Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Never gonna be small

Hey all. I don't really know why I want to share this here. I don't know that it will be helpful for anyone, but I sincerely hope that it will.

I started my weight loss journey many years ago now. 6 years ago, to be precise. I weighed 330-335 lbs and I'll tell ya what, life wasn't very swell. I had developed a drinking problem, problems with social anxiety, and I even herniated 2 discs in my spine. After a painful recovery from the disc problems (I don't wish sciatica on my worst enemy), by doctor told me that I had to lose the weight. If I didn't lose weight I was going to be facing some severe consequences later in life. So I started with the most obvious. Quit drinking so much. I axed soda within the first year, and to this day the only carbonated beverages I consume are beer, carbonated water, and the occasional ginger ale.

Fast forward a half year later or so and I quit smoking. While this was a great health decision, it led to me gaining about 10 pounds. My weight loss stalls out yet again. I had started counting calories, but I did it haphazardly and didn't bother to keep careful track of what I was eating. The nagging from my parents continued, and I managed to maintain a ~20 lb level of weight loss.

It wasn't until 2 or 3 years ago that I finally decided to buckle down and seriously focus on counting calories. I wasn't in the right place mentally to start exercising (I started grad school), but I made do and I focused on getting my eating under control. I did it! I managed to lose ~60 lbs to mo original goal weight of 250 lbs!

There was only one problem. I wasn't getting smaller. As it turns out, I have a barrel chest. It makes me look like I'm jacked, but in truth my rib cage is simply pushing my skin out all around me. I hit a major psychological brick wall. All of this effort to trim myself down wasn't going to do anything. After everything I'd done I was still going to be a massive human being. I am still struggling with this. It's very discouraging for me, and I'm trying to find a way past being big boned.

I just started CICO again and I've started lifting as well (first time since I injured my back). The most I can do is try and make this work. If I have the frame of a Norse god I might as well try and fill it out. It's very likely I will never see onederland, but in a way I don't want to. If I can just get to a point where I can be happy with what I've done I think I'll make it. I dunno if anyone else has problems with this, but I just wanted to make this post so I could get my thoughts out there and organized. I hope everyone's weight loss journey is going well.

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How in the world do you guys get enough protein in your diet?

I’m 65lbs down from 250, trying to recover from a soccer injury and not be so sore after workouts. Did some research and realized that the 10-30g of protein I’m eating daily isn’t nearly enough, and likely my muscles are struggling to recover.
Not only that, but increasing protein can help with weight loss too.
Now, I do CICO and only CICO for weight loss. I run 1-3 times per week, play soccer and volleyball, and lift 1-3 times per week. My job is sedentary.
Since I still weigh 185lbs, according to a few different online calculators I should be getting like 140g of protein per day.
I’m really struggling with how to do this without increasing my calories. I’ve been at it for only a few days but I’m only hitting like 60g at most and it’s a struggle.
Any advice is appreciated. TIA

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Is this weight loss doable?

Unfortunately something came up and I now have until April-May of 2019 to lose 30-40 pounds. It's not an option as to slow it down, it's conscription in the country I live in. I'm currently 5'9/5'10ish and weigh 192lbs, male, 18 years old. I need to get to 160-150lbs in April/May-ish. I plan on going on a 1000cal/day deficit, with some light cardio (not lifting because I want to be smaller). Discipline won't be an issue, I'm able to keep to it strictly when I have to. My question is, I WILL reach the goal at this deficit, correct?

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50 lbs down, a lot more to go, but now I know how to do it.

Pictures first, as is tradition (shirtless fat dude warning): https://imgur.com/a/tTN9fEx

I'm not really sure what my point is with this post, so I may ramble.

I've always been a "big" kid. Not obese, just taller (until high school) and wider than most everyone else my age. I was an active kid, but never really picked up on healthy eating habits, though my parents did try. I don't think they really knew much about nutrition, either. So I ate whatever I wanted; I was a little on the heavy side, but nothing worrisome.

In high school I played football, my coach wanted me to be big and strong, so I ate whatever I wanted. My junior year, I weighed 212 lbs.

My junior year of HS, I joined the National Guard and went to basic training that summer. We ran and did all kinds of other exercises all day long. I ate whatever I wanted. I graduated basic training at 185 lbs.

I came back, stayed active, played sports, finished HS, then went off to my advanced training at about the same weight.

In 2009, I deployed to Iraq. When we weren't out on a mission in the 130°F heat, I was in the gym, eating whatever I wanted, or sleeping. I came home from Iraq in 2010 at ~220 lbs, fit as fuck, and scored better on my for-record Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) than in basic training.

I think that's when things started to go downhill for me. Before that APFT, I was told by my company First Sergeant that, if I passed, I would be promoted from Specialist (E-4) to Sergeant (E-5, and the first non-commissioned officer rank). Well, as stated before, I blew the test out of the water. It was the best score I'd ever had on an APFT. I was then told that there weren't any slots in the company for a new E-5. What the fuck. So I tried to get attached to another company to get deployed to Afghanistan. I was told "no one is going over there right now." I knew that was an outright lie. So I talked to an active-duty Army recruiter about transferring from the National Guard to the regular Army, and got all the paperwork to do so. I did it all, sent it up my chain-of-command, and waited for a response. I knew things worked slow in the NG, but after about 2 months, I was tired of waiting. I called up my First Sergeant and asked him what was taking so long. He said he'd look into it. 2 weeks later, I hadn't heard from him, so I called him up again, asked what was going on. Apparently they "lost" my paperwork. At that point, I realized that these people didn't give two shits about me. All the work I'd put in for over 4 years had absolutely nothing to show for it (in my mind; obviously now I know that being healthy is it's own reward), and I still had about a year and half left on my contract.

So I gave up. I stopped working out. At our monthly drills, I stopped volunteering for anything. I stopped caring about the army and myself for a long time, even after I'd finished my contract.

After that, overeating and inactivity became a habit I kept for many years.

In July of 2016, I reached my highest weight of 308 lbs. I realized then that I couldn't continue what I was doing and hope to live a healthy life. So I started reading as much as I could about weight loss, and somehow ran across r/loseit. I downloaded MFP, and started tracking my food when it was convenient. I wasn't consistent, but it taught me to be mindful of what I'm eating, and how calorie-dense so many of my favorite foods are. I continued reading posts on here, seeing so many success stories. By July 20th of this year (2 years later), I was only down 16 lbs. I think that was my "ah-ha!" moment. I decided that I couldn't do this half-assed and expect to get to where I need to be. So I committed right then to logging everything that went in my mouth, and doing my damnedest to not go over my calorie limit. I even decided to download the LoseIt! app, and use it instead of MFP to start with a completely new slate.

December 1st, I weighed in at 258 lbs. Exactly 50 lbs less than my starting weight, and twice as much weight lost in roughly 4 months than the previous 2 YEARS.

So here's what I've learned:

  • I'm the only one who can change me.

  • Consistency is key

Those two things are the best advice I can give. If there's something you want to change, you are the only one who can do something about it. You can't wait for someone else to do it for you. And once you decide to make that change, sticking with it is the only way to make sure it continues.

Anyway... sorry if all of that is TMI, or disjointed, or unrelateable. I guess I just needed to get it out.

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Something I've noticed with tracking / losing weight from a serial dieter

So I've been on this weight loss journey for most of me life. I've just recently, RECENTLY accepted that I wanted to go the slow and steady route and to not try to speed things up. I've been on every diet -- keto, fasts, ideal protein, etc. I've reached a weight that I'm ok with now, for myself, Even though I'm still about 50 pounds from where I ideally want to be. (I've lost 60 pounds so far)Because I've accepted myself and my body and am not in a hurry to lose weight, it's actually EASIER FOR ME to lose weight now. I'm just doing straight CICO but tracking is easy, following but plan is easy. And honestly I think it's bc I'm just more relaxed about it. I truly think the stress before of just trying to lose weight quickly, hating my body in itself made dieting hard. My advice would be to accept yourself the whole ride through, take it easy, and know that you'll get to your goal eventually. Love yourself.

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Struggling to continue

Hi y’all, first post here. I started doing Keto about three weeks ago and have fallen off the wagon. I’m a compulsive overeater and binge eater and this weekend I binged on tons and tons of takeout food, then today had 2 and a half bagels coming in at a whopping 148 grams of carbs - under the recommended dietary average, but certainly not going to help me lose weight and certainly not healthy.

I wasn’t seeing any change from Keto, but am surrounded by people RAVING about how fast the weight loss is. I saw nothing. So now not only am I discouraged and wanting to binge/continue to eat, but I’m also feeling guilty about that because I know in the long run every bad food choice I make will add up to me either gaining or at least not losing.

Any guidance?

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