How do you guys maintain weight loss during holiday season?

Hello! I’m currently on a weight loss journey and have lost around 15 pounds these last few months. However, I feel like the temptation to go all out on food has been growing now that we’re nearing the holidays. Everyone is coming out with such good food at gatherings and it’s also baking season! 😭 I’m just afraid of putting all the weight back on after putting in the effort to lose it and I’m feeling anxious. Does anyone have any tips or strategies that make getting through this season a bit easier?

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How would you spend $400 to support your weight loss/health journey?

My company benefits allow us to accrue dollars when we go to preventative care appointments/other wellness activities, and I have $400 built up that will expire if I don't spend them this month. I have to spend them on health/wellness related expenses. I already have an exercise bike, and I live in an apartment so space is a concern. I'm also a PCOSer if that's relevant!

Any ideas?? I really want to get back on track as I gained about 25 lbs back this year due to some medication changes, and I want to spend this money in the best way I can.

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Down 74 pounds.. really need exercise advice.

For context, I'm 36 M, 5'11, and my highest weight was 420#. I lost some weight and decided to get weight loss surgery around 390#, and now I'm currently at 316#.

My biggest issue is exercise. I know losing weight is 99% diet, but I need to start incorporating exercise, I just don't really know what to do or how. I loathe, LOATHE walking. It hurts, it's uncomfortable, I would rather cycle or really weight lift, and that's what I have been focusing on mostly.

My biggest concern is that I'm lifting weights wrong. Also, I have been trying to do push ups daily. They're the knee on the ground push ups, and I can do about 3 sets of 12, with a 10 second break inbetwen sets. I'm not even sure if doing these types of push ups are beneficial. I'm doing curls with a 5lb weight, and then arm lifts (I don't know the official name, but it's where you lift your arm straight away from your body, like you're making a T-pose).

I want a personal trainer but I can't afford one currently, and I've tried watching videos online but I can't seem to find ones that help.

Is anyone able to give any advice? I'm open to hearing whatever. Thank you in advance.

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I kept forgetting my supplements during my weight loss journey, so I built an app for it — free premium if you want to try

Hey guys,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on for the last months because it came directly from my own training routine.

I lost 45 kg over the past couple of years, and along the way I started using a lot of daily supplements — creatine, vitamins, omega-3, etc. The annoying part was that I constantly forgot whether I took them or not. Some days I took stuff twice, some days not at all.

So I built my own supplement tracker app with a clean, minimal interface.

No ads, no clutter, no over-complicated habit tracker stuff. Just:

• See your supplements for the day
• Tap to mark them
• Custom reminders
• Simple daily timeline

It’s called GymDose and I decided to publish it since it helped me stay consistent:

👉 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gymdose-supplement-tracker/id6756020237

If anyone here wants to try premium for free, just DM me — I can generate promo codes. I’m a solo dev and this started as a personal project, so I’m happy to share it.

If you have any feedback, features you’d like added, or just want to roast my UI, go for it 😂

Stay consistent.

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i finally realized my “plateau” was just me drinking my calories

I am in my early thirties and have been lurking on r/loseit for a while, quietly counting calories and convincing myself I was doing everything right. I started tracking back in 2022, tightened up my food, hit my steps, tried to be “good” during the week. On paper my numbers looked decent, but the scale barely moved. I kept telling myself I had a slow metabolism, bad genetics, all the usual excuses. The part I kept skipping over was my drinking. I would log every gram of rice and every tablespoon of peanut butter, then drink half a bottle of wine or a few hard seltzers at night and either not log them at all or just throw in a random number and pretend it evened out. A few weeks ago I finally decided to play google doctor and started reading about alcohol and weight, and I found something about how alcohol and weight loss are more connected than people think and it laid everything out in black and white. Empty calories, effects on organs, appetite, all of it. seeing the numbers like that made me feel kind of sick because it forced me to admit that my “plateau” was not mysterious at all, it was sitting in my glass every night. I went down a rabbit hole after that and started scrolling through Reddit, bouncing between this sub and some sober related subs, just reading other people’s stories. In one of the comment threads people were listing different sobriety apps and I downloaded soberpath because it was the first name that popped up. Then I went straight back to reading, and the more I read, the more I saw myself in all the posts from people who thought they just “liked to unwind” but were actually drinking way more than they wanted to admit.

Since then I have been looking at my evenings very differently. I realized it was never just the calories from the alcohol. It was the late night snacking that came with it, the trash sleep, and the way I would wake up tired and crave greasy food the next day. I ended up reading about evening habits that quietly wreck weight loss progress and it talked about drinking at night, poor sleep and mindless eating working together to slow everything down. that felt uncomfortably accurate. I started going back through my logs and doing the math honestly, and it hit me that on some of my so called “good” days I was adding 500 to 800 untracked calories from alcohol alone. That realization hit me harder than I expected. I have cut back a lot in the last month and for the first time in a long time the scale has started to move again, slowly but actually moving. At the same time, I feel a bit lost because drinking has been my default coping mechanism for stress, boredom and even celebration for years. So I guess my question for r/loseit is this. Has anyone else had that moment where you realized alcohol was the hidden reason your deficit was not really a deficit. How did you handle cutting it back or cutting it out without feeling like you were giving up your social life or your only way to relax. I am not looking for perfection, I just do not want to keep lying to myself with pretty food logs while ignoring the thing that is clearly holding me back.

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Weight loss friendly vegetarian/pescatarian dinner recipes

Please share your most weight loss (low calorie) dinner recipes that are vegetarian/pescatarian friendly! Also would love lunches/breakfast ideas!

Thanks so much!

My favorite low calorie lunch is ~2 cups of greens, with about 1/4 lb of cooked well seasoned baked tofu cubes and a low calorie dressing (skinnygirl or a fat free one)

For my lunch snacks about 2 cups of a low calorie popcorn, 1 chocolate rice cake and 1 fruit (usually tangerine or about 1/4 cup of blueberries).

This comes out to be about 300-400 calorie lunch depending on the variations!

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Will power and weight loss

Hi, as someone interested in amateur bodybuilding I started a glp-1 antagonist a few weeks ago. As a male in their 20s I’ve always maintained a somewhat decent physique between 15-22 percent body fat , however I’ve always found this to be a Herculean effort, where if there was any snacks in the house I would find myself gorging on them until the point of discomfort. Since starting this medication, for the first time in my life I’ve actually been able to say no to extra servings of food and feel as though I have some willpower surrounding my food choices. As a result I’ve been dropping weight. And have for the first time, felt in control of my food choices.

Throughout my life I have maintained a good physique but have felt as though it required an ungodly amount of willpower to not release my inner fat kid.

What is happening here at a molecular level that I can manipulate so that when I inevitably come off these medications I can make smart food choices easily and without feeling shackled?

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