LU HOLY SHIT and congratulations!I did not expect starting a challenging grad program to help at all, BUT!Yeah so um through a combination of: - Carrying all my cooked-from-scratch food (breakfast, lunch, dinner) because of broke-assedness - Not drinking at all - Getting a fit bike to study on (it's a compact desk with a bike)Yours truly has lost some real and steady pounds. More to go, sure, but HEY! My weight has gone up steadily since having a kid. Nope, not pregnancy weight. Up like a damn straight line after giving birth because Her Holy Orange Terrorness gives me zero time/slack. So I'm encouraged.It's also nice to be doing something for myself again, even if it is math. I'm really enjoying my studies.

I been chubby for years but recently I ve trimmed right down by skipping breakfast. So I don t eat anything aside from black coffee until lunch time. Basically fasting, but it s easy to do it that way, and in my experience it works well.

bumble wrote:LU HOLY SHIT and congratulations!Thank you very much!Down to 97kgs this morning. I have 7 or so to go to my ideal weight. Hopefully by the end of the year so my skin can catch up as well.I feel really good about myself lately.

TheMilford wrote:no snakingTWSS!

Fat all my life. Been doing keto on and off for a few years to good results... but hard to maintain. Starting Intermittent fasting a few months back (Jan 1) and still lean keto on a daily basis but will cheat a few times a week. I've lost 30lbs since 1/1 and feel great. Overall, I would say my inflammation is way down, my arthritis and tendonitis is manageable now. Simply eating a low-carb, high-fat diet in a 6-8 hour window, with no snacking, will make you lose weight and it will be easier to maintain than calorie restriction and tons of exercise. Calories don't fucking matter. Obesity is a hormone issue. If you are fat it is because you are insulin resistant and need to lower your carb intake and introduce ketones through fasting.

So I lost +/- 150 lbs. from the end of 2010 until 2016. It slowed as I went and I ended up in a holding pattern as I got less strict with carb restriction and gym visits. Still looked like total garbage, but slightly smaller garbage.I went through a life-wrecking breakup at the end of 2016, consequently went into a black-hole depression, and have gained some weight back since then (I was down six pants sizes, but just had to go back up one). Also got a gnarly bone bruise just below my knee a year ago that's lingering around and has fucked up my exercise deal a fair amount.I'm trying to get back into limiting my carbs and hopefully losing again because god do I hate myself because of how I look. It's been a lifelong fight. Even when I was young, eating well, doing sports a lot, etc. Still fat.I would just like to get to whatever point would make me feel human, if that even exists.Anyway, thank you to 99% of you in this thread for your solidarity and inspiration. It means a lot.hayate wrote:Everytime I see this thread I just think'how do people actually manage to be any kind of fat at all?'eating is a downright hassle. it's expensive, it's time consumptive, it's boring, it involves a lot of talking to lame waitresses and cashiers and clerks... there is nothing enjoyable about eating food beyond the absolute essential thing of killing the stomache-eating-itself feeling for another day and feeling grateful there was anything there to really hit the spot at all in the first place. there are so many other things to be doing with your time, ya know, and eating is just not all that particularly enjoyable. so imhe, im always bewildered by 'weight' problems. I've no idea how people even manage to get that way.Go die.

For me, I've had the most success treating breakfast as the most important meal of the day but not in the way we're taught. It's certainly easier and cheaper to grab a bagel & banana than to sauté 3 pasture raised eggs/a bit of turkey sausage or similar (aiming for at least 30g of protein within an hour of waking up)/large handful of greens, but it can become part of your routine just like anything else. The other 2 meals a day are like that but more like 20g of protein. One reasonable (don't go completely apeshit) cheat day a week is not only fine, but fools your body to not go into starvation mode where it retains its fat.That's the idea at least, 'til I drink too much whiskey in the gd winter and wonder where those 10 pounds came from..

TheMilford wrote:Simply eating a low-carb, high-fat diet in a 6-8 hour window, with no snacking, will make you lose weight and it will be easier to maintain than calorie restriction and tons of exercise. Calories don't fucking matter. Obesity is a hormone issue. If you are fat it is because you are insulin resistant and need to lower your carb intake and introduce ketones through fasting.Facts.I literally just gained 11lbs in Japan over a two-week period.Eleven! Ha ha!I was walking six miles a day while I did it!Amazing. That's what loads of noodles and bread will do for you.I've dropped five pounds in three days, since I got home. I'm eating plenty. Just not carbs.I've done this up/down a few times, but it's still shocking to me how it works, and how it doesn't work the way we've all been told it works. Get lazy on the food front, too many carbs, weight goes up. Eat same caloric amount (or more) but meat and greens, weight goes down. Has fuck-all to do with calories.Exercise is great for a lot of reasons, but it doesn't really help you lose weight, because it makes you HUNGRY. And when you eat, you gotta eat protein and fat and greens and nuts if you don't want to gain fat as weight.jimmywahcrowbar wrote:I been chubby for years but recently I ve trimmed right down by skipping breakfast. So I don t eat anything aside from black coffee until lunch time. Basically fasting, but it s easy to do it that way, and in my experience it works well.Yeah. Everyone's different, but I eat once or twice a day and basically never breakfast.

Disclaimer: I don t want this to sound like I m gloating, but it s one of the things I can feel happy about right now, so I m going to roll with it, and try to celebrate victories where I find them.Had a great hike last weekend, wearing my 30-ish-pound daughter in a backpack, at altitude, on a steady incline. Did 2 hours, could have easily done 2 more. Felt great. Aw what the heck, here s a pic:https://photos.app.goo.gl/DhgoQfcDhWpuCPoG9Stoked on this for a few reasons. I posted a while back about getting a weight vest to wear while doing cardio to train for hiking with my daughter*. Training was going well, but as I often do, I over-did it several months ago, tweaked my knee, and had to take a break for 3 months or so. I ve been ramping back up, and it was great to see it pay off. (*In that post, I talked about how the baby carrier I had was really painful. (Osprey Poco AG, FWIW.) FM W.L.Weller reached out and sold me his old model. (Deuter Kid Comfort II.) Difference was night and day. Pretty sure I could strap a cement truck to that thing and it would feel comfortable. Thank you, FM W.L.Weller.)In other news, I quit drinking for about 9 months as an experiment. Dropped 15 pounds. Have been drinking again in smaller quantities, and am back up at least 5 pounds. I ve also let the chaos of life get the better of me, and I ve been eating shittier food, so that s not helping. But it s fine for now.--------------------------------TL;DR: Weekly gym visit is still one of the things keeping depression manageable. Weight vest still worth it.

Offal, that is fucking badass. I used to love hiking with my kiddos in the backpack. We did Sleeping Bear Dunes once with my three-year-old back there. It was exhilarating and also IT FUCKING SUCKED, but it was also amazing and incredible and FUCKING SUCKED. Here's a funny one. I weighed myself in Feb. and was 222. That's a little burly for me, and I knew I was in for a change. Had a small health issue (with some very wonderful help from FM Matt Barnhart), and my diet had to turn around. No choice, really, outside of meds. Since May 1st or so I've been able to bike consistently at least 20 miles a day, often many more. Did a few 50's, a 97, a few other monster rides. Super lucky to be able to do that with my work/family schedule. Honestly, a lot of miles rack up just dicking around. Biking to work, to pay bills, to band practice. It all adds up. Backslid on my diet (started back with dairy, and lately have CRAVED protein in the craziest way), but feel great. Was 201 this morning at the YMCA. I need to get back to lifting weights, but other than that, I feel alright.