I’ve been having dreams about food?

On Saturday, I dreamed I was binging a large pizza.

And last night, I dreamed I was eating apple pie & a bunch of other dessert things, like taking a sample of all of them.

I haven’t had this happen before so I am confused. I’ve been sticking to my diet very well recently, but I don’t have any “forbidden foods,” I just make sure to control portions. Like if I want pizza I’ll have a junior pizza as long as it’s in my calories, and obviously not every freaking day, more like once a week.

I haven’t had a large pizza in over 4 months. But when I woke up from that dream I was like, “... if all I ate today was a large pizza I could eat at maintenance.” And then I didn’t do that, instead I ate at my normal deficit & ate reasonably healthy.

And as for the pie, I guess I’ve been seeing all these nice Fall desserts at the store and wanting to try some, but not buying anything because I can’t handle having a large portion of a Fall dessert at home, it’s too dangerous.

Like this diet is not as restrictive as my old ones. I tried to eat 1200cal diets before, and I would get so lightheaded I’d feel like I was going to pass out, and this extreme restriction led to binging. I gained 12 pounds in the ~6 months of yo-yo dieting between extreme restriction and binging.

But in June, I started on a healthy 1700cal high protein diet, which I decreased to 1600cal in late August to adjust for my weight loss. I’ve been doing cardio 2-3x a week as a supplement, not eating back my exercise calories. And I have lost 20 pounds in 4 months. It has been my first ever successful diet attempt.

The urges to binge still happen but not as bad as they were when I was doing extreme restrictions, I can control them, and in the entire four months of my diet the only times I’ve ever eaten above maintenance have been at social events. (Thankfully these are infrequent enough to not be a real setback.)

During my whole diet, I haven’t done what I would consider a real binge even once. I’ve eaten at maintenance, I’ve had bad meals, I’ve gotten a little crazy with the cocktails with friends. But I have never sat down & eaten an entire large pizza or an entire family size bag of chips in one sitting, which I could do before no problem, and often did when I was stressed out. Instead I’ve been exercising when stressed.

I’ve never had full on dreams about binging before so it kinda freaks me out. Like I’m wondering if there’s something wrong with me. I don’t consider myself to have a “disorder,” but I did have issues with binge eating in the past and I still have issues now.

Making this post is also frankly very scary for me because I feel so ashamed of my binges that for a long time I didn’t even want to admit I had a problem. I honestly feel really awful for having these dreams but it’s not like I can control them.

I don’t really know what I’m looking for here. My diet is going well, I’m at 167 which is a number I haven’t seen in over a year. I’m no longer obese, I went down a dress size, some minor health issues disappeared, I have 20x more energy and basically my life has changed. I feel a lot more confident now too, I’m still not where I want to be physically but it’s so much better than when I was obese. I believe that I can get to my goal weight as long as I stick to my diet and I’m ok with losing weight slower if it helps me stay sane, even if I’m just losing 0.5 pounds a week when I’m at the final stretch.

But I’m still getting strong urges to eat the way that literally made me sick, apparently urges so strong that I’m having dreams about them now. I wish my body could develop an understanding that what I’ve been doing is one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself, but instead it’s just like, “ME WANT PIZZA.” And not just a junior pizza, but an amount of pizza that makes no sense for a human to eat. It’s really frustrating.

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My progress so far, staying patient and consistent.

http://imgur.com/a/pLXMDbu

Was about 315ish in that first picture and now I am 215ish with about 40 more to lose, the last bit is the hardest but I have already completed 75% of the weight loss time to finish this and get the last 25%.

I have never had a girlfriend, been rejected because of my weight, got denied at theme parks and did the walk of shame in front of many people laughing to them selves. I was not able to fit in the back seat of cars with 3 people so I always had to sit shotgun, broken chairs because of my excessive weight, and many other 'negative' experiences due to weight issues, but that's been erased now due to losing weight. The benefits of what you get for losing weight are endless, you can't think of them all, so I encourage to to be the best form of yourself and don't give up a couple of days, or a week in, keep going, get what you want. I was overweight all my life I am 27 now, don't let time slip away, we are only here on earth for 700,000 or so hours, it's not long at all, don't look back on your life and say I should of lost the weight sooner, or changed your bad habits. Stay away from feeling regret and remorse and accomplish your goals, write them down and check mark them make mile stones.

Just thought I would give a little advice but be patient, stay consistent and you will get what you want.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 14 October 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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Weight loss to save not one life, but two!

My mum has been in acute kidney failure for the last 20 years with her functionality dropping drastically late last year. The entire family got tested and I was the only match, amazing news that at least one of us can be considered as a donor! The doctors made it clear, although I'm as close to a perfect match as she could have hoped for, the only thing holding the transplant back was my weight...

Now, I have always had an unhealthy relationship with food, emotional eating is how I deal with the many stresses in my life, but if I wanted to save my mums life I'd have to make some serious changes. I'm 5'6 and at my heaviest I was 225 pounds, in order to have the surgery my doctors wanted me down to 180 for the surgery date with an end goal target of 145 pounds. This is because being overweight and having a high BMI has a massive negative effect on your kidneys and as I'd have to make one kidney last for hopefully 50 or so years I needed to show my surgeons I'm capable of losing the weight and keeping it off. This was my moment, the moment where I realised I had to make real changes, change my eating patterns, change my relationship with food, change my emotional support systems, I had to start making better choices!

Since finding out about the weight loss requirement I've started taking my weight loss seriously, using a combination of CICO and IF I'm now 187 pounds, only 7 pounds from my ideal surgery weight! It's not been easy and I've had a few days where it all goes out the window and binges happen, I've finally realised that that doesn't mean the whole process needs to stop and I admit defeat. It means you accept that you have set backs and you just have to make sure you track them, accept them and start again the next day! After a few of these you can start to recognise what triggers them and try to come up with healthier ways of dealing with it. For me, that meant acknowledging when things were getting too much for me and where I used to just binge on all the tastiest things I could get my hands on to deal with it, now I have healthier ways of dealing with it. I'll take my dogs out for a walk, get a delicious coffee, talk to a friend or for when things are really bad I've stockpiled a few delicious low calorie treats so that if I binge the calorie intake isn't anywhere near as bad as it used to be!

I know this will be a lifelong battle and a constant uphill struggle to firstly get down to the 145 pounds, and after to maintain it for the sake of being able to live as healthy a life as possible with one kidney. I just can't get over how far I've come and I can't wait to hit 180, the first of my major kidney related weight goals. For now, surgery is scheduled for Nov 18th and I can't wait for it to help stop my mums suffering, and after, to continue on my weight loss journey. This whole process will have been worth it and I get to save not only my mums life, but by keeping my weight down I'll hopefully be saving mine too.

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I'm conciously going on an unsustainable diet for 52 days and would an online accountability buddy

/r/loseit is a place for

healthy and sustainable methods of weight loss.

That's not what I'm about to do.

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So i bought this dress for an event...TLDR; there is no bigger size, i love this dress, i will wear it to the event.

Right now it's super tight. My goal is to: easily zip up and comfortably wear the dress, not to reach any number on the scale.

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I work really well with accountability, if i check in once a week I will be more sucessful. im happy to also help you to be accountable if you're dieting.

From 10-15 to 05-12 - 52 days

Breakfast: Wheat-bran with almond milk

Lunch: Nutritionaly complete meal replacement shake x2

Dinner: as much kiwifruit, apple, mandarin, dark green vegetables and tea as i like

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I've been doing CICO all year and have met my goal weight and remained stable and healthy. I feel confident that I can challenge myself with his restrictive diet without harming my health or my normal eating patterns after the event. I am also safeguarding against getting disheartened and giving up by not 'tracking' (weight/CICO).

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My perfectly visible imperfections

https://imgur.com/a/IFGhKs5

A junky looks dope sick or skinny at times, but I guarantee you've been in the presence of an addict without knowing

People at your work may go home and drink every night, yet you may only know their sober version

That support group of sex addicts is indistinguishable from the celibate shoppers at costco

The guy who just blew his life savings at the casino looks like the guy giving that sermon at church

That wife beater might be your waiter

That kleptomaniac goes unnoticed on his shopping spree

Yet every time I entered a restaurant, approached a female, worked out at a gym, went to the pool, or simply walked in a room, my vice was on full display. I carried a flashing neon sign that said " Problem here! Not in control!"

I've been called every derogatory, fat person, insult out there. I've been shamed by family, peers, and even authority figures.

It's not fair that weight is not a secret struggle but a public battle field.

But here's the good news. When you start to win that battle, noone can deny the war hero you become. Noone can claim you arent the Sgt. FatCellSmasher. I'm down 170 lbs in 14 months and building muscle as I lose weight. I can walk into a room of people that knew me a year ago, and my purple heart of weight loss might as well be tattooed across my forehead. I know my war isnt won. Hell, it may very well be a neverending war. But guess what, over the past 14 months, I've finally turned the tide. I've only lost a handful of battles in the last 425 days. Not only that, when others saw me defeating the enemy, they joined forces. I'm now amassing an army. I've inspired people from friends to complete strangers. Someone online hit me up in may. He was over 600 pounds. Hes down 150 lbs in 6 months. Turns out other people are ready to become war heroes too.

Are you?

That's a rhetorical question. The answer is obviously yes.

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This is for all the loseit ladies over 50: Its never too late. You can do it!

I know that losing weight is incredibly difficult, no matter the age or gender. Absolutely. But for women over the age of 50, the process is compounded by the dreaded "change of life." Hormonal shifts tend to impact fat storage and how we lose weight.

I let the middle-aged weight sneak up on me. I told myself I would start tomorrow, then tomorrow, then tomorrow. A couple of years of tomorrows and I ended up the largest I have ever been: 226 pounds. My final “tomorrow” was March 16, 2015.

I restarted Weight Watchers, although I didn’t formally join the program again. I tracked my points in my head. I weighed and measured everything. Over the course of three years, it stopped being a program and became my way of life. I am actually a healthy eater because I want to be, not because I am following the rules.

I lost 108 pounds over the course of three years. I am 56 years old.

In the following before and after photo, I was about 20 pounds lighter than my highest weight:

Before and After Pic

I still count my points, weigh and measure my food, and regularly weigh myself to make sure I am not straying off course. I start working out with a personal trainer in two weeks. Gonna build that muscle!

There are lots of tips, but they are pretty universal and have been shared here before. If there is one thing that I would reinforce, it would be that it became easier for me when I got rid of the preconceived "weight loss rules." It is non-linear because life is non-linear. Get rid of the notion of beginning and end. Ditch the timetable. You begin and you continue. When I accepted that, it became easier. It may have taken me three years to get to where I wanted to be, but it gave me the confidence that I can continue and maintain.

My life has transformed in the most amazing ways. I am a completely different person than I was — inside and out. Weight loss isn’t a panacea for all of life’s woe’s. It takes work both inside and out. Weight loss gave me the the confidence, however, to tackle my other issues. I still struggle and I know it is a journey that will last till the end of my days, but it is a journey I am willing to take. I will always be a work in progress and I am ok with that.

So to anyone, no matter your age or gender, you can loseit! It’s never too late to transform your life. I have been so inspired by the winners of loseit and hope I can lend some encouragement to those whose journey parallels mine.

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