Start over for the millionth time

lynds1371
lynds1371 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
I've lost and gained weight over the years, at one point almost 100lbs in 18 months. Every last pound gained back, and this time I'm 30lbs heavier then the heaviest I weighed in at.
Starting from scratch with no fitness and at 360lbs going into a gym is going to be hard but Im going to make a commitment to go three days a week minimum for the first month. Today is day one. Aiming for 2100-2300 calories to begin with and reducing down as the weight (hopefully) comes off. I'd love to have friends starting or who started off above 300lbs to keep me motivated.
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  • jrhnewfirstday
    jrhnewfirstday Posts: 8 Member
    It's my new Day One as well, after many false starts. I know you can manage it and crush it!!
  • DoItLikeLuke
    DoItLikeLuke Posts: 6 Member
    I'm starting again this evening after being a member since 2013
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,746 Member
    Don't give up - keep trying! Clearly you know HOW to lose weight but something is keeping you from maintaining the loss. If you can identify that "something(s)" it will definitely help you to plan ahead this time.
  • bigbandjohn
    bigbandjohn Posts: 769 Member
    Started way over 300. Now down to my last 32. Will re-evaluate at that point, but when I was my goal weight over 25 years ago I looked good, so I think it'll be a good stopping point. Maintenance is hard, but I committed by setting one of my large outfits aside, and as I buy newer smaller items donating the old to Salvation Army. I also refuse to buy larger sizes ever again. If I start to gain I will immediately go back to what worked for me to lose weight. No more "let me buy one of the larger sizes to be comfortable while I lose it back". I did that before and gained back plus. It never worked for me.

    There are a lot of good people here who are helpful. I'll admit I started late in the game here, but there is a lot of good encouraging people. Best of luck.
  • kjwood1984
    kjwood1984 Posts: 1 Member
    Starting all over myself!! Nothing fits and I'm getting disgusted with myself. One day at a time. Logging my food and exercise. STAY CONSISTENT!!
  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Consistency is my weakest area and probably the number one indicator of success.

    I am a very all or nothing kind of person, which is truth but also a bad excuse. I've done the same thing. I've lost and regained the same weight. Over and over. Still doing it.

    One thing I say I'm going to do is realize how just long I've been screwing around and finally do the whole slow-down-to-speed-up thing. If, instead of starving myself for periods and gorging during other periods, I simply set a realistic daily caloric deficit (like 200 calories) and just STUCK TO IT, I'd probably have lost the weight by now.

    Anyway, easier said than done. I'm still screwing around grasping at straws and periodically starving myself and periodically gorging.

    Cheers.
  • webOtter
    webOtter Posts: 1 Member
    I've had some similar experiences. One of the big issues (for me) was not resetting my actual hunger urges. Let me explain. When I was heavier, I ate a certain amount of food and part of the process of deciding that amount was enough and 'feeling' full was a cognitive thing. An idea that I needed to eat a certain amount of food.

    So as I lost weight each of the many times that I tried except the last) I never reset that idea of how much I needed to eat to my new weight. And as I start to finally get down to my maintenance weight, I need to know that I won't be eating as much food to be full...

    This is confounded by the fact that biologically, there is also a signal that your stomach sends your brain saying it is full but it doesn't send that signal as quickly as we eat!

    So through the program I am using, we need to slow down our chewing and slow down the rate of food intake (into the mouth), with the goal being to take about 20 minutes, in two 10 minute chunks separated by a 5 minute break. This gives my stomach time to let my brain know it is full.

    Anyway this is what ended up really working for me and getting me off of the weight yo-yo as I thought of it. I hope it helps you too.
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    edited November 2018
    Judging from your post I get the impression that you might be focusing your efforts in the wrong area.

    Your post immediately starts talking about your commitment to the gym and working out, however makes zero mention of calorie intake. Read through the posts here and you'll quickly see a recurring theme that weight loss happens in the kitchen, not in the gym.

    I and many many others here lost significant amounts of weight with zero working out. I lost the first 25kg or so with nothing more than controlling calorie intake and in fact adding exercise while beneficial for health and fitness in no way increased my rate of weight loss as the relatively insignificant number of calories burned working out tended to be offset by being hungrier.

    Weight loss is about maintaining a calorie deficit by eat fewer calories than you burn. So keep up the gym sessions if you're loving them but focus them on health and fitness and rather than weight loss.

    As the saying goes 'You can't outrun your fork'

    G'luck
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