[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Wednesday, 27 March 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."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

Interested in some side quests?

• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
• [Track with Me Thursday] Did we just become best friends?!
• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

Community bulletin board!

• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

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I gained 50 pounds because food is the only thing that makes me happy for a short period every day

I've tried almost everything under the sun to begin losing the weight but the core problem remains and tips the scales back up. No matter what diet I try, what combination of diet and exercise (and believe me, I have tried ALL of them), calorie restriction, scheduled cheat day, pills, meal replacement shakes, doctor's visits, and even cutting up my debit card, I end up eating to distract myself and make myself feel better for a few moments throughout the day. I guess it's added up to 50 pounds and counting now.

I didn't notice I had gained weight and thought I was more or less eating the same as always. Similarly, in 2014 I was 175 pounds and dropped to 140 without noticing. I stayed at 140 until 2018, then ballooned up to almost 200 again without noticing. Since I have no idea what I did to lose weight the first time, I don't even know where to begin.

I started looking back on the past year and figured I must have begun eating more, and when I began trying to lose I could never keep the weight off because food is the only thing that keeps me slightly sane during the day. A lot of times food is the only thing I live for, and the only happiness I can grab at. I can control almost nothing in my life other than what I eat, so I hyper control that. No weight loss method sticks because without comfort food, I feel suicidal. Just a few minutes of eating and I don't feel like I want to die. I'm miserable most of the day and eating yummy junk food is all I have.

It sounds pathetic, but I think that's why I am where I am. I don't know how to successfully lose this weight, and now I feel even worse as the physical effects are becoming more and more noticeable. I don't want to be fat. Help?

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Made it to wonderland

So M 27 510 SW 260 CW: 198.2 GW 175?

Guys today is the greatest day of my life. I weighed 212 in high school and I’m at 198 with still some room to go. I can’t explain how losing weight and CICO has changed my life. Recently I have had issues with depression my divorce and not a penny to my name. With no where really to go I started lifting again after a hiatus. As the weight came off my world cosmically aligned and I got accepted into nursing school, got a great job, am at 198, but still struggling as the divorce is kicking my ass. Point is weight loss was my catalyst. If I may, I implore all of those on your journeys, those about to start, those who are to scared. JUST DO IT!!!! I promise you your life will feel so much better and it’s amazing to have a feeling over control over something so important in your life. To everyone else let’s support each other just as we are doing now. I would have never made it without this community. I truely wish you all love peace and success in all your endeavors. You guys rock;)

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Maintenance is hard. Or: coming back to health/fitness after regaining lost weight

Guess I’m just venting. It’s hard to not feel down on myself because I’ve been here before: tight pants, soft middle, out of shape. I started working out and eating healthy, I learned to cook, I found a fitness community, I tried new workouts and found my routine. I spent years getting healthy, and then I spent years “not caring.”

I got caught up in injuries (from overtraining), a new and stressful (but awesome) job, focusing on buying/renovating my home, and admittedly, some depression.

And now I feel like I’m back at the beginning again, but somehow it feels a bit worse because I know I threw away my progress and lapsed into laziness and bad eating habits. (Which worries me that I’ll never be able to FULLY change my eating habits, and I’ll spend years “dieting” and years “not.”)

Glad to be back, and glad to use reddit this time (documented my weight loss previously on Instagram which opened me to tons of MLMers trying to sell wraps and tea and soooo much negativity)

:)

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1st week without consuming any fastfood/junk food.

Ever since I started working 2 jobs, I felt so depressed and would feel too overwhelmed to cook my own food after a 14 hour shift and I would stop by and grab fastfood on my way home every day after work. When I did go shopping, I picked up ice cream and candy for the weekend for my comfort food. This is one week without any of that in my system. It's really tough. My jobs bring in food all the time and it's always sweets and junk food. It's so tempting. I've had so much water and prepped my food for the week and I feel so much better. I feel energized. I feel healthier. I'm already noticing weight loss. No more excuses. I can do this!

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Weigh yourself every day at the same time even if you are making no progress or negative progress

I have been weighing myself every single morning using the same bathroom scale (unless I am on vacation or sleeping elsewhere besides my own home). My routine is to get out of bed, use the bathroom, and then weigh myself wearing only my underwear.

From September 2016 to March 2017 I went from 245 lbs to 210 lbs. Since then I have mostly maintained between 210 and 220 lbs (which is not a healthy weight at all considering I am a 24 year old male who is 5'10", or 178 cm). However in the last couple of months my weight has skyrocketed back to around 235 lbs. How did this happen? Mostly a combination of constantly lying to myself and telling myself I will "start to lose weight again tomorrow". Of course, I also ate extremely poorly. However, I still weighed myself every morning.

Here is what my weight loss graph looks like over the last 3 years: https://imgur.com/a/Z2KCCir

My point is that you should try and always hold yourself accountable. I have made a huge mistake gaining all of this weight back. Now I need to start to lose it once more. It's crazy how much of a difference an extra 10-15 lbs makes.

Weigh yourself at a consistent interval even if you are gaining weight. That way you will be able to see your long term progress. It's a huge motivator looking back and seeing what I was able to do in terms of weight loss back in late 2016.

We can do this!

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Weight loss halt

I’m 169 cm and I’m 176.6 pounds male and I lift 4 times a week (1.5-2.5hour of strength lifting) and in the first 5 weeks I was losing a weekly average of 2.5-2.7 pounds each week while eating 1650 cal but on week 6 and week 7 which is this week I didn’t lose any weight at all and I’m only eating 1800 cal despite it is 150 more cal my weight loss should not stop and I’m not running on magic fuel lol. The only thing I can think of is I ate food with more sodium even then the weight should keep going down and not stay on its spot and only changes upward. It will be silly if my body is sucking up all the sodium it can and make me feel like my metabolism went from 2600-2700 to a mere 1400 calorie lol. Should I eat or close to my tdee for 14 days to reset myself?

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