[F/18/123kgs - ??? kgs] Long-time lurker looking for an accountability partner. :)

Hi there! I’ve recovering from disordered eating and a mental sort of dependency on food since December last year. Problem is I have a hard time structuring my day, with me having too much free-time and being in my gap year and all. Lately things have been hard. I either eat so little for a period of time I can feel my body tear down from malnourishment, or go back into my old habits. I don’t know what foods are healthy anymore necessarily, and even though I live at home I want to learn how to cook for myself, and I want to work-out properly and become buff as fuck my dudes. Anyway I’m looking for someone I can text throughout the day so we can tell each other what we’re eating, what we have achieved and how we’re feeling, and to tell each other about our progress. Maybe someone I have some familiar hobbies with so we can share those too!

Anyway my name is Mari! I like videogames and I mostly play Overwatch on ps4, but I love rpgs a lot. I am Dutch and in my gap year after finishing high school. I have no idea what to do with my life but I like learning about languages and literature. I dream of writing at least one story in my life. In terms of weight loss. I’ve never been skinny, and that gave me a sort of egocentrical obsession with achieving beauty and not being happy with progress because it’s not the end-result. Anyway, if you’re interested comment under this thread or PM me, tell me about yourself. Who knows maybe we’ll be really good for each other. :)

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How to not feel impatient/discouraged when you have a lot to lose (150lbs total, 75 left)

I see so many people on the progresspic page that started out so much lower than I did and have so much less to lose, that it just makes me feel so discouraged, overwhelmed, and impatient sometimes. I know I shouldn't compare my journey to others (and obviously there are plenty more people who have/had more to lose than I do/did) but it just makes me feel like it's just such an insurmountable task considering how much more I have to lose than most.

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I started at ~260, and I'm down to ~190, but it was a hellava struggle to get here. Despite an insanely strict diet (like I weigh/record everything- even things like garlic powder got measured and recorded- and I keep my daily calorie allowance low), I lost weight slower than online calculators estimated (and I had put my exercise level at sedentary too)!

I went and got my BMR medically tested and found out that my BMR was quite a bit lower than it should have been considering my size and so that was a big hit to my motivation. It just made that UGW seem even further and further away. Like everything was stacked against me to lose weight. I'm still at it, but I have about 75lbs to go to reach my goal weight and it's just such a long long ways off. Even if I stick diligently to my diet every single day, and exercise diligently every day, it's still going to take me forever. I try not to focus on the big picture, but the small goals just seem so worthless- even with the 70 lbs I've lost so far, I've hardly noticed many physical changes and I know the losses are going to keep slowing down from here.

I just want to get back to the weight I was at years ago (I know that's when I looked my best) but 75lbs is just so much to go, especially since my weight loss is slower than most (due to the bmr issue). I'm just so impatient to get there and when I hear about other people that only have 30lbs to lose to get to their goal, while I'm happy for them, it seems to stupidly, make me feel worse about my own situation. I know I'll get there eventually, but how do I keep the motivation going when my UGW feels so far off and I have SO much to lose?

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Let's make some abs (Diet review)

So I've been struggling to lose weight for a while now and for about the past 8 months or so progress has been really slow. Everytime I make a step forward, I end up another step back somewhere else. Now, there's always things I can't control and that's part of life but I want to review some of the things I can control. So I'd like to hear some areas I can move some things around, make some tweaks and continue pushing forward.

Current stats:

Age: 31

Height: 6'1

Weight: 225-230

Goal Weight: 187

Activity Level: Sedentary

Gym Level: 3 days week (Lower Body, Upper Body, Conditioning)

11AM: 1/2 cup Oatmeal (bobs red mill old fashioned) 32g Peanut Butter (Kirkland Signature)

2PM: 2 Hard Boiled Eggs

4PM: RX Bar

5PM: Handful of cherry tomatoes or an RX Bar or another Hard Boiled Egg, Skyr (One of these, not all)

7PM: ~16oz Chicken Breast, 6-8oz of basmati rice, depending on hunger levels

That's a pretty ordinary day for me. I try to keep that most days and that should give me a large enough deficit to lose weight.

I've played with a TDEE calculator before and that says my daily caloric need should be around 2300 for maintenance. Last time I went over 2k I literally start gaining 1 lbs per day. Honestly, the biggest boon to my weight loss was going to burning man, where I put my diet on hold and ate whatever I wanted because I figured surviving was more important. So ate everything I wanted for 10 days and lost 10 pounds. That's how I ended up at 225.

So any thoughts to help improve this? I'd really like to hit my goal weight before next summer.

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Why does weight gain/loss have to be so uneven? :(

So I've always been generally pretty skinny, but lately I've gained about 69 pounds over a 6 month period and it just.... bummed me right out. I am painfully aware that even when I was skinny I had some jeans-destroying thunder thighs (to the point of every pair of jeans I owned were worn out right on the seams of my inner thighs from them rubbing together all the time). When I lost like 15lbs, I could see it disappear from my stomach and my calves, but my thighs got bigger as I lost the weight. And now, I've gained back the 15lbs plus a few more and now my stomach is where all the weight is going and it's just so confusing when the fat goes to different places each time it comes back.

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Any suggestions for some work out songs they jam out to when they're feeling really low and out about their weight loss journey? I'd love some new tunes for the "let's do this" gym trips.

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Going vegan for the last 20 pounds

Hi everyone - first of all, I want to thank this community, it's helped me so much on my journey.

SW: ~220 CW: 175 GW: 155. Nonbinary (assigned female at birth, femme presenting) 5'6. Start dress size range: 16-20, Current dress size range: 8-12. My age: 22

I'm making this post for a couple reasons: (1) for others, who are just starting their journey, to see what I've done (2) for myself, as a marker. looking back, it's crazy to see my own posts from when I was over 200 pounds.

I lost my weight in 3 main phases:

(1) College: I started college at my heaviest. By the end of college, I dropped about 10-15 pounds, averaging between 195-205 as my "normal range"

(2) Summer after college: This summer, I dropped to about 180. Intermittent fasting is largely to thank for this - I lost 20 pounds with minimal effort, and it was amazing. I also am a vegetarian (have been for almost a decade), and I currently eat primarily Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB), with some egg and cheese.

Some general weight loss tips I have:

-Don't count calories, just stop eating processed foods. Look into it, do your research, but dang, it makes a whole lot of sense, and has worked wonders for me.

-Intermittent fasting is magic.

-Be nice to yourself. If you beat yourself up after binges with shame, you're just telling your brain food=shame=fat=you=worthless, and it's a vicious cycle :/

-I learned about fashion once I fit into my first size 10 pants, and fashion has really inspired me to keep going.

(3) Phase three, the final phase:

-I recently started work, and I find that when I work from home ("WFH") for a week, I'm able to be incredibly controlled about my eating, but when I'm at work, there's sweets and eating out, and I put on the pounds. The last few weeks have been a lot of fluctuation on the scales. Every week, I end up having a sugar binge, and it feels awful, painful, and I'm bloated. Worst these binges have done is get me up to 185, but usually they get me +3 pounds by the end of the week, and then I get down to 175 again by Monday. It's a mess.

-I used to be vegan, and for me, it's always seemed like the "right" thing to do, but I just don't do it for convenience. Although now, sitting here bloated and fat, I'm realizing that if I didn't eat dairy or eggs, that would eliminate the sweets I encounter at work, and I'm not the type to go out of my way for sugary foods, it's just the temptation that gets me.

-So... I'm going to do WFPB vegan, give it a try, and I'll get back to you guys in a month or two, and hopefully I'll (finally!!!) be posting my before and after pictures then. I'm ready to lose these last 20 pounds, and I think embracing this vegan lifestyle (when I'm eating well, I'd say it's already 90% vegan), is the path to success for me.

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Anyway, fellow loseit friends, please wish me luck!!!

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Day one post

Hi r/loseit This is the first time I've ever posted any kind of details about myself online, but this community has convinced me it’s worth it.

I am 25F 5'4" and currently weigh about 160lbs. I have some serious chronic pain problems and joint instability which have impacted my ability to exercise for many years. My goal weight is 140 and while I used to be that person who lived and breathed at the gym the last few years have been rough.

I graduate college and went from 135 to 175. I gained 40 pounds over the course of year because I let my activity levels drop when I moved to a boring part of the country. I managed to drop about 15 of those pounds over the course of a year in graduate school doing CICO and riding my bicycle, and my inspiration in part was this sub. I love the community here and how kind everyone is.

I've recently had to stop weighing myself and calorie counting though as I tend to get a bit obsessive about those kinds of things and it was driving me insane. I’ll start up again in a few weeks when I’m feeling more stable.

I have been eating around 1200-1500 calories a day for nearly three years now. My former job required a lot of physical labor that took a toll on my joint injuries, so it seemed like diet was the way to go but it wasn't enough. I realize now that I experienced a slowing of my metabolism which was why my progress tanked and why any slip-ups in diet seemed to have dramatic and immediate consequences.

So, after using the calculator and seeing that my calories should have been enough I decided it was time to get serious about fitness again. I started swimming 2-3 days per week and rock climbing once per week about 6 weeks ago. I've also increased my calorie intake a little and while I haven't seen any dramatic weight loss (as happened to me in college) I have been feeling a LOT better about my body and my fitness levels.

starting about three weeks ago I started going to a gym 3-4 times per week. I cut my pool time to two times and I'm still rock climbing every chance I get. This has helped me immensely in being okay with my calorie increase. I've never been an unhealthy eater, so it was really starting to eat at me (no pun intended) that even the slightest deviation seemed to add to my weight. The pain was becoming a problem too. Both my shoulders and my knees are unstable, and it seems like 160 is my limit. Any heavier and I can’t go a day without serious pain problems and inflammation which I have felt self-conscious about for years.

So, this is where I’m at now. My job is completely sedentary for the moment but has very flexible hours, so it’s allowed me to really increase my exercise. I’m now going to the gym 3-4x per week, swimming 2x and rock climbing on Saturdays. I’ve been following this schedule for 3 weeks now and I’m not having too many problems with pain or muscle soreness. I’ve historically been a very active person and I’m doing my best to accommodate my pain/inflammation problems with my anxiety over calories.

I’m not sure if I’m looking for tips or encouragement or what, but I do want to say that hearing people talk on this community and reading the support they receive really gives me a boost in my motivation to lose fat-weight and stay strong. I don’t have a lot of people to talk to comfortably about this, so having the opportunity to join a community like this means a lot!

Thank you r/loseit!

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