Help! How did you combat your food addiction?

I binged 5 times this week and feel like a horrible loser. Every single day I tell myself that I won't binge, that I won't eat bread, nuts, cheese (and not drink milk), but in the evening I lose all self-control. I literally have a STOP sign on my fridge/cupboad where I keep my food, and even that didn't help. I tried meditation, waiting 20min before giving in. I can wait, but then I'll binge big time. I just made a massive sandwhich with ALL my forbidden foods. And don't get me started on portion control. I can't do it. Once I start eating, I can't stop until I feel physically sick. Before eating the sandwhich, I had two big handfuls of walnuts and cashews. It's like the rational part of my brain completely gets shut down, and I forget about my weight loss plans.

Please, somebody help me. I live with my mom and she doesn't support my weight loss journey because she thinks I'm just silly and lack discipline.

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[NSV] Tricked the guy who owns my gym into thinking I was cheating on him!

Since starting CICO in March, I've also been going to a small local gym and doing HIIT/boot camp classes 3x a week. Around the end of July, got busy/lazy and stopped going to the gym entirely. Since it's a small community, the guy who runs the gym would text me every now and then saying "where are you, we miss you!" So finally this morning I went back for a class.

I've lost at least 10 pounds since I was last in, just on pure CICO. When I came in, the owner made a big fuss about me being back, and then he looked at me kind of suspiciously and said, "your arms are so toned, what have you been doing while you were out?"

Laying on my couch and eating at a reasonable deficit, my dude! Through the magic of CICO, a layer of fat came off my arms, and I convinced a fitness professional that I was working out with someone else for two months.

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And just in case it's helpful to others, I wanted to outline what exercise has and hasn't done for me this year:

✓ Help my mental and emotional well-being. I have a stressful job and tend toward depression, exercise helps a ton to manage these.

✓ That self-care glow. I'm overcome with a glowing sense of well-being when I get home from the gym. I like this feeling much better than the actual working out, and I do a lot to capitalize on it, like getting fancy bath oils for my post-workout shower and investing in luxurious lounge clothes.

✓ Love my noob gains. You're not going to get ripped working out on a deficit, but it feels awesome to do regular life stuff like running to catch the bus without getting out of breath, or throwing your suitcase in the overhead bin like it's nothing.

✓ Reminder that food is fuel. I probably enjoy restricting calories a little too much, but I hate feeling weak and slow at the gym if I haven't eaten enough to fuel myself.

✘ Weight loss. I have a sedentary office job and even though HIIT is an ass-kicking, the couple hours I do it a week are a tiny fraction of my time and not enough to change my TDEE significantly. As my experience today shows, CICO alone is enough for weight loss.

Love to everyone out there doing the deal today!

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Struggling with weight loss as a vegetarian

I’m wondering if anyone has any tips when it comes to weight loss as a vegetarian. I’m also a college student majoring in STEM, so unfortunately I don’t have much time to put into cooking or working out as I wish.

I’ve tried meal prep and avoid carbohydrates like pasta, bread, etc when I cook.

I’m 220 lbs, 5”7 and I’d like to get down to 170-180 lb range. I was in this same position 4 years ago and was able to shred the weight so easily but I was eating meat and had more support from my mother and father at home (I was still in high school). Being vegetarian is something I feel incredibly strong about and I’m not ready to give that up. Does anyone have any tips, suggestions, or advice?

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After I started losing weight again, my friend told me I look heavier than I weight

So I started losing weight when I reached 200 pounds on February 21st 2016. I went down to 170-175 in about six months and then maintained for over a year, even though I wanted to keep losing, because I was just not feeling ready to keep going.

I am now back on track since the middle of august and now I weight 165, with a goal weight of 150 (~23.5 bmi). That has made me very happy, since I am finally so close to my goal weight, that I've been wanting for years.

The other day I was talking with my best friend, who is extremely supportive of my weight loss and is an amazing friend in general. She has also lost a lot of weight too and really understands what I've been through and is always very sensitive about the whole issue.

But this time, unbeknownst to her, she said something that hurt me. We were talking about how much she can eat, and that people never believe her, because she is a very skinny, short girl. And then I told her not to worry, because people don't believe me either, even though I am not skinny.

I think she sort of misheard me (there was loud music) because she answered "well I mean, you kinda look like what you weight, but now that I'm thinking about it, since you are tall (I am 5'7) you look like you would be a little heavier than you actually are".

She obviously didn't say that to hurt me and I really do think that's her honest opinion. It just hurt me a bit, especially since I have been trying so hard lately and I am so close to my goal weight. I feel like I will always look a bit chubby no matter what. Of course this hasn't halted my progress, I've been doing this for a very long time and know how to handle this kind of feelings. But it still hurts.

I don't really want to have a conversation about it, since I know she would just stop telling me her real thoughts and I am not angry that she thinks that, I just wish that she didn't if that makes any sense. Anyone can relate?

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8 Best Foods to Eat for Weight Loss

While no one food is a magic bullet for weight loss, there are certain foods that can help you achieve your weight-loss goals. Most of the foods included as part of a weight-loss diet have a few things in common: they’re high in fiber (which helps keep you feeling fuller longer) and have a low energy density—meaning that you can eat a decent-sized portion without overdoing it on calories. Include the following weight-loss foods as part of a healthy overall diet, and you may find it’s easier to achieve your weight-loss goals.

Read More HERE!

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Determining calories for weight loss

Just want to pick y'all's brains on this one. Different sources are giving me drastically different recommendations for how many calories I should be consuming to have a 1-2lb weight loss per week.

Apps like Lifesum recommend as many as 1700 calories.

The calorie calculator from this sub recommends about 1400 calories.

And then I was recently part of a research study which also took body fat % and BMR into consideration (they did a test to measure, not sure exactly how, but you just laid under this hood thing for like 20 minutes). I was working with a registered dietitian. She recommended 1100 calories per day.

Right now I'm thinking of going with the 1400 recommended by the calculator since it falls in the middle of the road and seems sustainable while not allowing me to overeat. 1700 sounds like way too much, and 1100 sounds like way too little (and was setting me up for failure, it felt like).

25 year old female, CW 190lb, 5ft 6in, sedentary lifestyle, GW 140lb

What are your thoughts/recommendations?

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European accountability challenge - 29th September

Hello each and everyone of you,

Happy Saturday! What NSV, SV, fitness or food plans have you got that you want to share? What are you most proud of on this day? Do you have any confession you want to share with us? How are your goals going?

For those of you who are new to this thread, having stumbled your way here, this is a daily accountability thread. Everyone is welcome to drop by when they want, but advisable to do so every day to share their health and weight loss story and anything else that is happening in our lives. Please feel free to join us on our way to betterment!

It's your effort that counts and will show up on your body soon enough! I'm proud of you for taking the steps toward improvement and setting goals that each and everyone of you will achieve! You are already better than you of the past for being here and being accountable!!

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