A humble beginning - 259lbs, 5'7".

Hey all, just a first post, probably mainly for my own maintenance and encouragement, to establish today - 15th October 2018 - as the starting point for my weight loss.

As of this (Monday) morning, I weighed 259 on the scales. I'm tracking caloric intake and drinking 2l of water from today.

Today, for example, I didn't snack hardly at all, and the snacks I did have were low calories and only had because they fit within my calorie "budget". I managed to keep my caloric intake at 1560kcal, 835kcal under my BMR.

I'm hoping to get a bicycle soon for cheap - I'm very poor but I think adding in a small bike ride at the end of every other day will just push the weight loss that bit further.

Sorry for the long winded post, I just wanted to say how happy I am to have started this journey after abusing food for the better part of my late teens. Hopefully I can keep it up.

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Is your weight loss more like a staircase? Or a slide all the way down?

I'd love to know - how steady has your weight loss been? I've been losing weight quite slowly, but steadily over the last 14 months, sometimes the progress has been frustratingly slow and sometimes fast. Definitely more of the staircase type of loss - down a few kgs, then nothing for a bit, then down a few more kgs, then nothing etc. I was looking at my happy scale graph today and wondering if that is normal, or is it more normal for people to just keep on losing continually until they reach their goal?

I do find that each time things flatten out for a while (or even go up a few pounds) I have to psych myself back into the weight loss mentality to get back into it which is hard. I wonder if it would be better to just do everything I can to switch up my loss graph to look more like a slide all the way down, than a staircase of down, stop, down, stop?

I see people who lose all the weight I want to lose in a few months (when it took me a year to even get this far), so I wonder if I just went hardcore and get it over and done with over a few months, that could be a better approach? Opinions very welcome :)

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Face is still fat?

I posted on here almost 2 months ago about not seeing my weight loss and everyone was so helpful! I lost 9 more lbs since then and for some reason those few pounds have done the trick! I am finally feeling slim. I am 5’8 and started at 202lbs in January and am now 146lbs. I see the weight loss now, but my face is still chubby! Does anyone else have this issue?! I know I have lost weight in my face, but it’s still not the face I had when I was 140lbs before my two pregnancies.. We just had Thanksgiving here, and there were lots of pictures taken and I couldn’t help but be disappointed because of how chubby I looked because of it.

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I actually enjoy shopping now.

I started at 220, now at 188. Cico, lose it app, water, sleep and regular exercise.

I hated shopping before because majority clothing didnt lookgood on me. I was also between sizes. Size 16 is too big for regular clothing stores, too small for plus size. At regular stores, some clothes were too tight. At plus size, i never filled them out they way they were meant (for chesty women).

Now i can fit a 14 or a 12. Its exciting going shopping! I look better in clothes and feel better. Im more interested in fashion since i can get more out of it. Its exciting buying something new every month or so because im smaller each time.

There are a lot of styles/clothes ive never wore because I didn't think they looked good on me. Now im started to be a healthier shape, i can pull off more.

I still have a huge gut belly, thick thighs and a big butt 😅 but now its in smaller dimensions.

There are still other clothes I want to look good in. Its a huge motivator for weight loss!

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How to deal with the unsolicited advice?

I started my weight loss journey about two or three months ago and have done pretty well so far. I have lost just over 20 pounds. I have just been counting calories. Not much exercise or anything. Although I have recently started to work out. The elliptical has taught me how out of shape I really am. I have a very significant amount of weight to lose (read over 100 lbs), but honestly overall it hasn't been as difficult as I have always thought it would be. I kind of think I can do this.

One thing I didn't expect is the unsolicited advice that people give you when they learn you are trying to lose weight. Everything from how to do it to if you should do it at all. One conversation recently really affected me. It was with a guy I was considering dating. He has also lost a good bit of weight and he did it using Keto. I told him my current plan and he proceeded to tell me how Keto was the only option and anything else was wasting time. I mentioned some of my concerns about Keto and he basically made me feel like I wasn't committed enough to losing weight. The whole thing has kind of thrown me off and I am now feeling like what I have been doing isn't good enough. Which has made me lose a bit of motivation. I am just not sure how to deal with the constant opinions and not let them affect me. One conversation has me completely doubting myself again and I can't really shake it.

So, I put it to you guys... how do you deal with the constant "advice"? How do you ignore it? How do you know when to consider it? What do you do to keep yourself sane in this process?

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Also as more of an aside... Am I crazy for thinking I can lose all this weight just counting calories? Do I need to do something extreme like Keto to be successful?

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Feeling really down after a weird interaction

This just happened, and I'm probably over-reacting. But I need to talk it out and to be frank this community is where I feel most comfortable discussing my weight loss attempts.

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I was in the lunch room today and this random woman, whom I have never actually been introduced to says she wants to show me something exciting. I work in a research lab and when I get good results I want to share them with everyone, so sure lets see the exciting breakthrough. Except she pulls up a picture of a robust male I don't know, and starts telling me about how she's helped him loose so much weight in the last month through this energy tea drink. It's so great, she get's to help so many people and this guy was so happy he took her out to dinner. She then starts pulling up charts from other people she's helping, and talking about how cutting calories isn't healthy because after a few months you just feel so tired and weak, you go back to eating and just get "fat, fat, fat" (her words). I was just sort of sitting there in stunned silence at this point. I've lost over 55 pounds in the last year (and a bit) through CICO. This sub and the thousands of success stories here are more than enough proof that calorie counting absolutely works.

I understand this is likely a MLM she's gotten sucked into and needs to push. And that maybe this thing does help curb appetite so the people she's working with are eating less and therefore losing weight. But by myself in that lunch room I just felt cornered. And small. Like none of the work I've put in over the last year and a bit has been worth anything because I'm still seen as that fat person who should really lose weight. It caught me off guard and is ...really depressing. I thought I'd been doing well.

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If you made it through this monologue, thanks for listening. I'm not giving up and I'm certainly not paying for the diet drink. Slow and steady with r/loseit is going to get me to my goal even if it takes forever. Thanks for being a great community :)

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M 6' 198->185 lbs (3 months)

Sorry deleted last post by mistake like an idiot.

I started working out in August last year. Before that I didn't know what the inside of a gym looked like and never worked out. I decided to bulk to start with and probably ate more than I should have. For example, I would workout and then come back and eat a whole cheese pizza, and I went all the way up to 198 from my initial weight of 175 in a period of 10 months.

Looking back, I definitely bulked too long and too much. This is definitely a good lesson to learn that you shouldn't bulk beyond a point where you've got too much fat. I definitely was too fat by the end of the bulk and felt a nice big tire around my waist, and generally hated myself.

I then decided it was time to cut and started eating at a deficit. I didn't maintain a specific deficit, but I would check my weight week to week and adjust calories according to whether I lost enough weight. During this time, I also started playing basketball once a week and I think this is what helped the most with my weight loss. Because of that I didn't have to eat too little (since basketball burned a lot of calories). I advise anyone wanting to cut to incorporate intense cardio instead of trying to eat less to compensate for the lack of cardio. I feel like this approach makes you overall more healthy and fit rather than the other way of eating less. I would aim to lose about 1.5-1.7 pounds a week since anything faster than that will probably be too drastic and result in muscle loss and waste as well, and you don't want that.

Also, I ate about 110-130g of protein almost everyday. I think this should be enough, although some people suggest eating more. Next bulk I'll definitely try to eat more protein and see if that helps

As for lifting, I followed the PHUL routine from start to finish through both bulk and cut.

Before: https://ibb.co/keYWGL

After: https://ibb.co/mibwi0

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