My Last First Day - Entry 1

Hello everyone. This is my first post on here. This is more like a weight loss diary, so feel free to completely ignore all of this. I have had my "first day of my diet" or "first day of my health kick" many, many, many.. many. MANY times before. This time, it is my last first day. My goal of this is to be as open and honest with not only myself, but who ever chooses to ready this with me.

I am going to lose my career if I don't lose this weight. I am in the army, and if I do not make better lifestyle choices, lose weight, and become "more fit", I will not be able to pass height and weight, or my physical fitness test, both of which can get me kicked out of the army faster than you can read this post. I am choosing for ME to get into shape. I also had a hard time figuring out if I wanted to post on here vs bodybuilding.com. I feel like there is a more engaging community on reddit. So, here we go.

I weighed in today at 166.0lbs. This is the most I have ever weighed. No, I am not morbidly obese, and no, this isn't an inspirational starting weight, but this is MY weight. This is a HUGE challenge for me. I started the day so stiff that I couldn't even turn properly while driving to check for cars in the next lane. I am ready to make a change. I have included photos of my weigh in. This is an honest weigh in. Not like the others with the army where I would fast for a week and dehydrate myself for extra pounds or inches. My real weight, my real numbers, and real pictures.

I need to hit the ground running, so here are some goals I have for this week:

1. Count calories. This will be a bit difficult for me because I have a tendency to only count the "good calories" in my app/tracker. For example, I will input the healthy breakfast into my app but feel so guilty about my McDonalds I had for lunch that I won't even put it in the app. I will be honest about my calories and put them all in.
2. No Fast Food. This too will be hard as I have terrible, terrible cravings. I plan to spend this afternoon emptying my fridge, freezer and pantry of everything that will tempt me to fuck up. This should also give me room to fill them with healthy alternatives.
3. Weigh Myself Weekly. Not Daily, Not Hourly, Not a few times a week. WEEKLY. I will not let those numbers taunt me and discourage me every day. I will spend all week working as hard as I can to get those numbers down.
4. Go to the gym every day. Even if it is a rest day, I can still do yoga. I can still take a walk on the treadmill. Going to the gym and doing something good for myself will keep me on a schedule and keep my away from videogames at home.

Here are my stats as of 20 December 2020:

Height: 5'5" or 65"

Weight: 166.0lbs

Neck: 14in

Waist: 37in

Hips: 43in

BMI: 27.3

Fat %: 41.4%

Please, wish me luck and support me.

Thank you,

-Reddit's newest member.

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So I won't hit my 2020 goal but...

I wanted to share how I feel right now, partly to remind my future self that this is ok, and partly in the hope that it might help someone else who might be in a bit of a slump.

I (re)started my weight loss journey back in May at 246lbs. My goal was 196lbs by the end of the year. Armed with my calorie tracker, very supportive boyfriend and a Fitbit, the number on the scales ever so slowly started to drop. Fast forward to July and I lost a stone (hooray!) and gained a much prettier, shinier stone on my left ring finger! Needless to say, I immediately joined the gym.

Now armed with a calorie tracker, a very supportive fiancé, a Fitbit and a gym membership, I continued my quest and lost another stone by October. This time, however, I gained several new stones in my gallbladder. Then I hit a plateau. Then the country went into lockdown and the gym closed.

Nevermind, I don't need a gym to break through this! I still have my trusty calorie counter, my darling fiancé and my Fitbit. I'll just walk it off! So I walked. And walked. And walked some more. The dog didn't want to come with me any more and my poor fiancé was exhausted so I roped in my best friend/gym buddy and walked some more.

Cut to today and I am STILL at 215lbs. I have an operation to remove my gallbladder on Tuesday so I have had to isolate. I can't go to the gym or go on long country walks anymore. I could have done some exercise inside, but the drive was gone by this point. I hit a slump and was feeling pretty down about the whole thing until I realised:

I had lost two stone and not gained a pound back since October.

I've not lost everything I wanted to this year. I've not hit my goal. But, even with a misbehaving organ, I am healthier than I was last year. It has been a tough year for everyone but I have worked hard and achieved a lot. It may not be perfect, but I am a damn sight closer to my goal than I was when I started.

So, 2021:

SW - 215lbs GW - 160lbs

Bring it on!

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Hit a plateau, any suggestions?

Hi! First post here... 🙋🏼‍♀️

So my weight loss journey kicked off around Nov 2018 and following a mostly keto diet I dropped around 4 stone in 9 months or so.

Since then I started CrossFit and my body shape & composition has changed hugely over the last year, so much so that I’ve dropped down another 1-2 dress sizes while only changing in about half a stone of weight.

I really want to lose more weight (specifically, fat) and change my body composition. My body fat percentage has gone from 40% down to 30% but I’d ideally like to get into the 20-25% bracket and reassess from there. My vague understanding is that it’s easier to lose weight/fat and then build muscle after as you can’t really do the two together very easily.

Lately I just can’t seem to get my weight to budge, I just gain and lose the same 1-2kgs constantly and have only managed to get my %BF down by 1% in the last 3 months. Stats below, anyone got any helpful ideas? 🙂

Female Height - 156cm / 5 ft 1 Weight - 68kg / 150lbs BMR - 1350 TDEE - 2000ish (I tend to work out 4-6 times per week depending on my work schedule)

I usually eat around 1100 - 1400 cals per day but that does leave me pretty hungry on the days I train so it’s not easy. Not eating keto anymore, just a general balance (not really tracking macros specifically).

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

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Weight Loss Frustration, Any Advice?

All my life I've been obese and have struggled to lose weight. I grew up surrounded by adults in my life who showed their love for me by showering me in food. (Doesn't really help that I'm from the South)

I remember being 8 years old and 155 lbs.. I know I was morbidly obese.. However, when I moved in with my Dad he insisted that I lose weight. He did this by forcing me to exercise which I hated. In the end I did manage to get around 130-140 range in middle school, which still put me in the overweight category.

Middle school was a very tough time for me as I was still trying to figure out who I was. I had really toxic friends and my life at home wasn't the greatest. I turned to food even more to comfort myself, and despised when I was forced to exercise. By the beginning of high school I was 5'2 and 200lbs.

Throughout freshman to Junior year I had only gained about 10lbs and was resting at 210 for a while. I had always been insecure of my body and have crash dieted, drank apple cider vinegar, did intense hiit, lemon water in the mornings, etc, etc, etc. But the weight always came back.

At the end of 2019, I had promised myself that I was going to make this new decade, my senior year even the best. I was going to become more confident in my skin and I was going to lose weight. Sadly, I didn't even start my weightloss until the beginning of March. And then COVID hit.

Long story short, I found things that have worked for me (CICO, working out regularly, and tea every night so I don't binge--helps me at least) over quarantine. In the span of March-December I've lost 45lbs, and this is something I'm very proud of.

However, since October I've been struggling a lot. I have gotten sidetracked by school work and have no desire to workout. It doesn't help that I'm neglecting my old habits. For the past 2 months I've been fluctuating between 165-160. I really wanted to be 155 by the end of 2020... I know I've lost so much, but its so frustrating to me. I was so determined and I was doing so good. I know I should be proud of my progress so far, but I so badly wanted to reach my goal.

I keep saying I'll do better the next day and so I binge. Until I make a mistake the next day and just continue in my binge cycle. I don't want to gain the weight back, but I feel do unmotivated to workout and to eat healthily. It's not as if I lost the weight unhealthily. I am just in a slump and have abandoned most of my healthy habits. I lose the 5 lbs and then gain it back. I can't stay at 160 or get any lower, it's becoming upsetting...

I want to lose 80lbs in total and I don't have much left to go. I'm not sure if I should just start fresh in 2021 or fix myself in these last few weeks of 2020. Does anyone have any experience with this?

tldr; Former fat girl loses 45 lbs but wants to get to 55 by the end of 2020. She been struggling for the past 2-3 months. She feels defeated and doesn't know what to do next. Anyone else experience this, any advice?

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How To Deal With Negative Family Members During Weight Loss

Are you trying to lose weight, but you have your family bothering with negative remarks?

I've been there.

You might be starting your weight loss journey.

And since your doing something new. Your family is probably making fun of you, giving you wrong advice, or unknowingly disrespecting you by offering you junk food (frequently).

No need to worry anymore.

This video will show you how to turn your family's environment from a negative to a positive when trying to lose weight. A stress-free and supportive environment is the best place to be when losing weight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIC5ILIwic

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Weight loss buddies?

Hey guys! This is my first post here. I’ve been trying to lose weight for the majority of my life but I’ve never been successful. I realised I was doing it all for the wrong reasons. I hated myself and thought that others do to and wanted to be liked by other people so I wanted to shed my weight. But quarantine really helped me realise that I’m amazing and beautiful and don’t need to lose weight to be pretty. But I do need to lose it to be my healthiest and feel even better than I do right now. I’m 17 and 203lbs. I’ve let myself get way out of control due to my negligence and what not. But I’m determined to get better. I would love to be weight loss buddies with you guys. We can talk about our journey, our nutrition, workouts, motivate each other and also keep each other accountable from time to time. I’ve always felt very alone whenever I start this journey because most people my age don’t have to deal with something like this so it’s hard when friends don’t understand. But I would love to be friends with you guys! If you’re interested in being weight loss buddies with me, do message me!

If you guys have any suggestions or questions or anything at all, do let me know. Thank you and i’m very excited to start my journey:)

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How fad diets and marketing distract you from lasting weight loss.

Marketing is a huge problem as it relates to weight loss. There’s a split between what’s good for you and what would sell, or what people click on. Most weight loss products are marketed being harsh on you, putting very high standards and very advanced diets.

I don’t mean you can’t have high standards or amazing results. You can, but it happens gradually, it’s like cooking a very advanced meal, you need to be good at the basics of cooking before trying the advanced recipes. But somehow, we don’t apply this mindset to weight loss, and its simple physics and systems theory. Everything must be gradual.

I believe this happens because we learn to not like our bodies, we believe we should be different.We learn to be in denial of where we are, and from this denial we don’t start where we are, but from where others start. But this denial is conflictive, because if you're in denial of what is actual, you don't deal with the problem that needs to be solve, therefore it keeps re-appearing.

The people who diets are marketed to are the ones who need a more gentle approach to weight loss.

So be aware of this issue, and look at yourself, consider your circumstances, and start there. Let go of ideals of how you should be, let go of escaping. And from there your efforts will be sustainable and will produce results.

Don’t worry about time, there’s going to be a tipping point doing it this way, where you will enter flow. When you enter flow, when you get momentum, there will be tremendous happiness, and certainty. When this happens even though you don’t have the results yet, you will have enough and be certain.

Just a little post about what I'm seeing this days, I hope it helps you. If you have something to add, or an oppinion to share do it.

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