[Challenge] Wizarding World of Weightloss - Week 0 - SIGNUPS STILL OPEN

Hello and Welcome to the LoseIt Spring 2019 Challenge!

Your hosts this round will be u/Jameson1780, u/cosmam, u/420spirit9, and u/ThatCanadianGuy88

This challenge is a team-based competition that will last for 8 weeks for which you set a weight-loss goal and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. There will be a new post every friday with Links/Instructions for each week's activities. Your teams subreddits/discords will also have all the information you need.

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IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4

Step 1 - Sign up

Sign Up Link Here!

NOTE: You will be randomly assigned to a team following the submission of your sign up form. Do not ask to be assigned to a particular team. ALSO NOTE if you accidentally sign up more than once please follow your first entry. The duplicates will be removed.

Step 2 - Visit the Challenge Tracker to find your team!

Challenge Tracker Here!

NOTE: The team assigner runs every 5 minutes. If your team is blank, just wait a moment. It will refresh in real time on desktop, but you may have to refresh the spreadsheet on mobile to see the changes.

Step 3 - Join your team's subreddit

NOTE: Joining your team subreddit isn’t mandatory but it should be. Being active with your team keeps participation up and might be that extra little push you need to keep you going. It could be the difference between an 8 week grind or 8 weeks of fun and support to lose the weight you want.

Team Potions - Captains: u/ravenclawedo1 & u/Cadamar & u/fatchancefatpants & u/bugs_bunny01

Team Muggle Studies - Captains: u/sweetpsd & u/coffeekeepsmerolling & u/waffleapartment

Team Defense Against the Dark Arts - Captains: u/VicariousGluten & u/lxgo, & u/jayemt

Team Occlumency - Captains: u/Batmanbyday & u/Fit4themtn & u/Halestorm101312

Team Arithmancy - Captains: u/capitulum & u/nukaprincess

Team Transfiguration - Captains: u/ZeAltHealthAcct & u/Unconcernedlion & u/Suzi_Pants

Team Care of Magical Creatures - Captains: u/Artemis2634 & u/Thymek

Team Herbology - Captains: u/revdrviking & u/420spirit9 & u/martin3eh

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Step 4 - Weigh in and set your goal for the challenge

Weigh in and set your goal here

This is where you will choose your challenge goal weight as well. If you sign up today, you also need to weigh-in for week 0 sometime before April 19th.

Please try to choose a reasonable goal! The goal of these challenges is to set up sustainable weight loss habits. If you gain one or two weeks, keep pushing and do not give up! Points are awarded for higher weigh-in participation so please keep weighing in for not only yourself but also for the good of your team! There are no penalties for struggling, only for giving up.

NOTE: If you submit multiple weigh-ins for the week, only your newest entry will be included in the tracker.

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Step 5 (optional) - Submit activity information for the week for BONUS points!

Submit activity minutes and/or step count here.

For week 0, we are able to earn bonus points for our teams before the inter-team challenge begins! This week we are giving out the following points:

• 1 point for each team with a step count higher than 5M for the week
• 1 point for each team with total activity minutes count higher than 25K for the week
• 1 point for each team with weigh-in participation over 80%
• 1 point for the team with the highest weigh-in participation

NOTE: Please submit your activity+step count one day at a time. Any submissions that contain totals for the week or duplicate entries will be removed.

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Timeline

NOTE: Each week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 8am EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.

• April 5th - Signups Open
• April 12th - Week 0, Establish challenge goals, signups open through end of week
• April 19th - Week 1, Head to Head battles begin, Signups are closed
• April 26th - Week 2
• May 3rd - Week 3
• May 10th - Week 4
• May 17th - Week 5
• May 24 - Week 6
• May 31st - Week 7, Last Head to Head Battle
• June 7th - Results and next challenge announcement

If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/loseit sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go.

Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We’re volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren’t specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar.

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17 months from today

My life isn't necessarily bad by any means. So let me say that before I make it sound terrible. Also apologies for what I'm sure will end up being a terribly long post.

I spent my early 20s basically living in a very daft way, accruing an annoying amount of debt and about 150lbs of excess weight (I currently weigh around 340lbs). I've made a few attempts to lose the weight, and to pay down the debt. These have all met with some small success, but never stuck. I am now 30. I have wasted a decade of my life not being the person who I want to be. 10 years. I can't get that back. Having crunched the numbers, I can pay off everything I owe in 17 months with a little hard work. Now, if I can work hard on my weight loss and fitness for the next 17 months (and beyond of course) then I can be closer to the being the person who I want to be. The person who I can think I can be.

17 months from today it will be the 12th September 2020 and I will be 31, and I am determined to use the time I have till then to ensure that my next decade won't be spent being trapped in both debt and altogether too much body.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 12 April 2019? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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Insatiably hungry since coming close to goal weight, hindering my progress

Hi r/loseit! I need some very specific advice that I wasn't really able to find when I searched on here. Sorry for the long post!

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I'm a 23 y/o female who started doing CICO (1200cals a day) and 16:8 IF late in January at 69kgs (I'm 168cm) and have made it to my lowest about 3 weeks ago at 63.5kgs. My goal weight is 60kgs. I haven't been exercising except for walks here and there and I started power yoga 2 weeks ago. Ever since I hit 63.5kgs I have become INSATIABLY HUNGRY. It's not specific cravings, but I feel like I need to eat carb intensive, tasty food in order to feel actually full. Because of this, it's been a lot easier for me to slip and end up buying food from restaurants even though I would have eaten a full meal a few hours before. I have been feeling so hungry I want to cry. I'm so hungry food is the only thing I think about and I can't even focus on my lectures even though I eat right before. The only way for me to feel somewhat normal and full ish is if I eat a massive calorie intensive meal - think a whole pizza or burger with fries. I NEVER used to finish an entire meal like that, and suddenly I do, and have room for more! What the hell? I thought it was supposed to be the other way around! Haha. I tried upping my cals to 1300 and eating mostly whole foods and lots of protein in order to remedy this but since I'm mostly sedentary I'm afraid that it's not very effective for weight loss plus the added calories of my sporadic feasting put me somewhere around maintenance. So, for the past 3 weeks the scale has been going up from 63ish kgs to 66! So I've been set back about a month and a half :( I would really appreciate some help with this. Thanks!!

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Need some encouragement. Re-gained weight because of ED recovery, feel like it’s going to be impossible to lose again & that I’m nothing without my ED.

[F/26/5’6/CW:95kg/GW:82kg/UGW:70kg]

I don’t know if it’s appropriate to be posting this here, so forgive me if it’s not, but I’m feeling pretty low at the moment and could use all the support I can get.

I have struggled with my weight for my entire life, I have never known what it feels like to be ‘skinny’, and I have always had a large, overhanging stomach. This looks worse on me because I am also pretty flat chested, so basically I hate my body. Due to various trauma I went through during my childhood & before I left home, I was a binge-eater as a teenager (and completely unaware of that at the time.) My highest weight was around 110kg at one point. I was diagnosed as insulin resistant when I was 17 in 2010 and was put on a drug called Metformin. This helped me lose a bit of weight and my new average became around 90-91kg.

In 2013 I was doing really well with calorie counting and going to my university gym, and I managed to get down to about 87kg, which is still a lot but was the lightest I’d ever been in my adult life. Then due to various reasons, in 2014 I regained a bunch of weight and ballooned back up to 105kg. I then developed Bulimia after experimenting with purging meals to cut calories. I’ve had a fucked up relationship with food my entire life, so it was kind of always inevitable that this would happen - I used to look at ‘thinspo’ even when I was 14 and used to attempt very restrictive diets (and would always fail).

In 2015 I attempted to stop the purging by doing a keto diet. I felt like shit but I did lose weight and got back down to 87kg. Around 87-89kg became my new norm; I was still occasionally purging when I slipped up or had to eat foods I deemed ‘bad’ (at social events etc). In 2016 some really messed up stuff happened to me and I relapsed completely; eating garbage, purging all the time, etc.

In between 2016 and now, I made the switch to a plant based diet and felt a lot better about myself. I no longer needed metformin and was no longer insulin resistant. 2018 was a really difficult year for me, and I had some health issues unrelated to weight (I have a brain tumour and a chronic neurological condition) which meant I had to cut down on my hours at my retail job & also often had to be sick off work for weeks at a time. I started CBT therapy for depression & anxiety & eating disorder behaviour. The therapy went really well and I’ve done a good job of stopping the purging, but due to all of the above combined, I’ve gained weight. I had gone up to 96kg as of March 11th, and I’ve lost 1kg since then.

I feel like my body hates me and it’s going to be impossible to ever reach my UGW. I’m so frustrated because I got so used to my ‘norm’ being around 87kg so I’m so ashamed and frustrated that now I’m back to here and I have to work hard to just get back to my still-fat old norm, which doesn’t even feel like it will be progress, just getting back to ‘slightly less fat’. I did manage to get down to 94kg but the scale is now saying 95kg after a couple days of me eating SLIGHTLY over my calorie limit (1500) which is just such a frustrating setback. Is my metabolism that bad?

I eat an extremely healthy whole-foods plant based diet and make sure to balance my macros, drink water, avoid junk. I am going to have to drop my calorie limit. I work part-time retail (20 hours a week). Exercise for me is difficult to implement right now due to my health condition but I’m hoping to introduce it gradually after I have treatment.

If anyone has any words of encouragement or similar stories that might inspire me, I’d really appreciate it.

TL:DR I gained weight back due to life changes and recovering from an ED, and now weight loss progress is so slow that I feel like I’m at war with a body that hates me and will always be fat.

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It's going to be a grind

My weight hadn't changed in two weeks.

I thought I set reasonable goals. I started at 239 pounds. My first goal was the 210's by June 1. I wanted to be sub 200 by August 1. I ordered two meals a day from a meal prep service out of convenience so I didn't have to worry about them. I stopped snacking. No food except my mandated 3 meals and nightly post workout protein shake. I go to the gym 5 days a week doing my old strength training regime (minus deadlifts due to a disc injury I got doing crossfit and front squats instead of back squats). I hadn't strength trained in about two years.

The idea was two pounds a week. That was my normal cutting weight loss when I was fit. I didn't want to weigh myself the first two weeks. I didn't want to be tied to "the number". Week three and I had lost 12 pounds. I was ecstatic. I figure that half of that was water weight since I felt so much less bloated which left 6 pounds in 3 weeks which is exactly my goal. Perfect.

Then week four and my weight was stagnant at 227. I didn't freak out though, I was strength training again and was definitely starting to build muscle. It could have been water retention from the creative I take or muscle building. I carried on.

Week five and I stepped on the scale and it was 227 again. It was actually 227.8. I was so deflated. Was I doing something wrong? Should I start doing my dreaded cardio? Was I eating too much? Should I cut the banana out of my protein shake? Was I not sleeping enough? Should I try doing deadlifts again? Should I go to the gym fasted? It's funny the things you start thinking about when your expectations are shot and your plan goes awry. You start mixing rational explanations with superstitions and just irrational thinking.

I decided against every fiber of my being to just stay the course and continue. I was doing everything the right way. I wasn't cheating on my meal plan. My weekly photos didn't seem to show any progress other than less bloating but my dress shirts for work seemed to start fitting better. I didn't feel like a sausage. Or was that just misplaced confidence and I looked like a fool?

Week 6, two days ago, I stepped on the scale. 224. Im on the right track. Losing weight is a grind. Basically I'm trying to say, don't panic when you hit a wall. Keep grinding away. Had I changed things up, who knows if I'd keep the same momentum. Don't get discouraged.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Friday, 12 April 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!

If you are new to the sub, click here for our posting guidelines

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