SW 340lb, CW 210lb, GW 170lb, 40F, 6'2

I'm sharing this mainly to encourage everybody on their weight loss journey to keep going and to not give up on themselves! I've been through so much yoyo-dieting in my life and only now at 40 have I finally reached a number on the scale that I haven't seen since I was a teenager. My BMI is 27,3 and a healthy weight range is finally in sight. I work in the medical field and no matter what your dreams of being slim and sexy and whatever are after weightloss, let me tell you that not getting diabetes, cancer or a coronary disease are already worth it and you can reap those benefits at any age!

My personal experience with IF is that I hugely benefitted from OMAD because with frequent meals come frequent insulin spikes that left me constantly feeling hungry and dissatisfied with small portions. I also learnt that my body is not an idiot and chewing gum with sweetener, drinking coffee with a splash of milk or drinking diet soda didn't kick me out of ketosis in a noticeable way. However, I believe that this is an experience that may vary in individuals.

I'm not really certain about my GW because the BMI scale is not completely reliable for tall people. I want to get in a healthy BMI range. But my initial GW of 77kg may not work out. I'll see about that in the future...

I wish you all the best on your journey!

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I’m seeing an unhealthy pattern in obsessing over macros. Advice?

I, f23, have lost 105lb in the past 13 months. I went from 398 to 292.4lb as of today. I used to use an app called Fooducate to count my calories but never really checked macros because u had to pay for it but it showed a percentage of protein, carb, fat. I used to be happy as long as my protein percent was higher and that’s it. Then I moved to myfitnesspal like 3 months ago. It’s an amazing app. But I’ve noticed a pattern of unhealthy obsession with my macros counting. I currently eat 1750 calories but I always feel guilt if I hit the full amount. Thoughts of “ur gonna gain weight,” “u don’t need that little piece of chocolate that u already counted in ur calorie limit,” “ur so fat just stop eating.” I recognize these thoughts are all part of an eating disorder in the making and I try to fight it by reminding myself that I’m eating in my calorie limit and my body needs these calories to function well. I should be eating like 2000 calories but I manually have lowered it to 1750 to lose weight. I currently workout 4-5 times a week and hit the weights hard. I burn like 400-550 calories. So I’m worried that I’m not eating enough. but I legit can’t lose weight if I’m eating more than 1700-1800. I also have pcos( it’s a hormone imbalance disorder that affects the body) so I have to eat lower carbs than the average person. I’ll be happy if I’m eating 130g carbs or lower. But if I’m eating less carbs, then the calories go to protein. But then I’ll easily hit like 170g protein in a day and that’s a lot. Im just in need of some help to see how I can continue my weight loss without making it into an eating disorder and also regulate my macros according to my needs. I had gone to a registered dietitian a few months ago and she had no help to offer and tried to sell me meal replacement shakes. Like tf.

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One year. 70 lbs lost. I am now overweight. Yesterday I was obese for the last time.

TL;DR pictures at the end.

My Stats

Male

26

6'2"

233 lbs

Starting out. Third time's the charm

Starting pictures

October, 2020. I had just turned 25. I had a fantastic birthday with my friends and family. We drank, ate good food, laughed, watched stupid shows. It was an amazing time. The next morning, my mom sent me the pictures of the party.

And I realized how fat I was. Again.

303, October 2020

Again? Yep.

A little backstory

Weight is something I've struggled with my entire life. I was a fat child. At 12 years old I was 170 lbs. Somehow I actually motivated myself at that age to lose weight and lost 35 lbs down to a normal weight at 135. I slowly slowly gained the weight back until I was 18 and 230 lbs (at my full height of 6'2"). After moving away to college, though, the weight just sorta came off without any effort or thought on my part, and I was down to my lowest at 185 lbs by 21. And as many of us do in college, I eventually discovered the joys of alcohol.

Addiction

185, October 2016. 9 shots in

I gained a few pounds with the introduction of the happy juice, but it was never significant. Hovered around 195. That is until depression hit, and alcohol became a daily thing. The amounts kept increasing, the frequency kept increasing, and finally it all culminated with me drinking 1L of Fireball until I blacked out every night. Woke up, threw up until I was puking bile every morning, took an absurd amount of whatever stimulant I could get my hands on - caffeine, adderall, ephedrine (often with caffeine) - went to my job as a mover, skipped class, and then did it all again.

Obviously not a good thing and very clearly not sustainable. I dropped out in my last year of college in November 2018. I moved back to my home-state with parents. I snuck drinks as much as I could and worked random jobs - pizza delivery, stocking, manual labor. Life was pretty shit. I was depressed and just going through the motions.

Stabilizing

Sometime around December 2019, I just sorta stopped drinking. Never really thought about it. Just got tired of feeling like shit all the time and stopped cold turkey. No withdrawals somehow. Got bloodwork done and liver enzymes were slightly elevated, but they said as long as I stopped they should go back to normal.

I got a job working helpdesk in February 2020 which turned out to be exactly what I needed. I got on with an amazing team and learned a lot. I didn't know a lot about IT, but I knew programming. I became the automation guy. I got to make a lot of cool scripts and regained some confidence. I started to like myself again.

My best friend whom I met online while I was deep into alcoholism moved in with my mom temporarily while she was between housing situations. She had stuck with me and talked with me despite me being blackout half the time. Dealt with my bullshit, still talked with me daily even after I'd get too drunk and fall asleep on call with her.

I was happy.

Losing it

Until I saw that birthday picture. The self hatred returned. What had I done to myself?

My friend got her living arrangement sorted and moved away.

Damn.

Things got pretty rough again, but I decided I would lose the weight. At first, I just reduced how much I ate. Didn't really track anything or exercise much. I was just focusing on getting moved out of my parents' place and holding my mental health together. But the weight did come off.

By March 2021 when I moved out, I was 265 lbs. I thought about what I wanted, thought about how much I wished I had a good body and felt good. Then realized the obvious. I am a 25 year old man with no major health issues besides being fat as hell. My body plays by the same rules as everyone else's. If I want to be fit and athletic, I can be. I just have to force myself to do it.

So, I methodically made changes. First, I got in the routine of being in a routine. I started making the bed. I did it every damn day to force myself to do something tedious that I didn't want to do.

(Side note: a freshly made bed to slip in to every night is underrated. Get them hospital corners down, and it's like you're being hugged all night)

Once I got used to telling myself to suck it up and do it, I added exercise. Initially, I just did barbell exercises - Bench, Overhead Press, Bent over row, Squat, and Deadlift. Three times a week, three exercises a day.

I was eating a fair amount, so my weight didn't move much, but my strength increased rapidly. So I kept things as they were. After some time, I was happy with where my strength was at. My 1RM lifts were 225 lb Bench, 375 Squat, 400 Deadlift. I was still 260 lbs, but I could tell my body composition was slightly better.

Somewhere around this time I finished my degree as well, so that's cool.

It was time to get the diet in check. I decided on 2100 calories. Didn't want to fiddle with macros too much, so I just tried to eat healthily. Rice, chicken thighs, vegetables, eggs, fruits. Every now and then I would go over due to a family event or eating out with friends, but it was never absurd, and I got right back on it the next day.

I added in cardio and isolation exercises. I'm now in the gym 14 hours a week on average.

And now, here we are. I am overweight.

233, October 2021

Conclusion

So, why do I care? I've been here before, right? Not exactly. My previous weight loss attempts were all about losing the weight. Didn't care about anything else except the scale moving. This time, I'm determined to reach athleticism. I want to have a good body, and I want to be able to use it. I want to be able to run fast and far, jump high, be flexible, and all that. Not just be skinnyfat but at a normal BMI.

So no. I haven't been here before, and this is a big deal because it is the last time I will ever transition from obese to overweight.

Now, the unfortunate conclusion. What drives me right now is the self hatred that resurfaced one year ago. It's still there. I still hate my body. I take off my shirt and feel nothing but disgust right now. I hate myself for taking so long to get my degree. I hate myself for drinking myself stupid every night for a year and destroying my body.

I know getting fit isn't going to bring self love, but right now it's the one thing I hate about myself that I have absolute control over. So I'm changing it.

thanks 4 reading

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TL;DR Pictures

303 Starting Pictures

233 Current Pictures

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Feeling like the scale is lying and that I’m fatter now

Soooo I had started using a scale a couple months ago, it really helped discipline me. But for some reason I felt like it wasn’t starting to be accurate. It wouldn’t say I gained or anything but I felt like I was losing too much weight? Like, because I didn’t FEEL less fat than the scale must be lying so I bought another scale but still kept the old one. Now I’m weighing myself in new one this morning and it said I weighed 162.2 then when I weighed myself again a minute later it said 162.0 and then 161.8. My old scale however keeps saying 162.2 but I don’t know what to believe. I think my main issue is that…I’ve been feeling very depressed lately…like a failure…so I keep feeling like I’m failing at everything including the weight loss, even though I’m still being consistent. I was stuck at 164 for a while but I’ve managed to move passed that but it’s like I don’t truly believe it. I’ve been proud of my progress until now. Now it just feels like I’m faking it, like the scales are wrong, that even tho I’m keeping up with the diet I’ve messed somehow but the scales won’t reflect it. I went from weighing myself once a week, to everyday MULTIPLE times a day. I was weighing 185 in April (I’m a female, 5’0) so I’m glad I’m not back to what I used to weigh but now I feel stuck. Has anyone gone through this?

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8 Fun and Healthy Ideas to Celebrate Halloween Season

Halloween doesn’t have to be all about candy. In fact, if you’re trying to slim down, it shouldn’t be about candy at all. This year, let it be about family fun. Here are eight healthy Halloween ideas to boost the holiday fun factor, most of which have zero calories!

1. Up your jack-o’-lantern game.

While triangle eyes and nose and fanged grin are the classic pumpkin carving go-to, keep your hands a little busier this year (and less likely to dip into the candy) with something a little more, well, spooktacular. Head to the internet to get some fun pumpkin carving Halloween ideas. Buy or download free pumpkin stencils that will make your jack-o’-lanterns the talk of the neighborhood. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to create a spooky zombie face, a witch on a broomstick, a hooting owl or a Day of the Dead Mexican skull, even if you have zero artistic talent. Invest in a pumpkin carving kit that contains tools to make it easier. It’s so satisfying and fun, you may not stop!

2. Make a scary entrance.

There are some easy peasy ways to decorate your front porch or walkway to make Halloween an extra supernatural experience for trick-or-treaters. If you have a cast iron Dutch oven, add some dry ice to water which will turn it into a bubbling cauldron. Invest in some fake spider webs and spiders to cover shrubs or trees to greet visitors as they walk up to your door. You can even make spiders out of black balloons—small one for the head, larger one for the body, tied together, with black pipe cleaners for legs. Dangle them from your porch. Use a couple of bales of hay as an outdoor table if you want your trick or treaters to serve themselves. Use faux spider webbing as your “tablecloth,” and group your pumpkins, carved and otherwise, around the base. Don’t forget a few white plastic bag “ghosts” for good measure.

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3. Plan a bonfire.

With the arrival of chilly fall air, now may be the perfect time to invest in a little backyard firepit to cozy up next to on weekend evenings. You, your family and friends can gather to roast marshmallows (less than 100 calories for four regular sized marshmallows!) and tell your best scary ghost stories. It could become a family or neighborhood tradition.

4. Bob for apples.

This used to be the funniest party game before designers Chuck Foley and Neil Rabens invented Twister. Contestants would kneel in front of a large container of water filled with floating apples. The object of the game? Grab an apple . . . with your teeth! Try to do it without laughing (not possible) or getting wet (sooo not possible). Given the pandemic, it’s probably not appropriate for a general Halloween party, but it can be a hilarious family activity for those in your household. Don’t forget to eat the apples!

5. Talk to the hands.

A great (and delicious) activity to do with kids is to make spooky Halloween Popcorn Hands. All you need are four cups of air-popped or light popcorn, three disposable gloves (food contact gloves which contain no powder and are Latex free) and 15 candy corn pieces. Drop the candy corn into each finger of the gloves (yep, those are finger nails). Then stuff the popcorn into each finger and also fill up the glove. Tie the end of the gloves. These decorative treats count as two Extras on the Nutrisystem plan.

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6. Make some diet-friendly chocolate apples.

Everyone in the family will love these sweet treats. You’ll love the fact that you can easily make them Nutrisystem-friendly! Prepare regular chocolate apples for the fam and whip up a lightened-up version for yourself. Instead of using regular chocolate or caramel, swap in a bag of Nutrisystem NutriChocolaty Wafers. These bite-sized morsels have the delicious flavor of chocolate and rich cocoa with just a hint of caramel. With this hack, your apple “indulgence” counts as only one Nutrisystem Snack, one PowerFuel and one SmartCarb.

For each chocolate apple, simply melt a bag of NutriChocolaty Wafers, insert a popsicle stick into the core of a medium apple, dip the apple in the melted chocolate, then roll in two Tablespoons of crushed peanuts. Set on parchment paper until the chocolate hardens. To download a free printable recipe books with this recipe and 11 other healthy Halloween ideas, click here! >

7. Plan a scary movie night.

If you have an all-adult household, you can have a movie night and hold a “Halloween” marathon—the movie series, “Halloween” that is. Other top horror flicks according to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie rating site, include “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “The Ring,” “Candyman,” “Scream” and “House on Haunted Hill.” If you like a little humor with your scary, consider “Shaun of the Dead,” “Black Sheep” or “Tremors.” Some class acting? “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Shining” are standouts. Anything Stephen King. Kiddies on board? Think about “Frankenweenie,” “The Little Vampire,” “The Addams Family,” “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” or “Coraline.” The whole family will enjoy “Beetlejuice.”

8. Go on a hay ride.

Many farms and nature centers have Halloween hayrides. Some are “haunted” by human and animatronic ghosts and zombies for those who love a good fright. Others are mellow and simply take you for a ride through the fields balanced on a hay bale. Some farms also have corn mazes that can keep you twisting and turning for close to an hour, plus farm animals to pet, pumpkins to pick and apple cider to drink. You can even take a trip to a local sunflower field for plenty of photo ops!

Looking for more healthy and fun ideas to celebrate Halloween? Click the link below!:

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Discussion: When do weight loss behaviors become disordered eating?

For context, I started counting calories in 2010 or 2011 and I've been in "maintenance" for a while, but I'm trying to crack down on 10 lbs I gained back. For that to be successful for me, I know I have to be really strict about calorie counting and weighing myself every day. I feel fine about that most days, but sometimes I'll hear about a person who has an eating disorder, and their disordered behaviors sound a lot like my own.

An example: yesterday, I found myself still a bit hungry late in the evening, but had no calories left. I knew I was going to a birthday party today where there would be cake and probably other junk food, so I decided to just push through the hunger and enjoy the party today instead. For me, that choice felth very healthy and like good self control, but if I told someone like my mom that I let myself go to bed hungry so that I could enjoy cake the next day, she'd be worried that I have an eating disorder.

I guess what I'm wondering is: where is the line? When does strict calorie counting (or other weight loss techniques) become disordered eating? It seems like it's when a person continues to lose weight past the point of it being healthy, or if someone becomes so obsessed with it that it causes distress to their life. Maybe there isn't a line, and what works for some people doesn't work for others, but I'm curious if anybody else has thoughts or experiences regarding the topic.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 31 October 2021? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

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Welcome to r/Loseit!

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So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

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Why you’re overweight

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Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

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Before You Start

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The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

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Tracking

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Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

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Creating Your Deficit

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How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

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The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

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Exercise

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Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

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It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel *awesome* and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

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Crawl, Walk, Run

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It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

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Acceptance

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You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

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Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

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Additional resources

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Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

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• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!

* Lose It Compendium - Frame it out!

* FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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