On the horse again.

Hi All,

I have been obese my entire adult life and through the latter half of high school after I tore my ACL playing football. There have been times where I haven’t really cared about how my weight has affected my life. But that was because I still get capable of anything I put my mind to.

Well at 28M, 5’ 10”, 406 lbs that started to change. My weight has been affecting my career opportunities and people who would take a chance on me, I work in the performing arts. I had to make my friends end a hike we were on because I couldn’t bear to climb one more foot. I broke my normally sized ex-girlfriend’s box spring for her bed. I could only walk for 15 minutes at the mall before my back started to scream in pain for a place to sit down. I can’t reach my ass to wipe properly while sitting down, and even my acrobatics doesn’t seem to cut it. Furthermore, my arms weren’t long enough to reach around my growing belly to properly aim whilst urinating standing up.

These are only a few of the real logistical things that became unacceptable for my life. Emotional issues aside.But thankfully something feels different this time.

In late April, I started to get treated for ADHD and was prescribed Adderal. And in hopes that I would finally be able to stick to a routine I decided to make changes in my life. Changes that have me down to 377.4 lbs in two months time.

What’s worked for me:

1: The mindset shift. Every other time I’ve tried to lose weight, Grapefruit diet, Keto. It was all about getting to a goal weight ASAP. And while I would be quite pleased to get there sooner rather than later, the timeline no longer matters to me. I just want to feel physically capable again. This also includes calorie restriction. My goal eating every day is my calculated TDEE. And I’ll be honest, some days it is even difficult to eat that many calories.

2: No food is off limits. As long as I am in my TDEE, which is currently 2700ish kcal, I can eat any food. Of course I’m not just eating cookies. But I haven’t felt like any food is off limits.

3: Delete DoorDash. DoorDash is a great way to make an $8 burrito into a $20 burrito, and also the foods tend to have tons more calories than an equivalent you could make yourself.

4: Make Kick-Ass Sandwiches! This is my favorite one. Not only have I saved a ton of money by making sandwiches at home, but I feel like I am eating like a king! A good sandwich with ham and cheese, lettuce and Mayo is extremely satisfying to me. And I also get the satisfaction of trying new things. (Thanks to TikTok’s Roll for sandwich). With chips fruit and vegetables my lunches and dinners have been a very filling 500-700 calories. Well within my budget.

5: Go on walks. It doesn’t have to be far. Just get moving. I started working to get a mile. But now I’m walking 2-3 miles every day. And I found out that my dog gets tired more easily than I do. Because my walks are getting easier and easier, I have started to do light hiking and add stair cases.

I’m sure I do more but these things have really stood out to me.

2 months in, my back no longer groans from walking long distances. I don’t begrudge having to walk to my car to get things. And I feel like I can say yes so much more when I’m on stage.

I have a long way to go. But I have a feeling that something different, something more sustainable, is going to happen this time around. Wish me luck.

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Losing weight is all I ever think about

…and I can’t execute. During the pandemic I became dependent on wine and now I literally don’t know how to stop. I’m not drinking to get drunk but I’m definitely drinking pretty often and I know it’s how I gained 20 pounds over the last 2 years. I think about being thinner every single day. I used to have no problem losing weight and now I’m having the hardest time. I don’t feel like myself. I don’t feel like I have willpower. I don’t know what to do. Anyone ever been in this position? How did you start? The only thing I’ve seen progress with is keto because keto really doesn’t allow for wine, but during the summer keto is pretty unrealistic. Help, I hate being in my own skin!

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Down 40 pounds!

After 4 and a half months of eating right and getting to the gym 5 days a week, I’ve dropped my 40th pound. I’m absolutely ecstatic.

I started packing on weight when I got to college and didn’t have the self control necessary to not overeat when I was the one buying my own food. The pandemic didn’t help, and tearing up my knee enough to require surgery didn’t help either - I must have put on an extra 15lbs when I was recovering from that alone.

After a year of being disgusted by what I saw in the mirror, being increasingly depressed by how I viewed myself and how other people treated me, and taking an absolute spiral, I decided to flip the switch. Fewer calories, more protein. Taking care of all my micronutrients. Progressive overload at the gym.

At first I was doing this solely for appearance’s sake. Slowly, but surely, I changed that mindset. My knees, always having been a problem due to my height and frame, have never felt better. Old shoulder injuries aren’t bothering me. The default for my day is no longer crushing depression and feeling like shit. And I’m coming to take my self esteem from my accomplishments rather than my weight.

Thought I’d share this on here because I don’t feel comfortable bragging about it in real life.

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Back to my first gym...2 years later progress

Wanted to share progress for those who may be where I was 1-2 years ago. Pic on left is 154.6, pic on the right is 153.0! ** I've only been weight training consistently for 5 months **

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I was overweight in HS, I am 5'7 and was around 187. I made it my mission to lower my caloric intake as low as possible, shaving down as many lbs as I could, not focusing on muscle or macros at all. I got down to 154 lbs (picture on the left) and went to college, slowly getting into weight training.

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In college, I remained active but never really got into lifting and stopped tracking my caloric intake. This past year, I noticed I had regained 8-10 lbs and decided to restart logging food on MFP, take progress pics, and weight train atleast 3-4x a week.

It has been about 5 months since I made this decision, minus a few cheat weeks for vacation, and a cheat day here and there for parties, family outings, etc. I am actively cutting weight, taking in 1800 cals a day with over 200g protein (45,30,25 ideal macro split). I really feel like my lifestyle now is sustainable (diet, weight training splits and routines, and cardio regiments) and excited to share future progress pics. My lifts have gone up substantially this past six months, and I just hit 205 on bench!

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So I really just wanted to share to anyone who's 5'7 or 5'8 and "over weight" what can happen with a couple months of hard work and discipline and to see how other bodies look in my weight / height ratio.

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https://imgur.com/a/aIXUfxQ

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30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 1

Hello newcomers & returning conquering losers!

July is here! Holy crapola, doesn’t time fly? Is anyone else still like, wait, 2021 happened? It’s 2022? No, just me? Yeah time got weird.

Anyhoo, I hope you’ve all had an elucidating day 1. Learning & living up in here. Onto goals!

Scale break this month: I did a day 1 weigh in. I think that needs to be it until the end of the month.

Maintenance calories: On it today!

Exercise 5 days a week (strength work/tbar swings 3 days a week): I’m headed out to do a walk along the river trail & I did some strength & tbar swings but swings made my back go nooo so then stretches. 1/1 days.

Camp Nanowrimo - 1,666 words a day: Doing this right meow X/50,000 words. If I don’t hit goal, I'm donating $100 to Nanowrimo. I'm continuing the project I started in November & the starting word count is 73,876 words.

Today's gratitude list: Today I’m grateful for being allowed to have a paid afternoon off work to go do some fun shit. I’m grateful I was given a raise. I’m grateful I'm comfortable enough with my current financial situation to go buy a fancy candle & some birthday gifts for a couple of my lifelong friends.

Random to do list item I want to conquer today: Spend the afternoon doing whatever the fuck I want to do.

Your turn! Let’s hear all about it kids!

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Progress: a positive change in my eating habits and breaking some really challenging habits, some small changes that worked for me personally

Like many my weight has crept up the last couple of years and my fitness waned. I have tracked CICO on and off for years. I struggle with a sweet tooth and binge eating, especially with sweets or other junk food in the afternoon/evening. When I eat quantities of junk I'm never going to be able to lose it!

I'm very excited about my progress with some small wins I wanted to share.

Some small changes I made recently:

1. Eating breakfast. A while ago I stopped doing so most days in favour of IF. I started again because I have low iron and fortified cereals like weet bix are a good source. Alternatively I have oats as a great low GI breakfast that actually does stop me from being hungry until lunch easily. I noticed such a massive difference in that I was FAR less likely to look to excessively snack on junky things or just eat to excess generally later in the day, which has helped me break the habit of doing so. I feel like there must be a lesson about blood sugar stability.
2. Making a conscious effort to have 3 proper meals a day. I'm prone to missing lunch or having a suboptimal dinner at times (I'm not missing all these meals on the same day!). When I have three good meals I'm not dealing with being ravenous or cravings later. Logical I know but it's easy to assume skipping meals is a good thing when trying to lose weight. This makes such a difference.
3. A bit of a change in my food. I'm slowly moving towards a 'mediterranean diet' way of eating with more wholegrains, seafood/legumes and veggies. I am applying it extremely loosely but it reminds me to balance these aspects and not restrict them e.g. having a wholegrain bread roll instead of entirely avoiding bread. Also (even though it's contrary to the med diet) I've added more red meat for iron because I'm low. I also take a piece or two of fruit with me to work each day to snack on so that's become my habit instead of nothing then the cookie jar.
4. A half glass of red wine with dinner many nights. I'm not a big drinker but this is a nice treat. A half glass of a light red that I've specially chosen is really enough with/after my meal in lieu of a dessert treat.
5. Just don't have junk food in the house. This isn't a new one for me but so important for me. I've only majorly tripped up once in the last month and that was when a full packet of lollies made it into the house.
6. I've temporarily stopped weighing myself, tracking CICO or being too strict with what I eat, so I can try and get my eating habits in order without paying too much attention to minor weight fluctuations. I'll focus more on this once I've got good habits embedded.

Super excited to finally be breaking some unhealthy habits and setting myself up to lose it in a more healthy and sustainable way.

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Advice on CICO with super high activity level

The situation: I average a minimum of 15,000 steps a day and that will increase in the next couple weeks (and likely stay that way). I track calories in MyFitnessPal and have it set at sedentary so my Fitbit activities can transfer without overlap. Currently I'm weighing in at 180 and looking to get closer to 150/145 depending on my muscle gain (5'5" 31yo F). I do CrossFit at least twice a week in addition to jobs demanding a lot of time on my feet and physical exertion (horseback riding instructor/barn manager + sbux barista).

The question: how much over my base calories (1400) should I try to hit to still cut weight without starving my body for energy? My Fitbit "earned" calories today were 2000+ over my base calories (27,000+ steps...farrier day and summer camp)

I'm fine energy-wise so far, and honestly not that hungry. Mostly I just want advice, as I went too far the wrong way (ED) as a young'un and I want good habits going forward

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