Giving yourself a makeover BEFORE reaching your GW?

I still need to lose those last 12 pounds until I reach my final goal weight. I already lost 25 pounds so I'm pretty proud of myself but I still feel extremely self-conscious and fat (my classmate is a diagnosed anorexic and although I know she's sick, she makes me feel like a whale everytime I see her, and I feel like my overweight self all over again). I've been wearing all black outfits for over 10 years. Except for my PJs I don't even own any clothes in colors other than black. Black makes me disappear, or draw attention away from me - at least that's what I've been telling myself for 12 years now (it started when I was 13). Black is like part of my identity. I hate my identity. I feel like my identity was never able to blossom because I was the fat kid with social anxiety, low self esteem and depression.

I have this NY resolution to revamp my style completely. My clothes don't fit that well anymore anyway, so I might as well get some new clothes in other colors.

Should I wait till I reach my goal weight? Or should I already change my style a bit, adding color gradually (starting with things like a scarf)? Has giving yourself a makeover helped improve your confidence DURING your weight loss journey? Or did it make you even more self-conscious? Would you rather wait for the grand ending until you reward yourself by reinventing yourself? Did it make you feel better?

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 04 December 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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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!
The rant post is a /u/bladedada production.

Please consider saving your next rant for this weekly thread every Tuesday.

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I know I need to start and I guess I just need some help

So I weighed myself tonight for the first time in a long time. At last check in July I was 164 pounds at 5’10”; tonight I weighed in at 176. I’m officially in the category of being overweight. I knew this day was coming, that’s why I’d put off trying to weigh myself.

I don’t really know what happened. I’m 21, but at 18 I could eat whatever I wanted and it never show. I was almost unhealthy skinny at that point; my BMI was 19. I was excited at first when I started to put on weight; finally I wouldn’t look like skin and bones! But I think I’ve let it go unchecked for too long.

I know I’m not overweight by much. But this is frightening for me. My family has a strong history of issues with diabetes and weight, and I always thought I was somehow exempt from those issues. It’s clear to me now that I’m not, and I need to get a handle on this before it gets out of control.

For all I know it already has. I’m going to the doctor next week and I’m going to ask them to run an A1C test.

I guess I’m posting for encouragement, but also advice. If it does turn out I’m diabetic, which it could as it would explain the weight gain, what are the best/safest weight loss methods? If anyone reading this is diabetic and going through your weight loss journey, what kind of advice would you give?

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[NSFW] Loose skin and dying alone (but at a ripe old age hooray?)

I am down over 100lbs and have at least 120lbs+ to go. I am going to look like a nightmare of of hanging flesh. Yeah yeah yeah my improved health etc. But my decreased risk of heart disease is honestly cold comfort in my cold empty bed. I don’t wanna hear about my health or how The Right Guy will think I’m beautiful even if i look like a melted candle and feel like a weird pile of jello flesh to the touch. Never in a billion years would I fault someone for having too much self respect to want a piece of this.

Can we be real and say that with extreme weight loss (200lbs+), the before and after are pretty equally unattractive with clothes off?

I am not gonna stop, I feel too physically good to stop. But I don’t have breasts. I have man boobs that morph into back fat and I look fine in a bra but like I think the best sex I’ll get is that “I probably can’t get anyone better so let me shut my eyes tight, ball my hands into fists, and try to finish quickly” type thing.

It will take 10s of thousands, if not more, for me to resemble the silhouette of a normal person and not have miserable, chafing, flapping, painful, rashy skin hanging off me like a long underwear 6 sizes too big. That will be years from now IF I can pay for it. I am already 30. I can already see looseness replacing fatness.

I have a decent face. In a different world, without childhood trauma and eating disorders and fat acceptance and severe depression, I may have found love.

End rant.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Tuesday, 04 December 2018

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

Interested in some side quests?

• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
• [Track with Me Thursday] Did we just become best friends?!
• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

Community bulletin board!

• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

If you are new to the sub, click here for our posting guidelines

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I’ve lost 40 pounds, so why am I still pretending that I haven’t?

I am posting this from a throwaway account, which as I write this the irony is not lost on me that this fact is a perfect exemplification of the greater theme of this post.

To give the brief story of my weight loss journey for context: Earlier this year I found myself tipping the scale at 300 pounds, and I felt nothing but disappointment and disgust with myself. I am a father, a husband, and many other things - and one day after seeing the big three-oh-oh on the scale, I looked in the mirror and simply decided it was time to make a change. This wasn’t that the man I wanted to be. I motivated myself by asking, “What is more important to you, eating a whole large pizza with chicken wings on the side and a soda, or getting an extra 10 years with your children?”. And when I put it that way, the answer (and thus the right thing to do) was unavoidable.

I started in on my weight loss journey much the way we all do. I have counted calories vigorously, I have made small changes in my life such as taking the stairs instead of the escalator, and have (done my best) to change my relationship with food. And it’s been effective. Over the last 6 months I’ve seen the weight peel off to the satisfying result of the scale now reading 260. A far cry from where I want to be, but it wouldn’t be honest to say that I am not proud of myself.

So the main point of my post; I’ve lost some weight, I am proud of that, and I am excited for the rest of my journey in reaching my goal. So why, every time someone mentions my weight loss or asks how I’ve had so much success, do I turn into a insecure liar?

Especially in the last few weeks, I’ve had more people mentioning my weight loss to me. “Wow man, you look great! Keep up the good work!”, “Hey man, what have you been doing to diet? You’ve lost a ton of weight!”, and invariably, every time, I lie.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a random coworker, my in-laws, or my closest friend - I immediately lock up and start being dishonest about my weight loss. I tell them that I’m not really doing anything at all, I tell them that I’ve hardly even noticed that I’ve lost any weight, I say things like “oh really? wow thanks I haven’t stepped on the scale in awhile I wouldn’t know.” I lie, and lie, and lie.

And I’m being totally truthful when I say, I don’t know why I am doing this. Internally, I am proud of what I’ve accomplished so far, but as soon as someone points it out I immediately become ashamed. While I know in my heart I am bettering myself, and for that I should be proud and tell my story to those who ask, it’s like I’m too proud to admit that I have a weakness that I’ve had to work on that I am succeeding in beating my demons.

I guess I’m looking to find out if anyone else has experienced this, and how you broke through this weird feeling of shame and secrecy regarding creating a better, healthier life for yourself. As I’ve said, I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished, but too embarrassed to share it with anyone, and I just don’t know how to come to terms with that.

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