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In a moment of insanity I decided to double up in my workouts tonight and then some misplaced sense of duty or loyalty or whatever made me stick to my original plan. I am beyond tired. I did 30 high kipping knee raises, 4K on the assault bike (7:29 was my time), 30 ring rows and another 4K on the assault bike (8:48 time)…

I did an L-sit hold on some kind of soft-handled contraption for several seconds! I think it was 7 seconds before my shoulders gave out. We were supposed to do it on a box but my wrists gave out almost immediately. With an L-sit hold, you basically hold up your entire body with your arms, which are stretched out below you…

My weigh in after not exercising for 4 days showed 124kg, which is on the low end but not a new low. Standing there, it hit me that I had about 3700 cals yesterday, more than half of which were chinese-korean barbecue restaurant food. So all in all this is a good weight to see. Back to not weighing in this month. I did…

I met a friend I hadn't seen in 4 months apparently and while she was vaguely aware that the weight was coming off, she told me she saw a huge difference and I looked super thin. Obviously I don't look super thin but it's good to know that the measurements I took translate to a reality in which I am smaller, which isn't…

I just found this thread and some of what you say resonates with me. I had to deal with the mental health aspects well before I could commit to any type of weight loss attempt. It started somewhere around winter 2017 and took a few years. It coincided with the body positivity movement so alongside learning to love myself…

I had 10 hours of sleep again, but 2am to noon so my day has been short. I'm glad I skipped my workout yesterday because I scrubbed the oven today and my arms feel very tired now. I do feel better otherwise and I miss the gym a bit but on the weekend they close early (around noonish) so I overslept all the classes. I did…

I have a huge calorie budget because I'm very heavy, quite tall for a woman, young and exercise a lot. Initially, when I restarted exercise I was losing too fast at a kg per week. To preserve my muscles, I needed to eat more. Calorie-rich drinks, oce cream, cookies, cake, etc. are necessary for me to get to my minimal…

I skipped my workout this morning and slept 3 more hours for a total of 10,5 hours. I'm still fairly exhausted but no longer from lack of sleep. I took it easy and only picked up my bike from the repair shop and then got groceries with it. I forgot how easy it is to get a lot of groceries by bike vs on foot. My hands…

My sister moved! I went through 3 shirts,I sweat like crazy, and I lifted a lot of heavy things, we got a little bit of help from a nice new neighbour, she got help from her old neighbour and some good friends so I'm happy. Managed a slight deficit and had almost 4L of water but surprisingly I fit into one of my sister's…

I'm helping my sister move. A lot of it is waiting around doing nothing but then a lot of it was lifting and carrying heavy things. I surprised a few people by my strength 😂 (she has deviously heavy chairs that look like they would weigh nothing, that I lifted like they weighed nothing and then this dude was helping us get…

Yesterday's lunch with the friend from the gym turned into lunch + drinks + shopping + a movie at the cinema. She sounded a little homophobic or at least heavily promoting the standard gender norms we're trying to dismantle so that was a bummer. I know I mentioned attraction to all genders last time we spoke so idk if she…

@mshawski that's a brilliant idea. I don't own a drier but I'll try washing them on high heat and if that fails I'll bring them to my mum's to dry in a drier. Thanks for the inspiration!

I got in a good double workout in the morning on half a breakfast. My energy levels were okay. I'm starting to do more that I used to before my back injury so I'm exhaustee but happy. I got a fitaid drink at the competition a few weeks ago and I finally tried it. It's disgusting. So bad. I filled half a glass with it,…

I had a good morning workout. I managed to eat a bit before going so my energy levels were okay. We did: 3 min of max wall balls. For ever 5 wall ballls you could substract 50 meters from the aerobics stuff. I got 60 wall balls with a 4kg ball. 1 min rest. Then 10 min to complete either 2K row, 1,5K ski or 5K bike minus…

I started at 304ish lbs and healthy bmi is 167ish lbs so not 100% sure what my goal is but 204lbs is approx. the obese to overweight treshold for me so definitely looking to get there. So far lost 33ish lbs

For real, front- and backsquats equal shoulder bruises, cleans equal collarbone bruises, snatches equal thigh bruises from catching the bar. You can always tell what I did from the bruises I'm sporting 😂

I did an hour long pilates session in the morning. We covered both hips and the overhead position. I did my first deep squat since hurting my back and it was okay! The overhead stuff wasn't too bad either because my wrists don't allow for a normal wide-grip ohsq so my mobility had to adapt real quick when I started doing…

I did pilates in the morning and when I was on my way back I thought my hips looked tiny in the mirror. I measured and they're down 2cm! Also my underbreast finally got below 100cm! It's 99cm now. My breasts are down to 112cm, though I have no idea if I lost off the front or the back. My thighs are down to 79cm, my calves…

Hi all, happy august! I have a really uncommon first name, which is even uncommon in the place it comes from (former Yugoslavia, now several Balkan countries) and even less common in the Netherlands so in order to avoid narrowing down my identity to one of less than 100 people in this tiny country, I won't share my name.…

I ripped open both my hands, including blisters that hadn't fully healed yet, and pushed myself to the limit in today's gymnastics class. I don't think I've ever done a harder workout and the main reason it felt so hard is because I'm about 40kg too heavy to reasonably attempt this but here I am. Week 3 of our pull up…

@Alatariel75 if you're getting burnt out from all this, is it maybe time for a diet break? Or a slightly less steep deficit? Even if just for a week, it might help you feel less bad? I don't think weightloss should make you feel miserable. I don't think my casual approach of 'try to stay under maintenance but avoid hunger…

My cousin lost a bunch of weight before her wedding. She used to be a US size 12/UK16 and went down to a size US4/UK8. I think she's about 5'6 or 5'7. She got married in 2013 and after birthing 3 kids, she's still as skinny as she was on her wedding day. I have no idea what she did. She's a nurse and was one back then too.…

I'm having weird body changes. When I am lying down on my back and lift my leg to about 45-60 degrees and let my foot hang, my lower leg looks scary skinny and right below the knee there's a dip on the inside so my lower leg looks slimmer than my knee. And in side-view there's a bunch of something hanging down by my calf,…

We did a short 10 min amrap of 3-6-9-12-15-etc power clean and push jerks + ring rows. I did 25kg and hang power c&js. I did 70 reps total! I'm very happy. I know I pushed myself because at the accessory work my arms felt weak and I had to break stuff up into sets. Now I just wanna nap. I got some walking in yesterday and…

I did my final weigh in today as well, I saw both 127,5 and 124,5kg within a minute so I'm gonna assume I weigh 126kg today. I wore an old pair of leggings today, first to the store and then to my workout and my lower legs looked so good. The tape shows no difference but my eyes saw it. Then at the workout they kept…

It doesn't seem like the onus should be on the person hurt. It's not my responsibility to thicken my skin (or your responsibility to thicken yours); surely it's the responsibility of the person saying hurtful things, whether on purpose or unknowingly, to stop? Being sensitive shouldn't be frowned upon or discouraged. Sure,…

So the tdee calculator .net has always been wrong for me based on how much I exercise and I figured out how to make it right. I need to add my fat percentage. Now I don't know my fat percentage but I know my maintenance because I know how much weight I lost eating what. So based on that, I could figure out my fat…

@Yoolypr you're so right. Usually it's the nicest people that want to be supportive that say the wrong things. I try not to connect how they make me feel in that moment to how I feel about them when they're not being clumsy with their words so barring a few individuals who I don't like on their good days, I don't resent…

I would like to claw into my head through my skull and pull out my brain. I had a trauma response and I felt embarrassed even though it wasn't shameful and it's so frustrating that I'll obsess over what I could've done differently for the next few months and I would like to prevent that. There's still a lot of self-hate in…

I did my gymnastics homework today and it was all arms. 4 sets of 10 assisted strict pull ups 4 sets of 15 trx ring rows and 10 db bicep curls per arm, with 5kg DBs, resting as much as needed after each set. Afterwards I rolled out my arms because I was feeling every arm muscle I have. It was so intense for a 45 min…