Let’s celebrate small wins together

Like the title says. This subreddit has changed my life and helped me get started with my weight loss journey. I’m 24 F, 5’6, and I’ve dropped from 243 to 235 lbs in a little under a month. I am building habits and changing my life for the better. I’m constantly on this sub looking for others input on experiences, challenges, and advice. I figured we should all get the chance to celebrate our weight loss small victories more often, so here goes… share a small victory regarding your health journey in this thread, and let’s congratulate each other!!

I’ll go first: I’ve meal prepped my lunches for the past month and had some delicious food in the process, and I’m steadily losing weight!

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I lost 80lbs and 75% of my head hair last year, I'm dieting again and terrified of it happening once more.

Last winter just after Christmas I started dieting, it was just low calorie deficit with lots of protein, nothing fancy. It was like a miracle, I was losing weight like crazy, then my hair fell out, which was devastating. My starting weight was 320, my goal is 150. I've come to understand what happened and that I did not eat enough so my body was shocked and de-prioritized my hair, or it broke the growth cycle.

I'm dieting again and terrified of it falling out, my hair was 3 to 4ft long, now most of my hair is about 3 1/2 inches long as it slowly grows back.

For anyone who has gone through this, what vitamins or steps did you take to ensure your hair grew as usual?

From what I researched what I should focus on

1) Low fat, low calorie, high protein nutritionally dense meals (what a mouthful).
2) Eat enough
3) Stay hydrated (I learned the hard way)
4) vitamins

I'm 58, F, 245 lbs current weight (starting was 320), and partially disabled. I also work from home. I also have COPD, and I understand this can factor in for calories now, I didn't know that before. It might also explain why my weight loss was so radical and quick. I'm not on oxygen, but everything is harder, and it takes so much effort to do little things at times.

so for my meals, I started this 2nd journey with 1100 calories in mind, but after 5 days realized I felt faint and I was going too low again. So now I'm aiming for 1300 calories a day, and so far it's working as long as I eat something every 2 or 3 hours, but I'm here to get more facts on safely losing weight.

Without telling my life story, I will tell you that losing that much weight had a HUGE impact on my life, everything is better, my health, my house is clean everyday now because I can and do keep up with my chores now. So motivation is a non issue because I know the health rewards are going to be amazing. I hadn't shopped at a grocery store physically myself for 6 years, and now I go all the time, in pain yes but I can do it.

Right now I'm focusing on protein, lots of eggs, breakfast is 2 eggs with tomatoes and red onions, with a small portion of low fat turkey sausage. I eat a lot of spinach and salads with low fat dressing, small bit of blue cheese. Lots of chicken, or Lean Cuisine meals. I have a bag of smart pop 240 calorie a bag of popcorn a day, this keeps me satisfied and sane and thank god for it. I track everything with a simple calorie diary.

On top of vitamin water I take D2 (doctor prescribed), B2, B1, fish oil, magnesium, biotin, peppermint oil, complete multi vitamin, cranberry supplements in case I don't drink enough like last time.

Are there any other foods or vitamins I should focus on besides, eggs, lean proteins, and lots of greens? I really don't want to go past 1300 calories, but I'm watching myself much closer now just in case.

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I made this post over a year ago. Since then I’ve lost another 25 kgs, making my total weight loss 50kgs but I’m stuck now

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/s/nJrwUWh4P0

Hi guys. I started my weight loss journey properly in Summer 2024. I’ve lost 50 kgs since. However in the past 6 months I haven’t lost any real weight. I’ve lost inches and my body looks smaller probably because I’ve been strength training and going to the gym 3x a week since June 2025. I just need to lose the last 10 kgs. I’ve come so far, I just want to see myself as a skinny person for the first time in my life. I’ve lost weight largely sustainably, calorie deficits and working out but this plateau is demotivating me greatly. I’m 5’7, female, 27, weighing 70 kgs(started from 120). I’ve never gotten a body fat percentage test but my waist is 30 inches now (started from 42). I just want to lose another ten kgs but I’ve been finding it nearly impossible to eat in a deficit now. I was aiming for 1600 cals this month, but averaged 1800. My TDEE is 2200. I have only lost a kg. I want to speed up this process without getting more loose skin than I already have. What should I do? I took a gym break in December too and focused on eating in a deficit solely because I felt like the gym was making me too hungry. I ended up gaining a kg…

I don’t think the issue is calorie counting because I eat a very standard set of meals on rotation (you don’t lose 50 kgs while being bad at calorie counting) but idk how to overcome this plateau. I know I can if I just eat less but I can’t seem to function…

TLDR: 50 kgs lost, struggling to eat less and lose more

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Weightloss / fitness podcasts

Hi everyone. I’m hoping to get some recommendations from people who have found podcasts (or even specific creators) that helped them stay consistent with weight loss, fitness, or just generally building better habits.

One thing I’ve noticed about myself is that my mindset in the first hour of the day really affects how the rest of my day goes. If I start the day feeling grounded and focused, I’m much more likely to make good choices later. I don’t mean perfect choices, just the kind of choices that keep me moving in the right direction.

On the other hand, if I wake up and immediately start scrolling or thinking about work stress or random stuff, I tend to feel mentally scattered. And when I feel scattered, I’m more likely to skip workouts, snack mindlessly, or make decisions that don’t match what I actually want.

So I’ve been thinking that listening to a short podcast every morning could help me with consistency. Not necessarily something super intense or hardcore, but something that reinforces the basics and keeps my head in the right place. Something that reminds me that the goal isn’t to be perfect, it’s to show up every day and keep building momentum.

I’m especially interested in podcasts that are either specifically about weight loss and fitness, or about habit building and mindset in a way that’s still relevant to weight loss. I’d also be interested in anything that blends in mindfulness, meditation, or guided visualization, because I think that would help me start the day calmer and more intentional. It doesn’t have to be a meditation podcast specifically, but something that isn’t all “grindset” energy would be ideal. If possible, I’d love recommendations that are fairly short or at least have episodes that are easy to listen to in the morning. Something in the range of 10 to 20 minutes would be perfect, but I’m open to longer ones too if they’re really worth it.

Also, I’d love to hear about any creators who feel realistic and helpful, not people who make you feel guilty or like you’re failing if you’re not going all-out. I’m trying to build a long-term routine and a healthier relationship with consistency, and I think the right kind of daily input could help a lot. If you have any favorite podcasts, specific episodes, influencers, YouTube channels that work like podcasts, or even audiobooks you’d recommend, I’d really appreciate it. I’m mainly looking for something that helps keep motivation steady, reinforces good habits, and helps me stay mentally focused on my goals without getting overwhelmed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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How to get back on track?

I've been trying to maintain my 20 kg weight loss for about 4 months, but my weight has crept up again by about 5 kilos. Additionally, I struggle with binge eating pretty badly. I've been trying and failing to lose the weight again and just been feeling a bit disappointed in myself that I cave so easily.

How do I move past the last few months and really turn over a new leaf, mentally? I feel like the hardest part is trying to do things differently tomorrow, when I've already had such a terrible few months. I just feel demotivated and terrible in my own skin, and slip back into the same pattern of eating until I hurt.

I'm just overwhelmed with everything, what to eat, what I should avoid, how long I should wait in between meals, what if I feel hungry sooner, what if I'm not hungry, what if I binge again or my parents make really nice food, etc. My head hurts thinking about it.

My current plan:

Calorie limit: TDEE minus 500 calories

Exercise: I am completely sedentary, maybe getting around 150 steps a day. I'll find 10 minute dumbbell workouts on YouTube to follow each day for the first 3 or so weeks, then build up from there.

I don't know how to structure my eating times though, and this is causing me the most stress. I'm not mentally flexible and would prefer to stick to the same rigid timings every day, but slight deviations due to work shifts really stress me out and throw me off.

I'm thinking that I could just eliminate all this stress by eating the same meals every single day, but without strict set timings. Therefore, I'll know the exact calorie count and be able to be flexible without having to constantly do the maths on how much I should eat to keep me full for x amount of hours?

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Coming to terms with external influences

F20 5’6” SW 289 CW 264 GW 200

Hi everyone, this will be my first time posting and I’m so happy there’s a group like this!! I’ve been lurking for a hot minute. Everybody seems so great.

I realized when it comes to losing weight that I struggle a lot with external factors. It’s not me alone that was my issue with losing weight, but I’ve noticed that I tend to eat more when everybody around me is eating more. I would over order at fast food places, overfill my plates at buffet restaurants because everybody else had food piled on their plates, completely clear my plates and go in for seconds, even though I wasn’t hungry. Stuff similar to that, and I think after learning that I CAN say no to a snack every once in a while really helped me. I’m recovering from a binge eating disorder in the first place and I’m currently down about 25 pounds, long ways to go still but it’s going great!! I have soooo much trouble with fizz, external influences still, especially because I’ve historically eaten a lot so it’s still expected of me from people. It might be a weird thing to complain about or notice, but it’s crazy that that was such a deciding factor in me progressing in my weight loss. I was stuck at a stall for so long and couldn’t realize why I couldn’t get past it.

all that to say while I still have yet to overcome completely, I think it was useful to learn that I COULD say no to seconds or say no to hanging out/going out and choosing to exercise instead and no one would be upset with me. The habit building all around has been difficult, but I do definitely feel better now that I can see and feel the progress.

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Is It Normal To Get More Irritable, Emotional, and Sad During Weight Loss?

I'm currently on day 5 of my weight loss journey. I'm a 19 year old female weighing 250lbs (well 247lbs now!!) Since maybe about day 2 of trying to lose weight, I've been so irritated with everyone around me and crying about everything, even things not related to weight loss. I'm not typically an emotional person.

I think I might've been coping with food, and now that I'm not, it's just been a really hard mental 5 days, and it's discouraging since I have so much weight to lose for my goal of 140lbs. Is there anything I can do about it, or will it go away??

It might be important to mention I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, but haven't experienced any symptoms for 2 months before trying to lose weight.

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