Weight Loss Tips

Monday, August 19, 2019

Did losing the last of your weight affect your dating life?

Consciously, I wanna do this for myself but I am so lonely and I haven't felt validated in a long time. I have seen old posts similar to this one but many of the comments refer to pretty major weight loss (>100lbs). I only have about 20lbs to lose and I want things to change in my life but I am not clear on how to do this. I had a difficult couple of years and my confidence has taken a serious knock. I feel non-existent. A couple years ago, I was about 12lbs lighter (I know this isn't a lot) and I think men treated me differently. I want to clarify that confidence was not a factor in this as I was not doing well back then. I wasn't even healthier; just thinner and more tan.

I have tried tinder but hate pictures and find the whole experience demoralising. I feel as though I can't even form casual relationships but I don't know if this is due to my social circle or not partying anymore (and failing to uptake a new social activity). It's also fully possible I am choosing guys who require me to be thinner but this is unintentional. What I'm asking is, if you didn't lose a huge amount of weight, or towards the end of your journey, did you notice a difference in how the opposite sex approached you? Lastly, at the moment, I still dress like I did at my highest weight and it would be interesting to know if - despite weight loss - some people didn't experience certain changes til they embodied (no pun intended) their new physique.

If anybody is interested to know my stats - 5'6" l SW: 167 l CW: 145 l GW: 125 l

tl;dr feel like nobody likes me, don't know if having abs will change this since I am not 'overweight'

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New Hot Sauce Obsession Peri Peri Sauce

Hello! How’s it going? I’m just running and eating aaaand found a NEW hot sauce I’m obsessed with! And Diego’s just being his most interesting self… I told him he looks like the most interesting dog in the world. I don’t think he got the joke though. Oh well. Stay thirsty my friends. In food […]

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stuck! and frustrated what am I doing wrong.

So long story short I started from 298.8 and got allllll the way down to 255ish lowest was 251 havent budged. I got down on diet alone and started incorporating a heavy lifting routine which stalled my weight loss. I tried changing my diet a little bit, and I got down to 251 but would bounce back up to 255. I'm working out about 6 days a week now and really killing it in the cardio and lifting. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Here is an example of my day so far.

Breakfast: 1 cup steel cut oats with 6 grapes and 2 strawberries. an okio cherry yogurt and black coffee.

Lunch: 1 cup of rotini pasta, with chicken breast and green beans

Dinner: 1 cup of marble potatoes, 1 cup of stir fried vegis, and .6 of a chicken breast.

snacks: Snickers bar, and protein bar

exercise about 30 minutes of lifting, and then 25 minutes on bike and about an hour and half of swimming laps. Total caloric value of the day :1831

Macros:

Protien: 119

carbohydrates: 252

fiber: 36

Sugar: 88

Fat:43

With this exercise I should be losing but I'm not seeing it. Can some one please help.

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Trouble letting old clothes go

May of this year I was 5'2" and weighed 167 lbs. Today I weigh 145 lbs. So I've lost a total of about 22 pounds. My jeans are baggier, my shirts are baggy, and I even went down a bra size. I still have a ways to go but I'm really happy with my progress so far. Everyone around me says I've lost a lot of weight but some days I have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I'm smaller than I used to be. I find myself having trouble letting go of old clothes. At the beginning of my weight loss I was really excited about the thought of a new wardrobe but now I keep putting it off telling myself "10 more pounds and I'll go shopping". Maybe it's because I've never lost weight before so this is all foreign to me. Anyone else ever experience this?

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How to Stop Sabotaging Your Weight Loss

It’s possible that you may have hit a roadblock on your weight loss journey in the form of self sabotage. We can sometimes be our own worst enemies when it comes to reaching our goals. Many times we let fear and old habits stand in the way of success. Self-sabotage has so much to do with our mental processes and perceptions. It’s imperative that we identify these thought patterns and work to correct them. Health takes constant work but we should always be striving for progress, not perfection. It’s the mentality of persistence that will get us to our goals. So if your progress has stalled, take an honest inventory of your habits to break through that roadblock and stop sabotaging your weight loss progress.

Cut the Negative Self-Talk
How are you supposed to accomplish anything if you are busy cutting yourself down with every misstep? Go easy on yourself. Forgive and forget. Focus on what you have accomplished instead of on what you have “failed” to accomplish. Most importantly, believe that you are worthy of weight loss success and all the benefits that come with it.

How to love yourself at any size

Don’t Let One Slip-Up Turn Into a Full-Blown Binge
Just because you slipped up one time does not mean your diet is blown and you should just go hog-wild for the remainder of the day. This type of behavior will be sure to send you spiraling into an unhealthy slump. Forgive yourself the indiscretion, move on, and start anew with a clean slate.

How to Beat a Binge

Set Realistic Expectations
Do not set yourself up for failure by setting unrealistic goals. If you’ve never run, don’t expect to become a marathoner in a month. And if you want to lose 30 pounds don’t attach an unrealistic time limit to it. If you’re doing the work, that’s all that matters.

How to know if your weight loss plan is working

Embrace Discipline
It takes work to live a healthy lifestyle. But if you get yourself in the right routine, it will become second nature. So commit to the work and embrace the routine. Set an exercise schedule, plan your meals, get enough sleep. Rinse and repeat. The more you transform your lifestyle with healthy habits, the easier it becomes.

How to Make A Good Habit Stick

Trust in the Process
It can be a long road to reach your weight loss goals, so have patience with the process and celebrate the little victories along the way. Maybe the pounds aren’t coming off as fast as you’d like, but you ate well every day this week—count that as a win. Don’t get lost in the big picture. Just focus on the present tasks needed to get you there.

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I Feel Like My Body Punishes Me for the Slightest Deviation

Some quick background: I'd lost 100 lbs, mostly through calorie tracking, then the last bit (25 lbs or so) through running as I trained for a marathon. Running the marathon was a long-time goal I had if I lost the weight. I did it and it was great (I wasn't breaking any speed records but I finished in under 5 hours). Fast forward a few years and I've gained 40 lbs back and I'm tracking carefully to lose again. So far I've lost about 15 lbs.

I offer that background because I know what it takes to lose weight and I'm a big believer in the science of weight loss: tracking calories in, calories out, knowing your BMR, etc., and I use a fitness watch to estimate calories burned. When I eat right and do everything I'm supposed to, the weight comes off, albeit slowly, about a pound a week, which is what I'm aiming for. But if I deviate even a little bit, everything seems to go sideways. I'm not talking about overeating or stopping tracking, I just mean if I eat 500 calories more in a week than I plan to, because of a birthday part or whatever, I don't lose anything.

It feels like I can be strict and keep to my calorie count every day and lose a pound a week, or lose absolutely nothing if I go over by so much as 10 calories. Based on my tracking, I should be losing around .5 lbs to .75 lbs per week the last month, but instead...it's zero. I get it: weight fluctuates daily and weekly and there's a lot of factors. But it'd be nice to feel like I can eat a little bit more one night and lose a little less that week than nothing at all.

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Running with LoseIt - 8/19/19 - Running vs. Walking

This is a weekly post for the runners and soon-to-be runners of LoseIt. All levels are welcome here. You can be someone planning your first run, in the midst of C25K or an experienced triathlete.

Mainly, this is a place to post running related details from the last week. NSVs. First runs. Weeks of C25K finished. Races run. Kilometers reached.

Questions about running? We know you have them. Ask away!

In addition to sharing your details, I ramble on about some topic to make it through the automod filters. This week -- walking vs. running.

Run or Walk to Lose Weight

I get asked about my walking more than my running by folks interested in how I lost weight.

I always tell them it's all in what you eat and your diet, only a small portion of weight loss is related to exercise and activity.

That said they still persist with the walking questions. Everyone is ready to walk if it means dropping lots of weight.

Personally I recommend walking over running for weight loss. Here's the three main reasons --

1) Can do it anytime. In your slippers circling your living room if need be.

2) Low impact, you can do it everyday. You might only be able to go 10-15 minutes at first, but you can do it again tomorrow and the next day.

3) It is time consuming, leaving you less time for snacking. ;)

But running burns way more calories!

It might if you run more miles than you can walk. But personally, I can easily walk 5 miles (8K) a day (about 80 minutes) every day of the week - 35 miles (42K) a week. But running this slowly (60 minutes a day) would not be possible for me without a lot of build up and effort to get there.

Both of those burn roughly the same number of calories. 5 miles (8K) of walk = 5 miles of running = about 575 calories for me.

Why run when you can just walk?

Ran into this article recently.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/4/9091093/walking-versus-running

Simple answer, running rocks for your health.

While running is way harder on the body, the benefits are tremendous to your health. The intensity of even easy running is so good for you that just 10 minutes of it a day can dramatically improve your health.

Doing Both

Once you start running you might be tempted to ditch walking. It seems like a waste of effort and time.

But, you can still fit in plenty of walking when/where running isn't possible. Break at work? 15 minute walk! Commute into work? Fit in 20 minute walk into the mix. Time for bed? Time for a walk!

Weekly Check-in

How did it go this week? Run any races? Make your miles/km goal? Do your first run? Have any questions? Post away!

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