I’m old. Not nostalgic 
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Let me know if you ever try that cucumber soup recipe card. Curious to know if you like it.
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Yahooooooo! Way to go! Is it a pelotan bike? Those are all the rage here. I wouldn’t mind a treadmill but we have no room in the house unfortunately. So I’m prone to migraines but this has been extra the last few days. There are so many fires in the state right now I’m wondering if it has something to do with the smoke. I didn’t do any more walks last night but still met my calorie goal. I’m having a little trouble sleeping right now. Getting up to go for a walk with my mom and the dogs in the morning before work. It’s something I want to make a new habit of!
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I want a peloton too so bad man. Some of my friends have them and love them. I’m broke bc I’m going back to school so I’m just sticking with planet fitness for now I suppose I just lost 30 lbs in like 80 days though so I’m super proud of that! I just want to maintain and tone now. Cardio really helps keep my head cleared though so I can focus better on school and whatnot. I love ellipticals and bikes and the occasional run!
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You’ve got this!!! You can do it if you set your mind to it! I actually just posted to my instagram the other day about my progress. July 3rd I was the heaviest I’ve ever been at 155lbs. Now I bounce around 125 to 127lbs which has generally always been my norm after graduating high school in 2006. Dedication…so much dedication and hard work. Like I said…YOUVE GOT THIS! 
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There are 2 golden rules that i folow in what matters to food.
1- Dont go buy food with hunger, you will buy all kind of stuff that you dont need, in short, only shit stuff.
2- plan a list, write it down and stick to it,and buy that stuff all weeks, dont make monthly food shoppings for a reason,you will buy all kinds of “good stuff” snacks etc… and even if you’r not hungry, you wil eat because you know that you have THAT item in the fridge and if you buy greens and freesh stuff, it wont last long and it will be an excuse for you to skip healthy food just because the food is not with the best of looks in the fridge.
Training, well, you just do it, kinda like the need to eat or go to the bathroom…in time, if u dont, your muscles start to complain when u dont…its a process that needs some consistency at the begining so that u make it your new reality but its doable.
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You must give your bike a name. It’s the rules.
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I will leav here a diet that i use to kickstart my eating cycle, it is used by the military in my country when they need to loose weight fast, it’s only 13 days, you can loose up to 9kg if you follow it to the letter.
By consequence, your stomach will reduce size, that means, you will eat less after this and it wil alter your metabolism.
word of advice…be carfull with training in this two weeks, your body will be working with minimum food intake and will go to body reserves, thats why you will lose weight, if you train during theses two weeks you will burn out the reserves fast with training and you wont be able to complete the 13 days because you will get two weak for it.
i’ve made this 2 times in a row, 26 days, the last week was a nightmare…but it was worth it
Day One
Breakfast-Coffee, no sugar
Lunch- x2 boiled eggs,spinach (the quantity you desire)
Dinner- grilled steak (white meat)
Day Two
Breakfast-coffee, no sugar - whole grain bread or brown bread, dunno the right term (i’m translating this :P) (the bread is simple, with nothing on top)
Lunch-grilled steak with salad
Dinner- Ham (250 grams)
Day Three
Breakfast-coffee, no sugar - whole grain bread or brown bread
Lunch- x2 boiled eggs, tomatoe and green beans salad
Dinner- Ham with salad
Day Four
Breakfast-coffee, no sugar - whole grain bread or brown bread
Lunch-x1 boiled egg, boiled carrots or raw
Dinner-fruit salad with yougurt all mixed up
Day Five
Breakfast- carrots and coffee (i boiled the carrots a day earlyer and put them in the fridge so i can eat them in the morning fresh, goes down better :P)
Lunch- grilled fish and tomatoe salad
Dinner- grilled steak and green salad
Day Six
Breakfast-coffee, no sugar - whole grain bread or brown bread
Lunch-grilled chicken
Dinner-x2 boiled eggs with carrots
At day seven you start from day one again, until you make 13 days.
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Portugal 
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Hi @Rodrigues_Carlos and fellow weight loss and diet enthusiasts! I’m sincerely happy for everyone on here making an effort and coming a little further on their journey towards a body they like and a way of living that is sustainable and healthy.
But guys, this is exactly the point. As @mleclaire has gracefully pointed out, a diet that is not a sustainable lifestyle will fail you and backlash. And especially for us addicts, I feel we need to watch out especially to not fall into unhealthy patterns that give us instant gratifications but might lead to unhealthy habits and in the end, who knows. Eating disorders. Excersise and diet addiction. I have been through years of trying to be thin/excercising solely for that goal/being unhappy with my body/becoming addicted to the illusion of control through calorie counting and excercising, and I’m still not immune to their allure, but trying my best.
I just want to say that starting out a lifestyle change with a diet this restrictive does not sound like a good idea to me. If you excercise daily, you need the energy to keep this up. Not to mention brain, organ, skin health and functionality to be able to tackle our daily lives.
You also need sufficient calories to build muscle. Especially in early stages of starting any excercise routine, you will be able to build muscle and loose fat at the same time, but you cannot transform one into the other.
To each his own. But there is absolutely no benefit to restricting your diet to what seems to amount to a few hundred calories tops in this “diet plan”. Your body will go into starvation mode and will retain fat reservoirs to stay alive, especially once you go back to “normal eating”, you will gain it back. This sounds like a recipe for an eating disorder to me and not something anybody should do.
You can calculate your estimated daily calorie intake online, for free, for example here https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/macronutcal.htm
To lose weight, restrict this number by a few hundred calories, 200-500 absolutely tops I would say. Then go from there and gradually lose the weight you want to, then slowly adapt your intake again, always keeping in mind what you burn, how much you excercise, what your goal is, etc. But there’s no need to be exact down to the single calorie every single day. Stay on course, go in the right direction and you will see results. Consistency is key, as in all things. We have all shown we can keep at something and continually work on ourselves. We are all battling and winning against addictions. Let’s all be safe and conscious of ourselves and stay healthy and positive!
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That’s why i mentioned not to do any type of exercise or training during this process, and as i mentioned in an earlyer post, my "diet"was tunned during months of feeling what my body need and dont need, all that i eat is based on ealthy foods and with good calories intake…this was what worked for ME…and i shared that…the diet that i passed here, since military does that…dont seam to restrictive for me. but hey…its my opinion, and every body have one opinion to give.
i lost 30kg in 6 months, i’m 40 years old, i’m in better shape than when i was 18…i have no eating disorders or something similar, this simpli just worked for me.
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I feel you, @Jennajen, sounds like we have quite a similar background there. Knowledge and paying attention is key. Wish you all the best!
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Oh my gosh it’s so nice!!! I am a tiny bit jealous! 
get it girl!
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Day one of healthy eating and I’m feeling positive! I made a fruity nutty porridge for brekkie and butterbean hummus on seeded toast for lunch. Planning on chilli on potato for dinner. Also made sure I went for a lunch time walk as I’ve stopped doing those recently, definitely feel better for it! Hope everyone has had a good start to the day! X
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That’s really cool.
Well done you. 
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Weight check in: 195 lbs. dropped 1.5 in 2 weeks of sobriety, and while not really caring about the food intake as I had incredible cravings on the firsts 8-10 days. Weight objective ? Not one really. Just some fat lost and getting progressively in shape again, especially without injuring myself like I always do if I go too hard.
Focus of the week:
- grocery is made and meal are planned, so no restaurant except for Friday night and a weekend brunch.
- stay vegan
I used to not care about it while drunk and ordering scrap food and felt like shit the next day about it… for me it’s just a principle : I do not eat animals no more. - workout minimum 3 times, maximum 5 times. Including weightlifting, cardio and swimming sessions.
- go to bed when I’m tired.
Keeping it simple is the goal
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I do appreciate the fact that some people reading or participating in this thread could have a history of an eating disorder or a current issue. I think it is good to be aware that we all come from different backgrounds. I think this thread is a great spot for promoting healthy lifestyle habits. Eating well and exercising are really important. We are all here to support eachother.
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Hey everyone. I’ve used this forum for years but I am back at 25 days clean myself. July 24th Iwas admitted to the hospital off the streets with endocarditis and staph. I was 184 pounds. I’m 5’8" and pretty big build so I was not big at all. Anyway I left the hospital Sept 7th at 190lbs and now I’m around 195lb. ImSUPER determined not to gain20 pounds again this time like I did when I got clean for a year in 2019. The hard part for me is my physical strength is pretty much gone from being bedridden for 40 days. It takes everything I have to get thru a day without a nap. On top of that I just started back to working at a restaurant. So I try to focus more on changing what I’m eating and avoiding sugars (I crave icecream n cookies so bad since I quit drinking 4 yrs ago) and actually cooking food as often as I can. I had a delicious salmon spinach salad last night for dinner and it took like 10min.
I’m also on suboxone this time tho which I ssd’s seriously messing up my insides or I potentially have a food allergy.
Anyway my goals start small simple and realistic
- Drink about 16cups (1gal) water thru day
- Try to get 30minutes at least of cardio daily even if it’s just walking around the mall or between the bus station and home and bus
- Log all my food on myfitness pal (obsessed with this app used it for YEARS)
- Attempt to stay under calorie suggestion from fitnesspal but still log good if I dont (tracks binges and eating habits)
- Never go hungry especially to bed.
- After a week or two back to work start rotating my daily exercise routine (mild 10min workout of crunches, burpees, arms, torso, n leg exercises) and daily yoga video.
- Focus more on moderating sugar and snacks than restricting food.
Food addiction is tricky because abstinence isn’t a thing. It’s one area us addicts must teach ourselves moderation and I promise it’s possible! Exercise is SOOOO good in early recovery especially at boosting endorphins we may be missing from our drug of choice. It can be really hard to just make yourself do it but K personally feel so much better after and sleep so much better and inevitably have more energy.
I’m sorry I’m done my book now…
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Yes! Use me as a resource…I’m Here to help if you need it 
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