Internet's Been Out But Here's My January Weight Progress So Far. Hope To Be In The 50s By End Of The

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Been maintaining for what feels like forever 🙄

ala speaks on: *sigh* losing weight 🏃🏿‍♀️🥗

Disclaimer: There is no shortcut. If you have more to lose you will have to change your lifestyle drastically. If you only need to lose a couple of pounds you will still need to make some changes. Unless you have a very fast metabolism (which, if you are actively trying to lose weight, you most likely don’t) you will not lose 10 kg in 2 weeks. I am not creating this post as a weight loss programme, it is a guide to help you in making decisions on how you want to lose weight.You need to do this for yourself.

Bad Habits that Make You Put on Weight

Mindless snacking: if you are going to eat snacks take a look at the serving sizes and stick to that. If you have a bag of popcorn actually weigh out the stated portion size into a bowl and only eat that. If you are dieting I would suggest not snacking or sticking to one snack a day.

Low levels of activity, this is bad habit most people picked up during lockdown. People count steps for a reason - it is healthy to walk 10,000 steps a day and if you are trying to lose weight walking 10,000 - 15,000 will help a lot.

Takeaways. It is okay to get a fast food takeaway once or twice a week. A problem arises when people order takeaways almost everyday. I don’t have to tell you why that is not healthy. If you seriously want to lose weight stick to one takeaway a week or none at all. If you do buy takeaway make sure to purchase from the children’s menu as the portion sizes are smaller.

Lack of sleep. I am the biggest culprit of this, but you must get at least 8 hours of sleep a day. The negative effects lack of sleep has on your body seep into every aspect of your life. Turn off your phone at 10 pm and get some quality sleep

Not drinking enough water. Anyone successful weight loss journey involves a person up-ing their water intake. You should be drinking a minimum (and I mean bare minimum) of 2 litres of water everyday but when I am losing weight I like to up my intake to 3 litres +. On the opposite end of the spectrum don’t drink too much water (I know, contradictory right?). Drinking too much water is very dangerous so I would say slowly raise your uptake and never drink over 4 litres a day.

Diet

When dieting, of course, calorie control is a major factor but it has to be a healthy restriction. I would say never go below 1,500 calories. Highly restrictive diets (<1,500) are unsustainable, unhealthy, dangerous and just an overall bad idea.

Here are some of my diet “hacks” that have helped me when losing weight:

Drink soups. Creamy, fibrous, vegetable-filled soups that are warm and full of nutrition (can you tell I love soup). Soups are great for diets because they are generally healthy, full of a lot of vitamins and nutrients and they are easier to digest. I find when I drink soups I have no bloating and I never get that overly-full feeling. Have it with a slice or two of French baguette for a light dinner.

Eat five mini-meals throughout the day. If you limit your calories to 1,500 you can eat five 300-calorie meals evenly spread throughout the day

If you stock up on vegetables and fruits you can eat more for less calories e.g. eat one 250-calorie muffin or a large banana, bowl of grapes and a box of raisins (230 calories)

Try and get your sources of nutrients from more low fat options. Instead of getting your calcium from full fat whole milk opt for skimmed milk, yogurts, sardines, beans and lentils

Cut down or carbs. Not completely but you should try not to eat more than 2 slices of bread a day. Try not to eat more than 2 bowls of rice a day (opt for brown rice it has more nutrition).

Cut out juices, fizzy drinks and other unnecessary sources of sugar

Meal-prep so you can make well thought-out decisions on what you want to eat

Here is an example of the way I ate during my diet:

6:00 - a large banana and oatmeal with soya milk

9:00 - a bowl of grapes and ½ a sardine sandwich (1 slice of brown bread)

12:00 - a bowl of white rice with stir-fry chicken breast and vegetables

15:00 - celery, cucumber and carrot sticks with hummus and grilled salmon

18:00 - carrot soup with coconut milk and a slice of French baguette

Exercise

The bane of my existence. Sorry, I’m not coming on here with gym tips and how to dead-lift your way to a six-pack. I don’t know how. All I can say is if you want to lose weight cardio helps a lot (in my experience).

Plain and simple, get in some cardio everyday. Here are just a few examples:

Swimming (30 minutes)

Walking (10,000+ steps)

Jogging (30 minutes)

Jumping rope (15 minutes)

Elliptical (30 minutes)

Exercise bike (30 minutes)

Rowing (20 minutes)

Sprinting intervals (30 minutes)

HIIT, high-intensity interval training

The way I lost most of my weight is by jogging and rowing, I used to go on 30 to 60 minute-long jogs 3 times a week and go to rowing club twice a week. Remember everyone’s weight loss journey and body are different. Find what works for you.

The key point is try and introduce cardio workouts for at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week and if you can increase the frequency and length of workouts.

General Tips

Like I said your journey is your journey. Don’t compare your weight loss to others and don’t try and rush the process. 

Think of it as a lifestyle change. A way to reset all the unhealthy habits you’ve built up since birth. Let that motivate you.

Buy a goal outfit you hope to fit in to and try it on periodically as you lose weight

This is going to be controversial. Weigh yourself once a month. Trust me. When you see that number drop after a month of hard work you will feel so much better. People who weigh themselves daily can end up basing their diet and emotions off of the number on the scale each day when weight loss is a combination of many days and weeks of concerted effort

Be easy on yourself; allow yourself to slip up and just start again. You need to give yourself love not hate and harsh words. Like you would tell a child who fell off of a bike that it is okay and to try again, you need to offer yourself that same grace and understanding

Join a weight loss support group or neighbourhood walking group - having support can be very encouraging and you can make some friends

Keep busy. When you’re busy you aren’t snacking The way I maintain my weight loss and not slip into bad habits is by keeping busy. Horse-riding, ballet, reading, bowling, gardening, working. Do anything, just don’t be idle and you will unconsciously increase your activity and not end up mindlessly eating

- ala 👸🏿

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It is so important I don’t even care if you delete what I write here, just help it be seen. 

Binged for the past 3 days on high ass calorie shit so this is my anti-binge curse (spells never work) for me, like or reblog for your binges to stop as well!

Pro-Ana Tips&Tricks✨✨

..Okay so this title is super misleading bc this is NOT me helping anyone get more in their head about how to aggressively lose weight, but instead it’s how to take care of yourself when the literal only way to live is through starvation bc you’re the most disgusting and ugly human being on the planet. 

Sooooo ergo my list of ways to self-care when you have to choose your battles between health and self-love (feel free to reblog and add more this will be very helpful for myself also)

1) Take your vitamins !!!!!!!!!!!!!! every!!!!!!! day!!!!!!!!!!

2) Buy yourself a nice convenient water bottle/cup that you can get emotionally attached to that also fits your aesthetic like starbucks iced cups are really good for this or like swell bottles, something that makes you feel cool but that can comfort you also, maybe this is like some weird infant bottle thing but it just helps and also helps the environment by cutting down on your plastic water bottles since you’re obviously drinking a lot of water all day

3) Invest in a heat blanket. you will thank me later I promise

4) buy a plant, take care of it, treat it like you wish you could treat yourself, give it a name and love it.

5) Find someone to talk to who wont judge you for your actions and who actually! understands your thoughts and feelings (this one is so important I promise) ((ideally this would be someone you physically can be around, not someone you met online. Online friends are great and just as great as people you meet in real life but it’s very easy to underestimate how unhealthy you may be getting. Someone in person will seriously know if you’re about to die or not which is important, no matter how much you believe otherwise)

6) Decide that there is a specific number weight that would be taking it too far. Even if this number is 15lbs and you’ll die before you get there, consciously thinking and understanding and deciding that there actually is too small a number on the scale for you to be comfortable with can help a lot with recovery eventually and also a practical mindset for when loosing weight.

7) Do at least a small amount of make-up every day. This may seem pointless and can also get to the point where you never want to leave the house without it but it helps with the self love, taking time in front of a mirror and doing things that aren’t unhealthy like putting on mascara and believing that it does actually improve the situation means you aren’t actually a lost cause when it comes to beauty.

8) Wash your face every night, commit to a skincare routine and stick with it! Occasionally use masks/ face scrubs on special occasions.

9) Find a creative outlet i.e coloring, drawing, music, writing, photography

10) Try your best to keep your bedroom/ personal spaces clean

11) Develop daily rituals for things that aren’t food-related. I.e making your bed every morning, always lighting a candle when in your bedroom, watering your plant that I made you get every morning. This helps to give you control over more things then just your weight.

12) Make a list of foods that don’s gross you out!! It’s so sooooo easy to write off cliche foods as disgusting I’m not going to give any negative examples bc everyone is different and I don’t want to project but anyway eventually you will absolutely hate even the idea of these foods and get grossed out even when other people eat it but if you make a list for yourself of foods that are cute or comfortable or you get positive reactions when you eat them then it’ll help with eating in front of other people and also feeling normal in social events. Examples of my comfortable/cute foods are gummy candies, like mini gummy worms or watermelon sour patch bc other people get excited and want to share when I have them and it becomes a cool thing that I’m known for always having and it’s sweet and cute and not gross and greasy. I also eat puffs, which is veryyyy low in calories and also baby food so when people see me eat it they think of me as small or dainty or easily satisfied by very small amounts of food. I also feel comfortable eating most Asian culture foods because the calories are normally lower and although portions are sometimes very large it’s nice to have control over eating very little of it also chopsticks slow your eating down a lotttt.

13) Post/Take more pictures of yourself. Even if you aren’t getting any responses/likes/comments from people it’s the same concept of putting on make-up every day. You do something, and no matter how much effort or time it takes from you, eventually you think to yourself “Hey this picture isn’t as terrible as all the others and I’m at least a little comfortable with how I look even if I need to edit and filter the hell out of it first” idk how to accurately explain this but consciously thinking that you look better than before is good! because it’s a positive enough thought about your physical beauty.

💖There’s so much more that I could put in this but that’s all I can think of right now I hope this helps other people also. I really don’t pretend to know more than the next person but I know what helps me soooo please add more of your own things! I love each and every one of you and I’m always here for support if you need it. Stay safe and take care of yourself as best as you can💖!

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I really feel like if someone could just tell me how normal people act I could do it. it's the having to come up with my actions on my own that really gets me

Because there arent many posts like this for transfems here are your reminders to...

Take your estrogen/progesterone! Refill your prescription if you ran out/will run out soon!

Stop tucking if you're experiencing pain, numbness, etc., or have been tucking too long!

Hydrate! Even if you aren't thirsty, if it's been more than a few hours since you drank something, please do!

Be kind to yourself! No matter where you are on your trans journey, know that you are valid and loved. ♡

When I say “I hate my body” I don’t mean “oh I’m a little insecure about my belly” or “I could lose a few pounds” I mean I have physically repulsed by it. It’s horrifying and upsetting to see. I wanna crawl out of my skin.