Weight loss: After gaining 27 pounds over quarantine, as of today I’m officially down 28 pounds! |
- After gaining 27 pounds over quarantine, as of today I’m officially down 28 pounds!
- Turned my walk in the park into a run, didn’t stop when people saw
- Just binge ate but still logged it
- Man, someone should've told me you just need to slowly gain momentum
- [tip] Quick tip: After eating, wait 10 min and drink a glass of water before snacking/going for seconds
- 5 months, 45 pounds down!
- 41yo, first time under 30 BMI since....pretty much forever.
- A reminder to trust the process
- I didn’t overeat my favorite food for the first time
- Enough is Enough
- Newly one of the 6,669,475 other members of this sub changing their lives for the better
- Why I highly encourage you to workout
- Embarrassed About Rapid Weight Gain: Grief and Chemo
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 25
- It’s official...
- How did I get here?
- Changing Food Habits
- I started a lifestyle change three days ago
- Losing a lot of weight but getting worn down by the effort.
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: January 26th, 2020
- I forgot how slow it is - but feeling great!
- Daily Q&A Post for Tuesday, 26 January 2021 - No question too small!
- My weight loss goal seems so far yet so close + feeling discouraged and upset with myself.
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 26 January 2021: Today, I conquered!
| After gaining 27 pounds over quarantine, as of today I’m officially down 28 pounds! Posted: 25 Jan 2021 12:54 PM PST Stats: 20F | 5'5 | SW: 297.3 | CW: 269.0 | GW: 255 my journey started very briefly in august 2020, but then i stopped due to a lack of discipline. i picked back up in early october where i left off after procrastinating for weeks on end. i kept saying "i'll start again next monday," until eventually one day i told myself that if i kept saying that i wouldn't start, and i began again the following day. i've done a combination of IF 16:8 and CICO. CICO is the best thing to ever happen to my weight loss journey. i can eat anything i want as long as it's under my calories? sounds good to me! i've also tried my best to incorporate exercise, i challenged myself in the month of december to get 30 minutes of physical activity every single day and that helped to speed up the process. i eventually started working out 5x a week, but have had to slow down because my knee started hurting. ); i'm gonna rest until i feel better and hopefully start up back soon. my next major goal is 255 as of rn! i like to set my goals in small increments so i don't feel overwhelmed. but my major goal for the end of the year is to be 220 pounds!! EDIT: so this is ABSOLUTELY insane! i wasn't expecting this type of feedback. thank you so much for the awards and sweet comments. i'm so incredibly blessed to have found such a supportive subreddit. God bless y'all!! [link] [comments] |
| Turned my walk in the park into a run, didn’t stop when people saw Posted: 25 Jan 2021 07:36 PM PST Just celebrating a small victory here. I regularly walk my dog in a nearby park, and often think about running but never do it out of fear of being laughed at or judged by onlookers. Today on the walk, I decided I would finish the last stretch of my walk with a run. I ran up the final hill, turned the corner and saw three people coming my way. I ignored the voice saying "they think you look silly, a fat guy having the audacity to run in public" and powered on. Two of the people I ran past smiled and nodded, continuing on with their walk, and the third didn't even acknowledge me. I looked down at my dog, who was ecstatic to be running alongside me. The run felt great physically and mentally. Did the people that I ran past mention my weight once I passed? Maybe, maybe not. I was too busy running with a very happy dog and a smile plastered on my face to find out. [link] [comments] |
| Just binge ate but still logged it Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:34 AM PST Just sort of went mental at lunch today. Way too much chocolate. I basically ate half of one horrible tuna sandwich, some crisps, and like 4 chocolate bars. I really have a problem with sugar addiction and binge eating. The lack of proper edible food at these corner shops doesn't help, but it was mainly caused by not preparing something tasty, filling and nutritious for lunch. So it appears I blew all my calories on one meal but that's ok. I normally feel too guilty to log when I go over so I'm happy I've done that today. I'll still eat if I feel hungry later but it will be something good for me like soup and maybe some grilled fish when I get home from work. I definitely see the benefits of maintaining consistent habits like tracking and meal prep. [link] [comments] |
| Man, someone should've told me you just need to slowly gain momentum Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:59 PM PST I've always told myself, "I'm going to workout and lose a bunch of weight" then proceed to workout intensely for one day and never do it again. Maybe it was instant gratification or me dreading it the next day, but it never worked. The same was the case for eating better. Then a week ago I told myself, "I will start with a small arm workout. It's okay if it's not a lot, I'm not doing this for the results. I will only do this to build discipline." And so I did Chloe Ting's arm toning workout. I did this for a couple of days and noticed I started to look forward to working out. Then I added a 10 minute standing ab workout. Now I do the arm workout two times a day, once with just my hands and another holding two water bottles, and the ab workout. That's 30 minutes of pretty moderate exercise every day. And I'm enjoying it. Eating better is coming naturally too. I'm turning down unhealthy offers from my siblings much more often. I'm thinking a lot more about what I'm eating. I don't have a weight goal right now, I'm only focusing on disciplining myself. It's actually working pretty good. I guess that once everything becomes a proper habit, I will set myself a goal. I wish I knew this before. That's all y'all. Hope this helps someone out there :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 03:00 PM PST Seriously this sounds dumb but it has helped me so much. I noticed that when I'm eating a meal, when I'm near the end of my plate I start thinking about what's next. Instead of immediately getting up for more food, commit to waiting 10 min and drinking a glass of water. This almost always leads to me skipping the snack or second helping. It gives my body time to adjust to the meal I just ate, and some time to mentally adjust to being done eating. I think you should also listen to your body, if you really didn't get enough to eat you should eat more. I'm not advocating starving yourself by any means. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:16 PM PST https://ibb.co/album/5KqbXh?sort=date_desc&page=1 I wasn't ever planning on posting these, because the torso progress pictures...aren't the most flattering. They were supposed to be just for me. But I was so pleasantly surprised to see the difference just four months makes, I thought why not? Everyone's weight loss journey is their own, and even those with smaller goals are bound to feel uncomfortable in their bodies. I really hope this serves as some level of inspiration/comfort to the folks out there in a similar position to mine. So these are my (almost) halfway progress pics! I started August 29th, 2020 at 254 pounds, the highest I've ever been thanks to a seriously depressing, 6 week long quarantine, on top of an already unhealthy lifestyle. Admittedly, I skipped the week leading up through Christmas through New Year's Day, but I got right back on track and the weight started falling off again! Today, I'm 209 pounds and still going strong. My end goal is 150, which is a little over the high end of the average range for my height, 5'6, and puts my overall goal right around 100lbs. When I get there, I'll decide if I want to keep going! This was mostly CICO, 1200-1500 a day, with a 16:8 intermittent fasting window and 10k steps on the days I have time. My job as a barista keeps me on my feet, and my dog constantly demands walks. I live in Alaska, so actually walking all these steps isn't ideal, leading me to invest in a stationary bike. I just use that for the amount of time I would have spent walking, on the days it's too cold to go out! [link] [comments] |
| 41yo, first time under 30 BMI since....pretty much forever. Posted: 25 Jan 2021 11:40 PM PST Hi all, I just don't know what to say and more or less just discovered by "accident" when stumbling over the settings in my Cronometer. Was hovering between 93-95kg on 165cm height before I started my weight loss journey in November. Went vegan and started using Cronometer. Operating on a 500 kcal deficit but not sweating it too much, sometimes I'm above that, sometimes I'm below that, the thing I care more about honestly is nutrition (which has been vastly subpar for me before as well) so sometimes when I already reached my calorie goal but when I see that I still am lacking something, I then try to eat for whatever vitamin, mineral etc is needed. I'm not sweating it with Cronometer too much either, but try to get at least above 70% of whatever, so I will try to tackle stuff where I'm under 50% still and sometimes that means eating a couple nuts or putting extra oil into my salad which then ups the calories, but my weight loss has not suffered from that at all so far. I'm down to 81.2 kg by now and I honestly am considering to maybe do some fastening over the weekend for a day or two to give me a little boost and get below 80kg asap for a little extra motivation for the things to come. I honestly cannot even give much advice really I guess but gonna share some anecdotes about what I used/ done anyways, maybe someone finds something of that helpful or gets some ideas for their own journey. All I did do was counting calories and avoiding the overeating and binge eating, which was super hard in the beginning hence the vegan diet to give me some extra limitations/ rules to follow...and after a week or two it was no problem anymore even. I think one of my biggest problems really was the massive consumption of addicting foods like salt, fat and sugars, that not only is unhealthy but also always wants you to consume more, in retrospective I feel like I was a junkie back then just running around trying to get "a fix". In the first 2 weeks in November I even was eating a fair amount of vegan fast food which was tasty but it was SUPER expensive and I did not want to spend that much money, so I stopped buying that kind of stuff and soon moved towards "buying fresh and cooking myself". I never learned to cook really and the first 1-2 weeks were kind of bad, I barely had any spices at home other than salt and pepper, bought that stuff and found combinations I like, did get better with the dosing it as well and once I had that down, I started to not even miss fast food and processed food anymore to be honest. My diet consists mainly of legumes (beans, chickpeas, peas, lentils), salads (mainly cucumber, carrots and lambs or rucola salad), then whatever else is fitting the meal (or what nutrition I was slacking on the prior days) when deciding if I go for potatoes, rice or noodles. Lots of broccoli, sometimes spinach, eggplants, zucchini. Fruits I do not eat often through the week, but do make one big ass smoothie on the weekend with 1 banana + ~200gr of frozen fruit (like blueberry, strawberry, cherry or mango), 1 liter soy milk and also add seeds, nuts, linseed, oatmeal, when at home I throw some spinach in it as well. I drink this through the morning, it most times has around 1000-1200 calories, but lasts me throughout the whole day really....and it's easily made and super tasty. As said above, I use Cronometer to track my nutrition and that alone has been some kind of fun game for me along the whole weight loss journey especially since I started to feel so much better. I have/ had a fair amount of mental health issues. depression, sleeping problems, anxiety...issues with high blood pressure on top of that partly because of my weight but also because of my diet (lots of salts and fats). I also had issues with sometimes bleeding slightly out of my "poo hole" like once a week, docs said it would be hemorrhoids and I once got treated for them but they didn't fix the bleeding issue really, just reduced it a little bit. I haven't had that happening since November when I completely changed my diet. In retrospective just a couple months later now, it was so easy to get rid of that stuff and I never would have expected my diet having so much impact on my mood and mental health. It was eye opening really... depression is almost full gone. I shit you not. I have so much more energy, motivation and my mood is SO MUCH better. Anxiety is reduced A LOT as well because I overall am a lot calmer by default and more relaxed which most likely has something to do with me actually being able to have a normal sleep routine by now. It's just that stressful situations still go make my head explode due to spiking anxiety but in the daily-routine overall, it's no longer an issue....and with the weight loss overall, I feel better and more motivated as well and with feeling better overall it's so much easier to stick with calorie counting because I don't eat my feelings anymore. Back then I was lying in bed for hours before able to fall asleep, hence feeling shit in the morning and throughout the day, by now I go to bed and fall asleep what feels like within seconds to minutes. I usually wake up between 5-6am without even needing an alarm clock anymore (just using one to make sure, but most times turn it off before it even started ringing). As for exercises: Still slacking massively on that lol, I'm not really a sporty person also due to issues with my back and knees, but plan to pick up running once I've reached 75kg (and after double checking with my doc). I bought some resistance bands but lack the will to do actual workouts at home, I just do a couple exercises once or twice a week but without really pushing it and without a plan to begin with. Maybe I gonna hit the gym once they are open again, but cannot promise haha. In the long run I plan to get down to 65kg. All I do really is walking my dog 3-4 times a day and do go between 4-5km per walk or throwing the ball for 2hrs in the dog park (I guess that is some kind of exercise too? At leas for my dog haha) every now and then. The next thing: I feel like I save a fair amount of money, not only due to not ordering food anymore, but also because I'm putting so much more thought into my diet and plan ahead and cooking from fresh IS cheaper to begin with. I also feel like my body is craving less due to eating healthy and it being provided with all nutrition. I even buy some stuff like cucumbers or tomatoes bio-organic which is more expensive, but I feel like I spend a lot less money overall. Cucumbers I simply like eating them with the skin, and tomatoes imho taste better when bio-organic, but this could be my own bias though. I did buy a couple of those glass containers to store food in the fridge and keep it fresh for a bit longer and it honestly is working like a charm. It also gives me the option to eat less since I e.g. can open a can of chickpeas, cook some lentils and then just use 100gr of each and store the rest in the fridge. "Back then" I would have eaten all at once or eat until I'm stuffed, put the rest in the fridge, then throw it away a couple days later because stuff was soaked, rotten or I simply was not interested in eating the same thing again. Which not only has been a shitton of calories I consumed but also a shitton of money I wasted. Now I can make different dishes with the same ingredients by using different additional stuff and different herbs and spices...and it makes counting calories and eating healthy so much easier when you can grab e.g. a container with 100gr edamame and have 1 more container left in the fridge for the day after. It also is more fun. I also use a lot of stuff for " fantasy salads" by now, like today I gonna cook some noodles and use the stored carrots, edamame and pepper to make a noodle salad, not need additional fat for cooking and simply add 1 tablespoon of some oil together with some vinegar and spices to make a salad. In regards to oils: I use A LOT less than before now because of that and actually have 5-6 different oils at home by now to use different oils for different things, to get different tastes or simply get differnt nutrition (like linseed for omega3, sunflower for vitamin E, sesame oil (Yeos, expensive but a goddamn dream) because it tastes fucking AMAZING, walnut oil, olive oil and peanut oil for when I need it for actual cooking). The only thing that is kind of expensive is the Tofu (compared to meat that is). With chicken breast you e.g. could get an insane amount of protein and no fat, with Tofu, you have more fat and less protein so you need to use other sources, but overall I do not have any issue at all with proteins and get the daily target above 100% almost every day. Some days I'm kind of struggling depending on what I decided to eat but then I do make me a nice shake with 300ml of Pea-milk (Vly unsweetened), 20gr of rice protein powder and some cocoa powder and that alone gives me 33gr of protein which then most times boosts me above 100% or brings me very close to it. Yeast flakes also give a fair amount of protein and B vitamins, I can see some people might not like their taste but I personally love it and I throw ~10gr of them in basically every meal I cook and even most salads. For other stuff I have different nuts and seeds at home which I throw into dishes as well or e.g. snack some almonds in the evening when I see I lack e.g. some vitamin E. I personally have become a HUGE fan of chia seeds, they give good nutrition, food fats and you honestly don't even really recognize them in a dish really when you use 10-15gr only. Dog now is angry with me I did sit here so long to write that post, so I hope it maybe is helpful for some of you. If you got any questions I happily will answer them once I'm back from our walk. [link] [comments] |
| A reminder to trust the process Posted: 25 Jan 2021 06:28 PM PST So this isn't a major win, but my weight was stuck for a few weeks (though it felt like forever in my mind). I was picking up my diet and exercise after the holidays. I had hit 145 mid-December and by last week, I was 150- only 3 lbs from my starting weight at the beginning of December. I was so angry. Yeah, I knew I went crazy for a week, but I thought it would drop down again! Not that I would get heavier and just stay there! But I remembered to trust the process. There was no way I was going to stay at 150 with diet and exercise. It's physically impossible if you are burning more than you eat. So I kept working on it. Kept exercising, kept eating under maintenance. I focused on how I felt like my fitness was improving, how I finally learned what it meant to "engage the core". I focused on the fact I've been replacing binge eating when stressed to a good exercise or a hot cup of tea. I'm finding other ways to deal with my feelings other than food. And as I focused on those victories, I eventually dropped weight! I'm now back down to 146 after being 147 yesterday. It's coming off. It will come off. If anyone of you are discouraged today because the scale told you that you aren't putting in your best effort: as long as you burn more than you eat, you are. Don't listen to what it's saying today because it could change it's mind tomorrow. The scale is a fickle thing. Your habits are your true success. [link] [comments] |
| I didn’t overeat my favorite food for the first time Posted: 25 Jan 2021 09:04 PM PST For context I have been very overweight for years. I was always quite thinner than average when I was younger but I had a large appetite. In middle school overeating/bingeing became a problem. I gained quite a lot at the start of 6th grade and gained consistently until the end of middle school and have maintained up to now. I went through a lot of weightloss phases through the years, calorie counting and extreme restriction and other things that messed up how I viewed food and eating, but nothing ever stuck for long and I ended up in cycles of overeating and then trying to get "on track," then making excuses to overeat and starting over again. Very recently after I got sick of calorie counting for a bit I decided I was going to make a complete lifestyle change and stop overeating. Tonight I got one of my favorite foods, chow mein, and I always get a large container and a side of greens, eat all of the chow mein because I feel like I can't stop and a bit of the greens. This time I started with the greens and had just a bit of noodles, and I was surprised that before I had even eaten half I was full. When I closed the container I was sitting there for a while and suddenly I had the urge to open it again and finish it - even though I was full. I acknowledged the feeling but I didn't act on it. I'm honestly proud of myself because whenever I eat chow mein I always overeat and I feel like I can't control myself! It's a small achievement, but this made me feel a lot of hope towards my journey and validated to me that my mindset has changed, even if only slightly, and that this is not just another "lose weight fast" phase. I'm doing it for real this time, and I'm gonna do it right! Wishing us all luck! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 08:46 PM PST Stats : 34F | SW : 220 | GW : 150 | H : 5'4" Depression is a fickle bitch. Some days are easier than others. Some months feel like you're looking up from the bottom of a well no one knows is there. What I do know is I lost all motivation to do pretty much anything and it's caught up with me. I've managed to gain nearly 30lbs in the past year. 30 friggin pounds. I blew out a fuckin tattoo with a stretch mark. Tomorrow I'm buying new gym shoes and I'm going to the gym. Gotta start somewhere and getting off my ass is step one. Step two is simply to track what I'm eating. See where I am while I research what my calorie cut should be. Here goes nothin'. [link] [comments] |
| Newly one of the 6,669,475 other members of this sub changing their lives for the better Posted: 25 Jan 2021 12:21 PM PST F24, SW 235, CW 227, GW 165, 5 ft 6 in tall I made some pretty serious changes in my eating lately. I was getting a Trenta Pink Drink every morning (110g carbs, 98g sugar), having all sorts of sweet drinks throughout my day, getting pastries as snacks all the time, etc. Being a barista means constant temptation for someone like me, who is still working on their relationship with food. (Hence my username) I cut the drink habit out completely. I went to the store and got a few different kinds of drink packet, the kind you just shake into a bottle of water. I get unsweetened iced tea, and add a sugar free packet to it. It's 10 calories, and it has made the transition almost exciting. It's such a relief to have a drink to look forward to and not feel guilt. I also started IF. It is usually 18 hours, but 21 hours is also fairly comfortable. It all depends on my work schedule. I'm not super firm on the exact start/stop times as long as the actual fast window is in range I have so much more energy with these changes. I'm in a better mood overall. I have a different relationship with food. I didn't expect to lose that much water weight right off the bat, but I guess it makes sense with the ridiculous amounts of sodium I suddenly quit binging. My goal weight is 165 lbs (78 kg). However, the "healthy weight" range for my height/gender is 120-150lbs (54-68 kg). I'm not sure how to feel about that, or how I would look at that weight. I've told my husband about my goals, and one or two other people. I'm avoiding talking about it openly because I'm worried about my moms comments. I was at 165 when I was 19, but gained weight when we started a family. She occasionally makes comments about how I was too skinny and looked unhealthy. She has never had any luck with weight loss (lack of resilience and will-power), so I can understand a bit of her emotion with the topic. Thanks to a post I saw elsewhere, I actually created this account as my "day one" account for weight loss specifically. I think it will be helpful in looking back on my progress. I just needed to pause and write all of this out, and I appreciate everyone that stuck with the post for this long [link] [comments] |
| Why I highly encourage you to workout Posted: 26 Jan 2021 12:41 AM PST Hello friends, I have been consistently working on my self for 7 months now, which means prioritising my health by eating better, sleeping longer and especially working out. Growing up, I used to hate all kinds of sports because I was always the chubby kid. Sports in school ruined my relationship with any kind of physical activity. Now, 10 years later, I finally found joy in moving my body: YouTube workouts. It's free, there is so much awesome content and I nobody is judging me (EXCEPT YOU PAMELA REIF haha). I have lost 12kg so far. The scale didn't move for 2 months now and I was so discouraged and frustrated. My boyfriend then told me to put together a before/after pic and I was shocked. I was this weight before (ca 84kg) but my body never looked liked this (I posted a recent pic on r/progesspics) and I think it's all due to consistently working out and building muscle. In a nutshell: Find something you like and move your body. It will help you to stay on track and to change your body. You can do this! Also, thank you for this amazing community, you all rock! [link] [comments] |
| Embarrassed About Rapid Weight Gain: Grief and Chemo Posted: 25 Jan 2021 11:02 AM PST I'm a 35 year old female in NYC. Fitness and healthy eating had been a huge part of my life. I was really active in the boutique fitness scene here: multiple gym memberships, 1-2 group fitness classes a day, six days a week. I was fit and strong and proud of my body. In late March, totally out of the blue, I was diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer. (Literally one day I was my normal self, working out and eating well, and the next day I felt something wrong with my breathing and went to the doctor -- where a chest x-ray led to a cat scan that night and boom: cancer). Just as Covid hit and gyms were closing and people were figuring out their home fitness routines (among many other things, of course), I was starting chemo. A few weeks into starting chemo, my mom - who had a different form of blood cancer - died. It was trauma on top of trauma -- suffering through chemo, grieving my mom, and of course, not being able to see my friends because of Covid. It was all too much and it almost broke me. I had an extremely hard time with chemo, and was unable to exercise at all for the six months of treatment. I also stopped eating about halfway through, because food tasted disgusting. Covid would have been deadly for me. I literally stayed in bed all day, every day. By the end of chemo, despite being on total bed rest, I had lost a solid 25 lbs - including all of my hard-earned muscle. I'm 5'8 and I weighed about 115. Obviously not scary skinny...but for me, very frail. Anyway, by October, I had made it through chemo and food was starting to taste good again, and then amazing. I also didn't have cancer to distract me from my mom's death. I was grieving hard and I think still in shock over everything I had just been through. I think I also felt like I deserved to eat whatever I wanted. So I did. I ate and ate and cried and ate and I bought a spin bike and weights but didn't use them. I think I was also so pissed about all the hard work that had gone into my strength, and then losing all my muscle through chemo, and I just stopped caring. It felt so unfair, and getting strong again when I had become so weak felt impossible. Eating was fun and easy and sweatpants let me stay in denial about how fast I was gaining. Before chemo, when I was around 140, my weight was muscle. Now, I'm around 150, and it's all fat. I feel really uncomfortable. And I feel embarrassed. I know I'm not technically overweight, but to go from 115 - 150 in 4 months is a lot. This morning I got rid of all the junk food and the comfort food. I bought the healthy stuff I used to eat, and used to enjoy, before all of this trauma. I know what to do and how much work it will take, and I'm ready. I just can't shake the feeling of shame over how quickly I gained and over how I look and feel now. My super short hair already makes me feel so unfeminine, and I guess I just wish I didn't feel so self-conscious. Has anyone else here gained weight after trauma or cancer? I'm finally physically able to go for walks (and I have a new puppy to walk every day), but I'm hesitant to meet up to walk with friends because I feel embarrassed. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 25 Posted: 25 Jan 2021 05:38 PM PST Hello losers, Happy Monday funday. Weigh in daily, enter into Libra & report here even if I don't like it: 227.6 lbs, 229.7 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): Looking bueno today. 18/21 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk & 30 minute stationary bike. 22/25 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket): Working on some tasty dinner & gonna have a lovely shower plus all the skin care after. 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 a calm Monday. Also, I may have booked some time off this week for an approaching birthday. Because as an adult, the best gift I can give myself is a day off for the day where I'm obliged to eat cake and poke fun at my own age. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2021 01:08 AM PST I now weigh the most I've ever been in my life. I am 5'9" and just stepped on the scale at 447lbs. When I was 420 I swear I wouldn't get bigger than that. I can't believe I've let myself get this big. I can't even stand for more than 2 minutes without pain in my legs, back and feet. I get super winded just getting off the couch to go to the bathroom. People tell me how I need motivation but I do have motivation, I want to lose weight and I want more energy to be a better mom and wife and be able to love myself better. I'm not sure why I'm spilling this all out here. Just looking for some advice and encouragement. I obviously know I need to eat better and exercise so why is it so hard?! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 07:47 PM PST 29 Year old male who has led an active life with healthy choices for the majority of my life. Standing just shy of 6 feet tall, I've always sat comfortably around 180-195 pounds with quite a bit of muscle. Well, slowly but surely over the past couple of years, those good habits have turned south. Exercising has become infrequent and bad eating habits seem to be the norm. Currently sitting at 225 pounds with very poor muscle mass. My wife and I just celebrated our first child's 2 month birthday and afterwards I'm looking in the mirror and don't like what I see. I've decided I need to change. No more excuses. Right then and there I took a picture of the scale and of my protruding gut and stitched together a collage. Starting tomorrow my phone will ping me twice a day as a reminder to look at where I am and to remind myself this is all a mental game. I can be better. I will be better for my son. Tomorrow is a new day. The first day. Let's get it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 08:17 PM PST Hi everyone, I just started my weight loss journey from 295 pounds to 170 pounds. I am 20F, and 5'10. I have been going to the gym and biking for 15 minutes as well as doing the treadmill for 30 minutes. I have been trying to get at least 10,000 daily steps. The one thing that has been extremely hard for me so hard is changing my diet. My family doesn't really keep any food in the house so they resort to ordering dinner nearly every single night. It is exhausting, even for me, and I love eating out. I haven't had a home-cooked meal in a month. I know at this age I shouldn't rely on my parents to feed me, but I do rely on them to keep groceries in the house. I eat at multiple fast food places every single day. I have fast food for dinner and I have it again for dessert. After eating it for dinner, everyday, without fail, I have to have something sweet after I eat something savory. It's like clockwork. I understand that this diet is very unhealthy for me, it's just so easy to get something handed to you through a window. I have read different posts from different people who are struggling with the same issue. I am under the impression that after a couple of days of not eating fast food and sugar, the cravings stop immensely. Whenever I have cravings though, my body turns into a monster. Until I get what I am craving, my brain thinks non-stop about it until I eat it. I feel like a slave to my own mind. I would like to ask all of you for advice on how to stop eating fast food and junk food in general. Working out isn't hard for me to get up and do, but making healthy meals is. I would also appreciate any cheap, easy healthy meals you recommend. I am so tired of eating junk food all the time because not only does my waistline regret it, it is terrible for my skin and overall health. [link] [comments] |
| I started a lifestyle change three days ago Posted: 25 Jan 2021 05:51 PM PST Hey guys!! I'm 19F, weighing approx 260lb. I have been a binge eater since I was 5 years old and have binge ate just about every day of my life. I haven't exercised since middle school. I've always been a bigger person and for the past ten years I have been knee deep in self hatred for myself and my body. The past six months have been especially bad. I have eaten a lot of shitty, greasy fast food nearly every day for six months. Sometimes multiple times a day. It started to become a routine. About two weeks ago, I binged really hard. If I had to guess, about 6000 calories in a variety of takeout/fast food. The next day my body was so uncomfortable and I realized, I hate feeling this way. I hate not being able to hike, I hate feeling guilty every single time I eat, I hate abusing my body, I hate that sitting up is a struggle, I hate that I've spent my entire conscious life despising myself. So, for the first time in my life, I got a gym membership. I've gone three days in a row so far and spent about an hour to two hours keeping busy. I plan on going 5-6 times a week to get into the routine of it, and build endurance. I've made the decision to cut out highly processed fast food and do a 1500 calorie deficit. I hope to do this long term. I need a food scale to do this completely accurately but I can't afford one currently, so I've been recording what I eat on an app. I'm just so happy to have started. I don't want to spend my youth hating my body and depriving my body. I deserve to be happy and healthy and it is time to invest in myself. This is a very big accomplishment to me as I have taken no serious measures to correct my health in my life. I have a good support system, but they do not relate enough to understand the significance of this to me like some of you might. I'm hoping for support, advice, to hear your stories. Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this. [link] [comments] |
| Losing a lot of weight but getting worn down by the effort. Posted: 25 Jan 2021 06:02 PM PST Hi all. This sub is a big inspiration to me, and I was hoping for some advice. I'm on a long, multi-year, up and down weight loss journey, but overall I'm down almost 40 pounds from my peak weight. The last couple of months have yielded pretty consistent progress, so I know what I'm doing now is working. The thing is, in order to save money and eat healthier, I've been cooking almost every day. I've actually got quite good at cooking over the years and have a pretty good variety of things I can make. But I feel like I've finally come to a conclusion - I hate cooking. It's just not something that I ever want to spend time on. I dread every part of it, from planning, to shopping, to cooking, and clean up. But I don't want to revert to my prior habits of just eating out everyday (for the above reasons). I know there are plenty of easy recipes out there, but the thought of having to set aside even 30 minutes a day to spend in the kitchen sounds miserable. I don't really have a specific question I guess; sorry for basically just rambling/venting, but sometimes that feels necessary! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: January 26th, 2020 Posted: 25 Jan 2021 09:55 PM PST Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! I want to shortly also mention — this thread lives and breathes by people supporting each other :) so if you have some time, comment on the other posts! Show support, offer advice and share experiences! [link] [comments] |
| I forgot how slow it is - but feeling great! Posted: 25 Jan 2021 09:04 AM PST Hi Losers! Quick stats to start: F31 5'6 SW 218 CW 169 In 2019 I lost 50 pounds through Intermittent Fasting. When I was first losing I exercised a lot (ran, weights etc). I lost 50 pounds and my lowest weight was 168 in Dec 2019 (I think for about a day), haha. Thankfully this is not a story where I gained it all back as I successfully maintained for a year. I work in HR so although I will not pretend like I am a frontline work and I know lots of people have way more stressful jobs but my job was extremely stressful at the beginning of Covid (and pretty much all of 2020). Lay people off, terminating, constant policy changes that people were not following, managing stress of our leaders etc. (again not saying it is the most stressful job but it wore me down). My mental health plummeted. Point being - damn I am proud of myself for maintaining. Well, the fog is lifting and after maintaining I am back on the "lose it train". I ate a bit more chocolate than I should have over Christmas (okay a lot more) so my starting weight this go around was 172. 3 weeks in and down to 169. Feeling great - doing great but damn I forgot how much this sucks and how slow it is. Hop on the scale each morning expecting miracles and up half a pound? WHAT - THE AUDACITY. Remembering the downward trend is what counts. Being kind to myself and remembering that the first 50 was easier than the next 20 will be. TLDR: I forgot how slow weight loss is. [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Tuesday, 26 January 2021 - No question too small! Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:31 PM PST Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS: * Include your stats if appropriate/relevant (or better yet, update your flair!) * Check the FAQ and other resources in the sidebar! [link] [comments] |
| My weight loss goal seems so far yet so close + feeling discouraged and upset with myself. Posted: 25 Jan 2021 08:15 PM PST 17F 5'2 SW: 160 CW: 136.5 GW: 120 This past month hasn't been a good start to 2021 for me. I started off with getting COVID, plus my birthday is at the beginning of January so I was sick during it. My weight at the start of the month was 137, I got down to 136.6, and then overate for a few days bringing me up to almost 140. It took over a week to get back down to where I was and now I'm currently at 136.5. I've only lost half a pound since the beginning of the month. Now I'm also on my period and since I started PMSing (about a week before now) I've wanted to just eat even with the slightest hunger and it's always at night. I'll go through a few days of eating my normal deficit and then eat maintenance because I just have cravings. Today I ate slightly above maintenance and I'm just disappointed with myself. I know I should be nicer to myself and just take a break or do better tomorrow but I just felt like there isn't any progress and I have it in my head that I'm going to hit my goal weight by the end of May. Now I feel like this month has been wasted because the scale hasn't moved much. I want to wear a cute bathing suit and not feel insecure and I want stop eating in a deficit and eat a normal amount. As I'm sitting here typing this even though I've already overeaten, I still feel hungry (mentally and also a bit physically). I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm definitely not gonna give up and go down the deep end but I'm worried that I'll put in a bunch of effort over the next few months and barely lose weight. Just looking for some advice/encouragement so if you'd like to share your experiences or anything like that I'd appreciate it. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 26 January 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 25 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] |
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