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21F 5'9 sw240 lw160 cw190 full time student
Long time lurker first time poster. Made this acct so I could post here. Please don't yell at me if formatting is wrong I'm on mobile etc and so on.
At the end of my senior year of high school, I looked at my graduation pictures and said wow. I look /fat/ maybe I should do something about that. Naturally, I forgot all about it until a while later, halfway through my first year at community college when I found the YouTube fitness community. It was then that I buckled down and said ok, now you know how to do it. Calories in, calories out. Stop snacking so much and work out more. And I did it. I ate less and picked up ice skating and yoga. I ended up getting to my goal weight in 1 and a half years. However, at the end of it I looked at myself and I saw that this wasn't what I wanted to look like. I'm very broad and curvy and I'll likely always have large breasts, some stomach and thick thighs. And, I know some people will want to shake me for this but I want to be petite. Maybe 5'3 with a lean build and softer features. I just remember hitting my goal weight and looking in the mirror and thing that this was all for nothing. I still look like I did 70 lbs ago. (Yeah, dysmorphia is a dick) Soon after that I moved to my 4 year university, away from my sister who is my everything, my rock. I started comfort eating again. I knew no one, all I had was food and my cat. Accepting the fact that I have a different body type was hard, and I can't really say how I did it other that a lot of introspection. I feel like managing my expectations this time around is how I'm going to keep it off. I'm not setting a goal weight or goal size or anything like that because I feel like that disappointed me so much last time. I started calorie counting again around 2 weeks ago, but not really weighing myself (I need to buy a new scale. I left my old one at home and my sister is using it.) But I have higher hopes for this time around. Last time with the weight loss it was very much I'll loose the weight and go back to normal. Now I know that that's how you get fat again. Thanks for listening to me ramble.
Edit: I apparently don't know my own age
Hello all,
I am a 19 year old at 211lb, 5ft 6in. For most of my life, I’ve done pretty heavy exercise as apart of club swimming and high school swimming, doing 2 hours of practice (sometimes 4 during the winter) for 6 days a week. I was always pretty muscular but still had a pretty high level of body fat.
Around junior year of HS I weighed like 190 pounds. However, since I went off to college and haven’t been swimming, I gained a pretty considerable amount of weight and am now at 214.
I’m trying my best to lose this weight and hopefully get down to 170, but it’s been really tough. I’ve been eating around 1300 calories a day for a month and haven’t noticed any weight loss. Working out at home isn’t an option for me and no gyms near me are open so I don’t know what to do... I’m very confused since I feel like I’ve reduced my caloric intake enough without getting to the point of it being TOO low. Anyone else had similar experiences?
Thanks!
I don't know if this will sound demoralizing to some, but what the fuck, this weight loss journey has been nothing but agonizing.
I'm currently at 106Kg (233lbs) after being 117Kg (257lbs) and yes, I'm happy that I'm making progress but that's pretty much all I'm happy about.
I love food, I'm a big eater, I like to try a lot of new food. I have a group of friends where we go out every week to new restaurants and order the best and most delicious meals they have. We eat, a lot, and drink a lot too.
Time goes by, and all of a sudden, I'm starting to look like a freaking wrecking ball. I'm growing freaking sideways and that ain't correct, no sir. To not mention, that I had been feeling awful for the past few months.
So I started thinking that I gotta slim down and start burning some of this belly. So I do my (bad, very bad) research: diets, exercise, fasting,and a lot of other stuff and I'm like...very overwhelmed with all the info, so I stick to the basics: Eat less, exercise more.
This is the moment I start regretting eating like food is going to disappear if I don't eat it in the moment. Let me tell you, I feel constantly hungry and this has to be one of the worst feelings in the world. I hate feeling hungry. In the first weeks, being home and being hungry was a no-no. I have ton of crap food that I shouldn't eat and sometimes I felt like I was a crazy person walking around the house, going to the kitchen, open the fridge and nope the fuck outta there. Only to repeat it after a while. So no, time to leave. If I have free time, let's no stay at home.
I think, since I'm going out, maybe begin the exercise part. Sure, why not. GOOD HEAVENS, WHY? Look now, I wasn't totally sedentary, but I wasn't the guy that would go out for morning/evening walks. So I go for a 45 minute run and by the end of it, my body found out a new level of exhaustion it had never experienced. I was out of breath, hands on my knees, feeling extremely bad, sweating bullets. Then I look at my watch, AND I ONLY RAN FOR 5 MINUTES. This just can't be.
I'm always hungry, my body feels like has been run over by a god damn train after I "exercise". It's painful, it's miserable. There has to be another way. Well shit, there isn't.
So, after long long long, very long couple of months (because time looks like it's in slow motion when you trying to lose weight), I start seeing some changes. Especially in my pants. Now hold on tiger, I'm talking about waist and thigh size. I also start fitting in some L shirts I had laying around that I couldn't use anymore.
I start thinking that maybe it's worth the pain, no? Well, my mind it telling me yes, but my body, my body is telling "what the fuck are you doing to me, why does it hurt all the time????". Anyway, I gladly don't listen to that temporary blob of fat and keep at it. (I had a lot of breaks when it came to exercising. I had weeks where my legs and arms just couldn't handle it and I had to take a break because it got to the point where I couldn't even drive properly. When I wasn't exercising, I would usually go to the beach and have long but slow walks along the coast).
Yesterday, I stepped on the scale, and I've lost 11Kg (24lbs). Not gonna lie, I looked like a god damn baby smiling at myself. I'm happy, really happy. This shit is working. I look back these past few months, and I see hell, it's a nightmare...a ongoing nightmare that won't end anytime soon. But, I really can't wake up from this nightmare until achieve what I want. I'll keep exploring this god damn nightmare until I get to the good part because getting to that good part and waking up will make me a new and improved man. It hurts, my muscles ache, and I'm gonna be honest, I fucking cry a lot of pain, I want to move my god man body, but it won't budge. It has gotten better, I'm getting used to it and painful muscles are becoming sore muscles, it's more discomfort than pain, but it still sucks ass.
Bottom line is, if I ever knew this was going to be this hard, I would have had a lot more care for what I eat and the portions I eat. It never really occurred to me the problems eating an uncontrolled amount of food would cause, both physically and mentally. I have people telling me that the struggle will never end and after I achieve my goal, maintenance will be just as hard. I don't know that yet, but after going through all this, if I ever achieve my goal and I believe I will, I will never, ever, go back to being this overweight. I believe this nightmare will end and once it ends, I'll fucking close the book, burn it, and wipe the ashes away.
If you're reading this (first I thank you for keeping up with me, I know this got kinda long) and if you feel like you're starting to get to a weight you don't feel comfortable anymore, stop now and start working on losing that weight, because the more weight you get, the harder and painful it becomes. It's a god awful sensation and you're going to regret not paying attention to it when you should have.
Thanks!
PS: I'm new to this sub, and when I get to 100Kg, I'll post progress pictures!
PS2: I'm sorry for swearing a lot and sorry for any grammar mistakes, English is not my native tongue.
Today is your Day 1?
Welcome to r/Loseit!
So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.
Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.
The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.
Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.
How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.
The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.
Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.
It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.
It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.
You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.
Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.
Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
Female, mid 20’s, SW: 224lbs GW: 165/170lbs
It’s been a rough journey. Food and weight have been serious barriers my whole life. I was never super overweight, just a little more plump than my friends. Post-college I was extremely stressed (getting my life together, starting career, fun stuff!!) and my weight wasn’t a priority, so I let myself go a bit. Like, 40 pounds a bit. I look in the mirror and don’t like what I see. It’s not the best feeling.
On top of that, I have Hashimoto’s disease and was diagnosed when I was a child, which hasn’t helped, since it makes it much more difficult to lose weight. In order to prevent health challenges in the future (many horrible health issues run in my family), my doctor and I discussed the immediate need to buckle down and take weight loss seriously. To that effect, she has given me a prescription for Qsymia to help get me started, and once I’m off of it, the hope is that I will be able to keep the momentum going. I started a vegetarian (I still eat fish and eggs) diet because I felt eating meat created an opening to eat poorly (think fast food). I slip occasionally but mostly keep to it (yay!) but I feel there needs to be more to it.
What has helped you in starting your journey for the hundredth time? How do you get over feeling defeated? How do I get and stay motivated? How hardcore do I need to revamp my diet? Have you ever had problems/successes with Qsymia?
During quarantine, I got heavily obsessed with getting the 1.5 quart Kroger Deluxe ice cream containers. As a Ben & Jerrys pint lover, I thought the larger container would allow me to have more ice cream over time, but smaller servings individually.
Well, it was a fat nope from me. I’d buy it on Sunday, it would be gone Tuesday at the latest. Instead of scooping it out into servings, I told myself “I’ll know when to stop!” (Narrator: She did not) But the next week, I’d buy 2 more. (They were 2/$5 and I’m only human.)
Anyway, I stopped buying them, but for the last month, I’ve eaten out constantly and terribly. Over the weekend, I FINALLY decided it was time to get my shit together. No fad or crash diets, just steady weight loss over time with CICO.
In what I thought was a huge mistake, I bought the offending ice cream on Sunday.
But this time, it was different. I’m on day 5 of the Lose It app for food and Alive by Whitney app for exercise, and I’m actually... doing it. I’m down 2lbs and it actually feels like I’m in it for the long haul.
The reason I am more convinced this time? The ice cream I bought Sunday is still in the freezer. Half full. I haven’t been restricting myself, I just scoop a serving into a bowl and put it back. I literally never thought I’d say this, but the pride I feel in myself right now tastes better than a full 1.5 quarts of ice cream in one sitting ever could.
I’m trying to lose 60lbs in 1 year — so far, I think I’m on track for 5lbs/month. I really feel like I’m going to do it this time.
Love this community! Keep going everyone.
