From 290 lbs to 270 lbs *2.5 month update*

This is an update of sorts as I'm updating my weight loss and nutrition. The major change over the last three months was chaning to a keto diet. It was tough and challenging at first- still difficult-, but I'm learning and gaining an understanding of how to cut back from carbs and sugars. I'm still lifting 3X a week annd changing my lifts so I can avoid a plateau. My biggest achievement is buying new clothes; it sounds so simple, but it feels rewarding knowing I can fit in smaller clothes and throwing out jeans and shorts at 50-52 inch waits and 4XL and 5XL shirts. It takes time, but sticking with your plan and making adjustments work.

Here's a before and after photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/Gp1mozU

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Here's a closer before/after photo with me in the same room: https://imgur.com/a/4zlmTd0

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Key tips I've learned in the past few weeks (for anyone just starting off)

So I've been very good for the last few weeks and it feels great! I'm so excited to continue on the journey of weight loss.

My weight has been extremely up and down the past few years. I'm at my heaviest right now and a few weeks ago I was feeling so dreadfully down about my weight. I can't bring myself to weigh myself yet but I know I'm still far more over weight than I should be.

Takeaways and sweets became a sacred thing that allowed me to wallow in my own self pity and gave me that dopamine hit I was after. Seconds after finishing my food I would feel so dreadful.

I had been attempting (at least in my mind) to lose weight. But this was essentially me eating very little during the day and then coming home and allowing myself a treat of a takeaway of sweets for being good. 🤦‍♀️ I was really fooling myself and I have come to the point where I was sick of not being able to go clothes shopping without feeling absolutely vile. (I still do, but I will get there!)

I didn't know how or where to start. I really thought I couldn't control my eating. I didn't think I could continue for any length of time really and Im hardly a bastion weight loss knowledge, but anyway, the things that have kept me on track are:

1) Doing a weekly shop. If you don't buy the junk in, you won't eat it! Buy fruit and vegetables. If they're there and the junk is not, you will reach for them!

2) Buy a pressure cooker - cooking has become the easiest thing on the planet!

3) Buy meal prepping containers (I got mine on Amazon) and make extra of whatever you're making to put in the fridge when you're feeling hungry! Also controls portion sizes!

I know it may seem basic but these things really do help as a starting point!

Oh, and: Being a salt lover, egg noodles with soy sauce and steak pieces has become my go to 'takeaway' (made by me obviously!) Delicious and salty and really not too bad on the calories! Being a sugar lover, I've swapped chocolate for flavoured rice cakes.

Good luck everyone. I hope these help someone else get started.

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How do I manage my calories alongside exercise?

I asked a similar question when I started in the Daily Q&A but didn't get much of a response. Need help.

Started a couple weeks ago - found it pretty easy to stay below my deficit - eating on average 5,300kj (1260cal) a day (some days closer to 1100cal others closer to 1400cal).

But I recently started exercising and now I'm starving. I went from usually having a tea in the morning (200kj) to a soylent type shake (800kj) and I am hungry. I'm not doing intense exercise really, just trying to go walking a lot. Like yesterday I went for a 4km (2.5 miles) walk in a very hilly area; it was tiring because I'm unfit, but it was slow, took about an hour (14:14 per km).

Generally, I'm very sedentary, office desk job. I like walking and was only going about once a week for a couple kms. But I got a fitness watch and have been challenging myself to walk every day. I'd like to do a C25K again (it's been a long time since I last tried/failed it).

I don't want to overcompensate and stop making any weightloss progress. The weightloss is the important part of this (my BMI is just over the line into obese). I don't trust the "cals burned" they seem high. But I just don't know what's reasonable.

TLDR Went from sedentary to doing regular low-medium exercise. Don't trust the "calories burned" stats. Main focus is weight loss, but also want to be at least kinda fit. Starving to death. ^/s

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Who will be most proud of your weight loss success, and why?

I've been a part of this forum for about four months, and I've noticed a number of questions about how to bring unsupportive significant others on board. Questions about how to best deal with, or ignore, catty neighbors and co-workers who don't feel joy at our success. I even asked you those questions myself, and your responses have been really helpful.

But a recent post got me to thinking about the people I know who WILL be proud of my weight loss success: People from the past who haven't seen me for a while, who might do a double take, then give me a huge hug, or even smile as they realize I'm the same person, then congratulate me. And they'll do this without any jealousy or other negative feelings; they'll just express genuine happiness at my accomplishment.

The first two people who came to mind are a younger couple who helped nurse me through my darkest hours in life ten years ago. I haven't seen them for at least five years, and we don't text often. But today I realized that they'll be really proud of me when they see the healthier, happier, and more comfortable person I've become, because they knew and loved me even when I was at my lowest / drunkest / least healthy / saddest self.

Who will that person (or those people) be for you? And why will they be proud of you?

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Why is my mother not losing weight?

Hi everyone,

My mother is 57 years old. She has been restricting calories from 13th October 2018 and exercising as well.

She used MyFitnessPal and aimed to keep calories to 1300 calories, but would often end up taking about 1000 calories.

She has stopped using the app since a couple of weeks ago, partly because somehow all her added foods have disappeared and she doesn't want to re input them

Her exercise consists of cardio with some light weights. I would say it is a mix of low intensity cardio with some HIIT

Since 13 october (about 7 weeks) she has gone from 181 pounds to 178 pounds. She is about 5 foot 4 inches

She isnt happy with her rate of weight loss, although she feels more fit physically and it looks like she has lost weight from her neck and face

We were wondering if you guys had any advice for her

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What I Ate This Weekend and the BEST Run and Eat of November

Hello!! How’s it going? What are your favorite part of the month? How much did you run? How much did you eat? Why am I asking so many questions? Maybe it’s because I need a friend?

Anyway. Let’s talk about what I ate this weekend and the best of November!

First – I ran the Lexus Lace Up Reindeer Run Half Marathon this weekend. It’s in Riverside. Santa’s there. Recap coming soon.

 

What I ate this weekend – or at least the highlights…

Friday Night – I went on a date. With a guy that I see on a regular basis. We had Thai Food – it’s my favorite.

And we tried a new dish the restaurant is known for – fried eggplant with chicken.

Date night dessert – fro-yo forever.

Saturday fun…

We went to the Great Park in Orange County. It’s a big park in south OC that I haven’t really explored – until recently. I ran there one time and this was my second lil visit.

We wanted to go up in the Hot Air Balloon but it was closed because of wind.

I always see this HUGE orange balloon in the sky as I’m living my lil life (read: going to run or going to Costco to get pizza). I don’t know if it counts as a real hot air balloon because it doesn’t go anywhere – just up and down. If I ever get up in it I’ll share more.

On the way home I saw a sign for some new construction open houses insisted we stop.

I love looking at new construction houses!! They’re perfectly furnished and smell like fancy people. I wanted to share the tour in a story but ended up mostly capturing my wide eyed reaction. Ha!

After the half marathon on Sunday…

I went to see my brother, SIL and nieces. We went to church and then lunch. Their church also had coffee and a bunch of pastries and treats! God is good.

Important side note –

I was pretty excited the place had Coke Zero. I love Coke Zero. I can’t drink Diet Coke anymore!

And every-time I go to a restaurant I ask, ‘Do you have Coke Zero?” and 89% of the time they don’t and I just ask for water or tea.

I think it seems a lil high maintenance to my bf (oh and he prob thinks diet soda is bad for me) but I’d rather die an early death and happily drink poison than deny myself happiness and be smug. And I’ll keep asking even though it seems like it’s a 1 in 10 chance that they’ll have it because it makes me so happy.

And finally I had a cookie as my lil victory lap / post-run treat. I love cookies. And ice cream. And cake – chocolate cake. (I’m hungry)

Oh – and it’s National Cookie Day!! Are you having a cookie today?

November Best Run Eat and Repeat posts

My Favorite RUN

Ahh!! This is hard because I ran the Rock N Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon and it’s so fun running down the Strip!!

Then, I ran the Lexus Lace Up Palos Verdes Half Marathon – it’s so gorgeous right on the coast!!

I say it’s a tie.

Rock N Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon

Lace Up Palos Verdes Half Marathon –

I was going to recap this one on the podcast and now I have the Riverside half to recap too! So it’s coming soon. But there’s a mini-recap on my Instagram post AND I gave a bunch of shout outs to other runners on IG.

My Favorite EAT

4 Ingredient Baked Brie Recipe 

This is my new favorite thing!! It’s so good and so easy!

 

My Favorite post I’d like to REPEAT

I think the Minimalist Christmas Wish List is super helpful

 

And with the Vegas half recap post I shared – What to Eat for a Race Late in the Day video

 

Question: What was the BEST thing you did / saw / ate last month?

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Weight loss is the positive constant my life needs right now.

I've had a really tough autumn, you guys. It's honestly been one thing after another.

Super expensive car repair further muddled by the gross incompetence of the mechanic I chose to fix it at actually properly identifying the parts my car needed? That was my August and it bled into September and the start of the fall.

Having to deal with the slow deterioration of my relationship with a woman I thought I had a future with? The one who had literally typed a five page letter FULL of all the flaws she saw in me and then gave up on trying to fix things between us even while I made efforts to fix all of them? The one who broke up with me on Halloween while I sat there awkwardly in a Grim Reaper costume? The one who has since pretended I don't exist despite a promise to remain friends? That was my October.

The stress of trying to put together a community theatre show in four weeks while also charging through one of the busiest months of my day job, and basically having little to no free time for myself to decompress and enjoy any of my solo hobbies? That was my November.

I hoped things would get better this month, but this December has started on one of the most negative notes I can think of — I was laid off at work. It had nothing to do with my job performance and everything to do with budget cuts, but I don't see how that's supposed to make me feel better about becoming unemployed with literally no warning that job loss was on the table. I had to deal with the embarrassment of breaking down in tears in my boss' office when he delivered the news that Dec. 3 would be my last day, and then had to listen in a complete haze to our HR head as she explained my compensation package. I had to be ESCORTED back to my office and HR had to WATCH me as I ruefully packed up all my personal belongings. Before I knew it, I had turned in my keys and was back at home.

I'm more scared for my future than I've ever been in my life. I have about two months of cash from my compensation package and my savings before I officially enter crisis mode, and even though I'm extremely lucky that my parents have offered to help support me if I can't find a job in my field at that time, the thought of continuing to depend on my half-retired parents for financial help when I've been financially independent since graduating from college fills me with immense guilt.

But through all of this stress and all of the sighs I've made this blasted season...I've made a commitment to improve my health. I've started on the path to a healthier me. I've put my focus into improving on that chubby overeater I've been seeing in the mirror, and on sculpting him into a man defined not by his weight, but by his character.

I started losing weight on October 14. Every day since then, I've fastidiously logged my weight in a Google Doc, followed my Slow Carb Diet as close as I can, and have zealously caught myself from the jaws of high-calorie temptations day by day. Almost two months later, I've lost 23 pounds and am already halfway to my goal weight, FAR ahead of where I predicted I may be and easily crushing my conservative loss goals week to week.

Even if my life is facing negative after negative, at least I can take solace in the positives my weight loss journey is bringing me. And I continue to have faith that I'll emerge from these freezing months a happier, healthier person.

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