[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Thursday, 23 May 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..."

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• [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?

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• [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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Little Unexpected Victory!

So I fell off the wagon many times since I began my weight loss journey in November. I started off with only 20 lbs of unwanted fat but it looks weird on me because I hold ALL OF IT in my torso and my limbs, breasts, and booty are all pretty small. I have struggled with losing this since I gained it all 6 years ago.

In the last 3 months, I haven't been able to make it to the gym very often or go on my weekly 30 mile bike rides. I felt like I was losing all of my progress. I stopped taking monthly progress photos because of this. I also stopped doing my monthly weigh-ins. Despite feeling like I wasn't trying my best, I tried really hard to stick to eating better (I have issues with binging). In the last 2 weeks, I have been so busy I didn't even realize I had been throwing on shirts/blouses that I would have never put on before because of my tummy and running out the door feeling pretty good about myself. I finally realized I have been doing this two days ago. So I weighed myself for the first time in about 3.5 months and I have lost 10 lbs!!!

This has given me more motivation to keep going and not give up. I typically give up and binge when I feel like I have failed in exercise or diet. This time, even though I was failing at exercise, I tried my best to keep up with my diet for the first time instead of giving up and eating everything. I am halfway to my goal and I haven't been at this weight in 2 years (in 2017 when I almost reached my goal before giving up).

I have learned a valuable lesson and hope this might help anyone that, like me, gives up at any failure. Don't spiral! Just keep doing something that works for you, even if it's small, you wont regret it 2-3 months from now!

TL;DR: I fell off the wagon. Instead of spiraling into a binge, as I always do, I kept up with my diet even though I thought I was making no progress. I stopped even tracking my progress over 3.5 months just to find that the little changes I was making in my diet made a difference. I have found my motivation again!

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Struggling with loving myself during weight loss

Over the past months I’ve put on a decent bit of weight, and I’ve recently began making lifestyle changes to get back in shape. While I’m proud of myself for beginning the process, I’m frustrated by how long I know it will take to get back to a point where I’m happy with how I look and feel. I’m struggling a lot with loving myself in the meantime when I really dislike what I see in the mirror. It’s been particularly difficult as summer/bikini season approach. I know this is probably fairly common. How do you guys deal with lack of self confidence in the in between parts of weight loss?

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SV - I hit my goal weight

First of all I have been overweight for my entire life and have tried multiple times to curb my binge eating. Every time I would get home from school I would eat like 5 servings of chips and then still eat dinner. Not even mentioning lunch. (I've never been a breakfast guy." but overall I learned that exercise was always killing my efforts as I thought that was the golden snitch to weight loss. "If you just run a lot you lose weight right?" something that I had to deal with while losing was my odd diet. I say that I'm vegetarian, but it is more that I am just the pickiest eater on earth and only like garbage food. I have had to incorporate a lot more fruit since starting this journey.

Here are two pictures one was when I was at my peak of 203.4 Pounds, And now at 164.

These pictures were taken about 12 months apart Before

After

Now working on building muscle and finally getting into good shape rather than just slimming down. I want to thank this community for the endless support.

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Dieting and exercise tips for a teenage boy

TL;DR: I’m heavily built and at 247 lb (112kg) at a height of 5’11” (180cm). I’ve been overweight my whole life and need a solid approach to dieting and exercise. One of my divorced parents doesn’t think I need to change anything, the other doesn’t seem to understand nutrition and doesn’t take my thoughts into account. I have multiple breathing difficulties when it comes to exercise, and mainly need to do it indoors but can’t get equipment. A lot of weight loss apps aren’t geared toward my age either

Hello, as the title reads I am a 16 year old boy and currently weigh about 247 lb or 112 kg. (I’m only like 5’11” or about 180 cm tall.) I am built pretty big, with broad shoulders and the like. I know I need to change the way I eat but I am not really sure how to go about it, and I don’t think my parents are approaching it accurately. (To clear up possible confusion, my parents are divorced with equal custody.)

Some problems I have encountered:

•One parent is too positive, and doesn’t think I need to diet or lose much weight. While I personally think the suggested BMI weight for me is a little under what someone of my build and height should weigh, I am definitely not in the clear like they think.

•The other parent is taking an extreme approach to dieting. They went with a low carb approach, except they didn’t really research what I should be having. They have told me repeatedly that their SO knows a lot more about this then me, yet their SO has literally said, “I wonder if there is a minimum amount of carbs you can have.” I have tracked what I eat when I’m with them, and I was mostly getting under the minimum (Not extremely, but more than I’m comfortable with.) for kids my age, and tend to be tired as a result. (I still manage to not lose weight though.) Attempts to broach this have been met with, “We know better than you,” even when I have showed them the guidelines from MAYO. They also say it is probably healthy for me to have less than the minimum requirement anyway. I think they way I describe it may make it seem worse than it is, or it could just be me overthinking this.

•As far as exercise goes I have several breathing problems on top of being overweight, making it difficult to begin with. Beyond this, most of the year it is too cold to exercise outside, and I only have exercise to a treadmill half the time. Other than the treadmill I have no exercise equipment, and no room for any were I to buy some.

•A lot of the popularly recommended apps for weight-loss don’t seem to cater to teens under 18.

I’ve also been overweight literally my entire life if that’s important.

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Down 16.2 Pounds This Month.

I've been a lurker here for around 2 months, but I guess some of my success so far has inspired me to post here.

Now for the story. I've always been on the heavier side. At 6'9, I was always hungry as a kid and didn't have the maturity to control myself. Frankly, my parents kind of enabled me(and if I hadn't been playing hockey I think I'd be obese).

I started my weight loss journey around early august of last year, when I left home and moved in with another family a few thousand miles from home for hockey. The summer before had been hard on me. My depression hit an all time low, and I coped a lot by eating. The week before I moved I weighed in at 315 at the doctors. I was at a low point.

I moved up two weeks before training camp started, hoping to regain a little bit of my former shape and maybe even lose some weight. I left my room maybe 10 times during those first two weeks. I was dearly homesick and since no one else had moved up yet, insanely bored. I was honestly starving myself. Maybe eating 1000 calories a day. After training camp started I upped my intake considerably, probably to around 2000-2500. I weighed myself at 295 two weeks into camp. Another three weeks later and I was at 285. My body hurt and my play suffered. There was no way I could keep this up.

I stopped my "diet" after I was moved to another billet house. My new billet family preferred poor food, compared to the food that my last billet family had served me. From that moment on, I was maintaining for the rest of the season. This wasn't the worst thing, as my play got way better from that moment on.

In March, I moved back in with my family and on 4/21/2019 I officially started my diet. It's currently a 1400 kcal deficit where I'm eating 1600 kcal a day. I try to eat at least 150g of protein per day up to 180g. the first week I lost 4 pounds. Second week 6.6 pounds. Week two was when I began skating again. On week three I gained .6 pounds, and I was concerned. I hadn't heard of a plateau starting after only the third week. I decided that it was water retention from the extra skating, and that if nothing changed the next week then I would change something. One week 4, I lost 6.2 pounds, bringing my monthly total to 16.2 pounds down. When I started, I aimed to lose around 3 pounds per week, but I think that I underestimated the amount of Calories that a hockey session can burn, so right now it looks like its more like 3.5-4 pounds a week.

In short, I'm really happy about this. I've never truly been able to lose weight like this and I am ecstatic so I thought I'd share with you guys!

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Not beating myself up when I mess up is good but also led to gaining 20 lbs back, apparently moderation is important in attitude as well!

I have spent the last 10 years of my life dieting. I'm 23 now so yes, I've been overweight since I was a child and had parents that constantly pointed it out.

I started with the mindset that if I messed up then screw it, that's the end of the diet. For about 8 years I'd diet, exercise, then mess up and give up...then rinse, repeat!

For the last 2 years, I started being nicer to myself and got used to telling myself that it was okay if I slipped up on a stressful Monday and ate a bowl of ice cream. But then it led to:

"oh it's okay floofs, you had a stressful week a dinner date with your friend at Olive Garden is just a small cheat meal! You'll be right back on the diet train to skinny-salad-marathon-girl by the morning!"

"Ah floofs you silly floofs, you ate a bit more of those girl scout cookies than you should've, that's ok, you'll be back to eating 2 cookies a serving tomorrow."

"Didn't log a meal? That's ok! Just log the next one!"

"Didn't log a day? That's ok! Log the next...month, yeah that's ok too!"

"Floofs, I'm not gonna lie, last night was bad...3 fast food drive-thrus in one meal? And you deleted MFP to hide the guilt? Yeesh. But that's ok! I FORGIVE MYSELF :3"

And on went the self-forgiveness train until I realized, looking at MFP, that I had lost weight and gained weight in cycles for 2 years and ended up right back where I started.

So now I'm back on my 1200-1400 calorie a day MFP tracking. And this time I have to moderate myself not only with food, but also with my mindset.

No more forgiving every bad food choice I make...I have to figure out how to strike a balance between being downright cruel to myself and being an enabler to my own bad habits.

So, IN CONCLUSION (hehe), don't beat yourself up about a misstep in your weight loss mission, but also hold yourself accountable for those missteps!

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