Mandatory college meal plan; how do I keep losing weight?

I've worked very hard on weight loss this summer and I'm down from 195 to 165 (6' m 20). However, the semester starts at my college in about two weeks, and I'm required to buy the unlimited meal plan since I live in a dorm (I know this is unusual but yes, it is a hard and fast rule). I only managed to lose weight this summer by restricting my access to it--I went to the grocery store once a week and bought a very small amount of food. I wouldn't get any food other than that since I didn't have a car (had to have a friend take me to the grocery store) and don't live near any place to get food. But at school, I eat every meal at a dining hall where there's unlimited food, very little of which is healthy and none of which is labeled for calories. I'm also vegetarian and there aren't many options, so I have to rely on eating a lot of rice, which is terrible for weight loss (way too easy to eat too much).

How do I manage to keep losing weight in this environment? I can't just avoid the dining hall; I've had to pay so much for the crazy-expensive meal plan that I can't afford to go out and buy my own food elsewhere. But I just don't have very much self-control, especially in a very social eating environment, and I'm petrified of losing all my progress. It's making me super anxious and not wanting to go back for this next year.

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After maintaining a 150lb loss since 2012 I’m almost back to where I started.

I’ve joined the ranks of the fallen. I didn’t think it would ever happen to me but alas it has. I went from 350lbs in 2010 to 180lb in 2012. I was able to (mostly) maintain that loss up until last summer. The story of how I gained it back seems pretty typical from what I’ve read here, I got into my first serious relationship and found that it wasn’t easy for me to focus on CICO while balancing a relationship.

Right now I’m sitting at 260lbs. None of my clothes fit and my social anxiety has flared up a lot, I avoid going out in public as much as possible. It’s difficult to rationalize why I allowed myself to be put back in the same situation I worked so hard to overcome nearly a decade ago. I didn’t have quite the amazing transformation that I originally envisioned at the beginning of my weight loss journey. As it turned out, my weight wasn’t hiding a beautiful person underneath it, but despite that I was still much more comfortable in my daily life not being morbidly obese.

I’m hoping this post along with rededicating myself to logging every day in MFP will be the start of my second, and hopefully final, weight loss journey.

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Want a pet for companionship and exercise

I am reading a book named "Walking with Peety", and this book is about men starting walking with a pet dog for weight loss. The writer was 150 pounds overweight. He decided to adopt a dog as his doctor prescribed adopting a dog for changing his sedentary lifestyle. I have read less than half pages of the book, and I think he is talented enough to make me keep reading a book for a hour. I am 5'1ft, and now I weigh 138 pounds. I gained 5 pounds 3 weeks ago, and I have reversed the small weight gain. I walk more than 10000 steps a day, and I do exercise 3-4 times a week. Yet my progress is slow despite my quite active lifestyle because I don't cut back my sugar intake. I am sure that I can solve sugar addiction by meeting with my family doctor and having self-discipline. The book makes me want to have a pet for achieving active lifestyle and mutual friendship. I don't mean that I am going to adopt a pet right now because it is too selfish decision, considering my situation. I would like to have a pet. Not only do I need a friend for exercise, but also I need a friend that can trust me without saying a word. I could not make a lot of friends because of the way I deal with controversial issue. Having a bold, unconventional opinion makes many people left from me. I am not good at making a lot of friends. One to one,talking face to face is fine for me,but getting a long with a group of friends is not something I enjoy. Talking to new friend feels like s burden considering ramification of having conversation. I have a need to have non-human friend, who does not speak language. That is my post today, and I hope someone would understands me.

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Made it to onederland!

Hey /r/loseit I achieved a big personal milestone today and wanted to share it with you! End of last year I started a new job and decided it's finally time to start a whole new chapter in my life. I've been struggling with my weight for the longest time and reached a point where I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't walk 5 minutes without sweating and being out of breath, everything physical was way too hard and I had little to no energy all the time. So I decided to educate myself and start my weightloss journey, here's the progress I tracked:

17.10.2018: 123,7 KG / 272,7 lbs

29.10.2018: 120 KG / 264,5 lbs

08.11.2018: 121 KG / 266,7 lbs

21.11.2018: 116,8 KG / 257,4 lbs

5.12.2018: 115,3 KG / 254,1 lbs

19.12.2018: 114,9 KG / 253,3 lbs

02.01.2019: 112,5 KG / 248 lbs

16.01.2019: 110 KG / 242,5 lbs

30.01.2019: 109 KG / 240,3 lbs

13.02.2019: 107,1 KG / 236,1 lbs

27.02.2019: 105,6 KG / 232,8 lbs

13.03.2019: 105,2 KG / 231,9 lbs

27.03.2019: 103,2 KG / 227,5 lbs

10.04.2019: 101,9 KG / 224,6 lbs

24.04.2019: 100,6 KG / 221,7 lbs - BodyFat%: 30,9%

08.05.2019: 99,3 KG / 218,9 lbs - BF: 30,5%

19.06.2019: 95,85 KG / 211,3 lbs - BF: 29,4%

03.07.2019: 94,15 KG / 207,5 lbs - BF: 28,8 %

17.07.2019: 92,3 KG / 203,4 lbs - BF: 28,2 %

31.07.2019: 92,2 KG / 203,2 lbs - BF: 28,2%

14.08.2019: 91,2 KG / 201,2 lbs - BF: 27,4%

28.08.2019: 89,4 KG / 197 lbs - BF: 27,1%

faceprogress at the start vs. now

How did I do it?:

CICO + doing IF (OMAD monday-friday and 16:8 saturday-sunday). To start, I just kinda continued eating the things I ate before, just way less of them, so the change wasn't even that big. In the beginning I didn't even include any exercise and just tracked calories, trying to stay at a good deficit. This alone worked great in the beginning and after losing some weight and already feeling a bit fitter I got in the habit of doing daily walks. I walk for 25 minutes in my lunch break at work (don't need time to eat when I'm doing OMAD, so might aswell use the time) and then a longer walk after coming home from work. So one thing that helped tremendously were walks, walks and even more walks. That's my record for the last ~5 months starting in early april.

I know I'm not at the end of my journey yet, but this is definitely a big milestone. In the beginning I didn't dream of achieving a weight that 'low'.

The biggest tip I can give you is that 99% of the work is done in your head. You need to 100% WANT to change, the rest comes at ease after that. Just get your mind on board and take small steps in the beginning. If I can do it you guys can definitely do it aswell. And believe me, even though I'm still fairly chubby, I feel way better now than I did 1 year ago. I can finally buy nice clothes that make me feel even better in my own body. Plus occasionally you might even get people to recognize your weight loss and then proceed to complimenting you. After a life without any compliments at all, those compliments had me on cloud 9 - and I'm still rocking the high of them haha!!

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Tattoos and weight loss?

So I’m looking to get a tattoo. I want a quote on my forearm with some flowers incorporated. Basically I want most of my inner forearm covered. I was going to book an appointment for a consultation, but I was thinking....if I get a tattoo now and lose weigh (looking to lose around 100), will my tattoo start to look strange overtime because the forearm would be getting smaller? I know it’s not the stomach or thigh or an area with a drastic change with weight loss, but it’s still a concern. Should I wait? Or do I really have nothing to worry about?

Also, on a side note, I originally posted this on the main loseit page, but it didn’t post because it said my post (exact one above) didn’t have enough content. What does that mean?

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SV- Almost there

I’ve been feeling a little down on myself and decided to do a weigh in today and I’m 20 lbs to my goal weight (150.)

Up until last year-ish, I weighed 195-190, and I’d go to the gym every once in a while, but usually just used walking to class as an excuse for being “active” (which don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of walking lol.) As a New Years resolution I decided I was going to strive to actually go to the gym. I had done this before, lots of times, but usually just with the goal of weight loss. So I’d lose like 5 lbs, celebrate, then never go back, gain it back and then repeat. But this time, my intentions were purely just to go to the gym and feel comfortable there.

I’m very competitive and structure based, so to start out I had 180 (?) boxes and every time I’d go, I checked it off. Once I got to where I liked the gym and it was routine, I didn’t look at it as much anymore. During summer, I started CICO to (at least) maintain during break, and now here I am ... close to that goal weight I’ve had for literally years.

It’s so weird because I remember thinking it was so far away and such a ridiculous goal to think I could achieve but now it’s just a little bit away. It’s absolutely insane to think about.

Thanks for listening! Hoping everyone is having a good day and power filled day!

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How to reinvigorate weight loss? Your weight loss secrets and tips?

Had my daughter early May (gained 22 pounds during pregnancy) and have lose 45 pounds so far. Now 159 at 5’7! (Very happy with how I look)

My brothers wedding is on the 22nd and I want to look as amazing as possible.

Any tips for cutting down fat fast?

I already go to the gym an hour and 15 mins day, take my vitamins, drink a gallon of water, and count calories.

So recommendations I’m looking for are specific foods I should eat, supplements ya’ll recommend and any workouts you guys like for really burning fat/kicking your ass haha!

I can’t eat under 1200 calories though because I like to keep my oversupply of milk for breast feeding but if you have a recommendation of a certain amount of fat/protein I should shoot for than that would be great!!

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