Does anyone have any advice for estimating calories at an event like a birthday party? Especially when it’s at someone’s home and people are bringing dishes. For example, I can add an entry for a piece of cake, but I’m eyeballing that I got 3 tablespoons of mac and cheese, and the only way I can describe how much brisket I got is by saying 1 slice.

Would it be worth to guesstimate on each thing? Or have a catch-all meal that I list at like 700 calories or something?

3 years ago before covid I weighed 163 and since gained so much. I use to run 1-3 hours per day and on weekends more. Then lost soo much weight that running my hips begun to hurt. So I went to HIIT before I stopped and I started to drink and eat all the good foods and cut my exercise.

Recently I started to exercise again, mostly walking for at least an hour and my drinking is cut to only Fridays or Saturdays and only 1-3 drinks. Eating much more healthy and mostly white meats, beans, salads.

Hopefully, I can get my energy back and start loosing again. My ideal weight should be around 170 lbs. Hopefully I can get there by December.

I have been big person all my life. Few years back I dropped like 60 pounds in 4 months with extreme diet and also doing a physical activity all day and playing volleyball 3 to 4 hrs a day. Its been like 5 years and slowly I gained all of the weight back and even more until last year I was able to drop the weight like 10 to 20 pounds easily now I crossed the 300 pounds and I feel like I am unable to drop the weight. Please give me any suggestions that’s could help me.

Honestly this is my best friend but we have pretty different attitudes to food. I know when I arrive, she’ll start listing an itinerary of food “I want to show you this place for lunch, this place for pastries, this place for latte, this place for dinner, this place for dessert, this place for breakfast tomorrow” etc. And like we’re eating out all day!

I’ll be good with a small lunch and a moderate dinner but she gets so crushed when I turn her down. I think she spends a lot of time thinking about things I’d like to eat and what experiences she’d like to share with me and she almost thinks I’m rejecting her. But I don’t want to stuff myself just for the sake of making her feel happy – I’ll just feel crap (physically and mentally) and not enjoy myself. Also I mean I’m visiting her to spend time with her, not just to eat! I get from her perspective it’s simply a nice and fun thing.

I just don’t know how to tell her “Ah that sounds great but I don’t think I can eat that much in a day.” I mean it’s not even like she’s suggesting dessert a few hours after lunch and I can say I’m still full or I don’t want to ruin my dinner (even then she’ll get disappointed and quiet). It’s like all at the start of the day.

It is also not helped by the fact that she is overweight and I am not and she is really sensitive to any talk of “dieting”.

Does anyone have any advice? Or just support lol, I’m kinda dreading having to spend the whole weekend scaling things back and I’m terrible at boundaries.

Hello lovely losers!

It’s almost a new month. October looms! Let’s welcome spooky season in with some goals!

For the newbies to the sub reddit, please start here, so much good info!

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/quick_start_guide

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/faq

And hey, maybe it’s not a bad idea to review them anyway to you returning conquerors. I do occasionally to remind myself of the basics.

Let’s break down what goes on here, shall we?

This is the sign-up post to outline your goals, weight loss, self-care, creative, whatever keeps you going.

There will be a daily update post for you to post how your day went, you can use whichever daily post fits your time zone if that’s an issue too.

At the end of the month, there is a wrap up post to reflect on the progress you made or didn’t make & what you learned. Learning is progress, don’t forget that.

We try to foster a supportive, caring place to discuss the actual day to day of deficits & counting & caring so much about how we fuel our bodies & lives. So be kind, interact if you like & hopefully you feel supported and cared for. Leading by example, here I go!

2000 calories a day (lose two pounds this month):

Exercise 5 days a week (strength work/tbar swings 3 days a week): X/X days.

Write stuff: So nebulous. I’ll fine tune it a bit for tomorrow. Next month is Nanowrimo so I’m tempted to shelve the project until then.

Today’s gratitude list: Today, I’m grateful for –

Random to do list item I want to conquer today: Sometimes this one gets weird.

Enough of that boring stuff, how about you all? What does your October hold?

Heya losers,

Day 30! Time to wrap up kids!

The sign up post is up too!

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/xscn59/30_day_accountability_challenge_october_sign_ups/

Let’s get the low down on the month, shall we?

Weigh in & log weight once a week, Thursday mornings: This worked all right for me this month.

2000 calories a day (lose two pounds this month): 1 pound this month & I’m wondering if that’s my uterus talking or if I need to be paying stricter attention to my business. I’m still here & the scale is headed in the right direction, so I’ll count that as a win.

Exercise 5 days a week (strength work/tbar swings 3 days a week): Got the baseline goal I was looking for as far as days I purposefully moved my body. I would like more mid day walks & more tbar swings next month. 23/30 days.

Finish one section (year) per week: Yeesh. I did not make enough time for this goal this month. I’m not discouraged. This isn’t the kind of thing I want to work on half heartedly & it takes real effort so I respect my choices when I don’t have energy for it. I did journal a lot this month & that served the mental & emotional health goal buried in this goal. Goal-ception. 1/4 years.

Today’s gratitude list: It’s been good to remember all the things I may otherwise take for granted plus sometimes the small things really do make life sweeter. Keeping this one.

Random to do list item I want to conquer today: I don’t always love focusing so much on a productivity dominated mindset but sometimes the littlest thing getting crossed off a list is still so validating.

Done with my boring stuff, let’s hear about your month, losers! What worked, what didn’t, what would you like to do differently going forward?

I think I want to try all the sports I’ve enjoyed watching my whole life but have been way too out of shape or heavy to actually do safely or meaningfully

I’m currently getting in shape but keeping things low impact because my joints won’t be able to take much more at this weight.

So far my list includes these and would like to be inspired by your lists!

• Surfing
• mountain biking
• skiing
• roller blading
• ice skating
• diving (ok it’s joint friendly but finding a wetsuit that fits on holiday is usually a disaster)

Hi there.

Looking for advice from you kind folks.

I’m 32F and currently weigh around 70kgs. My goal weight is around 56kgs, which would be the lowest weight I’ve ever been as an adult.

My main, current, issue is I’ve developed somewhat of a binge mentality. I currently do OMAD, and find it absolutely easy to fast during the day, breaking my fat at around 6pm. The problem is that I go a little overboard once my fasts are broken.

I recently had a decent degree of success with keto OMAD (getting down to 67.9kgs) but I yo-yo due to my bingeing episodes at the weekend.

I’m not very extreme with my binges, but it’s enough to bloat me and make me feel terrible. I’d like to lose 1lbs to 2lbs a week consistently.

I walk 16000 steps Monday to Friday and go out for walks and bike rides at the weekend. I’m also getting back into strength training at the gym.

Does anyone have any advice? I’d like to redevelop healthy habits.

Im 5’3. I’m down to 127.6 pounds from 138. With a goal waist size of 25-26 inches (like I how I used to be before developing hypothyroidism). Issue is I seem to be losing the fat in weird places. My stomach right above my pubic area sticks out like I’m pregnant (I am not) and my love handles & hip dips are even more obvious than they used to be. It seems I’m losing fat in my legs, hips, and pubic area but it is steadily planted on my sides & belly. So now I have the illusion that I’ve put on more fat on my upper body rather than lost it. I’ve been doing core exercises so I’m not sure if that has something to do with my belly looking so strange?

What do I need to do to even this mess out so I don’t look like a bowling ball on stick legs?