you can like exercise

so, i’ve been doing this weight loss thing for some time now but i just recently got into exercising! at first, i hated it because it was just exhausting and time went by so slowly. but now i’m realizing how many different kinds of exercise there are and all the ways i could spice it up!

1. listen to music. i feel like most of us know and do this but this is literally the lifesaver. me personally, music is my life and i listen 24/7. i make playlists and pretend to be in music videos while i’m on the stairmaster 🤣

2. dance. if you don’t have a gym or hate conventional exercise, you can literally play songs and jump around and dance. you’ll probably burn way more calories anyways and it’s so fun making your own choreography. plus you’ll be a better dancer

3. set little goals. say 10 more reps and then celebrate when you do it. success and goal achievement, no matter how small, will boost your dopamine and serotonin and that will motivate you to keep going. celebrate every little goal and be proud of yourself. then you’ll start to associate exercise with feelings of accomplishment and excitement.

4. keep your promises (and don’t make promises you can’t keep). the moment that you break a promise to yourself, you lose a small amount of trust and belief in yourself. imagine somebody tells you they’re going to show up in 10 minutes but they’re always a half and hour late. maybe the first time it happens you might say it’s a one time thing, but after the tenth time you will expect them to be late. if you set yourself up for failure, you will start to expect yourself to fail. if you lie to yourself, you will no longer have belief in yourself.

5. energy. get that caffeine if you haven’t already. it makes a huge difference in your exercise. pre workout, energy drinks, coffee, tea, whatever you like.

6. push yourself. if you never push yourself, you will never see how far you can go. it hurts, but the moment that it’s over you will feel so proud of yourself and will start to crave that source of achievement.

exercise is not only good for weight loss, but it’s amazing for confidence, health, and teaching yourself to push yourself in other aspects of your life. get those endorphins pumping any way you can!

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Restaurant hesitation

Hello r/loseit community! I'm very new into my CICO approach to weightloss (10 days in). I've been eating a lot healthier and less than I have been thanks to tracking my food (I'm already about 8 lbs down from when I started).

Well, my friend invited me out to a Mexican restaurant tomorrow and while I do want to go out and enjoy myself, I don't want to ruin my whole day by eating restaurant food and potentially going over my calories (I did look up the menu online and couldn't find any nutritional information to preplan my order), but I also don't want be the one person who just orders a salad and nothing else (plus I wouldn't be happy with that anyway).

So I'm asking for new people and veterans into their weight loss journey/lifestyle, what do you do when eating out? Do you just go all day without eating and the restaurant food is all you have? Do you throw caution to the wind and enjoy yourself and worry about it tomorrow? Are you the salad orderer at a restaurant?

Any advice is appreciated!

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Does the time of day I eat make a difference in weight loss?

Does the time of day I eat food make a difference in how much weight I lose? For example, if I eat 1500 calories before 7 then eat nothing else, do I lose more weight than if I eat 1500 calories and finish them around 9pm? I've always heard you shouldn't eat after 7 but if it's just a matter of eating less calories, I'm curious if that plays a part. Today I have only eaten 900 calories so I would like to eat more, but don't want to eat them later at night if it might negatively affect me. I have tried researching online but gotten mixed messages.

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Struggling to get motivated again

Apologies for the long rant to start with. I just wanted to start with context.

I started going to the gym 4-5 nights per week at the beginning of October. I aimed for every night, but sometimes things would come up, or I just felt like resting. Was doing very well with limiting my calories, and eating healthier food. Stopped eating junk food, and munched on slightly healthier foods when I wanted to snack. Even cut out all sugary drinks except for my coffee. Can't drink it without at least 1 or 2 sugars. I did very well, losing just over 20lbs before Christmas. Starting weight was 232lb, and had gotten down to 209 before gyms closed because of COVID over the holidays on Dec 22nd. I told myself I would just go for walks instead since I couldn't go to the gym, but it got VERY cold for about 10 days around Christmas, averaging between -22°C and -38°C. Too cold to be outside, really. I also started my job on December 15th, in an office. On Christmas eve, I decided that I wouldn't track my holiday calories, as the high numbers (didn't overindulge too much, but definitely had a few treats here and there) would discourage me. Kinda thought, "Christmas calories don't count." After Christmas, of course, there were still many treats, (including a bug box of chocolates from my in-laws, which I thought was inappropriate, considering I shared how my weight loss was going every time we saw them) so I thought I would just start tracking again on January 1st. January 1st was still very cold, and I knew the gyms still wouldn't be open for at least a couple weeks. So my laziness continued. Even had a pop or an iced tea every once in a while. Junk food was also reintroduced, as my SO has a pretty shitty diet, and eats junk food regularly. The gyms reopened on January 20th, and I kept having bad days, where I told myself I would go to the gym that night, but by the time evening came, something would come up that would prevent me from going, or feeling ok enough to go. For example, one night I felt kind of bloated, and another night, I had tripped and kind of twisted my ankle a bit, so wanted to rest it. I want to get back into tracking my calories, increasing my water intake, and going to the gym on a (close to) nightly basis again. I'm honestly scared of stepping on the scale to find out how much I have gained. My sister invited me to join a weekend warrior challenge on Fitbit this morning to track who can get the most steps in this weekend with a few of her friends. I felt great about having a few other people to compete with. Until her friend added 10 more people to join in, who all work at a grocery store, so they get at average of 20,000 steps per day. I can be forgiving of myself for lazy days if there's a reason for it, (Today, I will be playing DnD for about 6-8 hours.) but competing against others in a challenge I have no chance in even being in the top 10 just discourages me from even trying, as I know it'll make me feel guilty for not doing more. I know starting is the hardest part, and it's a lot easier to keep going once I have started. I just feel like such a failure for having stopped at all.

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Stressing Over Weight Loss, Body Lift, And Wanting To Have A Kid

I’m not at my goal weight yet. I have 160ish pounds to lose still. I’m down about four pounds now, hopefully more. I’ve always held myself back for a million reasons, and one of them was the idea that my body would never look good and I would need surgery that I didn’t want to get.

I’m now a lot more comfortable with the idea of getting a body lift after weight loss. In fact it’s been motivating me and making me really happy to think about, but I’m about to be thirty three. I’m childless and single. I’d like those two things to change eventually. I think I want at least one kid. I definitely want a partner. But I also definitely want to lose this weight and then get a full body lift so I can be happy. I’m stressing out about the timing and everything else. I have a goal to lose this weight in two years (by the time I’m thirty five). If I do meet someone in that time and decide to have a baby, how can I fit in getting surgery? If I don’t meet someone and I lose all the weight as planned, do I just get the surgery? If I’m with someone and we want to get married and intend to have a baby but need some time, do I get the surgery or wait for the day that we maybe do have a kid? And then the question of mortality from the surgery will be worth doing after child birth. I know it doesn’t happen often, but you can die in surgery and then I just left a kid because I’m vain? And how can I get a body lift and take care of a toddler?

I’m really putting the cart before the horse, sort of. But I also think this is something I have to really think about. Simply because of my age.

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Going to the gym on your period?

Hi everyone,

Hopefully no one is uncomfortable by the title, but I didn't know where else to ask and I like this community.

I started going back to the gym after a year and I'm loving it, so happy to be back, weight loss is going well, muscle building is going well - but I'm about to come across the same problem I had when I went to the gym before. That god awful menstrual period.

Before I would just not go for a week and do minimal exercise at home, but I think that's because I wasn't really sure how to manage everything going on. I get nervous - what if someone can tell I'm menstruating (the smell)? What if my tampon leaks with all the movement happening?

This is a genuine question and I'd love to hear your experiences with it. I don't want to not go to the gym for a week if possible, ya know?

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NSV - I had a homemade fudge brownie with homemade whipped cream on top twice this week for a desert and I still lost weight for the week!

This is a testament to the idea that CICO plus a tracking app (like MFP) can give you tons of flexibility in how you choose to eat. Also, we incorporated a decent amount of fats into our meals and I still turned out well. Finally, we're not afraid to incorporate a desert as part of our meals, though desert is normally only once or twice a week. Caveat is that I'm pretty active and lift weights and do cardio regularly, although the past 2 weeks were rough due to covid running thru the family. No doubt I had it since my daughters came down with it. Not a serious case of it except for lingering fatigue that limited my activity. Examples of the diet this week, and tbh it surprised me a little that I still made progress. Again, applying CICO thru a tracking app can be extremely effective if this is an approach you want to take for your weight loss journey.

• Oven fried chicken with egg noodles, gravy and a veg - while it wasn't deep fried, butter was used to drizzle over the chicken plus it was coated with seasoned flower, egg washes and bread crumbs
• Oven roasted chicken in cast iron skillet - no breading at all on this one, but still used butter to help build a sauce that we (lightly) drizzled over the chicken. Served with rice and a vegetable
• Chicken quesadillas that we made at home - boneless/skinless chicken breasts and salsa which are lean protein and low cal, but used a healthy dose of cheese to build the chicken mixture and each one built with 2 flour tortillas
• Potato and bacon soup - this one wasn't super high calorie but a lot of carbs in this one!
• Homemade fudge brownie with homemade whipped cream - Could have been a major calorie bomb BUT...we cut the pieces down to a manageable size and tbh homemade whipped cream (we don't make ours cloyingly sweet) is surprisingly lighter in calories than you think.

My NSV message for the week was putting into practice the idea that CICO is the right approach for me and that you don't have to completely deprive yourself of good foods IF you have the discipline to adhere to portion sizes and track your calories!

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