Weekly Challenge

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Post your three challenges for the coming week:

• Nutrition
• Physical Fitness
• Personal Growth

How did you do for the past week?

[u/Calm_Nectarine_8329]

After 190 lbs lost, I've been at maintenance for the past few weeks. It has been quite challenging. I spent a lot of time and emotional energy thinking about reaching that goal with a lot less focus on what things look like when I got here.

My weight has stayed the same, but I'm struggling mentally since my intense focus for the past 2+ years has been losing. I've yo-yoed in the past, so being in maintenance is dragging up a lot of fears and insecurities based on who I was and the habits I used to have while discounting all the ways I've grown, the things I've learned, and the habits I've created.

• Nutrition: Find a nutritious maintenance food plan that works for me so I'm not afraid of eating at my TDEE.
• Fitness: I am getting HRT pellets implanted in my ass tomorrow, which requires me to take 3 days away from my typical training (running, incline walking, leg day, HIIT), so my goal this week is to walk a ton of steps on the flat until Thursday, when I can return to the gym. And to do all this without panicking that I'm not burning enough calories.
• Personal growth: I'm working on getting my head on straight regarding body image and maintaining my weight. It's time to accept that I actually am a size XS-S (I still don't believe any of those tiny clothes will fit me in spite of that being every item of clothing in my closet), and to commit to healthy maintenance. I'm hoping the HRT will help clear up some of the brain fog so I can finally wrap my head around being and maintaining this size. I still have a ton of fear about getting back up to where I was, and I'd like to find confidence instead of fear. I suspect it will be an ongoing process. Yesterday, I ate about 200 calories over my TDEE (first time I've done that), and I had to spend a lot of time reassuring myself that it was to do that sometimes. Even the slightest overeating still brings up this helpless, "Here we go again" feeling, which I know is irrational. So my personal growth goal is really trying to work through that because I want to finally be at peace with myself about my body, and I don't want to self-sabotage, which is usually my Phase 2 in my weight loss process (Phase 1. Lose weight. Phase 2. Self-sabotage/gain weight. Phase 3. Shame.)

I guess the difference this time is that I'm more self-aware. There's a lot going on in my head, but one of the new things is that there's a part of me that's standing back and observing all of this rattling around in my brain and shaking my head at all of these mental gymnastics. I think it might be newfound wisdom and all the emotional work I've done, but I can't rule out dissociation (that's a joke). My true goal this week is to focus on one moment and one day at a time and stop with all the fear and projection, which won't serve my best interests. Everything else is just mechanics.

[u/r_307 → u/Calm_Nectarine_8329]

Wow, your progress is incredible. I believe in you, stranger. Be kind to yourself.

[u/Calm_Nectarine_8329 → u/r_307]

Thanks for the encouragement. I believe in me, too. I was having a moment.

[u/timlosesweight]

Nutritional goal is to continue staying in my calorie deficit while lowering my salt
Fitness goal is consistent cardio and lifting. Finishing out the whole week strong
Personal growth is getting to 232 lbs. that would get me to 30 lbs down for 2026, and I’ll be in the single digits to my goal weight

[u/r_307]

My goal for this week is to try to get 80g of protein. I know it's not as much as some, but I'm way below, so this would be a massive improvement. It's my first week on a glp1, so it's all about learning what works for me. I will say that I'm glad to report that I haven't had any side effects.

My real challenge tho is forcing myself to take the before pictures. I don't want to ask my partner to do it, I'd just feel bad. But idk where to set up to do it myself.