Rowing Machine vs Treadmill for weight loss as someone who can only get one large piece of equipment.

My small town doesn't have a gym to work out at. I am wanting to get one piece of gym equipment and am currently trying to decide between a rower and a treadmill.

Previously, I used a treadmill for 3+ years before it was murdered by a power surge.

On the one hand, I know I'll use a treadmill. On the other hand, when possible I always preferred walking outside. Also, since my treadmill died, I've been trying to get at least 5,000 steps at my work since it is horribly hot outside here in Oklahoma.

I also know the proper form for a treadmill but not a rower. However, I know a rower is more low impact which would be better for my knee (I have a bad one from a childhood accident).

I've lost 100+ pounds over the past 3 years but have been plateaued at 190 for around 6 months.

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Feel Pretty Good Physically. Feel like shit otherwise.

I started loosing weight a few weeks ago I'm 22 still living in the same neighborhood I grew up in around people I grew up around.

To be honest I didn't want to diet or anything. I was kind of bullied/pressured into it because once a day I was getting some nasty comment about my weight and body by the people around me. I did it to shut them up and it worked, they aren't bothering me about that at least anymore.

I've lost...not a lot yet? I was about 230 or almost 230 awhile ago? Now I'm 217 and going down steadily and slowly. I replaced one of my meals normally breakfast with a homemade smoothie. Doesn't taste bad, normally good and filling. Lots of frozen fruit in there. Good stuff!

Just more quality meals overall. Limiting the snacking to a few times a week and to something smaller when I do go out...and that made a huge difference. The weight loss is slow and steady as well, so I should be OK on the loose skin front and all that. Gonna exercise again because I found that fun and haven't in awhile.

But when the initial dopamine hit after checking the scale hits and saying "Oh wow I lost weight" passes. I kind of just feel...lukewarm at best. Shitty at worst. Because I already noticed how different shit is in a bad way because of this and it's not even 40 pounds gone. It was so minor and already it's just.

I'm kind of disgusted with other humans to be honest.

Lately when I feel stressed out it's a lot more intense emotions. I feel my feelings deeper then I already did and I was a more sensitive individual to begin with, as much as I try to mask that. I wouldn't consider myself a stress eater persay? But I do like to chew on things when I'm stressed. I have those ADHD chew things or gum. Food obviously helps this as well. At the moment I have none of those things. So I kind of just...sit with it and can't really talk about it. No one will get it or will probably call me too sensitive or whatever.

I notice more how dissatisfied I am with how my life currently is and especially how it's been so far just...so boring and unfulfilling. The people I like to talk to and make me feel good aren't around as much, but the people I'm never sure what to do with and don't get me at best, or treat me badly at worst are around constantly and I don't have the means to get away from it yet.

Since I can't remove myself and gently bringing up my feelings didn't work my current tactic is distance and keep to myself more.

It helped mitigate some of that bullying, but now I'm just an Extrovert with no one to be an extrovert with. I'm going to try reaching out more to the people I do like instead of waiting on them, and have tried to make some new local friends? I never had any so that's interesting (If you're wondering why Home schooled, was never sure if I should pursue college for my career path, having more nerdy/geeky interests in a Conservative more old fashioned area, not being nuerotypical, being LGBT etc etc just...many things. I never fit in.)

As far as the actual weight itself. It's kind of exacerbated how not in control I feel over my own life and a sense of powerlessness and helplessness again. It's yet another rule I have to follow, because it wasn't exactly my choice. If that were it, it wouldn't be so bad,it would be a mild annoyance and it's not like I couldn't treat myself if I wanted something sweet.

BUT it's on top of a bunch of other stuff. I'm so tired of being so restricted. I have to bite down a lot of my interests and real opinions and just things that are ME on top of it because no one will get it or treat me badly for it. Even things that are supposed to be fun are all sterilized and boring around who Im currently around.

They're so fucking negative it's sucking the life out of me. I hate it. I wanna just go CRAZY and WILD for once, you know? Im tired of always playing it safe. I don't feel like I'm really LIVING more just floating along instead of actually being in control of my life. Maybe I never was to be honest.

Then there's just...dating and guys especially just. Don't even with them. I already had a bad impression of them because most dude friends I had immediately stopped being a friend when I didn't want to date them and said I just wanted to be friends. Already public encounters with guys are just...they're acting differently with me and it's so uncomfortable. I also feel smaller and more helpless to their advances even?

I already had trouble with romance and dating, never could quite someone I clicked with that returned my feelings. I've never had a partner before and was already unsure how to tell earlier on if a guy wanted me because I was me? Or me because I was hot. Now it went from being kinda hard to figure out to SUPER hard and I'm so fed up and frustrated and upset about it.

I just wanted to be loved for me, but now I feel even more so they only like me because I'm attractive. It makes me just feel like a fucking doll. I also know that once the weight loss becomes old news, the people I did this for will just find new flaws to constantly point out. But it's just...can't really control it? Can only try to take control of my own life and make it as happy and satisfying as I can with limited resources I guess...

I don't know basically ever since I started loosing weight all this shit is bothering me a lot more. I don't even know why I'm putting this up. I'm sorry if it's not enough about weight, but all of this became more pronounced since then and I saw other posts like this here? So I thought this may be the place.

TLDR Things cut deeper emotionally overall and I notice a lot more things now about how I'm being treated and my life just....fuck. People are fucking awful. They say mindfulness is good but right now it's a fucking curse. I'm so disgusted with this other side of people I see. I'd like my hope in humans back and to be happier in my life?

But now im just..overweight weird dorky girl to skinnier weird dorky girl. I guess? I don't know. If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I do appreciate it and hope you're own journey is going well. I would def appreciate someone to talk to about this who gets it? That would definitely help, and I'm really sorry if this post is annoying. I've been holding all this in for awhile.

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Thanks to whoever recommended a swim snorkle!

I used to be a fish growing up, spending many hours a day all summer in a local pool or lake. I am also an avid snorkeler. I was a lifeguard for almost a decade. This is to say, I know HOW to swim. But man, it's gotten harder. And laps are WORK.

In 2019 (15+ years post lifeguarding) I started swimming laps as an add-on to exercise for weight loss. I really felt it helped.

But it was hard! I could only do breast stroke for any real length of time, and even that strained my neck. Flutter kicking with a kick board strained my neck, and crawl left me feeling like my heart/lungs would explode. But I kept doing it anyway.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I see a video of an Olympic swimmer with a funny looking snorkle thing. Then the next day, back at the pool for my first swim since march 2020, the guy in the lane next to me has a crazy snorkle thing. I think "wow, he must be an intense swimmer!"

Then the next day, someone on here recommended a swim snorkle for basically anyone swimming laps.

So I ordered one, and it was delivered yesterday as I was getting in the car to go to the pool!

I really liked it. It was still a hard lung workout, but not like sans snorkle, and my neck didn't hurt!

So, thanks! And if anyone else is thinking about it, give it a try!

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Goal of losing 20 pounds by April 2022

F, 40, 5'6", SW 253, CW 173, GW 153

I'm posting this as an alternative to people who want to lose 20 pounds in a month or two, and for people who get upset when they don't lose 20 pounds in a month or two; my goal is to lose 20 pounds in nine months.

I realize I've lost quite a bit of weight already; at one point, I was down to about 148; what I was doing at the time was neither healthy nor sustainable. 2019 was my 2020; drank my way through the end of an abusive relationship, drank my way through the aftermath of that relationship, lost my job, drank through that too, and gained 50 pounds in a year. 2020 was better in a lot of ways - fantastic boyfriend, new job, drank less, but I still gained another 10 pounds. When the scale read 205 after Thanksgiving, I decided that was more than enough of that, downloaded My Fitness Pal again, dusted the food scale off, and stepped the heck away from the alcohol.

I'm down 30 pounds since then, in, what, 7 months? Slightly less than a pound a week on average. Know what's awesome about that? I WEIGH 30 POUNDS LESS THAN I DID AT THANKSGIVING!!!

I recently reset my calorie target to my sedentary TDEE for my goal weight. I'm mildly active during the week, more active on weekends, but no one will ever mistake me for actually being physically fit, so it's not a huge deficit.

It may very well take that full nine months to lose that 20 pounds, and that's just fine. I'm not going to need to change what / how much I eat at my goal weight from what I'm doing now.

I tend to take a very loose IIFYM approach - I take the goals that MFP gives me for protein and fat as minimums (I frequently eat more protein, usually above 100 grams); minimum 25 grams of fiber; and let the carbs happen as they happen. Heck, I welcome carbs with open arms.

I log my food the night before, so when I wake up, all I have to do is open MFP to know what I'm having; if I don't know for sure what I'm having for dinner, I can log lunch, so I at least know how many calories I have to play with. I do give myself room to be flexible - I decided that vanilla bean gelato with Nutella sounded good for dessert the other night, so I decided to not have bread with dinner and mentally forgave myself for being 100 calories over my target that day; I'd also spent a few hours hauling wood for a camp fire, so 100 calories was not going to ruin my day. I measured it all out in grams, I enjoyed it, and I regret none of it. I've been wanting Burger King for a while now; think I'll have some this weekend. The night before, that meal is the first thing that goes into MFP, and I'll plan the rest of my day around it.

I have kids. Everything I wrote there works just fine with kids in the house. I eat the same stuff they do, I just portion mine out differently. My boyfriend is slightly underweight. He can (and should) eat more than I do; we both realize we have different nutritional needs and goals, so we eat different amounts of different things. There are six different kinds of ice cream in the freezer aside from that vanilla bean gelato (I also claim the Ben & Jerry's Whiskey Biz - that stuff is heaven in a pint); if I want ice cream, I make sure I have room for it in my calories, I track it, I measure it, I enjoy it. Life after goal weight will have ice cream in it, I might as learn to incorporate it into my day now.

(For the record, I do eat things other than ice cream. Lunch was edamame & mung bean pasta with baked chicken breast and pesto, with a side of nonfat Greek yogurt; not sure about dinner yet, but it will include a few slices of Dave's Killer 22 grain bread to get me above 25 grams of fiber, and a salad because I've been in a salad kind of mood lately; I'm already close to 100 grams of protein; maybe I'll have dessert, maybe I won't.)

My point is this: slow weight loss is still weight loss. It doesn't have to be deprivation and misery. It might not be as quick, but it'll be sustainable. Building long-term habits may not get you there quickly, but you'll still get there.

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Losing weight makes my body feel foreign (rant)

Does anyone else feel like this? In the past when I've only lost 5, 10, even 15 pounds, I felt lighter and stronger than before. Now I'm almost at 25 pounds down and I'm just kinda...idk. it doesn't feel like my body. It isn't comfortable. I feel small and weak. I'm still overweight, which is the weird thing. I'm doing this in a healthy way and eating and drinking and all of that and I know that it's completely psychological. I spent so many years not looking in the mirror that my changes now feel so sudden. When I look at my legs or arms they're more bony and thin than before. It doesn't feel like my body, it's not recognizable at all. If it weren't for a few birth marks I'd think I was in the wrong one lol. Nothing fits the way it used to. Im not hungry the same amount I used to and I can't eat as much as I used to. I'm physically smaller and it's weird that I can feel my hip bones and rib cage where I didn't before. My boobs sit lower and my bra size is completely different. Little things like hugging someone or laying down to go to sleep feel uncomfortable bc I'm not padded and cushioned by my fat. I thought I hated my old body, but I just hated how it looked, not how it felt. I like how this one looks, but it feels all wrong. I feel like I'm disintegrating away or something.

Isn't weight loss supposed to make you happier? I just feel like an alien in my own body and now my legs have to work independently of each other what's that about? I'm no thigh gap but now they don't support each other and suddenly I'm having to hold myself up more. And I know that I didn't look in the mirror before, but when I look down at my legs or stomach and there's a whole roll missing, I feel like I'm missing something. I never enjoyed how I looked before, always insecure, always hating every imperfection even though I tried not to, so why do I miss it now? Why do I feel like I'm not in my own body?

Anyone else? I know this is probably an unpopular feeling, since most people (myself included until now) really love seeing their waist shrink and legs get toned as they progress in their health journeys. I don't know why I feel this way even though I'm trying to be grateful and happy that I've made progress. It's like, "this is what you wanted, isn't it?" "Well yes, but I didn't think it would be like this." Ya know?

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How do I lose the last 10kg?

Hi all

I have a very mild case of what I like to call my extra pudge. I (F) weigh 70kg and am 174cm tall so my bmi is a healthy 23.1. (I know BMI isn't the best way to indicate health but it's the easiest way for me to set a healthy goal that isn't too low).

Unfortunately, I find that my sedentary lifestyle and where I put the weight on my hips and thighs makes me quite uncomfortable and embarassed about my appearance. I feel that although my weight hasn't changed, I have lost muscle and gained fat which makes my body look different than I like. I have been consistently 65-70kg for many years but want to lose 5-10kg to get to a BMI of ~20 and reduce that area.

I have been trying to lay off the extra sugar which I occasionally have for desert / summer popsicle / soft drink. However this doesn't really do much. This was the major issue I saw with my diet and not seeing any change is really confusing me. I intend to start jogging / running to increase my fitness level but don't have access to a gym and have lower back issues so many body weight exercises are impossible for me.

I know this subreddit is in general talking about people with larger weight loss goals, so I find it hard to consider what I am supposed to do to lose that extra little bit. Has anyone here lost it after a long term plateau? How did you do it?

Should I reduce portion size? I only eat lunch and dinner with the occasional sweet snack as said earlier (I have a major sweet tooth). I don't get very hungry except for just before lunch and dinner. Should I integrate less grains and introduce more salads? I'm at a complete loss.

Thanks in advance

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Sustainable Weight Goals

Hey Reddit folx!

Pretty new here. Seeking to find a community of likeminded late 20 to early 30 y/o’s interested in sustainable healthy living.

My partner and I each gained over 60 pounds since we married in 2016, which I think is pretty common for many paired up peeps. My spouse is a 31 y/o alcoholic, with a background in epidemiology and, ironically, clinical psychology in addiction. I am a 28 y/o science and mental health educator.

COVID summer hit us hard. We were drinking daily (#WFHLife), naturally anxious, grieving and depressed from the trauma of the pandemic, piling stacks of UberEats takeout into our fridge, and constantly irritable towards one another. Our lifestyle of excess with brie and booze came to a halt after an alcohol-induced suicidality scare in July 2020.

Since committing to a sober-curious lifestyle in February 2021, and practicing simple consistent rituals (weighing in daily, meal prep on Sundays, daily hydration goals, checking off our habits) our simple actions have added up over time. My weight loss goal has been 2 lbs/month - this small goal helps me feel I can do it. I have lost 20 pounds since January.

How?

1) We developed a rotating plant-focused diet of foods that emphasize ingredients that are historically biologically complimentary to our genetics (such as potatoes for his Irish self, rice & beans & fruit for my Latin self) and our ancestral diets have changed our whole life. We save money, avoid dinner indecision, feel great, and reduce our carbon footprint (we still eat meat occasionally,but only if it’s the weekend).

2) We hold each other accountable and provide each other grace. When we first tried being sober in July, we failed miserably. Knowing my husband’s competitive nature, last Feb. I bought a wall calendar for $1 at Target, drew 2 check boxes into each day for the month (one for him, one for me). I stuck it to the interior of our front door of our home so we were forced to see it multiple times every day. The rule was simple: if you are sober 1 entire day, check off your box for the day that evening before bed. I cannot share this strategy enough: it worked like a charm and stoped my husband’s alcoholism within a month.

Our waistlines are not our priority. Our physical and emotional wellness is. I have found that reframing our thoughts to reflect this has helped us a lot in our journey. We still have work to do, but we’re in it together, one baby step at a time.

Find simple changes that you’re excited to commit to and can do with someone you love. Unconditionally support is everything.

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