Tuesday, October 30, 2018

I lost 65lbs and I'm not obese anymore but I can't help finding myself too big...

Hey guys!

3 years ago I was more than 100kg (220 lbs). At that time I didn't dare to take any picture of myself, because it was a humiliation. I found myself too big, ugly, and taking pictures made me feel bad. I reordered my life, changed many things, and successfully lost weight and maintain my new way of life. Today I'm 70 kg (154 lbs)

During these 3 years I haven't taken any picture of myself and I haven't used any scale. I'm afraid of scales. I have no way to really compare and prove myself that I lost weight. Everytime I'm weighing I feel like I'm too big and I never consider my weight loss. I'm still constantly shaming myself for being too big, too fat, allthough I lost weight. Looking at the mirror is still difficult, even if my weight has become "normal", I'm even asking myself wether I really lost weight or not. The only evidence I have are my former jeans and t-shirts which have become too large for me. I feel like the situation has never changed. I feel myself too big compared to what I'm seeing in the movies/medias...

My bf (we are together for 5 years) is telling me that I lost weight, and my family does as well but I can't believe what they say and I still consider myself as much too big (allthough my weight is normal). They tell me that my physical appearance has become almost normal, but that's not what I'm seeing in the mirror... I've always been big, since my childhood and I feel like I can't connect to my new identity of a non big person...

Has anyone got such a problem? What do you guys think?

Thanks !

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No kitchen and living abroad but I want to lose some weight, pls help

21 and female currently living in China. I didn’t weigh myself for years as I felt relatively happy in my body/myself and whilst I knew I had gained some weight, I was pretty shocked to discover I was about a stone heavier than expected and now about 67kg (at 5’3 so my BMI is overweight) and my clothes size was around a UK 12/14 (US 8/10). I dropped to 60 over the course of a month with minimal effort (30 minutes on a rowing machine biweekly, daily hour long walks, and keeping more or less to a calorie target 5/7 days of the week) and was taking steps to both lose weight and be more healthy. This was pretty short term and I went back up to 64 the next month after a holiday where I drank and ate everything but I felt better for trying and the previous was easy for me to maintain whilst enjoying break.

Since moving abroad, I’ve felt like my progress has stopped. I walk about 10 thousand steps every day but that’s my only real form of exercise and I have no kitchen so I have to eat out for every meal, meaning I have little way of tracking my calories. It feels like I’ve gained a little weight but I’m not sure how much as I don’t own a scale right now and I’m a little nervous to buy one.

Just looking for some tips about where to begin in losing weight. I posted in the eat cheap and healthy subreddit and got some good tips but they’ve been hard to follow up on. I’ve been trying to be healthy and low calorie but not sure if what I’m eating is as everything seems to be loaded with oil and I’m yet to find much tasty steamed food or any make your own places. My dorm has strict rules on appliances so I can’t really make my own kitchen and am limited to a microwave and kettle so I eat out for pretty much every meal.

I also have pretty bad gym fear as I’m very very out of shape - used my mam’s rowing machine in our garage but I take a lot of breaks so 30 mins on it takes me closer to 40. I like yoga and stuff but idk if it helps with weight loss really. I intend to join a gym in 2 weeks when I return from a upcoming trip but I’d like to try some home workouts first to ease myself in but I’m not sure where to start with them as I’m a very low level of fitness. In the long term, I’d like to be able to run 5-10K before next Spring/Summer as there’s a event on the Great Wall that I would love to try and run in (but that’s a personal goal so feel free to ignore).

Had a quick look through the faq and still wanted to post so please let me know if this breaks rules. Just not sure where to begin as calorie tracking seemed to help me get going before but I can’t do that now. Thank you for letting me get this off my chest and I’d appreciate any help. I don’t have a particular goal weight right now in kgs but I’d like to be down to a UK 8 (US 4) again in clothes and generally live a more healthy lifestyle. I understand not hugely overweight but I am a little and I would like to be more healthy too and I feel the two go hand in hand.

Edit: Added a bit, twice. Sorry and if this is the wrong sub, feel free to send me some links

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Monday, October 29, 2018

Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!

I Rant, Therefore I Am

Well bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants!
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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Tuesday, 30 October 2018

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A sneak peek into my Weight-Loss-Goals Status. CANNOT WAIT wait to meet the AWESOMEST one on the list!

I maintain a little excel sheet with dreams that I dreamt of along the way and mark as I achieve them. Yesterday, I came up with the best one ever!

Weight Loss Goals Status
Hit 70 kg Achieved
Hit 65 kg Achieved
Have a normal BMI Achieved
Have a normal ASIAN BMI
Be the lowest weight of my adult life
Run the 10k again
Have a healthy waist circumference Achieved
Fit into the polka dot top Achieved
Fit into the black top and zip it up Achieved
Fit into the black top and button it up
Fit into all my saree blouses ever Achieved
See crotch sucking in tummy
Question mark side profile Achieved
Lie down and have concave tummy in the mirror
Lose as much as nephew weighs

I bought a digital scale after I started my journey and kept it in a corner of my room. I weigh myself every morning. So does the little guy before he goes to school. I want to lose around 18kgs in total and he weighs around 15kgs! I am 10kgs down already.

I thought of the photo shoot idea yesterday. I can lift him up and know how much weight I carried along with me all the time! I am going to click pictures carrying him to commemorate my awesomeness!

I cannot wait to meet that goal and share with all of you! I am so excited!

Do any of you have super cool goals like this to share with us?

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Slightly different approach to creating a deficit

Hi,

I’ve developed a somewhat new (at least for me) approach to creating a weight loss deficit which I though might be helpful to someone. I’ve been struggling to consistently hit my targeted calories and after a lot of thought I realised that a) my goals were probably too extreme and b) a traditional static deficit doesn’t work with my natural fluctuations in appetite.

I’m a short 5’3” female, 93kg (205lb) and fairly active (10-17k steps a day) plus heavy weightlifting for an hour three times a week. I have been shooting for 1500 cal a day or less and have just been completely unable to maintain that goal. I find if I restrict for too long I inevitability end up going off track for a month or so and seriously stalling my progress. I follow a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule but still struggle with the restriction. I eat lost of protein and veggies, but honestly my love for broccoli is greatly enhanced with butter.

My current TDEE is somewhere in the realm of 2200 calories and interestingly I notice that when I got off track I tend to eat at maintenance naturally. With my original calorie goal that would equal a deficit of 700cal (okay for some but really affects my energy and performance). I’ll be okay eating 1500 for a day or so but end up extremely hungry on other days.

I decided instead to try to just eat at the calories it would take to maintain my goal weight (60kg/132lb & 1800 calories). This was so much easier to handle and I stuck with it for roughly a month. But, I was still noticing that I was really hungry on my lifting days. So what I’ve been doing the last few weeks is eating at a more extreme deficit on my rest days (~1400cal) and at maintenance on my lifting days (~2200cal) and then just 1800 cal on the seventh day. This allows me to have a running weekly average of 1800cal, recover really well and build strength at the gym, be comfortable to eat the foods I like in a sustainable way and still loose ~0.7kg (1.5lb) a week.

Hopefully, because I’m eating my maintenance calories at my goal weight I’ll be able to eat pretty similarly from now on and not have to continually decrease my intake. I might take me longer to got there, but I feel like I’m so much less likely to develop diet fatigue and gain the weight back.

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Losing weight with rice as a diet.

Hello folks! As the title states, will rice really hamper my weight loss? Rice in my diet has been ingrained in my body since I was a child . I'm 74kg 5'8 20M. I have started going to the gym 6 months ago and although I have gained good amount of muscle my fat seems to remain the same. I really need to eat rice once in a meal per day , everything feels wrong if I don't. I was quite fit (as in athletic) throughout my life and since I moved to another country 2 years ago , I seem to have been gaining weight little by little. I really don't think rice alone will hamper my weight loss but everyone tells me to take it out of my diet. I'm a Nepalese so my diet is similar to but not the same as that of an Indian person. Is it really necessary to take rice out of the picture ? I mostly eat 1or2 light meals and and 1 heavy meal as dinner (Rice with other side dishes consisting of meat and vegetables) per day.

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