Has anyone had any luck with reformer Pilates? Worth the price?

F/23/ CW 138/ SW 115

I’m going into month two of my lifestyle change/ weight loss journey. I’ve been eating in a deficit as well as walking at least 10K steps per day and doing at least 30 minutes of exercise daily. I’m also one week away from finished couch to 5k! (Very proud that I can run for 25 minutes now without stopping!)

However, I know how important body weight/ weight exercises are. I’ve been doing pretty much exclusively cardio since it’s really the only form of exercise that doesn’t feel like torture to me. I’ve done weights, body weights through different apps and YouTube even, gym classes, all of it. I’ve NEVER enjoyed any of it.

I know you have to somewhat enjoy what you do for it to be sustainable. I’ve wanted to do reformer Pilates for a year now but never pulled the trigger. Yesterday I did my first class and now I really want to do it!

The only problem is it is INSANELY expensive. Has anyone had good results with this form of movement? Has it been worth it?

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significant weight loss but i look and feel fatter

In december after several years of trying i found a diet that worked for me (basically intermittent fasting) and when combined with my normal exercise routine its been great. I've lost 42lbs, dropped 2 shirt sizes, and 6 inches off my waist. Big wins there. The thing is though i feel and look fatter mainly with my stomach. I feel like it juts out further and looks bloated and awful and i hate it. I also have noticed my upper arms being more squishy and i have a very bad double chin that wasnt there before. I can shrug off some of it as ive worked on my posture and i had pretty bad nerd neck before but the other stuff is bothering me.

Honestly i'm really confused and dont know if im crazy or this is just part of the process or if im doing something wrong here.

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Breakfast or no Breakfast?

It almost seems like a revolutionary act to eat or consider eating a morning breakfast these days, since intermittent fasting has completely taken over and most people opt to eat later in the day.

But, I’m starting to think missing breakfast has truly led to me leading an unstructured life, which made room for binge-eating which ultimately damaged all weight loss efforts.

Since moving to uni, and living with other people, it has allowed me to reflect a great deal on my eating habits and where I may be going wrong. My usual day is often me eating my first meal anywhere from 12pm to 5pm, never having breakfast really, and then binge eating later on in the evening, sometimes having meals even during the night if I’m still hungry.

This is a great deal different to the structure my international flatmates follow, they’re usually up early to have breakfast (7am/8am) and usually finish their dinner by 7pm. Personally, I’m starting to believe this is the healthiest way to eat and it’s the way I want to live my life too. I want to eat with more structure.

I have often felt guilty for eating early in the mornings, like the meal is “unnecessary” and I can “go without it” but today as I toasted my bagel, my flatmate took out two of the same bagels and ate them with peanut butter for breakfast. She is a healthy weight, and it made me feel better for having breakfast myself.

I’m starting to think I was setting myself up for failure not having breakfast all this time. If I had created more structured time eating, rather than binge-starve-binge cycles, I would have been leading a healthier life all along.

What’s your take on breakfast? Do you think it’s important? Do you have it?

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I lost 9kg in 3 months! 5kg away from my goal weight 💪

I don't have my physique progress photo, I will provide some as soon as I can, but I plugged my weight into Libra app to track my progress, and here you can see the graph and the overall stats:

https://imgur.com/a/jP7dK1M

Background: I started lifting weights on August 1, 2021 at the weight of 81kg, I'm 176cm (5'9) and 25 years old, male. I progressed in the gym significantly but after 4 months of lifting, I amassed a whopping 10kg of fat. I was making a lot of mistakes in my diet. Besides the limited consumption of junk food (thankfully I have no binge eating issues), I was eating this 30% fat pork every other day, and yeah I think that was the main contributor as to why I gained weight so freaking fast.

Ever since I learnt about that, I switched to the 7% one and my weight stabilized at 92kg. I was eating the following:

• for lunch: *250g of meat (chicken or pork) *150g of rice
• protein shake

For dinner: *250g of meat *300g of beans, peas and chickpeas

This theoretically was supposed to be borderline 1800-2000kcal, but because of the 30% pork it was much higher.

So when I realized this, I decided I either keep lifting until I hit my lifting goals or start dieting. It was a tough decision and I started in mid December.

The weight loss journey Mid December to early January At first I dropped all the junk and bad processed food and ate clean for two weeks straight. The water weight came right off, and I was eating 100g of rice + 250g of meat and later in the evening 300g of peas, chickpeas and beans.

Mid January to late January It was too much cooking for my liking and I got into the habit of dieting and fighting hunger so I switched to a more radical approach, one meal a day, 200g of rice + 250g of meat, maybe later some snacks. This accelated the weight loss even further. I stayed on diet most of the days. Never felt hungry because I sitting at home playing games the entire time.

Early February I received a package from home full of homemade delicacies and things I fucking would kill for. I live abroad so this was a big deal, yeah cue in the rapid weight gain.

Mid February Uni was back and also found an internship, also in the third week of February, we switched back to on-site learning and suddenly, I'm walking +5-7k steps everyday. I also went back into the habit of dieting.

Late February to now I started attending swimming classes twice a week, and you can see how my weight just sunk, I also became very active because I switched apartments and balancing out uni and work, so I'm seriously always walking or standing or doing this or that. I'm burning 500-700kcal in physical activity alone almost everyday. And this is not gonna stop anytime soon!

Conclusion I set out to lose 10kg in 1 month a half, but it took me 3 months

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[tip] Set a minimum threshold or a floor for yourself.

A lot of people self-sabotage their progress by trying to do too much at once.

You can be tracking all your meals, going to the gym 6 days a week and getting 10k steps done on your best days.

But have you set a minimum threshold for your worst days? A minimum set of standards for yourself?

This is the secret to sustainable weight loss. Habits that you can sustain even during the busiest weeks.

Here is what it could look like:

1. If you can't track your meals, you will at least make sure to get a serving of protein and veggies in every meal.
2. If you can't do 10k steps, you will at least do 3k steps. No matter what.
3. If you can't go to the gym. You will spend at least 15 minutes doing a physical activity you enjoy.

When you set easily achievable minimum standards for yourself. You avoid self-sabotage from an all-or-nothing mentality.

Hope this helps.

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A reminder about exercise vs food for weight loss success

I (F 5’2” SW: 187 CW: 176 GW:140) have gotten back to weight loss after a slow 2 year weight gain during the pandemic.

Over the last 10 weeks, I’ve worked out for 28 hours and burned 10,222 kcal (my peloton bike tracks my totals) which is the equivalent of only 3 lbs.

For the first 5-ish weeks of that 10 I didn’t change my eating (even though I know I needed to). I lost no weight. For the next 5 weeks, I’ve been tracking my eating and eating at a deficit, and I’ve lost 11 lbs by the scale (obviously that might not all be fat, but it’s definitely some true weight loss).

Just goes to show what I’ve always known- for weight loss you need to focus on how much you eat- calories in. For health, you need to focus on WHAT you eat and exercise. Ideally you focus on all three at once.

I went from 210>140 in the past and maintained for many years pre-pandemic, and I know I can do it again. By CICO. But I’m loving working out too and hope it will make my body composition better by the time I hit my goal weight.

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I lost 2 lbs this week, why am I still overweight?

I know I have to actually lose 15 lbs to be in the healthy range, but it’s so hard to stay motivated. I mean I’m doing the lifestyle adjustment, running and CICO, it’s 100% working…but I can’t help but be disappointed when looking in the mirror or seeing pictures. How did I get so fat? Why can’t it disappear as quickly as it seemed to appear ?

I spent so long ignoring the weight gain but the weight loss feels like an obsession. What can I do to monitor my diet and push my exercise without having a preoccupation/obsession with getting a fit body?

How can I view my weight loss in a more healthy manner without being disgusted by my current body but just recognize that my health has been going out of control since I became overweight.

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