Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 100.7kg (Jan 29 23)
Short term goal: 100kg
I’ve hit a weight loss plateau, so I’m going to decrease my calorie intake another notch. I was hoping to make slow (but steady) progress with a half-pound loss goal every week, but I’m not reliably hitting the target when my maintenance calories and weight loss calorie goals are so close
Switch some carb calories to veggies and protein, maybe?
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 100.1kg (Feb 5 23)
Short term goal: 100kg
Close to breaking through my short term goal (again). Seems the additional cut is doing the trick.
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.4kg (Feb 11 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Long Term Goal 90kg (198lbs)
New short term and long term goals. I’m hoping to hit my new short term in the next six months, which would take me back to my high school weight.
Congrats! Been watching your updates in here and happy for you!
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.7kg (Feb 18 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Been eating more than usual this week with a deluge of social events. As long as it doesn’t become a habit I will allow it. 
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.4kg (Feb 26 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Most of the time I’m good about maintaining a 250-500 calorie deficit, but even with substantial protein and fruit/vegetable intake, a couple of times this month I’ve felt ravenously hungry.
This is usually my body telling me I need something that I’m not getting in my regular diet, or that it needs more calories to rebuild after lifting. When this happens I eat more and usually go over calorie budget for the day, but I still track what’s going in.
Weight loss should not be a punishing process. If it is, you’ll hate it and you’re more likely to give up. If my body tells me that it needs more food sometimes, so be it.
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.5kg (Mar 5 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Just a bit of news
WeightWatchers gets into prescription weight loss business
I think we are finding more and more that weight loss is *sometimes* not about personal choices but about chemistry.
I know that my son gained nearly 100lbs when he was prescribed anti-biotics for a year after surgery. The docs said "there is no evidence that long term anti-biotic use causes weight gain" But it is well know that livestock operations dose cattle with anti-biotics to get the animals to weight faster? And why, when I asked about this in the weightwatchers Reddit group did dozens of people report the same thing - ie gaining weight when taking anti-biotics for a long period of time? And actually there are some studies that show a link - but they are just getting started examining that link.
Anyway it seems like weight loss and gain isn't as simple as we would like.
What I would like is for the companies to come up with decent names! The ones listed in the article are "Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity" What horrible names.
The body is a complex system, and it's REALLY hard to design an ethical experiment that can conclusively prove or disprove something like "long-term antibiotic use contributes to weight gain" in a way that properly controls for all the variables and is actually applicable to real people's lives.
I think it's a lot easier to design a personal experiment to prove or disprove "antibiotic use contributes to weight gain FOR ME" in a way that wouldn't necessarily hold up to scientific rigor, but can give you enough data to base decisions on for yourself.
True - but for me accepting that freed me to explore medication for my son for weight loss instead of obsessing about how often he get Doritos, etc.
As with everything, it's massively complex and multivariate.
You can say "it's just chemistry" but guess what, Doritos are made of chemicals. But they're just one tiny variable in the mad complex system that is our bodies.
Never mind the fact that it's our minds that in the driving seat of what we do or don't eat, and there's massively complex feedback loops that we don't understand between body chemistry and cognition.
You can point to chemistry, you can point to personal choices, to family history, to societal culture, to the industrialized food system, to economics, to regulatory systems, and you'd be right for all of them.
To be clear, I don't disagree. I do think there is a bias in our current society to blame the individual for weight. Fat bias is really, really common and pretty "main stream" in my experience.
I hope that a "big player" like Weight Watchers moving into medications will push that steam more towards what we are both agreeing with.
Sure. It's just good to remember that there's never a single cause or a single solution. I hope the meds work out great, and that your son is able to enjoy Doritos in moderation, without either obsessing over them or using the meds as an excuse to overindulge in them.
Which Lord knows I've been guilty of-- the overindulging part, not the meds part, which I've never tried nor would it be a reason to feel guilty if I had-- so please don't feel I'm throwing stones.
To be clear, I don't disagree. I do think there is a bias in our current society to blame the individual for weight. Fat bias is really, really common and pretty "main stream" in my experience.
Yeah, my point is that blaming the individual conveniently ignores the larger forces behind personal choices that are often entirely out of the control of the person.
As with everything, it's massively complex and multivariate.
The best way that I've heard to frame this is the biological, sociological, psychological model of health.
All three are at play, vary by individual, and play off each other.
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 98.5kg (Mar 11 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Big change. We’ll see what next week holds.
If folks are looking for a reputable source on all things fat loss (hey, that's me, too!), here's my favorite series on the topic.
Covers the basics as well as dispelling some of the myths we continue to hear.
5/5, would recommend.
My wife and I have decided we want to start exercising. We try to walk a couple of miles a day but that just doesn't seem like enough.
That being said, we need something that's super beginner friendly. I'd like it to be fun (if possible) and something we can stream through AppleTV or through our tv which is a Google TV. I've done a little research but haven't found anything all that great yet. I guess I could just watch someone telling me what exercises to do and how many reps, and honestly, I don't know what I mean by "fun". Just something other than watching someone in an abandoned warehouse with a mat on the ground 
5 or 7 lb steel mace for her, a 10lb for you (well under $100 in total, available on Amazon) and Mark Wildman's YouTube mace series.
Maybe not an indoor friendly activity unless you have high ceilings tho.
His kettlebell series is also phenomenal. Both go from absolute zero knowledge to advanced movements, and he's miles beyond most YouTube coaches in terms of how consisely but completely and simply he'll explain how to do things.
Have you looked at iFit?
It's a subscription thing, sort of like Peloton, but for walking. You "walk" with an instructor that is in exotic locales, so you get to walk on the beach, in the jungle, in the mountains, etc.
It gets bundled with a lot of treadmills but pretty sure you can get it separately too.
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.2kg (Mar 18 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
Last week’s loss didn’t add up (down 2.2 pounds with no additional diet change). Today’s weigh in makes more sense.
I also need to get myself back on track with calorie counting. I’ve been doing it late (or just not doing it) some days.
Starting weight: 102kg (Nov 5 22)
Current weight: 99.1kg (Mar 26 23)
Short term goal: 97kg (214lbs)
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