Hello 
Doing a bit better now.
Just having prepared everything for 2 office days, now having a face mask and yes, I will paint my nails. Before making myself a salad with grounded beef, kind of low carb burrito bowl. I am also well meal prepped for the days ahead.
I donāt know. Why is life so hard?
Objectively you would say, Julia it is not.
At the moment I am also not sure to which thread I belong here.
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Maybe you belong on multiple? Glad you were able to meal prep, I have yet to do that. Just woke up from a nap. Much needed I guess. Need to eat something, havenāt had actual substance yet today. Glad youāre doing better!
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194.6 lbs
Itās good 
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Nice work!
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So I had lost a ton of weight last year, 104lbs, and Iāve gain 88lbs of that back over the past 12ish months. I had been trying to get back on the wagon again but itās been really difficult to start back.
Sadly, today I got a phone call from about a surgery consultation I had scheduled for next weekend to discuss facial feminization surgery and they let me know that they had to cancel the appointment because my BMI is too high and Iāll have to lose about 65lbs before they would have the consultation with me.. this was devastating for me because I knew I wanted to lose weight before the surgery but didnāt realize I wouldnāt get to have the surgery if I didnāt lose weight..
So now Iāve got a big motivator and have a new scale so I plan to check in weekly and hopefully can lose the 65+ lbs before too long so I can get the surgery scheduled 
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Awesome motivator. Check in often for accountability
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194.6 lbs
Maintaining 
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Weighed myself this morning, currently 183.9lbs 
I think I might be losing weight a bit too quickly; itās unclear to me if the weight loss is still partially water weight or not as itās very early into the cut. Iām trying not to cut faster than 1lb per week, but this week I seem to have lost weight at a rate of 2lbs per week which is too fast because thats when I start losing a lot of muscle.
Iām gonna continue my diet as-is again this upcoming week, if I lose weight at higher than 1lb per week again, Iāll have to adjust and eat a bit more 
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Can i ask what ur diet consists of? Im trying to lose weight also
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So basically, I just track all the calories I eat, and try to eat 500 calories below my maintenance calories (500 calories deficit = 1lb of weight loss per week approximately). Then, I also try to get 1g of protein per lb of body weight to minimize muscle loss, which occurs no matter what when youāre cutting (although it rebuilds quickly once youāre lean bulking/maintaining anyway).
So, for example at my height 5"7 and starting weight of 191lbs, my maintenance calories is about 2100 calories per day. So, 2100 - 500 = 1600 calories which is what I eat each day. I then try to get around 191g of protein each day.
Itās a big pain to get into the habit of tracking protein and calories for everything you eat in a day, but I find the numbers help me a lot to be precise with my weight loss.
One thing I believe is: if youāre not feeling somewhat low on energy and not feeling a little bit hungry, youāre probably not losing weight. I find every time I go on a cut, every day after the water weight is lost, Iām like kinda low energy and a bit hungry at times.
Iām not sure how true the above is, but thatās how I find weight loss is in general, regardless of the amount of cardio I do and such.
If Iām like at a restaurant or something where I canāt actually read the protein or calories of what Iām eating, I just try to guess it as accurately as I can. Hope that helps 
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Great advice!! Thank u for taking the time to write that out
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No worries
Btw, tracking calories isnāt the only way to lose weight. Buddy of mine lost a bunch of weight through intermittent fasting, my girlfriend used to do the keto diet which seemed to have worked for her at some point etc.
Basically, definitely find what works for you. Whatever diet/workouts helps you lose weight the easiest is the best for you in my opinion
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Yes ur absolutely right! I feel like Im doing all the right things but not seeing results 
Of course i havent been able to get to the gym either. But that will change Sept 2nd when my son goes back to school. But i might try something new diet wise. Get creative lol im hoping to see results like u have been seeing!
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You got this!!! Just remember itās not a race to lose weight, itās more like a marathon and such
OH ALSO, this is super important I find: once youāve lost the weight and youāre at your target weight, depending on how fast you were losing weight you might need to slowly eat back to a normal caloric intake. This is because usually when you lose weight, your bodyās metabolism drops a bunch, since the human body only knows how to survive, itās not like itās aware that youāre trying to lose weight right. So basically, the drop in metabolism will mean your body absorbs the foodās nutrients like too much and it becomes easy to regain all the weight you lost.
So usually what I do is: increase calories from my deficit by like 200 calories each couple weeks or so, and monitor my weight: is it staying the same after the water weight starts returning or is it going up too much? My point being that I find I need to increase my calories slowly to a normal level, otherwise I regain a bunch of weight/fat that I worked to lose.
Like I remember when I was first getting into fitness back when I was 16 years old (26 now): I was like 50% body fat at 210 lbs right, so basically I didnāt really know about not cutting too fast so I was losing weight at like 2-3lbs per week until I had abs and chest veins and such at like 8% body fat, 120 lbs. Unfortunately my metabolism crashed REALLY HARD back then, I wasnāt aware of the metabolism thing so I started eating at a normal level right off the bat, but then I regained like 40lbs of the 90lbs I lost.
Then, I lost weight again, but being aware of the metabolism thing this time, I slowly increased my calories and actually kept the weight off.
Then later on my doctor told me itās not good for me to cut above 1lb per week as I noticed I lost significant muscle mass and strength from that cut. Now resulting in the way I currently diet/lean bulk and such.
Your metabolism recovers even if it crashes from weight loss, but thatās why this is important basically since it takes a bit of time.
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Oh great advice!!! Ill definitly keep that in mind when ive lost the weight I want to lose I have about 60lb to lose to reach my target weight. So I have a ways to go. My body seems to be stubborn lmao But Im going to keep trying a few diff things and see what works
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Back up to 83.4kg today 
Time for a more concerted effort. The kids go back to school on Wednesday, so Iāll get back into the routine of yoga most days, and walking too. I logged back in to the Reverse Health app, that I had forgotten I had a membership for. Their advice is specifically for perimenopausal weight loss, so I think thatās appropriate. IF is also part of that plan, and I just need to be a bit more precise with that. Itās easy for the eating window to stretch!
So, the goal is 74kg. Go!
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Weekly weigh in: 8lbs down 
(This is like a Post Script that Iām putting at the beginning instead of the end lol .So Iāll disclaim that even without actually stating my start weight, posting my goal loss numbers feels embarrassing. Iām 6ā1 and have been on the āextremely highā section of the BMI chart since my mid 20ās. I worked in a factory before that but after I got a desk job in IT I really started gaining. I still want to be transparent about my goals though to hold myself accountable.)
Iām wanting to approach this in milestone goals and my first goal is 65lbs down. (I know thatās a pretty big first goal but itās the most important goal for me right now so I can get my surgery scheduled.)
After that, goal 2 would be 85lbs down (total of 100lbs less than my heaviest weight).
Then 135lbs down (back to what I weighed in high school).
Then finally 170lbs down ( 
)
So I think my weekly format will be:
Weekly weigh in: 8lbs down
Goal 1: 56 to go
Goal 2: 76 to go
Goal 3: 126 to go
Target goal: 161 to go
See ya here next week with hopefully smaller numbers
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Weekly weigh in: Down .4lb 
Weigh in wasnt the greatest but Im still down .4lb lol Im still happy with that as I wasnt super focused this past week on my eating. So Ill take it! Now to get focused on my health for the week ahead!
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Great milestone goals! Im doing something similarā¦ setting little goals for myself. My first goal is just getting into onederland lol Then my 2nd goal is to reach my goal weight. Im also quite tall (5ā10") and so Im not sure really what that goal weight would be. But i have an estimate for now. Planning on focusing more on how I feel and look as opposed to an actual number on the scale. Good luck with ur weight loss journey!
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