Weight loss while travelling

Hi everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster.

I need some advice. My partner and I are going on an extended (1 year +) camping trip around our home country next year. We’ve saved some cash, quit our jobs and are almost ready to leave. However, there’s one tiny problem. I’m not sure how to approach weight loss while travelling.

At present, I’ve been tracking my calories and weighing myself daily for about 3 months. I’ve lost just over 8kg (18lbs). My goal weight is 10kg (22lbs) away.

I want to keep up my weight loss (and hopefully begin maintenance) during our trip. I’ll have full control over what I eat (we’ll be making almost all of our meals due to being on a tight budget) and will continue to eat well and track calories as best I can.

But I won’t be able to weigh myself daily. Most of the time we’ll be staying in remote campgrounds without a flat surface. We’ll be sleeping in a tent and really “roughing it”. I’m not even sure if I even can/should take my bathroom scale. But I’m worried that without weighing myself everyday, I’ll begin to slip back into old habits.

Advice? Experience? Tips?

Would it be crazy to take my bathroom scale and weigh myself when I have the opportunity? Or will the inconsistencies caused by where the scale is placed have too much of an impact for this to be effective? How can I continue, and eventually maintain, my weight loss while living on the road for a whole year?

Help me reddit!

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Moderation as a learned behavior or skill

I'm sure that most everybody here has heard someone say "you can eat whatever you want, so long as its within moderation", which in my experience in my weight loss journey, I have been able to eat my favorite foods in moderation and lose weight because of it. However on the flipside, I have also heard it said that the "everything in moderation" argument is a very dangerous argument and is non-conducive if not flat-out prohibitive of weight loss.

While I don't agree that "everything in moderation" is prohibitive of weight loss or health in general, I also understand that with those who suffer from BED/food addiction, it can be a very dangerous and/or triggering statement that can lead to binges or relapses.

Which is why I wonder, can moderation be a learned behavior for someone struggling with their weight? In my experience, I've noticed that if I'm making sure that I log everything I eat into either Lose It or the Fitbit app, I start eating less or making different food choices or increasing my activity to burn off the extra calories. So in my case, that's how I learned to eat things in moderation, especially foods that aren't very healthy for you that I love.

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Free weight loss motivation App

Hi LoseIt, here is an App. It's free. No in-app purchases or anything sneaky.

Check it out here: https://contemplateweightloss.com/ or read on for more info:

I'm at the tail end of a PhD on turning motivation into action in a consistent, sustainable way. This approach works extremely well for people who stick with it for a minimum of 2 weeks in a research context. This app is a culmination of that research applied in the 'real world'.

I don't have the money to make it look super-sexy-slick, so please don't judge it on that. I promise it's legit.

Apologies admins if this is against the rules. Please feel free to remove.

Edit: This is the first place I came to 'get it out there', so I'd really love to read any feedback you have on the website or app below!

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Demotivated by any weight loss?

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read my post! TL;DR: if I lose the slightest amount of weight, I lose all motivation. How to override?

I'm a college student, and I've been struggling struggling to lose weight on and off since I was 13. Right now, I have a 61 day streak on Loseit, and that's the only thing I've got going for me, as my daily average is around 2000 cals(coming down after a binge week where I was eating 3000 calories most days). I do intermittent fasting (noon to undefined night time, usually before 10pm)

I know I have problems with yo-yo ing in terms of diet. My goal (soft) is about 1400 cal per day, and my weight goal is 155 (threshold for normal weight). I don't log extremely accurately, as I'm afraid it'll make me want to quit altogether (e.g, not logging frozen mango I eat at night to keep from going to the vending machines nearby). I weigh myself approximately once a week, and have experimented with weighing twice a day or once a day as well.

Anyways, occasionally, I actually lose weight on these weight loss adventures of mine. The problem is, any time I get under about 162 lbs, I just lose all my motivation to continue, and end up eating more. This isn't great, as my set weight (weight I keep returning to, recently down from 172 since the summer) is 164. If I could make it to 155, I would cry. My question is, how do I stop being so demotivated by weight loss?

Not sure if I actually gave any helpful information in that, but thanks again for reading!

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Snacking problems and how to manage from a high weight

Hi!

I've been lurking for a while, I've been finding skimming through and just seeing all these posts everyday reminds me of what I'm working on. I've done a lot to improve my main meals health wise, but I'm left with a problem which is snacking.

Very quickly a light snack, often starting good like a banana quickly develops into just too much. And I'm less than 15 steps to my local convenience store, so even if I'm sensible and have nothing stocked in my home, it's nothing to change that basically.

Using https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html , it puts my calorie requirements at Maintain 4,111 Mild weight loss 3,861 Weight loss 3,611 Extreme weight loss 3,111 (I'm a big lad, 188cm, 196kg, I'm sure a lot of people would dream of 3k a day for extreme weight loss)

If I put my stats and daily meals into myfitnesspal, (target 3350 a day), my planned meals are taking up between 1800-2100.

This is more a realization in typing this, but is my problem actually that my "planned meals" are only just half of my maintain? Should I basically be planning a 4th meal to mitigate this?

Those who've come from high numbers, and worked their way down, any advice here?

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That time I thought my hip bones were going to kill me

A few months ago, a little into my weight loss, I felt something strange on my stomach. About half way in on both sides, there was a strange, solid mass.

I got a little freaked out, told my husband, who said to monitor it. So I did. The mass never seemed to grow or hurt, so I guess I just got used to it, figuring it was some really bad bloating.

Cue to today, 70+lbs down. I'm getting dressed and accidentally bump my hip. I touch my hip bone, then have a moment of realisation.

At my heaviest weight, my hips were about 10 inches bigger. My 'hips' weren't actually where my hip bones were. Nope, they were further in.

Basically, I started losing weight, felt strange bumps and monitored my own hip bones for weeks because I didn't realise what they were.

Of course I get it now and feel especially stupid, but it really tickled me this morning when I realised what I'd done. In my defence, I haven't had visible bones in years! There was a similar instance where I felt something weird, luckily I was able to recognise my collarbone without too much trouble lol.

Do you have any funny weight loss stories? Pleasr share!!

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Hormonal imbalance and weight loss

I’ve had PCOS with insulin resistance since I was 13. I’m now 28 and weight has always been an issue. I’m literally incapable of keeping a steady weight. I recently had blood work drawn and found out my thyroid and testosterone levels are all out of wack along with my cholesterol and triglycerides being sky high. She recommended a Mediterranean style diet and to keep exercising 2-4 times a week. It’s been about a month and I’ve lost a few pounds, which is great, but I feel exhausted. I’m eating a balanced diet of mostly lean protein and veggies, but still feel like I could fall asleep at any minute.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there just some kind of adjustment period or what? My diet beforehand wasn’t terrible, but there was room for improvement. Any advice appreciated because I can’t deal with being so darn tired all the time.

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