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I had this too. What worked for me was I stopped trying to lose weight and instead focused on having a healthier lifestyle. Changed eating habits, social fitness activities on top of my gym routine, plenty of sleep, water etc.
Tennis, biking, even lifting weights with froends
I lost about 45lbs and have kept it off for four years now. Some quick thoughts
- don’t “diet”. Don’t say or think or consider yourself “on a diet”.
- instead think of it as you are eating a healthy, nutritious, varied diet - for the rest of your life
- nothing off limits, some things go into “very occasional treat” category, some go in “every day”, some go in “once a month” etc.
- for example, I eat a pretty low nutrition-carb heavy pasta, bread etc type meal about once a month. I eat cake on my friends birthdays. But on a daily basis I eat low sugar and only carbs from vegetables with plenty of nutrition. I think of calories and carbs as “energy”. Some days I need more than others.
- heathy fats and proteins are the MVP. They will keep you full. Sugars just make you crave more sugar.
- Move more in a way that is enjoyable to you. Whatever that is. Walk. Dance. Weights. Bike. Group exercise class. Climb stairs. Whatever.
You need to change your lifestyle, not just temporarily diet.
Think of it this way. Your current lifestyle leads to weight gain. When you exercise and eat less (ie “diet”), it leads to weight loss. You need to find the happy medium of introducing sustainable exercise and sustainable, permanent dietary changes to maintain the weight loss but prevent weight gain.
If you want more guided advice, I suggest you invest in an apple watch to track your daily activity, calculate your BMR, purchase a food scale so you can weigh your food, and start calorie counting / logging your food and drink intake.
Balance... I can control what I eat at home during the work week, I often meal prep on Sunday so I have quick and healthy breakfasts and lunches during the week. I'm a little more lax on the weekends, if I go to a restaurant I don't think twice about ordering whatever I want. Obviously that'll have to change when we go back to traveling, but it's working for me now.
I never think of myself as on a diet because nobody stays on a diet. I also don't have a goal weight, to me it's more about being healthy than it is about hitting a goal weight (it took a long time to get to that mentality)
35 lbs down and counting.
i stopped eating out and buying snacks
cut down on drinking
work out min 3x a week
it's really hard but i've managed to keep 30lbs off for about a year how. some days i slip back by 5 lbs or so but i take it as a sign to watch what i eat more carefully
Like people are saying, it's not a thing where you.hit your milestone and stop--the changes you make to lose the weight have to be sustained. I personally found it helpful to layer on new habits every couple of weeks, and to be patient and ramp up my diet (via substitutions towards healthier options, e.g. cauliflower rice), exercise, etc very gradually. Like starting by hitting 10k steps a day, then getting more serious about lifting, then riding my bike more... It's all gradual additions so it doesn't feel overwhelming
No crash dieting. 80 / 20 rule works whereby I eat clean 80% of the time. Crossfit 4x per week. Also, I fight my sweet tooth cravings by eating lots of strawberries, watermelon, and kiwis.
One analogy that helped me was thinking of my tendency to gain weight as a chronic condition I need to manage, like diabetes. Instead of checking my blood sugar, taking insulin, and watching my carbs, I have to check my weight, exercise, and watch my calories. And I have to do it forever.
What has helped you to lose 10 pounds?
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Counting calories and starting a gym routine! Both are very much a work in progress but have helped me minimize the mindless/stress eating which I think is my biggest issue
Different perspective: Maybe this weight is your “set point” and where your body wants to be. For so long I’ve wanted to be 10lbs lighter but that meant starving myself and staying on low calories. It’s not sustainable and I’ve learned to live with it and just keep going to the gym to build muscle, get stronger. More muscle = higher metabolism. I don’t know what “working out” means to you, but I suggest you LIFT WEIGHTS. Like heavy lifting. you’ll see a difference. Maybe not on the scale but in the mirror. Muscle weighs more than fat.