/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

From my doctor, when I started blowing up like a balloon thanks to a shitty birth control:
1200 cal/day
100g carbs max
<40g fat
minimal sugar
Breakfast: A protein and a medium carb meal, eat as soon as you wake up
Snack: around 3-4 hrs later, protein such as a handful of almonds or an oz or two of jerky
Lunch: Low-carb, high protein such as a grilled piece of salmon over a small salad
Snack: fruit or vegetable
Dinner: Minimal carbs. mostly protein
Don't eat past 8pm (or 2-3 hrs before you normally go to bed)

Exercise:
3-4 days a week, weightlifting and cardio (get someone to show you how to properly use the weights/machines)
7 days a week, light to medium cardio, enough to make you sweat for at least 20 mins, preferably 40-60 mins if you can.

>>7429594
This.
Except for the 1200 calories. That's on the dodgey, low side unless you're really small. Should be 10 or 12 times your body weight for weight loss. Remember, if you're actually losing weight you need to keep adjusting.

>>7429594
Do you mind telling me how much weight you lost and how long it took?

Over the past year and a half or so I've gained about 20 pounds because of ~*~emotional issues~*~ and not taking care of myself, and now that I'm finally digging myself out of the hole I look in the mirror and NOPE. I'd like to know realistically how long it'll take before I can bust out the spandex again. Right now I'm 36-31-40" and I'm quite dissatisfied with my waistline.

>>7429594
Thank you, thank you! Saving~

>>7429594
>Don't eat past 8pm (or 2-3 hrs before you normally go to bed)

Why does this retarded myth still exist?? This is FALSE

>>7429618
It's not for the calories consumption myth. Just time for food to settle in your stomach before you lie down. Especially useful if you have GERD.

currently 78 lbs and 5'1"
i eat about 500 - 700 calories a day
i really want to put weight on, but i have severe stomach pain when trying to eat pretty much anything. no health insurance so i haven't been able to see a doctor about it, so i have no idea what to do at this point

Diet: lean protein (chicken breast, salmon) and various greens (spinach, lettuce). Lots and lots of water. I also do IF. Minimal sugar (even from fruits). Hungry a lot.
Exercise: daily bodyweight pushup and squats, half an hour of running, half an hour fast walking

>>7429645
Get to a doctor asap, but in the meantime you should try drinking more calories just to keep you going at this point. Milk, fruit juice, hell even beer will help you take in more calories.

Can't do much exercise where I am right now, so until this summer I'm doing 1200 calories a day. I also don't have a scale, so I just assume it's working haha. I try to avoid carbs, minimal sugar, and have a good amount of fruits and veggies every day.

Also green tea. I love green tea. I can't wait for my Adagio order to come innnn.

>>7429652
What is IF?

>>7429645

): I hope you can see a doctor sooner rather than later! Maybe a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter or some shakes might up the calories?

>>7429645
You are in serious danger, 78 at 5'1" is far too underweight. :(

I ate half a pie and a third a loaf of banana bread holy shit.
what do ;_;
I usually eat ~300-600 cal...
>tfw stuffed my face at noon but stomach still aches

>>7429645
peanut butter. shit does miracles.
also, liquifying your meals will make it easier on the stomach.

>>7429667
>WAH give me attention of my obviously disordered eating habits
I bet you're actually a whale.

>>7429577

I'm on a 1000 calorie diet. The most I'll fluctuate up to is 1100. I keep my carbs between 50-70g. I lost 30lbs doing South Beach once, but the carb restriction was too crazy. I eat happily with the increased carb intake now. Down 11lbs in 5.5 weeks.

Everything I eat is fresh. The only time the boxed goods come out is with the melba toast because it's tasty with cream cheese. I eat turkey bacon frequently, eggs semi-frequently, lots of chicken, cooked and fresh vegetables, yogurt, berries, cheeses, nuts, etc etc etc.

>>7429645

My wife was your weight once, and only about an inch smaller. Got her weight slowly back up with meal replacement shakes twice a day. Try liquid food, anon.

>>7429673
>mebla toast
>with cream cheese
muh nigga

>>7429667
revel in the glory that is a well-deserved treat. You'll feel great tomorrow now that you actually ate something,

>>7429610
Should have mentioned I'm just over 5ft, YMMV
>>7429612
I am losing weight at a rate of about 2lbs a week. Most doctors don't recommend you exceed that rate unless you're really obese. I'm down about 15lbs so far but I still have a long ways to go before I'll be my goal weight.
>>7429616
No problem! Like I said above, YMMV, so adjust as needed.
>>7429618
Basically what >>7429626 said, it's rough on your stomach to eat and immediately go to bed. I personally find it harder to get to sleep and stay asleep on a totally full stomach.

>>7429676

>herb and garlic cream cheese

>>7429645
drink coke? Are you okay with coke? if not get some tea and load it up with sugar, or fruit juices and stuff

>>7429674
i'm 5'5" and 112 pounds. get the sand out of your vag.

>>7429679
and by coke, i mean any fixxy sweet ass drink: pepsi, mountain dew, etc, anything super sugary.

make sure you brush teeth tho, thats super important

>>7429684
What constitutes really obese?

I'm 5'4 and about 180-185 pounds and really want to lose weight.

>7429671
>7429662
>7429651

thanks for the advice guys, i think at this point i'll probably just walk in to a hospital regardless of insurance or not, especially since i've been feeling worse lately. plus i look like absolute shit now haha. i'm definitely going to try the liquid calorie method though! hopefully that wont upset my stomach as much

>>7429682
That's underweight and 300-600 cals a day is not healthy.
>ITT 'lol look I have an ed pity me but don't tell me stop XD'

>>7429688

I believe your BMI would rate you on the low end of obese.

By the way people, Fitday. Can't recommend it enough.

>>7429688
>what is a bmi calculator
you're officially obese, anon

>>7429688
In my mind, when I think "obese enough to warrant a drastic weight loss plan" I think "200+lbs". Anything else, while still heavy, is probably not going to benefit from suddenly dropping a ton of weight via a drastic diet. Not to mention the more you lose, the harder it gets to lose it. You don't want to end up at your goal weight with 10 lbs of loose skin flapping around that you can't get rid of without surgery.

>>7429694
:( You poor thing. Get well! Think of how happy you'll be in three, six months, a year from now if you do!

>>7429697
i'm not asking for pity, anon
also don't have an ed
>ate that munch around a month ago
clean your vag out

165cm, 64kg. Trying to lose some of that til I start to look good.
But Im always hungry as fuck. I start getting anxious feelings when Im even a bit hungry and then eat something without thinking. So I haven't been able to lose weight since starting last year. I just have a huge appetite! After exercise I feel like I'm about to faint and collapse, its like I have no hunger stamina or something.

I'm quitting sugar now though, is that the problem? I want to be able to handle being hungry. Or just lose a lot of that appetite.

>>7429679
>>7429686
Carbonation is super irritating to the stomach, I would highly recommend avoiding it, same with sugars in general, even if you're trying to gain. Protein would be a much better option, such as peanut butter or other sorts of nuts, or even protien shakes. Gaining doesn't mean unhealthy, it just means taking in more calories than you're burning.

>>7429686
I actually wouldn't recommend this. The carbonation will probably upset your stomach even more. Not to mention caffeine is both a laxative and a diuretic so if your have GI issues they're just going to make them worse
Look up what to eat when bulking. Fit might have info on it. It's calorie dense food that's good for building muscle (I.e. gaining weight). Like anon said, peanut butter. Put that shit on toast, bagels, etc. find a good protein powder, make some yummy shakes. I prefer the chocolate kinds.

>>7429673
Dude! South beach diet! I felt like I was eating too much! It was hard to even finish each portion every day! I was loosing a minimum of 5pounds a week and was fighting to finish portions. Plus it was delicious. I really recommend it! :]

>>7429682
>300-600kcal/day
>normal/slightly underweight
So either you're lying, you miscalculate your intake, you're sedentary (read: lazy) or you were a whale that lost weight
Please stop this ~so edgieeee I eat ed-level calories~ because it's kind of embarrassing.

>>7429733
Let me ask you this: were you able to keep the weight off or did you gain a lot back afterwards?

>>7429734
what? i'm not trying to be edgy?

>>7429734
Who cares if they're lying or not, they're in theyre own body so whether they lose or gain weight or not is something only they'll truly know about and something you don't need to care about. And you gotta stop worrying about whose edgey or not. You dont have to point it out in every post of the type you see. Just keep it in your head and move on to the rest of the thread. CGL is the only board that thinks they're obliged to respond to every controversial post they see.

I'm a 5'5", 155lb pear shape. I'm not really losing weight right now but I'm definitely gaining muscle. I do high intensity cardio for a police prep fitness class once a week and go to the gym at least 2-3 times per week on top of that. My workout schedule varies so I can work around whatever muscle group we target in my fitness course, but I never skip leg day, since that's where I need the most work. I've worked my way up from squatting ~75 to 135 in a few months and I'm really happy. No particular goal costume in mind, just trying to keep up with my classmates for our fitness tests and get more muscly. I'm probably the strongest I've ever been, which is great since I had a chronic illness for a number of years and never worked out consistently until around November of last year.

>>7429708
Hey anon a /fit/izen here

Firstly I calculated your BMR which is 1766 Calories, this is how much you can eat to maintain your weight however that is at a sedentary level of movement

If you exercise 3 - 5 times a week your calorie limit to maintain your size would be 2281, but to lose weight you must expend more than you consume. To lose a healthy pound a week you can cut off 500 calories.

So I would recommend 1781 calories a day. Then to counter act your anxiety over hunger split the meals into small 350 calorie meals (5 a day) so you wont have extended periods of hunger.

Then the next step would be to eat more veges and meats as they are satiating and try and skip simple carbs like soft drink and juices and lollies and sweet pastrys as they are calories dense but also not very filling. Pic related eat that stuff and youll feel great and lose weight

so the issue I always have when it comes to dieting is temptation. I'll be doing pretty good for a month or so and then give into temptation and fuck it all up and eat a ton of shit food and it just keeps me at a stalemate in my efforts. I'm 5"4 and weigh 176 pounds and I've been working out and attempting to diet for 3-4 months now. I have other people living with me and we all share food so it's really hard for me to resist. What do you usually do to resist temptation?

hahahahaa oh god

>>7429777

I'm 5'8 and 140 pounds, 36 27 37, I think I look chubby but my body is also strange I have a fairly big rib cage and it protrudes, my hip bones also show is this normal?

>>7429777
I just kept eating everybody else's food until they all bought their own refrigerators to hide it from me.
You only WISH I was joking.

>>7429744
Face it, your stories aren't lining up. You're either lying or exaggerating in an attempt to pretend like you have a serious disorder. No one thinks eating 300 calories a day is healthy, and no one who eats so few calories is going to talk about it outside a ED community.
All you're doing is making light of a serious, sometimes fatal disorder, when the only "disorder" you might have is histrionic personality disorder.
Or you might just be another run of the mill attention whore.

I almost lost a friend to AN so seeing people act like it's cute or funny or "in" to have a disorder like this is pretty shitty.

>>7429733
I did fine on South Beach when I was on it, but it definitely wasn't a lasting diet for me. I gained my weight back after about 2 years. I got sloppy.

>>7429738
I lost 30lbs and gained it all back. It's not the diet's fault though. I actually highly recommend South Beach, but you need some self discipline to change your eating habits permanently afterwards.

Now I'm eating more primal, which is a lot easier as I allow for more 'fresh' carbs. If you're into primal, follow Mark's Daily Apple. Has some great reads and recipes.

>>7429777

If you're thinking about eating something you shouldn't, just don't do it. I mean, it's really that simple, the only way calories will enter your body is if your brain gives the go ahead for your hands to move it to your mouth and for your mouth to eat it. There is no such thing as "can't" resist, you either have the mental capacity to make the decision or you don't. Easier said than done? Sure, but that doesn't negate the fact that it's literally a decision 100% in your control. Before people go bullshitting me about mental disorders and physical lack of control over one's actions, it'd be like if you had a mental disorder that made you uncontrollably throw yourself off a cliff; if that's truly the case then you should just resign yourself to your fate of fatness. If you know eating too much will make you fat, and you continue eating too much, you choose to be fat, no way around it. So the issue is you: either you want to be fit or you don't.

This is so depressing to me. I'm 5'2", 119, want to lose about 10 lbs but hate vegetables (eat basically zero of them) and LOVE bread and noodles and carbs...I feel like such a little kid who loves mac n cheese and processed stuff when everyone else is eating veggies and fresh organic shit. Anybody got any tips on how to learn to like healthy stuff?

Currently I eat 1200 calories a day and run for 20 mins 3 days a week, along with minimal weight training (just starting out) and dancing.

>>7429818
what the fuck man
when did I ever hint that eds were "cute" or "in"?
also
>bitching about someone wanting to lose weight
>on a loss weight thread

>>7429833
when did she ever say it was you? this is the exact quote:
so seeing people act like it's cute or funny
>seeing people

lols, you're still a liar and cherrypicking parts of the post to reply to.

>>7429828
I'm 5'3" and weighed 100 and wasn't looking to lose weight and eat about 1300 a day, not because I'm dieting but at this point I just eat that much. But I started doing Jpop dances again and about a month later I went to the doctor and saw I dropped to 96, I wasn't even trying to diet!
Just basically keep eating the low amount you are and keep exercising, try to learn or do energetic dances too (I danced intensely for 30 minutes to an hour every day or two so maybe that's why I lost weight) also I just usually would eat normal food, besides that I really like salad with vinaigrette dressing and eat a lot of oranges.
Also never eat within 1 and a half hours of sleeping, if you do the calories from the food you ate won't be burned off. A lot of people don’t realize this!
I need to up my calories now to stay at this weight but basically do what I was doing, I lost weight without even realizing it.
Other people will probably have more advice to add, but try all this. It’s pretty easy once you get used to eating 1200-1300 calories.

>>7429841
>if you do the calories from the food you ate won't be burned off

Your body burns calories while it sleeps. You should have learned this in middle school.

>>7429824
>not the diet's fault
A successful weight loss program will teach you ways to keep the weight off. Fad diets do nothing but cause people to lose excessive weight quickly, thinking it's successful, then once they've "completed" the diet the go back to their old ways, gain it all back, then turn to another fad diet, raking in more money for the diet industry

Tl;dr learn how to feed yourselves well, and you won't keep yo-yo dieting.
Any diet that makes a slightly or more than slightly overweight person lose more than at most two lbs/week is not a good diet and should be avoided

>>7429830
>implying mental disorders aren't real

>>7429844
Not as many right? I assumed it was true since I heard it from a documentary, plus a friend started midnight snacking and started gaining weight. Maybe she was just eating too much.

>>7429851
If she was adding calories she wasn't consuming before to her daily diet, then it has nothing to do with when she was eating it.
If she was eating 2000 calories a day normally and then started adding 300 cal snacks at midnight then duh she's going to gain weight. If she cut her day time calories, then ate at night, so that her intake was still only 2000 calories, then there's probably no reason for her to consistently gain weight,

>>7429835
So because of that "seeing people" it disregards my argument and their statement not being relevant to my argument?
i'm not saying I have an ed. why would I want an ed in the first place? i've always been light eater, and just started eating that much about a month ago. it's also usually on the higher side of the 300-600 range.
I'm just worried about how much will be gained, as [obviously] having to eat so little has made me lose some belly fat that I hadn't really bothered to make an effort to lose over the years.
how much i can buy depends on how much money i've got on hand.

Personal trainer here.
Ask me whatever you want.
Or don't.
I have nutrition background too.

>>7429848
>this

>>7429858
Oh cool then, that makes sense. Thanks!

>>7429863
what's a good routine that you can do whilst sitting in your room while just dicking around?
>i.e., watching videos on laptop, listening to music

ITT: pissing contest over whose eating is the most disordered

>"I just had a single almond and now I feel fat :("
>"I only consume less than 100 calories in a day, that's my secret~ tee hee"

huuuuurrrrrrr

>>7429872
Oh, I should preface/have said this.

WHEN ASKING ME THINGS, STATE YOUR GOALS AND STATE YOUR CURRENT PLANS FOR SAID GOALS
I.e if you're already trying to lose fat, what you're doing.

>>7429863
I'm 5'5 120lbs I want to lose a little and tone up my thighs and butt. I live on campus and my meal plan only allows me to eat twice a day. But I can't seem to lose any weight I'm just maintaining. I jog 3 times a week, and I don't eat diary. Sometimes I feel really malnourished, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

>>7429873
oh shit, sorry man.
5'8", 138 lbs trying to get down to 130.
I usually eat 1600-200 calories, mostly on fruits and grains. however, I have a pretty bad sweet tooth. how many calories are sweets depends on what's in the house. I don't exercise much, as I don't have that much time (plus it's too damn cold to do anything outside). However, I spend my time (unfortunately) in my room on my computer.
I've been trying to eat healthier, and iv'e been vegetarian for about 3 months.

>>7429879
>Sometimes I feel really malnourished
>my meal plan only allows me to eat twice a day
Answered your own question.
You aren't eating enough, the jogging is fine, but you need resistance training as well.
You need to find a way to eat more.

In generality, the recommendation for eating better is 4-6 times a day.

You will not "tone" without losing bodyfat, and cardio is shit at doing that while sparing muscle. Assuming you're female, you need what little muscle you have as to not cause bone density concerns later and metabolic slowdown.

tldr, eat more often, incorporate gym usage.

Often times, eating too little causes body fat retention.

>>7429841
Ah, jpop dancing is exactly what I did last summer and lost about 5 as well. Now I'm in college and struggling with the freshman 15, even though I still jpop/kpop dance along with other exercise. I don't want to blame my parents but I was raised with processed food and I didn't like veggies back them, and so wasn't forced to eat them. I never acquired a taste for vegetables and am paying for it now. So I would like to keep exercising at this rate but still lose weight, and the only way to do that is eat better...

>>7429833
No, I'm sick of shits like you who know that this behavior is really unhealthy going "OMG I ate like 300 calories today I am such a fatty LoL!"
Eating 300 calories a day is going to stop your menstruation and make your hair fall out. No one is going to talk about it unless they want attention. Which I'm assuming you are.
You've obviously never met someone with the disorder or you'd see how flawed your bs is. My guess is you hail from the land of tumblr, where they love any sort of disorder that makes them seem ~speshul~

Sorry for derailing the thread a bit, but my special snowflake senses were tingling

>>7429863
Hey PT this question might be better for a physio but I have JHS, I also have issues with fatigue and was wondering what sort of things you would suggest I do for exercise. I mostly just walk at the moment but I'm thinking of starting swimming again. Doctors said no to most sports/exercise. Do you have any ideas?

Also I'm this anon>>7429808
Can you tell me if it's normal?

>>7429879
>Sometimes I feel really malnourished
>my meal plan only allows me to eat twice a day
Answered your own question.
You aren't eating enough, the jogging is fine, but you need resistance training as well.
You need to find a way to eat more.

In generality, the recommendation for eating better is 4-6 times a day.

You will not "tone" without losing bodyfat, and cardio is shit at doing that while sparing muscle. Assuming you're female, you need what little muscle you have as to not cause bone density concerns later and metabolic slowdown.

tldr, eat more often, incorporate gym usage.

Often times, eating too little causes body fat retention.

>>7429886
You don't want to weigh 130, you want to look how you think 130 looks; I'd put money on that.
If you can't go outside to exercise, same advice as above; get a gym membership. Otherwise, you need to do bodyweight workouts in your room.
Also, fix your posture. Sitting at a computer too much would mess it up.

Your biggest issue being vegetarian is going to be lack of protein and creatine; red meat is one of the highest sources of dietary creatine that exists naturally. Therefore, you need to supplement those two.

Fruits are fine, grains are two, but calculate BMR, calculate TDEE with that, and base off of that. Don't listen to your stomach, as your leptin response is deceiving.


Word to the wise for all; if you're trying to lose weight, and gain definition, and look how y'all want to, most of it involves incorporating proper resistance exercises, eating clean, and the amount in proportion to your body and needs/goal, and proper cardio.

>>7429905
You're talking about hypermobility, yeah?
Were any of those docs sports med specialists?

>>7429911
Yeah I am hyper-mobility syndrome.
No just normal doctors and a rheumatoligst, I don't actually think I live somewhere with sports medical specialist

>>7429912
They only have basic physio and kinesio knowledge then.

Torrent this, carefully, and lightly, workout. Use this to learn about your body.
CAREFULLY. All actions and movements must have concentration and focus.

>>7429917
http://kickass.to/usearch/becoming%20a%20supple%20leopard/

Whoops

>>7429874
If you're talking about >>7429841 which is me, that amount of calories is was what I was told to eat a day to maintain my weight I had at the time and not gain or lose any weight. It sounds like a low amount but it was the healthy amount for me to eat when I wasn't dancing and I never felt hungry really but I never felt bloated or either, it was a good amount.
Now I should eat about 1,600 a day which is what I started doing. So no eating disorder here.
>>7429895
Yeah Jpop dancing is great and burns a lot of calories since you jump and run around so much! Also I eat a lot of canned foods and microwave foods too, you just have to not only eat foods that are like that. Also there aren't any vegetables that you like? I like lettuce and cucumbers a lot and usually just eat them.

>>7429917
Thanks PT!

>>7429921
To be fair, I can't sit and watch you though, so PLEASE be very deliberate, and work your stability before worrying about weight, or doing crazy workouts or anything.
Also, I'd stay away from impact (jumping, stomping, etc). Swimming isn't bad, though, either.

>>7429577

Eat at your BMR, or at about 400-700 below your TDEE.

Meet your macros

Ingest lots of protein, moderate fats, low carbs

Watch the fat shed away.

Make sure to do a split and cardio. Muscly lolis are best lolis

>>7429923
I will, I will go very slowly I also have CFS so I'm used to pacing.
That sounds fine. I'm glad it's suitable.
Would I ever be allowed to ski or ice skate again?
I only got diagnosed with hyper-mobility last year so it's still a bit new to me.

>>7429921
I keep reading "PT" as pixyteri
which is kind of ironic

>>7429935
Eh, hard to say, not knowing the problem firsthand.
I always say that as long as someone hasn't been cut open (surgery), then I'm sure damn near anything is possible.

Hey let's not lie to ourselves, most 'good' cosplayers have eating disorders and are anorexic. I have a con coming up soon and I am mad fucking fat, I want to lose around 70- 80lbs in about 75 days so how should I do this? Give me some advice ladies, I'm in need.

You think water fasting will do it? or should I juice fast to?

>>7429960
In all actuality, you could lose that simply through a long period of ketosis.
A trainer I used to manage dropped 100lbs in two or three months.

>>7429940

What's more ironic is there is a PT Fitness down the street from me. I chuckle every time I walk by it.

>>7429964
killer. Other then low carb do you think juice fasting would help too? I already drink fucktons of water all the time so there's that. what should I eat and how many cals? thanks dude.

>>7429978
>juice fasting
No. Its complete horseshit.
As stated above, calculate BMR, and TDEE, and ensure you do short intense resistance training sessions to at least maintain muscle. You're going to be eating a lot of fats and protein.

If someone wants help, I'll be back on later tomorrow.

>>7429863
Hey PT. I'm 5'9-10, hover around 65-68kg, 27% body fat (measured with callipers) and would like to get down to 20-22%. Is that quite a lot to lose? And how long do you think it would take to achieve if I'm working out 3-4 times a week? I do circuits/resistance training for 30-45 minutes. Should I do more pure cardio?

I eat fairly healthily but I have a sweet tooth and have a tough time keeping my carb macros down. My macros change a lot from day to day so I'm guessing I should try to make my diet more consistent? I'm aiming for 40% carbs, 30% fats and 30% protein for now. Anything that will satiate carb/sugar cravings?

Two words: intermittent fasting. Went down 27 pounds in 9 weeks doing it.

Here's what I did: go to the gym at 10am and do basic strength training with light weights. Fast from 8pm to noon. Then eat essentially whatever so long as calories stay at just below maintenance and protein is at least 0.6g per kg of bodyweight.

Since you aren't digesting any food for a 16 hour period insulin is lowered and causes increased hormone production. This, combined with energy depletion and protein synthesis of working out, causes fat to be burned at an expedited rate and calorie intake goes to muscle strengthening instead of fat storage. This allows fat to be burned even in normally stubborn areas (for me, the belly. Which I never thought I'd get rid of).

It's perfectly safe and won't lead to an eating disorder. In fact, it's not even a diet, since you're eating normally just in different time windows.

>>7429960
You could be retarded and listen to the personaltrainerfag or you could actaully learn about health and fitness and realise losing 80lbs of fat is equivalent to 280,000 calories which if you wanted to lose in 75 days you'd need a caloric deficit of -3733

So I guess enjoy not eating for the next 75 days just drink your water and your multi

/s

>>7429960
So because you think that most 'good' cosplayers have eaten disorders, you're happy to jump on the bandwagon? Think of yourself, but if not that, think of your friends and family. Don't put the people you love through hell because you're willing to sacrifice your own health for a HOBBY. If you want to lose that much weight, do it slowly, and work with an expert. Not only will you not risk your own physical and emotional well-being, chances are it's going to look a lot better, too.

>>7430039
>and protein is at least 0.6g per kg of bodyweight.
Do you mean current bodyweight or goal bodyweight?

>>7430039
Also how long did your strength training go a day? Was it vigorous?
30 pounds is all I need to lose r/n

I'm 5"8 and went from 185-ish lbs (didn't dare to look at my weight at that point) to 145 lbs in the last year or so (can't say I always did it in the healthiest way)
My goal weight was 135 lbs, it is now 130, 125 if I can really push it (and also to cushion the obvious gain of weight after getting out of a strict diet)
I went down to 138 lbs, but the problem is I can't stop eating lately. At first, I let myself go for the holidays, but now I'm just really anxious about life and shit and I just can't stop eating my feelings.
>Any tips/tricks, stories or advice for emotional anxious binge eaters?
Getting a bit desperate now. I'm starting to spin that hamster wheel of eating a lot because I'm feeling bad and eating because I'm feeling bad about eating alot.

I want to exercise more, but I physically can't for the few next weeks. Calorie count guilt doesn't work anymore and the only other thing that can soothe my stress/anxiety is shopping and I can't financially right now.

What do, /cgl/, what do.

>>7429751
Hey man, thanks for that. Pretty chuffed you took the time to calculate this. (For the benefit of the doubt, since last WL thread there were a lot in a similar weight/height group with similar goals so your post would be benefitting to more than just myself!)

That seems about right, I eat about 2000-2500 "naturally" since calculating on my time on Sparkpeople, I just felt real damn fucked up once I did their recommended cut off because yeah, there's the faintness and the anxiety. Macro saved and printed.

Anyway, gonna have to browse the /fit/ again, was going to learn some home activities/calisthenics but totally dropped it because of the nearly-gonna-pass-out issue. Would you reckon this is something I'm just gonna learn to lose with more physical activity or is this just to do with diet?

>>7430112
The faint feeling could be a couple of things:

Lack of vitamins
Lack of Water
Lack of food intake based on the work you do (ie you could be doing an insane amount of exercising but saying you did moderate exercise)

So try and attack each individual problem and eventually you'll find it

I want to preface that the idea of weight loss shouldn't be a yay I'm done I can go back to eating poorly. What you want to do is slowly make changes in your day to day routine that will eventually become habit. An example is the first thing I did was completely removed soft drink (Id drink 4 cans a day) then I said only 1 sweet thing a day (i.e. one Mars bar or one donut I had to choose) these changes don't make you go crazy because you haven't cut them your just eating them in moderation.

Also that feel like im gonna pass out feeling, I don't know exactly what it could be but when I first started my weight loss and eventual weight training journey I was unfit as fuck and if I did 30mins of exercise I would feel like I was going to puke so it could just be your body is use to a non active lifestyle so don't jump into a crazy exercise routine (Like 100 sit ups and 100 push ups a day thing) take it slow make small gradual steps do something like 3 sets of failure of push ups burpees squats and sit ups and a light walk then gradual increase of the weeks and you'll eventually feel great. (For an example have a look at pic related for a running program look how light the first weeks are then it gets moderate then intense over the period of weeks and if you feel like a week was/is tough do it again for the next week and you'll adapt. Working out is a battle with yourself and yourself only)

But it could also be a side effect of your diet but from personal experience I have cut on a 2000 cal diet before and still worked out and didn't feel that badly at all.

I just try to avoid sugary and fatty treats, and then I fast during the weekends.
So basically I eat normal food on weekdays, on fridays I might have a chocolate bar with a cup of coffee, and then on saturday and sunday I try to eat very little and instead drink lots of water etc.
I'm losing about a half a kilo (1 pound) per week. I know fasting is kinda unhealthy but I'm only trying to lose a few kilos. I'm 161cm tall and I weigh 54 kilos. Trying to get it down to 50.

>>7430135
I meant that on fridays I eat normally but might also treat myself with chocolate. It came out confusing.

>>7429660
Intermittent fasting.

>>7429777
Every time you feel like engorging, drink a glass of water. This might not be for everyone, but i just keep hydrating until I'm not as hungry.

>>7429863
>Mark's Daily Apple
I am addicted to sunflower seeds, is this really bad?

>>7430185
ugh, ignore the daily apple stuff, accident
Also, background I'm 163cm 61.5kg, trying to lose weight with regular excercise(swimming, pilates, running/walking, weights). My new anti-conception is giving me the munchies so I hauled in a shitload of vegetables and some fruit, but I can't stay of the seeds, I have a big salt addiction and the salted seeds are so... GOOD