Saturday, August 1, 2020

I’ve been bingeing, so no junk food for the whole month! Aug. 1st. Details in post.

Hi everyone!

In May, I decided to start working out more and lose some weight!

Stats: 5’4 23F SW: 163 CW: 155.8 GW: 130

I’m in no rush to reach my goal weight but I’m currently awaiting my ship date to leave for BMT in the Air Force and I have to stay at 155 and under. I started in May by counting my calories, exercising using Chloe Tings Work Out Videos (YouTube) and also attempting to run/walk a mile every other day and also having some junk food but still tracking those calories at least once on the weekend. I’ve always been active, but not like I use to be in HS, so while it took a bit to get back into the habit, I didn’t feel like I was pushing myself too hard and I slowly started to see weight come off. In the beginning of July, it gets so hot in Texas and I was starting to be less active, I was at 153, and my husband worked nights for about 2 weeks. Since I usually cook for the two of us, it started out as innocent... “well, it’s just me tonight, and I haven’t eaten badly, let’s get some McDonalds for myself.” “I don’t feel like cooking, let’s get Panda Express” That turned into the whole week of getting fast food but still counting my calories and staying under! Then 1 week turned into 2 weeks, which I started not to track. I’m definitely an emotional eater, and I give into cravings. So then it turned into 3 weeks this past week when I was dealing with a lot of stuff. I weighed myself and I’ve gained 2lbs, which isn’t terrible but I feel gross, tired and just miss seeing the weight loss/feeling healthy! I don’t feel guilty though, I mean.. slightly but I had always done weight loss through fad diets, so when I would binge, I would see all my weight come back and give up again. All my weight didn’t come back through and I know exactly why I gained this weight. So it’s time to go back to being active! During my healthy time, I would still eat junk food on the weekend, which I don’t think is bad but I really want to see what I can lose/how I feel by eating healthy for a whole month, tracking my calories right and slowly getting back to being active! I figured it being Aug. 1st would be a great time to start.

Just wanted to share this goal, I get so inspired by you all and hope this helps me be held accountable. Thanks for reading! :)

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Struggling to lose weight. What are some of your favorite (healthy) meals?

I feel like I've been on a perpetual on and off diet without ever having lost any weight, I think I need some guidance! I have a tendency to binge if I diet too hard and need some ideas for meals you've personally been able to stick with that aren't (too) fattening. Ideally I'd love to give up dairy and sugar, those are my end goals. I also really want to lose 25 lbs. I've been fluctuating between 3 lbs gained and lost for the past few months now since I've been fasting which is super frustrating.

My schedule: I just started working out consistently again 2 weeks ago, 30 mins 5x/week. Before that I wasn't working out at all. I fast 16:8 and drink coffee with creamer between eating. I know that's not 100% considered fasting but I'm just doing it for weight loss purposes. When I eat it's usually whatever I want, 1 big meal and 1 snack. 0 calorie soda + water. I consume a lot of dairy & sugar which is my downfall I think.

Just hoping for some advice and yummy/healthy meal ideas. Thanks!

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"The weight started falling off" HOW?

"The weight just started falling off me"

"I was dropping sizes so fast that I couldn't afford to buy new clothes for every few weeks"

"I was losing weight too fast"

I see these so often on here and other weight loss blogs and honestly, well I'm truly super happy for ya'll, it makes me want to shrivel up in a ball of frustration and cry.

I just don't get it. I cut my calories down quite low (below 1200 since I had my BMR tested at a doctor and it's a bit lower than it should be for my size) and I'm meticulous about tracking. So much so, that I basically only eat pre-portioned foods with the calories written on them, because even with my food scale I don't trust things where I don't have a set calorie count. I need to make sure I'm not going over. I've been working out everyday (with the exception of 8 days total), for 3 months now. I started at 30 mins the first two weeks, then I jumped it up to 60 minutes and the past month I've done 90 minutes.

The weight loss is not noticeable. I have not dropped clothing sizes. Nothing is 'falling off me'. Where is my miracle moment that gives me a burst of motivation to keep going???

A few years ago I dropped from 260 down to 200 and, again, no major changes. Nothing so much where I would or could make a claim like the ones at the top of this post. The weight loss was hardly (or not at all) noticeable to anyone that didn't know I was dieting, I stayed in the same clothes (they were a little looser but not definitely not enough to make me need new ones or to say they were 'falling off me'. Pants that fit snugly when I started now fit comfortably) and taking bi-monthly pictures of myself, I could hardly see any difference between them. Because of this, I ended up burning out. I had put in all this constant willpower and strict dedication and work for nothing. I just gave up because I had no motivation left to keep going.

Am I alone? Does anyone else feel this way or have a similar experience to this? I just don't get it. From the posts I see on here, I feel like I'm some sort of anomaly. Three months in, my clothes should be "falling off of me" and they are not.

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It took me 7 months to lose 20lbs

And I’m very happy with myself! I (31F 5’9”) told myself at the beginning of the year that if I was going to lose weight I had to do it slowly. I have been that person who lost 50lbs and gained half of it back. The half that I gained back was the weight that I lost through rapid weight loss diets. The other half that I managed to keep off? I lost that weight slowly over months and months.

So I thought in celebration of losing 20lbs this year I would post how I slowly changed my habits over the last 7 months. I think it’s also important to note that unemployment played a big part of my life this year, even before the pandemic. Knowing that I had to do a 30 min youtube HIIT workout everyday kept my sane and gave me a structured day when the gyms closed and we were advised to stay home for many months. I had binge days here and there, but the most important thing I learned was to not let it throw you off. Yes I pissed when I only lost 1.8lbs in June but I also had a huge life change the month and I chose to be mad about it for a day and then move on. Also I didn’t restrict myself from having any specific food or dessert (besides meat) as long as it was in my calorie limit.

I am also including my My Fitness Pal progress chart from the past 7 months and then my chart from 2016 to today to show how weight loss is not always linear. I also don’t have a lot of NSV because I hold my weight in my stomach/below my waist. So I can tell I have lost because my face looks different, but all my clothes still fit the same so I really rely on the MFP chart to show myself how far I have come.

January
SW: 217.8lbs ~ BMI 32.2

-Didn’t drink alcohol all month
-Stopped eating red meat
-Became more consciously aware of my portion sizes
-I was unemployed for a majority of January so I worked out at the gym 4-5 times a week
-Started Intermittent Fasting (14:10) on January 22

February
SW: 213.6lbs (-4.2lbs lost in Jan)

-Work started to pick up again so I returned to a more rigid work schedule
-Started IF at 15:9 for first week and the next week I moved to 16:8. I want to point out that moving to the fasting window of 16:8 was very hard for me - I had a hard time staying within the 8 hour window of eating, especially when my average day at work was 12-14 hours a day.
-Since I started working I am only averaging 6 hours of sleep on weeknights
-My birthday was the 3rd week of February so I was definitely participating in more drinking overall this month

March
SW: 211.2lbs (-2.2lbs lost in Feb)

-Was unexpectedly unemployed for the first 10 days of March
-Binge ate and drank a lot of alcohol during that time of surprise unemployment
-Did VERY lazy IF, if at all
-Finally started work again on March 11th, only having to be put on unemployment again on March 13th when NYC shut down because of the pandemic. I am still unemployed as of posting this.
-My gym closed 3/18 so all my workouts are now being done in my apartment from Youtube

April
SW: 214lbs (+2.8lbs gained in March)

-On April 1st I decided to quit drinking alcohol for… a while
-Quit eating meat altogether
-Started cooking all of my own meals, not a lot of take out
-Stuck to 16:8 IF religiously
-6 days a week I would do 30 min HIIT workouts with little to no jumping involved because I am in an apartment with neighbors
-Ran a few times a week on the neighborhood track
-Started to research CICO (Calorie In Calorie Out)
-Last week of April I bought a Garmin Vivosmart 4 activity tracker so I could know how many calories I burned a day, track my steps more accurately and to track my sleep

May
SW: 209.2lbs (-4.8lbs lost in April)

-Started CICO at a 500 calorie deficit. Started off just trying to keep my calories under 2,000 and I averaged burning 2,500 calories a day
-Started tracking all my calories on My Fitness Pal
-Still not drinking alcohol
-Continued to stick to 16:8 IF
-Hit my step goal (set by my Garmin watch) every single day - the goal started at 6,000 steps and by the end my goal was up to 10500 steps. The one was hard because I still was not really leaving my apartment that much so if I had 2,000 more steps left and it was 10pm at night I would just walk in circles around my studio apartment.

June
SW: 204.4lbs (-4.8lbs lost in May)

-Moved my calories I ate everyday down to 1,800
-Started drinking alcohol when I wanted a drink, struggle to stay in calories some days because of it
-The second week of June I temporarily moved to another state to quarantine with another family member who also lived alone, so now my activities, diet and workouts shifted a bit because I was working with another persons schedule
-30 min HIIT workouts happen 2-3 times a week
-Run on the track 2-3 days a week
-Didn’t make my step goal every day, but also wasn’t trying to
-Wasn’t as strict with IF since I was trying to find a balance with now cooking and eating dinner night with another person

July
SW: 202.6lbs (-1.8lbs lost in June)

-CICO calories still at 1,800
-Still drink alcohol, but when I have a drink I can just have one. I can have 1 beer instead of having 3 beers and I can have 2 glasses of wine instead of having a whole bottle
-Do not keep track of fasting window anymore, I just keep within my calories
-30 min HIIT workouts 3-4 days a week
-Run on track 2-3 days a week
-On average getting 8.5-9 hours of sleep

August
SW:197.2 ~ BMI 29.1 (-5.4lbs in July)

TLDR: I lost 20lbs over 7 months through slowly incorporating IF, CICO, youtube workouts, switching to a plant based diet, and monitoring, but in the end not completely eliminating drinking alcohol. And most importantly buying an activity tracker!

Currently am at an overweight BMI for the first time in 2 years, drink occasionally within my calorie limit, no more strict IF, but maintain strict CICO and have no plans of returning to a gym when they reopen. Hopefully can get my own equipment to incorporate more strength training/weight lifting soon.

Last 7 months MFP progress chart: https://imgur.com/2Az5NhB

2016- 2020 MFP progress chart: https://imgur.com/erAIetp

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Plateued for almost 3 weeks - need advice/help

Hi! (this is an alt account besides my main because I feel embarrassed about my weight and don't want people who know me to see)

Details: F/24/169 cm/SW: 98 kg/CW: ~93.5 kg/GW: 75 kg

I've been on this weight loss journey since the end of May 2020. I started with 98 kg and I'm currently plateued somewhere between 93.3 kg and 93.7 kg - it keeps going up and down daily and is really frustrating. I've been reading a lot of posts and normally people plateu after a considerate amount of weight lost but I have barely lost 5 kg and I feel like I'm already stagnating. :(

I eat 1300 calories a day, for a month I ate 1400 calories a day and saw almost a daily loss after I upped my calories by 100 but now I've been back to 1300 for almost a week.

I exercise 6 out of 7 days with 20-35 min of HIIT (since start of July) but otherwise I'm mostly sitting.

I've also taken measurements of my body parts and nothing changed there either so far. I religiously track what I'm eating with a food scale.

I feel very desperate for advice if you lovely people could offer any insights from your personal experiences <3

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I'm terrified to stop but I know I need to (calorie counting)

I have counted every single thing I've eaten or drank for about 2-3 years. (I wasn't actively dieting that whole time but was too obsessed to stop counting). My birthday, during extreme illness, a few days around Christmas would be my only unlogged days.

I started actively or rather passively started trying to lose weight at the end of 2019 and started to put in real effort early 2020. I owe my weight loss almost exclusively to my counting. I do not exercise much, especially due to covid. This year I've really tried to change my mindset around food and diet/lifestyle and its the most positive weight loss I've ever had.

But here's the issue, I am so sick of counting every single thing. Weighing everything. Being miserable if I can't weigh food or know the exact number and being forced to estimate. I'm fed up with it. I want to stop. It isn't healthy, for me personally. I want to stop but I'm scared. I still have weight to lose but I'm just so scared once I stop I will gain weight. Or simply will be unable to lose any more.

Does anyone have any advice? I would say I have a much smaller appetite than before, and I'm generally quite 'good'. Not particularly healthy, but I never have another slice of cake type thing. I just want some kind of reassurance that this is possible?

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Tracking calories is so important 6’0 female 280 pounds

Long post I’m sorry.

Long time reader first time poster. I found this group from watching Luke Narwhal’s YouTube videos. I have been on and off a weight loss journey since 2016. I always had MFP and knew about calories in and calories out. But when tracking I wasn’t completely honest with myself. If I had a cookie, or maybe a grabbed a candy bar while checking out at Walmart, I didn’t track it. 140 calories couldn’t make that much of a difference. Well when it’s 140 a few times a day every day. Then yeah it’s going to make a difference. Because of the pandemic my (rarely used) gym closed and while working from home I just got cabin fever. So I started walking. My city has this trail around it that you can walk, run, bike. I like it because a good portion of it is shaded with trees and overall very scenic. So I started walking and I would do that for around 45 minutes to an hour on weekends. Then in moved to 3 days and week and then up to 5 sometimes 6. I was active but still not losing weight. So I looked at my eating habits. I had it in my mind because I walked today I could eat more. While technically true I was already eating enough to compensate for the calories burned. Then I started watching Luke Narwal’s, Every Damn Day Fitness, Jordan Shrinks, videos again. (I tend to avoid these when I’m being vastly unhealthy) and I found the video “Habits of Skinny people.” And I took a lot of those habits to heart. Specifically eating until I’m not hungry rather than I’m full and it’s changing me. I weigh out all my food and rarely ever estimate. If I have something out of what I have planned to eat today I’ll log it anyway. But the one thing I’ve noticed is even when I have food in front of me that is well within my calories I still can’t eat it in one sitting. Or a small portion will fill me up. For lunch I have a pack of the lemon pepper flavored tuna and 11 crackers total meal is 265 calories once I’m finished I’m full. Instead of the sugar filled iced coffee from Starbucks I started drinking 12 ounces the “Not Too Sweet” Stok black iced coffee every morning for breakfast (60 calories). I can see changes. I put 280 as my starting weight because I didn’t have a scale for the first could of weeks but I know I have lost at least a couple. Even so I still walk between 2 to 4 times a week and I just bought a yoga mat so I can do a quick workout with DDPY on the days after work I don’t feel like committing an hour or just want to stay inside. Can’t wait to share more progress with you! Thanks for the inspiration.

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