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Weight loss support thread
- Thread starter AtroposHeart
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It was the pasta. Not the pandemic.
Am I the only person who has lost weight in all this? I was 86kg (am 6f3 no clue on BMI) a year back. I'm now poor and just over 74kg. I dont have the money to order take out, I've I've tightened my food budget and eat less. So much less. Around 1200-1500 calories a day depending on activity level.
People need to stop blaming anything and everything except themselves. Eating too much and doing too little makes you fat. Not a pandemic. The pandemic didn't make you order Door Dash or overeat and if you are eating too much because you're stressefwith the current world? Being fat means you are way more likely to die of coof.
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YES IT DID
the virus turns people into boogie2988, and if you don't believe me i'm done with life and finishing it once and for all
also here's a dog pic in case you have a problem with any of that
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I doordashed way too much halal food for my own good.
I can't get enough lamb and rice.
I can't get enough lamb and rice.
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Does anyone have strong opinions on the time of day they work out? I run the treadmill about an 45min to an hour usually in the afternoons, but my work schedule might change. Is treadmilling first thing in the AM shitty? Should you cardio on an empty stomach or is that a crappy thing to do?
I'm down about 11 lbs just from that and haphazardly calorie counting. Today I got a food scale and one of them new fangled fitness watches so I'm gonna step it up to hopefully get through another 10 lbs more astutely. I dont want to slip while adjusting my schedule!
I'm down about 11 lbs just from that and haphazardly calorie counting. Today I got a food scale and one of them new fangled fitness watches so I'm gonna step it up to hopefully get through another 10 lbs more astutely. I dont want to slip while adjusting my schedule!
Damien Thorne
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Well, my doctor just told me to give up alcohol (especially beer) altogether for the rest of my life. As well as limiting all sorts of purine rich foods, since apparently I have developed gout. Burgers will be a thing of the past for me. At least it is further motivation to lose more weight than I already did so far this year.
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This might feel like a total non-answer, but it varies from person to person. If you're a 'morning person's, it should come naturally. If you struggle in the morning, it'll be harder until you get used to it. Same goes for fasted exercise; if you can workout on an empty stomach any other time of day, it won't matter in the morning. If you need a little something pre workout, then you'll have to make time for digestion.
Effectivness-wise, studies have shown that fasted vs fed exercise shows no difference. Some people think their bodies will burn more fat if they're fasted, but that's just wishful thinking. Don't torture yourself just trying to lose the weight lol.
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Not a non answer at all; just wanted to throw it out there to see if anyone has outstanding preferences. The internet is full of conflicting info, as you can imagine, so I'll experiment with fasted exercise a bit while it's not totally necessary.
Hard agree on not torting yourself to lose the pounds. Trying to keep things wholesome and positive
Healthy choices, fam, for your mind too.
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For me, I like to work out around 3pm-5pm ish. I usually do a half an hour session on the elliptical while watching a show. I could work out earlier if I wanted to, but usually the afternoon wind from the window feels great and the sun isn't BLAZING thru the curtains. If I don't do that, I go for a good mile n a half walk around the neighborhood and enjoy the sun setting so it's not burning my eyeballs. But it really does depend. Heck some people I know work out early in the morning to get it out the way which is pretty fair.
Oh damn I didn't know that! I have an issue with not eating before working out but that's nice to know it doesn't work like that. Thank you farmer. I will say on top of this, don't beat yourself up over not 1000% sticking to your routine. You'll end up demotivating yourself, or you'll end up doing something super unhealthy. I'm way too hard on myself (and honestly thing I may have failed loosing 5 lbs this month due to life n school shit) and I've realized by focusing on things that haven't like go away (say my arms) I actually demotivate myself, or I end up starving myself or over eating. As happy as I am to loose weight I do worry I dip into "anna-chan" focusing on my body sometimes since I want it gone IMIDATELY but I know that won't happen.
Remember you have the right to eat. You don't have to starve yourself to loose weight or else if you do it enough you'll end up fixating on your body unhealthily which may attribute to weight gain or very unhealthy weight loss. TLDR: Yes, you can have that cookie, no you don't need to beat yourself up for having it. Your human and deserve a treat here n there and at the end of the day you WILL loose that weight. Just do it safely and healthily.
if anything doing workouts after 15min of eating light stuff is more about the stomach's health than losing weight or not, same thing with warmups, some doods are finding out that doing warmups before and after the exercises reduce the general pain later on because of the scar tissue in the muscle being destroyed. all i know is that forgetting warmups then doing stuff makes you sore later on unless you get genetically lucky, which i didn't, for cardio stuff i found a nice app with a good routine even for free people, i'll save teh stronk routine for later on.
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I've almost hit the halfway-mark of my weight loss today after really starting 43 weeks ago. I've lost almost 20kg (44lb) so far. "Only" 20kg more to go. I can do this.
I just needed to tell someone about it because I'm feeling kinda proud of myself.
I just needed to tell someone about it because I'm feeling kinda proud of myself.
Azovka
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I used to be bulimic from age 15 onwards, meaning I threw up after eating every single time, except for breakfast. Even a smoothie would get me excusing myself to go to the bathroom. Funnily enough, I never actually thought it was "that bad". Even our school's mandatory health classes barely mentioned the possible consequences, and focused mostly on anorexia.
Either way, like most teenage girls, I was self-conscious, and it didn't help that my nickname was "the woodcutter" due to making strong serves in volleyball. Retrospectively, it was such trivial shit, but when I was 15 and my crush just made fun of me by calling me that, it felt quite terrible. Not to mention, I was always hungry back then. It was most likely due to playing sports 5 days a week, as well as a changing metabolism due to puberty, but it wasn't exactly classy or raise my standing with dudes (or at least, that's what I thought at any rate).
I weighted 70kg (154 lbs) for 1m75 (5.7 feet), but I somehow thought that if I binged and vomited afterwards, it would make my weight go down. Plot twist : it obviously didn't, but nonetheless, the habit stayed. And after awhile, I just binged and puked as a way of dealing with anxiety, and just generally regaining a feeling of control.
It also didn't help that I was raised in a fairly privileged background, and had a governess that cooked meals from childhood. So, while it was quite nice, nobody had ever taught me how to make anything myself, and I was too lazy to bother looking into it without any prompting. My parents' feelings about it were : "eh, it's easier if someone else does it". This in turn meant that, when I left for uni, I just bought the same garbage that most of our favourite landwhales eat in the Salon because it was quick and easy. The most difficult meals I made were industrial frozen garlic bread and pizzas, just to show how bad it was.
To paraphrase Voltaire, everything was well in the best of all worlds, at least until the consequences of bulimia caught up to me, and one of my molars developed an abscess at 20, and had to be removed asap. The dentist also showed me how my teeth looked from the back - all yellow and corroded, whereas from the front, everything looked perfect and bleached white. At first, he thought that I just had an issue with stomach acidity or else drank 10+ coke cans a day to end up like that so young, but when I confessed that I just puked everything, it all made sense to him.
Obviously, I got an implant, but the dentist's warning stuck with me since I didn't really feel like fucking up my teeth some more. It was actually the first time I realised that bulimia had real consequences. I know it sounds very naïve, but it's not as if I went googling "side effects bulimia" when I was partaking in it. Hell, I didn't even really think about it - it was just a small, quiet habit of mine that helped me cope with stress.
Thing is, I had stopped puking, but not binging and generally eating terrible foods, which ended up with me ballooning to 100kg (220 lbs), not that I knew it for awhile - when I saw my weight go from 70 to 74kg on my dorm scale, I just stopped weighting myself altogether out of sadness and self-pity. I stopped going out and playing sports - I even dropped my uni's volleyball team because I felt self-conscious. It really was a vicious cycle since, the more I ate, the more I developed facial acné and generally felt like shit, which meant that I got even more self-conscious, which resulted in me binging even more.
Either way, like most teenage girls, I was self-conscious, and it didn't help that my nickname was "the woodcutter" due to making strong serves in volleyball. Retrospectively, it was such trivial shit, but when I was 15 and my crush just made fun of me by calling me that, it felt quite terrible. Not to mention, I was always hungry back then. It was most likely due to playing sports 5 days a week, as well as a changing metabolism due to puberty, but it wasn't exactly classy or raise my standing with dudes (or at least, that's what I thought at any rate).
I weighted 70kg (154 lbs) for 1m75 (5.7 feet), but I somehow thought that if I binged and vomited afterwards, it would make my weight go down. Plot twist : it obviously didn't, but nonetheless, the habit stayed. And after awhile, I just binged and puked as a way of dealing with anxiety, and just generally regaining a feeling of control.
It also didn't help that I was raised in a fairly privileged background, and had a governess that cooked meals from childhood. So, while it was quite nice, nobody had ever taught me how to make anything myself, and I was too lazy to bother looking into it without any prompting. My parents' feelings about it were : "eh, it's easier if someone else does it". This in turn meant that, when I left for uni, I just bought the same garbage that most of our favourite landwhales eat in the Salon because it was quick and easy. The most difficult meals I made were industrial frozen garlic bread and pizzas, just to show how bad it was.
To paraphrase Voltaire, everything was well in the best of all worlds, at least until the consequences of bulimia caught up to me, and one of my molars developed an abscess at 20, and had to be removed asap. The dentist also showed me how my teeth looked from the back - all yellow and corroded, whereas from the front, everything looked perfect and bleached white. At first, he thought that I just had an issue with stomach acidity or else drank 10+ coke cans a day to end up like that so young, but when I confessed that I just puked everything, it all made sense to him.
Obviously, I got an implant, but the dentist's warning stuck with me since I didn't really feel like fucking up my teeth some more. It was actually the first time I realised that bulimia had real consequences. I know it sounds very naïve, but it's not as if I went googling "side effects bulimia" when I was partaking in it. Hell, I didn't even really think about it - it was just a small, quiet habit of mine that helped me cope with stress.
Thing is, I had stopped puking, but not binging and generally eating terrible foods, which ended up with me ballooning to 100kg (220 lbs), not that I knew it for awhile - when I saw my weight go from 70 to 74kg on my dorm scale, I just stopped weighting myself altogether out of sadness and self-pity. I stopped going out and playing sports - I even dropped my uni's volleyball team because I felt self-conscious. It really was a vicious cycle since, the more I ate, the more I developed facial acné and generally felt like shit, which meant that I got even more self-conscious, which resulted in me binging even more.
Now onto the weight loss part. Early 2019, I just had an awakening of sorts. (Incidentally, it was also around the same time that I joined the Farms.) I had just seen my half-sister for a week, and she was at a mighty 120+kg (270 lbs), and just seeing her from the side, although I love her dearly, disgusted me. So I bought a scale, realised that I was at 100kg (220 lbs) myself and got terrified.
So I signed up for the cheapest gym membership I could find, and started going there whenever I could, sometimes twice a day - before and after lectures and / or work. I also changed my eating habits drastically, going from a massive UberEats order of burger & fries with milkshake and cookie on Tuesday to a strict - "no more than 500 cal per day" self-made diet plan on Wednesday. Now, it wasn't the best idea either, but my reasoning was that - if I fainted, then I'd give up, and if I didn't, then all the better. Like, that was how desperate I was.
I didn't faint, although for the first few weeks, I genuinely felt like shit, and in retrospect, it wasn't good for my health - going from a lot of sugary and fat foods, binging almost every day, to one bowl of 0% fat cottage cheese and some crackers of unleavened bread (the Jewish one - matzoh) in the morning, and one small container of steamed chicken breast or fish and whole rice in the early evening.
From end January to July, I ate just that - no "cheat meals", nothing, and worked out every single day (which wasn't good for my body either tbf). That resulted in me going down from 100 kg (220 lbs) down to 65kg (143 lbs) in under 5 months to the point where my parents' GP asked me whether I was sick and wanted him to look into it when I was translating for them.
It took me awhile after that to realise that I needed to calm down slightly, and maybe start eating a bit more varied stuff, which eventually I did. I also came to the conclusion that I didn't really want to be "thin", but to get my muscles and my title of "woodcutter" back, so I started following real meal plans and real thought-out workouts, not my "just stop eating and try not to die" blind panic from before.
I climbed up from 65kgs (143 lbs) to 73kgs (160 lbs), which was quite annoying, even though logically, I realised that muscle weighted more than fat, and then covid hit & gyms closed (except for summer 2020 - blissful months gone too soon).
Now, one year later, I'm plateaued at 73 kgs (160 lbs), and I'm not sure that I'm satisfied with this state of affairs since I can't do as much with body weight exercises as with proper gym equipment. Hell, even the dumbbells I scavenged from my sister's old stuff are just 10kg (22 lbs), which is better than nothing, but not good enough. And I don't want to invest in a "homemade gym" or whatever, since I just keep hoping that someday, France will reopen (although since the government has announced yet another lockdown for my region 2 days ago, it won't happen soon).
Either way, in conclusion of this wonderful tale of bad decisions and lack of self-restraint - if you embark on a weight loss journey, do it right. It might take a bit longer, but you will feel better, and your body won't suffer as much. Also, if you have daughters, try to instil appreciation for good homemade food in them, and make sure they understand that bulimia is just as bad as anorexia when it comes to health consequences (I swear, it really isn't emphasised enough). And that all types of foods are fine in moderation.
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Distended Gunt
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I started attempting to lose weight in mid January where I was ~133 kg (293 lb), weighed in this morning at 123.5 kg (272 lb). I'm actually genuinely excited to get to <120 kg (264 lb) just to see what it's like.
I used to think I'm really addicted to food and it'd be so difficult to give up etc. etc. but for a lot of stuff it really was as simple as "stop eating it". I still have chocolate in the fridge and I see it everytime I open the door but don't feel compelled to do anything with it.
It doesn't seem like a lot compared to my overall weight but it's definitely noticeable, I see less flab on my face, gut doesn't extend over my belt so much and at the rate I'm moving I'll either need to add holes or get a new belt. I came into the office the other day (I mostly work from home) and the people there noticed I looked different.
I used to think I'm really addicted to food and it'd be so difficult to give up etc. etc. but for a lot of stuff it really was as simple as "stop eating it". I still have chocolate in the fridge and I see it everytime I open the door but don't feel compelled to do anything with it.
It doesn't seem like a lot compared to my overall weight but it's definitely noticeable, I see less flab on my face, gut doesn't extend over my belt so much and at the rate I'm moving I'll either need to add holes or get a new belt. I came into the office the other day (I mostly work from home) and the people there noticed I looked different.
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Sounds more like a fat fetish to me. Are you getting off on being 300 lbs?
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lost 40 pounds in 6 months through portion control,biweekly intermittant fasting, and regular exercise. felt good to have found out i lost 40 pounds. my brain was buzzing when i found out.
maybe i'll double the walking per week from 6 miles to 12 miles and knock off the carbs by half to loose 40-50 more.
maybe i'll double the walking per week from 6 miles to 12 miles and knock off the carbs by half to loose 40-50 more.
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I'm trying to cut my weight by 10-15 pounds from 200...started exercising a little over a week ago and have started looking at calories and switching to more clean style food vs processed. Also trying to work on being able to do pullups.