Weight loss: I started going back to the gym a month and a half ago and now I’m down 26 pounds! |
- I started going back to the gym a month and a half ago and now I’m down 26 pounds!
- ADHD meds blew my mind in making weight loss 10 times easier (NOT as appetite suppressant)
- Went from 360 to 250 pounds, Life changing.
- Hit my goal today - went from 225 to 170 lbs in six months. Comparison photos included. Ask me anything!
- How do I even start exercising with my fat body? (Back hurts, etc)
- On the topic of moderating junk food
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: June 13th, 2021
- Erased most of my progress in the last 9 months. Feeling so defeated.
- Accountability for myself!
- 60 lbs lost, first 50 lbs with moderate activity and last 10 lbs with calorie restriction and minimal activity, not a linear journey!
- 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 13 June 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- Kinda frustrated about how non-visible my weight loss is.
- Been slacking lately and could really use some motivation.
- Do you ever worry that your potential romantic partner/date/whatever cares that you used to be fat?
- Daily Q&A Post for Sunday, 13 June 2021 - No question too small!
- (Update 2) Almost 30 lbs down
- Recommendations for someone coming out of depression, trying to lose the fat gained over the last few years
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 13 June 2021? Start here!
- Getting frustrated
- Feeling discouraged
- Starting Over Again
- Coming to peace with food, finally the weight it coming off
- Regain, Re-loss and Maintenance. What can cause regain and what might help to stop it on a journey into maintenance.
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 13 June 2021: Today, I conquered!
| I started going back to the gym a month and a half ago and now I’m down 26 pounds! Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:18 PM PDT I'm 5'7 and my starting weight at the beginning was 281 and I managed to get down to 255! I have a long way to go since I want to lose 100 pounds by next year and now feel more confident I'll reach my goal soon! I've also notice a difference with myself already! I don't feel slow or sluggish when I wake up and my face got a bit smaller. However, I still have a lot of work to do. I have trouble maintaining my calories since I hit a plateau around 260 and recently broke it. I love looking through posts on this subreddit of people's body changes and being more successful on getting dates. I've always had troubles getting dates. I don't want to make my mentality based on what others think of me and therefore only focus on the health aspects, but I be lying if I say seeing people manage to attract others for dates after a huge weight loss isn't a huge motivator [link] [comments] |
| ADHD meds blew my mind in making weight loss 10 times easier (NOT as appetite suppressant) Posted: 12 Jun 2021 05:06 AM PDT I've decided to post this experience as whenever people mention ADHD meds they usually talk about appetite suppressant side effect. I [26F] have been finally diagnosed with ADHD and put on appropriate medication several months ago. I had successfully lost weight with CICO and aggressive cardio before. Like many in the same boat, I struggled to keep it off when health issues took me out of working out. With CICO I eventually returned to maintaining and balancing my weight. I am 168 cm and my preferred weight is around 69-70 kg. A combined struggle of covid lockdown, being misdiagnosed and put on medication that is known to cause weight gain, and other life things eventually sent me into a spiral that had me at 95 kg at my highest. What has been ongoing through my weight loss journey, even at the happiest times of my life: incredible struggle of not eating. I enjoy good food and trying food out, I'm an emotional eater, etc etc. I always assumed that's how everyone felt: everyone struggles with cravings and gets late night pizza! That's just how it is! My ADHD is highest in impulsivity, acting on first inner impulse without resisting it, or finding it very hard to resist (i.e.why I used to constantly interrupt people). It's really hard to explain to a person without it, but it feels like a burning physical need. When I was put on meds my mind was blown over how much easier my life became, and how I felt about food was one of the biggest changes. I held off posting thinking it may be because of the infamous ADHD medication appetite suppressant effect but I've checked my diaries - my appetite is the same as before. It's more like: no more incredible emotional commitment to food cravings. No more impulses to snack, or order delivery, that are an ordeal to overcome. (seriously that was an hour long emotional wrestle each time; it'd often cause me muscle pain). No more seeing 5 different things at a restaurant and ordering them all because, well, because. No more being full but unable to stop eating because, well, I'm already eating. No more being full but trying out another dish because I wanted to try it out and how can I change my mind? No more buying loads of random groceries (despite having a strict food prep list), realising I don't know what to make, and then just giving up on cooking as a concept. No more being unable to distinguish between cravings and what they were for. Dozens of things like that. I realise a lot of those sound like very basic struggles, and I don't mean to imply others don't have them. And I definitely still have cravings, overeat sometimes or buy more groceries than I need. But it feels so damn different. It feels something rooted in my behaviour, something I can learn to control. It's no longer a need through my body, a commitment to the impulse so thorough denying it causes actual physical pain. It's so, so unbelievably different and it's so much easier now. So if you're someone that struggles with food impulses and cravings so much it hurts and leaves you emotionally exhausted: maybe it's not meant to be that hard. [link] [comments] |
| Went from 360 to 250 pounds, Life changing. Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:30 PM PDT I have been a big guy my whole life, way over weight even when I was a child. I didn't see any issue with it never bothered me. But i'm 29 now and lets be honest life was kind of sucking and I wasn't getting any better. I ate mcdonalds so many times a week I'm surprised im not dead, like A LOT of it. I would down a whole large pizza by myself thinking back it was gross (also very delicious lol). Let me be honest even now I want to order a pizza and burgers and eat them till I feel sick and that has been a hard thing for me to over come, clearly I'm addicted to fast food and I don't see that battle ending any time soon, I smoked a pack of smokes a day when I was a teen and quit that cold turkey no problem but quitting certain foods is a whole different ball game. Since covid started I decided to work on myself I quit smoking weed (that was a game changer) and decided to workout everyday no breaks, I may have missed only a handful of day in all. I have officially lost 110 pounds! I haven't felt this good ever, last time i was 250 I was probably in grade 8... So it's been awhile lol. Now though i'm kind of stuck and not losing weight, annoying since I want to get down to 180 but i'm not going to let that stop me! I have changed my diet and workout routine to see if that helps this bump in the road. I still have a ways to go but gosh muscles feel amazing lol who would have guessed how different it feels to have muscles. I still look fat no doubt about it but I look way better than I did before and I couldn't be anymore happy with what I have accomplished! I just needed to say this since I've been more or less alone for a year+ because of covid end rant. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 01:02 PM PDT https://i.imgur.com/piUR4Yr.jpg?1 Hey, what's good you guys! I used to be a skinny guy, but struggled with weight gain as I got older. I never thought I'd get to the point of obesity, ever. Unfortunately it happened after several years of neglect towards my physical health, and I no longer could get away with eating as much junk food as I want. At the start of 2021, I said fuck it. I signed up for the closest gym in my area, and I started going six days per week. It is a habit I built up and plan on following through it for the rest of the year. I also created an excel spreadsheet where I tracked my caloric intake every day, and weight measurements every week. I turned myself into a guinea pig in my own weight loss experiment, and tried different foods and diets to see what worked and what didn't. Now, I figured out my diet to the point where I'm losing weight consistently at a rate of 2-3 lbs per week. I'm 5'10", and I passed the overweight threshold (which was 173 lbs) according to the BMI scale. Now I'm at the high side of normal weight, and plan on losing more until I get to 15% body fat. I put in so much work, and I wanted to lose weight so bad, my obsession made it difficult to even sleep at night. In January, I wondered what I would look like by June. Now, I wonder what I'll look like by December. Not to mention my self confidence skyrocketed like never before since I'm now in the best physical shape of my life. For those who are starting or struggling, I feel for you. Whatever you guys need, ask me anything and I'll do my best to guide you through this process. Let my work and dedication serve as motivation for yours. [link] [comments] |
| How do I even start exercising with my fat body? (Back hurts, etc) Posted: 12 Jun 2021 03:05 PM PDT I'm 5'2, F, have asthma and weigh 280lbs. My girlfriend is 5'0 and weighs around 115lbs. She loves hiking, so do I. However, I cannot go even 10mins without my back wanting to break off, it hurts so much. My lower spine almost seems like it's about to break off every single time. I thought it would get better with time... it doesn't. I am out of breath reaching for my inhaler whenever you get at an incline and I have to sit down and take a break. I feel absolutely horrible that I can't keep up with something we both enjoy doing. Is there something that can train my lower back so it doesn't feel like it will snap off at any second if I keep going? And something to help my stamina? It's so hard to do anything that involves steady physical activity [link] [comments] |
| On the topic of moderating junk food Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:33 PM PDT I'm gradually reaching the conclusion that maybe trying to moderate this type of food just isn't the right way for me. For numerous times, i started meaningful changes in my eating habits, and in the beginning, i eat right, i exercise, i see some progress, and i get more and more motivated. Then, after two weeks, my cheat meal comes. Last time, it was pizza and Ben and Jerry's. God, i fucking love Ben and Jerry's. So, after the cheat meal, i go back to eating ''clean'', but something changed. To quote Eminem, something's wrong, i can feel it. The meals that i was eating with indeed a certain amount of enthusiasm, getting used to them, and getting used to the benefits that they were bringing, all that is gone, i just want fucking pizza and ice cream and cake and cookies and pasta, all of that, you get the drill. I lose the enthusiasm, the motivation, the strenght that i was beginning to form, and i just binge like a motherfucker with no signs of stopping. But here's the thing, before the cheat meal i was fine, i was progressing, slowly but surely, and my hope was up that this time it was gonna last. But then i ate junk food. And sure enough, faster than the speed of a thousand Usain Bolts, i'm back at square zero. This happened all my life, this pattern, and i'm thinking that maybe, for this to work, i'm gonna have to stop eating junk food completely, because trying to moderate is killing me, literally. I'm sober for 30 days today, and let me tell you, it's a lot easier to just stop drinking, than to drink just a little, although it's still really fucking hard. But it is easier, at least in my experience. I'm thinking the same could apply to junk food. So my question is, did any of you do that, with success? And if so, please tell me your experience. [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: June 13th, 2021 Posted: 13 Jun 2021 12:43 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] |
| Erased most of my progress in the last 9 months. Feeling so defeated. Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:16 PM PDT 20F, 5'4 SW: 180lbs CW: 140lbs GW (again): 120lbs So, here's my story. A couple years ago, I was considered obese and hated my life. Literally hated looking at myself in the mirror every day. Decided I was sick of living this way and wanted a change. I ended up losing a whopping 65 pounds in a year, reaching my lowest weight of 114 lbs last May. I felt content with myself at that weight and decided to maintain it for the next few months. Well, the moment I started to eat more, I was triggered to binge. So I did. I remembered the first time I binged, it felt so great. I felt like I was making up for all my favourite foods I had missed out on for the last year. In the moment, it was like a high. Afterwards, of course, i felt like complete crap and never wanted to do it again. But, alas, it happened again. And again. And again. It started becoming a weekly occurrence. Then every few days. Doing it once triggered an addiction. My attitude each time was "1 binge won't destroy all my progress". But over time, it does. It became a vicious 9-month cycle of bingeing and restriction. I gained 8 pounds over the Christmas holidays. Lost most of it in January from restriction and over-exercising. then started bingeing again and gained it all back plus more. Now here I am, in June of 2021, 25 lbs heavier as a result of having no self control. I want to start over because I am back to hating myself but I feel so defeated. I worked so unbelievably hard to get to where I was last year and my progress feels wasted. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:09 AM PDT hi everyone, I'm trying to keep myself accountable for my weight loss journey, so here I go! I'm a 19 years old female, 5'8" and weigh around 86kg (don't know exactly as I hate weighing myself). I'm still in my exam period so I'm not focusing as much on my food choices, but I'm almost done and I really want to dedicate my headspace to working on myself. Exercise isn't a problem for me as I usually do a few gym classes during the week and I enjoy going on walks, but my diet is a lot harder to maintain. During COVID, I gained a lot of weight and I'm finding it really hard to not be depressed when I look back to when I was thin. I find it hard to keep motivation for myself, especially in consistently calorie counting. I don't enjoy doing it, and I like to think that if I mainly eat healthy then I don't need it, but it seems like that is not the case. Anyway, my main goal is to do weekly updates and hopefully I can start to see progress if I consistently stick to my goal. I just want to feel better in my body and be happy. I want to finally see a change and stop feeling so bad about myself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 08:18 AM PDT 5"3 28F CW: 159lbs GW: 140lbs SW: 218lbs I'm pumped to be in the 150s again, in my 20s the low end of 150s has been my average. That's with drinking/going out on weekends and either running 5kms regularly or hitting the gym 3-4 times/week. I hit 218 lbs last summer, prior to that in February 190 lbs was actually my highest. Weight gain began with a back injury that took me out of working out in 2018 (135lbs) then being medicated for low mood (2018-2020) and spraining an ankle running 2019. It was a rollercoaster of ups and downs. End of July 2020 I got into just walking regularly 1-2 km daily, then 3-4km, then hiking 5-8km 4/wk in August, then in September December 2020 running 5-8ks 3-4/wk. Didn't do calorie restriction initially, limited eating out, made home cooked meals I had been used to when I previously went to the gym regularly/ran.
In December 2020 I developed some health issues all at once (asthma, ideopathic anaphylaxis, and a benign tumour in my left leg on the ileal band). I was 170 lbs at the time and pretty fucking down about these complications, I gained a little (5 lbs) because I couldn't actually eat vegetables for a few months and was stuck with carbs, fat, and meat to get my nutrients. I was also sedentary (couldn't walk and breathe). Eventually I got on some meds that helped me widen my diet (vegetables and fruits good to go again), and I started calorie restriction because I was stuck on the couch and didn't really need that much food. I restricted to 1400-1500 calories (listened to my hunger too, I was sick so if I was hungry I'd support my body). The last 5 weeks I started walking again with the help of a regular puffer (1-3km every other day). I've lost those 5 lbs since the beginning of May + 10 lbs. Some days in the week I land up eating more like 1200 calories but it's only since I replaced rice/whole wheat with barley and beans. They are incredibly filling and if I'm not hungry I just don't feel like eating that, also some days I have 2100 because I like eating out once a week or every 2 weeks. Just wanted to show an example I guess of how easy/complicated weight loss can be. It's not linear and it's 100% a journey, I'm okay with where I'm at. My goal weight is 140 lbs but I'm not strict on that - I like the way I look now and health isn't 100% your weight. I think you're habits are, and sometimes shit luck, environment, and/or genetics. Whatever your goal be flexible and not too hard on yourself, you'll have ups and downs. It's okay [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Sunday, 13 June 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 12 Jun 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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| Kinda frustrated about how non-visible my weight loss is. Posted: 12 Jun 2021 10:42 PM PDT Heyo! I (18F) started my weightloss journey from April, it's been nice and I'm surprised I continued for as long as I did! My starting weight was 76 kgs and my current weight is 70 kgs. In all fairness I have lost 6kgs but it's uncanny how light I do not feel? Like 6kgs is still something right? I have never been on a weightloss journey before so my experience is very very limited but I did think it would show atleast! I did take pictures and I guess there's a little bit (just very little) around my stomach fat amd back fat but ig that's pretty much it. On the top of that ig it's worth mentioning that I don't feel like really really heavy anymore. Like when I was 76 I'd usually feel so bad about my body and sometimes when I used to sit I just used to measure my belly fat lmao and it was overflowing! It's still there but I don't feel all that bad or heavy but I'm assuming it's just in my mind? I'm kinda scared that my goal that is 55kgs won't be sufficient for me, which is pretty demotivational because it's still 15 kgs away and I have wanted to be 55 for ages🥲 idk if it makes sense but yeah. My question however is how long before I can expect some visible changes? Like something off my face fat or some inches? Now I'm regretting not taking measurements lmaooo! I'd appreciate if someone shares their own experience! Thankss! [link] [comments] |
| Been slacking lately and could really use some motivation. Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:50 PM PDT Hello!! I am a 5'4 female and I currently weight about 145lbs. I wanna get down to 120lbs but it's so hard because I will be doing good for a while and somehow I will go off track and start eating how I used to. When I'm stressed I eat. When I'm bored I eat. Sometimes I eat more because I'm stressed that I can't eat more. Does that make sense? Anyone have any tips to lose the last 20lbs? Lately I've been eating more because I'm on a trip and I feel so horrible. I've been eating healthy but it's a lot of food. I'm obviously still putting on weight and I know it shouldn't make me feel this way but being overweight make me, PERSONALLY, feel really ugly. Fat itself isn't ugly but fat on me doesn't look great. I gain so much weight in my face and in all the wrong places so it doesn't suit me well. It doesn't help that my cheeks are already naturally chubby. I want to slim down because I feel like I will feel better health wise and look better physique wise. I always hear people say losing weight won't make you happier but I honestly feel like it would change my life so much. I just can't seem to do it. I can't seem to lose these last 20. I run sometimes and strength train but some days I just don't feel like doing it and then that turns into weeks of me not doing it. How do you all stay motivated? How do you keep on track with your eating habits? I know no one is perfect but I see people on here still losing weight while giving themselves a break. I can't give myself a break. I can't have cheat days. I will have one cookie and gain 20lbs. :( & obviously I don't really gain that much from one cookie but I have no self control so it's hard to limit myself when I cheat. Staying motivated when you don't see results is hard. I'm also a very impatient person so not seeing a change stresses me out and then I decide to eat to cope. I just feel like I'm stuck in this depressing loop. I just turned 20 today and I don't feel accomplished at all. I still feel like the overweight unconfident 15 year old me. Sorry this is all over the place I just needed to vent. Any advice would be so helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Do you ever worry that your potential romantic partner/date/whatever cares that you used to be fat? Posted: 12 Jun 2021 02:46 PM PDT I imagine that if someone deeply cares about you and loves you, it doesn't matter. Maybe that's why they are your boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, whatever. As I've lost weight and put in the effort to take care of myself over the years, my confidence has shot up. However... now that I am beginning to date, I can't help to feel that the person I am seeing will suddenly lose attraction if they were to, for instance, see an old photo of me when I used to be obese. I've heard the argument that if they do care and lose attraction, they are not worth it. I guess. Yet I also hate to think that my past will influence someone's feelings towards me today when I really want to make things work. I don't know what I'm looking for here. Just want to know your thoughts on the matter. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Sunday, 13 June 2021 - No question too small! Posted: 12 Jun 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] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 12:29 PM PDT 16M, Height: 6'0, SW: 270.6 Ibs, CW: 241.7 Ibs, Long Term, GW: 200 lbs | It's been 2 months since I've posted on this subreddit, I don't have much to say, I'll try to be brief: Since losing almost 30 lbs of excess weight I've noticed many changes mentally and physically, with most good, but one not so much. I can see most of my feet, I can walk without getting as tired, I fit into old clothes I had 2 years ago, I can go out more without thinking about weight, it's all hunky dory, except my appetite. Since losing weight my appetite has greatly increased and now I'm finding myself struggling more and more to refraining from eating the most unhealthy food imaginable. I know I can get through it, I will get through it, I'll update soon, thanks for the tedtalk. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:34 AM PDT 21/M, 5'7 I was never in shape (as in muscular, or had amazing cardio, but playing airsoft growing up kept me "good enough"), but I was never overweight in the slightest growing up, and I really want to get back into the position that I was in in 2017/2018. Fortunately, I'm getting better with my diet. I've had less "urges" to eat a big greasy burger, and I'm finally in a position where I'm wanting to eat fruit over other foods. I'm feeling overall "healthier" because I'm eating less and better. So I'm asking for good starting workouts, and maybe some tips for sticking to it. I'm at the point where I'm more consistently WANTING to get in shape, but I'm not sure where to start. Any and all comments are greatly appreciated [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 13 June 2021? Start here! Posted: 12 Jun 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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| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 04:27 PM PDT I'm 25F, 5'3, 186lbs, and live a sedentary lifestyle (I work at a desk job). I'm getting frustrated with how slow my weight loss has been. I've been doing intermittent fasting for about 2-3 months now and CICO. The last 3 weeks, I've only lost one pound. I keep hearing how eating less than 1200 calories is not sustainable and can slow down my metabolism so I started eating 1400-1500 calories a day but I didn't lose any weight. 1300 calories is when I started losing the weight very slowly but then I hit a plateau. My current TDEE is 1875 so for a 500 calorie deficit, I need to eat 1375. 1350 is my daily calorie limit and I've only lost 1 pound in 3 weeks. My goal was a pound a week. There were days that I did over eat by 100 calories but no more than that and I recently started doing HITT workouts every other day but that hasn't helped budged the scale at all this week. I think I may have to go back to eating under 1200 calories since that's the only time I've ever seen weight loss. I usually lose about 1.5 pounds a week eating between 1100-1200. I weigh and measure everything I eat and never miss any days. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 10:46 AM PDT Obligatory I'm on mobile so sorry about the formatting. So in the past 3 years I gained a lot of weight. My mom died, I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder & put on meds (which induced weight gain), and became an alcoholic. I gained 100 pounds. Two weeks ago I quit drinking, started eating heathier, and began going on daily walks. I lost 13 pounds and was really proud of myself. Anyways, I'm on my uncles boat today . When I saw my uncle, he poked my belly and said, "you look pregnant!' But brace yourselves, it gets worse. We got on his boat and he asked if I wanted a beer. I told him no thanks. He went on to say "it looks like you have a kegger in your stomach!" Anyways, I'm really upset and just wanted to vent. I'm sitting on his boat right now and I'm not even enjoying myself. I'm getting bullied by my own family. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 02:18 PM PDT I've lurked in this sub for a while, when I was 240 lbs and tried to make the change and lose weight back in 2018-2019, and was fairly successful getting down to my initial goal weight of 190 lbs. However, the start of a new job, breaking up with a long-term girlfriend, followed by the pandemic and the gym I was going to permanently closing down, and other just general stress I fell off the wagon and started falling back into my old bad habits of binge eating. At first, I kept thinking "It's fine, I only gained a bit of weight, once the vaccine is out, I'll get back on track", and just kept thinking this even when I started stretching out and barely fitting in my casual clothes. Then at the start of this month I noticed I was out of breath just climbing some stairs in my house, and the sinking feeling of dread set in that I'm in way worse shape then ever before. It took me about another week for me to even muster the courage to hop on a scale and see the damage I've done to myself over the course of a year. I am now starting over again at 270 lbs, and wanted to at least journal it here, mainly as a way to keep myself accountable since I have don't really have anyone around to push me like I did the first time around. I've already deleted all food delivery apps from my phone, and I just came back from a 2-hour walk, and remember how sore exercising is once you first get into it, but I'm going to power through and get myself back on track in my life. [link] [comments] |
| Coming to peace with food, finally the weight it coming off Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:37 AM PDT Hello all. I wanted to share how narrowly developing an eating disorder allowed me to let go of my feeling around food and actually start to lose weight. Little background. I have always been 'fat' and my parents were fat too. Growing up they would try weight watchers and stuff like that. I was an insecure girl growing up because of my weight. And I would hate myself or wish I could cut it off with scissors. But I love food and always have. So food became an obsession for me. I had tried CICO and had some success but never for long. I tried working out excessively to try and counteract the foods I could never resist. So fast forward to college. Super duper stressfulI got to 225 lbs and it I saw a nutritionist. She asked me what I had been up to and it was nothing good. I had been trying fad diets including trying to slightly modify a diet for folks who had just had gastric bypass [broth, protein shakes, and canned vegetables]. I was miserable and hated my body and myself because of my feelings and actions with food. I told her about some other habits and "rules" I had around food. And she informed me that I was well on the way to developing an eating disorder and suggest I read a book about intuitive eating. So I read it because, well doctors orders and I didnt want to have an eating disorder. And basically the book talks about going back to listening to your body, accepting yourself, and making choices not off of have to but want to. It talked about the type of eater you are and I felt like this book was describing me over and over again. It helped my identify how I was creating all of this turmoil within myself. I would fat shame myself to stay away from sweets or deprive myself of things I really wanted. How healthy foods became something I forced onto myself and junk foods became the forbidden fruit. I would know logically not to eat them but emotionally I wanted them and would eat to excess when I got them. And how exercise gets tied in with our feelings around food and can ruin how we feel about and doing exercise. So that has been about 2.5 years ago now since I read that book and the progress has been slow with grad school really slowing progress [very mentally and emotionally taxing on me] but since I finished school and have had time to practice loving myself, coming to peace with food, learning to cook easy fairly healthy meals, learning to hear my hunger cues, and finding exercise I find rewarding (I was torturing myself with crossfit); I have lost 35 lbs in a year. Now I know 35 may sound like not much to some folks but the most I had ever lost on any diet was 18 lbs. But this hasn't felt like work. Before grad school I dealt with a lot of my emotional things around food, grad school made me extra stressed but I didnt flux but 5 lbs the whole time, and now that my life is a bit more stable...its working. I am just living my life as I see fit, eating the foods I want everyday while keeping healthy choices in mind not for my weight but for how the food makes me feel. It's like after that emotional work it has been so easy to just coast. I am happier, healthier, more active, less stressed, dropping pounds, and wish I had done it earlier. And I just wanted to share that hating yourself or shaming yourself isnt going to help and maybe hasn't been working. So try some compassion and self love on for size, it's better than any fad diet I've ever been on. TLDR: I was developing an eating disorder trying to lose weight. A book about solving my emotional problems around food has helped me tremendously and I have been losing weight without trying [though being a good cook and adventurous eater helped the process a lot too]. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2021 04:33 AM PDT A post on the 30 Day Accountability Challenge run by the tireless /u/Mountainlioness404d got me thinking about regain and re-loss. I hope some of the thoughts below are helpful to people looking to maintain their weightloss, or looking ahead to what maintenance might look for them. This won't be applicable to everyone or probably even most people, but I hope there's a few who it will resonate with. Some quick backstory on where I'm coming from. I joined /r/loseit seven and a half years ago (under a username lost to time). I was in my early twenties and hopeless. After prolonged illness, I'd comfort eaten my way up to 212 lbs at 5'6 and I was devastated at what I'd done to myself. I'd already begun losing via a calorie deficit and no exercise, when I found r/loseit, and it was one of the major tools in my weightloss journey. The support of other members and the no-nonsense approach to nutrition and focus on the individual were invaluable. I lost 60 lbs in the first six months, and then 20 lbs in the next six months (I introduced exercise at this time and there was some recomp) until I hit 130 lbs. I then maintained that loss for six years with fluctuations between 130 and 140. What were the reasons for the re-gain after that time? The easy answer is COVID. But COVID was only the instigator. These are the reasons why all the weight I'd lost and kept off for six years, came back in one year
Takeaways from this
The bright side (for those, like me, who are on the re-loss treadmill)
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| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Sunday, 13 June 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 12 Jun 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] |
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