My Personal Bingo

The Skinny on Skinny

**this post deleted so I’m reposting it** So I recently lost around 8 lbs/4 kg (I think it’s getting closer to 10 but patience is a virtue) and I wanted to make a post about it. I did this during the isolation period aka without any formal use of a gym.

I do follow a bunch of ~thinspo~ accounts as actual inspiration but I am definitely against all eating disorders. Actually, as I read some of the content I get kind of frustrated for them - I understand there’s much more to an ED than food, but some of the things I read are so illogical! The extremist approach to losing weight often only results in gaining weight: don’t eat for a day and a half and then binge on 5000 calories…. like… you would literally be better off just eating 2000 calories for both days. Not to mention a more pleasant daily life.

Not here to shame though, just here to provide genuine tips. I do not condone any unhealthy lifestyle, but I also don’t agree with a lot of the “expert opinions” on nutrition. The bottom line is you need to focus on an overall balanced diet. Don’t worry if you skimp on a certain macro nutrient during one meal (or day) and instead focus on overall balance.

I see articles in magazines where they bitch and moan about how each meal must be accompanied with a balance of carbs, protein, and fat. That thought process is stupid and will lead to over eating. Your two focus points when you eat should be (1) satisfying yourself and (2) intuition based fueling yourself. Going off any other metric - time of day, technical nutritional content of plate, fear you’ll be hungry later, etc. - should be ignored.

Examples:

Just because it’s “lunch time” doesn’t mean you have to eat. If you’re not hungry, who cares! Just skip lunch today! Eating because the clock or society tells you to will lead to over consumption.

You want a muffin for breakfast. Yum. Have that muffin… but “oh no! You don’t have any protein! Better eat some eggs!” NOOOOO!! If you really only want a muffin, just have that as a single item and let it be satisfying! Adding extra food to “round out your meal” is just adding extra calories without necessarily satisfying you more

You have a busy evening coming up - you had a good lunch though, and feel satisfied… but feel like you should still have a big snack in preparation for your busy evening despite not being hungry. NO! Let the hunger come later, don’t eat now just because you’re afraid of it! If you’re really THAT scared, pack a granola bar, but who knows?! Maybe you just won’t be hungry later, and that’s ok too!

This mentality alone will make weight loss easier. Freeing yourself from artificial metrics of food consumption makes a calorie deficit a lot easier, I promise.

However, at the end of the day, losing weight is hard. A calorie deficit is difficult and requires patience, discipline, and a healthy mental approach to eating. You will sometimes feel mildly deprived as you lose weight - but it shouldn’t consume your entire life.

I am currently three main tools during my weight loss process:

Food tracking: MyFitnessPal

This one I use to give myself an honest reflection of my day. While I’m sometimes tempted to lie or skip recording something, I realize that’s not doing me any favors. Some days it sucks when I am over 2000, but then I remind myself that one day of eating won’t make me fat OR skinny. The key thing I look for is the weekly goal because it prevents my progress from being derailed by one bad day. It also allows me to see how I can still occasionally enjoy treats and junk and still maintain an overall calorie deficit and lose weight.

Activity Tracking: Apple Watch and/or my Fitbit

I do this just to make sure I’m moving around. I think staying generally active has been a major boost for my mental health during the isolation - but I also like how being goal oriented. I go at least 5 miles a day - some through formal exercise, some from just walking around my place. I also will input any of my formal fitness into MyFitnessPal on a metric of 1 mile (walked or ran) is -100 calories. NOTE: I only do that as a secondary method of tracking, I still am loyal to my total calories consumed NOT “net calories.”

Weight Tracking: A RENPHO scale

I really like my RENPHO scale for a couple reasons. For starters, they provide a lot of interesting secondary metrics, including BMI, BMR, subcutaneous fat, muscle mass, etc. While I take a lot of the metrics with a grain of salt, it keeps the process fun for me. I also LOVE how it automatically compiles the data into trends so you can see progress! Furthermore, it keeps me honest in that I have to record a weight every day. No skipping. It just keeps me more honest than when I use to track it by hand I would skip days where I was a bit heavier.

So ya… that has been my “weight loss” journey so far. I know it’s not SUPER impressive, but I started at a healthy BMI so an extreme transformation would be both unlikely and unhealthy.

I do plan to keep going - I both like my progress and I think it’s overall a good time to focus on this… like, when else can I avoid restaurants and other fattening activities so easily 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

“The hunger to be thin became more than the hunger within.”

Summer’s Dream - Cathy Cassidy

Bikini themed thinspo

✨New Diet✨

I have 2 weeks to lose as much weight as possible for the beach so I’m hoping this will work.

Food Rules:

Stay under each days limit (duh) and you MUST exercise/burn off any additional calories

Drink 90 ounces of water a day

Drink tea or lemon water before you even step in the kitchen to make food

Absolutely no added carbs whatsoever (except for those naturally found in fruits and veggies)

No mindless snacking

Fast for 18 hours a day. Eating window is either from 9am-3pm or from 3pm-9pm

The only foods you can eat are fruits, vegetables, eggs, cheeses, tea, coffee, and lean protein (like poultry and fish)

Fruits and vegetables Do Not count towards total cals

Don’t eat fried or overly processed foods

200 jumping jacks a day

Watch mukbangs or kpop fan cams for 15 minutes before getting anything to eat

I’m looking to lose 10 lbs but more is always better.

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Diet Change!

So, this is the diet I was initially going to follow:

However, 300&400 calories are just too low for me. I had 300 calories today and I ended up binging (and purging), as it always happens when I eat under 500 calories.

However, the first 5 days of the diet were very good. Based on the first week of that diet, I have come up with this one:

I ate and worked out like this last week and I lost 1kg (2.2lbs) and 1cm on my thighs. So, from now on, I’ll just repeat this diet weekly until school starts.

Since I don’t like starting a diet in the middle of the week, I’ll start tomorrow (Wednesday) on day 3, with 900 calories. I’m already one week into the challenges, so I’ll just keep doing them.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to stick to this one, because school is closer and closer. Only 32 days to go. If I get to 53.5kgs by September 10th, I will be the happiest person ever, because that’s been my gw for sooo long. Ugw is 51 or 50, but I know I realistically can’t lose that much until my deadline.

SW: 57.5kgs

GW: 53.5kgs

My motivation?

I’ve never experienced being less than 100 lbs.

I’ve never had someone gasp at my small thighs or jutting rib cage

I’ve never had noticeable cheekbones.

I’ve never looked thin in a large sweater, just added pounds to my body.

I’ve never felt comfortable wearing tight shirts.

I’ve never experienced being “thin”, only “normal”.

And I want to change all that.

Quick lesson y’all

So I have done around 175 situps every night for the last while as a nervous thing (yk gotta burn any possible calories) but the thing with situps is that they are so bad for your lower back. I haven’t been able to do my sit-ups or sit comfortably or even sleep comfortably because when I do a sit-up it puts so much pressure on my lower back that now something is going wrong and it is hurting me. So please learn from me if you can and do planks or Russian twists or something other than sit-ups or crunches because they are likely to do more harm than good.

Stay safe babes

It’s you, not your genetics

I have a friend who is like SUPER skinny. She used to say how she doesn’t get fat at all. On top of that, she seemed to eat a lot of high-calorie food all the time. Everyone kind of assumed that she was “naturally skinny”.

Today she mentioned how she hated eating alone. She just doesn’t eat. That made soo much sense! She might eat a lot when shes at school, surrounded by ppl, but she doesn’t eat much when by herself. As a result she stays skinny.

There are multiple reasons why your skinny friend stays skinny. So stop blaming your genetics!

P.s: unless you have an actual illness that prevents you from losing weight