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Sunday, December 28, 2025
Any advice at all
Hello, all. I haven’t been on Reddit in quite some time but I’m feeling a little desperate and need some advice…any advice.
Some background information: I grew up in a very unhealthy household. Mentally, physically, you name it. I struggled with self-confidence and my weight pretty much my entire life. I was always around 145 to 150 in high school (5’3 so I think I’m considered petite) and felt so…gross.
I was 145 when I met my husband, and that was my weight when I got pregnant the first time in 2023. I went from 145 pounds to 198 pounds during that pregnancy. It took me almost 2 years to lose back to 155. I tried several diets and exercise routines over that time but nothing ever lasted more than a week or two before I was exhausted or so hungry I was nauseous. Fasting changed that, but it still took so long and I had to be so careful, I was quick to eat even an ounce too much and gain several pounds back. One missed day felt like weeks of setback. I finally hit 155; I wasn’t that happy with the way I looked but I was proud I had finally made it that far. Thanksgiving of 2024 I found out I was pregnant again. My emotions snowballed but I managed to watch how much I ate. I went from 155 to 196. Not a startling difference, but enough that I wasn’t entirely discouraged to try and lose again.
I had my second child in July of this year and pretty much started researching different weight loss habits and methods as soon as I was healed enough to start exercising. I found a set of videos that were low-impact strength training (which was the best as per the research I’ve done). I found a channel called Coach Viva on YouTube that detailed “lazy” ways to lose fat, which were mainly small lifestyle changes that added up over time.
I’ve started trying to incorporate more vegetables by buying fresh over canned. I’ve started trying to have more fruit by making smoothies with oats and Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt has replaced sour cream in my meals when we have dishes like homemade burritos and chili. I’ve started adding cottage cheese to my scrambled eggs. I’ve managed to stick to exercising at the very least three times a week for at least 10 minutes each session. I don’t eat chips, I don’t bake sweets like muffins and cookies anymore, I stay away from candy except for the occasional Reeses Cup when I go grocery shopping as a treat for myself. I drink more water than I ever have in my life, and I’m shooting for a liter by at least 6:00 P.M. every day. I’ve cooked meals for the last three to four years, and NEVER eat fast food anymore. I’ve started drinking coffee with literally an ounce of creamer only (I measure it out) and trying to keep up with herbal tea at night to calm down and get good sleep.
I’ve managed to go from 189 pounds when I left the hospital to 155. But that’s where the progress stopped. I’ve been bouncing between 155 and 162 for about two months now. None of it seems to be working anymore. I checked my weight last Monday (my weekly weight check) and I’m back to 164. Since then I’ve been pretty discouraged and have just kinda drifted. I’m pretty sure I’ve gained more than that back and I hate it. I’ve worked so hard to lose and the progress just stalls and goes backwards, even when I’m doing everything “right”. At this point I would suck it all out with a vacuum if I could. 😠it’s impacted my mental health and self-confidence/esteem immensely, which in turn has affected my relationship with my entire family. I’m looking into therapy to help but I won’t lie, I absolutely hate myself right now. I want to hit at the very least 125, but 120 is my goal.
Any advice is much appreciated. 🖤
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Saturday, December 27, 2025
How to diet when you’re overworked
Hi all! I lost about 50lbs around 4-5 years ago with the help of this sub. I kept it off until recently. I’ve gone back up 10-15lbs from my lowest/goal weight. It’s not much, but it’s enough I need to rein it in.
I think the issue is my job. I’m working more hours than ever (50-60 hours/week) and I’m traveling a lot too. This has led to more high calorie/fast food as well as going hard on the sugar from the stress. Less time and ability to exercise, and less sleep is not helping either.
Any other individuals here with high stress, demanding, and time consuming jobs? What are your tips for dieting when you have no time to meal prep (something I relied heavily on before)? How do you make your life easier in your weight loss journey and prevent it from taking up mental and physical energy you just don’t have? Living on protein bars is not going well for me.
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Weight loss failure; push myself to try again
I gotta be honest, I’m very disappointed in myself. I was doing so good with my workouts and eating right (I don’t always eat good once in a while) but since I got busy with more college classes and work, I haven’t been about to fit in working out everyday. I still did workouts but I wasn’t consistent. I did great but I feel like I am back to the shape I was last year. It’s my own fault. For the past couple weeks I haven’t been consistent or just been plain lazy and ate crap. I don’t think I’ll ever get in shape but I shouldn’t speak like that. That’s why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions about losing weight or getting fit because I ALWAYS FAIL! I think my body is just meant to be this way. I think I am just about to give up. I see others making progress but me I was, but I end up.
I did it when I was younger, but I think now I’m getting older is getting more challenging but that’s not an excuse. Can any of you guys please give me some tips to help me stay consistent and stay fit? I don’t look that bad but I need to stay more consistent. Thank you.
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Please help a yo yo dieter
Been battling weight loss my whole life. I’m a snacker, I have cravings, im depressed, I’m a binge eater, it’s my life. I tend to sit between 200 and 240 pounds. In the beginning of the summer this year I started calorie counting daily and just did a rough estimate with counting and told myself to never go over 3k cals and try to stick to not going over 2500 cals daily. Did the gym a few times a week, nothing crazy. Lost 35/40 pounds by October 1. Woohoo, “I did it.” Now before you know it, I went from 240, to 205 oct 1 and now I’m back at 230. Im 5’3 by the way. Instead of shaming myself and being in mental torture, I’m just gonna get back at but. But I’m looking for advice on how calories work. I don’t understand and if I’m gonna put in the hard work, I’d like to have some knowledge behind it other than just eat less calories and go to the gym. Is my plan of just not going over 2,500 sound like an okay plan for a lazy dieter? I’ll also take advice for places to find easy to make / cheap to make lower calorie foods. I don’t have time or energy to make fancy instagram meals. My struggle with food choice is my problem. I enjoy the gym, I enjoy cardio and I love lifting. I’m just sadly addicted to food.
Thanks for your help.
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Friday, December 26, 2025
How can I lose 150+ pounds with PCOS + rigid thinking?
Hi all,
I am a 26-year-old woman. I come from England. I am half Caucasian and half Asian. I am 5 foot 9.69 inches. I weigh approximately 166 kg (365 lbs). I have a few health issues such as PCOS (which I believe is the main contributing factor to a lot of my weight gain) and because I have autism, I have rigid thinking patterns. For example, I feel like a lot of things are 'all or nothing'.
So, I have gone through stages of starving myself in 2015 for months and only having bad food once every week. Then, since around 2017, I have let myself go and thought "fuck this, let's eat whatever I desire". I feel like I have lost all accountability of my eating, but for me it's easier to just eat anything than to make a positive change. But then I realise that I am still quite young and that I have a life to live. If I lost weight and maintained a healthy weight I could do so many things in life and just feel so much better.
I have been morbidly obese for a long time now. I was a healthy child until I hit puberty. Since then, the weight kept piling on and on and on. That was until 2015. I thought I can't live like this and then I lost 56 lbs from January 2015 to August 2015.
Then in 2017/2018 I really let myself go and thought I don't care anymore. I went through a lot of bad stuff with potential relationships with men that didn't materialise, to getting an autism diagnosis and realising the reason I struggled so badly in life and at school was because I had undiagnosed autism.
Every year I said I would lost weight and make changes. I have made some such as not ordering on food delivery websites and getting fast food delivered every day. Even though I get takeaways about 3 times a week now.
I am constantly hungry. My mental health has been stable for a while now, yet I am still always hungry. I am concluding it's the PCOS. I am under a weight management clinic and they offered my the weight loss injections, but realistically I cannot have weight loss injections forever. I really want to try and lose weight by myself without intervention. However as soon as I think about let's say McDonald's, I crave it and therefore want it. I did try to do a thing with myself that I only get fast food or whatever I fancy when I'm in the town centre. But then I think how can I learn to cope without my old habits of eating junk food everyday?! As soon as I think about tasty food it's almost like I cannot help myself and order it.
Also, if I'm aware that I am meant to be losing weight and not eating rubbish, I crave it even more. It's a hard situation I'm in because I feel like I cannot cope without my food.
I've really got to start taking responsibility for what I eat. But the cravings are sometimes so intense that I feel like I have to act on the craving. Also, with the excessive hunger, as soon as my stomach rumbles I act on that too by eating. However, sometimes I am hungry but full at the same time!?
I wanted to get a leptin test but they are hard to come by in England and I don't think the doctors will refer me.
Has anyone lost 150+ or more with PCOS and these sort of thinking patterns that I have?
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