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My main methods of weightloss are CICO 1200~1500 a day, IF 16:8, and 30min of exercise at least 5 days a week! I've lost almost 24kg/53lbs in the last 6 months.
Yesterday I had a pretty bad cheat day, but I thought about it... It wasn't nearly as bad as it would have been before I started my weight loss journey!
I went to the movies and had an entire medium popcorn all to myself, breaking my fast early... But I went with diet soda instead of regular like I would have had before!
I decided to have lunch instead of waiting for dinner to eat... But I went with the 'mini' lunch set instead of the regular size. And I chose to drink black coffee instead of juice, once again avoiding those liquid calories!
At dinner for my friend's birthday party, I had incredibly unhealthy food. Fried chicken, asparagus wrapped in bacon, meat balls filled with cheese... But I also shared my plates of food with the people around me, and I stuck to water instead of alcohol!
For dessert I had a 250cal chocolate chip crepe... but I split it in half with my husband!
Before I learned how to lose weight, I would have eaten all of that and more just by myself and I would have drank a lot of calories too!
I dreaded stepping on the scale this morning, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the excess calories must have shocked the extra water weight out of my system and I weigh half a kilo less today than I did yesterday!
TL;DR: I think that you can be kind to youself and eat what you like on special occasions. But it's still important to make smarter decisions than you would have made before you started trying to lose weight. Moderation is key!
So here are my progress pictures with dates. From most recent to least recent.
Why I started to change my body, 2 reasons; The first one was that last summer when I went to go to bed I felt uncomfortable because when I laid down I could feel all this fat ontop of me, I could grip onto it and grab it and I felt absolutely disgusted with myself I decided that it was time to change, the second reason was that anime as silly as it may sound gave me the motivation to actually start working out, seeing how my favorite characters got so ripped, I wanted to be just like that and therefore I took an interest in fitness.
How I lost my first 15 pounds; just by being in a caloric deficit and intermittent fasting, I didn’t know what these 2 things meant at the time but somehow I did them without knowledge and my body changed in a matter of a week or 2 I was loosing weight fast like 3 pounds a week fast, (ik this can be unhealthy but my body surprisingly took it very well don’t recommend you do it)
I couldn’t loose weight after 130; when I hit 130 pounds I couldn’t personally loose weight just by being in a deficit and doing IT, I started working out, I did a lot of research and gained a lot of knowledge during this time. A lot of people suggested the workout program fierce 5 for beginners, did it for 2 weeks, came to the conclusion that it was garbage and made my own workouts ( they’ve been working so far )
And now here I am 123 pounds, my goal being to be as lean as possible and muscular, some may say I’m shredded but I’m not satisfied yet, the newbie gains are just starting to come in anyway (ik 123 pounds sounds ridiculously skinny but I’m 5’6 so it’s not that wierd) you can loose weight if you decide to but if you are, try to be as healthy with it as possible, if you need any help loosing weight or achieving your goals in general I’m happy to help just send me a message or even comment down here and I’ll respond, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink, I’m not a doctor nor anything but I have done a lot of research about fitness, I play soccer and I’m decent at it I guess and I now consider myself fitter than the average joe . Happy to help if you guys have any questions
Hi guys. I rapidly gained a lot of weight, and then I have steadily been gaining for about 3 years. I discovered that I had hypothyroidism a few months ago, and they have continued to up my medicine every few months since then. My school offers free workout classes, and I was attending those at least 4 or 5 times a week. I also attempted to do keto and intermittent fasting. Every time, it really made no big difference. I would lose maybe a pound or two and then it would come right back. I do not know what to do. I feel depressed and gross, and even my boyfriend has told me that he is unhappy with my weight gain as I was quite small when we first got together 4 years ago. I have been to the doctor, and they recommended keto and switching up my workouts. I have done all that I can think of. Does anyone else have a similar experience? I just want to go back to how I was before.
I started my journey a little over two years ago, back in October of 2017. We are now getting closer and closer to 2020, and I am almost there. I am getting closer and closer to my goal weight.
Before I started, I had a lot of wake-up calls. Health scare after health scare pushed me into losing weight. It's kind of a blessing in disguise. If none of those scares happened to me, then I would have stayed the way I was. Hell, I might have even continued to gain and gain until something serious actually did happen, and it was too late to make the lifestyle changes.
Although unfortunately, the first month or so of dieting was a crash. I ate too little and exercised vigorously. But the number on the scale was dropping, and I thought I was doing fine. But I had an incident one night where I almost collapsed/passed out. I went to the doctor and found out that there was nothing seriously wrong with me, so I must have pushed myself too hard.
Going into 2018, I kind of put my weight loss "on hold." I stopped really trying for a long time. At that point I was hovering around 300 lbs, down from my starting weight of 342. I was kind of maintaining and then switching back into diet mode when the numbers started to go up again. But I didn't get serious again until January 2019, when one reason and one reason only got me motivated into finishing this thing out again.
I wanted to be attractive.
It may not be the most conventional reason for wanting to lose weight, but I really wanted to experience the things I feel like I missed out on (if it was even possible.) Friends, family... everyone else around me seemed to have those experiences, and I wanted to feel what it was like - to be loved/desired by someone else for once in my life.
So at the beginning of the year, I learned about calorie counting. I downloaded MFP (then transitioned to Lose It!) and started losing weight the right way. I didn't crash diet. I didn't have to get rid of the foods that I loved, which is another reason I struggled so much with dieting in the past before. And it was working. I was sticking with it. The clothes started to fit better, the health problems started to go away. I didn't feel so uncomfortable all the time, and my confidence started going up because I am beginning to actually like what I see in the mirror instead of avoiding my reflection all the time. And at the end of November in 2019, I am now down 133 lbs!
And communities like this and /r/progresspics really helped keep me motivated to stick it all out until the very end. I really appreciate all of the stories everyone has shared over the years, and I am proud of each and every single one of you.
Just a little while longer. Here's to the last 20 or so pounds.
I’ve lost weight in the past. Lost 95 pounds over two years. The first 1/4 or so of that I was still living with my mom and brother and didn’t have a problem separating my food choices from theirs. The bulk of my weight I lost as I was dating my husband and then us eventually moving in together. He was also in the midst of losing a lot of weight. Well, here we are, three years later, having gained it all back plus more, and we’ve both had so many false starts.
I can’t figure out why I keep treating this like a thing we have to do together. I find it so much harder to get started and stay accountable if he isn’t doing it either. I should know by now that this is something I have to do on my own. But it feels so impossible to do.
Anybody have this same problem? How do you keep your food journeys separate from someone you are so close and intertwined with?
Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!
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Losing that weight and making the mid section tight again is scary but it’s not impossible. After having my baby girl I was still left with over 30 lbs of weight that I needed to lose and lots of flabby skin. Looking at myself everyday was painful at times but I didn’t let that discourage me at. I needed to keep fighting the fight for me and my kids. There will be days or weeks where you feel like you haven’t made any progress but you have to remember this journey is a marathon and not a sprint. You must work at it everyday in the gym and nutritional. It took me about 5 months to lost those 30lbs and have my skin look tight again. Yes I still have stretch marks but that’s fine. Develop a short term goal and a long term goal and be realistic with your goals. DONT GIVE UP!
My highest weight has been 120 kgs in 2015 and I’ve since tried to lose weight a couple times. The lowest I’ve got to was 106kgs. My latest, and hopefully last attempt, has seen me start at 114.3 kgs in mid September and I weighed in today at 105.7kgs. This is the lowest I’ve been in 5 years and I just feel relief, I think. I just feel that it’s finally working. I’ve managed to properly educate myself this time and I know what I’m doing. I can see the results myself.
So, if you’re like me and you’re just seeing new numbers on the scale, let me know what you felt like during this weightloss journey. Catch my next post when I hit under 100 because I will definitely cry.
I just wanted to share how amazing this scale I bought 6 months ago is. It is the Renpho ES 24M Smart Scale. As well as measuring weight, it also tracks other features like BMI, Visceral Fat and Metabolic age and more. It is all tracked on a smartphone app and you can see your progress over a span of a year. This has genuinely helped me and I would like to share it with you guys. I put in the link below so you can see its further specs but I really recommend this to help aid weight loss!
I've been an on and off gym goer for so long. I'll go for a few months, not go for a year, go for a month, not go for a few months, etc.
They say when it comes to exercise you need to find something you enjoy. I just don't enjoy going to the gym, no matter how many routines at the gym I try. I find it mind-numbingly boring. And also a major hassel. It's why I always eventually end up stop going. I know for both my physical and mental health I should try doing some exercise again, but I think I also need to accept that they gym is probably not going to work for me.
What are my other options though? I don't want to be that fat person in the back of group classes-classes are a no. I didn't play sports growing up, and in my limited experience rec sports are all people who played the sport at one point. Same is true for clubs and etc.
When the weather is nice I liked taking walks outside. But I live in the Northeast, in an area that gets more snow than other areas. The one bad thing about living in the northeast is that the weather is too bad 6-7 months out of the year to do things outside. Parks are closed and everything is covered in snow/ice.
What are my options?
PS. I know I don't need to exercise to lose weight, this is about general health
I have been overweight for most of my adult life. I’ve tried soooo many different exercise and diet regimens, but my binge eating takes over at the end every time. And I just can't seem to end the cycle.
Does anyone here have experience with medically supervised weight loss? I know there are a lot of different routes that I could take with this, but I’d like to be accountable and try some kind of appetite suppressant to change my habits. I think I need the help of a professional to change my lifestyle and reteach my eating and diet habits. I have a doctor in mind, and I'm going to make an appointment for a consultation. I'm just nervous that it will be a waste of money and nothing with change. TIA.
I officially hit 210 lbs again today. I started off this summer at 200 lbs, lost 20 by the end of August, and then gained 30 lbs over the course of this semester. I feel really, really terrible about it--I worked really hard this summer, and I remember how tough it was too lose the weight. Now I'm even fatter than before, and am going to have to go through all of that again (for even longer, now that I have an additional 10 lbs to lose!) just to get there I was. And I wasn't even that happy with my weight then; I felt like I was just getting started and still had more to lose. It's really tough to imagine starting all of that over, and I honestly just want to completely give up.
I did so well this summer because I was living in my own apartment and cooking for myself. Once the semester started, I was back at my college with an unlimited mandatory meal plan that sucks up my entire food budget (and more, I'm in so much debt lol). I had to eat all my meals at this terrible buffet-style cafeteria, and I just don't have that kind of self control so I fucking blew it and destroyed all of my progress. Even if I do manage to lose the weight again, I have two more years minimum of this school, so I have no idea how I'm going to keep the weight off. This is in addition to being enormously busy (absolutely brutal course load on top of working two jobs) and stressed all the fucking time at school.
What's even worse is that I feel a ton of pressure to lose the weight quickly, because I want to be able to experience college for at least a little while as a healthy person. I feel like socially, romantically, etc I'm a lot worse off being fat and looking bad. The thought that I'm going to spend my whole time in college looking like shit really hurts, and I desperately want to lose the weight so I can at least enjoy a year or so of it being healthy, but every time I lose weight on a school break I immediately fuck it up because of the stupid cafeterias.
Sorry for the long rant, and thanks in advance to anyone who has advice. I'm 20m 210lbs 6' tall
I started working out at the beginning of September I was at around 230 pounds, I was getting long winded after walking up 2 flights of stairs. It was getting to the point where I even struggled getting up off the floor. I used to be skinny but I started eating out comfort after a bad break-in, moved got a new apartment and was paranoid about the guy who broke in on me coming after me. Long story short I eat unhealthy and rarely moved around and not doing physical activity, I stayed in my comfort zone just playing games and watching TV. But now that I began working out and changing my diet I'm down to 200 lbs and working towards my goal of 170 lbs.
I've always struggled with my weight. It goes up and down frequently. Three years ago I was 165, since then I had a baby, moved six times, two of which we're halfway across the country, went back to school, dealt with much more drama than I'd ever be comfortable with, and got diagnosed with PTSD from childhood trauma. I'm at 230 now, which is close to my non-pregnant high.
I am finally starting to get to a place where I feel like I can start thinking about losing weight again. I'm feeling overwhelmed by this, it seems like so much weight to lose, but I'm setting an intention, and I'm making a plan. My husband and I want to have another child, but I want to be at a healthy weight before that happens.
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Has anyone else made it to their goal, and then started going off the rails? How did you turn it around and get back on track?
It’s taken me just over a year, but I’ve lost nearly 50 whole pounds. I’ve been feeling amazing! I really thought I had this whole thing figured out. I stopped the fad diets, learned plain old CICO. I did my research, and I thought I was ready for maintenance. So far so good!
I hit my goal, 115 pounds (I’ma shortie, 5’2” and change), even went a little under, started doing the slowly reverse dieting thing, and then..I started going backward. I don’t know what has got into me. I haven’t binged but a handful of times since I got started, but in the last month and a half I have binged over and over again, and I haven’t the foggiest why. I know some of it’s water weight and all that, but I’m up more than 10 pounds. I’m awake late at night right now because I am too damn full to even sleep properly (and not even just because of regular thanksgiving leftovers)! It’s like I know what to do but I just...can’t do it anymore. And it’s kinda freaking me out, because I don’t want to lose all the work I’ve done, but all of a sudden it feels like a dam burst and I just can’t stop it.
Edit: stats f/26- 5’2” - hw: about 175 (didn’t weight at the beginning) - gw: 115 - lw: 114 - cw: 127.8 this morning!!
Hi!! I have a couple of questions to ask. I'm a 17F (as you probably saw in the title) and I want to try to lose some weight before I graduate at the end of May.
1) How do you guys find recipes to make? I'm mostly focused on lunch and breakfast, as I have no control over dinner most of the time. I need recipes that can be made in a short time and don't have to be reheated, as I'd be taking them to school for lunch. I drive myself to school, so I'm not really concerned with breakfast taking a long time. I am an absolute beginner cook, however, so that's another problem I have.
2) Do you recommend any fitness apps that don't need a subscription? literally every fitness app on the Appstore has ludicrous subscription fees that I, as a teenager with a minimum wage job, cannot pay for, and it sucks. If you don't use apps, how do you recommend starting to exercise? I'm also an absolute beginner at that (Sorry, I'm an absolute beginner at most of this stuff).
3) I have trouble with binging food and then feeling terrible for hours afterward. Even if I'm full, I feel like I have to finish my plate. If I don't finish everything on my plate at dinner time, my grandmother scolds me and withholds any food for the rest of the day. :( How do I get past that?
I'm so sorry this was such a long post but I hope y'all can help. I really appreciate it!!!
I went past the 200 mark the first time ever. I was 208. I was shocked and sad because I didn’t go on the scale years prior but I’m happy I did because I didn’t realize how big I was getting until I faced my fear.
That motivated me.
3 weeks later and I’m 202 from lifting weights, cardio and eating a smaller amount of calories.
I lost 6 pounds and I could cry because I although I never thought I was THAT big, I wanted to loose weight for years prior and I would give up fast. I fucking started! And I am SO ready for this. This is finally it and I’m ready.
I'm having a very hard time mustering up the motivation to loose weight even though I hate how I look and I know its unhealthy. I currently work overnights doing 12 hour shifts, when i come home the last thing I want to do is exercise. The next day I feel like all I want to do is rest and I'm exhausted.
I put on a lot of weight in a very short amount of time a little over 10 years ago because of medication and it never came off even though the meds have been long stopped.
I'm 5'0", so have a crappy short frame where everything just compacts and could probably loose 100lbs...I use to be very active and fit and about 115lbs.
I'm just looking for some help or motivation, it's hard to even get started. I eat maybe once a day before even going into work and sometimes at work.
Keto diet is all the rage right now. The internet is flooded with images of young women flaunting their smooth skin/slender figure and attributing it to a keto diet. These heavily touted posts would make any sceptic believe that keto diet is the best thing that happened to the earth.
But sadly it’s not. Keto diet has numerous side effects and unfortunately, many would not talk about it.
Before we explain the side effects, what is keto diet?
A Keto diet plan is a popular type of low carbohydrate diet. It basically focuses on restricting the carb intake so that the body enters a phase called “Ketosis”.
It is a natural phenomenon that puts the body into a survival mode due to the low intake of carbohydrates. Well, healthy living can be achieved only by eating wholesome foods. A diet that focuses on mere survival itself makes keto diet inconsistent.
Usually, the most readily available energy source in our body comes from glucose, which is produced in the body when you eat carbohydrate-rich foods. Once you limit the carb intake, the body turns to other energy sources like fat that are otherwise stored in the body.
Keto Diet
That is how the fat in the body is broken down into ketone bodies and used to release energy. While the keto diet can bring quick results in weight loss, it isn’t an ideal healthy diet.[1]
Here we bring you five reasons why the keto diet is anything but healthy!
1. The weight may bounce back
No doubt that a keto diet gives quick results in weight loss but once you resume your normal diet, you will gain the lost weight quickly.
A low carb diet results in loss of muscle tissue and causes the body to lose water. This muscle tissue loss may jeopardize weight management once a normal diet is taken up.
Moreover, it becomes very difficult for the body to again maintain high or moderate carbs intake while resuming to a normal diet. This makes a keto diet inconsistent.
2. Keto diet ignores an entire food group
In order to function properly, our body requires a well-balanced diet that includes all the food groups.
So if you think practically, limiting an entire food group of carbohydrates will devoid your body of different essential metabolites with fluctuated body’s functioning.
Many carbohydrates are good carbohydrates. They are the complex carbs, which are, for example, found to be very beneficial for people suffering from diabetes.
Complex carbohydrates found in whole grains and millets keep the stomach sated for a longer period of time and help control food intake. This helps to shed those extra kilos in a more sustainable and doable manner.
3. Keto diet may lead to hypoglycemia
Keto diet may lead to a brief encounter of hypoglycemia at the beginning of the diet regime. This is due to the fact that our body is customised to run on sugar and carbohydrates for energy.
Cutting down this source of energy and rapidly changing to fats for energy will affect the body and naturally, the body will take time to adapt to this new diet.
When the body burns fats for energy, the body might go under hypoglycemia. This is very dangerous for your health in the long run
Similarly, people who have diabetes and are insulin-dependent should never opt for a keto diet since they are more susceptible to hypoglycemia. [2]
4. Keto Diet isn’t that easy to sustain
It is already established that a low carb diet is pretty difficult to sustain. This is because; you cannot maintain this diet on a daily basis. Once you resume a normal diet after a keto diet, your body will put on weight again.
Similarly, a keto diet may also result in nutritional deficiencies in the long run. Therefore, it is not feasible to adopt a keto diet for weight loss.
5. Side effects of Keto diet
Fad diets have their own side effects and the keto diet is no different.
Not an ideal diet for good health
One of the temporary side effects of the keto diet is that it can lead to fatigue. When the body is deprived of carbohydrates as its energy source, it loses glucose – the primary source of energy.
This may put the body into a confusion mode that may lead to fatigue in many people. In addition, the keto diet may also lead to kidney issues & bone health issues.
The side effects of keto diet seem to exceed the benefits. Though it works well for weight loss and cholesterol reduction initially, it is not sustainable in the long run.
Keto diet causes fatigue and hypoglycemia which makes it a poor diet for diabetic patients in the long run.
The other side effects of the keto diet are an irregular menstrual cycle in women, decrease in bone density, bad breath, constipation and issues with sleep.
It is worth mentioning that other side effects could not be determined because studies could not track keto dieters who followed the diet on a long term basis. This tells that a keto diet is unsustainable.
Here’s is what we at Trueight advise –
Instead of neglecting the entire food group – carbohydrates or low- carb, you can go for their moderate consumption. The complex carbohydrates that are found in whole grains are in fact, beneficial for the body.
Moreover, carbohydrates are found to be required for the complete breaking down of fat. So, it is very important to eat a well-balanced diet that includes all the food groups.
No diet is beneficial if it compromises your health. So don’t just try to lose weight. Try to lose weight healthily, instead.
FAQ’s
Q: Is keto diet good for health?
A: No, keto diet is not good for health.
Q: Why keto diet is unhealthy?
A: Keto diet is unhealthy because it has numerous side effects and cannot be followed in the long run.
Q: Is keto diet good for weight loss?
A: Keto diet works for weight loss but is not good for weight loss. When you resume normal diet, you will gain the lost weight.
Q: Why keto diet is bad
A: Keto diet is bad because it ignores an important food group – carbohydrates. Carbs are the primary source of energy and without it, the body will develop weakness.
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Yesterday I hit 163 pounds which was the lowest I’ve ever been as an adult. I hit this 2 years ago, then proceeded to have a 2 week vacation and gain 10 lbs which spiraled into even more gaining, of course. April 2018 I was 195 and found out I was pregnant. Day before my son was born in December 2018 I was 255. It was hard after having lost so much weight to get up to that point but I was SO DETERMINED to get back down.
My son is 11 months old today and I lost all 60 pounds of baby weight PLUS 32 more pounds!!!! I spent almost the whole time just doing CICO slash lazy keto slash 16:8 IF here and there. Currently I’m adding carbs in again to battle some other eating issues which is working out great for me.
I feel like a badass when I think of it, even though I’m still nowhere near my goal body/weight/fitness level. Lots more to go, but baby, the only fuckin way to go is down from here.
A member at derby practice mentioned I was looking great, and that my face seemed thinner than the last time she saw me.
Felt great to finally have other people noticing what feels like the slowest progress.
The comment was about a week ago and I've been eating like garbage since. My eating habits have even begun to intrude on other improvements I've been making such as my sleep and gym routine.
I KNOW a lot of it is emotional eating bc I've been paying a lot more attention to my body and hunger cues.
There's likely something else that I just don't seem to notice that got me stuck in this loop... but I truly feel like (what was meant to be) the compliment made by my teammate triggered to subconsciously self sabotage?
Recently, I moved back closer to home due to my severe depression. It caused me to go from 125 pounds as of Oct. 29th, 2018 to 161 as of September 4th, 2019. Since moving back, I've been rock climbing about four days a week, going to core class three times a week and TRX class once a week. I thought that by now, I'd be losing weight. Wrong. I am now 174 pounds as of 11/29/2019. This is the highest I've ever weighed.
Obesity runs in my family, and I'm trying to not succumb to the pattern. I want to feel great like I used to just a year ago. I want to be healthy, mentally and physically.
I need advice on if this is a good idea on how to continue...
Monday AM: 30 min cardio + 45 min Leg Day 1
Tuesday AM: 10 min cardio + 45 min Biceps and Back Day
Tuesday PM: Rock climbing, Core Class, TRX Class
Wednesday AM: 10 min cardio + 45 Leg Day 2
Wednesday PM: Rock climbing, Core Class
Thursday AM: 10 min cardio + 45 min Chest and Triceps Day
Thursday PM: Rock climbing, Core Class
Friday PM: Rock climbing
Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!
This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track.
Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing
> I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me?
My husband has some dental work coming up which will mean being on a soft diet off and on for several months. We both need to lose weight, but he also has to get enough protein in for good healing, even while on the soft foods.
We'd both like to lower our cholesterol, too, so I figure we can start doing oatmeal for breakfast more often. However, it doesn't seem to keep either of us full until lunch. I'd like to try adding either egg whites or protein powder into it, both to make it more filling and help DH get the required protein. (We've tried adding peanut butter already, but didn't like it.)
Also, I'd like to add protein to other soft foods I'll be giving him, like mashed potatoes. But most of the protein powder ideas I've read use kind of dessert-y flavors like vanilla, chocolate, etc. Is there anything that would work better in savory foods? I guess unflavored would be good, if it didn't actually taste bad. Also, since I'll be eating this, too, are they all about the same calorie-wise?
I've heard good things about the pre-mixed Premier Protein shakes for just drinking straight, but I have no idea about the powders. Any suggestions, including brand names and where to buy them? FYI, I have a GNC, Walmart and BJ's Wholesale nearby.
I've really been dedicating myself over the past couple weeks to counting calories and being conscious about food. Took the day off for Thanksgiving to just enjoy, but it actually ended up bringing my estimated daily calories to 1500 which isnt bad at all! (Cutting is 1200, 5 foot sedentary F).
This morning I had cereal with milk and measured it while he had thanksgiving leftovers. I was eyeing the Tim Tams on the table and he encouraged me to have one to ease my way out of thanksgiving, and I ate it because hey, I can definitely fit that in. Went through the day eating normally, and then we went out. There was a special release at a brewery near me and we stopped in. I didnt really realize it at the time, should have been paying attention, but I drank about 20 oz of dark beer from all the tastings. We started talking about dinner and he asked how many calories I had left and I estimated around 500 but gestures at beer should probably go home and eat something light.
He waved his hand and said dont worry about the beer, it doesn't count.
Well....it does. It really, really does. Went out to dinner, came home, and I'm drafting a gentle rule list for myself to keep myself accountable because he just isnt in the same place mentally that I am.
I do not have to eat the same meals as him and can make myself something different in my calorie goal.
Since dinner seems to be the culprit of sending me skyrocketing, if we go out, appetizer or salad as a general rule.
No alcohol, unless my cheat day at the end of the week has room to account for that.
Since healthy snacks throughout the day are what my body seems to enjoy, I'll keep the house stocked with them and send him to work with a "regular" lunch.
I don't have to eat if I am not hungry when he is and I dont have to eat as much. I need to listen to my body and my caloric needs rather than feel that I should be following his lead.
Pausing to say, this is completely reflective of my unhealthy relationship with food, not on our relationship. I'm bringing it up with my therapist and all that good stuff.
I also came up with a fun game to make calorie counting a little more fun. At the start of the day, I get 12 buttons, each representing 100 calories. When I eat 100 calories, button goes away. If I exercise and burn 100 calories, button comes back. At the end of the day, leftover buttons go into a "cheat" jar that I can dip into on cheat day to see what I have achieved that week and make a wiser decision about what I'm going to splurge on. I think the visual is really going to feel rewarding and encourage me to be more active to earn those buttons back!
The last time I was within the "normal" weight range for my height was when I was 13, and then puberty hit me like a ton of bricks. (I'm mid 30s now, but no taller, alas). After chipping away these last five years to lose 40 pounds, I finally hit my goal weight!
To celebrate, I tried on a pair of jeans that I'd long ago outgrown but always remember were so flattering that I could not get rid of them. I had literally kept this pair of jeans and dragged them around with me for YEARS "for when I lost the weight."
The good news: they fit comfortably. The bad news: they're low-rise, boot cut! The last time I was the size I am now was approximately 2002. They are hideous. I'd say this is bittersweet but the whole situation is honestly too funny to even be bitter!
I've been overweight since I can remember, but since the beginning of 2019, my mindset with my health and well-being changed. I lost about 40 lbs this year, going from the 180s to 140s in a span of few months through healthier eating, counting calories, working out, and fasting. I've tried to lose weight in the past, but this year was when I actually took it seriously. And I felt great! My self esteem and confidence has never been higher in my entire life in the beginning.
However, I slipped into disordered eating and body dysmorphia. I became obsessed with counting calories and restricting less than 1000 calories everyday while also working out 3-4 times a week. Losing weight and the feeling of control was I all I could think about everyday. I attempted purging several times. I felt like I had so much control over my life. I ended up in the ED Instagram community and subreddits. I felt miserable, but I also had so much control and power over my life.
My low restriction eventually backfired when I started binge eating in June. It wasn't that bad in summer, but since leaving for college, it got worse. I've been binge eating 3000+ calories 3-4 days a week, and I stopped going to the gym mid-September. There is a gym on campus, but I always felt humiliated working out there. I gained back about 6 pounds (I think?) and I don't want it to get any worse. I have perfectionist tendencies, so I either restrict or binge, which caused me to go through a binge-restrict cycle.
Anyways, I want to lose weight the right way. Thanksgiving just passed, and I just wanted to enjoy it. I definitely overate, but I'm okay with it. I ended up binging on leftovers today though, and I just wanted to type this to distract myself and maybe remind myself to keep a positive mindset with my weight loss journey. I also recently deleted my ED instagram account because it always put me in a toxic negative mindset.
I appreciate any tips and suggestions. Thanks for reading.
So I'll fully admit to being an over thinker and maybe having a little pit of natural paranoia in me. I think it's those qualities that make me think about this question: how do we know that we're actually losing fat?
I'm closing in on 80 lbs lost this year but honestly I still have a LOT of fat on me and frankly I'm no convinced that I've lose that much fat since I began. My clothes have gone down sizes but I still feel and look huge despite the big loss.
So realistically of the ~80 lbs I've lost, how much fat actually is that? How do I know I've actually been losing fat for the last 10 months and not just water or something else? I'm kinda' paranoid I've been doing this all wrong.
i can't eat certain foods unless i eat them to excess. almost anything processed to be super palatable effects me this way. i've tried over and over not to eat these foods in the way i do and i've never been able to do it. i now know going in, no matter what my intentions are, i'm going to eat the entire tub of ice cream or the entire pizza or the whole bag of family chips. i know now that reducing my portions of this kind of food, at this point, doesn't work for me so i've opted to completely cut them out. and it's been going very well! since some time in september, i've eaten exclusively only food i've cooked myself from scratch. the exceptions have been a few bars of halloween candy on halloween night only, a single slice of pizza and a croissant from a bakery.
i do still make baked goods, and sometimes eat too many, so it's not perfect or anything but it keeps me away from the worst foods possible. i've been tempted a couple of times lately, though, and i'm trying to be balanced about this. things are going to come up and i have to be prepared. well, two days ago my brother moved out of the country. right before going, he'd left a bunch of food for me that he didn't want to throw out or donate because he knew i'd be able to use it. some of it is great, like these awesome dried mushrooms. and then some of it is evil.
french toast crunch. it's a cereal he and i always wanted when we were kids. he left me an entire box. this is exactly the kind of food i used to eat by the box and just bliss out on whatever brain drugs you make when you eat the food equivalent of crack. and i almost did, it was a very narrow miss. i just thought 'seriously? a box of cereal is going to break you? some cardboard sugar processed turds? you can do better.' and i can and i did.
i looked up the nutritional info. i saved myself 121 grams of sugar and something like 1300 to 1500 calories. what struck me is how often i used to actually eat like this and think it was fine. how could it be any wonder that i got so fat and always looked like shit?
It's been a few months since I've worked out and today I went back to the gym. I can see myself starting to slip in several aspects of my lifestyle improvement, and I'm starting to see through my own excuses. School and work are stressful but working out makes that stress go away for a time, so why stop doing it? I spend 8-10 hours a day at school/work, but how is an hour each day "too much time"? You can't afford to spend money on entertainment- I can't even remember the last movie I saw!, but you can justify buying fast food all the time?
I'm changing just about every other aspect of my life, but why can't I change my weight/lifestyle?
Good questions to ask myself as I'm getting back on the horse. Thanks for being a great diary, reddit. Hope everyone is doing well on their journeys!
My girlfriend who I live with and I were watching a show last night and snoring came up and I jokingly said to her I don't snore right. We laughed and then a few moments later she then kinda made a cute guilty face and said "Actually you snore much noticeably less than you did a couple of months ago". This was pretty unexpected because I only thought of my own pros and cons with weight loss but it made me feel pretty good about it, as helping my partner sleep better is a great victory for me (I always fall asleep first!).
For reference I've lost about 35 pounds - 18 kgs over the last 3 months or so. I've achieved this mainly by IF - 2 days of under 600 calories a week and 5 normal days. As of a few weeks ago however I started calorie counting a most of non fasting days as I had started to develop a habit of overeating on those days and it was creating a plateau, I try to keep those days to 1800 calories or less, which for me is still according to MFP gonna lose 0.75 kgs a week if I did every day. I do however have a cheat day every Sunday for takeaway... Nachos tomorrow can't wait!
Anyway the moral of my story is you should all go and ask your partners if you snore less than before because it could make your day.
Hi there I’m a 5’4 male that went from 210 pounds to 145 lbs (which is pretty bad compared to other journeys) after losing weight I still look like a disgusting pig who is very wide and still has man boobs. Comparing myself to the other kids it allowed me to open my eyes how little progress I’ve made and I feel like I wasted my time as I’m not as thin as those kids. I post this here because I’m worried I did something wrong in my journey or that I’m just still overweight. P.S if you’ve seen this post before I’m very sorry for the repost, a bot informed me that I posted it in the wrong area so please let me know so I can delete as well. Please and thank you.
(Buckle up, this is a long post... I’ve never talked about this with anyone other than myself)
Hey! I’m 16F and my whole life I’ve struggled with weight. Ever since we went on winter break this year I’ve done nothing but stuff my face with food 24/7 and lay in bed, and ever since I was a child, my family insisted on stuffing me more and more, which resulted in my current self not knowing how to control this. I weight just below 200 lbs and I’m just 5’6. My BMI is prove that the issue is spiraling out of control. I am, in all the meanings of the word, obese, and it is eating me out... haha.
I’m aware my situation is not as extreme as others, but I also know that if I keep up this disgusting lifestyle I’ll end up even more miserable. Throughout my teen years I’ve tried to go on these diets and pills that would supposedly help me get to a healthy weight, but I’ve never been able to stick to those or even be aware of all the shit I’m eating, at least not until later. I’ve even tried to starve myself or induce vomiting, but I couldn’t stick to those either, I didn’t have enough willpower to go through with any of them.
I won’t stop eating... I am just hungry all the time and it is exhausting. When I’m bored, I’ll eat. Sad? Eat. Gotta do something? Let’s eat while doing it. I am a binge-eater and an over-eater, I’ll even go as far to say that I may be addicted to food, or have another issue related to it.
But it is so hard being the way I am. I know how to loose the weight. I know I just need to drop a few pounds. And I can’t express how much I admire you guys and the people who have turned (or are turning) their lives around in tremendous ways, way more than I need to do. I feel so disgusting and so detached from my own body that it has affected me in other aspects of my life. My self-esteem is at an all time low (it’s never been that high to begin with) and I can’t find the motivation to do anything I used to enjoy. Nothing makes me happy, I don’t know where I want my life to go and some time back I almost tried to end it. I hate seeing myself in the mirror. I hate going shopping. I hate browsing on Pinterest and seeing these amazing outfits and looks that wouldn’t work on me because I’m THAT fat. I am not American, and in my country and surroundings, girls my age are way skinnier, as in healthy, shorter and good looking. I’m the opposite, and I hate the fact that it is my own weight, which I put on myself, which is keeping me from doing what I love or want.
My absolute breaking point happened some weeks ago... I was changing my uniform (after PE, and I study in a private school) and, just standing there, my left knee just POPPED. I felt how it turned left and the pain bolting through my whole leg made me throw myself to the ground in agony. As soon as I hit the floor it popped back to its place (thankfully), but it kept on badly hurting until recently. This was the way my body called me out, and it scared the fuck out of me. I am just 16 and that incident wasn’t normal. At that moment I knew exactly why it happened, and fear of further (permanent) injury or death from this issue made me realize how bad it was getting.
As mentioned, I had tried to loose the weight before but never got serious about it, and as a result, an intense fear rapidly grew inside me. There were days where I would stare, frozen in fear, at any scale that I crossed paths with. I hated myself and wanted nothing to do with my weight, I didn’t even want to know it. Those days were absolute hell. It kept getting worse, but after my knee incident I knew I just couldn’t ignore it any further.
This is what brings us to my initial point... Some days ago I decided to turn my life around and get out of this hell asap. I am getting older and my youth is limited. I feel like I’m wasting my teen years away with some bullshit I brought on myself. I want to be happy. I want to be able to find a SO. I want to date, have sex, be confident, marry this person and live a long and full filling like by his side. I want to study a worthwhile career and get a degree and travel the world and make it better for the future. And I feel like my weight and how I feel about myself is a barrier between those dreams and where I am at the moment.
Despite this, a rush of motivation came that night... November the 25th I decided to loose this weight and live a better life while I still can. The very next morning I woke up early at 6 am and got some nutritious but healthy breakfast. Then, I went into my complex’s gym and did some cardio for half an hour, taking small steps towards a better lifestyle. I still wasn’t able to bring myself to the scale, but I’m getting there. Today I started counting calories. I know how to loose it, I just needed a little push. I am also recording little blogs for my “future self” to watch back and be proud of who we were able to turn into.
I’m trying to fix this mess, and I’m glad I am able to share this wonderful, yet hard experience with all of you, who understand the struggle and motivate each other to go forward. Thank you for making it through this long-ass post, and I hope some months from now I can tell you all that I succeeded. Keep moving forward, and always remember why you started!
Also, sorry for my english, it is my second language.
Weight by end of month (217 - 214 lbs, preferably trend weight): No weigh in this morning, 217.7 trend weight.
Stay within calorie range: I'm thinking a big salad with leftover turkey or ham in it, looking okay so long as I keep out of the stuffing leftovers. 19/26 days.
Exercise 5 days a week: I need to get after it blergh. 20/29 days.
Limit purchased coffee drinks (3 a week), if exceeded, $25 donation: Needed a peppermint mocha today, feeling festive. I already did my donation for the month. 17/13 allowed.
Self-care time (drawing, journaling, beauty treatments, anything that makes me feel taken care of): Chill day at home.
Write 1,700 words a day for Nanowrimo, finish or $100 donation: TBD! Still chasing the goal! Gotta keep chasing it.
Try a new recipe once a week: I've made hummus from dry beans, chicken tortilla soup, a roasted spaghetti squash dish, a navy bean stew (which I have decided to call bean goop vomit because of the color profile) & a lentil & sausage stew this month. Plus Thanksgiving stuffs! 7/5 weeks.
Be thankful for something every fucking day: Today I am grateful for internet commerce. I got some early holiday shopping knocked off the list today without having to leave the house. Also I'm super grateful for all the low calorie options available at my market. If there's sausage, there's turkey & chicken options so I can have more tube meat for less calories. Mmmm.
I was a heavy weight kid, always tried to diet and always failed. Last school year, I naturally lost like 20 when I got my first job. Was fine with that, was happy with my weight. (Probably 160, 5’2”) but randomly got a kick this summer and lost another 20. I’m 142 now, and have been for 3 months. Problem is, my goal weight is 115-120. I’ve been stagnant for months and am afraid I’ll stay this way. I was okay with my body until I started intentionally dieting, but since that I’ve been insecure again and am afraid I’ll never loose it and remain insecure. I’ve been going to the gym every morning, but my eating has been bad. Today I brought turkey to work, and decided I’m doing this. My coworkers knows I’m trying to loose weight, as well as my family. I’m just afraid I’ll fail once again. I really hope I don’t, and I’m really gonna try to stay on track like I did to loose the 20 pounds I did a few months ago. Anyone relate to this? I just wanna be done with this weight issue, done with just being “okay” with my body. I wanna do this once and for all but am afraid of failure. Just gotta never give up I guess, that’s what I tell myself. Just don’t give up. It’s not the ideal time frame, taking three months off and all, but I didn’t gain back! I usually do! So that helps ease my mind. The universe in on my side in a way.
TLDR; I’m scared of failing at weight loss again. Anyone can relate?
I’m 19f, am 5’6 and I weigh 155 pounds , making my BMI 24.9, the absolute highest healthy weight for my height. I want to lose weight, but I also want to know if I’m okay health wise staying the size I am now, or if there’s risks associated with my current state.
I’m not very active in my daily life (I walk 2-3 miles a day and bike about the same, but no exercise that elevates my pulse) but my fitness levels are fine (healthy range but not like good) as tested in my phys-ed class.
I’m built very unproportionally, and carry almost all of weight in my chest and hip-thigh area, my measurements being 39-27-40. I don’t know if my fat distribution affects my health status?
I’d like to lose 30 pounds over the next 6 months and end up around 125 pounds. Would this be okay? And is it even medically necessary?
There. I said it. I am trying to be grateful for what a temple it is and how it does everything to keep me alive. I am grateful for my limbs and my spine. I grateful for it all, really. I just.. I'm sitting at a new high weight. I'm a 5'0 20 y/o female, I was around 152 lbs, got down to 136 lbs through CICO and exercise. I felt great. One day I ended up binging and it made a mess of me. A year later, I'm now 170 lbs.
It's just so difficult to even try at this point. Not to say I give up completely. But ffs, I feel more tired and heavier everyday. At 20, I should be running up and down and be excited about life and making something of myself. I feel ugly and disgusting. Usually I'm the one who's telling people not to talk of themselves like that but I just need to rant. I've never quite experienced social anxiety quite like this before gaining even more weight. I'm love to go out but I've become so use to staying in because I can't be bothered to wear something to hide my body. When I do go out, I'm constantly fix my clothes and try to look as relaxed as I can. But I know my bra strap is digging into my back and my leggings are starting to roll off my love handles. Tbh I don't look fat. But I manage to hide my weight really well under what I wear. I'm tired of it all.
It's just become really difficult. I don't struggle with an eating disorder but do deal with my fair share of disordered eating and thoughts sometimes.. But I've been working on that heavily. Right now I'm just trying not to overeat and eat less processed shit.
Everything's just annoying me because this time last year I could track my calories, feel phsyically and mentally satiated with the amount I was eating and exercise because I enjoyed it. Now the idea of doing that puts me off so much when once it because a habit. I just feel shitty about myself today.
I've been losing weight consistently for the last two months and I'm currently down 22 pounds and pretty close to my healthy weight range, but in those two months there have been times where for several days my weight would not move a single pound regardless of how little I ate, and then after that few day period, it would start to go down again.
According to myfitnesspal I am allowed to consume a maximum of 1660 calories to lose 2.2 pounds per week and based on my inputs, in the last 4 days I have intentionally only consumed around 550 - 800 calories with very few carbs and on top of that I've been doing light cardio regularly for 30 minutes a day which apparently burns between 110 - 150 calories per session. I ate 1 meal a day during those 4 days and had no sugary snacks at all. I didn't eat anything late at night or very early in the morning and I think that I have at least been slightly active so I can't figure out why this happens every now and then.
My weight has remained at exactly 184 pounds in the last 4 days and I know for a fact that I am eating well because I haven't consumed much.
My sleep schedule has been very good recently and I've also tested my scale, replaced its batteries and made sure that the surface it is on is even so I don't think that there is anything wrong with the scale itself.
I just can't understand why this happens sometimes unless there is something that I am missing but even I am extremely impressed with how I've managed to remain very consistent on my diet so this is just very strange because I know for a fact that in a day or two when I weigh myself I'll be lower than 184 pounds. Does anyone know if there's any way to get over these plateaus quicker or how to prevent them all together? I'd appreciate any insight because this gets a bit frustrating due to the effort I'm constantly putting in to lose weight. Thanks
Okay, I know the title of this post must sound really stupid and the answer is very obvious but there is a bit of context that will explain what I mean slightly.
I'm 19, around 218 lbs down from 295 lbs as of this year. My approach to weight loss has been entirely CICO. I don't have meal plans, set times to eat or food I'm not allowed. This has meant my progress has been quick and easy to maintain but I'm still not living my healthiest life which is important.
I've barely ate fruit and vegetables over my life, I was always eating processed food. I've been trying to make an effort to eat more of them now but I just don't seem to enjoy many of them. Should I just try to stomach then even if I dislike them or are there techniques for incorporating them into your meals for those who don't like them? Any tips or tricks are appreciated!
I’m currently a 24 year old 5’10 male weighing in at around 320lbs. I get tired walking upstairs, can’t last to long in bed with my girlfriend, and had to buy new clothes because I’m too big for anything I own. I eat a lot of fast food and don’t work out.
Now that I have faced the truth that I continually try to ignore, this next year is going to be different. I’ve heard time and time again that it takes 21 days to form a habit, so going into a new I hope to have a habit of cleaner eating and a workout routine that I can do both at the gym or at home when I don’t have time to go to a gym. With the semester ending, I don’t have an excuse not to go to the gym after work now. My first goal weight it to reach the 250-260 range. I wanna buy new clothes what I have now is to big not the other way around. I wanna not be winded after short walks and feel confident in my body.
I’ve been ghosting this sub for a while but I decided to become active since Thanksgiving is over and the new year is quickly approaching. I’ve been encouraged by so many stories in here that I think maybe if it can happen to them, I can happen for me too
I'm (F20) slightly overweight and want to either lose weight or at least maintain it. However, I've instead been gaining weight because of an eating problem. The problem is that I eat things I don't need.
I think it's a mix of emotional eating (eating to cope with sadness, stress, anxiety etc) and cravings (I've been eating sugary and unhealthy things for such a long time now that it has become a habit). My problem started about a year ago, but it wasn't as serious back then. But it got worse and worse, and now I've basically been overeating every day for two months straight.
I eat pretty healthy main meals most days with veggies and good stuff. I try to eat normal portion sizes, not too big and not to small. So it's not that my body is hungry and begging for food. As I said, I think it's more of an emotional + craving problem. No matter what I've eaten during the day, the evening becomes a problem. Because every evening I usually eat 500-2000 calories in snacks. Anything I can find like candy, potato chips, hot chocolate, ice cream, bakery sweets etc. I know it's terrible not only for my weight, but my entire health. I don't even want to know how much I will hurt my body if I keep going like this.
I have to stop this, but the problem is that I feel like I can't. I also kinda feel like I don't want to stop it any more, there's a part of me that LIKES doing this. But I know that I need to stop, but I can't??? I don't think I've been able to make it through more than one day without overeating the past two months. When I'm in the moment of overeating I know that I shouldn't do it, but in that moment my brain doesn't care about that and just wants its food. It's like I forget that I've promised myself to stop.
I live with my parents and siblings, and we always have some kind of unhealthy food at home. So "just stop buying this" isn't an option for me.
Hey folks! I've recently started CICO, I'm 224lbs and 5"4. The issues I'm having is I'm not quite sure what calorie deficit I should be at.
I work out three times a week, I don't have anyway to keep count of the calories with that, but I always do an hours swimming, strength and cardio over those three days, it's the only time I have spare so I make it work. I also walk on average 10,000 steps a day, sometimes a lot more sometimes less but I am able to track the calories for that.
I'm potentially losing over 500 calories a day if those steps and all that stuff that says you are losing that go with it are true.
I'm struggling with working out what I should be eating towards and then what I should be working off. I started with 1700 calories and I know you can be eating too little although I don't think I am. I would really appreciate some help. I am not finding tracking my calories or changing my eating habits hard, I'm just struggling to work the little bits out and not sure what to use past tracking my calories and food.
I need some advice. My partner and I are going on an extended (1 year +) camping trip around our home country next year. We’ve saved some cash, quit our jobs and are almost ready to leave. However, there’s one tiny problem. I’m not sure how to approach weight loss while travelling.
At present, I’ve been tracking my calories and weighing myself daily for about 3 months. I’ve lost just over 8kg (18lbs). My goal weight is 10kg (22lbs) away.
I want to keep up my weight loss (and hopefully begin maintenance) during our trip. I’ll have full control over what I eat (we’ll be making almost all of our meals due to being on a tight budget) and will continue to eat well and track calories as best I can.
But I won’t be able to weigh myself daily. Most of the time we’ll be staying in remote campgrounds without a flat surface. We’ll be sleeping in a tent and really “roughing it”. I’m not even sure if I even can/should take my bathroom scale. But I’m worried that without weighing myself everyday, I’ll begin to slip back into old habits.
Advice? Experience? Tips?
Would it be crazy to take my bathroom scale and weigh myself when I have the opportunity? Or will the inconsistencies caused by where the scale is placed have too much of an impact for this to be effective? How can I continue, and eventually maintain, my weight loss while living on the road for a whole year?
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ive just had a terrible day/life and i wanted to rant about it so here it goes.
ive been skinny-fat my whole life (currently 5'4 and 110 lbs F), which may sound pretty nice considering ive never had to exercise to maintain a reasonable weight. But ever since I was a kid, I've been reminded that I wasn't like every other "skinny" kid. I was always last in every school race, except for 1 where I came 2nd last out of 500 kids, thanks to a girl who twisted her ankle. I was slower than the boy who was 3x my size, as well as the disabled girl who's arms bent backwards while she ran. I was slower than the kids who walked the race, and the refs would start the 2nd race before I finished running the track. My friends would laugh at me, my best friend would yell at me and call me lazy. I've always tried my best (what kind of kid would want to be last in every race?), but I've always been last. I signed up for extra curricular track/volleyball programs, and went to practise every morning, which caused my gym teachers to hate and pity me for holding my team back. At tennis camp, a kid 4 years younger than me could serve better than me. In 10th grade, my friends and I went to a free gym 5 days a week for 5 months but I still failed every physical test we did at school. I gave up in 10th grade.
For the next 3 years, I lived an absolutely sedentary life. I was always "skinny" so no one teased me about my weight, thus I didnt feel the need to change. However ever since I started college, I've been passing out (like, wake up on the ground w/ ppl surrounding/screaming/staring at me). As of today, I've blacked out 3 times, after getting off a rollercoaster, after climbing up a flight of stairs, and at an outdoors concert. The doctor said I didn't have enough muscle to push blood up to my brain, and in the heat - which causes your veins to dilate - causes me pass out. The paramedics told me I could die. Im only 19.
I signed up for a gym membership, and today was my first day with a personal trainer. He wanted to do some preliminary tests, and told me to do that stepping exercise for 3 minutes. I was gasping for air halfway in. He laughed at me and told me I had the body of a 50 year old.
I'm just so sad. I've tried exercising my whole life, and I've never been good at it. Even when I was at my physical peak in 10th grade, I still couldn't match a single girl my age. I feel guilty for making my single mother waste her money on sports camps and the gym membership when I clearly havent put either to good use. If I have the body of a 50 y/o, I might as well just enjoy my last 30 years while I can.. right? Anyways, the deposit for the personal trainer has already been paid, so I'm just going to keep going to the gym and hope to god that this time will be different. I honestly just dont want to die.
I guess I'm posting this because I wanted to know if anyone else has had similar experiences. What helps you cope? Did things work out for you in the end? What motivates you to keep going to the gym (besides the deposit...)?
Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!
This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track.
Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing
> I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me?
Early this morning I walked into the gym and signed myself up! They asked what my goals were and I told them, “to create a healthy habit.” I feel like I’m finally approaching this with the right frame of mind.
I did also let them know that I have zero core or lower back strength, and would like to work on those areas, but I’m no longer approaching this with a goal for how I want to look, but for how I want to feel. I’m going to sign up for a couple fun classes to keep it interesting (Zumba, and probably also gonna be the only 25 y/o doing water aerobics).
Just felt like I needed to share, because I’m super excited and had nobody else to be excited about it with (all my friends were like, “oh, nice”)! Thanks!
