Weight loss: I met my goal! 175 to 138 over the course of a year |
- I met my goal! 175 to 138 over the course of a year
- obese to healthy BMI in 5 months: here is exactly how i did it
- Please read this if you are a healthy teenager looking to lose weight
- Relationships feel empty and people treat me different after weight loss
- Weird reasons to lose weight.
- On the way to reaching a major fat loss goal at 52!
- Weight loss stalls can be so frustrating!
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 9
- I was so certain I'd never be this weight again.
- 60 day IF streak broken.... for waffles with garlic salt.
- I’m trying my best
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 10th, 2021
- Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers)
- I'm at the brink of giving up my new healthy lifestyle
- The cost of bad habits and weight regain
- How was your day today?
- Gym tips for someone terrified to go to the gym?
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 10 March 2021? Start here!
- Easter / 40 Day Fitness Challenge - Week 3 Check in!
- 215lb down to 185, back up to 200 now and losing hope
- ugh help
- I’ve lost a combine total of 112kg in the last 6 years, my story.
- The Hunger..
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - The Plan for Today!
| I met my goal! 175 to 138 over the course of a year Posted: 09 Mar 2021 05:14 PM PST This past year I went from an "obese" BMI (which I'm pretty sure I didn't look, I carried those pounds like a champ) to a "normal" weight. Face gains can be seen here! For reference, I'm 5'4. I've always been an active person. I was a competitive dancer from ages 5 to 14, and a three-sport athlete as a teenager. I had always been tiny, until puberty hit. At that time my metabolism slowed, my chest grew exponentially (32HH UK sizing at its largest), and I hated how I looked. I developed an eating disorder and fought my curvy adult body type until I was in college. I got therapy, started to heal my relationship with food, and my weight steadily went up and up and up. I continued to exercise; hiking, weight lifting, skiing. I was diagnosed with some chronic health problems around that time, including a vein disease, multiple-strain chronic lyme's disease, and chronic pain due to my chest size. I stopped exercising for the most part, because it hurt. By the time I met my now wife, and finished college, I knew I needed to make changes. I just felt really unhealthy. Obviously, the change I made was to enroll in doctoral-level graduate school! My stress went through the roof, and I also developed hypertension! Second-year of my grad program, I decided to try and get my health and stress under control. My career involves helping others be mentally healthy, and I wasn't healthy myself. So I got surgery to correct my vein disease. I did physical therapy for my chronic pain, and a few months later, I had an insurance-covered breast reduction surgery. Being able to stand on my feet without pain, and with my back pain greatly reduced, I was able to start exercising again. Then COVID! I gained a good 15 pounds from drinking excess alcohol and eating excess junk food due to boredom and being stuck inside. I hit my peak of 175, and I knew a "lifestyle change" was in order. I was worried about CICO due to my history of eating disorders, and initially had my wife plan my meals for me and count for me. Eventually, I was able to take over control and eat more intuitively, as I had a good understanding of what my portions should be. I'd estimate for Sept 2020 - March 2021 I ate within the range of 1200-1600 calories a day. I also stationary bike most mornings, walk a mile or two every day and hike most weekends. I eat what I want, just small portions and in a mindful way. I haven't felt this good ever. The last time I was this thin I was in high school, and actively purging. Now I am thin and strong because I have taken care of myself. I am really proud and sad I can't really share this with most people in my life. My wife is proud of me, as is my mother. My clients haven't noticed, and neither have my friends? Unless it's just hard to tell over Zoom or they don't feel comfortable telling me. It's an odd thing to celebrate. I am so happy I can eat at maintenance now! [link] [comments] |
| obese to healthy BMI in 5 months: here is exactly how i did it Posted: 09 Mar 2021 04:13 AM PST a little back story: i want to preface this by saying that i spent ten years subscribing to fat acceptance logic, ultimately believing calorie-counting etc. was incongruous with my feminist politics. i still believe fatphobia is a thing; i grew up in a family that was pretty fatphobic, and my parents were consistently derogatory about my aunt's weight. she was morbidly obese and died of bowel cancer in her early 60s. her death was clearly related to her weight but at the time i was just sad that my dad couldn't even have a funeral for her without commenting on her size in pictures. so i know the reasons why fat acceptance logic gets lodged in your brain - it's angering that fat folks are dehumanised to the extent they are, and yes 100% i think that it's wrapped up in misogyny. anyway, i was a tall and slender child but also gender-nonconforming from a young age. idk if i would consider myself trans now but i was always non-binary as hell as a kid. puberty and adolescence was extremely traumatic as a queer in a rural village with a lot of homophobia and transphobia at school. so i was body conscious as fuck and desperate to fit in, but always remember riding the wave of my slimness and tallness to insulate me from the additional shame of having excess fat. then i discovered alcohol in my early teens and drank consistently to deal with my sadness, for a very long time. at university this habit really took flight, and wasn't helped by the fact that from my late teens throughout my 20s, i was a touring musician. i was in bars and venues almost every weekend, and often for stretches of a few weeks at a time. my eating and drinking habits went out the window, particularly because payments for gigs for many years incorporated drinks riders and buy-outs. i got used to the idea that i was just going to be 'hench' or a 'big, strong person', which also fitted with my identity as a relatively masculine-of-centre woman who is also a guitarist. i discovered exercise properly at about 27, when i decided to try and learn how to jog for my mental health. i loved it but felt like i could never advance properly because i was always recovering from drinking or eating too much. i was vegetarian from age 20 to 29 so was also riding the wave of not eating meat, in terms of my weight remaining relatively stable, despite being above healthy BMI. then i met my partner, a food-loving canadian who is just over 4 years younger than me. she introduced me to the world of north american meat: chicken wings, ribs... we enjoyed ourselves so much as we were getting to know each other but good god: because i hadn't eaten meat really as an adult, i was on meat holiday in a big way. i really went to town, and the whole time i was reading more and more fat acceptance stuff, learning from fat activists in my music scene and community, and touring more than i ever had in my life. i could sense myself expanding but was becoming gradually more alienated from my own body. at the same time, i was deepening my relationship to running, and even did a half marathon. so i was like: yeah, big people can be athletic! and eat whatever they want! woo! NOT woo. so from 28 to 31, i was doing a phd. the last year, in particular, involved pretty much sitting all day long. my eating habits and alcohol consumption were also beginning to make exercise less appealing and less possible; i would go for runs and have to break every 10 minutes. alcohol was having a cumulative effect on my mental health: i would have terrible insomnia, i couldn't regulate my temperature, i was consumed with negative thoughts about myself, i had eroding trust in other people and was convinced this was just what life became when you lived in a capitalist hellscape. obviously i figured the best way to deal with these emotions and mental illness was just to....keep drinking whisky and eating M&Ms. and this is the kind of shit i was consuming on instagram too: that i should just listen to my intuition and eat whatever i want because that is self-care. so anyway, the pandemic comes along and me and my partner - who had become my wife by this point - go HAM with the ham, effectively. we literally spent two months playing breath of the wild, getting shitfaced and ordering mcdonalds. it was, tbh, really fun. but my head and my body were suffering. and i was starting to seriously dislike the way that i looked. thing is, this wasn't a new thing: from childhood i had felt disparaging about my body for obvious reasons, and didn't look in the mirror, for example, for years. when i did look in the mirror it was just for confirmation that i still sucked. but photos of me at gigs from before covid were unavoidable and i was progressively shocked at how overweight i looked. still, these thoughts and feelings came attached to inside voices shaming and policing me for critiquing my own body, as if i was being a terrible feminist and terrible ally to my fat friends. so i just buried it and continued on my merry, buttery way. in september i got my first full-time academic job and something in me just totally flipped. i realised i literally couldn't continue drinking in the way that i had been if i wanted to do well as a lecturer. my wife and i were going through an eviction by an evil homophobic landlord that lived in the house above us and the stress of that was also pushing us more and more to shit food and the bottle. i realised i wanted more mental and physical resilience and to live my best life, if only to stick it to people like her. so i bought a scale for the first time in my life. i had not had a scale for my entire 20s, believing them to be oppressive to women and part of the auditing, measuring culture that contributes to stress and feelings of inadequacy. anyway, i got this scale and i stood on it and sure as day, i was 234 lbs. in my wildest imaginings of where my weight had gotten to, this was a distant number. i immediately took to the NHS BMI calculator and there it was: BMI of 32.7 (i'm a tall human), you're obese baby. for the first couple of days i was in denial - i googled things like 'i don't look obese but BMI says i'm obese'. in my head, obese people looked like my aunt or lizzo. at the same time, i was also still struggling against the fat acceptance narratives in my head: i'm obese, isn't this something i should celebrate or something? literally it makes no sense to me now but that is something i genuinely thought. i'm not exaggerating. so after a couple of days of denial, peppered with anger and dispair, i was just like: yeah i'm gonna have to fix this. i figured out that i needed to lose 56 pounds to get to a 'healthy' BMI. when i told my wife this was the amount of weight i had to lose she was like shiiiiiiit. but she never doubted me. so here is how i did it: how i lost 56 lbs in 5 months: Step One: i quit alcohol. forever. i stopped drinking on september 13, and my wife did too. i don't say this like it's easy for people, but it's hands-down the most important and best thing i've ever done for myself. i'm not gonna go on about the joys of being tee-total in this post (it belongs to another post probably) but there is not a shadow of doubt in my mind that cutting out alcohol was one of the key reasons i was able to lose the weight i did. i also feel literally incomparably happier than i ever have in my adult life. i still smoke weed - couple of tokes a night - so i don't consider myself sober, but alcohol poisoned my belief in myself and my body and i knew if i wanted to take my health seriously it needed to go. Step Two: i quit animal products, as did my wife. a week after i quit drinking, i decided to go vegan. at first i was still eating honey but that's gone now too. again, hate to be evangelical about this, but it made my body feel healthier than it ever has in my adult life. coupled with zero-alcohol, i started having the energy of like, my 9-year-old self. my skin youthened by about 5 years. seriously, my wife and i were like WE HAVE BENJAMIN BUTTONED OURSELVES WHAT IS HAPPENING. In the first two months of no booze and being vegan, weight melted off me. From 5 October to 29 November, I lost 19 pounds. i was exercising too, but not like crazy. nothing more intense than what i had been doing before, which was running about 3 times a week. Step Three: i started actually drinking water. didn't do that before, quite literally couldn't understand the point (so alienated from my body and its needs). anyway, i started drinking at least two litres a day and it seemed to help everything on its way. also, my pee smelled better. win! Step Four: i unplugged from the internet. i deleted facebook and eventually instagram. this was an important part of my weight loss journey because i hadn't realised how susceptible i was to group think, and how disciplining social media was about what constitutes a morally good life or decision. unplugging from social media feeds allowed me to start thinking for myself, and spending more time in nature. that said, i compensated for my lack of feeds by getting heavily into youtube. obese to beast (john glaude) *really* helped me. i got super into his videos and started to understand that, actually, as an anti-capitalist, i was doing worse for the world by supporting the overproduction of food - and the nutritional crisis of obesity that unfolds from it - than by self-flagellating for wanting a smaller body. Step Five: after the initial weight came off, i had to develop a more serious strategy. first thing i did was actually log my calories. i used my fitness pal for this and it worked well, although i never weighed my food. so a lot of it was eyeballing/guess-work. i got round this by slightly overestimating amounts so that i could insulate myself from disappointment! anyway, without my fitness pal i would never have worked out that actually olive oil isn't inherently good for you. prior to this i would happily use a cup of oil in a salad dressing. so i started switching things out and becoming a bit more inventive: i would use vinegar bases for dressings, and use tahini to thicken it up instead. Step Six: i started doing body-weight training instead of running. this was partly because i ran too much one week and gave myself a hip flexor injury. so instead, i started doing HIITs and lots of planks, bridges and the like in the park in the morning. this made my body feel strong and i think sped up my metabolism. eventually, i mixed bodyweight training and running during the week. Step Seven: i committed to a daily morning practice of food, movement and meditation. without alcohol I was able to go to sleep more easily and wake up more easily. as a result, I was able to gradually get to morning wake-ups at 6am (i had NEVER been a morning person because of alcohol and anxiety but had always dreamt of being one). i have eaten the same breakfast every morning for five months: oatmeal with agave and either half an apple or blueberries. in some ways i credit oatmeal for being my gateway drug to a healthy life. oatmeal powers me up and 45 minutes after eating it, i started going out and exercising, followed by a few minutes of meditation. this routine allowed me to start my day intentionally and with kind words to myself. Step Eight: i ate a cheat meal at least once a week. often this was a proper cheat meal, e.g. vegan fried chicken burger, giant cookie, fries, soda. i continue to do this every friday and the only thing that's changed is that, as my body gets healthier, i actually have much less desire to eat oily food. still, for me it's been important to have an evening of semi-indulgence. Step Nine: i stopped eating virtually any processed food and snacks, especially any with added sugar. i thought this would be harder than it was, but i managed it through swapping things out. i ate corn cakes and kallo spinach pesto cakes with vegan pate; i ate a lot of fruit and seeds; i would have like, only one biscuit rather than 25. Step Ten: i ate loads of fibre. this is easy to do when you're plant-based, but i also went for way more fibrous carbs. i starting making brown rice, sweet potato or quinoa my carb base, and eating it with loads of tempeh or tofu, tahini-based sauces and dressings, lots of green veggies like broccoli and spinach. tbh this is the food i love anyway, so i always felt satiated and satisfied. this diet hugely helped me exercise - i would never feel sleepy after meals (had just thought this was what happened to everyone after eating), and instead would feel energised. almost like... food can be fuel? Step Eleven: i incorporated movement into my work day. this one was hard because my job is frigging nuts right now, with teaching loads effectively doubled, if not tripled, by online delivery. i got a fitness watch which told me to stand up every hour and showed me how sedentary i was. again, hadn't realised this - really thought that running 3 times a week would somehow compensate for me sitting or lying down 90% of the time. so i started with the standing and then i did some walking at lunchtime, only a few minutes or so. i found this to be pretty boring so i got a LONGBOARD. this was a cheap board i found on ebay. i hate competitive sports and live on Plague Island so doing something solo that wasn't HIIT training or running sounded perfect. i started learning how to longboard in early February and now do that at lunchtime, when i can. i listen to miley cyrus and skate around the park feeling like the coolest 32-year-old in the world. Step Twelve: by the end of february i had started to plateau. initially this freaked me out but then i went back to treating myself like an interesting science experiment. so i dealt with plateaus through a combination of a) increasing my cardio - in particular, running and jumping more, hip-willing; and b) cutting back on oil. i had started to eat stuff like coconut oil, avocado oil, rapeseed oil - all of which are in vegan foods like pip & nut almond butter, vegan mayo and store-bought hummus. by cutting back - not necessarily eliminating entirely - and doing a bit more cardio, i was able to continue to lose weight. often this was no more than a pound a week but a pound's a pound bitch! Step Thirteen: i treated weight loss like a degree. i got curious, fascinated, data-driven; i became a scholar of my own adiposity. i made charts that eventually became a spreadsheet, tracking my loss alongside my exercise habits of the month. i mapped out my menstrual cycle and read my weight loss alongside this information (i kept retaining or putting on weight during my period which initially stumped me until i remembered that obviously bodies change then they're menstruating). i consumed HUNDREDS of youtube videos about weight loss; i also listened to podcasts from the other side of the fence, i.e. intuitive eating, health at every size, fat acceptance. i came to the conclusion that the western world - nay the world in its entirety - is in some kind of nihilistic denial that will end in an apocalyptic mukbang while pharmaceutical, food-industry, and petrochemical companies fill their pockets. i also came to the conclusion that yes, obviously the people who are pumped full of the excess sugars and fats attendant upon the over-production of food are often the poorest. i also came to the conclusion that celebrating this is FUCKED UP, and that we should all be very, very angry about it. Step Fourteen: i talked about weight loss with the people that i know care about me, i.e. my mum, dad, sister, wife, and 1-2 friends. i shared what i was trying to do and how i felt about it. this was totally out of character for me as i had been so against intentional weight loss for so long. i embraced the delicious slice of humble pie and 'i was wrong in the past' accountability that this offered me, while offering a new path to deepening my relationships with those close to me, through the vulnerability of being open about body struggles. anyway i think that's everything. the main things, at least. still hoping to cut down by another 5-10 pounds so i have more wiggle room for my weekend indulgences but other than that, yeah keep going! you'll get there, bit by bit. and as miley sings: 'Ain't about how fast I get there IT'S THE CLIMB EVERYBODY! [link] [comments] |
| Please read this if you are a healthy teenager looking to lose weight Posted: 09 Mar 2021 01:51 PM PST 14f here, I was in your position in July. I was at a healthy weight at the 50th percentile, but I wanted to lose weight because I was dissastisfied with my body. I tried to make it about loving and taking care of myself, but deep down I knew I was driven by self hatred. I started counting calories and limiting myself to 1200 calories each day. It was hard at first, but slowly I found ways to eat less and less. Before I knew it, I was eating 900, then 800. Nobody noticed until I told my mom I needed some new pants because I "hadn't been eating due to stress". Shortly after this, I spiraled into full blown severe anorexia. I ended up in the hospital in October. Now I'm in quasi-recovery, I gained 9 pounds then stopped and I'm lying to my family because I'm terrified of gaining more weight. I know if I had seen a post like this in July I would have completely ignored it, so I don't really know if I will help anyone, but please see a doctor if you are interested in losing weight before you change anything. If you are at a healthy weight already, you are probably absolutely fine the way you are. Not eating enough can really damage your brain and body, even if it's not a huge caloric deficit. If you are going to do it anyway without consulting a doctor and/or your parents, PLEASE look out for some warning signs I should have paid attention to: - Constant body checking - Wanting to eat less and less every day and feeling successful if I ate less - Being at war with myself if I ate more than I had planned - Thinking that I had do wait until I was thin to do certain things or wear certain clothes - Prioritizing weight loss over everything and obsessing about it - Constant food thoughts And if you experience ANY of these things or something else you're not sure about, please please tell someone IMMEDIATELY before there is a chance for it to get bad. You don't need to wait for it to get bad or to become an emergency to seek help, and you are far more likely to bounce back if you do talk to someone early. Please don't try to lose weight if you are healthy already: https://www.bcm.edu/cnrc-apps/bodycomp/bmiz2.html Instead, figure out what you think you will gain from losing weight. Confidence? Try to make peace with your body, get a haircut, please do not try to lose weight. Strength/fitness? Do more exercise, build muscle. Health? Please consult a doctor to find out if weight loss is actually healthy for you. Thanks for reading, I hope that this helps you. I know you might be really insecure or think losing weight will make you feel better about yourself, but please be really really careful. [link] [comments] |
| Relationships feel empty and people treat me different after weight loss Posted: 09 Mar 2021 03:59 AM PST I hope this fits here, I think it does as it's directly related to my losing weight and I think others may experience it as well, if I'm mistaken, my apologies. I lost a fair bit of weight in my recent years (80lbs or so), I'm a 20yo man. (context) I went from what other people would probably call a 3 or 4 to.. maybe a 7? Idk girls ask me out, I'm 6'3 and slightly muscular even though I hold some weight on my face. Anyways, all of my relationships, romantic and friendships (especially with women) are completely different now. Even men treat me different, I get picked for group projects, people ask me for advice, I'm just included in the rest of the world when I wasn't before... Everything feels super shallow, I went on tinder and got 20x my matches from when I first tried, and it made me feel disgusted. Its like my entire value as a person was down to my weight, or my weight stopped people from seeing anything in value from me before. I went a date with an older friend from a little after highschool and she made a comment "you're completely different, it's so good*". I haven't changed since then, I just lost weight. Its still me*. It sucks realizing that everyone who will be with you wouldn't give you the time of day before, and would return to not giving you the time of day if you gained it back. Dating feels so incredibly shallow, before I lost the weight I blamed myself for being unsuccessful, and after losing the weight I just see the worst in everyone. I was wondering if anyone else had experiences similar to mine, and how you dealt with it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2021 09:13 AM PST 28 (f) SW: 334 CW: 309 GW: 200 started: 12/22/2020 So I have always wanted to donate my body to science when I die. Since I was a little kid and I found out about body farms and cadavers. As someone who doesn't believe in god or an afterlife it seems like a great way to be useful and live on after death. Well guess what? If I were to die today I couldn't be donated to any science programs. Most medical schools have a weight limit of 250 and height limit of 6" 4'. There is a body farm in my state that does go up to 300 but unfortunately I am just above that. This seriously broke my heart. I know it must seem silly for some to care about such a thing but for me its a massive deal. I don't plan on making an early exit but If something did happen I want to know I could be used for good instead of just worm food. So now when people ask me what's my motivation for losing weight I will tell them it's so I can be donated to science lol. [link] [comments] |
| On the way to reaching a major fat loss goal at 52! Posted: 09 Mar 2021 09:47 AM PST Hi! First post here! I'm female, almost 52, 5'4" and my current weight is 166 lbs. I started at 238 lbs in March 2019 and my goal is to reach 140 lbs by the beginning of this September. I found an unwavering motivation to deal with obesity and change my lifestyle permanently after receiving a diagnosis of mild non-alcoholic fatty liver 2 years ago. I spent my pandemic isolation (I live alone) making getting healthy my main focus. I read and watched a lot on the subject, and seriously focused on what I needed to change in my life. (I was also dealing with depression and anxiety at the time I began my journey). My changes to date have been almost completely diet-related. I removed most processed food and all forms of sugar from my apartment. I cooked one-pot meals and froze them in individual portion sizes so something healthy was always available when I needed it. I made big multi-ingredient salads and kept them in the fridge to grab during the week. I switched to a diet of vegetables, whole grains, beans and legumes, fruit (mostly berries), all kinds of nuts and seeds, frozen and canned salmon, canned tuna, chicken and turkey (white meat), and sometimes extra-lean ground beef when I really wanted a hamburger! (I still haven't been able to open that tin of sardines, haha). I learned to bake whole grain bread. Anything I made was weighed for calories/portion size. I'm lactose intolerant and finally cut out dairy. I figured out which other types of foods were causing my IBS symptoms (also diagnosed in March 2019) and cut them, too. It was a process. I aimed to stay in a range of 1200-1500 calories a day and kept track of what I was eating in a food diary, especially to see where I was falling short nutrition-wise, and most of the time I needed to increase the number of veggies I ate. I didn't order anything from restaurants because I wanted to make sure I knew what I was eating. (I don't drink so I didn't need to consider that issue.) I also compiled a binder over time of healthy recipes I actually loved that I knew fit my caloric requirements. I take an Omega 3 supplement and much vitamin D3, as well as calcium if I don't drink enough non-dairy milk in a day to reach 1200 mg. Oh, I should also mention that many of the meals I cook are hot and spicy because for me it just makes eating healthy so much tastier! The other important aspect has been positive self-regard. I have been gentle with myself and included the expectation that dips in my progress would be part of the process from the outset. If I plateaued, I just told myself that things would start to move again, and focused on eating healthy. If I felt like eating more I did, and I would literally say (out loud) to myself that 'of course you can have more food!'. After a while, my sugar cravings, which were A HUGE HUGE HUGE issue for me, disappeared. Visiting family for holidays etc. was (and is) a challenge but I'm so focused on my goal that I have been able to stay on my plan. So the great news is -- I went for an ultrasound last week and my liver is now completely normal! I am soooo happy and relieved! My new goal this spring is to gradually replace most of my calorie deficit with exercise so that I can eat an amount closer to a maintenance weight. I have started a walking/eventually running program, and have a goal to add weight training and some yoga later on. I would really like to find a group I can go hiking with once group activities are allowed again! The last 2 years have been a time of major transition for me. This September, at the point at which I hope to reach my fat loss goal, I will be starting a research MA! So excited!! Although I'm 51, my lifestyle is definitely on par with that of a broke student but I love it. My depression is gone. If it returns, I'll continue to be gentle with myself. Anxiety will always be part of my life. I'm happy I found this subreddit! Thanks for reading my story. I wish you nothing but the best in reaching your own goals. It takes courage to change. [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss stalls can be so frustrating! Posted: 10 Mar 2021 01:34 AM PST Hey everyone! I need some peace of mind. I have lost 14lb since the start of December. I am 29F 5ft2 sw:203 cw:189 gw:150. I eat 1450 calories a day and have been honestly and religiously tracking this. I weigh everything and try to drink at least 3L a day. For the past three weeks my weight has not budged an inch. I have had some NSV's recently like fitting into trousers and dresses I haven't for ages so I know there is definitely progress. I have one of those scales that does loads of body measurements and I know that they aren't exactly accurate however there is some indication my body fat has decreased over those weeks. For exercise I try to get 10000 steps a day through dog walking. I just need to know I am doing the right thing and if anyone has any words of wisdom which might help get me through this stall! Also do you think it is a stall or could I be going wrong somewhere? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 9 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 05:40 PM PST Hello losers, Happy Tuesday! Twas a long one! Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: No weigh in this morning, 231.1 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): Yesterday was bad. Today is better, hovering at 1880. 3/8 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 60 minutes hoofing it in the sun. Don't worry, it'll snow by the weekend. 9/9 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): Necessary irritating errand. Letting myself feel some feelings & it succccks. Try a new recipe once a week: Roasted romanesco & sausage sammiches with grilled veggies. 2/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful for being upright. Shit my brain is a scumbag. I'm going to knock this week out of the park even if I have to drag it kicking & screaming. Your turn! [link] [comments] |
| I was so certain I'd never be this weight again. Posted: 09 Mar 2021 12:56 PM PST And I was wrong. I'm 28F, 5'1", and as of today, I weigh 187.8 pounds. I feel awful and hate the way I look. I have no energy or motivation for anything. I'm so upset with myself for letting it get this bad. In 2017, I got up to my old HW of 174 pounds. I felt awful then and decided to start counting calories again and to go for more walks. Over the next couple of years, I very slowly lost around 30 pounds and felt great. I still wanted to lose some more weight to get into a healthy BMI and feel even better about myself, but I was really happy with my progress. I successfully lost weight and kept from gaining it back for around 2.5 years and I was certain I'd never see my HW ever again. But, as I'm sure is the case with many other people here, I could not predict the toll that a pandemic would take on my mental health and motivation. I did pretty well for the first few months of the pandemic. I had gained a few pounds over Christmas and gained a few more going into the summer, but I was still exercising and trying to eat fairly normally. Around June or July, a switch flipped – perhaps that was the moment that it really sank in that the pandemic wasn't just going to go away in a few weeks. I went crazy, eating everything I'd ever craved and then some. I stopped counting calories after the numbers from my binges started to make me feel awful about myself. I stopped exercising, both out of laziness and out of fear of getting too close to other people outside. I kept telling myself I'd have one last day/weekend/week/month of binge eating and then I'd start over. I did this despite knowing that those thoughts are a trap and rarely turn out to be true. I did it all despite knowing that I'd end up where I am now, obese again and feeling worse about myself than I ever have before. So here I am now, nearly 15 pounds above my last highest weight. Not only did I see those numbers again, but I surpassed them. As the scale has crept towards 190 pounds, I've realized that 200 isn't that far out of reach. I can hold a few cans of soup while standing on the scale and easily see 200 at the end of the day (I know because I tried). I always told myself that I'd never let myself get to this point no matter what – that if I ever neared 200, the numbers would be a wake-up call that made me turn my life around. It doesn't feel as clear-cut as I thought it would, almost like I've become numb to the numbers. Maybe it's just easier to see higher numbers when it's a slow rise from one day to the next. Either way, I'm not happy and I can't continue like this. My options are to either stay on my current path and end up morbidly obese and even more miserable, or to make changes now and work on being healthier. Starting today, I'm tracking all my calories again. I'm going to ease into it – this week, I'm not going to stick to a budget so strictly, just track and notice the patterns. Next week, I'll start trying more seriously to stay under budget. It's the end of the day now, but I'm going to start going for walks again starting tomorrow. This is a big step for me – recently, I've been feeling so horrible about how I look now that I've been afraid to go out for walks in case someone sees me. But I know that's ridiculous. I know no one judges me as harshly as I judge myself and that the only way I can be active and feel better about myself again is to get back to the activity that I used to enjoy the most around a year ago. In a few weeks, I'll also start to incorporate some bodyweight workouts again. I'm going to cut out alcohol (which always makes me feel like crap anyway) and slowly start to cut down on processed foods. I'm basically going to do everything I did last time. I think I did everything pretty well before. Losing the weight slowly through small changes is what made it so sustainable, and I believe it would have been sustainable long-term had the pandemic not happened. I felt like I could have sustained my lifestyle throughout any type of hardship, but, like most people, I didn't think something like the last year would even be possible. I've had enough crisps, chocolate, pizza, McDonald's, and chips over the past year to last me a good long time. I'll still eat those foods occasionally, but I can definitely stand to stop eating them every day from here on out. Here's to the next weeks, months, and years ahead. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get some steps in before it's time to go to sleep! [link] [comments] |
| 60 day IF streak broken.... for waffles with garlic salt. Posted: 09 Mar 2021 05:02 AM PST My 8 year old caught me looking at super tasty breakfast items today that I was trying to modify to keep the tastiness and maybe cut back on the calories a smidge. I was thinking breakfast for dinner next week. She "snuck" into the kitchen and in a super secret super noisy way fixed me a surprise. It was 2 pieces of toast with garlic salt and birthday cake waffles with cool whip and extra seasoning (also garlic salt- so much garlic salt) the plate was only complete with a smattering of goldfish (also extra seasoned with garlic salt) around it to make it look like a four leaf clover for luck. 🥰 So... today isnt going ideal as far as my diet and my calories and my IF. I mean I could make adjustments to make it work later on, but I am not. My heart is as full as my belly right now. And I think it's important to learn remember balance. I loved my garlic salt waffles even if it wasnt what I expected to need this morning. So instead of the 60 day streak accountability post I was debating, I'm just gonna remember to slow down and enjoy it a bit too.
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| Posted: 09 Mar 2021 04:17 PM PST I just pushed myself to go out for a walk and while on my walk there was a kid with someone and they yelled "fatty". The person along with them told them "omg you're so rude" and as I kept walking the kids voice echoed "fat fat fattyyyy!!" You never know what people are going through. I have no one to tell this to because everytime I'm fat shamed in public my mom thinks I'm lying or I'm exaggerating the situation. Yes I am fat and I'm trying my best to become healthy. I've been eating at home and cooking my own meals alongside trying to be more active. Things like this just put me in a deep depression and discourage me from even trying. It's hard enough. I'm obese so I'm starting out with simple walking until I'm physically able to do more than that. I know people say why do you care so much what people think? It's not even caring about people it's the aspect of being called words that have a negative connotation. They just make you feel like less of a person in society. It does hurt. No matter your weight we are still human and we're trying our best. I'm trying my best. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 10th, 2021 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 10:04 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] |
| Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers) Posted: 09 Mar 2021 09:01 PM PST Share Your Numbers!!!Welcome back to another week of weigh-in Wednesday. Share your +/- change from last Wednesday to this Wednesday, and a short summary of your week. Sometimes we get lost in the day to day ups and downs and it's good to see our week over week changes. Time to celebrate losses and lift each other up during possible failures. This is not a timed event or contest, feel free to jump in any time. This post was made a staple of r/loseit by u/Kahne_Fan and our thanks goes to him for providing a service that so many find helpful. [link] [comments] |
| I'm at the brink of giving up my new healthy lifestyle Posted: 09 Mar 2021 09:18 PM PST Hey guys, I'm a 30yr old guy (172cm in height) and I'm at the brink of just giving up. For 8 weeks now I count every calorie taken, burnt and I carefully chose what I eat. I'm doing exercises every 2 days and doing my 10k steps every day. Yet I have seen some results the first 3 weeks and since then my weight loss came to a complete halt. I even gained a kilogram. I've not seen a gram drop from my weight for 5 weeks now and I just wanna give up. I eat 1500 calories a day which means that I should have a deficit of around 500-600kcal. Just wanted to write and get it off my soul, that I'm one of those persons that haven't successfully beaten their habits and gave up. [link] [comments] |
| The cost of bad habits and weight regain Posted: 10 Mar 2021 01:55 AM PST Long story short: I lost 70 lbs a few years ago, and over the last few months, regained back 20 of that. Back to being solidly "overweight". I'm a shorter female, and I'd really started getting used to being slimmer and healthier finally, so even regaining a fraction of the original weight has made a HUGE negative impact. The bad side effects that suddenly reappeared JUST after my relapse: Back pain. Knee pain. Foot pain. Acid reflux. Bladder incontinence. Flatulence (sorry, gross TMI but it's real). Facial acne, and just in general my face and skin looks puffy and terrible. Feeling weak pretty much constantly low on energy. Needing more sleep, yet feeling less refreshed. Mood swings, depression, and anxiety greatly worsened. I'd completely forgotten, or maybe didn't even notice, all the changes that changing my diet and losing weight made. Some probably just from what I eat, being a bit more active, and some of it from the extra pressure and weight on my body. It's really made me appreciate the importance of a healthier lifestyle. Contrarily enough, all of these painful effects make me feel so bad it's even gotten harder and harder to turn myself around, for some reason. But I know it's what I need to do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2021 01:15 PM PST My day was a bit stressful, as I just started school again and I didn't know what to expect, or what things will be like when I went back. Adding on to that, I was debating so much wether I should do a workout today, because I wasn't feeling it, I felt tired,stressed,nervous, anxious. Etc. And these things make me feel weak like I haven't archived anything,and that just brings me down a lot. At the end I got myself together and did the workout and im proud of myself, because I feel great now.💪🏽😁 Im now going to start reading a bit before bed to clear my mind. I'm reading 'Do this for you' By Krissy Cela, im only 20 pages in and it's very good so far, I recommend. That's me done. What about you? How did your day go? How do you feel? Have you done anything exciting? You can comment on this post to let me know how your day has been like, if you don't want to,just try to reflect on it, on all the good things and not so good things that have happened today. [link] [comments] |
| Gym tips for someone terrified to go to the gym? Posted: 09 Mar 2021 06:35 PM PST Soooo I've been doing at-home workouts for 127 days lmao. The only reason I know that is because I asked Siri haha. I'm 5'3" and went from 151 to 135 pounds, and have gotten considerably stronger. I only have 10 lb weights at my house but think I should go up to 12 lbs. I also want to gain some muscle in my back, arms, and butt that I don't think I'm really getting at home. The gym makes me nervous because of the people, the fact that idk how to create a work out routine, and idk how to use most of the machines lol. Plus I'm an 18 yo female so going to the gym by myself seems scary in general. Does anyone have any good gym tips? Anything helps! [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 10 March 2021? Start here! Posted: 09 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.
* Lose It Compendium - Frame it out! * FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions! [link] [comments] |
| Easter / 40 Day Fitness Challenge - Week 3 Check in! Posted: 10 Mar 2021 01:05 AM PST WHAT Easter fitness challenge! 40 days of trying to hit a goal of your choice! WHY Why not? But in all seriousness, 40 days is a great time frame to sprint to something you want. This can be losing X lbs, trying to be active X days, having a step challenge. It completely depends on you. But let's all do it together! I FORGOT TO TAKE PART - CAN I SIGN UP NOW? Of Course! It's never too late! Respond to this post and write stuff like:
WHAT SHOULD I POST NOW TO UPDDATE ON WEEK 1? Whatever you want! Give us an update on where you're at against your goal and how you're doing! HOW OFTEN WILL THIS BE POSTED? This will be posted every week on a Wednesday to check in. It may be more often depending on the interest, but right now, a weekly thread to check in over the next few weeks! [link] [comments] |
| 215lb down to 185, back up to 200 now and losing hope Posted: 09 Mar 2021 10:21 PM PST I can't get back on track. I've had so many false re-starts. I lost all my weight on a program called Optavia. I'm off the program now because I don't want to shell out $400/month anymore. I also don't want to have painful stomach cramps and awful gas for another month. I was able to stick to it enough to lose 30lb, and was okay with that tradeoff. But it's NOT sustainable, and my wife was legit worried & bothered my stomach issues. Transitioning from Optavia into whole foods has proven to be SUPER hard for me. When left to my own devices, I overeat and I don't count calories. I'm just busy working and eat/snack all the time to soothe my anxiety and stress. I wish I could just get back on track. The frustrating part is I know what to do but just can't get in the right mindset and STICK TO IT. I need to start meal planning and preparing for those inevitable cravings, but every night like fucking clockwork I crave sweets, popcorn, chocolate covered pretzels, ice cream, you name it. All the bullshit food that adds no value to my life. It just makes me upset and shameful. What's worked for you to get back on track? I'm losing hope. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2021 10:04 PM PST Guys, over the last 2 years I've gone from 230lbs to 165lbs (yay!!) For reference, I'm 5'8.5" female, age 25. I'm at a healthy weight and I'm healthier than I've ever been! I maintained for a year at 175 and recently went off sugar, did a healthy eating challenge and dropped to 165. The weight loss has been so slow—almost 6 months, and it's so hard for me to stay motivated when I'm eating under 2,000 calories, mostly fruits and veggies, no processed foods, lots of water, and working out an hour a day (weights and cardio!) I feel like I'm doing everything right, but I'm burning out and I still have the dreaded chubby belly even though I can lift heavy and run for 6 miles without breaking a sweat. Does anyone have tips? Things that worked for those last 10 lbs? [link] [comments] |
| I’ve lost a combine total of 112kg in the last 6 years, my story. Posted: 09 Mar 2021 08:24 AM PST Some stats before I begin: 6'2 27M, Today is my anniversary of when I first got serious with dieting and losing weight, so I thought it would be a good idea to share my journey so far and the lessons I've learnt over the last 6 years. Before I saw success though I struggled with losing weight for over 5 years, always having bursts of motivation to act or grand fantasies of impossible situations occurring that would fix my problems. Diets never lasted more than a week. In March 2015, after some challenging goals in my life turned out not so hard to accomplish, I decided to try losing weight for longer than a week. As each week passed I progressively got more involved in the process; starting using MyFitnessPal, clean eating, no soda and signed up to a gym. It was surreal and I thought I was unstoppable. In the 8 months of losing 40kg/88lbs I had been extremely strict on myself, so strict that food was not enjoyable. There was no creativity or variance, I was just on the grind waiting to reach my goal weight with weekly weigh-ins and my food logging streak keeping me in check. So inevitably it all started to fall apart. The first big hit was losing my 180 day streak on MyFitnessPal. Next I was just slowly adding back soda into my diet, not sugar free but the full stuff. After that I stumbled and started to yoyo between 106kg/233lbs and 110kg/242lbs, and slowly and surely the difference got higher and it became harder to bring myself to lose weight again. I eventually stopped weighing myself and started to slowly reintroduce all the bad food I had deprived myself of. It snowballed, slowly undoing all the good that I had done. It then reached a point where I stopped caring and I ballooned to 158kg/348lbs by August 2018. Nowhere during this point of time did I address my core issues with food and what I used it for, nor did I really know at the time what those issues were. Come one Saturday morning in August after having a 7 day streak ordering takeout I weighed myself and saw 157.9kg/348lbs and I knew I never wanted to see myself ever reach 160kg/352lbs and again picked myself up and started trying to lose weight again. Steeling myself and fought through the inner turmoil and torture of failing at something I had previously succeeded in. Parents were worried as they saw the patterns, this was just another "burst of motivation" and in a week I'd be back to old habits. But I went beyond a week, then it was a month and by Nov 2018 I was down to 144kg/317lbs However I was just repeating what failed before, I had gone back to old tactics when I lost that 14kg/31lbs. No Soda, No Takeout, No Fun. So when a small vacation happened in November 2018 where there would be takeout, soda and fun I was hit with a dilemma. I came to a decision to just enjoy myself for the couple days away and get back on task after it. However that never happened and I fell again and just like that I was on my way back to 158kg/348lbs. By mid-February 2019 I was 147kg/323lbs, doomed to be in this never ending loop till I had an epiphany; Why was I trying so hard? Why was I trying to be perfect at losing this weight? It was clearly failing. Why don't I just take it slow? March and the anniversary of starting this back in 2015 was fast approaching and I had the brilliant idea of competing with my former self but I knew I couldn't be as strict, I knew I had to take this easy. So I tried losing weight with as little stress as possible. I guesstimated calories, tried to eat within 2,000 kcal a day and never went stupid. Kept a cheat meal once a week so I could still enjoy takeout, started to weigh myself weekly and I still allowed myself to drink diet soda, keeping vices that made each day bearable. I then lost 20kg/44lbs in a comfortable 23 weeks, losing about ~0.9kg/2lbs each week. My first roadblock was week 24 where I didn't gain or lose anything, while this deterred me I knew I wasn't trying my hardest and knew what I could do for results. I double downed, started counting calories again with the LoseIt App and tried to find out what went wrong. Over the next 2 weeks weight loss resumed till I stumbled into another problem. I found I was eating too much of my budget for breakfast/lunch and didn't feel satisfied with what I had remaining for dinner. This is when I tried out intermediating fasting. I did a 16:8 split and it helped me budget out each meal and allowed me to dip my toes into meal prepping. This roughly lasted 6 weeks before I went on holidays. I was sad to break the schedule but after the vacation I felt I had learnt the lessons I needed and stopped fasting. After coming back from vacation this time and going overboard with food I expected to see a weight increase but surprisingly didn't. This gave me some ideas and got me into researching "re-feeds". The outcome was a refeed once a month where I had no calorie limited, I didn't count the calories of the day and a day where I could go stupid and try and satiate any of the cravings I had been having the past month. These refeeds aligned with board game nights with mates and made it so I could enjoy good company and good food at the same time without regret. What made me start doing these was realizing that there was no deadline to losing the weight, there was no reason why I couldn't just enjoy myself for a day. At worst it would set me back a week at most and in the grand scheme of things that's nothing. By the end of 2019 I had matched my personal best of 106.3kg and was ready to embark into uncharted territory until Christmas holidays set me back 3kg/6.6lbs….however instead of getting deterred I problem solved and saw what I could change or add....I had been squandering my gym membership, which I had been still paying for monthly since 2015...It was then, 5 days out from the new years, where I started a dumbbell full body workout routine. I increased my calories to 2,000/day and every other day I'd workout. I've done my best to work out at least 3 times a week and all I can think is I should have started earlier. Working out has been incredible. Between the post workout feeling, being able to eat more, better quality sleep, waking up being easier and just feeling better has been so surreal. Watching my arms get bigger, feeling stronger and seeing my man boobs transition from saggy tits to actual pecs has been insane. I made an incredibly smart decision by buying adjustable weight dumbbells and a bench before the pandemic hit that allowed me to explore the wonders of weight lifting. Right now I'm enjoying low weight, high rep push/pull body workouts with low rest time and doing my best to avoid leg day due to working in a job that has me on my feet for 6hrs at a time. I won't get too into what I do for exercise besides that due to how limited my knowledge is, but will list some books and resources that helped me at the end of this post. Covid finally caught up to me in mid-2020 when I went for a holiday at home during June, I was at my lowest ever of 97.6kg before this and just lost motivation and sight of my goals (mainly due to losing myself in a mmo). History was repeating itself and what unraveled my success back in 2015 was going to happen again as I ended the year at 106.6kg, this terrified me. To combat this I used the power of a new years resolution to kick myself back awake and I attempted a 30 day challenge to remain on task. This involved daily weigh-ins to keep me accountable, a new gym workout routine and being back on a 16:8 split intermediate fast. The 30 day challenge only lasted 22 days due to a holiday but it was enough to get me back on task. Currently I'm back on being relaxed about dieting. I'm not tracking my calories but generally know how much I can eat a day. Speaking of eating, I despise food prep. I hate having to think about what I have to eat, spend time acquiring the ingredients and cooking it up. The early parts of dieting was all about finding quick things to make but even that got tedious. I solved this by paying the premium and have a weekly subscription to a meals service (mymusclechef) that gives me 12 meals/week, 2 meals/day and a day off for a cheat meal, these meals cost around $10 AUD each and average around 550 calories per meal. Breakfast was solved with a 300~ calorie breakfast bar and then later replaced with oats. I still have my vices of too many Pepsi max cans a day and 1 250~300ml can of full sugar energy drink. I then augment my day with a whey protein milkshake and some packaged snacks, usually aiming for around 160~180g total protein/day. Example Day: Breakfast: 450 calories~
Lunch: 500~600 calories
Dinner: 500~600 calories
Snacks: 400~500 calories
So this is about 1850~2150 calories, maybe peaking towards 2300. With how much I exercise I could probably get away with eating more. Ideally I should be cutting out the soda and energy drinks but I keep my vices to prevent myself from going insane, I don't drink alcohol so I have room in my health budget for things that aren't good for me. In addition I have a Vitamin D, Omega3 and multivitamin supplement. What I listed here is what I found best works for me after years of experimenting and now I have a diet that I enjoy, can consistently do every day and is malleable for change. A cheat meal day usually replaces the two muscle chef meals and the rest is the same. In closing, the real challenge I faced losing weight is the mental strain and burden that one goes through when losing weight. To me, food was an avenue of escapism, when life got too hard to handle, food was there with its warm embrace to make me feel good even if temporarily. It got to the point where I even started feeling at ease after I ordered takeout. While what I've written are the things I did to help lose weight it hasn't expressed the mental battle within myself that has taken place and still takes place to this day. I've been to the darkest parts of my mind twice and managed to pull myself out of it, the second time was a damn miracle but that inner voice inside my head wouldn't shut up about wanting to keep trying, and that's what I did. I kept trying. I took 12 years of trying but I eventually found my way. Rules I've incorporated into my life.
I did a lot of research on working out and read a few self-help books. The following helped me achieve what I did:
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| Posted: 09 Mar 2021 11:09 PM PST So, I've lost a lot of weight. Close to 70 pounds since this time last year. I've had issues with yo-yo dieting in the past, I've been making sure to go slower this time and make it sustainable. Now, I'm in a healthy weight range. On the last ten pounds. Holy hell, this past month...the inability to feel satiated. It's unlike anything I've had while dieting now or in the past. I've implemented diet breaks throughout my process, however, now even that isn't helping. I'm wondering if I need to make them last longer, maybe instead of 3-5 days, 7-10? Those have been helpful mentally and getting rid of this in the past, but now, not so much. I mean, seriously. I had a couple of bad days I just...I ate good fats, fiber and protein, higher volume food, and still after 3-4k+ calories (need around 2300 to maintain) it wasn't enough. I still found myself fixating about food as if I had just ran 20 miles and hadn't eaten in two days. I drink plenty of water, with my activity level a gallon a day on average. I also have been doing IF. So, I'm lost. Is...is this life now? I can't imagine maintaining like this. Coping before wasn't great but still fairly easy eating the right things. Yeah, a twinge of hunger here and there but that is to be expected. I genuinely can't describe what it has become, other than the bane of my existence and the most annoying shit ever. Has anyone else gone through this, after getting to/close to a healthy weight range or after dieting for so long? I figure one of those is the culprit, but I don't know. If so, how did you overcome it, or at least make it manageable? Thank you! TLDR: Lost a lot of weight, working on last 10 pounds and now have excess hunger/the inability to feel satiated or full from hell. Want advice on how to ease that. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 09 Mar 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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