Hello, I wanted to take some supplements to help with weight loss, and saw green tea extract a pretty good option.
However, as I go Youtube for some reviews, I see that some people are claiming that the green tea extract is dangerous and cause liver and kidney damage.
Can any of you gave some insights to this? Would Apple cider vinegar be better?
Hi All! This is my first real post on this sub, but I’ve been a long-time lurker and r/loseit has been a big factor in my weight loss success! First, a little bit about me (22F, 5’7, SW240lbs, CW179lbs, GW160lbs). After an injury my senior year of high school, overeating led to a very quick 60lbs weight gain. By the time I started college, I was 240lbs and very unhappy with myself. Over the first two-three years of college, I tried to watch what I ate and lost a few pounds here and there, but was incapable of losing in a consistent and sustainable way- ENTER CICO. I started using the app Lost It and applying CICO principles during quarantine, and finally found my sustainable method! Suddenly I was losing an average of 6-8lbs a month and was feeling better both mentally and physically.
I began preaching the benefits of CICO and Lose It to anyone that wanted to hear it, and when I came home for thanksgiving break, my parents told me that they were both struggling with weight loss and wanted to know if I would help them start using the CICO Lose It method that had helped me make so much progress. I had them both weigh themselves, came up with a non-restrictive but relatively low-cal list of foods that would help them stay within their daily calorie budgets, and started making their lunches and snacks for them them to take to work. Here we are just a couple weeks later and my mom is down 6lbs and my dad is down 9lbs! I can see that they are both already feeling happier and more confident, and they (for the first time) seem genuinely optimistic and excited about the prospect of weight loss!
Not only am I ridiculously proud of them and happy to be giving back to my favorite people in the world, but being their weight-loss guide has motivated me to be a good example and to really recommit to my own weight loss goals. I have 20lbs to go on my ~80lbs weight loss journey, and feel more committed than ever to seeing it through. I even managed to break through the brief plateau that I hit around 183lbs after thanksgiving. Helping my parents find the motivation and tools to embark on their own weight loss journey has been beneficial for ALL of us, and in addition to losing my last 20lbs, my new weight loss-related goal is to be the support that my parents need to be happy and content with themselves and their weight- and I can’t wait to continue the journey!
TLDR/: when in doubt- help someone else!
F 22 - SW 150lbs - CW - 127lbs - GW - whatever I'll be when I'm at my healthiest
I'm not sure if this kind of post belongs more in a relationship advice thread, but I feel like the /loseit community would have much better insight for my situation?
(Slight TW for a Past ED?) I had a long history of binge eating and a few months ago finally started taking weight loss and healthy eating + exercise seriously. Unfortunately, I got a little too caught up in watching the numbers on the scale drop, and spent a good two months doing anything I could to expedite that part of my journey instead of focusing on longterm healthy habits.
While I'm recovering from that now, I noticed my boyfriend (M 22) has been mimicking some of my worst behaviors from that time. For example, going all day without eating, swearing he's "just not hungry" or feels too sick to eat. He's also been mentioning his weight a lot lately and has dropped a good ten pounds or so in the last week and a half. He's on the shorter side and about 220lbs, so obviously if weight loss is something he's serious about I'd support him unconditionally, but I already know from my own experience he's going to be screwing himself up if he continues this way.
My big struggle right now is figuring out how to approach this without coming off as a hypocrite - after all, its blindingly obvious all the complaining I've done about my weight and obsession with the scale has really rubbed off on him, and I'm still getting used to watching the negative way I talk about my own weight. So ... any advice for this kind of situation? Anyone else been through this?
I avoided weighing myself, but I worked up the courage today.
10 pounds away from my original weight of 200. FUCK. Years of back and forth and crying and hating myself and bursts of motivation and strength to get to 160, and I never got to see the number 159. Now I'm here.
I am incredibly discouraged and sad at how much I have to go now. At how much I've back tracked and wouldn't stop. But I can't mope around about it or it will get worse. I decided to make a tumblr blog dedicated to track my progress. I'll post daily updates, pics of my food, weekly food logs, inspiration collages, and so on so I can have a well documented weight loss transformation and also motivation and accountability. I hope this helps.
I start today, right now, at 5'2 190lbs.
To anyone who has back tracked incredibly, or even a little and feels stuck like they can't get back on the wagon or devastated that they "ruined" there progress, start RIGHT NOW. I know it feels like because you already fucked up you may as well make this the final eat whatever day but that's not going to work. Drop it, track what you can, and try to track everything else you eat for the rest of the day. The calories don't matter today, don't worry that you already blew the amount youre supposed to have. You're tracking to prepare yourself to track what you eat tomorrow so you can do what your supposed to do to have that body and confidence you always wanted.
Time is going to pass either way. Yes it could take months, years even to get where you want to be. And? Time is not going to stop passing by. Time didn't stop passing when we gained the weight back and it won't stop passing when we CICO it off.
YOU GOT THIS. YOU DID IT BEFORE AND YOU SURE AS FUCK CAN DO IT AGAIN! ❤️
If you've reached your goal weight and you're looking for a space to discuss with fellow maintainers, this is the thread for you! Whether you're brand new to maintenance or you've been doing it for years, you're welcome to use this space to chat about anything and everything related to the experience of maintaining your weight loss.
Hey gang, here's your weekly discussion thread! Tell us how maintenance and life in general is going for you this week!
For those who want to share on a theme, if you've had one, what was your dark night of the soul during maintenance and how did you get through to the other side? Did your usual diet go out the window during a period of grief or depression, has an injury that prevented exercise upset your TDEE and physical/mental health, did you say f*ck it over Christmas one year and then take weeks to get back in the maintenance mindset?
If there's a specific topic you'd like to see covered in a future thread, please drop a comment or message! And if you missed last week's (or simply want to reread), here's a link.
Recently I seem to not be able to continue to drop weight. About two months ago I started working out. I started at 3 days a week for the first 2 weeks and have increased that to 4-5 days a week. Usually 5, I only cut back to 4 if I am having an extremely busy week. My workouts are minimum 30 minutes, but usually 50-60 minutes, where anywhere from 30-40 minutes of this is typically various types of cardio (elliptical, jogging outside, at home HIIT YouTube videos. I don't do the gym right now cause of Covid.) The rest of the workout is at home bodyweight routines. Initially I dropped 10 pounds really quickly from working out alone. This is typical for me as that has happened several times in the past.
Once that started to slow down I started counting my calories via MyFitnessPal which recommended 1500 calories a day for weight loss (I am 5'11, male, 220 currently). I'm vegetarian so my meals mostly consist of whole food meals prepared at home. I use a kitchen scale to portion out recipes when making them to track my calories accurately. I eat out on average once a week, and it's usually veggie sushi or something along those lines.
Despite all of this I am still having a hard time continuing to get past 220, and recently have even gained some weight despite sticking to my deficit. Any advice would be welcome.
Additionally does anyone have a good site, or methods on how to accurately count how many calories you are burning during a workout?
25F, starting 350. I weighed in 299 after 6 months of weight loss and a month of an irritating plateau. I was 240ish when I was 16/17, but I'm pretty sure when I moved out at 19, mental illness and undiagnosed ADHD hit me HARD and I got to 300 probably within six months. I still have unmanaged ADHD, but it's been diagnosed now, and I have a brain condition called Chiari Malformation that restricts my activity and causes migraines, along with BPD, PTSD, an eating disorder, and PCOS. It's taken me years to find something that works for me (CICO and IF, not restricting ANY foods, just portions, minor exercise first few months, then nothing due to migraines, now I'm exercising every day), but I have and I'm only going to keep going.
51lbs and counting. I'm really proud of myself after fighting hard and being so miserable. The journey is long but I'm so glad I managed to find a way on it.
