I ran my first race yesterday.

And I’ve never felt more alive in my entire life. When I first started my journey on trying to run, it was a disaster. The shin splints. The trouble breathing. The overly excessive sweating. I felt so defeated. But I kept going day after day. And yesterday, I ran my first race! I ran over 2.5 miles in under 32 minutes and I wanted to cry happy tears at the end of it. I never in a million years thought I could run, let alone for over a mile. Never in a million years did I think I could do this, or place in my age group. Heck, I got a $5 prize out of this for coming 3rd (out of 4) in my group! I want to keep this going.

I’m going to commit myself to one race a month from now on, with September already scheduled. I don’t know if I could have ever done this if I had not started my weight loss journey.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 25 August 2019? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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Is my food OK to be healthy and to lose weight and to look like a movie star?

I have been in these healthy fitness weight loss body building forums. The answers are quiet negative but some people are helpful. I have been called so many names and said I am not eating right and I don't eat calories, etc.... But I have never mentioned everything I eat.

OK I cannot do the calculations and I cannot buy all the healthy western foods. But I can eat a little bit less and drink unhealthy stufss a lot less.

My normal eating habits included a lot of unhealthy foods besides my normal 3 meals. It includes atleast a soda a day, a chocolate milk packet, some packeted cakes, fried local stuffs that is similar to western chips. Everyday I eat those things besides my normal meals. I can reduce those a lot. My normal meals includes around 15 roshi and tuna for breakfast with tea. 2 plate rice and tuna and fried leaf for lunch with a soda. 2 plate rice and tuna and fried leaf and 3 egg omlette for dinner. That and no exercise makes me gain around 2 kg a year. Offcourse it's not the exact same meals 365 days of the year but majority days like 300+ days that's my meals.

I am 26 years old. 5'6 inch tall and I weighs 82 kg when I wake up. 84 kg afternoon.

My record weight were 86 kg when I wake up. I never weighed myself afternoon back than because I want the scale to give my lowest weight.

OK my storey of losing 5 kg in a month included lots of swimming. I swam 18 days in that month and I dieted like crazy. Here is a summery of what I ate in that month.

Most days. Morning: 3 eggs, 5 roshi and with chilli fish or fish curry and 3 spoons of healthy Western breakfast thingy, and black tea. Lunch: 1 platter rice with vegetables and omelette with chilli fish. Dinner, an apple and a milk coffee some nights. Some days. Breakfast: 4 slice of bread and 3 egg omelette with vegetables and 3 spoon of Western healthy breakfast thing. Lunch: chicken spaghetti. Dinner: an apple. 1 soda per week. OK that's basically my diet which gave me diarrhea and fever and depression but I lost 5 kg. It was so hard to sleep empty stomach too.

I am willing to eat less than my normal ways. I want to lose 10 kgs and to look like a movie star with a flat stomach and a flat chest. Rest of my body looks fine.

This is how I want to looks like: https://www.listal.com/viewimage/4175946

Before people says I cannot look like that by losing 10 kg. Lionel Messi is much skinnier than Joey Tribviani and only a inch taller than me but is 72 kg. My goal is to be between 70 and 73 kg too. Morning 70 and afternoon 72 is fine.

What my plan is:

Breakfast: 10 roshi with tuna, 3 egg omelette, 3 spoon of Western healthy thing similar to cornflakes. Lunch: 1 plate rice with tuna and 2 egg omelette. Dinner: 1 plate rice with tuna and an apple. 1 soda per week. 1 chocolate milk packet per week with a packeted cake. Local fried stuffs, 1 handful a day.

So how is my plan looking like to look like a movie star like Joey Tribianni from friends. Not the early episodes.

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I hit a milestone high and mentally defeated low within the same week

I've been going to the same gym for a couple years now, and this year I made it a goal to go as much as I could while I was on summer break. I'm changing eating habits, and actually consistently making my 5 am sessions now that school is back in session. I teared up and almost cried this past Tuesday because when I got to the gym because I discovered finally made it on the July Most Active Members list! This is a huge accomplishment for me. Not just going on a regular basis, but being considered a frequent flyer. Felt good.

Cut to Thursday evening for "Meet the Teacher" night. Since it's a long day, admin fed us pizza for dinner. I walked in the room, I got a couple slices and some salad, and I hear the assistant ask me if I've signed in. The principal pipes up and jokes I need to write down how many slices I've eaten next to my name. He cracks up and now his whole table is laughing.

He's a good man, I'm a big guy at 6'0" 260, I've heard it my whole life, he didn't know I've been working on it, and he didn't know I recently had this big personal accomplishment. But that moment hit me like I was in elementary school being picked on by the class bully. I teared up texting my wife about it.

However, I was at least proud that I didn't do my usual self deprecating act and go along with it and joke about myself. I just kinda nodded, half smiled, and sat down. He looked like he felt bad about it.

I was mentally defeated and didn't go to the gym on Friday. But I had a good session today and upped some weights.

I don't hold it against him, but I was blown away at how quickly I went from riding this high to being down in the dumps. I don't usually do either of those and just kinda emotionally coast in regards to my weight loss journey. I haven't felt like that in a long time. Just needed a vent. Thanks.

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UPDATE! I've lost over 250lbs and am scheduled for skin removal surgery!

A different set of before and after photos

I had a consultation with a plastic surgeon in Atlanta this past Wednesday and am all set for skin removal surgery on October 2! I live in NYC, but having it done in Atlanta so my mom can take care of me post-operation

I am extremely excited to end this chapter of my journey and begin the next. My excess skin has been a great source of self-consciousness for me so I'm so happy to see it go.

I'm having three areas done: Abdomen, breasts, and arms. The surgeon said my excess skin could be an entire half a person alone and that I have almost "no fat" on me (I've had my body fat percentage tested in a hospital setting recently -- 23.5%) and that overall it'll only take two weeks to heal. The patient coordinator said she's never heard of anyone coming through the office with that amount of weight loss without the help of weight loss surgery.

The downside is no heavy lifting for a month, so hopefully I won't lose too many of my gains

If you'd like to see photos of my loose skin, here's my previous post about it

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23 lbs down 57 to go

M/30/357 lbs (was 380) on mobile.

Edit: I am mildly gluten intolerant.

So on the 29th of July I got an expected diagnosis, type 1 diabetes. That day I said fuck you beetus and fuck you fatass for getting yourself here.

So I went cold turkey off sugar, corn syrup, all gluten, and started carb counting (50g soft limit and 90g hard limit per day). My only source of sugar is honey and fruit. I try to keep my carb intake to fibrous carbs but this is not a strict rule.

I don't count calories, this is because I dropped my food intake to the point where I was riding the high end of a hypoglycemic low for the last few weeks. For those weeks I was eating around 1000-1500 calories a day (estimated for this post). I did this because I was addicted to eating, feeling full and I needed to shrink my stomach. Unlike alcohol I have to eat, so I had to become ok with hunger. Weeks of feeling hungry made me get over the panic I felt when I would get hungry. The addiction is due to childhood events that I am not going to go into right now.

Today I am moving into intermittent fasting and starting careful workout. I will be doing this while maintaining my current diet, though my estimated calorie intake is going to likely be around 2000 per day, according to my carb counting app.

I do not plan on remaining on such a harsh diet indefinitely, but I will be on a similar diet that is less strict likely for the rest of my life. Fuck the beetus.

If anyone has any tips on accelerating weight loss in a way that is not worse than my current methods I'd be interested in hearing.

Also, regarding the excess skin after weight loss, does anyone know any non-surgical means to deal with this? Aside from time.

Thank you.

To anyone dealing with weigh loss or maintenance, you rock, keep it up.

To anyone who is considering starting weight loss or on the fence. You can do it, don't look at how much others have done, they aren't you. Other people can be inspiration or can give you ideas and information. What you lose is your victory, be it 1 lb or 100+ it is significant and nothing anyone says can change that. Jump in (safely) and keep pressing, never stop, no matter what. You won't miss that burger, pizza, pop, cake, or whatever gives you that breakup feels every time you think about giving it up. It'll feel like hell for the first week but then it gets easy. Then the next thing you know broccoli is one of the most delicious things on the fucking planet and you don't want to eat so much that you hurt. I cried the day I jumped into this, I was so scared I'd die when the hunger set in. But I'm ok, I didn't die, I can serve cake to people without taking the largest slice that is socially acceptable at that moment. You can do it. You can push on even when the "fuck yeah, I can do this" wears off after a few weeks. Everyone can lose weight, even the fat red head kid (me).

Tldr: I got the beetus, fuck the beetus, fuck my weight, anyone can lose weight. How do you deal with excess skin after weight loss?

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