Weight loss: The gift I gave myself for my 40th Birthday... 305lbs to 220lbs. |
- The gift I gave myself for my 40th Birthday... 305lbs to 220lbs.
- [tip] i didn't realize how much 10lbs was until i picked up my cat.
- Down 45 pounds and counting after struggling with even the concept of losing weight for years.
- Weight Loss advice that helped me lose over 100 pounds
- 15 pounds is a milestone for me
- How to deal when people tell you "don't lose any more weight, please stop" and you're not at your weight goal yet
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 12th, 2021
- Week 16
- Tip: Don't look at your body every day
- Anyone else really tired?
- Do you have trouble with always having to eat something while watching a movie/tv-show? Soup is your new best friend!
- Addiction and carrot cake
- Discovering CICO, Overeating and Volumising
- How did loved ones support you?
- What’s a good way to add protein into your diet without excess calories?
- My Body Controlling My Life (weight loss problem)
- Weird Weight Distribution
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 11
- Been struggling with trying to get a hold on my weight for over a year. A skipping rope has helped me gain back some control.
- Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers)
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 12 May 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- In need of an accurate figure as to how many calories I should be consuming
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 12 May 2021? Start here!
| The gift I gave myself for my 40th Birthday... 305lbs to 220lbs. Posted: 11 May 2021 10:43 AM PDT I started my weight lost journey on Halloween day 2020. Every year I wear an amazing Cookie Monster costume my wife made me about 8 years ago and every year, it got harder and harder to fit in… But not that year. As I was trying to squeeze in the furry pans, I quickly realized that It was not going to happen. I believe everyone knows how to lose weight, there is no magic solution that will transform / shape your body. Cut down on intake and move more THAT'S IT... Alcohol was close to being a problem for me at some point so cutting down on booze was probably the hardest part. I poured down my bar down the drain to avoid temptation. Just stopping drinking probably saved 3500 Cal a week. I did the OMAD diet for a while, only eating between 5 and 7 pm for the exception of 2 coffee in the morning. (No flipping way I am dealing with work without coffee.) The first month was the hardest but you get use to it. After 3 months I had enough of the OMAD, but the result of dieting was obvious, so I change to 1800 Cal a day and still doing it to this day with 1 cheat day a week to take my son out after soccer practice. As for exercise, I tried the Gym ... hated it. What can I say, I hate the Gym, I find it boring and never had any motivation to get up and lift weight. However, I do live in a beautiful area with amazing trails all around my house, so I started walking more maybe 2 miles with the dogs... then I started jogging 3 miles... jogging turned into running and now I run about 5 miles in less than an hour daily. I also started adding bench pushups on my runs (4 stops / 30 pushup per stop) It took me about 4 months to reach my goal of 250 lbs but instead of stopping there I decided to push myself a bit more and was aiming for 210lbs by June 2021. But today was my initial target day and proud to show my progress. I feel better, my legs don't ache in the morning, putting my socks on is no longer a pain and .. on a relationship point of view, let's just say this journey has rekindle my wife and I flame. Bonus : The Cookie Monster Costume TLDR : It's my Bday ..Was fat , did something about it.. EDIT : Wow thank you for all the Bday wishes and nice comments.. this community is by far one of the most positive place on the Reddit platform! . [link] [comments] |
| [tip] i didn't realize how much 10lbs was until i picked up my cat. Posted: 11 May 2021 04:13 PM PDT i put myself down a lot for not making progress quicker. ive lost 13 pounds over the past couple months and to me, that sounds like hardly anything. until today! my cat is 10 pounds, sorta on the chubby side. so im always thinking about how chubby she is and calling her fatty and all that (lovingly, of course). but it hit me, that's how much weight has come off of my body. 10 pounds isnt super heavy but it's a decent amount of weight, and it was really helpful for me to realize that. i was carrying around that weight on my body, im thinking about how miserable i really was with that extra weight and how heavy that was. i still have 20 pounds to lose, and imagining carrying a 20 pound object? it's literally weighing me down and im thinking how i'll feel so much better physically without all that on me. so maybe you guys can try this if you're feeling inadequate with your weight loss. on another note, it's time for kitty to shape up her diet also :,) [link] [comments] |
| Down 45 pounds and counting after struggling with even the concept of losing weight for years. Posted: 11 May 2021 05:56 PM PDT I've been slowly gaining weight since college, much more rapidly in the last year however. Every year my doctor would tell me I should lose some weight and I would agree with the best of intentions and every year come in a little heavier. I've always struggled with fickle knee joints so finding workouts I could do without pain was difficult and disheartening. I also never found any joy in working out. I felt no endorphin rush and I just hated how I felt afterwards. If I did find anything I could stick with for any amount of time, I would never see or feel a change. The heavier I got, the more my knees hurt. I also love food. All kinds of food and hated the idea of calculating what I ate to track calories. Last year was a lot of take out. I maxed out around 265lbs and decided if I'm stuck home with nothing else to do I might as well try to get healthy. My sister finally convinced me to try a fitness app for streaming workouts last October. She did the same workouts with me from the other side of the country, which helped me to stay accountable and keep going. in February I gave my diet an overhaul, not with tracking or measuring, but just removing or limiting things that are not healthy and eating more things that are, but still allowing treats and exceptions on occasion. Today for the first time in ten years I broke below 220lbs. I haven't had a goal weight since I've never put too much stock in the scale, I am fairly tall and large framed so I just want to find a place where I'm content in my skin and healthy. I am just now starting to feel like it could actually be reasonably possible for me to break 200lbs and I am pretty excited at the idea and just wanted to share. [link] [comments] |
| Weight Loss advice that helped me lose over 100 pounds Posted: 11 May 2021 10:01 PM PDT I made a...very popular post the other day here about the weight loss benefits for men's sexuality. I'm sure women's sexuality benefits just as much. I wanted to write what I learned from my weight loss. This was 2 years in the making and a series of trial and error. Mind, what works for me may not work for you. I fast between 8 pm and 12 pm every day. In the morning I drink black coffee. Between 8 and 12 I do not eat anything. This includes sugar or milk in my coffee as those break the fast. Let's call it skipping breakfast. I have limited my consumption of meat products to once a day. I rarely buy meat to be cooked at home now. I still eat meat, but it's not something I regularly buy at a grocery store and if I do eat meat it's often at a restaurant. As someone that mostly cooks (this is what you should be doing if you want to lose weight) this limits my options. So every day I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. I eat a whole avocado daily, often add an entire tomato and throw some kosher salt on it. I make lots of vegetable stir fry and curries. I save a lot - A LOT - of money on food this way. I highly suggest buying smaller eating plates as well. My main plate is a small salad saucer. I fit all of my food on that one plate. Often, when I'm eating curry, I load a bowl with rice and dump the curry on it. I never eat food while browsing my phone or watching tv or something now. Food is food time. Relish it. Every time I eat food I'm systematically breaking down what I made, how I can improve it, areas where I fucked up. This has made me a better cook but more importantly it makes food time into food time so I can be in the moment. Food is to be savored but not abused. Furthermore, by concentrating on what you're eating you'll eat more slowly and know when you get full more readily. Fuck dessert. Or rather, from now on, try to treat fruit as dessert. For one, fruit is delicious as shit. I'm spoiled as I'm in NYC and can walk to a fruit stand or store 1 minute away and have a nice easy dessert. Get high and eat a good mango. Eat some kiwi. That stuff helps with mood, anxiety, and depression. Finally, incorporate exercise into your daily life. I'm not talking about going to the gym and doing cardio. I'm talking about finding ways to get active without trying. I am very, very spoiled but, essentially, I fucking hate cars. I hate driving. So I moved to New York. I haven't driven in months. My feet are my transportation. I can pick up 10k, 15k, 20k steps in a day easily without trying and I do not have a gym membership. I'm just going about life. Find a way to achieve this and incorporate more walking into your lifestyle. This doesn't mean don't go to the gym. It's a way to be more active in your lifestyle period without considering it "working out". Because if you consider it "working out" then you might not even do it or might not have motivation to do it. This is a nice fall back plan. Essentially, it allows you to be active even when you're not being "active". You dig? So when you have a lazy week you're still doing something. if you like going to the store and it's maybe a mile away, rather than driving there, start walking instead. Close to your job? Walk there. Or maybe consider getting a bike and bike there instead. Try to learn to live life while also limiting your driving as much as you possibly can. Drink lots of water. Lots. I don't drink 8 glasses a day and apparently, according to research that might be too much. But I got one of those big Ello water bottles and drink water or tea. I fill it up twice a day and I'm plenty hydrated. Through discipline and combining all, or some, of these things you will completely change your relationship with food. At the same time I eat anything I want to. I also do not track calories at all at this point (although I highly suggest researching early on so you have an overall idea of how CICO works and the average calories of what foods you eat). I eat a burger once a week at my bodega on my block corner. The other day I ate ramen. I eat a slice of pizza weekly (hello New York). I eat rice almost daily. My roommates are Asian and we go through a fuck ton of rice and they're both skinny. Fuck rules about this and that. Find what works for you. Eat what you want, but learn to limit and learn moderation. Smaller plates, fasting, and dedicating time to what's on your plate will help achieve this. All of this has helped me lose over 100 lb. My method was the combination of many methods mostly inspired by people outside of the USA. America is so borked in terms of our relationship with food that we've come up with fad diets that have no long term sustainability. Americans teach junk science crap about how bread is bad and rice is bad and how this is unhealthy and that's going to kill you. Look outside America for tips, particularly France and Japan. Americans diet advice is to be taken with a grain of salt (ha!). Why listen to the fattest people to begin with? Clearly we're doing something wrong.
God speed and diet for your dong, guys. [link] [comments] |
| 15 pounds is a milestone for me Posted: 11 May 2021 07:31 PM PDT in around october or november, i saw 214 pounds on the scale. the heaviest my weight had ever been. whoa. i'm barely 5 feet tall. i'm 26 years old. i'm not sure how much i weighed before the pandemic because i never liked stepping on the scale. but i worked out at orangetheory 5 days a week and was starting to feel really good about myself. and then the pandemic hit. i started to weigh myself last summer and it just kept rising. i knew my diet was trash even though i worked out at home 3-5 days a week. i was also pretty depressed because i was social distancing and hardly left my house so of course this combo was no bueno. the discipline started in january. i developed a better relationship with food. i continued to work out at home and i started walking.. i think that was a game changer for me. i'm learning how to listen to my body. i'm taking care of myself and i'm understanding what it means to feel healthy. instead of ordering out multiple times a week, i'm eating out maybe a few times a month. and i don't feel guilty when i do. i'm in this for the long haul—a sustainable lifestyle that makes me feel happy and fulfilled and hopefully adds years to my life. my dad and my mom both died before they were 60, due to different reasons, but they were both health-related. well today i made it to 199.6 pounds! 15 pounds since the fall! i'm vaccinated, i started back at orangetheory a week and a half ago, and i'm feeling amazing! i can see the light at the end of the tunnel now... it's as much of a mental shift as it is physical. i can't morph into a different body, so i had to accept the one i have and figure it out. i can't spend more time hating myself and missing out on a beautiful life. it starts from within and the rest gets easier. i'm so excited to be on this journey! thank you for reading if you made it this far :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 07:55 AM PDT A little background on me. I've been overweight and later on obese - so basically my whole life I've been big and never considered normal weight/size. In the past year (a bit more than that) I've lost over 100 pounds (45kg). I'm turning 24 this year and I'm 172cm tall (5'7"). I currently weigh 163lbs (74kg) and want to get to 143lbs (65kg). I picked a random weight number I want to get to. I'm not sure I'll like being that weight but I want to prove myself I can do it. I don't know how it is to be 65kg but I don't like how I currently look. Let's get to my problem now. I've had about 5 people so far tell me that I did great job but I need to stop now. To them I responded "yup i'm done losing weight" just so I could shut them up. In my mind I truly wanted to tell them that it's none of their business but it's honestly not my style. I'm too nice to say anything back basically - I don't like thinking of myself as too nice but in that regard I am. It sucks to hear it but today my mother said the same thing they said because she bought me a top and I was saying i'm not going to fit in it (it ended up fitting really well) and when I showed myself to her she was like this fits so nicely and then immediately that I need to stop losing weight now. I told her I've stopped losing weight. Which was a lie and it just came out of me, I didn't control myself when i said it Truthfully my weightloss lately has been super slow and I've started to eat far more than what I've ate when I first started. But I still am losing weight, I really don't know how. It's very small amount of weight and there are weeks where the scale doesn't move but I'm not surprised since I've been eating quite a lot (stress and my motivation is kind of non existent atm) It's honestly very discouraging though. My mind immediately goes to "they don't like how I look that's why they're telling me to stop" I've had someone also tell me I've lost ass (which my ass has always been flat and I've never had it. I had back fat that that person maybe mistook for "ass"). But she is someone who's also lost weight in the past and I don't get her comments. She didn't need to lose as much as me but she still struggled with her weight I just want to feel healthy and good about myself. I want to be fit, I'm also afraid people are telling me to stop because they're so prejudiced about loose skin. I don't like having loose skin but it's far better than carrying all that weight. I've lost weight but I want to hide my body more than ever. I've always been self conscious and somehow I've gotten even more reclused and self conscious now. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 12th, 2021 Posted: 11 May 2021 10:00 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] |
| Posted: 12 May 2021 12:07 AM PDT Hello I 25 F 5ft 3inches SW 237.6lbs last week i was 223lbs just weighed in at 221lbs. Yay it came back off even tho that time of the months hit . This month iv made sure to have plenty low cal snacks on hand and some chocolate as chocolate is required haha. The biggest thing iv tried todo this past week is to eat slower so my brain and body can keep up meaning i dont over eat . Second a big news i got a elliptical machine. At the moment iv got it on the lowest resistances as my fitness is ridiculous bad . Im aiming todo four 20minute sessions a week . Honestly its tough but im determined to get fit . To keep me going im listening to audio books interviews and i have a podcast il be starting soon . Hopefully by june im 220 or maybe even below. Thanking for reading . [link] [comments] |
| Tip: Don't look at your body every day Posted: 11 May 2021 11:55 AM PDT Schedule a day where you can take pictures of yourself and then schedule for the same day next month. I've noticed a lot of people on here talking about how they don't notice any changes. Our brains are very smart and will adjust to any changes our bodies make when we look at them. If you only look at your body (and I mean REALLY look at it, like you're doing every day) after a month, you will be able to really see the differences. Focus on how your physical abilities have changed. I've only lost 7 pounds from my highest weight but because I've been implementing lifestyle changes, I feel stronger and more flexible. also if you're already on a calorie deficit, don't listen to people who say not to "waste your exercise" by eating the calories you burn like that advice led me to overeating. If I set my calories for the day to 1400, I'm eating 1400. Not 1400 and 1000 on days I exercise. That's just unsustainable. Exercise is for toning and making you stronger/increasing your range of motion. edt: I am advocating for eating your calories back and I am specifically talking about if you are on a calorie deficit, any other scenarios idk and idc but that's my two cents if you are on a calorie deficit and exercising [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 May 2021 01:08 AM PDT I've been trying to be healthier for a little while, but only changing food in last few weeks. I've only lost maybe two kilos or so (no scales so hard to tell, but basically still early stages and no major body shifts). This week, I have just found that I am so ridiculously tired and I'm not really sure why. It's making it harder to concentrate and do my exercise classes. I do not think my calories are too low (I'm taking it very slowly, so aiming for 1800), I'm sleeping fine, my protein feels okay, it's not related to my cycle. It doesn't feel like a mental health thing - I feel very content and motivated, whereas when my mental health is going, I lose those things. I've never drunk coffee. I just can't see an obvious factor, but maybe I am missing something? For reference, I am 27, 78kg, 163cm, desk job but exercise 5-6 times a week. Is this just a thing that happens as your body adjusts? Have other people experienced this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 01:28 PM PDT Soups are super easy to make, nutritious, healthy, packed with flavor and countless of ingredients, light on the stomach, and overall just delicious if made right. But here's the best part about soups; a nice medium bowl of it can take you anywhere from 30-50 mins to finish while only being 200-500 calories. Lately, anytime I get hungry/bored, i just make my favorite mushroom soup, and just take my time eating it while watching a movie or show. If i'm extra hungry, I add something to it, but rarely will i need to. This trick saved me tons on overeating just because im bored or a bit hungry in between meals. Next time you find yourself needing a snack even if you're not hungry because you're watching your favorite show, just get up and make a bowl of soup. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 08:02 PM PDT TRIGGER WARNING - THIS POST MIGHT MAKE YOU WANT TO EAT, DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH YOUR DIET, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. So I'm sitting here looking at a carrot cake. It is described on the front as "decadent", which I'm sure it is. I bought it about 30 minutes ago. What I'm trying to understand is ... why do I want to eat it ? That seems like a question with a completely obvious answer, but it isn't obvious to me. I mean, earlier I had two microwave dinners that amounted to about 500 calories, and I am not technically hungry at the moment, and I wasn't when I bought the cake either. So it isn't hunger. Cake tastes good, but I don't think that is it either. The salad I bought tastes good. And honestly carrot cake doesn't taste that damn good compared to a lot of things. It's sweet, and that tastes good, but the cake part is sort of strange tasting, I mean I like it, obviously, but lots of food tastes good and I don't think I bought it for that reason. For the past few days I've been on yet another excursion in over-eating, .. after being on a short diet, of course. It seems like I can't stay on it at the moment. But, and I'm sure other people have done this, I seem to have fallen into a pattern where I'll do something dumb on a diet and that is an excuse to just write off the rest of the day and eat whatever. It's like ... "well, today is fucked up, might as well have that burger". Except then that turns into two days, and three days, and the next thing you know there is less diet than there is eating a ton of shit that is bad for you. Oddly, it seems like when you are "trying to diet", you actually eat more, and I can't explain that either. It's like you are always going to start your diet tomorrow, so today you want to get all the food you can enjoy because you won't be able to have it anymore. Except, that also happens tomorrow. And today that last food before the inevitable (and failed) tomorrow diet is carrot cake. But even that doesn't explain it. When I was in the store, yes I was thinking about the above "Want that carrot cake since I won't be able to have it ever again ... (even I don't actually logically believe I won't be eating it a week from now based on recent past history, .. but it's a game we play with ourselves) ... but there was more to it than even that ... When I looked at the cake, when I was standing in the bakery, it wasn't just that I was thinking that I wouldn't have the cake anymore, it was like a physical desire of some kind. I mean, I got kind of tingly inside thinking about the cake. Because I know how cake is going to make me feel. It's like this feeling of euphoria, knowing that as soon as I start eating the cake my eyes are going to kind of get glassy, and I'm going to have this wave of good feelings, and I'm going to go into a kind of daze, .. I don't take drugs, but it's literally how I imagine a drug user must feel. I know I'll get a little sleepy, feel dreamy, and that is going to feel great to eat cake. It's super weird, because when you are eating reduced calories, you don't really think that, at least not while you're on reduce calories. It is like you don't feel that feeling when you see carrot cake, .. it is just a thing on a shelf, but you don't feel a physical desire to have it. I can't explain it, but when you have been eating the wrong things, .. you literally feel something physical when you have the opportunity to do that again, it makes no sense. But if you spend a week eating "what you're supposed to", you don't really feel the same way. Whatever this is, that's why I can't stay on diets, it's not that I don't have willpower, ... I have done things in my life that most thin people I know only talk about doing, to my mind most of them don't have jack shit for self-discipline, so I don't think that is it. It's not the taste of it, ... sure, it's sweet, but so what, if it was just the taste of it I don't think I'd care. It's something about the feeling that it creates when you know you are about to eat it ... like some kind of brain chemical that is being pumped through your body at the sight of cake, or maybe from the memory of the last time you ate it, or from the expectation of knowing how you will feel based on habit, or something. I really can't explain it. But I feel like understanding it is key to any hope of long term success, because it is inevitable that even if I get down to ideal body weight, they aren't going to stop making carrot cake, and if all it takes for me to start eating absurd shit again is for me to feel that kind of carrot cake ecstasy, and I'm right back to "I'll get back on my diet tomorrow, so let's eat a bunch of cake today ..." then I just don't see how it can be sustainable. I don't think people who have never felt this way would ever understand. [link] [comments] |
| Discovering CICO, Overeating and Volumising Posted: 11 May 2021 02:04 PM PDT So I am new to counting calories and wanted to share my newest discoveries in case they help some other newbies on their journeys. First off, we all know veggies are healthy and we all know we should eat more of them. But in the past I really had a hard time taking the time to cook or prepare them before they spoiled. I would always buy a bag of carrots or salad and then end up tossing it when it inevitably went bad. I would always turn to my high caloric healthy foods - nuts, meats, cheeses and healthy oils - thinking I was just eating healthy and all was good. Who needs those pesky veggies when meat and nuts are packed with vitamins, protein and enzymes we need? But alas, I want to lose weight. And despite eating healthy foods I have just been gaining and gaining. So I turned to CICO and have been looking up the calorie content of different foods. And wow! I was so surprised seeing that most veggies are only like 26-28 calories per 100 grams. Compare that to salmon at 205 calories per 100 grams or peanut butter which is like 600 calories per 100 grams!! Insane! So my discovery now is that in order to feel full while doing CICO I can eat a little bit of the tasty foods I love and then just stuff myself with cauliflower rice, spinach or some other veggies till I am full. Despite eating at a calorie deficit, I am now able to stop eating without discipline once I have finished my plate! This is such a game changer. Trying to stop eating when I don't feel full is so so hard and I have usually ended up not being able to, eating more of the high calorie foods and blowing my calorie budget. So now I feel I have found a sustainable way to eat at a deficit and I am so happy about it. Added bonus, I am now finally eating all those healthy veggies instead of feeding the landfill with them.. Second discovery that has blown my mind is how insanely easy it is to eat thousands of extra calories - but short of starving yourself, it takes me weeks to lose just that one crazy meal I had. Example: Last week my boss ordered pizza for the office and there were also my favourite chocolates.. I gave in and as I tried to count the calories in the evening it was like 2000 calories over my daily maintenance (so around 4500 calories) - those 2000 extra are my calorie deficit for a whole week (I eat at maintenance on weekends) - or more than half a pound of extra fat on my body! Then to make matters worse, the next day I also overate another 2000 calories over maintenance. So in 2 days I gained a pound that could take me 2 weeks to lose again. Just to be back at where I was before the office pizza. TLDR: First: Eat veggies to feel full so you don't overeat. Second: It can take you minutes to eat thousands of calories that take you days or weeks to make up for in a deficit. [link] [comments] |
| How did loved ones support you? Posted: 11 May 2021 08:35 PM PDT My husband had a back injury maybe 6 months ago. Pain specialist has said he has to exercise to strengthen his back and he has to lose weight. Drs have of course been telling him for years he has to lose weight especially as he's now hit 50. He's got maybe 40kg to lose (and honestly I have 10kg to lose). I do all of the cooking at home but he snacks. I don't want to treat him like a kid, I know he has to take responsibility for his health too and he absolutely wants to do it. It's just the DOING it that's the sticking point! My question is how did the people around you best support you in losing weight? What general and specific things did they do that helped you reach your goals? Thank you beautiful people! (Edited for clarity) [link] [comments] |
| What’s a good way to add protein into your diet without excess calories? Posted: 11 May 2021 06:56 AM PDT So I've been on my weight loss grind for about 9 weeks. Great progress so far! About 29 pounds down. There are some things I could still stand to work on, like eating more lean protein. But here's the thing: I know things like eggs, chicken, fish, etc are great. But coupled with whatever else I eat throughout the day the calories really add up. For example, if I have 3 eggs and 4-6 ounces of salmon, that's about 550-700 calories, which is not ideal. My goal is not to cut these foods, they'll still be eaten every day. But I want to maximize my protein intake without consuming 800+ calories in the process. What are some ways I can get more of it into my diet? [link] [comments] |
| My Body Controlling My Life (weight loss problem) Posted: 11 May 2021 09:57 PM PDT Just thought I'd share my lack of confidence due to being the FATTT kid growing up lol. I grew up being the fattest kid in elementary (top 3 all time lol). I got made fun of by everyone, regular fat kid pity story. Around 14 years old I got really into basketball - I'd play everyday, just working on my game and as a byproduct, I was losing weight at a rapid pace. After the dramatic weight loss my whole body was damaged. I had loose skin, skinny in all the areas except for my fat legs. My body looked weird/disgusting and I came to the realization that no way I'd take my shirt off in public, or go streaking butt naked lol. Present time: I'm 29yrs old and my body sadly controls my life. I describe myself as a healthy'ish/fit person inside a oddly shaped beefy body. Being self conscious about my body has cost me going to social events, wearing nice shirts (instead of hoodies all the time lol), etc. etc. I've even turned down ladies cause I rather not deal with them seeing my body. And when I have hooked up I kept my shirt on, kinda pathetic ha. I've been planning on getting a tummy tuck for years but I'm too much of a workaholic. I feel like that will be the only hope to change my life around... we'll see. Anyways, what's going on with the Lakers, am I right!? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 11:00 AM PDT Anyone else have to laugh at where their body decides to take the weight from? I'm 40lbs down, 20lbs to go, I now have clavicles that could cut glass, and yet a few inches north, my jawline is still holding on to every last ounce of insulation. Thrilled that I get to show off my bony lower back and skinny toes on the beach this summer (?!) not so much that my cankles seem to want to stick around til the bitter end 🥴 I've mainly lost the weight through a new found love of strength & cardio (as well as CICO of course) so I know it'll come off in the right places eventually, just wish I could pick and choose, or have a word with my idiot body 😂 Would love to hear your stories about losing weight from weird places! [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 11 Posted: 11 May 2021 05:33 PM PDT Hey lovely losers, Forgive my lapse in posts yesterday. It was a weird day. That being said, I'm restructuring my goals a bit. I've been the victim of my own slippery slope bull shit. Some of my bad habits have crept back into how I approach food & my body. I've been aware of it this entire time, but my mental health is finally in a place where I feel more ready to address all this madness. Lifestyle creep has got to stop around food, so I'm simplifying. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & remove moral judgement/stigma/shame directed at yourself about it: Couldn't do it this morning. I am more than just this number.
Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk. 8/11 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: Necessary. Avoiding this means I'm more likely to eat my feelings. Gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for Brene Brown. I'm working through all her books & while some of it is not new information, having some of the verbiage around shame & vulnerability shifted, explained, pointed to, studies/anecdotal evidence, is really helpful. I've been drawn to books that point at our shared humanity & celebrate it instead of using it as a tool to demean or belittle or encourage the idea that we aren't enough. I'm going to bore you for a moment with a note about shame & guilt. Shame is a non-effectual emotion for me (and most people). If shame worked, I would be at goal weight already. Guilt can be useful. Brene Brown talks about this, please go read her stuff & listen to her Ted talk. Guilt says I shouldn't have eaten the cake that doesn't help me build to my end goals. Next time I will make better choices. Shame says I shouldn't have eaten the cake, I'm a useless person & I should just eat more cake because that's what a useless person does. I'm going to direct this at myself first because I need to hear it. I'm not a bad human being for eating too much. I'm guilty of overindulging but that doesn't mean I'm morally deficit or otherwise less. Y'all are lovely people on the internet trying to work towards a better you. That's beautiful. Don't ever let shame keep you from trying. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 12:53 PM PDT About 3 years ago I went from borderline obese to the lower end of a healthy weight range. I promised myself I'd never go over a healthy weight again. Unfortunately trauma doesn't care about promises and I gained some of that weight back, despite many efforts to gain control. I was starting to give up, and was so focused on what I was eating rather than what I was doing in regards to my personal fitness. I was deep in a binge / restrict cycle and the guilt was unbearable. Well I recently picked up a skipping rope I forgot I had, and just started skipping, just going until I can't any more. Increasing how long I skip every day. I've noticed since I started that my attitude towards weightloss has changed. I feel more motivated to try eating better, and even want to spend time outdoors moving around. Just having a small, healthy activity has helped me realize it isn't as hard as I tend to make it in my mind. That tiny feeling of knowing I can do something good for myself has made me want to keep trying. [link] [comments] |
| Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers) Posted: 11 May 2021 09:01 PM PDT Share Your Numbers!!!Welcome back to another week of weigh-in Wednesday. Share your +/- change from last Wednesday to this Wednesday, and a short summary of your week. Sometimes we get lost in the day to day ups and downs and it's good to see our week over week changes. Time to celebrate losses and lift each other up during possible failures. This is not a timed event or contest, feel free to jump in any time. This post was made a staple of r/loseit by u/Kahne_Fan and our thanks goes to him for providing a service that so many find helpful. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 12 May 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 11 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
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| In need of an accurate figure as to how many calories I should be consuming Posted: 11 May 2021 09:39 PM PDT I've decided to recalculate my TDEE, it's been a while since I used one of the calculators and have lost a bit of weight since the last time I used one. I'm currently consuming on average 2000 calories a day, have lost a total of 46lbs. I find myself becoming very hungry at the moment especially with the exercise I'm doing. The last month or two have been a bit back and forth, I'm still staying on track 90% of the time, but I got really sick earlier this year with a viral infection, and once I recovered I found it really hard to get back into the gym, so I had a break for a bit, whilst still sticking pretty well to my diet. I've started back at the gym again 5 days a week and I feel really good about it, since I'm moving more again I'm obviously burning more calories. I'm starting to think that with a combination of my height, weight, and exercise routine, that I'm really not eating enough calories. I'm not in this for a quick fix, I've been on this weight loss journey for a long time now, so I don't mind if I need to up my calories but still remain in a deficit, even if it slows my weight loss, if it's better overall for my health then that's what's most important. What I'm really trying to find out is the right amount of calories I should eat whilst still remaining in a deficit. I'm 6'2", 255lbs, 23 yrs old and a male. I exercise with a mix of weights and cardio on Monday - Friday. On average, the TDEE calculators are telling me I should be eating a lot more than I am now. It says my maintenance calories are roughly 3500, and should eat at about 500 below this. So about 3000. I just want to make sure that this is correct, it sounds too good to be true that I'd be able to up my calories to around 3000 and still remain in deficit. Would 2500 be more realistic? I'm not sure, any advice on how many calories I should eat per day would be of great help. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 12 May 2021? Start here! Posted: 11 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.
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