Ate all your calories by noon? No worries. Treat it like your OMAD and move on.

I used to binge, felt guilty, then said “fuck it”, and continued to binge for one whole day. Then I discovered a mental trick that helped me deal with the occasional urges to eat whatever I want in whatever quantity I want.

Treat a binge like your OMAD (one meal a day), enjoy the heck out of it, and when you are done, the eating window is over and you can eat again tomorrow. If the binge happens at night, fast until the evening the next day and eat a healthy and fulfilling dinner (soup or salad with lots of protein). Continue your routine normally after that.

This was how I dealt with a loooooong plateau and continued my weight loss. No longer feeling guilty for the occasional overindulge, now I enjoy the food I eat, feel that weight loss isn’t a chore, and am much more confident that I will be able to do this for the rest of my life.

Hope this helps someone who was like the old me.

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Just checked my bank account. I have so much money it’s actually concerning?! Was I spending that much money on food before?!

Jesus Christ. I have been doing a bit of shopping and decided I should check to see where my bank account is at. I was SHOCKED to see I have an unusually high amount of money.

I started phentermine and I haven’t been doing much grocery shopping. (Coincidentally busy season just started at work which means my job feeds me for most meals during the week, which helps.) but WOW. I eat way less than I did before and when I do eat, it’s at work and paid for.

I think I was spending $500 or $600 a month on groceries and eating out with friends. I’m just shocked. I… I am speechless. I bet I spend ~$200 max now.

Another reason to focus on my weight loss and decreasing my consumption: Save money!!! So much money!!!! More money for shopping for my thinner body!!!!

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CICO weight loss commitment starts TODAY

I am committing my weight loss journey to this group today. My weight loss system will be CICO. I’ve tried IF and strict diets (KETO, Brightline/Food Addicts Anonymous). The IF / Strict Diets trigger years of disordered behavior. I’m considering WW if I can treat it like a lifestyle change, not a diet. WW’s lack of black and white thinking works for me as does the weekly mtg/weigh in.

I’m “burning my boats” by committing here. I’m committing to CICO. I’m committing to 30 days no alcohol to keep me on track.

I’m committing to sitting through the discomfort to understand my eating triggers/old stories that no longer serve me/unconscious patterns that “sleep walk” me to the fridge.

Letting go of too many years of trauma to claim my victory story now. I’m currently 190 lbs. 5 foot 2 inches. 49 years old and ready for the best next 30 years of my life. Goal weight: 130 lbs. Thank you for reading. I’ll need any support you might give me.

Before I hide from my family to stuff my face in secret, I commit to posting here first.

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I lost COVID weight gain and my back pain has reduced so much!!

My job is very sedentary and I am not super into weightlifting + pandemic weight gain => back pain

After shredding the 10 lbs, my BMI dropped to 20-21 range, and MY LOWER BACK PAIN IS ALMOST GONE!! For a while I thought the pain was caused by some other external factors, turned out that I don't even need the CT Scan and the expensive massage therapies - just lose the weight and the magic happens! I still don't know the scientific reason behind ( please inform me in the comment section if you do know why)

10 pounds seems like a really small number to lose especially in this community, but I just want to make this post to share my health improvement thanks to such a small amount of weight loss - sometimes small things do wonders! Please note that I am not promoting that the healthiest BMI is 20-21, the ideal weight really depends on individual builds - but thanks to this experience, I realized that when you are approaching your best weight, YOU WILL KNOW IT!

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515lbs - > 467lbs 6'2. .. Knee injury and an interesting turn of events. .. .

Hi all. like this group so much. I have lurked for years. Food has always been a coping mechanism for me and upon losing a job and partner and sustaining a knee injury I hit my highest weight ever last year (515). I began trying to make some changes in November but it was slow and had setbacks. I got down to 505 in December. The weekend before Christmas I started having some very painful GI issues do to too many NSAIDS(Advil) that caused me to lose my appetite completely and I was barely able to eat till just after New Years with some help from my physician to treat the issue. Apparently, not physically being able to eat led to the unexpected weight loss down to 487 and broke me of my strong desire for carbs and diet coke. Excited by the loss, I decided to double down with maintaining a low intake of food since I had apparently shrunk my appetite. Lots of water, proteins and dairy (yogurt for the stomach) as well as light carbs and veggies has allowed me to continue the and reach 467 as of today. And my knee pain that led to the NSAIDS issues is gone without meds to alleviate it. So, I guess I owe Advil some thanks. The forced two week portion control‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎­was long effective long enough to break me of addiction to sugars and carbs, as well as kick start this journey that has been put off too long.

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NSV - Someone called me “fit” today

I was on a really intense walk/hike uphill today and felt like I was dying. Some of the most fit-looking people on the trail also looked they were dying - the trail makes your legs feel like jelly about halfway through.

But I kept pushing and was able to make it to the top. I even felt good enough to go back up the hill, using a much easier alternative route, and these girls who looked very similar to me stopped me. They said, “You’re so fit!”

I thought it was a joke at first, and told them they might have mistaken me for someone else. They said no, we saw you walk up the hill and you passed us so many times.

I said thank you, and that was basically the end of the conversation, but I don’t think they know how much that comment means to me. Or maybe they did, and knew it would brighten my day. Either way, I’ll take the compliment.

I haven’t exercised in a long time (WFH problems, amiright?) but a friend invited me on this walk and I am so glad I went. I don’t know if anyone, ever, in my whole life has called me fit. I certainly don’t look it, but do consider myself to have good stamina/endurance for someone who almost never works out and is of my size. For reference, I’m a 5’1 female and a size ~14 US in jeans. My GW is around a size 8.

I just want those girls, and others, to know how encouraging it is to call someone fit even when they might not look like it. The positive encouragement is motivating me to maybe go on another walk this week.

In addition to starting to count calories (never done that before in my life until the last few weeks) and doing some exercise here and there, I feel like I can reach my weight loss goals.

Today felt like a NSV and I just wanted to share!

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Is a calorie deficit really all it takes to lose weight?

 Hello all! I’m 22 YO, 6 feet tall, and currently weigh 249.0 pounds. I’ve started going to the gym every other day, walking a lot, and I’m working towards my weight loss goal of getting to 200.0 pounds! Today, I ate at a restaurant (Raising Canes), and the calorie count of the three finger combo, according to the restaurant, is around 1020 without a drink (probably around 1400 total for me as I wanted a large Coke 😂). I feel full and content on this one meal, likely because of the large protein intake and so forth, which also puts me at a good caloric deficit. However, it seems too unrealistic to think that I can actually lose weight—and quite a bit of it—by only counting the calories in this meal for today, for example. I know that such factors as sodium, sugar, carbs, and so forth must play a vital role somewhere in the consideration. So, my question for curiosity’s sake it, if I ate one satisfying meal a day such as the one I have described here…is it really as single as weighing the calories in and calories out? Or, is it more nuanced? 

Thanks!

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