Mindful Eating Month -- Wish me luck!

I've been weighing and logging my food for the past 483 days. I've lost 63 lb, about a third of my starting weight. I'm done with losing, and I'm transitioning into maintenance.

For the month of October, I'm running an experiment to test how well I can eyeball my portions. No more tracking, just eating. I hesitate to call it "intuitive eating" because my intuition is broken. If I listened to my body, I would go back to my old habits. Instead, it's mindful eating. I'm still cognizant of what and how much I eat, I'm just not tracking precisely in My Fitness Pal.

At the end of the month, I'll weigh and measure myself and see how I did. I hope I maintain my weight, but if I do gain a couple pounds, it just means I need to get back to external tracking, and that's okay.

This has always been my long term goal -- to learn how to eat appropriately to maintain a healthy weight. The weight loss has obviously been important (obese to healthy weight!) but the bigger picture is learning new habits.

Wish me luck, friends! (I'm celebrating by going on a big baking spree, and I'm going to leave a couple cookies here for myself and take most of them to work.)

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Finally getting off my plateau after 3 years

It's been a painstaking journey, but I finally figured out what I needed to do to get off the plateau. I don't know if this is considered a lot, but in 12 days, I managed to lose 0.75 inches off my waist. Any progress is good progress in my book.

It really was CICO but, most importantly, consistency. I would be good for 5 days and then get off for 5 and just keep bouncing back and forth.

I also had to stop relying on exercise for weight loss. I had to learn that weight loss=diet, not exercise. I mean yes, exercise contributes to it, but not as much as clean eating.

Started off at 230 lbs. Last time I weighed myself I was 179. I am focusing on measurements now since the scale is so fickle.

Here's my numbers: http://imgur.com/gallery/09FQowL

Thank you so much for all the great information, losers! 😁

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One Year

F/29/5'2"/sw 255/cw 180/gw 130

I have officially been on my weight loss journey for one year today! I have lost 75 pounds and it's an amazing feeling. I still don't really see it when I look in the mirror, although people are constantly telling me I look great.

Counting calories has been amazing. A food scale is the best thing I've bought for myself in a long time. I also weigh myself everyday since I like to see trends, and I weigh 90% of what goes in my mouth.

I started this journey last year at 255 pounds, wearing size 22 pants. I am sitting at 180 pounds, and now I wear a size 12 pants. I've lost an underwear size, a bra band size, and men's medium shirts are fitting well.

I want to say thank you to everyone who posts and comments here. This sub has been an amazing community full of advice (and commiseration when needed.) Without you fine folks, and the folks of a couple other subreddits, I don't think I would have gotten this far.

Here's to losing another 50 pounds. Here's to not self sabotaging at every damn 5 pound mark. Here's to taking my own food to get togethers here on out. Here's to being able to put a real weight in my new drivers license in a few months, and being proud of that weight.

Here's to all you beautiful losers!

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Neighborhood cleanup as a workout - It worked!

TL;DR A year ago I started doing cleanups in my neighborhood because it had become filthy, now people have changed their ways and it is squaky clean and I have become fitter and leaner in the process.

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So last September, I started. It became too much to bear. I couldn't live in this filthy place. I don't know, but all of a sudden, in the space of a few months people seemed to have forgotten to use the bins? So I started by a few blocks around the neighborhood. Eventually, I kept about a square mile clean, then the following things happened, over the next few months.

• I got too annoyed by how little effort it took from one person, on their spare time to keep that square mile clean. It doesn't take that much and if a neighborhood is littered that means that most people don't care enough.
• If however, streets are kept clean, people are usually reluctant to throw litter on them. There are many streets and open spaces that are kept clean since last September just by that one cleanup a year ago. Some other streets needed more effort.
• After passing through the same streets and watching that there were a few houses that had litter appearing in front of them repeatedly, the same houses, I tried to bump into the people living there and told them nicely that if they let litter outside of their homes, if they didn't do anything about it it's as if they are telling passers by to throw anything, isn't it? Do they like that? That nice question seemed to take care of most of the problems. I always made sure to do the work in my best outfits. I think it gives a different message. That it is everone's job to look after their neighborhood. I'm also old enough and secure enough in my real life that it just doesn't matter what I do to keep fit. It does create the wrong impression for someone to do this job, that apparently even local authority cleaners don't find worth doing.
• People outside of the square mile seemed to have noticed and it looks like they bugged the local authoritiy, why their neighborhood is not as clean and the local authority took care of the rest and now quite some square miles are kept clean!

So I still do cleanups occasionally, only a few months from starting there is litterally maybe 1/10 of the work to do. Maybe not even that. People have remembered to use the bins after all. I have kept my blood sugars low, I need the workout as a T2 diabetic and picking things from the ground is an exercise that I don't get tired of somehow! It seems to have a purpose.

Just needed to put out there that exercise can happen outside of the gym. The blood glycose monitor doesn't lie. The mirror doesn't lie and the looks you get don't lie. It works. Too many squats to count. Anything you can keep up works. I do have issues with diet though, that explains my plateau, but I keep losing now slowly. Most regression happened from last winter holiday break! Weight loss will happen, eventually.

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how to get "back on it" after a big relapse

Hi gang, I'm a male from the UK who lost about 5 stone in a year this time last year. However, comfort eating and more specifically comfort takeaway food was a big vice in my life whenever I would have trouble with my mental health. And various hard times fell my way this last year and I totally lost the way in my weight loss journey, I was using MFP to track calories etc and since around February I have completely neglected that. So i'm sitting here somewhere inbetween my OG weight and my lowest point (started at 20st7lb, currently hovering around 18st).

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My question to you all is when these relapses occur and i'm sure they're common, whats the best way to go about getting back on the horse? I'm struggling to find the motivation to start again even though I know its the best thing to do for both my physical and mental health, so any motivation or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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Eating better and exercising has given me more motivation for other aspects in my life.

I don’t know if anyone else feels this, I only started my journey 2 weeks ago, but I suddenly feel way more motivated to do other things. I feel like going back to college with my dream body may be achievable! I feel hopeful! I feel overall more positive!

Me and my boyfriend both flunked out of college because we got lazy and fat. We overloaded ourselves with full Time class and 2 extra curricular activities and ultimately stopped going to classes. We’ve been living in an apartment together and recently started eating healthier and working out. Now we have decided we want to fix our GPA’s and get back into school. Trying to go back to no bills and savor our youth while we can. The weight loss will be a test to see how far our motivation can take us. It’s a strange feeling all of a sudden thinking of multiple goals and actually believing that I can achieve them. I never realized how my bad diet and no exercise was affecting my mental state.

Also just a little side note: our healthier lifestyle has also made our relationship better!

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Losing the last 10 pounds & I've hit a plateau. Advice?

I'm no stranger to losing weight (lost 60 pounds after my son was born), and in the past have gotten pretty good at dropping 10 pounds pretty easily. This time around has been more difficult. Over this last summer I put on 10 pounds because I had gotten down to my goal weight and just stopped trying as hard with food choices/gym. My clothes don't fit anymore and I'm fed up. After doing some reading, I decided to start the Paleo diet (I wanted more of a lifestyle change, and not a "diet") about 3 weeks ago and got a personal trainer. I'm now working out 3-4 days a week, going on 2-3 miles walks a few times/week, and eating about 1300-1500 cals/ day. No refined sugar, dairy, or wheat. I cut out my biggest love, Dr. Pepper, and now drinking water and black coffee. In the past, I would cut carbs, soda, and would see results pretty fast. For some reason this time around my weight loss stalled. 3 weeks ago, when I started, I quickly lost 3-4 pounds (probably water weight?), and since then... NOTHING. In fact, I have been fluctuating a pound up or down.

Was hoping someone here that has more insight could help me figure out what the hell my body is doing. Is it the diet change? I assumed cutting out carbs, cheese, and sugar would be a good thing, but I'm starting to get defeated. Today I planned to just binge Taco Bell because I'm so upset. Over the last 3 weeks I've had one cheat meal, so I figured what the hell. Instead of throwing in the towel, I figured I would post here and get some more opinions before I make a bad decision.

And if it helps, I'm female, 31 and my current weight is 127. I am trying to get to 120, which was my pre-pregnancy weight. Hopeful to wear my old jeans again.

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