Weight Loss Tips

Monday, April 29, 2019

I have been fighting an awful infection for 10 days. Finally started antibiotics. I lost 7 lbs and have no appetite but I have bene eating a lot. How many calories must I be burning a day? This is scary.

I am 5'2, female, 124 lbs, white, 24... before you say it's water weight, I literally shrunk so much the skin on my stomach is hanging. I was overweight before this week.

Basically I got a super bad infection while camping, some bacteria in the water.

I began binge eating like crazy because of how scary it is to suddenly feel like death and see all your ribs. I haven't weighed myself but I can only imagine I lost more weight. It's been 10 days. My TDEE is 1560. That is what I usually eat to maintain. But today I was so scared and dizzy like I was gonna faint, fever and chills even when I am eating 2400 calories.

I hope it is not overkill, but I am currently still losing weight and the infection has spread to my arms. I know this is not water weight, otherwise it would have come back after binge eating (I am also drinking enough water). The thing that sucks is this would be a great way to lose the last 6 lbs I need to reach my ideal body weight, however my innate fear of death is making me binge!! The only thing I can hold down is milkshakes and protein bars. I know it's not great but what's worse is dying of bacteria in your brain and blood.

For the record-- doc diagnosed me with a nasty bacterial infection that has somehow moved to my blood :( again I'm on the medicine as of today, but the shakiness and weight loss has been causing me to binge eat. Help

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Having a hard time watching those around me struggle after 45 pound weight loss. (F 5'5" SW 181 CW 135 GW 121)

So I have lost 45 pounds in a relatively short time frame (October 2018 to now) and I feel like people are really starting to notice which leads to them asking me how I did it. I tell them honestly: first 30 pounds were diet control onlyish (1200-1500 cal a day on MFP with a step goal of 10,000 on my Fitbit), and then I added cardio and light weightlifting recently (when I started exercising I upped my calories to 1500-1800).

However this has led to a few of them getting defensive, such as my boss who initially started around the same time as I did, but she used an MLM (multi-level marketing company). She only lost five pounds. It makes me sad now when she tells me that although I look great my method will never work for her.

Or my art teacher who told me (tmi by the way) that my method would not work for her because she's going into menopause.

Or my coworker who looks to me for reassurance that she has been in a plateau for four months, not overeating.

It makes me feel bad because it was never my goal to make anyone insecure. I just wanted to be healthier. I don't want to be a reminder to anyone of their failures. It makes me feel a bit guilty.

Does anyone else feel like this or had any experiences like this? I wish it would make me mad(at their excuses) but it only makes me sad that they feel bad about their bodies...

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Reached GW in November but now struggling... Any advice/encouragement from successful maintainers?

Hi r/loseit! I'm happy to say that through the act of logging calories every day, and through the help of this subreddit, I was able to lose almost 40 pounds (from 176.8 at my highest to 137.4 at my very lowest). I completely owe this success to the knowledge/support I found in this community.

I first hit my "goal" weight of 140lb back in November... but I only adjusted my calorie goal in my loseit app to "maintenance" in March, because it wasn't until then that I felt that I had truly reached my goal of 140lb, on average, most days. Since this "mission accomplished" moment, I have definitely let myself eat over maintenance... a lot of the time. While I was trying to lose weight I also let myself eat over maintenance some of the time (holidays, a very social Saturday, etc.) -- but on average I was eating at a deficit most days, and therefore still losing. The difference now is that I am aiming to eat @ maintenance on *most* days ... and still letting myself indulge (i.e. eat over maintenance) on "special" days.

Here's a link to my graph from the loseit app if it's interesting to anyone else: https://imgur.com/ZbHoNAP

I've creeped up to 144.4 recently... so I'm hoping to switch back to weight loss mode to try to get back down to my goal of 140, maybe 137 as a cushion.

My question for the successful maintainer's out there is: how did you approach your transition from weight loss to maintenance? What worked for you to keep this up long-term? Does it get easier?!

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Eye Opener - Really Need to Get It Together

I lost 130lbs over 2 years and then gained back 75 lbs in 1 year. I changed jobs a few times in the years. A combination of stress eating and depression and less exercise were all a part of the problem. I didn’t realize I was gaining for the first 40 lbs because I kept changing uniforms with the different jobs. Once I realized, it just kept going.

I am tall for a woman and my weight distribution has always “fooled” me into thinking I weigh less than I actually do.

Today I found out my grandmother’s weight. This woman is horrible and disgusting for numerous reasons that go beyond this subreddit. I always thought she weighed like 350+ lbs, but turns out she weights 250. She weighs less than me...

I know I needed to lose the weight again anyways, but this is an eye opener. It’s also a huge blow to my self esteem because of how bad my relationship is with her and how much I don’t like her and how big I thought she was. So if she weighs less than me, but I think she looks huge...how do I look to other people?

I think this was the spark that’s gonna get my weight loss going again. I feel so crappy right now.

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I always fail and i'm wondering if maybe that isn't bad

I might end up on r/fatlogic for this but whatever

As of writing this I'm around 19 years old, 5'4", and 133-135 pounds. I'm wrapping up my freshman year of college, which has been challenging in every single sense of the word. My goal weight is about 125ish or to feel comfortable with myself. I'm on all the 1200 subs except 1200ipketo (I'll do a lot of things to lose weight but cutting out carbs completely is not one of them), but my goal is to not have to survive on 1200- for the rest of my goddamned life.

In my earlier teen years I always went up and down in the 140s. I was on swim team and had practices 5-6 times a week, and either walked or biked to school most days. Despite hating my weight for being so high I was always hungry and didn't really watch what I ate. I don't swim on swim team here in college but I still go to the gym at least 5-6 times a week, swimming 2-3 times, lifting weights 3-4, and getting on a treadmill/stationary bike when there's a good collection of youtube videos I want to watch.

I've been trying so hard to get to goals of 1428, 1200, or even 1000 calories a day. I've only been able to do that for about a day at a time before I binge, get mad at myself, try to compensate, and end up repeating the cycle. My averages end up anywhere between 1600-2250 in any given week. I am always super stressed out and being a freshman in an out of state college where you assume everyone is going to hate you doesn't help. I wasn't even losing until February but now I've lost a few pounds...and my period. When I am successful in getting my calories under even 1500 my body feels weak, sometimes like a heated bubble bath and sometimes extremely cold. Sometimes I get dizzy standing up. Also last week my blood pressure got so low from fasting I got sent to the emergency room, until I ate and got it back up.

I spend so much time obsessing over how to reduce my calories that I really don't focus on school enough to feel like a college student that deserves to be here. I've tried abstaining from food entirely for a couple of days, but fasting gives me brain fog and makes me want to die. And I feel like I have to be a low weight and have high grades at the same time and I'm not equipped for both yet. I've spent more emotional and mental energy being horrified of the freshman 15 than my finals!

It makes me so uncomfortable to suggest something about slowing my weight loss down, thinking that I probably would benefit from eating more than the measly 1200 that I have tried and failed to force myself to... but I'd rather lose slowly and not mess up my body any more than I already have.

My mom has horror stories of being on 200 calories a day and despite hours of walking and sports never dipping under 120 pounds (at 5'6" and 20, mind you) and how now at 46 her metabolism is all messed up. That's not the future I want. I blow on dandelions wishing for a BMR of 2100. I think I'm thankful for my constant failure to fast or restrict under 1200 now.

I mean, my habits have gotten *slightly* better. At the start of college I was binging on junk food and nut butters and looking at 2300+ days like 3 times a week and now I call a 250 calorie bowl of fruit a lot for a snack. I also try to be consistent with protein intake and eat more whole foods than I ever did in high school. Unfortunately most things that aren't protein or produce are triggers now because I'm like "why did I waste 10% on my calories on a piece of chocolate that didn't help me hit my fiber goals OR my protein goals? Ugh i'm so awful! I'm the worst!!" *blows another 10% of my calories on cereal or nut butter, plans to restrict next day, either feels terrible from lack of calories or from abandoning restriction plans and eating sufficient calories*

Not sorry for fat logic here. Chocolate and peanut butter should be foods that can be occasionally enjoyed without guilt or triggering awful feelings. This low calorie goal is not letting me do that.

I honestly don't know where I stand in the weight loss game, how to handle it, or even what sub this rant belongs in. Like my BMI says I'm healthy but my body and mind are under distress.

tl;dr i feel like a weak glutton making excuses for not being able to meet my goals but i'm not even sure how healthy reaching them would actually be considering how messed up i feel mentally and even physically

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Hoping other peoples' past is your future

I started a new job in October of last year, and I was the first of three new employees hired at my workplace. We're all women, and when we were hired, we were all obese.

I was the smallest of the three (both in terms of height and weight), but nonetheless: we were all obese. I'm really really proud to say that now I'm 37lbs down, merely overweight instead of obese, and halfway through my weight loss. It's really starting to show, and I've had coworkers bring it up to me, including a more senior coworker who lost a significant amount of weight last summer.

I'm now Facebook friends with my coworkers, and, as people are wont to do, I sometimes snoop around social media profiles out of curiosity. To my surprise, I found out that one of my fellow new-hires hasn't always been obese. In fact, as recently as six or seven years ago, she was what I would call thin.

It's strange how much of a mindfuck it is to see someone who you've only known as obese be thin.

I've never been thin in my memory, only ever been overweight, and later obese. I don't know my coworker's experience, nor do I know if she's happy at her weight or thinking about losing it, but it's been a revelation for me to realize that I'm creating that mindfuck moment for myself in real time, except instead of that thinner self existing in the past as a photo, I'm working towards seeing my thinner self everyday, in the flesh.

Do you all take inspiration from coworkers or other people in your life? Do you see dramatic changes, either in growing or shrinking, in the people around you and apply it to yourselves?

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Questions and Answers April 29

These are the latest questions from the @RunEatRepeat question box! Here are the notes and links from posts, gear and tips I mentioned. If you have a question ask it in my Instagram Stories or email: RunEatRepeat@gmail.com

Your Questions from April… here’s the video answering all the new questions on running, eating, hypothyroidism, tips for your first half marathon and more!

The full answers are in the video…

Why are you all dressed up?

I was meeting up with a friend and felt like a tragedy so I needed to get it together and put some makeup on.

Have you ran the Chicago Marathon? If so how was it? If not would you ever?

I haven’t!! But I really want to. It’s on the list for sure. The problem is it’s the same weekend at the Long Beach Marathon / Half Marathon and that used to be my favorite race. I didn’t do it last year because I went to San Diego with my ex-bf…but I missed it!

Were you diagnosed with Hypothyroidism? And if so, were you TSH levels in the ‘normal range’ when you were tested?

Yes – I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism years ago. I don’t remember if my TSH levels were normal. I do remember that it was one of my T levels… T3 I think that was low. At first my doctor just put me on 1 medication to get that up. Eventually we transitioned to another one.

I have been tested for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis – but do not have it. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the US.

Losing Weight When You Have Hypothyroidism – podcast 69

Running with Hypothyroidism

Are you going to do a scavenger hunt thing again? I don’t need the prize… just loved the game.

Yes! I thought it was so much fun too! But it is a lot of work so I’m glad you reminded me so I can plan it into my calendar.

Favorite quote from a book?

The Bible? Love is kind. I love the verse from Corinthians 13:4-7 … Love is patient. Love is Kind…

A movie? From The Spirit of the Marathon movie – … Deena Kastor is training for the Chicago Marathon. She’s in Mammoth and it’s super windy. She talks about the weather and says she’d hate for it to be like this on race day. Then she says, “Well at least I can’t say I didn’t train in it!”

A family member? *We can talk about this next time!

Your best friend? not my best friend but someone once said something to me that I always remember… “It’s never too much to ask that someone is kind and respectful.”

Have you ever tried tart cherry juice?

Hmmmm??? I think so? Apparently it doesn’t help with your memory… But it can help prevent soreness / inflammation.

I’m having a hard time getting motivated to run again but really want to… suggestions?

Yes!

A. Check in everyday on the Run Eat Repeat Instagram post asking for your run report. Whether you’re running, it’s a rest day, you’re skipping out, you’re sick, you’re walking your dog… make it a habit to report it and hold yourself accountable.

B. Make a realistic plan for when you will run. Plan 3 days & time into your week. If you have time for more – great!! But you must do at least that and start building the habit back up.

C. Sign up for a race. Choose a race that’s a ways out so you have enough time to ramp up and train. Then, get a training plan and start!!

D. Make it easy for yourself! When you’re doing your laundry… put your workout gear into complete outfits – everything you wear to run. Then, place them bundled up somewhere easy so you can grab it and change or put it in your bag and you’re ready to go!

E. Join a running club or group. Make a running buddy date. Find a way to be accountable in person to someone else.

Do you take/have any favorite extra protein or supplements?

Yes – I use protein powder in my smoothies and have started to use collagen powder too. I also take vitamins and a few supplements.

My favorite protein powder and supplements right now:

To stay hydrated – both before and during a run I love Spark drink mix.

I use Spirutein Protein Powder – I buy it from Amazon. Some health foods stores carry it but the company has a ton of flavors and I haven’t seen a good variety in any grocery store or health food location.

And I take vitamins and supplements. I take a multi-vitamin and a few other supplements.