How did you accept your weight loss?

Hello everyone!

I've been on this weightloss journey since March of this year, I have lost a little over 35lbs (yay!), and I like to thank r/loseit for the motivation. I have not been this weight since 2013 when I was a swimmer on a team. I just returned to college this semester and people have been noticing my weight loss. One quote: "Wow sociologicallyringo you lost a sh*t ton of weight."

Even though I still have a little more to go, I still haven't accepted the fact that I lost weight. I have gone down a shirt size or two and pants size. I still don't feel the confidence I want even though I keep getting compliments all around. How did ya'll get into that "I look and feel better" mindset?

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What are your unexpected side effects of weight loss?

I often find myself thinking...is this how other people feel when they’re losing weight?

I’m down 30 pounds (another 40-60 to go depending on how I feel).

Two things I’ve noticed that I didn’t expect are:

1. I depended on my body weight to get me to sleep at night. The weight of it I would assume was sort of like a weighted blanket, and I’ve had a little trouble adjusting.

2. Sometimes I have this weird feeling that the weight I’ve still got to lose is like a fat suit on my fit body....like it almost doesn’t feel like it belongs to me? Weird, right?

So, what are your “things you didn’t know” about weight loss before you did it?

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Question about post weight loss experiences

What’s good losers!:) Long time lurker, first time poster. I’ll jump right into it. I’m male, 26, 5’ 11”, 260 pounds (118 kg), and I am hoping to get down to 190-200. At my highest weight I reached nearly 310; this was 6 years ago, and it was my breaking point. I proceeded to bust ass and lose nearly 90 pounds! Which is great, but I never hit my true goal, and I always carried a little too much (especially in the belly and moobs:/) Over the past five years I’ve (clearly) put a lot of the weight back on...

My question: Based on your experience, what can I expect in terms of loose skin, man boob loss, etc?

I’m going to lose it and hit my goal no matter what; I’m just apprehensive about what I can realistically expect. I hit roughly 220, so I still don’t know what that extra 30 pounds might’ve looked like lost.

I know every persons’ body is unique; but still...

Thoughts?

Sincerely, -GuyGettingOffZeCouch

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Just hopped on the “Lose It!” app train and I’m so mad I didn’t change tracking apps sooner. It’s amazing!

I decided a few days ago to really commit to a lifestyle change in order to finally succeed in my weight loss goals. Part of that decision was looking at all the tools I was using an identifying things that weren’t working for me.

I know from experience that when I track consistently, I lose weight consistently. But my old tracking app (lifesum) wasn’t cutting it anymore. I wasn’t consistently logging, and finding the right foods/making recipes was clunky and time consuming. I always see posts on here of people using Lose It! so I figured it was worth looking into. I was really curious about Lose It’s pattern and insight features too.

Well I’m an idiot for waiting so long I make the switch. This app is literally everything I ever wanted in a tracker. Glad I finally came around to it. Better late than never!

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How to celebrate without eating?

Hello everyone, I am not sure if this belongs on r/loseit or r/fatlogic, but either way, I recently realized that I have no idea how to celebrate without eating. Here comes the humble brag, so I apologize in advance, but I have had a very good couple weeks. I received a promotion, was accepted into a graduate program, my birthday is coming up, and today I just hit a major weight loss milestone. And I have no idea how to celebrate any of it.

For my entire life, my default way of celebrating has been to stuff my face as a reward. I am proud of my recent accomplishments, and my family would like to celebrate each of these events. And the default way to do that has been to go out and get a nice dinner, or make something special (aka ridiculously unhealthy) at home. However I do not want to sabotage my weight loss for something as temporary as food that tastes good in my mouth and will make my toilet weep.

I am aware that weight loss works off of averages, and one bad day can be made up. However, I am not at a point yet where I trust myself to have a "cheat day" or a "cheat meal". I have an addictive personality. I have been addicted to cigarettes, porn, and alcohol. Each of one of those addictions I have overcome (to the extent that that is possible - you will never stop thinking about "just one") by quitting cold turkey and never allowing myself an opportunity for remission. I know that many people are able to succeed by having cheat days and special events, but that is simply not something that I will be able to handle right now based on my past experiences and self awareness.

So to get back to my real question, how do (normal?) people celebrate a major event without eating?

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My weight loss fears came true (loose skin) but it's okay

I'm writing this because it will be therapeutic for me and I wanted to offer what I believe to be a different perspective than I usually see here.

 

I'm 30 years old, 5'8" and lost 94 lbs from mid December 2017 to August 2018. I've been intentionally maintaining, although I would like to lose another 10 lbs or so.

 

I was afraid of having loose skin as are many people here. The usual responses seem to be that loose skin won't even matter, it won't be that bad, or, essentially, that it's silly to worry about it. Even at my largest I worried about it and started saving money. I currently have an extremely minimal amount of fat and breast tissue in my breasts. There is about six inches of just skin hanging past my inframammary fold. My stomach doesn't look that bad while I'm standing but when I get into a push up position several inches of skin pool into the center.

 

In a few days I'm having a breast lift with implants. I'm terrified and excited but so grateful that I'm able to do this. I'm glad I worried and saved money.

 

So yes, the loose skin might actually end up being that bad. My advice is to start saving money for surgery now, because there's no reason not to. If you end up not wanting it you'll still have money saved up, so it's a win-win.

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This chart is keeping me motivated! 144 -> 134 and I've got more to lose

Hey y'all!

So my weight has fluctuated my entire life, and I've never felt like I was in control of it at all. Life would get stressful, I would get fat, almost without noticing it happen. Then I would starve myself or summer would come and I would sweat like mad and lose it all again. I tend to understand things better when I can examine them in detail, and I think, like a lot of people in here, I saw substantial progress when I bought a scale, a food scale, started tracking CICO, etc.

One of the things I do is weigh myself every morning and insert the results on a spreadsheet, which then gives me this pretty chart! I began tracking on August 25, and my goal is to go from 145 to 130, so as you can see I still have some ways to go.

Seeing the exact progress I've made, the fact that I can say to myself, "Look, Witty, even if it went up for two days, it comes down again; it takes a long time, but look, you're making a dent," is a really good feeling. It is also the best way to remind myself to stay strong when I feel a craving for food or sugary sodas.

Today I have officially lost 10 pounds! I have more goals to achieve but this seemed like a good day to celebrate a little, and if you're also a data-driven person then you might enjoy doing something similar to track your weight loss!

Edit: My weight started somewhere between 144 and 145 so I end up labeling my starting weight a little inconsistently, sorry!

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