Weight loss support thread

[Cake Farts]

Any advice for dealing towards attitudes with food? I took someone's advice here and chronicled every time I binge ate and found out I use food to feel good, but I do it in excess. I also have a weird all or nothing mentality where if I cannot meet my caloric limit I will binge.

This year's going to be our year lads. Keep trucking along.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

I picked a target weight for a BMI of 21.75, which is exactly in the middle between underweight and overweight. It meant losing 30 pounds, and it's taken me 6 months. I like the way I look now, but I'm attracting quite a lot of negative comments. I'm also slightly worried that my body fat percentage is too low. I'm not a body builder, but I have enough lean mass that I looked okay even when technically overweight by BMI, so I'm concerned that maybe even at a healthy BMI I might be at an unhealthy body fat percentage.

I used to hang out on the my fitness pal forums a lot. This came up quite often actually. The general consensus there was that the general population has no idea what a normal Bmi looks like anymore since the average person is overweight.

If you're happy with your weight, and more importantly your doctor is (or would be if you went to the doctor regularly, I don't know where you are or your suitation), then that's all that matters. I'd suggest just coming up with a statement you can use like "I appreciate your concern, but my doctor is happy with my weight and so am I. I'm not going to discuss this further."

Use that appeal to authority fallacy to your benefit. Most people aren't going to argue with what a doctor says, not to your face. Over time as you maintain your weight and don't fall prone to the vapors the comments will die down.

Following up on a post I made ages ago:

Turns out my blood sugar (I'm diabetic) is out of control. So, for the next three months I'm going to be doing the following. Eating my normal breakfast, which is a couple egg sandwiches on low-calorie bread. Then at lunch time I'm going to have a huge salad. I'm talking a mixing bowl full of veggies. This salad will use up the rest of the calories I'm "allowed" for the day.

I plan on varying the veggies by cooking a couple bags of frozen veggies in the morning and chilling them until lunch because I'm not a big lettuce fan. I'm using my food processor to shred carrots, bought a mini processor to chop onions and mushrooms and other vegs. Bought a couple books of salad dressing recipes to make sugar free dressings. The calories in the salad will come from dressing, cheese, nuts, olives, and bacon bits - which I will vary from day to day to get a variety of nutrients and flavors.

The first day I did this I wasn't hungry until almost 8 pm, and I can live with that. My blood sugar at bedtime that night was 99, which is good.

I think if I stick to this I'll start losing weight again and be able to get off some of my blood sugar meds as my body works off the extra sugar in the body. We'll see.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

Any advice for dealing towards attitudes with food? I took someone's advice here and chronicled every time I binge ate and found out I use food to feel good, but I do it in excess. I also have a weird all or nothing mentality where if I cannot meet my caloric limit I will binge.

This year's going to be our year lads. Keep trucking along.

Realize that slow-cooked meat from the butcher tastes better than candy bars and soda. Learn to enjoy making your food, same way you learn to enjoy working out. You can either treat food as purely mechanical like /fit/izens do or treat it like a luxury item to be savored like I do.

I fucking love eating like my fat fucj and look forward to the day I start building muscle because "oh no, now I have to eta all this delicious fresh meat from the butchery I've bought, thawed, cooked, seasoned, saved in portions throughout the week AND I HAVE TO EAT A LOT OF IT!?!?!?!?" Imagine the fucking horror the average fatty must feel after through arduous dedication overcoming the state of deadly sin that objectively made him subhuman and attaining skinniness or basic socially acceptable size and thus humanity and now he is forced to indulge in his love of good food more than he ever really did before. The poison to animals, ambrosia to the godlike being he seeks to become.

"In the 7th cave at the 6th hour, he approaches what is a lake of fire to the heavy-hearted and a soothing tonic to the Just."

 

[Shig O'nella]

Any advice for dealing towards attitudes with food? I took someone's advice here and chronicled every time I binge ate and found out I use food to feel good, but I do it in excess. I also have a weird all or nothing mentality where if I cannot meet my caloric limit I will binge.

This year's going to be our year lads. Keep trucking along.

In practical terms, something very simple that works is use plates/bowls for everything.
Want some crisps? Put a handful on a plate. Wash and dry the plate when you've finished.
Bought a nice pie? Slice of it on a plate. Wash and dry the plate when you've finished the slice. You get the idea.

It's just another trick to get you to pay attention to what and how much you're eating, and the cleaning and drying the plate acts as punctuation.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

In practical terms, something very simple that works is use plates/bowls for everything.
Want some crisps? Put a handful on a plate. Wash and dry the plate when you've finished.
Bought a nice pie? Slice of it on a plate. Wash and dry the plate when you've finished the slice. You get the idea.

It's just another trick to get you to pay attention to what and how much you're eating, and the cleaning and drying the plate acts as punctuation.

Ignore this cretin. Everything worth doing is worth overdoing. If you feel like it's everything or nothing. Guess what? Your feelings are right. It is. A simple 4 day fast makes you objectively superior to the owner of this site, Joshua Pizza Pie, and that's basic bitch easy to. Sure him and his secular yes-man will wax wonderous about the failings of characters who are already losers to begin with like PPP, but guess what? You don't have a thread on this site. You're not that much of a fucking loser and yes, you should feel good about that. Fuck starving children in Africa. Imagine what you had to have done in a past life in order to deserve being reincarnated as the least of the lowest race?

Show me a great man who won by moderation and I'll link to the self-help book he's selling.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Losing my mind over not losing any weight over the past year, in spite of trying to eat healthier and I absolutely exercised more. Now that my holiday excess is officially over I'm gonna have to step it up again. Already fought the wife over this so the foundation is set.

What are considered 'healthy' salad dressings?

 

[Jarch6]

Gained a bit over winter, on the cusp of being overweight so gonna resume fasting and doing more cardio. Good luck with your endeavors lads.

Losing my mind over not losing any weight over the past year, in spite of trying to eat healthier and I absolutely exercised more. Now that my holiday excess is officially over I'm gonna have to step it up again. Already fought the wife over this so the foundation is set.

What are considered 'healthy' salad dressings?

You can get low-calorie watery type dressings like Italian, although they are pretty much always processed with shit like soybean oil (up to you if you care about that sort of stuff). There are some pricy "whole-foods" brands like Noble Made which have low-calorie dressings with good ingredients. In particular, I like this one

You could also make your own with olive oil or other stuff.

 

[Least Concern]

What are considered 'healthy' salad dressings?

Here's a dare: Try a salad without dressing. Add olives and/or croutons if you want to make it saltier, or grated carrot and/or diced tomato if you just want to give it color. Assuming you have at least a handful of different ingredients in the salad, it's already bursting with flavor. You don't need to pour a couple ounces of oil on it.

(But if that still doesn't work for you, you could try a salsa.)

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Here's a dare: Try a salad without dressing. Add olives and/or croutons if you want to make it saltier, or grated carrot and/or diced tomato if you just want to give it color. Assuming you have at least a handful of different ingredients in the salad, it's already bursting with flavor. You don't need to pour a couple ounces of oil on it.

(But if that still doesn't work for you, you could try a salsa.)

I genuinely HATE salads. I think tomatoes suck balls and I really want something to make this stuff taste as not salady as possible. Usually the wife will grill broccoli and carrots and then salt and pepper them.

 

[Least Concern]

I genuinely HATE salads. I think tomatoes suck balls and I really want something to make this stuff taste as not salady as possible.

Okay, then why force yourself to eat one? Do you just want leafy greens? Try steamed or grilled brussels sprouts with a bit of salt (brussels sprouts tasting bad is just a meme; they basically just taste like cabbage) or some steamed spinach or collard greens with some minced garlic or even raisins, crushed walnuts, and bacon bits.

I'm not as thin as I'd like to be but I've never had a problem with eating my veggies. Just gotta do it, I guess.

 

[The I Scream Man]

Losing my mind over not losing any weight over the past year, in spite of trying to eat healthier and I absolutely exercised more. Now that my holiday excess is officially over I'm gonna have to step it up again. Already fought the wife over this so the foundation is set.

What are considered 'healthy' salad dressings?

Others have commented on this but the only truly healthy salad dressing is oil and vinegar, olive oil and red wine to be specific. Olive oil does have some calories but hardly any if you use it in moderation, so if you want absolutely no added calories then red wine vinegar all day long.

 

[Foltest]

What would the best workout be to lose four kg in six months?

 

[Sad Chad]

What would the best workout be to lose four kg in six months?

You could probably lose 4 kg in around a month with diet alone. Just count calories and keep it under 1,800. Try eating food with low caloric density (non-starchy vegatables, lean meat).

That being said, the more muscle mass you ar able to maintain, the more calories you'll passively burn.

If you have access to a gym try exercising your major muscle groups. I'd focus on chest, back and legs.

Here is a 3 day split I used to use. It helped me burn off over 60lbs.

Push Day: Chest Press Barbell 3 sets 10 reps, Incline Chest Press Dumbbells 3 set 10 reps, Chest Flys 2 sets 12 reps, Dips 3 sets failure

Pull Day: Deadlifts 3 sets 8 reps, Lat Pull downs 3 sets 10 reps or Pullups 3 sets to failure, Seated cable row 3 sets 10 reps, Bicep curls 3 sets 8-10 reps

Leg Day: Squats 3 sets 8 reps, Leg press 3 sets 10 reps, Leg curls (machine) 3 sets 10 reps, Calf raises 3 sets of 10, Shoulder presses 3 sets of 10 (becuase shoulders didnt really fit in any other day)

If you are just looking for a few exercises I'd stick to Chest Press', Deadlifts, Pullups and Squats.

Best of luck!

 

[Fjöreskin]

5lbs down. I am 10lbs overweight. I used to be pretty strong and defined. Soft now. I am excited to make progress though. Good luck everyone. Time passes regardless, might at well eat at a deficit even if it is small.

 

[EnemyStand]

So fell off the the wagon pretty hard but I'm back on. Started a boxing class and I've been sticking with it. The exercise helps with my appetite (I get less hungry when I get a good workout) and I'm sticking around 1800 cals a day outside of cheats, Pissing all the time from the water. Pants getting looser. Starting weight training next week to help burn fat more passively. My new mantra is "If Tyson can get to 220 at 54, I can at 30." It's been surprisingly helpful with motivation.

 

[igordarin]

I've had three bad binge days this week, which isn't good, and if I keep doing them, I'm going to start gaining weight again.

Thing is, for the next few days after a binge, my energy levels have felt higher than they've been in months, and I'm able to train far harder than I would otherwise. I suspect it's all just about glycogen stores, which also mess with figuring out how much I weigh, since I've consistently read that you can gain and lose 3kg just from filling and crashing your glycogen stores, something which is achievable in the space of a day.

I'd like to be at my target weight at max glycogen, but I'm not sure I'm there yet.

 

[lurk_moar]

I am checking in.

I only lost one pound on vacation. My weight is plateauing again.

I did get my dental surgery in Mexico and contracted C. diff from Clindamycin prophylaxis.

C. diff sucks. I feel exhausted and tired. I worked out Friday before my night shift, and my C. diff symptoms got worse. I feel a lot more exhausted working out with C. diff. I feel like I regressed when it comes to my physical fitness. I won't be working out until I get some formed stools. I am taking a break from working out but not dieting. I had to take a break from working out due to dental surgery per my dentist. I will be seeing my nurse practitioner for antibiotics on Monday evening. I will start a course of probiotics after I finish my antibiotics.

My new diet plan is to eat at a smaller deficit while trying to work out and move more. I will burn the last twenty pounds by mostly exercising instead of dieting. I am still consuming lots of protein. I want to gain more muscle while losing the last bit of fat. I am trying to lift more weights and not fall off the weight-lifting wagon. I just love my cardio. I used to listen to audiobooks while lifting, but I prefer to listen to music while lifting. I always listen to music while doing cardio.

Due to losing a grand total of 80 pounds in three years, I have a lot of loose skin, so I am consuming lots of collagen. I lost a grand total of 47 pounds in 2021. I heard that a full-body lift surgery is expensive and would rather see if collagen would tighten things up naturally. I also know that a full-body lift surgery does take a while to recover.

 

[judge claude frollo]

I don't know if my progress is considered slow, fast, or normal pace, but I have officially lost 50 elbees on day 300

I don't see much physical change in myself, but I notice other positive things.

I still have about 25-30 lbs to go until I think I'd feel comfortable. But to be honest, I don't have much of a goal except for just losing weight. It's sometimes hard because I'm a short person. Often throughout these 300 days, I could barely make it to 1100 calories a day. Sometimes I just felt...fine, eating less. Other days I felt like I could binge, but honestly? The "binge" meals I've given myself, rarely equated past 700 calories and made my brain and body feel incredible, without going over my cal intake. In the past, when I was fatter, I was an unstoppable eating machine and I'm positive 700 calories would have been just a typical snack lel

As for exercise, I really don't do much except walking everywhere I go. I also have an exercise bike that I use about 2 times a week IF I feel like it. I'm pretty bad when it comes to using it.

 

[Stoneheart]

I used to listen to audiobooks while lifting, but I prefer to listen to music while lifting. I always listen to music while doing cardio.

You will only need one song for all future workouts.

 

[Not a local]

I've fallen quite hard over the last month or so. Was at a solid 155lbs 6ft 0in. Currently at 163lbs. Feels bad, but it only takes a few days of good eating to start recovery. Gotta keep my head up, and suppress my self doubts.

Also happy to see so many are doing well. Good job kiwis!