I am going to get into the best shape of my life. Any tips?

I am 19 years old and am 5'8. When COVID started I committed to making healthy decisions and did a diet plan and lost 30 pounds over 3 months doing a high protein diet. I went from 213 pounds to 183 pounds. I went off the program in August of 2020 when I went back to college. I live in my sorority house, and unfortunately sorority chef food and drinking on the weekends without working out at all caused me to gain back all 30 pounds. I also got COVID, and since I have been home got it again and I have not really gotten back into my routine.

I turn 20 in June of 2021 and I want (am going) to go into my 20s in the best shape of my life. I am sitting around 205 right now, and want to lose 40 pounds over the course of 20 weeks leading up to my birthday. So 5 months. One thing I have learned is motivation comes and goes, and I am going to need to have discipline in order to achieve my goals. My main goal is going to be to get to 170 pounds or lower by June. This is not going to be easy for me because I am going to be living in the sorority house again and am going to be back in the college environment. Here are some things I am going to do to achieve my goals and stay disciplined:

1) Go to bed at 10 every night except weekends and wake up at 6:30am. On weekends wake up at 9am at the latest in order to maintain a somewhat balanced sleep schedule.

2) I have signed up for 7am spin classes and yoga throughout the week and in order to commit to waking up those mornings I have found other girls living in with me to go to these sessions. I also signed up for 10am spin classes on Saturdays.

3) I will be going to the gym to work on building muscles and resistance training Mon, Wed, and Fri after yoga. All in all, M, Wed, Fri I will be doing Yoga, Weights and some cardio, and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday only cardio. Sunday will be rest days.

4) I am currently sitting around 205 pounds so I am going to start drinking more water (I drink very little) and aim to drink my 40oz hydro 2-3 times a day and am going to only drink water unless I am mixing a drink, which then I will use half drink, half water and crystal light packets in order to minimize sugar and calories.

5) Cutting out fast food for 6 months

6) Logging my food in a food journal such as MyFitnessPal and eating around 1600 calories a day

7) Log my weight once a week on Mondays and take measurements once a month

8) Limit drinking to once or twice a week

9) I am going to do intermittent fasting 7 days a week where I only eat between the hours of 12-6 everyday. The only exception for that will be pre-workout snack such as banana, etc. only because I dont do well on an empty stomach working out.

My biggest challenge is going to be portion control in the sorority house as we are offered a bunch of different varieties of food but I know I can do it as long as I put my mind to it.

I am posting this on here because I want to be able to come back in June of 2021 and say I did it. Any and all support is greatly appreciated. Based on all of this, I want to ask you fellow friends if you have any advice or tips on what helped you achieve your goals.

Happy Holidays!:)

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Update: I’m doing it. I’ve lost 6 lbs!! I’ve started yoga and kept a healthy calorie deficit (even during Christmas!)

I made a post two weeks ago at when I was about a week into my journey and I received overwhelming support. You guys are amazing and a huge part of the reason behind my motivation.

A couple things I’ve noticed -

Group fitness classes are super great at getting you to do things you didn’t think you could (and hate it while doing it but then feel amazing all day after)

Overeating heartburn is REAL. All my heartburn has just literally vanished. I used to get heartburn like 4-5 times a week when I was trying to sleep but since counting macros and measuring portions, I haven’t had a single tum.

The couple of times that I did eat junk, I FELT it. For HOURS and it was the most uncomfortable I’ve felt in a long time. It sickens me that my body was so used to it that it didn’t even phase me.

Chips are so empty. I have been limiting eating them for obvious reasons. But now when I reach for them and I measure them out, the portion is so sad looking considering how much it adds to my macros that it doesn’t even feel worth it.

So that’s it. I’m just starting and I’m feeling really good about it. This community is honestly so amazing and uplifting as well and I’m proud to be apart of it!

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Losers of Reddit, what changed between your failed attempts to lose weight and your successful attempt?

I see peoples’ weight loss graphs and it’s often the case someone will have a few attempts to lose weight before their final attempt where they actually lose it. Sometimes people yo-yo for years before a diet attempt sticks and they lose the weight for good.

As a yo-yo dieter who has lost (and regained) the same 10 pounds over and over for the past year, I’m curious - what changed for those who suddenly stopped the yo yoing and lost the weight?

Is it a mindset change? Did you finally hit rock bottom mentally and just have enough? Did something change in your personal life? Tell us!

Best of luck to you all on your journeys, and please know I only call us losers in an affectionate way :)

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24-Hour Pledge - Wednesday, 30 December 2020 - The Plan for Today!

Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction!

This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track.

Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing

> I'll be posting a daily, 24 hour pledge to stick to my plan, or whichever small piece of my plan I am currently working on. Whatever your dietary goals may be, I hope you stick to them for the next 24 hours (and then worry about the following 24!). Who's with me?

Thanks to /u/nofollowthrough who made the 24-Hour Pledge an ongoing /r/loseit institution.

Due to space limitations, this may be a sticky only occasionally. Please find it daily using the sidebar or top message.

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Cheat meal, and actually feel awful

So, since I started on December 4, I've been REALLY good about being mindful of my eating. Down 6 pounds. Figured I'd give myself a cheat meal for my good work.

But.. man. It just didn't taste good. I got absolutely no enjoyment from eating it. It's both depressing AND a really good thing. I was talking to my boyfriend yesterday that I was craving some things, so we got McDonald's today. And...

Well, it was good. But looking at the calories. Looking at how my own home cooked meals make me more full and feel good. It's such a contrast. I think I needed this though. Because it really highlights some things for me:

(1) I don't need to cheat. It makes me feel like shit, and I'm going to eat better for the rest of the day.

(2) If I'm craving fast food, talking about it actually helps me work out that I don't need.

(3) I can also make it at home for far fewer calories, and eating at home will make me feel better in the long run.

I finally hit that wall of food not bringing me pleasure. Food is just now something I need to do to stay alive basically, lol. Like, the fast food didn't even trigger me. Normally it would be if I got it, I'd end up crashing and getting it again and again.

But... I don't want it. I actually don't want it again. I want to eat more salads and healthy foods.

I'm beyond happy and I know I'm going to really stick with this. My relationship with food finally feels like it's on the right track. That I'll be able to have a healthy relationship with food. Being mindful is really helping, and having control back is really helping my mental health.

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Made this google sheets CICO tracker for Apple Watch users :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p8Gu5_GaI9nrZNtQRKIDzVwb_KDetkVwtJXlzLLgaV8/edit?usp=sharing

Let me know if anything doesn't work out, I've been using this spreadsheet to log my calories out using the Apple Watch and the predicted weight has been within +/- 0.2lbs on average after 80 days.

I use mainly the outdoor walk, elliptical and strength training workouts so I've also included a modifier for the active calories just in case you need to apply a discount to the readings registered. To get your resting and active energy readings, you can go to the Health app on your iPhone -> browse -> health categories -> active energy / resting energy and fill it in accordingly :)

Here's my chart!

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How would you explain the feeling and perks of being healthy to someone who has never not been fat?

I originally posted this as a reply to this post, but I figured it's worth posting on its own.

I have been obese since the age of 8 and fat since the age of 4, and I have almost no memories whatsoever of my childhood prior to the former age. It's now been almost 20 years since then, and it's also been almost a full year since I crashed out of my first serious weight loss attempt after it, through the immense stress it caused me despite taking it very slowly, cost me my first job. As I sit here at 4 AM typing this after getting a nasty foot injury and collapsing from severe physical exhaustion after another long brisk walk, it's hard to come up with any internal justification to give it another serious go that actually means something to me personally and isn't just an objective fact.

I'm looking at many of the points mentioned in this post and I just cannot relate to them. I'm an introvert who's largely uninterested in other people and quickly exhausted even by my own friends, and vanity means so little to me that I haven't bought any new clothes in the last 5 years because I can always just wash and wear what I've already got. I know I get tired quickly, but I have no internal comparison point for that as I've never not been overweight, and even at my slimmest point early last year I could not find any enjoyable physical activity that would be made better through being slimmer and more energetic.

These things mean nothing to me - if anything I only ever had a phenomenally easy time losing weight when I wasn't thinking of any reasons to do it, but as me vomiting at the gym, becoming stressed and paranoid to the point of getting hallucinations once and ultimately losing my own job showed me, discipline for its own sake could only get me so far. Worse yet, relapsing, fully giving in to my old bad cravings and habits and regaining all the lost weight energized and relaxed me to such a degree that it gave me the confidence and strength to get and keep a new, well-paying job far beyond my skill level. Because of this, I am the happiest I've been in the last 7 years, yet paradoxically, it is exactly what brought me here again, wondering if weight loss is worth trying again. Unlike when I mentally collapsed, I feel objectively ready to pursue it again, but I know that, without a personally meaningful reason to do it, history will repeat itself no matter how slowly I take it. In fact, I feel dirty for saying this, but I feel no shame for getting to this point, staying here for almost 20 years and returning to it after my failed attempt, yet I feel deeply ashamed for trying to lose weight because I had no personally meaningful reason to do it, it made me deeply unhappy and persisting via sheer discipline ultimately caused me so much mental grief that it cost me my job at the peak of the pandemic and set my life plans back tremendously. I know I should do it eventually because I refuse to ignore the objective, "you will die otherwise" aspects of being healthy, but I also know myself well enough to know that discipline and those objective aspects aren't enough for me anymore.

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