losing weight

[Deleted member 592570]

I've been giving your mom a good 30 mins of hard exercise every night. You're welcome.

 

[kimocomplex]

I have been slowly losing also, I workout at my jobs Athletic Club instead of having "rest days"

Also helps that we are not at 110 degrees anymore

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

i've waited a good five months or so before making this thread, because i wanted to see the results first. my mother has always been overweight. not super overweight, but i'd say around a good thirty pounds over. never more than that. earlier this year i was visiting my parents over the weekend, and i noticed my mom eating. nothing out of the ordinary. but when i saw her eat, i noticed that she was eating without even realizing it. in other words, not actually engaged in the act of eating. she was talking over the phone with a friend, and between moments of her speaking, she would manage to get in a bite or two before going on another minute-long rant about whatever. after seeing that go on for about ten minutes, and after her conversation was over, i spoke to her and gave her some, what i would consider insight, on how i personally lost weight.

i told her the key to losing weight, at least in my experience, is to focus on what you're eating. by that, i mean if you take your time to focus on what you're eating and treat the act of eating as an adventure and/or experiment, you get a lot more out of eating and you'll realize that you don't need a lot of food, either. when you eat something, say an apple, take a bite and assess whether it's temperature-wise hot or cold, is it mild or spicy, is it hard or soft. when you're biting and chewing the food, what's the texture like? is there an aftertaste? was it sweet or sour? you go through all these mental exercises while eating food, and it becomes much more than just feeding yourself nutrients to continue living. it's fun. the act of eating different foods and noticing differences is interesting. and you can get all that out of just one bite of what you're eating. after one bite, you don't have to continue with another bite right away. give it a minute or two. let your senses clear out then go for another bite. you can then have the same experiences all over again. if you approach eating this way, an entire meal can give you tons of great sensations you never would have noticed before. and in the end, you need way less food and you're more satisfied.

my mother has stuck to this for almost five months, and she has lost more than twenty pounds, but more importantly, has kept it off. i saw my parents this past weekend, and my mother was incredibly lively and happy. anyway, if this helps anyone out there with weight issues, maybe the above will help.

I've dropped quite a deal of weight in the last few years, 60 pounds or so and i agree with you in short. i guess now I try to eat only when I'm hungry and stop before I get mega full. Very hard habit to get into, particularly when eating out and it's delicious, you just want to stuff yourself.

 

[IIIIIIII]

I've been giving your mom a good 30 mins of hard exercise every night. You're welcome.

lol, that's nasty.

 

[IIIIIIII]

I've dropped quite a deal of weight in the last few years, 60 pounds or so and i agree with you in short. i guess now I try to eat only when I'm hungry and stop before I get mega full. Very hard habit to get into, particularly when eating out and it's delicious, you just want to stuff yourself.

yeah, i hear ya. i'll admit to overdoing it with desserts. i mean it's not like anyone's a robot. of course, you have cheat days or whatever. and everyone's weight fluctuates some pounds here and there. it's more about not going too far to a point where it becomes the norm.

 

[whocares]

This is just my opinion I'm not a doctor or expert but I have a supremely vested interest in my nutrition and weight implications due to health reasons. So I will speak in absolutes but these are my absolutes. ymmv as always.

The absolute root of understanding weight gain and weight loss is stepping on the scale every damn day of your life, same time and circumstance. Easiest method is wake up, take a piss and get on the scale. Butt naked if you wish but underwear won't make a difference. I have done this every day for 17 years now and my transformations of understanding every micro and macro of diet and exercise stems from what my weight tells me every day. It's never lied to me, and trust me we are experts at lying to ourselves when it comes to diet and consumption. Of course I keep general track of eveything I consume and exercise, wouldn't make much sense without those details. People are heavy on calories in calories out and there's plenty of logic to that but it's much more complicated and less exact. We all have very different body composition and dietary needs. Your weight does not lie. And when you study it for long enough coupled with details of your total consumption and physical output, sleep, stress etc, you will become an expert and be able to pinpoint exactly what it is good and what is not for you. if you want to count calories too go for it, it's one more data point but it's somewhat redundant wiht this method. You will begin to intrinsically understand exactly how much to consume, and what. Every day you skip the scale you have wasted a day of data.

When I started this I had no clue what I was putting in my body or how much. Now I know exactly what food, what beverage and what exericise is going to have what effect. I try to tell my asshole doctors when I do bloodwork that I want the most comprehensive labs possible because the more data the better. It's the same with diet ane exercise. The more you keep track of, the more it fills in the picture of your health. And again, your weight is not going to lie to you. I have learned so much from doing this, it was never my intention to make it a lifelong lifestyle thing but I got so much great feedack simply from the foundation of getting on a scale every 24 hours.

I'm sure there are other ways, probably better ways and more scientific but for the layman your scale and your weight is very foolproof.

 

[Brom Bones]

i've waited a good five months or so before making this thread, because i wanted to see the results first. my mother has always been overweight. not super overweight, but i'd say around a good thirty pounds over. never more than that. earlier this year i was visiting my parents over the weekend, and i noticed my mom eating. nothing out of the ordinary. but when i saw her eat, i noticed that she was eating without even realizing it. in other words, not actually engaged in the act of eating. she was talking over the phone with a friend, and between moments of her speaking, she would manage to get in a bite or two before going on another minute-long rant about whatever. after seeing that go on for about ten minutes, and after her conversation was over, i spoke to her and gave her some, what i would consider insight, on how i personally lost weight.

i told her the key to losing weight, at least in my experience, is to focus on what you're eating. by that, i mean if you take your time to focus on what you're eating and treat the act of eating as an adventure and/or experiment, you get a lot more out of eating and you'll realize that you don't need a lot of food, either. when you eat something, say an apple, take a bite and assess whether it's temperature-wise hot or cold, is it mild or spicy, is it hard or soft. when you're biting and chewing the food, what's the texture like? is there an aftertaste? was it sweet or sour? you go through all these mental exercises while eating food, and it becomes much more than just feeding yourself nutrients to continue living. it's fun. the act of eating different foods and noticing differences is interesting. and you can get all that out of just one bite of what you're eating. after one bite, you don't have to continue with another bite right away. give it a minute or two. let your senses clear out then go for another bite. you can then have the same experiences all over again. if you approach eating this way, an entire meal can give you tons of great sensations you never would have noticed before. and in the end, you need way less food and you're more satisfied.

my mother has stuck to this for almost five months, and she has lost more than twenty pounds, but more importantly, has kept it off. i saw my parents this past weekend, and my mother was incredibly lively and happy. anyway, if this helps anyone out there with weight issues, maybe the above will help.

Didn't really read it all... Told mom to pay attention to what she ate... She went to a gloryhole... She lost weight and her hair and skin looked great... All because of the gloryhole. Got it!

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

yeah, i hear ya. i'll admit to overdoing it with desserts. i mean it's not like anyone's a robot. of course, you have cheat days or whatever. and everyone's weight fluctuates some pounds here and there. it's more about not going too far to a point where it becomes the norm.

I'm lucky to have basically eliminated my sweet tooth as well, my only real calories come from beer, and I'm not giving that up ha ha.

But yeah if you have a big dessert one night don't panic and fall off the wagon, just get back into it the next day.

 

[chardog]

I need to lose weight again. I lost a bunch a couple years ago but ended up gaining it all back. My very first month I hit it so hard I lost literally 20 lbs (in 1 month). I eased up after that and lost probably another 10 over a period of 2 months. Maintained that for a while and then slowly gained it all back, because I just started eating like shit again and eating whatever the hell I wanted, whenever I wanted, at all times of the day. What an idiot.

The very first like 4 days of starting a serious diet are brutally difficult but once you get through that period it's actually quite easy to maintain. But the cravings on those first 4 days are INSANE. It's probably why I haven't really tried again since. I just crave too much and my willpower is weak.

I'm at a point now where I need to lose about 35lbs if I want to start looking good again (where I don't "look" fat), and like 70lbs if I want to get back to my ideal weight (where I actually look "skinny"). It seems so daunting. I know I NEED to do it, for my health (both physical and mental) but god damn, the first step is so hard.

I did actually just start BJJ, so at least I'm getting some cardio in.

Keeping weight off is hard, if you’re going to do it, i suggest an offset to get back on the wheel, and on the wheel again completely if you’ve lost control.

Splurge on water, it’s a cheap filler trick
Have a jug ready from the night before, have it before meals, exercise to offset, have been cheating for a good month now and still in shape because I’ve been offsetting, i absolutely love food way too much, but I’m well on my way to peak form, i can’t let my gains go to waste. Going back to a strict diet tomorrow i swear …….. we’re human, we screw up, and it takes a long time to clean up this mess, and I’m off the opinion that it takes a long time to lose the weight and maintain, your body has fat memory and wants to be fat, but if it hasn’t been that way for years, it’s harder to relapse because slim life is second nature.

 

[IIIIIIII]

Keeping weight off is hard, if you’re going to do it, i suggest an offset to get back on the wheel, and on the wheel again completely if you’ve lost control.

Splurge on water, it’s a cheap filler trick
Have a jug ready from the night before, have it before meals, exercise to offset, have been cheating for a good month now and still in shape because I’ve been offsetting, i absolutely love food way too much, but I’m well on my way to peak form, i can’t let my gains go to waste. Going back to a strict diet tomorrow i swear …….. we’re human, we screw up, and it takes a long time to clean up this mess, and I’m off the opinion that it takes a long time to lose the weight and maintain, your body has fat memory and wants to be fat, but if it hasn’t been that way for years, it’s harder to relapse because slim life is second nature.

great points.

 

[Don Quixote]

I’ve been practicing long term fasting in order to try and break my habit of grazing. It is a problem for a lot of people because grazing is a more natural way to eat, but it isn’t good when you have access to a bunch of tasty food.