This weekend I had my first DNS due to injury. DNS = Did Not Start... as in, did not start a race. It’s runner language for not showing up or starting a race at all. Which is better than a lot of other options like… DNF = Did Not Finish or CUFPCM22 = Curled Up […]
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I went to see a new doctor today for a wellness check. Everything was going great, I’m very healthy, all to be expected since I was mostly just going to establish a baseline with a PCP in my area since I haven’t seen a doctor since I moved a few years ago.
I’ve lost about 45lbs since I started really diligently counting calories in January. I feel great about it and the sort of food choices I’ve been making.
I was expecting the weight comment because I’m still only about halfway to my goal. I really wasn’t expecting his response. (Jokes on me for being honest with my doctor...lol). He mentioned that my weight was a “little high” and instead of just agreeing or whatever I mentioned that I’d actually lost 45lbs so far!
He started going on a tangent about how everyone who loses weight just regains it, and commented that I will “bounce back” too. Uhhh??? Dude?? Aren’t you supposed to tell me to lose weight, not try to convince me that it’s pointless?? He even pulled up a bunch of data to support his argument that he apparently just had on hand haha!
The NSV is this: I don’t care! RIP to your study subjects, but I’m different! Dieting is 90% mental, and I know that as long as I focus on making lifestyle changes instead of crash dieting my weigh loss will be sustainable. His weird attachment to his graphs doesn’t discourage me in the slightest :)
Hi all,
Love this group - super motivating, supportive folks. But one thing really troubles me - giving weight loss advice to kids/people under 18.
We see it everyday. At least a few kids post trying to lose weight. Sometimes, it's more than a few. We want to help, because, of course we do. But, we shouldn't.
It's dangerous and unhelpful to give advice to kids who want to lose weight beyond this: "Speak to your parents and doctor and share your concerns. Ask them to get you qualified help." Sure, we all love CICO (me too!), but lots and lots of evidence shows that kids who begin dieting without a Doctor's guidance are vastly more likely to develop eating disorders AND become obese.
Even comments on their weight being fine, they will grow, etc - let's just not do it. We can be supportive without giving tips or commenting on their current weight/height/BMI.
Are you with me?
I went from 260 to 200 in 7 months after a pretty big lifestyle change. I left a toxic situation and became a travel nomad. Shopping for clothing used to a challenge because plus sizes were hard to find in different parts of the world. Now less so. It really hit me that I lost weight when I was trying on clothing at H&M. Even size XL was big on me. I never even bothered with the Young folks section (divided) because it only went up to a size L. Well, I tried on a bunch of size L jackets and they actually fit with room to spare. It hit me that I had lost enough weight to fit into these places I used to automatically overlook. It's inspired me to continue my weight loss journey. I went from a size 24/22 to a size 12 and it's amazing. It feels like it just happen overnight.
I struggled with weight loss for a long time. I'd lose and then gain some back. Not usually the entire amount, but some.
I see a lot of posts across platforms about people who have just started, have made it to their first goal, or who have yo-yo'ed and are starting again.
I'm curious if there's anyone out there who lost the weight and never gained it back, even after several years.
It seems to me that changing habits is a skill, and it takes time to learn that skill. Failure, to some degree, is inevitable.
I'm curious about this because, if it's true that regaining weight is inevitable, maybe knowing that would encourage those who have just gone through the cycle for the first time. I think they often feel like personal failures, like they are deficient somehow.. and I sort of want them to know that it's okay. This sort of just takes time.
I'm probably 10 years in from the first time I tried dieting. I had always been heavy before. Now I don't really diet anymore. I eat pretty low carb naturally and my food cravings are nowhere near what they were in the past. I gained some in the last few years and I've been slowly losing it just by naturally undercutting, with very little effort (much slower this way but that's fine). I feel like I've made it. Food no longer dominates my thoughts.
So if you're still struggling.. even after years, maybe that's okay. Maybe that's how long change really takes.
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.
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.
