Just celebrating some loses .. feel free to skip/ignore ..

I've been in coronavirus lockdown, and I was afraid I'd start eating all the food I put aside to prepare for being in lockdown, so I went on a strict 1500 cal/day diet, and OMG .. I've lost SO much weight. I'm reluctant to say how much because I've seen that there are people who just go on and on about "dangerous .." and "too much .." and all that, and I just don't want to hear it, I'd rather just be happy I've lost so much weight. Best of all it has been pretty easy. I mean I'm a little bit hungry and times during the day, but not that much, certainly not as much as I expected. I did calculations with the NIH body calculator and made graphs of what it projected my weight would be over time and amazingly it's almost spot on so far, my weight loss has been following that graph with bumps and dives along the way almost exactly.

Anyway, I don't have anyone to be happy with so I decided to be happy with ya'll. :)

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[SV] Lost 20 lbs since December. Just the beginning

SW: 260, CW: 240 GW: 170. Height: 5'8-5'9, Male.

I feel SO GOOD. My blood pressure dropped, no more aches across my shoulders, neck arteries, arms. No more warm flushed face. I was in so much pain and discomfort.

My varicose veins don't hurt as much.

Knee and hip pains have lessened. Exercise is easier!

I feel less brain fog. I can think more clearly. Mood has improved.

Things that I've learned:

Restaurants, delis, fast food: prepared outside food, they're OUT TO KILL YOU

You're an addict, they need you coming back for another hit. They're not your friends, they're your dealer.

Prepare your own food!!!! Use less oil, less salt, less sugar!

Control your hunger! Hunger is a powerful instinct trigger - maybe the most powerful. So I recommend do weight loss SLOWWWWW:

First chance WHAT you eat:

Stop eating processed liquid fats, no trans fats, no hydrogenated oils. Oils are very calorie dense but not filling.

Whole carbs! Carbs are not your enemy. My diet is 70% carbs. I eat a lot of brown rice, low starch potatoes, and nutritious veggies, fruits. I eat the rainbowwww.

Limit protein too .... oooo controversial! Ask any dietitian. We don't need that much protein after a certain age. You will get enough I promise. Most Westerners and Obese people overall eat too much protein. This might be you.

After you condition yourself to eating healthier, junk food will make you feel SICK. I had french fries today and I felt like shit.

Then gradually start to eat less. I use intermittent fasting, of course.

But find what works for you! Remember your body is a reflection of your lifestyle. Just change your lifestyle and your body will change.

I used to think those fad low carb high fat gimmicky diets were my ticket but I was wrong. I kept failing on them for years. Yo-yo'd my weight.

I eventually found what worked for me, and it was a common sense, wholesome, varied diet.

Thanks for reading. Wish me luck to reaching a healthy weight!!!

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Slow progress is still progress

This subreddit has been super instrumental to my weight loss journey (even though I mostly just lurked), and I am so so proud of everybody who is able to share their success stories.

However, for anybody else out there looking at this group and feeling a bit discouraged that they aren’t losing weight as quickly as other people have been able to, please know that there are a lot of us going through something similar! It took me(24 F, SW:215lbs CW:195), almost 2 whole years to lose 20 lbs, but progress is still progress and a little patience with yourself goes a long way. Just because you’re not losing weight quickly doesn’t mean it’s not a goal worth pursuing!

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40 pounds (17kg) down, just wanted to share my thoughts and give some advice!

I started counting my calories at the beginning of the year and I've managed to lose 40lbs so far! I still have a long way to go but I'm incredibly proud of my progress. I've struggled with my weight my whole life and this is the first time I've ever been able to stick to a 'diet' for so long.

The advice people give here and in similar subs helped me a lot so I wanted to give some as well!

So, I have three important things to share:

First, I've learned that one of the most important things for weight loss is patience. At the beginning I used to step on the scale every day and feel defeated when the number hadn't moved or had gone up. It took me a while to figure out that my weight flunctuates A LOT. Most of the time my scale doesn't move for more than a week at a time, then I lose 2lbs in a day. Some days out of curiosity I weigh myself in the morning and before going to bed and I'm a few pounds heavier, which is crazy! Especially considering the things I've eaten that day don't weigh that much combined!! However weight just does that, so a little patience is needed. Just do your thing and wait it out, trust me results will come!

Second, if you're doing cico, track absolutely everything. This has been probably the thing that has kept me going the most. Track even when you go over your calories. Days like that happen, so don't beat yourself up over it. I promise that extra little something that's 300cals over your calorie budget won't ruin the progress you've made so far!

And last, I want to advise people to get an accountability buddy! I can't explain how nice and encouraging it is to talk to someone about the little ups and downs of dieting that you're going through together. (Not to mention meal ideas and recipe sharing!!!)

I hope this helps someone out there! Thanks for reading. :)

(stats for the curious: 24F 5'2 SW220CW180)

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Starting off my weight loss journey!... Again.

This is quite embarrassing but I’ve posted here, saying that I’ve embarked on my fitness transformation on a separate account... Turns out that I couldn’t quite make it.

Let me give you a little background: I’m 17, 267~ lb and around 5’10. I’ve been overweight-obese for most of my childhood and it practically killed my self esteem, leading to being a seclude dude. This weight made me cry, it made me frustrated at myself, cursing my self for drinking can after can of soda pop during birthday parties and family gatherings. Which caused me to eat excessively in my family van (so my siblings couldn’t see me cry and eat myself to death). I reached my heaviest I’ve ever been, 289 at 16. I was done, just completely done. I didn’t want to be this way for literally all my life and so I dedicated all my time to exercising. No kidding that I’ve practically killed any and all free time at the community and private gym. That lead me to burn out and feel terrible for not being able to continue this harsh regiment. Repeating this cycle.

Not today it won’t (well, I mean I started a week ago but yeah lol). I stomped my foot and chose to finally take a crack out of this weight loss commitment once again and I’m seeing some great results! Already lost around 4 pounds already with a combo of YouTube dance exercises and a sauna suit I’ve bought. planning to add by-monthly updates to this subreddit account.

Thank you for taking a read of this little diary of mine and I promise I won’t back down, it’s do or die moment for me and I will have results.

Ciao!

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Help! How do I stop the spiral?

So before lockdown, I was doing really well when it comes to healthy eating/exercise and I'm actually currently at the lowest weight I've been for the past 15 years (I've lost nearly 60lbs/approx 26kg in the last few years). During lockdown, thus far I've still been pretty good generally - taken a few more cheat days than normal perhaps but no weight gain and trying hard to keep tabs on my mental health. However, over the past weekend I've taken cheat days and a bit further than I normally would, with loads of chocolate and snacks that I'd pretty much completely taken out of my diet. It just feels like I could go either way right now, but thoughts of 'what's the point?' when it comes to healthy eating are quite regular at this point and I could easily slip into bad habits I thought were gone. I really don't want to undo any of the good work I've done up to now but the drive to eat well and keep active has disappeared and it's gradually getting harder to discipline myself/lead a good lifestyle. Can anyone help/give me a talking to?

Tl;dr - on the verge of spiralling into overeating and undoing substantial weight loss, need help!

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Posting to remind myself that I have to keep going.

I have this very irritating habit of not counting calories strict enough - not counting sauces, adding a couple more vegetables, snacking on cereal before dinner. Enough that when I was working out and burning 300 cals 4 days a week I was still only maintaining (although I may have gained some muscle).

It ends up with me having started last August, with an overall weight loss of only 11lbs and 0.3lb average per week. One week I’ll eat 1300 everyday, and then I’ll go out of town for the weekend and blow it all, or I’ll take two week long breaks because it’s christmas!/my birthday!/someone else’s birthday! If I was consistent I could be at my goal right now.

So I’m making this post trying to resist eating another oat cookie. Consistency is what matters the most and it seems to be the only thing I don’t have!

Reminder for people that think they are losing really slow at 1lb a week, that is so fast compared to me lol! (I’ve been eating strict recently and last week lost 1.2lbs!). Keep going everyone, the time will pass either way, your goal weight day will come!

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