[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Thursday, 25 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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Accidentally Lost 34 Pounds By Working Retail

Okay sooo a little backstory: My 2016-2018 was a whole lot of fast food, unemployment, and 0 exercise. Doctors said I had a thyroid (never really followed up on it, docs swept it under the rug) was obese for my age/height [19F, 5’2] and was a pre-diabetic. My starting weight was 191 but that didn’t last too long since I decided to lose weight. Went down to 181 and stayed that weight for the rest of 2017. Welp, let’s just say sh*t happened in 2018 [ostracized from my friend group, quit my job, lots of sad emotions] I stopped weighing myself so I’m not too sure how much I weighed but my pants were size 12, wore L-XL for most shirts and dresses. Officially a year after all the bad things happened I got two retail jobs and decided to get it together. I still eat out, but I did pick up lots of shifts. Safe to say lots of walking around and picking things up and putting them away in the opposite side of the room multiple times a day. Now I’m 157 and I keep losing weight. Honestly, I didn’t intend on a weight loss journey I really just wanted to get my feet back on the ground by getting work and it’s been doing me lots of favors. Now I’m a size 8 in pants and L clothing just doesn’t fit anymore (Medium is my go-to size). Goal weight is 145 and the fact that I’m closer than I think is oddly exciting since I randomly decided that was a “good looking” number years ago but never really intended on getting there.

P.S. I’m off the pre-diabetes watchlist! :)

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Campus dining hall blues

I've been struggling to maintain my weight loss on campus.

I'm not doing badly honestly. Was 205 lbs when I started and I'm down to 190 in a month. I know that's a pretty good start but almost all of it comes down to me going to the gym 6 times a week and burning 800 calories on a treadmill each time. However, I don't see it lasting and that terrifies me. It's simply miserable to be on a treadmill for an hour a day and I've been struggling to stay motivated to go. I've been told losing weight in the gym alone is a really good way to drop 40 pounds in three months and gain them all back by the end of the year.

The reason I don't think this is sustainable because I've been struggling to change my diet in any real way. I changed my diet by stopping myself from indulging in things I love like ice cream, cookies, pizza, and wings, but I don't eat meals like I'm on a diet, consistently hitting over 1500 calories a day. I'm fully at the mercy of my dining hall, which has very few healthy options. There's a salad bar with three dressings and no toppings, and a vegetable of the day, but very few lean main courses. Usually I have a 400 calorie cheeseburger and the potato of the day for lunch, and whatever specialty meat is available for dinner with a potato and soup/salad. I'm good for breakfast by having a bowl of high fiber cereal.

My weight loss is starting to slow down. What's some advice for eating better at a lackluster campus dining hall for when my gym habit inevitably falls apart?

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The Call to Courage and Daring Greatly and Running

Check in time … What are you doing today? Chime in with your run, rest day, strength, dog walk, etc…

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This is important. Love the phrase – Daring Greatly!

 

Have you seen Brene Brown’s special on Netflix?

I bought one of her audio books the longest time ago and never started it. But I started to watch her Netflix special this morning and it got me in the guts. [ the Call to Courage ] ◽
She shares this quote from Theodore Roosevelt.

It can apply to so many things in life. But the first thing I thought of was running.

There are a lot of times when we miss a goal after weeks, months, years of training.
There are a lot of runners – including pros that have to tap out during a race.
Not everyone who started… finished the Boston Marathon. But that’s not the whole story…
So much time, money, miles, sweat and tears went in to even getting to that point!!

That’s daring greatly. Anyway. I love this!

Watch the special. It’s on Netflix right now – the title is The Call to Courage.

Be brave.

@brenebrown #brenebrown. #calltocourage @netflix #netflix

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Another small victory!

I’ve posted before about a little achievement with my weight loss and I’ve had another: over half way to my (first) goal! I’ve been fairly consistent but I went on holiday for a week and managed to maintain my weight loss whilst there (although didn’t lose any more) - but returned a week ago and have lost again - more than I expected in fact! I’m really pleased and I’m posting here to keep myself accountable - can’t go celebrating then gain it all back :)

I’ve been following CICO (except on my week away, but was more conscious of portion sizes after a month of calorie counting) and also exercising 4-5 times a week (again, except for on my holiday...)

I also walk to and from my work (an hour total) each day.

I’m excited to continue and am loving experimenting with simple, healthy recipes!

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Has anyone else noticed some people just do not know how to compliment weight loss?

27/F/5’7 SW: 199 CW: 164 GW: 145

So I’ve lost 35 pounds but I really “dressed for my weight” so the “you’ve lost weight!” comments are starting to happen more frequently. I thought maybe some of you could laugh, relate, and share some awkward encounters.

A normal conversation about my weight loss tends to go like this:

Person: “you’re look great! Have you lost some weight?”

Me: “oh thank you, yes I’ve lost about 35 pounds!”

Person: “wow congratulations! You‘re looking good!”

Sometimes there’s how did you do it talk, you know normal stuff. But about once a week I have conversation that goes more like this:

Person: “you look nice today, have you been losing weight?”

Me: “thank you, and yes I have about 35 pounds!”

completely shocked look

Person: “holy cow!! Wow yeah you’re looking really skinny”

Me: “thanks! I’ve been working at”

assumes conversation is over and starts to walk away/move on in conversation depending on setting

Person: very awkwardly I mean it’s not like you were fat before... I’m not saying you’re fat... I hope I didn’t... I... I just mean you look good. Not trying to be rude I just...”

And then I have to stick around to have an awkward conversation about how it’s fine and I was fat and it’s not insulting to say I’ve lost weight and blah blah blah

Has anyone else experienced these awkward conversations?!

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Was there a nail-in-the-coffin moment for you when it came to losing a lot of weight?

I'm (23F) struggling here. years of on off dieting, binging, weight gain, weight loss. I'm sick of it. Heaviest I've ever been, 265lbs. covered in stretch marks. I don't really look in the mirror anymore, because I feel like it isn't me. I was 140lbs 6 years ago.

Anyway, I've just looked at my arms and the stretch marks are now appearing on them too. ugh.

I have serious commitment issues (non-relationship) and just cannot find the drive to lose weight and keep at it. I know it's gonna take awhile and I'm a super impatient person. I think I'm gonna have to take action now.

Did anyone else have a moment like this? have you succeeded with weightloss since? I'd love to know.

thank you :)

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