Need to lose almost half my weight!!!

victoria92r

Just need some motivation. I need to lose exactly 100 pounds for my health and sanity. Anyone know of any good fitness/diet gurus on Instagram? My goal is to start counting macros and working out every day.

Sashslay

Use Instagram to get motivation and tips to begin with but eventually your biggest motivator will be yourself.

Carlos_421

Instagram is a wellspring of bad information.
Lots of pretty people...not a lot of helpful advice.

aeloine

Don't forget to log and count calories. Macros are great for nutrition but calories are vital for weight loss.

ZoneFive

Be your own guru. Log and track your calories honestly, ALL of them. That's the data that will help you refine your eating to suit your own body and life. Nobody can teach you better than that. Calories first, macros second (unless you have some overriding medical issues).

Muscleflex79

victoria92r wrote: »

Just need some motivation. I need to lose exactly 100 pounds for my health and sanity. Anyone know of any good fitness/diet gurus on Instagram? My goal is to start counting macros and working out every day.

shouldn't your health and sanity be your motivation?? not some instagram girl (who is likely trying to) sell stuff?

ruqayyahsmum

Start small and keep going
100lb is daunting but 5lb is doable right?

Log your calories, having a good macro balance is great and all but ultimately its cico

Im down 150lb so far, around 100 to go

ehrenlynae7

I have somewhere between 80-100 pounds to lose. Start small. I'm honestly not even focused on calorie reduction yet, just getting the habit of logging all my food and adding a new healthy habit each week. Last week I added walking 20 minutes a day on my lunch break. This week I started Couch to 5k and drinking 80oz water a day.

In a couple of weeks I will determine a reasonable calorie goal for weight loss and go with it and keep going from there.

cmtigger

victoria92r wrote: »

Just need some motivation. I need to lose exactly 100 pounds for my health and sanity. Anyone know of any good fitness/diet gurus on Instagram? My goal is to start counting macros and working out every day.

How tall are you? First thing I'd do is look up what the range is for a healthy BMI for your height and sex. Set the top end of that as your first goal. Then once you hit there, re-evaluate and see how much more you want to lose.

I know I wouldn't want to be back to 100lbs. It may have been my HS weight, but I was underweight from growth spurts. So set a realistic goal based on BMI and go from there. I've lost 20 lbs since January just counting calories by logging on MFP. Slow, but healthy.

LiftHeavyThings27105

I will take a somewhat different approach to this: you get healthy first, then fit, right? Have you had a physical and all of the blood work done? Is there anything in there? Just a different perspective....

HeidiCooksSupper

I think you'll find the best gurus right here on MFP. All you need to do is eat fewer calories than you expend and you will lose weight. Anything else is just a choice. Low carb, IIFYM, OMAD, keto, clean, paleo, ... doesn't really matter. All you need to do is eat fewer calories than you expend. CICO (calories in, calories out)

Exercise is good for you. It will allow you to eat more calories. Exercise alone will not cause weight loss.

Some folks set big specific goals. That doesn't work for others of us. My goal is just to eat within a calorie limit that is 500 less than my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). If I do that, I lose weight. I've been doing it for just shy of three months and the scale is going down. I'm down about 25 with another 115 to go.

PaulaWallaDingDong

To heck with Instagram. You've hit the jackpot right here! We don't have fancy photo filters, infuser bottles, boxes of tea or protein shakers with the brand names of rip-off MLMs plastered on them.

Also our salads don't tell jokes.


But we get *kitten* done.

Nykkismommy21

Fatgirlfedup is great.Ericafitlove.And Fatchicktonotsofatchick. They all have lost over 100 lbs, natural weightloss,plenty of info .And very much real people,no gimmicks or anything. Oh and also Gracie's Journey. You will find them very inspirational. I am on there too. FromZ_to_Sleek all on Instagram.