I Finally Hit My Goal: 21 kg Down. Taking a Maintenance Break Before the Final 10 kg

After months of consistency, I finally achieved my original goal of losing 20 kg.

I started at around 117.5 kg (259 lbs) and today I'm sitting at 96.5 kg (213 lbs), which means I've actually lost 21 kg (46 lbs).

Took me appx 4 months to lose this much weight.

I'm 6'2" and most of the weight loss came from surprisingly simple changes:

Walking almost every day

Eating fewer calories without extreme diets

Being more mindful about snacks and liquid calories

Staying consistent even when progress felt slow

The biggest surprise wasn't the number on the scale. It was how different everyday life feels now:

Walking is easier

I have more energy

Clothes fit better

My face looks leaner

Even hot weather feels slightly less miserable

The journey wasn't perfect. I had weeks where motivation disappeared, days where I overate, and periods where the scale barely moved. But I kept returning to the basics instead of trying to "make up" for mistakes.

My original target was a 20 kg loss, so now I'm planning to spend some time at maintenance, mentally recharge, and enjoy the progress before pushing for the next phase.

The next goal is another 10 kg, but I'm not rushing it.

For anyone currently stuck: you don't need a perfect diet, a fancy supplement stack, or a crazy workout routine. Consistency beats intensity.

A few months ago, losing 20 kg felt impossible. Now it's done.

See you all again when I hit the next milestone.

Starting weight: 117.5 kg

Current weight: 96.5 kg

Lost: 21 kg

Next goal: 86.5 kg

Thanks to everyone on this subreddit whose posts kept me going when motivation was low.

You can question/query if any.

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Thank you r/loseit — here's what I learned from all your responses about the fat pad / visible length gains

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say a huge thank you. I posted yesterday asking about visible penis length gains after losing 100+ lbs because I was noticing real changes in my own fat pad and felt kinda alone in it.

I was blown away by how many of you shared your own experiences. Some common themes I'm seeing:

Most guys reporting 1–3 inches of visible shaft coming back after 80–150 lbs lost

A lot of you mentioned confidence boost and partners noticing

Several said it keeps improving even after you hit goal weight

This community is awesome for talking about the stuff that actually matters during big weight loss. If you're still losing, keep going — the changes are real.

Anyone still want to share more? Or any other unexpected non-scale victories you've had?

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PMS and deficit

I have noticed that my PMS symptoms are significantly worse if I have been in a deficit for a period of time (more than 4 weeks).

Two-Three weeks out of the month, I feel great. My mood is better. I have lots of energy. I am not hungry very often.

Until it is that time of the month. I am not just more hungry, I'm starving. My mood drops significantly. I've dealt with depression in the past and it feels like mild depression. My motivation to do anything, not just count calories and exercise, drops to 0. Then I end up binging until my period is over. I literally did not leave my house last week because I did not have the will. I ordered food out almost every day.

It is starting to become a pattern.

When I am not trying to lose weight, I don't have these issues. I get your usual PMS symptoms but they don't feel as intense.

Have any other ladies experienced this?

Based on my weight loss, I don't think my deficit is too steep. I lose ~1-1.5 lbs per week. I have even tried eating more iron and omega3 rich foods when I knew I was going to get my period soon. I would make it a point to eat things like ground beef, spinach and salmon. I don't think it really made a difference. I wonder if the drop in mood just feels more extreme because my mood is generally higher when I am focusing hard on eating healthier, exercising and losing weight

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Diet break?

I am curious about people's experiences with taking a "diet break". I have been losing since January 2026 and am down 30 lbs now. I have upped my fitness as well and am feeling great! I am a woman, 4'11 and currently around 200 lbs.

The last week or so I have been struggling. I am having lots of cravings and feeling extra hungry. I upped my calories to be in a smaller deficit, but even so. I suspect its largely due to hormones.

Anyway, I am thinking of taking the weekend to relax surrounding my caloric intake then get back to it. I am wondering what other people have done when you are feeling like this. Losing weight is a long process and I am finding it all a bit mentally exhausting lately, but I don't want to slip back into old habits as that is how I have gained weight back during previous weight loss attempts in the past! Thanks everyone

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★OFFICIAL DAILY★ Daily Q&A Thread May 29, 2026

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Period related weight loss

Hello!

I know I posted I think about a week ago - well, I’ve had a drop from 12.12.4 to 11.11.2 lbs but I’ve been walking 15k steps and in a deficit so I’m wondering if there’s yet more to drop or my period has stalled it totally lol. I’ve been doing so much work so it’s sad to see only 1 lb drop in a couple of weeks and although science says otherwise makes me wonder what I’m doing wrong. I’m still bleeding currently, I presume it was PMS prior but this is my first period on desogestrel in ages and I assume it’s from the change in diet and exercise this last month.

TLDR: I’m bleeding and 4/5 days into said period. I’m he scales stalled 13 days ago and when I think my PMS started. Yesterday I dropped 1.2lbs but based on my steps and my deficit of 400-500 I should still be looking at around 2lbs per week, so this was basically else than I thought, I’d hoped for at least 3lbs. It now seems to have stalled again a bit. Is there any room for another drop or have things rounded out now?

I’m using MFP (my fitness pal) to track everything

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Will i begin losing weight afrer recovering from alcoholism?

This might sound stupid or obvious but I do kind of want to know what to expect. Im 22 years old and for the past 2 years I’ve been an alcoholic, more so the last year. I was originally at a steady 235-245 lbs all the way from Highschool at 6’9” (yes I’m tall no I don’t play basketball). I was never the healthiest mostly because I’m a computer programmer and gamer so I’m sedentary a bit but I also began to eat a lot healthier during that time and lose weight. I have bipolar disorder and went into a rapid cycle of depressive episodes over my junior year of college and began drinking a lot as well as abusing Xanax and opiates. However I never had a steady supply of the former so I was constantly drinking. It didn’t take off bad during this time, I already have a very high natural tolerance and would drink 2 tallboy a night and call it a day. I didn’t see much weight gain at all and no bad effects.

Come this last year I was working on 2 research projects, a senior capstone project for computer engineering, and had a lot of stress from moving out of our grandmas house as she has dementia and had to go to a nursing home. During this time I was incredibly stressed and began abusing alcohol to unprecedented levels. 2 tallboys turned to 2 40oz and then a 350ml bottle of liquor and then a 750ml bottle of whiskey and then eventually I was drinking almost a liter of vodka/whiskey and day plus 5-6 beers.

Over this time I gained 50-60 lbs. funny enough I still don’t look 300lbs mostly because it’s distributed over my height, but I still absolutely hate the way I look; my man boobs have grown, I have a huge beer belly, my face is chubby, and I just can’t stand it. I am now 292 as of yesterday. Funny enough during the time I was an alcoholic I began wanting to diet so I even started a calorie deficit; I was only eating up to 2000 calories a day and then drinking on top of that. Of course I wasn’t hitting my goal, and I was running out of money, so over time I began cutting out food entirely and was only eating like 400 calories a day but drinking about 1800 which is still under my deficit. Of course even then I wasn’t losing any weight

It kind of perplexed me how I wasn’t losing any weight and I actually asked my doctor about this and she said it must have been lowering my metabolism and CNS activity to such heights that I was only processing like 50-60% of calories I actually ate/drank and then the rest was rolling over to the next day and it began compounding to extreme heights. This would also make sense because my digestion has been so slow and fucked up since that it seems it takes 3-5 days just to digest food

I recently quit alcohol cold turkey, went through almost seizure level withdrawals, have been getting back into my hobbies of programming and gaming and reading math textbooks (yes I’m a nerd lol), and even been running and lifting weights, but I have had 2 or 3 relapses. Funny enough I can legitimately see progress stop on those days because for 2 or 3 days later my weight is baxk up a pound or 2 depending on the binge.

Anyways it’s been 2 weeks clean and I’ve been really cleaning up my diet so I was wondering if my weight is going to start dropping and if it does, am I going to lose this beer belly because it’s the part I hate the most? I’m in an almost 1500 calorie deficit as I’m only eating 1600-2000 calories a day. I’ve lost like 8lbs but I do definitely wish to lose it a lot faster as the more I look at myself the more it pushes my mental health straight out the door and back into horrible self harm binge eating/drinking. I really just want to get all this off and go back to my old self.

Tl;dr: have you guys who are alcoholics seen significant weight halting from alcohol and seen significant weight loss from quitting?

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