Any cooks/culinary students out there?

Hey everyone! I was wondering if there were any other kitchen employees or culinary students out there who could tell me how they manage their weight loss with mandatory tastings. Any success stories?

I’m a 5’1 female, 125 lbs, just starting my weight loss journey, looking to get to about 108. 2 days a week I attend culinary school and 3 days a week I work at a high end Italian restaurant. When I’m at school. we do a tasting at the end of the day where we are required to try everything that the class has made, even if it is only one bite. At work, I must taste EVERY batch of salad for seasoning - granted, it’s just a tiny floret of broccoli or a peace of lettuce, but all covered in EVOO or vinaigrette

It’s incredibly frustrating to not have any clue how many calories I’m consuming during these tastings, and I’m not sure it’s viable to just wait to eat for the day until I do them (on my feet all day whether at work or school, feel like I need a full balanced meal to get through). I’ll be working out at Orangetheory at least 5x a week.

TIA!

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The end-goal is daunting

Six months into my weight loss journey, and I'm almost down my first 30lbs. The pacing of about 1lbs per week is a perfect compromise for me between losing weight and lifestyle changes, instead of a hard-to-keep-up diet. (27F, started at 282lbs).

It's great. I sleep better, breathe better, move easier, my clothes fit better, my face looks a bit more defined.

I've been doing it by mostly keeping up CICO between 1500-1800kcal a day, having the occasional days where I just don't care (when we order food, go out, or have friends over). My husband - who initially grumped at the idea of dieting - has been incredibly supportive and managed to lose some weight himself (he went from slightly overweight at 154lbs to a healthy 135lbs).

It's a good pace, but sometimes I put my goal weight in Libra and just get very discouraged. I lost 30lbs. To get to a healthy weight which is at most 76kg/167lbs, there's another 40kg/90lbs to lose. That's a lot. That's early 2021 at the pace I'm at.

It's actually the pace I promised myself - to reach a healthy weight before I'm 30. That gives me until 2022. It shouldn't be this discouraging to see those high numbers - or to see how fat I still am (cause 255lbs is still very fat). I haven't been at a healthy weight in my 20's at all, mostly hovering in the overweight range.

For those who lost a lot of weight at a slow pace, what did you do to not get discouraged? How can you seperate "where I want to be" from "where I could be", and accept that where you are is a pretty good point already (come on, I did lose almost 30lbs!)

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I’m losing weight rapidly but it’s clear no one is rooting for me.

I lost 35 pounds in 3 months. It’s quite noticeable to people who know me. When I talk about it, I try not to sound preachy and judgemental of other people’s decisions. I try not to talk about it all the time. But to be fair sometimes when I hit my goal weight for the month or something, I want to share my happiness with someone I love, because I love all good news so if the shoe were on the other foot I’d be ecstatic for them as well.

Whenever I do try to share news with my friends or family, they get super judgmental and start shoving (wildly inaccurate) health advice down my throat or start critiquing my choices when we go out to eat, and i know they’d come down on me like vultures to a carcass if Lord forbid I put weight back on. I’m actually so disgusted by their behaviors.

I’m not really looking for sympathy or anything. I’m not trying to brag or make my entire personality about my weight loss, but it’s changing my life drastically and I just wanted to share the good news. Now I just feel guilty every time I open my mouth about it. I’m realizing that I’m really all alone in this journey. But I’m not super upset. It’ll just take some getting used to

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I Just Deleted MFP and I’m Kind of Worried

I feel like everyone’s going to think I’m a nut case.

I deleted MyFitnessPal and have decided to stop tracking calories. However, I still plan on using portion control and limiting myself to three meals and 1-2 snacks a day (usually I don’t need a morning snack but going between lunch and dinner is tough). I also want to focus on choosing healthier options even at unhealthy places (getting a small size at fast food places, boxing up half my meals at restaurants, choosing lots of veggies). And of course I will never give up working out because holy shit has it been a literal life saver.

I just feel like the calorie counting doesn’t work for me. Like I know it WORKS because science, but I’ve been bingeing non stop and I think it’s because I have that number to look at. I think I can eat more even when I’m full because of that number, I say “fuck it” when I go a calorie over.

I just feel like I need time to focus on mindful eating and reasonable portions before I come back to calorie counting. In fact, I researched binge eating and many suggested getting the binges and their cause under control before trying to restrict diet.

I don’t know how to explain it without sounding like “lol I’m giving up” because I’m not giving up on losing weight, I just want to find a balance first and then go from there if that makes sense.

I also stopped weighing myself every day and changed to weighing weekly because seeing the fluctuations drove me nuts even though I knew some of it was water and food weight. Like I haven’t gained or lost any weight, but I get freaked out if I see a .1 gain and overly happy when I see a .1 loss.

I don’t know I may even skip weighing all together and stick to measurements.

I’m just trying to find a sustainable weight loss method that doesn’t lower my self-esteem, make me feel guilty for eating, and that works even if it takes me a million years.

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How much will my loose skin tighten? I feel unconfident now.(67 lbs. down)

I am 26F, 5'7.5''. Since childhood I've always felt a little chubby, though I was never very fat until I got older. In high school there was a time that I was about 135 lbs., but after high school I gained weight and got up to 200 lbs. in January 2017. In February 2018 I was at 190 lbs., and started counting calories. Today, I am 133 lbs.

I am mostly very happy, however am dealing with the after effects of being overweight, such as stretch marks on my small breasts, sides, lower belly, hips, and inner thighs (people tell me they are barely noticeable though). I still feel fat but I think I just need to lose a few more pounds and then gain muscle. Most troubling of all is the stretchy skin I have now. This is most noticeable on my breasts, when I grab the skin it wrinkles up, and when I bend over they look really weird. Also my stomach fat hangs weirdly and my belly button is down-turned.

I feel sexy still sometimes but am really struggling. I was more confident in some ways being very overweight though I carried it terribly mostly in my stomach and love handles. I really want the loose skin to go away. I hit 135 lbs. in April and am not sure if the few months of basically maintaining has helped much. I want to lose more but don't want my skin to look worse. I want to get in the best shape I can but feel hopeless with the skin. I feel self conscious about it. I just want to feel attractive and know that I am attractive to my boyfriend. I've had the same boyfriend throughout, we've always had a very good sex life, and he has also lost almost 90 lbs. and looks amazing (I always thought he was attractive).

Don't get me wrong, the weight loss has been worth it absolutely, and I am proud of myself. However, dealing with a damaged body feels like I'll be punished forever for ever getting overfat. I didn't know the consequences of being overweight (never thought about loose skin) and didn't know how to lose weight. I feel negative towards how I was brought up and the society of stupid marketing scams and diets for weight loss. I don't want anyone to ever have to go through being overweight; I wish there was more awareness and correct information in our society about it.

I've never struggled this bad with body image, even when I was way more overweight. I guess I always thought I could just lose weight one day and didn't know about the permanent damage. However, I also don't want to be so body focused, I know we all grow old and wrinkly one day anyway, if we're lucky.

Anyone understand? Will my skin improve? I'm sorry if this is hard to read. I just need to talk about it...

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Check your food scale! I've plateaued for months — turns out my scale has been lying to me.

I started my weight loss journey a two years ago. In the first year, lost 35 pounds. Last fall, I fell off the bandwagon and gained about 15 pounds back — and while I'm now at the weight where I was before, I've been struggling to lose any additional weight since. For months, it's seemed like no matter how hard I try, my weight won't budge.

I assumed it must be human error. I got married this year, so maybe it was stress! I injured my back a few months ago, so maybe I was just moving a lot less. Or maybe I miscalculated my TDEE (even though, when I recalculated, it was the same)? Maybe I wasn't being honest with myself about how much I was eating when I went out. Why else wouldn't I be losing weight?

Well, you read the title, so you already know.

For a while, I've been noticing some weird behavior with my scale. If I left food on for more than a few seconds, the number would change a little, adding or subtracting a few grams. If I pressed on the scale at all (say, the pressure from adding peanut butter to bread with a knife), it would change the weight after I let go. (I even posted about these issues here.) But when I replaced the batteries, nothing changed — so I assumed it was something that all scales did. As I mentioned, I got married this year and had to heal from an injury, so I figured my weight was stagnating for other reasons.

But when I weighed a package at home last week, and then saw it weigh 40 grams more at the post office, I decided to order a new scale.

Well, it came today. And wouldn't you know it? My old scale has been off — BY A LOT. Lighter items weigh 10% to 20% less on my old scale than my new one. Heavier items, like meals, can be off by as much as 50%. Video proof.

I almost wanted to cry. I can't believe how much time I've wasted not realizing this was the issue. I first noticed the scale problems above almost a year ago. Why didn't I check sooner? How much farther could I be in my journey if I had had a working scale?

On one hand, I'm frustrated and disappointed this held me back for so long. On the other, I now know why I wasn't losing weight, and it wasn't stress, an injury, or that I "just can't do this". It was as simple as a food scale issue — which means that, now that the issue is fixed, I can make progress again.

TL;DR: My food scale was misreporting my food weight for almost a year. Now that I have a new one, I hope I can start losing weight again!

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Shout out to walking!

I’m not extremely overweight, and I’m fit enough to run, but you know what? I really, really hate running. So much. I think I hate running more than anything else in the world.

When I was putting together plans for my weight loss, I said to my wife “I would rather walk 10 miles than run 1”. She said - “Why don’t you?” slaps forehead with palm

I love walking! I can walk miles and miles and come home happy and energized - I don’t even need to rest! Plus, it makes my dog soooo happy, and she deserves it.

I was just reading a post about not using exercise to punish yourself, and feeling so grateful that I love to walk. And that it’s good for me. Big shout out to walking. Also, I love this subreddit, everybody here is my favorite.

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