30 Day Accountability Challenge- November recap (Day 30)

Hi all! Posting this early so I can actually write a proper post this time and have the neater formatting on the desktop as opposed to the wonky mobile formatting. We made it. November is on its way out. Time for us to reflect on the month behind. What worked and what might need adjustment. Where we shined and where we struggled. For me my biggest struggles have been in my personal life. The rollercoaster ride of interviews and rejections goes on, and feels both easier and harder to handle in some ways each time I go through it. And now I have to do interviews on top of already working a full time job! Guild drama that actually led to me stepping back from my guild because I didn't have the emotional bandwidth to handle being (through no fault of my own) put in the middle of that crap on top of the struggles I was already having with my mental state. Weight loss wise I did well, did end the month under 135 despite Thanksgiving weekend being one extended calorie bombshell. Steps... I still need to work on this one. Need to find a way to get more steps in despite working a job that keeps me at a desk all day, unlike previous jobs which involved a fair amount of walking around. Also need to work on my step counts on snow days and vacation days. But I think I still made progress from October. Hopefully December will be more progress still.

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Oh, and if you haven't already, feel free to sign up for December's challenge here! My fellow Coloradan, MountainLioness, will be back hosting again.

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Weight: 132.9. And I've now got the next 3 weeks approximately without any food holidays to work on getting this back into the 131s.

Calories: Ended yesterday at 1513

Steps: 10,093. I didn't do a full workout, I was just feeling way too tired. But at least I did something.

Gratitude: Thank you to all of you for being such a great crowd and for bearing with me, especially as I was first feeling my way around figuring out hosting stuff and then lately with Thanksgiving and the new job throwing wrenches in my posting schedule. Side note: I now understand why people say "on mobile so I apologize for the formatting." It really is much easier to write posts on the desktop, which is why I have this post mostly written up on Thursday night so that I can just set it loose on Friday morning before I go to work.

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Can believe my own weight loss

I am currently sitting at 55lbs lost since April 2017. I took the slow approach in 2017 and lost 50lbs over the course of a year. I’d lose 10lbs, take a maintenance break and then get back on the wagon and lose 10 more. I decided to give myself a break starting April 2018 and went into maintenance mode. On the 1st of this month, I decided to get back to losing weight and have lost an additional 5lbs. I still have 30-40lbs to lose until I hit goal but it’s really not that difficult since I’m taking it slow and easy.

The thing is. I know logically that I’ve lost weight. The scale is registering that I’ve lost weight. My clothes don’t fit anymore and the size 12 jeggings I bought in in April to celebrate 50lbs lost are not falling off, despite my being in maintenance until just this month. I’m not working out. But my body is still changing. I, however, cannot see it in the mirror and sometimes it feels like I’m lying to myself. I find myself looking at my old weight logs thinking that there was a mistake and my scale was lying to me, despite using the exact same scale throughout. I even played with the idea of replacing my scale because I keep thinking that it has to be defective. It’s hard to wrap my head around.

Anyone here go through this weight loss denial? How do you cope?

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Parents are convinced I'm sick and have lost too much weight

I've been losing weight since 2015, my heaviest was 131kg. I'm now down to 81kg through dieting and exercising, I eat at 1500cals per day. My mum thinks I should stop, (she's overweight), sister desperately wants me to stop, and if I choose to continue wants me to go see a doctor to prove I'm not sick (???, she's a little bit overweight) and my dad thinks I've gone too far, and that I'm too weak because I couldn't pick something up that he could (he's obese.)

Here's some photos of me currently, I'm 6'2.

https://imgur.com/a/UpIYr8D

I'd prefer to keep going with the weight loss until my moobs and stomach are gone, maybe 77kg? Is that pushing it too far? Am I skinny enough already and should I just start going to the gym now? (Running is my only exercise.)

When I used to weigh food they'd get super mad, I'm no longer able to weigh foods that they cook for me which I think is kind of fair, I still weigh all of my other meals, I just have to guess the calories for dinner.

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Anxiety over my damned plateau and ordering a swimsuit online [NSFW]

My weight loss was going as per trajectory. I was 62.8kg on the scale twice in that week. I was projected to achieve my goal weight 60kg by end of December. I was pumped and motivated.

I was mainly losing only by diet, I decided to power through the last few pounds with some exercise. I started swimming hardcore, WHEN I FUCKING PLATEAUED. It had been three weeks of dedicated swimming, and everyday, I saw 63kg and 64kg on the scales. Poop, pee, nothing helped those numbers.

Also, Swimming made me really hungry. I was on 1200, I ate back my underestimated exercise calories and then some because of food-events that I could not avoid. I tried so very best to be good. The scales were so demotivating. I was so keen to stop the exercise and let the weight fall off. But one thing I have learned on r/loseit is that this is all about building a mindset and a sustainable life. I wanted exercise to be a part of this. Not the obsession with weight. I ploughed on...

I ploughed on wearing a swimsuit that was loose. My new skintight hardly worn swimsuit from 6 months ago was FUCKING LOOSE. Earlier in life, I have had the elastic bits of the suit wear out by leaving it in the sun never have I had the entire suit sag on my body and the elastic was good as new. Adding the pads didn't help either. I deserved a new suit. It's always good to have two anyway.

So, I check Speedo suits online and find one I like. I was A FUCKING SMALL according to their size chart. Of course, there are a lot of complaints below on how wrong their sizing is and nothing fits the people who previously bought it, everything is too small. I worry because swimsuits are non returnable and I don't want a too tight swimsuit haunting me during this mess. I discuss thoroughly with the amazon people and FUCKING ORDERED THE SIZE S SWIMSUIT after he assured me that was my size according to my measurements. I was ridden with anxiety the entire time I ordered it.

Back to my routine life, I was swimming, hungry as ever, eating fiber, protein and yogurt UNTIL I SAW 62.5 this morning. BROKE THE FUCKING PLATEAU! FUCK YES! :D

And the suit? IT FUCKING FITS ME.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ALL THIS IS SO WORTH IT!

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ways to shed the last few KG??

Hello!

I have currently been on my weight loss journey for about 10 months now and have lost 17 kilos!!! I consistently go to the gym (4-5 days a week, mainly strength training but I don't neglect cardio!! ) plus I have an active job. My diet consists of intermittent fasting (16:8 but some days I stretch it for longer such as 18-20 hrs fast), I also watch what I eat and track my kjs here n there just to make sure I'm not going overboard lol. I do have cheat days so I'm not depriving myself of the foods I love but I feel like these last 5-7 kilos have been the HARDEST to get rid of? I still have significant 'fat' on me and I'm not necessarily toned yet... I don't understand why I've been stuck on the same number for the past 2 months and feel like I've gained another bloody kilo and then dropping it and then gaining it AGAIN.

I have read similar posts to what I am experiencing but I have no clue what to do/what to change/what to eat??/get out of this plateau????????? I love the gym and healthy eating but I feel like I'm putting in the effort for NOTHING recently.

I am small in height (157cm/57kilos) So I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it? would love some tips and advice to get the fat moving off my body!!!!

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I'm FED UP...it's now or never

For the past year, I lost my job because I have social anxiety related to my weight. I have been lying down and eating while in bed trying to take small steps or what not to lose weight but damn I couldn't. I have completely avoided meeting people and friends for the past 6 months because I weigh 112 kg (256 lbs) I've tried diets and diets in the past and kept telling myself "It won't work anyways, why try?" I kept losing the battle of weight loss. My only goal in life is to lose weight and honestly when I lose weight everything else settles itself, I can get a job and I can make friends. My social anxiety is tied to my looks so whenever I step out I feel this sense of tension because I feel ugly and fat.

I'm 26 and live with my parents because of my weight. I lost all the confidence I used to have from weight loss (I used to take adderall as a means function in life and it gave me everything until I quit, the only reason I took adderall shamefully was for weight loss).

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This is my life: I browse the internet and just watch youtube videos all day and lie down in bad in the fetal position as I watch and eat food.

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I don't know ... I tried counting calories and then I would go over. I tried to let myself eat whatever and feel like it's sustainable I can. But I'm so fucking tired of this shit. I have man boobs. I can't take it. Sometimes I want to die because I can't complete this one fucking goal that would unlock everything else for me in life. The job and the friends I want to make and meet. HELP ME. I did all this fucking small baby steps shit like damn, I know I need to track calories at 2000 but I just don't. My sleep schedule is so fucked I sleep at 9am wake up at 3pm. I'm fat and lonely. It's a vicious cycle when I feel bad about my weight, I eat.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 30 November 2018? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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