Short Review of Latest Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode

The last time I reviewed an episode of Maintenance Phase (it was the CICO episodes) it was well-received here, so I thought I'd do another review. This one isn't as in-depth as it didn't quite raise my ire the way the CICO episodes did, but this one hits on a few points that I think are important to highlight.

The episode in question: "Glorifying Obesity" And Other Myths About Fat People (link goes to Apple Podcasts - sorry for that, they don't seem to have a neutral episode list on their website).

Their description:

This week, we're talking about Aubrey's new book, "'You Just Need To Lose Weight' and 19 Other Myths About Fat People." And we're yelling about Piers Morgan as a little treat.

In short, it's a publicity piece for Aubrey's new book, but they do actually talk about some things of substance rather than a fluff piece promoting the book, which I appreciate! Immediate positive points for doing that.

Overall, I think it was a good episode. Aubrey and Michael engage in a reasonably good discussion about some of the issues and concerns a lot of fat people experience, and they promote healthy discussion about these things. Most importantly, one of the best nuggets I took out of their discussion was suggesting that one look at the questions they ask and determine why they ask a specific question, to examine the biases they are applying to certain things.

That in itself is something everyone should be doing most of the time anyway, not just surrounding the discussion of weight loss and fat people (their emphasis in this episode is on "fat people" and not necessarily weight loss, so I'm just sticking with that term). In general, too, I think Aubrey does a good job illustrating that the "Fat Advocate" side of the Internet is probably a very loud, vocal minority, and that most of the time, fat people are reasonable, sensible people that are trying to go about their lives and not get ostracized for being fat. This to me is a reasonable expectation.

The sticking points though is when Michael jumps in occasionally and throws in things like "set weight point" (which is absolutely not a thing) and there's no refuting that. I wish I could have provided notes and time stamps, but I was shoveling snow while listening, so I'm doing my best here. Throughout the episode there were little things like that from both of the hosts where they throw shade at CICO, while promoting similar HAES talking points to the idea of a set weight point.

But since the focus of the episode is on Aubrey's book, I am not really surprised they didn't go in-depth into a lot of topics like that. The bulk of the discussion is about the very real side effects of how bigger people are treated in society and online. Aubrey refers to an incident earlier in her life when she posted a picture of her in a new bathing suit, and was immediately subjected to some ugly comments on her public LiveJournal page. Also discussed was the notion that people are "glorifying being fat by simply posting a picture online" - I agree that this isn't really what's going on - Lizzo wasn't glorifying being fat by showing up on a scoreboard at a basketball game, she was just attending a basketball game.

At the same time, there is that loud vocal minority out there subverting the HAES movement that ARE trying to glorify fatness that was not addressed at all in this episode. I doubt that there is much content in Aubrey's book about it.

I'm sorry for the lack of cohesion in this review, I am going off the top of my head rather than notes as I did the last time I reviewed an episode of their show.

If I were to rate this out of 5, I'd give them a 3.5. Definitely a better discussion than their CICO episodes, but missing the point on a few things. If this was your introduction to myths around weight loss and fat people, it's not the best starting point in terms of debunking these myths. Discussions about examining biases (like why some people think they need to be thin to succeed in their career - which is a real thing) was the strong point of this episode.

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Weight loss has stopped. So frustrating. 2 month weight loss plateau. Has anyone actually gotten through a plateau?!

I’m 26 M 5’10” and started on January 1, 2021 at at 251 lbs and now I’m at 229 lbs. At one point during the summer I was down to 224.6 lbs. But with the holidays and some loss in my family, I’ve been stuck in a plateau for 2 months now at 229 lbs and it’s so frustrating. I’m starting to feel like I’ll never get that joy of losing weight again. Has the last year of losing weight all been a waste? Has anyone actually broken through a weight loss plateau? Because now I’m starting to think it’s never going to happen.

I’ve been doing hiit classes at my gym for an hour on Monday and Wednesdays for a year now, play full court basketball on Sunday mornings for 2 hours and do sprint intervals on the treadmill for a 5k like twice a week and also doing major calorie deficit according to my TDEE which 3142 calories burned so I’m eating over a 1000 calories under that on days I workout. Sometimes over a 1500 calorie deficit. I’ve also been intermittent fasting where I fast from 10pm to 1pm the following day to help restrict calories 5 days a week for the last year. I’ve read that lifting weights helps with the weight loss so I’ve included lifting weights with the Cardio and I weighed in this morning for the first time in a month and I gained 1.5 lbs but my stomach feels flatter and waste is thinner. Starting to feel that everything that helped me lose 22 lbs last year isn’t working anymore.

My goal is to be under 200 lbs by July 13th. Any tips on breaking through the frustrating plateau would be appreciated. Thanks

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8 weeks in

8 weeks ago I had decided that I had enough of being unhappy with my weight and trying every diet under the sun to just end up not succeeding. I haven’t cut out any of my favourite foods just eating junk in lesser quantities and monitoring my portion sizes. Just to prove that you don’t need to cut out your favourite foods I eat pizza for lunch 5 days each week as it’s most conviennent for me at work (two normal sized slices which fills me up the perfect amount). This morning was the first time I weighed in after those 8 weeks as I personally feel that weighing often has a negative impact on my mindset as I stupidly see little improvements as not good enough and that knocks my motivation off. Anyway my starting weight was 68.5kg and today I was 62.6kg. I am so happy with myself and can’t wait to keep succeeding. I still enjoyed myself over the Christmas period but didn’t fall into junk foods and chocolate as deep as I normally would have. Basically I just wanted to post in here for people like myself who once thought that they would never be able to lose weight, sometimes just eating mindfully and “forgetting” that you are actually on a weight loss journey is the best way to do it. Before this I used to centre my every day around calories and if I went the slightest bit over my limit I would binge, all I thought about at that moment was food but not anymore which for me seems to be the way forward. If I can do it you can too!

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Overwhelmed & Needing Help

I'll try to keep this short for your sake and mine. I'm sure if I start thinking too hard I'm gonna start crying. (Again)

I (19f and around 5'3"/5'4") had a doctor's appointment today earlier in the afternoon for a check up and to talk about my medications. I do the physical exam with the MA, I get on the scale, and I realize that I currently am at 200 pounds.

I don't know why I was so surprised to see the number, I've always been a bigger girl. Even when I was little I was chubbier than the other kids I went to school with. But looking down at my feet and seeing 200 pounds on the scale really just struck something in me.

It's been gnawing at me all day. Anytime I wasn't listening to music or focusing on something I would start thinking about it. I confess I've already started to bully myself about it a bit, even though it's just been a couple of hours.

However, I know that I can do things to change my weight, and I want to try my damnedest to lose it. One of the issues though, is I don't know where to start.

So my questions for you include: 1. Which foods do you recommend to help with weight loss? 2. What exercises would work best for overall change? 3. How do you curb your sweet tooth? Are there any specific smaller sweet things you recommend to push it back? (I have a particularly nasty sweet tooth, and tend to gravitate towards sweeter things even when I know I shouldn't.)

Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you for reading and helping a girl out. Have a good day and good luck with whatever journey you're working through :)

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Sorry for a sad post, but sometimes I get discouraged about one thing in particular

I am on my weight loss journey for a couple of different reasons. First, of course, is health. I don’t want to enter my 30s setting myself up for tons of discomfort and health issues all because of my weight. While I don’t suffer from anything life-threatening right now, I do notice those subtle but disturbing symptoms of carrying too much weight: aches, quickness to tire, rashes when it gets hot. Getting rid of those things alone is worth it to me, so I don’t plan on giving up.

But I can’t deny that I’m also losing weight for those superficial reasons: to look and feel better. But here’s where I start getting discouraged: I’ve never been “hot” or “attractive” in my life, even when I was near a more normal weight in high school. I don’t want to go into detail really, but people weren’t always kind to me.

I see people lose tons of weight, and while they were attractive even when overweight, they’re radiant and shapely once they hit their goal weight.

I just worry…what if I’m working to transform into a different kind of “ugly”? What if the body that awaits me is just as gross and awful as this one? What if I’m just not meant to look or feel attractive?

I know these are silly thoughts. I apologize.

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The "woosh" effect is a thing

At least for me it is. I know every body is different, but for me, the whoosh effect is real. Basically, after having been in caloric deficit for a few weeks and the scale not really budging, I overeat one day after maybe two weeks of caloric deficit and boom, several pounds gone the next day. The scientific explanation is that the caloric deficit puts the body under stress, thereby cortisol levels are higher. Cortisol makes it difficult to lose weighr but it also makes the body retain water. Once the body realizes "it's all okay" on the overeat day, cortisol drops and the all the water that the body has been holding as a result of stress goes.

This means that the caloric deficit has worked, but I just wasn't able to see it on the scale for several weeks because my body was too stressed out to let go.

Therefore I usually make sure to incorporate a refuel day where I feel no shame eating 2000kcal or more in a day, knowing that that will help my body and give it a break and it'll lose that excess water and I will be able to see my weight loss on the scale.

This might not be the experience for every body but I just thought I'd share my experience to encourage those of you for whom this mechanism is true as well. If you've been dieting and yoh don't see the scale budge, don't despair. Give your body rest, love and care and if that means yoh need to break diet for a day or two by all means, do so. Dieting is freaking hard so if you need to take a break even just to feel mentally better , that will rest your body as well as your mind. Now, don't overdue it obviously, but do be kind to yourself. You're doing great. :)

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Losing weight eating more carbs?

Hi all! First post on here and new reddit account.

Last fall I booked a tropical holiday and wanted to lose some weight quickly. I had about 6 weeks to my trip, and I had heard a lot of good things about the keto diet in terms of quick weight loss. I jumped in and gave it my all - stayed under 20g of carbs per day, I was eating so much eggs, steak, low carb veggies, cheese, etc. (I should also say my starting weight was 176lbs, 5'6F). My first week went really well (lost 3lbs), but then afterwards my weightloss quickly dwinded each passing week. By the end I was only losing 0 - 0.2lbs per week, and I lost 6lbs total. I was EXTREMELY frustrated because I had never been able to stick to a diet plan that long, it look a lot of dedication and consistency, and tbh, I had to completely give up most of the foods I liked which sucked a lot. Also probably TMI but I was barely having any bowel movements, I went from 2-3 times per day to once every 1-2 days.

I went to the Keto subreddit to try and understand why I wasn't losing weight as quickly as most people - tbh, I find that community toxic as they are so engrained into the keto lifestyle they could not possibly believe that it wasn't somehow my fault. I was eating 1300-1400 calories a day and keeping my carbs low - yet it was always a bunch of confusing explanations (you're eating too much/too little, you're not drinking enough water, you're drinking too much water, you're not working out enough, you're working out too much - I was doing 6 hours of cardio a week). That's why i'm not posting there about this, because they will pretty much tear you apart if you have the gall to say that it's not working for you.

When I went on my holiday in mid-December, I stopped doing keto because I was on vacation, and Christmas was coming up, in which I wanted to enjoy all the tasty foods. I told myself on Jan 1 I would get back to eating healthy - I knew it didn't want to do keto again because it's just not sustainable or enjoyable. I pretty much came to the realization that if i'm going to lose weight and keep it off long term, I need to change my eating habits. No more quick-fix diets aimed at losing weight, my goal is to repair my relationship with food and just eat healthy for the most part. I've still been able to stick around 1500 calories, and i'm eating around 100g carbs (which is still less than the average diet). I'm enjoying the food a lot more and surprise surprise - i've actually lost 6lbs since I started on Jan 1, which is the same amount I lost doing Keto for the entire 6 weeks. And my BMs are back to normal, lol.

I just wanted to know if anyone had any insight on this? I did SO much research into keto and was 100% sold - the science made total sense to me. Your body's prefered fuel source is glycogen, which is stored in the body from sugar and carbs. When your body runs out of glycogen, it starts using body fat for fuel, hence the reason for burning body fat quickly. However, if that's the case, why have I been losing more weight eating more carbs? It doesn't really seem to jive with the science?

Sorry for the long post but I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks!

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