NSV! Take those measurements!

I’ve been shifting from weight loss to recomp, and when I finally hopped back on the scale it went up a solid few pounds from my previous range.

Thoroughly depressed, I pulled out the measurements I’d taken before and laid them against new current measurements….they were ALL going down.

Not a lot, but solidly across the board they were smaller.

Take the measurements before you recomp! It’ll save you mental anguish.

Details:

5’2” woman in my mid-30s SW 124lbs, Sept 2021 LW 112lbs, Dec 2021 CW 116lbs, Jan 2021

Eating 1200-1300/cal day; TDEE is 1600.

Focus on protein and limiting carbs for the most part to vegetables with an occasional slice of pizza or other bit thrown in every week or so.

Aiming for 20g net carbs but occasionally go over.

IF 18:6 on weekdays.

In early December when I got to 112lbs I began a focus on recomp with:

Weight training 3x week Cardio through running (slow and short) 1x week Yoga 3x week

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This is terrible to say as an adult...but I hate vegetables.

I feel like - this and the desire to get dopamine from food ( I have ADHD) is a major hurdle in long-term weight loss. I have texture and taste issues with most of them.

So, I know you're going to tell me to "try and make them another way" - and this has made some vegetables edible for me, but still not something I'd choose for fun. I literally just eat them because they're healthy, and secretly feel like the meal would be better without them. As Marie Kondo would say...they do not spark joy.

I eat broccoli, cauliflower, beans, peas, lentils, carrots, corn, radishes, avocado...and that's kinda it? Also this gets repetitive...because it means I'll eat, say, broccoli 3 times a week because I don't have much to choose from.

There are vegetables I will literally not touch, and I'll need to sanitize my hands to get the smell off if I do.

I just...don,'t see a way around it.

I'm back on low carb now, which sort of works as it's mostly meat/fish/eggs - but still, even with that, I probably should eat more veg than I do now.

It's not like I'm a teen, either. I'm a grown-ass adult. This is basically my "adult setting".

I do like a lot of fruits, but many of them are sweet, of course.

Vegetables can be great to "fill' yourself...if you eat them, of course.

I can lose weight - but I have always failed at maintaining because I just don't like "healthy" food much. Everyone talks about changing your lifestyle...but, that's kind of the thing where it falls apart for me. I can be disciplined for a long time, but it still feels I'm not eating "nice things" (Even if I'm not hungry, doing a perfectly manageable diet).

I can try eating better, kind of force myself to eat more veg for half a year or whatever...and I still just don't like them much. I'm literally the person who will remove vegetables from my pizza or fish them out of a curry.

And at this point I'm better than when I was a kid - where I basically only ate peas and carrots.

I am currently still on track for losing weight, but I'm wondering what's sustainable long-term.

Has anyone else faced this? What do you even do?

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Just a little bit

Kind of a declaration post, I'm up for hearing advice and for people to commiserate.

I would like to lose around 10-20lbs and be in the 140s. Im right at the 25 bmi zone, which is just a factoid don't take a ton of stock in that.

I've been wanting to lose those 10-20 lbs for years. I did in 2017 and it felt great but it didn't stick. I think once I got down to that weight I was like I did it and now resume all the things that got me away from it 😆.

There isn't anything to magical about that number, I just know I would feel better physically. I'd probably run faster to and get some of the PRs I'm chasing.

My current plan is to just start tracking what I eat of myfitnesspal, not necessarily making any changes, but I know I will as I input even if they are small.

Food wise lately I've been eating a lot of junk, crisps, cheese, salami and not as many vegetables as I would like. I'm thinking after seeing what I do eat, I'll then add some veggies maybe replace crisps with crunch veggies.

I exercise a fair amount mostly running, I'm going to incorporate some strength work I bought this gmb program years ago, it's mostly bodyweight activity. I'm going to give it a go and finally get my money's worth. I know weight loss happens in the kitchen but I would like to be stronger too and increase my mobility. I just got over covid, so I have taken about two weeks off of exercise, so this seems like a good time to reset my routine.

Thanks for listening!

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Those who have maintained weight loss for a long time, what is your advice?

Not sure what other reddit to post this on and not sure how many people will reply, but it's worth a shot.

The numbers on people regaining weight after dieting and weight loss are pretty grim. A huge percentage of people gain back everything they've lost, and some even gain MORE weight. While science has figured out how to get people to lose weight, it's still tricky to get that weight to stay off. This is an uncomfortable and disappointing fact, but it's still true. It's also why many competent nutritionists do not focus on weight at all when trying to improve health, and why gym memberships are predatory.

That being said, I would personally like to lose weight and keep it off long term. I'm sure that's the goal of just about everyone using this reddit. So to those who have lost weight and kept it off long term, what did you do to achieve this? For the sake of not having people who have kept weight off for a couple of months posting; I'm taking about people who have kept weight off for years. The longer the better. One year is the minimum.

I'm especially interested to hear from people who went through significant weight loss, since the more weight you lose the harder it is to keep it off.

Thank you in advance for your responses, and if you know someone who might be able to contribute please share this with them! I'm hoping that people can use this as a resource for keeping weight loss off long term.

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i miss my boobs :(

i used to have huge boobs, so much so that i had breast reduction surgery. i was heavier at the time so i liked the results, but i’ve since lost a lot of weight and the surgery combined with the weight loss has made me really flat chested. i know there’s nothing i can do - i can’t go back and not get the surgery. i’m just bummed that my proportions are weird now. i wish i had accepted myself as i was, but i had no way of knowing i’d lose weight years in the future.

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SCALE VICTORY! 5"7 F21 210lbs--> 164.9lbs. 35.1lbs/70lbs lost. 6 months. I an exactly half way through my weight loss journey! This is my story! SV

Hi guys! You might have seen me around in other subreddits like r/progresspics or r/CICO . I am super active on there!!

I am so grateful and happy to see that so many people on reddit are interested in how I lost weight and are following me on my journey!

I wanted to create this post to write everything about my process in losing weight and put it all in one place, so anyone who is interested , either now or in the future, can use this as a resource!!!

A little bit about my stats before I begin:

I'm 5"7. My highest weight was 210lbs , my starting weight of my most current journey was 200lbs, my current weight is 165.8lbs, and my goal weight is 130lbs. I started my new journey on July 4th 2021. I have lost 34.2lbs since then, in 6 months.

Okay, here is what I did which helped me in losing weight!

• I changed my MINDSET. Honestly, it all comes down to how you view things. Instead of thinking in black and white, and being super strict on my decisions, I decided to think of it like this: you can literally have anything you want to eat, but you need to truly be grateful, and by being grateful, you understand you only need a moderate serving, not more, because THAT is how you can really show you're grateful. Eating moderately will make you more mindful of your eating and behavior and emotions towards food, and helps you APPRECIATE food, instead of thinking it's always around and you can always have it, which decreases it's specialness.

Here's the numerical part of it:

I eat 1500 calories per day. That's how it's been for the most part, other than when I decided to maintain for a few months.

My TDEE is 1850 calories being sedentary.

I walk between 7,000-20,000 steps per day. On average it's between 10,000-15,000 daily.

I also do a full body HIIT routine for 25 minutes every day.

I eat 5 times a day. The first 3 times are just snacks totaling to 500 cals. Then I eat dinner and a late night meal, both 500 cals. That's how I get to 1500 calories per day!

I really hoped this helped!

Thank you all for being so nice to me! ☺ I look forward to updating you all with my next goal!

My before and after pictures: https://ibb.co/QJP6JW7

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Weight loss can save others too

Just a reader here and haven't posted before, but this may encourage other people of important benefits being healthy and in shape can give. Maybe, maybe not, but who knows. We were at the beach this weekend, and long story short, he ended up being caught in a riptide quite a bit off of shore while swimming around. There was no lifeguard on duty, and I saw him waving and yelling for help after treading water there for a bit. I was able to swim out and bring him back to shore, and I know for a fact if I was in the shape I was a year ago that there was no way I would have been able to help him.

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