Weight loss: Worst nightmare happened while walking |
- Worst nightmare happened while walking
- This took a year and several months to achieve. Binge eating on the left, controlled eating on the right. Left is 465 @ 47% bf on the right 315 @ 17% bf. Stay up kings! Any questions will be answered in comments!
- The roller-skates girl inspired me to get a razor scooter, and it is the BEST
- Starting again (sigh) and lacking in motivation - help, please?
- My “Food cache” trick
- Felt "classy" for the first time in years, and didn't break down in tears the minute my dress didn't fit
- I NEED to lose weight.
- Ordering groceries online helps me stay on track
- I reached my goal weight. I was the happiest I had been in years. Then I gained it all back.
- Hit my weight loss goal and you can do it too!
- Those who reverse/remissioned their type 2 diabetes through weight loss, what is your day to day like now?
- Buttercream Frosted Dessert, we "need to talk"...
- Skinny people habits observation.
- Lost 130 pounds, Now I face a bigger challenge
- [NSV] Today I exercised in the rain instead of using weather as an excuse.
- Back surgery, down for 8 months
- Anyone else see a BIG difference in your face/body with 10 pounds?
- Calorie deficit makes me miserable
- I want to lose my belly fat, and I want to build muscle
- How do you stay on track when your level of control diminishes?
- I remember a time when I used to love doing fun, active, outdoorsy things growing up
- My personal experience with realizing slow weight loss is OKAY (maybe even better!)
- Had to tell someone
- Can I skip a day?
- "Eventually the cravings end and it's just normal!"
| Worst nightmare happened while walking Posted: 11 Jul 2021 12:14 PM PDT Last year things were going really positive on my weight loss journey. I had successfully lost 20+ lbs and had a momentum swing in my favor. I was religiously logging Weight Watchers, attending in person meetings, and attending an in person spin class where the penalty of missing a class after your signed up was steep (you would be banned after so many no shows, as there was only enough room for 12 people, and a waitlist each week with the class at 6:30 in the morning). Then COVID happened, and suddenly I was working from home and everything that was working for me and keeping me accountable was no longer an option. I gained all the weight I had lost plus 5 lbs. A few weeks ago I started to try and motivate myself to getting more exercise in. I am now permanent work from home, so I need to start building a routine, but when my lunch break rolled around I always had some excuse why today wasn't the day to start going on a walk or run. "Oh I look awful, I'll be judged." "It's too hot" "The condo association is mowing today I don't want them to make fun of me as I walk by." Then about three weeks ago I decided enough is enough, I'm just making excuses. Nobody will care, nobody will notice. I got my shoes laced up, and my workout gear on. I told myself just a 20 minute walk, just to get the habit started. I don't need to push myself. I left the house quickly on my lunch break and realized I did not bring my headphones or sunglasses, but chalked up to going back inside as a way to potentially talk myself out of it, so I carried on. I rounded the neighborhood onto the main road, casually checking my phone just happy that hey at least I made it out here. Then the truck drove by. "Yeah lose that pot belly, girl!" I stopped walking and stopped looking at my phone. There's absolutely no way I heard that right- it had taken months for me to build the confidence to go outside to better myself, convince myself no one was really making fun of me, and here I was within five minutes of my first walk and someone screamed at me that I had a pot belly. I was mortified. I wanted to cry. I wanted to turn around and go home. But I didn't. I turned my planned 20 minute walk into a 40 minute run. I was livid, I was motivated and for the first time in over a year I felt determined to really do better for myself. For the past few weeks I've worked out consistently and have improved my eating habits. I feel completely driven. I apologize for the lengthy post, and I'm not completely sure why I'm sharing this story. I think part of me wants to keep this memory strong for fuel on days when I'm too tired to work out, or I want to completely binge. I feel motivated for the first time in over a year, and I truly think I'll get back to the place I was before COVID. Edit: Wow this got a lot more attention than I thought it would! Thank you everyone for the positivity and words of encouragement!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 09:38 PM PDT I've always been the big guy and tbh it's was cause my whole life was me being overweight. When I was 12 I was around 200lbs and by the time I reached high school I was a staggering 350lbs. Living life at that weight a young teen was very hard emotionally, physically, and mentally. My freshmen year I joined the football team, it was safe to say I was the biggest kid on the football team, but also the biggest kid in the whole school. You see what got me to this weight was a very dysfunctional home life along with coddling from my mother and grandmother in the form of eating to make me feel better. My sister was very overweight I'm talking obese upwards of almost 380 at her heaviest. Now my father always did everything for her, and of course she received weight loss surgery. Looking back I'm happy I never was offered the opportunity, but during the time of all this happening.. yeah I was a bit salty about it. It wasn't till my jr year of high school where I wanted to make a change, and that really all came from wanting to fit in, and have friends. You see back in 2010 I don't think people were as accepting of someone who is extremely overweight as they are now. So with that being said it's a combination of not being accepted, the dysfunction home life, using food as a coping mechanism, and having multiple health issues like high blood pressure an enlarged heart and high visceral fat. All those things mentioned is what fueled my first weight loss journey. So in the course of 6 months of dieting, playing football, staying after weighting training to do cardio. I ended up losing 100lbs and continued to lose till I was around 240lbs or so. Now you can imagine by sr year I was at my peak in fat loss, muscle gain, and confidence! I was offered by my father at the end of 2011 to get skin removal surgery! I was so happy and so excited! Went through with the surgery and was in my long road to recovery! I did some bodybuilding after that in my late teens to early 20s and was loving life I had a couple of relationships, I was working for a gym I was like man I'm going places! Well somewhere in my early to mid 20s I had a huge breakdown my grandmother passed away, I had some health scares, my gf left me, I was doing things I shouldn't have been doing. And I just spiraled out of control. During that time from 21 to 25 I ended up gaining 230lbs of just pure bf at 465 my bf was an insane 47%. I was just back to my old ways of coping and eating food to suppress my emotions. In one sitting I could consume 3 large pizzas, 2 pints of Ben and Jerry's 2 bottles of rootbeer and 2 of those 5 dollar boxes from Carl's Jr. back when they had them still. I developed an eating disorder (which I think was dormant within me and I awoken it in the process of the lifestyle I was living) where I would binge eat at night and fall asleep soon after. I'd sleep till 6pm go out for a bit come home play video games and spend on average about 40 to 50 dollars a night in fast food. In 2018 I had the biggest scare of my life. I had a heart attack at 25 years old it was mind boggling... I was blown away. Years of bad food, smoking, drinking 4 2ltr bottles of root beer a day. It was awful To be clear: I have a condition called hypergonadism basically means I have super high test lvls since I was a teen. My test lvls in high school where around 1127 which is why I mentioned on another thread that I have heart issues enlarged heart, high bp and pvcs. In high school I was supposed to be on t blockers and my mom was all for it. However the doctor said at his age it's safer to take care of the heart issues first because his test lvls should lower as he got older. So I was put on bp medication and my heart was doing better. Now my test lvl sits around 950 I have "good genetics" if that's what you want to call it, but having high test like this is not safe nor is it fun. Sure I can gain muscle like super fast, but the health problems that come with it are not worth the muscle gain. [link] [comments] |
| The roller-skates girl inspired me to get a razor scooter, and it is the BEST Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:19 AM PDT About a month ago, the girl with the roller skates posted about getting skates and using them to work out. She looked adorable in her skates and happy and also holy hell that looked like fun. I searched my heart and the internets, and found that I am too old and cowardly to attach wheels to my very feet for the pavement in my neighborhood and the surrounding neighborhoods, and also, going to a place to try on roller skates didn't sound like something I'm in a place to do right now. So I googled and googled and googled for something that was LIKE roller skates, and hit on a razor scooter. They make them for grown ups! They cost about a hundred bucks, weigh a little under ten pounds, and fold up easily so you can stop and carry it a ways if you're passing a sketchy couple of blocks. They're rated to 220 pounds (but there are kick scooters that will support more; google "best kick scooter for adults" and you'll get a lot of articles to help you pick one.) The wheels are eight inches, which means a rock or a deep crack CAN still take you out, but it'd have to be a larger rock or crack. I ordered the A5 Lux on Amazon, and only picked it over the Hudora because they could get it to me faster and it was one pound lighter. I have ridden it every day for a month, and I've lost eight pounds since the day it got here (I am also on a diet). I average between six and eight miles per day. I have no idea how to log it, so I log it as walking and don't stress over it. I was unsure whether it would be good exercise or not; I think it probably is. I come back from my ride, take my helmet off, undo my hair, and comb it out to dry because it looks like I just took a shower from all the sweat in my hair. You do need to switch your kicking leg every 6-10 kicks, which is something you will only need to consciously do for the first few days. (now I have no idea I'm switching and don't notice or care.) The kicking-leg isn't the part that's actually doing most of the work; it's the standing leg, hip, butt, and core that are really working the hardest. This is INCREDIBLY fun. I head out at 5 pm every day and don't get back home til 6:30 or 7. There are five parks within scooting distance of each other near me, all of which are connected by good or decent sidewalks, and a lot of what I do is just follow the good pavement as far as it goes and see what pretty things there are to see. Scanning the immediate ground for hazards is pretty absorbing and keeps my mind off of how much I'm sweating, and the whole time there's this huge sense of "WHEEEEEEEE" while you're kicking and gliding. I would not classify this as a low-risk activity. I'm wearing a helmet, which I think is probably bare-bones minimum standard, and I wore elbow and knee pads for the first several weeks. (I probably still should be, but it's hot and this is where I am.) A rock or broken pavement CAN take you out, and the first week or two is going fairly slowly and getting used to how the wheels interact with surfaces. It's really only in the last week or so that I've gotten to a place where I'm comfortable with semi-jumping stuff I'm not comfortable riding over (it's not really jumping, it's just one foot goes down and the foot on the scoot lifts up, you pull up the handlebars and sort of "step" over whatever you're surmounting), and my speed is picking up every week now that I'm not so postive Ima lose a tooth here. I think this is also a pretty meet-you-where-you-are activity, if you've got decent balance. I wasn't sedentary when I started scooting, but if I had been, I think the effort demand would have been pretty much the same, you just move slower. Oh, heads up, some people are likely to stare or laugh when they see you go by. There are just so few things I do that DON'T make people stare and laugh that I'm not bothered and I'm just glad they got some joy out of what they saw me doing, but if that's a factor for you, be aware. Other people smile and wave because they see an adult doing something that kids do, and that makes them happy, and thats okay too. Also, I may well look like a dork on this thing (I've never seen a pic of me on it and I don't want to) but I FEEL really badass and cool. Anyway, 5/5, would recommend, way more comfortable than running (for me) and more fun than walking (for me). [link] [comments] |
| Starting again (sigh) and lacking in motivation - help, please? Posted: 11 Jul 2021 06:46 AM PDT I've lost 100 lbs in the last 8 months (yay me!) but I still need to lose another 50 - alright 60 - if I'm being honest and I just can't find the fight to keep going. If you've lost large amounts of weight, how did you motivate yourself past a certain point? I'm quite tall and I can already fit back into some of my clothes, and I'm not breathless climbing stairs or walking up hills anymore. I really need to improve my fitness but I had a horrible dose of COVID that knocked me out for 2 months and I'm wary about setting myself back. I guess I need to think it will be even better and I'll improve my health but it doesn't really resonate with me. Too intangible. Maybe a goal would work - I'd like to go skiing at Xmas, borders permitting, that could do it. What do you do to reach your goals? What tricks have you got to keep the momentum going? Edit to add: oh my goodness! thank you all so much for the encouragement and tips and kind words. What a lovely community you all are - I'm very glad I posted. I've decided to have a maintenance break for a month. I need to fully heal (I'm practically there, but still) and a month won't make a whole heap of difference in the long run, but I do think it will be a real boost to my mental health and my desire to get to goal. I've been in a pretty strict lockdown and working from home for a year, so I haven't had much of the: "oh, you look so different, Rai," stuff that I might have had, so all of your congratulations have been such a lovely fillip for me. I'm still reading through all your fantastic advice but in the meantime - thank you !☺️ x [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 05:21 PM PDT This is STRICTLY just based on my own personal experiences with weight loss attempts over the decades. There may not be any peer reviewed science to back this up. But it is something I've observed. When I'm "hungry" ie, experiencing some kind of a physical or chemical demand in my body which my brain is attributing to a food requirement, I will crave foods from some kind of temporary list or memory cache (hence food cache) that my brain keeps. This list seems like it's only good for about a month or two, and it's populated with recently eaten foods. If you eat hamburgers every day, there will be lots and lots of hamburgers in your "food cache." When you perceive a hunger signal, your brain will only attempt to satisfy it with recently eaten food items stored in the cache. Your brain knows the macro nutrient content, your dopamine response, etc to every food in the cache and it's able to efficiently select the best tool for the job at hand. The choice it makes manifests as food craving. So knowing this, you can exploit the cache by allowing certain types of items to leave it or become less populated, thereby preventing your brain from having access to certain nutrients or chemicals it might have used to treat a "hunger signal". Simply start trying to avoid the food and eventually if you're somewhat successful your brain will select for it less. For example, if you haven't eaten any carbs in a month or two, your brain will forget altogether that you can get a dopamine response from food, and so will stop identifying "irritability" as a hunger signal as food is no longer the most effective way to treat it. Cutting out Mountain Dew eliminates both a powerful caffeine and sugar source, which may make you forget that "tired" is a hunger signal. Imagine feeling slightly sleepy and wanting to take a nap instead of eating? Amazing. This is also why, yes in fact eating one piece of cake WILL kill me. Because the cake and all it's milky sugary goodness gets added back to the front of the cache which reminds your brain it has a more effective way to treat a dopamine low besides napping or exercising. Like I said this is real for me, I don't know if others experience the same thing but it's a good way of looking at the way our cravings work which I think is at the core of why losing weight is so difficult. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 05:53 PM PDT First time poster, so forgive me. Also a bit long. TLDR: I wore something I was "less than confident" in, didn't melt down, felt amazing, and got compliments. I went to a wedding this weekend, my first "big gathering" (50ish people, mostly family, everyone vaccinated) since late 2019. I've always been conscious about my weight (and fashion because of it), as well as my adult acne. I've tried various things throughout the years, despite my disability and mental health issues, some worked, some didn't, but in my adult life I've always hovered in the same 15lb range (still 45-60 overweight). This past year was especially hard on my mental health, so I gave up on the "rigorous" and "regimented" stuff. Needless to say, I gained a few pounds, and my acne got worse. The wedding invitation had "cocktail" as the attire, so I had the perfect dress in mind! All I had to do was reinforce the left shoulder strap because it unraveled during dancing the last time I wore it. I spent about an hour making sure the new stitches were perfect, and then finished packing for the trip. At that point, I was too nervous to try it on, so I brought a more "conservative", business-type, black, tube dress as a backup. Now, the important difference to remember is, the first dress is more flattering in shape for my body, and while the tube dress is "tight", it's a thicker material that also stretches. So, my husband and I make the 3hr drive, check in at the hotel, say hello to some family also staying there, and then get ready. The first dress won't zip. It's an inch away, but I don't want to rip it. Instead of breaking down into an inconsolable mess (like I normally would), I take it off, put up my hair, put on the tube dress, pick a scarf, don my pearls, and then walk up to the mirror to do my (minimal) makeup. I look classy AF. I don't care if my panty lines are showing or if a bit much "armpit boob" is sticking out. I don't care that my lower tummy has a bit more delineation where it meets my legs than I'm comfortable with. My hair and makeup are simply done, the dress looks ok, and the scarf pulls the attention away from my "problem areas." At the wedding, I received no less than 30 compliments on how nice/ better I looked (mostly because I had been in a depressed, messy, PJ'ed wreck for over a year). But everyone was genuinely surprised/ encouraging how put together I looked, and it boosted my confidence too! I know I have a long way to go, and that I've slacked on losing weight, but it helps to be honestly validated by loving family, even if I'm not feeling my best at first. Get out there and rock the body positivity. Everyone is on their own journey. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:04 AM PDT I read somewhere that if you interact with support networks you are more likely to succeed than if you are a passive participant... so I'm taking the leap and making my first post after being a member for a long time. Since starting university in 2015 I have gained 100lbs. There were many reasons... unlimited access to junk food (which I was NEVER allowed as a kid), binge-eating disorder, and anxiety/depression. None of these are excuses but definitely did not help me form healthy habits. I was always overweight. I don't remember a time when I was slim. I went to my first weight watchers meeting when I was probably 10 or 11 which was the first time I remember feeling ashamed about my body. I tried the Keto diet a couple of years ago and lost almost 50lbs but the diet had such a negative impact on my mental health. I was scared to eat apples and carrots because of the carbs!! Imagine that... scared to eat fruit and vegetables. I have since gained back the weight (and then some). Around February/March of 2020, I was in the best headspace I could ever be. I was exercising 2-3 times a week, working a job I loved, and eating a healthy diet but also still going out with friends, and having some treats in moderation. I was losing weight for the first time in my life WITHOUT a fad diet to make it possible. I just counted my calories. I was eating probably 1500/1600 a day! Then the pandemic hit and every bit of progress I made stopped. Something I'm sure many can relate to. I became anxious about leaving my home ( I was still working emergency child care for frontline workers, but my anxiety was a level 10 at all times). I didn't want to go grocery shopping, so I ended up ordering in all the time. Not only did my bank account suffer... but so did my health journey. Now, over a year later I have gained about 30lbs throughout the pandemic and I'm at my highest weight ever... hovering between 265 and 270. Not only did I gain weight, but my activity level was virtually non-existent, something which has never happened. Even when I was gaining weight, I was still doing yoga, spin classes, and going to the gym... I was just not eating healthy. I feel the worst I have ever felt in my whole life and I NEED to make a change. As silly as it sounds... I'm just scared to fail if I try. I'm scared that I'm not able to lose weight. I have made a plan that starts with small ways to make healthier habits. Not skipping breakfast, drinking more water, and picking one day a week in which to dedicate to exercise. my TDEE is 2333 calories, so I'm going to aim for a caloric intake of 2000 calories per day while I get used to my new routine and I'm hoping to go down to 1900 calories per day by September 1st. Due to a knee injury I sustained as a child, and again as a teenager, I am going to focus on walking for cardio. Gyms are opening up again soon, and as I am fully vaccinated, I feel more comfortable returning in the fall to focus on weights and muscle building. The one thing I know about myself is I feel my best when working out in a gym... I still feel anxious going for walks outside (I feel like everyone is staring at me) but my new apartment has a gym so I am excited to make use of it soon! I can DO THIS. If you took the time to read this far... thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Ordering groceries online helps me stay on track Posted: 11 Jul 2021 07:11 PM PDT Instead of beating myself up about lack of willpower or self control or whatever, this time while I'm trying to lose weight and change my lifestyle, I'm making good choices easier to make than bad choices. One of the things that's helping me a lot has been ordering my groceries online. I sit at my computer and decide what I'm going to eat for the week. This includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. I look up recipes that will fit into my daily calories and I can check if I'm missing an ingredient or already have it by just walking over to the pantry or fridge. Since doing this, I'm not tempted by junk food in the grocery store, and I find I usually save money even with the delivery fee because I'm not giving in to impulse purchases. I'm reading Atomic Habits right now (which I would recommend for anyone trying to lose weight) and one thing in it that resonated with me a lot was "Self control is a short term strategy, not a long term one." The point of that, is to change your environment to help yourself maintain positive habits instead of relying on self control or will power alone. I know it's not an option for everyone, and is definitely a luxury, but I've found this as well as meal-kit services have helped me a lot. If you eat out even 2x a week, doing this is usually going to be cheaper! [link] [comments] |
| I reached my goal weight. I was the happiest I had been in years. Then I gained it all back. Posted: 11 Jul 2021 02:51 PM PDT This is so hard for me to talk about. I've been attempting to lose weight since late 2016, when I was 250 lbs. I got to a low of 231 lbs at the end of August 2017. I fell off the weight loss train due to my binge eating issues and I was 251.7 lbs in February 2018. That was the kick that I needed to get my act together, and I steadily lost weight from that moment. I ate at a deficit, indulged occasionally but made sure all of my meals were healthy and fulfilling. I took time to learn more about nutrition and figure out what way of eating worked for me. The proper amount of protein that would leave me full. In 2018 I made sure to go on daily walks which was my favorite way to exercise. It was a great way for me to get active. In spring 2019 I became a track athlete which taught me new workouts and I was able to exercise everyday. In the summer I got a free gym membership for the summer and went every other day. That really helped me and my weight loss quickened. I really did feel like I was on top of the world. I was binge free, had a awesome relationship with food, did not deprive myself of anything, and was truly happy with how I was eating and how I looked. But it was in 2019 that my weight loss became rocky at times. In late May I went off track and gained 10 lbs quickly. I pulled in the reigns and got to my lowest weight of 128 by late September. I was so, so happy. Then it all fell apart. Something in my head snapped. I thought I was done with losing weight and was fine with how I looked. I did absolutely no research into how to up my calories to maintenance. Nor did I properly calculate my maintenance calories. Somehow in all my research of weight loss and calories and nutrition I didn't teach myself anything about what to do at goal. I jumped the gun and overdid it by immediately adding back the 900 calories I thought I needed to maintain. In turn my binge habits came back. I ate so much I became sick. I was making myself miserable but I could not get out of the binge mindset. Quickly I started gaining weight. I was 155 at my check up 2 months later. No one was particularly worried; I was still a healthy weight, and I looked and felt fine. I had lost the weight before, I could lose it again. Then 2020 happened. My thought during the lockdown was, since no one will see me I can eat whatever because I'll just lose the weight soon enough. I know how to do it, I know how to cut calories, I'll indulge for a month or two and that will be that. Instead it's now summer 2021 and I sit here at 235. I am basically back to where I started. It has taken such a toll on me. I look at pictures of me at my lowest weight and I just cry and cry. I know it's pathetic but I remember how even then I didn't truly like the way I looked. I took it for granted. I have become the exact thing I tried so hard to run from. It was in recent weeks that I became truly fed up. I have exactly 2 shirts of mine that fit me. I frequently wear extremely oversized shirts because I can't stand to look at myself. I had enough of having nothing to wear and not liking what I looked like in a mirror or in pictures. I had enough of a damaged relationship with food. I haven't binged in a week and I am already losing the water weight. It's still hard to get motivated. I feel depressed often and it's difficult to feel ok in my body. But I recognize I am the reason I look like this and it's solely my fault. In my friends and family I used to be the poster child of inspiration and weight loss. Now I am nothing but a shell of what I once was. I feel as if I let everyone down. This whole post is somewhat of a ramble but I haven't told a single person I know of my story and how I really feel. I find myself the most motivated when I'm here in this community, so I am coming back again. Hopefully this time to stay. [link] [comments] |
| Hit my weight loss goal and you can do it too! Posted: 11 Jul 2021 07:55 PM PDT This will probably get buried but I just wanted to share my experience of my weight loss journey that is currently shifting from the actively dieting and losing weight phase to more of a maintaining healthy lifestyle phase. I have been obese for the majority of my life. I've always been told I wasn't that big but I definitely felt it. I've always gravitated towards sports so I was always the biggest guy in my group of friends (not that that's how they refer to me but it was definitely true). While I played sports, as most or all of you are aware it takes a lot more than just exercise to keep a reasonable weight. I've always eaten like absolute crap. When I was really young I often stayed with my grandmother and she was definitely a poor influence on my eating. I'm talking at like 7 years old getting a big bowl of sugary cereal, eggs, bacon, and like a pastry for breakfast. Whatever I wanted I pretty much got, and if I didn't ask for it but it was put in front of me, well, I ate it. I was very much told from a young age, like most of us were, that you had better finish what's on your plate and to be grateful for how good I had it. Anyways, pretty much between my grandma, mom, and stepdad, had exactly 0 good influences on healthy eating habits. Well, this year I decided to change my life. Some of the reasons are more personal than others, let's just say that I felt that if I didn't do it right here and now that it was never going to get done, and if it doesn't get done then I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life. When I started my weight loss journey back in March I weighed 237 pounds. The changes to my diet were pretty strict at first, but to be honest I found it easier to make it even more strict as I went along. My main plan of action for losing weight in terms of dieting was to stop eating/drinking excessive sugars, cut down on carbs overall, and just in general eat less. Before I started dieting I was eating literally whatever the fuck I wanted. Desserts, fast food, sugary drinks, you name it I was throwing it down. Now my diet consists generally of sone fruit for breakfast. For lunch I'll generally have some air fried veggies with protein. (Seriously people if you cut up a tomato and a bell pepper, toss it in oil, salt, and pepper, and throw that in the air fryer it is a super delicious and pretty good for you meal. I generally set the air fryer for 400 and 15 minutes, then throw the tomatoes in at 13 minutes left, the peppers in at like 10 minutes left, and then for the protein my go to is some leftover pork shoulder and I throw that in with like 5 minutes left to get nice and crispy). Then for dinner I usually haven't been very hungry so I'll just have a salad. I think a large part that some people overlook and which I think has been hugely successful for me is getting out of the damn house. I've really been getting into playing disc golf lately, which is awesome for getting me out of the house during the morning and afternoon (I WFH in the evenings). Beyond the fact that disc golf is a decent exercise, it gets me out of the house for several hours at a time where not only am I burning calories, but I'm very much not sitting on my computer being tempted to go check what's in the kitchen. Anyways, through a lot of hard work and focus, I've just last week gotten down to my long term weight goal of 175. It happened so much faster than I ever dreamed of it happening. It's probably faster than one should lose weight but Im definitely not starving myself either. As I started to lose more weight I just really haven't had a desire to eat much, and I really don't even want to go back to eating the foods I was eating before. Like absolutely 0 desire for snacks. I guess I'm lucky in that way? Idk I really think that once I saw those first few pounds quickly fly off the scale I got really motivated. So I guess I've rambled on long enough to get to the point of the post. This is so much more of a mental exercise than I expected. I'm going to be different that everyone, but what really worked for me was just finding little motivations for keeping the diet going. For me personally, I really made a game out of seeing the number on the scale go down everyday. There were some days where the number went up, and those days hurt, but they were at best 10% of the time. Also, getting into disc golf and wanting to be better at it has helped, as being in shape definitely allows me to be better at the sport. And also, id be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the compliments I get from people lately, particularly people who I haven't seen for a while, and especially people who I haven't seen since before covid. So in closing, I just want to say that if you don't think you can do it, yes you fucking can. It doesn't need to be anywhere near as fast as I did it, but if I can lose 65 pounds in 4 months, you can absolutely at the very least get started today. It isn't going to be the easiest thing you've ever done, and frankly will probably be among the hardest. It's fucking worth it. This isn't to say that losing weight is going to fix all the problems in your life, because it hasn't for me. But at the very least getting into a more healthy lifestyle has made me want to be better in other areas of my life. I've still got a long way to go in terms of keeping the weight off and keeping these healthy lifestyle changes, but I've never been more motivated to do so. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:45 PM PDT I've seen posts and comments here about people doing it, and as much info as there is online about how to achieve it, I am really struggling to find info about what happens once you do. I know the term "reverse" is misleading and it's actually remission and symptoms will come back if not managed, but what actually changes in your day to day life? No more meds? Do you still have to test blood sugar daily? Stick to the strict diet that led to you losing the weight? Basically my partner just got diagnosed a month ago and is doing a great job and already lost some weight and lowered their blood sugar levels a lot, but is really taking the whole "this is my life forever" part pretty hard. I'm hoping I can get some insight to anything that actually changes in the daily management if you reverse it. [link] [comments] |
| Buttercream Frosted Dessert, we "need to talk"... Posted: 11 Jul 2021 03:58 PM PDT So listen Buttercream Frosted Dessert, we need to talk. I need to tell you this. I knew you were going to be at my mom's today, when I and my son went to visit. I tried to prepare myself to see you; told myself to play it cool. My mom had you there really for my son, but I've told her how I have a difficult relationship with you. You see, you are my weakness. You are my kryptonite. I see you and I must have you I think. I get nervous at events where you are, afraid that I won't get enough of you when so many others want you as well. But you aren't good for me. I indulge myself in you and I can't stop. Like a switch flips on and even though my stomach will hurt my brain keeps telling me More, More! One taste and I'm hooked again. I agreed to take you home with me, and I shouldn't off. I should of walked away, but I didn't want to be rude to my mom. Mindlessly I ate you, one mini cupcake after another on the drive home. Who needs a party pack of mini cupcakes?! But I realize I can walk away, it's not too late. staying with you I will never be the person I am meant to be. You hold me back from my potential. I'm dumping you Buttercream Frosted Dessert. Literally, in the trashcan at a gas station. I can't have just one of you, that's just not how we work. I gave one of you to my son, as it's not his burden, but I don't want to model a toxic relationship with food to him. He doesn't need to see his mom guilty hording cupcakes, and stashing wrappers. It's unhealthy. I feel a sense of relief telling you this, and now that your out of my car, I can breathe. The temptation is gone. I feel guilty for wasting food, yes, but it's a necessary action. It's over Buttercream Frosted Dessert. Maybe I'll see you around at birthdays and weddings, but know I won't come say hello, as the pull is too strong for me to jump back into your arms. My lips cannot taste your saccharine drug anymore. Goodbye. PS. If you see your friend Cheesecake, tell him I also need to talk to him. [link] [comments] |
| Skinny people habits observation. Posted: 11 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT The conversations here about skinny habits about eating food have been really helpful in trying to apply to my mindshift. Today I am applying that to movement and excercise. I don't like excercise for the sake of excercising. It's boring and only when I was really seeing results could I motivate myself. This summer I took a job teaching soccer in daycares and parks.. Now I am running everyday and my weekends are full of movement. It's not hard because playing with the kids is much more fun than pushing weights or running in circles. I am much more consistently meeting my 10,000 steps and on Saturdays just blowing that out of the water. Now I'm in the 4th week of this and am amazed. Is this how much movement I am supposed to be doing! This is exhausting. It is a lot to get used to and I hope continuing to do this will help me normalize my level of movement. My feet hurt and my legs ache. I am also working on not eating back my calories because I "worked for it". I have been seeing how hard people work to excercise and just felt like I couldn't put that much effort in. I am glad I am finding a way to do it my way. [link] [comments] |
| Lost 130 pounds, Now I face a bigger challenge Posted: 12 Jul 2021 12:17 AM PDT greetings redditors, as I said in the title I lost more than 130 pounds in the last couple of years through a sleeve surgery. the surgery made me lose 75 pounds and had to work much harder to lose the other 55 and I still need only 10 pounds to reach my weight goal. I feel much better, much lighter, physically stronger and much more energetic than ever before. but there is only one problem, one that most of people who lost lot of weight suffered from this one and it is skin loose. Im afraid I made a mistake that I didnt put exercising and working out on top of my priorities list before. but now i realise my mistake and I want to fix it. my first priority now is body aesthetics, and second is to build some muscles. not interested in becoming a pro weight lifter, just being fit, having a nice body, going to the beach without being embarassed of my body is all what I want. I'm trying to avoid to do a surgery to remove the extra skin, I want to do it the normal way even if it took harder and longer exercising, the last thing I want is to have a second surgery. so I'm asking from pros of this community and those who had a similar experience for advices on how can I get rid of skin loose and have a normal body. anything will help, direct advices, guides on the web or youtubers. thank you in advance [link] [comments] |
| [NSV] Today I exercised in the rain instead of using weather as an excuse. Posted: 11 Jul 2021 02:33 PM PDT In the past, I have used the weather as an excuse not to get exercise...specifically, getting to 10k steps. Walking/hiking is my favorite form of exercise, since it's easy and I don't sweat like a pig (usually), and it's easy on my back and knees. I don't have a treadmill indoors and walking in circles around the dining room table would drive me insane, so if I can't get outside, I can't walk. I guess I could join a gym, but the whopping $10/month bill feels like a lot because I don't enjoy or value exercise (yet?). Of course I'm happy to blow $50/month on streaming services...what's up with that? Anyway, if it's raining or too hot or too cold, I won't go outside. Like all humans, I don't like to be uncomfortable. So forget about exercising if it's rainy, or too sunny, or for the seven months out of the year that it's below 60 degrees. Because the exercise bike is boring and any time I use my weights I end up hurting myself and and and and and. I just come up with so many excuses not to exercise! Well, I'm part of a hiking challenge to complete 20 hikes around my area. It's a great way to see new parks, enjoy and learn about nature, and GET THOSE STEPS! Many of the hikes are really hilly and so they're a great exercise. There's been one hike that would complete a set of 5 for me in a park I've been wanting to check out for months now. I wanted to go today, but it was raining and the rain had no plans of stopping. Usually, I would use this rainy day free time for snacks and movies all day....but instead, I put on my crappiest shoes, grabbed my shitty umbrella, and went. I completed the hike and got my steps and feel so proud of myself! Don't let your normal excuses win. These are the habits we need to break. Go hiking in the rain (safely!), say no to the bad food at every single social event, and take the time for yourself to go get that mani/pedi you've been wanting to boost your confidence! Or, you know, whatever! What are some of the excuses you make for yourself that are hindering your success? What can you do to overcome those excuses and break bad habits? [link] [comments] |
| Back surgery, down for 8 months Posted: 11 Jul 2021 08:40 PM PDT Well, it's official. I am sick and tired of being incredibly fat. I'm 37, M, 6'6" and 501lbs :( I had a spinal infection in October that caused me to be in bed for about a month, then I was slowly able to start walking again. I gained a ton of weight. Ate terrible, lived off fast food, and sat in bed to avoid back pain. Well my back is better now, but I feel like crap. I get winded, tired, sad. So Saturday, I bought a food scale, huge 50oz water mug, and some new walking shoes! I won't have anymore fast food or cokes. This is more of a "for me" type post. Trying to hold myself accountable. Wish me luck! [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else see a BIG difference in your face/body with 10 pounds? Posted: 11 Jul 2021 08:50 AM PDT Last year I'd lost about 30-35 pounds but after a recent move and new job in a totally new state, I've gained some of that back. I'm 5"2 and currently at 193 pounds, gaining 10lbs from the 183 I was when I first moved. I don't know what it is but I feel like there is a HUGE difference in the way I look with these extra 10 pounds! My face looks way rounder, stomach looks 50 pounds heavier, lol. I stepped on the scale this morning and though I was shocked by what it read I'm still pretty proud of myself. I realize that life happened and that it's just time to start counting calories and exercising again. I have a GW in mind for myself and I'm still pretty far off but that's okay if I just get back to it. No need to be mean to or mad at myself! I'm just so surprised at the vast difference in a mere 10 pounds! [link] [comments] |
| Calorie deficit makes me miserable Posted: 12 Jul 2021 01:09 AM PDT Just wondering if anyone has any similar experience or tips for handling this. Feel as though I am constantly 'restricting' myself. I'm not hungry all the time but I never eat as much as I really want to. Keep it to super healthy home cooked meals, absolutely minimal sugar. No fast food, sweets, cakes etc. I lost a lot of weight (15lbs) by dieting last year and in the last 5 months this has all creeped back. What's frustrating is that if anything, I'm more active than I was before. I am eating a reasonable amount, but these are all healthy foods and I am conscious of avoiding calorie dense foods and bingeing. I'm eating between 1700-2000 kcals a day, no 'low carb' 'keto' stuff, just very low in added sugars. I've tried cutting back but even 1500-1700 feels too low. I get shaky and cold sweats, I can't function in my job and am too tired to do any exercise. It's making me absolutely miserable to see myself at my heaviest, but the feeling of dieting also makes me depressed. Even more so that my current diet hasn't been sufficient to maintain weight loss. I can't imagine long term constantly restricting everything I eat! Is there something I'm missing? What are your experiences with this and what helped you through it/ long term? For those who want stats- 25F, 5'7 and 135lbs (was 120lbs). I'd like to think I'm a relatively active person for someone with a full time office job. I do 10k steps a day and work out 4-5x a week with a mix of cardio to strength of 30/60%. I've been using a Garmin to track calories, which says I burn about 2100-2300 a day (1600 BMR, 500 -800 active) I ate very little to lose the weight last year but I can't keep doing this, it was quite unsustainable. That said I know my body and my current weight, whilst 'healthy', is not 'normal' for me. [link] [comments] |
| I want to lose my belly fat, and I want to build muscle Posted: 11 Jul 2021 11:18 PM PDT I (20M) woulf like to be lean and toned. I am currently what would probably be called skinny fat. My weight (180) and BMI (24.4) are normal (on the upper side of a normal BMI) for my height (6ft) and age, but I do have quite a bit of a belly. However, from the outside, I look lean and don't show that I have that fat. I am a college student with an instant pot, and I hear there are tons of good healthy recipes online. The catch is that I am vegetarian. No fish, but I do eat eggs. Can anyone help me out with some meals and workouts? I have time to go to the gym, but I lack the knowledge to "make my abs in the kitchen". I've looked up a lot of things, but they seem pretty sketchy. I just want my belly fat gone and then I can start looking to build muscle and get a good core and everything like that. I am willing to be pretty mundane and repetitive with my meals and workout plans as long as the meals taste good. The goal would be to go from 180 lbs and 6ft with a lot of belly fat to about 173 lbs and toned abs and muscles. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| How do you stay on track when your level of control diminishes? Posted: 12 Jul 2021 12:40 AM PDT We all have moments in life where our level of control over our fitness goes down: our budget may become more constricted, life becomes busy and stressful, we might fall into mental health crises, etc. How do you avoid "all-or-nothing" thinking in such a case? I find that I'm prone to falling into such thinking, especially after long streak of doing things 'right'. Survival mode kicks in, staying in shape takes a backseat, and getting fit becomes a task for future me. It feels easier to just wait until things settle down to get back into my routine than to keep pushing. But inevitably, I gain a great deal of weight, lose confidence, fall into worse mental health, and have to wait for a lightbulb to go off to finally get motivated enough to get back into shape. Fitness is evidently not a lifestyle for me but a series of high highs, low lows-- and nothing really in between. Does anyone have any tips on how to overcome this? How do you persevere when you lose control? Any practical advice is welcome. [link] [comments] |
| I remember a time when I used to love doing fun, active, outdoorsy things growing up Posted: 11 Jul 2021 07:12 AM PDT I loved going to the pool and would beg my sisters to come with me all the time. I loved the beach, and would go there with my family for my birthday. I loved indoor rock climbing and it got me so excited. And I LOVED going to indoor trampoline parks with my friends. I'd beg my mom to take me. I loved going kayaking and tubing down the river and snorkeling to see the coral reefs and I loved going to water parks and going on every single ride. I loved my bike rides around the neighborhood after school and borrowing my friends' scooters. The highlights of my week were the mountain hikes I'd take with my dad every weekend, seeing the forest and checking out the butterfly center. My favorite day of the year used to be my school's field day, and I even loved playing dodgeball in PE. I was on the basketball team and loved the thrill of running around the court, bouncing a ball, with everyone trailing behind me. I loved playing on the monkey bars and running around playing freeze tag with my friends. I loved playing Wii sports and Wii tennis with my grandpa and my sisters and doing those dance party or dance revolution or whatever games with my friends and at arcades. I loved playing tennis with my sisters (none of us were very good but it was still a lot of fun). There's a lot of times I remember having so much fun being active growing up, and now life is so different. I can't believe these strenuous activities were ever things I would be deeply excited about!! I gained a lot of weight in high school and then college and the pandemic and now I'm 20 and got to almost 300 lb until I started losing weight 6 or 7 weeks ago. It's been so long since I've been active and actually enjoyed it. It seems so foreign to me now—I get winded and tired and sweaty from having to walk a mile to get to a restaurant with my friends. I haven't done any of these fun active things since early high school. I've let my weight hold me back from enjoying an active life, and I've forgotten HOW MUCH FUN it can be to be active—nowadays, everything is hard. Walking on a treadmill is boring. But I'm going to be going on more hikes this summer. And I'm excited to get to a weight where I can have fun doing everything I used to. [link] [comments] |
| My personal experience with realizing slow weight loss is OKAY (maybe even better!) Posted: 11 Jul 2021 07:37 PM PDT (I mention this later in the post, but I wanted to preface this by saying that I understand losing weight for health reasons is completely different than losing for aesthetic reasons. The first 30lbs I lost were for health- I struggled to walk upstairs and was almost in the obese category. I know that if you feel unhealthy and are overweight/obese, you might be more inclined to try to lose at a faster pace. Do what works for you always!!) From 2019-2020, I (26 female 5'9) went from 195 to 165. I did this by cutting my portion sizes down, eating when I was hungry/stopping when full, and walking 10k steps a day. During this time I felt great- mentally I had balance and was motivated and happy, and I did it in a very healthy way vs previous weight loss efforts that were always extreme all or nothing. After I hit 165, however, I decided I wanted to lose more fat and work towards ab definition. That's when I started noticing a change in my mental attitude towards fitness. I started getting into my all or nothing mindset again, comparing myself to others' progress (online), obsessing/fixating etc. What was happening was that I would go 110% and then burn out. When I look at my weight trends, it's been a few times now that I've gotten to a lower weight, then end up gaining some of it back. Obviously this isn't sustainable and I realized something needed to change. So what I did was I took a few weeks of relaxing with my eating and my workouts. I took time to think about what needed to change and where I was. I realized social media (fitness influencer IG & YT) wasn't doing me any favors- it caused me to compare myself to others and second guess everything I was doing. I also realized that putting a time frame on my goals (which I was doing by trying to do cut/bulk cycles and lose a certain amount of weight by a certain date) put unnecessary stress on me. Finally, I realized that when my life is stressful or I'm not doing well mentally, it directly correlates with my attitude towards fitness because I start to hyper focus on being perfect. Something else I realized was that losing fat for aesthetic purposes is different than losing it for health. I always knew that- but it hit me that I don't need to be in a rush to lose the 'aesthetic fat'. I'm lucky enough not only to be at a healthy weight, but I'm confident about how I look and feel to where I don't have to rush. I can just enjoy the process. I know not everyone is there, but if you are trying to lose fat for aesthetic reasons, you can take it slow. Even if you are still overweight/obese you can take it slow if you need to/choose to because losing it slowly is still so much better than not losing it at all. So NOW - I am still wanting to lose fat, but I am doing it without putting a time frame on it. I've been losing on average about half a pound a week and that's OKAY! I'm enjoying summer. Eating chips, candy, ice cream- sometimes more than a little! I've stepped back from lifting for a while to give my body a much needed break. Most importantly, I'm not fixating!!! Not constantly thinking about food, my next workout, tracking what I'm eating, etc. I'm just doing what I need to do and letting the process happen slowly. I'm also spending significantly less time on fitness IG/YT and that has made a big difference for me. TLDR; You don't have to lose 2lbs a week or lose this much weight by this date. It's okay to take it slow. Slow progress is still progress and it's so much more sustainable, easier on you mentally, and makes life more enjoyable. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2021 07:09 AM PDT Hi all! First time post in here. 1 month ago I returned from a work trip where all we did was eat 3 huge meals for 4 straight days. Came back at my heaviest in my life ( 10 years married 2 kids) and was frankly just disgusted. After browsing through here and other places I just decided to finally commit to losing weight. After cutting out as much sugar as I can ( kids snacks ice cream ) and drastically reducing my portions. I am thrilled to report I'm down 17 pounds as of this morning in 1 month ! 220 ---- 203. I'm not doing much in the way in exercise other than golf and some walks with my kids! Thanks for the motivation! Hoping to be under 200 for the first time in I don't know how long. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2021 12:46 AM PDT I have been working out and following my diet for 6-7 days. I noticed my right leg started to hurt real bad yesterday. I tried doing exercises but I am not able to, my leg is just not letting me. Is it okay if I don't exercise for one day? I will try to lift some weights but I just can't do anything with legs. I will still follow my diet and try to eat less. I feel really bad, I hope skipping a day won't ruin my weight :( But the thing is I can't even walk without feeling pain in my right leg, I might have to lie down all day too... Is there any exercise I can do so I won't be skipping my workout? I don't want to interrupt my progress I've been doing pretty well, and lost 3-4 kg already. Should I do my exercises anyways? [link] [comments] |
| "Eventually the cravings end and it's just normal!" Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:10 AM PDT What a load of shit. I've been told things like this my entire life. "You need more discipline" "you're just lazy" "you're probably just not getting the right vitamins" etc etc etc. I've tried it all. And for long periods of time. Nothing sticks. Until I got learned about ADHD. Y'all. My food was my dopamine. Without it I was missing a LOT of dopamine. None of these techniques help with that. None of it. The only way I have successfully lost weight is to obsess about it. The second that obsession stopped bringing joy I dropped it. My last weight loss spree lasted 6+ months. I lost my obsession ~4 months in but managed to keep it up for another 2 months. I lost 50lbs. I dropped 2 dress sizes. I got tons of compliments and support. I counted calories, didn't restrict too much, counted macros, exercised per my body limitations, occasionally ate none healthy food to have some balance. And I still failed even after it was "just a part of my life now". Cause I needed more regular dopamine. I'm fucking pissed off. I thought for 29 years that I was "just" missing something. Some secret. The secret was fucking dopamine. I'm getting it now through medication. The side effect of no appetite is gone and I'm still perfectly okay with eating like a normal person would. I'm losing weight just by making the decisions I've spent hours and hours and hours researching. "Oh I'm not done but I'm full? Then I'm done" but with no dread or fear that I'll regret that decision later. I am now trying to fix my habits. I still go to order 4 burgers from McDonald's before I remember I wouldn't want more than 1.5 of them at most. But that's something I can actually tackle now. Fucking.pissed.off [link] [comments] |
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