[Challenge] LoseIt World Tour - Week 0 - SIGN UPS ARE STILL OPEN!!!

Hey Everybody. Welcome to Week 0 of the Fall 2020 Loseit Challenge: LoseIt World Tour!

This week will focus on setting your goal for the challenge and beginning our activity tracking.

Loseit Challenges are a team-based competition that last for 8 weeks during which you set a weight-loss goal and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. There will be a new post every Friday with Links/Instructions for each week's activities. The challenge subreddit and your team's discord channel will also have all the information you need.

This round your hosts continue to be u/hxcjosh23 and u/unrepentant_thinner

What are Loseit Challenges?

This challenge is a team-based "competition" that will last for 8 weeks. During the challenge you will be assigned to one of 6 teams, set a weight-loss goal for the challenge, and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge.

Each week, in addition to their weight, challenge members can choose to log their steps and activity minutes. Teams will compete in friendly head to head battles weekly for step totals and activity minute totals. This is optional, but encouraged!

Every Friday there will be a new post in r/loseit and r/LoseitChallenges with links and instructions for each week's weight in and activities. Your team captains will also share all the information you need on your team’s Discord server.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4

NEW SIGNUPS COMPLETE ALL STEPS

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Step 1 - Sign up

Sign Up Here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtV98SyGMSmB6Z8fFywmbpo0R6xo6BM_XwWQTs2yt1lrcUyQ/viewform

-You will be randomly assigned to a team following the submission of your sign up form. Do not ask to be assigned to a particular team. ALSO NOTE if you accidentally sign up more than once please follow your first entry. The duplicates will be removed.

Step 2 - Visit the Challenge Tracker to find your team!

Challenge Tracker Here! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Xko94N3_uqxsAwgjOdiZFSmeW8f-0NGJzKvIkuptfw/edit?usp=sharing

-Newest signups are at the bottom of the list. The team assigner runs every 5 minutes. If your team is blank, just wait a moment. It will refresh in real time on desktop, but you may have to refresh the spreadsheet to see the changes.

-Do not request edit access to the tracker. Please contact one of your captains with any errors that need to be corrected

Step 3 - Join r/LoseitChallenges to introduce yourself and find your team's Discord server

-Please join our challenge subreddit, r/LoseitChallenges, to find the link to your team’s Discord server in their welcome post. Make sure to introduce yourself while you’re there!

-Joining your team discord isn’t mandatory but it should be noted that being active with your team keeps participation up and might be that extra little push you need to keep you going. It could be the difference between an 8 week grind or 8 weeks of fun and support to lose the weight you want.

Step 4 - Weigh in and set your goal for the challenge

Weigh in and set your goal here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zxBpaWP6H-Lmybe2TyMqD8SES2d-0oq3QuXdWqXLxwM/edit

This is where you will choose your challenge goal weight as well.

Please try to choose a reasonable goal! The goal of these challenges is to set up sustainable weight loss habits. If you gain one or two weeks, keep pushing and do not give up! There are no penalties for struggling, only for giving up.

Step 5 - Submit Steps and Activity Minutes (Optional)

Submit activity and/or step count here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13q70HoIXgr329L_OoRVUhrCO-dMsRdPaVq_aFSmKFMo/edit

You can submit one day at a time, or the whole week at once. If you’re submitting daily no need to include previous days information. Your most recent entry for each day will be counted.

This week is a BATTLE ROYALE! Every team vs Every Team. Next week will begin our head to head challenges.

***Your and your family's health come first. Adapt your activity to the current guidelines in your communities.**\*

All steps count. Intentional minutes count.

We define activity minutes as "intentional additional activity to meet your health goals". This may include things like weight lifting, running, yoga, walking to work instead of driving, following youtube workout, etc. Things done for the purpose of reaching your goals that are not already a part of your normal day.

Timeline

Each week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 12 pm EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.

September 18 - Signups open

September 25 - Week 0, Establish challenge goals, signups open through end of week

October 2 - Week 1, Head to Head battles begin, Signups are closed

October 9 - Week 2

October 16 - Week 3

October 23 - Week 4

October 30 - Week 5

November 6 - Week 6

November 13 - Week 7, Last Head to Head Battle

November 20 - Results and next challenge announcement

If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/LoseitChallenges sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go.

Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We’re volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren’t specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar on r/loseit.

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Feel like I’ve hit a fork in the road, help?

Hi all! I’m a long time reader of everything this sub, but a very infrequent poster. I’m looking for some help because, although I have been hitting successful weight loss goals, I suddenly feel like there’s a fork in the road and I’m stuck trying to move past it.

When the world when to shit and I was forced to spend 4 months indoors starting in March of this year, I decided I would finally try to help myself with my weight issues I have dealt with my entire life. I am part of the privileged few to have access to a treadmill in my home so I started doing an hour daily on the treadmill and eating 1 large salad a day. Obviously it was hard at first, but I started to feel good! It became part of my day at that point to just “get my hour in” and move on.

I started near or around April 15th and kept this steady schedule well through June. I went from 300lbs to 245lbs in this span of time. When summer came and I was finding myself spending more days outside and with family doing activities, I decided to branch off of this schedule, this typically is where you find the downfall in a lot of these stories, but I am glad to say that I have maintained 250lbs all summer.

The issue is now, as my college classes are online at home and I’m stuck in a similar situation as I was last Spring, for some reason I can’t find the motivation to jump back into this daily schedule I formulated before. My initial weight goal is somewhere between 185-200lbs, so I should be ecstatic that I made it halfway there, but for some reason I can’t find the same inspiration from before.

Has anyone experienced this in their personal journeys? What can I do to regain the enthusiasm for a second and final round of weight loss?

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185 -> 152 (modified keto!!)

Never in my life did I think that I would leave the 180s. Leave the "overweight" zone my doctor always told me about. Ive been heavy since middle school, always bigger than the other girls (on top of being a loser too). High schools already sucky-ness was AMPLIFIED by being heavy. Got picked on in middle school, mostly ignored in high school, and spent every morning pinching my thighs on the bus, sucking in my gut, spending who knows how long plastering my face with makeup, and overall just completely hating myself. The only thing I had going for me was being the "funny, high energy big girl". But what really kicked my ass to "oh no, I need to lose weight", was when my NP mom pointed out that I was getting signs of diabetes, black lines in my neck roll, armpits, behind my kneecaps, I was devastated. I tried everything, calorie counting, exercise, vegan, vegetarian, mediterranean, juice cleanse, you name it and Ive done it. I managed to lose 5-10 pounds with a weird combo of everything, but then I got depressed and gained most of it back. Then my parents told me about keto. A diet I could eat as much as I wanted, meat, dairy, cheese, veggies, small amounts of fruit, as long as I maintained 20g of carbs. It definitely took a while to figure out, because wow are there so many carbs out there, but I freaking did it and I loved it. I loved everything I was eating, I changed it around to fit my needs, and the weight Very Slowly fell off. I decided instead of trying to lose as much as possible in a short amount of time, I gave myself a realistic goal. 2020, in one year, I wanted to hit 150. And thats IT. I didnt throw on 100 different goals for 2020, I just wanted one goal to focus all my attention on, and I freaking destroyed it. I move without feeling out of breath, I can sit with my legs crossed, I eat smaller potions because Im not as hungry anymore, I have a healthy relationship with food, more energy to occasionally exercise, everything in my life has looked up, and I am never going back. I look in the mirror and actually think Im pretty. Ive never experienced "self love" or confidence until now, but it has changed everything. I can focus on doing things I love now, instead of constantly bullying myself. Im proud of who Ive become, I completely changed my wardrobe, I dress the way Ive always DREAMED of dressing, Im not scared of going to the beach and feeling gross, people show genuine attraction to me (I dont even think that it was because of weight loss, I think its from the confidence that came from it). I lost weight for myself, and I am never turning back. It took me over 6-7 years to find something that worked for me, never ever give up, if something feels bad or doesnt work, change it, but never stop trying.

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SW 228 / CW 208 / 29M - Do I have to weigh my veg?

Hello people!

Reading everyone's journey really has inspired me to kick on my weight loss journey. I started mines about 4 weeks ago and have lost roughly 20lbs. I have a question hopefully someone can answer :

Currently my daily eating schedule is heavily monitored by myself and it looks like the following (don't eat from 6pm at night until 2pm when I start eating again). I am eating roughly 900-1100 calories max

Lunch - 1 slimfast strawberry shake and 30g dried mango

Snack - glass of fresh squeezed OJ and a 30g of olives

Dinner example : 1 chicken breast grilled with a huge plate of frozen veg (carrot, peas, green beans, some other bean that I don't know)

So for every meal and snack I weigh EVERYTHING so I know what I'm really eating however my question is with my dinner can I just pile on the frozen veg mentioned above without caring about weighing. I'm talking about the whole plate has been covered with them. Should I be concerned that I'm eating too much of them (ie too much sugar or calories or whatever?)

Before anyone says yes I'm losing weight so it must be working however the question still stands

Thanks!

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 25 September 2020? Start here!

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.

Why you’re overweight

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.

Before You Start

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.

Tracking

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.

Creating Your Deficit

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.

Exercise

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.

Crawl, Walk, Run

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.

Acceptance

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.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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Lost motivation for weight loss

A little bit about myself : Age 15 , Height 175cm (5"7ft) , Weight 130Kgs (286lbs) . At the start of June i was 320lbs (145KGS) , i knew it was time to change since im extremely obese for my age. I got the motivation and lost 15 Kgs at the start of september i lost the motivation i had. I Started eating again junk food and on the other 5 days i would diet and then again on the 6th day i would just nonestop eat and gain 2-3 pounds. After i lost these 3 pounds and started dieting i just f*cked myself again and thought about food and buy so much i gained like 4 pounds. After i lose these 3 pounds that i gain , yesterday i gained again 3 more pounds cause the other day i couldn't stop thinking about food and buy again and eat so much. I stopped doing any progress even when im dieting i think about food. I don't wanna give up and gain these 15KG that i lost. This is the first time i've been so far on weight loss i since i trying to lose weight from a long time ago. I don't know what to do since i don't have any good hobies all i think about is food and i wanna get this addiction off. I'm in such a big hole and i really wanna change keep diet straight and stay healthy , it was easier when i started cause i really had the motivation for it. Now i don't have any motivations at all for anything i'm afraid that i might go buy again junk food and eat it later. I really need help i wanna change. I don't know from where to gain this motivation and that's why i joined this sub since i don't wanna talk about it with my mom cause it's uncomfortable for me. I lie to her that i'm still keeping on the diet yet i spend my money on food and then i hate myself . I'm so pathetic

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Will eating under your BMR and not getting protein for only ONE day still affect you even if you have eating enough the rest of the time?

Around 11 pm or midnight, I was planning to have some Greek yogurt because I needed to get to my daily calorie and protein goals (1300-1400 calories and around 80 to 100 grams of protein daily.) But then I got into a fight with my husband and never ate my Greek yogurt. I started my weight loss journey a week ago and every single day except for last night I have eaten enough calories and gotten enough protein. Last night was the first time ever that I ate under my BMR and did not get enough protein. I know that if you eat under your BMR and do not get enough protein for a few days, you will lose muscle. But what about 1 day only? Will I still lose some muscle anyways even though the rest of the time I have been eating enough calories and protein?

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