#weight loss 2024

[johnboukou]

[valiantkittyzombie]

Liddell Homeopathic Weight Loss XL is a natural way to help temporarily relieve the side effects of dieting. Helps balance metabolism and temporarily relive common symptoms of a reducing diet.

[umlewis]

ickle. wee man. tiny. diminutive. ittle bitty, even., singapore - september 20, 2024 📷 dppi / alamy

[runs-4-pinkcupcakes]

Hi Bunnies!!

I hit a milestone today. Normal BMI and 20# lost in 2024. I’m only 6# from my summer goal weight and summer isn’t even here yet! #killinit

I am having some IT band tightness so my running has slowed.

Hot girl summer, anyone?? 🩷

I guess I need to join Flex Friday! 🏋️‍♂️

💋

[faetae2014]

Nice & simple red summer tee ❤️❤️

[catsbirdsfly]

Why do new year resolution fail?

since its the new year many people decide to have goals for the year but by february 80% of people will have given up, here's some reasons why

your goals are too unrealistic - many people give themselves goals which are too big of change that they will not want to do for a long period of time and therefore easily give up for the comfort

your goals are too vague - for example many people want to lose weight as a resolution but this in of itself is too vague - how much weight? when do you want to stop? what milestones do you have for yourself?

you lack discipline - of course trying to change will have discomfort and many of us will feel like giving up and lose motivation, one resolution may be going to the gym but you may become too tried to continue and might just give up all together

you expect change fast - new year resolutions are for the WHOLE year - don't expect results in a week when your goal has a year deadline, this will just make you feel like what you're doing is pointless and you'll give up

so how do we actually try to stick to our goals?

break down big goals into smaller goals - if your goal is losing for example 10kg then set how much you hope to lose each month as a goal, after you lose a certain amount of weight let yourself have a reward

keep track - use a tracker or a planner to see if you're keeping in track for your goals

consistence > perfection - aim to be consistent every day over trying to aim 100% each day, this will just lead you to burn yourself out and for example it's better to study 3 hours a day than 7 hours one day a week as you'll have more information stuck in your head

give yourself rest days - you do not have to be perfect each day, giving yourself rest days helps you recharge and give yourself a boost for other days

remember change will not come overnight - just because you're not seeing results fast doesn't mean they won't come, you have a whole year for change and if something doesn't work then try something else

remember discipline > motivation and we all got this :)

[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.

...

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.

...

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.

[selfcare-bunni]

May 2024

Goals:

Weight - 125 lb

Hair Length - 24"

Savings - $*****.**

Starting:

Weight - 191.8 lb

Hair length - 11.5"

Savings - $*.**

~

Exercise:

Legs/Glutes:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Weighted Squats - 10 x 5

Side Leg Lifts - 25 x 4 (each leg)

Donkey Kicks - 25 x 4 (each leg)

Fire Hydrants - 25 x 4 (each leg)

Glute Bridges - 10 x 5

Core:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Flutter Kicks - 10 x 5

Russian Twists - 5 x 10

Plank - *until failure*

Mountain Climbers - 15 x 4

Upper Body:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Bicep Curls - 20 x 5

Dumbell Curls - 20 x 5

Wall Push Ups - *until failure*

Hammer Curls - 20 x 5

Rest Saturday, Sunday

~

Hygiene:

Hair:

Jamaican Black Castor Oil with Coconut

Olaplex N° 4

Olaplex N° 5

Blond Brilliance Ash Blonds Lathering Toner

Zotos Biotera Anti-Frizz Leave-In Conditioner

Lash/Brow:

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum

Original Vaseline

Face:

Head and shoulders Tea Tree Oil 2in1

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10%+ Zinc 1%

Palmers Cocoa Buttet Formula Swivel Stick

Body:

First Aid Beauty Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% aha

Soft Soap Body Exfoliating Coconut Butter

Palmers Cocoa Buttet Formula Skin Therapy Oil

Palmers Cocoa Buttet Formula Firming Butter Body Lotion

Jergens Natural Glow - Medium to Tan

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

This has probably been done to death, but here's my contribution anyway.

[jptenista]

We all gotta start somewhere. First progress photos for 2024. Hoping build out my arms, shoulders, and legs. Plus lean out those love handles and side chest. Really focused on not only getting back to my fitness level before the pandemic but getting to a point where I’m not embarrassed by my body.

[kahuna-burger]

Didn't expect the Olympics to remind me of my (personally sport free) high school days, but today I learned that three decades later and at the highest competitive levels, wrestling still has a completely fucked up weight culture.

[wereallgonnadieintheend]

⚠️⚠️CONTENT WARNING: MENTIONS OF WEIGHT AND HEIGHT IN RELATION TO CYCLING/SPORTS AND HEALTH ETC. The USA national support hotline for eating d*sorders is (800) 931-2237.⚠️⚠️

so for those of you who didn't see wout's post stage interview, he made an interesting comment about Sepp's weight, essentially about the idea of Sepp being 60 kgs and doing such an incredible pull to close the gap on stage 7.

this is actually insane. for those of you who don't know, Sepp currently weighs 61 kgs (134 lbs) and is 1.82 meters tall (essentially 6 feet). For context, Remco Evenepoel is the same weight and is 1.71 meters tall (5 feet 7 inches). For more context, super domestique Wout is 0.08 meters taller than Sepp (about 1 or 2 inches), but weighs 78 kgs (171 lbs). For more context, as a fairly in shape person but non professional cyclist, I am 1.57 meters (5 feet, 2 inches) tall and weigh about 57 kgs (126 lbs).

Reminder that last year, Sepp was also a super domestique, and was likely a similar weight to Wout. His job was blocking the wind for Jonas and Primoz. However, now he's expected to be at the weight of a GC contender, despite being the height of a super domestique.

Overall, this just makes me really really worried about his health. Especially looking at the fact that he has been suffering really badly from the effects of getting covid in May/June, and I wonder if there's some correlation with this drastic weight loss.

TO BE CLEAR: I know Sepp is a professional athlete, and I know that VLaB has the best nutritionists keeping an eye on his health and recovery. However, it is nearly impossible for me to imagine a healthy way to drop that much weight, particularly considering the difference between his previous race weight and now.

[faetae2014]

[sockeye-run]

Honestly, after the traveling and questionable food choices lol, I'm surprised it's still going down! 🙌

[andreai04]

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn’t believe what he’s seeing.

[maigetheplatypus57]

Honestly dungeon meshi fans were not kidding when they say that the show helps them have a better relationship with food... the recent episodes with izutsumi have encouraged me to start adding more vegetables to my meals (or at least not pick them out from dishes...)