My body’s adjusted to how much I SHOULD be eating

Quick backstory: I’m 230 lbs working towards getting down to non-obese. I’ve been following a very strict regiment of eating well and working out more over the past three weeks. I prep all my meals paying close attention to my calorie intake and macros, and I make sure to walk at least 10,000 steps a day per my Fitbit, in addition to staying active whenever I can. It’s done wonders to my overall energy and mentality, and even though the weight loss is slow, I’m enjoying the process of it. Yesterday was my first cheat day, and I had every intention of going ham.

Last night, I visited my parents and we ordered dinner from our favorite local sushi place. I had always been an overeater growing up; I’m the kind of guy that’d demolish an entire Little Caesars pizza by myself on a Friday night, and this place was no exception to that. I had a regular order: a teriyaki chicken bento dinner combo (chicken, rice, side salad, miso soup, and a few pieces of tempura vegetables), as well as two whole rolls for myself. Obviously very hefty and far from what a single person should be consuming in a single sitting, but it was the norm for me.

I was terribly busy for the majority of the day without much time to sit and eat, and I had only eaten about 200 calories’ worth of food by 5pm; this is also after two hours at the gym. I was famished and ready to gorge myself at dinner, so I put in my regular order.

When it arrived, I began eating—soup first, then tempura, then salad, all while taking bites of the chicken and rice throughout. But before I was even done with the tempura, I noticed that I was already getting full. I took a few more bites of the chicken and rice and ultimately gave up, deciding to save it for later. I powered through three pieces of sushi before completely calling it quits, leaving the rest of the family with a little over a roll and a half of sushi for themselves, which they finished without issue.

This is the first time I’ve ever struggled to finish this meal; even when I wasn’t particularly hungry prior to dinner, I’d never had issues finishing this meal in the past. This is the first large meal I’ve had since working hard to better my lifestyle, and I realize that I can’t handle big meals like these anymore. And all things considered, I’m really happy about it—my body now has a new standard of what “full” is, one appropriate to how much I really SHOULD be eating. And even with that, I didn’t even hit “full” last night; I stopped before I hit the wall because I didn’t like the way that getting full made me feel anymore. That makes the process towards a healthier lifestyle far more doable, as I don’t have to worry about this particular old habit dragging me down!

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Day 1... again

Hello! Yay just made my first Reddit account. My husband bought a scale yesterday and it is official.. I have gained 30 lbs in the last year! :(

Anyway, looking for a place to find motivation.

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Background.. I was on a "weight loss journey" in 2012.. lost about 30 lbs and was able to maintain (kind of maintained.. def some yoyo dieting but never gaining more than 10 lbs) until a year ago.. life and anti-depressants. I have always had issues with body image and binge eating so the struggle has always been real. Now my goals is to lose 40 lbs!

Anyway, just want to say hi :D

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Calculating calories from exercise accurately

So I have a Fitbit and of corse it tracks my steps throughout the day. I also utilize the food tracker/weight loss app called Lose It!

Now on the app I have my movement levels ate the lowest settings bc I’m pretty much on my bottom most of the day. So when I got over 3000 steps (like I said. On my bottom) it starts showing calories burned.

Now if I start taking like a dance class, that is extra calories I will be burning also - since the whole body is moving and such.

My question then becomes, when I log in the exercise for the dancing - am I double dipping the calories burned from the Fitbit steps taken?

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Traveling and struggling

Hi all!

I would love some tips, tricks and advice for people who've been in a similar situation.

I have been doing a pretty solid job of losing weight slowly but steadily since around October last year.

My partner and I are currently in Argentina for 7 weeks, visiting from Australia.

At home, I have a great routine. I eat similar foods everyday and am at a place where I only track with MFP 2-3 days a week to make sure I'm on track. I work out 5-6 days a week. I usually eat high protein, low sugar and lots of veggies and fruit.

We are visiting family here so a lot of group meals and a lot of being encouraged to try everything. Most of the food I have access too is not tremendously healthy. After the first week I'm not feeling good. At home, a 'bad' day (or week) is no problem. It's easy to get back on track. But here, I'm at the mercy of eating what everyone is eating around me, and I know 7 weeks could make a difference in my weight loss trend.

I also don't have access to the gym like I'm used to. A lot of my time doesn't really feel like mine because we're doing family things. I don't speak the language very well so I often don't even know what is going on any given day. I'm a bit shy to try the gym here on my own or even the health food stores so I always have to get my partner to come with me.

I'm stressed as I'm struggling to get all the main components of diet and exercise together. I can't buy or cook the foods I'm used to, constantly being encouraged to eat, often eating stuff I wouldn't normally because I'm hungry in the moment. I can't exercise like I'm used to. I'm scared to go home and see I've put all the weight back on.

I'm sure there's a solution but at the moments I'm feeling so overwhelmed and powerless. I'm not even enjoying the new foods that I would normally let myself because I'm worried. I'm feeling really overwhelmed. I'd love your advice.

Thank you

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Don't wait to lose weight to start living

I am on a weight loss journey and I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday and I was telling her that I feel really uncomfortable taking pictures with my classmates as I am overweight and don't like how I look in real life but especially in pictures.

However, as soon as I finished saying that, I realised that this will be the last time I'm studying with these awesome people. This will be the last time I go and attend lectures. Why the hell would I not want pictures for memories just because I am x amount of kilos overweight?!

I decided from that point onwards that I will appreciate my body and my mind. That I will be grateful that I wake up every morning and continue on this self love journey. That I will appreciate my beauty and the other blessings I have in my life. That I will not wait till I am a certain size, or until I have a flat stomach to do xyz. Why should I hide my body in baggy loose dresses just because I have a bit of extra rolls here and there? Eventually, they will go with hard work and determination but if I don't work on my mind from now, then I'll be looking for other things to nitpick once I reach my body goals.

Our bodies always change. Today you want to lose weight. Tomorrow you'll be searching for anti ageing products. And the day after you'll be on your death bed remembering your whole life and how it went by so fast.

Our weight can fluctuate for various reasons in different stages of our lives. It shouldn't hold us back. I see so many beautiful people who are overweight and they dress the way they want and they exude confidence and beauty it's so inspiring.

Today, we have friends coming over and I decided to wear a black turtleneck with a pair of denim jeans. You can see my rolls, you can see my thick thighs but most importantly, I can see the inner confident 16 year old me slowly peeking out.

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Life after weight loss

Sorry if this comes off as a rant, but I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection lately. For those who lost weight, did you find that people treat you nicer??

I’m in my late 20s now and I’m making a real effort to lose weight (I’m about 100lb overweight), I feel like I’ve been going through life on “hard mode”

Like do people meet an overweight person and just have an inherent bias?? I’ve got this feeling that sometimes new people I meet just make a bunch of negative assumptions about me and I have to almost “prove my worth” of not being some stuck at home all day playing video games eating McDonald’s whale.

It’s kind of crushing to think that society becomes so much nicer after you lose weight, I’m still the same person on the inside..thoughts on this? Is the change that drastic for how people treat you post weight loss????

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[Century Club] May 12, 2022 - Have you lost or need to lose 100 lbs or more? Here’s a thread just for you! Welcome back to the Century Club!

Welcome back to the Century Club!

The Century Club is a regular weekly thread that I have been hosting since mid-2020 that started as a bit of a running gag. I often welcomed those who have lost 100+ lbs (~ 50 kg , ~7 stone) to “the club” and joked that club meetings were on Thursdays, and that joke has evolved into this regular weekly thread to talk about issues that are particular to those who have lost 100+ lbs, those who are well on their way as well as anyone who is just at the beginning of a journey this big.

Each week I will usually provide a topic of the day that has been on my mind or inspired by recent posts or comments. However you are free to talk about any topics you think might be relevant to current and prospective club members.

Previous Topics: Foods You Avoid - Annoyances - Marathon - Serenity - Inconceivable! - Bright Lines - How are you doing? - Worth it? - Self-image and identity - Balance - Comments - Milestones - Life's disruptions - Triggers - Remembering - Mind Games - Starting 2022 - 2021 recap - 2020 recap

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Metrics

I'm not quite sure what it is this week, but it seems like every day a new Centurion has been earning their full-fledged membership into the Club. It always makes me really happy to welcome another user to the Club!

As regular readers may know, I moved in with my partner last August, and we're also in the middle of a small addition to our house. So our routines have been a bit "off". For one thing, since we lost access to the master bath for now, we had to move our body weight scale to the bedroom rather than the downstairs half bath.

Of course that means what used to be super easy: wake up, empty bladder, strip to boxer briefs, hop on scale, carry on with my day. Now becomes: get out of bed, walk downstairs, empty bladder, go back upstairs, strip to boxer briefs, hop on scale.

Adding to that annoyance, my partner's scale (a FitBit Aria) is dying a slow death. There's a known design flaw: Some small plastic pieces break and this makes the scale think that someone is on it at all times and it drains the batteries. Fixable if you have access to a 3D printer, but otherwise not.

Anyhow, it's an annoyance, but I digress.

My constant companion for most of my weight loss journey was my Eufy BodySense scale. It's how I measured all of my progress until moving in with my partner full time. I dug it out of storage since our FitBit Aria is misbehaving. The main reason we don't switch to the Eufy is that the Aria syncs automatically over WiFi, but the Eufy requires an app to be installed and open for its data to be recorded.

So this has opened the door to some experiments as I've never had the two scales next to each other before.

My Eufy has me at 166 lbs, 21.4% body fat this morning. The Aria has me at 166.7 and 21.3% body fat. The last time I was consistently 166 was January 2020 and by comparison the Eufy also had me at 21.4% body fat. So I haven't gained much if any muscle. I'm actually surprised at how well these two are agreeing, as I always saw differences in body fat % with the Aria being quite a bit lower.

Yet, I feel that my fat distribution is quite different now than 27 months ago. My legs are much stronger and leaner, while the remaining fat I have has redistributed a bit to my midsection. Not measurably so with a tape measure, but mostly how my clothes fit. My face also remains a lot fuller than early 2020 when I had just entered maintenance.

I'm still wanting to get back to the middle of my 155-165 maintenance range, and now that I'm training for a 10K in ~6 weeks my calories out are increasing. I'm not doing much if anything to further restrict calories in. Just stick to my usual habits of 400 kcal for breakfast and lunch and a reasonable dinner which I don't measure all that carefully. That should get me back inside my desired range under 165, but maybe not all the way back to 160.

So my question to you Centurion, is how do you measure your progress? What metrics are you looking for and what tools and routines work best for you to measure that? How do you handle when those tools and routines change or give you different numbers?

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