Maintenance Monday: October 25, 2021

If you've reached your goal weight and you're looking for a space to discuss with fellow maintainers, this is the thread for you! Whether you're brand new to maintenance or you've been doing it for years, you're welcome to use this space to chat about anything and everything related to the experience of maintaining your weight loss.

Hey everyone, here's your weekly discussion thread! Tell us how maintenance and life in general is going for you this week! And if you missed last week's (or simply want to reread), here's a link.

If there's a specific topic you'd like to see covered in a future thread, please drop a comment or message!

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How do you find motivation again?

In June of 2020, I began using the lose it app to track my calories, began exercising a couple times a week, and put effort into losing weight.

It was super successful and I ended up losing 85 pounds (from 290) in about 10 months. This May, I bought a house and moved and it was incredibly stressful. I stopped using the app and was maintaining my weight fine until about a month ago.

I suffered a knee injury and lost my dog and now I just have no effort to use the app or stop myself when I feel like I want to binge. I found out that I’ve torn my ACL and will need surgery and I’m having such a hard time finding any motivation to continue losing weight.

How have you overcome hurdles? I don’t feel the same motivation I did when I started. Limiting myself and saying no to cravings seems so hard now. I’m just so tired and have no extra energy to put into my weight loss. I’m hoping some other strategies might help me be successful.

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My favorite game of "was this piece of skin always this pinchy?"

After a mammoth effort of losing nearly fifteen kilos in three months at the beginning of the year, I went and fell off the wagon hard, gaining it all back and then some in the next three months.

My getting back on it was slow, and the weight has been coming off slower than ever but I'm approaching the ten kilo mark lost again. My initial step was to cut coke out, opting for the no sugar options. Sadly I'm still as addicted and drinking as much but at least the calories are much lower. It's taken me ages but my fast food consumption has been dropping, only a once a week at most.

One thing that's helped me recently is I've been on the Man Shake diet. Basically a meal replacement shake down in Australia which I feel fits well for my current lifestyle. I don't control the cooking in the household and those who do... don't keep the best tabs on amounts, so dinner was always a wild card in terms of calories, and I can't trust myself to cook because I'm usually just so low energy after work that I always defaulted back to fast foods, despite that I know I'm lucky to be able to have a home cooked meal almost every night for dinner. I also only ever eat two meals a day at most, so the man shake fits well for me, keeps me full between shakes and the diet encourages healthy snacking, so some fruit or nuts in between. I feel I'm much more full of energy as well, the shakes taste great, and most importantly I think, I don't feel like I'm "missing out" in terms of general food consumption and my unhealthy lizard brain needs. It frees me up to have the occasional fast food without feeling like I'm setting myself back several days worth of losses. Of course it doesn't mean I'm just free to eat it as many nights as I want, but it helps offset the guilt somewhat.

I know every dietician/weight loss guru will say I shouldn't drink my calories, and I only mean for this to be a temporary thing. I know some people have had major losses with this diet and that's great, but what scares me most about it is the not establishing healthy eating habits mindset which means, if I just went off the shakes for a while, will I gain it all back instantly? That's why I'm going to try using the time sloughing off enough weight to become more active, and using the extra energy to learn how to cook healthily, and learn to love the process, and hopefully switch to healthy foods from there, but for now, I'm happy with the program and happier still to see the scale dropping faster than before.

And I'm happy to start finding more "pinchies" all over my body. My newest one is around the gut, it's only small, but hopefully it'll get pinchier as the belly goes down.

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Self Sabotage

I'm super close to my weight loss goal. Been working towards this for almost 2 years and I've lost over 100 lbs. I'm so proud of myself and I have upper body strength for the first time ever.

Problem is I can feel myself slipping back into old habits. Idk if I'm scared to get to my goal or what, but I've been fluctuating between 155 and 158 for like 4 months now. My diet is slipping (feel like I'm eating everything in sight at least once a week) and I have no motivation to work out on my own anymore. I see my trainer 2-3x a week still, which helps. But obviously it's not really getting me anywhere anymore.

I'm really not sure why I'm sabotaging myself but I can't seem to shake this slump. Should I talk to my trainer about it? Should I just stop trying to lose weight altogether and just focus on strength training?

Anyone who has been here and pushed through it, if you have any advice, it would be much appreciated!

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Losing 15lbs in a month?

Hi everyone. I’ve always had some trouble with my weight, but since arriving at College in September it’s gotten pretty bad.

My parents were always pretty good about keeping me on track. It was always a sustained weight before I ruined it somehow. Even throughout my gap year between HS and College when I had more freedom, they kept me on track.

But now I’m on my own. In the last two months, I’ve gained 15 lbs. I’ll be seeing my parents for the first time since leaving for Thanksgiving (flights are expensive- I haven’t had the opportunity to go home yet) and I already know they’re going to absolutely dig into me. I need to lose the weight before I go home. I’ve always had a bit of an impulsivity and binging problem with food, but it just keeps getting worse.

I’m looking pretty bloated, so I feel like some of the weight is due to salt or carbs. I cant be sure though.

I’m looking into water fasting, and I started today. I’m thinking of doing a water fast for 3-5 days just to kick off the weight loss.

I know this isn’t a healthy goal. I understand that. But I’d rather this month suck a bit than to deal with my parents when I get home.

Please help me out. Any and all help is appreciated. I’m just not in the mental position right now to deal with their comments when I get home.

Will the weight be easier to lose since it’s relatively new? Are there good methods I don’t know of that’ll help me lose it in a healthier way?

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Fat Loss​ Programming - How we lose weight through cardiovascular exercise and an easy to follow, research based guide for fat loss programming.

Hi everyone.

I wrote a research based fat loss cardio guide for my own personal training clients and thought it might be helpful to some of you here.

https://fitstra.com/fat-loss-programming/

This approach to weight loss focuses on aiding fat loss through specific cardiovascular exercise intensities and durations. It is not a substitute for a good diet but is intended to complement one, accelerating progress.

I know this is a violation of the self-promotion rule, but I wanted to share something that might be helpful to some of you here. I don't make any money from views and simply like creating content.

If you have any questions about anything covered, I'd love to chat with you here. To promote discussions, view this post as an AMA with a trainer who focuses on fat loss.

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Exercise is so much easier now, I used to think I was so lazy

Since Feb I've gone from 188lbs to 150lbs (26F, 5'2"). It's been a long process of stopping and starting, thankfully never gaining anything back but eating at maintenance for long periods. I've been trying out different antidepressants during this time and I've found the periods where I'm changing over, I need to eat at maintenance to feel stable. My psych also said that it would be hard to distinguish effects of the medication from effects of eating at a calorific deficit - is the medication really not making me feel better, or am I just not noticing the positive effects because I'm miserable due to calorie restriction?

I'm not always miserable when restricting calories btw, just sometimes I will go too long without my favorite foods and start getting angsty. But I don't want to use my entire calorie budget on one small meal!

I haven't even noticed a difference in my body until recently, when my clothes started looking baggy. People are starting to comment on my weight loss and my confidence is growing everyday. Yesterday I didn't feel ashamed of my body for the first time in 7 years.

But exercise is the biggest difference! I used to think I was just a lazy bum for not being able to keep up in workout classes, thinking that it was this hard for all the slim people and they were just powering through the discomfort. But hell no! It's so much easier to exercise now, and I maintained the same level of exercise that I did when I was 188lbs so I know I'm not getting fitter.

It never really occurred to me just how heavy all that weight I was carrying was. I still have a long way to go as I'm at the high end of the overweight BMI, but today my stretchy workout pants started to fall down in Zumba! I couldn't believe it, I kinda looked like I had cameltoe because of all the extra fabric bunching when I moved.

It's weird because I don't even have to buy new clothes, I can just use the old ones that I used to fit when I was at this weight before.

And running is easier! I guess it was like I was carrying 38 bags of sugar on me all the time. It's hard to reconcile that my inability to control my food intake has led to my suffering for so long.

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