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    Weight loss: Around March 31, 2021 we’re going to see posts of people who have made great progress on their goals. The choices you make today determines if you’ll be one of those people.

    January 04, 2021

    Weight loss: Around March 31, 2021 we’re going to see posts of people who have made great progress on their goals. The choices you make today determines if you’ll be one of those people.

    Around March 31, 2021 we’re going to see posts of people who have made great progress on their goals. The choices you make today determines if you’ll be one of those people.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:31 AM PST

    I had this thought yesterday and it was seriously motivating.

    At the end of December I was seeing posts from people saying they started their journeys in October and have lost 10, 15, even 20+ pounds. October feels like it was just yesterday to me - and that could have been me posting that today I am so much closer to where I want to be because I started then, but I didn't take the necessary action.

    As of January 1st, I'm committed to being the person in March who is fitter, healthier, happier, and closer to the person I'm trying to become. 90 days of commitment could jumpstart a healthy new chapter with benefits that last far beyond 2021.

    You'll see me again in 3 months, 15 pounds down!

    EDIT: Thank you all so much for the encouragement and for sharing your stories! I will make a follow up post on 3/31 so we can discuss our progress - I'm aiming to hit my first goal weight of 174lbs by then! Good luck everyone and thank you again for your support, I love this community!

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    It's weird fitting in smaller chairs...

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 05:48 AM PST

    As a career obese person you come to understand there's alot you can and can't do. Chairs, booths, tables and even cars are always something you have to consider when going out.

    I've been morbidly obese my whole life so not fitting in chairs is something you unfortunately get used to. Oh there's a plastic chair? Sorry that thing won't hold me... wicker chair? Don't get me started. Booth at a restaurant? Only if the table can move and the skinnier people sit opposite me. You don't realize how much this one thing will completely warp your life.

    I've lost a total of 91 lbs now and the other day just by mere happenstance I was in a position where I was at a place that only had plastic chairs...my lifelong enemy. I've broken so many plastic lawn chairs in my life I couldn't even count. This particular chair wasn't a lawn chair but my apprehension was warranted I'm still 284 lbs 6'2 so I'm still a big guy. Cautiously adjusting my weight to get in the chair so I don't plop down with all my weight at once and I was pleasantly surprised that not only did I fit in the chair but I had ROOM. WHAT?

    These are the NSV that you don't expect but when they happen are some of the most rewarding instances you can have. If you're struggling don't give up your moment is right around the corner.

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    I made it through my first Football Sunday without fried food and beer!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 05:38 PM PST

    During NFL season, I use Sundays as an excuse to "treat myself" to a few hours of beers, fried foods, and other snacks. Over the last 10+ years, it became a weekly ritual (at home via takeout, recently).

    Today, for the first time in idk how long, I watched the game with a glass of water, fresh veggies and a turkey wrap. I stayed well within my 1200 calories, still enjoyed the game AND was able to multitask and get some cleaning/laundry done. And best of all? I know I won't feel like crap tomorrow!

    Sundays have knocked me off the weight loss wagon countless times over the last few years, so today was a huge step (albeit a kind of pathetic one haha). Thank you to this sub for helping make it happen!

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    I’ve lost 35lbs since quarantine began in March 2020- and everyone thinks I’m ill!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:43 AM PST

    Hello! I'm a now 47 year old woman and I've struggled with my weight for most of my adult life. I'm 5'4" and my highest weight ever was 220lbs in 1995. Unfortunately I've yo-yo'd a bit, but the lowest I remember being was about 150lbs in 2000. Over the past 20 years I've averaged about 170-180lbs. I January 2020 I was 175 and felt ok.

    Then quarantine hit and I started working from home. I stopped eating lunch out, I quit stopping at Starbucks every day, and i stopped socially drinking. There was no vending machine or cafeteria goodies nearby. I started walking and biking regularly, eating home cooked meals, and paying more attention to my body.

    Last time I weighed myself I was 139lbs!! My knees feel better, I have less GERD, and I have more energy. None of my clothes fit, but whatcha gonna do. I'm just grateful to finally have a "normal" BMI!

    However, over the holidays, I had several family members as "are you ok?" and "did you lose weight on purpose?" People seem to think I'm sick! I think it's because of my age or something.

    Oh well. Just hoping this is a permanent change for me!

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    Motivated by Spite

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 02:53 PM PST

    Anyone else losing weight to spite someone?

    Ok, obviously I'm not losing weight for anyone but myself, but the need to prove some people wrong has motivated me a lot since I started my journey.

    - Unsupportive coworkers who tried to tempt me to eat things they knew I was abstaining from. I quit fast food for a year and a couple of my coworkers got fast food a few times a week for the entire summer that I started my diet. They asked if I wanted anything every single time, including calling to check. My annoyance strengthen my resolve so much.

    - My mom, who donated all of her old clothes to me when she had weight loss surgery. Every time she gave me her 3x clothes, it drove me nuts. I only wore 1x at my heaviest, but I guess she thought I would need them eventually.

    - My ex who cheated on me and told me that I wasn't enough.

    ​

    My user name Phyllis comes from this moment of casual cruelty in college.

    I didn't have health insurance in college and I hadn't had new glasses in years. At the time of this story, I was working at an eye doctor digitizing medical charts. One of the perks of the job was a free pair of eyeglasses. I picked out these super swanky glasses that I would never have been able to afford on my own (Gucci!) and got some the fancy coats on them. Very tricked out glasses.

    So, I'm wearing my brand new glasses to class and I'm feeling super confident in them, (I can actually see! It's amazing!) when this guy who I regularly had classes with turned around and told me that I looked like Phyllis from The Office. I had never seen The Office, but I could tell it wasn't a compliment. I just made a non-committal gesture and ignored him.

    So, I googled Phyllis after class and was horrified. For anyone who isn't familiar with her, Phyllis is an overweight, middle aged woman with brown hair. I was twenty at the time, but other than that, the picture was pretty accurate. Heck, my fat aged me and made me look much older. After that, I was embarrassed to wear the glasses and eventually, stopped. I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't wear those glasses again for years.

    Screw that guy. I needed to lose weight, but that guy has to live with himself every day and that seems way, way worse.

    ​

    Anyone else got something that makes them walk a little farther or keep them from reaching for dessert?

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    Recently lost 100lbs (2/3 of my goal) but need advice on what to do with old clothes

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:55 PM PST

    I've always struggled with my weight, since peewee football where I was at the weight limit every year. And since I first moved to Chicago fresh out of college (almost 6 years ago), my weight has been a non stop rollercoaster (5am bars and the ability to get anything delivered didn't exactly help).

    However, since the beginning of quarantine I've lost 100 lbs. I started off running and biking everyday possible and lost 60lbs. I'm lucky to live near the lake so I was able to use the lake front trails and divvy bikes. Once I hit my first goal of reaching 300 lbs I decided to go back to my local CrossFit gym. I had been doing CrossFit on and off (coinciding with my ups and downs in weight) since college. But the combination of working from home, a more regular work schedule, and a new gym owner/community helped me to lose the next 40!

    Now, I've been fitting into old clothes but those are starting to get big on me as well. Being in my late 20's I've got about 4 tailored suits from weddings over the past 3 years that are now way too big for me along with several pants and buttons downs. Was looking for some advice for reselling old clothes like this especially big and tall suits, if anyone has any experience with that. Some stuff I think I can go to a consignment store but I'm not finding much on places to resell old suits. Any help would be much appreciated!

    TLDR: lost 100 lbs and now I need advice on how to sell old clothes and suits so I can buy new ones

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    Another Day One, Ten Years Later

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 01:15 PM PST

    Ten years ago today, I underwent the LapBand procedure to help get my weight under control. I've been either overweight or obese my entire life. As a teenager, I tried losing weight several times, one time losing forty pounds, getting close to 200 lbs., but regaining it soon after. By my third year of college, I'd hit 300 lbs. I remember reacting to the weigh-in at my school's medical center with resignation because it felt inevitable. I spent a lot of my time at college being depressed and relying on food for comfort. It apparently took a lot of food to make me comfortable, so it wasn't a surprise to me that my weight got so out of control. It almost seemed natural. I was also in a relationship with a person who didn't mind enabling my food addiction, since I was accidentally-on-purpose enabling their drug addiction as well (my abandonment issues from childhood made me make decisions that were poor for both of us). We supported each other while in the midst of two very different addictions that were both crippling in their own, unique ways. Within a couple of years of graduating college, I'd reached 375 lbs. and was desperate to interrupt the upward trend, so I opted for surgery.

    Interestingly, we did both want what was best for each other, so when I opted for bariatric surgery a couple of years after college, my partner was very supportive. As I started the pre-approval process, I dove into the world of YouTubers who documented their journeys with the LapBand. From there, I signed up for a gym membership. I followed the pre-op diet to a t. From December 2010 to my surgery date, January 3, 2011, I'd gone from 375 lbs. to 323 lbs. I was already getting a boost from that initial loss. The post-op process was a bit rough... I had a lot of gas, which created a lot of chest pain, and even though I was eating less, I wasn't losing as much as before. My new routines of meal prepping and two-hour daily gym sessions turned out to be unsustainable. And probably the biggest problem, my addiction to food, specifically takeout, reared its ugly head once again. Within a year of surgery, I was "PB'ing" (a weirdly cutesy term for sending so much food down your esophagus that the LapBand opening is too narrow to let it pass, leading to a "productive burp" where your esophagus kicks the food back up before it ever reaches the stomach) at least once a week, if not more often. Not only did my addiction lead me to eating my way around the LapBand, I was risking permanent damage to my esophagus because frequent PBs could lead to scarring or slippage of the band, which in turn could lead to terrible health consequences that might necessitate surgical intervention. So I asked my surgeon to empty my LapBand. I still believe it was the responsible thing to do at the time. I hadn't done enough to address my food addiction and it didn't do my body any good to pretend that I wasn't going to go right back to eating all the things I wasn't supposed to once I left my surgeon's office.

    All told, I was losing weight from December 2010 until around November 2011. The lowest weight I managed to hit was around 265 lbs. From a size 26 or so, I managed to squeeze into a pair of size 18 pants. Given my decision to abandon my journey, those gains didn't last. By May 2013, I was back up to 375 lbs. My domestic partnership was strained by the difficulties of being in a relationship with an active drug user who spent less time in recovery and more time getting high. And I had started thinking about what I wanted my future to look like: I didn't see myself as someone who could remain in the role of legal support staff, in a relationship with someone whose shameful secret reflected on me as well. (Ironically, I mentally deflected the fact that my own food addiction was my own shameful open "secret" since everyone I knew watched me go from 375 lbs. to 265 lbs, right back up to 375 lbs. over the course of two years.)

    As I thought about who I intended to become, I really started leaning into the idea that my weight was going to be what it was for the foreseeable future and that there wasn't much point in waiting to lose weight to do the things I wanted/needed to do. I wanted to become a lawyer, and if that meant I'd be a fat lawyer, so be it. I enrolled in law school and really threw myself into my work. I wanted to get out of that toxic relationship (didn't really have a plan, tbh, more like I reached my breaking point), so I literally paid my partner to get out of our apartment.

    All of my self-exploration and growth was going really well, except for the fact that, as I got involved at my law school, as I took on many different roles and got prestigious internships, I was still relying on food as my own crutch. By the middle of my second year of law school, around December 2015, I had reached a new high weight of 416 lbs. It's kind of funny to think about 416 lbs. as being some sort of physical capacity threshold for me. I was really good at being a very productive, very fat person for virtually all of my life, and certainly all of my adult life. I could do everything I needed to do for myself and others when I was at 300 lbs., 350 lbs., 375 lbs. Naturally, I still had some limitations but those could be dealt with. Suddently, at 416 lbs., literally everything hurt all of the time. Walking, sitting, standing, laying down. I had to request special accommodations because I couldn't fit in the chairs at certain classrooms in my law school (it was not humiliating if I didn't think about it; so I didn't think about it). If I needed work clothes, I couldn't even go to Lane Bryant or Avenue. I ordered pants from a specialty store, sized 34, with a special "slimming" (haha, ok, buddy) lining that I ended up needing to cut out with a pair of scissors because they cut into my thighs when I moved around. When I wasn't at an internship, all I wore was giant sweatpants and giant shirts. Sneakers wore out incredibly quickly. When I saw myself in pictures or as an outline in store windows as I walked by them, it was hard to recognize myself as a person. My features were indistinguishable from each other. I was a series of lumps with a head on top. In sum, shit got really dire for a bit. I talked to a friend about this predicament and we made an arrangement where he would do meal prep for me and I paid him some sum for the supplies and preparation. This dude did me a huge solid and I managed to get down to about 385 lbs. Ultimately, 2L year doesn't lend itself to those kinds of arrangements, but the difference I felt was already pretty immense (no pun intended). I also ended up with some loose skin, which is weird to think about: just emptying this meat sack by 20-30 lbs. left me, a still-extremely-fat person, with loose skin... If I thought about it, I might be upset, so I didn't think about it!

    By the way, it turns out that, for me, one really important aspect of being able to live as an extremely fat person was to not think about my physical form. The reality of my body was one that I chose not to focus on for a very long time as I focused on attaining different goals. After I managed to come down from the threshold of "oh-wow-everything-hurts-all-the-time," I had the "privilege" of getting to choose to focus on literally anything other than what was going on with my body (or what was going into it). I continued to chase my professional goals, I continued to seek out personal growth. I learned to live by myself, I learned how to excel at my new job as an attorney. I joined bar associations, networked, continued to try to figure out what kind of name I was trying to make for myself. I was really starting to lean into my genderqueerness. It's a disconnect I frankly still struggle with because connecting with my body and what's going on inside of it remains very difficult. But anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming!

    After a while at my day job, after I was financially stable enough to not only have my own place but also start seeing my therapist again, I started looking into surgery again. A lot of folks who had the LapBand ended up re-gaining and getting revision surgery; I figured since I'd tried, on and off, so many times with such lackluster results, I ought to see what my surgeon had to say. After an approximately seven-year break, she told me that if my LapBand was still properly placed and if there was no damage to my esophagus, I could actually just get it filled again and it would have the same effect. Not eager to go under the knife, I decided to take her advice. Things got off to a rocky start: my first fill ended up being more than I could handle. I went from 365 lbs. to 346 lbs. over the weekend because instead of making sure I could drink a cup of water (me and my body communicating as poorly as ever), I rushed out of her office on a Friday afternoon to spend the next three days not being able to keep even a sip of water down. When I returned to her office, I had to wait an hour to be seen. It was an hour of agony and by the time I got my band un-filled, my eyes were welling up with tears of frustration. I didn't go back after that adjustment in February 2019.

    But the band was doing its job. I had a moderate amount of restriction, I was working with my therapist, I had a job with work-life balance, and I was making enough money that I didn't feel deprived in any way. So I just had to deal with... the elephant in the room, no pun intended. I had been working with a person coach through a health insurance wellness program and she suggested Freshly. Freshly meals turned out to be relatively satisfying and were a reasonable amount of calories, such that I could eat at 1,200-1,500 calories a day with minimal effort and much less expense than takeout. Although I didn't continue with Freshly for a number of reasons, it was the kick-start I needed. On August 29, 2019, I pulled up MyFitnessPal and began the streak that continues today. I also started telling myself to make decisions. If I learned anything about myself over the past year, it's that my food-addicted brain really likes to default to takeout and fantasize about the different options that are available. Sometimes my food-addicted brain wins, sometimes I win, sometimes we compromise. On some days, it's a huge struggle. On other days, I am magically able to exercise moderation and I lean into that. Because I never stop trying, on a daily basis, I've managed to have more good days than bad. The LapBand helps, for sure. But I know for a fact that my addicted brain is very much willing to put the band through more than its fair share of hell for the sake of getting a fix. So while it's very much a helpful tool, my daily battle is waged in my mind.

    Over the past year and change, I've negotiated, adapted, and improvised my way to a 115-pound loss. (Counting from my all-time highest, it's a 167-pound loss.) I sit at 248.8 lbs. Still very fat, but no longer extremely fat (medically speaking, I am out of the super morbidly obese range and have entered the morbidly obese range). On New Year's Eve, because I'm still extremely attached to the idea of food as a source of fun, I decided to celebrate with some soul food: ribs with a side of mac and cheese, french fríes (that I didn't even like, tbh), cornbread, and sweet potato pie (MFP will tell you that my celebration began quite early in the day with breakfast of a latte and a chocolate croissant; lunch consisting of a reuben with a side of salt and vinegar pop chips (not worth it, btw) and a giant chocolate chip cookie; and a "snack" in the form of a bag of *real* salt and vinegar chips (my Mulligan) and an entire bar of Ritter's milk chocolate). Not gonna lie, it's pretty embarrassing to type that all out. But I'm #livingmytruth! Literally every day I have to start over, because literally every day I have to fight some part of me that feels like it "is" this way. Like it "is" destined to "be" this way for the rest of my life. Like I'm going to want to eat junk food and takeout every single day for the rest of my life (even though that's actually not true but that's what it feels like sometimes.)

    One could argue, then, that it was lucky that this little celebration meal gave me a wicked case of food poisoning that woke me up at 3am, had me spouting stuff out of both ends (forgive the visual) for three hours, and left me with a sharp pain in my chest from inflammation around my band. Ten years in, I was afraid I'd finally broken the damn thing and I headed to the ER on New Year's Day to get an esophagram performed (and of course, to put a stop to the constant trips to the bathroom that didn't even let me lay down and the inflammation that stopped me from being able to keep even just a sip of water down). I say that it was lucky because it interrupted a little cycle that has slowed my weight loss to a crawl in recent months. I had to have my band un-filled and am on liquids for two days and puréed foods for two days and will have to see my surgeon this week (ugh, not looking forward to that). I've been getting less adept at making those decisions I was able to make months before and this took me out of that cycle, for a time. I have been getting discouraged by the slower weight loss. I have been discontent about the fact that I have been able to start a (very modest) running regimen that has not yielded the accelerated results I have seen for others on this and other subreddits.

    To sum up, I've made a lot of progress in how I negotiate my relationship with food but sometimes I feel like I am still just white-knuckling it. Now that I'm trying to explore different sides of myself, including the side that wants to interact romantically with other people, as well as the side that wants to teach evening classes, something I've never done before but feels right for me right now, I don't think my journey is going to become any smoother any time soon. I have had a lot of experience to draw from so I'm hoping that, at the very least, I can bring that experience to bear, but I also feel like I'm treading unfamiliar water as I figure out how to live in a body whose daily calorie allowance isn't 2,300 a day anymore. I'm also finding that my prior romantic relationship was a really poor template for what I want to seek out in my current prospective relationship and that I have to be better at not letting these experiences throw me for a loop. I've also yet to learn what it looks like when I'm holding down two jobs and also trying to maintain a (very modest) running regime and maintaining a calorie deficit in a sustainable way.

    If there was any coherent point to this long and drawn-out reflection post, I guess it would be that you don't need to wait until you're at a lower weight to pursue the life you deserve; that progress is much more important than perfection; that just because you don't have everything figured out doesn't mean you can't make those less-consequential decisions today; that surgery is not the easy way out; that food addiction is its own little beast that needs to be reckoned with if that is your issue (that is to say, if you are like me, you might also find the "just eat at a deficit" advice frustrating because although of course that's an excellent tool for many people, the route for folks with food addiction is not as straight a line); and that reading these posts is your way of telling yourself that you're worth it and that you're trying to improve, so carry that sentiment into other aspects of your life and you'll be a little closer than you were before.

    Oh, I should also say thanks very much to the folks who post and moderate. This subreddit, r/SuperMorbidlyObese and r/progresspics have been really amazing resources during my journey and I'm immensely grateful for these spaces and the kind internet strangers that inhabit/curate them.

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    I know you'll get it...

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 01:22 PM PST

    I'm new here and the posts and advice have been so helpful. I'm 57F, 5' 2'' and lost 42lbs last year. On my way to losing another 20 to take me into the overweight category then I'll see how much more I want to lose. I do CICO and it has worked really well for me. So thats me ...hi everyone 😁

    Anyway...there really is no one i can share this NSV with because its pretty embarrassing but I know you lovely lot will get it ...up until now, when I was getting out of the bath, I had to turn over and do it from all fours ...not pretty let me tell you!! But tonight I was able to just stand up and get out 'normally'!!! It felt like a huge achievement and a step towards feeling 'normal'....which is one of my main goals! I hope someone understands lol

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    Day 0! Tomorrow I start the journey properly!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:24 PM PST

    I'm genuinely excited to be doing this, and that's not something I thought I would feel about losing weight. I'm starting at 319lbs, and I don't know where I'm going to end - I've been obese for a long time, enough time that I was still growing when I first got there. 210lbs is my goal right now, but that could change.

    I have protein shakes arriving tomorrow for breakfast, alongside fruit and nuts. I have the supplies to make chicken and lentils a week at a time, for a meal-prepped, home-cooked lunch each day - and this also means I avoid carbs before dinner. I have the next ten days of dinners planned, with two days worth already in the fridge for me to eat - turkey meatballs in a Thai curry sauce, on rice.

    I bought proper running shoes. I used to be so so sporty. I miss running and rugby so much. I'm finally in a place in life that I can spend a bunch of money on proper running shoes to make it easier to begin, and safer too. I'll be starting at rock-bottom, barely able to run but I'm not gonna let that get to me this time.

    I found my weights too. I still need to look up a dumbbell routine, but my living room is cleaned and they're there now, ready to be used. I want to be strong again.

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    For the fast eaters out there: consider using a repeat timer for your meals.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:24 AM PST

    Hello guys, I just wanted to share a little trick of mine to control my eating habits and prevent me from eating too fast: I use a repeat timer application on my phone to eat bites at regular intervals.

    As many of you certainly know, eating slowly is key to control weight. For me, it is something nearly impossible to do naturally. I have been wired to devour and gobble up my food, and consciously eating slowly is way too taxing on my limited willpower. So, without any external help, my mind quickly reverts back to its natural setting, which is to race to finish meals as fast as possible.

    Using a timer has completely changed my approach to meals. I now don't have to exert any willpower at all to eat slowly: I set my timer and have a bite when it rings or vibrates. What has worked for me is to set the interval at 1 minute and 15 seconds. The great thing about phones is that you can set them to vibrate instead of ringing. When eating with other people, the vibrations in your pocket can alert you discretely as to when to take a bite.

    You can find plenty of apps that will serve this purpose. The key is to make sure that the timer repeats itself. And given the importance of healthy habits, it may be worth spending a few dollars on a good one.

    I have been using the timer trick for a couple of years, and it has really helped me control my eating habits and portions. In addition to weight control, I am now enjoying my meals much more. I don't feel guilty about eating too fast, I appreciate my foods, I am relaxed, and I get to pay attention to the company I have. If you are a natural fast-eater like me, you should definitely give it a try!!

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    Time to get to work...again!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:57 PM PST

    Hey all!

    In January 2020, I had set a goal to get to a weight of 250lbs by the end of the year. I had started the year at 290lbs.

    Well, I crushed that goal and hit 250 in June and kept on going. The progress was great until the beginning of November where I plateaued at around 225lbs. I think there are a bunch of reasons I plateaued: colder weather so I was outside exercising less, I tend to eat less healthily in the fall/winter, and of course the holidays. I did pretty good maintaining though. No significant increases in weight that were sustained.

    The week after Christmas and before the new year, I used as a "cheat week". I didn't necessarily go out of my way to eat the worst foods possible, but I didn't really stop myself either. I also didn't stick to my intermittent fasting and drank more alcohol than I normally do.

    So tomorrow morning, I'll jump on the scale and see where I am after my "cheat week". And that's my new starting weight. I have set a new goal for 2021 and it may be too ambitious, but I won't let that stop me.

    My goal for 2021: reach 200 lbs by July. That's 25 weeks away, so about 1lb/week.

    Let's do this!

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    30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 3

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:57 PM PST

    Hello lovely losers!

    Happy Sunday funday! Anyone out there finishing up their meal prep?

    Weigh in daily, enter into Libra & report here: 237 lbs, lbs trend weight. Reporting even if I don't like it!

    Stay within calorie range (1800): On target today assuming I can behave myself around those 1200 is plenty banana brownies my SO is making me. Better than yesterday, looking to do even better tomorrow. Meal prep, pre planning dinners & homemade coffee beverages. 2/2 days.

    Exercise 5 days a week: Low impact cardio video & some tbar swings. 3/3 days.

    Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket): Some difficult talk about mental health today. Even if those conversations suck, you gotta have em. Did a lot of stuff today that will make the week ahead easier too.

    Try a new recipe once a week: Variant on green chili. 1/5 weeks.

    Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I am grateful for my partner & access to mental health services up to and including internet forums like reddit. When the going gets tough, it's nice to know you aren't alone & that at the very least is so much easier than it has ever been before. Take care of your bad selves losers. You are worth it.

    Your turn!

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    So I found an old pair of jeans in my drawer

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 01:28 PM PST

    So while doing laundry, I found an old pair of my jeans. I started keto in August when I was 246lbs and I'm now 211 as of now.

    While doing laundry I looked at the size and these are a size 42. It's crazy to think I can fit these pants over the ones I wearing now, with space to spare. For the first time it put a smile on my face. It feels good Knowing I don't wear this size anymore.

    I wish everyone the best luck this year on your journeys. I can see now it's worth it. It gets hard, especially at your lowest points when you wonder why you're even doing this and want to give up. Don't give up, and thanks to everyone who kepts encouraging to keep going.

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    Rapid weight gain due SSRI and no results from gym - feel heartbroken

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:51 PM PST

    22F, 168cm have been between 58-64kg consistently since I was 16. I've always had a good appetite and stayed fairly active like walking my dog and going to Orange Theory twice a week but not anything extreme. In November 2019 I started on SSRI antidepressant Zoloft and stayed on this medication until August 2020. I stopped because I was experiencing rapid weight gain, having gone from 64kg to 74 between January and August despite no significant changes in diet or exercise. In September I joined a gym and started strength training and incorporating cardio 2-3 times a week in an effort to manage my weight. However since September and now I have gained just under another 5 kg. This is really upsetting and disheartening since people usually see the most progress in their first weeks starting at a gym. Since coming off the medication I have continued gaining and now weigh 80kg, and gone from being a size 6-8 to a size 14-16 in a year. I've just changed up my exercise routine and plan to workout 4 times a week consistently but I am feeling like there is no point and this is just my new life. I have always had a healthy relationship with food and been aware of avoiding fad diets or tying worth to weight because I have close family/friends affected by eating disorders. But this extreme change is really affecting my mood and causing me to have panic attacks when seeing friends because I feel very unattractive. The GP said that it would take a while for the effects of the medication to wear off but gave no definite time. Has anyone else experienced rapid weight gain as a response to SSRI's or have any advice for why I am not seeing any results?

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    What are some healthy "alternative foods"

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:38 PM PST

    I'm a 28 year old male and I weigh over 300 pounds. Not only that, but I think I may be experiencing the start of peripheral neuropathy, with slight numbness in my toes that comes and goes, sometimes becomes painful, and sometimes feels cold. I've been overweight for pretty much my entire life, and I want to finally fix that before I suffer some permanent physical damage.I'm interested in looking into healthier alternative foods in order to lose weight. For example, veggie/black bean burgers instead of regular hamburgers, pizza with cauliflower crust, zucchini noodles instead of spaghetti, etc. What kinds of these do you guys recommend/enjoy?

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    [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: January 4th, 2020

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:14 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!

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    workout programs for the gym

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:59 PM PST

    hi so i'm currently using pamela reifs ig workout programs (45 min sweaty) but i'm joining a gym soon. this is so overwhelming to me i've never been and it's scary to think about bc i don't like being judged. also as much as i try to correct it i don't think i have very good posture or like the way to do certain moves which stresses me out people will see and judge.

    so to reduce anxiety of what to do does anyone have like a program guide type thing of what to do at the gym? eg. today do this many reps on this machine and this much on this one etc. bc i have no clue about the machines and stuff

    any advice would be great. i'm just looking to lose a bit of belly weight and lean down. i'm 18f if that counts

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    Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 04 January 2021? Start here!

    Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST

    Today is your Day 1?

    Welcome to r/Loseit!

    So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started.

    Why you're overweight

    Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

    Before You Start

    The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

    Tracking

    Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

    Creating Your Deficit

    How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

    The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it.

    Exercise

    Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

    It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

    Crawl, Walk, Run

    It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

    Acceptance

    You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

    Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better.

    Additional resources

    Now you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

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    Daily Q&A Post for Monday, 04 January 2021 - No question too small!

    Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST

    Got a question? We've got answers!

    Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? that's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small.

    TIPS:

    • Include your stats if appropriate/relevant (or better yet, update your flair!)
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    Advice for losing weight working swing shifts?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:46 PM PST

    Hi there, I'm jumping on this New Year New Me train and working on setting my goals and my plan to achieve them. One of my goals is to lose 75 pounds this year. For reference I'm 26F, 5'4" with a SW of 250. I feel it's totally attainable but I know it's going to take a lot of work and finding a plan I can stick with.

    I'm a nurse that works 13-14 hour rotating days and nights 3-4 shifts per week with about an hour drive to and from work. Does anyone have any advice for establishing healthy eating habits and a workout routine with this kind of hectic schedule? My husband generally cooks when I'm working but he doesn't really cook the healthiest things. My job is at least pretty physical so I do get some activity when I'm at work but when I'm off I'm so tired I have little motivation to do anything and I'm really trying to work on that.

    Tl;dr: any diet/exercise advice for someone who works swing shifts and has had trouble sticking to things in the past?

    Edit: I should also maybe mention I just got an Apple Watch, if anyone has any recommendations for apps or how to utilize it most effectively for weight loss efforts?

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    Is OMAD a healthy relationship with food?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:12 PM PST

    Hi! I have regained all the weight I've lost unfortunately during covid lockdown as I abandoned cico and omad and had a free for all.

    I followed both CICO and OMAD the first time I lost weight, with exceptions to special occasions of course.

    I have a ginormous appetite and if I eat smaller portions I just stay hungry and think about food, whereas when I eat my one meal I feel satiated and don't think about food again until the next day when it's time to eat again. Maybe that's just my inner cavewoman that loves to eat as much as possible at one time lol

    Is it true that your stomach stretches to a smaller size if you eat smaller portions? If I do OMAD am I just destined to have a stretched stomach and giant appetite?

    It worked really well for me previously, and I'm ready to do it again I just want to make sure I'm not doing any long term damage.

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    (Almost) 14 year old who kinda needs advice?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 02:45 PM PST

    Hi there. I'm a 13 (14 in 2 weeks) year old girl who's been lurking here for a while and I need advice but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post here because of my age. If I'm not, I'll take it down, but I don't know where else to go.

    I am about 5'3"-5'4" (164cm) and weigh 80kg (176 lbs). I've had eating problems ever since I was about 7 due to some traumatic life issues and I think that I turn to food as comfort or when I'm bored but I'm not a psychologist or anything so I don't know.

    Anyways, I was healthy up until I was 7, and then started eating way too much and haven't stopped since. Being obese runs in the women in my family, and both my mum and maternal grandma are very overweight. Thing is, we can all lose weight and my mum has done it before. I've tried more times than I can count and I've never lasted more than a week due to misinformation and fad dieting starting when I was 12.

    As of now, I know mostly what I have to do to get to a healthy weight. I drink soda and juice and eat too much junk, and I rarely exercise since I'm lazy, but I want to try losing weight again. In a healthy way, of course. However, I'd need some help from my parents. Nothing extreme, maybe just not ordering food for me or trying to convince me to eat the food they ordered and not telling me where the junk food is. I don't know if that's asking too much but I don't think it is.

    My mum says that she'd feel guilty not letting me eat junk food. I tried reasoning and telling her that being 80kg has made me miserable, but she says that when she was my age she did it on her own and I should be able to as well. My step dad also says the same, also adding that they shouldn't need to change to accommodate me.

    I'm really not trying to be a burden but they just won't reason, and it's not like I want them to do it forever. Obviously I'm going to learn to control my cravings and stay motivated, but all I need is their help to start off so that maybe I don't give up. They also won't let me cook for myself if they cook something unhealthy or order food, so I can't do anything about that.

    I'll stop here since I'm ranting way too much. If anyone reads this or has any advice on how to get started in these circumstances I'd really, really appreciate it.

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    Man, soda addiction is real, huh?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:25 PM PST

    Working on taking a month off soda to try to get myself over a plateau. In the past, when I tried, I had really high stress jobs that required a lot of energy and soda was my main source of caffeine, so I attributed that to the crankiness I felt when I tried to quit soda in the past. Here I am on Day 3 and I feel craaaaaaappy. My head hurts, I'm low energy, I have insane cravings. I had some tea and some coffee yesterday and today respectively and that didn't do it so I know it isn't caffeine. I have been eating slightly more because I am hungrier so I know it isn't calorie deficiency. I'm drinking a lot of lemon propel interspersed with water so I know I'm not thirsty.

    My resolve is stronger than ever now that I know how crappy this is but man I had no idea. Hopefully once I start seeing some movement on the scale, I'll get a little boost.

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    If you could have "prepared" for your weight loss journey, what would you have done?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:07 PM PST

    Sorry about the formatting, we're on mobile today!

    As a life long overweight person, I've been in and out if the loseit community, various accounts I've lost, various attempts, lurking, etc. for a few years now. At my best I went 31 days with no slip ups and daily exercise, I'd read the daily pledge each morning and made it my manta. Of course like many, I slipped, I fell, and I crashed and burned right back to my starting weight and higher.

    Now I find myself in an interesting predicament, currently I'm 5 months pregnant and as such am not allowed to lose weight (though morning sickness would disagree and I'm down 15lbs.) Of course the one time I am actually not allowed to lose weight is the one time my motivation is highest to do so.

    My pre-pregnancy weight was 272lbs, this morning I was 257lbs. I'm 5'8" and as such very obese. I also have a long long history with eating disorders and comfort eating, and an unhealthy hate for getting sweaty (exercising is my enemy as such).

    This is my first kid and I want to set a good example for him, I also want to look better, feel better about myself and hopefully motivate my partner (who is a healthy weight and loves to exercise, though he has a shit diet) to get back into his own routine as depression has caused him to stop. So as soon as I'm able to alter my diet for weight loss, I will.

    All of this to say, I have about 4 months of waiting to do. So if you had the same amount of time, what would you have done or what would you do to prepare physically, mentally and emotionally for a long, large (120lbs is the goal) weight loss journey? My biggest hurdle is my emotional eating and disordered behaviours, and while I see a therapist they never seem to be able to guide me through those topics.

    Tl;dr: I'm pregnant and have 4ish months before I'm allowed to try and lose weight, how would you prepare for a long (120+ lbs) weight loss journey if you had the chance?

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