Anyone 350+lbs?

Question

Would anyone want to start a group chat to help each other lose weight and motivate each other. I need to do low fat diet I have high cholesterol. And hypothyroidism… I’m so unhappy with myself and depressed

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I was before 2018, I’m about 280 range right now. I lost 95 pounds just walking and eating better. It was how I got over a relationship I just kept myself busy basically. Obviously your weight fluctuates, I was 350 when I started my weight loss journey, after two miscarriages, eating out every night, with my cheating ex. When it comes to weight loss, you need to focus on forming things. Number one your sleep. When you don’t get enough sleep, it affects everything, your body releases hormones that cause you to binge, to retain water, to crave, you name it so sleep is very important. Number two you’re gonna want to increase incrementally and slowly your water intake, water is the baseline for everything, it balances salt and sugar, it fuels your cells, it improves your skin, it improves your quality of sleep, but don’t try and drink a gallon of water from 0 to 100 obviously you will be on the toilet peeing left and right and not able to sleep. Slowly baby steps.  Number three you’re going to focus on your nutrition, high protein, high fiber, low salt, low sugar, natural sugar is OK like your fruits and vegetables, I don’t want you to take anything away, what I want you to do is start adding in foods that walk on the earth and grow on the earth because if you were lemonade and try and do a 180 overnight, you’re gonna want whatever you’re depriving yourself of it any chance you can possibly get, obviously you know what is not serving your body, junk food, soda, sugary coffee drinks, etc. But just because you’re trying to change your lifestyle, doesn’t mean you stop living. If I go to a wedding, I eat the meal, I eat the cake, but I spend all night dancing it off, if I know I’m gonna be eating out, like Chinese food, which is very high in sodium, I know I need to drink a lot of water to balance out the sodium so I don’t wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I’m in the middle of a desert completely dehydrated. Because I don’t eat salt normally. Does it mean you stop living, basically is the bottom line. Some people count macros, some people count calories, I just used a Fitbit and my fitness pal, and when you input all of your info it gives you a number of calories for the day, and when you exercise, more than I think it’s at least one mile that you have to walk which is about 2400 roughly steps, you get additional calories, and what you don’t consume, and what you have at the end of the day is your calorie deficit, the remaining balance that either you’ve accumulated because of exercise or that you haven’t eaten whether you exercise or not. Some people do intermittent fasting, you have to figure out what works best for you. I do both intermittent fasting, and I do the 816 method which is 16 hours you don’t eat which includes eight hours of sleep so really you’re only fasting for eight hours, and I eat during this the eight hour window. Sometimes I fast more, depending on my day. Some people eat three meals a day, some people eat six small meals a day, but like I said you have to figure out what works best for you. The last thing you’re gonna focus on is some kind of movement, whether that is walking, dancing, swimming, a pole dancing class, some thing that you would look forward to and enjoy doing. Obviously you may not enjoy it in the beginning, but the more that you stick with it, the more that it will become part of your daily routine, and your daily routine is things that you do on auto pilot without even thinking about it. We all have motivation, we have the motivation to finish a series on Netflix, we have the motivation to do our daily routine. If it’s something that’s important to you Will make time for it. And you have to think of it as your mindset as not this is some thing that I dread doing and I hate to do, but this is something I get to do, I get to experience, I get to have fun, and something that I look forward to. For me personally the gym was not for me because I knew myself, I knew that I would find any excuse not to go from bad weather or too many people, costing too much etc. at home the only excuse with me. I am a person of convenience and comfort, I don’t like to sweat, so if I walk, I walk in the mall, I walk in the grocery store, I get my shopping done, I go from Trader Joe’s to ShopRite to Wegmans to any other store that I need to go to. And I use apps like achievement, which for every 10,000 points they give you $10 tax free, I’ve been with them I think since 2018 maybe or 2019 and I’ve already received at least $60 so and every activity that you do is six points or you do surveys or you do it’s some kind of motivation. Basically and we all unfortunately have issues when it comes to food, that is the bottom line, we either have some kind of trigger, such as family members or friends or situations that caused us to want to spiral, some of us have trauma baggage that we never let go of, some of us have to set boundaries with family so that they don’t affect you, they need to kiss your ass basically. But it starts with a mind, it starts with how you look at things your perspective. And definitely you can’t hate yourself to any goal, you can’t hate yourself skinny, you can’t doubt your abilities for a job promotion etc. I want you to do an exercise for me I want you to take a piece of paper and draw a line down the middle on the left side you’re gonna write all of the nasty things that you say about yourself, using I am statements, I am ugly, I am stupid, I am worthless, and on the right side you’re gonna write The opposite, I am beautiful, I am smart, I am worth it, etc. and then I want you to take each positive statement and write it on an individual post it and I want you to put them all over your house, your car, your job, and whenever you see them I want you to repeat them with conviction like a daily affirmation. You can do anything that you put your mind to. You’ve got this. ￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼

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Ugh I could’ve written this myself!! Seriously! Do you have hashimotos too?

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