Sharing A Super Fun Workout!

https://youtu.be/TM9IXoejwC4

This workout (and all her others) are AMAZING. They don’t even feel like working out and it puts me in a great mood! Just wanted to share this workout without anyone who doesn’t necessarily want to “feel like working out” wink-wink.

I am currently starting my weight loss journey over again. I have gained 40 lbs over quarantine last year and I’m hopping back on the wagon. I am 5’7, 211 lbs. I have been walking a mile every day plus 15+ mins workout like these while maintaining as healthy of a diet as I can. Hopefully I will be seeing some changes!

If anyone has any tips or suggestions for my journey do not be afraid to share. I wish you all luck!

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Insatiable Hunger

I am lost here and just need some insight and to see if anyone else has experienced this.

I have made multiple attempts to lose weight over the years with varying degrees of success. I am currently working hard at losing weight again and was doing really well! I’ve lost almost 15lbs since January from eating better and tracking calories diligently. However, I have noticed a very frustrating pattern every time I lose weight.

I hit the 15-20lb range of weight loss at about 2 or 3 months in and every single time, I suddenly just get ravenous. I am sooo hungry all day long. I consume around 1900 calories a day, I currently weigh 277 lbs and I am a 24 yr old female. I drink plenty of water and eat a well balanced diet with lots of fruits, veggies, whole grains, etc. This happens every time I start losing weight. I have some trauma built around food insecurity, so the feeling of hunger is very uncomfortable and stressful for me, but obviously I don’t want to binge or over eat, but I really don’t know what to do. I can eat an entire meal and within a half an hour be hungry again. Like, I can often hear my stomach growling from it. I have no idea what’s going on. I am on Wellbutrin for ADHD and Anxiety, which is also an appetite suppressant, but it’s not doing any suppressing right now. If anyone has any idea how to help me out here, I would really appreciate it, thank you!

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I Can’t Do Anything

I’m 26, Prev weight: 240lbs CW: 216lbs GW: 140lbs

Five years ago, I experienced what I considered a major failure in life, followed by a series of minor ones. Growing up, I was always told my identity was my intelligence so when I failed, I started to believe that I was a failure. And some people in my environment constantly told me so too. So My mental health and consequently physical health, suffered for that and for 5 years, I would ‘try’ to get out of this low point by setting goals to accomplish but not once did I really believe I could do it. So due to the lack of trust in my abilities, inconsistency, health challenges, I just never stuck to one thing long enough to see results.

This year though I started a different approach. I told myself I would build just one habit at a time. So I started with my physical health. I wanted to build consistency instead of losing weight. So I used physical exercise to do that. What I did was; I made every goal ridiculously easy. I told myself to just do 5 mins/day. That’s all I had to do. So what that did was, my mind would go “it’s only 5 mins”, so then I was self-motivated to start on this easy goal. Secondly, whenever I completed it, I was proud of myself and lastly, whenever I completed more than 5 mins, I was ecstatic! Inspired my my actions.

All I had to do was only do 5 mins everyday. So eventually 5 mins of working out turned to 10, 30 mins and so on. So I built consistency through physical exercise and in 6 weeks, I kid you not, I lost 24lbs, through a combination of cutting out soda, working out, getting my veggies & fruits through smoothies and eating in smaller portions.

This lifestyle change drastically affected other areas of my life because seeing the result of my consistency changed my mindset from “I can’t do anything in life” to “OMG I really can!!” It’s like I just started living again. Haha. I’m building myself up again and I couldn’t be more proud of my very slow and gradual progress. Hope my story encourages someone on their journey.

TLDR; My approach is to use fitness to build habits very gradually, focus on consistency as a primary goal, weight loss as a secondary goal. Defeated a deeply rooted mindset of “I can’t do anything” when I saw results of my consistency.

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So... I have to relearn how to sleep?

Just thought I’d share a weird side-effect of my own weight loss. I’ve been a side sleeper forever, but now that I have less weight between my thighs, side sleeping kind of... hurts?

I’m talking about the area where the knees are. I used to sleep with one on top of the other, and I did so with zero issues whatsoever. Apparently (and I know this is going to blow some minds), there are bones there. Yes, bones.

Where am I going with this? Absolutely nowhere. Obviously the weight-loss is worth the minor inconvenience. I just found it kind of funny is all.

Does anyone else have other minor/surprising side-effects or discoveries with their weight loss journeys? Bonus points if they put a silly grin on your face.

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Losing motivation too quickly

So i always lurked on here and had some pretty good successes but sadly i was never able to get the success i wanted. I think i now realized that my expectations are just too unrealistic. That dropping 20 pounds in a week is just not possible even if you starve yourself. I guess my biggest problem is literally just adhering to something that works. I remember losing 25 pounds in 6 weeks when i literally stuck to the plan consistently but i find it so difficult to be "good" for such a long time. I feel like i cave in after two weeks and it just really messes up my goals. I know now that weight loss just takes a long time. How do you deal with having to restrict yourself for such a long time span? I don't want short time success because i know i can have short time success, i want long time success. I think this way of thinking also came from my childhood where doing sports was rewarded with food. I would do good for a small periods of time (2-4 weeks) and then i would relapse into overeating for weeks. This way of thinking sadly has continued through my adult life. I'm in my 20s and i always wanted to be lean even as a teen but i always messed it up. I'm not sure if i might just be too strict with myself which leads me to binge eating. This way of thinking has ruined my life. I'm doing Intermittent Fasting right now which makes me feel pretty good, i defintely feel healther mentally and physically and i do feel like i'm losing weight but it's definitely not the silver bullet i hoped it would be. I think if i literally just trimmed my portionsizes a bit and would have done that the whole last year i would already been at my goal now. But i guess i got too impatient. Always looking for that silver bullet that just does not exist. Do you guys have any tips to adhere to a diet longterm? Much help would be appreciated.

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I’m that girl that was super frustrated over a weight loss stall and.....

You guys! I’ve gotten through my plateau. I am so happy and pleased. I kept at it and finally in the fourth week of my weight loss stall I am finally another 3lb down. I listened to all of your brilliant advice from my earlier post. I tried maintenance days, that didn’t work. I tried lowering calories, that didn’t work. But finally a combination of persistence and upping my protein has cracked it. It took about five solid days of upping my protein to over 30% of my calories to see a difference. I have never found anything so frustrating in my life but I am so proud of sticking to it and trusting the process. If you are going through something similar try tweaking things one at a time to see if that does it but overall just trust in the process! Thank you again to everyone again for your help and support!

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Starting weight loss journey at 260lbs (6ft), target is 165 by Dec 21, 2021, when I turn 21

My goal is to lose 95 pounds in 9 months. My story: grew up in the obese category but in grade 11 I lost a ton of weight for my true love, basketball. I was hitting the weight room consistently and weighed 180lbs and I even got an MVP award (mvp of my school lol, I know it’s not much but was big for me at the time). Things were not the same once basketball season ended and I went back to the same old habit of stress eating. back then I used to stress about IB exams and college applications, now I stress about assignments and internships. I can’t keep eating my problems away and have decided to commit to making a change. Putting this online gives me the confidence to prove myself right. I don’t think this group allows posting pictures but I will provide updates if anyones interested.

Thanks

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