Over-ate the past few days... and I'm not panicked

Normally after overeating I get so stressed out and I'm so hard on myself(this is why you dont have a bf, you're never going to accomplish your goals, why dont you have any restraint). But this time I enjoyed my food and I went on a walk, did some yoga, and I'm ready to start again tomorrow.

I ate an extraordinary amount today, but I also got to spend time with my best friend, try the impossible whopper, grab dinner with my dad, ran 6 miles, and while I'm not proud of my food choices, I dont feel impending doom because of it. It feels good to just be like "welp, that happened" and know it didnt significantly hinder me.

I feel like my relationship with food is (slowly) improving and I know this might be an unpopular opinion but I think a lot of it is due to exercise. This is going to sound cheesy af, but I feel more connected to my body. I know I need food to move and build muscle and endure my runs, and quality food too. I also know if i overeat it will be stored as fat, but my body is just doing it's job and it isnt a punishment for overeating. I trust myself more to bounce back. I dont feel guilty.

I feel like a lot of my posts have been negative because this entire weight loss journey has been such a strain on my mental health, but here's some positivity.

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I keep losing then gaining back the same weight :/ advice/motivation needed!

I [20F] started my weight loss journey in June 2018. I went from 150 to 135 pretty easily with cico and IF. Around October i stopped being as strict with myself and my progress stopped. Throughout the rest of the year and up until May 2019, i fluctuated between 130-135. I’m only 5’1 so those 5 pounds made a visible difference. I would be on track and losing but somehow couldn’t get down any farther. Flash forward to June 2019 and i had finally gotten past that hurdle and was down to 127. I then had to go off to my summer job which was camp counselor ish kinda stuff. I was walking around and being active all day long for 6 weeks. The kicker is that with all that energy expenditure I would always eat so much at meals. Meals were served at an all you can eat style dining hall and it was really good food. With the level of activity I was at, i kinda stopped watching what I ate. And here we are in August and I’m back up to 135.

The point of this is that i keep working towards my goal of 120 but every time i start to get close, something comes up whether it be life or school or a job and I’m back to what feels like square one. It seems like this is a weight my body likes to stay at even if i don’t want to. Have any of y’all dealt with something similar? If so, what helped motivate you to keep going? How did you overcome the frustration of relapsing?

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Down 30 pounds!

It's my cake day today so I thought I would celebrate by sharing my weight loss progress! I'm a female, 5'4. I started my weight loss journey on October 26, 2018 and since then I have gone from 175 pounds to 145 pounds. My bf% has gone down by 13.4 and my muscle has gone up by 6.6. My waist and hips have gone down by about 3-4 inches. My boobs went from 36DDD to 34DD. When I started out I simply started eating smaller portions, cutting out drinks with calories, and eating whole foods and lots of veggies&fruit, but after a few months I started doing CICO and getting active. I wanted to be 130 by October 26, 2019 but I recently picked up smoking again (munchiessss) so I might not quite make it by then haha but I'm okay with it taking longer as I'm in it for the long run. I'm really happy with my progress and I love living a healthier lifestyle!

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Tips on overcoming a weight loss plateau?

January 1st of this year I weighed 235 pounds. I decided I needed to make a change when my friends and I decided to go skydiving and it cost me nearly $100 extra due to how much over 200 pounds I weighed. I bought a Fitbit Charge 3 and a Renpho Bluetooth scale and started my journey.

I biked to and from work (2 miles each way) 5-6 days a week, minus torrential downpour days. I ran 3-5 times a week, and lifted 3-6 times a week. I used the Fitbit calorie tracker and set my intake goal for 1,000 calories below what I burned every day.

Following that regimen, as of July 19th I was down to 205, having lost 30 pounds. Great right? The only problem is, as of this morning I weigh 204.8 pounds.

I haven’t changed anything about my regimen, I have only been over my goal calorie count once in the last 3 weeks, and if anything have been working out more. Yet I still haven’t even lost half a pound in nearly 3 weeks, which is very disappointing after averaging over a pound lost per week. According to my RENPHO scale, my fat free body weight is 174.2, so I know I have the room to lose.

Any tips on how people overcame this plateau? For those who are going to say “Heart rate calorie counters often exaggerate calories burned”, I know that which is why my goal is set for 1,000 under what it says burned, fully expecting its closer to 500-750 under, and it obviously worked for me for nearly 7 months so I don’t know why it’d stop working now

Also, the stagnation of weight loss is not due to the building of muscle, as my Renpho scale tracks muscle mass too and it has risen less than 1 pound in the last 3 weeks. Same with body water

For info: I’m 6’2”, 14.1% body fat my goal weight is 190, under 12% body fat

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NSV: Won office fitness contest

A few years ago, I lost a bunch of weight, neglected maintenance, and gained it all back.

This second weight loss effort was inspired in June, when co-workers decided to start a company fitness challenge. The rules were weird, the math was wrong, the oversight was lacking, and the prizes were dumb. But I joined anyways, because it's past time that I lost a few [dozen] pounds.

Well out of the ~16 participants, half quit early and half quit late. So after 8 weeks, only 4 of us made it to the finish line.

Thanks to hard work, I lost 34 pounds (4 per week!) and tied for winning the whole thing. I was #2 for individual results, #1 for team results, and was voted as the 'most supportive team member'.

I don't want to sound like a drama queen by saying that it was so hard to lose all that weight. But I don't want to sound aloof by saying that it was so easy. The truth is, it was hard work that felt easy. It was pretty much CICO:

• As a big fat fellow with a lightly active lifestyle, my TDEE is about 3200 calories per day.
• On most days, I ate 1600 calories and walked off 400, for a total of 1200. 2000 below my TDEE.
• If a pound of fat is 3500 calories, then that 2000 calorie deficit means losing 0.57 pounds per day.
• Multiply that by 56 days (eight weeks) and mathematically, I should have lost 32 pounds.

...so the 34 that I actually lost is very close to that. I count calories conservatively, so that might explain why I did a bit better than 32. Or maybe that was water weight.

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Overcoming a powerful rationalization

Hey All,

As someone who can't diet too restrictively, I've been utilizing the the calorie counting method (via MFP) for some time. While I've found this to be by far the most effective method of weight loss, I've also found that most of my relapse events are related to a powerful series of false rationalizations surrounding the practice of calorie counting. Even more disturbing, I've seen this rationalization reinforced here and in other places.

I think it's easy for the addicted brain (sugary food is like crack to me) to cast calorie counting in a negative light. Perhaps this is because most people around me don't calorie count, so the behavior feels strange on the surface. In the throes of an urge, it's easy to follow my thoughts down a dark path that ends with a 3000 calorie binge. These thoughts sound like:

• I can't really calorie count forever, can I?
• This is obsessive behavior, furiously scribbling down everything I eat.
• Why can't I be free? No one else around me worries about food this much.
• I'm not really that overweight. Do I really need to lose more?
• What if this makes me anorexic? What if I get too skinny and can't stop?
• Can I really return to normal eating habits after I hit my goal weight?
• Is my goal weight even realistic?

I suppose I'm curious if anyone else has dealt with these sort of thoughts/rationalizations, and what sort of techniques you use to overcome them. Realistically, I can answer each of the rationalizations (for example: "This is obsessive behavior, furiously scribbling down everything I eat." "Well, it's not exactly healthy or normal to eat 5,000 calories a day either...")

I find myself in constant fear that calorie counting will in and of itself result in a new set of issues. I believe intellectually that it is the best method - creating and monitoring a simple calorie deficit. However, I don't feel armed with enough information to shut down the animal part of my brain that wants me to eat everything, and will say anything to convince me to do so. Has anyone else successfully powered through this fear?

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Today Marks My Lowest Weight in 10 Years!!!

This accomplishment means more for my current peace of mind and future health than anything else I can achieve. The past year has seen me diagnosed as diabetic (like my dad and his dad before him...untreated for 20 years!!!), so my weight loss and consumption of predominantly nutritious food are essential parts of disease management. My ultimate goal is to lose at least 100 pounds, more or less, and I can't believe I'm already so close to even the preliminary goal of getting back down below 200 lbs. I've loved reading the anecdotes and advice on r/loseit, and have adapted so much for my own purposes. First I tried fasting, then keto; the dreams I was having of strawberries covered in whipped cream were not fun. Finally, in September of 2017 I downloaded MFP and the journey began. Since then it's both rough seas and smooth sailing. One thing is beyond certain: I was over-consuming calories like a raving lunatic whose lunacy is materialized as soda, ice cream, bread, cookies.

The difference between now and then is stark. I'd already been suffering from intense anxiety and a panic disorder for a bit, most acutely since 12/2015, which I strongly associate with my weight, fear, and pre-diabetes, and felt like I couldn't sleep effectively, couldn't get good erections (changing BP medicines had a positive effect on this), hadn't had sex in years, walking short distances was growing uncomfortable, and I could just feel my fellow humans' disinterest and disdain for me me dripping off of them. I didn't and don't blame them. I was a total mess. Death seemed looming every few minutes. And hey, I haven't dated in a while, and I'm now going on 9 years, 8 months as a celibate heterosexual man who LOVES great sex with great partners, and my libido is quite high, but I still feel so good lately that it hardly matters that I've not felt that exquisite connection with another human in so long. Very hungry for sex though, no shame in admitting that.

What have been the essential components of my weight loss thus far?
Personal will.
1. Consciously cultivating good habits and moderating bad habits until they're unconscious habits.
2. MyFitnessPal-mediated CICO + totally self-honest disclosure of all "food sins."
3. Remembering that I KNOW FOR CERTAIN I can lose weight, since it's happening and has happened before.
4. Purchasing a fantastic ebike. My biking in 2017 amounted to about 100 miles in total. Post ebike, my biking in 2018 was ~1500 miles, and it's truly great exercise. The Juiced CrossCurrent S (now they have X!) was the greatest material purchase I've ever made (even more than my Fender Stratocaster).
5. The enthusiasm I feel when I realize that my "plateaus" are really just slow weight loss, and that a chart of weight loss still shows steady declines even during the seeming plateaus. Memory is very tricky!
6. Positive affirmations from heterosexual women. I can't overstate how good it feels, when you've walked around the world as a morbidly obese middle-aged male, to interact with women when I can feel positive appreciation from them; if not attraction, then at least something better than aversion or disgust. This is a night and day difference. I am legitimately frightened to see what kind of attention I get 20 - 40 pounds from now. I already have a nice body underneath the fat, and women really respond to me when I'm attractive; even spontaneously at bus stops, in line at stores, etc., in a city (D.C.) known for cold interpersonal relationships.

IT'S AWESOME!!!

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