Weight loss: [Challenge] Next Challenge Announcement - LOSEIT NEW YEAR, NEW WORLD - STARTS JAN 1st! |
- [Challenge] Next Challenge Announcement - LOSEIT NEW YEAR, NEW WORLD - STARTS JAN 1st!
- Gentle reminder that self care and mental wellness are very necessary parts of your weight loss journey
- Don’t say “man, I wasted this year” twice in a row
- Walking 5k a day helped me lose weight more than any other exercise or diet
- Victory post: Gone from a size 18au to size 16au!!
- I didn't make any of my goals this year. And that's OK.
- I lost over 60 pounds getting obsessed with watching and playing basketball..
- Bedbound losing weight
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: December 29th, 2020
- I reached my highest weight this year
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 29 December 2020: Today, I conquered!
- Am I really facing a multi-year slog?
- Weight Loss Friend!
- Seven Months into "Weight Loss" and Losing Hope...
- Why is it so hard to motivate myself to lose weight? Any tips?
- People who've succeeded in maintaining a long term significant weight loss, how did your beliefs change?
- Tending to my mental health helped me more than anything else
- My partner wants to lose weight but doesn't take any steps towards long-term sustainable change.
- Seeking tips and tricks to replace stress eating
- Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!
- How to be a good friend to someone losing weight?
- Plan to donate or toss my entire Pantry, Freezer, and Fridge on New Years Eve
- Looking back (at 2020), looking forward (to 2021), and looking sideways (in the mirror)
| [Challenge] Next Challenge Announcement - LOSEIT NEW YEAR, NEW WORLD - STARTS JAN 1st! Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:00 AM PST WHAT IS A LOSEIT CHALLENGE? The loseit challenges are a friendly, team based, weight loss and activity challenge. Users will sign up, establish their starting weight and goal for the 6 week challenge, and then weigh in weekly to track their progress. Every week there will be a head to head challenge in which teams will compete in steps or activity minutes! THE NEXT LOSEIT CHALLENGE: LOSEIT, NEW YEAR, NEW WORLD New Year, New World, New You. Last year was something else, and we are here to help! Don't just enter a new year, enter a new World. Loseit teams will be named after different fantasy worlds. Signups will open January 1st and the challenge will run through Feb 19th. Look for posts in both r/loseit and r/LoseitChallenges Post below which fantasyland you are hoping to escape to! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2020 11:12 AM PST Weight loss can be really emotionally and mentally taxing at times. Making healthy lifestyle changes takes energy, discipline, and self regulation. I've often found myself in a vicious cycle where poor diet and low exercise negatively impacts my mental wellness and leaves me without the energy or capacity to focus on maintaining weight loss. Over and over again, I wind up giving up on weight loss and gaining all the weight back because I feel too overwhelmed by it. After years and years of trying to lose weight, I made the decision to stop actively trying and instead focus solely on my mental health. I started focusing on therapy and self improvement. I took all the energy I've focused on controlling my eating habits and instead poured it into creating a daily routine, prioritizing sleep hygiene, making social connections, getting involved in hobbies. Eventually this translated into a natural desire to eat healthier and exercise because it aids me in doing the things I love to do. Weight loss and healthy living feels like a gift I am giving myself, rather than a punishment for my misdeeds. I'm no longer sacrificing sleep so that I can get in some extra steps or precisely measure out my meal prep for the week. I don't feel guilty for stepping away from counting calories when I feel overwhelmed by life, and I don't fall back into my old habits of comforting myself with food when I do. Health living doesn't feel like as much of a burden now as it used to be. I want say all of this because I see posts now and then from people who feel completely overwhelmed and downtrodden about their attempts at losing weight. I wish I had realized earlier that it is totally okay for me to focus on mental health over physical health sometimes, and that failing to do so was antagonistic to my attempts at fixing my physical health. While weight gain and obesity are the products of unhealthy life choices, it's important to recognize that those unhealthy choices exist for a reason and that reason is never your personal moral failing. It can be a symptom of poor mental health, poor self esteem, or a lack of healthy coping mechanisms. It can be a result of upbringing, a lack of education about nutrition, or limited access to healthy foods. There's a million reasons potential reasons that you're overweight and it can be really helpful to recognize those reasons and work on them directly before focusing on trying to lose weight. You might be sabotaging your efforts without even realizing it. One last thing for everyone who is struggling with weight gain this past year. It's okay. It's really, really okay. You're not bad or a failure or lazy for gaining weight during lockdown. Your life has been turned upside down and every day is full of stress that you've never had to face before. There's no playbook for how to live through a pandemic and really none of us were prepared to cope with this. Be kind to yourself, you really are doing the best you can. It's okay if your best right now is worse than your best used to be. Remember that this is all temporary, these circumstances will change eventually. For some of us, lockdown has made weight loss easier, but for so many people it has made it much, much harder. It's okay if you are struggling to restrict food, if you feel overwhelmed. Do what you can every day, and don't sweat the days where you can't seem to do much at all. We're gonna get through this, a day at a time. Be kind to yourself as much as you can. [link] [comments] |
| Don’t say “man, I wasted this year” twice in a row Posted: 28 Dec 2020 08:29 PM PST As the year closes, I've seen so many Instagram pictures, Facebook posts, TikToks, Reddit updates and more of people who absolutely CRUSHED this year. (And I'm SO happy for those people!!!) But, in each and every comments section, I see similar comments from people lamenting that they aren't sharing their success story this December. A specific comment I've seen is "I have wasted this year". This year was bananas. For some people, it pushed them to routine. To focus on their health. To make amazing and sustainable changes. To succeed in reaching their goals and they sit here in December basking in their success. And that's AMAZING. But for other people (ahem ME), this year was a dumpster fire. Working from home destroyed my routine, the never-ending feeling of the pandemic triggered mental health issues I didn't know I had, ordering food from local businesses felt like a life saving action and it because continuously justifiable and overall, bettering myself during a year that felt like an absolute trash can felt useless. I look at success stories and think, ugh! If I had just started back in March, where would I be now? But guess what! That thought helps NOTHING. I want to work to make sure I don't say the same thing at the end of 2021. You didn't waste the year. You survived. You got through what was a truly insane, ~unprecedented~ year, and if you came out weighing the same (or more — ahem, ME AGAIN) that is MORE THAN OKAY. You didn't waste the year because your success does not require a timeline. For me, my timeline starts anew. I didn't fail, I delayed my success. I just want to make sure I arrive at that success, and look back a year from now and feel like I made the most of my year. Here's to 2021! Go easy on yourselves. <3 [link] [comments] |
| Walking 5k a day helped me lose weight more than any other exercise or diet Posted: 28 Dec 2020 02:05 PM PST As the title says, for me, walking was the key to losing weight! After years of going on food restrictions, crazy exercises challenges, the thing that worked was simply going on walks outside! I'm not saying this will work for everyone, but maybe instead of going too hard and doing a routine that's not sustainable ( what I used to do), simply starting to walk everyday might help you more than you think. Of course, this is for weight loss, it wont make you super shredded. As the new year is approaching, I thought this might be helpful to some of you! I started with the 10k step challenge at beginning of quarantine and it has done wonders for my weight-loss journey. Also, try not to step on the scale right now, before the holidays I was at 116 lbs and now I am around 124 and I was shocked haha [link] [comments] |
| Victory post: Gone from a size 18au to size 16au!! Posted: 29 Dec 2020 01:39 AM PST Very proud moment for me(F22) today, down 12kg and a dress size! I will admit that I did have some help from duromine, but also strict diet/ calorie counting and being generally more active than I once was. I have struggled with my weight ever since falling pregnant with my daughter (almost 4 years ago now) during my pregnancy I went from a healthy 60kg to 93kg (height of CM 160/165ish) and due to me having PCOS nothing seemed to help shift the weight long term, but I'm 3 months in, 12kg down and never felt better! I'm still 15/20kg off of my goal weight but I'm determined to keep going, keep pushing and keep feeling better in my own skin!! [link] [comments] |
| I didn't make any of my goals this year. And that's OK. Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:13 PM PST I'm mostly writing this to reassure myself, but also to show solidarity to others that may feel they have fallen short. I wanted to lose 40lbs this year. I wanted to run a marathon this year. I wanted to do a headstand this year. I signed up for "run the year" where you're challenged to run as many miles as the year (2,020 miles in for 2020). I have started and slipped on "cleaner, better" eating habits so many times this year. And that's ok. I am still stuck in the 2-3wk cycle - where I stick to something for a few weeks and then slip before it's all lost and I have to start over again. I can blame COVID all I want, but I've been in this cycle for as long as I can remember. I *have* to be OK with all of this. Otherwise I'll crumble and back track back to where I was this time last year. This time last year I was 205lbs. I was drinking everyday. I was barely moving. I was suicidal. I was depressed beyond anything. And I was pushing everyone away. That's when I said I would run every time I wanted to drink. Didn't matter how far. I would just get up and move. I ran a lot those first two months of the year but I stopped running any semblance of regularly around September. I haven't hit my goals. But I'm in a better place than I was. [link] [comments] |
| I lost over 60 pounds getting obsessed with watching and playing basketball.. Posted: 28 Dec 2020 05:16 PM PST I'm new on this sub, so I'm sure it's been said plenty, but it's absolutely incredible how much passion you have for the method you're using to lose weight (lifting, running, etc) matters. The method most backed by research is of little use if you don't enjoy it or stay compliant. So a better way is simply to choose a method you're most likely to do. Although it may have not been very efficient, I played a lot of basketball for a year and a half, lost over 60 pounds. I love the sense of mastery it gives you. Getting good at it boosts your confidence in your abilities in other areas of life. Also, for me personally, learning about the exact skills by carefully watching players like LeBron, Chris Paul, etc. drove me much further. It wasn't just like forcing myself to run, but a genuine interest in the mechanics of the sport and the limits I could push myself to. So, as Franz Kafka said, follow your passions mercislessly [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2020 05:30 PM PST I'm happy for the first time since i remember my weight is going down! I'm from Colombia, I'm 30 years old, and I've been in bed for 4 years because of my obesity. All my entire life I have been superobese. Actually Im in the process of undergoing gastric bypass surgery, but the doctor requires me to lose weight, so it has been impossible, when I was in bed I weighed about 800 pounds (4 years ago) I could barely walk, but I could go out in my wheelchair, a day I just couldn't get up. My maximum weight was a month ago, I weigh 884 pounds, more than 400 kg, I said it was my time to change, I went down to 878, it is not much, but it is the first time that my weight goes down, instead of just going up . Sorry for the mistakes typing, English is not my first language. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: December 29th, 2020 Posted: 28 Dec 2020 11:01 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] |
| I reached my highest weight this year Posted: 28 Dec 2020 08:27 AM PST Three months before the pandemic hit, I got an office job. Then almost as soon as I started, we all started working at home. I noticed I wasn't exercising and just eating out of boredom. I've always been heavy, even as a little kid. I'm 21 F, 5'0" and weighed in this year at 215. As soon as I noticed my weight, I went on a diet and exercising 4 days a week. This all started back in November after falling off the wagon, I'm now down to 186 pounds with a GW of 120. I'm really proud of myself for getting back to the grind and keeping a routine. According to my calorie app I should reach my goal by 10/27/2021. I'm extremely proud of myself. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 29 December 2020: Today, I conquered! Posted: 29 Dec 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] |
| Am I really facing a multi-year slog? Posted: 28 Dec 2020 09:11 AM PST I'll begin by admitting openly that I know that I've allowed myself to get into this position. I'm a 28 year old male who eats away his feelings and is more sedentary than a sloth. As such, I'm now pushing probably the 330 pound mark and I'm at a point where I realize that something has to change. I've been looking through some weight loss subs to get inspiration and learn from others examples and I find myself being more disheartened than inspired. Most people I see in my situation show before and after photos years apart, sometimes more than 5 years. I fully realize that I'm not going to lose years worth of bad eating habits and no exercise in a week, but am I really facing years of struggling with poor eating habits and sore muscles to turn this gargantuan ship around? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2020 09:46 PM PST Hey all! I'm 19f, USA, a college student. I currently weigh 250lbs-257lbs (5'7") and my goal weight is 200 or less. Nearly a year ago I got down to 190-200 and was extremely happy. I don't mind being a lil thicker so 200 is a good goal for me, but I could always lose more (: I would love to have someone to share my feats, meals, workouts, habits, etc with. I'm a lifelong vegetarian and can recommend a lot of great vegan/veggie substitutions and meals. I would prefer someone near my age (17-25) and in the range of weight I'm trying to lose (about 50 pounds) I'm non-judgmental and really just want someone to keep me motivated and for me to be proud of too! Let me know!! <3 Snapchat or instagram would work best for me. Peace, love, and health to all of you reading this. [link] [comments] |
| Seven Months into "Weight Loss" and Losing Hope... Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:54 PM PST I'm a 25-year-old 5'1" female, now 142 lbs, down from 150 lbs last June. My goal has been to get out of the "overweight" BMI category (130 lbs) or at the very least get to 135 lbs. I've been using Noom since I started in June, and honestly the first few months saw the most progress. Been stuck on this 142 "plateau" for probably two months now, and I just feel stuck. Will probably switch to a tracker that's less expensive, since after a while I stopped reading the Noom articles. At one point I dipped down to 139, but it's never been that close for a month. Always back to 142-ish. It's frustrating, I've been constantly eating salads, avoiding fried food/beef as much as possible in favor of sushi/chicken/pork, eating whole grain breads (if I do have bread it's just breakfast and like a slice or two or maybe a bagel, but always Dave's Killer whole grain), eating more fruits, and moderating sweets to the occasional slice of cake or a couple cookies at the end of the day. Nothing crazy, I even replaced my ice cream options to Halo Top. I still do have coffee/creamer every morning, but I need it to function. Maybe I'm not measuring my portion sizes well? I think I've done a decent job and have kept my calorie count below 1200 consistently. I've used the same scale, and I weigh myself every morning with minimal clothes on (after going to the bathroom). I've really tried to be diligent, but I can't even get to 10 lbs and feel like a total failure. I'm supposed to get married next October and I can barely look at myself in the mirror sometimes (my fiance has been very sweet to me and tries to understand, but he's also a skinny twig who can somehow eat garbage with little consequence...sigh). I'm also in the medical profession, which has made time for exercise very difficult lately due to a busy work week. So...can anyone help me? Any pointers? Just losing motivation after months of trying... [link] [comments] |
| Why is it so hard to motivate myself to lose weight? Any tips? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 01:50 AM PST I need to lose ideally 70-80 pounds, but my first goal is 190. (I weight around 240-242). Before COVID I lost 50 lbs by doing Keto, intermittent fasting, and light workouts. (Gained 10-12 pounds back since last year. I've been home all the time now, and that makes it so hard to motivate myself. I REALLY REALLY WANT AND NEED THIS. Why can't I convince myself to do the work and diet? When I lost the 50lbs it was an if a light bulb turned on and suddenly my mentality changed and all o could think about was how I was going to reach that goal. I had discipline and motivation. Idk how to turn that on again. Does anyone have any motivation or discipline tips? I'm ready to change and improve my life again. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:27 AM PST I'm fascinated how much our own beliefs affect our daily lives and our abilities to reach our goals. I've found that just by challenging my current beliefs and adopting a new belief, big changes are possible. I've applied this to relationships especially and seen a big improvement (for example, I would change my belief from good relationships are rare to good relationships are common etc.). But with relationship beliefs I had a lot of people with great relationships around me to observe to come up with new beliefs and more importantly evidence for those new beliefs. I haven't really encountered that many people who've had successful weight loss so I thought I'd ask here. TLDR: if you've succeeded & maintained a big weight loss, how did your beliefs about weight and weight loss change and what are your beliefs about weight and weight loss now? ETA: thank you so much for all the replies! So much good stuff here to think about when trying to find the right mindset for my weight loss. [link] [comments] |
| Tending to my mental health helped me more than anything else Posted: 28 Dec 2020 03:45 PM PST In 2016 I was coming out of a bad relationship and not doing well. I was functional but heavily depressed--story of my life. I found the right psychiatrist and it made all the difference. My new doc got me on the right meds (after being on some sort of anti depression medication for the last decade+) and it gave me the boost in motivation that I desperately needed. I was finally able to see passed my mental hurdles and start to address problems I've always had, but never had the ability to confront. Between eating my feelings and living a sedentary life, I hit 260 pounds on the picture on the left. Now, after working hard for three years I look and feel better than I ever had before. Tebding to my mental health helped me address my physical health. So to everyone who has tried every fad diet, every strange workout with nothing but constant failure, self hatred, and that ever familiar cycle of starting, losing motivation, regaining, then losing hope-- I GET IT. I have been there too. Remember to be kind to yourself and take care of your mental health- everything else becomes a lot easier with a good frame of mind/attitude/ balanced brain chemistry. [link] [comments] |
| My partner wants to lose weight but doesn't take any steps towards long-term sustainable change. Posted: 28 Dec 2020 02:14 PM PST TL;DR Partner is overweight and verbally expresses how much they want to lose weight. We have made efforts towards adapting our food habits to become healthier. I want to be supportive, but this is their battle in the end. What are some easy to read/watch resources on the mindset of sustainable weight loss? What are some tips if you have gone through this yourself? I've been a lurker here for a while in order to get tips and tricks to help my partner in their weight loss journey. On my side, I am more of a r/gainit user as I have been consistently underweight all my life but my partner is the opposite. They have been overweight most of their life and been gaining more recently. Over the past few years that I have been with them, I always hear from them how they want to lose weight and I see them try keto or cutting out sugar for a month or two and losing some weight, but gaining it all back and more at any negative setback. It sucks to see them get unmotivated from it, and since we live together I have taken on the responsibility of planning, preparing, and making most of our meals. My rationale in taking this on is that I notice my partner's binge cycle tends to start if we don't have a meal ready to throw in the microwave the minute they get hungry. Instead of making the effort of cooking an easy meal (as we always have the ingredients for it), they tend to turn to binging on chocolates, saltines with some kind of jam, or sandwiches. Even so, we both work and some days I forget to defrost the chicken in advance. It really hurts to hear and see my partner rolling my eyes at me when they realize I forgot and nothing is ready. It actually hurts even more to see them then binging on their go-to foods immediately instead of waiting the 15 minutes it would take either of us to prepare something quick with what we have. This is also expensive, as we end up refilling on these foods very often... I could go on and on, but to bring this to the point: I need some perspective from someone who has gone through this or is going through this when it comes to the mindset and what would help in this situation. I really want to eat healthier in a sustainable way. My partner has expressed the same desire, but the brunt work (research, planning, prepping, cooking) ends up mainly in my lap. Their journey is different from mine and I want to help facilitate them as much as possible. Am I holding their hand too much? I know I'm definitely thinking too much about it as well - that's just how I am and I'm working on focusing more on the food planning rather than what my partner is eating as that isn't my responsibility anyway. Edited to add: The title makes it sounds like my partner doesn't make ANY effort at all, but that isn't true. That was just my frustration towards the situation coming out. My partner is making small changes. [link] [comments] |
| Seeking tips and tricks to replace stress eating Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:51 PM PST I couldn't think of a better way to word the title, so hopefully I can adequately explain my intent. Sorry for the wall of text. So we all know mental health is an important part of adopting a healthier lifestyle. I've been working on myself for quite a while, but I have found that I still feel compelled to stress eat after a certain point. Ive been working on getting my cna certification as I hope to eventually get into nursing. I had covid the first chunk of the class, so I couldnt leave my house, let alone work on getting my vaccinations and such. After I was as recovered as I could get, I didnt exactly get started on all that stuff right away. I'm one of those people who are dealing with long term effects. So between class, working two jobs, and being a single parent to top it off, I did not feel up to running the extra errands for the appointments for vaccinations, getting a drug panel done, etc, until basically the tail end of November. it also didnt help that things are taking way longer due to covid restrictions. I thought I had 6 months from the end of the class part of things to get my clinical and testing done. While picking through my materials yet again, I stumbled across a little segment that said that the clinical needed completed within 8 weeks of the end of class. Ok. that makes it January 5th. still time, if a bit rushed, given I only have 2 things left to get done, neither of which being difficult so long as I find the info I'm looking for. So, being reasonable, but slightly panicked as I'm not finding the info I need, I email my imstructor and the clinicals coordinator. I get an immetiade reply from their automated message thing. Both of them will be out of office for the holidays (ok thats cool)...... until January 5th. Oh. Oh no. I may or may not have nearly completely broke down christmas Eve. Needless to say I stress ate that night. Not too bad, but still. Had "free parking" on christmas day as I originally planned and felt less stressed as I prepared my loose ends I needed to do for the clinical and sent a few more emails. I had intemded to get back on track the 26th to my 1350+/- plus calories earned from walking calorie budget. I may have gone about 1500 calories over that. and about just as bad the next day. Today I received an email that brought me so much relief it nearly sent me to my knees. A real person sent me an email and said the system had my completion deadlime for my clinical being in February. My only guess is that either the deadline was extended due to covid or it was an extension granted to me individually as my instructor had talked about giving me extra time due to how hard covid had hit me. I did a bit better on my calorie budget today, being a mere 900 over intended. Still ultimately a deficite, but it settled for me that maybe I needed to reach out. Ive improved significantly over the last couple years, but obviously when things seemingly come to a head, I break. I think that ultimately comes from a lack of a productive, effective outlet for stress. Exercise seems like a thing some people do to dump their stress, but from a physical standpoint I can't do as much as would be needed for that. My lungs have been damaged from covid and that means nothing vigorous. Or in the cold. Or where theres smoke of any kind. Or, really, at any time because I've developed a bronchitus type thing that I've been trying to fend off for about 3 weeks. I'm standing in my kitchen as I type this and my lungs ache.. Not to mention my knees wont be supportive of running or anything other cycling or walking. Its winter here, so walking is limited to what I can accomplish indoors and if my lungs will tolerate tye temperature. My inhaler isnt intended to be used every 15 minutes. The other things I do for relief have covered normal daily stressors but did absolutely nothing for when I thought I'd potentially failed a major part of my future plan. I do not know why my brain registers compulsory eating as a stress relieving activity. There's never been a point where I picked up a fork and thought, 'after I eat this I will feel much better about my life problems.' My body is singularly unimpressed with the last several days if the stomach aches, nausea, and otherwise feeling like crap due to my food choices is anything to go by. So what things have you all found that is a major stress relief that has replaced comfort eating? what kinds of things would you suggest trying, regardless how odd or silly it might be? I know theres a good chance I should hash things out with a professional, but thats not in the cards at the moment. What I hope for now is suggestions from people who have seen some sort of success, no matter how short lived, in dealing with over the top stress productively when simply fixing the problem is out of your hands at that moment. [link] [comments] |
| Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant! Posted: 28 Dec 2020 09:00 PM PST I Rant, Therefore I AmWell bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants! Please consider saving your next rant for this weekly thread every Tuesday. [link] [comments] |
| How to be a good friend to someone losing weight? Posted: 29 Dec 2020 02:57 AM PST Hi guys, one of my best friends really wants to lose weight and we are teaming up to motivate each other with our fitness goals. My question is this: what's the best way to be supportive when someone starts to make excuses? I don't mean like the occasional cheat meal or slip I mean like just dropping their routine. I know it's their journey, and I know it can be emotionally fraught. If people could offer what they wish a friend would say or do to help and encourage them, I'd be grateful. I don't want to be insensitive and I also don't want to be a bystander to someone's self sabotage and act like they are too fragile to hear the truth. I just want to give them support and encouragement. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Plan to donate or toss my entire Pantry, Freezer, and Fridge on New Years Eve Posted: 28 Dec 2020 11:09 AM PST Basically, title of the post. I've had a lot of trouble shopping lately because I feel like I've got too much junk in my fridge, freezer, and pantry which results in me either A-eating that junk or B-going out to eat because I don't want to sift through the junk to find something I'm hungry for. So I've made the decision last week. Every item I can donate to my local food pantry gets donated to my local food pantry. Every item that is expired or opened goes in the trash. In 2021 I will start fresh and do a better job of not stocking up on junk I might not eat and of eating better in general. [link] [comments] |
| Looking back (at 2020), looking forward (to 2021), and looking sideways (in the mirror) Posted: 28 Dec 2020 02:10 PM PST Every year, around the new year rush, I try to resist the "new year new me" mindset, because I feel like the change of a year doesn't really change anything, and buying into that attitude can result in a crash or burnout or just disappointment. Not trying to harsh anyone's vibe, because I know that rev of motivation can help people accomplish great things! Right now, though, I feel like I quit halfway to the goal, and need a burst of motivation to get me going. I've been maintaining for close to 4mos now, after breaking an almost 1200 day logging streak on MFP (/cries/). I think I really needed the break, though. One day I just quit logging and didn't realize it until MFP notified me, several days later. I think that was my brain saying "ok we've had enough for now," because I really couldn't even be bothered to care that I broke the streak until weeks later. In the interim, I changed a few things. I switched from counting calories to IF and "intuitive" eating, and that worked for me for a while, but then I stopped eating meat, and that changed my diet enough that I've started crawling up the scale. Turns out I'm not quite as good at intuitively guessing the calories of meatless food. It's not all bad, though. I get fast food a LOT less than I used to now, mostly because none of the fast food places in my town have any meatless options that I like -- I legit have been telling my partner that I'd rather just eat my own cooking than struggle to pick out something from a fast food menu that I won't even enjoy that much. That could also be making me a better cook, so there's a plus. It's pretty much fallen to takeout once or twice per week as a treat. I also find I'm not tempted to snack after dinners anymore (unless we have potato chips, and then all bets are off). Also, this year is the year I lost around 10lb while in lockdown, had to toss all the bigger bras I bought and get smaller (cuter) ones, and the year I fit into most of the "midway" goal clothes I had. Anyway, that's the setup. I've been thinking about it the past few days, and I think I'd like to push to lose another chunk of weight toward my goal in the coming year, and then take another short maintenance break and hopefully finish things out after that, if all goes well and the world doesn't burn. So here's what I wanna do: I've got about 40lb until I hit my overall GW, but my goal for the next two quarters of 2021 is to lose 25lb, and hit 150. I'm going to start counting calories again (even if it kills me to enter all my new recipes) and continue with IF because I like how I feel on a 16:8 schedule. I'd also like to start playing some fitness games like Beat Saber and Fitness Boxing again because those generally work for me. (Maybe I'll pick up ring fit. Does anyone have any experience with that, and if so, is it good?) I also feel like doing something cheesy, like making one of those big print-outs to fill in as I hit each few lb, just to motivate myself visually. More than anything, I really just want to go back to seeing that progress, both on my body and on the scale, and eventually reach the point where I don't have a goal always hanging in front of me. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the past and coming year. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone here crush their goals -- it's always so motivating to see people succeed. Thanks for reading my ramble! [link] [comments] |
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