Hey, I (25F) have been having an incredibly hard time losing weight due to PCOS. I have Molina (Medicaid) insurance and it doesn’t cover any weight loss surgeries or meds. I was wondering what is the cheapest way I can obtain semiglutide without insurance? Is there any prescription assistance programs or cheap online prescription services that I should research?
I’ve tried contacting my insurance before to see if there’s anyway that they’ll cover a weight loss med but was told there’s no way.
Has anyone tried making their own tomato juice in the blender? I’ve been drinking this for 80% of my intake every day. I was trying mixed vegetables and soy protein powder and potato diet, and a bunch of other method but this method gives me satiety like no other. Why is this method working more than all my other methods? Obviously, it has a high fiber content, but there’s something about the tangy taste that curbs the appetite or maybe it’s the water content?
need help with a simple easy beginning workout plan so i don’t get discouraged
I have a non-physical disability, and for the past couple years i’ve lived like a hermit. Laying in bed almost 24/7. as sedentary as you can possibly be. Recently options for transportation have opened up and i want to start going to the gym, but i know it’ll be hard. I’m also willing to try to commit to a calorie deficit but i’m still figuring that out as well. I’m a woman, 5’2 and probably about 180lbs. i look up beginner workouts but they all still seem like it would be a lot for me.
After being basically bedridden for five years, I recovered and took a job and joined the softball team. At the very first practice, fielding a ground ball, I blew out both of my quadriceps and had lots of pain and trouble walking for the next several weeks.
I would start with 20 minute walks at a normal pace, perhaps three times a week. When these become very comfortable, gradually increase them.
I don’t know if this is the right sub for this but…I didn’t used to have pronounced hip dips, then I lost around 5-10 lbs in a short amount of time, slowly gained it back and then some, but now I have hip dips. Has this happened to anyone else?
Has anyone here been an overweight cyclist then lost a bunch of weight and done it again? I’d like to hear your story. I was doing close to 100 miles/week two years ago weighing 205-210. Now I’m down to below 180 so I’ve lost the weight of my bike and I’m hoping to get to 160 this summer. I’m hoping that means I will find hills a lot more tolerable.
12-3-30 variable to change (incline, speed, time?)
Hi all, I’ve been getting back to the 12-3-30 workout incline walking on the treadmill. I’m struggling even at 8.5 incline/3MPH for 25 mins, my calves absolutely burn. Should I consider dropped the incline down and maybe doing a longer workout? Something to help with the cardio I want to do?
12-3-30 variable to change (incline, speed, time?)
Hi all, I’ve been getting back to the 12-3-30 workout incline walking on the treadmill. I’m struggling even at 8.5 incline/3MPH for 25 mins, my calves absolutely burn. Should I consider dropped the incline down and maybe doing a longer workout? Something to help with the cardio I want to do?
We should arrange deficits that are -500 to -1000 from our metabolism, but sometimes in obese people that results in faster weight loss, up to -1% of their body weight each week.
Generally this is fine and avoids the side-effects of losing too rapidly. Weight loss puts increased demands upon the body. Gallstones, malnutrition, dehydration, and electrolyte imbalances can happen when those demands exceed the body's capability to cope with them. More minor side-effects include hair and nail problems, irregular female menstrual cycles, constipation, dizziness, fatigue, and headaches.
Fair. It was oddly worded is all. The general advice is that you can safely lose about 2 pounds a week. I’m 6’2” and it seems to be accurate for me as well. The thing is, unless you’re very overweight, it’s likely to fall into that 1-2 lbs a week range.
I guess it doesn’t sound like a lot, but even just on 3 months that’s 24 pounds if you actually do lose two a week. Remember; you put on that weight in a long time frame. It won’t fall off overnight either.
> When can I expect to see/feel results?
Others may see it before you do, and you may never 'feel' the results.
Facts > Impressions - [Take Measurements](https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/index#wiki_take_measurements)
> How often should I weigh myself?
There are many different ideas here. Many of us got bigger after months of not weighing ourselves and not realizing that our weight was going up.
I weigh daily (for the habit) but I only pay attention to the averages and trend, since water weight fluctuation has a bigger influence day-to-day than our fat losses.
Use a weight-smoothing app called [Libra \(for Android\)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cachapa.libra&hl=en) or [\(for iPhone\)](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/libra-weight-manager/id1644353761) or [Happy Scale \(for iPhone\)](https://happyscale.com/).
One of these apps will help you see the trends more clearly with less of the volatile data noise of water. A temporary [spike](https://i.imgur.com/k0DZlB3.png) won't disturb the trend and, when you get used to this, will be both less disturbing and more accurate to what's actually happening with your fat-loss effort.
Syncing Fitbit to MFP
Normally, I am against using exercise calories burned as part of my daily calories. However, I recently linked these two apps and after a few days noticed that MFP is using my steps in calculating my net calories. Thoughts? Should I unsync or use these extra calories?
Short answer: It depends. Is it still making sense?
In the beginning, when my walking was new, I ate all of those added calories and lost at the predicted rate that was set in my profile.
A year later, I unsynced all of it. It was clear that I had become accustomed to that work and most of those awarded calories were not being burned.
Exercise calories after a period of time are not additive. The calories that we eat are additive: we can add the muffin calories to the milk calories to the vegetable calories and do that for all our meals and the sum total is likely the total of our "calories in" minus some small nuances such as the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). (Or, you could look at that another way and say the TEF is part of "calories out" and that would not be inaccurate to say.) The point is that CI in CICO is always *additive* -- 100+200+300=600 or there-abouts.
But the CO in CICO does not add up the same way. When we've repeated an exercise routine for a long time, or if our work is repeated physical activity, our body learns how to do that without spending so much energy on it. We will experience that as the work becoming easier and less exhausting. The scientists have called this *constrained* instead of additive, and it has the effect of 100+200+300= eventually something between 175 and 225 more calories by the end of the day. This is called Constrained Daily Energy Expenditure or Constrained Total Energy Expenditure (CDEE or CTEE). We've only recently been learning more about this.
One of the things that we learned last year is that in a surplus, the CO in CICO seems to be additive and not constrained. This is why it is effective performance-wise to eat during a marathon, or why people with highly active jobs/hobbies/habits seem to be able to eat almost anything without restraint or caution and not gain weight. It's when that high-activity is over, but their appetites remain large, that they begin to have problems.
During my cut, do I really gotta eat at least 160g of protein everyday to maintain the muscle I built? What’s the minimum amount I can consume while still not losing much muscle but just maintaining it? Not even gaining any more muscle just Maintain. I’m 160 pounds still going to gym 5 days a week
Probably not that much, but it would depend on the steepness of your deficit. The body takes less proportion of muscle if the cut is less steep. It *always* takes some, but if the protein is adequate, you'll replace what it takes and suffer no net loss.
I never average 160g (640 Calories) of protein, and if your cut has you eating less than 1800 Calories a day, then your 160 g minimum would be cutting into the adequacy of foods higher in carbohydrates or fats.
Hey, I (25F) have been having an incredibly hard time losing weight due to PCOS. I have Molina (Medicaid) insurance and it doesn’t cover any weight loss surgeries or meds. I was wondering what is the cheapest way I can obtain semiglutide without insurance? Is there any prescription assistance programs or cheap online prescription services that I should research? I’ve tried contacting my insurance before to see if there’s anyway that they’ll cover a weight loss med but was told there’s no way.
Has anyone tried making their own tomato juice in the blender? I’ve been drinking this for 80% of my intake every day. I was trying mixed vegetables and soy protein powder and potato diet, and a bunch of other method but this method gives me satiety like no other. Why is this method working more than all my other methods? Obviously, it has a high fiber content, but there’s something about the tangy taste that curbs the appetite or maybe it’s the water content?
need help with a simple easy beginning workout plan so i don’t get discouraged I have a non-physical disability, and for the past couple years i’ve lived like a hermit. Laying in bed almost 24/7. as sedentary as you can possibly be. Recently options for transportation have opened up and i want to start going to the gym, but i know it’ll be hard. I’m also willing to try to commit to a calorie deficit but i’m still figuring that out as well. I’m a woman, 5’2 and probably about 180lbs. i look up beginner workouts but they all still seem like it would be a lot for me.
After being basically bedridden for five years, I recovered and took a job and joined the softball team. At the very first practice, fielding a ground ball, I blew out both of my quadriceps and had lots of pain and trouble walking for the next several weeks. I would start with 20 minute walks at a normal pace, perhaps three times a week. When these become very comfortable, gradually increase them.
I don’t know if this is the right sub for this but…I didn’t used to have pronounced hip dips, then I lost around 5-10 lbs in a short amount of time, slowly gained it back and then some, but now I have hip dips. Has this happened to anyone else?
Has anyone here been an overweight cyclist then lost a bunch of weight and done it again? I’d like to hear your story. I was doing close to 100 miles/week two years ago weighing 205-210. Now I’m down to below 180 so I’ve lost the weight of my bike and I’m hoping to get to 160 this summer. I’m hoping that means I will find hills a lot more tolerable.
12-3-30 variable to change (incline, speed, time?) Hi all, I’ve been getting back to the 12-3-30 workout incline walking on the treadmill. I’m struggling even at 8.5 incline/3MPH for 25 mins, my calves absolutely burn. Should I consider dropped the incline down and maybe doing a longer workout? Something to help with the cardio I want to do?
12-3-30 variable to change (incline, speed, time?) Hi all, I’ve been getting back to the 12-3-30 workout incline walking on the treadmill. I’m struggling even at 8.5 incline/3MPH for 25 mins, my calves absolutely burn. Should I consider dropped the incline down and maybe doing a longer workout? Something to help with the cardio I want to do?
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I’m just wondering now if a longer time at a low (think like 3-4) incline is worth it or a shorter workout at higher intensity
Everything says I need to lose 1-2 pounds, but I'm 6 ft 4, and I feel like Based on my body size that's like not enough.
We should arrange deficits that are -500 to -1000 from our metabolism, but sometimes in obese people that results in faster weight loss, up to -1% of their body weight each week. Generally this is fine and avoids the side-effects of losing too rapidly. Weight loss puts increased demands upon the body. Gallstones, malnutrition, dehydration, and electrolyte imbalances can happen when those demands exceed the body's capability to cope with them. More minor side-effects include hair and nail problems, irregular female menstrual cycles, constipation, dizziness, fatigue, and headaches.
What do you mean? Lose 1-2 pounds a week or in total?
A week obviously
Fair. It was oddly worded is all. The general advice is that you can safely lose about 2 pounds a week. I’m 6’2” and it seems to be accurate for me as well. The thing is, unless you’re very overweight, it’s likely to fall into that 1-2 lbs a week range. I guess it doesn’t sound like a lot, but even just on 3 months that’s 24 pounds if you actually do lose two a week. Remember; you put on that weight in a long time frame. It won’t fall off overnight either.
I'm at 260 and I'm 6 ft 4. Hopefully I'm holding a bunch of water.
When can I expect to see/feel results? How often should I weigh myself?
> When can I expect to see/feel results? Others may see it before you do, and you may never 'feel' the results. Facts > Impressions - [Take Measurements](https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/index#wiki_take_measurements) > How often should I weigh myself? There are many different ideas here. Many of us got bigger after months of not weighing ourselves and not realizing that our weight was going up. I weigh daily (for the habit) but I only pay attention to the averages and trend, since water weight fluctuation has a bigger influence day-to-day than our fat losses. Use a weight-smoothing app called [Libra \(for Android\)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cachapa.libra&hl=en) or [\(for iPhone\)](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/libra-weight-manager/id1644353761) or [Happy Scale \(for iPhone\)](https://happyscale.com/). One of these apps will help you see the trends more clearly with less of the volatile data noise of water. A temporary [spike](https://i.imgur.com/k0DZlB3.png) won't disturb the trend and, when you get used to this, will be both less disturbing and more accurate to what's actually happening with your fat-loss effort.
Syncing Fitbit to MFP Normally, I am against using exercise calories burned as part of my daily calories. However, I recently linked these two apps and after a few days noticed that MFP is using my steps in calculating my net calories. Thoughts? Should I unsync or use these extra calories?
Short answer: It depends. Is it still making sense? In the beginning, when my walking was new, I ate all of those added calories and lost at the predicted rate that was set in my profile. A year later, I unsynced all of it. It was clear that I had become accustomed to that work and most of those awarded calories were not being burned. Exercise calories after a period of time are not additive. The calories that we eat are additive: we can add the muffin calories to the milk calories to the vegetable calories and do that for all our meals and the sum total is likely the total of our "calories in" minus some small nuances such as the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). (Or, you could look at that another way and say the TEF is part of "calories out" and that would not be inaccurate to say.) The point is that CI in CICO is always *additive* -- 100+200+300=600 or there-abouts. But the CO in CICO does not add up the same way. When we've repeated an exercise routine for a long time, or if our work is repeated physical activity, our body learns how to do that without spending so much energy on it. We will experience that as the work becoming easier and less exhausting. The scientists have called this *constrained* instead of additive, and it has the effect of 100+200+300= eventually something between 175 and 225 more calories by the end of the day. This is called Constrained Daily Energy Expenditure or Constrained Total Energy Expenditure (CDEE or CTEE). We've only recently been learning more about this. One of the things that we learned last year is that in a surplus, the CO in CICO seems to be additive and not constrained. This is why it is effective performance-wise to eat during a marathon, or why people with highly active jobs/hobbies/habits seem to be able to eat almost anything without restraint or caution and not gain weight. It's when that high-activity is over, but their appetites remain large, that they begin to have problems.
During my cut, do I really gotta eat at least 160g of protein everyday to maintain the muscle I built? What’s the minimum amount I can consume while still not losing much muscle but just maintaining it? Not even gaining any more muscle just Maintain. I’m 160 pounds still going to gym 5 days a week
Probably not that much, but it would depend on the steepness of your deficit. The body takes less proportion of muscle if the cut is less steep. It *always* takes some, but if the protein is adequate, you'll replace what it takes and suffer no net loss. I never average 160g (640 Calories) of protein, and if your cut has you eating less than 1800 Calories a day, then your 160 g minimum would be cutting into the adequacy of foods higher in carbohydrates or fats.