[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Friday, 07 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..."

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• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
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• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

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Somebody pointed out my weightloss!!!

I have steadily been losing weight and beating my binge eating disorder over the course of 2018. It has been a very private journey for myself and a lot of my progress is not shown on my body, but rather in my mind. Because of this, most of my milestones have been celebrated privately (not binging, re-learning hunger cues, eating smaller portions, not eating at night etc.....where my binge eaters at?? Y'all know!!).

It's been about 8 months of hard mental work and daily challenges, on top of that I am a student in a stressful school program fighting my urges that are often aggravated by stress. I would say in the past month despite my consistent fight, I have J U S T started to see the weight I put on from my BED come off.

It all sort of happened at once, I began losing weight (12lbs total now, I'm at the lowest I've been in probably 3 years!), my appetite is 'normal' and I eat to satisfy my REAL hunger cues, I don't think as obsessively about food or have crazy cravings, I don't restrict in the same way as before (in weight loss there is always an aspect of restriction), and my clothes are loosening up. One of the biggest things I noticed was my digestive system improving due to the fact that it is just working less these days! I don't get bloated after eating every small thing!

I battled BED for 3 years and it was the worst time of my life. I lived every single day in misery, I would cry in my bed at night after every binge. I don't want to ramble on too much but the fact that someone acknowledged my hard work is definitely a milestone in my books and I wanted to tell someone.

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Someone noticed my weight loss for the first time today!!

I have been dedicated 100% to getting a six pack for the first time in my life these past 45 days, and I finally had someone noticed that I was losing weight. The guy at the front desk at my apartment asked what I was doing because I was looking really good!!!

I weighed 246 pounds on October 23, and today I weighed 219 pounds. I am down a total of 27 pounds. In 45 days!

Pics! https://imgur.com/gallery/GYlWYcO

I went strict keto, and about 5 times a week I do OMAD with 1400 to 1800 calories but always keto. I also continued lifting with cardio 3 to 5 times a week. I cut out my binge drinking. I cut out my late night fast food. I feel amazing!!! Thank you all for your help.

Having someone else notice is a huge motivation to keep going.

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Update: 4 month progress (-20 lbs)

https://imgur.com/a/QNbZ1AE

I thought it would be fun to share what I learned during my weight loss (and procrastinate during finals).

1. Track calories for a week: I never realized how much I actually over-ate until I counted and read articles
2. Track workouts with an app: Rewarding to see my consistency and progress
3. Set sports-related goals: More substantial than aesthetics

Also, I was was very fortunate to live next to the gym and grocer and cook my own meals as a student so I had limited excuses.

Diet: Limit sugar, white carbs, alcohol. Small calorie deficit. Focused on food that kept me full (protein, fibre from fruits and vegetables, and non-processed). I ate slower and only ate when I'm actually hungry.

Meals were not planned but these were my targets: Breakfast/Lunch is usually greek yogurt, protein cereal, fruit or omelet with leafy greens and toast. Snacks: PB&J, apples, bananasDinner: Chicken, brown rice, steamed vegetables.

Eating mindset reset: http://physiqonomics.com/eating-too-much/

Workout: Phrak Greyskull: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/phraks-gslp

For full body lifts, stretching, warmups, and proper form are important to avoid injuries. I dropped weight whenever my form sucked. Don't skip squats and deadlifts.

For fun, I played a bit of basketball and went to some climbing gyms with friends.

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Would not have made progress without both this subreddit and r/Fitness so I wanted to share. Thanks!

Edit: Uploaded side-by-side comparisons

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I’m not where I’d like to be but I’m getting there.

I started getting seriously into weight loss about a year and three months or so ago after stepping on the scale at the doctors office. To my horror I weighed 305 lbs, now this wasn’t the first time I’ve weighed that much but I told myself that it was going to be the last time I ever saw that number.

That day I went home, downloaded a diet app and started logging what I ate in a normal day and I was somewhere around 3,800 calories and I knew it was going to be hard to make the drastic changes that I needed to, but I did it.

I started the next day making sure I stayed under 2,200 calories a day. I didn’t only eat salads or grilled chicken. I ate what I wanted to because every time I had tried to diet before I failed because I got bored. After about 5 months I hit a plateau so i decided to switch it up at Keto and did that for 6 months and switched back to a caloric deficit.

A month and a week ago I got a personal trainer at my local wellness center and I work our 30 minutes a day three days a week. I now weigh 181 lbs. I’m happy, so incredibly happy. My only regret is that I hadn’t done this earlier.

I’ve went from a XXL shirt being tight to a large being loose and a medium being a little snug. I went from a size 42-44 size pants to a size 30-32 size pants. The shirt in the after picture is a medium from Spencer’s and the pants are a size 32 from AE.

The before picture was from many years ago because I hated taking full body pics but it’s at about the same weight.

https://imgur.com/a/uwRoWSr

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I'm anxious because I told someone I used to be overweight...

Hey guys!!

Constant lurker on here, I haven't really posted, but with your help I've lost 75 lbs in the last year. Also, in the last year, I started a new job. I'm 5' 9" and I went from 245 lb to my current 168 lbs, I don't know what I weighed at my heaviest in life but it may be been around 300 to 350.

We talk about food and health constantly at work as casual conversation but I've never mentioned that a short time ago I was much larger, I started this position after I had lost the bulk of my weight so they would have no idea. Most people in my life saw the transition or met me before I lost the weight so I didn't realize that I hadn't actually told anyone about my weight loss in person.

Well now that I have it's causing some anxiety, has anyone experienced this? I sort of just casually mentioned it not really thinking about the implications, I immediately regretted it even though their response was totally fine and normal. I just feel like I revealed something really personal, you know? I don't know, maybe I don't like the idea of my past weight effecting how they think of me?

I don't have any friends who have lost weight or experienced this so you guys were the first ones I thought to bring this up with, I thought someone might have a similar feeling or some insight...

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[27 F] Need some encouragement - starting again after gaining back ~35 lbs

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to contributing to Reddit but been browsing, particularly in this sub, for a long time.

I am in need of some encouragement as I'm just restarting my fitness journey after realizing just how much I've let myself backslide over the past few years, and the last several months in particular.

I've never been thin; even in high school, I tended to be on the "slightly overweight" (size 12-14-16) range. For reference, I'm also fairly tall at 5'10". When I was in college and finally started taking fitness seriously, I lost about 30lbs (SW ~210, ended ~175-180). I gained quite a bit of muscle and was toned, and felt so great about myself. After I graduated, I yo-yoed between those weights again in various phases of life, depression, work, stress, etc. The latest "good" kick was few summers back after ending a toxic long-term relationship (the left photo in the link below). At my best times, I was about a size 10 (US/European) - so again not ever "thin" but I felt healthy, sexy, and better about myself than I ever had.

In the years since then, I've been dealing with some serious personal and emotional issues, and I completely stopped exercising in any form at all. I would eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, often indulging in crazy binges. I knew I was gaining weight, fat, and cellulite, and I just didn't care to change. I didn't care about myself at all and was living in a state of complete depression.

I've recently managed to snap myself out of it after realizing just how much I've "let myself go" and decided there's no better time to start over than right now. I've begun logging meals in lose it again and starting with light workouts this week. Despite this, and despite me KNOWING that it will take time and hard work and dedication... It feels so hopeless. I feel like no matter what I will just look and feel like a cow and it's not worth it.

Can anyone else lend encouragement for someone who is really OUT of weight loss and fitness, who is starting over after having had previous success, feeling sad and ashamed, and like they have a long road ahead? Would highly appreciate a fitness buddy for accountability and motivation. Just for the record, my fiancé is incredibly supportive of me and whatever I want to do, but he is naturally athletic and thin, and can't really grasp how difficult it is for me to lose weight. Need someone who understands :)

Pics: Pics for reference

TL;DR: Used to be relatively fit and healthy, gained almost 40lbs in the last 2 years, and now feeling down about having to start over completely

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