#Black women weight loss

[divinexlegend]

[superheroworkouts1]

Turkey and Avocado Wrap

Whole wheat tortilla filled with sliced turkey breast, avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, and a light yogurt-based dressing

Served with a side of baby carrots or a small mixed green salad

[thefemmation]

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[hussyknee]

Two weeks ago, female wrestler Vinesh Phogat became the first woman from India to make the Olympic finals—and was promptly disqualified for being 100 grams overweight.

On August 9, Vinesh Phogat announced her retirement from the sport of wrestling in a post on X. After the previous day’s incidents, it was a message that many had been expecting.

Vinesh experienced the highest of highs at the Paris Olympics. She defeated an unbeaten Olympic champion wrestler who was considered not just the favourite in her weight division but across every weight division at the quadrennial event. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to reach an Olympic final. However, Vinesh also faced the lowest of lows at the Olympics. No one had ever reached an Olympic final only to be denied the chance to compete because they had failed to make weight on the day of the competition.

Vinesh had taken her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking at least to be awarded a silver medal by virtue of reaching the final. If she had succeeded, she would have set a precedent, but, much to the disappointment of the nation, her appeal was turned down by the sole arbitrator, Annabelle Bennett.

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Vinesh has always been a fighter. Tragedy has followed her, yet somehow, against the odds, she has emerged victorious.

When she was nine, her father was shot dead by someone in her village, believed to be a mentally disturbed relative, just outside their front door. Her mother, a young widow, refused the custom of marrying her husband’s brother. She battled cancer single-handedly. Through it all, she raised a firebrand daughter, who refused to back down.

Her cousins, who grew up near her home, were the more famous girls of the family. Geeta and Babita were among the first to win gold at the Commonwealth Games. They had a movie made about them — Dangal — which made the ‘Phogat sisters’ iconic in Indian sports.

Vinesh didn’t feature in that movie. The events described in it took place too early in her career. But she wouldn’t be satisfied with being one of the Phogat sisters — she would become ‘The Phogat’ sister.

Talk to any of her peers .— and even some of her rivals in Indian wrestling – and there is, in some cases, grudging, genuine respect. She is considered the most instinctive and natural wrestler India has ever produced in women’s freestyle wrestling.

Her career is as much a highlight reel as anything out of a movie. No one in women’s wrestling compares. No Indian woman wrestler has won three Commonwealth gold medals as she did in 2014, 2018, and 2022. No one has won an Asian Games gold medal as she did in 2018. No one has won two World Championships medals as she did in 2019 and 2022.

The one medal missing from her collection is the Olympic medal — which she fought bitterly for.

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Vinesh has had terrible luck at the Olympics — the only competition that seems to matter to Indians. In 2016, she was one of the favourites in the Indian team before her knee was bent out of shape in the quarterfinals. In 2020, she was one of the world’s favourites to medal in the women’s 53kg weight class. Then, suddenly, a freak weight cut left her physically and psychologically broken, unable to coordinate her movements on the mat. She lost to a wrestler she had beaten comfortably just a month before. Now, in Paris, another poor weight cut left her at the lowest point of her wrestling career.

Her battles, though, haven’t been restricted to the mat. Perhaps the most significant one Vinesh has fought has been for the safety of young girls in the sport. In pursuing this fight, she took on one of the most powerful men in Indian sports — Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

When her rivals were preparing for the Olympics, Vinesh was fighting on the streets of New Delhi, where she, and few other fellow wrestlers, accused Brij Bhushan, a five-time member of parliament and the long-time president of the Wrestling Federation, of sexual harassment.

The longer she stayed on the streets, the slimmer her chances on the mat became. Yet, she continued to prioritise what she felt was right. In doing so, Vinesh showed the kind of courage almost uniformly lacking in most sportspersons in India. Most of them, as the saying goes, “crawl when asked to bend.” Vinesh’s spine has been ramrod straight. She had the courage to take on the system without caring about the consequences. She displayed it even though it cost her what she loved the most — the chance to wrestle.

Only when her protest was forced off the streets and entered the court did Vinesh finally get a chance to compete.

This article delves into her struggle to rein in her weight as the Olympic timeline unfolded. It's horrifying to read.

TW for fatphobia and people with eating disorders and body dysmorphia: fatphobia:

Even as she had been winning, Vinesh’s nutritionist had been nervously monitoring her food and fluid intake.

She had a celebratory glass of juice in the morning right after she had first made weight – 300 grams. She had another couple of litres of fluid to rehydrate herself before her bout - another 2000 grams of body weight gained. A couple of light snacks throughout the day to keep her energy up meant 700 grams more.

By the time Vinesh was done with her day’s competition, she weighed 52.7 kg.

August 7:

As the hours rolled into the night, it was clear that something had gone very wrong. After weeks of dehydration, the human body, once it gets rehydrated, simply refuses to give up water. Even urination becomes impossible.

Vinesh didn’t sleep all through the night of August 6. She was on the treadmill for six hours and in the sauna for another three. She didn’t consume a bite of food or drink a drop of water. Every few hours, she stood on a weighing scale. The numbers were getting smaller but not fast enough. In desperation, her coaches trimmed the elastic in the bottom of her costume. They thought of chopping her hair and then did it.

But the scale didn’t budge.

The function of weight classes is to prevent outsized mismatches in strength due to body mass and minimize injury. Pathologizing what is clearly water weight to this extent and subjecting athletes to this kind of psychological torture due to minute variables is simply making what is essentially a safety measure into a punitive arbitrary criteria that has huge implications for racialized fatphobia for female athletes and the reinforcement of toxic diet culture across the board. It's misogynistic, unscientific and fucked. This article goes into more detail about Phogat's career-long battle with her weight— a yo-yo of losing too much, and then too little. Indistinguishable from an eating disorder, only one imposed by the standards of international sports.

You will never convince me that a white athlete would have been disqualified in the lightest weight category for a weight less than a bar of soap. The disqualification retroactively places her dead last, which is added cruelty. The refusal to revise this and even award her a joint silver is just adding racist insult to racist injury.

Phogat spoke two days ago about her devastation at being disqualified by racism and fatphobia with a three page post on twitter.

And on top of all of this, because the Indian National Congress political party welcomed her with a road show that outshone the alt-right BJP's own planned welcome, the Hindutvas in her own country have launched a hate campaign against her.

This copy-paste has "disqualified in Rio 2016" trending on twitter. It's doubly cruel and fatphobic because she wasn't disqualified for being overweight, she sustained a knee injury.

After the witch hunt against Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, I'm just so fucking done with the Olympics. The outsize importance of this competition is nothing but an anvil to break entire careers on and offers female athletes of colour on a platter for all the world's vultures.

[th1nalwaysw1ns]

heyyy, so i js started this to talk abt my wl and how thats goinggggg

sorry, i js made this idk what to put as a pfp :P

[thephatlife]

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More about me

I have insulin-resistant PCOS. So far I've visibly lost weight through walking and eating more vegetables. I don't check my weight on a scale it does nothing for me personally. I currently struggle with hirsutism which for those who don't know is basically excess male-patterned hair growth. I'm a super girly woman and I also hate pain so it's been tough dealing with that.

I've healed my relationship with my mom and also with how I view men over about 7 months. Obviously, it's been a lifelong process, but since, I started my podcast, "Tunde's Burner, my mindset took a turn for the better.

I want to get back in the gym to have a "sexy" back and bigger glutes. I don't currently have a gym so I'm doing the most with my two 5lbs dumbbells I stole from my mom (LOL) and my resistance bands.

I am a spiritual/highly intuitive person. This is my way of retreating while still being connected in some way. I've always wanted to just post my cute pictures on Pinterest and go live a fulfilling life. I think me going this route will lead me right back to where I left off. Such is the alchemist's journey.

I'll be posting what I eat, insights I gather along the way, progress pics, pictures from my travels, etc.

This will be a mixture of a moodboard/manifestation journal and me documenting the most pivotal changes in my life.

Thanks for coming along.

With love,

Tunde

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[forbiddendiaries]

Finally starting again

SW: 158

GW 1: 150

Midpoint: 154

Expected Time: 2-3 weeks

Measures:

-no soda/ plenty of water

-running/rope every morning

-gym 2-3x a week

- no eating after 8 pm

- no calorie tracking

but full meal counting ( no more than 2)

- limit dairy intake

-outside food 1x/week max

[divinexlegend]

Future me will be so proud of me for staying consistent.

[superheroworkouts1]

What's Your Favorite Combo?🥗

[thefemmation]

Self Care Sunday Itinerary 🎀

- Shave

- Hair wash/styling

- Nails

- Face mask

- Lashes

Pour into yourself and fill up your gas tank before the week starts 💖💖💖

[averyroundsquare]

I’m beginning to get worried about my drive to lose weight.

On one hand it’s something I’ve always wanted to achieve and now it’s finally happening I’m glad and I never want to go back to how big I got during the peak of my depression.

On the other hand I’m getting concerned about my motivation to stick to the plan and maintain progress. It’s not coming from a place of love and self improvement. It’s coming from a place of desperation and self hatred.

I fearfully check the fat, carb and calorie content of everything I eat because I’m terrified that I might be consuming even the slightest bit more than I should be because I fear it will interrupt with the weight coming off. I mainly eat salad veggies, eggs, meat and occasionally tuna sashimi. Yesterday at work I ate a whole cucumber for lunch and a Pepsi max. I’ve started drinking bouillon for when I crave something warm and savory and will have cucumber or celery sticks with it for texture. I start my day with black coffee.

I have an unintentional snack draw. I have bought chocolates and stuff just to shut the cravings up by giving myself the psychological release of buying them to eat without actually eating them. I physically can’t eat them. I literally visualise them being in my mouth and the sugar entering my bloodstream knocking me out of ketosis and gaining 15lbs by the next day and it literally scares me. The idea of anything interrupting my weight loss fills me with anxiety.

It doesn’t help that I can fixate on things. My current fixation is how to get and keep the body in fat burning mode. I’ve been at work writing formulas on paper like Einstein on his blackboard on how to keep my body constantly burning fat. Researching nutritional value in everything. I discovered a McDonald’s beef patty has 7g of fat in it. On the way home I bought my own 5% fat meat to make my own burgers from now on.

I look in the mirror and feel like crying because although I can see I am visibly getting smaller I’m still not small enough. Still not good enough. Still not like them. Still not good enough to be accepted by them. Still not able to fit in with them. Still not good enough for Her.

I know these things take time but the days aren’t going by fast enough. Why can’t I wake up tomorrow and be 20lbs lighter already?

I’m aware this is dangerous. I’m becoming obsessed with it. I know where it can lead and I know I can become very ill if I keep up with this mindset. I’m scared but even with that I think developing that sickness wouldn’t be so bad. At least it will stop me from staying fat. If it does develop I pray I have enough strength to stop before it makes me very sick.

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[gouldmakesmusic]

I’ve lost 50 pounds in 5 months, the first thing I noticed was how my ankles felt like they were lighter less burdened I guess the second thing I noticed is I’m not as strong as I used to be mentally or physically but that’s okay I’m tired of being strong and third thing I noticed was I still don’t want to talk about my weight even as I gather love for myself it’s just not something that I’ve ever had the inclination to discuss no matter how often it’s brought up to me

[nickynicole47]

Yes Yes 🙌🏾 💯🙌🏾 kicking my body goal into full gear ⚙️!! 12/17/2022

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Mynetria lost 72 pounds

Transformation of the Day: Mynetria lost 72 pounds. This proud mom experienced weight gain due to depression and anxiety. After learning she was pre-diabetic, she began to make lifestyle changes and ultimately decided to have VSG surgery.  Social Media:Instagram: @lovejoneztvTiktok: @mynetria.antwanett What was your motivation? What inspired you to keep going, even when you wanted to give up? My…

[savannah-gonwild]

I been obsessing over my body lately