What food/beverage do you make work in your weightloss journey?

When starting to lose weight I, like many others, started to do a ton of research and learned various tips and tricks. Some common ones are to not drink your calories, cut out fast food, cook all of your own meals, only drink black coffee/tea, etc.

What's a food or drink that you refuse to give up, but make work in your own weight loss plans/goals?

For myself, I refuse to give up putting cream in my coffee. I enjoy my hot coffee with cream in the mornings too much, but to make it work, I don't use any flavored/sugary creamers (never did tbh, don't like sweet coffee that much). I also measure it out so I can track it accurately, because I'm using CICO.

I'm curious because I think it's important to work on sustainable weight loss and habits that you know you can maintain.

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A message for those going over by a few calories

I see far too many people being hard on themselves when they go over by 50, 100, or even 150 calories. When you're this hard on yourself and give up because of it, your wight loss no longer becomes a physical limitation, it becomes a mental limitation and I'm guilty of going through it too!

Remember, if you go over by 100 calories all 7 days of the week and you were on target to lose 1 pounds that week, you'll still likely lose a minimum of 0.8 pounds. If you made the conscious effort to walk around a bit more during that week, chances are your weight loss will be completely unaffected.

Some of us like being strict, including myself. After 7 months and 65 pounds down, I'm loosening it up a bit. Its so easy to get caught up in exact numbers that sometimes we forget that even if we go over our daily limit, WE ARE STILL IN A DEFICIT!

The only real factor to weight loss is a nice consistent calorie deficit over a LONG period of time. Changes don't happen overnight, and even one day of falling off the wagon is merely a blip on the radar. If you find yourself repeatedly going over your calories, bump them up. It is what it is, you need to stay happy because if you're not, you'll be back in a sinking ship but make sure you keep your goals realistic.

Slow progress > no progress. Keep on counting y'all, and stop being so hard on yourselves! ❤️

Credit: Copy/Pasted from Lose Weight, Eat Pizza Facebook group

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It’s as important to remember where you started as where you want to end up.

I have a very all-or-nothing personality. I can’t appreciate progress very much so I always tend to fail at things like weight loss. Even now I don’t notice much of a change in my body at all, except that my pants are a little looser and I can sort of see my collarbone. I feel like I have so far to go.

But I started seeing a dietician in January and at that point I weighted 228. As of yesterday I’m 205. And I keep thinking, well, I want to get to 150, that’s so far away. But then it hits me– I still lost 23lb! That’s more than I’ve ever lost before. I’m only 5lb from my first goal! I haven’t been under 200 for like, 6-7 years!

I plateaued for like a month. I had days where I ate 2,500 calories. I had days that were all carb and no protein. I had weeks where I gained instead of lost. But I’m still working at it 6 months later, 23lb down. I’m about 30% of my goal. I can do this!

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Month 12 of weight loss; Reached a HEALTHY BMI today!

F20, 5’4”, SW:220lbs CW:145lbs GW:125-135lbs

The scale finally hit 145 today. That means I‘m officially not overweight anymore! I’m still planning on loosing another 10-20lbs just to make sure I’m comfortably within the ‘healthy’ range with a little wiggle room on either end. It feels crazy to have finally met this goal though. I’m super proud I’ve been able to loose weight consistently for an entire year, and I feel awesome. I legit can’t remember the last time I weighed 145lbs. I’ve been overweight-obese for most of my teen and adult years.

I’m especially excited cause I wasn’t expecting to hit this goal this month! I spent a while plateauing around 150lbs and thought it was gonna slow me down too much to hit 145 by the end of the month, but it ended up happening anyways :)

Only a couple more months before I hit my goal weight and start maintaining. I feel awesome and I can’t wait for the future

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Scale not budging

F(17) 165 cm (5’5”) SW: 67 kg (147lb) CW: 65 kg (143lb) GW:57 kg (125 lb) Hi! So i started doing CICO on 1200 on June 3rd. I did calorie cycling so days of 1800 days of 800 and so on, averaging around 1250 weekly. I exercise 3 times a week for at least half an hour. It’s mostly body weight mixed with some HIIT. For the last week this has been my weight (in kg): 17/6: 64.3 -> ate a lot of sodium and carbs this night which is why my weight spiked 18/6: 65.1 19/6: 65.3 20/6: 65.1 21/6: 65.1 -> father’s day (around 2200 kcal) 22/6: 66 23/6: 65.1 24/6: 65.3 25/6: 64.9 -> pizza for dinner but 1100 kcal total 26/6: 65.3

I would like to know if someone has any recommendations for something i could do to kickstart my weight loss again and them continue cicoing from there. At the beginning of the year i did 1 week of avg 900 kcal and 60-80g carbs and lost 3kg. I obviously gained it all back since i didn’t carry on with CICO. I want something like that but maybe not as drastic, only to motivate me a lil.

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Lost 60 lbs in 6 months

F20 5’2 SW:220 CW:160 GW:125-135

I was an obese kid, about 140lbs by the 5th grade (age 10). I maintained that weight through all of middle school and then got to about 160lbs by sophomore year, 180lbs by senior year. A total of 40 pounds in 4 years. My highest weight ever was 220lbs , I’ve always bigger but I guess I never found my weight to be a problem until I was faced with the reality of being in the 200s. A “problem” in regards to health, as I was being weighed in the doctor’s office for the first time in years; while simultaneously being told I have high blood pressure and possibly pre-diabetic at 19. The last time I had weighed myself I was about 180 lbs, which would’ve been about 40lbs gained in less than a year. I hadn’t even noticed. Then the realization struck me; I don’t take pictures of myself, didn’t own a full length mirror, and wore extremely baggy clothes so even with weight gain that significant I could still make it fit. So how could I have realized? I was censoring my own image from myself to ignore the obvious. I guess I had always thought because I never lost weight that it was too hard, as if it would just fall off by itself. So I started July 2019, just with CICO and not really exercising. Just counting calories is what helped me lose the initial 50lbs. Obviously at the weight I was it’s easier to lose weight but I was still astonished at how much I was able to lose from simply restricting. I have issues with food, binging and such, so doing OMAD (1200-1400 calories) helped me curve the urge to full on binge. By February 2020 I started incorporating exercise here and there and lost an additional 10 which got me back into the 160s! Which brings me to my plateau, I’ve been stuck in the mid 160s all of quarantine, after initially losing most of my weight in that amount of time. It’s hard to find motivation to eat healthily when I’m not seeing any improvements, even with measuring tape. Leaving me with another realization, the methods I used to lose weight at 220, don’t work at 160. I didn’t have to eat clean, even moderately clean really. I was still eating whatever I wanted within my calorie limits which helped me lose weight, but didn’t help the actual cause of the weight gain. Basically I wasn’t building healthy habits which makes the likelihood of gaining weight more prevalent and that’s just not an option for me. In the last week I’ve been making an effort to eat more whole foods and exercise, went from 163.4-159.2. Technically in the 150s, after a 4 month plateau.

Tldr; weight loss is not linear!

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