Rotisserie Chicken Breast vs Skinless Fried Chicken Breast

Hi!

I started my weight loss journey about a month ago. I started with 83 kg and have dropped down to 78 kg, which is encouraging to me. However, I think I've hit a plateau as my weight has remained around 78 kg since last week. I'm thinking of changing both my fitness and diet routine so that I can shake things up for my body.

Ever since I started my journey (all my failed journeys in the past), one thing I was never ever able to let go was fried chicken. I've been able to reduce my rice, cookie, carbonated drink intake significantly but fried chicken was the one thing I could not leave behind. As a result, I've been eating them daily and incorporating it in my current diet. The good thing is I only eat chicken breast (sometimes ribs).

I recently read that it's okay to eat fried chicken breast as part of my diet as long as I remove the skin, is this true? How does this compare to a rotisserie chicken that you see in stores?

If it matters, I'm male, 27, trying to get to 68-70 kg area. My tummy is noticeable and while I'm not looking for a six pack or anything, it'd be great to not have bloated tummy and love handle.

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How do you motivate yourself?

Hi everyone! I’m a 5’6”/200lb/27F who has been gaining weight since high school and seems to have plateaued at that 190-200lb mark.

I feel like I have a good grasp on what it takes to lose weight, but whenever I try a new exercise regimen or to try and eat better I find my motivation tanks. It’s almost as if I like the thought of doing all these things but in reality I have trouble executing them.

Just wondering how others have started a weight loss journey and what really made new habits stick. I would love to know what motivates others so maybe I can try a new approach to a healthier lifestyle!

Thank you!

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All of your "failed" weight loss attempts are progress in your current journey.

I have been trying to lose weight for the past 4 years of my life. I never succeeded at losing weight until this year when I started to get serious. In the past, I would try to eat healthier and work out, and these efforts would last for at most a week, and I would then return to my old habits. I continued this cycle for years. I would probably have a week long running kick, go to the gym once a week, and consciously eat cleaner 10% of the time. With these half-hearted approaches, I never lost weight.

I would always kick myself for "failing" once again. I felt that my one hour spent at the gym, that salad I had last night, and that mile I ran two weeks ago were for naught. At one point I accepted that I would never lose weight and would be overweight unless some magic pill made me shed 30 pounds.

But then I realized--those "failed" weight loss attempts were the first steps that got me to where I am today. That 10% of clean eating, once a week gym visits, and 5 miles ran / month helped me maintain my weight for over two years. Yeah, I was still overweight, but I stopped gaining weight. I stopped the problem from getting worse, and if I hadn't had all of those failures, I would probably have 80 pounds--instead of 35--to lose.

Even if you have still gained weight through your perceived failures, that small amount of effort did something, and you can use what you learned through each failure to move closer to success the next time you try again. I know there's no way of knowing what you would be like had you done something (or not done something) sooner, but don't wallow in your past attempts. Accept them, be glad that you tried, and be aware of what worked and did not work through these efforts.

Y'all got this! Nothing worth having is easy to get, so keep pushing. Know that whatever you do today can put you a little bit closer to your goals.

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For me, losing weight has turned into an entire re-think on how I take care of myself

Sorry if this is long, I just wanted to share this in case any of y'all can relate and/or need encouragement, commentary, etc.

For reference, I am 5'9" 23F, SW: 196 (that blood pressure tho) CW: 185 GW: 150s ish, wherever I look good in healthy BMI but is not a pain to maintain

Ok. So, before starting my journey, I think I was like most typical Americans. I got up in the morning, either skipped breakfast and/or made something that was super unhealthy but quick, and sped off to work. The rest of the day followed a similar tone: what can I doordash to my office that is quick and tasty for lunch? I'm in the south, so usually Chik-fil-A or girl, mama loves her some Cane's chicken! Dinner, luckily my husband loves to cook but he serves insane portion sizes, bless his heart. Forget working out, after all that food i didn't feel even close to working out or going for a walk.

Many of my other self care routines and/or choices followed that same tone that was routed in convenience. I straightened (see: torched at 450 degrees) my naturally super curly hair once a week because it was quick and easy and I could just straighten flyaways every other morning the rest of the week. My skincare consisted of washing my face with body soap at times, which I would never do now. And I wondered why my rosacea was so bad! My sleep schedule was whack.

In contrast: I cook most of my meals at home now and do CICO. I take the time to do lunch prepping. I still enjoy Cane's and my husband's cooking, but in measured out portions. I wake up a little early to put together a healthy breakfast as opposed to a quick one (and found they are not mutually exclusive). Even though I'm busy with work most of the time, I find time to workout because it is important and now it just feels like me time, and I like me time. I have found a new love for hiking on the weekends and checking out new parks around my area, so my horizons have been expanded in that sense. I have built new habits around sleep, like having a solid bed time, only using the bed for sleep, and journaling before bed to get time away from my phone and practice being mindful.

This has reshaped how I think about the other things I do for myself. I am in the process of transitioning back to my natural hair and taking the time to learn about hair products and embracing my curls, which has actually proved to be really fun. (PS, if you are a curly girl who straightens, no hate! It is whatever works for you! I'm sure it looks amazing!) Thanks to another subreddit, I am experimenting with skin products that make my skin look much healthier and feel a lot less irrate.

So, TLDR I can credit weight loss and practicing mindfulness with what I put into my body to doing so elsewhere in my self care rituals, instead of relying on convenience. It's almost like ok, I am improving this aspect of myself with success, what else can I improve? And trying to pull a major glow-up. Because time invested in yourself is time and love you can give back to others.

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How to avoid night Cravings

Okay so I used to have night cravings. It was so bad that I couldn't think without downing a whole bag of flamin hot cheetos. However, I found a trick that might help you fight the cravings, just like it helps me.

The trick? Brush your teeth! My father always told me that if you sleep with food in your mouth, in his words: "you finna get the Black Teeth" (he means cavities).

For me, because he burned that sentence into my brain for years, I noticed that when I brush my teeth at night, my cravings just drop. I worry that if I eat, then I wasted my time brushing my teeth, on top of extra calories. Then I think: "or...you know...just don't eat....".

Thats what I've been doing. Might help you too. Goodluck with the weight loss guys!

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Succeeding with mental illness issues-How do you stay consistent with weight loss with depression and mood issues making simple habits and otherwise simple things for most people really difficult to adhere to for you? I need help with this.

I have bipolar 2 and although it is treated with medication and I am being educated on how to manage it well this is still making weightloss extremely difficult. I have roughly 50 to 60 pounds to lose and I have gotten so serious about this that I am getting a strong education on weight lifting and planning on joining a gym very soon. Despite how amped up I am getting for this with all the motivational youtube videos and other ways i"m trying to keep this an active role in my attention in my daily life I am still struggling to adhere to even basic calorie counting and tend to cave mid day. I have yet to stick to a diet for more than 2 days even though I am purposely using foods that are healthy that I enjoy and despite having the full base education on this from r/loseit. I am especially struggling with logging calories. Believe it or not my motivation and energy levels can be so low that I find it too difficult to follow through on keeping tra ck of that. Only because the food is downstairs and I am usually upstairs and my computer cannot be moved downstairs. So going down to log with my phone just to come back upstairs to the computer can be too bothersome for me to really care sometimes. I know, its crazy. But keep in mind I am so gone at this poin t that I can even struggle to brush my teeth every day. I am hoping that steady small lifestyle changes as I move forward in my fitness literacy and education will pave way to the motivation to start caring enough to do these things more often. AS I get more energy i'll find more capability. But getting started is really hard and vague for me.

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Giving up alcohol - what activities do you do for fun that doesn’t involve drinking?

I think it’s time for me to to give up alcohol if I want to see any progress in my weight loss journey . I went from being a college athlete eating and drinking whatever I wanted, even after college I barely gained any weight and those bad habits have kept up with me and I am finally paying for it.

I eat pretty good during the week. I cook Whole Foods and keep track of everything with MyFitnessPal.

The weekends are where everything goes all bad.Drinking a ton, not tracking what I eat.

I’m ready to commit but I guess I don’t know what to do for fun without drinking. I know that sounds bad but I’m so used to that lifestyle of grinding during the week and having “fun” on the weekends. What things do you guys do for fun on weekends that don’t include drinking?

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