Weight loss support thread

Since 31 of march, I have lost 9 lbs. From 166 to 157 lbs. I don't even know if I should be happy or more worried to lose that much weight fast since I fear to stay stuck with the loose skin or if I'm ill or something.

The only that changed is that I eat much more vegetables and gotten less lazy to cook home since I was fed up to cook at work. I actually want to lose weight too so...Or maybe it's the stress because my hubby got the bypass surgery. Anyway, hang in there everyone. You can do this.
 
I'd like to join in this thread, please?

Trying desperately to get towards 50kg before I'm 50 (I have 9 years to go!)

Last time I weighed myself I was 80kg.

I have had problems with Anorexia nervosa in the past, and am still very scared of going on diets or exercising in excessive amounts, in case something "clicks in" and my old habits return.

I joined Slimming World (I am in the UK), but left after about a year because I had gained more than when I had joined....whenever I hit the gym and followed the plan to the absolute letter I gained weight, but whenever I missed the gym or calorie counted I lost weight. Which doesn't make sense if they are supposed to be experts.

Since leaving Slimming World I have lost 2 stone and feel a bit more in control.

I am a level 2 Fitness Instructor and Level 3 Personal Trainer, I also own a small Fitness Studio that specialises in Pole Fitness and Flexibility, but I don't get as much time to train for myself as I am always teaching plus I have another business I run by myself.

I also enjoy having a weekly MMA P.T. session.

It's frustrating that I am obviously sabotaging any weightloss even though I want to lose weight so badly.

I'm starting back onto the calorie counting today.

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I want to be 50kg because that is the maximum recommended healthy weight for someone of my height....I am only 4ft 8ins. Lots of people say that is too low, but they fail to take into account that most height and weight recommendation charts have their shortest height as 4ft 10 ins.
 
Guys, I want to combine mostly cardio with some resistance training in a single training session witha 70-30 mix. My goal is to lose weight mainly and tone up. Did a Google smash and all I got was contradictory information on which one to do first in a sesson. What I've been mostly able to gather is do the one you're focusing on more first but other sources say to minmax, do one or the other first.

Without getting into too much macromicro details, help please.
 
Just a boring name said:
I joined Slimming World (I am in the UK), but left after about a year because I had gained more than when I had joined....whenever I hit the gym and followed the plan to the absolute letter I gained weight, but whenever I missed the gym or calorie counted I lost weight. Which doesn't make sense if they are supposed to be experts.
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Your solution's sitting right there. CICO is the #1 most-important step when it comes to maintaining, reducing, or adding body fat. You can't summon potential energy (fat) from nowhere; whatever you put into your body is what your body can store as fat, and since the human body needs a base number of calories to keep itself going every single day, if you don't eat beyond that + whatever calories you need to fuel your exercise, you don't gain weight. If you eat beneath that, you lose weight because the body has no choice but to tap into its fuel (fat) to make up for the deficit.

You're a personal trainer, so I don't really have to go into much more detail about it, but I was just having a discussion about this sort of thing with a friend of mine this morning, so half of this is basically for the benefit of passers-by, and because I was going to make this diagram today anyways, since her misconceptions about anorexia and calories were driving me crazy:

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It's HK-47 said:
Your solution's sitting right there. CICO is the #1 most-important step when it comes to maintaining, reducing, or adding body fat. You can't summon potential energy (fat) from nowhere; whatever you put into your body is what your body can store as fat, and since the human body needs a base number of calories to keep itself going every single day, if you don't eat beyond that + whatever calories you need to fuel your exercise, you don't gain weight. If you eat beneath that, you lose weight because the body has no choice but to tap into its fuel (fat) to make up for the deficit.

You're a personal trainer, so I don't really have to go into much more detail about it, but I was just having a discussion about this sort of thing with a friend of mine this morning, so half of this is basically for the benefit of passers-by, and because I was going to make this diagram today anyways, since her misconceptions about anorexia and calories were driving me crazy:

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I love that, thankyou.
Yeah the reason I asked to join is exactly for information presented like this.

It's so frustrating that I have all the certificates and pieces of paper to show that I know what to do to help others, but I can't seem to do it myself.

CICO is my favourite method, it is basic, simple physics, and it works. But I just can't get past my stupid "I mustn't eat more than 1000 calories" made up rule which I KNOW is no good for me, so I just end up eating as cleanly/naturally as possible and hoping for the best.

Thank you again...I'm going to spend a bit of time with that infographic as my phone screen to burn it into my brain.
 
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Just a boring name said:
I love that, thankyou.
Yeah the reason I asked to join is exactly for information presented like this.

It's so frustrating that I have all the certificates and pieces of paper to show that I know what to do to help others, but I can't seem to do it myself.

CICO is my favourite method, it is basic, simple physics, and it works. But I just can't get past my stupid "I mustn't eat more than 1000 calories" made up rule which I KNOW is no good for me, so I just end up eating as cleanly/naturally as possible and hoping for the best.

Thank you again...I'm going to spend a bit of time with that infographic as my phone screen to burn it into my brain.
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Yeah, don't do that. 1,000 Calories isn't even at the minimum requirement for an eight year-old boy. (1200-1800) Unless you're smaller than an eight year-old boy, I wouldn't recommend bringing your calories that low.
 
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Yeah, don't do that. 1,000 Calories isn't even at the minimum requirement for an eight year-old boy. (1200-1800) Unless you're smaller than an eight year-old boy, I wouldn't recommend bringing your calories that low.
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Yep. I completely agree with you.
 
So any good advice for someone trying to lose a few pounds? I am 30 lbs off my target weight for my age and height. I've cut out soda and fried foods, and its helped a lot. Kicking beer is harder though because I love it so much :(
 
mindlessobserver said:
So any good advice for someone trying to lose a few pounds? I am 30 lbs off my target weight for my age and height. I've cut out soda and fried foods, and its helped a lot. Kicking beer is harder though because I love it so much :(
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Look at naked pictures of @paintingatree and @LegendaryChristorian after you've been drinking, that should kick your appetite for booze (and any cravings you get under the influence). If for some reason the beer goggles make that person more appealing, come back and tell us about it in great detail so that we may mock and laugh at you in a thread with your name on it counsel you through the confusion.
 
It's HK-47 said:
Yeah, don't do that. 1,000 Calories isn't even at the minimum requirement for an eight year-old boy. (1200-1800) Unless you're smaller than an eight year-old boy, I wouldn't recommend bringing your calories that low.
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I aimed for 1400 and ended up floating at 1200 a day because I got tired of eating so fucking often. Lost 100lb in a matter of half a year, granted I did 30-60 mins cardio every other day.

I'm considered normal weight now, but I also just picked up cycling. I don't care for weight loss but kind of interested how this turns out, already eating in that kind of range still, but also exhausting myself a few times a week.
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Look at naked pictures of @paintingatree and @LegendaryChristorian after you've been drinking, that should kick your appetite for booze (and any cravings you get under the influence). If for some reason the beer goggles make that person more appealing, come back and tell us about it in great detail so that we may mock and laugh at you in a thread with your name on it counsel you through the confusion.
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tfw into overweight/slightly obese girls but also want to lose weight and cycle with an eventual partner. That said, I drink a decent amount weekly and I don't even know why. It's an easy way to cut a weekly gain down by just, getting an appetite for life instead. Go for walks and witness the drunk assholes falling all over the place instead.
 
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Although I gained a few pounds back after Christmas, it's been steadily in the lower 120s over the past few months. Still trying to keep it in between 115 and 120, but so far so good since we're heading into swimsuit season! I'm also gonna attempt to cut soda for every 2 weeks instead of having one once a week- it must be working, because the taste has been slowly turning me off it.
 
I managed to lose 30 lbs so far this year by cutting out the sugary sodas and replacing them with a water bottle I carry around everywhere. The first couple of months of that really fucking sucked, I will admit, but I persisted.

I also replaced the potato chips with vegetable sticks for my indica munchies food. Like I said earlier, it sucked the first couple of months, but now I am used to it.

Now I have plateaued with the weight loss, and am not losing the weight as quickly as I was when I first started this. I hate to admit that God may be trying to tell me to play less PlayStation and get outside more, but it's like this for me - I always lose quite a bit of weight during the summer since I am walking everywhere (it is not at all uncommon for me to walk home from work on a summer day, and I work eight miles away from my apartment), but during all other seasons, it is rainy outside so I sit on my ass instead. I have to learn to love going to the gym for my cardio.

Everything that is worthwhile is such hard work, it seems. I don't like going to the gym because there are always people there who overuse perfume and other scents that get my allergies going hard, even though the gym has rules posted against that, it does not stop them.
 
Midlife Sperglord said:
I managed to lose 30 lbs so far this year by cutting out the sugary sodas and replacing them with a water bottle I carry around everywhere. The first couple of months of that really fucking sucked, I will admit, but I persisted.

I also replaced the potato chips with vegetable sticks for my indica munchies food. Like I said earlier, it sucked the first couple of months, but now I am used to it.

Now I have plateaued with the weight loss, and am not losing the weight as quickly as I was when I first started this. I hate to admit that God may be trying to tell me to play less PlayStation and get outside more, but it's like this for me - I always lose quite a bit of weight during the summer since I am walking everywhere (it is not at all uncommon for me to walk home from work on a summer day, and I work eight miles away from my apartment), but during all other seasons, it is rainy outside so I sit on my ass instead. I have to learn to love going to the gym for my cardio.

Everything that is worthwhile is such hard work, it seems. I don't like going to the gym because there are always people there who overuse perfume and other scents that get my allergies going hard, even though the gym has rules posted against that, it does not stop them.
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Your weight will also plateau purely because you hacked out so many calories by doing those two things that now your body's worked its way down to more-or-less the "maximum" weight it can be with the calories you're giving it. If you went from 5,000 calories a day down to 3,000 calories a day, the weight loss would start off more sharply at first because of the drop-off, but as you got closer to the weight that 3,000 calories allowed, you'd see less and less weight rolling off the scale until it finally leveled itself off.

If you want to keep the numbers rolling, find more stuff to hack out of the diet, or start moving around some more. If you eat a lot of sandwiches, finding a low-calorie bread or wrap can help chop some excess calories relatively easily. Most breads hover around 120-140 per slice. Lower-calorie alternatives can be down to 60 per slice, and I'm familiar with at least one brand of wrap that's only 40 calories. You'd "save" around 150-200 calories per sandwich for doing something like that.

Popcorn's a good alternative for "crunchy snacks" too, since it's very easy to find entire bags of popcorn that are only 100 calories each.
 
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Your weight will also plateau purely because you hacked out so many calories by doing those two things that now your body's worked its way down to more-or-less the "maximum" weight it can be with the calories you're giving it. If you went from 5,000 calories a day down to 3,000 calories a day, the weight loss would start off more sharply at first because of the drop-off, but as you got closer to the weight that 3,000 calories allowed, you'd see less and less weight rolling off the scale until it finally leveled itself off.

If you want to keep the numbers rolling, find more stuff to hack out of the diet, or start moving around some more. If you eat a lot of sandwiches, finding a low-calorie bread or wrap can help chop some excess calories relatively easily. Most breads hover around 120-140 per slice. Lower-calorie alternatives can be down to 60 per slice, and I'm familiar with at least one brand of wrap that's only 40 calories. You'd "save" around 150-200 calories per sandwich for doing something like that.

Popcorn's a good alternative for "crunchy snacks" too, since it's very easy to find entire bags of popcorn that are only 100 calories each.
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What I really need to be doing is getting more physical activity in. I must start braving the gym on rainy days. Maybe learn how to use some free weights while I am at it - I am too terrified of injuring myself by doing them wrong to try them without any kind of supervised instruction to start with.

That needs motivation, which leads me to something else I need to implement - smoke indica a lot less often.
 
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Weighed myself the other day. 149.3, was 155. About a month ago.
 
If you're an immoderate pig like me, you might like to try intermittent fasting. It's provably good for you, and if you're not underweight, it's super easy to go a day or two without eating.

I don't intentionally eat in any particular way, but it usually works out to one meal a day, two or so days a week where I don't eat at all, and maybe one day where I'm a disgusting glutton ... all within my weekly caloric limits. My BP, triglycerides and general health are so much better than they were when I was eating regular meals.
 
I’m on a new medicine to help with my impulse control when eating, but the side effect of my jaw clenching is driving me bananas.
 
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I’m in the low 130lb range so I don’t consider myself overweight. (I don’t own a scale or have access to one, this is just an estimate based on my last check-up.) However, my body isn’t flattering about the way it stores fat. So I gave keto a shot in an attempt to get down to the 120s.

I tested positive on a urine strip after about 6 days and felt pretty healthy until about two weeks in, when I started to get sick from dehydration but couldn’t actually hold any of the water I drank.

I’m aware that keto flu can happen at least a month into the transition, but my need to be productive outweighed my desire to push through the illness.

I’d like to try this again when I have more time. It’s such a pain in the ass to get right though. The amount of protein you’re supposed to eat is insane. I don’t think I ever hit my daily 60 grams.
 
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