Sunday, November 17, 2019

Today is day one....again

So, a few years ago I embarked on my weight loss journey. I did pretty well for about a year and lost about 115lbs. Then, my gallbladder failed. I was sick all the time until I got it removed and also had horrific bouts of heartburn and acid reflux. During my recovery, I allowed myself to eat whatever didn't upset my stomach and didn't worry about calories since some days I could eat nothing at all. Once I recovered , I fell off the wagon completely. I gained all the weight back and then some.

I now weigh almost 400lbs when I had been down to 250 before. I cannot and will not be this fat again. I have reactive airway disease from the reflux, I have no energy, my clothes don't fit, and I'm all around uncomfortable in my own body. I am starting this journey again, and will make it to my destination come hell or high water!

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TW: Rape/ Eating disorders. The story of how I became obese and hit my highest weight (210lbs), lost 50+ pounds, then gained two eating disorders and 2/3rds of the weight back, before finally embracing weight loss the "healthy" way.

Hi everyone, hope you had a successful week. TW: Rape/ Eating Disorders. This is a very vulnerable post that I will be making, but I finally feel comfortable and safe enough to share my story. There are many reasons why people gain weight and develop an unhealthy relationship with food. For me, my weight gain was a product of child sexual abuse and molestation.

I will not be going into detail about my rapes, but I will say that they began before I hit puberty. When I was underdeveloped, that was when the rapes occured most. I spent every night living in fear of my father from the age of 6-17, but mainly the years of 8-11.

Then, when I hit puberty, my dad began to call me a "fat slob" and grew more and more disinterested in my body. This was when I started developing an unhealthy relationship with food. Because my father was disgusted by my developing body, I associated "growing" with "less chances of being raped". As a result, I would intentionally overeat and binge, almost daily, from ages 12-17, and even that didn't stop my father from occasionally raping me during those times (although it happened less and less as I got older).

I hit my all time highest weight of 210 pounds my senior year of highschool (for reference, I am 5"6.5/ female). It was during that point that I decided to put an end to gaining weight. I started losing weight June 13th, 2018, and lost over 50 pounds, getting down to 157 pounds. At that point the rapes had stopped and I was in college the majority of the time, so my father wasn't in my life that much. Out of sight, out of mind. All was well, right?

Well, not really. I found that when I got down to 157, I started to get extremely triggered. I thought I would have felt better finally getting to a healthy weight, but all I could think about was my under developed body and what my father had done with it. Losing weight, in my mind, was being vulnerable and susceptible to danger.

I then turned back to binging, but adopted the bulimia as well, because I was so conflicted emotionally about whether is was "right" to continue losing weight or "necessary" to gain weight as a means of protecting myself. So, from the end of freshmen year to the beginning of sophomore year, I gained back about 40 pounds by stuffing my face with food and using that as a shield.

The crazy part was, I was not in danger during those times last year and this year. The rapes had stopped long ago, but the effects of them were everlasting.

I have been working through these issues with my therapist and have been making headway in my recovery from my trauma. I am now not afraid to lose weight, as I now realize that I am safe and that being "smaller" doesn't equal "being prepubescent". I have also changed my methods for losing weight. Instead of heavily restricting and eating under 1000 calories, throwing up my food, and categorizing certain foods as "fear" foods, I am now taking a healthier appeoach. I eat 1500 calories a day, fit in "treats" that I once would avoid into my budget, stopped separating food as "good food" and "bad food", and haven't pudged in months. My last binge was October 28th, and I am on a 16 day streak logging my calories.

My scale broke this week, but the lowest weight I reached before that was 185.5, so I have lost 5+ pounds since November 1st. I wanted to share this with you guys because I know there might be some people who have gone through sexual trauma like I have and have no opportunity to express their thoughts. I think it's important to talk about these issues because they can reallt impact a person's life. I am proud to say that I did not let my past determine my future, and I hope you do too.

Thank you for reading.

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Hello! I'd just like to share my weight loss journey and what I did to help myself. Progress pics too!

I was very addicted to video games when I was young, and was fat my whole life due to it. In the sixth grade I weighed 350 lbs, I knew I had to do something. So I joined "football conditioning" for weight loss and the team and coach wasn't cool with it after the first year because I wouldn't join the team, so I quit at the end of my seventh grade year, and had gotten down to 280 lbs.

After I quit the conditioning I didn't exercise at all, and gained it all back, and then some by the time I graduated (last year.) So seven months ago I decided to change myself and my lifestyle, I started my journey with cico, 1200 calories a day (although i did get up to 1500-1800 some days), going to bed by 10:30 every night, and 7k steps atleast five days a week.

I also started weight lifting a month ago before the 7k steps because I heard something about lean muscle burning more idle calories than fat, but idk. I had my weight checked two days ago and im down to 215 lbs!(97 kg I think.) I kinda wish I would've known my weight before I started but I'm glad I don't lol. In the progress pics the before is two or three months after I started so im not at full chonk, but I'd say I was atleast 300 lbs in it. http://imgur.com/a/lnE793H what do you all think?

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 17 November 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.

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Overeating Rescue Series (1): Isolating External Influence

(Come here to find like-minded friends! -by Laurel)

In the process of losing weight, many people lose themselves, have a wrong understanding of food products, and even regard food as an enemy.

How to eat has become their biggest problem, and it is also torturing them.

I tried to understand them and do my best to help them, so I wrote a series of articles. I hope that with the help of the article, they can get rid of overeating and vomiting, greatly reduce their anxiety and depression, and even stop worrying about their body shape and weight loss. I know I have overreached myself, but I just want to do it.

I know that many people suffer for this. Therefore, I hope that friends with gluttony will study hard and save themselves first.

Let me remind you first:

What I am going to tell you may run counter to your intuition, and may also make you afraid of getting worse. But please try it boldly. If you don't succeed, you can still use your original method.

If you can't have a heart-to-heart talk and have no teammates to support each other, you should do it alone:

1. Reflect on yourself and find the root of the problem.

2. Be patient, because the process has twists and turns.

Please give the rest to the time and follow the steps of the article. I believe you will get better.

Lesson One: Isolating External Influence

Media advertising, fashion and beauty industry, etc., make you have unrealistic fantasies about "slim" and "figure". It is this external pressure that makes you fall into the whirlpool of dieting. We can blame them, but pestering causal analysis is useless. What is really important is to eliminate these adverse effects.

Dieting includes many forms:

All forms of dieting depend on external conditions or rules to decide "what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat", rather than on the body's real needs to decide how to eat.

Losing weight through diet can achieve short-term results, but it is doomed to failure in the end. You are in trouble during repeated dieting.

Our ultimate goal is to return the eating initiative and decision-making power back to the body.

The goal is clear and the approach is very simple, but the process may be long and bumpy. In this process, you may not always be able to move forward, you may turn back from time to time. Because people's emotions and thoughts are always affected by the outside world and become uncontrollable.

The best way to eliminate the influence of the outside world is to shut yourself "in the room" and cut off all contact with the outside world without seeing, listening or touching.

No way, right? But you may use this "all-or-nothing" mentality to look at food, "eat or not eat", "good/bad".

I'm going to teach you how to walk in the gray zone. The key point is to set the basic rules:

1) keep things that meet the rules;

2) Eliminate the things that violate the rules;

3) If you can't make up your mind, keep it for a while and then judge.

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The first step is to start with virtual things: including newspapers and books, fitness App, social media, blogs, TV programs, advertisements, news, websites and all other information sources.

Please look at these sources of information and ask yourself a few questions (the following are for reference only):

1."Has it made my life better?"

2."Does it cause me anxiety, self-accusation, inferiority complex or other bad emotions?"

3."would my life be better without it?"

4."Do I really need it to help me lose weight and keep fit?"

5."I don't know these things, do they do any harm?"

……

※As long as there is a negative answer to a question, immediately eliminate it!

For example: fitness software

1.I don't know. I lost a little weight, but I feel very tired every day.

2. Yes. Compared with the photos shared by others, I feel very bad.

3.It seems that it will. I've never been so miserable before.

4. It may not be necessary. It was because everyone else was using it that I tried it.

5. Yes. I don't know how to practice.

The conclusion is: uninstall.

Please write down the answers according to the examples and describe them as clearly as possible.

The weight loss information you can access now is basically harmful and useless. My suggested approach is:

Cancel all fitness/weight loss/fashion websites

Farewell to social media

Throw away fashion magazines and books

Uninstall fitness software

It is difficult for you to abandon these things at once, but please try to change first! You should find that without nutritionists, doctors, experts, models and celebrities who judge you "this is wrong and that is not good" all day long, life will be much more comfortable.

Remember: this step, which you may not understand for the time being, is the key step to get rid of gluttony and save yourself.

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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Large Calorie Deficit Question

21F need some advice/guidance. I've started a fat loss journey (once again) and I want to make healthy habits a life long thing. I've been going to the gym 3-4 time a week but my eating habits have been horrible. Before I would just eat whatever I want, snack a lot and not think about it. The last week I've been focussing on what I've been eating and counting calories. Already I have lost a bit of weight. Before my calorie intake wouldve been 3000+, but this week ive comfortably been eating around 1000 calories. I havent felt very hungry and I feel like I could maintain it. But upon research about weight loss, this drastic drop in calorie intake could not be the healthiest thing for long habits? Thoughts?

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Lost 10lbs (heccin yeah!) but when I look at progress pics of myself I literally see NO difference :(

So, here's my stats: F18, 5'4, SW: 144 CW:134.

I was so friccin frackin happy to see the number on the scale today! I decided to take another pic in the same underwear as before to see if I could see any difference but there was legimately none. I stared at those pictures for like 30 minutes trying to find one thing, but I saw none.

I know it's not going to be such a drastic result with only 10 pounds, but I've been working my ass off for 2 months for this and to see nothing whatsoever changed is sort of disheartening. :(

I didn't take measurements before weight loss, and I don't have a tape measure to measure now, people say that's a good if not the best measurement of progress but I have no way of doing that right now.

I'm going to keep going, because I'm a stubborn bitch and not going to let myself "lose the battle" but it kind of makes me feel sad to know I put so much work in for months at a time and I can't even see the progress I made.

I guess I'll just keep smiling, cause the scale is going down and I'm becoming healthier.

Anyone had the same experience as I did?

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