NSV- I've fallen in love with the process.

F 32 SW 220 CW 174 GW 136

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I started getting super serious about my weight loss in July, after having already trying to get serious about it the year before, without success.

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I had followed keto in the past, years ago, so I decided to give it another go.

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I started doing pilates, walking the dog a few times a day, and following keto to a T and the scale started moving! I started following a bunch of fitness insta chicks for motivation and they would say the corniest things like "fall in love with the process, enjoy, stay positive" yada yada.

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I'd think to myself yea right, who the fuck would love being overweight and having to correct years of bad habits? Who wants to exercise all the time?

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Back in August I signed up with a personal trainer who comes to work with me at my home twice a week. I have a gym at home with a wall of mirrors and I would never look at myself while working out. I was ashamed of my body, and my ability, and my struggle. I'd stare at the ground, or a spot on the wall, anything to avoid seeing what my body looked like.

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In December I stopped following the keto diet, we went on holiday and I wanted to be free to eat whatever for that week. I was petrified to go off it, but my husband was adamant that I do so. I was so fearful I would come home 10 lbs heavier. On our trip I counted calories, and ate in moderation. I felt so much anxiety that I didn't have a scale and that I was eating carbs that it really messed with me. I made sure I worked out extra crazy and was almost manic about it. I came home 6 lbs heavier,which I lost in a week and I felt like such a failure.

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I had every intention of getting straight back on keto and losing the rest of my weight ASAP- that was important, that I lose the weight as fast as possible. The speed of my lose was crazy important! For personal reasons I decided to stop eating meat- which makes the keto diet hard to follow, not impossible I know, but more difficult.

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About 2 weeks ago I started noticing little bumps in my body, small lumps in places I had never seen before. These turned out to be my muscles. What in the actual fuck? I have muscles?! I do, I have them. I have triceps, biceps, calfs, quads, shoulders, I have fucking muscles.

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Now I can't stop looking in the mirror. When I'm working out alone I even take my shirt off to look at my body. I love seeing my body work properly- work towards something. I love looking at my chest when I do pushups and how I can see the muscles below my skin working- it's fucking incredible.

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I never went back on keto. The anxiety of restricting myself really did a number on me. I'm grateful for the leg up on weight loss it gave me, but my desires have changed. It's no longer important how quickly I lose the weight, just that I get there in the end. I count my calories, eat whatever I want, and exercise.

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I'm in love with the effort my body makes to get better, stronger, more fit. I'm in love with not saying I can't eat that. I'm annoyingly like those insta chicks, positive. My former self would hate who I am now! But I think I'm just becoming a more whole person, more caring, more understanding, more concerned.... with my own wellbeing than I ever have before.

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I feel so overwhelmed with emotion by figuring out this self love thing- I could actually cry. I'm so happy to have made it to this place, of acceptance- 32 years is a long time to finally figure something out.

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Anyways... so that happened...

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Today is the day.

I had a random epiphany while reading the back of a skin care product and it's completely changed my outlook in 5 minutes.

I realized I don't like soda anymore.

Two years ago I was drinking maybe two 2 liter bottles of coke per week. It was making me sick and unhealthy, and I got to the point where I just didn't care anymore. So one day, I decided to try replacing it with water - a fun experiment, at least. I kept doing it and then just forgot about it. I didn't even notice after a couple of weeks in that I was now drinking a 2 liter bottle of water almost every other day. I tried drinking coke for the first time in a long time yesterday and I didn't like it. It tasted like crap. I genuinely only want to drink water now because anything else I try tastes bad or like "too much".

I have a really, really good amount of willpower that never gets spent on anything and idles in the background. I've always felt kind of useless because of that. If I try to actively do something, I usually give up on it before I finish but if I have fun with it, or let it process in my subconscious while I focus on something else, I literally do it without even thinking about it. And that's when it hit me.

This year I'm going to do the same thing with food. No chocolate, no chips, no cake, nada. Nothing that doesn't come from the ground or live on the planet. Meat, veggies, water, nuts. Period. Starting from right now.

The trick to it is simple: Don't make it a big deal. At least, not consciously.

Every time I think about what I'm eating or food in general, I'll immediately think of something unrelated instead.

I won't calorie count, wont look in the mirror every day, wont step on scales, won't read any weight loss books or whatever else. My life will be exactly as it is right now, I just changed what I eat, that's all.

I know myself enough that after two months of this I won't even want to go back to the shitty processed junk I shove into my mouth. I only eat it because I've never not been too lazy to do otherwise, I don't actually like it. I'm genuinely excited to see what I'll look like this time next year, even if it isn't a massive change I'll be glad I made a difference.

So this is it. This post is more for me than anyone else, but thank you if you took the time to read it.

See you next year, me. And you're welcome.

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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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