Weight loss: I got a blood clot in my arm at 28. I'm done with the excuses. |
- I got a blood clot in my arm at 28. I'm done with the excuses.
- I saw my body for the first time in months and I’m in tears ��
- The best impulse purchase I ever made
- 50lbs Down!
- Ay, caramba! Finally hit the onederland!!! M, L20s, H: 6'2", SD: 02/04/20 SW: 345 CW: 199 GW: 199. Thoughts and I how I got here.
- Realising why I emotionally eat: because I feel unlovable
- Advice for those just beginning, from someone who began over two years ago.
- If only it were this easy. Find yourself a magic mirror!
- Me as a 500-600 pound guy wanting to finally lose weight
- Ever feel like you just can't get past a certain weight?
- 288 days in
- How it’s going after six weeks
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 15
- Any words of advice or encouragement so I don’t quit again?
- I need to get this off my chest.
- I really honestly need to lose weight this time
- Obese all my life and ready to change that.
- Lost 0.9 lbs after weekend cheat
- Nothing but weight on my mind
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 16th, 2021
- Trouble accepting changes in clothing size after weight loss
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 16 February 2021? Start here!
- Today It Happened!
- 2020 was not good to me.
| I got a blood clot in my arm at 28. I'm done with the excuses. Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:44 AM PST This has easily been the craziest past year of my life. I'll summarize quickly. My husband got leukemia. I was super obese before he was diagnosed. The diagnosis and not being allowed to see him in the hospital made me gain even more weight. At my highest I hit 444. For some reason that number really hit me hard and I realized that I was also dying. So I started to make some changes. I stopped eating as much and I started swapping out the chips for fruit or popcorn. Still not anything crazy. I would do my best to eat healthier. I cooked as many meals at home as I could manage. But it was still hard. Hospital days are exhausting and we would find ourselves eating out a lot still. On Friday, I found a very painful lump in my arm/armpit. I noticed that the veins in arm were swollen and angry. The pain came on quickly and it started to hurt to move my arm forward. So reluctantly I went to the hospital and found out I had a blood clot. Thankfully, it was not a dangerous blood clot, meaning it cant come dislodged and kill me, BUT my body created conditions to form a blood clot. That's scary enough for me. The doctors were stumped why it happened. They said even given my weight and everything I told them, it shouldn't have happened. So more doctors appointments and blood tests to follow. But I HIGHLY believe that my weight had everything to do with it so thats where I can start fixing this personally. Somehow I have managed to get down to 364.6 as of this morning. I got my blood clot after losing almost 80 pounds. I've come a long way and I need to give myself credit for that but obviously my work is far from over. I hate to say this but having a painful blood clot in your armpit that hurts everytime you move your arm is a great reminder of what's really important in life. No food is worth losing my life. Edit: Thank you all for the kind words. I will be taking everything said here into account going forward. :) More importantly, I forgot to add that my husband is almost 150 days post bone marrow transplant and all things considered doing great. We are currently waiting on recent biopsy results to confirm that he is in remission. He inspires me every single day to keep pushing forward and to keep fighting for the life we always wanted to have together. <3 [link] [comments] |
| I saw my body for the first time in months and I’m in tears �� Posted: 15 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST Hi Everyone, I just found this thread today. I have known for quite sometime that I am overweight. In fact, I haven't looked at anything other than my face in the mirror for months. I won't do my makeup without wearing my extra large fluffy housecoat or an enormous T-shirt. I look at my face and that's it. Do my thing and get out as quickly as possible. Today... I stood there and finally looked. I am so sad and mortified at what I see. I was in tears. I'm terrified to step on a scale. And oddly, I just want to go eat some garbage food. I need to get out of this. I don't know what I'm asking of all of you here. Just sharing and finding inspiration in all of your posts. [link] [comments] |
| The best impulse purchase I ever made Posted: 15 Feb 2021 02:37 AM PST So about a year ago I bought a treadmill. More specifically, a walking pad from Lifespan fitness. This thing is literally just a mat that folds out on the floor & goes up to about 6 km/hr. I have easily slid it under my normal writing desk, placed my laptop on two boxes, and boom! Walking desk. Ever since then, whenever I am using my computer, I am walking at 2 km/hr. This sounds pretty slow but the key is it is sustainable. Now all my sedentary activity: emails, studying, watching Netflix... has been converted to (slow) walking! I use this thing for at least a couple of hours every day. When I am cooped up inside with nothing better do to, heaps more. This has not only boosted my metabolism, but has left me feeling more energetic! Now that my legs have adjusted I don't even notice I'm exercising anymore. It's actually kind of fun. I'd love to know, how have you incorporated more exercise into your daily routine? EDIT: I should also mention I am walking while typing this, lol. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 11:36 PM PST F43 5'7" SW 227 CW 177 GW 155 If someone had told me back at the beginning of August, before I decided to try to lose weight, 177 days after I started CICO that there would be 50lbs less of me, I would have laughed and not believed them. Keeping on track has been tough the past two months, between holidays, winter doldrums, adjusting to eating even fewer calories, and the general slowing of weight loss as my body mass decreased, but like the tortoise, I've just been trying to keep it slow and steady. But yeah. It's been so, so hard lately. But here I am anyway—still CICOing, going on walks, down 50lbs, with 22lbs to go! I was so excited to finally reach what once seemed like an impossible number, and wanted to share it with the community that has inspired me to start and to keep going. Here's to losing those last 22lbs! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:47 AM PST Just over a year now of following my routine and just entered the onederland!!! Biggest take aways from losing 146 lbs (don't feel like reposting progress pics as the aesthetics haven't changed much) in just over a year...
Finally, parting words. I love all you supportive bastards and I am cheering you all on you fabulous diamonds!!! Keep grinding and polishing you uncut gems... soon you all will be shining! Peace Jeff [link] [comments] |
| Realising why I emotionally eat: because I feel unlovable Posted: 15 Feb 2021 10:37 PM PST this might seem a bit rant-y but that's not what I intended, but if anyone has any advice that will be great. Thank you So basically I'm in week 7 of weight watchers/itrackbites, and I have done super well until today and yesterday I just blew my diet. And I always knew my eating problem was due to emotionally eating but I'm really realising it's because of stress sometimes, but other times/most of the time is because I feel unlovable!! Because I'm in my early 20s and I've never been in a relationship, and have no friends. So I really feel unlovable and have no source of connection, and food is what I turn to instead. It was Valentine's Day recently, and this morning I had a dream that I was pregnant and because I feel like the guy and I broke up or something (not sure but that's what I sensed, I just felt like he didn't really like me anymore) I tried to text him to say we need to talk, that it's serious (to tell him I was pregnant). Anyway so today I've felt super shit because I've never been in a relationship in the first place, only in my dreams it seems like someone would want to get intimate with me/I would get pregnant, but as well as that even still in the dream the guy didn't like me. Soo I think my subconscious this morning made me see that I feel I am really unlovable, and then today when I broke my diet again after yesterday I really felt why I was breaking my diet... and it was because of this feeling. (Also I know it's a lifestyle not a diet, but I didn't really know how else to say it) Also my sister is pregnant and every time her partner comes over I feel like such a piece of shit, I just feel like and alien or something because they are always such a couple and I'm sitting by myself, and I guess I am jealous. (edit: am also happy for her and super excited too!) So that is what I realised... this is why I emotionally eat. Anyone have any tips to help? Edit: also I hope I can type this here, I don't know where else I can tell this to. But I have 55kg to lose and it makes me feel even worse because even after the weight loss I'm scared no one will like me still because I'm scared I'll have lose skin, and I will still have the stretchmarks (which I don't mind by themselves but with everything else..), scars, and saggy breasts. sorry if that's tmi but that's what happens when you're a big girl with breasts... usually they are saggy before the weight loss, after the weight loss they are just gonna be worse. So how im really freaking out because it just seems like there is no way in the world a guy will love me, yet that is the most important thing in the world to me. To love and be loved. [link] [comments] |
| Advice for those just beginning, from someone who began over two years ago. Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:35 AM PST I've been seeing a lot of posts about people starting their day 1 recently, and that's inspired me to start a thread sharing my advice and the tips I've learned along the way. I'm by no means perfect (I posted in here a week or so ago because I was deeply upset with my progress, honestly), but I have lost around 150lbs in these two-ish years and I want to give back to the community that has helped me get this far, and who continues to help me move forward. Passing the baton, so to speak. Also, mobile so formatting may be weird. Also also, this is super long so I apologize for that also lol. • Day 1: Remember something very important, this is not a diet. It isn't a quick fix. It isn't going to be something you do for two weeks and then go back to your regularly scheduled programming. It has to be a lifestyle shift, a learning process. You have to basically enter your cocoon and begin the learning process of learning proper nutrition, why you need calories, how your body interacts with those calories, and what your specific body needs. It sounds overwhelming, I know, but take it one day at a time. One hour, one minute, whatever it takes for you to actually succeed and stick to it. This body that you're in now will still be your body two weeks, two months, two decades from now. There is no time limit on this, but if you start now and begin making slow progress, you'll be in a better place tomorrow than you were today. • Above all else, literally everything else, is sustainability. What is sustainable for you in this moment, at this point in your life? There is literally nothing else that matters more than this. Stop reading all the intense health advice from tight-bodied gurus who tell you to do a billion different things, and listen to your own body. If you're someone who is very, very sedentary and who eats food for comfort rather than nutrition then trying to suddenly work in a two hour workout, a 10k run, a super nutrition-based whole food will lead to burnout more often than not. Make small changes. Weight loss is a bit of a snowball effect, as is a healthy lifestyle. Little changes add up and before you know it, you've turned your life around. I can't tell you what those small changes will be for you. Everyone is different. For me, it was learning the calories of my favorite snacks and trying to find alternatives that were lower calories. Instead of double stuffed Oreos dipped in milk, it became golden thin Oreos split in half and dipped in oat milk. Instead of pizza and cheese sticks from Pizza Hut, it became just cheese sticks. Little, incremental changes will be the changes that you are able to hold on to and keep with you forever. • Dont restrict yourself. Carbs aren't bad. They're empty and tend to leave you feeling hunger sooner, which tends to lead to a higher calorie intake throughout the day, but they do not inherently make you fat. If you eat 1,5k calories of bread or 1,5k of vegetables in a day, you will have consumed the same amount of calories and it will impact your body (ignoring nutrients) in the same way. You will just be much, much hungrier at the end of the day on bread than on vegetables. I've had days where I've ate my 1,5k in donuts and crackers, and I've still lost the weight. Candy, sugar, cake, sweets, ice cream are not your enemy. Moderate them, don't give yourself easy access to them if you feel the need to binge on them. • Buy a food scale. Make it your best friend. Weigh everything. • On that same note, if that's too much for you in the beginning, then make accommodations to make it easier on yourself. The first six months of my weight loss I ate nothing but frozen meals. Healthy Choice Power Bowls, Luvo, basically anything from the "healthy" section of the frozen meal isle became my best friend. These meals are high in salt usually, but they were prepackaged and had whole, real ingredients that I could easily track in my app without too much thought. The barcode scanner was the reason for my success. Also, those ritz cracker stacks that come prepackaged as individual servings. If you don't want to invest in frozen meals, I'd suggest meal prepping or at least making your food more accessible. If you buy fruit and veggies, wash and prepare them for easy grabbing. If you buy chips and cakes, separate them out into calorie-marked bags. • If the most you can change about your eating habits is searching for low-calorie substitutes, then that is perfectly fine. Progress is progress. I drank Coke Zero like my life depended on it for the first year of my journey. There is no shame. • You don't have to work out. You just don't. Will your weight loss be faster and will your body be healthier and will your "end" result look much nicer? Yes, sure. But if staying on track and monitoring your calorie intake means not working out, then dont. I lost my first 100lbs without working out at all. The next 25 came from IF, this last 25 have came from finally starting to introduce sporadic workouts. Only the last 2 have been the result of daily workouts, lol. • Understand that your weight loss will slow down and you will go days, weeks even, without seeing progress. Trust the process. Look into the infamous "whoosh" people talk about on here. When you first start, depending on the amount of weight you have to lose and how dramatic your lifestyle changes are, you can easily see 20lbs of weight loss in a month. My first three months I lost 30lbs. That does not last forever. Average weight loss is about .5/1lb a week. Max is usually 2lbs. As your BMI/Body fat percentage decreases, it will become more "difficult" to lose weight. This just means it will come of more slowly, because it is a larger percentage of your total weight. Don't let this discourage you. Progress is progress. Loss is loss. • Don't try to crash diet. Don't punish yourself. You ate 3,5k calories yesterday? Cool. It's over. Keep going. Eat your goal today, don't try to restrict yourself or you will begin a vicious cycle of binging and restricting. Anything less than 1,2k is going to lead to binging cycles, more often than not. 3.5k on Monday, 1.5k on Tuesday, 1.5k on Wednesday, 2k on Thursday, 1.8k on Friday is still better than 3.5k on Monday, 900 on Tuesday, 300 on Wednesday, 9k on Thursday, 5k on Friday. • Above all else, be kind to your body and mind. Work on your mental state. Understand why you reach for comfort foods and also why you started this journey. Sure, we all want to be thin and strong and lean, but why else are you doing this? To live to see your grandkids? To run without pain? To go up the stairs without feeling like you're suffocating? To be able to sit with your knees up in your computer chair (this was one of my personal goals lol)? Beauty cannot be the only motivator. Beauty is fleeting. Prioritize yourself. [link] [comments] |
| If only it were this easy. Find yourself a magic mirror! Posted: 15 Feb 2021 07:47 PM PST M39 255lbs 5'10" Today I caught a glimpse of my future, a sliver of hope and clarity. A reminder of what my goals may be and a realistic vision with my own eyes. Angle that split-mirror open a bit and give yourself a bit of a preview of what's to come. Lol. I can see it! I just don't quite feel it. I'm prepared to put in the work and get down to brass tax. Eating less and exercising more is an amazingly simple formula, but to focus and maintain willpower is so challenging. 255lbs is a lot to hide, but the mirror does it just fine. I love having a little cheat view and motivator. I down 5lbs and I'm certainly feeling it. Clothes are fitting better and I pulled a belt notch in today. There are other tactics, like using old photos of yourself in a healthier condition as reminders. What are your little tricks for reminding yourself that this is real and possible? [link] [comments] |
| Me as a 500-600 pound guy wanting to finally lose weight Posted: 15 Feb 2021 01:23 PM PST I want to lose weight I'm at the point I'm willing to do anything. I've been overweight all my life ever since I was a kid its been so bad that at my current age I'm doing nothing but living with a relative and they've been taking care of me and as of recently my weight and just my mentality is just in a bad state that if I don't do something I'm gonna lose the closet person to me because of depression anxiety and other things. So im here to ask what should I do to lose weight I don't want to be this way anymore I hope in losing weight it'll help my mental state and tiredness I'm scared of changing around the people I know doing anything that out of my normal feel wrong I guess like it makes me think people are gonna think weird things about me in a sense because I haven't done anything in my life. I know people recommend alot of water but about the only 2 things I drink is water and milk mostly milk I plan on changing that soon. But I just need help. I don't know if this belong here but I'm just desperate to ask. If it doesn't please push me into the right place. I'm sorry if I'm missing details I haven't had a social life in the last 3-5 years so explaining everything of the top of my head is rough please ask what ever is needed to know to help me. Hopefully I can get my life on track. It took me alot of courage to even ask here. Edit: thank you all for the info you've been giving me it will help me tons I appreciate all of you this is all furthering my motivation thank you all so much [link] [comments] |
| Ever feel like you just can't get past a certain weight? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:30 PM PST Don't mind me. Just venting here. I know the logical answer to this. I'm just frustrated right now, to be honest. A few years ago I had started losing weight after being obese my whole life. I lost something like 35lbs in about 5 months (got from 230 to 195). My weight loss slowed down in the next couple of months and the lowest weight I saw on the scale was about 187. After that, I gained a few lbs, maintained for a year or two, and then slowly started gaining more and more. Cut to June 2020. I realized I had totally let myself go during the lockdown here and was back up to 220. By November I had lost about 33lbs, but since then, for the past 3 months I've just been hovering around 187. Every time I go a little below it, I get excited, but then it creeps back up there even if I've been staying within my calorie limit. In my lower moments I seriously wonder whether that's just my natural, default weight, and that I'll never know what being a normal weight feels like. It's quite a bummer. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 06:03 PM PST This is a check in, mainly for myself, partly to give someone a look into the process during the weight loss and not before or after. I'm 288 days in. I took a break from counting calories and sticking strictly to my goal for half of November and all of December. It was nice, I didn't gain anything, didn't lose anything. It gave me a nice stress break since my masters classes were also off during that time. I've lost 43lbs. I've gone from class three obesity to class one obesity. Still obese but much less at risk for the health risks that come from being class three or two. I've made some strides learning and growing in my professional life. I finished my first semester of masters classes with a 4.0 I injured and then successfully healed from a wrist injury, and got back to weight lifting which I love. My mental health is good, I've been focusing on being grateful for everything I have. I still have a long way to go, I'm F27, 5'10, I started at 285, I'm at 242, and I want to get to 160. I know this process takes time, and I am using that time to learn how to eat and move like the thin fit version of me I want to be. Now that I can weight lift again and the winter is almost over, I can start being more active again, hiking, walking, etc, instead of being so sedentary from being freezing all the time. Last thought, it's hard mentally because I'm doing everything right but it's still going to take months and months before I look like someone who is doing everything right. Being patient is not something I've been particularly good at in the past, so doing this slowly, carefully and sustainably is hard in the sense that my instincts tell me to do the opposite. There is this feeling that I should be more miserable, that I'm not doing enough, that if I just did xyz I could lose faster "just for a bit". I am worth going slow and actually succeeding this time, not taking short cuts, not going full speed then burning out, and not comparing my success to others'. [link] [comments] |
| How it’s going after six weeks Posted: 15 Feb 2021 10:08 AM PST F28, 5'0, SW 168, CW 163, GW 126 So as of today I've been at this for six weeks, and so far I've lost 5lbs. I was a little disappointed when I weighed in this morning, until I started listing the positives:
These are just some of my positives, and while I really would like the weight lost to be a little bit more, I'm not angry or guilty or upset with myself, and I know these are healthy changes I'm making for life. There is definitely a huge mental side to weight loss and I've found it really helpful to focus on what's gone well, and it helps me to keep up the momentum. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 15 Posted: 15 Feb 2021 04:22 PM PST Hello lovely losers, Monday! Day 15, half way there dang this month is going by in a blur. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: No weigh in this morning, 231.3 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): Went overboard yesterday a latte and a half. On track today. 8/13 days. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. It was below freezing, I wanted a walk but there was a wind chill advisory. 11/15 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): Made time for some journaling. Try a new recipe once a week: Identity crisis chili (because it's kind of red & kind of green), curry chicken drum sticks & oven roasted zucchini. 3/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful that one of the imperfect/ugly food delivery services is finally available in my area. I'll report back if I love it. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| Any words of advice or encouragement so I don’t quit again? Posted: 15 Feb 2021 06:08 PM PST Long story short: 5 years ago I went on a 18 month long weight loss journey and lost approximately 115 pounds (I was so proud!). Then life happened, I got complacent and now I'm 35 pounds heavier 😔 I keep trying to lose the weight but I only stick to it a month or two, lose 10 pounds then lose track of the goal and gain those 10 pounds back again. I'm so tired of yo-yoing like this. I was able to lose 115lbs before, why can't I stick to it anymore? What's wrong with me? By all means I know I am far from my previous morbidly obese self and for that I count my blessings but I don't want to end up there again especially if I don't get myself in-check again. Can any of you kindly offer some piece of advice or encouragement so I don't fall off track again, stick to it for months and actually lose these damn 35 pounds again? Thanks in advance, guys! 🙏🏻 [link] [comments] |
| I need to get this off my chest. Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:01 AM PST For the past couple of years I've been trying to lose a substantial amount of weight (I'm F23/168cm or 5'6"/73kg or 161 lbs. Would like to lose approx. 10kg or 20 lbs). At the same time, I've been trying to make my relationship with food a healthy one. I grew up in a family where food was a love language, and as it turns out, it's quite difficult to change something as hardwired as your eating habits. What's been especially frustrating is that I know what works for me if I'm only focussing on losing weight --and not on the mental aspect--, and it leads to some disordered eating habits. When I try to pay more attention to the mental side, I fall back to food as a love language/a way to take care of my mental health. Food is not my enemy. I love to nourish myself, and sometimes indulge myself with all sorts of foods and drinks. However, lately it's been causing me a lot of stress. I feel overwhelmed, like I can't see the wood of the trees. When I'm preparing something to eat, I feel like I'm in fight or flight mode. When I'm finally eating, I tend to overindulge to deal with the stress. I guess at this point I'm frustrated with the fact that my perception seems so warped. I want to go back to being able to eat and drink intuitively and I don't know how. Writing this down has helped a bit, and hopefully someone can give me some advice to help me out of this funk. [link] [comments] |
| I really honestly need to lose weight this time Posted: 15 Feb 2021 04:28 PM PST I've been "trying" to lose weight all last year but I'm a nurse and covid PTSD has me emotionally eating a ton when I really can't afford to. I'm only 5' tall so my BMR isn't much to begin with and calorie counting is so hard if you're trying not to eat processed food with a preprinted calorie count. I'm 145lbs at current, down from 152 at my heaviest. When I was pregnant with our daughter I got severe preeclampsia at 24 weeks and I'm terrified of it happening again. We want to try again but I need to be in the best shape of my life before we roll those dice again. What can I do as a short person to help when my BMR is so low already? This time around I'm considering IF 16:8 the three days a week I work and OMAD on my off days. [link] [comments] |
| Obese all my life and ready to change that. Posted: 15 Feb 2021 11:13 AM PST So, I have always been overweight since the age of 6. I suffer from (self-diagnosed) binge eating disorder. I have binged foods for as long as I can remember. Growing up we didn't have a lot so I mostly ate garbage, never drank water, and would binge on sweets to make sure I had them before someone else. I continued these patterns into adulthood and am now 25. I have two young kids and am looking to change my life. I started Keto Jan.11 and have lost 18 pounds since. I have started beachbody workouts and Intermediate fasting to really get me going. Any other suggestions to help me out? I've started this journey many times but am hoping it sticks this time! [link] [comments] |
| Lost 0.9 lbs after weekend cheat Posted: 15 Feb 2021 01:51 PM PST Funny how weight works. I'd been stuck at the same weight for about 3 weeks and really pushing myself to sticking to 1200 calories. (I'm 5'1.) This weekend I ate beyond my calorie budget by ordering delivery, eating donuts, and drinking beer. (I'd given up drinking to help with weight loss.) I just dgaf this weekend and was tired of being so "good." Had a good Valentine's Day. What a pleasant surprise to drop down 0.9 lbs this morning and break my plateau. Two cheat days didn't ruin me! I'll go back to no alcohol, walking 5 miles per day, and eating 1200-1400 calories. But nice to see that I can cheat every now and then and be okay. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:22 PM PST F/23/5'2/HW233/CW138/GW120 Hi everyone! This is my first post so sorry if it's all over the place. I've been lurking since beginning my journey in 2017. You have all been really helpful and this is a great, supportive community of people so thank you! For background, I lost 100 lbs in pretty much a year and a half. Last year got back up to 150 by letting go of weight loss/maintenance as a priority. Thankful that I caught myself and am back on track. That's the problem I seem to have that I need help with. If I am not constantly hyperaware of my body and what I'm putting into it, I let it go. It is so hard for me, the mental part. The way I've lost weight has been healthy, I haven't eaten under 1200 calories. But the way I go about sticking to eating that many calories is not healthy mentally. After getting to 100 lbs down, my lowest weight being 133, I still had a fat stomach. Don't know if it's fat or loose skin. I'm always looking into it and watching loose skin videos, looking at progress pictures, comparing myself. I'm always worried whether people perceive me as fat since I am still overweight for my height. It's kind of absurd at this point because it's such an improvement from where I was but it still doesn't feel good enough. In my free time I find myself just reading posts on here or watching videos on YouTube about weight/dieting/nutrition. I'm always thinking about my weight even when I'm not eating! It's consuming so much time, effort and thought. I look at how my clothes fit, weigh myself, and use a tape measure more often than I'd like to admit. If I don't do that I feel like it's not at the forefront of my mind, then I start slowly eating more poorly. I'm feeling burnt out but not enough to give up, I know that this is a lifelong commitment. Eating less isn't a sacrifice but putting so much thought into it is, especially years into this when I thought it would be second nature by now. My question is how do you do this without being unhealthily obsessed with it? It needs to be a priority without being the only priority, if that makes sense. I need the inspiration/motivation to keep going but I don't want to waste my life trying to be perfect either! If you can relate to this is there a way to reframe it from being about physical appearance to being about health only? Has appearance and self image played this big of a role in your journey? Thanks. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: February 16th, 2021 Posted: 15 Feb 2021 10:07 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] |
| Trouble accepting changes in clothing size after weight loss Posted: 15 Feb 2021 08:12 PM PST F28, 5'4, SW 167, CW 142, GW 135 I've been on my weight loss journey for about 6 months, and now that the weight is coming off, I've noticed my clothes have started fitting differently. Before losing weight, I would typically wear a large/XL in shirts and a 10/12 in pants when using my measurements for online shopping. I recently did some online shopping and noticed my new measurements have me at a medium for shirts and a 6/8 for pants. This was a shock to me, as I've never been able to even contemplate wearing a size 6 pants before! I guess because I see my body everyday, it doesn't feel like a massive change has happened so the numbers definitely surprised me. It took awhile (and double checking on several different brand websites) for me to convince myself it wasn't a one off or typo. Has anyone else had a similar experience with not believing the changes in your clothing size after weight loss, or is the pandemic finally making me lose it (pun intended)? :) [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 16 February 2021? Start here! Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:31 PM 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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| Posted: 15 Feb 2021 10:51 AM PST I've struggled with my weight, my body image, and my diet for at least fifteen or twenty years. What started in high school became more than a decade-long battle with my body weight going up and down, my diet improving and then faltering, and basically years of "one step forward, two steps back." I'd get on track, start making progress, get close to my goals, and then just completely fall off the wagon. I'd let go of my workouts, I'd start eating junk again, I'd go into a deep depression, and it all just became a terrible cycle. It was really hard. I'd feel so good when I was close to my goals, but literally at the point of suicidal ideation when the depression and weight gain came back. 2020 was really hard for me in a lot of ways, but after a couple months passed and I realized that *this* way of life was going to be the "new norm," I got my act together and started really focusing on my fitness and wellness. Sometime around August I started dedicating a huge amount of my time and energy to designing an ideal eating and exercise program for myself and I even decided that I wanted to pursue certification as a personal trainer. I felt like getting a personal trainer certification would motivate me to continue focusing on my own health and just give me some structure in my fitness journey. Anyways, that all started in August of last year. Since then I've dropped about 30 pounds of body fat, gained about 10 pounds of muscle, finished my personal trainer certification, added a "Sports Nutrition Specialist" certification to my resume, and ultimately I've reached a condition that I can call the best shape of my life… Shoot… I can't even believe I'm saying that… I've reached the best shape of my life! In August I was ashamed to even look at myself in the mirror (not exaggerating), but now today I literally feel like a different person. I've reached my goals, and set new ones to strive towards. Anyways, today was a really, really big deal to me. Something happened today that's never happened to me before. I was at the gym (limited capacity, everyone wears masks, improved ventilation, mandatory equipment cleaning, etc.) and someone came up to me. I see this guy and his wife working out at the same time as me a lot of days, but I always just keep to myself at the gym. Headphones in, and head down. So we'd never talked before today. Honestly, I almost never talk to anyone at the gym except for the staff. I'm very much "too myself" when I work out. So this guy walked up to me, and at first I was concerned because I thought he was going to ask me to not slam my weights or something (I try really hard to not be "that guy" in the gym, but I'm always overly paranoid that I'm doing *something* wrong—then again, I also feel like this in most of my life outside of the gym too). So I'm expecting this guy to complain about something I'm doing, but I was completely wrong. He points at my shoulders and asks how much I weigh. I was confused at first, but told him my weight, and he goes on to say that he weighs the same as me, but he sees me in the gym almost every day, and he just couldn't believe how much my body had changed over the last few months and how much more muscle I look like I have, considering that he and I were basically the same weight. He said that he'd do anything to be able to put on muscle like I have, and I was completely taken aback. I went from thinking that this guy was upset with me to realizing that he actually was wanting to know what he could do to improve his own routine/physique. I don't actually work for that gym, so I told him that although I am a certified personal trainer, that I don't work for that facility. Basically I was trying to say that I would be happy to help him and that I was extremely flattered, but at the same time I had to explain what I could do and what I couldn't as per gym policy (only trainers employed by my gym are authorized to do personal training there). Anyways… this post is way too long. But it was such a milestone for me today to realize that I've gone from being ashamed to look in the mirror to literally having strangers come up to me and ask me how they can get in shape without my prompting. It was one of the most empowering experiences I've had in a long, long time. Unfortunately I don't work full time as a personal trainer right now. I have an unrelated job, but I've been coaching and training clients (mostly close friends on a donation basis) online for the past month or so, and I've been dreaming about transitioning from my current job (which I'm not passionate about) to a job in personal training/fitness/wellness (which I am extremely passionate about). The experience this morning was such a motivation to keep chasing that dream, and for the first time today, I can actually see the dream going to fruition. —— So I don't know… I definitely didn't intend this to be a "LOOK AT ME! I"M IN GOOD SHAPE NOW!!!" kind of post. That's not what I'm going for at all. Rather, it was just a reminder that even if you're feeling stuck, even if you've had your ups and downs, and even if you feel like you'll never actually get to the goals you've set for yourself—REMEMBER THAT THE JOURNEY IS LONG! It's not over until it's over. Ever failure I had in my past came with a lesson learned. Every failure made me just a little bit stronger. It just took time to see it to fruition. From my own experience, I know that it's not all sunshine-and-butterflies from this point forward. I know that fitness and wellness are life-long journeys. But today I'm in a place where I never though I'd be. And all it took was for a stranger to come up and ask me for some fitness pointers. I certainly didn't wake up this morning thinking that today was the day that I'd know I reached my goals. But sometimes life gives us surprises. Keep pushing. You never know who's out there seeing your progress. You never know who is getting their motivation from *your* commitment. Thank you to all the members of this community who continue to share their own inspiration and motivation. I don't post on here much, but I follow the subreddit almost every day, and there are a lot of you who have been the motivation to me when I needed it most. Keep on pushing! The feeling on the other side is better than anything you could possibly imagine! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2021 01:57 AM PST I can't believe I gained 20lbs in a year, I look back at how I was doing in the summer when everything first started and how fit and active I was and how I even bought new clothes and a new swimsuit because I had worked so hard to get the weight off and then this year hit and I just really fell off the wagon so hard and gained ten pounds. Then when the weight would take awhile to come back off I would get discouraged and start eating terribly again and just ignoring how I was feeling and what I was gaining and packed on another ten pounds. I stopped exercising and just spiraled even further, but then one day as I was cleaning up around my house I was listening to random youtube videos and I came across one that started talking about how being just 1% better everyday for a year means you will be at least 300% better by the end of a year. That really inspired me and so i started with my cleaning habits everyday, then i added on waking up early everyday for a week, then i added in tracking calories in vs calories out for another week, and now I am here at week three and I just did my first workout yesterday and will again today. Sorry this is so long, I just really am proud of myself for making the small steps I needed to get back into this mindset and if the concept of being just 1% better helps someone else on here feel motivated then I guess my long post is worth it. [link] [comments] |
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