Saturday, July 6, 2019

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I'm determined to feel confident again.

Hi! I've heard a lot about this sub, but this is the first day I've ever actually looked into it. I've been somewhat in denial about my need/want to lose weight, though deep down I've been feeling like I need to for a while now. My stats: F/17/ 5'6"/ SW: 169/ GW: 135

I know I'm fairly young compared to a lot of people I've seen on this sub, but I want to be confident and healthy again before I go off to college and start living on my own. My first issue with weight started when I was quite young and I got mono. I was sick for seven months, and even as a child, ended up gaining quite a bit of weight that's stuck with me up until I was around 15.

That year, I entered an abusive friendship and as a result, would have ~3 hour panic attacks every day (note that I was diagnosed with general and social anxiety as a 10 year old and I've been in therapy and on medication since, so I'm doing okay now) that caused me to lose around 30 pounds in the course of two months without trying. I wasn't in shape, but I looked good, and after exiting that friendship, I was confident in the way I looked for the first time ever.

During that period, I was able to eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and stay in the realm of ~135 pounds. As I got better emotionally, I started to gain back the weight though, and I convinced myself that I would just lose it again sometime easily, as my weight tends to fluctuate rather quickly. But I had no such luck. I was healing mentally and was still pretty confident, but I kept gaining weight.

The heaviest I had been before my unexpected weight loss was around 155 pounds as a 12-14 year old, and I hated it then. My weight has always been something I've very rarely been happy with, and as a result, I've always had a rocky relationship with food. I've quite often fallen victim to the vicious cycle of trying to restrict calories, getting frustrated, and binging junk.

The past 4 days or so I've been trying to exercise every day and eat relatively healthy and reclaim the confidence I had two years ago, but this time in a healthy way. Even now, I'm not completely unhappy with myself, I probably like myself more than I have in a long time, but I want to get to the point where I can smile looking in the mirror or at a picture of myself again.

Clearly I've also got some mental stuff in play, but as I work on that, I also want to work on my body and get in shape. I've downloaded MyFitnessPal as recommended by a number of people on this sub that I've seen, but I was hoping others could give me some advice at the start of my healthy weight loss journey. I've bought myself a gym membership and I try to go every other day, and try to do some alternative exercise like dance or swimming on the off days.

It's scary for me to post something like this, but I'm excited to reclaim my confidence, form a healthy relationship with food, and get in shape!

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Unsupportive family, how do you deal with it?

So I'm 25M, I still live at home with my mum as I've had some serious problems in my life and I am currently studying and my mum is really nice and doesn't expect too much of me. She helps me with money and whatnot when needed (she's somewhat well off) She's just ... deep down a really nice person. But I've noticed over the past few years she's gone from being really supportive about almost any goals I set for myself in life, whether it be getting my drivers license or losing weight, she's really negative and basically tells me it doesn't matter cause I'm not going to make it anyways (paraphrasing as she doesn't put it as bluntly but it's clear what she means)

I've recently started losing weight for real and I feel like I'm making the best progress I've made in years. But all I get from the one person that I expected to motivate me the most is negativity. If I want to indulge in a chocolate bar on a saturday just to give myself a treat that's about 200kcal, she's immediately on me "oh well there goes your entire days worth of calories, might as well give up" or something along those lines. I'm just sick of it, this has gotten progressively worse and I'm just not sure how to deal with it. She has done so much for me and still is, but the way she acts towards my weight loss goals is making it harder.

As I still live at home with no real income, she pays for the food and does most of the shopping and it tends to be unhealthy options mixed with some okey options. Since I count calories I just do my own thing and eat less and then fix something up for myself and whatever throughout the day. I've tried to get her onto the weight loss trail as well, and at first she seemed excited even, she kept saying "when I get my few weeks of vacation I can start" but you can expect what happened when her vacation started "no, I just want to eat what I want, I can just eat less" but she refuses to count calories cause "it's too hard".

I feel somewhat pathetic as it is a petty issue, since I still live with my mum with no job and whatnot but I've psychological issues that I feel have a lot to do with my self image being completely shit due to my weight and I just really want to lose it.

But how do you deal with a family member that supports me with everything other than my lifegoals?

Became more of a rant than I expected, in my head it felt like I was gonna type up a small text about how my mum isn't supporting my weightloss but as I wrote stuff just came out.

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Turns out there is a silver lining to gaining back all the weight I lost...

I have progress pictures for exactly what I'll look like at each weight!

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I gained back every single pound that I lost after losing it exactly 2 years ago today. I got serious in my relationship, got pregnant, had a baby, and am now 6 weeks out. I didn't do well gaining weight during pregnancy, and it was hard to see the pounds on the scale. I used this as an excuse to eat even more and more and more until I had gained 70 pounds during the 9 months. I hated looking in the mirror and had no self-esteem and so I would just binge eat at any sign of hunger. Thankfully, I had an easy pregnancy and easy delivery and now I have a cute baby and renewed sense of self.

When I was first losing weight and saw posts about gaining the weight back, I really couldn't imagine having the persistence and willpower to do it again. Now that I'm in that scenario, I feel pretty okay about everything. I mean, I religiously read loseit posts the first time and know how to lose weight. I still have all the stats on my weight loss app so I have an idea of how long plateaus lasted for me, and best of all, I have all the progress pictures from me at just about every weight.

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Having a baby might make it a bit trickier, but I've found so far that it's a really good excuse to get outside and go on walks.

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I'm a week into this journey the second time round, and I'm feeling confident about it!

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Struggling to do stay strong while my friends continue to lead unhealthy lifestyles

My friends and I all agreed that we want to lose weight, but I think I’m the only one who is actually trying to cut calories and eat healthier. They say they are, but when we hang out it’s always pizzas and chocolate bars and not-so-great restaurant food. I am still really weak to these things and so I always give in and then I feel terrible and hate myself after, and never end up losing on the days I spend with them.

My boyfriend lives abroad and the next time we will see each other in person is July of next year, and I want to be at my goal weight by then! Even though he loves me no matter what, he has always been so supportive of my weight loss and I think surprising him with my success would be awesome to him.

I’ll never succeed, however, if I keep giving in to my friends’ whims because I’m scared to say no!

How do you work up the willpower to say no without feeling like you’re offending your friends? I don’t want them to feel bad about the way they choose to live their lives, I just don’t want to live mine the same way.

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What DIDN'T work for you? Which diets did you try and say "stuff this!"

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the best way to lose fat, and we spend a lot of time talking about what DID work for us, but we don't often talk about the things we tried and said "stuff this!" What are the diets that you hate, and why? What were the solutions to those problems?

For me, it was fasting and keto. I seem to have an unusually low threshold for fainting if I don't eat. If I don't eat breakfast, I'll faint by lunch time. Similarly if I don't eat lunch, I'll faint by dinner. The solution to that was switching from 3 main meals to six small meals per day. I also HATE the feeling of being hungry. Can we please take a moment to acknowledge that it's pain? My tolerance for pain is pretty low, particularly hunger given it's voluntary. Intermittent fasting was never going to work for me, and I'm glad I ignored other people's recommendations and did what was right for my body.

The other one was keto. I never intended to try keto, but I LOVE meat, and cutting down on calories meant that I unintentionally without realising it cut out carbs for days at a time. There were a few times I got sick, and my doctor eventually realised it was from not eating carbs for a week (the so-called "keto flu.") Now I make a conscious effort to eat a small amount of carbs every day to prevent a repeat. I have a friend who is heavily into keto, and is trying to convince me that keto is the only reliable way to maintain weight loss. I am so sad for her; she is missing out of the joys of carbs for a reason that just isn't accurate. I'm glad I've never followed her advice.

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Suggestions for workouts from home?

I have an interesting situation: high anxiety keeps me at home a lot of the time. I don't drive, but I do love to go on walks; however, there are no gyms within a reasonable walking distance of me, and I'm not sure I'd be able to overcome my anxiety enough to make going to a gym a regular thing.

A little about me: I have moderate PCOS. I feel like PCOS has been more of a blessing for me health-wise than a curse, because my body is incredibly sensitive to the kind of food I put into it, so I try to be more aware of my eating habits... but I'm still an obese gal. In the MFP app, I have to set my calories at what they call 1.5 pounds lost a week in order to lose half a pound -- or at least, that's what it used to be. I went through a stressful situation which resulted in a dramatic lifestyle change and some poor eating habits for a few months, put all the weight I lost back on, and now that I'm back on track with healthier eating and calorie management, I'm finding the weight comes off even slower than before. I do OMAD or IF 16:8 most days along with CICO now, and I'm not gaining anymore, which is great! But progress is so slow that I'm losing motivation: i was stuck at 222.2 for weeks and it was a frustrating time. (and yes, I was counting everything: every cracker snacked, every tsp of oil used for cooking -- even ketchup! And all with my trusty food scale.)

I compared my lifestyle from when I was first losing weight to this time and realized my physical activity was a lot less than what it used to be. I tested this during a long weekend trip I took last weekend: I switched to OMAD + a snack and a coffee and I walked everywhere, averaging about 15,000 steps a day as opposed my usual 3k. A few days after I got home, I checked my weight: 220! As of yesterday, I'm at 219!

I love walking, so I'm trying to do it more and even started up my Pokemon Go account again. I also signed up with Daily Burn. It was integral to my weight loss regimen the last time I worked on myself; I love that app. Normally I go with the beginner workouts, and those are pretty cardio heavy, but I enjoy cardio a lot.

However, I have PCOS, and that introduces some added complications. Cardio every day isn't recommended for people with PCOS, and that's primarily what I use Daily Burn for; I intend to continue cardio workouts once or twice a week with walking as much as I can, but I need something else in there, too. Strength training is recommended, but I don't know what equipment I need for it or what workouts to follow! Yoga is also recommended, and Daily Burn has plenty of that -- I'm off to get a new yoga mat today.

What workouts would you recommend? What equipment? Any advice helps, and if you have PCOS specific advice, that's even better!

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