Sudden Change in Activity Level

Hi,

At my work study job on campus, they decided to invite the students to participate in their seasonal steps contest. I’m excited and decided to join, specifically because my boss is known for getting a crazy number of steps and winning every time. Like, 21,000 steps a day type step count. I want to beat him. I’m super competitive and I’ve been meaning to start walking more, so I feel like this will help push me. However, I usually do like 5k steps a day so I’m starting off pretty low and suddenly leaping to be very active. Yesterday I managed 15,000 and today so far I’ve done a little over 18,000, so I think that I have a chance, but at the same time, I don’t know if I’ll be risking getting some type of injury by doing this. I don’t feel abnormally sore on my feet, but I can definitely feel the difference between my normal activity level. Does anyone have any input? By the end of the challenge (2 weeks from Monday) do you think I’ll be able to see any weight loss?

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Alternative to alcohol to relax at the end of the day?

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to alcohol? I find after a long day it's a nice means to relax and wind down and let off steam. But it hinders weight loss and is overall unhealthy. Desert like cheesecake, muffins, pie, would be nice except I am of course trying to lose weight and they are not much healthier than beer anyway.

The lists I see online offer things like:

• Exercise: I already do that every morning to get my day started
• Meditation: No. I am bored out of my mind.
• Do something with friends: I do this too. Sometimes after this I would like to drink something to relax and wind down.
• Deep breathing: This is helpful. But afterwards I sometimes really wish I could have a beer and wind down.
• Reduce caffeine: I don't drink anything containing caffeine anymore
• Mocktails: These are cocktails without the fun and all the sugar high/crash.
• Matcha tea: Didn't like the taste and it contains caffeine.
• Herbal tea: I drink this during the day while I'm working. Drinking something else at night would be nice.

I have associated consuming something specific as opening the door to the end of the workday and the beginning of relaxing/have fun time. I would like to keep this habit, but simply replace what I currently consume with something else

There are plenty of other suggestions online, but often they seem slanted to encouraging the reader buying what the website wants to sell/promote (Kava, GABBA, L-theanine, etc etc).

Any thoughts? Honest opinions?

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How do I start safely as a morbidly obese man.

I’m finally deciding to start my weight loss journey but I’m scared of hurting myself. I’m 6’6 and 400 pounds. My healthy weight is around 210 so I’m about 200 over right now. I know a lot about nutrition and how to handle that. I was told losing weight when your as big as I am is 80% diet and 20% exercise. How frequently should I exercise and for how long and what exercises should I do ? I don’t want to lose the weight real quick than put it back on I’m wanting to make a life style change. What is a work out schedule that I’m going to be able to maintain without hurting myself. I’m scared if I hurt myself and can’t go to the gym that’ll ruin the routine of it. Thank you so much for any help.

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how do you get past the guilt of losing weight?

I (20f) have been on my weight loss journey since early 2021. I have had my moments of inconsistency but recently have been finding myself really motivated. Since I have gotten to college and been living by myself I have seen drastic positive changes in my progress and the way I treat myself. I feel like it is because I am able to regulate my own diet and go to the gym more often. However, my family members are all overweight and I struggle whenever as go home to see them. I feel almost guilty for the progress that I have made and the weight I have lost because I know they wish they were losing weight as well. I also feel guilty eating differently or less consistently than they do because I do not want them to feel as though I think they did a bad job raising me. It may sound dramatic but I am really just looking if anyone has advice as to how to not feel guilty?

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How do you get past the beginning stages of losing weight when you want it all gone NOW?

I’m not sure if this title makes sense but I’m trying to describe the way I feel right now. I weigh more than I ever have in my life and after stepping on the scale today I’m honestly disgusted. I know I shouldn’t be because I need to love my body and myself no matter what and give myself grace, but I just feel so totally repulsive. It makes me want to go nuclear somehow and get the weight gone immediately. My problem is I feel hopeless with the amount of time it would take me to lose the amount of weight I want to lose. Realistically, I need to lose like 60 pounds to even be at the top range of “healthy”. I’ve never lost more than like 10 pounds and when I did that, it was because I was depressed and not eating. I’m sitting here considering how I can force myself into an eating disorder or somehow get prescribed weight loss pills when really, I do not want to do either of those things. I just feel desperate to not be fat anymore. Does anyone relate to this?? I almost feel like I can’t start because I’m already so far gone it’s like I have to climb a whole mountain and I feel so overwhelmed. How can I stop freaking out and just… start? I need some words of wisdom if you’ve got ‘em!

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Anyone’s sex drive decrease with weight loss?

Out of the things i expect to deal with after losing weight, this is the last thing i expect tbh i searched around and a lot of people said their sex drive went up. Im a woman, and it went down, and is causing a strain on my relationship with my SO…

I started losing weight 3 months ago and lost 15lbs so far (5’3, SW: 148, CW: 133lb, GW: 120) i felt great and work out 4-5 days a week after work. Before this, my SO and I’s sex drive are generally the same and on the higher side. It’s great. But both of us notice mine decrease a lot after i started to lose weight. I would leave work at 4PM, then work out for 1-1.5 hrs ,i fast at 4PM too and dont eat dinner. By the time im home, im exhausted and just want to lay in bed, thus im not in the mood. My SO has been very frustrated and i’m not as wet either, and i dont know why. But if i try to go along he will notice and get upset too.

I reduced my # of workout to go home early. After a few fights, we decided to go with scheduling specific days for sex. It works great but if either of us are sick, dont feel like it then it throws off the entire schedule, and we fight again.

Im losing weight for our wedding in June and my SO has been very understanding and supportive, sometimes a bit worried that im too hard on myself, but this is the biggest problem for us right now. Did anyone go through this and resolve it? Im still not at my GW yet and im worried if i relax my routine, i wont get there, gain my weight back and will not look good for my wedding. At the same time i feel for my SO and understand how going from having high sex drive to lower one can be very frustrating. Why did my sex drive go down? Any suggestion? :(

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I hate how much I constantly self sabotage my weight loss (vent)

Just a short little vent/rant, I'm mad at myself lol.

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Man, I know what to do, what to eat, what I shouldn't eat, and yet almost every damn day I find myself caving into my cravings, often using a half-assed excuse to try and make myself feel better, but it doesn't work. I am so addicted to sugar it drives me insane, I only feel good in the moment, but as soon as it's gone so is that sugar high, and then the guilt and gut ache sets in, and my face gets red and itchy every time I eat sugar too. I just want to open up my skull and pull out my brain and yell at it like the dumb lump of flesh it is.

I've lost 60 pounds, gone from 250 to 190, but every time I hit 190 I self sabotage and find myself bouncing between 190-195 for nearly a year now, I haven't seen under 190 since I was like 10. I want to see the numbers drop lower, I want to see my stomach shrink and the chub in my cheeks vanish, but I just can't stop eating the crap, and I can't stop with the crap excuses either. "I had a bad day, I'm tired, it's my birthday month, ect." Blah blah blah it's all bullshit, but I just don't know how to stop it.

It's not like it's all junk though, I'd say about 80% of the time I eat healthy, home made meals, but that 20% junk hits hard and hits heavy. I have a donut shop, a café, and multiple fast food joints and restaurants all within a 20 minute walk from my home, and the temptation is so strong even when my budget is so tight, I've spent nearly 200 on takeout already and I hate myself for it. It doesn't help that I'm currently extra exhausted lately as transit hasn't been running for about 3 weeks now with no signs of returning anytime soon, so I've added more walking to my day to save money on my rides to and from work, which have been killing both my knees and my wallet.

Just today I ate like shit, I had a stupid donut for breakfast, a large coffee from starbucks, a large plate of chinese food at the mall, an ice cream shake from baskins, and a scone from the donut place. I didn't even enjoy the shake, I was already so full from the chinese food, but for some dumb reason I spent 9 bucks on that damn shake that made me feel like crap. Why did I do that? I didn't need it, but I got it anyway, been beating myself up since.

I wish I had more self control, more will power, I just want to be healthy, I just want to stop being fat, I hate being fat so damn much, makes me look too much like my mother, I hate hate hate it. I want to look like the me I know I am, I'm tired of being compared to her. I will never, ever be her.

I wanna be happy with what I see in the mirror, I can't accept myself like this.

Rant/vent over.

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