Regaining Momentum

First time poster.

Stats: Female- 25- 5'5- HW: 280.8- CW: 231.8

I have been on my weight loss journey for a couple of years. It has been an off and on journey. For the last 4 months I have been going from 231 at the high to 220 as my low. I cannot break past my 220's. I lift at the gym with My fiance and I have a love affair with food. Mainly sugar. I also get bored with food I meal prep. What are ways you overcome your sugar addiction? What are some staple meal ideas. I would like to say I track Calories but I just don't. I know I need to. I know all it takes is just doing it but damnit. It's hard but so easy.

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I eat 1800 calories daily but I struggle to hit the amount of protein I need.

I weigh 270lbs and I’m a 6 foot 0 male. It’s been a long journey, I was 305lbs two years ago and I had lost 75lbs. After hitting a rough patch where everything in life was going wrong I regained 40lbs. Just recently started my new weight loss journey yet again.

I’m on a 1500-2000 calorie diet. I except use for an hour a half a day and I live in a major city and take public transit everywhere so I get in quite a bit more exercise then that just living life.

The amount of calories I eat is perfectly acceptable but the problem is I’m getting 50-80 grams of protein a day and I mostly eat meat, cheese and occasionally dairy for my meals. I feel like I’m gonna have to eat pure protein to make it to my goals lol.

I’m supposed to be getting 100 grams a day. Will I run into problems where my body will eat my muscle?

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So happy. Counting for 2 months and I've already lost a stone :D

I finally decided when I weighed 11.5~ stone (F5"6)and after years of looking at myself thinking ugh, to start to make these changes.

I've been using MyFitnessPal for 62 days and now have hit the 10 stone mark!!

I haven't weighed this little for as long as I can remember. Feels amazing! However I don't feel like I look any different, but several people have been commenting on my weight loss which gives me hope that I look different :)

I have 1 more stone to lose, hoping to get to 9~ and stay there.

I was supposed to sign up to a gym this week but I keep shying away.. I need to get rid of my belly fat as I've noticed fat is losing from my butt which isn't something I want lol.

Just thought I'd share my glee :D

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Ask yourself "Can I do live like this for next 10 years"?

We get a lot of posts with people trying to lose weight quick. "I plan on eating 1200 kcal a day, jogging 7 days a week and weight lifting 3 days a week while doing keto" isn't rare here.

You didn't gain weight over week you will not lose it over week either. Small compounding changes over long time will yield much better results than rapid changes today. It can sometimes feel like weight lose takes forever but at the end of a day it isn't a race. It isn't even about weight lose because at the end of a day weighing less is only a step on your path to better healthier life.

Every decision you do regarding your health and fitness you should analyze over next 10 years. I will go jogging every day sounds like quick way to boost your calories burn but is "I will go jogging every day for next 10 years" sustainable for you? Can you see yourself in 10 years time at 6 am running down the street every day regardless of the weather, commitments etc? If you can by all means jog every day but if it sounds like too much hassle then maybe you should come up with better routine?

Maybe jogging everyday sucks over 10 years but "taking 30 min walk every time there is nice weather over next 10 years and listening to music/podcast" sounds more sustainable?

Maybe "I will hit a gym every day for next 10 years" sounds like much but "I will go to gym every Tuesday and Thursday and if I feel like it Saturday for next 10 years" sounds more doable.

Maybe "I will not eat a single cake for next 10 years" sounds like too much but "I will only eat cake if I have calories left" sounds more sustainable.

Maybe really all you can commit to right now is "I will eat 100 kcal less than my TDEE until I lose weight" and that's okay it is still more than you was doing week ago.

Little changes extra 1000 steps here, minus 100 kcal a day there compound over weeks and months bring much greater benefit that big changes you will implement today to abandon them week later.

The best weight loss routine is the one you can actually keep up.

I know that I am preaching here to a choir for most of you but maybe this post will help some new confused people and also give me something to link to when I respond to others in the comments.

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I need your help. 25/M (VERY LONG)

Hi, everybody... I have a LOT of problems, so I'm sorry in advance for how this is going to go.

Background:

I've always struggled with me weight. When I was 8 years old, in SECOND GRADE, I weighed 142 pounds. You can just imagine how great (/s) my life was at school, being that size that young, and it followed me all the way through high school. Once I graduated and moved to college, I initially thought, "Great, a fresh start; nobody here knows me. Nobody here has ostracized me for the last 10 years because of my weight. This will be fine." I soon came to find out that all those years growing up overweight (among other issues) had, in fact, taken their toll on me. I don't remember a time in my life I've ever NOT been self-conscious. I don't remember a time in my life where my belly hasn't been in a constant state of being "sucked in" because if people ever saw how big I truly am, they'd "think less of me than I'm sure they already do." (I have a bad habit of projecting my own negative thoughts about myself onto other people's thoughts of me.) One of my biggest coping mechanisms my entire life has been self-deprecating humor, because if people were going to laugh at my weight, anyway, I should be the one to make them laugh! At least then I wouldn't just be that morbidly obese guy, I'd be the funny fat guy. (As I'm sure you can imagine, this mechanism has had limited success.) Because of my weight issue, along with a really tough family situation growing up (daddy issues), I've always been a people-pleaser. And because I've spent so much of my life trying to surpass other people's expectations of me (which - again - are always my own projections onto others), I've come to a point in my life where I REQUIRE other people for me to succeed. For instance, I currently live by myself and can never bring myself to clean up around my house, and it's an absolute mess. But when I live with someone (e.g. roommates in college), I live spotlessly, because I don't want them to think any less of me as a person "than they already do because I'm so fat." There's plenty more I could go on to say, but we'll leave it at that for now, since I can already tell I've rambled long enough, but this last part will be important soon, I promise.

The last time I weighed myself, I was 364.2 pounds. This was a year and a half ago, and that was the first time I understood that things needed to change. The problem was I had no job. My friend let me stay with him and his fiancee in their spare bedroom for a few weeks while I looked for a job to try to get back on my feet. Great. I lost 20 pounds in just over a month, with my friend and his fiancee encouraging me, and things were going decently well. The problem, though, was that those few weeks were turning into a couple of months, and I still hadn't found a job. I was desperate and feeling pressure to move out of my friend's house, feeling I'd overstayed my welcome. (Let me be clear that my friend and his fiancee were in no way creating this pressure, it was 100% self-inflicted; they were totally gracious and patient with me.) Finally, about 8 weeks in, I got a call for an interview to be a waiter at Steak 'N Shake (I told you, I was desperate), and I immediately took the job when it was offered to me, thinking I'd keep looking for other jobs while I worked here, at least I'll have some money coming in, finally. Plus, being on my feet and walking around all day would surely only benefit me in my weight loss, right? Unfortunately, my 8-10 hour shifts started becoming 11-13 hour shifts because I would always stay to help because other employees would just leave without finishing things they were supposed to do, or they would show up an hour or more late to their shift, so I didn't feel right leaving at the end of my shift and leaving them that shorthanded. The other problem was that I was a morbidly obese 20 something waiter working with thin high school girls with boobs. I barely made enough in tips to cover minimum wage (which, in Indiana, is only $7.25) over the entirety of my shift, while these girls would work for 4 hours and make 2-3x as much as I did the entire day (I know this, because they would always count it out behind the counter in front of God and everyone). So my days turned into: Drive 30 minutes to work. Work 11-13 hours. Drive 30 minutes home. Be too physically/mentally exhausted to maintain any sort of workout/nutrition schedule. Sleep. Repeat.

The self-inflicted pressure to move out of my friend's spare bedroom, along with the diminishing returns from my job, soon became too much to handle. Until one day I just couldn't handle it all anymore, so I quit that job, and while my friend and his fiancee were at work, I packed up everything I had into my car, I wrote them a note and left my key with it on their coffee table, and I just left. I drove 6 hours straight home to surprise my mom for Thanksgiving. "Surprise, I'm home for Thanksgiving, and also moving back in with you, because I have no job and no money thanks for understanding." Thankfully, my mom is an amazing woman who loves me, in spite of me, and didn't even think twice about it. So i lived with her for several months, and got a job in a car shop changing tires/oil. My mom didn't ask for a penny for rent or groceries, so I was able to save up some money to move back to where I went to college, as some opportunities had arisen that I wanted to take advantage of, and to pursue things that were at least somewhat closer related to my degree (music) and to my career path. So I moved on August 1 of last year.

And so here we are. I've definitely gained all of the weight back, and more.

I initially joined this subreddit shortly after I moved, looking for motivation; I knew I needed to change some things, and I've always known that I can't do it by myself (that whole relying on other people thing), so this sounded like a great place to be. Unfortunately, instead of finding and feeding a motivation to lose weight and change my lifestyle, I'm sorry to say that all I found was resentment and anger that all of you wonderful people were succeeding so much in where I had failed my entire life. That you all seem to have so easily been able to "flip the switch" to do what needs to be done. (I understand that it wasn't easy for anyone, but the human mind is a great and terrible thing.) I currently live a very sedentary lifestyle, working a non-labor intensive 3rd shift job most of the week, and sleeping during the day, not doing much during my waking hours or my days off outside of browsing reddit and playing some video games with my online friends.

A few days ago at work, I was scrolling through reddit and saw this thread and it really started to get me thinking about making those changes again, except permanently this time. But it seems so hard and so daunting. And I'm scared to step on a scale, because I KNOW that it's going to say something more than 400, and I don't want to confront that. And then I saw this post and I told myself it's time. I HAVE to do this.

This is the part that I ask for help, though. I have terrible social anxiety (if I go through a drivethru and get ice in my drink - even though I always specifically ask for no ice - I can't even bring myself to ask them to fix it), and that along with my self-image/self-esteem issues makes it hard for me to find motivation to go to the gym. I have depression (not specifically from my weight issues, though they certainly contribute), so finding the energy and effort to cook healthy meals and to wade through the overwhelming amount of information that's out there about weight loss and nutrition and etc. etc. etc. is REALLY hard for me to do.

So, if you've made it this far, first and foremost: Thank you for reading. Here's what I'm asking:

1. I'm asking for someone to help me create a simple and not overly expensive 1-week meal plan (we can talk more in depth budget, etc. via PM). This will allow me to establish a baseline change of healthy eating. It will give me a set of expectations to meet every day when it comes to food. That way while I research and explore what a more balanced variety diet might look like, I never have to wonder what I should eat and fall into the trap of just going for fast food for convenience. I can just say, "Oh, it's Tuesday. I'm having xxx for lunch, because that's what it says on my meal plan."

2. I'm asking for someone to be an accountability partner, but more than that, a friend. Someone I can develop a personal relationship with that's not a public forum filled with 700 people spouting a generic "You can do this! You've got this!" Someone who will do more for me than just say, "Hey, did you go to the gym today?" I don't honestly know exactly what this would look like, but if you're willing to explore that with me, I'm ready to dive in. If you're in the greater Indianapolis area, and would be willing to meet up a couple of times a month for lunch or something to talk about how things are going, it's even better. I'm an EXTREMELY introverted person, so I'm trying to challenge myself to step out of that insecurity and find someone that can really help me change my life. I'm asking you to be that person that I can project onto and be a people-pleaser for to make myself better. So that maybe one day I won't have to be a people-pleaser. I can just be me. Comfortable in my own skin.

I can't do this alone, and I'm slowly learning that that's okay. I just have to find the right people to help me along the way. And as always, the first step is the absolute hardest.

So, this is it.

My first step.

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When you want to shout your progress from the rooftops but it’s just not like you

A weird thing happened to me today. For several years during grad school I was part of a small group of 3 close friends and, put simply, I was the big friend and the other two were very slim/petite. One bonded with me over trying to track food and we would go to the gym together but she never really needed to lose weight at all and I never really succeeded in losing weight at all. Since graduation I have lost almost 40lbs and now with about 20-25 left till goal feel like a new person. The last time either of them saw me the weight loss was not particularly apparent.

Today in the group chat they are praising a former classmate of ours who posts selfies showcasing her not-insignificant loss. I felt bitter though and examined by feelings because I know the classmate who also lost weight is the wrong target.

I guess I wish I were the type to tell everyone about my weight loss upfront. I have friends who post on social media about reaching their goal weight and I roll my eyes, but really it’s because I’m not confident enough to broadcast my own progress. It’s hard with my family too because I’ve been disordered in the past and try not to seem too “into” weight loss so they don’t worry about me (I am very much recovered though and have lost weight in a healthy way). Positive reinforcement is an important part in staying motivated, and I get affirmation on the scale every day but it would be nice to get it from outside. This really turned into a rant haha but am I alone in feeling this way? How do you all deal with feeling like you need recognition for your work?

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Run Eat Repeat Q&A–May part 1

 

May Questions and Answers – 1

Your questions from the Run Eat Repeat Instagram story box. We’re talking about what I did before blogging… selling my condo… house-sitting… running in Chicago and more!

 

Note: The answers to the first 3 questions were answered in the last video. They’re saved in my highlights on Instagram.

Do you ever walk or want to walk on your runs? (on IG highlights May)

  Yes. I usually walk at some point on long runs and/or big hills.

 

Tips for high altitude running? (9,400ft) (on IG highlights May)

Train in high altitude. If you want to run strong in certain conditions you should train in those conditions.

If you can’t do that check out a high altitude training mask like this.

 

What are healthy foods to eat for runners? (on IG highlights May)

Yes! I love talking about running & eating (shocking, right?). I think healthy foods for runners are healthy foods for everyone – runners just need to make sure we’re balancing our macros for the best performance and recovery. I have a podcast series on what runners should eat before, during and after long runs and races. And I’ll share some meal prep ideas and tips below.

Check out these posts for tips on healthy foods and meal planning:

Meal Prep for Busy Runners

Meal Prep for Runners and Everyone Else

Healthy Breakfast Tips and ideas

 

What I Eat Before a Race Podcast 71

What to Eat During Your Race or Long Run Podcast 72

What to Eat to Fuel your Half or Full Marathon Podcast 73

 

Was the book winner already announced?

Yes… I saw this and it reminded me. This is the giveaway post for my fave cookbooks.

And @everunsthe626 won!!

 

Any advice on remodeling? Picking contractor, not losing my mind, etc?

I don’t think I’m that good at this… but I do recommend the Young House Love Podcast is a good resource for all things remodeling.

Check out their posts on

When to DIY vs When to Hire Out via Young House Love

https://www.younghouselove.com/when-to-diy-vs-when-to-hire-it-out/

And How to Negotiate with Contractors 101 via Young House Love

https://www.younghouselove.com/negotiating-101-smarter-wheelin-dealin/

 

What’s the status of selling your condo?

It was on hold…

 

How often do you get to house sit in that amazing house?

I house-sat (is that a word?) for about 5 weeks in February and March. My friend was out of the country and has a big gorgeous Golden Retriever so he needed someone to house sit and take care of this dog. He travels a lot but usually isn’t gone that long. I don’t have any plans to do that again soon.

 

Ever come to run any races in Chicago?

Not yet!

 

How long were you blogging before it became your full time job?

Probably about 4 years!

 

What did you do for work before blogging?

During college I worked at a recruiting company as a researcher, assistant, screener and more (I basically did whatever they needed).

Then, I got a job as a multi-media reporter for a non-profit website. That was kind of my first real job doing what I wanted to do. But I got laid off and had more time to dedicate to Run Eat Repeat and it grew from there.

 

Are you running the CA series?

I’m not sure what the CA series is but I’m always down to run a fun race series! I need to look into it!

 

When is your next race?

I think RnR San Diego or the Laguna Hills Half Marathon. ‘’

 

Get a discount on the Memorial Day half marathon, 10k or 5k here…

Discount code: RUNEATREPEAT19

Laguna Hills Memorial Day Run register here

 

 

If you have a question – ask! Email: RunEatRepeat@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @RunEatRepeat 

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