Weight loss: i started making myself wait at least 15 minutes after a meal before eating more food and it’s been working wonders for my progress |
- i started making myself wait at least 15 minutes after a meal before eating more food and it’s been working wonders for my progress
- 31/F/5'5 - Finally 100 lbs down! February 2020-now. Progress pics included :)
- A technique from my therapist to stop binge/emotional eating that worked!
- 8lbs down since Jan 1, but the best part have been the new healthy habits!
- Okay I get it finally why exercise helps.
- The 12 Most Common Weight-Loss Mistakes I See People Making
- My advice for those who want help with Sustainable weight loss and getting toned!
- Lost 150 Pounds playing Dance Dance Revolution - Now I weight lift - can't stop focusing on loose skin - progress pics in post
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- Several reasons why I found exercise helpful when losing weight
- Accepting my limitations at 24
- Today I finally understood what it means to treat yourself with kindness (NSV).
- Why is losing weight SO STUPID HARD!?
- Completely Frustrated at Everything and Myself. Advice needed.
- How have YOU dealt with sabotage?
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 27th, 2021
- I'm Rootin' for ya!!
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Thursday, 27 May 2021: Today, I conquered!
- How many people who currently struggle with bingeing used to struggle with restricting?
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| Posted: 26 May 2021 06:33 PM PDT this has been a game changer for me! I, like many people here, used to have a tendency to go on a bit of a rampage through my kitchen cabinets every night and it completely offset the day's progress. so now after dinner - or really any meal for that matter - I make myself wait at least 15 minutes before going back for more food. I remind myself that this doesn't mean I have to be done eating for the day, but it just means I need to take a pause. of course this is easier said than done, so I give myself a task to pass the time. an easy one is to just clean up the kitchen from said meal, but if I didn't cook then I try to find something else around the house. tidy my room, do a load of laundry or fold clothes, take out the garbage, etc. by the time the 15 minutes is over, i'm usually not hungry anymore. or if I am, then I listen to my body and eat another small portion. this is been such a huge mental shift for me and it's worked wonders in my progress! best of luck to you all x [link] [comments] |
| 31/F/5'5 - Finally 100 lbs down! February 2020-now. Progress pics included :) Posted: 26 May 2021 08:31 AM PDT Sorry for the pic overload, just wanted to share my joy that I'm finally 100 lbs down! Started eating better at a whopping 292 lbs in Feb 2020 thanks to my determined husband, starting seriously tracking food and working out in May 2020, and have had plenty of maintenance weeks and cheat days and everything in between but FINALLY weighed in at 191.2 lbs yesterday! I am feeling GREAT about my progress even though I still have a bit of a ways to go to have a normal BMI. Since I never thought I'd be able to lose weight in the first place, I am on Cloud 9 about it and want to shout it from the rooftops! :) As a fat kid, this is the best shape I've been in EVER and the lowest weight I've been since I was 15. The weirdest thing is buying new clothes since I'm still grabbing sizes too big for me and am terrible at eyeballing the fit now. Also, wearing things TUCKED IN is something I never thought I'd do! I'm going to be cliche and say if my big butt can do it, ANYONE can with a little determination. This was all done with CICO (mmm carbs) and regular cardio/strength training/bicycling. Thanks r/loseit for keeping me inspired always! Edit: All of your support and praise is seriously overwhelming and has me smiling from ear to ear! Thank you for all of the awards (was not expecting that) and congrats and EVERYTHING. I will absolutely answer questions that have been asked below as I have time today but wanted to make a quick THANK YOU note in the meantime to all of you super awesome, wonderful people!! <3 <3 Looking forward to continuing to follow everyone's journey here and will be on the lookout for other success stories! (You got this!) [link] [comments] |
| A technique from my therapist to stop binge/emotional eating that worked! Posted: 26 May 2021 11:37 AM PDT I have cPTSD from a traumatic childhood that led me to traumatic relationships as an adult. I am currently in therapy (again!) and this time am not holding back from my therapist. We are getting to the real nitty-gritty. I have, like many of you, struggled with something triggering my past trauma and either stuff my feelings with food or self-soothe with food. And I ain't soothin' with salads, baby! 🤭 She told me instead of "stopping" a binge or soothe session, work on "replacing" it with something else. Your brain is much more successful at a replacement behavior than just working on quitting a behavior. She said to have my journal out near where I go towards food. I live alone, so don't have to worry about prying eyes. You may need to work out something different. This teletherapy session was on Sunday. Something happened on Monday that triggered me. I opened the fridge door and was staring at the chicken thighs I had baked to have ready for quick meals. I stopped, shut the door and grabbed my journal. Immediately started writing free-form not worrying about grammar and punctuation. Long story short, I uncovered feelings of emotional abandonment that have never come up before. It was so profound I had to sit with it the rest of the day. AND the urge to mindlessly eat evaporated. Hope this might help some of you take back control of your life and stop the (for me) endless cycle of madness. 🤔 [link] [comments] |
| 8lbs down since Jan 1, but the best part have been the new healthy habits! Posted: 26 May 2021 07:32 PM PDT I had a baby last summer and have been trying to shed my baby weight. Since Jan 1, I decided to get my butt in gear: drinking more water (admittedly I used to drink like 2 glasses a day...), walking 30 mins almost every day and counting my calories/cutting out most processed foods. I'm not going to lie and say I don't have a cheat meal once a week or that I drink 60oz of water every day. However I wanted to share that I realized how good I've been feeling lately, not just because I've been losing baby weight, but because of my new healthy habits. For literally the first time in my life, I actually have been loving my walks and look forward to them. I'm proud of my loss, but even more proud of my new habits. Going for weight loss is fantastic, Reddit family, but I realized today that the new healthy habits that come from working towards weight loss can be just as rewarding. [link] [comments] |
| Okay I get it finally why exercise helps. Posted: 26 May 2021 07:24 AM PDT Last year I (34F 5'2 CW 200) started biking - my partner and I rented bikes as just a fun outing thing to do, and I didn't expect it to feel as amazing as it did. Like, really, really amazing. Like, empty your mind and energize your spirit, amazing. So I got a bike and I just went about once a week or so, just for <5 miles because I'm way out of shape. This summer I started going more often to relieve stress and clear my head. And recently I started going farther. Then, the last couple weeks I've been in a frustrating "plateau" (I know it's not a real plateau at just two weeks but, still annoying), so I've been upping my biking distance by a mile here and there. And it makes such a difference to my mental state when the scale isn't moving, but I know I'm still making a stride in my biking goals. I still get an award on Strava for my longest ride ever that day. I feel like even though I'm "plateauing" I'm really not, because the scale is just one of two metrics for my progress. Just very, very glad I discovered a form of exercise I actually enjoy, and that motivates me to not just lose weight, but also to improve my overall health. [link] [comments] |
| The 12 Most Common Weight-Loss Mistakes I See People Making Posted: 26 May 2021 09:06 AM PDT Hi all, I've been posting here for a week or two, and while I enjoy it, I also see the same things cropping up over and over again, and I decided I'd put as many of my recurring thoughts in one place as I can for future reference. I'm curious what you all think. 1. Thinking you're the exception to the rule that you lose weight if you eat fewer calories than you burn. Those who believe they're the exception to what amounts to a law of physics are invariably mismeasuring what they're eating or what they're burning or both. 2. Blaming long-term weight gain or plateau (longer than a week) on water weight. Water weight can cause pretty sizeable short-term fluctuations, but I see way too many people reaching for "water weight" to explain plateaus or weight increases that have lasted well over a week. "It's probably just water weight" can be accurate in the very short term and is definitely a day-to-day factor, but too often becomes a rallying cry for people who don't want to face up to the fact that they're not in a calorie deficit. 3. Thinking that because "calories in, calories out" is true, it doesn't matter what you eat for the purpose of weight loss. The reality is that there are certain foods that, calorie for calorie, make it much more difficult to lose weight on a practical basis: processed carbs, refined sugars, and liquid calories are the unholy trinity. They cause spikes and crashes in blood glucose that trigger sugar cravings stronger than mere hunger, they are less sating on a per-calorie basis, and they wreak hell on your insulin production. "Pop tart diets" theoretically work, but rarely do in practice. 4. [Edit: voluntarily deleted. Suffice it to say I have a difference of opinion with the mods on one particular topic, and if that's not something they want debated on their subreddit, that's entirely their privilege.] 5. Rejecting daily accountability. It can look like calorie counting, body fat calipers, a tailor's measuring tape, or getting on the scale, but if you aren't taking daily action to objectively monitor your progress, it should be the least shocking thing in the world if progress is slow, erratic, and/or nonexistent. What gets measured gets managed. 6. Believing that regularly getting on the scale is somehow counterproductive or emotionally unhealthy. If you're trying to track an extremely important number that has weird and sometimes large day-to-day fluctuations but over the long term reveals useful information, you want to take more samples, not fewer, to help sort through "noise". As a byproduct, the emotion associated with getting on the scale vanishes, and you also begin to figure out the reasons behind a lot of the day-to-day weirdness. 7. Overestimating the impact of exercise on weight loss. Exercise is beneficial for many reasons and I strongly recommend it, but it's not the critical component of weight loss. Even the saying that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise doesn't adequately convey the reality. Your diet must be in order if you're going to achieve any weight loss at all. A bad diet and great exercise doesn't produce 20% of the results you could otherwise achieve, it produces no results, because unless you're a pro athlete (and sometimes not even then) it's impossible to out-exercise a bad diet. Exercise supercharges weight loss that your diet is already causing. Far too many people prioritize exercise at the start, then burn through their motivation without noticeable results. 8. Believing that you won't have energy for your daily activities if you don't eat constantly. This one's probably the most controversial, but it's important to mention, because it's really hard to control calorie intake if you feel like you're doing something unhealthy and bad if you skip a meal or don't eat when you feel the desire. The objective reality is that unless you're seriously underweight, your body has more than enough energy reserves to get you through a month without meals, never mind an afternoon – and when you miss a meal, your BMR goes up, as does focus. There is absolutely no reason, in terms of energy or focus, that you need to eat 3+ times a day. If your diet is crap, though, you will experience sugar withdrawal starting 2-3 hours after your last meal, which is utterly vicious and often mistaken for hunger by people who eat processed carbs/sugar every day (bread, yogurt, juice, etc.). When most people talk about the debilitating effects of hunger, that's really what they're experiencing, not the effects of hunger itself. 9. Allowing cheat meals to become cheat days. I'm not saying a cheat meal, defined as eating whatever you want until you're full (i.e. the first time you find yourself pausing – no going in for another attack run) or until an hour passes, is necessary, but it's also not much damage. Even someone who seriously pigs out is going to be hard-pressed to consume enough calories before putting the fork down to impact the progress made over the course of the whole previous week. On the other hand, the amount of damage that can be done over the course of a full day is effectively unlimited. 10. Believing you can make consistent change through willpower alone. You almost certainly cannot. We have a limited reservoir of willpower, and if your environment puts a constant strain on your willpower, the latter will crack. To make a consistent change to your habits, you must change your environment to be conducive to good habits, which often requires lifestyle sacrifices or social awkwardness that people don't want to engage in (which is one of the major reasons many want to believe they can get this done on willpower alone). The book Atomic Habits by James Clear is an incredibly effective exploration of this concept. 11. Taking too large a first step. In the zeal that comes with the initial burst of motivation to lose weight, nearly everybody makes an ambitious multi-pronged plan that survives for a little while and then collapses, putting them right back at square one, but this time even more demoralized. The hardest but most necessary thing is to restrain oneself and start with one or two modest changes that you are absolutely guaranteed to succeed at in the long term – the goal being in part to modify your self-conception from being "the person who can't control themselves" to "the person who has total control over their actions". This doesn't mean aggressive weight loss is bad or impossible, just that you first need to take the time to lay the groundwork by slowly but surely modifying habits/environment – you're turning a supertanker that's usually had years to build up inertia. 12. Not addressing alcohol consumption. If you have a problem with eating, it's a near-guarantee that if you drink, you're going to screw up and eat food you shouldn't, in addition to the caloric damage from the alcohol itself. The issue here not even necessarily being the calories per se, but the loss of control, which derails the building of positive habits and positive self-conception as someone who is capable of being in control. For those who drink more than once a week, alcohol usually has to be one of the first things brought under strict control, or more realistically, at least temporarily eliminated. Added: 13. Attributing a higher weight on the scale to added muscle. Possible, but unlikely unless you're a novice weightlifter and the amount in question is 1-2 pounds of muscle a month (which would be phenomenal progress). Temporary water weight carried by muscles you're seriously working at the gym? Sure. Actual muscle gains, though, are in almost every case going to be overshadowed by other scale effects. h/t u/tabrisangel. 14. Eating more than you realize. It's entirely possible to blow your daily calorie budget without even feeling like you've indulged yourself. This can affect people who are counting calories, too, although counting calories makes it a lot less likely to occur. h/t u/Bucksaway03. [link] [comments] |
| My advice for those who want help with Sustainable weight loss and getting toned! Posted: 26 May 2021 09:34 AM PDT Let me start with I'm (34F) I'm 5'5" and SW:175lbs CW:145lbs. Started my journey January 2019.
I hope that helps someone out there! I also can help with daily diet and workout stuff as well if someone wants that. Just comment below. :) Thanks for listening. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 May 2021 02:18 PM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/H5zMeGh I posted here a few years ago about how I lost a ton of weight playing Dance Dance Revolution - I still play daily but weight loss stalled out so I started weight lifting. That's going very well but I'm still focused on my loose skin and lack of fat loss. I've tried all kinds of adjustments to my diet but I can't seem to shake any of the remaining fat/skin. 2500 calories daily, tried keto, tried shifting my macros around for 90 days at a time. The loose skin/belly simply won't budge. My weight stays a constant 200-210 lbs. It's been that way for five years now. Even with the increased muscle mass my weight doesn't get out of that bracket. I love the strength/muscle definition/vascularity I'm getting but god, I just want to lose more of the belly mass. Surgery isn't an option for me, either. I'm completely lost at this point. Anyone have tips for getting rid of this sagging belly? edit: I forgot to mention - I turn 40 years old this year - so that's why I don't really wanna do surgery. Too much recovery time and downtime. [link] [comments] |
| Do you feel like people are nicer to you ? Posted: 26 May 2021 03:33 PM PDT I'm a 22m sw:285 cw:175. So I've lost 110 pounds and have been maintaining for about a year now. I lost the weight to try and get a girlfriend but that hasn't really worked out so far ( see my previous post) but I feel like people in general are much nicer to me. I've been getting out more now that covid restrictions are lifting and I've noticed that people actually will just randomly say stuff to me now, like actually just start a conversation. I've made friends at my new job faster than I ever did in school before. I've even gotten a couple random compliments from people. I can't help but feel that's it's because I'm not fat now. Has anyone else had similar experiences after losing lots of weight ? [link] [comments] |
| Several reasons why I found exercise helpful when losing weight Posted: 26 May 2021 04:39 PM PDT Although technically exercise is not required to lose weight, I have found it very helpful while losing 60 lbs during the last year.
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| Accepting my limitations at 24 Posted: 27 May 2021 12:55 AM PDT I was recently diagnosed with bipolar 2. Over the years I have struggled to maintain a workout/cooking routine, which looking back was because my hypomanic episodes had me super crazy motivated, energetic, optimistic, and dropping weight like crazy. Losing weight was my big focus. Then I would crash and go into a depressive episode, lose the routines, and my weight loss flatlined. I used to gain when depressed. I'm proud that I now maintain! This cycle has frustrated me to no end for years. Now that I understand that I will always have to watch out for crashes, I've begun to accept I can't hold myself to a "normal" standard. I have to adapt and I have to go at my own pace. As much as I would love to drop 10lbs a month, I can't do that consistently. But, I can learn to be content maintaining when depressed, eating at a smaller deficit, and accepting my limited energy and adjusting my workout routine accordingly. I know this is so much easier said than done. When I'm down, I feel pathetic for not being able to do things other 24 year olds can do. But my priority has to be my mental health, because without that my physical health will suffer. I'm learning. I'm fighting jealousy seeing others lose weight so quickly, stick to routines consistently, and do normal things for their age. But I can do it, it will just take more time than I was hoping. If anyone is experiencing something similar, I hope this post encouraged you to keep going. Thanks for reading to those who did. Love this sub! [link] [comments] |
| Today I finally understood what it means to treat yourself with kindness (NSV). Posted: 26 May 2021 07:58 PM PDT Hello everyone. This community inspires and motivates me to work on my physical health. I wanted to post a short story of a small "Ah-ha!" moment I had earlier today and hopefully inspire a few people in turn. I now believe that every little bit helps. I was obese in high school and managed to get down to being overweight in my college years and post. The important part is that I have struggled with my weight for a long time and the personal mental challenges that are associated with never feeling good enough and using food as a source of comfort when my experience with emotional intelligence or maturity is minimal. I decided to recently start working out. I have been doing a mixture of resistance band and body weight exercises at home. When I know my family is not around and will not be around for some time. The context for my workouts is that I have tried going to the gym but my anxiety gets the best of me when working out around others. I did find success going to the gym after 10pm and having no one else around, but this ended up being unsustainable with a different work schedule. I simply am more comfortable working out alone because my ego creates scenarios of being judged by others around me. I have been working out three times a week (MWF). Today I had family at home and do not have an active gym membership. I mentally began to make excuses about not doing my workout today. But somewhere a thought appeared asking, "What if we go to a park and do the workout there? Surely we can find a secluded enough spot for half an hour." After a few minutes of encouraging myself to just give it a try, I loaded up my gear into my Jeep. I did find myself at a park near my home. It's a beautiful day today so the park has people there. I sat in the driver's seat for a few minutes looking for a "secluded enough spot" to lay out my mat. There was a guy and his two dogs hanging out where I wanted to setup, and I simply waited for them to leave. There was the voice telling me to just give up and go home, but I gently asked myself to wait a few more minutes. After "my spot" became available, I setup my mat and began to warm-up and do my thing. Occasionally a person and their dog or a couple would walk by and my anxiety would flare up and a voice would cry out that I was being judged for how silly I look or about how much sweat was seeping through my shirt. I told myself, out loud, in a calm reassuring voice that it is ok, I was not being judged, and they are simply walking by and doing their own thing. I finished my workout with more reps throughout my sets, feeling pretty damn proud of myself. It wasn't until after loading my gear back into the Jeep that I realized that the normally self-critical voice in my head did not win today. Treating myself with patience, understanding, and kindness ultimately encouraged me to go and workout. Sometimes I need a kick in the rear to get my crap together. But maybe sometimes treating yourself with love can be even more productive. Here's to more personal victories for me, and to the many victories on their way to you. [link] [comments] |
| Why is losing weight SO STUPID HARD!? Posted: 26 May 2021 05:04 PM PDT I (42M, 5'11'm, CW: 260, GW: 200) am currently on try number 84,326 of trying to lose weight over the past 10 years. Every time I get back on the wagon, I lose about 11 pounds over about 3 weeks and then give up because it's SO slow and SO hard. I'm addicted to food. I'm an emotional eater. I know these things about me. I want so badly to lose the weight but I honestly have no motivation. I'm at about 1.5 weeks of CICO right now (and I've tried pretty much every diet that exists—nothing takes, nothing works). Down 7 lbs last week (which is great, but week one is always that way with water weight and what not) and I'm just sitting here absolutely miserable. I'm not hungry, per se, but I want food so bad. I sit here asking myself why I'm doing this to myself. Why am I depriving myself of going to get Chic-Fil-A right now? I'm a grown adult! I should be able to eat what I want, when I want. And I'm grumpy all day because I'm not eating yummy junk food and stuffing myself. Why live life miserable like this? I'm happy when I'm eating something unhealthy. In the end, I suppose I know the answers: wait it out and it'll get easier, etc. But it's just. so. hard. Like, the hardest thing I've ever done. Hence the reason I always end up giving up. If anyone else has been in my shoes, what did you use for motivation? Any encouraging words? I hate the way I feel when I'm dieting. And please don't say, "you can't think of it as dieting; you have to think of it as a lifestyle change." Nothing would make me give up faster. There's no way I can live my whole life deprived of the foods I love. I'd rather be fat. [link] [comments] |
| Completely Frustrated at Everything and Myself. Advice needed. Posted: 26 May 2021 10:47 PM PDT I had depression, I fell in love with this girl, who was kissing another dude behind my back and I fell in a deep state of depression. I couldn't even remember getting up all summer in 2020. I was at a very lean muscular 220, did every sport, even when I was in my room a lot of the time. Now, I have no idea how much I weigh, I wouldn't be surprised if I was 300+, I have love handles and man boobs, my face is full of fat, my thighs are about explode, I stand still and they touch each other. I'm completely angry. I know I need to be in a caloric deficit, I know I need to get more protein, I know I need to do more weight training and be more active. I have no problem with that. Although when it comes to doing it, I'm scared of my dad walking me in working out, I don't get why I'm so scared of people judging me, if I lose weight or not. I deserve to be in shape, and deserve to look amazing. Also when it comes to diet, I have no control. I for the entire 21 years of life that's I've been living, have just been eating my mothers cooking. I go to work, come home, eat her cooking, dinner eat her cooking. It's all Latin American food, I sometimes eat salami for breakfast, because that's legit how the culture is. I really want to do a meal prep company, so I can schedule my food, the right calories I need and can have control. Then my dad comes out and says that the microwave kills all the nutrients and I'm basically eating nothing but flavor, and it turns your food into toxic soup, your going to make your body worse even if you work out. I have no idea if that's true or not, if he's just throwing bullshit to not make my mom upset. I want to develop a plan, I want to do this thing, I know what I'm capable of. What should do I here, I feel so god damn, irritated, frustrated and lost. I need a guiding hand. [link] [comments] |
| How have YOU dealt with sabotage? Posted: 26 May 2021 11:43 AM PDT Like most I have my reasons for getting this fat. 33f my highest weight 231lbs @ 5'4. (104kg / 162cm). I am currently 200lbs My mom is 273lbs @ 5'8. (123kg / 172cm). She's been this as long as I can remember. Just yesterday I was telling her that I finally reached 200lbs for the first time in so long. Today she visited and brought cookies and chocolates. I've noticed a pattern that every time I say I've lost weight she'll want to come over and get take out or bring junk. I'm one of those that only copes with clean cupboards. When she left I opened all the cookies and chocolates and mixed them in the recently used cat litter and threw it in the garbage :P The urges to stop or to eat one (yes even while standing over the cat litter) was overwhelming. It felt like sacrilege. But as I sit here and type this feel so much better. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 26 Posted: 26 May 2021 05:28 PM PDT Hello losers, Hump day! Getting to it. 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: Day 3 good. Binner is so tasty. Exercise 5 days a week: 30-minute lunch walk & stationary bike plus stretches & arm weight thingys. 21/26 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: I need to be making more time for this. Gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for Trader Joe's bacon, ripe pears, endorphins, vitamin D & the fact that I've not killed the cat grass. Yet. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: May 27th, 2021 Posted: 26 May 2021 09:37 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: 26 May 2021 08:12 PM PDT I'll try to keep this to a minimum; I was always the skinny kid in school, maybe <10% body fat? Anyways, after Junior year of High School, the weight started picking up and I maxed my weight at 228 pounds Needless to say, I was MISERABLE. Anything after 215 and I had to nap in the middle of the day just to function, and at 228 I was able to wear a pants size 10 sizes bigger than what I was used to (42x32 from 32x32) and comfortably. I'm not meaning to complain about such a low number when there are others 100+ pounds over, quite the opposite. I have a small taste of what those individuals are going through, it's a long, consistent process. I'm down to 191 as of this morning and still have 20+ to go. If you're reading this and you have a similar goal or my 228 is a goal, you're never alone. Don't be discouraged when the scale goes up one morning; it just happens. Don't quit, for your own health, keep pushing. I sincerely hope I'm able to potentially help members of this community as I push myself to lose these last pounds. I'm Rootin' for ya! [link] [comments] |
| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Thursday, 27 May 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 26 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] |
| How many people who currently struggle with bingeing used to struggle with restricting? Posted: 26 May 2021 06:47 PM PDT After reading lots of posts on here, and the book "Empty" by Susan Burton, I was curious how many other LoseIt members have had this experience. When I was a young teenager, I struggled with restrictive eating; I ate one meal a day and was only happy if my daily weigh-ins were in the double digits. That highly restrictive and controlled diet was, of course, unsustainable, and when I eventually allowed myself to eat more freely, I went too far in the other direction. The bingeing-and-restricting cycle became my new norm; I'm now much better at limiting my binges and am working towards a normal-person relationship with food combined with slow, steady weight loss. But I would love to know if other people have a similar background, and what's helped them overcome the cycles of messed-up eating habits. [link] [comments] |
| I gained weight instead of losing it... F/33/84kg Posted: 27 May 2021 01:28 AM PDT I have been tracking for about two weeks now and felt i was doing well. I am eating around 1650 calories a day. I generally eat very healthy but just too much, so i am doing my best to eat smaller portions. I was so proud, then stepped on the scale today and i had gained 300gr... I take thyroid medications and anti anxiety meds which work against weight loss. I do bike to work every day (14km total) and am on my feet half the day so i do around 7000-9000 steps a day. I have been doing that for two years but it makes no difference... I think i just need to give my metabolism more time to adjust to less calories? Idk i just need some encouragement not to give up. [link] [comments] |
| Binged once 3 months ago and now I can’t stop Posted: 26 May 2021 06:17 PM PDT I've been steadily losing weight since January but after a flare up from my chronic illness, I gave into a binge a few months ago. I could've easily picked up where I left off the next day but since then I maybe eat right for two days then binge the following day then eat right again and so on. I feel that I was really motivated initially because I hated how I looked but once I lost 30 pounds and felt a lot more confident, that sheer motivation to ignore binging urges and continue losing weight stopped. Luckily, I've managed to stay the same weight and not gain but I don't know what to do with myself. I made a promise and I feel horrible every time I binge. I know I will before I do it and I still do it anyway. I have a lot of stressful things going on in my life and I don't know what my next option is, other than throw all the food out of my apartment and avoid my work break room at all costs. Meal prepping, looking at old photos of being overweight, remembering how depressed and miserable I was all doesn't seem to help. I could really use some advice on how to get past this. [link] [comments] |
| Help Request: 245lb 5’11” Male Teen wants some advice to help him Posted: 26 May 2021 05:26 PM PDT Hey all! As said above, I'm a 245lb 5'11" Male Teen (17) who has been struggling with my weight for a long time. Back in September, I finally got the courage to start attempting weight loss again. I was at about 270 and lost about 15/20 within 4ish months and about 10 more from on and off dieting since then. But, ever since the covid situation (and some family troubles at the start of the year), I have had problems keeping on track with my weight loss. This year has been the year I am attempting most to better myself. I finally started playing less games and working on more creative endeavors such as YouTube and script writing. I have/am graduating from high school, and am now working a full time job as a grocery store, with my 2nd week coming up. I've been around this weight for about 2-3 months. The lowest I have reached on my scale was 141, with an average of 145. Body wise, I have a set of moobs which are probably the biggest problem I have with my weight. They're just completely irritating. The fat everywhere else is annoying too, but that is my biggest problem. So let me explain where you all come in. With my job, I'm working 40 (or maybe more) hours a week. When I come home, my legs are typically exhausted and I just want to go to bed or play a few rounds in a multiplayer game. I have in the past (and still occasionally) used MyFitnessPal to track calories and before the job was trying to get better at push ups. I still can't do a full one so I'm trying to improve my stream by using the knee variant. I would love to answer any and all questions I possibly could if you would like to/need to know more. Any advice towards losing this weight would help a lot. I really want to make something good come of this year, and my weight is one of the biggest things I have felt is holding me back. Please leave all advice or questions in the comment section below! [link] [comments] |
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