New to loseit and going for round 3 of weiggtloss

Hello all, I am 34, 5'8", female and have already been through losing a lot of weight in the past. Before I had children, my hubby and I lived to eat. We ate out all the time with abandon. I was a terrible cook and so it was just the easier thing to do. Before I knew it, I was 240 lbs and miserable. My hubby was in just the same kind of state too. After our first child was born, we changed our habits and dropped 80-90 lbs each. I even kept my weight off for a few years and hovered right around 145. But then I found myself pregnant again, tired, and constantly hungry. My weight leaped back up to 180 postpartum (pregnancy peek was just over 200!). I worked super hard to get back to 160, but could never get back to that lower weight I had been at. And suddenly I was also caring for two children and all that life throws at you in that situation! I found making excusing was easier than putting me first. Once again my weight has creeped up ... Now to 190! It's frustrating and even my doctor is telling me to do intermittent fasting to help curb my weight issues. I find it much harder in my 30s than I did in my 20s. That's for sure.

I guess the whole point of this post is to find a community of folks who are or have been on similar journeys. In the past month I joined an F45 gym which I like. I go between 3-5 days a week depending on what life is throwing at me that week. I've also taken up aerial silks as another fun additional thing to do once a week. I cook almost exclusively at home (I actually found that I have a knack for cooking - once I gave it a try on my first round of weight loss), and generally don't eat much bread, pasta, rice and the like. Diet wise, I feel like if I'm tracking my calories, I do well. But I struggle with binging sometimes. Tell me about yourselves and what has worked or not for you on your own journey? :)

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Medical Weight Loss?

F28, 5'4", CW: 190lbs, GW: 130

Hey everyone! I'm needing some advice regarding medical weight loss. Over the past 10 years I've put on 80lbs and I've really been struggling to get to a healthier weight. My LDL levels are high as well as my blood pressure and I know if I don't do something about this now I'll have more health issues.

I set goals for myself to go to the gym M-F for 1.5 each day but then I get too nervous about not knowing my way around the equipment and looking the way I do. So I end up chickening out and staying home. Then I start kicking myself because that voice in my head is telling me "why didn't you just go?!".

Another hard part about this journey is going at it alone. I don't have anyone to workout with because most of the individuals in my circle are healthy. I've seen my doctor and she's prescribed me phentermine but I'm still having cravings for sugary drinks.

At this point I'm considering a medical weight loss clinic to assist me with the process of getting healthier and losing weight. The thing is - it's expensive! I spoke with a couple clinicals and they both offered personalized meal plans, appetite suppressants, and lipotropic B12 injections. Has anyone had experience with medical weight loss clinics (good/bad)?

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Am I eating too little

So I finished the majority of my weight loss awhile ago but recently I decided to get leaner and hopefully get abs. While on my initial diet I would eat 1600 calories a day and it wasn't to bad. I am a Male 5'10 and about 168 pounds. I am much more active than I was however. I can only go a few days before binging, I don't know if its mental or I am actually eating to low. I am still losing weight with like two large binges a week, just slowly. I lift weights, distance run, and do ab workouts. I also have two gym blocks (2 hours) at school daily. Should i raise my intake in hopes of more stamina or just try to mentally toughen myself a little more?

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My experience and lessons learned from 1 year of weight loss.

SW: 17th November 2018 - 79kg 5'8

CW: 1st November 2019 - 67kg 5'8

(79kg -------> 68kg May --------> 74kg to regain strength --------> 68kg maintained strength ----> 67kg today)

Alright so I lowkey kind of feel like a failure, because I am kind of giving up. But I think enough is enough. For the sake of my mental health/my life it would be best that I recomp/leanbulk. I am a healthy BMI and I feel like my goals are just due to the unrealistic standards set by social media.

So I will start off with some positives. I never could have imagined losing the amount of weight I did. I literally remember thinking that it would be impossible for me to get below 79kg. I look back at my old pictures, and I see the face gains. I am so grateful for my past self for realising and accepting that I was overweight. I managed to push through many dark moments. Weight loss + the loneliness is definitely is not a good combination. I had many many downs, but I keep managing to bring myself back up. Throughout my high school years I ate fast food multiple times a week, junk food and soda also now at age 21 I go months without eating fast food and I am proud that I am in the habit of conting calories.

My advice to those who are on their weightloss journey:

1. Learn to be your biggest fan. Its you against the world, you can't afford to hate yourself ever.
2. Slow and steady wins the race. I lost a lot of strength because I was dieting so aggressively to the point where I had sleepless nights I also was lifting 4x a week. Also my best weight loss was this summer when I added weight to my squats and deadlift while losing weight slowly and I was happy.
3. Your weight does not define you. Don't let it hold you back from doing whatever you want. Its best you have fulfilling hobbies because that will help you get through how long this all takes.
4. Also when I first started out I always told myself. "Its not a matter of IF its just a matter of WHEN"
5. Focus more on your achievements and what you are grateful for rather than what you have left to improve. There should be an 80/20 balance.

I hope this post isn't scary or anything. I had a tough time mainly because I was eating at a deficit of 1000 (and the days where I didn't count as accurate I waslikely in a higher deficit) and had no friends the past year. My mental health and problematic eating habits improved a lot when I took a short break and started lean bulking. I was also very harsh on myself all the time just because of mistakes I made in the past, mainly the fact that I had been going gym since I was 16 and was both fat and weak after a few years.

My goals now is to add lean muscle with hopefully minimal fat gain (so then I can look good without abs), or to eat at a much smaller deficit while making strength gains (haven't decided). I then have the rest of my life to get abs if need be.

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How to Set a Running Goal for PILE on the MILES Challenge

How to set a goal for the Pile on the Miles 21 Day Challenge. Pile on the Miles was originally a running challenge where we tried to run MORE miles in November. But over the years it’s grown and changed (just like us). Now the challenge is about setting a goal that is important to […]

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Lost 10, Gained 10, Gained some knowledge. [36F; CW: 150; GW: 120).

Backstory: I'm 36, 5'2", and trying to tackle about 30-40 pounds I packed on from my mid-twenties on. It's kind of a bummer that it happened; I lived in a city and walked everywhere, took up inconsistent running and swimming, but I also used being vegetarian and a mild drinker as an excuse to, well, eat crappily. ("I don't booze and I don't steak: BRING ON THE ENTIRE CHEEZE PIZZA!") And so here we are. I don't actually look that different than I did at 120: maybe a little chubbier in the face, but I think most of the weight is concentrated in my midsection and ass, so I see it more in clothing fit than I do in photos. Nevertheless, I have a family history of diabetes, heart issues, etc so it's time to dig in on this.

I tried Noom in February because a friend had a lot of success with and started dropping weight very fast. I actually lost about 10 pounds in just about four months. The main thing with Noom is how it changed my look at portion size: I bought a scale and was flabbergasted by how tiny a morsel 200-300 calories can actually be. I quickly developed a menu of foods that lived within those calorie confines but left me satiated. One challenge, though, was learning how to eat for exercise: Noom makes some accommodations for the extra calories you need, but it's not much. I often found myself too hungry or tired to go exert myself more at the gym. So most of the weight loss was diet-based.

What surprised me was that the weight stayed off when I traveled. I got a chance to spend some time visiting some European cities (Paris, Warsaw, Dublin, etc) and walked many miles a day around all of them, ate without monitoring calories and didn't gain anything back. Maybe there's some sweet spot in those environments where the combination of walking and portion size and general Euro-ness (not having to worry about health care costs?) keeps the body systems in check, idk.

Then, this fall, it started creeping back. I started feeling kind of confined and frustrated by the Noom calories limits and letting myself eat more. Work was incredibly stressful/busy and I was eating on the go/grabbing a lot of takeout. Then I got a knee injury which really limited my movement and mostly kept me on the couch this month, drinking cocoa and eating comfort food (I just couldn't be bothered with food monitoring while recovering). So all the weight's back -- I'm back up to 150, where I started.

I'm kind of discouraged, but see a couple bright spots: I now know exactly how I lost weight before (I can just look up the meals I had between February and June), I made some longterm changes to my eating habits, I naturally avoid most processed foods and sugar now, and am just doing a better job of listening to my body overall. I'm also learning to anticipate certain situations and how they throw off my eating (work stress, etc).

My hope is, once my knee heals up, I can continue building on these habits and resume the path down to 120.

Any advice from those who've lost it, re-gained it, and lost it again much appreciated!

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Weight Loss in Men vs. Women

Doing a diet with your partner can be comforting. You have support, friendship and someone to hold you accountable. However, if you’ve tried losing weight as a heterosexual couple, you may have noticed a frustrating trend for women. When it comes to weight loss in men vs. women, men seem to lose weight more easily, even if they’re eating more food.

Starting a weight loss program with your partner can be beneficial and may help you succeed. A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that men and women “are more likely to make a positive health behavior change if their partner does too.”

Despite the benefits of doing a diet with your partner, women still may be frustrated when they don’t seem to be dropping pounds at the same rate. You’re not imagining it. It really is easier for men to lose weight. According to Healthline, a study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism about this topic. In this study, scientists gave more than 2,000 overweight individuals identical diets for eight weeks. Men in the study lost 16 percent more weight than women.

We may not be able to change the fact that men lose faster. However, understanding the reasons why may put your mind at ease and help focus on the positives of your personal progress.

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Keep reading to better understand the differences of weight loss in men vs. women:

1. Men have higher resting metabolism.

According to a study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, women burn five to 10 percent fewer calories than men while sedentary, even when you account for differences in body composition and weight. So, if a man and woman of the same height and weight sit on a couch, the man is likely burning more calories.

But don’t lose sleep over it: Really, don’t. Just four nights of bad sleep can increase fatty acid concentrations in the blood, according to a study published in the journal Diabetologia. This may lead to an increased risk of insulin resistance (a precursor to Type 2 diabetes) and metabolic diseases. So, make sure you get enough shuteye to keep yourself healthy and happy.

2. Men carry more fat around their middles.

Visceral fat, the rock-hard kind that makes up a “beer gut,” is dangerous stuff. Extra belly fat around the middle can increase the risk of early death by 87 percent in men, according to a 2015 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The midsection is where many men tend to carry their extra weight.

When they start to lose weight, that dangerous belly fat turns into an advantage in weight loss statistics. Losing visceral fat increases your metabolic rate says Live Science. Women have more subcutaneous fat found around their thighs and hips. According to Live Science, the loss of subcutaneous fat does not have the same metabolism boosting effect as losing visceral fat.

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3. Men tend to have more muscle mass.

This is another metabolism advantage: Men have more skeletal muscle than women do. In one study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, the skeletal muscle mass of 468 men and women of various ages and sizes was measured. The men averaged 38.4 percent muscle, while the women were 30.6 percent muscle.

This difference is important to note as muscle burns more calories. According to the American Journal of Human Biology, each pound of muscle burns about 13 calories every day while at rest. This means that a man with 25 extra pounds of muscle mass could be burning 325 extra calories per day—even if he’s not exercising.

One way to battle this difference is to build some muscle of your own. Strength training will help you stave off fat, burn more calories and reduce your overall cardiovascular risk—and you don’t need to lift heavy weights to do it. Click for more information on strength training >

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