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Managed to drop another pants size from 34 to 32 while being the same brand. Also been cooking for my parents and keeping them on the straight and narrow by telling them to avoid junk food and snacking from packaging. Thanks to that, my mother managed to fit into her old pants and is 6 lbs away from her goal weight.

Catloaf said:
Lost a total of 10 pounds. Plateau'd at some point but I'm losing more now. Fuck cortisone weight (:_(
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Find a 10 lbs bag of flour and start carrying it around with you everywhere you go. Suddenly, "only" losing 10lbs seems a lot more impressive. I know it's easy to get discouraged when you're not losing as much as you want, but remember that part of losing weight is keeping it off.
 
Alright so what the hell is the explaination for when I'm clearly losing weight (slimmer face, smaller sizes start fitting etc.) but the scale won't budge ? I looked it up and the results ranged from poor sleep to water weight to muscle gain. I'm hoping it's muscle gain.
 
EpicGamerMoment said:
Alright so what the hell is the explaination for when I'm clearly losing weight (slimmer face, smaller sizes start fitting etc.) but the scale won't budge ? I looked it up and the results ranged from poor sleep to water weight to muscle gain. I'm hoping it's muscle gain.
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That's about the only logical explanation for it that I can see. Unless your scale is lying to you, if you have visible weight loss cues like looser clothes and different appearance, it has to be muscle gain and/or water weight coupled with fat loss in those areas. If you're feeling good and have energy and a good diet, chalk it up to healthy progress. If not, maybe get checked out by a doctor.


As for me, today's weigh-in I tipped the scales at 209.8#. from a starting weight of 308#. That makes a total of 98.2# weight loss so far. Surprising for me especially since I've admittedly slacked off on going to the gym regularly the last couple of weeks, although I've kept up on diet and calorie counting and other forms of light exercise and outdoor activities.
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EpicGamerMoment said:
Alright so what the hell is the explaination for when I'm clearly losing weight (slimmer face, smaller sizes start fitting etc.) but the scale won't budge ? I looked it up and the results ranged from poor sleep to water weight to muscle gain. I'm hoping it's muscle gain.
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Get a scale that measures (more like estimates but it'll suffice) fat tissue%, bone, muscle etc. You can find them quite cheap.
What you're interested in is not the actual values, but the trends. It's always the trends. So while a scale can derp and spit an inaccurate number, let's say 13% body fat, if no firmware/algorithms change, you wanna see how that trends over time. It's less relevant that you're actually at 16% body fat with a properly scientific DEXA measurement; what's relevant is that you start gaining in muscle and losing in body fat% (of course, up to desired levels and while staying healthy - you can obviously be too thin and you need adipose tissue for your body to function correctly
 
SunbeamReading said:
I deadass do not have motivation to continue a weight loss journey. I always cycle through starting, losing motivation due to laziness or work stress and then stop all together. Am I just retarded or is it partially the fact I seen people around me do the same?
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Right there with you. Its tough to get the motivation to continue a cut after a month and seeing minimal results
 
SunbeamReading said:
I deadass do not have motivation to continue a weight loss journey. I always cycle through starting, losing motivation due to laziness or work stress and then stop all together. Am I just retarded or is it partially the fact I seen people around me do the same?
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I think you're correct, I suspect it's largely an environmental thing.

The phrase "weight loss journey" already seems a little worrying, that's the kind of term adipose creatures like Amberlynn Reid use, and it's incredible how when you look at morbidly obese people like that, virtually every single person around them is a fat slob. I don't want to be too harsh to the fats but I find it seriously revolting.

It shouldn't be a "journey", it's just how someone eats. If it's some separate thing nobody is going to stick with it.

I feel bad for the fats who really try, they don't understand how much of what they consume is straight up borderline inedible fucking slop and how their habits contribute to their fatness, simply because they see the people around them do it and consider it normal. But that's also not something a person can convey through a computer screen.

This shouldn't be a struggle, eating well is actually pretty great and you feel good when you do it. Give me a sack of fresh broccoli, nig.
 
SunbeamReading said:
I deadass do not have motivation to continue a weight loss journey. I always cycle through starting, losing motivation due to laziness or work stress and then stop all together. Am I just retarded or is it partially the fact I seen people around me do the same?
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Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
So, how does one lose 10-20lbs in a quick but reasonable timeframe?
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Diets by themselves suck real bad.
You need to train, you need to cardio, a lot, so you're hurting and tired and can't eat for hours.
If you like to eat, that's the only way to create caloric deficit.
I would not be able to diet. I like food. Each time I was injured and could not run, or play basketball or anything, I just gained weight. Last time I was sick I gained like 9kgs in just 2 months.
Start training so you can eat properly
 
AgendaPoster said:
Diets by themselves suck real bad.
You need to train, you need to cardio, a lot, so you're hurting and tired and can't eat for hours.
If you like to eat, that's the only way to create caloric deficit.
I would not be able to diet. I like food. Each time I was injured and could not run, or play basketball or anything, I just gained weight. Last time I was sick I gained like 9kgs in just 2 months.
Start training so you can eat properly
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So run a lot and I will lose lbs?
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
So run a lot and I will lose lbs?
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Up to a point, yes. Most regular runners eventually reach some sort of equilibrium. From my observations of various athletes, it's around 19-21 BMI and 12-14% body fat.
Of course, it's not that simple to just run (unless you're used to it/great at it), you have to start slow, rest and fuel correctly, or you will get injured for sure, running is very taxing.
Alternatives are biking, spinning bike for safety, long walks, swimming etc.
But getting used to running regularly, like 5 days/week for an hour or so, will almost surely guarantee weight loss even if you keep eating... normally. If you insist on stuffing your face with fast food and ice cream in industrial quantities you'll just make it way harder and longer
 
AgendaPoster said:
Up to a point, yes. Most regular runners eventually reach some sort of equilibrium. From my observations of various athletes, it's around 19-21 BMI and 12-14% body fat.
Of course, it's not that simple to just run (unless you're used to it/great at it), you have to start slow, rest and fuel correctly, or you will get injured for sure, running is very taxing.
Alternatives are biking, spinning bike for safety, long walks, swimming etc.
But getting used to running regularly, like 5 days/week for an hour or so, will almost surely guarantee weight loss even if you keep eating... normally. If you insist on stuffing your face with fast food and ice cream in industrial quantities you'll just make it way harder and longer
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Recommend any apps or programs? . I am not fat, but I can see what is down this road and it is not pretty.
 
AgendaPoster said:
But getting used to running regularly, like 5 days/week for an hour or so, will almost surely guarantee weight loss even if you keep eating... normally. If you insist on stuffing your face with fast food and ice cream in industrial quantities you'll just make it way harder and longer
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Emphasis on the latter part. Too many people think that if they go to the gym regularly and change nothing about their eating habits that the fat will just magically disappear. There's a limit to how many calories you can burn from workouts; the oft-repeated phrase is "you can't outrun a bad diet". Exercise helps but realistically weight loss is not going to happen if you don't cut back on your food intake.
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
Recommend any apps or programs? . I am not fat, but I can see what is down this road and it is not pretty.
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Yeah sure.
First thing you want is a pair of decent running shoes, and some clothes appropriate for the weather. Shoes are very important. The repetitive nature of running will fuck with your legs, so ideally you go to a store and some expert recommends you something that fits well (i.e. is a bit larger than usual shoes)
Second you wanna simply go out and do a 2-5k run, see how it goes. If you don't get too depressed and wanna keep going, you will want to consider a few tools so you can track progress:
- something to measure heart rate, lots of cheap fitness bands with relative accurate measuring if you don't wanna spend. A decent/good running watch is about 250USD, so not that expensive
- the app the band will come from to centralize data
- alternatively, you can just start with the Strava app and no HR measuring
- some proper socks are also important
- a scale that can measure fat tissue% would be nice
You can post in the running thread so we don't derail this too much, tag me if you have specific questions, a budget etc.
You don't wanna overspend cause many people just get bored and don't keep at it. Once you're pretty sure you enjoy it, you can invest more, in stuff like winter apparel, trail shoes etc. You don't want some nastier weather to ground you in house cause you'll lose your progress in mere weeks, and it's incredibly annoying.
 
Moved back home recently. Even with the wife's delicious meals, I've kept the 30lbs off, mostly with portion control. Since I no longer have free access to a gym, gonna join the Y soon so I can switch up my cardio to swimming.

As for advice: the best thing I ever did was split to 5 meals a day with small portions. I have a bad habit of overeating, which stretches your stomach, which leads to you needing more food to feel full. Switch to 5 smaller meals, then I dropped the in between meals. Still works like a charm.
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
Exercise helps but realistically weight loss is not going to happen if you don't cut back on your food intake.
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Many people don't eat very much, they are just extremely sedentary. For example, a typical modern male would go to work at 8AM, stay at a desktop for 8 hrs with 2 pauses, drive home, maybe go shopping, usually with the car, come home and play games and eat, fall asleep, repeat.
That's like 90% sedentarism. Even if you eat "healthily", you will slowly get fat, cause you don't burn almost anything. If you have such a diet it's not really necessary to cut back. Plus, you really wanna fuel properly if you do a lot of cardio.
 
AgendaPoster said:
Many people don't eat very much, they are just extremely sedentary. For example, a typical modern male would go to work at 8AM, stay at a desktop for 8 hrs with 2 pauses, drive home, maybe go shopping, usually with the car, come home and play games and eat, fall asleep, repeat.
That's like 90% sedentarism. Even if you eat "healthily", you will slowly get fat, cause you don't burn almost anything. If you have such a diet it's not really necessary to cut back. Plus, you really wanna fuel properly if you do a lot of cardio.
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I'm referring to the seriously overweight who decide to "make a change" without actually changing their lifestyle other than spending more time at the gym.

Skinnyfat/slightly overweight couch potatoes are a separate matter. If you're sedentary you can still lose weight with a caloric deficit. You should maintain a baseline level of physical activity, but for different reasons. Heart health, improved mood, greater physical strength, more energy, but it's simply not a hard requirement for losing weight. Same for a "healthy" diet. You should eat healthy foods because it offers many separate benefits in addition to making a caloric deficit easier to maintain, but again it's far from impossible to maintain a caloric deficit while eating horribly. If you're gaining weight you're not eating at a deficit. Change that and you will lose weight regardless of your activity level.

I stress this nuance because I've seen far too many of the lifelong obese tell themselves they're making a change because they're hitting all their macros and eating enough of the things they should eat in addition to exercising, but at the same time they're still eating over their maintenance. They never actually start losing weight because it isn't stressed to them enough that a caloric deficit is a nonnegotiable requirement.
 
Losing about 0.75kg a week when I don’t have an event or something that knocks me off course for a day or two. One thing I’ve noticed is my resting heart rate is slowly dropping from where it used to be. I’m on medication that raises my heart rate so it’s nice to naturally drop it with weight loss and exercise. Not long now til my first 10kg dropped.
 
Ultrapenguin said:
I think you're correct, I suspect it's largely an environmental thing.

The phrase "weight loss journey" already seems a little worrying, that's the kind of term adipose creatures like Amberlynn Reid use, and it's incredible how when you look at morbidly obese people like that, virtually every single person around them is a fat slob. I don't want to be too harsh to the fats but I find it seriously revolting.

It shouldn't be a "journey", it's just how someone eats. If it's some separate thing nobody is going to stick with it.

I feel bad for the fats who really try, they don't understand how much of what they consume is straight up borderline inedible fucking slop and how their habits contribute to their fatness, simply because they see the people around them do it and consider it normal. But that's also not something a person can convey through a computer screen.

This shouldn't be a struggle, eating well is actually pretty great and you feel good when you do it. Give me a sack of fresh broccoli, nig.
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Agreed, a lot of healthy options are awesome if you know how to prepare them. Healthy foods aren't the problem for me, I just personally need exercise due to PCOS making weight loss a bit more difficult, but not impossible.
 
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