Weight loss: I lost so much weight my phone didn’t recognize me. |
- I lost so much weight my phone didn’t recognize me.
- Posted my progress on r/progresspics and realized I had an essay to write about my weight loss! Since I love reading y’all’s essays about progress and weight loss philosophy, I thought I’d share here too. F/27/5’3”, 200 > 166 = 34 pounds lost!
- I know this happens but cant believe it’s happening to me!
- [NSV] I ate until I was full at thanksgiving, not until I made myself sick
- Unsupportive older sister
- I am proud to admit that I finally reached my goal of 128 pounds, down from 173 pounds in August 2020, and I literally feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders!
- Has anyone ever lost weight for the purpose of getting a relationship?
- How I Lost Ten Pounds of Quarantine Weight Recently
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 29th, 2020
- Back on the wagon... (Day 1)
- Anyone else have sweatpants dysmorphia?
- Struggling to lose more but super close to my goal.
- New here! F/29. [SW: 230 CW: 205 GW: 185] stuck at 205 ��
- I'm concerned about the weight gaining path I'm on and need advice.
- The "wrong" motivation?
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 28 November 2020: Today, I conquered!
- How Do You Deal With Stretch Marks & Loose Skin? (NSFW Photos)
- My Mental Issues with Healthy Eating/Dieting
- Should I take my friends advice??
- Made it to the 240s and more
- I’m a sugar addict
- It's actually happening!
| I lost so much weight my phone didn’t recognize me. Posted: 27 Nov 2020 05:47 PM PST Back in 2017 when the iPhone X was released I was very hyped for it and I bought it. The iPhone X was the very first iPhone with that used your face to unlock it, and when I got it I was nearly 600 lbs at 22 years old. Years of depression and stress eating had taken their toll and I barely ever left my room, much less my apartment. Setting that up was probably the first time I had seen myself in over a year, and that's what made me decide to change. Over the past 3 years I've lost over 350 lbs and am at 250 now. Over time my face unlock has gotten less and less reliable, which I mainly chalked up to aging. Well it's not worked for a good week now, so I went into the settings and got a look at it. I turned it off and then redid the process and it has worked flawlessly. That means I lost enough weight to the point my phone didn't recognize me anymore. This was really the cherry on top that all my hard work was worth it. I was going to order a pizza to celebrate but I realized that the days of food rewards are long behind me, so instead I am making this post. Good luck everybody, you got this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 01:30 PM PST Since this was first written as a comment on r/progresspics, LoseIt gets mentioned in the third person! Progress pics included in link at the end. Very minor edits made from original comment. ——————————————————————- Basically halfway to my goal weight after starting to count calories at the beginning of April (so around 7-8 months progress)! Backstory I've always been curvy/thick as an adult (around 140-155), but in 2018-2019 my love of food got out of control and into binge eating territory. I went from around 150 to 200 in about a year or so I would guess (let the batteries in my scale stay dead for way too long haha) and then stayed at 200 for a while, ignoring my decreasing self esteem and tightening clothes until I took the opportunity at an antique store to step on an old doctors-style scale. When it said 200 I actually shed some tears, not because being overweight is the worst that can happen, but because I knew I had done this through extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms. My husband tried to insist the scale was inaccurate (I mean, it was an antique), but I knew in my heart that it was likely true, and it was confirmed when I stepped on the bathroom scale at a friends house. I still kind of ignored it for a few months (though I did finally buy some bigger pants-another upsetting moment to realize I'd gained 2 pants sizes while only wearing leggings due to being heavy), until April when after a month of lockdown depression I decided to make the most of my new unemployed free time to really work on getting back to where I feel healthy and happy. Method I calculated my TDEE (something around 1800-1850), and decided to aim for 1200-1300 calories 6 days a week with a cheat day on the weekends. This made my daily average calorie intake around 1300 to 1400, with some weeks as high as 1500 or 1600, but as long as my weekly average was a deficit I considered it a success! I eat pretty much whatever I want as long as it fits into my calories, but a natural side effect of limiting to 1200-1300 was incorporating a lot more vegetables, more lean protein, and a lot fewer carbs to maintain a feeling of fullness. I usually skip breakfast, eat a smaller lunch (~300 calories), a decent sized dinner (~600 calories), and then a snack around 10 pm (~300 calories) because I find planning my calories this way helps me avoid the previously-common late night binging! I also found that thinking of something a little junky/indulgent earlier in the day to save for my late night snack helps keep me on track the rest of the day, because I can think "is this donut at work going to be as satisfying as if I wait and eat the fancy cheese and crackers/pizza rolls/yasso bar that I have planned for later?" and typically the answer is no. No exercise yet, because frankly I hate it, I get catcalled outside and the gyms were closed, and I knew that adding it in when my food wasn't under control could be overwhelming for me. I plan to start incorporating a more fitness based approach once I hit 160, because ultimately my goal is to be healthy and I know exercise is important. I subscribed to a lot of weight loss subreddits which also helped me keep a healthy mindset and gave me inspiration for new foods and techniques to incorporate into a low calorie lifestyle. I love r/loseit, r/1200isplenty, r/1500isplenty, r/volumeeating, and to keep myself lighthearted about the whole thing r/1200isfineiguessugh and r/1200isjerky. I also subscribed to r/diettea when I realized that a lot of the posts on diet subreddits can be from people with disordered habits and ideas, so seeing these pointed out helped me maintain a healthy attitude and realize when my own thoughts started to be too controlling. I've never had an ED (ok, possibly BED to be honest but although my therapist and I discussed it there were at the time bigger fish to fry and I've never been diagnosed as such), but I have a history of mental illness and as a result wanted to take caution. What I Learned It's all about the long game. On r/loseit, people talk all the time about how it's a marathon, and that is the best mindset to have. Every good decision is a bad decision you didn't make, and every day is a new day. You never need to punish yourself for your diet decisions, just pick yourself up and keep to your goals the next day (or meal even!). Eating too much for 1 day, or even 1 week, will not erase the progress you've made, so enjoy the holidays and vacations! I've also learned to listen to my body much better. Before, I would have days or weeks where I ate until I felt sick, waited until I just didn't feel like I was on the verge of vomiting anymore, and then would eat again. I'm not sure I even ever felt genuine hunger for about a year, because if my mind even thought of food, I had food. At times I felt addicted to food, incapable of talking down my urges to eat, caving to them, and then feeling guilty. Now, if I'm hungry, I'll hydrate and wait to see if it's genuine, a craving, or just dehydration. If I'm hungry and lunch is only an hour away, I'll just wait. Hunger is not some unbearable sensation to me anymore! At the same time, if I am genuinely hungry and won't be eating soon, I will have a snack, even if it puts me over my calories. Anyway, I am so excited about my progress and even more excited that watching what I eat and losing this weight has become second nature to me. My cravings are manageable 98% of the time (and the 2% of the time I cave are not going to make me 200lbs again overnight), and I finally feel like I have a healthy relationship with food and my relationship with my body is healing as well. And not carrying 35 extra pounds around with me has made my joints and muscles much more resilient (I used to have to limp to my car after a 9 hour shift as a barista because my back and hips would lock up- not anymore!). I did not intend to write an essay, but here I am. If you just read all of that, I hope you found it inspiring. I tried to label it in a way that would make it easy for people to find the key information they needed. Happy progress! picture, NSFW (underwear) from 193 in the first to 166 in the second (today!) [link] [comments] |
| I know this happens but cant believe it’s happening to me! Posted: 27 Nov 2020 01:02 PM PST I was telling my aunt about my weight lose progress and how happy i am that im focused and staying on track yet so impatient since i still have a long way to go. She told me how i look healthy now and i didnt need to lose weight anymore. When i told her i still had 20lbs until i reach healthy bmi she was concerned and felt like i would be underweight then. She is obese her self(so was everyone else in my family) but wow people really do not know what healthy weight is! Im so happy im not close to my goal weight though because i still dont feel best but happy to have a positive relationship with food and working out now! [link] [comments] |
| [NSV] I ate until I was full at thanksgiving, not until I made myself sick Posted: 28 Nov 2020 12:04 AM PST So, I've been working hard on intuitive eating, partially because CICO, while the most efficient manner, causes me to have anxiety issues. So I step on the scale a couple of times a week, and focus hard on not overeating. Portion control and just trying to eat less has already meant a loss of 60 pounds or so. I knew going into thanksgiving that it was gonna be tough, but I told myself I wouldn't shame myself for eating, and I was gonna focus on enjoying the food and not overeating. Well, it seems super small, cause I ate all day and I know I'm gonna wince as I step on the scale over the next week, but I kept my promise to myself. I never once ate until I was sick, or felt unwell. I stopped several times during family food times and said to my family that I was full for now, and I'd hit up for leftovers later. I still ate more food than normal, and I've definitly had more left over turkey sandwich snacks, but I kept control, I never ate more than my body could handle, and I drank lots of water and gave myself plenty of time to digest. It's a small victory, but it's mine. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 09:11 PM PST I'm 19 and My older sister is 24, she moved out in 2015 and in 2017 she decided to change the way she was living. She's lost around 150 pounds since and is generally much healthier and happier. This is where it gets hard, She moved back in to my parents house because of covid and things have been bad with her. Everyone in our house has been trying to eat healthier and lose weight for the last two years and she hasn't been supportive at all. Every time I go for a run she scoffs at me and is generally very condescending, when I eat healthy meals near her she glares at me or if I eat unhealthy she makes rude comments. When we go for family hikes she's refuses to go and is really rude to everyone after we come home. No one makes any comments on what she eats or when she works out and I have tried to talk to her but she's really dismissive and I honestly have no idea what I've done wrong. I'm still 53 pounds overweight and it's incredibly hard to stay motivated when she does this everyday. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 09:55 PM PST This has been one of the hardest experiences that I've ever been through, especially with everything that has happened to me in the past year. I was diagnosed with heart palpitations in December 2019, I lost my grandmother who took care of me as a baby and I got into a really bad accident and broke my clavicle (for those that don't know, that's your collarbone) in 3 different places. It has been such a rollercoaster since then between the funeral and all of the surgeries, and I honestly felt like giving up at one point. I've pretty much been considered overweight my whole life (I'm only 5' 4", btw) and it was nearly impossible to workout because I would have mild panic attacks every single time my heart race increased and I didn't understand why until now. So I was basically helpless throughout my teenage years. I just turned 23 in March and I decided that it was time to make a change, no matter what I had to do because I really needed something positive to happen to me after all of pain and suffering. I told myself that it was the first thing that I was going to do when I got out of the hospital. Without being able to exercise regularly, I figured the best thing to do was to find a way to change my relationship with food. My biggest problem was that I felt hungry all the time and I wouldn't stop eating once I started and I just didn't know how to fight my urges. So I started doing some research and found out that adding certain things to your diet can make you feel full longer and minimize how many calories that you consume on a daily basis. I knew it would be hard for me to develop a new habit like that, so I made an effort to start doing it every morning and every night, twice a day for at least a month. And I stopped weighing myself constantly because I didn't want the number to discourage me. The very first week was extremely difficult and I almost gave up if I'm being honest. I missed a day or two but I was following the routine by the second week, and I also felt more energized which gave me a lot more confidence to keep going. I just told myself not to overthink it and that it would all be worth it in the end. Fast forward to today, I just can't believe that this actually happened to me. All of my hard work and dedication has paid off and I'm so proud of myself for being able to do this! Anyone who has ever struggled with this knows that when you have a breakthrough that changes your life, it's like a miracle or a blessing or something extraordinary and out of this world. I've waited years to feel like this and I hope that my experience motivates someone else to take the first step because you'll eventually thank yourself later. I know now that nothing is impossible as long as you put your mind to it and that you can overcome your greatest obstacles by just staying focused on your goals. Here's my progress pic (from 173 pounds —> 128 pounds & happy :)) https://imgur.com/t/diet/w3JIbyV I just want to thank this community for everything y'all have done for me. I used to just visit and read some of the posts before signing up today and it feels absolutely amazing to finally share my story and feel part of something bigger than myself. So thank you again for all the love and support! <3 [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone ever lost weight for the purpose of getting a relationship? Posted: 27 Nov 2020 03:54 PM PST For reference, I am 5'2" 193. Alot of us lose weight for many different reasons, ive found those who are so obese they need to for their life as a big reason. I think every reason is valid, but I have another reason. Im 23 and never been in a relationship. I've dated, but no relationship even though I worked hard to create one (nurturing, etc.). I feel like in some way, you need to pay to get into one. Wether currency, physically, mentally, etc. I feel like their is a price to pay. And I am willing to lose 100 lbs or so for my chance. I want to get married in a few years and settle down, and I feel like the clock is ticking for me as I see my old friends have kids and get married. It is painful for me to watch. Has anyone lost weight for the purpose of finding someone? I once put random persons insta pics on hinge and they got 10x more matches than I ever did [link] [comments] |
| How I Lost Ten Pounds of Quarantine Weight Recently Posted: 27 Nov 2020 06:37 PM PST Using my new fitbit, getting sober, logging my food and steady workouts I have had success. I think that knowing my calories I burn from the fitbit estimate mixed with me knowing the total calories I put into my body, just that awareness, are 70% of the reasons for weight loss. 243 to 233 in two months, half of which was in the past two weeks from the addition of logging my calories. I wasn't trying a new diet but generally eating healthier, being sober and it all made me aware of how much I was eating. I stopped craving food as much as I used to. Truly this is an amazing feat for me to finally find out the equation for my own personal Weight loss. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: November 29th, 2020 Posted: 27 Nov 2020 11:00 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] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 08:52 PM PST F32 / 5'7" / 191lbs Making it official by introducing myself and committing to getting back to a HEALTHY weight in a SANE way!! I have spent my life battling my body and was hospitalized a little over a decade ago for an eating disorder. I am a recovered bulimic (purging/over-exercise) and have never had a full relapse, but I have toed the line over the years between COE and partial remission. I struggle constantly with "moderation".... I'm either all-in or all-out when it comes to eating and exercise. I am tired (or downright exhausted) of the shame and guilt I have been carrying around about my body over all of these years. This time the journey isn't just about the weight but also discovering what it means to not hate my body in the process.... I look forward to meeting you all in the coming months! (I wanted to make this separate post to say anyone on the same journey, I'd love to hear your wisdom on how to avoid the slippery slope towards those negative behaviors... how do you still get results without careening off the cliff?😬💜) [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else have sweatpants dysmorphia? Posted: 27 Nov 2020 06:01 AM PST I am about 8 years maintaining after losing 50 lbs in 2012-2013. It took me all this time to be able to be confident in how I look in loose clothing (sweat pants and a hoodie). For whatever reason, I have been wearing as shapely clothing as possible so I remind myself that, yes, I am this small now. Every time I would put on sweat pants and/or other loose/baggy clothing and looked in the mirror, my brain reshaped my body to be bigger than it is. Like many I am working from home during this pandemic and so sweatpants are my new everyday clothes (lol). Plus I have a new pup that I need to walk multiple times a day. Earlier this week I put on my sweatpants and hoodie to take my pup for her morning walk and looked in the mirror. For the first time ever my brain did not expand my body inside the loose clothing and I saw myself for the size I am now. It felt nice. It was a weird NSV, 8 years after the fact. Anyone else have this? [link] [comments] |
| Struggling to lose more but super close to my goal. Posted: 27 Nov 2020 07:15 PM PST Hi everyone, I'm 22/F, 5'2, and 115 pounds. My goal is 108 but I am finding it really challenging to get to. I know the hurdle is a mental one. In the physical realm everything is going well. I weigh my food, eat whole foods and have a good macro setup. I eat 1,600 calories a day and I eat back all my steps from work (I'm a package carrier and very active, but I allow the extra calories burned lifting the packages to be my wiggle room and I don't eat that back). I also lift weights and eat those calories back too. So usually I end up eating 1,600 on non work days, and between 2,000-2,500 on work days. As high as that sounds I do lose weight on it but like I said I am having a really hard time mentally. I usually finish my calories by 8 or 9 pm but after that point I feel like I'm just killing time waiting to sleep so I can eat the next day. I think about food constantly and can't stick to my range and binge every few days. Logically I know I don't weigh too much and that my goals are leaning out. But it feels really crazy hard losing anymore. And for the record I don't look lean at all right now. I am afraid to go any higher in my calories because it seems like every 5'2 woman online eats 1,200 a day without eating back her gym routine and I feel like I'm eating so much already on the occasional 10 hour day where I end up having 2,500 calories. [link] [comments] |
| New here! F/29. [SW: 230 CW: 205 GW: 185] stuck at 205 �� Posted: 27 Nov 2020 07:41 PM PST I'm new to this sub and like what I've seen of the community so far so I wanted to say hi and share where I'm at. I hit my highest weight after my pregnancy. I was always chubby but was never not confident like I was with my post-baby body (my pre pregnancy weight was 190 or so). My daughter was born September 2019, and I started actively trying to lose weight in February 2020. I fell off the wagon for awhile but just hopped back on it a month or so ago. Thankfully I hadn't gained weight from where I left off, but didn't really lose any either (left off at 212, picked up at 208.6 with about a 4 month hiatus). I think I was just so happy that my jeans fit again that I stopped caring for a bit. I've been using MFP since I started, and wear a fitbit. I pay the most attention to never going over on carbs or sugar, and do my best to hit my protein goal. I'm having a really hard time getting past my current weight of 205, but I'm trying really hard to remember I will get there as long as I keep up with healthier habits. Being stuck in the low 200's is really frustrating me, I can't seem to break into the 'one-derland'. I typically burn between 2400-3000 calories a day, and consume 1850. The past couple weeks I've been trying to stay closer to 1600 a few days a week. When I had been at it earlier in the year, I felt like I had a period of slow weight loss, then hit a point where I was consistently seeing the scale go down after maybe 2 months. [link] [comments] |
| I'm concerned about the weight gaining path I'm on and need advice. Posted: 27 Nov 2020 03:52 PM PST I get poor sleep because of sleep apnea ( I have a CPAP, but the machine keeps me up ), then I drink caffeine to give me the energy to work and exercise which never works, don't workout or just lift weights because cardio is a lot of energy, then I can't go to bed because of the caffeine and when I do go to sleep the cycle repeats... I don't know how to get out of this cycle. Not to mention I have to be at a computer for 10+ hours a day for my 9-5 and my own business. I used to be in very good shape and was the asshole who told fat people "Just stop being lazy". Now I understand how much of a prick I was. I was so much happier and healthier when I was in shape, I want to get back there so bad but I can't do the way I've been going. Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 07:27 PM PST Hello friends, I'm looking for some advice. I've been sort of chubby my entire life, and have never really had a dating life. But around the age of 20, I lost a LOT of weight because I had a very active job (I was maybe 140 lbs, the lowest in my adult body, but I was so confident in my body that I had never even weighed myself!), I started dating a 32y man and started having sex. I had some bodily insecurities but they weren't too bad. But our relationship was terrible and he treated me like shit, and I started eating in secret & gaining weight. He would making comments about my body too, if he had occasional ED he would blame it on my weight (though he would drink and smoke pot like crazy). [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 28 November 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 28 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] |
| How Do You Deal With Stretch Marks & Loose Skin? (NSFW Photos) Posted: 27 Nov 2020 08:10 PM PST Hey all, I'm extremely nervous about writing this post, but I'm going to do it anyway. Hopefully it's helpful to other folks. I'm 33 / M / 6'1" /180 lbs. 10 years ago I was much heavier, closer to 260. I've Yo-yo'ed a lot but have kept it off over the last year. Unfortunately, I went through phases where I lost too much weight too fast, and didn't address my stretch marks and loose skin. Now I'm trying to figure out what the best way to deal with it is. I have stretch marks on my sides, along with on my thighs near my groin. I also have an extremely annoying little pocket of chub on my stomach that I can't seem to get rid of. EXTREMELY NSFW: https://imgur.com/a/cA2vVE2 My questions: - What should I do to try and get rid of these stretch marks? I've tried derma-rolling, coconut oil, shea butter, bio oil, micro-needling, collagen supplements - nothing seems to work. - What should I do to tighten up my skin? I am around 11% body fat now after a Dexa scan, but I don't look as good because I think I have too much skin around my midsection Curious if you have any ideas, and if you're someone suffering from stretch marks and loose skin, I feel for you. Thank you for all your help and for reading. [link] [comments] |
| My Mental Issues with Healthy Eating/Dieting Posted: 27 Nov 2020 09:14 PM PST I have been trying to stop snacking on junk food and all that, though it's difficult since I am addicted to high-sodium drinks. I can ditch the snacks, though not the drinks. Sodium drinks makes me feel alive—metaphorically and realistically. Whenever I don't feel like doing something, these drinks always does the thing to push me. It seriously gives me strength both mentally and physically. I drank less of the drinks for about a month, I know stress is not a good excuse, but I'm back at drinking it again. Came back from exercising, felt weak, my mind was numb, I was tired, extremely sleepy, and suddenly felt as if my mind switched to auto-pilot. On my way back a not-too-far home, I drank 3 high-sodium drinks and brought an extra one home. This always happen. I feel like I can't do this alone, my mind is too weak. I have no one who's interested to help me. How should I do this? (I also plan on going on a diet, fruits and all. I also plan on only eating that and...cornflakes. Is it a good enough option? I need to lose weight.) [link] [comments] |
| Should I take my friends advice?? Posted: 27 Nov 2020 09:13 PM PST Recently my friends have been ordering clothes online and jumping on the Black Friday discount bandwagon. I said to one of my friends that as much as I want to buy clothes online I'd rather wait till I've lose weight (normally I say till I'm skinny but my friend told me not to say that and stop being negative so I want to lose about a stone before ordering new clothes) one friend then suggested that I buy the clothes in the sizes I WANT to be I.e. instead of a XL order a M , I thought this was good idea as it would be a bit of motivation but I'm not sure if it is the best idea for my mental health or even if that is a health mind set to have. Should I take my friends advice and order clothes in a smaller size so I'm motivated to fit in them? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 06:29 AM PST Back in May I weighed in at my heaviest at 264. This morning I weighed in at 248. The last time I was at this weight was about two years ago after giving birth to my son. I went down a path of severe depression. A marriage I couldn't live any longer in and feeling horrible about where I was in my life. All I could see in the mirror was death. Death because I was unhealthy and fat. Death because I was in a marriage with someone who really wasn't the right partner for me. Death because I saw myself in financial ruin. Death because I wasn't being the mother I wanted to be. Death because when I looked in the mirror, I didn't know who I was anymore. This led me down a path beginning last year that I never knew if I'd come out of. But- I have come out of it and today I feel alive. I've made lots of changes to my situation and this morning I weighed in at 248. I can't remember the last time I've lost 16 lbs. Sure- it's been "slow". But all I know is gaining weight. Never losing. I've done so much work on my soul the past few months and I haven't really focused on calorie intake and whatnot. With a stronger inside, I'm so excited to focus on my health. And it's because I love myself that I want to do this. So today. I'm so excited to be 248. Let's fucking do this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 09:49 AM PST I have gained a lot of weight recently so I began to pay attention to my eating habits. Upon observation I realize I am a complete sugar addict. Like I have one cookie and my brain goes haywire and I need more and more sugar! I cannot eat just one piece of chocolate, on brownie, one cookie. I am a healthy eater in every other aspect of my life. I don't over eat my other favorite foods. Just sugar. My brain definitely gets triggered like an addicts brain gets triggered So let me ask this. I've battled with food all my life. Diets, restrictions, etc. I've tried to just enjoy certain things in moderation and not let myself be so restrictive. But do we tell alcoholics to drink in moderation? Heroin addicts to use in moderation? Wouldn't it be smart to restrict my addiction so I don't fall off the wagon? Because that's where I go wrong all the time. I can't just have one. I'm not capable. I wish I could be someone who can eat a cookie once in a blue moon and move on. But I can't. I think I would be sad to never have sweets again, but as an addict, how do I get my brain under control? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 04:55 AM PST I recently participated in the loseit challenge here and it's been great. I think I've finally found a way to do this without destroying myself mentally. I am very proud of myself - I have challenged myself to do some form of yoga every day, and over the course of the 8 weeks, I missed only 4 days - and for good, legitimate reasons, too. The other part is I set up myself to walk every day as often as possible. I've been managing 6 days out of 7, on average. It's done wonders for my self-esteem - seeing myself commit to something and doing it. I think the magic was in the specific time frame. I've always told myself "from now on, I'm doing X every day". It usually lasted maybe 2 weeks. Having the end in sight made me push through even if I didn't feel like it at the time. There was quite a bit of pride in that. There was a clear win/fail condition and I could see myself winning. Without an end date, the only realistic outcome was failure - sooner or later. Currently, after the 8 weeks ended, the yoga sessions grew admittedly a bit more sparse, but on the other hand, I'm getting really restless if I don't get my daily walking fix. I keep pushing myself to go further and faster just because it feels nice. I got somewhat fitter, more comfortable in my body, which in turn makes me move more, just because it feels good. I just break into a dance when doing the dishes, run up the stairs just because I want to, stuff like that. The walks specifically did wonders for my mental health, I feel much more capable, more upbeat, more balanced. My posture is so much better now, which made all the little aches and pains go away for the most part. I now feel ready to take up something more vigorous without fear of injury. Two weeks ago, me and my partner decided to go on a small hike with a friend. I was initially discouraged because the guys just raced forward and I struggled to keep up as always. But they burned themselves up really fast and I just kept going. It was nothing too extreme, 16km in some slightly more challenging terrain with some rather steep elevation in places, it took us a bit over 3 hours, but towards the end, both guys were spent. My partner, who has always been much more fit than I was (pre-corona, at least), was just done for the day, but I decided to do a grocery run on top of that and even challenged myself to go on my regular nighttime walk afterwards (7km). I went past my limit then, but it felt really good to push myself at the same time. I didn't even feel tired the next day. Maybe next summer we can finally get around to do some proper trekking in the mountains. I went on a similar "minihike" in the same area about two months ago and I was still tired and sore the day after, so it's a definite improvement. After the first few weeks, I stopped watching my intake as much as I believed I should have. I only took care to limit some of the more... unnecessary food items I tend to eat. I've somehow organically started adding more vegetables - I tried a lot of things to make myself do that, but now that I've discovered I can take a bag of frozen broccoli or brussel sprouts, dump it in my hot-air fryer and have a small meal just like that, it just stuck. I think the overall better frame of mind, paired with some serious soul-searching that was made possible by all the alone time I spend walking contributes to being more aware of all the impulses to overeat. I was convinced it can't really work without some serious action on the food front. In the past, I was more used to rapid losses and in a well-hidden corner of my mind I kept comparing my progress to that. Telling myself that I'm losing my time, that I could have dropped 15 kilos in this timeframe (and regain them just as fast, but that part doesn't count - that was me being a bad person and this time I can be good, I swear). But today I reached a mini-goal- 5 kilos lost, from a starting point of just under 100kg. That's too much to be just water weight. This thing is actually working and I'm not killing myself to get there. In fact, I'm enjoying myself. This I can keep up. Also, TMI - sex is so much better now. I feel more confident in moving my body so I'm much more active, I'm more flexible and there's no more discomfort in my back so we can just... do stuff and enjoy ourselves. There is also a difference in how stuff feels, which I attribute to my pelvic floor being in better shape. It would be worth it for the sex alone, TBH. [link] [comments] |
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