Weight loss: 40 pounds down!! :') (progress photos) |
- 40 pounds down!! :') (progress photos)
- I'm 20lbs away from not being obese anymore. But I'm so tired
- I went through old photos of me from 3 years ago, and I cried - I was so skinny, so beautiful, now I am 70 pounds heavier and absolutely disgusting. Before/after photos are eye opening even if scale went the other way
- I looked at ice cream today, and felt NOTHING
- NSV After a year of being a size 14-16, I can finally fit in a size 12!
- You Can Still Celebrate Progress Even If You Go Over Your Calories
- I am the lowest weight I've ever been in my adult life!
- I turned my cardio into a game.
- I’ve lost over 100 pounds... but only now do I understand what gaining weight feels like and it’s awful.
- Weight loss help + getting toned during the pandemic + winter months?
- 100 Pounds Lost: A Reflection
- Weight loss after recovery
- At the beginning of my Weightloss Journey
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 30
- I’ve lost 11 pounds, but I’ve lost all motivation.
- Short people more often fat?
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 31 January 2021: Today, I conquered!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 31 January 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- Gained 10 pounds in 1 month
- ~140lbs of success, but it's a never ending struggle
- Fine line between eating clean and disordered eating habits
- Bad habits.
- I need advice
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 1st, 2020
| 40 pounds down!! :') (progress photos) Posted: 30 Jan 2021 07:40 PM PST F/19 Height: 5'5" SW:204lbs CW:163lbs GW:115-122lbs Before & after: https://imgur.com/gallery/B1NM9Jm I'm posting this on mobile, if formatting is weird I apologize :( It feels surreal typing this out...I truly thought I would never be here. I spent my entire adolescent years being obese and insecure, and I made a promise to myself that before I hit twenty I would lose the weight. I'm already halfway and it's been 6 months since I started taking this journey seriously! I've been on a calorie deficit and that's really it. After years of trying multiple diets, listening to viral trends/random influencer advice and exercise routines it's all useless if you don't restrict your calorie intake. If you burn more calories than you take in, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. I didn't exercise or switch up my diet. I ate anything I wanted to but it just had to be within my calorie limit. I couldn't believe how easily I dropped 20 pounds after starting a calorie deficit diet. My daily intake at the height of the worst place in my life mentally and physically was upwards of 2,000-3,000 daily. It was a vicious cycle of hating myself and using food to cope with my low self-esteem and hatred. I wasn't happy with anything in my life but food temporarily made life enjoyable. I lived to eat, not the other way around. I remember skimming an article one day about food advertisements in the U.S. and ever since I've made a constant effort to ignore or turn away from food ads. I never realized how they could instantly start my hunger cues and get my thought process just stuck on loop on what food to eat. The influence is strong- it's a multi-billion dollar industry. It has to, ya know? Now I eat 1,100-1,300 calories a day. It took a while to get used to but when you start decreasing your portion size your stomach shrinks. You get full easier which is, amazing. I've also recently been drinking 1-2 cups of black coffee a day, it's been the best thing in curbing my appetite/cravings. I also recommend lots of apples and potatoes. I know eating too much of carbs is bad but, it made the diet manageable for me to do. It was delicious and it got me full. I did not restrict my potato or carb intake and I think it was a good decision for my mental strength to continue lol. I also fully recommend utilizing an instagram account specifically for your weight loss journey. I've had mine since 2018 and it's so fun to look back at your progress and thoughts back then, it's a reflective tool and I couldn't recommend it enough. Mine is on private, it's just for me to see and write my thoughts if I over-ate one day or reached a milestone like being able to fit into pants I couldn't before. Seeing my old collection of posts and reading my previous captions have been a big source of motivation and it's just super fun. I plan to make it public one day, I feel like that would help a lot of people. So far I reversed my diabetes, got to see and feel my collarbone and the bones on my fingers. I also got back into a normal resting heart rate, which was a concerning 130-160 when I was 204. Now I am at a 70. This might be TMI but my irregular periods and concerning amount of blood I was losing is now back to normal. I have healthy, regular periods. Again, I never thought I would be able to see myself with a neck or be able to like the person who I saw in the mirror. Although there's still a long way to go, I'm so proud of the progress I have made and for starting when I did. The two quotes that officially started it all: A year from now you'll wish you started today. The cost of procrastination is the life you could have lived. Good luck everyone! Be kind to yourself! Happy to answer any questions :) [link] [comments] |
| I'm 20lbs away from not being obese anymore. But I'm so tired Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:20 AM PST Hello I've been dieting for 2 years now and lost around 50lbs so far. My weight loss was not linear at all and I'm getting tired of this. When I first started, I was very far from being healthy. I would snack all the time, eat bad food, no exercise/movement/activity of any kind and so on. I lost weight by gradually changing this one habit at a time and I'm proud of this. Right now, I eat two or 3 meals a day maximum. I eat fruit, vegetables and protein daily. I didn't cut carbs but I reduced sugar significantly. I eat food from outside only once or twice a week. I am also exercising! I've been jogging all of this time and recently started C25K. I also went to the gym and lifted weight before the pandemic and right now I'm following a bodyweight routine. I also have been stretching and doing yoga frequently. My fitness stats are cool now! My problem is recently my weight loss completely stopped. I KNOW I should count calories but I just can't bring myself to do it. I am so disappointed each time I look at the mirror. Like I've been doing great for my health and fitness these past two years .. why am I still fat? I keep telling myself that this worked before because I was too fat, and now that I'm closer to the normal overweight class -not even the normal class- I should start dieting and restricting calories. I KNOW THIS but counting always causes me to yo-yo diet. Like all the habits before became second nature, but counting never does no matter how long I keep doing this. And every time I stick to it for a while and lose weight then "explode" and eat more that I usually do and gain all that I've lost and the cycle continue. Eating healthy, exercising or the likes never cause me to suffer mentally I just don't understand why counting is this hard for me. I feel like I'm stuck and I don't know how to move forward with my weight loss. I don't want to try keto or long fasts (I do intermittent fasting most of the weeks by accident thanks to my work pattern) because I know they will work temporary. I thought about reducing portion but I don't even eat that much each meal! like when I counted the calories that I eat under my normal eating habit I found that I eat ~500-800 cal per meal so it's usually between 1500 to 2000 cal a day (I never eat 3 big meals a day, either 3 small ones or 2 big ones). But anyways I tried once eating significantly less per meal and I felt fatigue so I stopped. making my meals a bit smaller had zero effect on my weight so I don't do it. I can't increase exercise either as I already workout 1 hour daily and that's the maximum I can afford with all the other life responsibilities. I don't even know why I'm writing this .. I just hate counting so much and I need a place to vent. I'm tired of looking like a lazy person when I probably workout and eat better than the majority of people on earth. I hate how my new year resolution looks different each year except for fucking weight loss jesus tl;dr: was too fat, am now fat, I need to count calories to not become fat but I don't want to please help dieting is killing me [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 12:15 PM PST I can't believe I used to think I was fat when I was 70 lbs lighter. I had self-esteem issued back then but I looked like a damn model to what I look right now. At least if anything, this is about the best type of motivation you can get to better yourself - a look of what is most definitely achievable again. Picture is worth more than a 1000 words, no amount of text will motivate you more than seeing pictures of your old self. Take as many pictures of yourself as you can during your life. Even if you are in your fat stage, even if you are skinny and full of confidence. Your future self will thank you for it. [link] [comments] |
| I looked at ice cream today, and felt NOTHING Posted: 30 Jan 2021 04:53 PM PST I'm a serial snacker, so restricting myself from snacking at all (which means no chocolates after meals like I used to do daily, and no desserts every few days either). It's only been 2 weeks, I'm just beginning my journey, but the fact that I ate a small dinner, then looked at the bowl of ice cream that my sibling was filling up and felt NOTHING is crazy to me. I wasn't tempted at all! Usually any time my sibling gets ice cream I would feel like having it myself and end up having it that very night. The fact that I didn't even feel tempted was amazing! I feel like I'm finally getting a handle on my sugar addiction. [link] [comments] |
| NSV After a year of being a size 14-16, I can finally fit in a size 12! Posted: 31 Jan 2021 02:25 AM PST Hi, me again! Hope everyone is doing well! A few weeks ago I posted here wanting to get it off my chest that I wanted to lose weight without the judgement and the shaming. I haven't jumped on the scale recently but, after a week of 1000 calories, I took some users' advice and jumped to 1200 calories as it was more realistic with my smoothies and meal plan (trying to have more protein, less fat and even less carbs but still working on it). However, I went to Costco and bought a pair of size 12 twill pants (first pair in red) and decided I should use it as my motivation to try on after another month of 1200 calories. I was doing the laundry and decided on a whim to try it on and I FIT. IT FITS! No bulges, no sucking in my belly, NO TRICKS! Sorry for rambling, just really excited and wanted to announce it somewhere without being told it's no big deal when it's a huge deal! I was a size 12 before my weight gain during quarantine and I'm kinda looking forward to seeing if I can pull through another month. I have a physical exam next month and can't wait to jump on the scale and see if my calorie counting has worked. If you've read it to the end, thank you! And I hope to post an update next month :) [link] [comments] |
| You Can Still Celebrate Progress Even If You Go Over Your Calories Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:27 PM PST I have had an on and off again relationship with calorie counting. I always knew it was necessary to losing weight but would also get extremely discouraged if I over ate or just ate 'bad' food, and would completely give up. If I caved and drank a soda with lunch, I would then give myself a free pass to eat whatever I wanted and not track anything, because in my mind my day was already 'ruined' by drinking that soda. Then my whole week was 'ruined' because I ate poorly that day, and so on and so forth. Well, earlier this month I decided to get back on the horse and start trying to lose weight again, with the added stipulation that I would track every day and track everything I ate and drank, no matter what. Today was the first day I really fell off the wagon. I woke up and ate some frozen Taquitos. Then I ate Fritos. Then my husband and I went out for dinner and I did NOT choose a healthy meal choice and we got appetizers. The result was an excess of about 1800 calories, which is a lot. But you know what? I still only had two servings of Taquitos, when previously I would have eaten the whole box. I only ate two servings of Fritos when previously I would have eaten the whole bag. At dinner, I got the diet soda instead of the regular soda. And my coffee now only has 40 calories per cup, when previously I was using over 100 calories of cream and sugar per cup. All of that is to say, it is super easy to get discouraged when you don't meet your goals or you eat too many calories in a day. However, when that happens it is important to recognize and appreciate the progress you have made so far and realize that you are still doing better than you were BEFORE you started trying to change. In my case today, I massively went over my calories. But prior to dilligently tracking, I would have over eaten by 3000+ calories instead of 1800 calories, so I still progress! And tomorrow, I have the opportunity to make better choices and make more progress. [link] [comments] |
| I am the lowest weight I've ever been in my adult life! Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:29 AM PST To preface this, I am 25 years old and a woman. I have sat around 160-165lbs at 5'4.5" for years and have been trying since 17 to get below 150 and sit at 145, but I was never willing to be consistent or disciplined. I weighed in at 149.6 lbs this morning!!!! Around Christmas time/mid December, I stepped on the scale and noticed I was sitting at 159, 160. I was UPSET; however, I would shamelessly indulge in all times of food, alcohol, breads. It's not that I was mad at myself, but I began to realize that if I wanted to see results then I needed to be disciplined. I got put into quarantine (my job forced me to), because I came into contact with a COVID positive person and decided that I would start there. I started tracking my calories in MyFitnessPal. I set it to 1,330, but varied and usually hit 1,500 to 1,900 every day and have been logging consistently for the past 26 days. I try to shoot for 1500 since that's healthy for a woman my age and height. I hear it takes 21 days to make something a habit and made it my goal to hit 21 days. Regardless, if I went over, I logged it. For instance, the other day I drank the equivalent of 9 beers or something Iike that and logged it. I just told myself that I'd he honest and not be hard on myself. But I'm STILL making progress. I take one day out of the week to drink alcohol, I try to work out 5 times a week, and I eat relatively clean. My point is...consistency will bring you results. It took me literally 7 years to figure this out. [link] [comments] |
| I turned my cardio into a game. Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:04 PM PST Hi everyone! Like many I hate cardio. Its not much fun but podcasts do help. So I had an idea. I know there are heaps of apps out there to help you run and whatnot like "Zombies! Run!" but I decided to make my own, much more low tech one. The idea I'm in Sydney. I've never been to Perth. According to Google Maps its 3,677 km. Now generally, I like to do about 15km a day through a combination of walking generally and gym cardio. By doing some quick maths, thats about 245 days to cardio my way there, give or take an hour or seven. So I've whipped up a spreadsheet to track this. Now of course there are going to be days where I do more k's and some where I do less. But framing it this way makes it quite fun for me! Each week, I'll check in and tell you where in beautiful Australia I've cardio'd my way to! This helps me with accountability. This isn't day one on my journey, I'm already down 23 Kgs and I'm looking at new ways to keep this all interesting. If you'd like, I'll keep track of all the other data points such as my weight and time per KM. Thanks for keeping fitness fun guys! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 06:07 AM PST To explain, I started gaining weight when I was 12 years old and didn't stop growing until I was 18. At 250 pounds, I moved away from home and instantly dropped 40 pounds. Over the next 7 years, I consistently and slowly lost weight and by the time I was 26 I weighed 140 pounds. You guys... I. Looked. AMAZING! I totally did it! I was fit and active and healthy! And the best part was, I was so happy and the "lifestyle" came naturally at that point. It wasn't hard to maintain my weight or work out or resist eating a donut. I was just a skinnygirl. I made it. The thing is, I've lost a loooot of weight in my life, and I've lost it well. But I've never actually experienced the feeling of gaining weight. In the entire 110 pounds I lost, my biggest yo-yo was probably 7 pounds (3-5 of which could usually be explained by constipation and/or a party, and would be gone within a week or two). I got fat because I was a carefree kid with an unhealthy understanding of food. Sure, I wish someone told me I would regret the stretch marks, but I don't fault my kid-self for allowing it to happen. I've never had to actually look myself in the mirror and say, you did this... now fix it.
So... here's to the very beginning of my weight loss journey (ugh). Realistically, I know it's gonna take me a good 6 months to do this in a healthy and effective way. In the grand scheme, it's not that long. But I'm terrified I'm going to fail. [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss help + getting toned during the pandemic + winter months? Posted: 31 Jan 2021 01:23 AM PST Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well! Currently 29/M/260lbs. I little bit of my backstory: In June of 2014, I started my weight loss journey at 420lbs. Between June of 2014 - March of 2019, I lost 180lbs and was sitting at 240lbs (the lowest I had been in a very longtime). From March 2019 - March 2020, I maintained that weight (my goal was 200lbs, but I plateaued and could not get over that hump). Queue March 2020 and the global pandemic, stress eating became a habit again and exercise became almost non-existent (I would mostly do cardio 3-4 times a week by either going to the gym, or walking around the neighborhood for at least an hour). As a result, I got back up to 260lbs. With that being said, I wanted to ask what everyone is doing in terms of exercise during the pandemic. I have corrected my eating habits over the past week, so my diet is on track, but I also want to get fit. My wife and I are expecting in the Spring, and I do NOT want to be the fat dad that is unfit and can't keep up with his kids. I've been thinking about buying some equipment for a home gym, but I don't know where to start (going to an actual gym in-person is out of the question at the moment, and outdoor cardio at the moment is pretty rough here with an average temperature around 5 degrees). I appreciate any and all recommendations! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:26 AM PST CW: binge eating, suicidal ideation, depression I finally weighed in with over 100 pounds lost this week! To lose 100 pounds has long topped my resolution lists and seemed truly impossible when I made the decision to start eating healthier and focusing on weight loss. I always find people's reflection posts interesting and often helpful so I figured I would share mine (warning: it is long). 29F/ 5'10"/ SW: 287.6/ CW: 185.4/ GW: 165.0 I started gaining weight in college. It was the first time I was in charge of my own food and, after a childhood filled with food insecurity, I ate what I wanted and how much I wanted. Portion control and a balanced diet were not present in my life for the decade that followed. The weight gain started off small but quickly progressed to the point where I was consistently gaining around 20 pounds a year. By the time I was 27, I was nearly 300 pounds. I was deeply unhappy in my obese body just as I had been deeply unhappy in my previously overweight body and my normal weight body prior to that. Self love was not a familiar concept. On top of that, I struggled with general anxiety, social anxiety, and depression. When I reached the obese threshold and kept gaining, it was just another reason to hate myself. My mental health kept deteriorating to the point where I was struggling with suicidal ideation. So, I took the plunge and started seeing a therapist towards the end of 2018. Along with starting my mental health care, I began thinking of other ways I could improve my outlook on life. Losing weight was an obvious option. It's almost impossible to go to the doctor as an obese person and not be told that the answer to all your ailments is "to lose weight -- trust me, you'll feel better." So, after a prize-worthy week-long binge, I joined my local "fat" gym's weight loss challenge in mid January 2019. My official starting weight was 287.6 pounds. I am a 0% or 100% type of gal, you get one or the other with me, and this challenge got me at 100%. I went all in with the gym's strict 1,200 calorie diet, 5 bootcamp classes a week, daily fasted cardio outside of my workout, and a gallon of water a day. I lost 50 pounds in 3 months. And then I burnt out. I found myself unable to get out of bed to go to the gym in the morning. I began to loath broccoli. Drinking water felt like an absolute chore. My motivation was gone and my progress stalled. Over the course of the next 9 months, I bounced up and down in small bursts. Up 5 pounds, down 6 pounds, up 3 pounds, down 2 pounds, etc. I tried to watch my portion controls but ate out far too often. I would spend a few weeks eating super clean before having a binge week. By the end of the year, I had held my net 50 pounds down (237 pounds) but had made no further progress. As I set my 2020 resolutions, I felt that "new year, new me" motivation burning in my belly again and I rededicated myself to my weight loss pursuit (extra motivation: I was set to get married in mid-2020). I resumed eating at a deficit but I allowed myself a caloric range (1,200-1,500 calories a day) instead of a hard 1,200 cut-off. I allowed myself to eat more foods (the gym's program only allowed for very specific foods to be eaten) even though I was still fairly strict. I started working out 5 times a week again but I varied my workouts more (weight lifting, bootcamp, HIIT, swimming, yoga). I ran a Spartan Sprint. I was training for my first 10k race. I felt great. I quickly lost 30 pounds in 2 months bringing me down to 208 pounds by March 2020 (I could almost taste that century mark). I was ready to lose all the weight and tone up before my September wedding. Then came COVID. My entire life shut down. I was suddenly working from home, then furloughed entirely, separated from my routine and my support systems. I couldn't keep up with my meticulous meal prepping and no longer had access to my fitness outlets. I made the conscious choice to take a hiatus from weight loss in order to focus on the absolute chaos happening all around me. I didn't have a maintenance plan and I didn't have the foresight to carve out the time to make one in the early pandemic frenzy. And so I gained 40 pounds in the span of 6 months. I didn't notice the weight creeping back onto my body at first due to the craziness of my career crumbling into ashes. However, once I was furloughed and sitting at home in the eerie silence, I noticed. I noticed and I did nothing to stop it. My mental health dipped; depression, my old friend, returned in full force and I lost my insurance and, with it, my therapist. I sat on the couch, in a daze, and wondered how my life had collapsed so quickly. As my (postponed) wedding date approached, I knew something had to change. I had picked myself up once before and I could do it again. This time, though, had to be different. I wanted to lose the weight and keep it off but, more importantly, I wanted to change my relationship with food. I needed to change my diet long-term rather than just embark on a short-term restrictive diet. Instead of just eating off a plan provided by someone else, I needed to learn how to craft my own plan. In September 2020, at 248.0 pounds, I began eating in a 1,200-1,500 deficit range again. I logged everything that I ate to ensure I stayed within my calories and that my macros were appropriately divided. I also funneled my bored spreadsheet-deprived brain (still furloughed at this point) into tracking the heck out of everything else. I made a monthly spreadsheet that daily tracks my: weight, heart rate, calories in, calories out, water intake, strength training, fasted cardio, step count, intermittent fasting hours (16:8), alcohol intake, and a section for adding notes for the day. I made some changes to my diet this time around. 1) I stopped eating meat 95% of the time -- I no longer buy any meat products for my home and I look for vegetarian options first when occasionally ordering out. This was a combo of a lifestyle change I had long wanted to make and a convenient way to cut down on unhealthy but delicious take out temptations. 2) I started intermittent fasting (IF) in a 16:8 ratio. I did this to target my late night snacking. I only ate from 12-8pm. 3) I allowed myself access to a lot more foods, as long as they fit my daily caloric range. This was to teach myself that there aren't "good" foods and "bad" foods -- just food -- and so that I didn't fall off the wagon after 2-3 months when an ice cream craving got to be too much for me. I found that my menu was more varied and delicious and that I didn't want the higher calorie items as often as I thought I would. In addition to my diet changes, I started swimming for fitness again. I've swam for fitness off and on throughout my life but it had been a while. Due to pandemic guidelines in my area, most gyms are still closed but a few outdoor pools are open by lane reservation. I started off swimming 2-3 times a week and then increased that to 4-5 times a week. With the combined diet and exercise changes, the weight started coming off again. Weighing in daily has been a huge help for me because it allows me to see the fluctuations and general trends rather than just the number. Despite being bothered by the 40 pound weight gain ("gosh darn it, I already lost this weight"), I felt my mood improve almost immediately once I was putting good fuel into my system and moving my body again. I returned to work, finally, in October 2020 and could not have been more grateful to have an external routine again. I made sure to sit down and plan out how I could adjust my swimming schedule and meals to fit around my work schedule so that I didn't get knocked off course once more. I consistently lost around 11 pounds a month throughout the fall. My stretch goal became to drop under that elusive 200 pound mark by the end of the year. On December 29th, it finally happened: 199.8. My eating and exercise practices feel habitual now in a way that they never did during my previous weight loss attempts. I eat what I want, just in moderation. This is the biggest game-changer I have experienced. During previous weight loss efforts, I would restrict foods for being "not healthy enough." (I had an epic meltdown once over not being able to eat tomatoes when I was following my gym's strict diet). Now, I will eat ice cream or chicken shawarma or pumpkin muffins when I want them. I counted and logged calories for the first 2 months to ensure that I wasn't overeating. Now I just guesstimate (I eat a lot of the same things so I know the rough calorie count for everything and just look up the occasional item. I still eat in a range of 1200-1500 calories. I swim for at least an hour 4-5 times a week. I hike whenever my schedule and the weather allows. As of this morning, I am 185.4 (102.2 pounds down from my starting point). I dropped from a size 20 to a size 10. I only have 13.2 pounds to go before I enter the normal BMI range for my height. However, I will not be reaching that point for quite some time because I am officially starting my maintenance plan on Monday. My partner and I are about to start trying for a baby (the timing is right and my doctor gave me the green light!) and so I need to work my way back up to maintenance eating before we try in order to be a hospitable host. This feels like an even more daunting challenge than the weight loss has been but I know I have a great resource in this subreddit to help me keep on track with the weight loss to maintenance adjustment. I appreciate this group a lot. It has been very helpful for me to have a community that is supportive and "gets it." My parting thoughts on this very long post are these: 1) Know your "why" or your "whys". Why are you losing weight beyond just losing the weight? Spending time reflecting on and documenting my "whys" has helped me stay inspired and focused. 2) Make a maintenance plan long before you ever enter the maintenance phase (so you have it to fall back on in moments of crisis) 3) If you fall down, get back up. It is worth it. You are worth it. We are worth it. 4) Practice gratitude towards yourself (and towards the supportive people in your life). Losing weight is a lot of mental, physical, and emotional work. Your body and mind are doing that hard work for you! They deserve credit and the occasional break. I felt my negative self talk and self hate shift dramatically once I started taking the time to appreciate all that I was doing to better my health and my life. If you have any questions about my journey, feel free to message me. Best of luck to us all in this new year in whatever phase of our journeys we are in. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:25 PM PST Back in October of 2019 I was in a pretty bad head on collision on my way home from college, I won't go into the details too much but I will say I had a decent amount of damage to my legs had to have several surgeries on my wrist a severe concussion and at one point there was a conversation regarding the loss of my right arm, fast forward to about 1 year later and I've made mostly a full recovery, I still have screws in my wrist and have occasional pain but other then that I'm pretty much back to how I was before the wreck, due to a year of inactivity unhealthy life choices and depression I gained a good bit of weight, in highschool I was around 160, I had jumped up to 222lbs, I was disgusted in myself(this being said there's nothing wrong with being bigger, or with being any size for that matter, I was just disappointed in myself because I've always been fairly active and in my mind I had let myself go and given up) now come January I'm down to 165lbs and in the best shape I've ever been in (I started my weight loss in September of this past year) my goal is to cut down to about 155 then build back up to 170 as healthy as possible [link] [comments] |
| At the beginning of my Weightloss Journey Posted: 31 Jan 2021 02:48 AM PST Everyone, I found it. I found the switch that when I flipped it, told my body that this is it. This is when it's going to happen. I'm gonna lose everything and keep it off. That switch was so frocking hard to find... In the past I lost 50 pounds by doing a keto/ shake diet. The weight flew off but the problem with that diet was that I didn't learn to eat more healthy and less. I also didn't exercise then. So when the diet was over I was right back to my old self. Sure, in the beginning I was a bit careful but I didn't learn to have discipline. I am now counting calories and walking about 2 miles a day, be it at home in front of the tv or taking a walk with my 2YO son. And it actually is shocking that what I am now eating is actually not that little. I mean the first few days was hard. But now I don't really get hungry or anything. ALSO! I learned that if I do eat a little more, I just work out so that it evens out again for that day. 4 pounds lost after 2 weeks and not having a lot of trouble. Just living a new lifestyle :) [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 30 Posted: 30 Jan 2021 06:34 PM PST Hello losers, Holy crap! It's day 30. Snuck right up on me! You all can wrap up today if you like, I'll be wrapping up tomorrow mostly because I missed weigh in again today. I'll work on the sign up post for tomorrow too. Weigh in daily, enter into Libra & report here even if I don't like it: No weigh in today, 229.5 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): A little under goal today, huzzah. 20/24 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 40 minute walk, 20 minute intense stationary biking. 25/30 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket): Gonna do a face & hair mask in a bit. Try a new recipe once a week: Creamy pesto spaghetti squash, creamy mushroom lentils, acorn squash with vanilla sugar, a new variant on green chili, bean mash & a honey mustard broccoli salad that really tickled me. Also I have air fried at least 4 veggies & a fruit or two so I feel like that counts as new. 7/5 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: I'm grateful for new books & journals. Lovely day today. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| I’ve lost 11 pounds, but I’ve lost all motivation. Posted: 30 Jan 2021 04:55 PM PST I worked my ass off to lose 11 pounds. I know that's not a big number, but this is a lot for me. I had (and have) a serious problem with food. It makes me feel so calm and safe. On my first day I pushed myself to really take control, I nearly cried. I was so hungry and just wanted to snack. I wasn't starving myself, I was eating like a normal person. I lost 11 pounds, it was such an amazing feeling. But I've had some issues recently that made me lose all of that motivation that had let me fight against cravings and get up and workout. I've just lost that fire. I don't know what to do. I want to get back on track. Can you guys just hold my ass accountable? I need some perspective again, I don't want to lose my progress. I don't want to be sick again. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2021 03:24 AM PST As the title suggests, I'm pretty sure short people are fatter on average than their average or taller peers. It clicked for me when I read up a lot on plate sizes (both at home and in restaurants). Wherever you go to eat whether that's at someone's house or to a restaurant, everyone gets the same plate size. 5 feet tall Marie gets the same plate (and meal) size as her husband Richard who is 6 feet tall when they go out to eat. In my research about plate size, I learned that despite the fact that your body is feeling satisfied, you are much more likely to overeat when you're using bigger plates because there's a psychological aspect to it. You want your plate to look nicely filled and you want the satisfaction of eating all of it. It just makes sense to me that shorter people are fatter on average due to their (generelly) lower BMR and yet they are served the same portion sizes. Both the plate size phenomenon and my own lived experience points to this. I am 5 feet tall and my boyfriend (who I've lived with for many years) is almost 6"3. We are almost exactly as active and lead a very similar lifestyle. I did not have a hard time eating like him (one fully filled plate). You can grow accustomed to anything. We ate from the same plate size and thought nothing of it. Sometimes he'd go for another portion and I wouldn't but mostly we'd eat the same. I did not gorge, I never felt sick to my stomach. I hardly ever ate garbage foods (chips, soda, treats, lots of fries and so on) but I still gained weight. It seems extremely logical to me now that I NEED smaller plates than him yet it is never talked about. Generally you discuss how much food you pile on the plate, versus switching to smaller plates. Nobody wants their plate to not seem properly filled. It's not satisfying to the eye before eating and it doesn't feel satisfying clearing a half full plate. Anyone else who's given this a lot of thought like I have? One thing's for sure, we won't be eating from the same plate size anymore!!! [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 31 January 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:01 PM 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?) * Did you just change your flair? pass a milestone? reach a goal? * Did you log for an entire week? or year? * Did you take the stairs? walk a mile? jog for 3? set a new personal record? * Fit into your old pair of jeans? throw away your fat clothes? fit into your college outfit? 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 most the most read, most used, most interesting post on r/loseit by redding, commenting, and participating often! --- [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 31 January 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 30 Jan 2021 11:01 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
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**](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/voting)) --- [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 10:08 PM PST Hi!! Long time lurker on this subreddit. I started my fitness/weight loss journey back on July 4th with the goal that I would lose weight for my birthday. I got down from 130 to 110 and I wanted to lose 10 more pounds to get to 100. (I'm 4'10" so I don't think it's that bad!!) However on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I just ended up treating myself because I wanted to enjoy the time with my family instead of exercising and counting calories. Whatever. But after New Years I haven't really stopped treating myself? And the motivation to count calories or the looming thought that I would gain weight if I ate too much just went away for the entirety of January. Now it's one month later and I've checked the scale and I'm up 10 pounds... 10 WHOLE POUNDS!! AHH!! I know it's entirely my fault it's simple CICO;; Even after checking body progress pics and seeing how much of a step I've taken backwards I can't bring myself to be motivated again, even though I haven't been counting calories/dieting for a long time. Any tips on how to get back on track? I feel horrible looking in the mirror again and seeing all of the progress I've made go to waste. Thanks!! [link] [comments] |
| ~140lbs of success, but it's a never ending struggle Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:14 AM PST Hey folks, I used to frequent /r/loseit daily in 2018-2019. In September 2018 I was 313lbs at 5'10" and I know I'd been heavier before, so well over that 40 BMI range. By June 2020 I was 170lbs, and lately I've been hanging out at 180. I honestly would still like to try 160lbs. What worked for me: MyFitnessPal. Openly telling people I had a goal. Walking. A high energy dog. I was religious about MyFitnessPal, I'd still be under 170 right now if I kept with it. I weighed anything I ate at home and entered it by the gram. I'd only eat food at restaurants I could find exactly in the app. I set it to lose 2lbs a week and did not pay attention to any calories burnt by exercise, so by the end it was a lot of 1500 calorie days. I'd tell co-workers my goals, and people online. The less I see the person the better, because then the next time they'd check in I'd have completed a major milestone, like say 10lbs. But I didn't tell my family any specific goals because I didn't want specific goals brought up if I decided I was going over my calories for the day. Walking. Walking was hard at first, 2 miles would have me huffing and puffing. However after a month of doing it daily you one day notice you're only sweating like a pig, not also breathing like one. Getting a high energy dog breed also made it so not walking was not an option. They're too nuts unless they get at least 2 miles of walking. Fitbit really helped me reach 10,000 steps a day, although I've since graduated to a Garmin device. Things that were hard in the process: having calorie dense food in the house, clothes, my parents. I'm a binger and I can't seem to change that. If there is a box of ice cream in the fridge, even today, it is only going to last a day or 2. I have to keep high calorie foods out of my house. Same goes for alcohol, if there was a bottle of vodka it would be drank in 2-3 days. Now I only buy beer and limit myself to only 1-2 Friday and Saturday nights, which is not as hard for me as other things like sweets. If it is out of sight it is out of mind for me. I wore baggy 2-3XL clothes until I was near 220lbs. Wearing clothes that actually fit mentally makes you feel better, but it is expensive when constantly losing. I totally recommend you buy a few cheap clothes that fit at that stage even if they're only going to last 2 months. My parents are obese and live across the country. They think I'm essentially anorexic(I've stayed slightly overweight for months now, so obviously not) and do an unhealthy amount of exercise(reaching 150 minutes a week would be something they think only Olympians do). My current state: eating >2500 calories a day, endurance athlete. I stopped super focusing on MyFitnessPal and I'm around 180-185 right now. I'm kicking it back into lose it mode which was why I came to this sub today, wanting to get to 160. Late 2019 I started Couch to 5k when I was under 200lbs. By February 2020 I could rain 10k under an hour. By April I had done a sub-2 hour half marathon. I'd like to run a full marathon but the one I was preparing for(running 50 miles a week) was cancelled. Now I'm doing a lot of cycling just because going fast on a road bike is fun. Seeing myself in the dorky spandex really makes me feel good when I look at my body and think about where it was before. And I know I always wanted to know about other people's skin. My stomach is kinda floppy, I can tuck it into my pants and look mostly normal without a shirt on, I can tell it is tighter than 1 year ago, so I'm holding out hope that maybe in 5 years it will not even by saggy. It is kinda like my spayed cat's stomach. Not hard fat, just can be shook around if not pulled tight. My upper thighs are the other area that have some loose skin, but I can also tell they're tightening up and cycling muscles are also filling them. They're only seen when fully pantsless anyway. [link] [comments] |
| Fine line between eating clean and disordered eating habits Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:42 PM PST TW: discussion of eating disorders and disordered eating tendancies I am currently working on losing my quarantine weight (around 10lb) through eating smaller portions, increasing lean protein, reducing carbs, and doing cardio 2-3 times a week + lifting weights 2 times a week. For reference, I'm currently a female, US size 6, 5'7, and generally lean. I'm having problems distincting eating "clean" and re-developing disordered eating habits. I had a stress-induced eating disorder (excessive restriction) around 3-4 years ago and, before Covid, felt like my metabolism finally went back to normal and that I finally had a good grasp of my maintenance weight. I gained around 10lb during Covid, which isn't much, but I just don't feel as agile and mobile, which is why I am trying to lose the weight. Due to the increased stressors in my life, I am afraid that I am slipping into my disordered eating habits again and masking it as "eating clean". How do I stop myself before it's too late? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2021 06:09 PM PST I'm vegan, I quit drinking knocked smoking on the head, I limited how much I use my phone and I fixed my sleep pattern. All this is chump stuff (for me). All the stuff i "sacrificed" has just shown me what IS actually hard to shake for me. Snacking, gargantuan portion sizes and not exercising. When I was 21 I had just got dumped, realised I wasted 3 years on a very toxic person and within days was ripping it at the gym and doing door to door sales 6 days a week, staying pumped and learning to be happy with myself. I was in the best shape I'd ever been in. I let it slip, gradually, then it snowballed. I'm now 25 and if nothing changes I'll be 25 stone too (350lbs) I'm not far from it. Nothing has been able to motivate me, diet for two weeks, coupled of walks and cycles but I'm breathless after a few flights of stairs or an evening walk then back to the same old. This is going to kill me if I don't change. Going to weigh myself tomorrow and start again. Wish me luck. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2021 12:34 AM PST For starters, I am a female (transmasculine) and currently 16 years old- 17 on April 1st. I am 5'7 and started at 200 pounds, which hurts to say. I'm not quite sure what I want my goal weight to be, considering I also want to gain muscle after losing the fat, so I might shoot for 150 to start. I have a mesomorphic body type so I always assumed some of my weight was muscle, but I'm starting to think that is denial. Either way, 5 days ago I made a pact to allot myself 6 months to get in shape. 1,200 calories a day or less, shooting for low carb, 16:8 fast and sometimes 20:4, as well as completely cutting out diet drinks (before I only drank diet drinks. Water was a once a week thing if it was a good week). Now I'm up to 5-6 bottles a day! I made this pact while considering whether to start hormone replacement therapy or not-- to give myself time to figure it all out. Clearly, if I'm getting results, I won't stop at 6 months. I have run into a few issues this week. To begin, I was diagnosed a few months ago with Vasovagal syncope, which for me means I can't do anything physically strenuous for over five minutes or I get dizzy, nauseous, and pass out. This makes it very hard to do any form of exercise, even if I really want to. I still do some as often as I can. Does anyone have advice for this? Also, I currently eat two small meals a day during my eating window, but I used to eat OMAD (during a bad spell with anxiety and depression) and I've been considering doing it again. Is this more effective? I know nobody will be able to tell me how much weight I will drop, but I will drop enough to make a visible change, right? A few other things I can't seem to fix is stress and my sleeping schedule, which is all over the place. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 1st, 2020 Posted: 31 Jan 2021 12:04 AM 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. For all new people that have joined this month, at the end of the month we do a roundup of what happened. we'll also talk about our goals for February. How was your January? You're free to structure this however you want, but think about the following topics:
Today is also goal-setting day for February! If you're new, every first day of the month we think about small goals we want to achieve this month. They can be weight goals, exercise goals, or anything really... An important aspect is that they are SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time based...
if you're new, please introduce yourself! Let's kick some ass![link] [comments] |
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