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So last year I lost an insane amount of weight. I went from a solid 255, down to 199 all I did was sit on my butt, skipped breakfast and did Keto. The fat melted off of me, but there were some major issues I've encountered.
So here I am trying to start over. I have managed to drop back down to 225. These are my goals and how I plan to accomplish them. Please help me figure out what I'm doing is correct.
At the end of the day, this sounds almost like I'm just talking and I know that this should yield results. But the biggest question I have is should I worry about my macros? And would it be recommended that I do my 5x5 program on top of the p90x3? All this being said I'm still proud of my self. The highest weight I've been is just shy of 300, and I'm fighting to drop my last 25-45 lbs to get into my goal body. Thank you for your time.
Hey everyone, this is a strange question and I tried searching for a similar question in this sub but had no luck. I’ve been on my weight-loss journey for a little over a year now. I took a short break around the holidays and started back up in February. I’m down 51 lbs from last year. I didn’t incorporate a lot of lifting in my exercise regimen last year and mostly just counted calories and walked..but this year I now do moderate to heavy lifting 4x a week.
I am what most people would describe as a happy bubbly person, however, I have noticed I’m an angrier person and have much shorter patience than I used to, especially since I started lifting weights. My fiancé has also noticed this difference and has asked me if Im taking steroids (which I’m not) because it’s almost like a roid rage. I also don’t take preworkout (unless you wanna count the cup of coffee I have in the morning before the gym). I’m also still counting calories but I don’t think my calorie intake is too low. For reference I’m 5’1” and weigh 135 and my caloric deficit is currently calculated at 1,355.
Has anyone else noticed a change in their temperament since losing weight/lifting weights?
Hello everyone,
So this is a bit off topic, but I was just thinking about this... Do you guys tend to isolate yourselves socially when losing weight? I mean like: deleting social media and not going out and all that. I might sound like a weirdo, but deleting social media and staying socially isolated helps me a lot in weight loss and self improvement in general.
Back in 2019 may I totally deleted social media and just went offline in all kinds of socialising. The only person I really talked to was my mom, a few gym workers and a few teachers through voice chats (I was a homeschooled 17yo student). I only used reddit for some tips and that is it. This isolation helped me mentally a lot, because I didnt compare myself to anyone and I actually managed to reach my goals in a year! Fast forward to now, I have social media again and sadly I am back to zero (im overweight and inactive) because of life and depression and all that jazz...
I catch myself comparing myself to others again and I feel like it is not good to my psychology so I’m thinking about going all out offline again, maybe leaving only reddit...
So like I just felt like putting this out here lol. Do you guys feel better alone when improving yourselves?
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post, but I really wanted to 'vocalise' this.
I get that you don't need to exercise to lose weight, but I feel the strong reaction against exercise for weight loss is because some people may have thought they can go for 3 x 30 min runs a week and still eat what they want and have not lost weight. Fair enough, that probably wouldn't ever work. However, it's a dangerous rhetoric because I always find that after a week with more than average (for me) exercise, I ALWAYS have a great result on the scales.
For instance I may go for a 4 hour ride on a weekend day, and 3 x 5 mile runs during the week, and boom, great result on the scales. Another week, I may be busy or hit with a bout of lethargy, and only manage one run. Boom, a weight gain.
I am fully understanding of the fundamentals of CICO (calories in vs calories out); so eating the same both weeks will result in different outcomes depending on the calories I expend on the higher than average exercise week, hence why I feel the phrasing around exercise not being effective for weightless maybe needs to be toned down somewhat.
Essentially if you're ultra disciplined in at least one area, you will do well. Be that exercise, you maybe don't need to eat as well and as consistently as if you don't exercise. Myself, I tend to eat OK. I try to eat more good things, rather than fewer bad things, but exercise is for sure the thing that tips me into weightloss.
I'm not posting this here because I see a lot of this rhetoric, just figure some on this community may see the same things I do, or be able to challenge me on my views expressed here. :)
On 27 October 2020 I woke up and started getting ready for work. I had a closet full of nice business shirts but none fit me.
I stopped and stared at myself in the mirror. There was no denying it. I was fat.
No, I was obese.
Starting that second I quit drinking.
I also started dieting, counting every calorie.
And I started running. Almost every day. At first I could barely run for 30 seconds. Now I can run for an hour straight.
Except....life’s hard sometimes.
I fell off the wagon with the drinking. Twice in fact. For a whole month each time.
I kept running and dieting every day but I was drinking a case of beer per week over Xmas / New Year and then again from mid Feb to mid March.
It’s not a great feeling when you’ve been hungry for a whole week and exercise until you’re soaked in sweat every day, and then do your weekly weigh in and actually gain weight.
I don’t want to jump to any conclusions here, but...
I’ve had teams of data scientists working around the clock analysing my weight loss data, and preliminary findings suggest there may be some correlation between drinking large amounts of beer and not losing fat.
In 2017, I had begun a weight loss journey. I clocked myself (then, 29f, 4'9") at just over 160lbs. I've always struggled with eating - under and over. After struggling with severe restrictions (I have obsessive compulsive disorder and the caloric restrictions was more a compulsion than a true eating disorder) my OCD took me on another path away from severe restrictive eating. I gained weight, and eventually gained nearly 70lbs.
Over the course of just about a year and a half, I lost 40lbs. The large weight loss contributed to exacerbating some gallstones I didn't know I had and gave me severe acid reflux, for several days I could barely swallow water let alone eat. And once I could eat... well, I started living more a maintenance lifestyle. I was happy at 120! I I stopped counting calories. It was okay, really.
Until it wasn't. Life hit, and it hit hard. I ended my relationship with my boyfriend of ten years, I quit my job and moved home in the hopes of getting a better job. A global pandemic hit. I was extremely depressed, extremely anxious, and packed the weight on very quickly.
Since then, I've gotten into therapy, I got that job, I have a nice apartment and a wonderful, amazing boyfriend (who unfortunately lives in Europe and travel restrictions suck). I'm much happier overall, except the weight.
So here I am again, not quite starting from scratch but at 140. Today, I get back on the wagon.
