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Flying back from Holiday today. It has been pretty grand. Skip the whole week and weigh next week? Or, Saturday morning of this week and then again on my usual Monday morning? We'll see.0
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chris_in_cal wrote: »Flying back from Holiday today. It has been pretty grand. Skip the whole week and weigh next week? Or, Saturday morning of this week and then again on my usual Monday morning? We'll see.
I guess it depends on if you will be bothered by the fact that you might be 10lbs of water weight heavier, with the knowledge it'll come off or whether you'd just prefer to see your weight next.0 -
My weight trend has been flat for about six weeks. It kind of makes sense when looking at what I was doing, and traveling. I feel like the last couple of days I have come back around to taking better care of my routine and my plan.
I want to start losing 1.33 lbs/week for 15 weeks and be down twenty pounds for a late January running race.
Yet, as with seemingly all my plans, due to work there is a chance I will need to relocate between now and then, which is very disruptive. What I can do is start sticking with my little 15 week plan today, and just take it one day at a time.1 -
September 23, 2019 - 180.6
October 31, 2019 - 180.7
I've been on a nearly six week long plateau. If I can stay on track for two or three days, I hope I can bust out of it.0 -
well done all - Am skinnier awesome photos - you are really smiling in the second which is the best thing. Chris your running is putting me to shame well done and good luck for the 10k - you have to run faster for those so I think they are not easy either
Just seeing the dates on these posts - I might just be a tad behind the curve
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Chris what race are you doing in Jan ?0
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Sept 29th - 10K - 54:30
Jan 19th - Half Marathon.1 -
Hi everyone
Now that it's officially December, it seems like it would be nice to reflect on the year that's gone - what's been good, what's been bad. And maybe lay down some goals for 2020.
If someone had told me on the 1st January last year that I would be entering 2020 less than half a stone from my goal I would have been both amazed (because I had no confidence I'd be able to do it) but also really impatient to get here and annoyed it was going to take so long (because I was so miserable with my body and wanted it to be ok asap).
I started my diet trying to eat at 1200 calories per day and my ways of eating have changed and evolved several times over the year. I think I'm at a place now where it does genuinely feel like a lifestyle change and something I can sustain for the rest of my life to manage my weight. I have binged a handful of times this year and overeaten several more - but I have learnt to mostly prevent and deal with this behaviour when it occurs and I'm so pleased that I'm doing so much better with it. I suspect that I'm always going to have to work to not slip back into regular binging though, sadly.
Even though I never expected losing weight to fix all my problems, I still wasn't quite prepared for still feeling insecure and unhappy with my body when it was so much smaller. On the other hand, overall I feel a lot more confident and this confidence has helped me to get to grips with other areas of my life that I was struggling with. I also notice the ways in which my life has become more comfortable without the excess fat - particularly around aches in my legs after walking or ar night, personal hygiene being so much easier, rashes between fat rolls, etc etc. They gradually disappear and you don't really notice unless you sit and take stock.
I don't like the way people keep commenting on my weight and my body, particularly at family functions. It comes from such a lovely place but I hate the focus on me and the way I look. My mum also talks a lot about how upset she was when I was overweight and will talk in detail about ways in which I was a bit gross - and I really struggle with it, because I (a) don't want to be reminded of all the things I was insecure about and have it made clear that everyone else saw them too, but also (b) I was still me, just a little larger. My body wasn't 'gross' it was just bigger and I don't owe my family to be attractive to them.
Going into 2020, I would like to get down to my initial goal of 140lb, but my real goal is 133lb so will strive for that. Once I hit 140 I would like to start doing strength training again - I started in February and lasted a couple of months but the stall in the scale weight was too much for me to cope with at that point. I am actively trying to conceive which will hopefully interfere with my plans so I don't have much control over whether I reach those goals or not - but I will continue with the behaviours. I am quite anxious about pregnancy and weight gain - I've just spent a year losing the weight and it's upsetting to know that I will need to gain quite a bit back. Although I will try to manage my eating and not eat excessively, I am also aware that pregnancy is not the time to freak out about gaining a few pounds - so trying to reach some acceptance, still got a bit of work to do there.
Overall I'm really really proud of what I've achieved in 2019, both in changing my body and health so much for the better but also how I've managed to start and continue much healthier habits overall and work on all sorts of areas of my life. I feel that I am going into 2020 as a much happier person than 2019 and am hopeful that I will continue to make progress on my physical and mental health over the next 12 months.
Sorry that was quite an essay. Hopefully not too tedious. I'd love to hear about others 2019 and what you're looking forward to for 2020.
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I’ve lost over 100lbs since I started in June 2018. I am so happy but still have a bit to go so I think I’ll be ramping the exercise up a gear come January. I’d like to try C25K and see how I get on. I just know that the me of two years ago is so proud of the me of today
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Didn't have a good week this last week. Evening eating was out of control. I did okay having normal breakfasts and lunch.1
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Hi everyone, I was here before, never left the group, but have not signed in for ages. So would my start weight be today's? I will just take it as that. Or is it when I started MFP? Sorry I cannot remember, oops!
I am accountable to my strength/nutrition coach and my own daily weigh in graph, but I think I need to pop in here to chat. My eating disorder kind of flared up a couple of weeks back, I was not exercising (apart from commuting to and from work on my bicycle and some walking), have not been doing so for about 6 weeks. This week, my motivation returned and I seem to have more energy to get more stuff done : )
I am officially on a cut (fat loss phase), no competitions in sight for ages, maybe next year's masters or lightweight category, we shall see. Bicep tendon allowing (yeah injury from last year, still niggling) Working out at home is weird. Used to loud music and group training atmosphere in my local and strongwoman gyms. Zooming with gym buddies is fun and does help speed the sessions up...1 -
nexangelus wrote: »Hi everyone, I was here before, never left the group, but have not signed in for ages. So would my start weight be today's? I will just take it as that. Or is it when I started MFP? Sorry I cannot remember, oops!
Your choice really, only difference it will make is in the monthly reporting where it shows your start, current & goal weight.
My bingeing has been horrendous of late so I feel you on the flare up. I've gone from 1-2 days per month to that being the non-binge day, well maybe not quite that bad it's only been last 2 weeks but I've done badly enough to gain about 5lbs actual weight in that time.
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OK so the urge to binge has been delayed by 3 days. Which means my delay tactics have worked and it has also lessened the actual "amount" (hard to describe the binge mentality in words, but it is planned and executed certain ways with certain foods, I am sure a few of you can relate).
Don't really want to head into too much detail as it is unpleasant stuff and triggers for me lately have been anxiety, high levels of fatigue and work stress. The same triggers as before during recovery, although much earlier in my life they were mostly purely hunger driven when I was restricting...I know this is not an ED board and I apologise if any of this is upsetting to anyone. I have been working/struggling/living with with my EDs since I was a teen, I am now 46.
Anyroad, just writing it down here as reference. I seem to have periods of high productivity/accomplishment/achievement and then I seem to hit really low periods, that grind, are really hard, tiresome and it feels almost like all the fuel is spent. Times like these I want to hibernate, but they usually coincide with periods of my life when things are changing and lots of things need to be done. I know the environmental stressors (not being able to socialise with my friends at the gym, etc) are also another factor. I also realise that a great number of people are being affected mentally, financially, physically, etc.
Have been for a 30 min walk this morning with my son, he was actually up before 5 a.m. ready and waiting, so that has been a great springboard/start for today : )2 -
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@nexangelus how is fighting the bingeing going? I have had a bit of an epic fail the last couple of days, not calorie-wise really but just in volumes of food, particularly when not even hungry.
@chris_in_cal did you manage to fix your challenge issues on Garmin yet?0 -
I totally empathise on the bingeing struggle. I've been doing it since my teens but it has got significantly worse as I've gotten older. I'm currently in a phase of not doing it and not feeling the urge. When this happens I always feel like there's no way I would go back to it. And then something seems to flip in my brain and I binge semi daily for months at a time and not knowing how to stop (or even wanting to which is worse).1
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I had been doing pretty well whilst I was running through a self-help program earlier this year, but I've just stopped applying the principals out of laziness in recent months. I had a good 2 years mostly binge-free, but work pressures and stuff got to me over the last year and I've had a bit of a lapse.0
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I rapidly gained about 12lb of proper fat bingeing over a couple of months earlier this year. Life was very tough at the time and I def think it's a (bad) coping mechanism like drink or drugs.
I would love to know how to stop. I often think I've cracked it short term but it never lasts 😔1 -
I think it's something that (sadly) takes years and a lot of effort to overcome. I feel for anyone who has had an addiction to drink or drugs, I think the principal is the same with bingeing, in that it's a bad coping mechanism, but think it's more of a compulsion than an addiction because food itself is not addictive in the way that alcohol or narcotics are.
I have found it easier in recent years to explain my bingeing to friends and family, as I think previously they looked at it like someone eating a large chocolate bar on their period. Whereas for me, it may not necessarily be food that would be considered junk food, it could be fruit, veg, etc. Rather it's the act of mindlessly eating something to numb my brain even for a few minutes as respite from whatever is bothering me at the time. The comforting numbness is very short-lived so I do it repeatedly, looking for the same numbness.1 -
amskinner87 wrote: »I'm currently in a phase of not doing it and not feeling the urge. When this happens I always feel like there's no way I would go back to it. And then something seems to flip in my brain and I binge semi daily for months at a time and not knowing how to stop (or even wanting to which is worse).
This perfectly describes my own reflections on my past couple of decades of obesity, and then loss.
It seems a magically psychological switch flips.
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