[NSV] I was TERRIFIED to go to my first aerial class last night. I was the fattest student there... but I went upside down! Pic included!

A few of my friends are involved with aerial fitness classes, and have been encouraging me to go for years. I've been way too afraid to say yes. The interest has always been there. Recently, I've really buckled down and been serious about my diet. I've lost 6 pounds so far, and the self-confidence from that led me to impulsively sign up for the introduction aerial class that my friend teaches. AHH.

My first class was last night; I was anxious all day about it. What if I'm the fattest person there? What if people judge me? What if I just can't do it? I was sorta right - I WAS the fattest person there, by quite a bit. But I wasn't judged at all; I was getting all kinds of love and support. I pushed myself to do things my body has never done before. And I even went upside down! It was a terrifying, gratifying rush.

I almost missed out on this opportunity because I was afraid of it. I think that weight loss so often focuses on change that I easily forget to appreciate the vessel that I currently have. My body can do stuff! Yes, I have to work harder than other people there to achieve less results. But it doesn't take away from the fact that I still did something AWESOME.

What I am doing: Keto diet (low carb/high fat/ moderate protein) and intermittent fasting (IF) 20/4. I see drastic changes in the amount of energy I have, and in the way my body feels throughout the day. I am fortunate in that I did not experience keto flu, and my cravings went away fairly quickly. I hope to eventually try C25k and/or some weight lifting as I settle more into my routine.

https://imgur.com/a/WckXkfl

I am DEFINITELY not looking graceful nor beautiful in these pictures, lol. But I am owning it. I'm just so excited and I wanted to share. Thank you for reading. :)

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Started this year at 242 pounds, i’m currently at 184.8, but i’m losing all motivation, what should I do?

It was my New Years goal to get down to 180 pounds by the end of 2018. I’ve been steadily losing weight but I have hit a wall and I am having a hard time to find the motivation to continue losing weight. I have stuck been in the 185-190 range for around a month or more.

I am not sure why now I am losing motivation, i’m 20, i’ve been over weight for as long as I can remember and I’ve wanted nothing more than to be skinny for the longest time. When I started my weight loss in January I put everything I had into losing weight and its all I thought about 24/7 everyday, but now that i’m closer than ever to my goals, I am struggling more than ever to lose weight. Any ideas on what I can do to help myself get back to it?

Also, just wanted to talk about something i’m proud of.

Before I lost the weight I have, I hated myself so much for being fat. I couldn’t even eat anything at all without having a ton of guilt because I hated what I looked like and it made me pretty depressed. But now after losing the weight I have I can actually eat food and not feel horrible for myself and it feels good.

One other thing I am proud of is I can now do push-ups. That felt like a massive victory for me because I could never do ‘real’ push ups in my life. Back in high school in gym class I was always one of the only people who had to do those knee push ups because I couldn’t do actual ones and I would always feel embarrassed.

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Lost the weight. Now I feel horrible

Hi everybody,

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In the past year, I have lost about 50 pounds. This has moved from an overweight BMI to one in the middle of the normal range (21). It’s the skinniest I have been since high school.

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On the one hand, this has meant that other people treat me better. I think we can all relate to how horribly we can be treated, just because we are overweight. For some people, any kindness or accomplishments are negated because we have (or had, it is a process, and even if you are doing everything right it might not yet show) a difficult relationship with food. And any harassment seems fair game – maybe even funny. This really bugs me; it is important to realize that you guys are not defined by your looks or the weight loss journey that you are on. There is so much more to a person.

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Anyways, I am no longer fat enough to be ridiculed. Furthermore, people have become more approaching in social situations. Unfortunately, I feel the worst about my body (and therefore myself in its entirety) that I have ever felt. It’s excruciating to live with myself, in my body. It physically makes me sick. I get nauseous out of disgust when I think of myself. And I really don’t want to continue living like this. Like, is it even worth it?

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My body is still ugly. I am no longer fat throughout my body. But I still have a “skinny fat” gut. Worse, now that the bigger issue is gone, it is also glaringly obvious that I’m weak, with no muscle mass whatsoever. It’s bad enough for people to make comments about it.

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I feel like I have the type of body that nobody will ever respect, find attractive or love. There is this distance between me and friends, stemming from me being “different” and unworthy of respect because I’m not fit. And romantically, nobody has ever thought I was physically attractive. I’ve become a consolidation price, causing me to nope out of any intimacy.

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It feels unfixable too. I am a pretty optimistic person, but I don’t think I will ever become fit. I have trouble going to the gym with the intensity to seriously change my appearance. When I started this weight loss thing, I tried to religiously work out. But this went horribly. The workouts cut into my sleep, because the time must come from somewhere. And I had to sacrifice fun stuff (travelling, parties), because I was too anxious to skip a workout and fall off the bandwagon. And I’m bad with free weights (they cause me anxiety from being weak, it’s difficult to maximize the effort without a spotter, and I don’t know how to do some exercises and a single explanation was not enough because I’m so unathletic). I always got weaker and burned out. I have only managed to lose the weight by stopping this obsession with (ineffectively) working out.

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Honestly, I don’t even know why I’m writing this. Have any of you guys suffered from insecurities after losing the weight? Does it ever become better? Is there any way to accept and myself, even with a shit body?

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PS: I hope that the weight loss journey will be better for you guys, hopefully this is just me. And while we’re at it, again your mileage may vary though, for me the weight loss become a lot easier over time. After a while my appetite reduced. As long as I eat healthy, my body can actually signal when I am satiated now. So please hang in there if it’s tough at the moment. I hope this will also happen for you guys.

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Cricket Chips–Trying Cricket Protein in Chips video

I’m eating chips with CRICKETS in them. Cricket protein powder is going to be the cool new thing – so um, here’s your head’s up to check it out and impress your friends. I unfortunately, don’t have friends… but I have you. And I’m trying to impress you by eating cricket chips so you have the full run down before you spend your money on them. Plus there are a lot of benefits to eating bug protein over beef protein. So it’s good for the environment. Boom.

Q: Would you eat crickets or cricket protein powder??

I spotted these Chirps Chips at Ralph’s – that’s just my local grocery store. They weren’t in a fancy bug section of the store either – just with the other chips.

The company is Chirps Chips – but there are a lot of new companies coming out with cricket protein powder and other bug protein snacks and foods soon.

 

 

The bag said one serving had the same amount of protein as one egg white.

They also have pea protein in them so that increases the protein factor too. Other than that the other nutrition stats seem to be similar to other chips –

A serving of Chirps Chips = 140 calories and 7g of fat.

A serving of Doritos = 150 calories and 8g of fat.

I put the 2 types of chips side by side here to compare.

They are fairly similar on some of the stats I look at first – calories, fat, fiber and protein. But the ingredients lists are very different. And it’s not just a numbers game when we’re thinking about health and the overall health benefits of the foods we eat. So it’s good to look at what’s in your food too.

 

 

These have 1 cricket per chip! So I probably had like 88 crickets!! (I ate most of the bag in the first sitting – they are good!)

 

Here’s the video where I try them for the first time:

 

I bought these at the grocery store but they’re also available on Amazon – Chirps Chips Variety Pack

And they have cookie mix with cricket protein and cricket protein powder.

I definitely want to try more from them because I’m so curious and if it also is better for the environment for us to transition to cricket or other bug protein… I’m okay with eating it in cookies and chips for sure!

 

Let me know if you want me to try any new type of donut or other fun food for the next video…

Q: Would you eat crickets or cricket protein powder??

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[Progress + Milestone] Don't think you can because I know you can.

When I started this journey I had it engraved in my mind that I couldn't do anything I wanted to do because of my weight. I struggled to make it up a small flight of stairs. At 280 lbs and just having a baby I had given up on myself completely. Depression weighed me down daily and I struggled to get out of bed and be a productive member of my household. I easily got sick, struggled to lift anything and just felt like a giant sack of potato's. I started my journey by eating less. The weight came off fairly quickly. In fact about 40 lbs dropped in the first few months. Then came walking anywhere between 2 km to 5 km Monday to Friday combined with eating less and another 40 dropped in a couple of months. This is where things slowed down. I started becoming very self conscious about my loose skin and didn't want to continue if this is how my body was going to look. I often compared myself to a saggy dish rag and it caused me to spiral into a deeper depression. I hovered at 200-210 for some time. Then something clicked and I decided to go on antidepressant and just told myself to suck it up. I started going to the gym 3 days a week following stronglifts. This allowed me to get down to 170 lbs. I was strong and feeling great but stronglifts was boring me so I went on over to bodyweighfitness and started their recommended routine in combination with a modified version of stronglifts.

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My achievement

• Push ups: Knees on ground 3 x 3 now diamond push ups 3 x 8
• Squats: Bar 5 x 5 now 265 lbs 5 x 5
• Plank: 10 seconds now 3 x 1:00 min
• Side Plank: 5 seconds now 45 seconds
• Hollow Hold: 10 seconds now 1:00 min
• Pull ups: none (assisted at 140 lbs 3?) now 3 x 5 at 40 lbs assisted
• Chin ups: none (assisted at 100 lbs about 3) now 3 x 4
• Dips: none (assisted at 100 5) now 3 x 5 40 lbs assisted (can do 3 without assisted weight)
• Superman: 2 seconds now 1 minute
• handstand: NA now belly to wall 1 minute

I also run 5 km three days a week. I am very proud of this. I'm now 159 lbs and finally am noticing some abs trying to peak their way through!

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Pictures if anyone is interested. Weight Loss Photo 2016 Versus 2018

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Lost 88 pounds in 1.5 years, looking forward to shedding another 55

https://i.imgur.com/dXZrb6R.jpg?1
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https://i.imgur.com/YnHsAuN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/XRiZ6lk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/5HNMFvD.jpg?1

The pictures were taken at a 6 months interval: starting weight 140 kg (308 lbs), current weight 100 kg (220 lbs).

About 2 years ago I got diagnosed with severe anxiety and clinical depression. I was hospitalized, put on pills for about 5 months; the aforementioned symptoms went away, instead feeling numb and too detached.

In the meantime, I was working out quite hard, eating once a day and truly staying on track. Nothing happened. I was getting stronger, but no fat/weight loss.

Be it a hand from above or a chance from destiny, I went to the local endocrinologist and reported my symptoms and my medical history. The nail in that coffin was my body temperature not rising above 35.5 degrees Celsius no matter what I did (took the temperature for about a week).

The checked hormones were LH, T4, T3, RT3, testosterone, prolactin, cortisol : testosterone = 60 years old man, RT3, T4, prolactin were above clinical levels, cortisol and prolaction were high, but below the highest range admissible.

Long story short, I got the standard medicine - T4 and also T3 by my own; the motivation being the documented procedures in the US, mainly Wilson's Protocol.

Ever since, my efforts vis-a-vis weight loss were not in vain, my anxiety and depression vanished (I discontinued my psychiatric medication). Even more, I got progressively better - mental clarity, a working memory, a functional body (far better sex life, we'll leave it at that) and as the fat came off, increased confidence and motivation to carry on.

Striving for 75 kg, more or less. I wish to get rid of the flabbiness all around, so weight is less significant than body fat.

Due to my present condition, the only weight loss regiment that works is 36/12 fast, every single day. On 'feeding' days, I avoid certain high glycemic foods - bread, pasta, sugar, focusing on dietary fat, protein, fibers and plenty of water. I may have a diet soda if carbonated water doesn't cut the craving.

Exercise is usually light - intensity: I walk to university, around town ~ 8 km daily and the occasional push-ups, planks and the likes.

What do you people think? Critiques and helpful advices are more than welcome.

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Hit a healthy BMI for the first time in 7 years this morning - and binged as automatic response.

I am a long, long time lurker here. I know many of you well but you do not know me. I am a quiet veteran of weight loss and disordered eating - I may know this pattern and journey better than anything else in my life and have never spoken of it with anyone. So I'll share it here, with the hopes perhaps someone out there who can relate will read it and feel slightly less alone.

I've had issues with eating since I was a little girl and never liked how I looked. I distinctly remember rejecting invitations to swim parties and beach days as young as 7. By 14 I was on a constant restriction cycle fluctuating from eating normally to throwing lunch in the trash on the way to school and spitting dinner into a napkin. I got relatively thin, but never *really* thin - never looking how I wanted to. I was 5'8 by then (as I still am now), and bottomed out at around 140. I tried my hand at purging but was never much good at it. I ate dry tuna at school and left bread crumbs on a plate in the sink around breakfast for my mother to find.

At 15 I started to binge - most likely as a reaction to the endless hunger - but evened things out with restricting and starving every other week. For a couple of years I hovered pretty consistently around 155. On my 16th birthday I spent my gift money on a cross trainer and built it in my room in silence. At 17, during my first year of sixth form, I lived off coffee and my schooling suffered miserably for the first half of the year. I fainted walking out of class on multiple occasions. The second half of the year I fell into an endless binge and jumped up to the high 160's, putting me at an overweight BMI for the first time. I wore leggings to school and often cried in the bathroom. I stopped speaking to everyone I knew. I was humiliated and sunk into a depression.

I still left for university at 18, headed to a new city - and there, from the loneliness, stress, and building depression - jumped from the high 160's to 225 in a short eight months. I huffed glue in my room, smoked out the window, and spent every penny I had on food. I was now obese and suicidal. My skin broke out constantly. I would often binge to the point of being involuntarily sick. I couldn't concentrate on anything and developed crippling anxiety. I seldom made it to class.

Things remained mostly the same until I was 20 - at which point I went through a full on nervous breakdown and was in and out of the hospital, never admitting my disordered eating to any professionals or otherwise. I went vegan - from a sincere desire of love for animals, with less of a focus on my body - and lost weight rapidly, in a healthy way for the first time. At 21, I hit the 180s. Still overweight - but people told me I looked great all the time. I was still relatively miserable but was functioning again.

There I hovered in the 180s for the past couple of years post-graduation. At 23 I moved to a new city - just earlier this year - and started a new job, headed back to school, learned to drive, met a lovely boy, made a whole new group of friends I sincerely love, and have been so busy that, without any consious effort, have lost some weight.

This morning I stepped on the scale and read 163. At 5'8, 164 is the boundary for an overweight BMI. I stood naked in the mirror for a long time and felt nothing but hate. Hate for the 62 pounds I've lost and hate for the 34 I still want to get rid of. I left the house and for the first time since January felt an intense need to go home and binge. I left my friends, skipped class, and cancelled on a friend for drinks tonight - to come home with the full knowledge of what I was going to do. It was as awful as I remember - the pain and the sickness and the disgust. And, of course, I don't feel any better. I'm still me. I will wake up tomorrow still me. I will turn 24 next week.

You have to work on how you feel about yourself, not just the weight loss. I have come a long way but seeing that 163 this morning and my involuntary reaction to it reminded me there's still a lot left buried under the surface. Be kind to yourself. You're in it for the long haul, not just that one special day when you hit a number you've anticipated for a long, long time. I'm not overweight anymore, but it's really only the beginning.

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