Looking to hire trainer

What do I look for? I’m 40+f, would like to drop maybe 50 lbs, but more so want to tone up and get stronger. I’ve lost about 10 pounds over the past three months by simply cutting calories and starting to walk. I have severe anxiety even just walking into a gym, and live in a very beauty-centered city in the US (which doesn’t help the anxiety). After seeing so many women on TikTok share their weight loss journey, I think I’m finally ready.

Lots of chain gyms here, plus independently owned (EOS, Planet Fitness, etc) so I would like to find someone who will work with me at one of those gyms. I don’t even know where to begin. Do trainers work for the gyms? Can independent trainers work/train at gyms they don’t work for? What do I look for in a trainer? And what should I expect to pay if I want to work out with them a couple times a week until I build up my confidence.

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Advice on organizing routine

I'm still kinda at the beginning of my weight loss journey, but am wondering how I should organize my routine for exercise. I've started off slow so I don't overwhelm myself and quit, but I have gradually increased what I'm doing.

I've been exercising 5 days a week with yoga, and am now up to doing an hour for beginners using YouTube videos. I just moved up to 5 pound hand weights, but don't really have a workout for those, just using pictures of what to do. And as of this week have made the bike stationary, so I can use it, and have been doing 15 minutes with goal to be able to ride for 30 mins next week. I do stretches on weekends to keep my joints from being too stiff.

From my understanding (and I could be wrong), when using weights you should do one day on and one day off. But what about using the bike? Can I do that everyday to should I rest in between like with weights? When it cools down I also want to include walking as well, though not yet sure. Should I alternate and bike one day and wall the next?

Any advice welcome! Thank you!

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Habits, tips and advice

Hi all,

I've been around a while but this is my v first post! I love reading everything you guys post, thank you for all the tips over the last 9 months and helping me lose 50lbs.

I am a big believer that weight loss and maintenance is the product of good habits and designing your environment to help you reach your goals. Over the months I have created a list of these type of rules that work for me. I'd love to know if anyone has any other habits they find useful and would recommend?

Mine are;

1. No keeping food in my room
2. Eat all meals at the table
3. Keep any foods I could be tempted to overeat out of sight
4. Keep healthy food front and centre
5. If I can't be trusted to portion it I don't keep it in the house
6. Give away food gifts, don’t save them, I will eat them at a weak moment
7. Don't take money or credit card out if I'm not going to need it/take just enough money for what I need - no snack money!
8. Eat from a 9" plate (optimal size apparently)
9. Fill half plate with veggies always
10. Don't get super ravenous as will over eat
11. Don't get drunk and hungover
12. No takeout
13. Log absolutely everything I eat
14. If I slip up, pick it right back up
15. Limit eating out to once a week
16. Just never enter convenience stores
17. 2L of water every day

If anyone has any tips to help me break down numbers 11 & 12 more so I might actually achieve them, that would be amazing <3

Liz

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Just came back from a week and a half trip to NYC. Surprised I only gained 3 pounds from the trip.

Before I flew out, I was struggling with a plateau and hovering around 231. I was a bit worried about how my weight would look after my NYC trip because I decided to give myself a break and eat all the good food NYC has to offer. I came back home last night and weighed myself when I got back home.

I weighed in at 234, a 3 pound gain, which is very surprising to me and I still had some water weight from drinking water and eating food from my flight back.

All that walking in NYC (and humidity) really helped me maintain my weight for the whole trip. I ate so much that I thought I would gain 8-10 pound and got self-conscious about ruining my progress lol

Now I’m resting and getting ready to get back to my weight loss journey again💪🏼

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I lost 55 pounds after Warren Buffett’s partner gave me the secret to weight loss

I’m convinced that to achieve success you are better off focusing on what not to do and what’s going to make you fail than what’s going to make you successful.

The favorite sayings of Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger (a personal hero of mine) are “Invert, always Invert” and “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there”

Basically it means figure out what you don’t want or what is going to make you fail and work backwards.

That’s what I did to lose 55 pounds since the end of October.

I’m now down 75 pounds total and at my lowest weight since I graduated high school 7 years ago.

I figured out that the reason I was unable to stay with any weight loss plan for 7 years were the natural scale fluctuations and stalls.

I’d get started losing weight and then the scale would stall or fluctuate and I’d get discouraged and give up.

That’s why it took me almost two years to lose 20 pounds.

So I took Charlie’s advice and for 10 months I removed the scale from my life completely.

I counted every calorie and each week I’d determine my estimated weight by subtracting how many calories I ate that week from my BMR. Then I tracked that number in my Lose It! app.

When I weighed myself last week it was accurate within a pound.

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If you eat often because you get unbearably hungry, it might be an underlying condition!

I had a lot of trouble losing weight due to frequent hunger that made me eat often and in large quantities. The feeling of hunger felt almost painful, and I’d eat even if I had eaten a meal not long before.

It wasn’t until I paired this hunger with chest pains and heartburn that I was diagnosed with GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease). After getting on PPI medication for a few months, my painful hunger was gone! It turns out the pain of an empty stomach was coming from acid, not necessarily hunger. Food would relieve the pain since it would dilute the acidity.

I’ve since been able to lose weight more easily, and I am now 10 pounds from my weight loss goal. If you’re getting unreasonably hungry, definitely consider whether or not another condition is causing it!

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Fallacy of body weight set point

I was recently talking to a friend who is also trying to lose weight. Her weight loss has stalled for the last couple of months and she was getting discouraged. I gave her all the usual pointers I saw on this sub.

While she appreciated the advice , she kept saying how she always stalls around the same weight ( around 180 lbs in her case, she is 5'4") and thinks it is her body weight set point.

I told her there is no such thing. She then presented me with the evidence she had collected over the last decade where she always goes up to around 210lbs and then starts the weight loss process. Once she is down to around 175-182 lbs the weight loss stops. She has never gone above or below these numbers. She said she thinks 180-200 is her set point range.

That got me thinking and I think it's not a weight set point , but a mental set point. She gets comfortable with how she looks around 180. Her clothes look better. She has more energy. She can do more activities. When that happens the weight loss takes a back seat and the pounds slowly creep back. It takes about 20 lbs for her to see/ feel the changes. The clothes are tight, she is out of breath easily etc. And the cycle starts again.

It actually resonated with me as well even though I don't believe in the set point theory. She said it made sense too and is going to double down on the CICO.

Just thought I would share here!

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