Weight loss: 143 lbs down from 400 lbs |
- 143 lbs down from 400 lbs
- Tip(?) that has helped with my chocolate cravings/sweet tooth
- I think some times people's "excuses" are valid and they need sympathy not skepticism.
- Sometimes I dance in empty studios at the gym
- A NSV, because I need a silver lining
- Gunna lose it. For my baby.
- Kind of mad at myself that "eating better" doesn't come easier for me
- Down 150lbs and Not Where I Thought I Would Be
- Daily Q&A Post for Tuesday, 09 February 2021 - No question too small!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 9th, 2021
- down 10lbs! F24, 5’2, SW:149.8 lb/CW:139.8 lb/GW:128 lb
- Need some advice from nursing moms who didn’t “bounce back”. It’s a long post I’m sorry, but I feel like I need to start at the beginning. NSFW for pregnancy related issues.
- I’ve regained a lot of the weight I’ve lost and have a hard time losing it. Help!
- I've just entered normal BMI range and already getting rude comments about my weight loss. Anyone relate? How to deal with it?
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 8
- The start of my journey and the wakeup call I needed to start it
- NSV and a whoosh!
- Gym Buddy bailed... again...
- YoYo'd over 100~lbs in the last half decade. But this time, I KNOW I will lose it for sure.
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 09 February 2021: Today, I conquered!
- Successfully trudged through a plateau!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 09 February 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- 16M/26% BF I have a question
- I’m so sick of people telling me my goals are unhealthy
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 08:17 PM PST I don't know why I'm making another one of these posts so soon. I guess I just feel really motivated right now. I feel strong, like I can do anything. Admittedly, I feel as though I've had to sort of overcome myself in many ways recently, as in I've been going through some self-confidence issues or had some depressive episodes creeping in that I thought were long gone at this point. Sometimes it's not until I look back that I can get even somewhat of an idea for what I'm capable of. Please grant me this opportunity to pat myself on the back for a bit. I am certainly proud of myself, and I'm eager to keep pushing forward. Male. 5'11. 26 years old. In 558 days, I've managed to drop 143 lbs. Granted (and I'm sure many can at least empathize with me on this), I could probably be closer to my goal by now if it weren't for all the holiday eatin'. But you live and you learn, you slip up and you bounce back. I'll at least credit myself for having learned to be resilient over the past year or so. When it comes to how I'm eating, it's honestly just calorie management. I take a lot of dietary advice from a YouTuber named Greg Doucette. He's all about eating low calorie dense meals (basically recipes that compile a bunch of inherently low calorie ingredients). I highly recommend checking him out. I also do a lot of walking, some jogging, weight lifting (very basic exercises with a couple of dumbbells). Nothing super crazy, but I am super consistent, and I guess that's what does the trick. I started this journey about a year before I even started losing weight. So yes, I am 558 days into weight loss, but in terms of becoming a better, stronger me? I'm probably on about day 923. Before I could even confidently attempt losing weight (something that I've dreamt and fantasized about doing since I was very young), I had to learn how to love and accept myself. I had to learn how to stop hating who I was, to be comfortable in my own skin. I can still remember a time when I thought that my life wasn't worth saving, and that I was inherently worthless. I know now that that's absolute bullshit, and that I deserve every bit of love I can muster for myself. For my whole life, I needed to be there for myself, and I wasn't. But now I feel like I have the power to change my fate. It breaks my heart when I think about it for too long, but for the first time in my life, I feel like I can do something, like I can be something more, like I can be strong. I'll see this through. No matter what. [link] [comments] |
| Tip(?) that has helped with my chocolate cravings/sweet tooth Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:11 AM PST One of my biggest downfalls every time I've attempted weight loss was the eventual sweet tooth I'd get during the night.. It would always lead me to grabbing ice cream or milk chocolate, often causing a binge. For the past couple of weeks, I've been consistently making myself a cup of hot chocolate with hot water, Nestle's reduced calorie hot chocolate mix (40cal), and a little less than a TB of Hershey special dark cocoa powder (~15cal). Adjust amount of water or cocoa powder depending on how rich you want it to be. The hot chocolate mix has the perfect amount of sweetness while the cocoa powder adds this ridiculously good richness that just hits the spot. The fact that you need to take your time sipping it also helps with preventing my mind from going into "binge-mode" if that makes sense. Now, it's my go-to snack(?) for whenever I am craving sweets/chocolates. Hope this helps anyone that share similar struggles!! Quick Edit: please note cocoa/chocolate in general does contain a bit of caffein (not as much as coffee but still). YMMV but I personally am very sensitive to caffein so I take an L-theanine to offset the effects and don't have problems falling asleep. [link] [comments] |
| I think some times people's "excuses" are valid and they need sympathy not skepticism. Posted: 08 Feb 2021 01:09 PM PST I've been pretty slim most of my life, I did tons of sports growing up and ate pretty healthy. Then in high school I got diagnosed with a condition and after 1.5 years and after trying all sorts of medications I was put on 3 that worked for me. From there I had started gaining weight about 10 pounds a year. Well eventually I was 40 pounds overweight which was weird because I run a mile a day and lift weights 3-5 days a week and my eating habits had never changed. I tried counting calories and all sorts of fad diets and nothing worked. My doctors assumed I was lying and eating more than I was saying. Anyway eventually they decided to switch one of my 3 meds to a newer medication that was supposed to have less side effects. Again my eating and exercise habits never changed but I lost those 40 pounds without even trying in a little over a year. I have about 10 left to go to get to the weight I want and I'm thinking I might start tracking what I'm eating to help the process, but I can honestly say that not everyone who is having trouble losing weight is a liar, sometimes there is more going on and they just need some sympathy while they get to the root cause of the weight gain. [link] [comments] |
| Sometimes I dance in empty studios at the gym Posted: 08 Feb 2021 04:39 PM PST It's a great workout that gets my heart pumping and makes me happy. But I know how I look and I see how people stare and probably snicker at the frumpy awkward girl dancing alone in the empty studio. Gawky, chubby, uncoordinated me. One part that keeps me going is thinking of how much people will stare and admire me when they see a skinny ethereal girl doing the same routines. And I'll get there quicker if I keep doing them. Maybe they'll even see my progress. But I'm going to keep doing it. Because even when I feel their stares and the burn of embarrassment and want to cower in the corner and never dance again, I know I'm burning the excess fat I've clung to for the last few years and that a transformation is happening in me. [link] [comments] |
| A NSV, because I need a silver lining Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:32 PM PST Last March/April, I saw that I had become 173 pounds at 5'5 and 21 years old, and I wanted to make a change. I ditched the grad school program that was weighing me down, started watching what I was eating, and made time to do the things that make me happy (hiking/biking/running/reading). I weighed in at 139 pounds the same week I received an unexpected positive pregnancy test. At 4 pounds away from a goal weight I wasn't sure I would ever achieve, I switched gears to maintenance, vowing that I wouldn't abandon the good habits that I had been building for nearly a year. I went jogging with my dog on a warm Saturday morning. 1.5 miles into my 3.5 mile route, I felt that I had begun bleeding. I immediately sat on a park bench and called my husband to come pick me up. I tried to remain calm, went home, took a shower, and realized that there was more blood than I was comfortable with, so we packed up and went to Urgent Care. Though I knew there wasn't anything that could be done, I couldn't sit and do nothing. While the nurse practitioner I saw was the kindest person I have ever met at an Urgent Care, she wasn't able to answer whether I was miscarrying or not. She assured me that if that was the case, it wasn't because I had gone jogging, and she walked me through some options we had to find out what was going on. I decided to wait for the weekend, and I had blood drawn at my OB on Monday to be compared with a sample on Friday. I was on pins and needles all week long, and every fiber of my being wanted to self soothe with food (more specifically cookies). I kept eating at maintenance, though I must admit that some of those maintenance calories weren't the most nutritious Friday rolled around, and an ultrasound and blood work confirmed that I had lost the baby. I was devastated. And yet, I was able to let myself feel all of the emotions rather than trying to bury them with food. I will admit that I did eat a few too many truffles on Friday because I felt that I didn't have the energy to get up and actually make some dinner. But I realized what I was doing and ate some moderately healthy dinner. While I have been allowing myself to grieve, I was able to convince myself to take the dog for a walk on Saturday, which made me feel good. I was able to go for a short jog on Sunday, and I was able to regulate my eating at the (3 person) Super Bowl party yesterday with all of the snacks. Even after 1 tumultuous week and 3 prior weeks of maintenance, I weighed in at 141 Friday afternoon, less than 2 pounds different from my weight-in early January. And, it was the afternoon, I hadn't had a BM in a few days, and I was wearing clothes. Even in grief and stress, I don't have to let food control me. For now, I'm back at it, hoping to heal and lose the last 5 pounds. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:09 AM PST TL/DR: I have poor coping skills and got fat, determined to do better from now on. Hi. Quick life story time. I was always a "normal" weight kid. But I always believed I was fat because my mother always told me I was fat, eating too much, and my sister who is younger than I am but has always been taller always weighed a good 20lbs less than me (she was always under weight, gee I wonder why...). I stayed a "healthy" BMI until I was 25(130ish at 5'4") and had a baby. After I had my baby I got back down to 125lbs. Then it became clear that my baby had severe special needs. I turned to alcohol. I have poor coping skills, and I drank myself up to 170lbs in 2 years and then started struggling to keep my weight from going higher. 2 years ago I kicked myself in the ass and decided I had to do better for my baby. I want to be able to take care of him as long as possible so I don't have to worry about what happens to him when I am no longer here. Even with that motivation, it's still incredibly hard. I lost 35 pounds in 4 months in 2019. Then fell back and got back up to 150. I am back on track again and am determined as hell to be as healthy as I can so I can be there for my baby as long as I can. Thank you for reading this. I just needed to put it in writing. I feel like I can actually do it this time and keep doing it permanently. For my baby (he's 9 now but he's my baby) [link] [comments] |
| Kind of mad at myself that "eating better" doesn't come easier for me Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:18 PM PST I wish I was more disciplined and had more will power. When I THINK about dieting it seems so easy! Oh, right, just eat these things. Don't eat these things. Don't snack so much, don't eat after dinner. After all, all I have to do is just NOT eat. It's not rocket science. It's not brain surgery. It shouldn't be that hard!! And yet. I keep failing at it. I think of all the days that went by that I didn't meet my diet goals, and what good did it do me to give in to my desires in those moments? Nothing. And I get so mad at past me when I think of how much better shape I'd be in today if I DIDN'T give in and ruin my diet. It's just temporary enjoyment. I just need to be more disciplined. Learn some more self control. I see others who seem to have no problem controlling their diets and I'm so jealous. Then I think to myself "but why be jealous? The only thing stopping you from having that too is YOU! Just. Say. No." So... here I am. Rededicating myself to the cause. Maybe this time it will stick. Maybe this time I will be capable of controlling my urges and saying no. This weight has GOT to go!!! [link] [comments] |
| Down 150lbs and Not Where I Thought I Would Be Posted: 08 Feb 2021 01:26 PM PST Over the last two years, I've lost around 150lbs. It's been a slow but steady trek, and as I creep towards my original goal weight (150, new gw is 130) everything feels like sand slipping through my hands. I don't know if it's because of SAD, covid burnout, or what but suddenly everything feels so... fragile? I've not been gaining weight (bouncing around from 162-165 since January), but for some reason I feel like I'm losing all my progress. I think it has something to do with the fact that my body does not look anything like how I thought it would look at this weight, and that's really effecting my mental health. At 22 years old, I have loose skin all over my body. My thighs hang and make my knees look fat, my stomach and hips pool around my belt-line like melted ice cream (lol), and it's so bad that I'm too embarrassed to be topless around my partner. Hell, I'm even too embarrassed to use public hand driers because the force of the air pushes my loose skin on my hands around and it's very obvious. I find myself constantly pulling on it, looking at it, thinking about it. I can't afford to have it removed. Because of everything going on, SAD and burnout, I've been too depressed to go to the gym recently. I don't have the energy to do anything when I actually get there, and so I've just stopped trying over the last two weeks. Monitoring what I eat is starting to feel like a hassle, I've been giving in to mini binges and eating around 2k-2,5k a day rather than the 1,5k I've been eating for two years (according to LoseIt and Apple my maintenance is around 2,1k so I know it could be so much worse). I know I've accomplished something great, I know there are people who would kill to stand in my shoes. But I look in the mirror and I'm not happy with what I see. I still see myself as what I looked like at my highest weight. I still see every lump, roll, bump, and flap of skin that just refuses to go away and likely won't go away without surgery now. I'm the thinnest I've been since I was literally 10 years old, and the happiness did not follow like I thought it would. I'm really just looking to vent to people who understand the struggle, as my partner is someone who has always been very thin and very active and doesn't understand. I don't have any advice or wonderful outlook to wrap this up with, other than to maybe listen to the people who tell you that losing weight won't fix your mental health. I'm happier now than I was, sure, but I wasn't prepared to be blindsided by this depression and general apathy towards my "new" body. [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Tuesday, 09 February 2021 - No question too small! Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:31 PM PST Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS: * Include your stats if appropriate/relevant (or better yet, update your flair!) * Check the FAQ and other resources in the sidebar! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 9th, 2021 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:10 PM PST Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! I want to shortly also mention — this thread lives and breathes by people supporting each other :) so if you have some time, comment on the other posts! Show support, offer advice and share experiences! [link] [comments] |
| down 10lbs! F24, 5’2, SW:149.8 lb/CW:139.8 lb/GW:128 lb Posted: 08 Feb 2021 06:11 AM PST I am officially halfway to my goal! I started trying to lose weight in July, when I weighed my heaviest yet (149.8lb). I broke my foot in May and as a result, gained about 10lbs. I started running once my foot recovered (mid July, and kept running until the end of September) and lost a bit of weight, but I plateaued in October and lost my momentum. I started working out again in the new year and have been doing HIIT style workouts 4x per week, and cooking a lot of healthy food! Because of previous eating disorders I don't count calories, but I started intermittent fasting to help control intake. So far so good! I'm just so excited to have officially lost 10lbs and to be halfway to my goal weight! I'm taking a way slower and steadier approach this time and have been losing about 0.75 lb per week since January, which feels really sustainable. I'm so excited for the next few months! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:29 PM PST I had my first child 8.5 years ago and gained 90lbs while I was pregnant. After I had him I ended up gaining an additional 25-30 lbs. I was 250 lbs (I'm a 5'6" female) Finally one day (3 years later) I was just tired of being fat, I bought an elliptical and a Fitbit. I started researching every weight loss technique I could find. I was successful with intermittent fasting and low carb (not keto). I lost 90 lbs in just over a year. Then over the course of the next 6 months I lost another 10-15 lbs. At 8 lbs from my goal (I was 148) I got pregnant with baby number 2. I didn't want to screw everything I worked for up so I managed to only gain 5-10 lbs the first half of my pregnancy. Then I started bleeding and having contractions off and on. I found out that my body was trying to go into labor. I got surgery to keep my cervix closed and was put on bed rest. I couldn't work out or work full time anymore. I still tried my hardest to control my diet, but I ended up putting on 40 lbs that second half. I managed to keep my baby in until 38 weeks. After he was born I lost a quick 15 lbs in the first few weeks; I couldn't nurse him because he was special needs and had feeding issues. I was able to get mostly back on track. It took me about a year but I got back down to around 155-160. AND THEN I GOT PREGNANT AGAIN. Initially everything was okay. I was eating a little more than usual but that was because I realized if I had multiple small snacks throughout the day, it eased my morning sickness. But those small snacks grew into full meals and 8.5 months of a high risk pregnancy later I was up to 215 when I had my baby. I had her this last January 2020. She is the first of my children I've been able to nurse, and at a year old she's still nursing. I tried going back to low carb and intermittent fasting but nursing her makes me STARVING. I am so hungry all the time. I'm currently 206ish. I don't see her weaning off from nursing any time soon and dieting is so difficult right now. I have my 8 year old in virtual learning. My almost 3 year old is disabled and takes up a lot of time, and then my 1 year old who still wants to nurse constantly even though she eats regular food now. I don't have time to meal prep. I barely have time to make my husbands lunches and make sure dinner is ready. And sometimes I can't even do that and he has to cook when he gets home from work. My entire diet consists of snack foods and toast. I'm lactose and egg intolerant so I can't grab a quick yogurt or string cheese, or even hard boil some eggs. It's just really frustrating and I hate that I let myself get back here again. If you read this all I appreciate you so much. There's so much more unmentioned but I shortened it as much as I could. [link] [comments] |
| I’ve regained a lot of the weight I’ve lost and have a hard time losing it. Help! Posted: 08 Feb 2021 07:43 PM PST Last year, around May I started getting really bad heartburn to the point where it was hard to function in my daily life. I would be in so much pain and it was too much, so I just started eating plain foods such as fruits, vegetables, and chicken. My main goal wasn't to lose weight but to just get rid of the heartburn. Before I knew it, I had gone down from 300 pounds to 240 in a few months and felt better than ever. After that I decided to start working out and dropped another 20 pounds. Then all of a sudden I started eating like shit again because heartburn wasn't an issue. Over the last few months I've managed to gain 30+ pounds and weigh in at around 250 again. A lot of my clothes that I bought because of my weight loss either don't fit anymore or they're starting to get tight. I've tried working out and eating right but I just get such bad cravings and eventually give in. I just feel so defeated every time I fail at getting back into eating right and working out. I just don't get how it was so easy to lose 80 pounds but now I'm having such a hard time to lose the 30 to get back to my lowest weight. Has anyone been in a similar situation but had success losing the weight again? Any help would be appreciated. Tl;dr: lost 80 pounds last year and I'm quickly regaining the weight. I would like some advice. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:05 PM PST I've been overweight since entering puberty and I've always known people tried to tiptoe around the issue by just calling me chubby, big-boned, well-built, etc. I guess it worked because I never really cared about being overweight until recently. During the pandemic, I stayed at home and gained over 10 pounds in around 6 months. I'm just about 5'4" so it was quite noticeable. It was so discouraging to see the scale and I also noticed the changes in my body. This was not even my highest weight, but I guess when I was younger I just didn't care about how my body looked. Anyway, I started dieting end of last year, hoping to build some muscle and be in the mid range of a normal BMI. I'm barely 3 pounds into the normal BMI range and my mom has started making these gross comments. Usually I wear oversized sweats at home, but she was organizing the closet and got out all these old clothes from when she was young. I tried them on and she was shocked some actually fit me. I guess she didn't really see the results of my weight loss even though I've been telling her about it and suggesting she do the same. She has been overweight for a long time now and the doctor has advised her in the past to lose weight. She did for a while but gained it all back. So since then she keeps making weird comments, like yesterday when I was eating toast and an omelette with avocado, she said "being healthy, huh?" I don't even think my meal was that low calorie or healthy. She just doesn't understand CICO and sees these foods as "healthy" even though they're not really good for weight loss. Then I woke up this morning and was drinking water in the kitchen and cutting up a baguette and she's like "you're a skinny monkey". Like what?? Just out of nowhere all these random comments keep coming, calling me too thin and telling me to stop losing weight when I'm barely in the normal weight range. When I'm eating she always has to be like oh so healthy, and now making all these comments about how I'm skinny is kind of gross to hear. She never said anything when I was seriously overweight but now I've lost 25 pounds and suddenly these disparaging comments come in about how I'm skinny when I'm barely even a normal weight. Also I told her the other day like I can actually feel bones at my hips now and she was like oh when I was your age my hip bones were protruding through my pants and everyone was like that. Idk why she can't just be supportive of what I'm doing but always makes these weird comments to put down my achievements. I'm just so frustrated with her. She always talks about how she wants to lose weight and stuff but never does. That's also kind of annoying even after I started looking into it and telling her about CICO. She also bought some weights with a group of her friends to set up a home gym of sorts. But she's never using them. I've been using them every other day or so and invited her to train with me, but she quit after 2 days. I just don't get her. Like she wants to lose weight, she knows she's overweight, but she doesn't really change her eating habits and even thinks my advice of CICO, high protein and weight lifting is bad and won't work for her. Then she kind of makes rude comments about my weight loss. All seems very contradictory and I just feel like I can't talk to her about any of this anymore because it's like talking to a wall that only echos back rude remarks. If anyone has experienced this kind of thing, I would like to hear how you dealt with it? I've just been ignoring her but it's been nearly a week of this and I'm getting so tired of it. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 8 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 05:07 PM PST Hello losers, Happy Monday! Hope you're getting to it. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: 229 this morning, 232.4 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): Went a bit over board yesterday, back on track today with some salmon & roasted veggies for dinner. 6/7 days. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. 7/8 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): I am tired in all the ways which means I'm going to express some self compassion & be gentle with my body. Try a new recipe once a week: Identity crisis chili (because it's kind of red & kind of green) & oven roasted zucchini. 2/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful for a chill Monday at work. I don't always have the luxury but it's nice when it rolls around. How about you all? Tell us everything. [link] [comments] |
| The start of my journey and the wakeup call I needed to start it Posted: 08 Feb 2021 07:11 PM PST Warning: slightly gorey; I am a healthcare student and I wanted to talk about my experience with anatomy lab. Do not read if you are squeamish. Hello everyone! I really wanted to make a post about this because I wanted to share my experience and hope that it helps motivate some people. I have always been on the thicker side. Currently I have about 25-30 pounds I want to lose to get to a nice ~20% BF (I'm a woman). I've been kinda going back and forth on this because while my excess weight did make me feel self-conscious, I thought of it as mostly vanity weight. This was until this semester of school started for me because I started anatomy. I am a healthcare student and in my school, we do dissections on every part of the body other than the legs. Last week, we started working on the torso and have looked at the heart and stomach regions. We each have our own cadavers to dissect and have to look through our classmates' cadavers as well as our own to see all of the different variations people can have in their anatomy. I was horrified. Some of the cadavers didn't look overweight/obese, yet the sheer amount of visceral fat, damaged organs, and plaque build-up they had in their arteries made me think a lot about my own health. My group's cadaver is slightly overweight, and when I touched his aorta, I could feel a thick layer of plaque in it. I didn't even realize it was the aorta because of how hard it was; I thought it was part of the spine. I know that people constantly talk about how important weight loss is for health, and I guess this finally made me realize the full extent of its importance. Seeing all this motivated me to make lifestyle changes. I am going to eat healthier, workout more, and work on shedding my excess weight in a sustainable, steady way. I don't know if this will motivate anyone else with their journey, but I hope it does. The things that happen in our bodies under our skin is absolutely crazy. I want to do everything I can to be healthy. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 07:10 AM PST I weighed myself yesterday and I was down a couple of pounds, breaking a ten-day plateau. Was feeling pretty good about that. Ate well and exercised yesterday like usual and noticed when I went to go put on a pair of pajama pants last night that they felt noticeably looser than the last time I wore them only a week ago. Was feeling extra good that maybe inches are coming off even if the pounds are a bit slow. I weigh myself every day and fully expected to be up a pound or so today --usually when I drop a couple of pounds, I'll be up a bit the next day and then it evens out. But I was super shocked that I was down another two and a half pounds! So four plus pounds difference in two days. And my pajama pants are definitely not so tight, too. What a great Monday to wake up to! I know that I'll be up and down for the rest of the week probably but I've never felt a whoosh before! And I'm proud of myself for working through my plateau frustration by still running every day and eating well. tl;dr -- non-scale victory followed by my first ever whoosh. Happy Monday, everyone. Rise and grind! You got this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 07:04 PM PST This is the third day in a row. We are friends (not super close but we talk about everything and live in the area- ex co-workers). Anyway, we were talking about our weight loss goals, and decided that we should go to the local gym together and motivate each other to keep to our goals. I was beyond excited! I have just started losing weight and they have been working on it steady for a while (they have some health issues that make it difficult). I haven't been to a gym in many many years. I've been probably morbidly obese for most of my adult life. We got our gym memberships on Saturday. That night they weren't feeling well and we didn't go. (Because of my size and being a total noob at working out, I'm uncomfortable going alone and it's a 24 hour gym so there isn't always someone there- just in case). Yesterday the weather wasn't perfect and it snowed, so we didn't go. But we talked all night about what we would do and how no matter what we're going today. Today comes and we both work til early afternoon. We spend all day talking about how excited we are and how we're going no matter what. We get out of work and have a couple things to do. I message asking if we can meet at a local spot so we only use one car to get there (small parking lot). They read and don't reply. I wait an hour and ask if we are going. Unread. I write an hour later asking if they're okay and it's unread. I pass their house on my way home (its on the main road before mine) and they're home. I think this is just a vent. I feel so defeated and let down. I could have gotten a good start on learning the ropes and getting fit this February.. Should I just find a new gym partner at this rate? We wanted to work out together to hold each other accountable but I seem to be the only one who can make time for it, or make it a priority. I'm trying to put myself first, finally after all these years, and I'm scared that if I don't hop on this horse, I'm going to give up.... [link] [comments] |
| YoYo'd over 100~lbs in the last half decade. But this time, I KNOW I will lose it for sure. Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:03 PM PST
I'm just plain not fucking around anymore. Whatever happens in this world, I want to be able to have the exact same regimen. My motivation this time isn't just losing weight, but never fucking having to research a new diet/exercise/schedule/calorie count again. And i want to realistically be able to do it every day. So, all I do is get on my recumbent bike, turn resistance to max, magnet Mount my chromebook to the console, and watch/web surf while I bike. Mix in some hand weights/grips/resistance bands, and finish with some squats and deadman pullups to compensate for potential back issues of doing weights while in a biking position. And I also fast on Sundays unless it's a special occasion. Done this every single day since the new year, and down 15lbs. Is it safe to do weights while biking? Iunno Shouldn't I be calorie counting instead of a random fast day? Maybe, but i cook all my own stuff and don't wanna do that the rest of my life anyway. Is it silly i need to have my laptop with me? Yes, but it works for me. Overall, despite all the bullshit, the core of the issue was all those diets, exercises, and mentality was 'I'm just doing this until i lose weight' and not 'I'll do this for the entire foreseeable future.' This is the first time I actually feel the latter, and am confident I'll lose it this time. [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 09 February 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:01 PM PST The habit of persistence is the habit of victory! Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?) * Did you just change your flair? pass a milestone? reach a goal? * Did you log for an entire week? or year? * Did you take the stairs? walk a mile? jog for 3? set a new personal record? * Fit into your old pair of jeans? throw away your fat clothes? fit into your college outfit? Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! --- On Reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily most the most read, most used, most interesting post on r/loseit by redding, commenting, and participating often! --- [link] [comments] |
| Successfully trudged through a plateau! Posted: 08 Feb 2021 08:07 AM PST Since December, I've been losing about 3 lb of weight per week through CICO (1200 calories per day). When I reached 195, that pretty much slowed down to a trickle and it stayed that way for a week and a half. It was definitely discouraging, especially since I knew that I couldn't safely lower my caloric intake any more. I perused some posts in Loseit and created a game plan based on tid bits of info I found. The main insight was "don't panic" and stay the course. Beyond that, some adjustments I made based on suggestions were:
I'm not a nutritionist (nor could I confidently say what the actual mechanism behind these solutions are) but I began to lose weight again. Even if it's just coincidence, I feel very satisfied with myself. Instead of taking a plateau as a reason to give up, I saw it as an opportunity to explore my body's tendencies and experiment with more healthy habits. This community is a cornucopia of knowledge and support— thank you! [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 09 February 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 08 Feb 2021 11:01 PM PST Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction! This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing
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| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:52 PM PST I'm 16 years old, 193 lbs, 5"11, 26% BF I understand that losing weight requires a caloric deficit, but I need to know what's the difference between a low calorie diet and a low calorie keto/low carb diet. Does keto help you lose weight faster? Some people say the keto diet keeps you full longer, but it's quite the opposite for me. I've been on keto for two months and felt hungry everyday despite eating plenty of fats from walnuts/pecans and high protein like eggs and fish. Today I stopped doing keto and I ate a couple slices of bread throughout the day, making sure it fits my calories, and I felt much better and less hungry. I was wondering if I should just do a normal low calorie diet instead of a low calorie keto diet cause my body feels better with more carbs. Will I lose weight slower? [link] [comments] |
| I’m so sick of people telling me my goals are unhealthy Posted: 08 Feb 2021 04:50 AM PST I would like to lose 50 pounds. I would like to lose 25 pounds by august because I'm in a wedding. People are telling me 1200 is not enough and always trying to sell me a miracle diet or product. I am so sick of spending money on things that do not work. I don't want to spend anymore money. I am a vegetarian and I work 85 hours every week. I sit all day at a computer because that's what my job requires. I have no exercise. People are telling me to increase exercise but I can't. Even between sleeping there is no way to exercise. The only way I see is to stop eating so much because I was in the same sitting on my ass situation when I gained it as when I am trying to lose it. I'm so discouraged but I don't want to have to worry about being dissatisfied with my appearance my whole life. [link] [comments] |
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