Non scale victories…even in maintenance

I have been in maintenance since June 2024, after losing quite a bit of weight.

It’s been a journey to get here, the maintenance portion has been a lot of learning. But generally my life is my life these days, and I don’t pay too much attention to the fact that I lost a lot of weight a while ago.

This past weekend I dug out some of my fall/winter clothes from last year, and had a nice little zing that they all fit.

This morning, I picked out a dress to wear that I really liked, and I was driving to work, drinking my coffee, and thinking about how nice it was to wear that dress from last year.

Then it hit me…pre weight loss, wearing clothes from last year, and sometimes even season to season wasn’t a thing. Because they usually didn’t fit when I pulled last years things out. Then I’d go through a little tailspin of anger at myself for gaining weight, why couldn’t I look after my weight, should I keep these clothes “in case I lose the weight someday, etc”. It was generally not a nice, fun activity.

The drama-less happiness of taking out last years clothes, and they are still just my clothes…is something else. A nsv even this far into maintenance, it happens. :)

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Food scales

This is a genuine question because when it comes to weight loss I am fairly inexperienced on the technical side of things but have had much success in the past. For context, I am 6'4 285 currently, so I am not in good shape at the moment, but in the past I have been WAY skinnier at the same height which I achieved after being basically what I am now (so fat to skinny to now fat again) and I got fat again because I simply did not care. Would I be wrong to say that at my size and calorie deficit (literally like 2300 getting strenuous exercise often, according to calculators) that weighing out my food is genuinely overkill? I completely get it for people who have low deficits as every calorie is taking up "more" space, but for me when I lost weight in the past I just ate whatever and exercised and it came off. That's how I'm doing it now too, I exercise (a lot of biking), eat two times a day (usually an 800 calorie meal each time at the college cafe) and it's working! I have a feeling as I get smaller my point here may become null though, let me know though!

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My supervisor thinks i’m above her because I rarely eat the junk food that’s brought into the office

It feels like there’s no winning in corporate lol! I’m down 45lbs and feeling good. I didn’t brag about being on a weight loss journey or tell anyone but I received a few compliments about looking slimmer which was nice. My supervisor on the hand, can be a lot at times but you can tell she has good intentions.

Everyday we have a guy that sells food in a cart come by our job and I never go out with them because I don’t want to spend money and I don’t feel like guesstimating my calories all the time. He comes everyday and like clockwork they’re out there buying whatever delicious food he has. I bought a breakfast sandwich a while ago just to see and that was it but she keeps making comments about me never going out there or saying that i’m missing out and that not every street cart is dirty (which I never said lol).

Today and tomorrow the company is having a BBQ for the hard workers and while it was tempting to grab some food I politely declined because I meal prepped and have to stay good for an upcoming wedding. Of course I was met with, “oh come on , one so and so won’t kill you” “the food will be fresh and good” like I know it will be but I can’t fold like I used to lol 🥲

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Restarted my weight loss journey with VR Fitness (Supernatural on Quest 3) and I'm hooked!

M 36 / SW: 196 / CW: 196 / GW: 150

I recently started back up on my weight loss journey again after being away from that for a couple of years.

This past Thursday, I found the one and only thing that I really love to do that makes me look forward to working out everyday. And right from home too!

It's called Supernatural Fitness which is on VR only. It uses your body and arms/hands to hit targets and dodge while listening to a playlist of songs to whichever workout you chose, goes from low, medium, to hard difficulties. One style, boxing, is literally boxing, you dodge and punch and jab and use two stances and always raise your hands up to a guard. The other style, Flow, you have like sabers you hit targets with and do more squats and lunges here for dodging. It feels like I'm back in DDR kinda again from the past (My favorite pastime). It's a lot of fun and losing myself in the music makes me forget I'm even burning calories, gets me pumped up like I'm a beast at it. I just want to keep jumping in, today I knocked out 3 workouts for a total of 779 calories burned (I have a chest strap I bought too that checks your heart monitor and calories burned, total time worked out, when connected to the phone and the supernatural app.)

My first couple of days were preeeeetty sore. But I adapted quickly and in full swing again because of muscle memory from fitness in the past. So, now I enjoy all my workouts for the calories burned.

My next goal milestone is to lose those 6 pounds and make it to 190 and it a lot of week streaks (3 days a week, but I do more) on Supernatural.

Has anyone else tried VR for fitness? And, would love to hear how others are mixing fun workouts into their routines!

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Share what you eat in a day please!!

Those who have lost weight (or at least not gained) please feel free to share the following, I could really use the advice and perspective:

• What do you eat each day?
• What were you eating in a day before your weight loss?
• Do you count calories?
• How much did you lose eating this way over how long?
• Anything else you want to add

I really enjoy hearing people's stories and experiences, please feel free to share as much or as little as you want 🙂

Myself: 32F, 5'2 and about 100 pounds overweight. I gained mostly from a rough cycle of alcoholism & binge eating and am sober now but the weight doesn't seem to be coming off.

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Inflammation cause of extreme weight loss

Hello all! I’m a 42/m I started my weight loss journey August 17 at 6”3 291lbs. As of today I am 264lbs. I prioritized protein and cutting most carbs. I exercise 3-4x a week. I noticed I am losing weight really quickly which is awesome. A lot of my weight was in my midsection. Anytime I would eat I would just swell up. Since cutting sugars out almost completely that bloat is gone, could this just have been a lot of water retention because of inflammation? I’m searching for answers because the weight is just falling off so fast.

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Advice!

Hi! I have recently been struggling with eating after drinking. Not only do I eat once I come home from a night out but the whole day afterwards, which I think is arguably worse. It ruins my weekends and makes me feel horrible for days. I am in pain with my stomach, but also uncomfortable and don’t feel good in my body. I’ve been on a weight-loss journey for some time now and things are finally moving in a positive direction in terms of the other pieces of the weight loss but my drinking is one thing I’m very much struggling with. I’m open to any advice you guys have for context I’m 23 and single so I’d like to enjoy my nights out and socialize and not stop living my life. Also, I typically drink 1 night a week. It feels like I’ve built this habit / routine and I need to change it.

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