Wanting to "eat clean" but not "anti-gmos"

Hey everyone! This isn't necessarily weight loss related, but healthy eating. I have been getting more and more frustrated with this issue while grocery shopping and I know I cant be the only one. I like to eat clean (avoid overly processed, added sugars, obnoxious chemically crap) but I absolutely don't buy into the whole "no gmo" thing. I find that it's almost impossible to find health foods that aren't smothered in "organic" "non GMO" certifications etc. This wouldn't bother me so much if this stuff didn't cost twice as much just because of that label, and if there were cheaper, non organic options alongside of them. Healthy and GMO free are not mutually exclusive, so why can't I find healthy stuff that isn't "organic". Does anyone else share this frustration? Any fave products or store recommendations?

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322-186 11 months, progress pics, and advise for how much left to lose.

As title suggest. I’ve lost a fair amount of weight this last year, strict diet and exercise, nothing magical.

But I’m at the point of not knowing how much left I should lose? I’ve still got a little bit of a gut, and moobs 100%, just don’t have a “goal” weight in mind as I don’t know what’s left to go, or what I should be aiming for

Included some pics, as well as a comparison from when I was a big ol boy.

Other stats are 29 5’11, 34 waist trousers in pic, medium size shirts/T-shirt’s

https://imgur.com/a/B5NSlfM

I’m expecting to have some loose skin due to how big I was, but feel like I’m at a odd halfway point, several of my co workers seem to suggest I look too thin in my face, and reckon I’ll look bad if I lose anymore fat? Although not sure if this is just down to drastic weight loss this year.

For anyone wondering, my diet has consisted of cutting out all sugars and snacks, just eating decently sized healthy meals (like chicken breasts and veg, salmon salads etc) and doing as much exercise as I can, running, resistance training, recently picked up lifting again to start gaining some muscle. Averaged around 1400 Calories a day since roughly May last year.

Shirtless pics included in imgur link

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I might not be as heavy as you, but I am still struggling! It is not a competition folks.

Something really peeved me off the other day.

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I was posting to a weight loss forum thing that I had joined on a whim a few weeks ago. I wrote about my personal struggles with binge eating, with bread and sugar addiction, and about my toxic fear of failure (I think we're all familiar with that one!). I was just 'letting it out', taking a virtual breath, looking for support, when this fudging squirm head chimes in with a 'just saw your stats. 188lbs? struggling my ass'.

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What.

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Ok fine. Yes I'm only 25. Yes I might not be morbidly obese. Yes I might have all the time in the world to recover and live my life. NO that does not mean my battles are lesser than yours. I'm still trying to do the same thing, likely with very similar mental and physical struggles as you. I can't walk up stairs easily. I can't join my friends for a swim because I almost drowned the last time because it was 'a little choppy'. I can't run on the spot for more than 30 seconds before I collapse on the sofa. Struggling? YES I'M GOD DAMN STRUGGLING.

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Whate really gets me, is this brain dead internet zombie thinks she knows me. You don't know me. You don't know what other challenges I am facing, so stuff you and watch me succeed while you take your self centered bitterness to the other side of the web. I don't see any pounds dropping off you with that attitude.

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Phew. Sorry folks. I needed that rant.

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Now 183lbs and still counting down. ;)

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I relapsed pretty damn hard last year.

Background: I'm sure if you look through my post history you'll see when I posted about my previous weight loss in 2018. I was super proud of myself, I biked every single morning and stuck to 1200 a day, and I definitely lost the weight and loved the compliments I would get from my boyfriend and everybody else. All was perfect! But then I moved and during that move I completely fell off the wagon. I was very stressed with everything going on, needing to find a new job in this new town, and also hating our new kitchen when it came to cooking. Anyway, I could throw you guys a million excuses for why I gained all the weight back-- but the honest truth is that I fell back into my extremely unhealthy obsession with food very fast. I was fine for the first couple of months after moving but then I started working full time as a server at an authentic mom and pop Italian restaurant and also working a day job Monday through Friday. So in total, just last week alone I worked 68 hours at the restaurant and an average of 32 at the office. Working this much was great money-wise but awful for me health wise. I never had the energy or time to exercise. I woke up at 7:30am for the office and went straight from there to the restaurant every night and didn't come home until almost 11pm most nights. Honestly, I cannot even count how many nights I spent practically feasting with the family with calzones, calamari, pizza, bottles of wine, etc. I love the family-culture of the place but after a while I realized that all of my clothes didn't fit anymore. It recently started to hit me that even though I love these people and the fact that they always insist on feeding me for free, I cannot fall back into the habit of just eating whatever is in front of me and free and delicious. It's pretty hard, I won't lie. But I just finished my first day of 1200 again yesterday. I was doing fine at my day job, breakfast and lunch was more of a breeze because I work 8-3 as a receptionist and I can chug away at water at my desk and snack on veggies during down time. The hard part was when I went to my restaurant... I'm so used to just getting there, grabbing a slice of pizza real quick and telling myself that I have to in order to survive the dinner rush. That's honestly garbage. I did just fine yesterday. I chugged water and coffee all night and genuinely wasn't hungry at all. Ate about 2 naked wings with no sauce and then came home and had a huge bowl of soup and could barely finish even that. Yesterday was very eye-opening for me because I realized that I didn't need to eat pizza before my shift, I didn't need to ask the cook to drop mozzarella sticks in the middle of the rush so I could have something to snack on when I ran back and forth, I didn't need a beer during down time, I didn't need a burger and fries for dinner with a glass of wine, etc. I was perfectly fine without all of that junk, and it really hit me pretty hard just HOW badly I had gotten. I am currently around 170lbs, at about 5'6, age 23. I do not want to get as bad as I used to be. This week will be challenging, but I know I've got this. I just needed to put this out there to encourage myself to stay in line!

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Reminder to pay attention to your mental health too

Hi everyone,

F/20/5’4 122>108>125

From March-June 2018 I lost about 12 pounds through CICO, mainly following advice from this sub. I am not placing any blame on this sub, but due to counting calories with the intention of losing weight I developed disordered eating.

I never had any problem with food before I tried to lose weight. (My highest weight was still within the healthy range, I just didn’t like how it looked on me.) I thought I was being rational and methodical about my weight loss because I was using CICO. I didn’t notice how unhealthy it was to spend an hour checking labels in the grocery store, or plan out my meals two weeks in advance on mfp, or let my daily weigh in affect my mood, or watch videos of people eating when I wanted food instead of just listening to my body.

If you notice any sign of disordered eating please seek help. It took me nine months from the first time I purged to seek help and I feel like a lot of damage has been done. You might think you’re losing weight in the most effective, scientifically supported way possible if you’re using CICO. That may be true, but that doesn’t mean you’re not at risk for the problems that can develop as a result of dieting. Especially if you’re in an at risk group (young, female, previous mental health issues) please be on the lookout for any concerning changes. Take care everyone!

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Tracked my CICO for 365 days, GAINED 20 pounds, BUT there's more to this story (NSV?)

I just realized that today marks one full year of tracking my calories in and out using the Cronometer app and my FitBit, following the advice of this sub! I started at 5'4 160 pounds and today I'm... at 180.

Every day, I have tracked diligently, making sure I have at least a small deficit every day. Sure, a couple of days a month I've had surpluses, but I've also had days where I'm way under.

At first, I had great success - I lost 10 pounds in the first three months, getting to 150, and it was great to finally see the scales going down!

But over the next 9 months, I gained 30 pounds, which brings me here, 20 pounds over my starting weight.

Yeah some of you may have guessed it- I got pregnant!

Anyway, I'm about to pop but I wanted to say thank you to this community for all of the good support and common sense posts and comments I've been sustaining myself with by visiting here and reading daily. It's not easy to stick to something like daily calorie tracking when you're getting the EXACT opposite of results. For the past 9 months I've watched the scale gradually go up and up and up and UP. But I've kept my faith and I'm HOPING that once my little one is here I'll finally start seeing some more of the success I started out having. I was really hoping that at least keeping a little deficit and tracking carefully would prevent too much pregnancy weight gain (and my gain is within healthy limits!) so I'd say this year has been a success. I hope I can report back in a few months on how postpartum weight loss is going!

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My personal NSV goal

I began my weight loss journey in July/August of 2018. I've used mostly CICO, really just focusing on how much I was eating and adjusting to a better level. In October, my doctor gave me 37.5mg of Phentermine. I can't say it helped a ton, other than helping me kick energy drinks initially. It has never made me one of those people who forget to eat, so I honestly don't attribute much of my weight loss to it. I've gone from 230 to 189 since July/August. I'm just starting to really see the difference in myself and it dawned on me.

2.5 years ago, my husband took me to see my favorite band on their last tour. I had never gotten to see them live and it was literally the last opportunity I'd have see them. I bought a shirt that night, completely guessing on size since I hadn't bought a band tee in several years. Came home, I cried because it didn't fit. I wasn't even at my largest size yet. I have pulled the shirt out and tried it on today. It almost fits, at way better than it did when I bought it.

My NSV goal is for this shirt to fit. I'm getting close.

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