[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Wednesday, 20 February 2019

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."
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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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• [Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
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I think I can actually do this!

I've struggled with my weight my whole life. I was that stereotypical fat girl that was bullied all the time in school for being fat. My family was constantly pushing me to lose weight even though all of them were just as overweight as I was or more so and they would bribe me to do things with food as the reward. How could a child/teenager be expected to lose weight and change their eating habits when they knew nothing about living a healthy lifestyle and their parents only bought processed junk and takeout for every meal?

As the years rolled by and I got older, the weight slowly kept piling on. I hated myself more and more every time I looked in the mirror. Even as an adult, I couldn't quite get a hold of my eating habits. I thought that being fat and not taking care of myself was the only way after struggling to lose weight time and time again only to never make any progress.

Here I am now though. I'm 20 years old and finally on the road to leading a better and healthier lifestyle. In early January, I finally stepped on the scale to see how bad things had gotten. At 5'8 I weighed 322.3 lbs. I was so disappointed in myself. I had always told myself, "Well, at least I'm not 300 lbs". But there I was. I had surpassed the threshold of what i thought i would never be.

I stepped off the scale and learned as much as I could about weight loss. I finally settled on focusing on CICO and exercise. I vaguely remembered that CICO had worked for a short while when I was a child but that I just hadn't stuck to it. I decided that this would be my final attempt at losing the weight. I had to succeed this time. I dropped my calorie intake to 1500 calories a day and exercised almost every day.

The good news now is that I've dropped 21.3 lbs since January 24th of this year. I never thought weight loss like this could ever be achievable for me. Every prior attempt got me nowhere. I just wasn't in the right headspace to push through. I'm now 301 lbs. I'm almost under 300 again. It doesnt even seem real.

The bad news of course is that I still have so far to go. Even looking at the progress I've made I still feel like there's so much potential to crash and burn along the way. I don't want to fall off and give up completly on myself.

Any tips and pointers are welcome. I would love to understand more about what I can do to be a healthier person and I would absolutely love feedback on if I'm losing weight in a good way or not and what I can do to improve.

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from loseit - Lose the Fat http://bit.ly/2BHm0t2

Looking for motivation today by looking into the past

April of 2017 I was sitting at a game and felt bad for the man next to me. I was fat enough that my hips touched the inside of the armrests and if I wasn't paying attention, I would bump the bottom of his drink with my thigh while it sat in the cup holder. To be fair he didn't seem to notice or care, but I did. I didn't want to be the person people dreaded being sat next to. I was at an all time high of 208 lbs(94.3 kg). I set out to lose weight during the off-season.

I was still learning how to balance my diagnoses with normal life and didn't manage to shave off much. I did start to fit in the seats better and was even able to finally buy a women's shirt in the team store for the first time during the next season. It was a size 2x, but at least it wasn't a men's size. Over the course of that season, I ended up at 188 lbs (85.3 kg) in April of 2018. Still not happy, but at least making a little progress.

Side note : I thought about waiting until April to write this up, but I have been having a really hard time lately and hope this might help. I'm looking for motivation by looking at my past and figured now is as good a time as any.

This past off-season I kicked into high gear. I realized I weighed approximately the same as the male athletes I watch and felt ridiculous. I rely on my intake for my weight loss because my activity level is often nonexistent so I logged every calorie like my life depended on it. If I was at my limit but hungry? Too bad, do better at balancing things tomorrow. I knew I was starting a very long and difficult path since I'm short and not active, but it's been harder than I thought.

I'll be going to a game tonight wearing a size large women's t-shirt. People will be able to slide past me to their seats with no trouble anymore. I fit completely within the armrests of those same seats now. I know I will hear all of the comments about the seats being too small in the arena but I now recognize them as absurd. I'm still about 8 lbs overweight but feel tiny when listening to the complaints that always happen. It feels good. Finally.

I still don't know if I have what it takes to get to my goal, but I think I might have enough oomph to make it to a normal weight. I generally avoid all pics of myself but I dug up a few for that added motivation. For reference, I'm now 38 and still 5'3" or 160cm. Highest weight was 208, starting to truly try weight was 188, and today I am at basically 149(67.5 kg).

Thank you to the people who suggested I take photos again, I didn't really see the changes until now. I felt different, I just didn't see it.

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In struggling to find a diet plan

Well diet is a strong word I mostly just want healthier foods to eat to really get my weight loss on track. I'm terrible at coming up with healthy meals and tend to hate meal prep. My issue with meal prep is that I am renting a room from a family and their kitchen is always messy/unusable their fridge is packed full of random stuff and it's hard to store anything/ find a time when I can actually walk into the kitchen and not have to clean huge areas just for counter space. So is there any kind of healthier foods that are low maintenance? I am even considering buying premade salads from the grocery store.

Cost is not really an issue only storage and prep time.

And I'm not trying to jump into the best super foods right now I'm just getting started.

I'm 250# male 30yo

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I feel awkward letting people know about my weight loss.

I’m sure some others, especially people who are already at a normal BMI but still losing weight, can relate. My BMI had crept up into the overweight category and I had been feeling uncomfortable in my clothes and in my body for a little while before cracking down and deciding to do something about it. My “comfy” weight where I feel best is closer to 135-140 lbs but I haven’t been there in a few years.

Now that I’ve lost 15 lbs it’s starting to be noticeable and actually I’ve gotten a few comments at work from my patients. I work as a dietitian- even we can struggle with eating right sometimes! Anyway, the comments were less “wow, you look great!” and more “are you losing weight? 🤔” I was a little caught off guard and brushed it off like “oh you know, my scrubs are just kind of baggy, I like to wear them more loose-fitting”.

I guess I’m kind of embarrassed to share that I’m intentionally losing weight, especially since many people would probably assume I’ve already got a handle on eating right given my profession. How do you handle these kinds of conversations?

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Needing encouragement today

I am relatively new to the weight-loss process. I've been trying to lose weight for my entire adult life and have tried all sorts of diets. Low carb, 21 day fix, weight watchers, etc. Nothing has ever worked before so I just get frustrated and give up.

I am making an effort now, simply doing CICO. I have done the BMR calculator and gotten my appropriate deficit and macros amounts. I've been sticking with it for 37 days now (I know, it's not many) and really making what I feel is progress. I have struggled with binge eating my entire life and have been really making progress with breaking that habit. I haven't binged in over 3 weeks and I am proud of myself for that.

However, when I get on the scale, I don't see the results I want to see. I have been eating probably 3500 to 4000 calories in a day in the past, and I'm currently staying right around 2100 calories daily. My CW is 296, my SW was 299. I have been going to the gym and lifting 4 days a week along with walking on my off-gym days. Some days I feel like my clothes may be a little looser, but I'm really not sure.

I have gained 3 effing pounds since FRIDAY. I had half a piece of cake on Friday evening, and the other half on Sunday. I also had some boxed mac and cheese this weekend (1.5 cups). However, I have not gone over calories once all weekend. Yesterday was much better with no processed food and I was still up again this morning. Tried talking to a girl at my gym about it and got even more frustrated because I am so overwhelmed with what the right thing to do is. She said macros matter more than CICO, but I don't feel like that is entirely accurate for the weight loss stage I am at. Yes, for fine tuning it probably is vital to hit every number daily I would assume. But from everything I have read, CICO makes for weight loss.

Don't know if it matters, but I will be starting my period in less than a week and I know sometimes that can cause water retention. I am just SO mad and SO annoyed that I am trying very hard to eat good and go to the gym and do all the right things, but my body just says NOPE. Last week on Friday I was down to 293 and I was SO stoked. Now I'm back up to 296.8 and feel totally defeated and like I am fucking everything up.

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Can anyone offer some wisdom? Because right now I am so aggravated and I just want to see some damn progress. I am so sick of being fat and want to know that there is at least a dim light at the end of the tunnel.

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30 lb weight loss and snarky friend?

Long time lurker on this sub. I’m 19 years old, 5’5. My starting weight was 297 lbs. As of today I’m officially down 30 lbs, weighing 267! I’m really proud of myself for the effort I’ve made since last August. I’ve been doing the CICO method, ranging from ~1550 to ~1700 depending on the day. I fell off really hard Thanksgiving to December but got back on track after the holidays. I do full-body body weight exercises 3-4x a week, I walk all over campus, and I drink mostly water. I think the biggest contributing to my weight loss was honestly logging my food, even on really bad days. It took doing that a lot to see that “hey, I really don’t need to eat any of this shit, it’s not worth it”.

My main reason for posting though is because my roommate is my best friend and she’s recently noticed my weight loss and has been very rude/snarky towards me. Freshman year (2017-2018) we made a goal to get in shape together. That ultimately failed and after that I made the decision over the summer to do my own thing because I do better holding myself accountable.

I’ve already addressed her saying that I didn’t appreciate her comments (calling me fat, saying I’m ugly, stuff along those lines). I’ve told her that I would appreciate it if she could text me before bringing food/snacks for me so that she wouldn’t waste her money or get upset when I didn’t eat them. She didn’t stop doing either of them but both instances do happen less frequently.

I’m not obnoxious about the fact that I’m trying to lose weight, I don’t weigh myself when she’s in the room. I don’t scan my food around her and when we do eat (dining hall) I’m not all “oh I’m logging my food right now”. But she’s been going so far lately as looking at my phone at saying “Oh, you’re logging your food?” And then ignoring me.

Despite all this, I can’t help but feel like she’s holding a little resentment towards me and trying to sabotage me. I’m a handful of little comments away from telling her off and hurting her feelings (which I don’t want to do but it’s getting to that point). Typically, I’d just drop her BUT we live together and will be living together next year as well so I genuinely need to solve this issue.

I’m sorry if this doesn’t belong here, I talked to my mom about it and she said that “just don’t eat all the food that she brings” and “just ignore it”. My dad says I should just say fuck her and tell her off. I feel like those are both two extremes and I’d like to meet in the middle and have some outer perspectives from people who might’ve had a similar situation.

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