Weight loss: I know nobody cares BUT I ACTUALLY ATE AT A DEFICIT TODAY!!!!!! AND I DID MY FIRST FAST EVER!!!!! AND I DID 4000 STEPS!!!! I’m extremely proud of myself |
- I know nobody cares BUT I ACTUALLY ATE AT A DEFICIT TODAY!!!!!! AND I DID MY FIRST FAST EVER!!!!! AND I DID 4000 STEPS!!!! I’m extremely proud of myself
- [F26 5'0 | 165 lbs -> 120 lbs] I FLIPPIN DID IT!!! + PICS
- 54 lbs down, finally out of the obesity zone
- This Week Wasn’t Going Well Until I Thought I Looked Hot
- Down 28 lbs
- Finally committed in December and now I’m down almost 15 lbs!!!
- I finally told my therapist about my eating disorder.
- Childhood dream
- NSV: I can turn my head back without pain!
- Just need to yell into the void
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4
- I lost no weight for three months, but my waist lost 3 inches
- Therapeutic Closet Purge �� ��
- NSV I didn’t eat the whole pizza (in one sitting anyway).
- I need to vent to someone
- Weight loss isn’t always beautiful, personal take on food addiction
- This is why you take progress pics even when you don't want to
- I’ve found an easy route to weight loss
- 50 weeks fat loss, back gains NSFW
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 5th, 2021
- Nearly 5 years after successful weight loss and we’re back on the grind
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 05 March 2021: Today, I conquered!
- I’m not obese anymore
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 05 March 2021? Start here!
| Posted: 04 Mar 2021 10:32 AM PST I know 4000 steps isn't much at all, but compared to the 200 I do everyday without leaving my house, it's quite a lot. I just went grocery shopping and that was 4000 steps or at least my phone tells me that. I actually ate below my maintenance calories today! I ate about 1500 today, my TDEE is 1800 (or 1900 but I try to not eat more than 1800). I ate a 9piece mcnugget and I was kinda surprised to find out that's only 435 cals. Thought it would be more. But yeah, I ate at a calorie deficit for like literally the first time in my life. I will keep going and I will get better and stronger with time. I also did my first 16:8 fast today (I started 6pm yesterday, finished today 10am). Honestly, it was much easier than I thought it would be, and I felt surprisingly good afterwards. I thought I'd be starving but I wasn't, I was just a bit hungry for a few hours, but it was perfectly manageable. I'm starting my second ever 16:8 fast in half an hour, but this time I'm doing 10pm to 12am because I feel like that fits my lifestyle much better (I go to sleep really late etc. so this way it's more fitting) Just wanted to get this out there. I'm super proud of myself. Here's to a fucking healthier and happier life I guess!!!!!! edit: thanks for all the replies and awards, def wasn't expecting that many lol. I'm almost 2.5 hours into my 16hr fast right now, you guys are definitely giving me motivation [link] [comments] |
| [F26 5'0 | 165 lbs -> 120 lbs] I FLIPPIN DID IT!!! + PICS Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:04 PM PST SW: 165 lbs GW: 120 lbs CW: 119 lbs (I'm not done yet, though ;)) Okay so 45 lbs (20.4 kg) isn't a whole lot compared to lots of you amazing folks, but it definitely shows on someone my height! I was at my heaviest in 2018 and absolutely hated myself. I had always been a tad overweight, but It shocked me how I just kept climbing and climbing. I recall sitting in my car one night (alone and sad af) eating hella taco bell like I did basically every night, thinking to myself "I will never, never change." Overall, I'd say I have been actively losing weight strictly for around 1.5 years. The journey has been incredibly slow, but I think that the fact that I have held steadfast on my weight loss through ALL the plateaus I hit, proves to me that I am capable of keeping this up for a long time. I am super fuckin proud of my progress and my body. Awesome things that happened on my weight loss journey:
Some info about what I do:
Kinda weird showing so much of my body to strangers on the internet. Oh well, here you go, strangers! Included is NSFW pics!!!, some SFW Pics, face gains, and a graph of the last 6 months of weight loss :) I wish you all so much luck in your journeys. Take it from me --the journey is WORTH IT! Please keep going, I believe in you!! [link] [comments] |
| 54 lbs down, finally out of the obesity zone Posted: 04 Mar 2021 11:26 PM PST I weighted in at 320 lbs in June and I weigh 266 as of today. I'm inching closer and closer to my goal of 15% body fat (225). As I approach 245, I'm getting closer to the weight of my prime. I keep thinking that I'm going to surpass my former best version of myself (physically) in a matter of months. That thought makes me anxious because I don't know what's next. All of the loose skin has been rough for me, but it's better than staying the same physically. I'm taking all of the good and bad as just part of the weight loss process. A few things that I've changed are my skin care routine and putting effort into muscle recovery. I was feeling like shit for a while, but I bought a few new products and I started applying bio freeze to my calves and knees. My daily task of inclined walking has been less daunting and my legs feel recovered/fresh. Lastly, I treated myself to some new clothes. I can finally fit an XL! It's been almost 5/6 years. After I lose another 40+lbs, I'll say hello to Mr Medium. I haven't seen him since 2013. [link] [comments] |
| This Week Wasn’t Going Well Until I Thought I Looked Hot Posted: 04 Mar 2021 06:26 PM PST I'm currently about 145 lbs and started at 155 in early December. I'm 5' 2" and female. So I was feeling pretty discouraged because my weight loss has been pretty slow in general mostly because I just can't do the high deficit thing anymore. I don't know, I'm just tired of being hungry, demonizing food, getting obsessive. So my only goal now is to eat below 1700 and even then I probably have a day a week I go over, but I usually average out between 1400-1600 cals a day per week. And yes and you can see, I lose a few pounds a month. I've been working out just to be able to eat more food and get some strength because I'm also tired of needing people to help me carry everything. I've been doing some Beachbody programs (Barre Blend and now I'm on LIIFT4). I would do a 5k on one or two of the off days just because I really like running. Anyways, so lots of NSV like building a better relationship with food, getting buff, better balance, and more endurance. But sometimes instead of seeing the 10 lbs I've lost, I just feel the 25-35 lbs weighing down on me. I don't know why, but I just felt heavy this week. It messed up my run Wednesday because all I could think of is "you have to drag this fat body up the hill with you." Like whoa, I thought we were past that? Where did that come from? But today, I was dancing to some music I discovered (Mother by Danzig if you're interested) and I felt kind of hot! Like I was checking myself out and finally like it clicked. I have been doing measurements, but I was only focusing on how my boobs and ass shrunk. But my stomach is flatter. Still some fat there, but it doesn't just hang out anymore. And I can get low! Like reeeeal low. A lot more flexible too. It was a good feeling and a nice reminder that I am doing the right thing and making the right changes. It might be slow, but the key is to find those good moments on the way down. Sorry for the hokey moral, but I feel like I can never end a post without an upside 👍 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:33 PM PST Down 28 lbs and lowered my a1c This is the first time in my life I feel proud of myself. In dec on my birthday I found out my a1c was 11 and my blood sugar was over 300. I went to the dr yesterday and my a1c is down to 7, blood sugar is 132 and I'm down to 195... I'm not trying to brag but I want to cry. I set out to do something and I accomplished it. I'm far from done, but I have never felt more proud of myself. I reduced my sugar intake to almost zero, I haven't had fast food in over 8 weeks, and I have gotten my carb intake under control. I've also started a gym routine with my husband. I feel like my hard work has finally paid off... it's gonna be a long road but I finally believe I can do it. Thanks for reading, hope you had a good day today 😌 [link] [comments] |
| Finally committed in December and now I’m down almost 15 lbs!!! Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:16 PM PST Hey guys! I just wanted to share my excitement because nobody around me cares in real life but it's been a struggle so I just want to voice how proud I am of myself for sticking with it. But I started at 165 lbs after gaining THIRTY pounds my first year of my grad school program. I struggled to lose on and off because I was stress eating and drinking. I did a lot of fad diets at first that I couldn't stick with because I'd never struggled with my weight like this and I was just too overwhelmed with life to think I could do it the "right way." But I finally got the hang of both school and my diet/work out routine and am down to almost 150. That puts me 5 lbs away from my first goal and being back in a healthy weight BMI. I even was able to overcome my weight plateau this past week by incorporating weights into my work out and upping my calories a little bit. So proud I finally committed and stayed consistent in losing weight in a healthy manner. I wanted to thank a lot of you because while I didn't post here, I did lurk here and become inspired by a lot of the posts to stick with it! [link] [comments] |
| I finally told my therapist about my eating disorder. Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:02 PM PST I've been a big time binge eater for the last 10 years or so; basically when I was a junior in high school onward. I've gained about 130 pounds since then, and I'm at about 308 right now. Eating is something that controls me and i haven't really ever addressed it before. I've been dealing with some chronic pain over the last month, which has brought up a lot of emotions, leading to more eating. After talking with my shrink (whom I hadn't talked with in about a year) about those feelings, she asked what I wanted to work on, and I realized that I am so sick of feeling like shit all the time. My wife and I want kids in the next year or two, and I can't raise a kid while having no stamina, feeling weak, feeling sluggish, feeling unconfident... They deserve better, and so do I. I guess I wanted to share this with some strangers. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2021 03:25 PM PST My parents were never into sports. As a kid who loved sports and adventure...without any real positive sport related influence in my life it all just became a distant dream that was unreachable for me. As i got older and fatter, I kinda just accepted that sports wasn't something our family did. I (32m) was 350lbs at my biggest, but in the last four years I've managed to shed a 100 of those pounds. And little by little, I tried and picked up hobbies/sports I never thought I'd ever be able to do. In fact, I thought my best days were behind me, and with that I buried all my hopes of ever doing cool sporty things deep inside of me. Well, I'm here to say to that adventure and sport loving kid....HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?! This year I fulfilled one of my biggest childhood dream, I learnt to DOWNHILL SKI. This shit is the best y'all. Not only did I learn to do it, I'm getting pretty darn good at it. I get emotional every time I hit the slopes, never did I think i'd get a shot at doing this type of thing. It's a second shot at life. Anyways, if you find this losing weight thing difficult, cause it is....it's really hard. Think of that thing you've always dreamt of doing and never could. And perhaps I'll catch you out there on the slopes. I'm the guy smiling ear to ear. ✌️ Edit: spelling [link] [comments] |
| NSV: I can turn my head back without pain! Posted: 04 Mar 2021 07:57 PM PST This is pretty insignificant compared to other NSV's I see here lmao but I've never lost weight before in my life, so it's a milestone! Anyw, I've been eating ~1200 cal a day for almost 4 weeks now, and even though it's kind of disappointing that I'm not losing fat in my stomach just yet, apparently I am from my neck. It usually hurt me to twist my head backwards bc my neck fat would be pressed heavily against, but I just noticed about 10 min ago in the shower that it didn't feel painful at all! It's so surreal that I'm beginning to wonder if I ever felt pain doing it in the first place even though I clearly remember the pain and shame in myself for letting myself get that way. And now I'm looking like a madwoman because I'm repeatedly moving my head backwards like some demon possessed because I'm still in awe at the lack of fat. I feel like that girl who walked with her body upside down downstairs lol. Now that I've had my first actual victory ever I finally knows what it feels like to be truly motivated to keep going. I used to get jealous of all the people who actually saw results while I still looked like a potato. I still wish it didn't take me 19 years to do something small like this but it's never to late :p [link] [comments] |
| Just need to yell into the void Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:41 PM PST I had been feeling pretty good lately, borderline arrogant on reflecting back how relatively easy the process has been for me. The universe decided to slam me back down to reality recently. Maybe I needed some humbling. I had a pretty bad binge nearly 2 weeks ago causing 4 lbs of weight gain and about a week to undo what I had done. No problem, it's happened before I'll learn from it move on and accept my setback. Today not even a week after I got back down to pre binge weight I did it again probably worse than before. Now I'm sitting here feeling physically and mentally awful. The only thing I can do is reset and get right back into it but this one hit different. This is the first time in nearly 10 months I've felt this defeated. i feel like I'm fighting a ghost. I don't know what triggered it or how to fix it or how to prevent it from happening again. I know I'm not going to give up, I've come too far but damn if I wasn't the closest I've ever been today. I've had this thought in the back of my head that all it will take is one bad day and boy did today feel like that day. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 4 Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:17 PM PST Hello losers, I hope your day was full of joys small & large. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: 232.6 this morning, 231.1 lbs trend weight. Heeeey guess who has a uterus in full-fledged violent coup? This lady. Stay within calorie range (1800): Doing okay here. More maintenance days than I like if I'm going to keep up the 3-4 pounds down a month but still better than a previous version of myself. 2/2 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30-minute brisk walk at lunch & 35 minutes vigorous stationary bike. 4/4 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): Have been doing some self-inventory about where I feel like I am in life & what I want next. And I've decided whenever I get some sweet tax return money (don't get me started on how the US handles taxes kids), I'm joining the quarantine starting trend & getting a Switch. My buddies play Animal Crossing & since I still can't see much of them, I will take going to their islands & dropping off ugly outfits. Try a new recipe once a week: Romanesco, roasted. New veggie, new recipe, I say it counts even though it tasted like a fun broccoli cauliflower love child. 1/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful for the internet & easy access to books, blogs & human's encouraging other humans to never feel guilty for being human. Sounds weird & niche but as someone who deals with diagnosed anxiety/depression & CPTSD, sometimes knowing other humans feel like I do & do it without feeling awful about just existing is so very cathartic. On that note, highly recommend Captain Awkward's blog & the book "Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come" by Jessica Pan. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| I lost no weight for three months, but my waist lost 3 inches Posted: 04 Mar 2021 12:18 PM PST 27F 5'4-5" SW 218 CW 167 GW 155 UGW??? Last November, I decided to take about a month and a half to maintain. I was burnt out on weight loss, and the 500 calorie deficit was starting to really get to me. In January, I went back to a calorie deficit, this time only 250, with the expectation that I would lose weight again, but that it would slooow. And is has been slow. So freaking slow. 0.5 lbs per week is agonizingly slow, and sometimes a month will go by and the number won't change. It can be so discouraging. But you know what has changed in this time? My measurements. I took my measurements in December, when I was maintaining, because I have shrunk out of all of my clothing and, for the holidays, decided to treat myself to a nice, wool skirt. I had a 36" waist. I have a lot of injuries, and I mostly get exercise in two ways: walking and belly dancing. In these last few months of eating at a deficit, I started being more consistent, especially in my dancing. It's less about burning calories, though I am certainly happy with the extra food for the day-- dancing just feels good, and you can stop whenever anything starts to hurt in a bad way. Last week, out of sheer frustration with the number on the scale and the desperate hope that all this work and deficit eating had gotten me somewhere, I decided to take my measurements, and GUYS. 3 inches off my waist. 1 inch off each of my thighs. .25 inches off my neck. .25 inches off one of my arms, .5 off the other. 2 inches off my underbust. That means my bra is down a full band size. Guys. I didn't believe it. Seriously, I thought there was something wrong. Maybe I was really dehydrated? So I checked again the next day, and it was the same. I checked again yesterday. .25 off the second arm, so they both lost .5 inches. My scale has basically not moved in the last four months, but my measurements sure have. Weight is not the only metric. All of this to say: PLEASE take your measurements. It seriously saved my mental game, and made me feel so encouraged about continuing the deficit. [link] [comments] |
| Therapeutic Closet Purge �� �� Posted: 04 Mar 2021 08:54 AM PST Hello losers ❤️ I am almost 40 lbs down now, which means my clothes are getting loose. I am not at goal weight yet so I can't invest in a ton of new stuff but I do have to be, uh, clothed 😂 so I bought some new stuff. But as I went to put said new stuff in my closet (it's an Ikea thing so just a lot of drawers, no hangers) it hit me. my closet was a disaster area. Not because it was a gross mess (it was!) but because of the way it felt. Like a black hole of despair, source of sad feelings, vibe of profound sadness. The thing I opened every day and hated. I stood there looking at these heaps of wrinkled, some even stained, stretched out "fat" clothes. All of it shoved into drawers. Hate clothes. This closet clearly belonged to a person who was used to hiding so "why did it matter what she looked like." These were the clothes of a person who hated getting dressed in the morning. (I know this is not always the case but it was for me. The weight gain had made me stop caring.) Well, I went crazy 😝 I dumped every single thing on the floor. After dusting the crap out of the shelves (which were gross and dirty) I tore through the piles. I filled an entire trash bag with clothes to throw out and another TWO bags with clothes to donate. And then finally I folded & placed my few new things into the pristine, empty wooden drawers. I stepped back, and felt the most profound weight lifting away. So yeah, 10/10 recommend a closet purge ❤️ [link] [comments] |
| NSV I didn’t eat the whole pizza (in one sitting anyway). Posted: 04 Mar 2021 10:20 PM PST TL;DR Thanks to OMAD I've taken control of my hunger/cravings and I can keep myself from eating a whole pizza in one sitting. I love pizza. Lemme say that again. I LOVE pizza. It's my favorite freakin food. And, once COVID hit, I was stuck in my house with a bunch of time on my hands and some savings left over (workplace closed cause of COVID and I was out of a job). I ate quite a few deep-dish/pan crust/extra cheese pizzas from Domino's all by myself, in my room, in between my many hours of sedentary video game playing. And maybe I'd also order a multi-serving side of alfredo pasta too. Oh and some of those breaded chicken bites they got. Oh and I never forget the ranch dip. I went wild. And it was great for the first few months. COVID hit right in the middle of my final semester at college, and boy was I burnt out. I needed a break and the stay at home orders felt like a godsend! Just eating tasty fast food (like pizza) and playing videogames, all day long. Until I clocked in at 260 lbs a month ago (I'm a 5'11" male). In 2018, when I was in the best shape and lowest weight of my life, I was at a muscular 170 lbs. That means, in 3 years, I have come to be 10 lbs short of being 100 lbs heavier than I was when I was in control of my weight and my health. Well, I've been doing OMAD (One Meal A Day) for maybe 2 weeks now? eating at noon everyday. (That's following several failed attempts of getting myself back on track with my weight.) And it SUCKED at first. Mad cravings towards the night, lots of glasses of water to combat said cravings. A cheat day somewhere in between. But I've been doing it. And slowly the evening cravings have gotten less intense. AND, I'm not binging on food for the one meal I do get to eat. That's where the pizza comes in. Finally ordered some Domino's for the first time in forever. Guess what I got? Pan crust pepperoni and cheese pizza. Side of alfredo pasta. Ate all the pasta, it was only 600 cals. But the pizza.... man oh man what a good pizza. I can't just let this all sit in the box. Just one more slice....... NOPE. Ate 3 slices, closed the box, and put it in the fridge! That's my meal for the day! And still under my TDEE calorie count. I'm honestly amazed and PROUD of myself for doing it. So many failures have lead to this, this simple decision that I consider to be a huge, crazy important victory for me. And best part of it all, I still got to eat the rest of the pizza. Ate the last few slices today, again within my calories. I just wanted to share this with y'all out of a combination of pride/excitement and also hoping that maybe in sharing my personal weight loss related trials and tribulations, someone who needs some inspiration can get it. I'll share some more stuff in the comments so this doesn't get any longer than it already is but if you've come this far thanks for reading. This subreddit has been such a great network of support and if it was one of your posts I read in the past I thank you for sharing as well. Feel free to ask me Q's in the comments if you want. Man I could really go for some pizza right now. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2021 07:30 PM PST Is there such thing as an eating disorder in a sense of you over eating? I have such an unhealthy relationship with food and my weight has been climbing rapidly for over a year now with quarantine and all the extra added stress... I feel absolutely disgusted by myself and I just want to cry... today I weighed myself at 271lbs... this is the heaviest I've ever been I feel like I'm stuck. Gyms aren't really in my budget, I don't have space at home, and my anxiety prevents me from going outdoors to work out in fear of being attacked in the streets (the worlds a scary place and I hate leaving on foot alone, I drive everywhere now due to the anxiety and panic being outside alone gives me) or fear of people seeing me work out so unfit... I need someone to talk to and some advice I'm struggling badly and I can't keep doing this... [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss isn’t always beautiful, personal take on food addiction Posted: 04 Mar 2021 12:33 PM PST Food addiction isn't what you think it is in the traditional sense of addiction, or maybe it is, I don't know. Here are a few examples of what it looks like: -wrappers upon wrappers surround your bedside tables of food you know you shouldn't be eating, but simply could not stop yourself. I ate a FORTY TWO PACK box of fruit gushers in a little over a week. -if it's at my disposal or within reach, I will eat it. I quite literally cannot keep poor food choices in my home, or I will binge eat it until it's gone so that I don't have to prolong the cycle of shame eating for any longer than it needs to be. (Read above) -I told old roommates and my partner, if they have a snack, to store it up high so that I cannot reach it and eat it. -it looks like staying up late until your partner falls asleep so that you can secretly eat snacks because you feel he might pass judgment (but he likely doesn't even notice) -it's eating a tub of ice cream you and your partner were supposed to share, and since you ate the first half of it... instead of saving it, you waited until they slept so that you could sneak in your bedroom and finish it off, despite knowing how selfish it is. Despite knowing it would likely upset your partner. Having that sweet dopamine kick won over anything else, and it's pathetic. I feel as though I have relapsed. As though I am completely out of control, as though I am weak and nothing more than a person who has absolutely no will power. It's a cycle of knowing you can be better, but believing otherwise about yourself. It's almost self abuse, I over eat to simultaneously feel happiness and also punish myself for lacking impulse control. Be kind to fat folk, we are not lazy, we are mentally ill. Weight loss journeys are not linear, and I am struggling today. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. [link] [comments] |
| This is why you take progress pics even when you don't want to Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:23 AM PST My stats: 26F, 5'6", SW: 230-ish, CW: 165. GW: 145-ish. I have such an aversion to taking pictures of myself, especially when I'm missing some articles of clothing. Like...looking at my body?? No thank you, I would rather lick sandpaper. I've been on my weight loss journey for about two years now, and I didn't take ANY progress pictures in the beginning. The one I'm linking here is, I think, the only such photo I have from 2019 (and that's after I lost maybe 20 pounds just by getting my thyroid under control. Not my heaviest at all!!) So, late 2019 --> now It was a very spur of the moment, spontaneous sort of decision while visiting one of my best friends (so I felt relatively good at the time). But I do remember seriously thinking, "what's the point of this? I'm going to look the same tomorrow, and next week too." Spoiler alert: I DID. I did look the same the week after!! But one week snowballed into another, taking care of myself adds up, and now I DON'T look the same at all. How can I look at this and think that I do, that I've made no progress since then? Objectively, it's a flat-out lie. I still don't like taking pictures. But I think it's important to recognize the value of them and the useful tool they can be. You are your own worst critic, but think of yourself as a work in progress...who you are now is NOT what you are going to be a year down the road. I have the proof. [link] [comments] |
| I’ve found an easy route to weight loss Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:31 PM PST I needed to lose 20 pounds and started on January 1 with a plan that I've found remarkably easy, I thought I would share in case it helps others. So far I've lost 16 pounds so will hit my goal in the next few weeks.
So I eat about 1500 to 1700 calories per day, the walking burns around 300 calories and the weights about the same. My fitness pal and my watch tells I'm in deficit by between 400 and 700 calories per day. All the food is easy and quick to prepare, available at my local store (which I walk to every day to help with my steps), and at no point do I ever feel hungry. Clearly the water really helps with feeling full. Downsides 1. I wake up to pee in the night! 2. I have had some constipation so have added a syrup of figs into my morning routine Upsides 1. I'm nearly 50 and feel great, I've had to buy some new trousers and enjoy wearing clothes again. I honestly believe my fitness pal recording everything I eat, my Apple Watch recording all my exercise and lots of water is the key to this. Best of luck, I've wanted to do this for 2 decades and lock down has finally given me the time and motivation to do this. [link] [comments] |
| 50 weeks fat loss, back gains NSFW Posted: 04 Mar 2021 03:14 AM PST I am marking this NSFW as in these shots there is a topless bloke, shots are of back.. I always had a big belly.. But I did not realise just how much fat I held on my back! This is 50 weeks of weight loss and about 5 months of weight lifting. I am really pleased with what I see here. I want to lose another 40 lbs, maybe 50 and then move onto building muscle as the priority. For now I need to get rid of more fat I am 5.11" tall, 37 years old and my start weight was 310 lbs - current is 229lbs. Started 50 weeks ago. Id like to point out that the second pictured is "posed" and i am trying to spread my lats. Any questions I will be happy to answer them, Thanks for reading! [new-back.jpg](https://postimg.cc/DSHVvV2x) [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 5th, 2021 Posted: 04 Mar 2021 10:18 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] |
| Nearly 5 years after successful weight loss and we’re back on the grind Posted: 05 Mar 2021 12:57 AM PST Starting weight: 270 lbs approx. Lowest weight: 153 lbs Current weight: 192 lbs Goal weight: 155-160 lbs Not the usual progress pictures you'd expect but I promise this ends on a cheerful note :) I had lost about 115 pounds nearly 5 years ago and I was pretty good at keeping the extra pounds off but then life happened and I gained 40 lbs back (15 of those in the last year thanks to the pandemic). Quite frankly I was beating myself up over it up until recently, wondering how did I let myself get back here again but something in me finally sparked and I'm back on the weight loss train again. If I was able to lose over one hundred pounds before I can totally get these 40 pounds off again! So I downloaded MFP, I'm tracking everything closely and not only I've already lost 2 pounds but I'm starting to feel less bloated. It's all so encouraging. Sure it kinda sucks I have to do this again but that's life for ya. It's not all linear. As long as you remember to get back up and try again, you're already a winner. Knowing I've succeeded before and trusting the calorie deficit gives me so much confidence I'll get back to where I was 5 years ago. Every day I stay on track is a day closer I get to my goal and that alone is a victory in itself. Thank you all on this reddit for continuing to be so inspirational and motivating. Here's to hoping I'll make a new post in a couple of months where I've reached my goal weight again! [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Friday, 05 March 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 04 Mar 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] |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:47 AM PST I know BMI is kind of stupid as a measurement tool because it doesn't tell the full story but I've been obese for quite a few years now. I was always a healthy weight growing up but due to some horrible circumstances and trauma during college I ended up turning to food as a coping mechanism and gained about 70 lbs in a year. I am happy to say though that as of weighing myself today, I'm no longer in that "obese" category and now just "overweight". It might seem small but seeing that made me want to cry because it's the first time in at least 5 years that I haven't been obese. I started at 194 on January 5th. Down 22 lbs as of today. 21 more to reach my first goal of 151. I've done this by cutting calories down to 1200-1400 a day, following a plant based diet, and doing a lot of walking. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 05 March 2021? Start here! Posted: 04 Mar 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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