Weight loss: [NSV] For the First Time In My Life My Stomach Did Not Touch The Steering Wheel. |
- [NSV] For the First Time In My Life My Stomach Did Not Touch The Steering Wheel.
- Losing the all or nothing mentality is essential
- What's Harder Than Losing Weight?
- 50 pounds lost. My story
- Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself against people who shame your weight loss
- [NSV] Told my boyfriend my weight today and didn't even feel scared! The mindset it took to get me here and some thoughts on overcoming hangups
- Weight loss or how I became the "Sk8er boi"
- 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 14 July 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 14th, 2021
- depression-15
- My Experience so Far Rant type thing (Advice Welcome)
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 14 July 2021? Start here!
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13
- Stuck at my current weight?
- it’s really the little things :’)
- Having a daily routine: how that's helped me lose the weight
- New insecurity unlocked✅
- Am I over thinking this?
- I go to the gym, I gave up alcohol. Why can't I lose weight?
- Bad experience with dietician.
- Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers)
- Daily Q&A Post for Wednesday, 14 July 2021 - No question too small!
- One small buzzfeed trick to lose more weight and stabilize your blood sugar
| [NSV] For the First Time In My Life My Stomach Did Not Touch The Steering Wheel. Posted: 13 Jul 2021 04:16 PM PDT I have always been a large person since I was 5 years old basically. When I was 18 and buying my first car I quickly came to the conclusion that no matter what car I was going to be in that my stomach was always going to graze the steering wheel at some point. I've done crash diets that never worked and I always reverted but this time I had put in the work in therapy to work on myself and my own goals and recognizing them. I started eating healthier in March because I knew that I was going to have a gastric sleeve at some point in the near future. So I started eating salads 6 days a week. I allowed myself one cheat day a week and learned that I can still enjoy foods that I love in moderation without needing to eat ALL of those foods every day. I took 40lbs off within 2 and a half months and just had the gastric sleeve surgery last week. So while I know that the sleeve is already starting to do work I also know that I did most of the grunt work on this. My car went into the shop the day before surgery, last week. When I picked it up tonight, I realized that my seat barely needed a little readjusting but I was able to sit comfortably and I noticed while driving that it was easier to turn the steering wheel without the friction from my stomach. I started crying a bit because for so long I've dreamt of being able to drive a car and not needing to adjust my stomach so that I could make safe turns and today that dream was realized. I know that I have a long way to go but this was the first of many goals I have set up for myself and I'm so excited to experience them. [link] [comments] |
| Losing the all or nothing mentality is essential Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:38 PM PDT I have always had perfectionist tendencies and it's got in the way of so much. Losing weight is the biggest one. I give myself so many strict rules, with no wriggle room for days where I go slightly over my calorie allowance or to have any cheat meals. It's not just the diet, I force myself to have the perfect attitude to everything. Perfect workouts 5x a week. Perfect skincare routine. Always productive. So when I inevitably have a day where I feel lazy and want to skip a workout and have a little treat, I think everything is ruined. I tell myself I might as well start again when I'm in the right mindset. And then weeks will pass. I've never managed to stick to this routine for more than a couple weeks. This time I am being kind to myself. I let myself go out drinking with friends on the weekend and enjoy a takeaway pizza when watching the football. But 90% of the time I am being good and in a calorie deficit. And the weight loss is still so impressive. It's consistency not perfection. Be kind to yourself and listen to your body. You will have days where you're more energetic, more hungry, more productive etc. Sure discipline is important too, but no one can be perfect everyday. I wish I realised this earlier! [link] [comments] |
| What's Harder Than Losing Weight? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:49 AM PDT What's harder than losing weight? Lemme tell you- LOSING IT AGAIN! At my heaviest (the end of 2011) I was 320 pounds. On New Year's Eve my best friend got engaged to my brother. On January 1st 2012 we began our journey of eating better and working out! I worked so hard for years (took about 2 years) to get to my goal weight. I am a 6'0 female, and my goal was always 180 lbs. I made it to 183..... I unfortunately never made it to my goal. After Christmas break one year I just fell off. I was in my second semester of my junior year studying Civil Engineering- and it was so time consuming and stressful. I slowly kept gaining weight. In my mind it was okay, because I was still lower than when I started right? Fast forward to literally a month ago. I am now working a full time job, and living with my wonderful boyfriend. I am, unfortunately, almost back where I started. I don't want to blame anything besides myself, but on the weight gain journey I got very severe anxiety and some depression. I went to the ER for chest pains and just knew they were going to tell me I was fat and having a heart attack. Thankfully it was undiagnosed anxiety. Anyways. Now that I have my anxiety under control I am working on getting fit......AGAIN. I weighed in about a month ago at 313 pounds. I was 7 pounds away from gaining it ALL back. So this time I am determined to lose it and keep it off. I refuse to let myself go until I have an actual heart attack. So guys, I'm so proud you are on a journey, and my advice is to never let go of the piece of you that wants to get healthy. Even WHEN you reach your goal weight, work hard and preserve your hard work because what's harder than losing weight? Losing it again. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:03 PM PDT It has indeed been a journey. This is my story, I am a 16 year old that used to be overweight almost my entire life, this always really affected me in my self esteem, and my confidence. I remember at the very start of quarantine I started to workout and eat in a deficit. I started my weight loss journey when I used to be 14 years old, I remember the day I weighed myself and I saw that 95kg, (I used to be 5'8-5'9, so that made it worse) I wanted to cry. I used to be bullied because I used to be the fat kid at school, didn't think twice about my health, about my appearance, and about my relationship with food. I can now proudly say I have ended my weight loss joruney with 50 pounds lost, and I feel better than ever! I did this alone, no paid coach, no nothing, I just one day wanted to change my lifestyle, and this has been the best decision I have ever made! [link] [comments] |
| Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself against people who shame your weight loss Posted: 13 Jul 2021 02:52 PM PDT It seems like a common occurrence that people are shamed by their peers for weight loss. Comments like "you are too skinny already", "you look sick" etc. Trying to force food upon you and making you feel bad for trying to get healthier. As someone who comes from a family where EVERYBODY is overweight and not a single person is fit, I got these comments a lot. I tried to present them with the facts, showing them what the healthy weight range is for my height, how great it makes me feel etc. and it went nowhere. It's pretty clear they don't know or care about the facts or else they wouldn't be making these remarks. I even tried being mature about it and saying I don't appreciate these comments, but they didn't truly care. I ended up getting pretty sick of their disrespectful, body shaming comments and I started subtly clapping back. Someone in my family told me "I need to gain a bit of weight I look sick" so I responded by saying "People die all the time for being overweight, but nobody has ever died from being lean with good cardio". Another time we had family over for dinner and I decided to have smaller portions and skip out on desert. When they mocked me for being on a diet and withering away, I just responded by saying "I'd rather live another year thanks, you guys can enjoy that heart attack in a cup yourselves". And ever since I started making these comments, I haven't heard a peep about my weight form any of them. Some people are like crabs in a bucket, using mob mentality to gang up on somebody doing something different. If you are the victim of this, don't feel bad to be a little bit disrespectful with your conversation. As counter intuitive as it sounds, sometimes a subtle reminder that they are eating themselves to death while you are not builds enough respect that they don't want to go at it with you (like you deserve in the first place). [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2021 01:10 AM PDT My stats: 25F 5'3" SW:148 CW:139 LW:132 GW:110 I've been dating my boyfriend for about two years now. I'm currently a few pounds down from the weight I was when I first met him, but a few pounds up from the lowest weight I've been since then. Throughout that whole time, I've never felt comfortable talking to him about my weight (not that he pushed or seemingly cared, but it would occasionally come up). I absolutely would have never given him a number. The few times he did ask, I felt anxious and panicky and wouldn't say it. Even at my lowest weight, 5+ pounds down from where I am now, I didn't feel comfortable telling him, even though I was so proud of myself then! I guess I worried that it would make him see me differently, or I hoped that maybe he had a lower estimate in his mind that I didn't want to override. But today it came up in conversation. We were talking about weightlifting, and I asked him if he could estimate how much I might hypothetically be able to lift (I've never seriously tried it before), so he asked me what my weight was (so he could estimate, I guess), and I told him! Just like that! I literally didn't even hesitate. I figured that, hey, he knows what I look like, I feel proud of how far I've come, and that he cares about more than just my weight (he honestly probably doesn't care at all). This would have even just recently felt like an impossibility. In order to get here, I think the big step was realizing that my current journey says more about me than the number on the scale does and that I should base my self-image more on my actions rather than on my immediate outcomes. Which is something I NEVER thought I'd say! I used to see people write stuff like that on here and think it was BS because for me, the scale absolutely mattered and I wanted to see specific numbers. I would encourage anyone reading this to consider what hangups they might potentially have surrounding their own numbers, and consider whether or not those mental models are accurate and beneficial towards achieving their ultimate end goals. For example, as a kid who loved K-pop, I grew up with hangups about someday wanting to be 110 lbs because 50kg was supposedly the ideal weight for female idols. But as I grew more interested in running and other athletic endeavors, I realized that this fixation on reaching that number made me shy away from activities that would build muscle. How messed up is that? Lately, I've been seeking more inspiration in the other women I see on my regular running trails. This feels much healthier, more sustainable, and less tied up in a bunch of childhood baggage. Which numbers matter to you? Where do those numbers come from? How much influence do you want those numbers and/or their associations to have on you? For example, if you have hangups about X because your sister always weighed X, or about Y because Y was your college weight, I would urge you consider if you want to let your envy of your sister have that much of a role in your psyche, or if you're avoiding discovering new potential happy weights as you age because you're struggling with come to terms with no longer being young. And again, don't get me wrong--I think the number on the scale is a really valuable metric and that paying attention to it can be and often is a hugely powerful tool in maintaining our psyche during the weight loss process. But it's limited in that it can backfire on you. It can lead to shame and embarrassment, which while in the moment can sometimes feel like just the slap in the face we need, and thus can inspire immediate action, their initial power fades fast. Weight loss takes a long time and requires you to maintain a disciplined mindset pretty consistently--how far do you think painful emotions like those can carry you? Focusing on the positive (or perhaps more realistically: neutral) associations we can have with the scale is going to be more effective than hoping the negative emotions it can cause us will make us finally behave. The negative emotions fail us because of the fact that humans generally seek to act in ways that reinforce our own self-perception (i.e. we like to have a consistent self). In other words, if you feel bad about yourself every day, then you're going to act on behaviors that make you feel like it is appropriate to feel bad about yourself. It's not just that going over your calorie limit can you make you feel like a failure, but also that thinking of yourself as a failure can cause you to act in ways that will reinforce that self-perception--i.e. going over your calorie limit yet again because subconsciously you think "fuck it, I'm that kind of person anyway" or "that's just who I am." TL;DR In summary, I felt more comfortable telling my boyfriend my weight because I (a) had accumulated enough wins to feel pride at my accomplishments and (b) started working through some of the baggage I had regarding certain numbers. It might be helpful to learn more about the hangups you might have and try to heal from them because otherwise those hangups can influence our actions in unhelpful ways. When did you finally feel comfortable sharing your weight? Would love to know how others may have healed in similar ways, other tips or things they've learned, etc. [link] [comments] |
| Weight loss or how I became the "Sk8er boi" Posted: 14 Jul 2021 02:18 AM PDT Good morning folks! It truly is unbelievable to me. Last summer I weighed almost 110kgs. I started in the middle of march 2021 with my journey at 103kgs and now I lost about 30lbs / 14kgs. In my mind I heard a click. I just did not want to be fat anymore. I held a milka chocolate egg in my hand, looked at the calories and realised, that I was able to eat 4 of those in one sitting. No wonder I was big. Now I am fluctuation between 89 and 88kg at 179cm height (25yo, male). I did this by first counting calories (LoseIt app), started running at 92kgs and now I am going to the gym 1-3 times a week. Since middle school I haven't been at that weight (And I was not as tall back then). I am really riding a wave of joy right now. I have never felt better, physically and mentally. And I thought I could never make it this far, but this really is the proof that anybody can do it, if I can do it! Don't let yourself down, know what you want, focus on that and control the things that you can control. The pandemic, stupid decisions in the past and isolation kept me from becoming the better me. I realised mid April that I cannot control those things. And if I wanted to start to become happy, I had to look for things that I could alter. But where to start? I stopped caring about the news, toxic people that let me down and all the bad things that happen in my life that are out of my reach and are unchangable. And so I started to take a look at myself and what I was able to change! I picked up the cello again, learned to spend time by myself without anxiety and the fear of being left out and finally had stuff to do! My weightloss journey really is my manifestation of change for the better. I lost my weight, but I gained so much. I started reading some books about self-improvement, psychology (especially Victor E. Frankl) and stoic philosophy and here I am. I have not finished yet and my journey is still long. But for the first time my arbitrary goal at 78kgs is in reach (just because it would be at 25 BMI). People are noticing the differences in my looks and my confidence and that is a great boost to my self-consciousness. When I look in the mirror, for the first time I don't want to barf but I think that I start to look handsome. The greatest compliment I got was from a girl. I told her about my true feelings for her last summer, when I was obese. She rejected me back then and two months ago she said that she was envious of me and that she could not go on being my friend if I got a girlfriend. Something something sk8er boi, see you later boy. Thing is, this happened when I did not reach my goal yet, so what will happen when I reach my goal? It will only get better. I just have to be as nice as possible to everybody around me. Life is a struggle and I do not want make life any more difficult for anybody else (especially not for the girl - I just try to keep my distance now). I have been following this community since mid March, since I started and this is my first post here (I had a big laugh about the guy that posted that his dick got bigger (which I can confirm)). My gratitude to all of you and this positivity will help me keep my promise to myself. The journey will never end though. I will probably never stop counting calories, just because I don't want to fall back into my old self and I want to keep on improving myself as long as I can. The weight loss journey never has been only about the fat or the weight or my looks. It is about everything, about finally becoming the person that I want to be and to become alright with myself, because in the end the person you spend the most time with, is you. If you are unhappy with yourself, change it. Become better, lose it. Become healthy! Thank you for reading and sorry for my weird language (english is not my first language) :) [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 14 July 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 13 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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| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 14th, 2021 Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:42 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: 13 Jul 2021 09:39 PM PDT Everyone had warned me about freshman 15, that packaged unhealthy food which is readily available, a very bad sleep cycle and particularly in 2020, the completely online mode of classes would ensure that I gain hella weight and don't even care about it because who do I have to meet anyway? I didn't care, because I didn't really foresee how easy it would be to put on those 15 lbs and then some. What I also failed to foresee was that I would become severely depressed, lonely and emotionally unstable in my freshman year. Being alone as an international student in a pandemic stricken USA, having my only American friend ditch me and block me and academic difficulty pushed me into a vicious cycle of crying, sleeping, eating, sleeping and waking up to do it all over again the next day. Food was my solace and my shame. I would sometimes feel nauseated at how much I was eating but I couldn't stop. I would finish a jar of nutella by myself in two days, and eat pizza for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. Soda became my water, and every day you would see me in my room, sitting blankly on my bed surfing youtube for something to see, conveniently ignoring piles of my work and finally going to sleep because of thoughts which made enjoying anything at all impossible. It was the worst ten months of my life. I came home depressed as well. At my highest I weighed 174 lbs, and I remember feeling lightheaded when I saw that number. Never in my life have I been slim or fit or whatever but I had never been this heavy. Looking at myself in the mirror disgusted me, and I thought that my body truly reflected the state of my mind at that point. Coming home 37 lbs heavier, with substandard grades and hardly any social interaction for eight months, I felt like a loser. My life had officially reached its nadir. But time does heal all wounds. Time, and a conscious decision to move on and let go of the things which are beyond your control. I realized that until I became happy, or at least not depressed, I wouldn't have the motivation to do anything positive for myself. So I cried in front of my mother and told my family I had had to go to therapy for the first time in my life, that I was dropping a course I couldn't handle, that I was sad because I missed them and I didn't have friends and I just cried and cried. One month of quiet contemplation and surrounding myself with those who actually cared about me helped a lot, and without realizing when, I made my way out of the depression sinkhole I had fallen into. And then came this subreddit. I discovered so many people with struggles so much more arduous than mine, and I saw people overcoming the absolute worst through sheer willpower and hard work and I decided I wanted to be one of them. Since making that decision, I have lost more than 15 pounds, and it feels like the literal weight of sadness has left me. Like all my bad decisions and moments of weakness have been undone. I feel like now that I am free of the weight I gained when I was busy being depressed, I can work for my improvement. I know 15 lbs is not a very huge victory, but I am proud of myself, and so grateful for everyone here who chooses to practice restraint and love themselves every single day, because you inspire me to do the same. [link] [comments] |
| My Experience so Far Rant type thing (Advice Welcome) Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:33 PM PDT 20m SW: 330 (originally probably more) CW: 320 Minor goal weight: 300 Major goal weight: 220 Serious journey time: < 1month Sorry if I sound harsh in some of my language used. I used to be involved in a lot of sports even though I was over weight but quit when I got to high school and am kicking myself for not sticking with it and maintaining a better weight. I have talked about starting my weight loss journey for a long time. I have hated the way I looked (mainly the weight department) for a while and during high school it worked out fine because I devoted time to school, work, and even taking college classes my senior year instead of dating because I felt I wasn't worth it for anyone. I started at a 4yr college at the end of 2019. I ran out of things to devote my life. I felt empty inside and even though I had friends, I put on more like a freshman 25. I finally was feeling not so empty and then Covid hit. So I started working at a warehouse and lost a little weight but now felt empty alone from not seeing my friends anymore. I had bought a scale but didn't use it or do anything outside of work. 2020 started and I was stressed out with online classes and not being able to hang out with everyone I wanted to, I started eating to fill the void (again). Classes ended I went back to my hometown for the summer and that is where things snapped. I started going to the gym with my dad on the day or two he would go and worked out on my own one other day of the week but was still eating like crap so I made very little progress. This past Sunday 7/11, I snapped fully with the hatred for my weight and laziness to fix my issue. I put on a shirt I had bought at the start of the school year and it didn't fit like it did before. I decided to cut out all unnecessary eating (three meals a day and maybe fruit, vegetables, nuts after dinner) and limit myself to no more than one soda a day. I also started drinking water instead of eating anytime I felt hungry between meals. I also started to workout on my own every day for 30min to an hour working mostly on core unless I am going to the gym where I do a 30 to 45 minute mostly upper and legs. Even since I have started working out I have felt better and more confident. I've kind of adapted a "you can do x so you can do unrelated y" mentality (if that makes sense) and started pushing the boundaries of being introverted as well. I never would have made a post like this before but since I'm making changes to me now might as well make one more, I guess. I am going to try make posts regularly to give me another reason to work towards my goals. Not sure what to put in those but I'll cross that bridge when I get there I guess. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 14 July 2021? Start here! Posted: 13 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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| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 13 Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:58 PM PDT Hello losers, Tuesday, day 13, hopefully the best day yet this month for all y'all! Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & remove moral judgement/stigma/shame directed at yourself about it: Logged this morning. Progress over perfection. Having a hard time with not using this number to berate myself. 1800 calories (tracking in 5-day cycles, Friday/Saturday at maintenance): On it. Very full of peaches today, no regrets. Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute lunch walk. 11/13 days. Alone time to word vomit into journal: Gonna hit this up before bed. Which should be soon allergies kicked my ass today. Todays gratitude list: Today I'm grateful for hair masks, face masks, hair serum, fancy skin care products in general. Also, the folks I work with. I keep getting approached on my walks during lunch by randos & knowing I've got folks two minutes away is helpful. Expressing gratitude: Nailed it last night. Will hit it up tonight again. Your turn kids! I appreciate all of you everyday too! It's nice to have company on the CICO road! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:57 PM PDT Hi everyone, it's bout time I stopped lurking on here and finally make a post. My starting weight was around 303 lbs at the end of 2020 at the very beginning of 2021. As of right now I weigh 277 lbs. I have been on and off with my exercise and properly eating for the past 2 months. But as the past 3 weeks, I've hopped back on my grind and now i've been throwing in working out at the gym daily instead of only doing 1.5-2 miles of running on the weekend. I've noticed that even with my past 2 weeks of starting my daily workouts at the gym. my weight barely changes. I practically starve myself everyday only eating 1 meal and ONLY drinking water. Never really tracked my calories properly. I stopped drinking sugary drinks back in december of 2020. I just have not seen a change in my weight and I'm just getting really disappointed every time i weigh myself and i see the same 276-278 lbs weight on my scale. I'm trying not to lose motivation but this isn't helping me out. How did you guys remedy this? [link] [comments] |
| it’s really the little things :’) Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:34 AM PDT just wanted to share, hopefully it can be some inspiration to someone. before i left the US to come to the UK to study at university, my grandma (who i'm very close to) bought me a cute pink sweater that says "let it be," a saying that she usually repeated to me whenever i called her with any problems (she helped me with a lot mentally). the sweatshirt was a size 3x and when i put it on before i left, i could barely get it around me and felt like i was suffocating myself lol. nonetheless i brought it and told myself i could just cuddle it if i'm ever feeling down. but after living here for a few months, i felt like i lost a bit of weight and tried to put it back on, and not only did it fit but it's big on me now! just being able to put it on made me so proud of myself that i'm a week in with no soda and just water! and i'm most confident that i can stick to it this time:) we got this guys <3 [link] [comments] |
| Having a daily routine: how that's helped me lose the weight Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:55 AM PDT For context, and my flare should reflect this, I'm a big boi. 6'5". 262lbs with a starting weight of 313. Being very large beyond just extra weight (you'd see what I mean if you looked at my extended family. Even the fittest of us are built like linebackers- and some are!) I expend a decent amount of energy just existing. Nothing my appetite can't outpace, unfortunately, but it's still been a blessing to me. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ So I've lost weight before (and then put it back on), but never this simply. Honestly, I've been so unrestrictive and forgiving with myself that I haven't usually felt like I was on a diet. You know what did it? Starting a desk job, ironically enough. I have bad ADHD and it's very hard for me to put much voluntary structure in my day. And while I do take attention meds that suppress my appetite somewhat, I've been on them and gained weight too. I just love food. So this time, I've effectively set myself 3 daily goals: 1) Get my 10k steps 2) track my food and 3) stay in a deficit. Using this general structure, I have been able to forgive myself for not doing going to the gym, or not doing any cardio beyond walking, or having a fatty fast food dinner. And while every day isn't a victory, for some reason I've learned just to give myself grace and get back on the horse. For some finer details about what I've done: Each morning I try to get up around 6:30 and go for a walk (1-2 miles, depending on how much time I have). I'll eat a ~600 calorie breakfast, things like scrambled egg whites with sautéed veggies and some crumbled sausage/turkey sausage, Magic Spoon cereal with almond milk and a side of low carb fat free vanilla yogurt, or even maybe a PB&J on white bread, just measured with a food scale. I'm a caffeine junkie so I drink a Monster Ultra each morning when I get to the office. Caffeine can help suppress appetite. For lunch at work, I'll have something like a low carb wrap with deli meats, thin sliced cheese, and some condiments as well as a couple pieces of fruit and a Quest bar. Lately haven't been feeling the wrap, so I've been subbing in a Healthy Choice brand Power Bowl that I just toss in the microwave instead. All told, around 700 calories. If I get fast food, Taco Bell has their steak or chicken power menu bowl for less than 500 calories, and it's delicious. Subway also has their protein bowls, where they effectively make you a sub without the bread. Again, usually around 700 cal if you avoid loading it with fat-rich sauces. My TDEE on a day where I get my 10k steps in a relaxed manor is around 3700 calories. If you're keeping track, this means that many time I'll have ~2k calories left to do whatever I want for dinner while aiming for a 500 calorie deficit. There's a lot I can fit in that number, and honestly maybe I should bump up the quantity of my other two meals, but I'm really not starving during the day. A little bit hungry, but not bad. Plus, if I eat dinner soon enough after work, I'm usually carb'ed up and energized for a good lift at the gym. Usually I'll do like a 1300 calorie dinner and sometimes I make a really tasty and filling fruit smoothie for dessert. It's pretty low calorie dense, and 16 oz. would have maybe 120 calories. But I drink the whole thing, so about 550 calories instead. Anyways, I know this is a lot of info, but it's really worked for me, and having a daily structure has really helped me refine this process. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:26 PM PDT So I used to be big, have deeeeeep stretch marks from my initial weight gain but am now at my lowest weight in my adult life. I have loose skin on my legs and arms but I didn't really think I had any on my stomach. Well, that changed today. I took a few different pictures of my self in difference angles and noticed how different my stomach looked when I was bent over. My stomach skin seemed more stretched out, more than I've ever seen it really (albeit I've never really taken images in this angle).When I stand my stomach doesn't look like this and honestly it took me by surprise. I have to ask has anyone been able to tone down the appearance of loose skin around the stomach through ab work when the loose skin is minimal? Or is it only surgery? Or is has this got nothing to do with loose skin and people who haven't had massive weight changes also experience this? Am I over thinking this and allowing my body dysmorphia ruin my day? Idek Edit: it was my body dysmorphia. it's so easy to forget how much my ideas of what a human body should look like have been distorted. Thank you to the 3 ppl who commented because it didn't really take more than that to realize how much I'm over thinking this. Removing image links because I feel like I panicked too quickly about it and also anxiety [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2021 02:42 AM PDT Hi guys, I'm a 23yr old female, cw- 72kg (158lbs) gw- 50-55kg (110-122lbs). Ive started tracking all my foods with the Loseit! app about a week ago. My daily food intake is roughly 1500-1600 as I have a very active job, I end up burning about 2600 calories a day (as my fit bit tells me).. My issue is that I haven't seen my weight drop at all from 72kg. I'm starting to over think that i'm doing something wrong or maybe I need to lower my calories even more. I also am thinking maybe my weekends are ruining my progress as I don't tend to track on weekends and kind of eat what I want. I guess it may be a good idea for me to start tracking on weekends and not eat so much junk.. I want to fully dedicate myself to this and better my food intake. I've been eating frozen meals for the last week or two because I find that it helps me track so much better then if I were to cook food. Tbh I just don't have the time to cook everyday and the frozen meals are so convenient. Sorry if this post is a mess.. I don't really post much. 😊😊 [link] [comments] |
| I go to the gym, I gave up alcohol. Why can't I lose weight? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 10:02 PM PDT M 29 5'6 175. GW: 145. I gained about 20 pounds in the first few months of the pandemic because I lost my active job, stayed home all day, ordered take out a ton and drank alcohol most nights. I finally started going to the gym again 5ish months ago and generally do a Push/Pull/Legs routine 3 days a week and then some occasional yoga. I use MFP to track calories and a month ago I started using a spread sheet so I can see that my average daily calories are 1,600-2,200, with a goal of 1,500. I've also cut out alcohol completely for the past 14 days. Now after all that. I've lost 1 pound. I know Im getting stronger at the gym and I'm seeing some minor results, but its incredibly upsetting that I'm about 6 months in to my fitness/weight loss journey with no change. I really thought once I quit drinking then the pounds would fly off, like it was the one thing holding me back. Now I just dont know what else to do. I already think my calories make sense for a man who works out. The only things I can think of that might change anything are -Maybe calorie counts are not accurate (i use a scale at home but eat out 2-3 times a week), - Maybe I need more protein (I get 90-100ish daily), -Maybe I just need to walk more. I just dont understand what isnt working. EDIT: I weigh in once a week and take a picture and measure my belly. I do feel better in general. But measurements havent changed. [link] [comments] |
| Bad experience with dietician. Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT Hey darlings. Can I rant for a minute please? (Swearing ahead) So in the last 18months I've lost 26kg on my own using CICO and adding in exercise. I'm 165cm and roughly 94.5kg. Spoke to an NHS dietician today as part of a program through my GP. She said that I need to be eating more carbs, and that I shouldn't push protein higher than 100g (Even though I'm doing strenuous resistance workouts and this is WRONG compared to my extensive research). And that I need to eat breakfast and stop drinking so much coffee. She basically didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. It was pretty much a waste of time. I'm a little pissed she wasn't more useful. Like I asked her about macros and calories and she said that she doesn't calculate that for people bc there are apps which do it. Its her fucking job to give nutrition advice. But when I fucking ASKED for simple things like…."What should my macros roughly look like?" Or "how many grams of carbs should I be eating?" She just shut that down and said to use an app. I then asked "How many servings of carbs should I be eating?" And she said "three spoonfuls of quinoa twice a day or two large potatoes a day" like what the actual fuck? One: quinoa≠potatoes, and two: HOW BIG IS A SPOONFUL OF QUINOA? I have several spoons in my kitchen. I am doing the eat less move more shit and it stopped working for me. I was excited to actually get REAL advice. Which I did not get. Oh but she spent ten fucking minutes manually calculating my bmi though! Even though I fucking told her it was 34 and a bit. What the fuck. This person's literal fucking job is to give nutrition advice and then when I ASKED for fucking nutrition advice, she said I could download an app. I am fuming. End of rant. Love you all. I'm so proud of you! [link] [comments] |
| Weigh-In Wednesday (Share Your Numbers) Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:01 PM PDT Share Your Numbers!!!Welcome back to another week of weigh-in Wednesday. Share your +/- change from last Wednesday to this Wednesday, and a short summary of your week. Sometimes we get lost in the day to day ups and downs and it's good to see our week over week changes. Time to celebrate losses and lift each other up during possible failures. This is not a timed event or contest, feel free to jump in any time. This post was made a staple of r/loseit by u/Kahne_Fan and our thanks goes to him for providing a service that so many find helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Daily Q&A Post for Wednesday, 14 July 2021 - No question too small! Posted: 13 Jul 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] |
| One small buzzfeed trick to lose more weight and stabilize your blood sugar Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT Hey everyone, Awesome community! I want to share a small change I did that had a profound effect on my weight and well being. I see a lot of people in here suggesting to cut back on carbs like they are evil or something. Also I see so many trying to lose weight by eating a 100% clean diet, often without any sugar in their diets. Everything in moderation! However, I struggle just as much as anyone regarding binge eating especially if I don't eat proper foods. So here is my little trick: Rye bread! Coming from a scandinavian country and having travelled a lot, I know proper dark coloured breads are hard to come by. The so called "whole grain" bread you usually find in the store are probably better than the average white bread, but a lot of them still consists of processed flour. If you like bread and want to continue eating it, I suggest you start to buy (or make) real, proper, heavy bread. The heavyness of the bread along with the colour is a good indicator of how proper it is, the darker and heavier, the better. Also, unfortunately, the price. They are usually quite expensive and where I live I pay 4 dollars for one rye bread. And that's not even a big bread! However, they are more satiating and you don't (and probably shouldn't) eat more than a couple of slices per meal, maybe only just one thick slice. They are calorie heavy, the bread I eat is around 2500kcal per bread. Again, they are so satiating that you won't eat as much volume as usual. Find a rye bread that is made mostly from rye, and not with a lot of processed flour in it. A proper rye bread has a lot of fiber in it, and mostly long chained carbs. Which, I am sure most are aware, is carbs that gives energy for a longer period of time than for example sugar. This has helped stabilize my blood sugar to the point where I don't really crave anything at all. And it helps with my mood as well! When dinner time comes I can easily be satisfied with a smaller portion than I normally would have, and if I still want some snacks in the evening I can eat a little bit and then easily say stop. This control of my diet is not something I usually have. For once in my life I feel like I am in charge of what I am eating! I am a bit ashamed that it took me so long to find out what eating properly is like. A couple of weeks ago it just suddenly clicked, and since starting to eat rye bread my pants are so loose I will soon have to wear a belt again. Before that I had lost 8kgs on a carnivore diet but not much of a change in my waist and stomach, even an increase I think, and that diet made me feel lousy too. It did change my outlook on food, though, so I am happy for that. As we say in my language, you sometimes have to swallow a camel. Meaning, sometimes you have to do what's right and good even though it contradicts what you said and thought earlier. For me, that was something as small as realizing that I need to eat proper bread for my meals and spending some extra money for my health. I truly believe after this experience that a lot of people who struggle with cravings, simply don't know what real food actually is! I hope this can be of help to someone, if only just one person. Cheers! [link] [comments] |
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