[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Monday, 08 April 2019

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Suffering with being cold 24/7 after significant weight loss

Background:

Female, 21yrs old.

Height - 173cm / 5feet 8inches

Starting Weight - 93.3kg / 206lbs - June 2018

Lowest Weight - 63.5kg /140 lbs - December 2018

Current Weight - 65.5kg 144lbs - 20.4% body fat measured by a DEXA scan on the 2nd April. (working on body recomposition).

Lose It community, I really need some help. After losing a significant amount of weight in a relatively small amount of time (through purely CICO at a 1000 cal deficit per day) I am currently suffering with being cold all the time.

I live in New Zealand where we are just starting to head into our colder months, and I am freezing. Even with the warmest Kathmandu jumper I own, jeans and socks everyday, I will still freeze in a room where others are wearing just jeans and a shirt.

It's really starting to affect my life, as my hands and toes go numb, and I am so busy with trying to stay warm, I can hardly focus on my studies.

Is this a common occurance after weight loss? Is this a possible medical issue, or will purchasing some thermals be the best route to go down? Has anyone else had a similar experience, and if so, what worked for you?

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87LBS down in 1 year. Thank you r/loseit community. Feels Good!

Just want to make a post to say thanks to all who take the time to share there journeys. The ups and downs we all have along the way. I think having a place to share what is working and not working really helps.

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I have to say that this reddit along with finding out about CICO, IF and Myfitnesspal has been the catalyst to my weight loss up to this point. I like many of you have struggled with weight all my life. I have lost and gained at least 3 times. All 3 times I messed up and regained because I had no clue what maintaining was.

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The information I needed I now have which is getting to your GW is not the end of the road. In the past I would get to a lower weight and slowly stop doing the things needed to keep the weight off. Why? Because I thought I was somehow cured of being fat and I can eat like a normal person. I now know I was wrong lol!!!

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So if your just starting keep at it no matter what. It took time to gain the weight it will take time to loose the weight. Have a plan. Make sure to adjust your plan as needed.

What worked for me was looking at my weight loss in 3 month (12 week intervals) so I set my GW for 3 months. I set a weight that I can easily get to. Once I end the 3 months I will see what worked and what didnt. And make adjustments. Then set my goals for the next 3 months. What this did for me was not make it feel like my ultimate goal weight was sooo far off. It made me focus on 3 months instead of 6 months or 8 months or however long getting to my GW will take.

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Some months I will lose more some I will lose less. For example last July I lost a total of 13 lbs!!! I have never gotten close to that and I more then likely never will. But I do not look at that month as something I need to do every month. These last 3 months (Jan-Mar) I lost 17lbs. Did it get my discouraged....not even the slightest.

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Podcast Recommendations… Seeing Celebrities and more – Q&A April 1

Hello! How’s it going? Over here it’s going…busy! I have a long list of To Dos – most of which have deadlines. Luckily one of those to do list items is…Answer the questions from the Instagram Story box. Boom. I just did! So the latest set of your questions is on video below! I also shared it on the @RunEatRepeat Insta Stories and it’ll be saved in April Q&A if you miss it after the first 24 hours.

These questions are about my favorite cookbooks, podcasts, playlists and more…

April Q &A – 1

What are your favorite cookbooks?

I don’t really use cookbooks… but I love having them. I probably stick to the Food Network, magazines or Pinterest when I need inspiration for dinner ideas or other recipes. But I do have a few cookbooks handy at all times. They’re great coffee table books – so pretty!!

These are the cookbooks I have on my shelf right now:

Super Foods Super Fast by Julie Montague – I interviewed her for the podcast! Check out Julie Montagu on self care Run Eat Repeat podcast episode 64.

Run Fast Eat Slow Nourishing Recipes for Athletes by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky

Good Food. Good Life. by chef Curtis Stone – I met him at an event in Los Angeles last year. It was for a fancy food blog event in a gorgeous house in the hills and he did a cooking lesson and then we ate amazing food. Check it out here – Fancy Los Angeles Dinner with Chef Curtis Stone

Did you do the Encinitas Half Marathon since you were in San Diego?

No I was going to my little brother’s band performance.

 

Podcast recommendations! Besides yours of course…

Lately I love podcasts that recap reality TV. I actually didn’t watch any reality TV when I was house-sitting for my friend for 5 weeks!! And I didn’t really miss it because I kept up with a few podcasts.

I think the best reality TV podcasts are:

Heather McDonald Juicy Scoop

Watch What Crappens

Bitch Sesh

Watch What Happens Live – the show is shared as a podcast

Reality Life with Kate Casey

 

For other stuff… my favorite podcasts lately:

The Happier Podcast

Savvy Psychologist

Curiosity Daily

Crime Writers On Serial

Undisclosed

Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations

And make sure you’re subscribed to the Run Eat Repeat podcast!

 

For the egg freezing is it to get a surrogate in the future? Or do they reinsert your own eggs into you?

 

Have you ever seen anyone from Vanderpump Rules out in California?

No but I should at least try the new Witches of WeHo wine! While eating pasta of course…

 

 

Can you share your playlists?

 

I know you listen to podcasts etc., but will you share a Spotify playlist for races?

Yes! I’m sharing my new running playlist for this month here on Spotify – Run Eat Repeat 4.19

 

Can you talk about egg freezing? I’d like to do it but it would be good to hear your experience…

Yes – more posts on the egg freezing process are coming soon. If you have specific questions – let me know. Email me or leave them below.

Got a question? Ask in the comments or in the Instagram Story Box!

Follow @RunEatRepeat on Instagram for more!!

 

 

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Is it okay if I *just* focus on weight loss for now?

Female, 29, 5'6. SW: 172 CW: 159 GW: 148

I've been doing CICO on and off for the last three years. I've never seemed to be able to maintain my habits because I experience a major shift in my life and fall off the wagon (I'm an emotional eater, and a social eater, and just a plain glutton). This year, I moved apartments and fell off for about three weeks. I recognized it for what it was and hopped back on.

Before I fell off, I was doing it all. Running three times a week, yoga twice a week, and walking my dog two miles the other two days. I've been doing this for three years and I've never hit my goal weight. I understand that weight is just a number and I should only use it as a guide, but it's a goal that I've set and I want to reach it. Is there anything wrong with replacing my running and yoga with walking the dog until I get down to my goal weight and then reintroducing those exercises to build muscle and tone my body?

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Maintenance after hitting goal

38m 5’8” 227>47 lbs=180. I laid down drinking in October and decided to get back on the CICO diet to find my gw of 180. I feel like I have achieved my weight loss that I originally set out to do, along with an additional bonus of quitting smoking three weeks ago. I recently have been able to start running again to get some sort of exercise in. The thought of maintaining is really messing me up due to feeling that I am either starving on a diet or binging on food- no in between. almost like eat all the stuff I have been missing for the last few weeks before I get back on the diet and set a new goal weight. I still want to drop another 10-15 lbs but feel like I need a break from the diet. Any tactics or ideas to help while in my maintenance period?

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Some things I've learned after losing 30 lbs (so far)

For my weight loss journey, (since September '18, down about 30 lbs), I decided to do CICO and aim for around 1500 calories a day, considering my weight and activity and all that. I've been great at writing down my calories (I tried the Lose It app but it tended to overestimate my TDEE and I ended up only losing 1 lb one month, so I'm back to pen and paper which works for me.) I have noticed a couple of things about my experience with cheat days, cravings, etc that I wanted to share here:

• About once a month, I do a 'no counting' day. I don't necessarily binge or go crazy, but if I know I'm going to a party, or somewhere special with high calorie stuff, it's nice to have that room to just enjoy the day without fussing. I heard someone once say that something to this effect - "one day's food isn't going to make you skinny, and neither is one day's food going to make you fat." I had a no count day a few days ago, had some donuts I haven't had in months, and loved them. They were horribly bad for me, high in calories, and absolutely delicious. And surprisingly, I was glad to get back to saner eating and counting the next day.

• I heard something else that made a lot of sense - don't screw up twice. We all have off days, off meals, cravings, bad decisions. Allow yourself the 'mistake', but don't compound it by giving up and making that same mistake the next day, and the next day. That's how we slip back into bad eating, is by saying 'well I screwed up by having that xyz yesterday, I'm useless, might as well have another one today."

• No food should be off limits - sometimes a small bag of cheetos is exactly what you need in your life. Just add it to the calorie count and keep going. I find that even though it's a bit more expensive to have smaller servings of things around, it's better than having the jumbo bag around that's all to easy to keep dipping into while watching tv.

• I don't 'eat back' calories from exercise, even on days when I swim and bike. It's really not a good idea. Exercise is great, but it's not a huge factor in weight loss.

• I'm somewhat of an emotional eater, and sometimes I really crave things just based on wanting them, not on hunger. I have great willpower, but sometimes I sort of know I won't be in the right frame of mind to 'resist'. So sometimes I thwart myself a bit - I pop a Halls lozenge and let the strong menthol flavour sort of 'ruin' the tastebuds temporarily. Just try eating something yummy after you've had a lozenge. You either won't do it, or you won't eat much more of it.

I don't know if these are helpful, I just wanted to share my thoughts after having (finally) some success losing weight.

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