181.6
Slowly creeping down there.
I have been eating a little outside of my new eating habits the last 2 days for comfort. I am gonna try to get some strength work out in today and some cardio.
Just really trying to get in the 170’s. I am 17 pounds from my “ideal weight” although it is 20 pounds above my normal weight (145) I’m shooting for 165. I am able to do this, I know I can!!! One step at a time. I will reach my goal 
Weighing in @ 201.2 lbs.
which is great! Since I was out of town enjoying desserts again 
I’m back on the no sugar thread.
Got me 3 days and plan to continue that.
Great weekend everyone.
I’m going to be honest here. I’m feeling so very defeated with my weight loss. I went to my weight loss clinic appt and it didn’t go as planned. Very cold and extremely based on keto which I expressed my concerns over as I have done keto in the past and felt my body rejecting itself for weeks. I mentioned about other issues affecting my weight loss goals and she just nodded her head and didn’t comment on anything other than handing me a business card that stated monthly prices for the help I could receive. I also told her about our financial situation etc amd was very open about how Im struggling with my weight loss goals. I never ever used to struggle with my weight.
8 years ago I was the fittest I had ever been! Mind u it wasn’t exactly healthy in its own sense bcuz I would completely overdo it in the gym and at times cause injury to myself to get that feeling of a “good” workout in my mind.
It’s like everything is the complete opposite now. I’m not going to my grave with severe health conditions etc. Health stuff runs in my family. I want to be healthy. I don’t even have to get back to where I used to be (pre baby and everything). I just want to feel strong and energetic and full of life and like I have control over my eating and my weight. I’m getting so defeated and every day I wake up with a new fresh mindset. And then at times it goes downhill. I try to be consistant with my workouts at least. I can’t afford a dietician or anything like that. Money is pretty budgeted to everything we need to survive and be happy. So I need to be doing my own research.
Does anyone have any good websites or anything?
Thanks for letting me vent hugs
I can only speak from experience what I did this last year to lose the weight I had gained from recovery, medications and just not taking care of myself. I had stopped all other addictions… smoking and caffeine. I would try to restrict my food and up caffeine or just smoke away food cravings and end up restricting/bingeing. I thought less than 700 calories a day was healthy and drinking a shit ton of diet pop
And coffee with creamer and fake sugar. I cut out the pop and juices and coffee. Went to water, bubbly water and zero Gatorade and my all time favorite decaffeinated tea. I was trying to do hiit workouts but it just wasn’t doing it for me but I just started to tweak my eating . I had tried Keto and saw no results and couldn’t maintain it. Through trial and error, I ended up getting a nutritionist who had been a good mental and emotional guide on my weight loss journey. She gave me some good ideas on healthy things to eat and helped me w food patterns but I was sick
And tired and only lost 7 pounds and I ended up joining Noom. Noom isn’t what helped me lose weight, but it gave me a lot of tools to hold me accountable and see my progress and where it was good and where it was lacking. Walking 10,000-12,000 steps 5 days a week is really something that hit it off for me. I got a job where I get a lot of steps I. And then I would walk home or to work and then go on walks afterwards. If you walk up to like 12,000 steps you have burned just walking about 7,000+ calories. I actually enjoyed it because I would talk to my higher power about what I was dealing with and worried about and ask Him to help me and also, I would pray a lot I. My mi d or out loud and talk about what I was grateful for out loud to my HP. And listening to uplifting motivating music. For me in recovery that is Christian hip-hop so Lecrae, Wande, Hulvey. It’s just positive energy and I know God is with me. Sooo I walked and continue walking and then I started just eating clean. Like a lot of produce, apples and peanut butter, yogurt, chicken and Turkey burgers a lot of vegetables and fruits that had high water content. Like the more water, the less calories the more you can eat and fill yourself up so cabbage, lettuce, grapes. Look up high caloric dense foods and those are foods you can eat a lot of… i ate a lot of meats that were more lean and just incorporated them with other things . I still eat carbs but healthy carbs. Brown rice which is actually high caloric density along with oatmeal or steel oats, quinoa, black beans are good too. Broccoli, cauliflower, I eat bread too but I eat keto bread even though I am not on keto. I learned that when you lose weight it is not a big change at once but a lot of changes to your habits that aren’t serving you anymore and tweaking them over time. If you start just cutting out caffeine and the sugary drinks / coffee with creamer etc and start walking more you will see a gradual change. Also, good sleep is very important for weight loss too… just be kind to yourself . You are doing alot for yourself and your body is working hard regardless if you are seeing weight changes. I am learning to be nicer to myself and I start saying “Flannery I am so proud of you you are so strong you killed that workout “ or just wit other situations . You are your own best friend … take care of yourself because you are important . Also, treat yourself once in awhile but in moderation. Do some self-care, eat a healthy desert . Want ice cream? Try some frozen yogurt with fruit or a fruit smoothie you have been wanting to try . Do not try to restrict yourself because that never works . 25% off diet the rest stay on track but it’s fine to go out to eat like 2 times a month and get what you want to get , I would suggest to make healthy modifications like if you want fries , get sweet potato fries . Or eat half of your meal and save the other half for a different day. I know you can do this!! I am rooting for you
Hi Dana I’m sorry it was not what you hoped for at the weight loss clinic. Sounds like they are rather trying to make money off ppl than help which with such an fundamental topic as weight and health really pisses me off.
The good news is: you don’t need them.
Weight is at core a simple calculation that you have to guard with the right habits.
The calculation is: calories in VS calories out.
Calories in is everything you eat. That should come 80% (aim for 100% and allow yourself the occasional exception) from real foods, that means one-ingredient grown harvested etc things that you put together in your meals. That is to say nothing with 25 ingedients on the back of the package. Fewer packages in general. Meat fish vegetables fruit grains oils nuts. You get the idea.
Throw out soft drinks and processed snacks, you just don’t need them. Exception is bday cake of course.
Calories out is: your BMR = the basic metabolic rate, this is what your body uses as fuel just to keep going, so added activity yet. Plus of course how much more energy you need depending on how active you are in your life. The total amount is called the TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Thats the number of what you need to stay where you are.
Of course, you want to change. So this number will get multipled by a certain quotient according to how much you want to lose and how fast.
Nowadays you get great tools that will do all this for you. They even spit out a list of numbers at the end that give you your recommended protein carbs and fat ratios. Your macronutrients This is exactly what you want.
Use this tool to calculate your macros:
https://www.calculator.net/macro-calculator.html
Then you download any macro counter app (I used mymacros back in the day and it helped me a lot, you can even add your own recipes and special foods that you like, so if you bake your own bread you can log a slice of that) to log your daily consumption and keep track. Do it honestly but don’t punish yourself if you don’t match 100% every single day. Aim for 100%, but allow room and time for improvement and growth. It’s a learning curve. And it’s not always going to be absolutely accurate. That’s fine.
This is all you need to do. What goes in, what goes out. Plus keep active on a level that gives you joy and is sustainable for you to be consistent at. For example, don’t aim for 7 days a week at the gym when you know you won’t be able to keep that up. And who could? Aim for three and count the forth a super win if you get it and walk a lot the rest of the days or do a yoga/stretch at home for example. As long as you base the calculation of your TDEE on your actual activity level, not a high expectation you can’t fulfill, you’ll still stay on track. 
Also, track your workouts. A wee notebook or an app, doesn’t matter. But any kind of visualisation will help you stay consistent.
Wish you good luck! You can do this. It’s really all about consistency.
Thank you sooo much for taking the time to respond. U always have so much wonderful advice and suggestions for fitness and nutrition have u ever thot about being a nutritionist or something? I took a look at that calculator u posted and screenshot it I looked at the balanced results and then also the low carb results which was at like 200 grams of net carbs (which is much more doable for me). And it’s suggesting around 1900 calories for me. So… do I have to figure my OUT calories? Like my TDEE? And then I add up my IN calories from the food I eat and drink? And do the math? Or is that necessary? Bcuz I feel like it will be hard to calculate my calories out from weight lifting and I’ve heard that the calories on the cardio machines isn’t accurate either. My BMR apparently is 1872 calories. So if im consuming 1900 calories plus exercise I should have a deficit? I think that’s right lol u will probably know better
Hi Dana, I’m very glad you’re finding the info helpful
so, if you entered your data and your activity level and your goal (mild / moderate weight loss, whatever you chose) on the link I posted, the number you get out and the individual grams of protein carbs and fat are already what your goal for consumption should be to reach that goal you entered. In other words: if you don’t change your activity level from what you entered and you eat the calories and macros as suggested by the calculator, you will lose weight according to your goal (mildly, moderately, whatever).
Keep in mind: you’ll have to re-take this calculation after some weight loss or if you change your activity levels (due to injury for example, of if you suddenly become obsessed with HIIT or whatever)
No further calculation is needed now. Now you download a macro tracker on your phone and start logging your meals/calories IN, as I described above. This is called calorie counting. This will be a bit laborious at first but after a while you’ll know so much more about what foods equal what macros, it’ll become much easier.
One last thing: you mentioned before that you’ve become a bit obsessed with fitness and weight loss in the past. This happened to me with the calorie counting. Granted, that was long before I started recovery, when I first began with weight lifting , and I just wasn’t mentally stable enough. But just a heads up: observe yourself. This can become addictive and obsessive for folk like us. Doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from this simple scientific approach imo. Just means you gotta use your recovery tools, be kind to yourself, keep perspective, and don’t go down the rabbit hole. 
Easy does it. Consistency is key.
I’m rooting for you!
I’ve been contemplating cutting weight for a while… I love lifting weights so my holdup was getting weaker while I cut, it’s inevitable. Covid cane along and kicked my ass hard, lost 10 pounds in a few days and then just decided to keep going. I’m down to 186 right now (18 pounds) and I’m weaker but I’m gonna keep going… I’ll stop at 175 i think and see how it treats me.
You can join Noom and have two weeks of tutorials for free and cancel before they want the $50.00. The beginning tutorials are good if you’ve never done them before. It puts a lot in perspective, a lot of what they have said in the comments to your question here.
Monday weigh in.
Up a little to 202.6 lbs.
I can deal with that. Especially if I’m sober.
Checking in 145.5
My activity this month hasn’t been much. Busy month but glad to see some weight still came off. Being kind to myself. The scale is not moving as fast as I’d like but I’m officially 10 lbs down from where I started.
I am stuck at 181… I want to get in the 70’s so bad… I want to be honest I am lacking on pushing myself and following my schedule. I have been making excuses or not being disciplined. I want to reach my goal !! Help
Monday weigh in:
Down 1.2lbs since last Monday. Feeling okay with that
179.8 I am in the 70’s!!! Oh my goodness I did not expect that today… I am so happy 
I have 2 more pounds and I have lost 50 pounds . I can do this!! I am so proud of myself for how far I have come and how much I have changed health wise … I am grateful. Hope you all have a great day!!!
170.8 last week 170.6 this week.
177.25 lb today. 
Hopped on the scale. I was 181 and then I was like this isn’t right and it went down to 177.6 the second time I hopped on it. I’ll take that. Down 50 lbs finally!!! 12 more pounds until my goal. I never thought I would make it this far and i started this in February but started seeing results in march so it’s been about 5-6 months. I am happy… let’s goooo
I had some scales that would vary by up to about 5 or 6 lbs each time I stood on them. I was getting so frustrated that I bought a new set recently which seem much more stable lol.
Good to see the numbers going down though.
Hey it’s been a minute. Just got 188.2 lbs this morning. Much better than where I was two or three months ago. Getting there!
In the right direction, so that’s a win.
201.6 lbs.
