Weight loss: My final goodbye |
- My final goodbye
- Almost out the 300!!/Goal weight.
- "Oh, do you think you can do this hike? You can sit it out if you want"
- No longer overweight!
- I learned bad habits at school (USA)
- I've lost my first 4lbs! Finally feel like I'm making progress ����
- I'm Finally Feeling Attracted To Myself Again
- started my weight loss journey a couple months ago 17 pounds down
- Weight loss part 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Doing the best best I can and frustrated.
- How do I lose weight in an unhealthy family during quarantine?
- lost my first stone! (14 lbs)
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 28th, 2021
- I start the day off great but then end up failing….
- Frustrated and confused
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 27
- Discouraged. 5’7 / SW: 187 / CW: 183 / GW: 135
- I get hungry practically every hour and it's making dieting feel impossible
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- Frustrated and at a loss... Plateauing before even starting!
- Advice: hit my first plateau since I started up again
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 28 July 2021? Start here!
- how to combat food guilt and shame?
| Posted: 27 Jul 2021 09:08 PM PDT M20 6'1 SW 276 CW 170 Dear r/loseit community, when I first came here, I was miserable. Fed up with the life that I was living, I was searching for advice which could help me achieve my eternal goal of losing weight. I had always been overweight, I never knew how it felt to be fit and/or healthy, but also I realized that I was wasting the best years of my life. It's not something that I hadn't tried before, but somehow, in the past, I'd always fail. But not this time. Thanks to the kind people of this subreddit, whose stories I must've read over and over, and their experiences and mistakes from which I learned, I managed to overcome my weight problem once and for all. Being in a caloric deficit for months is not easy, staying motivated is not easy, showing the tenacity needed to achieve greatness surely isn't easy, especially during a pandemic. You don't have to prove anything to no one except yourself. I started my journey in late August/ early September of 2020. By January this year, I had reached my goal of 165 lbs. I had managed to loose 110 lbs in about 5-6 months, by only consuming about 600 calories a day. Now, don't get it twisted, what I did was extremely unhealthy and definitely not sustainable. Stuff like that takes a toll on your body. Somehow, my binge eating disorder turned into anorexia. The message that I am trying to convey is that patience is key, be careful not be obsessed with loosing your weight as quickly as possible. I've been managing to maintain my weight ever since I had reached my goal. After half a year of tracking every grain of rice and counting every calorie, you'll get a feeling of how much food is too much and how much is appropriate. Also, during my journey I also added going to the gym to my habits, and i've been hitting the gym ever since they were allowed to reopen here in Germany, which was about a month ago. Right now, i'm adding muscle mass, which is why i've consciously gained 5 lbs. Whatever you do, do it consciously. Eat consciously, train consciously. Hold yourself accountable to your self! Listen, not many people want to see you shine, they want you to fail. I've had people flat out come to me after I had lost the weight who were telling me that they were sure I would fail. Prove them wrong! People will respect you. People will treat you differently, as messed up as it sounds. Anyway, I feel like it is time for me leave this subreddit. I am grateful for each and every one of you who gave us insight into their story, who shared their wisdom with those less experienced and simply I am grateful for those, who try to better themselves every single day. Thank you! The left picture has been taking on 08/25/2020, the right one has been taking on 07/27/2021 (please don't mind any mistakes or typos as english is not my first language :) ) [link] [comments] |
| Almost out the 300!!/Goal weight. Posted: 27 Jul 2021 11:32 AM PDT Hey everyone, today I weighted at 303 and my starter weight is 358. I don't really have a goal weight but for the past month I've been looking forward to be under the 300 and even if it's just by one pound, I'll be so happy!! I lost 55pounds so far and I keep working toward being at an healthy weight, being in the 200s even if it's 299 will mean so much to me!! Currently 25 and I've definitely been in the 300 all my 20s. I'm slowly thinking about goal weight but I really don't know, I'm a 6ft woman and I feel like even at 210-230 I could look good and be healthy but I really don't know. I think once I'll feel good in my body and feel healthy then it'll be easier for me to think about a goal weight. Update: To anyone still commenting, thanks alot, your comment is appreciated and I hope your journey is going well!!You're all amazing too!!xx [link] [comments] |
| "Oh, do you think you can do this hike? You can sit it out if you want" Posted: 27 Jul 2021 03:04 PM PDT This happened on Sunday . My(33f, 5'7", 215 lbs) friend(35f ) said this to me when we went for a 3 mile hike though a forest. I love hiking and being in the nature. I go on hikes of various distances 3-4 times a month. One of the main reason I am trying to lose weight is so that I can enjoy being out and about . I also realize i am obese based on my weight. Yes, I don't look like I can do a 3 mile hike (~500ft elevation gain) in 100 f weather. But I didn't ask her opinion! I don't know if it was real concern or just judgement covered in concern, it sure made me feel like crap. Thank God my wonderful husband heard it and said we had done a harder hike just last week so this should be easy. Guess who reached the top without being a huffing and puffing mess? You guessed it right; ME!! I really hope people around me stop passing a judgement . I may not look like it yet but I eat healthy,nutritious food and work on improving my fitness daily. I am perfectly capable of knowing my limits and pushing them thank you very much! Rant Over! ETA : I wanted to clarify a few things that keep coming up: 1) This was a group of my husband's coworkers . I am not really close with any of them. The lady was one of the coworker's wife. 2) Husband and I did another hike couple of weeks ago ( the one he referred to) . Upon seeing the photos,his coworkers wanted to do a hike in the same area so Husband and I planned this hike . 3) We shared the AllTrails link to make sure everyone was comfortable and even had another easier hike picked out in case it got too hot. We planned on taking about 2 hrs to the top with plenty of breaks . [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:55 PM PDT Hey everyone! I hit another milestone and wanted to share with all the people here. I'm currently hovering at 189 lbs, which makes me officially no longer overweight! I have given it a few days to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but it seems like I've actually kept it up! I still have a belly and some other extra padding, so I'm still going to try to lose another 10 lbs or so. But I think it's finally time for me to switch from the strict "less weight" goal and move to seek broader fitness. Ya boy is finally ready to start lifting weights! Of course I also wanna thank everyone here for the support and tips along the way. I've been trying to lose this weight for 10+ years now and gave up within a month or two each time I started. The posts from this sub popping up in my feed have kept me motivated to push farther than I have before. Thank you all so much, and good luck to those of us still trying to r/loseit! We'll get to our destinations together :) [link] [comments] |
| I learned bad habits at school (USA) Posted: 27 Jul 2021 06:27 AM PDT Yesterday I celebrated 15 pounds lost and being under 200 pounds. Like a lot of people pursuing sustainable weight loss, I've been reflecting on where the bad habits that made me overweight came from. This sub is full of horror stories about homes where children learned bad eating habits due to poverty, abuse, neglect, overzealous dietary restrictions, bribery with food, or indiscriminate indulgence. None of these things described my family situation growing up. My lower middle class hippie parents did everything right, actually. They fed me healthy food, but not to the point that it was intensely restrictive or punitive. I didn't have to develop a taste for vegetables or fish as an adult. They took me hiking all the time, too, and taught me how to ride a bike. I'm convinced school made me fat instead. In elementary school, I was introduced to strictly enforced six and seven-hour fasts when I wasn't at a developmental age to handle it. These fasts would always be broken with institutional food full of fat and carbs, and also lots and lots and LOTS of milk. They told us explicitly that the best thing we could do for ourselves was pound whole milk, much of it flavored, at every meal. This was before Michelle Obama. It was also the golden age of standardized testing and the preparation for same, so lunch breaks were limited to 20 minutes. I learned that food disappeared if you did not eat it immediately. In middle school, I was bullied a lot and the lunchroom was one of the places where this occurred. I learned to eat fast so I could go hide somewhere. My parents were astonished by how fast I could eat without choking or throwing up. This made it hard to taste food or know when I was full, and it's been one of the hardest habits to break. Like many children who didn't play organized sports, I learned to associate exercise with humiliation in the middle grades. If I did poorly it meant I had a disability, and if I did well it meant I was a lesbian (these are polite terms, not the ones that were actually used.) There was no winning in exercise. In high school, there were more options for what to do for food and PE, but all of them were terrible. There were a lot of vending machines in those days. All through school, I learned that the human body is an inconvenience. The fact that you need food, bathroom breaks, and exercise is a massive inconvenience to your school, which as an institution needs you to do well on tests or it will be deprived of funding and cease perpetuating itself. Your body exists to embarrass you in front of your peers. The fact that you go through puberty is hilarious and degrading, and outside contractors must be brought in to scare you out of having sex lest you reproduce. Female bodies in particular are a distraction and a crowd control problem. Why would you treat your body kindly if it's nothing but a problem? In order to unlearn something, you have to realize that you learned it in the first place. Most of what we learn growing up is never formalized in a curriculum - and well-meaning educators would be absolutely horrified if they saw it all written out like that. Michelle Obama got a lot of flak for pointing to schools as one of the culprits in obesity and T2 diabetes, but she was right, even if her reforms were hard to implement at scale in a way that made everyone happy. I wonder how many millennials are significantly heavier than they would have been because of various aspects of the school environment. [link] [comments] |
| I've lost my first 4lbs! Finally feel like I'm making progress ���� Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:51 PM PDT 29F CW: 186lbs GW: 155 (ish) height: 5'4 I have been trying and failing since January this year to lose literally anything. Lockdown was incredibly unkind to me, yknow.. making me overeat.🙄 Anyway, I tried the MFP classic recommendation of 1200 cals, I tried the NHS weight loss plan of 1400 cals combined with the One You Easy Meals app, change4life etc to no avail. But I've always had this all in mentality of 'well if I'm to eat healthy then I can't eat X, y, and z' which always leads to a binge after not losing a stone in a day /s I have been using an online coach since April whereby I was given a workout plan, a calorie goal (way more than i would have ever given myself), and a sleep goal among others, which has FINALLY opened my eyes and I finally feel like I'm a good position, and have the knowledge I need, to carry on with realistic expectations. Weighing yourself doesn't show the whole picture, as I'm sure you're all aware, and I knew this!!! But I guess it takes some reminding when you are desperate for change and the scale isn't moving. I've started weighing myself daily which in a previous life would have become an obsession, but it's working for me at the moment to keep me on track. And it's helped me understand what happens to my body say, if I eat a salt heavy meal the night before, the scale will be a couple lbs heavier in the morning. I've also started weighing my food which seemed like a painful task but you get used to it. I'm so pleased that I'm finally making small moves forward, I just need to keep it up and not get too cocky. Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk. [link] [comments] |
| I'm Finally Feeling Attracted To Myself Again Posted: 27 Jul 2021 12:53 PM PDT 26, F, H: 5'5", SW: 290, CW:255, GW:200 Maybe this is narcissistic - you decide! I belly dance recreationally. As I lose weight, I find myself ogling at my reflection more and more. I don't mind the jiggling or the less-than-toned skin - I can actually see my abdominal muscles moving when I do my tummy flutters and belly rolls! I was at my lightest when I first started taking classes, so over 4 years later I'm finally starting to feel how I did then - but this time, with the added confidence and strength of several years of practice. If I saw someone like me performing what I see in the mirror, I'd be in love. This is my second time going through significant weight loss - the lightest I achieved the first time was 215lbs starting from 250, and I absolutely loved my body at that weight (my fat-free mass is approximately 150lbs, so while 200lbs would still put me in the "obese" category on paper, my health and body composition would tell a different story). However, I achieved this loss with medication, so when I went to university and stopped taking it, I gained back double what I lost. Now I'm simply counting calories and losing again, down over 30lbs. I can't wait to see how much my confidence grows as my weight loss continues. Of course, body image had very little to do with my "Why"s of losing weight, but getting to see a curvy bellydancer in the mirror twice a week is a nice plus! [link] [comments] |
| started my weight loss journey a couple months ago 17 pounds down Posted: 27 Jul 2021 03:16 PM PDT hello everyone i was in a psychiatric hospital for 5 months i put on 5 stone in those 5 months the hospital was small and had no healthy food to choose from fries would be on the menu every time we ate lunch and in the mid afternoon.. i was 17 stone or 238 pounds when i went there after the 5 months coming home i weighed 318.. yikes!! before being in the hospital i would walk everywhere and anywhere.. later i found out i suffer from chronic back pain from gaining the weight in hospital its been like this almost a year since being let home started in hospital! i go swimming for 90 minutes each day and its helped my back ease in certain circumstances like i could only walk 3 minutes now i can walk for 8 so its strengthening my core i started slimming world but didnt join class until 3 weeks ago and ive lost 17 pounds since about 2 months and im so proud i thought i could never do it but im getting there.. sorry for the long post thank you for reading [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss part 2: Electric Boogaloo Posted: 27 Jul 2021 11:57 AM PDT Hey guys! With the help of this sub I lost 100lbs between July 2019 and July 2020. I've mostly kept it off this past year, but I hit a major plateau which turned into maintenence. I hit my first goal, but haven't really put any effort towards goal 2. Now I'm a bit concerned for my future health and goals because I just had a major knee surgery, am non weight bearing for a few more weeks, but my diet has been pretty shit since my operation. I figure fighting to keep the weight I've lost off is a good time to fight to hit my last goal! On July 27, 2019 I started at 340lbs (NSFWish) On July 27, 2020 I hit my goal of 240lbs (NSFWish) On July 27, 2021 I am starting at 245lbs (NSFWish) My goal is to hit 220lbs and get lean. I want to not only lose the extra 25 lbs, I want to gain enough muscle to be pretty lean at 220. I'm also going to be rehabbing my left leg from an ACL and Meniscus surgery. Right now only 2 weeks post-op, I am unable to put any weight on my knee and that leg is scrawny. I lost all my gains of the last 2 years on that leg. I want it to be stronger than ever on the other side of rehab. I don't have a real deadline, but July 27 2022 seems like a logical deadline! Today is day zero: the sequel. Wish me luck! [link] [comments] |
| Doing the best best I can and frustrated. Posted: 27 Jul 2021 04:28 PM PDT So I've (29F 217lbs) started working a desk job about a year ago and my weight gain was just out of control. I went from doing an active job to sitting on my butt. After a long and hard winter, I finally found the motivation to move and try to lose weight. But I'm getting nowhere. And I'm really frustrated because I have been through this so many times in my life. I take walks on my morning breaks, I do house chores plus eating on my lunch break. Afternoon breaks are a little harder since I'm usually too busy to take one. I try to go on a bike ride after work or after supper (it's really the only thing I enjoy putting energy into) ((made it to a full 11km yesterday, I was so proud of myself)) and if I know I won't be able to make it, I do a short training that is hard enough for me to sweat. I eat healthy but there's always those little guilty pleasures lurking around. The reunions at restaurants, that cake that my grandma forces me to take back home, the chocolates my girlfriend gifts me. I am stuck in this horrible pattern of losing weight and then putting it all back on. Except this time, I can't lose it. Im so frustrated with myself and uncomfortable in my body. The weight this frustration has on my mind is pulling me down and no one seems to understand it. Ok rant over ~ [link] [comments] |
| How do I lose weight in an unhealthy family during quarantine? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 01:36 AM PDT I (17F) am 60 kg (132.27 lbs) at the height of 4'11. I plan to at least lose 15 kg (33.07 lbs) I have tried to lose weight myself around a year ago, by eating healthy, portion control and working out, but that was short -lived. Around a few months ago, I felt a horrible pain in my stomach after having not eaten for a while in my attempt to lose weight and was sent to the hospital to be treated. That moment made me feel terrified. I want to lose weight, but not at the expense of my mental and physical health. I live with my parents and have tried to talk to them about eating healthy and buying healthier alternatives, but they'll always reason that it's expensive (and sometimes, I have to agree). I tried to ask if I can contribute to grocery shopping, but I was turned down. They will occasionally buy foods high in carbs and a lot of sweets and chips. I try to tell them not to, but they'll reason that I should simply just not eat them. On good days, I can go for weeks not giving into temptation, but there are days where I simply can't. I feel helpless. I'm not quite sure what to do. 2 weeks ago, I tried intermittent fasting (9 am - 5 pm) and still am, but I am unsure if I'm heading the right direction. Due to Covid, my parents do not allow me to go outside (even for walks), so I'm mostly stuck at home with pretty much nothing to do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2021 07:55 AM PDT I started my weight loss journey officially at the end of april. I have chronic fatigue so exercise is extremely difficult, so I had to focus on diet mainly. I downloaded myfitnesspal and said I wanted to lose 1/2 pounds a week, so it suggested 1200 calories a day. normally I'd start a "diet" and be miserable pretty early on, so I'd end up chucking it in and binge eating my favourite foods again, only starting back up the weight gain and the misery. I did this quite slowly, some days I haven't been exactly on 1200 calories, I've gone over it some days while still being in a calorie deficit (some days I've also been under 1200 calories if I've napped a lot/felt poorly) I've still been eating foods that I like (life is way too short to cut out blueberry muffins) and drinking water with a little bit of diluted juice in it, I aim for atleast 1 litre a day (before I barely had any water during the day at all). I've been having bran flakes with semi-skimmed milk for breakfast every day without fail (which is one of my favourite cereals so I'm very happy to have this everyday) and I've just started to make homemade soup for lunch which is around 95 calories per serving (and so filling!) I've had the odd takeaway, but as of right now I couldn't tell you the last takeaway I had. possibly 4ish weeks ago, which is a massive improvement to how I used to be, takeaways 3-4 times a week without even thinking about it. I still have a ways to go, I want to lose about another 3-4 stone (42-56 lbs), but I'm so proud of this little milestone and wanted to share :) [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 28th, 2021 Posted: 27 Jul 2021 10:36 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] |
| I start the day off great but then end up failing…. Posted: 27 Jul 2021 06:15 PM PDT man i hate that i have to write this because it makes me feel like i've failed. A little backstory : last year around this same time i was pushing 310lbs and got to a point where i looked in the was disgusted with myself, that pushed me to kickoff my first "successful" weight loss journey , in about 4-5 months i had got down to the 260lb range , i felt way better but around the new years i stopped , it's hard to stick to a calorie limit when you're around family and all having a good time , eating , etc. I haven't gained much weight since i stopped doing cico ( around january ) so i am proud of that but i've noticed i'm starting to backtrack a bit, i'll find myself binge eating and i've been trying to get back in track and i'll start off the morning doing amazing, i'll eat breakfast around noon and a bit later have lunch or a little snack and it'll all be good until dinner , when i first was losing weight i didn't have a job so i could pretty much just meal prep whenever i wanted but now it's hard to make a healthy dinner without just binging on something else , or if i do make a healthy dinner, i'll come home from work, eat it and then binge in something else, if i can just stop the binging when u get home from work i'll be able to get back in track, i tell myself i won't do it everyday but then i end up doing it , it's been a cycle for weeks now and i really don't know how to go about stopping this after work binging , any advice would be greatly appreciated . ( my weekday work shifts are relatively short at about 4 hours sometimes 6 hours if i go in early ) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2021 12:37 AM PDT Hi! I am new and need support. My starting weight was 238lbs I am now 209 I seem to have stopped loosing... help, plus my body hasn't change and not only do I not see it no one else does. I don't get it I thought maybe my scale was broken 😕 so I bought another one but it was not broken so I now have two lol. I eat 800 to 1000 cal no more 🙃 I walk my dog and take small hikes. It so frustrating, it makes me want to say screw it, what's the point. It's time consuming and a lot of work not to mention the hunger and sacrifice. I deserve to see results 😪 can anyone help me jump start my weight loss and tell me how 🤔 I can loose all that weight and not notice it??? PLEASE! Thank you 😊 [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 27 Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:06 PM PDT Hello lovely losers, I hope you all had a most fabulous Tuesday! Is it hot where you at? Cuz it's so hot pretty sure I could cook an egg on the sidewalk. Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & remove moral judgement/stigma/shame directed at yourself about it: Logged this morning. Progress over perfection. Ungh. 1800 calories (tracking in 5-day cycles, Friday/Saturday at maintenance): Got it today. I really hope I've got a ripe peach and not a hard little stone fruit full of yearning. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk. 22/27 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: Going to make time for this after dinner. Todays gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for access to mental health services. I don't know where I would be without access to therapy but I know I wouldn't like it. It may have more chocolate but I think I'd still feel worse. I miss some people in my life a lot today. I'm grateful I have so many warm memories of them but sometimes it's bittersweet when that version of that person doesn't exist anymore. Bah I'm getting old & sentimental. Onto the good stuff, tell me all about your day kids. [link] [comments] |
| Discouraged. 5’7 / SW: 187 / CW: 183 / GW: 135 Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:26 PM PDT I've been trying to lose weight for a month. I did a ton of running the first two weeks and by the third week I was BURNT OUT. I gained another 2 lbs back. I know it's not healthy to lose weight quickly but I gained it so fast due to meds, working from home and living a sedentary lifestyle for the past year, that I just want these extra lbs gone. The third week I stopped dieting and exercising and now I have to get back into it. What do you all tell yourselves to get yourself moving again after falling off track? Anything helps. I'm contemplating going for a run but it's so much easier to kick back and make dinner instead. Could really use some words of encouragement. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| I get hungry practically every hour and it's making dieting feel impossible Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:39 PM PDT I've been trying to eat at 1,200 but I'm really struggling because of how often I get hungry. This problem started a couple years ago and I've seen several doctors about this issue and they all dismissed me saying I was bored eating or I should just give into my body being hungry (this is what made me gain weight in the first place!). One doc even told me that some people are just naturally overweight, and while I know some people are predisposed to gaining weight quicker than others I'm pretty damn sure no one's meant to be overweight. Anyhow, I'm not happy with the way my body looks but when I get hungry I get really nauseous and get super bad headaches. The emptiness in my stomach is impossible to ignore and I can't concentrate on anything. I've tried filling up on water but somehow I end up feeling full and empty at the same time. So far I've only just managed to maintain my weight by attempting to diet but I really want to lose. Does anyone have any strategies for how to manage the frequent hunger? Does anyone know of any products that genuinely make you feel not hungry for long periods of time. I'm desperate! [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 28 July 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 27 Jul 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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| Frustrated and at a loss... Plateauing before even starting! Posted: 27 Jul 2021 11:23 AM PDT 36 year old female 5'9, SW: 333lbs CW:281 GW: 170 Last year (April -June) I lost almost 50 lbs by doing Whole 30 and walking. I was able to keep it off and even lose a few more pounds here and there with out really trying. In May of this year I signed up for Orange Theory. I've been going a few times a week, 4 on average. I switched from a restaurant job to an office job this year and now I sit all day every day, except when I work out and then after work I take my dog to the dog park and walk around the perimeter while she plays. Since starting OTF in May, I've lost about 8 lbs. It's been about 8-10 weeks but I went back to Whole30 the first month and just recently have started adding in new foods. One of the coaches at the gym said maybe I wasn't eating enough calories, so I started tracking and was eating consistently about 900-1400 calories and at my height/weight it's recommended I eat 22-2500. So, okay wayyy under, last month I started to kick up the calories. I started eating more calories but I had to bring in new foods that I don't normally eat like wraps, pasta, and sort of other things that I don't feel are healthy but I felt I needed to introduce to round out my calories and hopefully start losing weight. It's impossible for me to eat 2200 calories of chicken, broccoli, etc. I've been stuck at 281-283 for a few weeks. I'm overwhelmed by life because I feel like I never have any free time. I wake up at 6 to workout. Work from 9-6. Take my dog to the dog park almost every day (because it's good for both of us) and get home around 7:30-8, then dinners and wind down and it's bedtime. I don't understand how people lose weight on just a diet. I've been counting calories religiously for over a month and even pumping them up to around the 2,200 mark - nothing. Can anyone shed any advice on how to get my body losing weight/fat again. I'm so frustrated and ate my feelings yesterday so now I feel double disgusting. Any advice would be appreciated... [link] [comments] |
| Advice: hit my first plateau since I started up again Posted: 27 Jul 2021 04:50 PM PDT Long story short, I began working out more and eating better and lost 30 lbs. Woohoo. But I still have a journey ahead of me. Ideally I would like to drop another 50 or so. The success I have seen is a testament to how poor the decisions I was making were. However, I don't know how to break through this plateau. The big issue: I love food. I crave food. I feel sick and "foggy" if I don't eat when hungry. I am not looking to stop eating, I just want to figure out how to combat the negative effects of normal hunger so I can have better discipline in terms of snacking etc. How did you overcome the cravings? I swear I could eat 25 pounds of lettuce and not be satisfied until I eat some bread/ meat, salt, sugar etc. I get that it is a matter of portion control to a degree, but most of my cravings are for things that are of little to no nutritional value but my brain won't be satisfied until I succumb. I used to think food addiction was poor self control, but I really can't think of a better way of explaining it. I genuinely feel what I would equate to withdrawal symptoms and am ashamed by this. (I realize I shouldn't be, but its irrational). Any tips? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 28 July 2021? Start here! Posted: 27 Jul 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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| how to combat food guilt and shame? Posted: 27 Jul 2021 04:56 PM PDT Hi!! I've been on a diet and have recently been told to eat more. I tend to eat at home and eat serving sizes just so I can count my calories better. I've been eating cleaner for a month and a half now, and I feel great but I can't get rid of this paranoia that surfaces every time I eat something made by someone else or at a restaurant. My coworker brought adorable shortbread cookies today and I had to convince myself that I wasn't going to gain weight off having one cookie. I ended up having it, but I feel really guilty and I'm catching myself thinking about not eating the rest of the day because of it. I've only had around 400 calories today. Can someone offer me advice on how I can act more compassionate towards myself and my eating habits? It's emotionally exhausting to have mental battles with myself whether or not something is "worth" eating. ): [link] [comments] |
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