Weight Loss Tips

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

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Long term weight loss

I want to lose weight but I am scared to try again. I’m 36, female, and weigh about 190 at 5’7. I have at least 40 lbs I’d like to lose. The reason I am fearful is that every time I try to lose weight whether it’s weight watchers, keto, IF, etc I succeed in losing about 15-20lbs but end up not sticking to it long term and gain even more back. I believe that I have binge eating tendencies although I don’t meet criteria for the actual eating disorder. I am just looking for any advice from anyone who may have been in this situation and what approach you took. I understand I need to consume less calories than I burn but I can’t envision myself logging calories into MyFitnessPal for the rest of my life. I am concerned that I will have the same results as before if I do this. I am unhappy with my current weight but will be even unhappier if I ultimately go higher than this. I know this may sound ridiculous but I am just desperate for some advice.

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So glad I bought a bike

starting in december I decided to take my life back. I started counting calories (1600 a day). I quit drinking the 3 liters of pop a day and switched to water which gave me 2 solid days of having a headache. At first I was eating what ever as long as it was within my calories but you learn real quick to find healthier low calories meals that are more filling. My son also has high cholesterol so I started reading the labels.

I started at about 405 lbs and after loosing 30lbs I started lifting weights which helped the weight loss. With the recent stimulus money I bought a trek marlin 8 mountain bike and have been riding it on all the nice days. I'm up to riding 5 miles in row now. I noticed since riding the bike my weight is dropping even faster. I'm down to 337 lbs now. Riding the bike is almost additive. I really miss riding it on the days I can't ride it.

It just really feels nice to get out and be active when for years my life consisted of going to work and sitting around eating. I really feel like I'm getting my life back. I'm going to try to get up to 10 miles in one ride by the end of summer. Been getting my son to go with me on rides too which is nice.

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Currently trying to lose some body fat

Hey I’m 190lbs 6’1 19 and estimate I’m around 20% body fat. I recently started experimenting with some weight loss stuff trying to find something to stick and found foods with good macros that work for me. I’m eating 2300 calories a day now high protein good carbs and fat too. I track on MFP and don’t re eat any exercise calories to make sure I’m staying on track. So basically before I wanted to lose weight I’m not really active at all. On the TDEE calc online it says I need to eat like 1800cals to be in a deficit when doing absolutely nothing but I feel like that’s too little. I recently started going to the gym four days a week and tried to ramp up walking a little bit more so I’m not sedentary.

Worried that I’m not eating little enough and wasting time or something? Any thoughts?

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I blundered yesterday. But that doesn't mean to let that failure justify giving up.

I(M 27) started last week on my journey to weight loss again. For most of my adult life I've always been around 280-300 lbs, it's just a weight range that I've been consistent around. Not more and not less.

I've tried losing weight before and I actually managed to get down to 260 lbs about a year and a half ago through calorie restriction. But I got off the rails and now I'm back at my 300 lb range.

What changed during this transition period is I was living with Aunt/Uncle and my aunt and uncle to kept me accountable. But then I eventually moved out and well I have learned that I am not skilled in keeping myself accountable. From my low of 260lbs I gained back everything. I realize the efforts I made initially were not because of my own self management. And this is a huge step for me. I used them as a crutch for my lack of self management.

So starting last week I made a commitment to log every single calorie and every single thing I ate without shame into a google spreadsheet. I am going to keep putting in everything manually and that will force myself to realize how much I was eating and what I was eating.

I thought surely, this will make it finally work for me, but I blundered yesterday, I gave in ate/drank over 4000 calories of taco bell. A huge setback mentally, a failure. But I realized over the average of starting I only had an average of 998 calories each day. And I realized I can't let the failure of a single day affect every effort made prior and all the effort I need to make going forward. I can stumble but I will not let myself fall this time.

Spreadsheet here for what I'm using to keep myself accountable https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mPRgzgMjAauUxRtv8eUjOzkTQY7PA1F_o3NV-dkjW2c/

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I’m still disappointed with how I look on photos

I’m now 75kg, down from 89kg. I’ve not actually lost anything since November last year, I feel disappointed with myself for that as I couldn’t do my main form of exercise (skating) because of Covid and winter weather, with my lack of exercise I should’ve gone back down to 1200 calories but I didn’t.

I feel like I’ve lost a lot, especially when I see pictures of myself that I took for progress pics, I’m kind of shocked I was that big.

But today there was a picture taken of me, and my heart just sank, I still looked like shit, I thought maybe I would finally look okay, not great but at least okay, but I still look the same. I feel like the only way I’ll ever look remotely good is to be a size 8, and right now I’m a 12.

I’m still on my weight loss journey, but I just thought I’d look a little better right now on candid pictures.

I just wanted to rant because now I want to avoid pictures so bad, and I feel embarrassed about how I look and worried what other people must think of me when they see me. It’s times like these where I just want liposuction on my legs because it’s exhausting, it’s the place I hold most of my weight and I get so sick of it.

Then I start wondering if I look like this now then holy shit I must have looked even worse before, and how embarrassing.

I know the mature solution is to just keep going, up my exercise and lower my calorie intake, but I just wanted to rant because I’m mad at myself more than anything. Lol.

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it's my first 4 days of intermittent fasting and I feel pretty great, until it's time to eat.

I can go 23+ hours without feeling hungry after i started fasting (kind of weird considering I used to feel hunger around 14 hours of not eating - before I started my weight loss journey), and when I force myself to eat, i feel lightheaded/headaches after i'm done eating.

Does anyone else experience this?

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