I lost my first 5 pounds!

I know that this is just water weight, but is it wrong to want to feel happy? As I was walking around my kitchen cooking some dinner (hard boiled eggs to go in a salad) my mom commented "you look thinner!" And I was skeptical at first because I don't think I look any smaller. It's nice to have heard that though. Since I've started eating healthier I've noticed some other changes that aren't just weight loss. I've noticed. My hips are now uneven, my right side is flat where my love handles are. I've also noticed I'm cold now? Where I was so used to still wearing shorts to bed with the fan on, I'm now started to be too cold to do that.

I'm not sure if that's a sign of my blood pressure or what, but it's nice to have these other changes happening even if I can't visually see it yet.

So yeah, I've lost my first five pounds and I'm hoping to keep going strong!

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Cookbooks with nutritional information

Hi! 28F (USA) on a weight loss journey. I’ve almost lost 10lbs since November by eating better. Recently I start CICO to help continue losing weight and also to learn portion control. I’m eating basic, easily weighable meals to myself on track.

I really want to learn to cook this year. It’s a goal to learn 1 new (healthy) dish per month since I absolutely hate cooking. I’m struggling to find recipes or cookbooks with nutritional information. I find the task of learning to cook along with adding the ingredient calories up to be incredibly daunting. I don’t think I’ll create a new dish if it requires that much calculation. I’m not doing Keto or Paleo so I don’t have any dietary restrictions. I’ve found some diabetic cookbooks with nutritional information so I know they exist but ideally, I’d like something with less restrictions. Does anyone have recommendations?

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[Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: January 6, 2019

Hi losers & maintainers, how are you? Question of the day is: what’s your weight loss superpower? Or your regular superpower? Or if that’s too hard which one would you like to have? For weight loss, I’m good at finding pretty tasty low cal recipes and logging them in detail. My regular superpower is not compatible with weight loss and is baking tasty (American) pies from scratch. My secondary regular superpower is gathering information. Good luck with your goals today!

 

For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. Anyone and everyone is welcome! Tell us about yourself and your goals and join us already :) And it's all more fun when you comment on each other's posts, so let's encourage each other too!

And on to the accountability part...how's your day going? Let us know how you're getting on with your goals, if you have any questions, need to vent, have a SV or NSV to share, etc. And feel free to just have a chat about how your day went! We got this :D

 

I’ll start: Slept MUCH later than planned so I will probably be having a slow start to the day. I hope to get at least 5000 steps, do my physio stretches, cook some stuff including lamb stew, and more. Will update later.

Have a great day everyone!!

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My journey thus far having lost 95lbs

http://imgur.com/a/UH88mkY

This is an album of some before/ after photos.

I’m 5’5 and I went from 260lbs to 165lbs.

It has not been easy. I was obese my entire life. By the time I was 11 I weighed 160lbs. I went through high school and college obese and I never imagined a life where I wasn’t obese. I was unemployed and so depressed I was on the verge of suicide when I started my journey in may of 2016. I started as a tool to help manage my anxiety and depression. It helped so much but it also created its own issues. I lost the first 50-60lbs pretty easily. I was riding the weight loss high in the beginning. I was weighing out all of my food. I was avoiding going out with my family or friends out of fear that I wouldn’t be able to track. I was tracking every single piece of food that went into my body including things like brewed black coffee or salsa. I’m not going to lie, it worked really well. I lost weight fast and I was happy for the most part. That was until I realized my entire life was revolving around my diet and workouts. I didn’t feel like myself anymore. I felt like I needed a change so I took a break from tracking and I maintained for over a year.

When I came back to losing the second time around I approached it in a much more balanced way. I tracked in MFP but not obsessively. I had a pretty good understanding, by this point, of how many calories were in certain foods. I did track but I was much less rigid. I also started training. I started running very slowly at first but made it a priority to run for at least 30 minutes 3 days a week. In the beginning it was mostly running/walking mix. Then I slowly started incorporating weightlifting into my routine. The rest is history. Here I am now, a few years later and 95lbs lighted, and I don’t even recognize who I used to be. I run 3-5 miles 6 days a week and I train 5 days a week. I still track and I’m still working toward losing the last 30ish pounds but I’m so in love with this lifestyle I’m in no big rush.

Anyone out there who feels like you can’t do it, you can! I never imagined I would be “normal.” I thought I would be obese forever. If someone like me can have success so can you!

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Recommendations for apps

Hi all,

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Thanks to everyone for this fantastic community. It has inspired me to start a weight loss journey. I start this week.

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I am using CICO and based on the recommendations of this page, I am food logging with MyFitnessPal. However, that app doesn't provide guidance as to appropriate exercise. Can anyone recommend a good app (that syncs with MFP and the Apple Watch) to log my activity and give me guidance as to the most appropriate exercise I should be doing?

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Sorry if I have asked the wrong sub, or not posted in the proper format, I am new to this!

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Thanks in advance.

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How do I break a binge eating "trance"?

Hey there. I've lost 70 pounds on my weight loss journey over the last year, and it's been pretty consistent thanks to a healthy diet and consistent exercise, but trying not to restrict myself too much along the way -- just healthier choices with a couple of splurges a week, etc. But once or twice a month I will be at home and go into kind of a trance, and I'll just eat anything I can find in my apartment as fast as I can without being hungry or anything like that. Because my place is filled with not-too-bad-for-you food, it's not devastating, but I'll put down 700-800 calories or so before I can snap myself out of it, which is not fantastic.

Does this happen to anyone else? If so and you've figured out a good technique to curb it, could you share? The only think I can think of doing is leaving my house and going for a walk without my wallet or something when I feel the urge coming on, but I'm trying to combat these episodes in a more traditional way too.

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18 months later, 88lbs lighter, progress pictures and happiness!

History: I'm 33, i started getting chubby when i was 12. I lived with my grandparents for a little while, they cooked good food. Fry ups, pastry with lard, homemade desserts.... Anyway. I came from a sort of fat-acceptance household. My grandparents were overweight, obviously. And my mother was too (she lost an amazing amount of weight several years ago). My friends were all a little curvy too, i never really wanted to be thin. I just sort of ballooned. Especially after becoming pregnant. I've actually never dieted, until 18 months ago obviously.

Stats: Height 5ft 2. Start weight 112.2kg/17st 9lb/247lb. Current weight: 72kg/11st 4lb/158lb. Total lost: 40kg/6st 5lb/88lb. UK Size 20/22 dress size, to a size 12/14.

Motivation: I'd say i started dieting because i was..... 'triggered' by a night out i went on. Not only was it the time i felt so uncomfortable in my clothes, i couldn't find anything to wear that fitted anymore, but i had a god-awful photo taken of me. I looked horrendous. I'm not someone who wears weight well. I'm rather petite; small frame. And i was like 'well, i really need to do something about this'. Maybe a vain reason to get healthy, but it looking like i did could really bring me down mentally.

Diet: I've honestly not liked the sound of any diet. I think that's probably because we hear about the diet-fads. I don't like the idea of having to cut out whole food-groups, to restrict myself so heavily. Nor did i like the idea of joining a slimming club. I stumbled upon FatSecret. Calorie counting! And my goodness, if i'd known dieting was going to be like this, i would've done it long ago. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's not as hard as i imagined. It's so sustainable for me. Cause i still like to eat out and have a little chocolate a day, and calorie counting allows me all that. My diet is not without exercise. Walking up and down a mountain to go to work, elliptical machine, squats and sit ups.

HAPPINESS: I don't think i've ever been this slim in my adult life. I can walk into a clothes store and ACTUALLY BUY CLOTHES. I can see people looking at me more... humanely, then. Without judgement. Maybe with a bit of flirt. Every acquaintance seems to like to comment on my weight loss, and i like that, i like that people have recognised my efforts. I worked hard it my diet, and didn't let it become hard work. I wish i could tell every person who wants to lose weight that they can! I've been chubby for 20yrs, of course they can! I feel pretty, i'm not out of puff walking up a slope, but blinking heck, i have no clothes left!

BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES:

https://i.imgur.com/5LW3kQt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/O87PKVn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/F3kHvlp.jpg

I still have some way to go, not far left! I don't know what weight or size i want to be, i want to get rid of some more belly and thigh, and just be comfortable.

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