How I lost 60 lbs in 6 months w/out dieting (or dieing)

Progress pics - Body + Face https://imgur.com/a/dOdEf6e

 

Something I want to tell you (which I feel like is kind of the secret to my success) is I always made the mistake of putting my life on hold for my body. I told myself I would fall in love when I lost the weight. That I would be more adventurous, get better grades, go out more, wear prettier clothes. And that is a fucking lie. My world changed when I rejected that mentality and started treating myself better and accepting my body. Excercising because I wanted to, not because I wanted to punish myself. Buying clothes in my size and eating food that I actually liked. Yours can too. This is what body positivity is. In all my Reddit lurking I never really see anything like this here. And so I wanted to try to contribute. Because this has changed my life and maybe it will change yours too.

 

And you know what? I made all of these changes when I was still fat and all those great things happened for me. It was like Dumbo with his stupid magic feather. I realized the confidence was inside of me all along. And I felt great before I lost any weight.

 

Here is how I did it: Educated myself on body positivity, mindful eating Bought clothes in my actual size Stopped dieting/stopped restricting what I ate and my caloric intake Changed Instagram feed to be wayy more diverse Stopped using social media altogether (except Reddit) Began "intuitively eating" Reading list (v important) Body Positive Power Intuitive Eating!!! Mindful Eating

 

Educating myself made me realize that disordered eating is not limited to people in overweight or underweight bodies. Disordered eating is the norm. There are a lot of scientifically minded people on Reddit but one thing no one seems to acknowledge is that the only scientifically proven methods of long term weight loss are through medical intervention. So you, your mom or brother lost the weight? Good for them. They are outliers. Convincing the vast majority of people that they should be losing weight on willpower alone is fallicous and a myth. And basically impossible. Accepting this allowed me to let go of dieting once and for all.

 

Things I eat regularly: chips, broccoli, chocolate pretzels, tofu, Boca chicken patties, French fries, whatever the fuck I'm hungry for Exercise I do regularly: walk, lift weights at home (I like these things)

 

Stats: F 5'6" SW:201 CW:140 GW:Don't have one, feel healthy, good enough for me.

Important note: Intuitive Eating is NOT a covert diet. I began it with the intent to heal my realtionship with my body and food/fix disordered eating habits. I did not begin the program with the intention to lose weight.

 

Tldr; stop dieting, eat what you want, love your body (or try not hate it), find out wtf Intuitve Eating is and do it

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Weight gain - confused?

Hi guys,

Been on my weight loss journey for around 2 weeks now. First week I lost a solid 2.5kg, majority water weight as I understand. This week has been a little different though.

I started the gym this Monday, just some typical weight lifting and sometimes doing a little bit of HIIT cardio. My caloric deficit is still at the same it was last week, my TDEE-1000 which works out at around 1500 (I feel 1500 may be a bit low though as it was worked out for a sedentary lifestyle and I've become more active in general recently, although I am still going off the 1500). Note that I am accurately counting these calories on MFP. However, this week I've put on an entire 1kg (around 2lbs). I have a lot of fat to lose so surely I should be losing some weight and I doubt that I put on 1kg of pure muscle in a week.

Feeling a little demotivated right now, anybody got any ideas?

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Superfood Saturday: The Power of Pumpkin

Hold onto your hats, it’s pumpkin season! And to show our appreciation for fall’s go-to gourd, we’re highlighting all the weird, wonderful and nutritional aspects of this fall harvest fruit—that’s right, it’s a fruit! Many people refer to the orange sphere as a vegetable but it is, in fact, a fruit grown from a seed.

Pumpkins are native to Central America and Mexico but are now grown on six out of seven continents around the world. We in the U.S. really enjoy our pumpkins and produce over one billion pounds of pumpkins a year! But if you think we started the pumpkin carving tradition, think again. This custom came all the way from the emerald isle where the Irish originally carved potatoes and turnips. Once Irish immigrants arrived in the U.S., they quickly adopted the pumpkin as the perfect carving vessel.

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The biggest pumpkin on record weighed exactly 2,323.7 pounds according to the Guinness Book of World Record. Pumpkins can be picked from a patch, carved, painted and shown off on your front stoop. They can even be thrown for sport in the infamous punkin chunkin yearly competition. And don’t forget that the pumpkin once served as a carriage for Cinderella!

While the activities are endless for pumpkins, so are the recipes. You can puree your pumpkin for smoothies, oatmeal and parfaits. Or cut into cubes to roast. Or bake it in a pie, muffins or bread. Or slow cook into a delicious soup. And that’s only the beginning! However you like your pumpkin, go ahead and enjoy it. This versatile fruit is fat-, cholesterol- and sodium-free, plus it’s a good source of vitamin C and A.

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So if you’ve grabbed the gang and you’re ready to head to your local pumpkin patch, keep these tips handy: Choose your pumpkin wisely, selecting one that is firm and heavy for its size. If you want to grow your own pumpkins, plant the seeds from the last two weeks of May till the middle of June and pick in October when they’re showing a bright orange color. The most common pumpkin in the U.S. is the Connecticut field variety but that doesn’t mean you can’t branch out and go for a Peanut pumpkin, which is good for soups and stews; a Lakota, that tastes good raw; or a Sugar pumpkin that’s great for pie-making. (Speaking of pies, did you know the largest pumpkin pie ever cooked clocked in at five feet in diameter and weighed over 350 pounds? While we don’t imagine any of us carting that around to our Thanksgiving feasts, it’s still a feat to behold!)

Ready to pumpkin spice up your life? We are right there with you. Check out our top 10 tasty pumpkin recipes perfect for the fall season. Let’s all go pumpkin crazy together!

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Saturday, 21 September 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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Back on the weight loss journey 5 years later of a succesful one 20/M

In 2014 when I was 15 years old at my highest I was 200 pounds with no considerable muscle weight which meant manboobs lovehandles and generally not looking aesthetically pleasing which was for a 15 year old me at the time a big bummer as I had little to no hopes of getting any kind of relationships with people and generally people just looked through you I accepted it because thats just the way life is.

On the summer of 2014 after a failed attempt at a relationship with a girl something clicked inside me and I had the mindset of not caring about anyone or anything but that I would like to lose all this weight for good and started a keto diet which I later combined with OMAD. I started cardio on a stationary bike at home and was watching movies while I was cycling. I lost close to 35 pounds in 2 months and at the end of that summer my lowest was 154 pounds and I have never in my life felt better than that.

Peoples behaviour around me completely changed. They actually acknowledged me and gave me attention whenever I started talking. My self-esteem and self-confidence got a huge boost and I was both mentally and physically balanced. I also had 2 long lasting relationships in those years the second of which was one where the relationship itself was not healthy and as a way to cope with my surroundings I developed my old binge eating habits.

Junk food on top of junk food and in a little over 6 months sat the end of this summer I weighed around 220 pounds (held this weight for over a year) which was a little negated by muscle mass I amassed in the years before this because I was hitting the gym for longer periods but still way above my normal weight range. Again, manboobs, lovehandles, general fatigue no matter what, out of breath in a flight of stairs. I experienced this once before and I hated myself for letting this happen. I broke up my unhealthy relationship and was in a limbo of starting dieting and jumping back to junk food for a few months before meeting my new girlfriend who is a woman who loves me not for my body or my slenderness but for me.

This in itself gave me enough motivation to give her a boyfriend who I think she deserves because I know she likes me thin since she mentioned a few times how she likes my older photos but not in a way that would make you feel bad for not looking like that anymore. I had the freedom of choice between staying like this or getting back on the weight loss train and doing it all over again. I decided the latter and now 3 weeks in im down 10lbs starting with keto and later combining it with omad and in the future start doing cardio.

I know this is not a great amount compared to some of you guys but I feel the most important thing in these situations is making the decision that you want to change. Everything after that is just another challenge which you might fail but can use that as an opportunity to improve or find alternate ways that works for YOU!

I am writing this post as a way to be held accountable for my plans and as a way to show people all you have to do is decide and stick with it theres no magic formula. Dont care about anything or anyone because once you decide you’re doing it in 2 months nothing will matter because you have already lost X amount of pounds and if that isnt showing people you made a decision nothing will. Treat it like you already the person at your goal weight but just need a little time and work to be there.

Feels good to get this off my chest and really hope this helps some of you in any way! See you in 2 months!

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A big thank you to this whole sub for getting me to where I am

Hey everyone, first time poster here (32M/SW-100kg/GW-75kg) but I've been on my weight loss journey since June 1st thanks to this sub. First off, I've gotta thank everyone who's posts I've been reading over the last few months. They've absolutely been the reason I found the drive to start.

I lost control of my weight about 5 years ago after a pretty devastating breakup, and I spiralled into a depression for a few years. In 2014 I was probably around 75kg (165 lbs), and when I finally weighted myself for the first time in May, I had managed to get myself up to 100kg (220lbs). I've been on the right track mentally for a while now, and this sub helped me decide enough was enough.

I downloaded MFP, bought a food scale off Amazon, and struggled my way through the beginnings of CICO lol. Admittedly, I found it super tedious to weigh an ingredient, scan or look it up, enter the amounts, and rinse and repeat with the rest of whatever recipe I was making, but it really did get simpler the more stuff I logged. I cut out probably 80% of the sugar I was eating by adding less sugar to my coffees every day until I could stand the taste of it with just a bit of milk lol. I started going on 45 minute walks on my lunch break every day, and I could really start to see the "face gains", but I got over-confident with my self control and started cheating a little too much. I was eating sugar again, and surprise surprise, I gained 4kg (9lbs) within a 2 week period. Keeping with this sub helped me not stay down on myself for so long and get back on the horse.

So here I am, almost 4 months in and I've lost 14kg (30lbs) since starting June 1st and I've gotta say, it feels awesome to feel proud of myself. I'm pretty much half way to my goal weight (my 5 years ago weight) and even though I still have slip ups, I can actually see the finish line. It's exciting lol. So really this post was just for me to tell my story and say thank you to everyone on this sub for helping me get to this point. It really feels like I'm not doing this alone. Cheers.

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Re-committing myself to weight loss!

I have been counting calories on and off since the beginning of February and did manage to lose a few pounds (which being 5'3 is a lot of work) but now I've definitely gained them all back if not gained more on top of that.

I am 19yo female, 5'3 and 133 pounds or so. I want to get down to 110-115 if that's reasonable for my body. I definitely think I could stand to get down to 120 at least and then maybe I will have to do recomp instead to get the body I want; I'm not entirely sure how I'll need to mix the two but I definitely do have some weight to lose first!

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I started university a few weeks ago, and now that I'm well into a rhythm and a schedule, I'm easing my way back into calorie counting. I used to eat 1200 a day because I was pretty much sedentary, but now I'm in school for theatre which means I'm lightly/moderately active 3-4 days a week, and am thinking about maybe getting a gym membership in order to be active the other days.

So now I've been experimenting and I'm going to bump up my calories to 1400-1500 a day. I have a Fitbit and it says I'm burning ~2000 a day that I'm in class/running errands and I know that FitBits tend to overestimate calories, but I think that number will still leave me with a deficit. (Anyone have any tips on how to calculate the most accurate number possible of calories burnt with a FitBit??)

My parents don't really believe I can do it, they think weight loss is all about eating healthy and numbers/calories have nothing to do with it, so they are often very disparaging of my efforts (I have a sweet tooth so I fit junk into my calories when I can and they don't think it's possible to lose weight without cutting out sugar entirely and eating nothing but healthy food).

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It is the middle of September now, and when I go home for Christmas in three months I want there to be a significant change in my body: to prove to my parents and others that I can do it, but mostly to prove to myself that I can be better, and that I can achieve the body and the lifestyle that I want. I just want to be able to wear all the cute clothes that I bought as 'motivation to lose weight clothes', and to look like all the other girls my age. As an actress, also, physical appearance is very important and unfortunately there is a bias towards the pretty skinny girls. I want to maximize my chances of success in the career that I love, and have a body that is strong enough to allow me to dance, move and be a triple threat.

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I am short and my calorie needs are fairly low, so I know it will be slow progress, but I want to start making progress without undoing it all again. I am very excited for this new chapter in my life, both in terms of school and my new health and lifestyle that I am pursuing.

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