Struggling hard ... Jumping to extremes

I am 5'9" 230# and am struggling hard with my weight. I am ready to jump to extremes. I have been doing keto but am no longer losing. Now I am thinking about fasting three days a week, continuing keto and limiting my calorie intake to 1500 a day.

I am 41, single, no kids, low libido, no morning wood, I just changed careers after two decades in the former, and just feeling like I have failed in life and a lot of it is tied to my weight.

I know someone will respond to this saying that the weight loss isn't going to help and while that may in fact be true I have to do whatever I can to pull myself out of this dark place.

With that, if you have any suggestions on how I can lose weight please let me know. I just started Jefit workout plan to go alongside the new eating lifestyle.

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New research (1047 participants) suggests there are different types of "diet styles" or eating habits: Impulsive, Temptation, Overthinking, Social, and Foodie. It also discusses approaches to help people with each diet style stick to their diets.

From the article:

• Impulsive: Individuals with the impulsive style are low on conscientiousness and high on fun-seeking. They often show an attentional bias toward food-related cues, like the smell or sight of tasty foods.
• Temptation: This style is related to greater food cravings, overeating, and lack of control.
• Overthinking: This style is a mixture of neuroticism, perfectionism, and behavioral inhibition (e.g., indecision)—traits associated with poor health behaviors and well-being.
• Social: Dieters in this group are high on agreeableness, extraversion, and social closeness. Their love of company and socializing means they are often exposed to many situations, like restaurants and parties, that make it challenging for them to stick to their diets.
• Foodie: Foodies score higher on food appreciation and involvement but lower on having fixed eating times and on selecting foods out of convenience or familiarity.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202108/5-diet-styles-and-their-role-in-weight-management-programs

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30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 1

Hello losers,

Happy August first! Holy cow this season is running right by. I hope your day 1 was a good starting place & full of wins!

Goals for me!

Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & remove moral judgement/stigma/shame directed at yourself about it: Progress over perfection. Trying to unattach my self worth from the number on the scale. Logged it this morning without much fuss.

1800 calories (tracking in 5-day cycles, Friday/Saturday at maintenance): Maintenance today.

Exercise 5 days a week: 30 minute stationary bike with upper body lift sets mixed in. 1/1 days.

Alone time to word vomit into journal: A little today, mostly list checking.

Todays gratitude list: Today I’m grateful for my meal prep turning out tasty, easy and semi responsible calorie wise tikka masala sauce & my partner's kind caring support. I've got it most of the time but when your people are so firmly in your corner that they brought a camp chair to sit in, it's really nice.

Express gratitude (verbally or through written communication): My partner made time to make me a special calorie friendly treat & I was very vocally appreciative about it. Including a little bit of drooling.

Your turn kids! How was it today?

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I know not to eat back exercise cals but...

What if it was a huge day? Example: today I biked 40 miles on a child-sized bike through some of the largest hills in the area. It took almost 3 hours and as a generally fit person (half-marathon runner and weight-lifter) I can say that I am EXHAUSTED. I am normally very active and only am looking to lose about 5-10 more lbs (20yo, 5'6, 145lbs right now). I eat 1600 cals normally and am wondering if I can go over that today because I burned so many calories?

I usually don't eat back exercise calories but today's watch (inaccurate, overestimate, I'm aware) had me at close to 1500 calories burned so I am feeling a bit unsure of what to do.

Thank you all :)

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Help changing a serving name in MyFitnessPal

So basically the title.

I am using MFP for tracking calories, and since we already make a bunch of stuff at home, I am needing to add a bunch of recipes. Some are easy enough, and I know I'll just divide the meal by 4 (leftovers go with husband to lunch, so I don't worry about that unless I purposefully make a double batch for my own lunches - and kids are being super supportive, so they wait for me to take all my portions out first).

However, we're also making new stuff, like Baba Ghanoush. I'd like to know how/if I can change the name of the serving to "1/4 cup" instead of "serving". I don't weigh my food much (because I'm just starting out and this will be too big a hurdle to jump right now), so the "gram method" I find everywhere while searching won't work well for me.

I notice some of the ingredients/recipes I search have options for the serving (1 container, 2 Tbsp, 1 g, etc.) Is this only something that the programmers can do? Or can we lay people do it too? Right now I am "getting by" by putting the amount in the title, like "Epic Baba Ghanoush (1/4 c servings)". I like elegant solutions though, so if I can clean that up, it will give me joy.

Thank you in advance for any help!

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I'm a Cereal Binger... But Why?

So as the title says.... I have slight BED, the only thing I binge on is cereal. I really thought I had it under control so I started buying cereal again. I lasted a week, but after I opened the box, it's like I couldn't control myself. One bowl turned into 3 turned into the whole box and eventually half of the other one over less than 24hrs. Even when I felt sick, I still wanted more. Cereal is the only food that makes me this way. Can anyone enlighten me on why and how to control it? It doesn't come from restriction. I eat a lot and am happy with my diet. My personal guess is my obsession with the texture, the crunch, it's like a fixation. How can I deal with this? Thanks in advance guys!

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23M 6'3"/190cm SW: 302 lbs/137kg CW: 297 lbs/135 kg GW: 170 lbs/77 kg A month in, been fat pretty much my whole life, recommitting

It’s time for me to admit something. I’m fat. I have been for about as long as I can remember. Even all the way back in elementary school I was the chubby kid. In high school I was over 215 pounds. I have tried so many times to lose weight and every time I gave up. The best I ever did was one time that I managed to get down to 196 pounds, but then I plateaued. I couldn’t manage to get significantly below 200 pounds even though I was trying so hard and eventually I gave up again.

After turning 21 and starting to drink alcohol I quickly gained that weight back and made it up to 220 pounds. Eventually the coronavirus happened, and we all went into lockdown. I became completely sedentary and ordered delivery more often than I had any other type of meal. In that time, I gained over 80 pounds. At my heaviest I was 302 pounds. I wasn’t just chubby anymore. I’m obese now, and that’s not okay. Some people try to tell themselves that you can be healthy at any size and I don't mean to be rude but that’s simply not true. I’m not healthy. I feel like crap pretty much all the time. I’m tired. I sweat too much. I can hardly do simple physical labor that I could do easily two years ago. Sometimes just walking up stairs makes me feel winded. I'm only 23 years old, I should be in my physical prime, but I feel like an old man.

I’m done living like this. I’m posting this to make myself accountable. For the past month I’ve been changing the way I eat. I’m not “going on a diet,” because that is something temporary, that’s something I can give up on. I’m permanently changing my relationship with food. I’m eating only 1500 calories per day until I’m healthy again. I haven’t done great this month, I met my goal less than half the days I tried and yet I’ve lost five pounds. I’m currently 297 pounds and I was so happy to see a 2 as the first digit on the scale for the first time in months. But at the same time, I feel ashamed because I remember just a few years ago when I was happy to see a 1 as the first digit on the scale. I’m tired of this and I’m going to change and I’m going to get healthy.

One day, I’m going to post this picture again as the before picture in a before and after. I’m making this post as a promise to myself because I’m done being fat.

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