Weight loss: [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Results! |
- [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Results!
- 300lbs to 199lbs in just under a year!
- 160kg. Asked a girl out, got my heart broken, pushed myself harder than I ever did before. Lost 10kg in five weeks.
- Almost 3 weeks without fast food… I don’t miss it!
- At 37 years old I'm going to try to lose weight for the first time in my life.
- 10 Pounds in 10 Weeks!
- I LOST 30-50 lbs!!!
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 29 May 2021? Start here!
- Received a fun unsolicited 'helpful tip' at the gym today about my gut from another member.
- My quarantine and post quarantine weight gain
- I fit into jeans from high school!
- Is ten pounds enough weight lost to see visible changes, or am I imagining it??
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 28
- Consistency is great, but perseverance is where it's at
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 29th, 2021
- Holy Moly, I can see my neck muscles!
- A super unfit beginner needing advice please!
- Daily Q&A Post for Saturday, 29 May 2021 - No question too small!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 29 May 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- advice needed - what are the best AFFORDABLE & healthy low cal foods? (available in central europe)
- Is it normal to feel a bit embarrassed over their massive weightloss?
- How do I break a cycle of overeating?
- Kind of don't like my body after getting pretty fit?
- Progress/semi-update to my rant
| [Challenge] 90s Cartoons Loseit Challenge Results! Posted: 28 May 2021 09:18 AM PDT Hey Everybody. Thanks for participating in the Spring 2021 Loseit Challenge: 90s Cartoons! Hope everyone met some awesome people and smashed their goals! Below are the results of the combined challenge! Team Spongebob, Recess, and Magic School Bus (Beep Beep) had a total of45179 Activity Minutes and 7,978,143 Steps. ****************************************************** Team Animaniacs, Powerpuff Girls, and Sailor Moon had a total of48681 Activity Minutes and 7,964,666 Steps.Which each team winning one category, way to tie on last week! Thanks again for participating, stay tuned for future challenges!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] |
| 300lbs to 199lbs in just under a year! Posted: 28 May 2021 08:56 AM PDT I'm a Male (20) 5'8 and started my weight loss journey on June 15th of 2020. For the first time in almost a decade I'm finally under 200 pounds. I've been a big dude for as long as I could remember and I wanted to change that. I was always at a constant 240/250 range for most of my life until my senior year in high school where I gained about 60 pounds from eating out everyday and sitting at my desk 24/7 putting me at my highest weight of 310. My diet consisted of large helpings of eggs, pancakes topped with loads of syrup, lots of bacon for breakfast, a ham and cheese sandwich and an entire bag of family size Doritos and maybe some cookies I bought from the store, and 2nd helpings or 3rd helpings of whatever my mom made for dinner. Looking back at it now, I can't believe I used to down that stuff on a regular basis. I lost about 10 pounds due to having Gastritis and being put on a strict diet as to not worsen the condition. In that time I self reflected and realized how bad I had become. I stepped on the scale and got to work. The first workout was absolute hell! I couldn't comprehend how out of shape I was. I was gassed out by the 3rd exercise. I would watch these YouTube videos of cardio and weight training for dumbbells and they would look so happy and encouraging while I was on the floor dying half way through. I stuck with it however and managed to consistently workout and stick with a plan. Next came the ever dreaded diet... At first I would starve myself going so far as to down only 1000 calories a day! I even went to this subreddit and asked if that was okay to do. I then changed it to about 1200-1500 and as of this current moment I am eating about 1400-1500 a day which is a lot healthier for me. The diet consisted of the usual whole foods like wheat bread, whole grain pasta, chicken breast, turkey meat, vegetables, and fruits with some plain Greek yogurt. I would even use some whey protein powder for that extra protein intake. Added sugar is the absolute king of destroying a diet. Cokes, candy, and ice cream were kicked out of my diet almost completely with ice cream appearing every once in awhile (sorry I just love ice cream) I actually have stuck to this diet fairly well considering I thought it would almost impossible for me to continually eat this way for more than a month when I first started. I would be lying however if I said I didn't have the urge to want to eat something that would surely throw my diet for a loop. There were the bad days where I'd go out with my friends and I'd splurge on a meaty burger and fries or get double scooped ice cream with a brownie from Baskin-Robbins. Even still, I kept my diet going and it payed off. I've been on this subreddit for a few months now watching everyone post about their weight losses of 100+ pounds and it encouraged me to keep going and reach my goal. Thank you everyone here, I really appreciate it. See you when I hit my goal of 160 pounds! https://imgur.com/gallery/ILtOArr <----- Progress pics (NSFW) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 May 2021 11:08 AM PDT I've been a fat guy my entire life. The fattest I ever got was 170kg, which cost me job opportunities, relationships and my health. A few years ago I went for bariatric surgery and lost about 40kg. Sounds good? Well I was one of the few who backslided and put the weight back on. The guilt I feel about "wasting" this opportunity is immense, but that's in the past. During lockdown last year, I gained a hell of a lot of weight and I somehow reached 160kg going into 2021. I was aghast at myself. How could I have wasted all the progress I made from the surgery? I felt like a guy who won the lottery and after spending like a madman, waking up broke. About a month ago I asked out a girl I like and somehow, she said yes. I couldn't believe it. She took a while to answer though, and while she was thinking about it, I decided to go for a short run every day. Nothing fancy, just 2.5km that I could get done in half an hour (I jog very slowly) before work. My thinking was that whatever miniscule progress I could make would give me a bit of confidence going into the date. By the time she said yes, I had already developed a routine of sorts. Again, nothing fancy. But no matter how I busy I was, I would do my 2.5km every day, morning or night. The date went well. Better I could have hoped. Then the kicker - she didn't want a second one. She was really nice about it, but I somehow couldn't help but wonder if she'd say yes if I weighed as much as a regular person. I was devastated but tried not to show it. But I didn't stop my routine. Unlike all the previous instances where I would try and get fit, only to lose interest, I just kept running. Every day, I pulled on my shoes and ran. I listened to everything on my runs - rock music, podcasts, YouTube series, even Brooklyn 99. I looked at it as a break from work and from sitting around at home. Instead of wasting hours online like I usually do, I would devote at least 30 minutes of that time to my daily run. The wonderful thing is the more I ran, the less I felt like eating. I was the guy who would eat a tub of Ben and Jerry's before bed. Order two mains because I couldn't decide which one to choose. I couldn't ever imagine myself doing intermittent fasting. But somehow I forced myself to think of it as a numbers game. I have a set amount of calories per day. Everything I eat - everything, even a cashew nut - gets written down in my MyFitness app. I began looking at calorie counts. It was such a waste "spending" a thousand calories on one burger from BK, especially when I would get hungry again later. It made more sense to fill up on fish and brown rice and garlic-roasted veggies, and eat more of those. It's like the old Limmy joke - which is heavier, a kilo of steel or a kilo of feathers? You need a tiny bit of steel to hit a kilo, but a hell of a lot of feathers to reach the same amount. Same like calories. It was magical stepping on the scale and seeing the numbers go down. It is magical walking around and not wanting to die from back pain. I fit a little better in my trousers now. I get less bodyaches. And it was absolutely crazy and unexpected that I could begin running longer distances. On the advice of a friend, I dialled it up to 5k. I had run 5k in one sitting exactly once in my life, and collapsed immediately. To my own astonishment, I'm doing 5k runs every day now. Just today, I managed to hit under an hour for my run. This is a timing I have never managed to achieve in my life, ever, and not even when I weighed much less than I do today. I want to keep going. I want to be the best version of myself. And I want to do this for myself, and not for anyone else. The girl who said no is still a friend, and she sends me encouraging messages from time to time. Somehow, it's different this time. I don't want to stop just because she doesn't want to go out with me. I'm not doing this because I harbour some foolish hope of going back to that girl when I'm fitter and asking her out again, expecting a different answer. No, I respect her decision. Instead, I'm doing this for myself. I'm running because I want to lose weight, because I like it, and because it's better for me than sitting on my arse at home. I'm on the first step of this journey, and I don't want it to be my last. Thanks for reading. EDIT: Thank you everyone who commented, it means a lot to me and I really appreciate it. I hope to update soon with more good news! [link] [comments] |
| Almost 3 weeks without fast food… I don’t miss it! Posted: 28 May 2021 11:29 PM PDT Hey guys! I posted about two months ago about my fast food addiction that caused me to both gain a lot of weight and to rack up my credit card debt. After that post, I had a few more weeks of struggle and then I decided to quit fast food cold turkey. I went from having fast food about once a day, sometimes twice on particularly bad days, to absolutely no fast food. I am doing CICO and only counting protein as a macros to make sure that I eat enough of it. I'm also eating normal servings. I have no restrictions on what I eat unless it doesn't fit in my allowance for the day. The only restriction is no fast food because I truly can't afford it. My life has changed so much. I have so much more energy! My relationship with food and feeling ashamed of having a dang cookie has completely changed. I will say that I have been struggling emotionally but I expected that to happen because binging was a way of finding comfort. I'm going to start therapy as soon as I can. I grew up in a house where there was always a new fad diet or lifestyle related MLM being tried out by my parents and consequently us kids. There was always crazy restrictions and evil ingredients/macros. I'm breaking that cycle in my own life and for my future kids. I am not actually worried about my weight atm, just staying within a calorie deficit. I couldn't be happier. Thank you guys for this awesome community! [link] [comments] |
| At 37 years old I'm going to try to lose weight for the first time in my life. Posted: 28 May 2021 03:19 PM PDT So a little introduction. I am 187cm (6,2ft) 37 years old. I was overweight for as long as I remember. Sometimes slightly, sometimes more but always at least a bit. 10 years ago I was at 90kg. Ever so slightly I reached 112kg 5 years ago and then dropped to 103 in a year - without trying. Just something that happened. My first son was born, so I started to have slightly more active life. But then... I started to lose it, year ago I was again at 112kg and couple days ago I checked and yup... fucking 120kg. I am fat. No way around it. I'm not slightly fluffy or whatever, I am obese. I can't fit in any of my clothes. In the stores where I usually buy clothes - the biggest size XXL is already to small for me. Holy crap how did this happened... Now, I am fucking lazy piece of shit. I hate physical exercise with a burning passion. Also I am BIG quitter. Even slight frustration can make me quit something I was super excited about. I know this, I've been there again and again over the years. My wife was always on some diets and when I saw it, I was always thinking "wow, this is extremely fucked". You can eat this but not that. You should eat at given hour, 5-7 times a day. Kill me now. My eating system is this: "I wake up at 7am, go to work, eat some snack around 11am and then eat the biggest freaking dinner ever at 6pm and supper around 11pm and go to sleep at 2am and let's not forget about fuckton of snacks and sweets in the evening". So no breakfast, big late dinner and super late supper. You see why all this diets I've seen my wife was using sounded absolutely terrible. But then, for the first time in my life I admitted to myself that this is not something that will go away by itself. That it's not "nothing". It is a problem - a problem that I created, and I have to solve it because at this point it's already very bad and it only will get worse. And the biggest revelation for me was that I (also for the firs time ever) started to read about losing fat and I found out that all the "magical diets" my wife was following were big pile of bullshit. I don't have to eat 5 meals. I don't have force myself to eat breakfast because "it's most important meal". I don't only have to eat freaking carrots or whatever. Not only that, but I can actually eat whenever I want and whatever I want as long as I eat less than I expend. What a revelation you guys!!! I tried to check a couple dozen calculators etc. and find out that I should apparently eat around 2300-2400 calories. That is a lot. Today I ate plate of roasted veggies (love them!) so huge I couldn't see anyting from behind the plate. And better yet, I ate Snickers later because I was kinda hot for sweets. And still I used only 1900 calories. How??? Turns out that I don't even have to cut too much. I usually ate these veggies with mozzarella. I cut mozzarella and used half as much of olive and bam, over half calories gone. And cut down on snacks - especially these fuckers they are the bane of my existence and turns out they are 800 calories in a pack. WTF. Also I always went by the bus from work but for last three days I went by foot, it's about 7500 steps (6 km). Not much but walking is really only "exercise" I don't actually despise (even more - I quite like walking)... So yeah, sorry for big chunks of text. I'm just excited. I don't want to lose weight very quickly, I aim at maybe 25kg (55lbs) in a 1-2 years. I really wish it's not just "diet" but overall change in eating habits and life style. Also I know that if I go too restrictive there is bug chance I quit so I'll try to go easy on myself. Wish me luck guys!!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 May 2021 07:01 AM PDT I was always someone who was looking for the next fad diet or googling "can you lose 15 pounds in a month" and I am so proud of myself for throwing that mentality away. Once I realized my body just doesn't work that way, and turned to a more sustainable lifestyle, everything started to change. Normally, I would have complained about only losing 10 pounds in 10 weeks, but now I know that is perfectly healthy and normal. I am actually excited each day to get on the scale now because I am no longer ashamed of what I see! Just wanted to post my win for today and hopefully reassure a few of you that slow and study does win the race! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 May 2021 08:50 AM PDT So I'm a 16 year old female and I've always been heavy. It started when I was about 7 and the weight gain just continued. It got really bad when I was around 14. I remember that December when I was 14, I weighed in at 230 lbs. I felt so down about it and convinced myself not to care. I honestly felt like I was just going to keep gaining for the rest of my life and I just naturally had a harder time losing weight than others. So then I started eating again and I didn't dare step back on the scale. I know I gained weight during this time and I'm not sure how much but it's probably between 10-20 lbs. Then the panoramic hit and I was stuck in my home for school. My mom took control of my diet for about 2 weeks and that was all I needed to start my weight loss. It wasn't bad control. It made me realize how much I actually ate. I ate so much food that I didn't even need to eat. I would binge almost every other day. If I didn't eat breakfast for the morning, I would eat a lot more later in the day because "it was a treat" and "I deserved it". This time really gifted me a different mindset and I will be forever grateful for that. I think the only thing that will allow you to lose weight and keep it off is adopting a healthy mindset and wanting to lose weight more than anything. I hardly did any exercise but counting calories and eating less did the trick. I did this consistently for about 4 months and then after, I was just very mindful of what I ate and I noticed my jeans fit better, my dresses more loose, and my face had way less fat on it. And my collar bone appeared. Keep in mind I'm 5'10. I felt awesome but always thought I lost some weight. The new year rolled around and I've just been feeling unmotivated and down. Yesterday I decided I should just eat whatever I wanted again. I decided to weigh myself first to see what I weighed and expected near the same weight last time I weighed myself but I lost at least 31 pounds and then some. I thought the scale was broken. I have not been under 200 since I was in middle school. I'm just really proud of myself because never could I have imagined that I would lose the weight of a small child. So yeah. If you see this, thank you for listening to my rant. I'm going to try to get my weight in the 170s [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 29 May 2021? Start here! Posted: 28 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] |
| Received a fun unsolicited 'helpful tip' at the gym today about my gut from another member. Posted: 28 May 2021 01:26 PM PDT For context I'm 36M, 5'10" 182 lbs. I've been weight training 3x weekly for the past 5 months, consistently, and while I'm definitely stronger, and see changes in my arms, shoulders, and face, I still have a fairly stubborn gut that I can't get rid of. Today, while doing leg raises on the pullup bar, I adjusted my shirt to cover my stomach, as it was riding up. After getting down, I was approached by a man in his 40's, who gave me the 'take your earbuds out' gesture, and said, "I saw you on the pullup bar before." Initially, I thought he was about to offer some form advice, as I'm still fairly novice at a lot of these exercises, and was open to hearing what he had to say. He wasn't a trainer or employee, just another member who seemed to want to offer his opinion. "I saw you pull your shirt down. I was just like you last year, but I lost 30 lbs. Have you heard of intermittent fasting?" I nodded, mostly stunned at this guy's audacity, as he continued, "I lost 30 lbs with IF. Now I'm not afraid of my shirt coming up any more" I told him I had heard of IF, and that no, I am not worried about my shirt coming up now, and I'm working on it currently (I was mid-crunch when he came over to me). He reiterated that If I did IF, I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore, and left after telling me to "put in the work." I quickly finished up my workout and went home. This was my nightmare; as a guy who has always been chubby, and is new to going to the gym, the greatest anxiety I had to get over was that anyone cared what I was doing, or what I looked like while I was there. I got past benching 80lbs next to guys build like Gears of War characters who were putting up 300+, but now I'm always going to be worried that if my shirt slips up, I'm going to get some more fun tips about how to 'fix' my body with a fad diet (speaking of fad diets, I've been on Weight Watchers for two years, so it's not like I'm not managing my food intake.) It also feels like all the work I've been putting in still isn't good enough. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this early in your fitness journey? How do you get back up after such a crushing blow to the ego? [link] [comments] |
| My quarantine and post quarantine weight gain Posted: 28 May 2021 08:03 PM PDT Ever since March of last year I have been taking in food like no other. I became an eating machine, and it shows. In the last ~15 months I have piled on 107 pounds. 107 POUNDS! That is 7 pounds per month. I went crazy. If I would go out, I ended up stopping for fast food, even if I had eaten not too long ago. If I went to the store, I would buy junk food at an incredible pace. At a gas station, I would buy a soda, and then I would go home and laze around on my ever expanding butt eating and gorging on more and more food. 107 pounds is a lot for anyone's body to take on, but me being relatively short at 5 feet even made it just that much worse. I was 135 pounds before and now sit at 242 pounds. I don't know what to do with myself in my free time anymore other than to eat. I literally just eat my way through the day. Heck, I'm laying in bed writing this with a bag of m&ms next to me. I just want to get some advice on how to help myself get back on track before it goes any further. I almost fear what I have done is irreversible as I can't eat a normal sized meal anymore without still being hungry after. Please, if you have any tips I'll take it. [link] [comments] |
| I fit into jeans from high school! Posted: 28 May 2021 11:14 AM PDT I (30f) thought that I might, given how everything else was fitting, but I expected to have to yank, squeeze, and kinda shimmy into them (you know what I mean). I did not! they went on like I'd purchased them because they fit me well. I can pinch the denim on my thighs and pull it away from my leg. I can pull at the waistband and there's a comfy little gap. It feels freaking amazing! I feel so light and cute and healthy! I want to join a climbing gym or something. I feel unstoppable! 6lbs to go until goal weight, although honestly I might stop before that. It's more about how my body feels than any specific number. This time last year I was absolutely distraught because the cheap, supposedly temporary 'fat' jeans I got at a thrift store had gotten painfully tight across my stomach, digging into my belly and leaving deep imprints at the waistband. I'd never felt so low. But I turned it around! This is the lowest I've weighed since junior year of college. I've only ever lurked here, but you guys have encouraged me so much. Thank you!!!! [link] [comments] |
| Is ten pounds enough weight lost to see visible changes, or am I imagining it?? Posted: 28 May 2021 04:50 PM PDT I've been tracking for 47 days now (longest I've ever stuck to it, and it's working!) and I'm down just under ten pounds, from 189 at 5'5" to 179-181!! I'm not done, but this was a big milestone for me and I'm excited. I feel like my thighs already look slimmer, but I also kind of feel like that's impossible with only ten pounds lost? Not trying to belittle my progress, but I thought I might need to lose at least twenty, maybe twenty five to start seeing visible changes, while the internal changes (better gut health, more energy, etc.) happened like two weeks in. Am I just seeing what I want to see, or could my thighs have slimmed down already?? [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 28 Posted: 28 May 2021 08:12 PM PDT Hello losers, Happy Friday! 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. 1800 7 days: Oofta. Choices were made. Exercise 5 days a week: 30-minute lunch walk is all she wrote today. 23/28 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: I need to be making more time for this. Got some lists to make. Gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for being vaccinated. I had a diet soda on a bar patio for the first time in, who fucking knows. We're all still in a transitional world but feeling like you get a previously banal piece of your life back is a lovely surprise. Your turn kids [link] [comments] |
| Consistency is great, but perseverance is where it's at Posted: 28 May 2021 01:50 PM PDT This is something that has been on my mind for some time. Why do we put so much emphasis on consistency in weight loss, while so many other areas in our lives are about perseverance? If you take a marriage. A long streak of perfect days doesn't make a good marriage. It goes with ups and downs and hanging in there. It's about choosing over and over to invest and learn in a relationship. If you have a fight with your partner, you don't think. To hell with it I'll just throw the whole relationship out! You work on it. A career is not build on consecutive days of high productivity. It's about learning, adapting and sometimes you find yourself not matching with your environment. So you change it up. Another thing is your financial situation. You might treat yourself from time to time. But you don't think, oh as I've indulged myself to tap into my savings account I might as well just clear it out. No, you enjoy the purchase and keep on saving after that. Just some examples on how most of us understand that although we might "screw up" here and there, the next day, or week, or month we just keep going. Working towards our goals. Consistency is great. And if you're able to do that, all the better for you. But if you (like me) screw up here and there, just keep going. Like you would in other areas in your life. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 29th, 2021 Posted: 29 May 2021 12:06 AM PDT Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! I want to shortly also mention — this thread lives and breathes by people supporting each other :) so if you have some time, comment on the other posts! Show support, offer advice and share experiences :) [link] [comments] |
| Holy Moly, I can see my neck muscles! Posted: 28 May 2021 11:14 AM PDT Good day fellow losers. I was wanting to wait until I lost 1 more pound and reached my halfway point (50 lbs) before I made my first post in this subreddit but something amazing happened today that put the biggest smile on my face. I noticed how defined my neck is! I was having a "zoned out" moment in the bathroom thinking about something exciting to which I came back to reality and proceeded to do a "LETS GOOO!" with fist pumps into the mirror when I stopped in awe to see how visible my neck muscles were now! For the next couple minutes I just kept tensing and relaxing my neck to admire how noticeable the weight loss has been in my neck. This is the first time since I started my weight loss that I've noticed something that was a real shocker to myself and it feels amazing. But since I don't want to post 2 days in a row, I will piggyback my own post to say, Halfway there!!!!!!! 49 lbs down since January 20th and 51 lbs to go. CICO has been a real game changer and I cannot wait to post when I have finally reach the goal of a triple digit weight loss. [link] [comments] |
| A super unfit beginner needing advice please! Posted: 28 May 2021 05:14 PM PDT Hi all! I'm a 25 year old female (UK) and in the worst shape. I've put on 2 clothes sizes since September (started a master's course) and I'm so unfit right now I struggle walking 5 minutes to the shops (I'm super embarrassed). Background: I have 0 self control, need something sustainable (no crash diets), I suffer from depression and anxiety so it's hard to motivate myself to even get out the house right now, but I know I should feel better if I'm healthier. It's not so much about loosing the weight (though I definitely would like too as none of my clothes fit), as it is about getting healthier. Even the UK 'NHS couch to 5k' is too steep a climb for me right now so I need something to ease me in and hopefully build upon. I'm not looking for quick fixes or crash diets. I would be so grateful if anyone who started their fitness journey from a similar starting point could give me advice on what worked for them e.g. if there are any fitness programmes they followed, or where they started. Apologies for the long post, and thank you for reading if you got this far! X [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Saturday, 29 May 2021 - No question too small! Posted: 28 May 2021 10:31 PM PDT Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. TIPS: * Include your stats if appropriate/relevant (or better yet, update your flair!) * Check the FAQ and other resources in the sidebar! [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Saturday, 29 May 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 28 May 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
Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution. Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message. --- On reddit, your *vote* means, *"I found this interesting"* (...read more about [**voting on reddit**](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/voting)) --- [link] [comments] |
| advice needed - what are the best AFFORDABLE & healthy low cal foods? (available in central europe) Posted: 29 May 2021 12:03 AM PDT I used to be pretty thin (63 kg/ 175 cm), i also did lots of sports. but the pandemic changed my financial situation. i no longer can afford to buy fruits and vegetables, or gym membership. i gained 18 kgs (=40 pounds) during the past year. i am desperately trying to lose weight, but running and hiking are my only options, and they make me extremely hungry. i miss being able to fill my stomach with huge amounts of salad, pomegranate with yogurt, berries, asparagus, fish, etc... :( i am still muscular, but i keep gaining weight. do you have some advice for me? shall i stop sports and eat less? are there even cheap but filling options for extremely low budget? any advice appreciated <3 [link] [comments] |
| Is it normal to feel a bit embarrassed over their massive weightloss? Posted: 28 May 2021 03:51 PM PDT I'm fairly new at my job but have gotten quite close with one coworker. I'm really shy but she's really kind and we spend a lot of time working together so we end up talking about a lot of random things. She was talking about wanting to lose a few pounds so I said I could help her since I had lost almost 90 pounds over the past year and now whenever we meet a coworker she yells "tell them how much weight you've lost!!!!!" and then stares at me and I'm forced to tell them. As much as I'm sure she has great intentions, I'm starting to feel uncomfortable with people knowing I used to not have self control with food and I used to be obese. Maybe they aren't thinking that at all, maybe it's all in my head...but still...is it bad to want people to just see me as I am now and think I've always looked like this? [link] [comments] |
| How do I break a cycle of overeating? Posted: 28 May 2021 03:09 PM PDT Hi guys, I'm really struggling with losing weight (lol, aren't we all!). I have made progress over the past couple of years but I'm still not comfortable with my body and not yet at my goal weight. I go through phases of being really successful with eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly, then maybe suddenly I'm having a bad day for [reason] and I'll throw calorie-counting. eating healthy etc. out of the window in favour of overeating. Then, I will get frustrated/annoyed/incredibly unhappy/angry with myself and the solution to those feelings? Overeat some more. I guess it might even be called binging. I'm posting on here for to try to be more accountable and to open up and ask if anyone else is dealing with (or has dealt) with a similar problem? I believe it could be quite happen. How do you break this cycle? What steps could I do? Any help would be very much appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Kind of don't like my body after getting pretty fit? Posted: 28 May 2021 07:47 PM PDT I realize this might sound like a humblebrag and that's not how I mean it at all. I'm a 6'1 woman and after going from +238 to 170 a couple years ago and maintaining within 10-15 lbs, I made a bit of an effort to lose some in the last few months because I could tell I was getting squishier. I didn't weigh myself but I'd estimate I was around 190. So through a combination of career stress, pandemic stress, depression, anxiety, and a bit of willpower, I've now dropped to ONE POUND AWAY from my all-time GW of 160 (I stopped last time at 170 because I was burned out after losing ~70lbs in 6 months). I know exactly what I need to do to lose and I had a fucked up appetite anyway so the weight just fell off the past couple months. I also exercise a lot and added strength training to my already well-established cardio. I know I've definitely put on a bit of muscle, while also losing 20-30lbs of fat. I saw myself in a mirror today while doing a home workout (shirtless lol) and tbh????? I look GOOD. Idk what my body fat % is and I'm still 22lbs from being underweight for my height (I do not plan on getting there), but I have defined collarbones, muscle tone in my arms and legs, clear upper abs, and would probably have lower abs too if not for some loose skin from last time. I can crush 3x20 full push-ups no problem. I look lean and strong. I like how I look but honestly, I don't really like the way my body physically feels to the touch. Turns out I don't actually like being able to feel my ribs and spine so clearly. When I'm in the shower or putting on clothes and feel how sharp my hip bones are and how FLAT MY ASS IS, it freaks me out a bit. Internally/energy-wise I feel fine, I don't feel weak or sick or anything. I just feel sort of alarmed when I notice a new crevice in my wrist or muscle I couldn't feel before. I'm genetically predisposed to look like a beanpole so I know that gaining 10lbs will go everywhere first except my hips or butt. Idk, has anyone experienced not really liking the feeling of your body after changing it? Did you just get used to it eventually or did you try to gain a bit back? I'm not like a skeleton but I'm a lot thinner than I'm used to and idk if I should wait it out or what. [link] [comments] |
| Progress/semi-update to my rant Posted: 28 May 2021 01:49 PM PDT Starting weight: 305.5 lbs Current weight: 291.2 lbs Lost so far: 14.3 lbs Next major goal weight: 220 lbs Inches lost: 1.5 So a couple of weeks ago, I posted a rant about how frustrated I was with my diet, my life, and especially my husband's attitude. I had a heart to heart with him about some of the things he said, and maybe I misinterpreted some of the things he said while we were both mad at each other. Long story short, I broke down and told him I needed to have veggies in the house and I couldn't have another junk food-fueled weekend (my son had his first sleepover, so they got to have junk food for dinner). I got the veggies, but I was honestly terrified to step on the scale for the first time in, like 3 weeks. I thought for sure I was going to be up in the 300's again and I'd have to basically start over. I wasn't! I maintained weight. So instead of being discouraged, I started again with more determination. I kept track of my calories, like a few suggested. I basically just graze on veggies most of the day, eating when I'm hungry, but not starving, and finishing when I'm no longer peckish. And three days in a row, I drank a gallon, if not close to it, of cold water. My next small goal is 290, so I'm getting close. Getting, and staying, under 300 was hard, because I'd go 299 to 301, back and forth like a fricken jump rope, but I've managed to stay under for over a month, now. I also lost 1.5 inches from my hips and waist, which is a big deal to me, too. I know my loss is overall pretty small, but I've never lost this much weight before, except the time I worked at a package delivery company. I lost 80 lbs working there, but as soon as I left the job (and had a baby), the weight came back on. In all my years of "I Wanna Lose Weight" and "I'm Starting a New Diet," I never really lost weight. But this time I did. Almost 15 pounds. So thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
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