Weight loss support thread

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

How do you lose weight fasting properly?

I was doing really good fasting about 2/7 days of the week, by which I mean waiting until 8:00 PM to have a meal about 700 calories on fast days.

But then I gained half of it back over Christmas, and since then I've lost some of that, but it seems like it's just stalled out. I fast 4/10 days - I go 3 fast, 3 eat, 1 fast, 3 eat - but it seems to make no difference and I feel like I'm losing my mind by day three. I drink coffee and zero-calorie Gatorade but it just covers up the hunger, and it makes me feel bloated and shitty.

 

[kickingstones]

Ended the year on 223.6 lbs

Not happy with the plateau but new year, new routine, new plan, perfect time to play anyways. More working out. More cardio. No more fasting, either. Gonna try to drop the remaining 80 before June 1st. I don't know what I'll weigh exactly at 8-12% but my best guesstimate is 140lbs or lean/skinny. Whatever works.

Don't wish me luck, I work too hard to need it.

140 seem horrible for anyone who isnt a manlet or trying to make a ufc weight cut. Im at 215 and I only want to lose about another 20-30 ilbs.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

140 seem horrible for anyone who isnt a manlet or trying to make a ufc weight cut. Im at 215 and I only want to lose about another 20-30 ilbs.

I'm 5'5 and being realistic, I'm never going to be a Arnold Swarzernnigger and I don't see Lee Priest as really appealing. I'm going to become a hungry skeleton and then do swimming/running/endless cardio and stamina training to become the cutest little fuck machine your girlfriend has ever made a habit of cheating on you with. Because, yes, I would have been 6'0 but God decided I needed 7 inches of fat cock.

Why, yes, I am completely fucking delusional. That's why I'm better than you.

 

[Civil Serpent]

After many years of trying to lose weight I have decided to get WLS. I will be having online consultations with a couple of physicians. Didn't want to go this route but I am miserable.

 

[kickingstones]

I'm 5'5 and being realistic, I'm never going to be a Arnold Swarzernnigger and I don't see Lee Priest as really appealing. I'm going to become a hungry skeleton and then do swimming/running/endless cardio and stamina training to become the cutest little fuck machine your girlfriend has ever made a habit of cheating on you with. Because, yes, I would have been 6'0 but God decided I needed 7 inches of fat cock.

Why, yes, I am completely fucking delusional. That's why I'm better than you.

You might as well go all out. good luck and if u knew the women i have fucked, im not that concerned.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

You might as well go all out. good luck and if u knew the women i have fucked, im not that concerned.

You will be, General.

 

[The I Scream Man]

As of today I have lost 65 pounds since last September, I kinda plateaued over the holidays but the literal instant I started to put in any effort at all I started to lose again

Don't give up yall, you can do it!

 

[Mister Mint]

Alright, time to start Operation Un-gunt

I lost about 40 pounds a few years ago, but situation changes fucked things up and I gained about 25 of that back. And I still had about 110 to lose anyway. So:

Goal: Lose 135 lbs at a rate of about 2lbs a week

Methods:
1. Watch calories - ultimately, eat whatever so long as I come in at my calorie goal. I don't care if I eat nothing but sticks of butter as long as it's under my calories. But, obviously I'll have a better time of it if I don't.

2. Intermittent fasting - I'm always skeptical of weight loss shit that claims to melt off the pounds and help you live forever, but following this basically skips breakfast which is a few hundred calories a day. It could help, but I don't drink coffee and breakfast is my only source of energy slogging through miserable work mornings, so if this is too miserable I'll just drop it, it's not crucial.

3. Volume eating - Much of the time rather than eating small portions of delicious foods I'll eat huge portions of foods that kind of suck but are healthier.

4. Home gym - Elliptical & weights for cardio and strength.

I'm one week in and it's going pretty smoothly. Even been a few hundred calories under goal thanks to the volume eating filling me up pretty adequately.

 

[kickingstones]

Alright, time to start Operation Un-gunt

I lost about 40 pounds a few years ago, but situation changes fucked things up and I gained about 25 of that back. And I still had about 110 to lose anyway. So:

Goal: Lose 135 lbs at a rate of about 2lbs a week

Methods:
1. Watch calories - ultimately, eat whatever so long as I come in at my calorie goal. I don't care if I eat nothing but sticks of butter as long as it's under my calories. But, obviously I'll have a better time of it if I don't.

2. Intermittent fasting - I'm always skeptical of weight loss shit that claims to melt off the pounds and help you live forever, but following this basically skips breakfast which is a few hundred calories a day. It could help, but I don't drink coffee and breakfast is my only source of energy slogging through miserable work mornings, so if this is too miserable I'll just drop it, it's not crucial.

3. Volume eating - Much of the time rather than eating small portions of delicious foods I'll eat huge portions of foods that kind of suck but are healthier.

4. Home gym - Elliptical & weights for cardio and strength.

I'm one week in and it's going pretty smoothly. Even been a few hundred calories under goal thanks to the volume eating filling me up pretty adequately.

I skip breakfast and I dont drink coffee as well. You're gonna get sapped a couple months deep working a living as so, but if you can power through it your body will eventually adjust. Then youre eating habits will become second nature. Good luck.

 

[Nero You're DeadWeight]

I haven't checked into the thread for a while, but i'm finally 162 lbs! I just got 15-20 lbs left to go and i'm super excited. I took a mini haitus due to school and the holidays but i'm back into the swing of working out.

My goal for myself is 145 lbs, but my doctor recommended 150lbs for me. I feel like I should listen to him before I go back into my really bad habits again. I did accidentally get an eating disorder due to some extreme dieting / personal trauma and it's kinda hard to break that but i'm getting through it.

Does anyone have any good routines to loose triceps and inner thigh fat? Those are really all I got left to loose.

 

[Stoneheart]

1. Watch calories - ultimately, eat whatever so long as I come in at my calorie goal. I don't care if I eat nothing but sticks of butter as long as it's under my calories. But, obviously I'll have a better time of it if I don't.

2. Intermittent fasting - I'm always skeptical of weight loss shit that claims to melt off the pounds and help you live forever, but following this basically skips breakfast which is a few hundred calories a day. It could help, but I don't drink coffee and breakfast is my only source of energy slogging through miserable work mornings, so if this is too miserable I'll just drop it, it's not crucial.

3. Volume eating - Much of the time rather than eating small portions of delicious foods I'll eat huge portions of foods that kind of suck but are healthier.

are you a woman?

4. Home gym - Elliptical & weights for cardio and strength.

just eat normal and do more.

for the love of god...

 

[Mister Mint]

are you a woman?


just eat normal and do more.

for the love of god...

I mean, "eat normal and do more" is basically the condensed version, really.

 

[MARlNA]

I had lost a ton of weight in 2020 and was back in a normal weight range, but 2021 hit hard and I gained about 20 back. I'm not at what I started at, at least, but I am still pretty disappointed in myself. However, I have gone back to intermittent fasting and weight-lifting + running which has caused me to already lose 5 pounds since Christmas which is nice.

Crunching super hard and staying on top of things has paid off as I have now lost 18 pounds, so two pounds away from my goal! I am very proud of myself.

 

[EnemyStand]

Okay, so I'm going to do another update. Staying at my 1000-1200 deficit a day diet. I've stopped thinking of it as a diet and more of a cut, because that's more or less what I'm doing. So, my weight did some weird shit these past 2 weeks. First the scale said 335 which I was happy about, because that meant I lost 5 in a week. Then the next week it said 339 which freaked me out (I had eaten late the previous night and this was after breakfast and before workout). Anyway. this week I was 330, which if you subtract the pound or two of my clothes left coming in just under 330 el bees (329-ish). I'm gonna make it bros! I want to start cutting carbs but I don't want to waste food...I'm on my last box of pasta, half a loaf of bread, and some cup noodles and Kraft Mac and Cheese (or Dinner if you're a leaf). Once the bread's gone I'm going to make some keto bread for my sandwiches and just try and bake a loaf a week.

I have been being good about going to the gym (group classes helped a lot) but I missed these past two days because of the snowstorm. I'm upset, because now I have to lift Sunday and Monday back to back (if they're even open Saturday...). I do light stuff so it's not a huge issue, but still...

 

[Johnny Clyde Cash]

Okay, so I'm going to do another update. Staying at my 1000-1200 deficit a day diet. I've stopped thinking of it as a diet and more of a cut, because that's more or less what I'm doing. So, my weight did some weird shit these past 2 weeks. First the scale said 335 which I was happy about, because that meant I lost 5 in a week. Then the next week it said 339 which freaked me out (I had eaten late the previous night and this was after breakfast and before workout). Anyway. this week I was 330, which if you subtract the pound or two of my clothes left coming in just under 330 el bees (329-ish). I'm gonna make it bros! I want to start cutting carbs but I don't want to waste food...I'm on my last box of pasta, half a loaf of bread, and some cup noodles and Kraft Mac and Cheese (or Dinner if you're a leaf). Once the bread's gone I'm going to make some keto bread for my sandwiches and just try and bake a loaf a week.

I have been being good about going to the gym (group classes helped a lot) but I missed these past two days because of the snowstorm. I'm upset, because now I have to lift Sunday and Monday back to back (if they're even open Saturday...). I do light stuff so it's not a huge issue, but still...

I tried baking keto bread for myself last year. Specifically I made bread using almond flour and flatbread with chickpea flour (chickpea flour flatbread was better imo). One benefit of those is that the breads tend to be higher in protein, which helps with satiety and gains, since that sounds like something you're working towards. I can pass along the recipes I used if you'd like!

Dealing with the 'wasted food' mindset was a hard obstacle to deal with when I started dieting, but know that it's okay to toss or donate stuff that you don't want to eat. Scales can just be weird sometimes too. Phantom water weight just pops on sometimes outta nowhere. I remember getting really discouraged by that too. After I'd eat something particularly carb-heavy like Indian food or pizza I'd have phantom water weight that'd cloud my scale results for a week or so.

I will say that for me personally, I found that cutting carbs to keto-diet level didn't work for me in the sense that I found myself not having a lot of energy to really push myself at the gym like I used to, but it certainly worked in terms of losing weight. I ended up dropping it once I'd reached my weight goals to focus on bulking to gain back the muscle I'd lost.

Sounds like you've got a good plan going for you! Stick to it!

 

[EnemyStand]

I tried baking keto bread for myself last year. Specifically I made bread using almond flour and flatbread with chickpea flour (chickpea flour flatbread was better imo). One benefit of those is that the breads tend to be higher in protein, which helps with satiety and gains, since that sounds like something you're working towards. I can pass along the recipes I used if you'd like!

I found one, but I can always use more. Send them over. Trying different things in the kitchen is fun.

Dealing with the 'wasted food' mindset was a hard obstacle to deal with when I started dieting, but know that it's okay to toss or donate stuff that you don't want to eat.

Yeah, you're right. I don't just want to throw it out, so I'll re-home the worst of it. I have friends who aren't worried about their diets, and one's a young poorfag so he'd probably appreciate some free food. I dumped out some apple juice and beer already, but it had been taking up space in my fridge for months so that wasn't hard to do.

I will say that for me personally, I found that cutting carbs to keto-diet level didn't work for me in the sense that I found myself not having a lot of energy to really push myself at the gym like I used to, but it certainly worked in terms of losing weight. I ended up dropping it once I'd reached my weight goals to focus on bulking to gain back the muscle I'd lost.

Sounds like you've got a good plan going for you! Stick to it!

Not planning on keto, probably going to do 130g a day unless that's too high. I can always reduce. I'm more focused on losses over gains right now. I'm just trying to build up lean muscle to help burn the fat when I'm not exercising and build up the areas that increase punching power a little. I'll do the same with bigger lifts once I hit my goals. Hoping to be lifting somewhat seriously by late fall, early winter. This time next year at the latest. I still have about 130 pounds to cut, after all. The plans working, just need to continue to implement. We're all gonna make it!

 

[N. Gin]

Pre-COVID I was pretty active, going to the gym 4-5 times a week and was consistently around 185 - 190 lbs at just under six feet tall. Once the gyms all closed down, I just completely fell off and continuously gained weight up until the end of 2021, where I ended up weighing 237 lbs. It was after seeing myself in family photos taken on Christmas Day, and how fucking fat I'd gotten that I decided I'd had enough, and decided to focus on getting back to my original pre-COVID weight by summer. And so, I started Intermittent Fasting (18:6) while doing HIIT 2-3 times a week, regular weight training and having one cheat day a week. Cut to today, I now weigh 213 lbs and have lost 24 lbs since the start of the new year, already halfway to my original weight.

We're all gonna make it bros.

 

[Fjöreskin]

Began wearing a double up resistance band around my ankles and walking with wide as I can muster sweeping motions (monster walk) up and down the local football field. I am 3lbs behind my weight loss plan, but my ass has never looked so good, so quick.

 

[Realistic Elephant]

How do you lose weight fasting properly?

I was doing really good fasting about 2/7 days of the week, by which I mean waiting until 8:00 PM to have a meal about 700 calories on fast days.

But then I gained half of it back over Christmas, and since then I've lost some of that, but it seems like it's just stalled out. I fast 4/10 days - I go 3 fast, 3 eat, 1 fast, 3 eat - but it seems to make no difference and I feel like I'm losing my mind by day three. I drink coffee and zero-calorie Gatorade but it just covers up the hunger, and it makes me feel bloated and shitty.

A number of things come to mind:

1. I've noticed huge swings in fasting due to water weight, especially around holidays of course. It can also vary due to some unexpected factors like stress, time of year, etc. You'll lose a lot of water weight when fasting due to glycogen. I once put on 10 whole pounds of water weight over the course of a weekend due to various factors (salt intake especially).

2. Maybe try a 16-8 intermittent fast several days per week rather than two days with a one-meal-per-day fast. You may be compensating for the fast days by eating more on the regular days, even if you don't know or notice it. More consistent fasting produces less volatility and you become more comfortable doing so. OMAD is more difficult unless you've acclimated to it, although it also has more powerful health benefits.

3. Could just be a pleateau. Also, going off of #2, you might not be generating a very large caloric deficit with just two days' fasting so it may be a very gradual loss. Losing a pound a month isn't much but it adds up over time.

4. If you're exercising more, especially if you weren't active, you could be building a lot of muscle. I noticed this when I started working out again, my weight didn't seem to budge a lot but I could tell I was losing fat.

5. Not sure if you're male or female but women have a much more difficult time fasting in general (and it may be a bad idea or dangerous in certain circumstances) and get better results from shorter duration fasts.

Personally - down 35 pounds since last fall. Started at 250(!) and down to about 225 on my last weigh-in. I've been upping the exercise at the gym which helps a lot as well, plus it's good to relax after work with the hot tub/steam room/sauna.

 

[Realistic Elephant]

Pre-COVID I was pretty active, going to the gym 4-5 times a week and was consistently around 185 - 190 lbs at just under six feet tall. Once the gyms all closed down, I just completely fell off and continuously gained weight up until the end of 2021, where I ended up weighing 237 lbs. It was after seeing myself in family photos taken on Christmas Day, and how fucking fat I'd gotten that I decided I'd had enough, and decided to focus on getting back to my original pre-COVID weight by summer. And so, I started Intermittent Fasting (18:6) while doing HIIT 2-3 times a week, regular weight training and having one cheat day a week. Cut to today, I now weigh 213 lbs and have lost 24 lbs since the start of the new year, already halfway to my original weight.

We're all gonna make it bros.

Damn straight, I'm in the same place. Forgot how much I missed it after finally getting back to the gym.