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- Before this year ends I want to celebrate that I lost 49 lbs while in college and working full time
- I haven’t really shared this anywhere, but I lost 25 lbs this year and fit into a medium-sized shirt!
- To anyone starting their weight loss journey tomorrow....
- Slow and steady: 2lbs per month
- Lost 150lb - 6 months into bulking and lifting - Aside from hating myself less, I hate my loose skin even more.
- Lost it. Here's what I did.
- Welcome to the Sub, for I was once like you...
- SV: I lost 10 pounds in 2020 and I'm so proud
- Just wanted to share my successes in 2020 with someone
- I ran my 1st, and 8th half marathon this year!
- New Years Gift to LoseIt: A spreadsheet that adapts to you.
- This is not my resolution. This is my tipping point.
- I’ve come so far.
- Don't let anyone sell you on a "fast metabolism": There's no such thing as people who "eat like crap" and stay skinny.
- After 6 months of strict CICO, I threw my diet out the window for 2 weeks. Here's what I learned about myself ...
- To anyone who might be joining for a New Years New Start a bit of advice: When you start your weight loss efforts, take pictures or videos of where you started from.
- Reminder for those who overate on NYE
- i don't even want to lose weight – i just want to stop thinking about food all the time.
- Finally made it to One-derland SW 262lbs / CW 199
- 30m, down from 350 to 240 over the course of 2 years but I’ve been plateaued about 6 months, help?!?
- Bitter sweet New Years milestone after battling COVID
- 24-Hour Pledge - Friday, 01 January 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- Potato on sticks
- I quit smoking and had a weight loss epiphany
| [Directory] Find your quests here! - {{%B %Y}} Posted: 31 Dec 2020 09:01 PM PST Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you. Daily journal.
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| Before this year ends I want to celebrate that I lost 49 lbs while in college and working full time Posted: 31 Dec 2020 03:13 PM PST My weight-loss journey is not perfect. Growing up I was always the chubby kid but every year I gained more and more. My doctor declared me overweight in the 3rd grade and from then on my mom forced me to diet. Nothing would work until I started playing sports and loosing weight. I went back and forth and gained the weight back when the sport was over. I had a lot of disordered eating and would eat when bored or sad and still do to this day. Fast forward to my adult life cooking, working out, drinking lots of water for a good 9 months until I fell into a super deep Major Depressive Disorder episode. I haven't worked out consistently in months due to this, having carpel tunnel and working a hard labor job. I've lost 12 lbs alone just from working this job the past 3 months and getting 10k steps every night. I've fallen off and am disappointed in myself. If my carpel tunnel goes away I will attempt to work out again but for now I just drink a lot of water and try to cook as much as possible-depending on my pain. I don't have much free time with college and work but just last week I started working out things that I don't need to put pressure on my hands with. Does anyone have suggestions for this? I am able to do simple things like crunches, sit-ups, non push up arm workouts. Also, my doctor doesn't want me lifting more than 10lbs so can't weight lift anymore. I've gone from a size 16 pants to squeezing into a size 9 and now wearing a 12. Well now that I lost the extra 12 lbs size 12 falls off of me and I need to get a belt. Went from a size XL to Medium in most clothing and lost my double chin! ALSO I JUST FOUND OUT IM NOT OBESE ANYMORE!! I've been called obese by my doctor ever since 2018. I am 18 lbs to my goal weight!! I am 163 and would love to be 145. I would still be considered like 15 lbs overweight for being 5'0 but me and my doctor decided it was okay. And once I reach my goal I can loose more if I like! Wish you all the best of luck with loosing weight! TDLR; wanted to hop on the trend and congratulate myself for loosing 49 lbs while going to college full time and working full time. Edit: Thank you all for the upvotes, awards and nice comments! Is it bad that I don't think it's that good? Its just like meh I so happened to work my ass off and loose weight I don't feel proud of myself at all and still hate my body 🤔 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:26 AM PST I'm so immensely proud of myself! I've started exercising, eating healthier, and I got back into my old hobbies! My work was giving out free shirts and all we had was medium sized left. I decided to just take one on a whim because mediums are just tight on me and make my boobs look good. Lol But lo and behold, it was LOOSE! I had to see if it was a fluke! I tried on some older tops of mine that were snug last February, and what do you know... THEY FIT! I'm a size MEDIUM! I lost 25 lbs without a gym or any expensive equipment! I have a $20 yoga mat for stretching and I run around my neighborhood. I eat 3 meals usually, and sometimes I splurge and eat a healthy snack. 2020 was dumb, but I feel like I conquered it! [link] [comments] |
| To anyone starting their weight loss journey tomorrow.... Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:23 PM PST I started 2020 at 268 lbs. I had a binge eating disorder. My typical day consisted of having McDonald's for breakfast. That consisted of two Sausage Egg Mcmuffins, hash browns, and a Coke. For lunch I would have Chicken Lo mein, or General Tso's. For dinner it would be a dozen wings, and a large pepperoni pizza. I would wash it down with a liter of soda. For dessert it was half a dozen doughnuts. I'm proud to say that I kicked my binge eating disorder, and I weighed in today at 198 lbs. I just want to share some of the things that I've learned over this past year. Hopefully some of these tips will help you. To anyone starting their weight loss journey tomorrow, all I can say is to "believe in yourself", and that "you can do this". I know the journey may seem daunting. All I can say is take it one day, one bite at a time. Set small goals. It can be to lose 4 lbs a month, maybe it's 8, but make a small goal that you can reach every month. When you reach that goal, then reward yourself, preferably something non food related. For example: buy new jeans, or a new shirt. Also, you're in control of what you put in your body. The turning point in my weight loss journey was the day I almost relapsed. I had a stressful few weeks, and I could feel myself slipping. I went to the local doughnut shop and bought have half a dozen doughnuts. I brought them back home, stared at them, and then I threw them away. It was like a light bulb went off in my head. It was an OMG moment that food didn't control my life anymore. The other thing that helped me is that I have a maintenance day once a week. On this day I eat a couple of slices of pizza, and I have a dessert. While exercise and the gym have become my sanctuary, you don't have to exercise to lose weight. If you do want to start working out, then I suggest taking it really slow in the beginning. Even taking a fifteen minute walk around the block will end up making a significant difference. I also suggest investing in a food scale. I use my food scale for everything, from chicken to hamburger. Even if you eat healthy, but you go over maintenance, then you're still going to gain weight. Finally, losing weight is more mental, than it is physical. My suggestion is to find your reason to lose weight. It can be to fit into a medium shirt, to run a 5k, or to simply live a better quality of life. On the days that you feel like quitting and throwing in the towel, then comeback to that reason. Remember why you wanted to lose weight in the first place. There will be days where you want to stop at McDonald's, or you're too tired for the gym, your reason will be the thing that makes you push through those tough days. Just remember that you got this. Edit: I also posted on Progress pics if y'all are interested to see me at my worst. [link] [comments] |
| Slow and steady: 2lbs per month Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:31 PM PST There are so many people on here that lose weight so fast it sometimes makes me feel like I'm not working hard enough. But I've been consistently losing 2 lbs a month which means I'm 24 lbs lighter than I was last year! At this rate it will take me a couple more years to get to my goal weight but I'm ok with that because I don't feel like I'm dieting. I don't feel deprived or hungry. I eat 1800-2200 calories daily. I'm satisfied and confident that I can keep this up for the rest of my life. I'm getting stronger and fitter everyday too. So here's to another year of weight loss. Happy new year everyone! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:48 AM PST Hey all, I'm officially done with month 6, and I'm super happy with my progress. Really, I'm ecstatic with my progress. From June 15th of 2019 to Yesterday (Dec 31st) I've been doing a lean bulk at 250kcal over my maintenance. Obviously some days, I'll eat more, but by and large, I don't go over 300 over. It's been really nice to feel like I'm getting stronger without gaining too much body fat. I'm really happy with my progress, and I am getting more and more enjoyment out of lifting and getting stronger. Though... shirts are becoming an issue. I just hate my loose skin so much. It's so demotivating and demoralizing. I hate looking at it. I hate that I can't see 100% of my progress because of it. It's seriously super aggravating. sigh Thanks for all the continued support and motivation. You've all been a constant inspiration and unbelievably supportive. 💕💕💕💕💕 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:41 PM PST I lost 95lb this year- went from an obese BMI to the lower end of healthy (dropped 9 bmi points). I lost the weight in the first 7 months and then kept it off, despite slacking off my diet significantly for the last 5. I found the drive to do it when I realised a few key things: 1. I wanted to look good and be fit more than anything else in the world and there was nothing real stopping me from having it. 2. That you don't have to wait until the end to start feeling better. That starts at bed time on day 1. 3. Time feels shorter looking backwards (bear with me on this) - I spent so many Christmases annoyed at how I still hadn't fixed myself - I realised that looking back on them that years go past really fast and instead of thinking I had an impossibly long journey ahead of me I could instead just do my stuff and right enough it now feels like the whole thing went by really fast and I have no idea why I didn't start earlier. 4. It's only ever about not failing today. Tomorrow can be dealt with later. It doesn't need to be in your head beyond the extent to which it populates your shopping list. In terms of more practical things: 1. I measured everything I put in my mouth until I knew how to judge the calories in something to an acceptable degree of error (basically the first 8 months of the year). If I couldn't get accurate calories for it I didn't put it in there. 2. I always knew exactly where my next meal was coming from. My biggest enemy was letting hunger surprise me - then I reach for convenient rubbish. 3. I exercised almost every day. Sometimes only a short walk, often a long one. The whole week was built around the immovable objects that were 3x weight sessions and 3x big cardio sessions (those started off as 6 mile+ walks and ended up as a half marathon almost every Sunday). Every morning the plan for the day involved making sure the exercise happened and then building everything else around that. 4. Diet is king in weight loss but the exercise helps a lot and makes all aspects of life easier. I worked harder on building a deficit through diet on the weekdays and was kinder to myself at the weekend (I love booze and food - the year didn't need to be entirely awful) which I compensated for with bigger workout sessions. I have more time on the weekend anyway. I would just be a bit thin and quite weak if I hadn't exercised, and while I'd have taken that it wasn't what I wanted. 5. I got rid of clothes that were too big right away. There's no point planning to fail and if you keep clothes that don't fit that's what you're doing. Get rid of them. 6. I weighed myself every single day (apart from a couple of times when I was on holiday). Some people don't like doing that and that's OK but from my perspective it taught me that weight fluctuates daily and showed me the downward trend - that's the important bit and means I no longer freak out if I'm up for a day or two. I know what's going on and that I'm doing the right stuff. I, personally, couldn't deal with the lack of information that comes from occasional weighing. Doing it daily taught me a hell of a lot about my body. I deliberately exercised on 360 of the last 366 days I burned off an estimated 306,000kcal via exercise I walked and ran a total of 2005.2 miles (I cycled about 500 more) I had 150 resistance training sessions of an average of just over an hour each. I went from being able to sweat through a jacket on a 3 mile walk on a cold day to running 9 half marathons and a 25k. As many people say, if I can do this you can too. Everyone who has said it is right. [link] [comments] |
| Welcome to the Sub, for I was once like you... Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:19 AM PST I know you've heard it was before, but yes, I was once like you too. But here's the thing. I was probably worse than the majority of you looking for inspiration here. On December 31st, 2019, I was running around trying my best to find a shirt that actually fit for a "Roaring Twenties" themed NYE party. Turns out, I could only find one that fit at all at the XL Casual Male store. And I wasn't in their smallest size either, not by a long shot. Literally nothing in Target, Kohl's, Scheels, the Nike outlet, or anywhere else except for Duluth would fit. At 6'2", I weighed in at 385 lbs. I saw that number and was shocked. I had been lying to myself for so long, that I truly believed I was 340, maybe 350 lbs at the very most. I mean, everybody has back pain when they lay in bed too long, right? And my feet hurting when I got out of bed was just because I'm getting older, clearly. Clothes were getting too small because they were shrinking in the dryer. Besides, i could still move around pretty decently. Who cares if I could barely pick something up off the floor, or if I choked myself out when I tied my shoes. I'll just wear slip ons! That number woke me up. I was only 15 lbs away from being 400 lbs. That's not just being a big guy, that's HUGE. I needed to change. I'd tried diets before. HCG just made me hungrier than regular. I tried cutting out unhealthy things. I thought I could just eat plenty of healthy stuff and be fine. Turns out that's not how it works. 3000 calories of carrots and broccoli is still 3000 calories. I knew nothing about calories except that food contained them and they were energy. And if you burned more than you consumed, you worried lose weight. Calories In, Calories Out. CICO. I had no clue how many I was eating, or what Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) was, or what Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) was. I only knew that the average person needs about 2000 calories per day. So I decided I would start eating 1500 calories per day. On January 13th, I started my weight loss journey. Please don't be like me and go into this blind. Ask questions. This is probably THE most welcoming sub on Reddit. Use us. We've been where you are. Find yourself an online calculator for your BMR and TDEE to see how many calories you need to maintain your size or lose it. Ask, pick our brains, utilize the resources we've collated and sorted through. If you don't know what an acronym is, ask. We've all been there. Later on when I learned more about all of this, I sat down and calculated out that I would consume an average of 6-9,000 calories in an average day. My BMR was around 2,700, and my TDEE was around 3,500. So I was easily eating twice what I needed to maintain my weight. No wonder I got so big. Especially considering that a pound of fat is around 3,500 calories. So I started eating 1,500 calories per day. It was torture. But I stuck to it. I drank more water in those first few weeks than a fish does in its entire lifetime just to try to keep my stomach full. One of the keys for me was switching my thinking to food=fuel. That's all it is. It's gas in our tanks. It's what charges our batteries. That's it. But it worked. Holy crap did it work. I had a surgery on my arm on Valentine's Day, and by then I had already dropped 20 lbs. Holy crap. Personally, I ate whatever the hell I wanted, as long as it fit into my calorie limits for that day. Over the past year, I've had brownies, cookies, bread, pasta, steak, loaded baked and mashed potatoes, everything I wanted, just less of it. I also couldn't do cheat days. My first cheat day was my ex's birthday weekend at the end of June. I gained 10 lbs that weekend from indulging and swimming in a lake. But take heart, I lost it again by the end of that week! It was just temporary. I lost a phenomenal amount of weight at first. But it slowed significantly as I lost more and more. I've just broken through a plateau that lasted a month. You can too. I also want to tell you that weight loss is NOT linear. Some days you'll get on the scale and gain 5 lbs and wonder how. You'll get demoralized, you'll want to say screw it. Don't. Maintain your program. You'll lose it again, I swear to you. And if you screw up one day? Oh well. Enjoy yourself that day. It's one day. Get back on the wagon tomorrow. It's a new day and a new opportunity. I'm now 245 lbs. I've lost 140 lbs. In under a year. It can be done. You can do it too. I'm not done, but damn if I'm not proud to have people legitimately not recognize me. Damn if I'm not proud to have people wonder what happened to me. Damn if I'm not proud to have inspired multiple friends to get on their own journey. I've gone from wearing 4XL shirts and 46 pants that fit tightly to carrying a concealed Glock 19 in 38s with XL shirts. Check out the pictures, the last one is an Eddie Bauer XLT and the pants are Duluth Trading Company 38x32s (short legs). And it's still loose enough that you can't see the Glock 19 I'm wearing appendix. You can do this. One day at a time. One meal at a time. One step at a time. I believe in you. I'm proud of you for getting started. You got this. [link] [comments] |
| SV: I lost 10 pounds in 2020 and I'm so proud Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:52 PM PST I lost 60 pounds in 2019 and it was honestly one of my greatest achievements in life. I wanted to lose the last 40 in 2020 and was on track to do so until mid-January. Then I went on vacation and came back and got really sick (just a bad cold, Not Covid) - had my fun guilt-free vacation food and then a ton of comfort food while I was sick. So by mid-February I had gained back 10 pounds - no problem, mostly water weight - got back on track and lost those 10 by early March. Was back on track and feeling so good about tackling the last 40. Then COVID hit and my routine fell apart. Routine had been the key to my weight loss the prior year so without that it was a big struggle. The first two weeks I found myself turning back to comfort food and could have very easily slipped back into my old ways and gained it all back. Instead, for the next six months I had a lot of bad days but always pulled myself back - so I ended up fluctuating in a 5 pound range for that 6 months - I'm so glad I was able to maintain for that long, especially in the circumstances. d Then from Sept-November I lost 10 more pounds - the only 10 I lost all year, not the 40 I wanted - and my initial instinct is to be disappointed I'm not closer to my final goal - but instead I am celebrating. Not only did I maintain last year's weight loss I also lost 10 more. The old me could have never done this - food was my entertainment, comfort, companionship for years and I wanted so badly to turn back to that old friend during this crazy year. I wasn't perfect by any means and had a ton of bad days (and sometimes weeks or months) but I made it through and came out AHEAD! I feel like I really found my strength and my relationship with food still needs work but I'm proud of where it is right now. Only 30 to go now - time to kill it in 2021! [link] [comments] |
| Just wanted to share my successes in 2020 with someone Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:31 PM PST At the start of this awful year, I was morbidly obese. After injuring my knee badly 4 and a half years ago, I just gradually put more and more weight on, peaking at 296lbs which was more than double what I weighed pre-injury. I had really bad joint pain which was affecting my mobility and was out of breath after doing literally anything which was so scary with Covid. My life was a mess and my health was terrible. As of today I'm now 90lbs lighter, only "overweight" and can do everything I used to be able to do perfectly fine again. I saw people at Christmas that couldn't believe I was the same person as 12 months ago! I'm just so pleased and wanted to let everyone know that no matter how bad it is there's always a way. I just addressed the poor elements of my lifestyle, the sugary drinks, takeaways, walking and tackled them one by one, building up a healthier and better me. Happy 2021 guys x [link] [comments] |
| I ran my 1st, and 8th half marathon this year! Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:48 PM PST For most of my life I've been chubby, unhappy, and unhealthy in general. Once I started to get into rock climbing a couple years back (junior year high school), I began to lose the weight, and ended up shaving 50lbs off in roughly 6 months. I also began running that year, and while I could only barely finish 1 mile, progress was being made. Up until the beginning of this year, the furthest I'd ever run was 4 miles. I gained a huge amount of confidence and went from a looking like a chubby marshmallow to nearly having a six pack. Then the pandemic hit. After virtually everything closed, my main drive for health and fitness was no longer available to me. Rock Climbing was what kept me going, but I couldn't climb anymore. I started running more and more often to fill that gap. Eventually I went from 5 to 7 miles and took off from there. Shortly after this I ran my first half marathon, something I never thought was even thinkable for me. Unfortunately things got worse beyond the pandemic, and I randomly developed a blood vessel disorder called erythromelalgia that causes extreme burning pains on the skin of my feet when exposed to friction, heat, or exercise. I was out of commission for about a week until the condition got a bit better, and resumed running, but it's never gone away completely. Over the months prior to the end of this year, I ran another 7 half marathons, and hit a max distance of 16 miles. I never even fathomed being able to push my body to this extent, but the pandemic ended up putting me in a spot where this was all I could focus on. Even with ankle sprains, knee injuries, and this ridiculous blood vessel disorder, somehow I still kept it up. While my eating habits were terrible this year, and it was full of misery in many respects, at least I squeezed out some accomplishments amidst the chaos. [link] [comments] |
| New Years Gift to LoseIt: A spreadsheet that adapts to you. Posted: 31 Dec 2020 09:16 PM PST Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4QnM-FM6XQn4MkmIywR-Y62nkNbmzV0/view?usp=sharing I have used this spreadsheet to lose my weight initially, and have continued to update and improve on it over the years. I have used it to accurately estimate my TDEE and have learned a lot from using it. First, I have found that CICO is an extremely accurate representation of what is going on with me weight-wise. I used to have some doubts, what with plateaus, binges and my own estimations at what weight I should be at. I have learned that for me plateaus happen after long runs of losing weight faster than calculated and whooshes happen after long plateaus, just as the spreadsheet predicted. For me, the reason why I was losing weight slower the closer I got to goal was that I was not being as strict with my diet and exercise. And that my binges were not as bad as I believed they were -- usually. On to the how-to: Use the Calcs tab to calculate your BMI and TDEE at any age, height and weight. Fill in the DOB, weight and height numbers (in red font) in the correct section for your sex and metric/imperial preferences. Use one of the next four tabs to start logging your daily calorie intake and exercise expenditure. Fill in the variables in red font. These include today's date, today's weight, calories and exercise numbers. Also, type in your date of birth and height. I have put in an activity multiplier to start you off with, but you can change this as you log so as to more closely predict your weight loss journey. I call this number the "slop" because it reflects your activity level, whether your weight loss app under or overestimates your food and exercise calories, whether you have a tendency to forget some calories or over or underestimate calories you cannot count, etc. This number will also be influenced by your percentage of muscle, how many calories you are using to cool off or heat up, etc, etc, etc. For most of my weight loss journey the "projected weight" will be a couple of pounds higher than what the scale weight says. I attribute this to the initial water loss from loss of muscle glycogen, among other things. My weight would bounce up to this projected weight if I ate near my TDEE but went down again once I was back on the wagon. Finally, the last tab is the Goals tab. This is optional and for you to fill out if you want to have daily goals. It doesn't even have to be weight related. Just something that you want to do consistently and incorporate into your life. Something that you want to get better at, and something that you will make you feel better about yourself. I believe in starting out slowly, so that even even a 1-5 minute effort will let you put a 1 in that day's checkbox. Fill in the first day's date (red font) on the day you want to start. [link] [comments] |
| This is not my resolution. This is my tipping point. Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:50 AM PST The past few months my health feels like it has gone down the toilet. I started seeing a cardiologist because I was dizzy and having heart palpitations so I went to the ER and was told I had premature atrial contractions and was dehydrated. My cardiologist says I have high blood pressure and is worried, I'll probably be diagnosed with hypertension later this month and have to start taking medication. I've had GI problems and the blood work done at the ER showed elevated liver enzymes so I saw a gastroenterologist yesterday because of that and those annoying GI problems. I am hoping that the tests she ordered will tell me I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because that would be the least serious of all the other problems she told me about but still scares the crap out of me. My mother, my father, and my paternal grandfather all either have or had diabetes, I feel like its only a matter of time until I have it as well and that scares me even more. I am hoping that my high blood pressure and PAC are caused by sleep apnea, I am picking up an at-home test kit on Monday to see if I have that too. I am literally hoping that I routinely stop breathing in the middle of the night because I can get a CPAP to treat that, how screwed up is that?!? That's not something I should be wanting to be diagnosed with. Having to sleep with a mask strapped to my face would be terrible, even if it does give me more energy and fix other problems. I just had a little girl in October, shes perfect and wonderful and I want to make sure I am around to see her and my older daughter grow up into beautiful wonderful women just like their mother. I want to live to be a grandfather. I hate dreading having to get down on the ground to play with them, I want to be able to run along with them helping steady them as they learn how to ride a bike. I want to go camping and go on all kinds of outdoor adventures and teach them to love the outdoors just like I was taught as a child. My parents are morbidly obese as well, my mom's knees are shot, and walking is excruciatingly painful for her because all the cartilage has worn away. She had surgery on a knee over 10 years ago and it only made things worse. She had surgery to remove a bunch of extra skin and she almost died because she had a reaction to the synthetic version of morphine they gave her and landed in the ICU for over a week with kidney failure and septic shock back in 2017. I have been following in my parents' footsteps and that terrifies me as well. No more putting it off, this is not my new years resolution, this is a new life resolution. It just so happens that I reached my tipping point on new years eve. Tomorrow the fun begins, I'm breaking out MyFitnessPal again. Nothing goes in my mouth unless I can count the calories. If I fail on a day, which I will sometimes the next day I will get back on the wagon so I don't fall all the way off again. I am going to drag my 64oz water bottle with me everywhere I go and make sure I drink 2 of them every day to keep hydrated. I am not going to exercise very much yet, not until I get the green light from my cardiologist, and even then I'll start with a slow, easy walk. My obesity will control me no longer, this is the phase of my life where I beat it into submission and destroy it forever. I will not stop until I am at a healthy BMI. I cannot risk stopping. I want to know what my body is capable of. Edit: I'm only in my early 30's. I should not have a cardiologist in my 30s. When I went to an appointment on Christmas Eve I was the youngest in the waiting room, by far. Every other person there was old enough to be my grandparent. I don't belong there. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:53 PM PST Unfortunately the photo on the left is the only photo I really have of me at that weight because I hated pictures and avoided cameras like the plague. But just from seeing my arm and how massive it was... I've come so far. I battle PCOS and I am winning. I lost weight despite how hard this condition makes it. I got my menstrual cycle to come every single month this year after having an absent cycle for most of my life. I'm healthy and fertile now and I can start a family. I was prediabetic and I no longer am at risk for getting diabetes. Every time I go to the doctor, my blood pressure is always normal after being told for so many years it was too high and I'd need to be on medication for the rest of my life. I can run a 10k without absolutely dying. I can go to the gym and hit up to an hour on the stair master, which is so cool because when I first started I couldn't last five minutes. But as great as 2020 was for my weight loss journey, it also created a lot problems with food. The pandemic made me stress eat. I got scared and now I find myself insanely obsessed with what goes into my mouth, I find myself in cycles of severe restricting and hating myself if I fail at restricting. And don't even get me started on when I overeat or eat things I'm really not supposed to. (White carbs are bad for PCOS so those are the foods I only really restrict for the sake of my reproductive health.) I start therapy next week with someone who specializes in eating disorders. I'm so eager to get started because I've come so far, and I don't want my poor relationship with food to take me down. I can't let it take me down. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:06 AM PST I've been a lurker here for a while, but hopefully I can provide some insight to someone as a formerly overweight person. A lot of people (usually people who have never had weight issues) promote this idea that some people are just skinny because of their metabolism, and they can just naturally burn off any bad food they eat— such that they're always skinny. This is not true. What's actually going on is that these people who, say, drink mountain dew and eat pizza but never gain weight are actually not taking in enough calories to cause weight gain. These sort of "magical" people are either more physically active than they realize (perhaps they do a lot of walking around as a result of their job or lifestyle) or they will eat a large amount of calories in one sitting but not eat much else for a long period of time. I, for example, will eat an entire pizza by myself and not think twice about it. Is it because I have some magical metabolism? No. It's because I'll eat that pizza at 10am and, aside from some water or juice, not take in any more calories until late in the evening. In the meantime I'm doing farm-work, working out (weight lifting, not cardio), running around with my dogs, playing a sport with my friends, etc. Do I eat a whole pizza every single day? Of course not lol, but I tend to eat a large amount of calories in one sitting because I'm generally "on-the-go" and don't really have time to snack on other stuff when I'm away. So whether it's a meal I cooked the night before, a protein shake, or some take-out food, I may APPEAR to eat a lot of food, but (on net balance) it's not actually enough to cause weight gain in me. The killer is not eating a bunch of calories in one sitting, the killer is eating a bunch of calories in one sitting and having a lot of "sittings" in a short period of time. When I was overweight, my friends would tell me that I needed to "boost" my metabolism— this is not true, and it made me feel as if I were somehow predisposed to be fat. Here's the truth: if you eat more calories than your lifestyle requires you to expend, you WILL gain weight. Similarly, if you expend more calories than your lifestyle permits you to consume, you WILL lose weight. Keep grinding, friends. :) tl;dr: If someone says they eat like crap but they have a "good metabolism", they're misinformed. Whether it's through fasting or a lot of physical activity, they're burning off enough calories to offset the bad food they ate. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 02:24 AM PST I was 51.5lb down when I returned home for the Christmas break. It was the first time in a year that I'd seen my family and I made the concious decision to forget about the diet while I was there. I had been feeling lethargic and homesick and my weight loss had been slowing. Some of this might read like a diary entry (apologies if it does) but I wanted to share what i learned about myself... - First off, I gained 5.5lb. Honestly, I'm shocked it wasn't more. I was dreading stepping on the scales this morning thinking I would weigh in at 225lb or more but it rang in at 219lb. - I have not broken old habits like I thought I might have. Some optimistic part of me thought that I wouldn't want the bad food, but I easily had 4 or 5 takeouts while I was back. In the beginning, I would start with a healthy soup or fruit but as the days went on I switched those out for leftovers or a slice of cheesecake or a cheese sandwich. - Dieting gives me a great sense of self control and purpose. Counting calories takes a lot of time and energy, but I truly missed knowing how I was doing for the day. I had no sense of accomplisment and equally no will to improve on a bad day. - My issues come from my mother. My mother is the best person I know and in no way meant to impose her issues on me, but I can see how her life, even still at 54, revolves around food. She had weight loss tips stuck to the fridge which me and my sisters agreed to remove (citing "bad vibes"). She was constantly saying she was giving up bad food in the new year because she wants to lose a lot of weight. No specific goal, just a lot. It made me sad. - For the first time in my life, I'm not the heaviest person in my family and i have mixed feelings about this. My sisters & I would argue a lot when we were young and one of the insults my middle sister would use is that i was fat. it really hurt me at the time. I hadn't seen both of them for a year and I was surprised when I got home at how much weight they'd both put on. My middle sister, who was always the meanest and, not coincidentally, the skinniest is probably heavier than me now. I never expected to be happy about something like this... we're all adults and get along now, but it made me sad because I hope she isn't as miserable at her weight as I was before I started losing weight. She has always been so gorgeous... she still is. She has been unemployed for most of the year and living back with my mother since the start of COVID. Before that, she had a really good job and was about to move to Australia for a year. I guess i just feel sad for her because she's 26 and I want her to be happy in her mid 20s. We got along really well for the first christmas ever, i'm not sure how much of that was me being away for so long or us just getting older or if it's something else, but now i'm back in another country and i miss them all a lot. I'm proud of what i've achieved but I don't feel a sense of superiority which, i don't know, i thought I might feel after a lifetime of sisterly competitiveness? - My weight loss was noticable. I made a post a while back worrying that no one had noticed my weight loss. I felt discouraged and a lot of people suggested that people either hadn't noticed because they see me so often or because they're too polite to bring up a subject like that. I think in retrospect both were true. It was the first thing my mother said when she saw me and the first thing she said to my sisters when I saw them was "look how much weight M has lost!". My boyfriend's mother also commented on it. - Social media is triggering for me. Regardless of falling back into old habits, i had an amazing christmas break. The only times I felt myself feeling terrible about myself is when I went on instagram and started to compare myself to others. - I can be really horrible to myself. The scales in my family home wasn't working so I could never check in on myself. Anytime I caught my reflection in the mirror I was trying to imagine where I'd put the weight on. I assumed it MUST be atleast 10lb because look how fat my stomach looks. Has my ass always been that big? What if I step on the scales and i'm 20lb heavier - is that possible? I still very much have these hateful instincts inside me. I need to work on loving myself regardless of how I look because even if I reach my goal weight I'm always going to have days where I'm bloated or have sagging skin or catch the wrong angle in the mirror. - Gaining a few pounds is fine. My biggest takeaway is that being heavier after the Christmas break is OK. I can spiral into negative thought patterns but I don't hate myself. While I owe it to myself to get back to losing weight, i'm also not defined by it. CONCLUSION: I have a lot of work left to do in 2021. This journey is constantly teaching me new things about myself and about the people around me. i need to put time into self-care. I'm not as dissapointed that I fell into old eating habits as i am that I fell into old self-criticising habits. I'm setting a new goal to get into the 100s by my birthday in 4 months time. I'm so excited to see where I am this time next year (hopefully at my goal weight!) I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. x [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:22 PM PST I know it might be painful for you take pictures of yourself at your heaviest. I know this because I've lost nearly 45 pounds, and I have no pictures of myself at my largest size because I avoided cameras very successfully since I was so unhappy with my size. I know I am successful because I am wearing smaller clothes sizes. I don't see any difference when I look in a mirror however. I truly wish I had taken a "before" pic. Even if you never show anyone else photos of yourself before you start losing, you might be very glad you took them anyways. Happy New Years and great success to all of us in 2021! [link] [comments] |
| Reminder for those who overate on NYE Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:05 AM PST 17F 5'2 SW: 160lbs CW: 137lbs GW: 120lbs So... I definitely ate above maintenance today, there were many sweets on my family's buffet and I decided to get it out of my system and eat all of the ones I wanted. Was it the best idea? No. Was it worth it? Kinda. I definitely feel stuffed and a little sickly which I haven't felt in a long time. Right after eating that I felt really guilty and started beating myself up over it. This morning I also woke up at my lowest weight of the year so I felt even worse about it. Tomorrow I will probably be 2-3 lbs heavier and feel bloated. As I sat there wallowing in self pity I took a step back and reminded myself that one day won't hurt. Even if it was above my maintenance calories, there isn't anything I can do about it now. It was a mistake and I'm not perfect. Most of it is water weight and will disappear in a few days. All my hard work hasn't disappeared and I won't suddenly gain back all that I lost in one day. Instead, tomorrow is a fresh start, a new day and a new year. I will eat at my normal deficit and not starve myself. I will maybe take a longer walk and get back on track. If you overate tonight or throughout any of the recent holidays, please don't be negative towards your body. Treat it with kindness and remember what it does for you everyday. You progress won't be completely ruined and it's not worth dwelling on. What's done is done, there is a new day waiting for you to do better than yesterday. Anyways happy New Years! My heart goes out to all of those continuing or starting their weight loss in 2021. I hope you reach your goals and become the best version of yourself❤️ [link] [comments] |
| i don't even want to lose weight – i just want to stop thinking about food all the time. Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:45 PM PST I follow this sub not because I want to lose weight but because I know lots of people here post about binging/food obsession. I'm of normal, healthy weight – in fact i'm currently in a deliberate caloric surplus because i'm bulking/muscle gaining phase. but i'm SICK and TIRED of still thinking about food all the time. always thinking about eating the minute i get in bed, thinking about what i should eat the next day, when I should eat my meals, etc. it takes up so much of my energy and mental space and i just hate it. for those who overcame food obsession, how? it's not as simple as "get rid of the junk in ur house" because i'll still find a way to think about what to eat. thanks and happy new year [link] [comments] |
| Finally made it to One-derland SW 262lbs / CW 199 Posted: 31 Dec 2020 03:32 PM PST I'm M 5ft 10 and started my weight loss journey at the end of May. Aimed to reach One-derland by the end of 2020 and I made it losing 63lbs in total in 7 months so far. Not only that, but started running and completed a half marathon distance and started strength training. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here for the advice, support and comraderie! Anyone who says weight loss is easy or that it suddenly 'just clicked' either aren't in it for the long haul or are incredibly lucky. What has worked for me...
I think that is all the advice I have to give. Here's to 2021 and carrying on till my other One-derland of losing 100lbs so I can be in a healthy weight range for the first time since childhood and then maintaining! [link] [comments] |
| 30m, down from 350 to 240 over the course of 2 years but I’ve been plateaued about 6 months, help?!? Posted: 31 Dec 2020 03:50 PM PST Hi all! So backstory-I hit 300 in high school and have always been obese. The max weight I hit was right around 350, I started hitting the gym, mostly lifting, in 2017 but my eating habits were terrible. Going into 2018, I started meal prepping and incorporating cardio and decided to try keto. Over the first half of 2018 I was down 70 lbs to 280 but keto was taking it's toll on me and I was not getting enough calories in so I transitioned off successfully. I did a light CICO tracking and slowly chipped away at an additional 40 lbs over the next year. Over the past 6 months, I have stalled out, I've tried everything. Back to keto, I picked up distance running, did my first 5 or so 10k runs, been very strict tracking my calories (between 2100 and 2500 daily, typically a deficit of 500-1000), and I work out consistently. 5 days a week at the gym, cardio and lifting. I can not figure out how to push over this! I have 25-30 lbs left to hit my goal and while I have absolutely developed the habits to live healthy moving forward, I just want to start seeing the progress again! Just some stats to make me feel good: Size XXXL- Size L shirt Size 48-size 36 jeans 350lbs-240lbs Goal weight 210-215 Height:6ft I've attached a link to progress pictures too Thanks for your input! [link] [comments] |
| Bitter sweet New Years milestone after battling COVID Posted: 01 Jan 2021 01:34 AM PST (For context, starting weight was 300 pounds, current weight 250) My New Years resolution for the last two years has been "start the next year weighing less than I did at the start of it". It's not a lot I know, but I wanted to encourage myself in making small steady lifestyle changes rather than binge dieting and snapping back Last year, I managed to lose 40 pounds. I'd made steady changes to my diet and was working out as I could. I built a lot of muscle and felt so good. Later in the year I broke my leg, which really hindered progress This year, I lost 10 pounds. And to be honest, it was probably all muscle due to being bed bound after a rough battle with COVID and secondary infections. I feel like I'll never be the same again, and I'm afraid that this is where my health journey ends. My diet is mostly just bland carbs due to stomach issues that came up this year, and I can barely exercise I guess on one hand, I'm happy to be alive, and to have not gained a lot of weight. But on the other, it's making me realize how much my life and body has changed, and it's all out of my control. I used to love weight lifting, but now I'm so weak and tired all the time, I'm lucky to get out of bed. After breaking my leg last year and dislocating my shoulders the year before, it kinda feels like I'm being kicked while I'm down. So much keeps happening that gets in the way of my goals Also, for the first time, I'm experiencing body dysmorphia I'm not sure what I'm hoping to gain or hear from posting this? Maybe I'm just reconsidering what my goal for next year should be, maybe I'm afraid that I'll lose all my progress. Either way i hope everyone has a good New Years [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Friday, 01 January 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:09 PM PST Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing > I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me? Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. On reddit, your vote means, "I found this interesting" (...read more about voting on reddit) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:32 PM PST 39F, type 2 diabetes, long acting insulin. SW 245 cw 212. I've lost about 30 pounds in the last year or so. I feel really good. I'd like to lose another 15 to 30, depending on what's needed for maintenance, but losing more is on hold right now. Work became really complicated right around Thanksgiving, for Covid-19 reasons, I'm working extra hours, and the gym is closed. It just makes more sense for me right now to mostly be practicing maintenance at least for the next couple weeks. Anyway, I've dropped several clothing sizes, and while I've lost weight all over I've lost the most in my legs and arms. I am still very thick in the middle. The weight there isn't going away as fast as everywhere else. I carry enough weight around my waist that people routinely think I'm pregnant. It was happening before I lost the weight, and it was one of my main motivations to start losing. I was sick of people asking about the damn baby! I've been counting calories, focusing on veggies and protein and complex carbs. When I was working out more regularly I was swimming laps, walking, doing some yoga-Ish stuff, stretching, core exercises, a little bit of weights. A pretty good variety a few times a week. I'd love to hear from anyone else who has skinny chopstick legs and a thick potato boy. Have you had any success in becoming less potato-y? What's worked? [link] [comments] |
| I quit smoking and had a weight loss epiphany Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:24 AM PST Just like the title says. I know one might not have a lot to do with the other, but it hit me like a ton of bricks this morning. I quit smoking just over 2 weeks ago after nearly 20 years of being a smoker. I NEVER thought I would be able to quit since I have tried and failed a million times, but thanks to a two day hangover during which just the thought of a cigarette made me sick to my stomach, I finally kicked the habit. I know, not very healthy, but I did it. Anyway, this morning I was thinking about the whole New Year New Me thing and how I've never really been the type to make new years resolutions, when I realized that if I can accomplish the mammoth feat of giving up smoking, of course I can lose the thirty pounds I've gained over the last few years. If I feel this good after 2 weeks without a smoke, imagine how great I'll feel once I'm no longer lugging around this extra weight! So I guess it's back to exercising and calorie counting as of today :) [link] [comments] |
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