me, and of course the scale tells its story that I cannot really refute. However, just like I didn't realise I had gained a lot of weight (and didn't see myself fat, maybe a bit overweight but honestly not that much, I've always had big thighs after all), I'm struggling with actually realising I've now lost most of that weight. My mental image (even when looking into the mirror) is still similar to what it was. I keep estimating my clothing size wrong, I keep looking at my thighs seeing absolutely no difference and feeling discouraged, I try to "squeeze" through spaces where I actually can fit through with no issue whatsoever, all of those funny things. My body shape hasn't changed drastically (still a pear, just lost most of my boobs I guess and I'd imagine slimmed down in general everywhere) so there's no great "a-ha!" moment there either. I remember reading about other people having similar issues in the past, so I think it's not that abnormal for the brain to take forever to catch up, but my question is more "are there ways to help my brain to catch up"? And I know this sounds a proper "first world problem" or maybe humblebragging, and I hesitated with making this post, but my fear is that it'll affect finding that "okay, I've reached my goal, now I just maintain it here and go on with my life" moment and I will just want to keep going "until I really see the difference". [link] [comments] |
| A testament to how I feel now - a public reminder if and when, I ever need it. Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:17 PM PST I have 'restarted' my weight loss journey and this time around, it feels really different. I'm the heaviest I've ever been in my life - the angry, red stretch marks on my body have spread in new areas I've never seen before. I was getting winded from simple tasks, like scooping and carrying cat litter. I stopped looking at myself all together in the mirror, living in complete denial and shame and was doing so, for a very, very long time. The first step towards change for me was to reach out for help in regards to my mental health by getting back on my anti-depressants that I abruptly stopped taking over a year ago. Finally, I was able to sleep. I was able to get out of bed. I was able to somewhat function again. I was able to will myself to take a shower regularly instead of a week and a half flying by, forgetting and ignoring my dry, undisturbed towel. I started knowing what day it was and I found myself humming and singing out loud. And then I started to get that faint feeling inside, that small but audible voice saying "I'm worth it - worth something" and deserving of self-care. And slowly, it has propelled me into wanting to make a change with my physical health. I've lost 11 pounds so far and I'm cheesin' really hard as I type that. I make my own meals now - inspired to make healthy tasty meals that will fuel me and my fiancé. I log my calories, happily but not obsessively like I used to. I hadn't eaten fresh fruit in months and that seems crazy when I say it out loud: I've re-discovered my love for frozen grapes *chef kisses* and they are indeed all the rage. My fridge is filled with herbs, veggies and fruits and I'm no longer plagued by the forceful swarm of pessimistic thoughts of: you have to eat this - you have to go on a 'diet' and it's going to be miserable. I no longer feel like I'm sacrificing or 'missing out' on anything if I don't eat that certain thing right now, right this second. I can say no thank you to that temptation, to that second bite. I have healthy snacks in my pantry that, for once, I don't feel like binge eating, like I would have years ago. I actually possess control over what I'm eating and not the other way around. My fiancé has always been my supportive cheerleader and best friend - but I've noticed something different in the way he looks at me now - and all the extra squishy hugs and words of encouragement day to day saying: you can do this! I'm so proud of you! And for once, I'm actually hearing what he's saying and I believe it for myself too. I'm excited to be a newcomer to this community and to learn from you all. To be inspired and encouraged from your own journeys. I'm excited for the present and for my future, and instead of shaming the past me- I'm thanking the "old me" for surviving and holding on till now. [link] [comments] |
| What's wrong with counting calories? Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:03 AM PST Since I started counting, I love knowing how many calories are in most foods and what foods to eat less of. I also try to eat nutrients food to hit my macros but also pay attention to calories since that what makes us gain weight regardless of how healthy the food is. I still have 5 pounds to loose and I plan to continue counting in maintenance for a while untill I transition to intinuative eating . Like the other day I was at work and did a double shift, I was feeling a bit hungry. So i decided to go in the fridge at work to look at something to snack( I work in the kitchen) and I choose strawberries over cookies because I know they're very low in calories and had nutrients So i feel like counting calories is very beneficial in teaching you how to eat and what portion sizes looks like even when you stop counting. However, I've seen posts here on reditt of people who claimed they lost weight by counting calories and they continued counting calories for years and decided to stop but found themselves mentally counting since it became second nature. So they want to unlearn and just eat without knowing how many calories are in food..like wtf? How would mentain then by now being aware how much you're eating ? Not to mention I've seen videos on yutube of people discouraging counting calories and give advice how to stop such as deleting myfitnesspal pal, stop looking at food labels, eat out more or have someone prepare food for you so you wouldn't know how many calories are in it..I would love to just eat whatever and not worry about calories but that's how I gained in the first place [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:56 PM PST Hi everyone, I'm a 33F, 5'10, 236lbs, new to the subreddit. I am currently on the keto diet. I've wanted to lose weight for years, but every time I start putting in effort I sabotage myself within a few days, always the same exact way... I go out drinking with people, and the next day I don't care about my diet. I had a three day streak on keto this week. Decided to throw it out the window yesterday. I hung out with a friend earlier this week and honestly that wasn't an excuse. I could have done the right thing. I could have had one or two vodka sodas and called it a night. Instead I drank beer (empty carbs), vodka, got drunk, and was ravenous the next day. Admittedly I didn't eat as many carbs the next day as I actually wanted, but it still happened. I gained back three of the four pounds I've lost this week. I feel disappointed in myself. But today I'm back on the keto wagon. I know carbs aren't evil and that ultimately weight loss comes down to CICO. But for me keto just fills me up and makes me less hungry with less calories. This was kind of a rant, but also just a reminder to myself. I am choosing to break the cycle. If that means I have to stay in and not go out drinking with friends for a couple of months, so be it. I'm really tired of having this extra weight. I want and need to be healthy, and if that means sacrificing a social life for now, so be it. And it's easy to say now, but it won't be so easy next week when I want to go out again. I just have to remind myself of my goals and that the boredom is temporary and worth it. Thanks for listening, everyone. <3 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:43 AM PST After 9 months I've reached my goal of falling within the NHS healthy weight range for my height. I'm now more or less the build I was 20 years ago. I started in February & looking back, the Covid lockdown we had here in the UK back in the Spring really helped as it curtailed going out and overdoing it at the weekend. By the time I was free to go mad again, measuring food and doing exercise had become normal life: heading out on a weekend, eating food and pouring beer down my throat didn't ruin my progress, just slowed it a bit. Happy days. I've been pretty successful at cutting out overdoing snacks, portion control & regular exercise. Not sure if there was anything specific that made the difference. Mission now is to settle at a maintenance level & buy a new wardrobe that fits properly. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:41 PM PST I had been managing healthy consistency for a while (100+ days of logging calories & macros, staying mostly within limits, seeing a gradual reduction on the scales). Lost about 5kg over this time. Calorie goal is 1600/ day (advised by dietitian). The last couple of weeks I've been stressed and upset about a few different things (won't go into details here), and I've kept on falling back into binge eating to try to "cope" with the low mood, which then makes me hate myself... eat more because of low self esteem and feeling depressed... etc. I know logically while I'm binging that I'll regret it, that I don't need the food, but it's like I become a different person temporarily and it's not my problem because it's for "future me" to deal with the consequences. I have M.E so the activity I am able to do is very restricted (I used to run a lot and that helped my mood). I had thought I was doing well losing weight purely by tracking calories without being able to exercise, and I was, but I've really messed up this last few weeks. I don't know how I can break this cycle - I eat sensibly during the day, then the low feelings creep up, I can't sleep, I feel shaky, I eat too much. Mostly the binge food is things like plain oats, low-fat yogurt, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, so it could be worse, but I'm now sitting awake after a few hours' sleep feeling utterly disgusted with myself and it's like I can feel how full of unnecessary food I am. And I know and have the evidence to show me that I feel generally better, when I eat sensible quantities: less bloated, energy a bit more consistent. So WHY AM I DOING THIS TO MYSELF? I weigh weekly, because I get hung up on the numbers and read a lot into minor fluctuations if I do so more frequently. I had gained 1kg on last week's weigh-in and am dreading seeing my weight again on Monday. Sorry for the rant and self-pitying. Just feeling pretty hopeless now. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 14 November 2020 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:07 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] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:20 PM PST Hello losers, We made it to Friday! I hope yours is full of joy & a responsible amount of cheese. Stay within calorie range (maintain): Skin of my teething it today. Exercise 5 days a week: 45 minute walky jog business. 9/13 days. Self-care journaling (once a week, 60 minutes): Getting after this one pretty well, including some lists. 2/2 week. Nanowrimo 1666 words a day: 14535/50000 words. It's becoming my routine to really hit it after this post. Got some ground to cover this weekend. Try a new recipe once a week: Fried parsnips & a mixed meat chili so far. 1/1 weeks. Express gratitude: Today I'm grateful for a quiet evening in. I find myself cherishing the opportunity to take some of the weight of adult life off on the weekends. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 14 November 2020? Start here! Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:25 AM PST Today is your Day 1? Welcome to r/Loseit! So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started. Why you're overweightOur bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently. Before You StartThe very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week. TrackingHere is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it. Creating Your DeficitHow do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian. The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it. ExerciseIs NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight. It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes. Crawl, Walk, RunIt can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments. AcceptanceYou will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better. Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better. Additional resourcesNow you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
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| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 14 November 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 14 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?)
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] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Saturday, 14 November 2020 - No question too small! Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? that's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS:
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| A vent about seeing a bad photo, and thoughts about self love/lack of it Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:49 PM PST I'm halfway to my goal, but my progress has halted for the last couple of months because of other life factors and other things that I had to prioritize for a short time (med school applications that I'd put off by stressing myself constantly about weight loss). Anyway, I just had a med school interview today which I was very happy about, and I've been doing 1200 calories all week after starting to get back on track to losing again and decided to have today as a cheat day. It was a very draining day and I wanted to be able to relax and have wine with my family. I also wasn't able to even eat until late afternoon, so I didn't eat a lot anyway. My dad took a picture earlier in which I was in the background, and when I saw the picture, I was disgusted with how I looked. Just completely repulsed. I never took pictures of myself at my highest weight because I hated how I looked, and seeing how my face looks even now, 20 pounds down and halfway to my goal, just completely horrified me. There was so much fat under my chin and my face looked so round and just unrecognizable to me. It's probably just an unflattering photo too because I've had other photos of myself the last couple of days that look nothing like that, but I just wanted to cry. I was really skinny for my whole life up until about a year ago due to antidepressants. However, I just realized that, even at 95 pounds, I always found something wrong with my face and hated how I looked in photos. I still need to lose the next 20 pounds, but I'm realizing that losing them won't make any difference if I can't also learn to love myself. If I can't learn to do that, I'm still going to hate how I look, just for different reasons. Learning how to be kind to myself might be tougher than losing the weight, and it's a lot less straightforward. I truly don't know where to start. [link] [comments] |
| Losing weight while being depressed Posted: 14 Nov 2020 05:06 AM PST For reference, I'm not satisfied with the way I look and I'm pretty sure I'm overweight at this point. My body is starting to look even worse because I have 0 physical activity during the day due to the pandemic. Stats: 20 years old, 166 cm, 70kg. I've been trying to lose weight for 3 months now, but I mess it up all the time and of course, I saw no results. To be honest, I don't see any pleasure and satisfaction in long-term plans and it might have something to do with my clinical depression. I only want to stay in my bed all day and eat a lot of junk food because it's so easy and much more fulfilling to my brain - I'm aware I won't get anywhere with this total lack of motivation, but my mind continuously tries to convince me it's better this way I'm so tired, mentally and physically that I simply don't want to hear about workouts, even though my skin suffers a lot from sedentarism and it's visible. I'm so deprived of short moments of happiness that I simply don't want to hear about dieting and counting my calories and whatsoever. I'm sorry if I sound like a crybaby, but it's so frustrating to know that I could have lost 10kg until now but my depression said no, you better overeat and stay in bed. I hate the way my body looks and my family makes fun of me until I cry, but not even harsh criticism is effective in my case. What do I get if I lead a healthy life? I don't care if I'm healthy, I get no validation from that. Yes, I would get compliments, but it's a massive effort only for that and I don't think it's worth it. Help! For those of you who had to fight weight and depression at the same time, how did you do it? [link] [comments] |
| [progress] 230lb to 193lb since March, feeling really good Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:58 AM PST I fixed up my old road bike that I had left outside to rust for 5 years and started riding as close to every day as possible, largely helped by working from home during the pandemic. It's amazing what you can get done when you don't have 1-1.5hr commutes and skip lunch breaks. Already got my winter cycling gear together so I can keep this train going, but I'm really happy with my progress so far. Had my ups and downs and a couple of plateaus, but just hung in there and took a few rest days to let my body rebuild. After 5 days in a row of 17 mile rides, sometimes taking a few days off and focusing on protein intake to rebuild helps me get through the plateau when I do get back on the bike. This sub has helped provide motivation and you are all amazing. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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