Weight loss: [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 1 - SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED!!! |
- [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 1 - SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED!!!
- 115 lbs down - under 200 lbs for the first time in my adult life
- I had no idea how much cleaning and organizing my kitchen would change things
- I've almost hit my goal weight
- Lost over 100 pounds in 2018-2019, and gained 50 back over Quarantine. Today I’m starting again.
- 8 months difference
- A Healthy BMI and Back Pain is Gone!
- Started dieting, lost my appetite after about 2 weeks, into week 3 and I'm disgusted by the smell/taste/texture of all food. Is this a thing?
- At what point did you know that you had to lose weight?
- One year in, I am morbidly obese!
- I’m Becoming Skinny Fat. Help.
- I am feeling demotivated at the gym
- Turns out my best motivator isn't self-esteem issues or cute dresses, it's these fucking cramps
- Terrified, Overweight Bride-to-Be
- How Can I Forgive And Move On?
- 12 lbs down and feeling hopeful for the first time
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: April 17th, 2021
- Confessions of a yo-yo dieter.
- Just need to yell into the void....I’m so fed up with myself for continuing to fall short of my goals.
- Out of the 180s! Mama win!
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 17 April 2021? Start here!
- 10 pounds down. I feel more like myself.
- 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 17 April 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 16
| [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 1 - SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED!!! Posted: 16 Apr 2021 08:47 AM PDT Hey Everybody. Welcome to the Spring 2021 Loseit Challenge: 90s Cartoons!Are you ready for the most RADICAL AND EXTREME challenge yet! Bust out your Fruit Gushers, strap on those moon boots, and prepare to get slimed! It's the 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge! What are Loseit Challenges?This challenge is a team-based "competition" that will last for 6 weeks. During the challenge you will be assigned to one of 6 teams, set a weight-loss goal for the challenge, and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. Each week, in addition to their weight, challenge members can choose to log their steps and activity minutes. Teams will compete in friendly head to head battles weekly for step totals and activity minute totals. This is optional, but encouraged! Every Friday there will be a new post in r/loseit and r/LoseitChallenges with links and instructions for each week's weight in and activities. Your team captains will also share all the information you need on your team's Discord server. This round your hosts are u/hxcjosh23 and u/unrepentant_thinner This week's Itinerary:This week begins the inter-team head to head challenges. Each week, teams will face off in a friendly 1v1 competition for bragging rights in our activity challenges. Compete for your team by logging your steps and activity (step 2 below). Get stepping! Week 1 head to head schedule - Steps battle!:Spongebob vs Powerpuff Girls Animaniacs vs Sailor Moon Recess vs Magic School Bus Good Luck! Step 1 - Weigh in for week 1Step 2 - Log your steps and activitySubmit activity and/or step count here You can submit one day at a time, or the whole week at once. If you're submitting daily, no need to include previous days information. Your most recent entry for each day will be counted. ***Your and your family's health come first. Adapt your activity to the current guidelines in your communities.**\* All steps count. Intentional minutes count. We define activity minutes as "intentional additional activity to meet your health goals". This may include things like weight lifting, running, yoga, walking to work instead of driving, following youtube workout, etc. Things done for the purpose of reaching your goals that are not already a part of your normal day. TimelineEach week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 12:00 EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.
April 16 - Week 1, Head to Head battles begin, Signups are closed April 23 - Week 2 April 30 - Week 3 May 7 - Week 4 May 14 - Week 5 May 21 - Week 6 - Last Head to Head Battle May 28 - End of Challenge/Results If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/LoseitChallenges sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go. Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We're volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren't specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar on r/loseit. [link] [comments] |
| 115 lbs down - under 200 lbs for the first time in my adult life Posted: 16 Apr 2021 07:04 AM PDT Under 200 lbs for the first time in my adult life! https://imgur.com/gallery/rND2sXW tldr: lost 115 lbs by quitting sugar, counting calories and walking. Small sustainable changes over a long period of time. 34F 5'7" HW 314 lbs, CW 199 lbs, GW 145 lbs This is a milestone three years in the making. Sometimes it's hard to be patient as I slowly lose weight, but I can't believe my weight starts with a one! I haven't been this light since high school. I want to thank this sub, the Century Club, r/foodaddiction and r/xxfitness for commiserating, motivating and inspiring me. How I did it: Three years ago I took a blood test and found my vitamin D was very low. I started taking supplements and found I was less lethargic. I used that energy to start walking around my neighbourhood. Short walks naturally turned into 60 then 90 minute walks as the months went by. Then I joined a gym and got into the habit of going to yoga or pilates every Saturday and Sunday. Over the course of 2019 I had made exercise part of my everyday routine, but lost only 20 lbs because my binge eating disorder and sugar addiction were wildly out of control. I knew that I would never have a healthy body if I didn't fix my head first. I was abusing food as a drug to numb myself from life. I decided to stop using food as my only source of happiness, jump headfirst into misery and use it as motivation to make big changes in my life. I ended several toxic relationships and used the energy I was wasting on improving myself instead. In January 2020 I quit sugar, it was the best decision I have ever made and I highly recommend it. The first three weeks were pure hell, but I was stubborn enough to white knuckle through and eventually the cravings got less and less until they finally stopped months later. I am grateful to r/foodaddiction and the Brain Over Binge podcast for educating and motivating me to get my addiction under control. In the first seven months of 2020 I lost 80 lbs by tracking calories and walking 10+km per day. Following my doctor's advice, I maintained for the remainder of the year. I kept up daily walks and my new food habits, but stopped tracking calories. It was the first time in my life weight loss wasn't immediately followed by regain. Being able to maintain my weight for five months was a huge accomplishment. At the beginning of 2021 I decided to start losing again. I started tracking calories on weekdays to make sure I was in a caloric deficit. I still walk every day but began doing body weight exercises too. I use the free apps from Leap Fitness Group for planks and female fitness. I started following r/xxfitness and those ladies are super inspiring! In summary, I attribute my success to keeping a long term view. Small changes over a long period of time really work. It takes too much effort to force yourself into doing things you aren't used to or don't want to do. The key is to change your default every day habits. I can indulge one day and know it doesn't matter in the long term because tomorrow I'll still be eating high protein, high fibre, well portioned meals and enjoying exercising. [link] [comments] |
| I had no idea how much cleaning and organizing my kitchen would change things Posted: 16 Apr 2021 06:22 PM PDT 23F/ SW: 240 / CW: 230 So I know that when an environment is clean and organized and welcoming, it's easier to be there. It's easier to work. But I had no idea how cleaning up my kitchen would influence my eating habits. My husband and I recently decided to clean up and organize our kitchen since we were "adults" who recently graduated college and got a little extra cash from stimulus/tax returns. We did some research and went and got containers and baskets and organizers (mostly from dollar tree and Walmart lol). We labeled everything even to the shelves on the fridge so we know which shelf to put things on. We got extra Tupperware and even some matching his/her bento boxes. Y'all. It has changed my life. Instead of having all our food mixed matched and hard to find, it's all neat and organized. I feel so fancy taking food out of clear containers. It makes it easier to measure/weigh for some reason. Probably because I have to weight it instead of just scanning a label and guesstimating. I love cooking now. I know where every spice and utensil is. I put oils in little squirt chef bottles and I love it. We do the dishes every night because the pantry looks good, why shouldn't the counters and sink? I don't know if anyone else had the same feeling, but for some reason having a clean and organized kitchen and a proper food system has helped tremendously. It inspires me to measure, cook, and keep it clean. It's so much easier for me to open a container, measure out a portion, put it back and then only eat that portion. Before I would just grab the whole package and eat it straight from there. We put the healthy snacks at eye level so they're easier to see and grab. Everything is organized into little baskets so I can pull it out, use it, and put it in instead of constantly checking behind packages and bags and oh hey there's some apple cider packets we bought 7 months ago that we thought we lost and turns out they've been hiding behind the seven cans of soup we got and hadn't eaten yet. Not going to lie, it's life changing. I don't know how I survived in an unorganized kitchen before. How did I live without a breakfast basket and shelf where I can just grab and go? Has cleaning/organizing the kitchen helped anyone in their journey or is a clean kitchen just the right of passage to adulthood that I missed lol. [link] [comments] |
| I've almost hit my goal weight Posted: 16 Apr 2021 07:33 PM PDT Been struggling with my weight my whole life. Since high school I've always been over 200lbs. My highest at the beginning of the year was 250lbs. I've completely changed my diet around, eating much healthier and have been in a calorie deficit. I've been working out when I get home. Whenever I go to visit my mom is when I check my weight on the scale. I'm now down to 205lbs. I haven't seen that low of a number in 5+ years. I'm very happy mentally and now getting physically more fit. Probably one of the most incredible, and euphoric feeling. My advice if anyone is looking here to lose weight. Start small. Whether it's walking more than what you do now, or changing your diet to healthier options, and most importantly: HYDRATE and SELF-CONTROL. [link] [comments] |
| Lost over 100 pounds in 2018-2019, and gained 50 back over Quarantine. Today I’m starting again. Posted: 16 Apr 2021 08:47 PM PDT Enough is enough. I'm 260 pounds right now. My highest was 300 and the lowest I ever got was 205-210. And today I accurately counted my calories for the first time since early 2020, and realized I've been eating 1000 calories over what I should be. No wonder I gained that 50 pounds back. Over the months I'd get on the scale just to helplessly see it rising once again and feel so ashamed. I lost all this weight, and here I am again? Why can't I make the changes? It sent me into a depression and didn't let up for months, with no change in sight. A lot of my family know that I'd lost weight before and every time I get asked what I weigh now, I've just felt so ashamed and give the old "I haven't checked in awhile" excuse. Or even be honest and say "I think gained 15 pounds", when I knew it was actually closer to 50. I've had enough with feeling ashamed and helpless in my eating. Uncomfortable in my own skin. I want to feel proud of myself again. I want to feel happier! Thanks for listening Reddit, I really had to get this out of my head and hold myself accountable you know? Today it starts. Back on that counting train! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2021 02:07 PM PDT In the far left hand picture I was 165+. I cut weight until I was around 136ish in January then I have been on a slight bulk since then.
I hope my experience motivates someone; these kind of "before" and "after" posts always kept me going. I wish you all the best on your journeys! [link] [comments] |
| A Healthy BMI and Back Pain is Gone! Posted: 16 Apr 2021 07:50 PM PDT 26F 5'8" SW: 180 CW: 163 GW: 150?? Hi all! I've been lurking on this subreddit for a few months. Thank you all for sharing your stories! Here is mine. This week I finally reached a healthy BMI for the first time since I became an adult. My weight has mostly rested around 180 since I graduated high school. I started to get really bad back pain around 2-3 years ago, and I tried everything to fix it. I tried buying different mattresses, using heating pads, massage, going on walks, even physical therapy. I just couldn't make the pain go away. I didn't want to live with this pain for the rest of my life. This past January, I decided to try losing some weight to see if that would help. It felt like the only thing I hadn't tried yet. My first step was to cut out soda and sugary drinks (I used to drink a Coke a day). Every time I got a craving for soda or juice, I drank green tea or sparkling water instead (I no longer drink any calories and carry a 44 oz water bottle everywhere I go)! A few weeks in, I discovered this subreddit and it helped me understand CICO. I got MyFitnessPal and started tracking calories. Tracking calories helped me realize that I had a bad habit of 1) snacking when I was bored and 2) eating until I was stuffed instead of full. Over the past few months, I've relearned what my portion sizes for each meal should be and to not eat unless I'm actually hungry. I've also been doing a lot of dance fitness at home! My favorite is The Fitness Marshall on Youtube. I've been using his videos about 3-4 times a week for the past 2 months and I have so much fun every time. I highly recommend checking him out! I am thrilled to announce that my back pain is almost gone at this point! There are days where I still feel it a bit, but I am no longer in the constant pain I was for the past few years. I am SO relieved that losing weight solved this problem. In addition to that, it's incredible what losing 17 pounds has done for my self-confidence. I have been revamping my wardrobe to reflect my new confidence. I bought crop tops for the first time in my life! I also have way more energy and I feel so light on my feet! I just wanted to share my success with the people who have helped inspire me. I'm going to keep going for a while until I'm more comfortably in the healthy BMI range, but I'm really pleased with where I am at. Thanks y'all! :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2021 11:07 PM PDT Sorry if this isn't the right place for this question. 32 Female, 293 (3 wks ago), 271 now I've always been overweight, had some great success w/ calorie counting many years ago and in more recent years I tried keto and I lost quite a bit again. (I know many are not fans of this diet - it had some fast results for me at the time but I wasn't able to stick with it.) I've gained quite a bit of weight again and decided to try keto again since it worked pretty fast originally. First 2 weeks I was good, I wasn't calorie restricting, and got to the point where my calories were naturally coming in around 1300-1600 daily. I felt full so I didn't worry. But now I'm at the end of week 3 and I haven't eaten more than 500 calories for the last 3 or 4 days. Today I'm barely at 300. I'm disgusted by food. The smell especially. Opening my fridge and getting a scent of anything makes me nauseous. Pizza is my favorite food and right now, I feel sick thinking about eating it. My throat feels tight and my mouth is salivating like before you're going to vomit. (Sorry, TMI) I have a stash of ice cream in my fridge and haven't touched it. I just can't imagine I'd be able to stomach it. I even dropped keto thinking it was a weird side effect. Tried to eat some fritos (it was the only carb-heavy snack I still had in the house). I could only stomach a few before I gave up. I only want liquids. Water. Diet soda. Broth. I'm exhausted, but not sleeping well, I've been getting lightheaded a couple times the last day or two, and my emotions are all over the place. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? If I ever thought I'd be a person saying "I'm disgusted by food", my fat self would take that as a massive win. But honestly I feel like shit and it's getting a bit worrying. I've dieted on/off for years and this has never happened to me. Has anyone developed a sudden disgust for all foods? What did you do? [link] [comments] |
| At what point did you know that you had to lose weight? Posted: 16 Apr 2021 03:10 PM PDT For me, it was when my mom took a photo of me randomly one day. I remember looking at that photo after she sent it to me and just could not believe that's how I looked to other people. Lockdown got to me real bad, clearly! It's strange how a moment like that can really kick you into gear, the pure shock and realization can be a huge motivation to make change. The fact I hadn't seen a photo of myself for so long and then suddenly was shown how different I looked was immensely shocking. Because when you look in a mirror, you see a very specific angle and very small changes over time that you don't really notice. What was it for you guys? Anyone have a similar experience? I use that photo now to keep me motivated when I'm tempted to pig out. It's a useful tool. [link] [comments] |
| One year in, I am morbidly obese! Posted: 17 Apr 2021 01:12 AM PDT And loving it! Salutations from Sunny Greece! Today marks one year since I started "doing something" about my weight. The whole thing started for me on a whim, after putting an end to 25 years of chain smoking and seeing my weight ballooning to my highest ever. You can read about it if you want here, it makes for a somewhat awkward story. Here is a spreadsheet with some specifics about the last year too. https://i.imgur.com/CBiJ29F.png And a nutrition daily average over the same period. https://i.imgur.com/ztBsrla.png Now, I wanted to make a thread one year in to share some of the things I found out along the way. Some might be helpful to other people trying to lose a lot of weight, but I understand that each person is different and there is no universal recipe for something like this. Your mileage may vary. So...here are some observations about myself:
Ok...I'm rambling. Sorry for the long post, hope this may be interesting to some. In any case, I have a long way ahead of me still. The rest of my life. Let's do this!! [link] [comments] |
| I’m Becoming Skinny Fat. Help. Posted: 16 Apr 2021 11:34 PM PDT At the beginning I was 157lbs. (I'm 4ft11, 21F) I ate 1,200cals everyday for around two months whilst consistently going to the gym. I didn't care what was in my diet. I now obviously realise this to be incredibly stupid and unnecessary. I took a few months break and since January I've been mostly having 1200-1300 cals a day with my only exercise being walking sometimes. My sedentary maintenance calories are actually 1,490 now so I actually have to eat that low combined with getting some physical activity in. I'm also only now making sure to get in an adequate amount of protein each day. I am now 122lbs, a healthy weight and I have the exact same figure as before but on a smaller frame. I'm 'skinny fat' or on the way to getting there. My stomach is huge. I'm planning to lose until 112lbs for now but I don't know how to rectify this. There's only so much I can lose on the scale; I need to lose fat. Help :( [link] [comments] |
| I am feeling demotivated at the gym Posted: 16 Apr 2021 10:50 PM PDT Long story short, I have joined a gym. I have been thinking about it for years, but for the first time, I have joined a gym. I am going there regularly for the last one month. I have to travel around 20 km to attend the gym, but I enjoy it. Currently, I am about 20 kg overweight. I have switched to a healthy diet plan and maintaining a modest calorie deficit. Thanks to this forum. However, I am waiting for the weight loss result. I have very friendly trainers at the gym. My exercise is a mix of cardio and weightlifting. I like cardio more than weightlifting, I think doing cardio is less confusing, and I sweat a lot. However, it seems every time I am making mistakes with the weight lifting exercise. For example, I can't get it right with an incline dumbbell press or let pull down. I feel like others are judging it when I am doing it wrong. Sometimes they do. It makes me think that if I am doing it wrong, I will not lose weight or body fat. And it makes me very afraid and demotivated. Do you think it's okay for weight loss as long as I move my body? [link] [comments] |
| Turns out my best motivator isn't self-esteem issues or cute dresses, it's these fucking cramps Posted: 16 Apr 2021 11:24 AM PDT The title sums it up pretty well. I'm a master procrastinator and let myself go during a depressive period around late 2019. My weight has steadily crept up since until I've reached the heaviest I've ever been. Because I've moved back home I no longer walk as often as I used to and I barely leave my room. I'm writing this while cradling a hot water bottle in my lap, waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in. I'm not absolutely certain that weight loss helps with period cramps, but I do know that back when I walked 8000 steps daily in college, my periods were never this painful. So please take my small post of accountability here, fuelled by pure spite against my own uterus, and I'll check back in every month to see if I can get this pain to leave again. My goals for the next month, when this week ends: 6000 steps daily goal, drink more water, avoid junk food, avoid caffeine at least 1 week before the next period. [SW: 170; GW: 150, 20F] Apologies if this is a bit TMI, I just needed to get this out there to remind myself whenever I start slacking. [link] [comments] |
| Terrified, Overweight Bride-to-Be Posted: 17 Apr 2021 12:29 AM PDT Hi everyone. Sorry to post a negative message like this, but am really feeling overwhelmed and love this community so much. I have been overweight my whole life, but gained a huge amount of weight after I began dating my fiance (the typical comfort-weight). After getting engaged, I lost a ton of weight in preparation for my wedding - by March 2020 I had lost 25 pounds. I was on a roll, working out every day, eating healthy, and living the energetic and happy life I wanted to have. I was so proud of myself and so confident....and then COVID hit. We were supposed to get married July 2020 but, like so many, we ended up having to postpone. After making the devastating decision, and after a challenging year full of emotional eating, I have gained all of the weight back (and then some). Our new wedding date is set for this July (2021), and I am having major struggles with my mental health, which has destroyed any motivation to lose weight. I suddenly found myself here today, 2.5 months away from my wedding, and 40 pounds overweight, and I feel physically sick when I look in a mirror. I am humongous. I am disgusting to look at. And I'm stuck in this paradox of not being able to bear the thought of looking like this on my wedding day and wedding photos, and yet still not possessing the motivation to break out of my emotional eating and drinking trend I am so stuck in. I guess what I'm looking for are any tips for how to break out of this loop - how to motivate myself to be better, to stop getting dragged down by the uncertainties of COVID, to stop stuffing myself full of junk and getting bigger. I just need help. (TL;DR: I'm grossly overweight and can't motivate myself to fix it, despite my wedding being 2.5 months away) [link] [comments] |
| How Can I Forgive And Move On? Posted: 17 Apr 2021 12:22 AM PDT I'm having a really hard time losing weight. I know I need therapy, eating disordered specific therapy because I've had almost every eating disorder, and I can tell trauma isn't letting me lose the way I'd like to. I'm angry at my whole family, but very especially at my mother. She was a single parent and raised me in my grandparent's home. It was a really unhealthy dynamic. Lots of manipulation in telling her she couldn't take care of herself and me on her own, but making her feel like she really wasn't welcomed and that the both of us there were a burden. It more so circulated through family members than directly being said to our faces. I have already lost 35lbs. I have to lose about 165 more to get to my healthy weight. I'm so frustrated because it's really hard for me to just stick with weight loss. I'm not used to being healthy or working towards health. I grew up being a very overweight child after about age 7, and then an obese teen turned anorexic/bulimic and a "normal" weight, back to being a severely obese adult. I feel defeated and that my body is ruined, and I'm so angry that it's all I think about. My weight has ALWAYS been at the forefront of my brain. I'd love to know how far I could have gone in life (I'm 32) thus far if I'd actually been able to focus on things other than how fat I was and looked. My family tormented me about weight and food. Kids in school did the same. I've never had reprieve from it, especially because I am bogged down by all this weight now. I know I need to be in therapy very badly, but I can't be in it right this very minute but I feel I have to lose the weight chronically starting right now. Like I can't waste another second being like this. Sometimes I think my mother is trying to sabotage my life because she fucked her's up so badly. Idk what to do anymore. [link] [comments] |
| 12 lbs down and feeling hopeful for the first time Posted: 16 Apr 2021 01:14 PM PDT 24/F Sw 236lb, Cw 224lb, gw ~180 Started trying to clean up my eating habits about a month ago after several months of binge eating. Last year I essentially starved myself for months, lost 30 lbs, then got depressed and packed it all back on very quickly. I knew I couldn't keep going on like that, I needed to find healthy eating habits that work for me or I'd just keep bouncing back and forth. I signed up for a grocery/ meal delivery service that my friend recommended and it's honestly been such a lifechanger. I work long hours and when I get home I used to just get a huge thing of takeout (usually after takeout or fast food for lunch). Now I have been putting together these tasty, healthy dinners every night and it's saved my wallet and I think it's saving me. Been trying to work in more exercise too. Bought some resistance bands that I probably haven't used as much as I should have but I'm going to keep working up to it! Been trying to walk my dog for longer than I usually would every day. Found out last week that I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease after a bout of intense abdominal pain landed me in the ER. Kind of ironic that it happened after I'd already started cleaning up my act but it definitely made me feel like I'm doing the right thing. I can't keep destroying my body with food every time I am sad. I used to have constant heartburn, and now I'm at almost month without needing antacids. I think I'm sleeping better. I have more energy. I have been treating my partner and myself to a nice dinner out on the weekends. It gives me something to look forward to and it's rewarding. I love food and I love eating out and I have been reminding myself every time I crave Taco Bell or candy at 3pm or 2am that I just need to wait. I can indulge a little (not too much) on Saturday night. I hope I can keep this up. It feels sustainable to me, in a way that no other "diet" I've tried before felt like something I could continue. I'm excited to keep pushing. Feeling good about the future for once! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: April 17th, 2021 Posted: 16 Apr 2021 11:25 PM 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] |
| Confessions of a yo-yo dieter. Posted: 16 Apr 2021 01:20 PM PDT TLDR at bottom. It's a generational thing. My mother was afflicted with obesity by her father. He was a POW in the Pacific during WWII. He came home after 3 ½ years of torture and deprivation with a compulsive eating disorder which he passed on to her. She was about 5'5" and weighed 395 lbs at her largest. It was the overarching theme of our life, my mothers' weight, and its effects on her mental health and on her family. A lot like the movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". She put me on Weight Watchers when I was about 10 years old, and I have never been able to have a normal relationship with food since. In about 1976 Mom had one of the first weight loss surgeries, a gastric bypass procedure which left her with the ability to eat enormous amounts of food, all of which passed through her without any nutrients being absorbed. I remember her spending hours in the bathroom with uncontrollable diarrhea. She lost about 150 lbs and was able to feel beautiful at least once in her life, at her parents 50th wedding anniversary party, before she died of a drug overdose in 1978. The surgery did an enormous amount of damage, causing her to develop arthritis from the lack of nutrients, as well as needing complicated surgeries to remove the excess skin and a hernia and her gallbladder. From the time I was eleven years old, she was in and out of the hospital on a regular basis. She was very difficult and unpredictable to live with. She was abusive and violent sometimes, and she could also be understanding and creative and hilarious. She became a drug addict because so many different doctors were prescribing her narcotics. After her death, we found stashes of pills all over her bedroom. I was 14 when she died; the first thing I thought of when I was told she had passed away was "my life will be so much easier now." I was glad she died, and I did not have anyone around who picked up on that; they all thought my acting out (skipping school, drugs and drinking, running away from home) was due to grief, but really it was because I felt like a piece of shit and didn't have anyone to tell me otherwise, that it was normal to have emotions like that. By the time I was 16, I had literally run away to join the carnival and spent a few summers working at fairs all over the western U.S. I once had a job as the trainer of the Worlds' Smallest Horse, even! Also, I had a compulsive overeating problem and weighed about 210 pounds at 5'9", not too terribly obese, but definitely not the thin svelte figure I craved so very much. I moved to a small town in Southern California to live with my dad when I was 20 and got a job with a construction company. The foreman introduced me to crystal methamphetamine, which I took to like a duck to water. I absolutely LOVED not feeling any desire to eat whatsoever. I lost 30 pounds in about 6 weeks, only eating a few calories per day, most of them in alcohol and candy. I got thin and then got a really bad boyfriend, the kind every girl should try at least once, if only so you know a good man when you see him later. He was so handsome and charismatic and dangerous and I felt special because he wanted to be with me. He convinced me to move to another town with him, then isolated me from my family and tried to turn me into a bodybuilder, continually compelling me to go to the gym when I never really liked it. My meth habit got worse, and my self-esteem was in the toilet because the bad boyfriend was always cheating on me and telling me that it was because I was too fat (at this point, I weighed about 135 pounds and my ribs were sticking out). I finally got up the courage to leave him, and the next couple of years saw me quitting meth and gaining 80 pounds. I lived alone for a time, and thoroughly enjoyed binge eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted it. At age 26, after another failed relationship with a man who wanted to change me, I moved closer to my family, and my sister convinced me to give Weight Watchers another try. I did, and had some success, reaching a goal weight of 160 lbs, which is just about perfect for my large frame. What Weight Watchers and my sister did not know was that in order to tolerate the calorie restriction, I had gone back to using meth. So much easier to stick to a restrictive diet when you never feel hunger. I met a good man during this time, and we got married in 1993. I was gorgeous at last, and at my lowest weight in years, 153 lbs, which lasted literally for one day, my wedding day. At least I have pics... I quit using meth the day after the wedding and gained 80 lbs in the first 18 months of being married, not from being pregnant or anything, just going back to my binge-eating ways because being married was not as great as I thought it was going to be and the pressures had me spiraling into a depression. At age 30 I went back to Weight Watchers, having become a lifetime member. I was not able to stick to the program and found myself binging even worse than before, ending up at 245 pounds. In 1997 or so, phen-fen was a thing. I found a doctor who would give it to me, and I lost about 90 pounds in a year with it, but of course, I had to quit it when people started DYING from it…so I gained back all the 90 lbs and maybe more. 2000: ATKINS DIET! I CAN EAT A POUND OF BACON IF I WANT!!! I lost all the weight and felt great for 3 `1/2 years. I was 39 and went on a cruise and wore a two-piece swimsuit in public for the first time ever. I had been married for 10 years at this point, and my husband never cared if I was thin or fat, he only ever wanted a nice person for a wife, and I've always been able to do that for him. We had a great sex life and never used birth control, so I thought I couldn't have a baby. I was okay with that because I had stepkids that I loved madly. We bought a Harley Davidson and I asked my husband to have a vasectomy, which he agreed to, but asked could we wait a year… SURPRISE! Just after my 39th birthday I discovered I was pregnant and that threw my life into a tailspin. After deciding to go through with a "geriatric" pregnancy, I had to quit smoking and quit the low carb lifestyle and I almost immediately started having some complications. My back hurt terribly, and I started gaining weight almost exponentially. My hands stopped working due to carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms from fluid buildup, and I had to quit my food serving job, which added to the weight gain issue. I started the pregnancy at 165 pounds and on the day I gave birth to an 11lb 6oz boy by c-section, I weighed 273 lbs. I kept most of that weight on for the three years that I was home raising my boy. Again, I went back to Weight Watchers, managing to stick with it without drugs for a year and getting down to about 175 lbs. I went back to work when the boy was old enough to start school, but unfortunately, I chose a dysfunctional workplace with an abusive boss. I stuck with it because the hours worked with my parenting needs, but my self-esteem again took a hit, which always adds to my binge eating problems. I gained weight back again, to about 230 lbs, before quitting that job. I found another job in a place I really liked, very popular and busy with a fast-paced environment. It was tough on my body doing that job weighing as much as I did. After being there for a year or so, one strange day, I was at home, about to put a plate in the microwave that had some leftovers on it, an omelet and some hash browns. The hash browns somehow slipped off the plate onto the floor, and I took it as a sign and went back to a low carb diet again that very moment. I was successful in losing weight again, getting down to about 165 and staying there for a few years. In 2017, I started having trouble with the manager at my workplace. I had refused to get involved in the multi-level-marketing essential oils cult that she had joined, plus she was a fervent supporter of the newest U.S. president, which inspired a viciousness in her that I hadn't seen before. She started mocking me for my political views, even though I never discussed them at work (never share your facebook with your coworkers!) She took me off my cushy 8am-2pm shifts and assigned me to the opening shift, which started at 4:30 am and was far less lucrative. An inexperienced server was put on my former shift and given authority over my schedule, often cutting me from my shift after only working 5 hours or so and making less than half the tips I was accustomed to. This affected my family life and again, my fragile self-esteem. I started eating more and more junk food: biscuits and gravy, hash browns, French fries etc, and, though the weight gain was much slower than earlier backsliding, by late 2019 I was about 190 lbs. I finally quit that job and began trying to start my own business teaching my craft (mosaic art) to people. I had some success, having students in my shop and workshops at local venues, plus I submitted a proposal and was approved to teach a class with our city's Parks and Recreation department, which would have started March of 2020… March of 2020 rolled around, and while we are watching the whole world shut down, I started feeling a bit sick with a slight fever and a headache. I thought it was psychosomatic because I felt better the next day. Then my husband started getting sick, and sicker and then he ended up in the hospital with Covid-19. He was there for 22 days, 13 of them on the ventilator. During that time, my son and I did not see his face for 12 days until a nurse set his phone up for video chat, and then it was just watching him on the ventilator. He came home a different man, rude, selfish, and very difficult to take care of and it was months of recovery. We are okay now, but I've been dealing with all the negativity by eating foods which I know make me fatter. My sourdough game is on point, though… So here I am today at age 56 weighing 235 pounds. I don't have a bra that fits, and I don't want to shop for them. All my pants are stretchy. I haven't had sex in 6 months or more because I don't feel sexy and because my back and hips hurt too much. Hubby seems to understand, but I know it's not fair to him. To be honest, I've reached the stage in my life where I don't care to be sexually attractive to anyone and I don't care too much about not being pretty anymore, but the weight causes me a large amount of physical pain, especially in my lower back, and some days I can hardly walk. I've been to a specialist and I have some hope that an upcoming injection and cauterization will give me some relief, but I haven't been able to work much at all in the last three months. I'm considering trying intermittent fasting, and for the past three days have been able to enjoy eating within an 8-hour window, but I don't know how to make it work for the long term. I'm also dealing with a family who is resistant to dietary changes. I know I must learn to just make the food that works for me and if they don't want to eat it, they can feed their own damn selves, but I feel responsible for their health, too, and it's hard to make a healthy meal and then see your husband eat a huge bowl of sugary cereal a couple of hours later. If there is anyone else out there with a similar story, and I'm pretty sure there are at least a few of you, I would love to hear from you. I could also use some words of encouragement. Thanks for reading if you read all of this. TLDR: I've lost and gained back 50+ pounds at least six times in my adult life and I'm about to start on my seventh weight loss "journey" and I'm just so tired of it all and I need encouragement from people who know how I feel. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2021 12:18 PM PDT Just wanting to vent as I'm feeling so angry and tired with myself that I can't seem to make steady progress. I really want to lose about 10 pounds, and I've done it before and know what I need to do, but I'm just continuing to screw up and can't figure out why. I'll have 2 good weeks then a really bad one where I basically self sabotage and willpower isn't enough. I drag myself to work out but my diet isn't good enough to get me there and I know it. I'm just so down and it's like I know it's important to me, so why the hell can't I just execute already? I've done harder things than this, and I'm just disappointed in myself. I need a fresh perspective. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2021 08:04 AM PDT Hey all! I gave birth 5 months ago. I packed on a good 50 pounds during my pregnancy and continued to gain even after giving birth. Along with the drastic life change of having a wee babe and and being sedentary while on maternity leave, I gave in to easy fast food meals and junk food snacks. I was the biggest I'd ever been. No clothes fit and I had to start buying a new wardrobe. I finally decided that I would eat healthier and walk every day. Today my efforts finally paid off! I met my first goal of weighing in the 170s! This is a big win for me as I'm a first time mama with a lot of life tasks to juggle. Words of encouragement are appreciated to help me stay in track! There has been tons of temptation but I'm determined to feel and be healthier for my kiddo and for myself! [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 17 April 2021? Start here! Posted: 16 Apr 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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| 10 pounds down. I feel more like myself. Posted: 16 Apr 2021 07:24 AM PDT 28F, 5'7" 205lbs. I started my journey at 215lbs. My goal is 180. A little over a month ago my older brother came to visit. He is 40 and 6'. He was telling me about his diabetes diagnosis and how it scared him into doing something about it. He talked about how he had lost 45 pounds and was now at 210lbs. It was like being slapped awake. My 40 yr old 6 foot tall brother weighs less than me? My big brother is a diabetic, my aunts and uncles are diabetics. I am going to be diabetic if I don't figure my life out. So thats what I am doing. I changed my diet. I am at roughly 1500 calories a day. If I am eating it then it needs to be nutritionally beneficial in some way. Unless it's something I truly enjoy like my aunts homemade lemon bars because we all need a treat now and then. I started exercising. Baby steps for now. I do 2-3 miles (up from 1 mile) a day walking/running with my dog (who loves all the exercise btw). I also make sure to listen to my fitbit when it tell me to feed it steps. I told myself I could get a gym membership if I could commit to walks after work for three months. My logic being if I can't go outside my front door and walk around for free everyday what makes me think I'd drive to the gym. I am weighing myself at the end of each week making sure I dont exceed 2lbs of weight loss a week. I'm trying to be a healthier me not just a skinner me. Its working 10lbs gone. The crazy thing is how good I feel. I hadn't realized how self conscious I felt or that I was a different person because of my weight. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin and it showed in my dag to day interactions. I love making people feel good about themselves but I stopped because I didn't feel good about me. I'm so hopeful and can't wait to see where this journey takes me. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 17 April 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 16 Apr 2021 10:01 PM PDT 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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| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 16 Posted: 16 Apr 2021 01:56 PM PDT Hello losers, Huzzah for the conquering hero, aka Friday & the upcoming weekend! Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: 240.8 this morning. Progress over perfection. Stay within calorie range (maintenance): Trying for a deficit, at worst I don't want to go over maintenance. 9/16 days. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk & a pedal session. 15/16 days. Self-care alone time & ten deep breath cycles a day: Check mark on the breathing. Extra alone time today. Try a new recipe once a week: Going to try some stir fry soon, making my own sauce & everything. Cauliflower rice taco bowls, sesame roasted salmon, roasted chickpeas & crispy coated pork chops. 4/4 weeks. Write 1500 words a day 6 days a week: Nailed it today. Do a mindfulness exercise and express gratitude: Lots of deep breathing today & last night/early this morning. Sleep cycles have been mweh so counting breathing to get back to sleep is a thing I'm trying. I'd give it a mweh so far. I'm grateful for so many things. Todays list: Mint gum. How gorgeous even the scraggliest trees are when they're dusted with snow (yeah it snowed here, never mind it's April). Click list market order pickup. The box of ugly reclaimed produce that shows up at my door step every week. Rainbow carrots. Ground turkey being continuously on sale at my market. Beans & legumes & having the luxury of learning to cook them all the ways. Budgetbytes & my partner for helping me learning some fundamental cooking skills back in the day. Your turn losers! [link] [comments] |
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