Weight loss support thread -

[The Joker]

I lost 150 pounds just by calorie counting, learning about the food I eat, therapy to discover why I was eating like a fat and different coping mechanisms without food, and mindful eating habits. Kept the weight off for years and became a fit person.
Honestly, don't limit yourself too much. If you want to have McDonald's for dinner one night, do it. Just remember to balance yourself, drink water, take your vitamins, and try to get 30 minutes of movement in a day.

 

[YoungHustle]

I lost 150 pounds just by calorie counting, learning about the food I eat, therapy to discover why I was eating like a fat and different coping mechanisms without food, and mindful eating habits. Kept the weight off for years and became a fit person.
Honestly, don't limit yourself too much. If you want to have McDonald's for dinner one night, do it. Just remember to balance yourself, drink water, take your vitamins, and try to get 30 minutes of movement in a day.

I resent calorie counting since I started a couple weeks ago and it robbed me of the pleasure of pop tarts. Goddammit I loved pop tarts. Do you have any idea how fucked my calorie count for the day was with pop tarts? Fuck.

shit does work though, you right.

 

[bigrigger]

I posted earlier in the thread but I just want to dump some advice here on the off chance someone finds some of it useful, I went from 25 stone to 22 stone since the start of the year and just want to offer some tips, I am far from finished as fitness is a life long thing once you get yourself this far in the hole. Tldr I went from walking to doing palates (ring fit) to my current point of running 5-10k 4 times minimum a week.

First off none of this will work it you don't have your diet under control, it doesn't have to be perfect and you don't need to count calories just make sure you aren't eating absolute shit.

Arguably just as important as the diet is to not share your goals or progress with the world because it 100% will just set you up for a fall, your brain starts firing off all the good feel chemicals and you feel as if you have crossed the finish line before it's even started, keep it all to yourself or at most get one close friend to join you on the journey but if you do the latter it has to be a loose agreement where regardless of them turning up for a gym session or a run or whatever it may be that you will do it solo and not use them as an out. On this topic don't do any self improvement for anyone but you, don't do it to get laid or to stop being an incel as it isn't a silver bullet for that and chances are if you thought it was you will die alone.

If you are seriously overweight then start small, I initially just walked up and down a stretch of road that was 0.6km long each way so 1.2km per loop, I grinded this mostly after dark and it was a good way to get started, I listened to audio books and just repeated it until I got bored.

You probably aren't doing enough to justify rest days, so just do something every day if you are starting off lightly, which you will be if you are anything approaching the size I am/was. This isn't to say you shouldn't take a rest day, just don't use the rest day as an excuse to sit indoors doing nothing, you can still go for a walk on a rest day.

Try to have a mindset that drives you to do better, track exercises and max weights or personal bests and do whatever it takes to beat them, if you were brought up playing sports you will already have this mindset tucked away somewhere waiting to be used again, failing that game-ify the exercise, mix it up with a GPS game like pokemon go or a literal fitness game like ring fit adventure.

If you want to get into running I can't recommend the couch to 5k program highly enough, it has changed my life completely, the BBC has an app which takes you through it that is completely retard proof, teaches you some basics about the sort of pace you should be doing etc then after that either work on speeding up by starting the app again from day one but do it all sprinting or just keep adding 1km any time you are feeling yourself on a 5k. Side note: overweight people seem to think that running is a risk to their knees, I can only see this being true if you are sprinting full force for long periods which fatties can't do, slow and low impact jogging has done no damage to mine.

Sorry if this post is a mess I found some tips from earlier in the thread helpful and just wanted to pass it forward, if you are reading this and currently struggling to shift the fat just remember it's never too late to start it and even if the stats on recovering from obesity aren't exactly in your favour that isn't to say you can't be one of the few that does turn it around, if not on this current attempt then maybe in the future ones, good luck.

 

[YoungHustle]

Kiwis, I have finally fallen into an exercise routine. I just took my first morning run (been doing it at night to stay cooler) and I feel great! Gonna go lift something heavy and track some motherfuckin’ CALORIES, BITCHES!!

 

[Stoneheart]

Side note: overweight people seem to think that running is a risk to their knees, I can only see this being true if you are sprinting full force for long periods which fatties can't do, slow and low impact jogging has done no damage to mine.

Running is bad for your knees, no matter how thin you are- you should do stuff to strenghten your knee if you wanna run.

 

[YoungHustle]

Running is bad for your knees, no matter how thin you are- you should do stuff to strenghten your knee if you wanna run.

Jumping on that (gently, because I’m fat and want my knees to last), what can someone who has pretty strong legs do to make sure they’re not neglecting knee strength?

 

[Stoneheart]

what can someone who has pretty strong legs do to make sure they’re not neglecting knee strength?

there are plenty of exercises you can do for more muscle around the knee and the gastrocnemius muscle.
My english is not good enough to explain them.... i do a Handball leg workout once a week and some basic execises 3 times a week, but i have knee problems from sport so i have to do more. the 3 basic knee training days will be plenty for a normal person-

 

[biophonic]

Jumping on that (gently, because I’m fat and want my knees to last), what can someone who has pretty strong legs do to make sure they’re not neglecting knee strength?

Squat exercises are pretty decent for knee support but don't add weights to the exercise until you're comfortable doing so after a few months and iron supplements would be decent too. Get some Knee sleeves but if it's 1st time, 30 squats with no weight/3 times a week is the absolute bare minimum recommended.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

I’m one pound shy of losing 100 pounds since my surgery last year. So of course I haven’t lost that last pound in a week and a half.

it’s my fault, I haven’t wanted like, meals? So I’ve been snacking a lil too much I think.