How insidious alcohol can be in weight loss from my perspective

There’s a lot of food I ate that contributed to my initial weight gain but none that I can point the finger at more than what I drank, namely alcohol so I hope my experience will lead some to reconsider the relationship they have with alcohol while trying to lose weight.

My last semester of college I was pretty depressed from a breakup, I drank every day or at the very least vast majority of days. Each beer was 130 calories, in a typical day I might have had four. That’s 520 calories basically every day! If it wasn’t beer, it was shots or mixers or wine which also add up many calories particularly mixers. But it wasn’t just the calories of the liquid itself, it was the fact that I also got major munchies when I would drink a lot. I don’t even want to know what a typical day consisted of calorie wise given drinking induced binge eating most days. Frankly I must have a pretty good metabolism to not have gained more than I already did.

As soon as I moved back home I dropped five pounds before I knew it just from not drinking, not even changing my normal diet at all. It wasn’t until I really got my diet changed and started working out again that I saw the pounds melt away. But alcohol was without a doubt the number one killer, not only did it add a great deal of calories every day but also made me eat way more and be too lazy to workout. When eating junk food sober I have so much more self control. It also really clicked with me what alcohol can do to people when I saw my friend who was black out drunk proceed to eat a whole meal of Shake Shack because he forgot that he had just eaten tacos a few hours prior. To my sober self this blacked out drunk guy seemed like a ravenous animal but I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same if I was in his position knowing my history.

I’m not saying you have to not drink at all, although it may be helpful for many. I still drink extremely rarely and now am very mindful of what I do eat and drink if I have a shot or two.

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Weight Gain and Relationships

(30/F/5'6"/175) I am about 30lbs overweight and this is the worst I have ever felt about my body and my self esteem is so low. My partner admitted they do not find me as attractive and we aren't really romantic anymore. I have my own intimacy issues due to self esteem - but I feel like why be romantic with them if they clearly aren't jumping at the bit? The issue is two-fold. It makes me worry about the future - if I gain weight again or gain weight from having a baby, how can this relationship work? The idea of gaining so much weight from pregnancy and having him feel this way again in the future makes me not even want to have kids. Is this normal in relationships or is my partner just really shallow and needs to grow up? Obviously I want my partner to find me attractive and I understand I don't look like I did when we first started dating (we've been together for nearly 10 years). Any advice on how to navigate these troubled waters are welcome. My partner is a great person - very kind, intelligent, we have so much in common, have a home/dogs together and have such great support from family and friends. We have agreed to do other things to benefit our relationship like going to therapy individually (both have our own things we want to work on for the benefit of our relationship and ourselves) and doing more things together so we feel we are supporting one another (and they told me they want to support me in my weight loss journey and want to work on our relationship). I just feel very lost and alone, and I can't talk to any friends or family because I don't want to worry them or unintentionally change the way my family/friends feel about my partner. I also want to keep this private for now until we determine if our relationship can work (if its not my weight, maybe its something else we can't fix and should move on). I guess I'm feeling like my weight has a lot more to do with the fizzle in the relationship than anything else and it's hard to grapple with emotionally. Thank you for reading this and any advice or just comments would be greatly appreciated.

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I find myself losing more weight when I don’t workout

In the past couple of years I lost over 40 lbs (F | 5’8 | SW: 185 | CW: 145 lb | GW: 135lb ). Looking back at the data on my LoseIt account I find myself sticking to my daily calorie intake and losing weight consistently when I don’t go to the gym. Once I lost 30 lbs I started working out (lifting and cardio) and I became ravenous!!! I would eat at my maintenance and sometimes above, get frustrated and stop counting, which lead to maintaining my weight and not losing anything. This became incredibly frustrating as for the past 13 months I maintained at 148 lb. A couple of weeks ago I decided to stop going to the gym and only do some walking (~ 7k steps/day). I focused on calorie counting and increased protein and fiber intake, and omg I’m finally losing some more weight and getting closer to my GW! I know the gym is important for muscle growth and mental health but I’m sick of staying at the same weight while working so hard at the gym and not seeing any results.

How’s your experience with weight loss and working out?

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Lost a hundred pounds now

Its still hard for me to believe that at one point I weighed 410 pounds, but now I weigh 310 pounds. I never should have let myself get that heavy, but on the bright side, I think I finally got it figured out and its only a matter time before I hit my goal weight of 200 pounds. Its hard for me to believe its finally happening after years and years and years and years of trying and failing, but only now do I realize none of those attempts were failures. I wasnt ready yet. I didnt deal with the emotional problems that were underneath the surface. But I finally did and when I did. It was like all these doors that were previously closed, opened. Thank you for the pain. All of it. It was so much. But it brought me here and it was aaall worth it.

I dont know if people reading this want advice for their own weight loss journey, to them Id say. Extreme obesity is a mental or emotional issue manifesting physically. Theres no logical reason to be putting on over 200lbs of excess fat. Deal with that issue. Whatever pain you have, LET! IT! GO! its not worth it. It hurts you more than anyone else.

Honestly everything else is secondary, once you get the mindset and heart in the right place, youll figure out the mechanics. the mechanics are easy. its doing it everyday and not overeating that are the difficult parts which are tied much more to where your heart and mind are.

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I owe a few of you an apology….

(37M, 6’0”, SW: 245, CW: 222, GW: ???)

I’ve been trying to get into shape and lose weight for years. If you go back far enough in my post history, you’ll see I’ve posted here going back as far as four or five years. Like clockwork, I’ll have a bit of success initially and lose 15-20 pounds, hit a plateau, get discouraged, come here for help, and then people start telling me to count calories.

But I can’t count calories, because I’m a special little daffodil…

(There were many excuses, but that’s really what it boiled down to.)

Just like every weight loss attempt in the past, I had some initial success this time, but then I got stuck somewhere between 223.5 and 225. So what did I do? Did I start counting calories? Fuck no! I worked out harder! I started exercising harder and more often than I ever have in my life! And what happened to that number on the scale? Not a damn thing. For six weeks, the number on the scale has continued to float between 223.5 and 225. And my body is paying the price. My muscles and joints are utterly beat to shit right now. I hurt. ALL. THE. TIME.

Then last week, in a last ditch effort to save my weight loss plan, I finally gave in and decided to start counting calories. I bought a little journal to log everything. I got a digital food scale to get all official with it. That’s when I discovered that the burritos I’ve been making for myself lately are clocking in at close to 1000 calories each. I had been eating four of them a day.

[shocked Pikachu face]

So I revamped everything, logged my food and beverages as best as I could, and decided I’d give it a couple of weeks. It’s been five days since I started counting, and five days since my previous weigh-in. I just hopped on the scale, and I’ve lost a pound and a half in five days.

[another shocked Pikachu face]

Y’all, count your damn calories. I know it isn’t fun, but it fucking works. Stop complaining and start counting.

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Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!

I Rant, Therefore I Am

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Well bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants!

The rant post is a /u/bladedada production.

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Please consider saving your next rant for this weekly thread every Tuesday.

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Help! Weight will not go down 😭

I will start this by saying I am not overweight by medical standards but I am concerned about my weight creeping up despite having (mostly) healthy habits.

For a few months I have been inadvertently doing intermittent fasting and only eat between 12pm and 8pm. I only do this because my mornings are so hectic with my kids I usually don’t get to sit for a meal until they’re all napping 😂.

This consists of lunch (usually a turkey sandwich or open face tuna melt), dinner (usually a lean protein, veggies and rice or some other carb), then some type of snack either before or after dinner (pretzels, pita and hummus, generally something crunchy). My weight has slowly crept up 5lbs in the last few weeks!

I am currently 33 years old, 5’2 and 125lbs. I KNOW this is a healthy weight, it’s just not where I am comfortable. My goal is 115lbs which was what I weighed 3 years ago before I had 3 babies and when I felt my best. I don’t think this is unrealistic or unsafe.

I’m starting to exercise again but would love any tips on pre-workouts or anything that can kick my metabolism back into gear and get this weight loss moving!

Thanks in advance and would appreciate positive, helpful comments only :) Just a looking for some support to feel like more than just a mom with a mom bod! 😂

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