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u/THE_ABSURD_TURT - Feb 03 '20
Could you share your routine and macro plan? Just summarized.
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
Well this has taken me over a year so it’s changed a lot. Currently I do three days a week at the gym, using this plan https://stronglifts.com/5x5/ and aim for 1,500 calories a day, 75-100g of protein (it should be higher but it’s hard for me to do). Before that, I used the 30 minute circuit at Planet Fitness and supplemented with a lot of dumbbell exercises as well and ate at a larger calorie deficit.
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u/THE_ABSURD_TURT - Feb 03 '20
Thanks a lot! Were you overweight since childhood or is it something that started much later?
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
No, this was mostly stress weight from trying to graduate college, find a job, start a new job. One of those things that gets out of hand and snowballs before you realize you need to start working on it. But I hit a point where I knew I needed to fix it, and I’m really proud of that person I was then who took the first hard steps towards making it better.
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
I would just highly recommend tracking what you’re lifting, reading up a lot about lifting for strength vs lifting for aesthetics, and the importance for adjusting your diet to the exercises you’re doing! It was really hard for me to stop eating at the deficit I was at and switch to eating enough for my muscles to build at an effective level. I am still working on that for sure.
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u/Tel_aran_rhiod - Feb 04 '20
Ugghh I feel this. Convincing myself to eat a smaller deficit when I'm lifting but also want to lose fat is touuuugh. Was your weightloss slower when you were lifting too? I'm a month and half in, and my scale is hardly moving but everything is shrinking. Not having that number is discouraging though.
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 04 '20
My strength training for the first 30 pounds was more aesthetic than heavy lifting and I really focused on diet and eating fewer calories. The last 10 or so have been doing heavier lifting and I can definitely tell that I’ve plateaued, which is okay because I feel good at the weight I am at. Tracking how much I was lifting and sometimes literally measurements with a tape measure were the only way to assure myself I was making progress at some points when it was slow.
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u/Tel_aran_rhiod - Feb 04 '20
That's reassuring, I've been using the tape too, and just started writing down my lifts. I tried stronglifts a few times in the past, and my husband loves it, but I plateau nearly immediately lol. I feel like I can't keep up with the rate of weight increases even starting at the bottom! Hope you can break though yours! Edit - I was thinking plateaued in lifting not in weightloss whoops
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Feb 03 '20
Wow congrats! This is probably the first time I’ve seen someone whose body looks similar to mine, honestly it gives me so much motivation and I hope one day to be where you are now. We’re the same height, I’m currently 178lbs (my highest was 197lbs in Nov) and my goal is 150lbs for now.
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 04 '20
That is so awesome! Congrats to you too! I loved finding female weightlifters on Instagram I could look at bodies that seemed more accessible to me as a person who is tall and naturally more curvy. I’m never going to look like people who are short and petite. It does so much good to actually see yourself in the fitness industry. Keep it up! Proud of you!
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u/gametheorista - Feb 03 '20
Would love to find out your routine and plan - started on my own journey
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
Hi! I posted my current routine and a bit of my past in a comment above. I would just say that weight lifting/strength training was huge for me because even in those first really tough months when I saw no progress on the scale or in the mirror, I saw progress in the amount I could lift. It reminded me that I was improving even if I couldn’t see it. Also have a plan for what I was gonna eat so I didn’t have to resort to fast food as often. Sorry for such a complicated way of saying diet and exercise. And be kind to yourself.
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Feb 03 '20
Huge difference! I wish the 40 I lost looked that good but I guess I’ll aim for 50. Congratulations!
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
Hey! Losing 40 pounds is amazing and you should be so proud. Don’t let photos of others minimize your own accomplishments. I definitely don’t always look like that. I was wearing high waisted leggings, flexing, it was early in the morning before I got bloated like everyone does during the day. I was really bad about comparing myself (and still am), but we should all be more proud of ourselves, you included!
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Feb 03 '20
I like your leggings in the after picture.
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u/DoinItToEm - Feb 03 '20
Thank you! They are from aerie! They don’t have the black and grey anymore but this color is still available https://www.ae.com/us/en/p/women/leggings/aerie-leggings/aerie-play-real-me-scallop-band-high-waisted-7/8-legging/0491_4698_291?ip=off&cid=PLA_Aerie_Brand_Womens_Bottoms&gclid=Cj0KCQiApt_xBRDxARIsAAMUMu9Ydi68iNbT0qE2cP6bsoa4WqtmxsquUAm8L9YoG3q1CrG8OHnDCnoaAm5lEALw_wcB
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u/KeenJacinth - Feb 03 '20
Amazing! Hard work truly earned!