Health and Fitness Thread

decided to measure my waist for the first time since I started trying to lose weight. I lost 3 inches. I'm kind of in shock because I wasn't sure what would happen. I usually suck in my stomach all the time, so I figured I wasn't going to have much progress there, but 3 inches. I'm kind of loving that.

So I adjusted these pants a while back because the hooks were pulling out of the material. I put a button on them and made them looser.
Well, now they would fit had I not fixed them. Crazy how that happens

I don't know if this is the appropriate place to put this, but it's something I was thinking about

Being overweight, I tend to wonder what it must look like to other people when I buy food, or when I'm standing in line by myself at Dairy Queen, or when I'm at the drive thru. Not that it would stop me, I'll do what I want. But I'd wonder.

And now, I'm 30 pounds lighter. I've changed a lot of my eating habits. The people that know me have seen the difference and have expressed pride in what I've done. But, I'm still overweight, and I can decide to have my treat and go get myself a cheesesteak or something, and in my head I'm like "yeah! I deserve this one today." But then I think... I still look overweight, and the person behind the counter doesn't know how well I've been doing and probably still sees this chunky girl eating crappy food.

It doesn't stop me... I do what I want. It's just and interesting thought, and I wonder if I'll get to a point where I'll stop wondering.

It's possible the stress of the situation might have been burning it off for you

I think you had posted about intermittent fasting on one of the earlier pages.
I think I'm starting to find benefit to it. At least on the days that I forget to bring lunch to work, or can't afford it. I feel like it's a good reset if I've had a bad couple of days

Although I am hungry right now

That's great Hollie.
and just take your time. As long as you're being consistent, a few slip up days are just that. Like, I was thinking about this earlier. Do I wish I weighed less than I do now? Of course. But I'm kind of glad it's a slower process because it's easier for me to stay on track. Like, if I made major changes all at once, I think I would have fallen off of these changes a long time ago, but because they're small changes, a little at a time, it's easier to make them permanent.
So it's taken me 7 months to lose 35 lbs. That's 35 lbs I'll never see again.
It is just a pound a time (I saw that thing too) and it's a cool way to think about it.
I'm not looking to lose 65 lbs. I'm looking to lose another lb 65 more times

Just needed to say somewhere that I fucked up this weekend. Just had a little bit too much bread, and I gained 5 lbs in about 2 days.
I know I'll fix it as the week goes on, but it sucks to think, "well if I hadn't gained that weight back, I could have been even lower at the end of the week, not just where I started."
but, it is what it is. I got to eat some bread again, and I'll go back to losing weight.

Well, I've gained new motivation for losing weight, and it's seeing all my excess weight on camera.

Per mfp, 1200 calories between now and October 10th.
fucking need to do this. I'm not weighing in at cruiser weight again, I'm just not.
It's gonna be middle weight.
And I'm gonna kick ass.
I just have to keep telling myself that. It'll be my motivation
even if I have to legit cut weight that week by dehydrating myself I will

Something I tend to do is not take into consideration calories burned during exercise. So I like to keep myself in that goal whether I've exercised or not as a way to keep me from going over

Yes That's definitely true. A friend I train with told me she often goes up ten lbs right before her period starts.