going through some difficult times...

tanyanie11 · October 2018

so. at the moment i weigh 87.4kg. i started my journey from 95kg in august. suddenly i'm not losing any weight anymore?? i'm still eating healthy foods and i go to the gym twice a week + i go for walks/jogs 2-4 times a week. my weight won't move! it's been like this for two weeks! my goal is to lose 1kg a week so i'd be at my goal weight in the summer (55kg).... but it's getting so hard and i'm starting to lose motivation. i want to be healthy and i want to be skinny but i feel like giving up :-/ it's so hard to do this when i feel like i'm just gonna end up being disappointed and fall back to my old habits...

should i start taking cheat days only twice a month? or less? if that's the problem i'm willing to do it.

(sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language haha)

kam26001 · October 2018

Adjust your calorie intake to get back into your weekly weight loss goal. You can eat all the healthy foods and exercise all you want but weight loss still comes down to how many calories you are consuming. Set up short-term goals so the greater process doesn't seem so daunting. It sounds like this end goal of 55kg by summer and "wanting to be skinny" is making you feel pressured. Focus on short-term goals for now. To be honest, 1 kg/week for someone below 100 kg is leaning towards the aggressive side. Don't be afraid to take a more conservative approach (0.5). The chances of you reaching your goal can only get better. Put "skinny" and "summer" on the back burner for now... take it week by week and take the victories, big or small, as they come. All the best.

88olds · October 2018

Rethink. 1 kg per week all the way to your goal is unlikely to happen. You don’t say, do you keep a food diary? Do you use a food scale? As pointed out, weight loss happens as a result of a calorie deficit.

Running2Fit · October 2018

1 kg is a bit unrealistic. At the start, when you weigh more, it’s pretty easy to achieve 1 kg a week but the closer you get to your goal the harder it’s gonna be. You may want to adjust your expectations.

That said, you should still be losing even if you aren’t losing as much as you want. You say you are eating healthy - do you count your calories? Even eating healthy you can over eat. As for whether or not you should decrease your chest days, that depends one what your chest days look like. You could easily be undoing a whole week’s work with an out of control chest day.

tanyanie11 · October 2018

88olds wrote: »

Rethink. 1 kg per week all the way to your goal is unlikely to happen. You don’t say, do you keep a food diary? Do you use a food scale? As pointed out, weight loss happens as a result of a calorie deficit.

i keep a food diary and i've been eating less than 1200 calories a day :-/

Mr_Healthy_Habits · October 2018

A few things...

1- Forget the goal weight, remind yourself that any and all progress is success.

I was over 333lbs when I started and I never set any goal weight, I told myself that if I could lose even 5lbs, I would be that much better off.

Thinking like this helped me to build momentum rather than lose it.

2- Don't think cheat days, think cheat meals, and just once a week and consider a cheat meal that will make you feel better about what you ate and not worse.

Go to that restaurant Friday night and enjoy the fact that you are the type of person that eats salads and greens and not junk... Ask yourself what kind of person d'you want to be before ordering.

3- Step it up... What I eat and how I work out today is drastically different from the way I ate and exercised while losing the first 20 or even 50lbs.

4- For me, the key was making small changes over time.. Every small change was a step up, eventually you build so much momentum it simply becomes easier to workout and eat healthy than to cheat and skip workouts...

countcurt · October 2018

I have to start out on the ‘cheat’ concept. Which I think is a self-defeating framework. Cheating implies doing something unfair, unethical or immoral. And that one has to ‘cheat’ at all reinforces the notion of being a failure. So, if you find it helpful to splurge once in awhile, have at it. Consider it a normal human behavior, something ‘naturally thin people’ do as a routine part of their eating habits. Keeping in mind, of course, that you need to count those calories (as best you can) and build them into your eating plan.

Now...you may be best served by adjusting your expectations. Putting a time schedule on your weight loss is a bit of a fool’s errand because, well, things just aren’t that simple. You will get the weigh-in you deserve, just not always exactly when you think it should come. But one kg per week (on average) is a pretty aggressive goal, particularly as you get closer to your goal weight. On top of which, over time, as your losses exceed 1/2 kg, you’ll be significantly increasing the percentage of lean body mass being lost. And, you’ll be pretty miserable. Even more miserable than you already are.

This isn’t easy. Why make it harder on yourself with unrealistic self-imposed expectations?

76Crane76 · October 2018

I use tools to keep me going like my fit bit and the gym. I also allow myself a cheat meal or cheat day once a week. I don't like to eat less than 1200 calories a day. If you start making small changes you may get your mind in the game a bit stronger.

intrigame23 · October 2018

I think you need to be easier on yourself. I would recommend upping your calories, especially of you're fairly active. I think it's really hard to be satisfied on 1200 calories or less, and that makes it difficult to keep this endeavor alive for more than a few weeks. Maybe aim for a smaller loss? Over time you'll reach your goal and keep your motivation to continue.

elisa123gal · October 2018

If you eat under 1200 a day .. I'd say try and increase your calories and eat more.. and add a cheat meal every week.. see what happens.

I, myself, have eaten a free meal on the weekend the entire time I've reduced. But, I never binged as in eating a whole pizza or gallon of ice cream. Just a meal out with my husband to take a break.

88olds · October 2018

Food scale?

going through some difficult times...

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