Buy sports gear for your current size

Today I learnt what a massive confidence boost and motivation I got from buying and wearing tights and sports bra for the size I am atm, not the size I used to be and trying to get back at. I used to feel like a seal stuck in a fishing net, exercising in clothes that already made me feel and reminded me I was too fat.

My weight loss journey now starts from a place of accepting my current body, allowing it to occupy the space it needs in the universe but understanding it needs to get healthy.

I cant recommend this enough if you are like me...holding on to past sizes and buying clothes smaller than you are just to motivate you. They dont motivate, they just add to the guilt pile and it overwhelms to the point of postponing taking action.

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I really need help and don't know what to do anymore- I want to give up :/

Last year September 2019 I decided to finally get in shape after being huge my whole life. I was 308 6'1 25M. I decided to join one of those fitness bootcamps where they have personal trainers and nutrionists, and those body scan machines where they make a 3d model of your body and you can see fat mass, lean mass, body fat %, bmr etc. After seeing my scan I was 100% serious and gave it my all. I worked out 4 days a week - HITT workouts/lifting etc, and they helped me with meal plans and food and I started eating healthier because I finally enjoyed fruits and veggies - I drank 2 smoothies a day, really cut out excess breads, started making stir Frys, and gave up fast food. I felt pretty good eating right and did not feel starved or that I was missing anything. Since then I came down to 260! But lost most of my weight the first 6 months September 2019- February 2020.

March this year I realized I hadn't lost any weight since January even though I was still eating right and working out 4-5 days a week. In April I did another body scan and my fat % was at 33% and my weight was at 262. I decided to start the insanity workouts because gyms were closed and I had insanity my whole life and never was able to get through it. I pushed myself so much and would burn 700-900 calories a workout, I did all 63 days! and I continued to eat right throughout it. But I still didn't see any weight loss or difference in my body. The last month of insanity( first week of June), I realized that maybe I should count calories- I know I was being honest with what I ate, but maybe I was doing something wrong. My BMR was 2250, so I decided to set my goal at 1600 calories a day for a deficit. I have stuck to logging my food and making sure I hit the 1600 calories ( average of 1642 over the past 4 weeks) as well as finishing insanity and working out 6 days a week. I did another body scan today and saw that my body fat % went up to 35% :/ and I actually gained fat mass, lost lean mass, and my measurements, inches, everything is exactly the same as it was in January, and before I started insanity in April. I feel so defeated. I am working out, eating right, cut out bad foods, tracking everything and finally changing my life, and yet I am losing nothing and I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what to change from my diet without eating so little that I pass out and I don't know how to increase my workouts because I am already doing high intensity insanity 6 days a week. If my weight was the same, but my body was changing and I was gaining muscle thats a different story, but nothing is changing.

I don't want to be fat my whole life, but I feel hopeless at this point. Anyone have advice on where to go from here? Thank you in advance

Example of what I eat in a day : black coffee, egg white with Ezekiel bread, plain greek yogurt with honey and blueberries, smoothie ( broccoli, celery, mango, spinach, berries), veggie patties, hummus, trader joes soup, homemade chopped salad ( with vinegarette) etc. I do have a cheat meal once in a while, but never a cheat day. & I am vegetarian - never ate meat before.

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I took a break from losing weight to experiment with maintenance. I'm wondering where to go from here.

Hello fellow losers!

TLTR : After losing more than 20 lbs, I felt the need to pause it and try maintaining for three weeks. I now feel invigorated and I’m reflecting on how to move forward to keep losing weight, but especially to implement a more active and supportive healthy lifestyle. I’d love to read your own experience on the subject.

29 F . 5’2” . SW : 157 lbs . CW : 133.4 lbs . 1st GW : 127 lbs.

P.S. : English is not my first language.

The story behind this post

On January 2nd, after weighing my heaviest ever at 157 lbs, I decided that it was enough and that I had to do something about my weight. Even though my main motivation to lose weight was my insecurities towards my overweight body, I’m also in the process of searching for a sustainable healthy lifestyle. My eating habits were all over the place and my exercice routine pretty much non existent.

Since then, I’ve lost more than 20 lbs by eating around 1200 calories/day, resulting in a loss of +/- 1lb/week. During the weight loss, plateaus were easily explainable by water retention from the occasional restaurant food or my menstrual cycle. I felt successful and proud of myself for having so much discipline with my eating habits. I was still struggling with integrating exercice regularly.

At around 136 lbs, I started to plateau without the usual reasons aforementioned. I knew that by losing weight I lowered my TDEE, so my maximum calorie deficit got smaller, and therefore my weight loss slowed down. While understanding that, it became harder to stay motivated. Add the stress and loneliness of 3 months of social isolation in fear of COVID-19, and I found myself completely exhausted.

3 weeks ago, after losing a little more weight and being extra careful regarding COVID-19, I gladly accepted my parents invitation to come spend some time with them. Knowing I wouldn’t be in total control of my food (and honestly I was happy about it because of the exhaustion), I figured it could be a good time to test maintenance.

While keeping up with writing in my food diary and drinking tons of water, I stopped counting calories and tracked my weight only once or twice a week instead of everyday. I asked my dad to center most meals around veggies and meat and I portioned my own plates. Since I have an undeniable sweet tooth and my mom and I share a love for baking dessert, I still indulged in small sweet portions +/- twice a week. Also, since my parents are themselves active and retired in a smaller city surrounded by nature, I was active everyday by walking, hiking or swimming with them. FYI, I've been working full time from home since social isolation and have kept doing it most of the last 3 weeks.

The results of my 3 weeks maintenance trial

Now I feel so much better! It’s like I was experiencing diet fatigue or something! My weight has been consistent, fluctuating between 132,4 and 134,6 lbs. It didn't really feel like I had to work hard to maintain, contrary to the weight loss. I felt more energetic, more motivated, and less stressed. Also, it seems like it gave my eyes time to catch up with reality, because I can finally see how much smaller my belly is now!

I also realized what I’ve been missing during my weight loss : support. I’m quite independent and I’m used to take care of myself. Therefore, I didn’t really talked about my process or reached out for help. It was such a relief to be able to lean on my parents for a while.

I'm back home now, and I want to find a way to implement a more active lifestyle (during and after social isolation) where I could also get the support I need. I'm currently wondering if I should prioritize that over measuring and weighing my food to count calories, even though I still want to lose some weight. I don't mean I can't do both, but I want to prevent being that exhausted again. I would like to further my reflection by reading your experiences with a) weight loss after taking a break to maintain or b) maintenance as a part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Thank you :)

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Finally getting medical help after 7 years

Ok so, I,m a 17yo female, I weigh 195lbs (88Kg) and am 5"3 (161cm) and after many years of isolation and suffering due to some trauma I experienced as a child, I talked about it to my mother. She understood everything and we're goind to see a doctor and seek treatment real soon. I have an Eating Disorder and maybe PTSD and depression and never talked about it, I even denied it myself a long time during elementary and middle school. But I'm finally getting help. I'm happy because once my ED and problems will be treated, I'll finally be able to be at peace with myself and have a good relationship with food and my body. I know it will be hard and ED and everything will probably still be lurking in the shadows, ready to strike when I'm the weakest, but I want to heal, to get better and finally recover. I'm glad I finally had to bravery to seek for help. I want to finally get over the past and begin a new part of my life, a healthier one, a more peaceful one. We're going to see the doc next friday, I'm impatient. A bit nervous, but relieved.

I don't know if I will post about the recovery of my ED or my weight loss, I just wanted to share this because I'm so glad to finally get helped after 7 years of silence and torment.

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100 lbs down: how I did it and what I learned

SW: 300 lbs | CW: 200 lbs | GW: ??? F/5’2”/20y

The first thing I would like to mention is that losing 100 lbs took me a year and a half. Most of my weight came off in the first 6-8 months and then it slowed down and eventually came to a halt during quarantine. The most important thing I learned was that IT’S OKAY TO TAKE A BREAK FROM WEIGHT LOSS. I was in a calorie deficit for well over a year straight and for three months while I was out of work and locked down in my house, I maintained my weight and got a break that I never intended getting, but hindsight is 20/20 and I definitely needed it even though it sucked at the time to hit a plateau like that. Weight loss is a SLOW process, especially if you’re doing it without surgery. Sometime the scale will not budge for weeks on end and it can be discouraging and frustrating but DO NOT GIVE UP.

Also, it is possible to lose weight without counting calories, but the only way to do that is to learn how to count calories first. I strictly logged my calories for about a year and then decided that I had grown to understand what a healthy amount of food looks like in a day. I still occasionally weigh my food but I don’t pay anywhere near as much attention to calorie counting as I did when I began. Yes, I still pay attention to calories, but I’m not really “counting” them. I haven’t logged my food in at least 6 months.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STARVE YOURSELF OR COMPLETELY CUT OFF SWEETS AND TREATS TO LOSE WEIGHT. Learning moderation was one of the hardest things for me. When I would get a taste of something that released that sweet sweet dopamine into my brain, I couldn’t stop until it was all gone or until I was stuffed and nauseous. After months of trying to teach myself self control, something finally clicked in my brain and I started listening to my hunger signals. I don’t remember exactly how long it took but it was months and months before I was able to eat without wanting to stuff myself to more than full. Now I am not afraid of the occasional ice cream or chocolate because I know when to stop and what’s an appropriate amount to eat.

Finally, FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO OCCUPY YOUR MIND. Before I lost the weight, eating was all I did when I had nothing else to do. I still tend to eat when I’m bored, so I found that finding something to fill my time with is extremely beneficial in keeping my mind off of food. This was why I stopped losing in quarantine: the next meal was the only thing I had to look forward to. Now that I’m back to work and leaving the house more, I don’t find myself eating every hour of the day.

I truly never believed I could ever lose weight. I thought I was destined to be morbidly obese, that it just ran in my family, that I was a hopeless food addict that could never recover. But I did it. And I continue to do it. Losing 100 lbs has been the best thing that has ever happened to me; I can climb a flight of stairs without being out of breath, my legs and back don’t hurt after working a long day, I have more energy than I ever had before. If I can do it, anyone can do it.

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How do you stop thinking about food?

Hi! I’m just starting on my weight loss journey and so far doing well. I’m making good decisions on what I eat and how much plus not giving into temptation especially in the shop! The only problem I’m having is that I can’t stop thinking about food. Literally thinking about when I can eat my next meal or what I can have as a (healthy) snack. I don’t want to keep snacking because even though I’m eating things like cucumber and bananas it’s still expanding my stomach and I want to be able to naturally only eat smaller portions. Sometimes I’m hungry (like right now) and other times I’m just bored. How do you curb your food thoughts?

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5 Healthy Dessert Recipes Perfect for Your July Fourth

Declare your independence from diet-destroying desserts, and give these healthy dessert recipes featuring a red, white and blue twist a try. Each one features fresh, seasonal fruit and a few other easy ingredients. And while they make a perfectly themed treat to bring to patriotic parties and barbecues, these healthy dessert recipes are way too good to be confined to just one day of the year!

Try these healthy dessert recipes any day you’re craving a little All-American treat:

1. All-American Festive Flag Crackers >

Festive Flag Crackers are the perfect healthy snack to serve at your patriotic parties. Featuring graham crackers topped with fat-free cream cheese and fresh, seasonal berries, they’re packed with nutrition… and flavor! Click here for the recipe >

2. Red, White & Blue Pudding Cup >

This Red White and Blue Pudding Cup is delicious and patriotic all at the same time. It’s got flavored gelatin, whipped topping and sweet, seasonal blueberries… the perfect flavor and color combo! Click here to get the recipe >

3. 3-Ingredient Patriotic Popsicles >

Not every popsicle has to be bad for your diet! These Patriotic Popsicles are festive, tasty and guilt-free! Featuring just two types of berries and some non-fat Greek yogurt, these tasty treats are as easy to make as they are to eat! Get the recipe here >

4. Red, White & Blueberry Pancakes >

Although technically not dessert, these Red, White & Blueberry Pancakes are the perfect treat for Independence Day! Featuring your Vanilla Nutrisystem Shake and a few other simple ingredients, these tasty pancakes count as one SmartCarb and one-and-a-half PowerFuels, so you can choose whether they fit in your day as a breakfast or a dessert! Click here to get the recipe >

5. American Flag Fruit Kebabs >

Liven up your Fourth of July menu with some refreshing, delicious (and Nutrisystem-approved!) American Flag Fruit Kebabs. It doesn’t get more patriotic and healthy as this. Not a grape fan? Sub in blueberries! Prefer raspberries over strawberries? Swap them out! The possibilities to create this patriotic treat are endless—so, cool down this Fourth of July with some fresh and festive fruit! Get the recipe here >

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