u/JakeWhitling

Can we all mutually agree this is by far and away the worst season with injuries we’ve ever seen?

Hi all! I am a 20yo Male from PA and just wanted to get some advice on my current situation with my diet.

In January I was about 216lbs when I started going to the gym Monday - Thursday hitting basic splits with no cardio or a training. At this time I wasn’t really dieting I was more so just letting myself have 2 meals a day and no snack.
I only did this “diet” until Friday then I would come home from school and eat whatever I desired.

I did this till about March and noticed I had lost some weight very slowly but I was around 207 pounds. Now I know I said I was 216 when I started but this weight was right after dinner on a January night right after holidays. Needless to say my body was packed!

But that’s when I started looking at the scale a ton and made a goal to hit 200 by the start of may which was the end of college for the semester. Which then began my start of counting calories.

I found it really easy to adapt and be more hard on myself at school because I was always busy! Some days I would eat one meal a day! Obviously not good but I was really determined to lose weight.

Fast forward and at the start of my first week in may I was 199lbs! I was so excited! It gave me so much motivation and I I was so happy.
So I continued my routine that week then moved back home and continued when I got back home for 1 week.

After that first week back home I went on vacation and after about a day of vacation I decided I would let myself off my diet to enjoy myself! I totally deserved It I had busted my butt and got to my goal. So I enjoyed the week of vacation and came back and weighed myself on Monday and I was like 198.4 so I was down slightly but I didn’t gain anything. But nothing was ever the same after this point. Things started getting really really hard. I would cut my weeks short and cut my diet off on Wednesdays and then binge and I could just never be perfect like I was.

This persisted until today when I couldn’t take the mental anguish and constant failing with my diet and I decided I just needed to take a break. But as you can see feeding myself more food has not helped as I’m still typing this post.

I just really don’t know what to do. All I can think about all the time is food and how guilty I feel if I sit and eat without thinking about anything. It doesn’t feel right I mean I still have goals I want to hit I just wanted to wait Untill I went back to college in 5 weeks to try and keep going but now I feel like I want to start again. There is so much confusing and I really just don’t know what to do. I would really appreciate some guidance here❤️

Hi all! I am a 20yo Male from PA and just wanted to get some advice on my current situation with my diet.

In January I was about 216lbs when I started going to the gym Monday - Thursday hitting basic splits with no cardio or a training. At this time I wasn’t really dieting I was more so just letting myself have 2 meals a day and no snack.
I only did this “diet” until Friday then I would come home from school and eat whatever I desired.

I did this till about March and noticed I had lost some weight very slowly but I was around 207 pounds. Now I know I said I was 216 when I started but this weight was right after dinner on a January night right after holidays. Needless to say my body was packed!

But that’s when I started looking at the scale a ton and made a goal to hit 200 by the start of may which was the end of college for the semester. Which then began my start of counting calories.

I found it really easy to adapt and be more hard on myself at school because I was always busy! Some days I would eat one meal a day! Obviously not good but I was really determined to lose weight.

Fast forward and at the start of my first week in may I was 199lbs! I was so excited! It gave me so much motivation and I I was so happy.
So I continued my routine that week then moved back home and continued when I got back home for 1 week.

After that first week back home I went on vacation and after about a day of vacation I decided I would let myself off my diet to enjoy myself! I totally deserved It I had busted my butt and got to my goal. So I enjoyed the week of vacation and came back and weighed myself on Monday and I was like 198.4 so I was down slightly but I didn’t gain anything. But nothing was ever the same after this point. Things started getting really really hard. I would cut my weeks short and cut my diet off on Wednesdays and then binge and I could just never be perfect like I was.

This persisted until today when I couldn’t take the mental anguish and constant failing with my diet and I decided I just needed to take a break. But as you can see feeding myself more food has not helped as I’m still typing this post.

I just really don’t know what to do. All I can think about all the time is food and how guilty I feel if I sit and eat without thinking about anything. It doesn’t feel right I mean I still have goals I want to hit I just wanted to wait Untill I went back to college in 5 weeks to try and keep going but now I feel like I want to start again. There is so much confusing and I really just don’t know what to do. I would really appreciate some guidance here❤️

Hi all! I am a 20yo Male from PA and just wanted to get some advice on my current situation with my diet.

In January I was about 216lbs when I started going to the gym Monday - Thursday hitting basic splits with no cardio or a training. At this time I wasn’t really dieting I was more so just letting myself have 2 meals a day and no snack.
I only did this “diet” until Friday then I would come home from school and eat whatever I desired.

I did this till about March and noticed I had lost some weight very slowly but I was around 207 pounds. Now I know I said I was 216 when I started but this weight was right after dinner on a January night right after holidays. Needless to say my body was packed!

But that’s when I started looking at the scale a ton and made a goal to hit 200 by the start of may which was the end of college for the semester. Which then began my start of counting calories.

I found it really easy to adapt and be more hard on myself at school because I was always busy! Some days I would eat one meal a day! Obviously not good but I was really determined to lose weight.

Fast forward and at the start of my first week in may I was 199lbs! I was so excited! It gave me so much motivation and I I was so happy.
So I continued my routine that week then moved back home and continued when I got back home for 1 week.

After that first week back home I went on vacation and after about a day of vacation I decided I would let myself off my diet to enjoy myself! I totally deserved It I had busted my butt and got to my goal. So I enjoyed the week of vacation and came back and weighed myself on Monday and I was like 198.4 so I was down slightly but I didn’t gain anything. But nothing was ever the same after this point. Things started getting really really hard. I would cut my weeks short and cut my diet off on Wednesdays and then binge and I could just never be perfect like I was.

This persisted until today when I couldn’t take the mental anguish and constant failing with my diet and I decided I just needed to take a break. But as you can see feeding myself more food has not helped as I’m still typing this post.

I just really don’t know what to do. All I can think about all the time is food and how guilty I feel if I sit and eat without thinking about anything. It doesn’t feel right I mean I still have goals I want to hit I just wanted to wait Untill I went back to college in 5 weeks to try and keep going but now I feel like I want to start again. There is so much confusing and I really just don’t know what to do. I would really appreciate some guidance here❤️

Hi all! I am a 20yo Male from PA and just wanted to get some advice on my current situation with my diet.

In January I was about 216lbs when I started going to the gym Monday - Thursday hitting basic splits with no cardio or a training. At this time I wasn’t really dieting I was more so just letting myself have 2 meals a day and no snack.
I only did this “diet” until Friday then I would come home from school and eat whatever I desired.

I did this till about March and noticed I had lost some weight very slowly but I was around 207 pounds. Now I know I said I was 216 when I started but this weight was right after dinner on a January night right after holidays. Needless to say my body was packed!

But that’s when I started looking at the scale a ton and made a goal to hit 200 by the start of may which was the end of college for the semester. Which then began my start of counting calories.

I found it really easy to adapt and be more hard on myself at school because I was always busy! Some days I would eat one meal a day! Obviously not good but I was really determined to lose weight.

Fast forward and at the start of my first week in may I was 199lbs! I was so excited! It gave me so much motivation and I I was so happy.
So I continued my routine that week then moved back home and continued when I got back home for 1 week.

After that first week back home I went on vacation and after about a day of vacation I decided I would let myself off my diet to enjoy myself! I totally deserved It I had busted my butt and got to my goal. So I enjoyed the week of vacation and came back and weighed myself on Monday and I was like 198.4 so I was down slightly but I didn’t gain anything. But nothing was ever the same after this point. Things started getting really really hard. I would cut my weeks short and cut my diet off on Wednesdays and then binge and I could just never be perfect like I was.

This persisted until today when I couldn’t take the mental anguish and constant failing with my diet and I decided I just needed to take a break. But as you can see feeding myself more food has not helped as I’m still typing this post.

I just really don’t know what to do. All I can think about all the time is food and how guilty I feel if I sit and eat without thinking about anything. It doesn’t feel right I mean I still have goals I want to hit I just wanted to wait Untill I went back to college in 5 weeks to try and keep going but now I feel like I want to start again. There is so much confusing and I really just don’t know what to do. I would really appreciate some guidance here❤️

So I’ve been working out hard about 4 days a week since January 12th, initially I was just making it about going to the gym no diet included.

Then after about a month I switched to just keeping track of meals during the week. So no counting calories because I always struggled with that. Basically I was just allowing myself 2 meals a day from my college cafeteria and no snacks Monday - Thursday. I did that for a really long time about April before I really started watching the scale hard. (Bad habit I know)

When I started this I was 215 pounds and wanted to be 200 before the end of the semester hence why I started really watching my weight towards the end of the semester. But I floated around 204 ish for a while and college ended like may 7th so I was running out of time.

I began tracking calories with the app lose it and then I got over the 200 hump which I was super proud of!

It’s been a while now and ever since I returned home from school I’ve been consistently working out but my diet has been a wreck. Trying to adapt to not eating school foods and not being as busy is making it harder for me to diet. To clarify during the semester I was only really watching my food Monday - Thursday, on the weekends I didn’t binge but if I craved chocolate I ate some or if I wanted to dig into a bag of chips I let myself. It was just so on the weekends I wasn’t thinking about a hard diet this is how I was able to sustain it for so long.

But now I’m sitting at about 193 - 196 range depending and I’ve been struggling so I want to change things up. I don’t mind tracking calories anymore it’s pretty easy now. I want to get to 175 but I need to have a sustainable plan to get there. I don’t track macros or anything like that idc what I eat I just watch my calories and maximize protein intake. Is there a way where I can get to 175 while having Saturday and Sunday to not think about my diet.

I’m aiming for about 1600 calories Monday - Friday but not sure how to calculate what my weekly calorie intake should be.

Anyways hopefully someone can help me out thank you!