Friday, June 7, 2019

(f28) Today I accept ...

I’ve let my weight overtake my life. Instead of riding with my friends on Hangtime at Knott’s, I’m on the bench waiting for them. I was just right at the edge of being able to secure my seat for the ride. Thank God Knott’s puts a model of their seats at the start of the lines so I’m saved the embarrassment of being denied the ride in front of everyone.

Fuck, how did it get this bad? I hadn’t been to a roller coaster park in years and I used to fit in the rides fine but that was 50 lbs ago. Now, I’m 260 lbs in a 5’4” frame.

I can’t do this anymore. I need to take control. Tonight was my rock bottom, I can’t continue any longer.

How did you start your journey to weight loss?

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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Regaining motivation and what foods to avoid.

Hello, I am a 16 year old male with a SW of 217 (lbs) with my CW being 191.4 (lbs). My height is 6’0” Since the end of January ~26 or so I had a restrictive diet, somewhat of a modified IF, where I would eat one meal a day and limit myself to almost never having snacks. (On this diet I gave up bread, potatoes of any kind, sweets, and sodas) This worked for quite some time and at one point I was complimented on losing some weight by a classmate. On April 25 I went on a school trip to Orlando and ate how I wanted for the next week. Upon returning I fortunately discovered I had lost three pounds (due to my bad eating schedule & increased amounts of walking at Disney and Universal) However, even though I was back home I never had the energy or enthusiasm to resume my diet. I have from then on been fluctuating between the 190-194 range by occasionally making smart eating decisions. Now that summer has begun I am looking to find my motivation again and start exercising more often. I have recently gone on vacation and walk around 5-7 miles on the beach daily. I plan to continue this as I will be at the beach until the 22 of June. I came to ask what I can do to motivate myself to exercise more and eat healthily again. I would greatly appreciate tips on foods to avoid that are not necessarily obvious (sweets, sodas, junk food, etc). As well as foods you have found that helped you in your weight loss journey. Information on gym-going would also be extremely great because it’s something I have been wanting to do in order to get in shape but of course I am nervous. Thanks in advance!

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[Articles and Study] Human endurance is capped at 2.5 times resting metabolic rate, study finds

A team lead on this new study is Herman Pontzer, an anthropologist who has done a lot of great work on figuring out human energy expenditure. To me, he is one of the key players in science uncovering that it's diet which is key to losing weight, and that exercise -- for all its excellent virtues -- is a mere and distant helper to weight loss.

Today's news is a headline maker in that we didn't know that TEE had an upper limit, and we certainly didn't know that it was only 2.5x BMR! Pontzer's previous work did uncover that bursts of regular activity didn't stack calorie totals like we imagine when we log them in our calorie trackers for several reasons (we adapt, during and after and upon repeating the activity). With today's news, we're starting to see the extreme metabolic boundaries come into view.

Article:

Human endurance is capped at 2.5 times resting metabolic rate, study finds

For the study, the researchers measured daily calories burned by athletes who ran six marathons a week for five months as part of the 2015 Race Across the USA, which stretched 3,000 miles from California to Washington, D.C. They also looked at other feats of endurance, such as 100-mile trail races and pregnancy.

The investigators found that the mega-marathoners burned 600 fewer calories a day than expected. This suggests that the body can power down its metabolism to keep the body going.

Article:

Is There a Limit to Human Endurance? Science Says Yes

Some say the breaking point is all in your head, but new research suggests it’s also in your gut

Beyond the threshold of 2.5 times a person’s resting metabolic rate, researchers found, the body starts to break down its own tissues to make up for the caloric deficit.

One explanation for this limit may be the digestive tract’s ability to break down food, [...]

In other words, eating more won’t necessarily help someone make Iditarod history. “There’s just a limit to how many calories our guts can effectively absorb per day,”

STUDY

Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure

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Do you ever want to self-sabotage your weight loss journey after hearing people try to motivate you to keep up the good work because being overweight/obese is bad for you?

Obviously being overweight isn't ideal. But for some reason when people tell me it's "bad" to be overweight I want to rebell. But then I'm just self-sabotaging my progress. Idk if this makes any sense. I guess it just feels like who I am now is bad? It wasn't even said in a bullying or judgemental manner. My friend was just trying to explain to me that it's not healthy, it can lead to diabetes and other health problems and hoped to motivate me to not quit by saying this stuff to me. But all it did was make me annoyed because it's not my motivation for losing weight. I hate to say it but my motivation for losing weight has come from people telling me being overweight is bad, being normal weight is good. I know it should be for myself too. I'm not just very self motivated and losing weight is SO stressful on my mental health... Idk, this became a full on vent. Hope I made sense.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Friday, 07 June 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.

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Weight loss as ultimate form of self care

Hi all, I'm 24F, 5'5 and 182 pounds. I actually wasn't always overweight. Growing up, I was SUPER skinny, and all through high school I was like a size 2 or 4. However, college is when everything changed. My depression got really bad. Scary bad. And I no longer cared about my well-being, so I ate like absolute garbage. I thought "Why bother eating healthy, when I'm not going to be here for much longer?" I lived off Taco Bell, pizza, Chipotle, and soda, and now I'm carrying around an extra 60 pounds. I'm doing much, much better now! I found medication and a therapist that work for me, and I feel almost normal again. The way I see it, is my self-harm marks have gone away, the suicidal thoughts are (mostly) quiet, and now the next step is to get rid of all this extra weight I gained when I was depressed. I'm so surprised that it's actually not as hard as I thought it would be, and I can't wait to keep going on this journey and get my body back to the way it's supposed to be. (Really not trying to fatshame people, some people can be perfectly healthy at my weight, but I know that it's not for me since I've been skinny all my life until I went off the rails.

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I lost 150lbs! ...and gained half back.

I don't post much on reddit.. so my apologies for whatever shit I'm about to let off my chest. yadda yadda yadda....

A few years ago I set off on a weight loss Journey. Through consistent diet and exercise I managed to lose 150 pounds and keep it off for a year. I felt great, started getting a decent following on Instagram. I finally felt confident and beautiful after a literal lifetime of being obese. ( I was 12 years old weighing in at 220lbs)

I remember the day I went off the rails, I was at a friend's house and we baked Reese peanut butter muffins. I must have had seven of those muffins that night. I feel like ever since that afternoon with my friend I haven't been able to get back on track. It's been like a steady binge since then.

Binge more=depression, more depression= more binging and the vicious cycle repeats itself.

For those of you who beat binge eating disorder or at least have it under control how did you guys do it? What led you to binging and what got you back on track? I'm desperate to overcome this lame ass thing.

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