I lost 12 pounds!!! I can’t believe it!!

I’ve been a long time lurker on this community and have always hoped that one day I would have something to contribute. Today is the day! I know 12 pounds isn’t a lot, but it’s a start!

At the end of January I decided to take my health more seriously, and now I can finally see some results.

I am not a person who believes in dieting or cutting out any food group. I also don’t count calories. I just choose to focus on eating healthy as a lifestyle. For me, dieting is not sustainable.

My biggest problem is convenience. I’m married, work 5 days per week, go to school full time, have two dogs, a small side business, and a house. So, if the food is taking forever to prepare, I will eat something I shouldn’t. Since January, Ive been eating things that I like that are quick, convenient, and taste great!

For breakfast everyday I eat oatmeal with almond milk, fruit, sliced almonds, coconut flakes , and 1 tablespoon of almond butter, Nutella, or maple syrup. For lunch, I often eat lentil & vegetable soup. Around 4pm, I eat a snack of veggies and a yogurt or apple. Around 9pm, I eat dinner. This really varies but is usually vegetables and fish or chicken.

One thing I refuse to give up is coffee. I like my coffee a certain way and I’m not willing to change it. I drink an iced vanilla latte everyday just the way that the coffee shop makes it. I have an espresso machine at home and I make my own vanilla simple syrup too. So it’s espresso, milk, and 3 tablespoons of syrup.

I’m a 5’3 female and I let myself get up to 212 pounds. Because of the way that I’m built, I hide my weight extremely well. Now I’m at 200 pounds! I don’t have a goal weight in mind yet. I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing and figure it out.

Last summer, I rode my bicycle 360 miles in 6 days on a trip with my mom, aunt, and cousin. Once the weather is nice where I live, I’ll get back into bike riding and I’m sure that will help with my weight loss.

Anyways, thanks so much for listening. It was nice to get to write it out. Thanks for being such a great community!

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"Compliments" from family

I've lost 108lb in the last two years. I spent the day with my Mum yesterday and she's thrilled I've lost so much weight. She gleefully said the same thing to me four times throughout the day.

"You almost look normal now!"

Almost normal. I almost look normal now. I can't get it out of my head.

People really reveal their true thoughts sometimes, don't they? Now I know my own mother has been judging me all this time. She thought her own daughter was an abnormal freak because she was carrying some extra weight.

I'm sure she thought she was saying something nice but I feel terrible.

I saw my Grandma today and she too had something to say.

"It's going to start really showing soon."

I've lost a third of my body weight. Dropped 7 dress sizes. Old friends don't recognise me in the street. But to Nanna it barely shows.

How is it so easy for family to drag us down? Today has been the hardest of my entire weight loss journey. It took all my strength not to go crazy at the supermarket and buy everything in sight. Now I'm spending a miserable evening at home buried in work. I'm sure I'll feel better tomorrow but I just needed to vent tonight.

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Fasting 1 day a week to speed up weight loss (3kg away from my goal)? Are there any other benefits to fasting?

So I’m down to my last 3kg I need to lose before hitting my GW of 60kg (31F, 173cm, SW 66kg). Since January I lost 3kg nice and slow by setting my calorie deficit at -250 and keep exercising. So it’s a 1kg loss per month.

Now I’d like to speed things up and be ‘done’ in about 1.5 months, so losing a couple of kg a month instead of one. If I adjust the deficit on MyFitnessPal I get a caloric allowance so ridiculously low I’m not really willing to go down that route and be miserable for a month and a half.

So I thought fasting one day a week could be a solution to be in deficit of those 1500 (my TDEE) which would have me lose 0.5kg a week. The other days I would eat and exercise as I normally do and be at around a -250 deficit. I normally eat 2000-2200 cal a day and exercise daily.

I’ve never fasted before but recently I had to undergo surgery and had to fast for 8h previously which ended up being 24h as I wasn’t really well to have dinner in the hospital. I know it would be different if I do it on a normal day, but it wasn’t so terrible as I expected. I was hungry at lunchtime and then it kind of went away on its own.

I would only have to do this for maximum a couple of months but then if I like it it might be a good tool to keep myself in check when I’m maintaining, like having those extra 1500 cal as a cushion.

What do you think? Besides caloric deficit are there any other benefits to fasting? Is this an insane idea? 😅

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how to read a nutritional label?

I should point out before anyone decides to give me shit saying "you should have learned this in fourth grade" yes I did learn it in 4th grade but I have a disability known as 22q deletion disorder and I forgot everything about it.

I wanna refresh myself on how to read a nutritional label and learn the "words you can't pronounce" in the ingredients so I know what to avoid in foods. Because I remember the old saying "If you can't pronounce the ingredient you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body"

Any advice as to where I can refresh myself and learn these additional words too? I really wanna get into body power lifting this year but still working on my weight loss journey.

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Trying to Lose Weight While Weightlifting, Can Muscle Mass Counter Weight Loss?

So I just got into weightlifting about 2 months ago and I'm pretty much in love with it, to the point that I look forward to walking a mile to the gym, working out, then walking a mile back. I go 5/6 days a week. I don't think it is something that I would ever want to give up. I am, however, currently 20 lbs overweight (after dropping about 80 lbs a few years ago and staying at the same weight since), and am eating ~1500 kcal a day to drop weight. So far the scale has only budged about 1 lbs after 3 weeks of consistent counting.

My theory is that this is due to replacing fat with muscle, but I'm unsure if this is wishful thinking or not. I've definitely gained muscle mass, but would it be enough to counter balance my weightloss? I'm pretty sick of being just above my goal weight when getting to that goal weight has been something I've been thinking about everyday for the past 4 years.

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Sneaky, sneaky calories!

Hello all!

I've been doing CICO and on my weight loss journey for a little over a month now; down 9.2 lbs, woot! But obviously since I've been doing CICO, I have been paying a lot closer attention to calories in things. I have completely moved away from the "you can't have that" mindset which led to me failing all previous attempts to lose weight into the "you can have that in moderation" mindset. Restriction increases my likelihood to cheat/sneak food in there, whereas I don't feel that compulsion if I know I can have it.

I'm a short woman (4'11") and my TDEE is a little over 1600 calories. I always felt like I didn't eat very much, which is true. Turns out you don't have to eat very much to gain weight when you're that short and mostly sedentary. Since my journey started, I have a clearer picture of how exactly I was gaining weight so easily and not noticing by now paying attention to the calories on some of my favorite snacks.

One of my favorite things were Grandma's (the brand) peanut butter cookies. One pack (two cookies) is 400 calories! And I would eat these at least twice a week. A cup of ice cream is like 300! Don't even get me into my calories from juice. Juice is healthy, I thought, at least it's not soda. Well, nope! Pack of swedish fish? Forget about it! And the worst of all, occasional night time poptarts (RIP my calorie budget). All on top of my normal, fairly healthy meals which probably were about 500-600 calories each (2-3 times a day), unless I was eating takeout, which I did on the weekends so who knows how much it was.

What spurred on this post is that I give myself a treat every now and then, as long as it fits into my calorie budget nowadays. So yesterday, I ate half (half!!!) of a Baby Ruth (I misread the label and thought the two piece bar was 230 calories). Well, that half was 230!

My husband is 6'2", 185 lbs and lean muscled. So I ate the same types of food as him but significantly less portions. He'd also snack on peanut butter sandwiches throughout the day (while I tend to stick to one snack), eat seconds at dinner, have as much ice cream as he wanted every single night.

So I'm thinking, "how am I gaining all this weight?" At meal times, I ate the same as my skinnier friends (or less) but they were all anywhere from 7 to 9 inches taller than me if they were women, or they were 6 foot tall men, lol. Well, now I know better.

CICO is really saving me. I wasn't paying attention to calories consumed, just volume of food eaten. I feel like my eyes have been completely opened, and I'm so grateful.

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Losing weight before surgery

I'm due to have a laparoscopy within the next few months. Obviously the less (particularly) abdominal fat the better for that. I've been losing weight slowly and steadily over a year or so but am still significantly overweight. I asked to speak to a dietician about speeding up weight loss pre surgery but yay COVID, the wait is six months.

Does anyone have experience/ advice with this? From what I have read, keeping protein high is important for healing, and doing a liver fat shrinking diet for a few weeks immediately pre surgery is often advised. Is it better to try and cut calories down pretty low (e.g. around 1000 - currently losing weight on 1400), or will losing weight too rapidly cause other issues with the surgery?

TIA.

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