my final weight loss journey?

Prose said:
Week 40: 88.8 kg
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Week 8: 88.5

Man, cut out all sweets, fast-food, and sugary drinks. Trust me, once you cut them out - once you know for a fact there is no way in hell you would allow yourself to take even one bite - you will start losing weight. with. ease.

And start counting your calories.

Here is me with eating shitty food and not counting calories for an entire month.

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Stag. Nation. Thankfully it took me 4 weeks of stagnation to see what I'm doing is not working, not 40. But it's never too late to, honestly and kindly, stop being stubborn.

Here is my weight loss I started literally the following day after the last record above.

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From 82.27 to 76.21 without starving myself in 10 weeks.

How?

In October I took one month to stop eating sweets and any drinks other than water and soda water altogether. I allowed myself to eat other crap for one month to fight the cravings. Once the month had passed, I then cut out all the snacks, pastry, fast-food, and shitty food.

Then I started the 12-week weight loss I'm on until February 9.

I've taken this weight loss period through Christmas and The New Year. I allowed myself to mess around with food and you see a bump right around that time. But then the trend started going downwards again.

As soon as you learn how to go about counting calories and you start learning how to cook tasty meals, you won't have any issue with losing weight. Every single day I'm eating a hefty portion of Mac & Cheese, a home-made kebab that tastes better than fast-food, French toast with vanilla protein paste that tastes exactly like dessert, and another meal to my discretion (usually Greek yogurt with vanilla protein powder and a couple of rice cakes - it tastes so good that I said as soon as I start bulking I will just double this meal, rather than snack away).

32 weeks ago you were in the same exact place you are now.

Take 8 weeks to remove cravings and learn to count calories and you will start losing weight.

Or don't and see you at week 100 weighing the same 88kgs.
 
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Week 41: 88.0 kg

Upsilon said:
Take 8 weeks to remove cravings and learn to count calories and you will start losing weight.
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Thank you for sharing your journey. It's definitely a success story. I've made a decision to not count calories and I've explained my reasons for it earlier in this thread.
 
Prose said:
Week 41: 88.0 kg


Thank you for sharing your journey. It's definitely a success story. I've made a decision to not count calories and I've explained my reasons for it earlier in this thread.
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Yes. They seem to boil down to "I'm afraid that I can't take control of my mind and keep myself in check if I start having eating disorder tendencies."
 
Upsilon said:
Yes. They seem to boil down to "I'm afraid that I can't take control of my mind and keep myself in check if I start having eating disorder tendencies."
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Yes, maintaining good mental health was definitely one of the reasons for not wanting to count calories. Another reason was that even if I wanted to count calories, it wouldn't be possible to do it accurately while maintaining a balanced diet. What we see on nutrition labels are only estimates. The FDA allows for calorie estimates to be off by as much as 20%. These estimates can also be less accurate for fresh or organic foods compared to ultraprocessed "lab foods" that are more consistent in their production.

As far as I know, no independent agency actively monitors whether the caloric values on nutrition labels are accurate. These values are usually tested by university researchers or journalists on occasion. Other than that, we just have to trust the producers. Now, I don't know about you, but my trust in them is quite thin. I don’t take caloric data at face value, and I don’t want to live my life based on data that I can’t verify. If counting calories works for you, that's great. But to say that weight loss can’t be achieved without doing these calculations is wrong. I’ve done it multiple times in my life already.
 
I don't count calories and just stick to a few simple rules:
  1. no processed foods.
  2. no fruit juice or sugary drinks
  3. no alcohol
  4. I can eat as much veggies and fruits as I want.
  5. plenty of protein throughout the day
  6. use olive oil instead of seed oils or vegetable oil
  7. eat fish at least once a week
With those rules, you are always quite full and it is very hard to have an excess of calories and also remain very healthy.
 
Prose said:
What we see on nutrition labels are only estimates.
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This is by far the most creative excuse I've seen for diet self-sabotage so far.

I said it on page 1 of this thread and will say it again. You can't improve what you don't measure (as you're so graciously exhibiting for us). There is one single metric that rules the reality of weight loss, and that's calories.

Calories in and calories out is the only thing that matters, the one single metric that you refuse to engage in because there might be some minor variance in the listed calories. So what? When I eat a banana and everyone says they're 100 calories, the size itself varies some.

The answer that the community developed together is to exercise and not count your exercise calories as a deficit you can eat back. You just dismiss them and that takes care of the variance for you.

I don't think you really care about a +/- 10% variance. I think you're just being stubborn, and I'm saying that as someone who wants you to succeed, as we all do. I've been stubborn a lot and have paid prices for it. You may be paying a price for it, too.
 
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