Weight loss: [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 5 |
- [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 5
- I ate a healthy chicken salad while my boyfriend ate Chinese take out for the first time, and I'm so proud of myself!
- Losing It to be able to donate a portion of my liver to my Dad
- Small victory, had no one to share with, so hello internet strangers. 258 to 246 in 5 days!!
- You don't need to eat meat everyday.
- I’M NO LONGER OBESE!!!
- I'm not quite ready, but I'm ready to acknowledge this.
- Anyone else find it strangely empowering to log calories that go over budget?
- I just discovered that I have BONES in my FACE
- My fear of missing out has become a reality, and it’s given me a new motivation
- Am I really about to gain it all back?
- Body Dysmorphia and Weight Loss!!
- Down 20lbs in 6 weeks!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 15th, 2021
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 14
- Losing weight to train for an event is super motivating!
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 15 May 2021? Start here!
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 15 May 2021: Today, I conquered!
- Carrots and Celery are saving me.
- I hit my goal weight
- Everyone I see when I go out is so big that it’s causing me to be unmotivated because I feel “normal”.
- Feeling so lost with so many conflicting opinions. Can someone help me calculate my calorie intake?
- Warped body image
- N/SV: under 100kg and over 100 cycling miles this week for the 1st time in 16 years
| [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Week 5 Posted: 14 May 2021 08:59 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 Week 4 Bragging Rights: Top 3 weigh in % as a team:
Top 3 Activity Minutes as a team:
Top 3 Total Steps Taken as a team
Week 4 Results Animaniacs showed the Power Puff Girls who the superior cartoon trio is! Magic School Bus (BEEP BEEP) drove right through Bikini Bottom and claimed victory over Spongebob! Sailor Moon sent the Recess kids back to detention! This week's Itinerary: This week continues 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 5 head to head schedule - Step battle!: Spongebob vs Sailor Moon Animaniacs vs Recess Magic School Bus vs Power Puff Girls Good Luck! Step 1 - Weigh in for week 5Step 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. Timeline Each 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.
May 14 - Week 5May 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] |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 08:04 AM PDT So, he wasn't just being an unsupportive douchebag. He'd had a hard week at work, and told me he was craving Chinese food. I told him, 'well, I'm not having any, but you should go for it!' He looked at me with a pained look on his face and said 'No... It's cruel. Let's just have the [meal we'd agreed upon for dinner]'. And I said 'look. Being so strict is going to be going on for a year yet at least (I have a lot to lose, and wedding next year, so this is going to be a LONG process). Are you just not going to have Chinese takeaway for a year+??' He doesn't have much weight to lose; his lockdown damages were mostly losing muscle rather than gaining fat. He's perfectly entitled to having a takeaway once in a while. So eventually I persuade him to get his food, and I really thought I would regret it more. I used to crave the unhealthy stuff like crazy. But he sat with his kung pau noodles, and I sat with my salad, and we watched TV, and both ended the night happy. I'm so pleased that now my brain has dried out a bit from all of the salt/sugar/complex carbs, I really can be perfectly happy being around delicious food and not partaking. [link] [comments] |
| Losing It to be able to donate a portion of my liver to my Dad Posted: 14 May 2021 01:30 PM PDT My Dad was diagnosed with liver failure late last year. We have been going through the process of getting him on the UNOS Transplant List so that we can do a live liver donation. After researching the process and seeing the 30 BMI requirement, I started working towards that goal. I'm at a 34 BMI now, from 41 BMI - a loss of 44 pounds so far. I'm using IF 18:6 and CICO to control my caloric intake, and added pilates, running and cycling. 20-30 mins of Pilates, 30-45 min outdoor run or indoor cycle - weather dependent, 6 days a week. 2 diet cheat days in 4 months. I need 16 more pounds to qualify to donate - I'm right on track. There's no greater motivation than prepping to save someone's life - that I know for sure! Even if I end up not qualifying to donate - I've ended up much healthier and active than before. Pic of results so far - progress from SW 247 to CW 203 https://imgur.com/a/mQRsEd2 [link] [comments] |
| Small victory, had no one to share with, so hello internet strangers. 258 to 246 in 5 days!! Posted: 14 May 2021 06:31 AM PDT I have admittedly fell off the wagon last summer. Thought to myself, screw it i'll just eat whatever I want because life is short. Well fast forward 6 months with that crappy mindset and i gained the full 40 lbs I worked hard to get rid of a couple of years ago, and them some. Last week, while putting my socks on and fighting with the discomfort from my belly being large again, I made the decision to start back on a strict Paleo diet, as it was one that helped me lose not just wieght in the past but also just about eliminated my GERD. 5 days into it down 12 pounds. I know it's mostly water weight and the rest of the pounds will come off slower, but seeing the numbers move in the right direction again made me happy this morning. Thanks for reading! Stay positive, make healthy choices, don't beat yourself up for mistakes. [link] [comments] |
| You don't need to eat meat everyday. Posted: 14 May 2021 08:26 PM PDT Hello everyone, I am a male always working to loose weight. I just wanted to share my epiphany that you don't need to eat meat everyday. For me I felt I always needed to have at least one thing on my plate be meat. I love meat! But this is wrong, you don't always need to have it. I believe meat is very good for you but the problem is, it is very easy to over eat! I've always eaten my salads with steak, chicken, fish deli meats... etc. But recently I've cut out the meat sometimes and just eat my food without it and you know what! I still feel just as full and I feel just as great 👍. So from a stubborn man who always wants to have meat at every meal. Skip it you'll be fine! Today I had a feta cheese salad 🥗 and whole Greek yogurt with chia and granola. Thank you for reading my post and I hope to inspire you to give up meat every once in a while. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 03:45 PM PDT This is huge for me. It's a milestone I never thought I'd reach. It means everything. I started my fitness journey early to mid January 2021 at 6'2" and 270lbs and as of today, May 14, 2021, I weighed in at 232.2lbs with a BMI of 29.81. I know BMI is not the most accurate metric and I know that my BMI is barely under obese, but to me it's symbolic of all my hard work and this is the happiest I've been in years. My whole life I was always just "average" like I was a little chubby as a kid but I lost the weight and was a healthy bmi and overall weight. Well I had my struggles in life and gained around 100 pounds (I'm 6'2") going from 180lbs to 280lbs, in what was probably 90%-100% fat, from 2017 through 2020. When I reached 280lbs I got hit with the realization of just how much I gained. I was no longer fitting into anything and I had absolutely no strength, no flexibility, no cardiovascular health, I sweat and was out of breath for every little thing. I could hardly bend over to tie my shoes or pick anything up!!! I was ashamed and embarrassed of how far I had gone and hated the way I looked, since it wasn't naturally me! So what I started and what I've done is taken up running 4-5x a week, going to the gym 4-5x a week, and cleaned up my diet. It all boils down to a healthy calorie deficit, raising protein intake and lowering processed foods, refined sugars, fried stuff, etc. I've tried to moderate my carbs and fat but you don't want to cut either of those out because you still need them in moderation for energy. I don't want to make this post longer than it already is, but the key is consistency and going in with the right mindset. Trust me, there's so so so many days I'd rather do anything than go to the gym. But I push myself because of how much hard work I've put in already. Don't let one or two days of bad eating drag you down, just don't make it a habit. Track your calories just to know where you are, even if you're having a "bad" day with your diet. I tracked mine when I was eating poorly and it's really beneficial to see just how much caloric or nutritional excess there is. Please comment or DM me for details or any questions you have! [link] [comments] |
| I'm not quite ready, but I'm ready to acknowledge this. Posted: 14 May 2021 07:31 PM PDT So I've been lurking on this sub for quite some time, just as an observer, mostly because I was fearful of posting this. I think I need some help. I am morbidly obese. I have an unhealthy and emotional attachment to food. I have a problem. I have been on and off a weight loss wagon for as long as I can remember, with varying degrees of success for the duration, but always with the same result: failure and weight gain. I'd get so far and fall apart. In some ways, I lacked support, but if I think about it, I never asked for support when I needed it most. And I'm getting kind of tired of that. I have spent a lot of my life being unkind to myself, lacking in self-care, mistreating my body and mind, and generally making myself miserable, and I'm tired of being that negative person. For a long time, instead of doing something positive, I've been feeling sorry for myself. I've had my fingers in my ears like a child. When the issue of my weight is brought up, I've been stubbornly refusing to accept reality until I dug myself in too deep, and now I'm scared that I'll look stupid for back-pedalling. I'm scared of the "I told you so's." I'm scared of what number will be on the scale when I eventually step on it. I know I've been stupid. I know I've wasted a lot of years of my life. But I realise that there's no use in upsetting myself any more than I have already, and if I want to have any years left of my life, I need to fix this. I might not be quite ready to start that journey today or even tomorrow. I haven't visited a doctor about my weight since my 20s, but I know that I need to forgive myself for my past and stop fixating on it. So I guess this is what I'm doing. So hi, r/loseit. I am here, and I am ready to forgive myself and move forward. I think. [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else find it strangely empowering to log calories that go over budget? Posted: 14 May 2021 06:09 PM PDT Like many people here, due to COVID I gained back all the weight I had lost previously. After finding my clothes getting uncomfortable, I decided it was time to restart this journey. I used to be very reluctant to log any calories I ate that went over my budget. I'd feel like "welp, I fucked up, I don't wanna face it" and just give up logging for the day. It's silly, I know, since not logging them doesn't make the calories magically disappear. Naturally that didn't lead to good habits (and caused many "fuck it" moments where I just continued overeating), but this time I changed my mind. No matter how much I ate over budget, I would log it and keep track of it. It's been a difficult first few days as I'm not even close to being within budget, but logging every last bite has felt surprisingly… empowering? Like I'm no longer running away, I'm keeping myself accountable no matter how big the fuck-up is, and I actually feel good about it. Not to mention getting to clearly see my eating patterns is helpful as well. So to anyone out there reading this and having a habit of not logging "guilty" calories like I did - do it! Don't just give up on the day or the journey, learn from your data and try again tomorrow, one step at a time. [link] [comments] |
| I just discovered that I have BONES in my FACE Posted: 14 May 2021 01:26 PM PDT This one might sound really silly for you but I have no one to share: In my family runs a very underpresent jawline so even the "skinny" folks still have a very soft-ish looking face. Since I've been struggling with my weight almost my whole life long this has been a huuuge insecurity for me. Even when I was at a normal and healthy weight my face looked always very shapeless and I always felt like a character from Bobs Burgers because my chin seemed to be basically nonexistent. I feel like you can hide a lot behind clothes and dress in a comfortable way but it is hard to hide a whole face. Even during Covid I feel like the masks only make my face even more shapeless and hide the little bit of chin that I was gifted with. And I always feel so uncomfortable because I know that I can't hide my face. Also: since I wear mostly loose clothing people tend to think I am wayyy heavier than I actually am because of my nonexistent jawline (not if it would be anyones business how much I weigh but I'm sure that I am not the only one that was confronted with many stereotypes when it comes to being overweight) So when I've gained weight during lockdown I've felt MISERABLE. My face and neck are the first areas that get fuller when I gain weight and so it's very obvious for others and they don't hold back on commenting on my weight. One month ago I decided that I don't want to weigh myself anymore. I always fixate way to much on the numbers the scale is showing me and it brings me and my motivation down. Instead I am trying to observe my body more closely while doing CICO. And suddenly: I touched my face and there was a bone very present under my skin. I don't even need to apply pressure to feel it! And when I looked in the mirror I even found a light shadow where my jawline is supposed to be! This was the first time I have noticed some change in my body and I feel so good about myself and my body because my biggest insecurity seems to get less of a problem. There is still a long road ahead of me but I'm so motivated! [link] [comments] |
| My fear of missing out has become a reality, and it’s given me a new motivation Posted: 14 May 2021 06:39 PM PDT I've been in isolation for the past year due to my living situation (living with immunocompromised people). In that time (the last 14 months or so) I've lose 40 pounds, but recently I've hit a plateau and haven't been losing much recently. I recently got vaccinated so I can go out again, but my friends have all been busy with work and school so I haven't gotten to see them yet. Well they were all free today and invited me to go rock climbing, which I'd have loved to do, but I had to decline because I'm still too big and can't do super strenuous activities like that, and I'm not physically fit enough to lift myself with my arms anyway. I'm upset, I'm depressed, I'm angry at myself, but more then anything right now I feel motivated. I've always been terrified of my weight and poor physical fitness keeping me from doing things, and now that fear is real and I'm pissed. This isn't going to happen again. I'm going to break through this stupid plateau. [link] [comments] |
| Am I really about to gain it all back? Posted: 14 May 2021 07:03 PM PDT So I lost 60 pounds from Feb 2019-Feb 2020. COVID slowed me down but I was determined to not let myself go back to old habits and managed to lose 10 more pounds in 2020. I still had 30ish to go - but I was in onederland, I wasn't obese anymore and I felt so good. But the last few months I have just completely reverted back to my old habits. Its horrible. I'm so disgusted with myself and I can't stop. After year of fighting it off I finally gained the 'Quarantine 15' (we're still in strict lockdown here and its starting to really get to me). All the stories about people gaining their weight back I thought it couldn't be me - I've changed my habits, changed my relationship with food, my lifestyle. Or so I thought - but the old habits are back HARD. And I just can't stop. Except I can. I have to. I will. I just needed to post this - you guys have helped me through so many struggles so here I am to hold myself accountable. Day 1 - lets go. [link] [comments] |
| Body Dysmorphia and Weight Loss!! Posted: 14 May 2021 09:15 PM PDT Hi all! So this quarantine year was detrimental to my shape. I left the Navy in December of 19, and started school in 2020. I went from 150 to 190 lbs, due to not walking around the flight line and then online school all day every day. I had nowhere to walk, nothing to do except sit in front of a computer. Well, in April I took back my fitness. Me and my boyfriend started going to the gym. We'd maybe spend 50 minutes there a day, about 3-4 days a week. We cut back on unhealthy food, sweets, and drank more water and ate more chicken. I knew I needed to lose weight when I looked at my face one day. It was huge, and I had a double chin at the age of 23. I'd go to target and be so afraid of not fitting into an XL that i'd buy a 2xl. Dresses didn't fit, and I was over it. A month later, large leggings are getting a little too big now. I fit perfectly into a Large dress, instead of squeezing into a XL. The scale is 18 pounds down, and thats with 5 days of digested food backed up in me. I'm wearing medium shirts. I don't feel like my neck is suffocating me anymore. I feel so much better. I still have a ways to go to my goal (135), but damn- 172 feels alot better than 190. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 02:14 PM PDT I'm 18M 6'5" and started at ~300 pounds (298.8 last recorded). I've always been a bigger guy as I have a lot of muscle, but also a bit of fat as well. I've tried since about August 2020 to lose weight but always seemed to abandon it after a week or so and gaining more weight than I lost. On April 3, 2021 I decided enough is enough. I changed my habits, started watching how many calories I was consuming, ate better, and exercised more. Some of the things changed (happily) are:
I started with walks, then to jogs, and now a run/jog hybrid. Yesterday I hit a 6'30" kilometre pace, down from the 12' I started with! I stepped on the scale this morning and I'll be dammed, 279.9lbs! I had to double check, and 279.9 again! I know it's practically 280lbs but just being in the 270's is mind-blowing for me as I haven't seen that number on the scale since I was like 14! I'm feeling better, more energetic, and the best I've been in years! Seeing that number go down every week really motivates me to do better the next and frankly, I'm addicted to it! I've got about 50-60 more pounds to go to my final goal, but I'm more focused on my weekly goals! I really wanna be 260 for my birthday in July, and I'll give an update then. Thanks to the people here and on r/cico and r/progresspics for motivating me! My dad is also a bigger guy and I've been trying to get him down the same road to lose some weight but he doesn't like me talking about it with him. He's also been a motivator in my progress, as he constantly reminds me of what I once was. I used to eat just like him. Big portions, unrestrictive deserts, not exercising, etc. Whenever he asks me to make him some Kraft Dinner or bring him some ice cream or something like that, it kind of makes me happy because I was once just like that and now I'm on the right track. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 15th, 2021 Posted: 14 May 2021 10:56 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] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 14 Posted: 14 May 2021 06:37 PM PDT Hello losers, Hey lovely losers, Happy Friday! I'm officially fully vaccinated & the two-week period after my second shot is up. I'm cautiously relieved to feel less anxiety & dread about simple things like leaving the house & doing necessary errands. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & remove moral judgement/stigma/shame directed at yourself about it: Weighed in & recorded this morning. I am more than just this number.
Exercise 5 days a week: 30-minute lunch walk & stationary bike. 10/14 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: Digital journal today. Gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for sneaking in a walk outside in the bright but not too hot sunshine. Vitamin D is no joke & I hate that I've said that even though for me it's very true. I take supplements all year long but nothing seems to replace the old fashioned kind. I'm also grateful that tomorrow I will see some of my family of choice that I haven't seen in far too long. I'm hoping to feel a little closer to my usual self when my roots are watered with the company of my favorite bad bitches. I'm also grateful to be able to do some shopping in person. I spent very little on clothes last year despite changing sizes because of how hopeless it is trying to guess your size online when the sizing charts often don't actually mean anything in relation to the clothes you're trying to buy. I have a tape measurer, don't tell me your sizing chart is anything other than secrets & LIES! Ahem. How about you all? What's going on with your weekend? [link] [comments] |
| Losing weight to train for an event is super motivating! Posted: 14 May 2021 06:35 PM PDT I've been trying to lose weight for a long time and always seem to hit these plateaus. In the past I focused mostly on CICO and did some light activity (getting in my 10,000 steps and running 2-3 times a week) and that approach has served me well. It's how I (repeatedly) lost my first 20-something pounds, but I always struggle with that next 20-something. I think one thing that always held me back was the sense that I have unlimited time to lose the weight because I'm young and don't have any serious health problems, but in reality that was a way to justify not changing myself when progress got difficult and slow. All of that changed when a few of my friends convinced me to run a marathon with them at the end of October. The beginning of training was really hard because I didn't change how I was dieting with my new levels of activity, but now I'm noticing all of the positive benefits. I'm feeling way more physically fit and distances that were hard for me before are much easier. I think about my nutrition more seriously too; how will this meal make me feel before my run? How will this meal help me recover? The biggest benefit has been stronger motivation. Even though I'm not always excited to go for a 5 mile run in the morning I'm always motivated to do it. Having a deadline and consequences for not following through, like a much more difficult marathon or not running and getting shamed by my friends and losing money, feels like a more constructive goal for me than reaching a goal weight at some far-off and undetermined time in the future. It would be nice if I hit my GW by race day, but every pound I lose will help immensely. I feel like this discipline has carried over to other parts of my life too, which has been great. You mileage may vary, but if you feel stuck in a weight loss rut I recommend signing up for some kind of physical event you've never done before. I'm documenting with progress pics so I'll let you all know how it goes after the race. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 15 May 2021? Start here! Posted: 14 May 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.
* Lose It Compendium - Frame it out! * FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions! [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Saturday, 15 May 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 14 May 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] |
| Carrots and Celery are saving me. Posted: 14 May 2021 09:54 AM PDT So Ive been hovering around 5-10 Pounds lost for the past month or so and my biggest problem has been binge eating at night. Basically I have insomnia and terrible anxiety, and this adds up to me effectively vacuuming up any easy food once it hits midnight, not even caring about the taste or anything. I was talking to someone with my exact issue and they said switching to carrots did them wonders because their jaw would be tired long before they could hit 200 calories of carrots. Well Im here to say they were right. I've had two nights this week where I binged. but even then, I never went over my calorie limit for the day. It's still a bad habit Im working on breaking, but finding alternatives where binge eating doesn't feel like I ruined a week of working out and eating healthy has made it so much easier to avoid being self deprecating. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 11:34 AM PDT Hello, I am 30 years old male. 190cm, 88kg. I did have mental health problems in late 2019. I gained ~15kg in half a year. Was overweight to begin with. I was 115kg( 36% body fat) when I started working out and counting calories. That was last year september. Weight loss has been anything but steady. Did home workout like clockwork since march though, this month gyms opened. I havent taked progress pics or measures(other than InBody). Did a little calculations based on previous InBody measurements and I am probably at ~20% body fat. Next week I know for sure, i go to take a test. So, hitting ideal weight, being and eating healthier, can walk very long, have more energy, more powerful. What I do? I change my ideal weight to lower and body fat percentage to lower, now I compare myself to males on those fitness pics and fitness youtubers. They probably in like 10% bf. I dont have any joy about this progress. I don't know is this the right place even post this? I look at the mirror and i can only points faults at my body. My weight has fluxuating in short period of time (18months, i dont know is that short or medium?). That is probably a reason for these body issues. Has anyone else has this? How can I be content with being normal weight and being in good shape (physically). [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2021 05:31 PM PDT I know this might sound weird, but everywhere I go whether it's to a store or even on social media it seems like 80% of people I see are extremely overweight. I am also overweight and need to lose about 50 pounds. But, because obesity is everywhere I find that I'm starting to get too comfortable and I either feel "normal" or I feel like "well at least I'm not as big as all of these people" and it's causing me to not only be unmotivated but I'm actually gaining more weight. I also notice a lot of social media stuff is about "body positivity" and I see a lot of women who are huge, maybe three times my size, and they are proud of their bodies and happy about being very overweight. This is also tripping me up. I hate my body and I want to lose weight. But I keep seeing the body positivity movement where a lot of women are proud to be obese and it makes me wonder if I should just be happy the weight I am. I know maybe I am looking outward too much. But, obesity seems to be way more prevalent and celebrated these days and I'm finding it really hard to set and reach goals. I guess I'm just venting to see if anyone else encounters this or feels this way? [link] [comments] |
| Feeling so lost with so many conflicting opinions. Can someone help me calculate my calorie intake? Posted: 14 May 2021 09:05 PM PDT Ahoy! I've been on a strict 1200 calories per day diet for years to no avail. Pretty confident it screwed up my metabolism, I am constantly tired and guess what - I give up quite often and binge, erasing all progress. I found this sub, learned about macros and CICO and am so excited to lose weight slowly but sustainably. However....I am SO confused on what my calorie intake should be. My doctor contradicts my nutritionist who contradicts my disordered eating therapist who contradicts the trainers, dietitians and apps I am now using to track. Here are my stats:
——- My doctor told me 1200. My dietician and therapist says 1500. Lose It! Says 1400 based on those stats, while my macro nutritionist says 1850! How is that even possible if that's my TDEE 🤔 No deficit? I have no problem vigorously committing to CICO and continuing my workouts, so I would like a final answer on what my intake should be! — Final notes: I have started weighing EVERYTHING that goes into my body. I have been dieting for years but am fully ready to do it right. Please help me start a sustainable new lifestyle! Thank you guys so much, I've been learning a lot in this sub! Also sorry for the novel >< [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 May 2021 12:40 AM PDT I'm assuming others here know what I'm talking about, and am hoping to find a little bit of comfort in sharing these thoughts. I was always a really overweight kid, struggled with weight throughout my life. Over the course of a few years (with ups and downs of losing then gaining some back etc), I've lost about 50 pounds and have managed to keep myself at about 132-135 pounds for the last few years. I'm a 5'1 female, so this weight range is at the upper end of what BMI considers healthy weight. People always tell me I'm small, especially people who have seen my transformation over the years, but I can rarely see that. I look in the mirror and see someone who is still obese. I think I've come to realize that this may always be a struggle. If I could lose another 20 pounds, I'd be very thin and would probably still see the 180 pound teenager I used to be. Sometimes I jokingly say that I won't have lost enough weight until I literally disappear but there's some truth in the never ending dissatisfaction. Sometimes I think this is a good weight, the I should just focus on maintaining here, but that always feels like I'm giving up. Yet I don't really NEED to lose much more weight, if any. Maybe just a few for a comfortable buffer when I inevitably gain a few over the holidays. I kick myself for barely being able to drop a pound a week these days, yet can't be content with calling this a good spot. I just need to vent because this cycle sucks. I eat relatively clean most of the time and exercise, and continue to do so because aside from how I look, I do want to live a long healthy life and try to stave off some of the health problems that come from a less healthy lifestyle. But there's just always that voice in my head telling me I'm too big still and it sucks. [link] [comments] |
| N/SV: under 100kg and over 100 cycling miles this week for the 1st time in 16 years Posted: 14 May 2021 05:22 AM PDT As the title says, I am in double digits in on the metric scale this week for the first time in 16 years (and wearing all of my old favorite t-shirts that I optimistically saved. I also cracked 100 miles for the week on my bike. I have been really struggling with weight and unresolved health issues for the past 10 years. My energy was diminishing, I had non-stop gastrointestinal distress, elevated white blood cell counts and eventually liver enzymes, indicating infection in my body. No matter what I ate, I could not lose weight. I was able to drop a little 7 years ago, but I literally had to ride my bike 2 hours a day. CICO was not working. I paid out of pocket to see a nutritionist weekly for several months, weight, measured and recorded everything I ate, and in the end she concluded that I was eating too few calories for my body type, could not improve on my diet at all, and needed to see a doctor, because something was not right. The more you gain, the less likely it is that you will be taken seriously, especially as a middle-aged woman. Doctors blamed the weight gain for my fatigue, inflammation, declining blood values. In response to why I had bladder infection after bladder infection (I would take antibiotic and clear it up, and every time 2-3 weeks later I had a bladder infection again) they said it was "bad luck". Even when I presented the report from the nutritionist, they simply countered with "well you must be doing something wrong" or "you must be eating more than you think". For the the last 2 1/2 years I was crawling through the door after work and sleeping at 6:30 p.m., all weekend. My liver enzymes were elevated, indicating infection, I had non-stop diarrhea (sorry for being graphic), and malabsorption and malnutrition as a result. My heart rate was between 100 and 120 when resting. Periodically I would spike a fever and have horrible pain in my lower right abdomen that would all resolve by the next morning, and my doctor would say it was a stomach flu and send me home. Nothing changed in terms of the "this is your own fault" narrative. Finally in autumn of this year I spiked a 104 temperature and was in horrible pain. I called my doctor and asked if I needed a referral to go to hospital or should I just go through the ER. She had me come in, said it was a "stomach flu", printed off a certificate writing me sick from work and told me to go home and sleep. I challenged her 3 times and refused to leave her office until she reluctantly agreed to press on my abdomen to rule out appendicitis. She literally snatched the certificate out of my hand (incriminating) and told me to go to hospital. My appendix had burst already and I had peritonitis - I almost died and if I had listened to her and gone home to sleep, I would never have woken up. I was barely conscious by the time I got to hospital. It turns out, I had chronic appendicitis and constant infection in my abdominal cavity for at least 10 years, with a decline into the disaster of the past couple of years. It was causing my heart to race, messing up my blood values, causing the bladder infections, diarrhea, malnutrition etc. As soon as it was resolved, I began to drop weight - so fast, that my doctor became alarmed that it may be cancer. She is not my doctor any more, not that she was the only one who failed to take my health issues seriously. I was able to get back on a bike for the first time in 7 years. Cycling has been an obsession all of my life (an autistic special interest). It started out slow because my body needed time to heal. Just 15 or 20 miles a week starting back in mid-December. My goal was to build to where I could manage the 125 miles a week of commuting when I am out of lockdown. Cracking 100 miles in a week was my first big goal on the bike, and getting under 100 kg on the scale the other, and they both happened this week. The guidelines suggest we say something about how our major victory could help others and I do think there is an important message for people about getting underlying medical issues addressed. CICO works, but it only works when your body is doing what it is supposed to do. If you have underlying medical issues, it really may not work. If you are overweight, it is not easy to get physicians to take you seriously. There is an enormous amount of prejudice even in practitioners who are not accusatory. Responses to people not seeing the progress they think they should on here are often just "well you must be eating more than you think" or an exegesis extolling the virtues of CICO. Sometimes people are counting inaccurately, but sometimes there is more going on. PCOS, chronic inflammation and infection, etc. Those responses are like an attack on a person's intelligence or sanity. If you know you are tracking things correctly and something seems wrong, seek medical help. See a nutritionist, see a specialist, don't accept fat shaming as an answer. I think the biggest mistake I made is that I took extra steps and then accepted what I knew did not seem right. It would have been far better to have kept going than to wait until I almost died to find out what was wrong. Anyway, that's my first victory post and I just wanted to share with you guys. [link] [comments] |
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