Weight loss: Overcoming Fast Food Addiction |
- Overcoming Fast Food Addiction
- Does anyone else struggle with all or nothing thinking when it comes to healthy choices and losing weight?
- Sometimes my weight loss journey feels like an out of body experience?
- LostIt- 312-180 over a year. M18, 6’3, lost it for unhealthy reasons, but turned it into something good.
- Controlling eating when eating out with a friend
- NSV: Fitting on the Harry Potter rides at Universal. M39 6’4” SW: 335 CW: 237 (5 months) GW: 199
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 27 March 2021? Start here!
- I gained weight but i'm proud
- I’m officially the worst at guesstimating
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 27th, 2021
- The weight just never comes off fast enough
- Sweets and fast food addiction make it hard for me to lose weight
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26
- All it takes to lose it is a little ‘umph’
- Tips on increasing my TDEE?
- I literally can’t do it. I’m doomed to be fat.
- Too embarrassed to exercise in front of others
- is there hope?
- i lost 35 pounds during quarantine...now i’m 50 pounds heavier. how do i start over?
- Dreaming of slim legs
- My situation
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 27 March 2021: Today, I conquered!
- Medication hid a month of weight loss
- My day one, once again
| Overcoming Fast Food Addiction Posted: 26 Mar 2021 02:50 PM PDT Hey guys! I don't post here often. A little about my background, I've been addicted to fast food like Taco Bell and Whataburger for about 6 years now. I had food problems before then but this was the most substantial. This addiction has caused me to rack up about $10,000 in credit card debt. I wish I was kidding. And also I've gained about 100 lbs. I'm so beyond over this lifestyle. Anyway, my NSV for today was that I got paid and I didn't get fast food! Like my normal rationale is that I got paid so I should treat myself, which turns into treating myself like every day. I did spend money but it was on things that I actually needed around the house and HEALTHY food. For the first time, I feel like I can actually do this! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:59 PM PDT I'm a perfectionist. It's really bad. What I do is either perfect or it's trash, and oftentimes the path to a healthier lifestyle is not that black and white. It's not black and white at all actually, but you know what I'm getting it. I'll start eating healthy and working out, counting my calories, and then I have a bad meal or a bad day and I just fall off the wagon completely because "I ruined the whole thing" and I have to start over but get it right this time. I know, I KNOW, that this is super distorted thinking, but I can't seem to get past this at all. This mindset is affecting all areas of my life, and I am seeing a counselor for it because I'm honestly making myself miserable. I can't even be happy with my As at school because I could have done even better. How? I don't know, but nothing is ever good enough. But I'll get to the point, have any of you struggled with this as well? Do you have any tips on what helped? I'm so tired of constantly "failing" because of my insane and impossible to reach standards on what losing weight should be like. Like I said, I'm working on this with a counselor (although we're mostly focusing on how it affects other areas of my life right now, I'm falling apart due to school and work stress that I'm causing for myself), but hearing how you might have tackled this particular issue could be really helpful! Maybe you journaled? Tracked your progress in ways that aren't so black and white (like the number on the scale going down)? [link] [comments] |
| Sometimes my weight loss journey feels like an out of body experience? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:19 PM PDT F23, 5'4, SW: around 215, CW:139 Over the past 4 years, I made slow and incremental changes around food and exercise that in turn, created lasting results. I was once a newbie who had never touched a barbell and now I do Olympic lifts like it's the back of my hand. I was probably eating 4000+ calories at my highest weight and now I hover around 1700-2000. I started at a women's size 14 and now wear a women's size 4-6. I was once ignored by the opposite sex at my largest and now I receive messages frequently from men. My family no longer comments on my food intake. I can finally look at candid photos of myself without having a mental breakdown. I used to not be able to see my toes - now I can see my abs. This is all... fine and dandy. It's just me and my story. But those are two separate lives that I just wrote out. And I lived them! Unfortunately, in my experience, living in a thin body now affords me certain things that living in a fat body didn't. And damn if it isn't weird. It's like I was never the person I was before, but I still carry the baggage. The self consciousness. And I've almost become disgusted at my former self. Like she's someone different! I have no clue how to put this in words, it all just feels like an out of body experience. Like I watched someone else do all of these things... Has anyone else ever experienced this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:12 PM PDT March 2020- 312 July 2020- 294 September 2020-235 December 2020- 180 March 2021- 205 Hey everyone, let me say this post might be formatted wrong, and it might not be correct for this subreddit but I wanted to share. I'm not proud of myself for the reasons I lost it, but I'm proud of being content with my body. So I was at my heaviest in March/April of 2020, with minimal exercise, and a diet of fast food 4 times a day. I had been over 270 pounds since 7th grade, and it had never changed. I was always extremely unhappy in my body, and contemplated self harm over it, but I never made an effort to fix it. Between July and October I was working at a fast food joint, and I got so sick every day working there, I couldn't eat dinner most days. I also couldn't eat anything as heavy for breakfast or lunch. I mostly ate 2 eggs and turkey sausage, or 9 ounces of grilled chicken for every meal. I was also on my feet for 35 hours a week, and doing physically stressing work I hadn't done before. Just normal fast food duties- carrying 100lb bags of potatoes, moving tables, lifting and pushing. Just with these two things alone I lost nearly 60 pounds, but then it got bad. My depression got to an all time low after being cheated on and body shamed for two months. My dads health issues were getting worse I was stressed at a different job, working 50 hour weeks at 17. This culminated with weighing about 180 in December, and losing nearly all my muscle mass. In January my father was put on hospice care and eventually passed away. Between the overeating and stress eating, with little physical activity, I gained about 10 pounds back. After that happened I decided to make a conscious effort to lose weight healthily but build muscle mass. For the past ~2 months or so, I've been on a traditional Paleo diet, about 2900 calories, and a vigorous exercise routine. About 1 hour of walking/jogging/running, 30 minutes of weight training, 30 of various aerobics, and 30 of yoga. [link] [comments] |
| Controlling eating when eating out with a friend Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:26 PM PDT Helloooo! Just saw a great post about to-go boxes/takeout at restaurants and I wanted to post this because where I live a lot of restaurants won't give you them. Yesterday my friend suddenly asked me to dinner in the afternoon. Now normally I like planning my outings at least the night before so I can plan my meals, but yesterday I had eaten breakfast (a decent one anticipating a smaller dinner too). I did want to see her so I didn't reject her request. I also like to eat my most decadent food outside because...what's the point if going out if it's not going to be good. We went to an All You Can Eat pork place which was good for me because I don't like pork all that much. It took about 40 minutes of walking which was also good because I actually originally wasn't planning on working out, and it would also mean at least another 40 minutes to walk back! I used to feel guilty about ordering food with other people to share and not eating an equal amount, because I would hate when my skinny friends would ~portion control and leave me to eat the rest of the food. But recently with my diet I've learned a couple of things:
I input everything on MFP at the end of the night and while I still went over my daily calorie goal (1000-1200), I was under my TDEE which is ~2000. I was actually around 1700 not factoring in all the exercise. As soon as I decided to go out I managed my expectations and knew I wouldn't meet my goal, but I'm proud of myself for doing "damage control" to the extent I did while still enjoying my time with her. [link] [comments] |
| NSV: Fitting on the Harry Potter rides at Universal. M39 6’4” SW: 335 CW: 237 (5 months) GW: 199 Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:14 AM PDT Been north of 300 for over 10 years. Went to universal studios and Disney a couple years ago and couldn't fit on some rides including the Harry Potter ones. I was so looking forward to it (I know I'm a nearly 40 year old man with a family that still gets excited about that kind of thing), but ended up doing the walk of shame on that ride and others after not fitting. Down nearly 100 lbs now, I was able to fit on everything during our recent return trip! How I did it: tried to keep my calories to 1200 to 1500 a day. Reduced my carb intake and no added sugar. Plenty of lean meats and tons of non starchy veggies. I'm a volume eater so a variety of low cal veggies In the air fryer are my go to. Quasi lazy Keto. Had high blood pressure that is now in check, so had to drastically reduce my sodium intake. That left me not eating some of the staples of Keto like bacon, jerky, salted butter, pork rinds, etc. Still plenty of healthy food options if you make the right swaps. I rarely eat the same foods more thank twice in a week. Thanks for those that read this far. First Reddit post, but lurker for a while. Finally happy with my progress. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 27 March 2021? Start here! Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:31 PM PDT Today is your Day 1? Welcome to r/Loseit! So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started. Why you're overweight Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently. Before You Start The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week. Tracking Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it. Creating Your Deficit How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian. The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it. Exercise Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight. It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel *awesome* and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes. Crawl, Walk, Run It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments. Acceptance You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better. Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better. Additional resources Now you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
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| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:57 AM PDT Female, 20, 196lb, 5 foot 9 in I have been obsessed with losing weight so I decided to try and do exercise that didn't involve the "I gotta lose It" mindset. I started a Chole Ting workout challenge and I measured myself before doing so. I didn't think a 21-day challenge would do anything (especially since I didn't change my diet). I was about 18 days in when I measured myself! I lost a whole Centimeter on ALL parts of my body and 2 Centimeters on my muffin top! I have gained 2 pounds (most of it is probably water weight). I haven't been more happy with progress before. I have a goal not not be a certain weight but just be able to fit into a medium with some wiggle room. Little victories are worth celebrating, pat yourself on the back and keep trying guys! [link] [comments] |
| I’m officially the worst at guesstimating Posted: 26 Mar 2021 04:37 PM PDT So one of my pandemic hobbies has been baking sourdough-and I will NEVER give up my fresh garlic and rosemary sourdough toast and eggs for breakfast This past week I made a bigger loaf than usual since I had run out of bread flour for the standard two. Of course, my brain neglected this and I cut slices about the same size I had previously. I didn't lose any at all this week, so I decided to weigh my slice from this morning (which was smaller than I had been eating all week) and it equates to about 250 calories 🤦♀️ I'd been logging it in at about 150 less for even smaller slices each morning. I know it's not just the morning sourdough to blame, but I think my guesstimates for the past week have just been off. Reading from all of you to weigh food during a 'plateau' and do that detective work has been amazing-so here's another reminder to anyone else reading to do the same! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 27th, 2021 Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:43 AM PDT 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] |
| The weight just never comes off fast enough Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:57 AM PDT I'm FINALLY losing weight again after 2 years of trying to stick with a diet, failing, binging, and starting over. Unfortunately, over those last 2 years I've reached my highest weight yet - 187lbs Ive been losing about .2lbs a day and even though it is super satisfying to see my progress every morning, I just want this weight off of me!!!! Just get it off!!! Even though I'm losing, I still get stressed thinking about how it's going to take me so long to lose even 20lbs, and even more for my ultimate goal of losing 60lbs. Its like I have a heavy pelt that I can't take off and its smothering me. Its going to take me about a month to lose 6-7lbs and I just can't take it. I want to feel like myself again. [link] [comments] |
| Sweets and fast food addiction make it hard for me to lose weight Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:55 PM PDT I try to include some of these foods in my daily calorie limit but always tend to overindulge. I had three supreme tacos from Taco Bell for lunch, a peanut buster parfait and a chili dog from Dairy Queen , and then a few hours ago I ate 4 fun size Kit Kat's and 8 fun size butterfingers. I promised myself last night that I was going to stop eating sweets but failed at doing that. Also yesterday I had a large fry, a double cheeseburger and a six piece nugget from Macdonald's . I went over my calorie limit yesterday by 1,000 calories. It also doesn't help that I have been stress eating because I'm worried about my finances and have extreme hatred of my job (a job I am in danger of losing) . [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26 Posted: 26 Mar 2021 06:19 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Friday! I hope y'all had a lovely week. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: Ungh, not fabulous today, I don't even want to look at my Libra but it's logged, 231.1 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range: Maintenance. I'ma be real kids, this is survival mode. I'm counting my calories & not super jazzed about them, but I am still here & striving with y'all. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk. 19/26 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): Read all the books. Try a new recipe once a week: Roasted fennel, home made granola, sautéed swiss chard, sautéed zucchini & summer squash, corned beef, roasted romanesco & sausage sammiches with grilled veggies. 7/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful for being upright. And the weekend ahead. Ahoy ahoy weekend away! Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| All it takes to lose it is a little ‘umph’ Posted: 26 Mar 2021 01:12 PM PDT I've been doing Noom this week and the best advice I have received so far is that to lose weight you don't need everything to be perfect. You just need to give it a little 'umph'. Whether that is swapping your second coffee of the day for a glass of water, or working out for 5 more minutes. Instead of stressing myself out about doing the whole hour long workout, or perfectly meeting my calorie budget for the day, I just need to give it a little 'umph' when I can and slowly work up to those goals. I have made so many changes already and I keep finding new simple ways to cut back, like removing the sugar from my coffee or pushing myself to do 1 more quick set. Everything counts! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:12 PM PDT (F/24/5'3") SW:171lbs/CW:124/GW:115? Like the title says, I just wanted to see if anyone had some tips or advice on things I can do to increase my energy expenditure throughout the day. I've been working from home since last March and for the most part I live a pretty sedentary life, working on my computer all day. I've made some large lifestyle changes since then, incorporating CICO and regular exercise into my everyday habits, and have lost 47 pounds since last June (yay!) For the last month, I've been hovering around 124-126 pounds. I've been through plateaus before and usually by the time I noticed I was in one (2-3 weeks), I'd go back to losing again just by continuing my routines. I realize it might be an instance of waiting it out again, but I read that just doing a workout most days won't be enough in the long run to counteract otherwise sitting around the rest of the day i.e. me. FYI I do go on about 20-30 minute walks each day and follow a YouTube workout 4-6 days a week. Maybe I'm just overthinking this lol, but office workers or people who work from home, what do you guys do? [link] [comments] |
| I literally can’t do it. I’m doomed to be fat. Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:00 PM PDT As the title says. I just can't fucking do it. I'm 23, 6'4" 250lbs. I'm fat as hell. I have a massive gut, love handles, and man boobs. All the people I know my age are in good shape or ripped. And then I'm just a fat POS. I've tried losing weight in the past. I lost 50 lbs in 2020. And then this year I've just skyrocketed. I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't commit. I'll have one or two good days under my calorie goal, and then I'll just binge and eat 4000 calories of junk. I feel like shit too. I'm out of breath all the time, my stomach constantly hurts from sucking in, and my confidence in non fucking existent. I just can't do it. I'm always going to be fat. I don't know what else to do. I've meal prepped, I've stopped buying junk food. And no matter what I always end up bingeing again and eating so much food that I make myself feel sick. [link] [comments] |
| Too embarrassed to exercise in front of others Posted: 26 Mar 2021 02:40 PM PDT Hey guys! I'm a 5 foot 5 inch, 28 year old woman. My highest weight was 264.4 pounds and through calorie counting and light exercise, I was able to reach 157 pounds within one year in 2019. However during 2020, the pandemic and stress eating helped me gain back a solid 25 pounds. Now I want to start losing weight again, and specifically want to feel confident enough to exercise outdoors in front of others (I don't feel comfortable going back to the gym yet). I want to try jogging again, but I simply can't handle other people looking at me or noticing me. It seriously triggers my severe anxiety. Am I the only person in the world who feels embarrassed to exercise in front of others?? I would truly appreciate any tips on how to feel comfortable exercising in front of others when you feel ashamed of your body. Thank you all in advance and you are all wonderful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:36 AM PDT hi. im 5'8, 21 years old, and i weighed in at 365 pounds this evening. after seeing those numbers stare back at me i had a huge panic attack. all i can think of is the damage ive done to my body and whether it is even worth it to try and fix it. i have suffered with weight my entire life. i was diagnosed with pcos back in 2019 but without adequate resources, mental energy, or just willpower tbh i havent been able to manage it. ive been to the doctors and while i am healthy (trust me im a hypochondriac ive had every noninvasive test done), i am terrified that there is no hope for me anymore my entire body aches. im mentally exhausted. im suffering in every aspect of my life. i dont have the energy to toggle everything im going through. my mental illness makes getting out of bed painful, much less anything else. i am in therapy however that is very slow going. i have no money to buy my own food and thus have to eat the junk my family eats. we are impoverished and all so worn down and exhausted from working and battling our own mental issues. i try so hard to implement little sustainable changes and for a month or two ill do amazing, lose 20 pounds, and then gain back 30. i really dont know what to do with myself. ive tried everything. i mean everything. i have been working on having a better relationship with food and making things more sustainable, but after so many trials and errors i honestly just dont know if i ever will be able to live a healthy life. i know this seems really negative but i dont know what to do. im sure there will be people who comment "well you have to want it!" please dont. i do want it, i truly do. i just dont know what i can do anymore. i feel helpless. i feel resourceless. i feel out of options. i dont know what will light a fire under me to be better. its all i think about all the time. i just want to be healthy but existing is exhausting. [link] [comments] |
| i lost 35 pounds during quarantine...now i’m 50 pounds heavier. how do i start over? Posted: 26 Mar 2021 01:42 PM PDT i hope this doesn't break any rules but i wanted to share my story and why i'm starting over in a healthier way which includes CICO. for some context: i'm a woman, 5'9", started at 205 pounds and dropped to 170 and now i'm 220. buckle up y'all this might be a long post...so when quarantine started march of last year i thought that would be the perfect time to start losing weight. i wanted to be skinny by the time my best friends wedding came around in june. i buckled down and jumped right into eating 1200 cals a day (sometimes less) and worked out daily for at least 30-45 min. i started seeing results quickly so i kept going. i lost 35 pounds in 3 months. but i felt terrible. i was still insecure af, didn't think i was skinny enough, and barely had any energy to do anything. i got sucked into the 1200 is plenty trap and once i came back from the wedding i couldn't sustain it anymore. i was honestly starving. i slowly started giving in to my cravings and eating "bad" foods again. i rarely work out anymore and slowly regained the weight plus more...i feel so guilty. i'm just scared to fall back into that obsessive mindset again. which brings me to now. i don't follow those low cal subreddits anymore cuz they're just too much. i know CICO is the foundation of weight loss but starving yourself obviously isn't necessary neither is working out all day. how can i incorporate CICO without falling back into the unhealthy mindset that constant calorie counting, weighing every single thing, and limiting foods can bring? i want to lose weight and get fit but in a healthy way this time. any tips are appreciated. i know this was kind of all over the place. TLDR: how can i use CICO to lose weight after already losing weight on a low calorie diet once and gaining it all back because i felt restricted and had an unhealthy obsessive mindset about losing weight? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:40 PM PDT I'm totally jealous of those girls who can wear cute skirts and dresses because they've got nice legs. My entire life, I've never had nice legs. I know that you need to loose weight all over your body to be able to slim down your legs, but it seems that no matter how hard I try, my legs always look stumpy. I also have large round calves which look terrible in skinny jeans let alone being shown in shorts. I don't even necessarily want my legs to be slim, I just want them to be not too 'curvy' around the calf area. Can anyone relate? I'm just over 5ft 2, and I currently weigh 65kg (starting 70kg). I've been on a weight loss journey for about 3 months now. I have come a long way and I am starting to see results all around my body however the worst/most stubborn part of my body is my legs. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:04 PM PDT Up until I started college I was a super lanky skinny kid. My friends would call me "twig" in elementary school but even as I grew up throughout high school I always thought I had a chubby stomach (looking back I obviously did not at all I really was built like a stick). Now, after my first year of living away at college I've gained about 10/15 pounds and I've never been so down about my body. I'm 5'7 and 135 pounds but I carry it all in my stomach and arms. It's really starting bothering me, whenever I put a bathing suit on and look at myself I just start to cry. I was fairly athletic growing up so started going on runs and trying to eat better but the diet part is so hard. I have 0 self control when it comes to eating cleaner. I'm not even restricting myself which is the frustrating part. I'm down to eat a slice of cake but why do I have to go back for like 3 more. I feel hopeless, especially because none of my friends have gained weight this year at all. Literally any advice or help is appreciated [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 27 March 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:01 PM PDT 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] |
| Medication hid a month of weight loss Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:18 AM PDT Last month I injured my back and I needed to go on prescription pain medication. Before taking the medication, I noticed that one listed weight gain as a potential side effect. In hindsight, I am so glad I read through all the potential side effects. Once I started taking the medication, I gained about 1.5 pounds and basically stayed there the rest of the month. In fact, one of my apps congratulated me on maintaining. Ugh. While taking the medication, I was still logging food, maintaining a caloric deficit, and exercising (albeit less heavy exercise because of my injury). Based on those numbers, I was still on track to lose about 1.5 a week. However, the number did not budge. After two weeks, I started to become frustrated and then that turned into self-doubt. Maybe I was eating too much, maybe I was eating too little, maybe my kitchen scale was inaccurate, etc. etc. My husband sweetly reminded me multiple times that it was probably the medication. Luckily I started feeling much better earlier this week. So, I stopped taking the prescription. Lo and behold, I "magically" lost a little over 6 pounds in 4 days. I lost all the weight I was supposed to lose this month. (I also had an NSV — fitting into a size 8 pant for the first time since my twenties this morning!) So, if you are taking medication, it can hide your weight loss. Take it from me, maintain your deficit and you may experience the "woosh" after you stop taking the medication. While in the middle of my self-doubt, I searched the sub to see if there were any stories and did not find any. I could be terrible at searching, but, just in case, I wanted to post this (my first post here despite years on this sub) for someone who may be experiencing this and needs to hear this story. Thanks r/loseit — you are all the best. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:29 AM PDT In 2016 for the first time in my life, I committed to a weight loss journey and saw real progress. I lost 28lbs and was delighted (but didn't really feel like my body changed, I regret that now looking at photos from then). I started running, I started swimming, I completed a triathlon, I threw out all my larger clothes and bought a smaller wardrobe, confident I would achieve my goals. In 2017, I had a tough year with a job that affected my mental health really badly. I gained it all back and an extra 14lbs to boot which I lost 3-5lbs of every few weeks and gained back repeatedly. I wouldn't buy new clothes, I felt tired and fat all the time. In 2020, I decided enough was enough. I committed to a Dietbet, I lost 22lbs through diet and cycling, and felt I was finally on my way, achieving this despite a pandemic. I then had multiple family deaths and a full mental breakdown. Anti-depressants, therapy, focusing on my mental health not just my physical. Now we're here. I've gained back 8 of those 22lbs through careless eating, much less exercise and trying to launch a business which feels like it's taking up all of my spare time, as I'm also still working full-time until early April. I can feel unless I do something it's a slow ride to gaining it all back. I've taken back control of my mental health (or I'm trying), I've kicked the draining job to the curb to pursue independence with my own business. Now I want to make a life change that I've dreamed of since I was a slightly chubby kid. This is my day one and I'm determined to make it my last. I'm so happy to be here with you all on this journey. [link] [comments] |
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