TheJunction

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 3/3/26 at 1:09 pm to 225rumpshaker

Came here to post this same thing. Anything less than 3 will be a massive disappointment.

re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

Posted by TheJunction on 3/3/26 at 10:59 am to VolInBavaria

What’s the “why” - I’m having a very hard time agreeing with any of this and truly do not understand it. It just feels like another war in the ME that we have no reason to be apart of.

Why can’t the US stay out of the Middle East?

Political Talk

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re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 3/1/26 at 6:53 pm to TideSaint

Not far from it.

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 3/1/26 at 3:30 pm to S

Yup. Great results this weekend - Tuesday is massive. Expecting all three points.

Never would have dreamed that we’d still be 6 clear (and ahead of NF and Spurs) after the last few games we had.

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 10:10 pm to RougeDawg

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Shoot for losing a pound a week, eat a gram/target body weight a day (if you are shooting for 150 lbs, eat 150 grams of protein), get eight hours is sleep, lift weights 2-3 times a week at moderate intensity, walk 10,000 steps a day. Don't do cardio.

Gotta do the cardio ha - it's either that or stress eat. Any recommendations for a good workout that doesn't include a traditional gym?

I've ditched the scale, at least for a couple of weeks, while my body refills, because I know I'd obsess over the scale as it goes up some, but that's my goal right now (sticking to a calorie deficit of ±1 pound/week. Ate over 100g of protein today - don't think I got up to 150, 1400 or so calories.

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 10:06 pm to pwejr88

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Then I ballooned back up to 180 overnight

This scares me. Since I made the post I've made an effort to eat more (but still stay in a deficit, but 1 pound/week vs. 3+). I'm sure I've gained 3-5 pounds though, just from my body refilling. Not having a scale to see that definitely helps.

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 10:03 pm to Popths

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How old are you? What contributed you to gain all the excessive weight you gained previously?

32. Good question. Honestly, I've never had a good relationship with food - my parents essentially let me eat what I wanted growing up, but I was never overweight because I played sports year round through high school and stayed active in intramurals through college and kept playing basketball after college and kept my running up, so I didn't get "overweight" until I was married and had our first kid and my career got busier - stopped the sports and wasn't running as consistently and my diet stayed what it was (shite) and I'd also stress eat (something new - my stress reliever in college was running) and it just ballooned from there.

I've tried on and off to lose weight, but without much direction - I'd just start keto one day - be miserable for 3 weeks (but lose a lot of weight), have a cheat day, that turned into a cheat week, etc. get back to the original weight, start keto again, etc. and the cycle would continue.

This has been the first time that I've been 100% consistent (without cheating) for longer than 3-4 weeks - started first of January. Honestly feel really good as far as motivation. I'm not really on a diet per se - at the beginning of the year I made a chart showing the calories I needed to maintain my weight, lose 1 pound/week, 2 pounds/week, and 3 pounds/week and I did that for my current weight then down to my goal weight at 5 pound intervals.

So starting out the goal was just to eat what I want and just stay under that 1 pound/week calorie limit. Then that turned into staying under the 2 pound/week limit and then 3 pound...

I've been mindful of what I eat though, just not eating enough. I'd gotten obsessive over the scale and each bite I'd think about what it was doing to my weight. Gave the scale to my wife the day I made this post and I've been doing better since. Ate around 1400-1500 calories today and was over 100 grams of protein.

Sorry this turned into a book.

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 9:44 pm to OysterPoBoy

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If you just go frick around in the gym it is very hard to stick to. Use your ocd to your advantage. Find a progressive overload program (I do ppsa) and let that become your new obsession. Get the dopamine hit by watching your numbers go up.

I did exactly this the last time I went to the gym - sometime in 2024 - for 5-6 months. That helped, but it's just something about a gym that I can't stay motivated for. We were living in a condo at the time and the general was literally down the hill (so a 45 second walk) and I'd still find excuses not to go (but would run by it on my nightly runs ha).

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 9:42 pm to OysterPoBoy

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It sounds like at least for now you don’t need to worry about putting all the weight back on. Maybe try building muscle and put on some good size. You don’t want to look like a twig.

Man, I've never been huge by any means, but I lifted all through high school and college for sports and would go here and there after I graduated (not consistent, but enough to keep a little). I'd read that what I was doing would make me lose any muscle that I had. Was rocking along and that really hadn't happened, until last week and I swear in a day I went from not much change no zero muscle - hence me making this post and wanting to change how I'm doing things ha. I'm looking pretty gaunt right now honestly (and still "overweight" according to BMI) - so the weight is still there to lose, but I've got to figure something out.

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 9:39 pm to rmc

I appreciate you mentioning that. I've tried JJ in the past and it's not really my thing. Outside of running, I play a decent amount of pickleball, some basketball. Really need to find something that I enjoy that I could also gain a little muscle too. I like doing crossfit - just hard to commit to a class - young kids and my work schedule can get all over the place.

Would love to here any recommendations/stories for what y'all have at home for some "alternative" lifting ie. not strictly dumbbells.

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 9:36 pm to 225rumpshaker

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City defender with his arm at shoulder height, ball goes off his elbow

To me that’s no different from the handball against Brenda at Newcastle

That's actually a really good thought. Not much difference between the two.

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 12:19 pm to 225rumpshaker

Frick me man… that was beautiful

Fricking sucks. We do not deserve to be down 1-0.

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 11:57 am to 225rumpshaker

Goodness we need to take advantage of this and score….

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 11:48 am to S

Looking good lads.

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 11:47 am to 225rumpshaker

Goodnesssss two big chances by DCL

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 11:07 am to S

Haaland showing his true colors :nana:

re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/28/26 at 9:57 am to Bottom9

If Leeds win today and are 9 clear with 10 to play…….

re: Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/27/26 at 6:55 am to pwejr88

I'm at 161 now, looking to get down to 140 or so. Not nearly enough - 30-40 grams.

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re: Leeds United 2025-26 season-long thread: HMS Piss Survival

Posted by TheJunction on 2/27/26 at 6:30 am to S

3-2 Leeds tomorrow? Whatcha say lads?

Healthy Weight Loss Help (I'm Starving Myself)

Posted by TheJunction on 2/27/26 at 6:27 am

Looking for some guidance - I jumped on the New Years resolution bandwagon and set a goal to lose 50 pounds. Well, we're fixing to start March and I'm already down 29 pounds (for reference, I was about 30 pounds over the "Healthy" BMI weight coming into the year - so overweight but not considered "obese" per BMI.

Anyway, I've taken pretty well to losing the weight - it's something I've wanted to do for a long time and outside of the first week or two I really haven't had any issues or setbacks and have stayed very consistent. However, I'm taking it to far - at my weight/height I should be eating 1400-1600 calories to maintain a 1-2 pound/week loss, but I've been at 700-800 for the past couple of weeks, outside of our Friday night date night where I'll get up to the 1400-1500 range. The scale has just turned into an obsession for me - seeing the numbers drop is like a dopamine hit.

Has anyone else dealt with this? What did you do? My wife hid the scale this morning haha and I'm making this post, so I'm trying to take some steps... I know it shouldn't be about the number and as long as I'm eating at a deficit then the weight will continue to come off, so my thought (or hope) is that without the scale checking every morning, I won't obsess so much over eating a little more everyday.

Also, I've always been a runner and never had a ton of muscle, or been a fan of a traditional gym (I'll sign up and force myself to go for a few months and then just get burned out) - just not a fan of lifting weights. Anyone else similar? How did you compensate? Pushups, pullups? Thought about buying some kettle bells for some home use. We have the space for an at home gym, but I hate to waste the $$ on traditional weights, when I've proven over and over that I'll get burned out.

Thank you for reading my diary, I appreciate any responses!