Down 20lbs in around 6 weeks

M 20 6’2 sw:~255 cw:236 gw:215

Almost 2 weeks ago, I posted here and was super discouraged because I couldn’t visually notice any change in my weight loss. Since then I’ve lost 10 more pounds and I’m feeling very good about myself. My face is thinner, my pants are starting to fit again Etc. I thought it was a fluke when I weighed myself after a few days and saw I was below 240 for the first time in months. Another few days go by and I’m sitting at 236 now. I’ve weighed myself at different times throughout the day since then to see if it was really a fluke and it is staying at that weight. I know 10lbs is a lot to lose in 2 weeks but I haven’t changed my eating at all and I’m still consuming about 1700 calories a day (I’ve been doing a lot more cardio though). I feel like 1700 calories is perfect for me and I STILL have a lot of energy after 6 weeks. Should I change anything?

Tldr: feeling awesome. Lost 10 lbs in 4 weeks and then another 10lbs in 2 weeks. Bad or good?

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Home workouts, junk food, and making weight loss work for me in a global pandemic. (Kind if long, sorry!)

I lost 50 pounds in 2019 using meal prepping, calorie counting, and working out at the gym and pandemic really screwed up my routine. Over the last 2 years I’ve been hitting highs and lows in trying to get back on track and failing. I had myself convinced I just had to do exactly what I was doing before to succeed but unfortunately, that’s just not possible and I ultimately needed to find a new way to succeed that worked with the current state of this pandemic.

So first and foremost- the gym. I’m still not comfortable going. I wouldn’t want to wear a mask while working out, and neither does anyone else. With the new variant right now I’m just not comfortable with that. I’ve tried a lot of home workouts (I have an exercise bike that I don’t like, tried a few workout videos, tried making HIIT routines) but nothing has really stuck for me until I found growwithjo on youtube. The thing I love most about her videos is she doesn’t talk. I find it annoying and distracting in workout videos when a stranger is saying things like “yeah you got this!” “Pump through it!” “10 more seconds, you’re doing great!” “Feel that sweat, breathe through it!” I’m just trying to workout and I just want to focus and listen to some tunes. She does this, she has intro but once the workout starts she literally does not talk, it’s just good music. Her routines are also really varied. I typically do her ab routines, but she has “dance workouts” that are still good workouts but feel more fun when I don’t really feel like doing it. I burn pretty close to the same amount of calories regardless of the kind of video I use. I definitely recommend her videos if you’re looking for a good home workout routine!

Next- I have redefined my relationship with junk food. In 2019 I pretty much eliminated junk food and sweets entirely. Occasionally, I’d grab a bag of chips or something from the gas station and it was a “cheat day,” I was vehemently against having ANY unhealthy food in my house period. Currently, I have bbq chips and a dark chocolate bar in my pantry. I lived under the impression that if they were around I couldn’t resist them but that actually hasn’t been the case. For the most part, I haven’t craved them. When I do crave them, I portion out a single serving of chips or a single square of chocolate (sometimes both together as an indulgent snack!) and even with both together it’s still only a 207 cal snack. This makes it pretty easy to work in when the craving hits, and since I do still keep healthy lower cal snacks around the house if my junk food snack leaves me hungry I’ll just have a healthy snack after to round off the hunger. Something else major I’ve noticed in doing this- last night I did I have chips and chocolate and I WAS still hungry after BUT I wasn’t craving anymore of it, I actually wanted some veggies and homemade ranch so I had around 100 cals of that and felt fully satisfied. I’ve realized this time around that it’s ok to eat bad things sometimes. That’s it’s easier and more sustainable for me to just make the food I want work in smaller portions rather than try and keep up a really strict “diet” and then ending up have a really high cal portion of those unhealthy things when I get to a point that I just can’t resist like before. It feels significantly less restrictive for me to just have a small amount when I want it, and it helps me overall stay on track. Junk food is no longer some forbidden villain that I can’t eat unless I’m “cheating,” it’s just something I don’t have often but can make work when I want to.

I dunno if this will help anyone, but these two things have absolutely been the tipping point of success for me so I wanted to share! For the first time in 2 years, I’ve stuck with losing weight again longer than I ever have, I feel good about it, I find it sustainable, and I don’t wake up feeling like it will be a challenge to meet my calorie goal or get a workout in. I genuinely feel good and like I’m on track.

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If I go from being sedentary to doing personal training 3 hours per week, will my body change without diet changes?

Basically the question. I suffered a severe injury last year and have been pretty inactive for a year. Doing personal training 3xs/week, 1 hour each time, and realize how weak I am. Wondering if or how much my body will change (weight loss or body recomp) without changing my diet, and what the timeline might be? I plan to improve my diet later but have a lot on my plate now and trying to get 1 routine established at a time, not change a bunch of stuff at once. I do go on a leisurely daily walk with my small dog but I wouldn’t call that exercise lol

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Micro-wins: my wedding ring is back on my ring finger!

It has been a year and a half since I took off my wedding rings due to my weight gain and excessive swelling of my extremities but I was finally able to put on one of my wedding rings onto my ring finger! Currently have lost 25lbs since December 29th.

The past few years have been a roller coaster of events; back to back pregnancies, postpartum depression, laid off, job search, new job, hated new job, found another new job, licensing for job, reorganization at the new job, massive layoffs(me not affected but feel the trickle down effects of it), and just trying to juggle being a good parent, better wife, all while trying to make more money to support my family become financially secure; I haven’t had time to focus on myself. Clothes don’t fit right so I don’t feel like myself. I was getting frustrated with myself for looking /feeling like an absolute slob all the time and being sluggish.

I have previously tried making a lifestyle change before and have been unsuccessful due to the lack of commitment. I have been making excuses on why I wouldn’t go to the gym like “I don’t have the right shoes”, “I don’t have earbuds to listen to music”, “there’s other people at the gym”, “I don’t have a good sports bra”, etc. I’ve been joking about getting a peloton and finally bought one at the end of November. With the holidays and vacation, I ended up riding maybe 3 or 4 times for December. I stepped on a scale while I was on vacation and was astounded that I was the heaviest I have ever been, 235lbs, but I really realized how bad it was when I saw Christmas pictures with my kids. I looked absolutely wrecked; tired, bloated, unhappy. I was tired of feeling like this.

I started working out once I returned from vacation in January. Started small with 15 - 20 minutes classes on the Peloton 3 days a week and started an intermittent fasting schedule. I measure out my cereals with a measuring cup instead of filling the bowl till it looks about right. I am mindful to pick healthier options but allow myself to enjoy meals with friends so it doesn’t feel like a strict meal plan. Have been eating a lot less processed foods and cut back on my sweets as well.

By the end of January, I had cycled a little over 150 miles for the month. For the month of February, I challenged myself to ride every single day and as of tonight, have ridden over 250 miles to date for this month! Weight loss has been a much slower this month than last month but I’m feeling stronger, healthier, and more motivated than ever.

I continuously have to remind myself, “this is not a diet, it’s a lifestyle change.”

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I realized because of wanting to lose weight, I developed unhealthy eating habits

Yeah, so this is not great news. I've been denying the truth for about a month now, but my friends and family have been calling me over the week because I talk to them a lot about my eating habits and weight loss stuff. They're telling me it sounds like I have an intermittent? binge eating problem and man. I just feel defeated. I wanted to get healthy, but seems like I'm doing this all wrong. Of course, I am not taking this as an official diagnosis, but I kind of see why they're concerned.

The usual pattern is me sticking to a rough calorie deficit 1300-1500 cal/day, light exercise from walking around at work, hitting a new low weight, then eating 3000 - 5000 cal/day for the 3-4 days afterwards, and then lowering calorie count again. I previously did OMAD (stopped recently) and I was afraid of eating dinners with my family and stuff.

Apparently my mood really depends day by day on how much I eat (like if I went over calorie count I will feel gross). Today I came home and just started shoving food into my mouth. I wasn't hungry. IDK.

I know the right move is to not fast for 36 hours or something. I need to get back to a state where I only eat when I am truly hungry, and to make sure I have a protein and a fat source in 1 morning drink/2 meals. I think some small steps I will take starting tomorrow are: portion control. Set a time limit for a meal and no grazing/snacking. and the 1 morning drink (coffee + protein shake) and two meals. I really want my relationship with food to improve

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I'm finally at peace with fluctuations of weight & the number on a scale during weight loss & fitness improvement

Bit of a rant, but I could also call this a success...

Until very recently (the last month or two) I'd weigh myself in a morning with a sense of excitement for what it was going to say. That excitement was short lived if the number I 'thought' I should see wasn't there. This then set me up for a mightily miserable day and lead to me paying less attention to food and exercise choices.

Through a combination of educating myself on how the process of weight loss occurs, improving the food I ate and recognising the fact that longer term trends mattered. I came to realise that these fluctuations were perfectly normal and that overall my weight trend was still on a steady decline, I rarely use the scales now and when I do it's an information gathering exercise and not a show trial for a mindset dooming me to fail.

It hit me like a tonne of bricks that the number on that scale paled in comparison to the improved stamina, skin complexion, looser clothing fit and gut health that I'd been gifted by dropping 20+ lb.

The number given to you by the scale is NOT a reflection of you, your progress or your journey. It's taken me almost 10 years of yo-yo dieting, self hate and frustration to make this discovery, but now that I have, there's no mountain I can't climb to reach my fitness and health goals.

I wish you every success in your fitness journey, you CAN do it!

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To dessert or not to dessert

So recently, now that I've got like 10 pounds remaining and I'm nearing maintainence, I really wanted to start looking at it from a long term perspective. I was initially religiously keto, but then realised that it created an unhealthy relationship with carbs for me, and that even a single tiny slip made me binge eat a shit ton of carbs, because "hey I might as well do it now because I won't be able to eat em later. "

Dont get me wrong, I absolutely loved how I felt on keto, but this binge-restrict thing was really making me feel mentally down. So I thought I'd let go off strict keto. If I want some fruit or a slice of bread, I will wholeheartedly get it, without the shame or stress.

Surprisingly enough, now that I've allowed myself to do this, I crave them less. In fact most of my meals are still keto. I'm not forcing it, I just prefer them, and I really enjoy them.

I know weight loss is about healthier options and getting those calories down, but I kinda was thinking to challenge myself with desserts, and see if I can change my behaviour around them. The only thing stopping me is the guilt and the fact that why would I go choose the actual desserts when there's so many low calorie options.

I don't know, should I incorporate, actual calorie-dense desserts in reasonable portions, just to improve my relationship with them, or is this a stupid idea and I should stick to the healthier versions?

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