DISCORD / Real time chat has helped me a LOT - from 5 day fasts to just regular CICO, so want to offer that up to others.

Link to the group:

https://discord.gg/zEQPxMc

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I found discord a while back when a subreddit was inviting people on a 5 day fast. I'd tried OMAD and IF in the past and decided just to give it a try (husband was out of town and it seemed like a good way to drop a few pounds too!). Anyway, I never, ever would have made it without the discord server there for instant support and motivation. I'm still honestly surprised at the difference it makes.

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I'm on a server for the weight loss plan I've been half-assed doing since Oct, but realized I really want a group that's about ALL methods. Similar to here, but in chat form. So I started "Any Which Way That Works". I tried hunting down different weight loss discords but most appear to be dead. We already have a small group going and would love to have more.

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I'm a CICO'er with IF. I go to Slimming World meetings, but no longer follow their plan, just use it for weigh-in accountability. I also walk quite a bit (approx 5 miles, car-free lifestyle) and want to work in c25k once I shake this nagging cough I have. I also rode a bike on my bday, the first time in over 20 years! I definitely plan to add biking in.

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The channels are split up into different exercise/diet plans with general chat as well. Plus photos of cute pets!

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NSV: I was able to roll up my jeans to get a pedicure! Plus another nice NSV

I love getting mani/pedis but it’s something I’ve been neglecting lately. I had some time to kill today between work and meeting some friends, so I thought about going to my mani/pedi place in the meantime.

But I was wearing skinny jeans. Seeing as how I don’t have skinny legs, that was going to be a problem.

This is why I normally wed to schedule my pedicures ahead of time. I have to be wearing either a skirt/dress, or loose enough pants that rolling them won’t be a problem. I really wanted this pedicure though. I thought about rummaging through the Goodwill bag in the trunk of my car to find a skirt I could wear temporarily. , Somehow I decided to try to roll up my jeans to see if they could go high enough where I could comfortably get a pedicure. (I’ve tried this in the past and failed miserably btw.)

To my utter surprise and delight, my jeans went up all the way to my knees! I was able to happily get my pedicure and feel extra cute when I met up with my friends later.

It’s always so shocking to see that weight loss permeates through so many unexpected aspects of my life.

Other NSV: one friend that I saw a couple of weeks ago said “you’ve lost weight since the last time I saw you.” That was really encouraging because I’ve fallen off the IF wagon for almost a full week and haven’t been able to get back on, but I seemed to have learned a thing or two about moderation from IF that I can at least appear to lose weight even when I’m not doing IF.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Thursday, 18 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!

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10 BEST Pics from the Boston Marathon Weekend Day 1

The Boston Marathon weekend was nonstop! Here are 10 Best Parts from the first day of the weekend.

I didn’t run the race – I was there covering it with Hyland’s hosting ‘10,000 Miles to Boston’ – the video series following this year’s team training and race weekend. It was so much fun!! But it was PACKED so I wasn’t able to post a lot while I was there. But I’m super excited to finally share.

The videos are on the @RunEatRepeat instagram and more are on Hyland’s Powered instagram. It’s not just about Boston – it’s about the runners. I think anyone would enjoy them so check it out. And I’ll be back soon with more!

(The numbers are out of order because it’s randomly how live writer pasted them and I want to get this posted now.)

2. First thing I saw at the airport… a big Hyland’s sign!!

Hello @hylandspowered Stop your cramp. Not Your race. Yes!

1. Boston  Marathon Expo fun!

3. We stayed at the StayPinapple.

It has a pineapple theme and had this lil pup on the bed – which I really appreciated because this is my first trip away from Diego…

 

4. Steve!!! Coach Steve is my friend & been on the podcast. He BQd last year and we met up for a bev in Boston.

Coach Steve was on the Run Eat Repeat Podcast ep. 72 What to Eat During a Race or Long Run

6. Chandra showed me where to run! She moved here a little over 2 years ago!

 

5. I had a lot of pizza this weekend. A lot.

7. SkinnyRunner came all the way from Alaska to see me! I think she misses me! I miss her too and wish I could’ve run with her…

We’re planning a fun destination race to catch up!

9. Blackbird Donuts!

 

8. Marathon finish line at night. So pretty!

 

10. Saw Kathrine Switzer at the expo!! In case you missed it… [check out my post on the 5k on why meeting this legend is extra special for me.]

#RunEatRepeat #bostonmarathon #bostonmarathon2019

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Has your personality and confidence substantially changed after you've lost weight?

I'm in the process of weight loss and have lost 20 pounds in 5 weeks, which is a huge achievement for me currently. The main reason I wanted to lose fat was because I absolutely detested the person I saw when I looked in the mirror. I couldn't watch videos or photos of myself without getting repulsed. This of course affected my social life which made me hate my body even more. Right now it feels like my mind is at war with my body and for the first time, it feels like I could win this. I am still pretty far from being happy with how I look, but I'm starting to believe I will get there eventually. People who've lost weight, how much has your self confidence changed?

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Finally Below 200 Pounds

Hey everybody!

This is my first time posting here because I've been a lurker for quite a while. I started my weight loss journey eight months ago after stepping on a scale and seeing a terrifying 263 lbs (119 kg) staring me down. A 5'6" (1.68 m) 24 year old man should not weigh that much. So, following tips and advice and gaining motivation from people here, I've been following the CICO diet (which I had never heard of before) and doing simple exercises on a daily basis.

Four months ago, I had built up enough stamina (and confidence) to start taking longer walks. A half-mile, a mile, now I'm up to daily two-mile walks and a weekend three-mile walk. I told myself when I get below 200 pounds I would try to run again—only a small, slow-paced run—to try to get back into it. I used to love running. It's been years.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, that day has finally come. I weighed myself for the first time since September and a beautiful 201 (wearing 2 lbs of clothing) was staring at me. I couldn't believe it. I weigh 199 pounds for the first time in over two years.

I'm not looking for congratulations or even acknowledgement, but to thank everybody for their posts. You definitely didn't know it, but you really helped me. It was very motivating to see other normal people succeed and stuggle because, unlike with body builders and dieticians, I could actually relate. I was stuggling with you.

Thank you. I will probably post again at the "end" of my journey at some point in the future.

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My Biggest Tip After a Lifetime of Failing to Lose Weight: Freedom to Fail = Your Greatest Success

A quick blurb on me- I’m a clinically obese 36 year old male who has been obese for the last 13 years or so and I’m horribly addicted to food. Currently I weigh 316 pounds and I’ve started my last diet ever at 335—I say my last diet because I’m treating it as a permanent lifestyle change. Since the 25th of March I’ve lost 19 pounds, which isn’t that big of a deal considering how many times I’ve lost that amount. In 2017 I lost 50 pounds in 4 months and then gained it all back when my Dad died in October of that year, so losing just this amount wouldn’t make me feel like I had finally had it normally. This time though, my mindset has been completely different and I feel I’m ready to lose it for good.

Over my life I’ve read so many nutrition books and studied the science of diet so much that I could almost be a nutritionist. I can’t tell you how incredibly terrible it feels to know how to lose weight, but just can’t seem to muster the willpower to break through the addiction. This was mostly because of the way I perceived dieting and the mindset I had around it. I felt like in order to have accomplished anything I needed to lose quickly so that I could make myself assured this was the time I would really shed the weight—I was focused on fast weight loss by any means necessary. I would go as hard as I could on the diet, cutting everything out overnight, and would white knuckle my way to success. Inevitably life would happen, something would come along and derail me and I would just get tired of eating. I would binge, feel terrible, and then “start again Monday”.

There have been a lot of “start again Mondays”.

I had a breakthrough when I started on that March 25th Monday and then on Wednesday ate 7 pieces of pizza. Normally, this would be it for the diet—I would start over again on Monday after putting myself through horrible guilt and binge from Wed-Sun with the idea that this would be the last time I would eat these foods.

Instead this time I said, “You know what, no. I will not start over again, because I haven’t stopped.” I had recently begun listening to Half Size Me and the individual that does the podcast advocates weight loss from the stance of maintenance. I’d never thought of losing weight in that way before, this isn’t something you do until you’ve lost the weight and suddenly you did it and can go back to normal. This is a lifelong change, so it has to be one built on a slow and strong foundation. How fast you lose weight doesn’t matter, just that the changes you make can lead to permanent changes to your behavior. How can you do that if you are always starting over? How can you ever change your relationship with food if every time you fail you give up?

So there is my big revelation: just start, or just start again. If you fail, just get back up again. Don’t make it something where you wait until the next Monday to do so, make your next snack your chance to start again. For the longest time I saw that failure as the sign that I couldn’t do that, that I was meant to be fat, instead of learning from the failure and making small changes. Over the last few weeks I’ve slowly changed the way I look at food and I feel like I’m finally going to do this. It isn’t because I’ve lost a tremendous amount of weight, but because my habits are changing and it doesn’t feel like I’m barely hanging on. Sure, there have been hard moments, but they were smaller choices in a larger day. I feel the freedom to fail, because I know that failure won’t be the end, and that freedom to fail allows me to really make sustainable changes.

I see people celebrating small victories all the time here, and you absolutely should, because weight loss is 100% about those small victories adding up to one larger one. Your diet isn’t in that one binge meal, it is in the 100s of other times you went to a vending machine and choose the lean beef jerky over that large bag of chips. It is in that time that you DID go to McDonalds, but instead of 10 nuggets, a large fry, an apple pie, and a large soda, you get a small fry, a 4 piece nugget, and a diet soda instead of a regular. Yes, you went to McDonalds, but you made a healthier choice than you’ve have before. It is those small choices that define a lifestyle change and eventually lead to real, sustainable weight loss.

Feel free to make mistakes. Live your life in a place where every time you make a choice is a new chance to make the right choice, instead of the last chance to make the right choice. If you can do this over and over you’ll find you’ve changed from a person who is controlled by food to a person who controls their food.

I’m not all the way there yet, and that is ok, because I’ve started to change the way I think and that is the biggest victory I can imagine.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

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