[SV & NSV] First 25lbs lost!

Scale Victory!

This week I made it to 25 lbs lost! That's halfway to the first goal weight I have set for myself. I have never everrrr been able to lose this much weight in my whole life! I've also never been able to approach weight loss with a healthy mindset until now, so this is, like, a momentous life event for me.

ETA: What has helped me the most has been to completely avoid strict calorie counting, because that takes me to a crazy place. Instead, I made myself familiar with the nutritional values of my most commonly consumed foods. Now I just estimate the calories etc in everything I want to eat and portion accordingly. I also allow myself lots of flexibility with daily calorie intake. I NEVER punish myself or try to make up for going over my calorie goal. I always remind myself that it's okay to go over some days. Some days I'm under anyway, so it all evens out! I'm trying to look on the bright side of going over rather than going into a failure death spiral. It's actually better if my weight loss is slowed down - It will probably lessen my chances of super loose skin, increase my chances of keeping the weight off and put less stress on my body. I don't restrict myself from any foods either and I have created a rule for myself that I must drink a glass of water before or after I eat.

I also stopped eating meals when you're "supposed to". A lot of dieting tips led me to think things like extra protein in the morning will help me not binge at night. Even though I have no appetite in the mornings, I was forcing myself to take in calories I didn't even want. And it did nothing to stop my binges. So I stopped following advice like that and started listening to my body instead. I only start eating when the tummy rumbling starts. And honestly, that's not until late afternoon or early evening and by then it's hard to take in more than 12-1500 calories before I go to bed.

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Non-scale Victory!

You know how sometimes you buy clothes online, but they're just a little tight? And instead of returning them, you keep them and tell yourself, "Well, I'm gonna lose the weight and it's all gonna fit me so I guess I should keep it!" Then you never lose the weight. Sometimes you even gain some instead. Now you're left with all these clothes in the back of your closet that don't fit, but you can't bring yourself to get rid if them.

Last year, I bought a pair of pants and did all of that. Now that I've finally actually lost weight, my old clothes are getting loose. So, I tried on the too-small-pants on a whim and THEY FIT! They don't squeeze or pinch or restrict my movement or cause a massive fat roll over the waistline. They just fit and it feels amazing!!! I also fit into a top that wasn't from the plus size section for the first time in years!

I'm so happy, you guys!!

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A warning

Hi everyone, I'm actually on my second weight loss "journey" I guess. This isn't about that as much as it is about the first time I tried to lose weight. The first time I was successful at losing weight was fueled by an extreme depression I hit in high school. I didn't treat dieting like a way to lose weight, but rather as a way to punish myself. I lost 30 pounds in two months, and religiously calorie counted to the point that my main meal of the day was just plain lettuce for lunch. I was young, about 17. And to be honest I was over weight, but it was so easy to slip from trying to better myself into litterally almost trying to fade away.

Which in itself was awful. But then, after about three months of restriction, I found myself in extreme abdominal pain.

My gallbladder developed stones. This was probably something I was already prone too, but because I restricted my diet and cut so much fat out it exasperated the symptoms.

At seventeen I had to get my gallbladder removed, which oddly knocked me out of the horrible mindset I had gotten myself in. (Thank God)

Anyway, just be careful. There's nothing wrong with trying to lose weight, but it should never be a way to punish yourself. And read up on your medical history before doing such. Extreme dieting can bring out symptoms that shouldn't have occurred until much later in life.

A body with an average bmi is healthy, but not if it's achieved in unhealthy ways.

Anyway, I hope my mistakes can help others. I don't entirely regret what I did to myself, it helped me learn a lot about my relationship with food and gave me many insights to avoid the same mistakes.

Just be careful.

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Honest question - how does weight loss surgery (ie gastric bypass/sleeve) help in weight loss?

Kind of a redundant question as I'm a medical student and understand the science behind these procedures. But I sort of assumed they were mainly for candidates of large, large size. So I was shocked to see some users here were approved for the surgery/got the surgery when they were in the mid range 200's.

I'm on my weight loss journey at 5'4 and 269 pounds (from 280) I never once considered surgery, just thought I wasn't big enough to be qualified. All I gotta do is eat less, move more you know lol. So why how someone else at my weight and height or similar dimensions be aided in that type of procedure?

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(NSV) I Finally Quit Soda

Hi everyone! Frequent lurker, first time poster, and I want to share my story about how I overcame my soda habit.

When I was in high school, I drank a ridiculous amount of Mountain Dew. Easily 2-3 20oz bottles a day. I didn't put on weight then so I didn't think about it much but once my metabolism slowed, my soda addiction led to me gaining 80 lbs over the latter half of my 20s.

I had tried to quit soda multiple times before, but I always got intense mood swings, my energy crashed, and I started getting horrendous headaches (those caffeine headaches are absolutely brutal), so I'd go right back to my habit after being good for a few days.

After getting severely depressed over my repeated failures to lose weight, I finally had an epiphany and figured out something that worked for me. I realized that I was addicted to both the sugar and the caffeine in my sodas. I needed to quit one before the other or I wasn't going to be able to do it, and since it was the sugar that led to me getting so heavy, so I needed to focus on quitting the sugar in my drinks. It seems so obvious but back then, the denial was strong. I was an emotional eater/soda drinker, and it meant making a big change, which is scary no matter what, but I knew my health would only continue to suffer if I didn't at least try.

I started with only drinking diet sodas. Not great, but better than the full sugar ones. Did that for a couple weeks and then replaced my "morning" soda (I used to drink soda first thing in the morning) with black coffee. That was the hardest transition because all I wanted to do was put a ton of cream and sugar in it, but I stuck with it. It took a couple weeks to be consistent with it, but eventually, I didn't even miss the soda in the morning: I just wanted my black coffee.

The next step after that was going one day a week without sodas. I found out the best substitute for me were those cans of La Croix carbonated water. Still slightly sweet, fizzy, but it was water, not soda. One day a week of no sodas turned to two days a week, three, etc. The 12-packs of Coke Zero Vanilla that used to last me three days started taking weeks to work through.

As of today, it's been six weeks since I've had a soda. I'll still keep the La Croixs around for when I feel like I need something fizzy, but now I drink my daily coffee in the morning, and then almost exclusively uncarbonated water during the day with the occasional unsweetened tea. I don't need soda to get through the day anymore and I don't feel the urge to go get one when I'm stressed or upset. I feel like I have more control over my emotion and can handle stress way better than before.

I'm still at the beginning of my weight loss journey, but this little victory makes me feel like I can do it. I don't want to enter my 30s being obese and until I started this little soda experiment, I had pretty much resigned myself to being heavy for the rest of my life. But now, I really think I can get back down to a healthy weight before my 30th birthday.

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[SV & NSV] Yesterday I saw a photo of myself in a Facebook memory and I couldn't believe it was actually me. This happened on the same day that I became a healthy weight for the first time in over 13 years. (X-Post /r/progresspics)

The Progress Photos

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Yesterday was the first time since starting my "weight loss journey" that I saw an old photo and literally didn't recognize myself. The photo on the left was taken at a Halloween party on October 31st 2015, when I was 18 years old and about 5 pounds short of my worst ever weight; 250 pounds. When it popped up in my Facebook memories yesterday I was in literal shock. I had no idea that I had ever looked like that, but it made me realize just how far I have come since realizing I had to make a change.

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There are so few photos from that time period that show anything other than my face (so few photos at all, actually) because of how absolutely ashamed I was of my body. I took no pride in myself, I had zero confidence whatsoever, and I was eating my stress away on a daily basis. I tried to lose weight in 2016, got 30lbs down, but gained all of it back within a few months of "falling off the wagon." In March of this year, I made the decision to change for good. Partially on my own accord, partially inspired by my Mother becoming a vegan and my younger Sister beginning (and completing) an incredibly admirable weight loss journey of her own. I started counting my calories religiously, getting outside more, walking home from work 45 mins a day, and heavily reduced the frequency in which I was eating out. Thanks to my roommate, I started working out regularly after I couldn't deal with him pushing me to do it anymore. This was shortly after we moved in together, and he has been a huge motivator for me and my progress since the beginning and I am incredibly thankful for it.

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Also thanks to him, at the beginning of October I also switched to a ketogenic diet that is working super well for me. The photo on the right was taken last night, on November 1st, 2018, just over 3 years to the day since the first photo was taken. As of today I am incredibly proud to say I am exactly 70lbs down from where I started at in March (246 pounds) and am officially, within a healthy weight range for the first time in over 13 years. I originally didn't want to post a "before-after" photo until I had gotten all of the weight off, but seeing the difference was too much for me to ignore today, and officially having a BMI of 24.9 made me feel incredible. I still have a little left to go before I reincorporate carbs into my diet and try to bulk up some muscle over the next few months, but I made it. I have done something I once thought I never would.

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most." Thank you to the redditor who commented that on some random post I can't remember a few months back. I wish I knew who you were, because that little mantra has done absolutely everything for me in my hardest moments. As always, shoutout to r/loseit for everything you guys have done for me as well. This community is really freakin cool man. Keep doing what you're doing *fist bump*

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28 Yom at the start of a weight loss adventure.

Hello all.

I've been debating on making a post for quite a while, mainly because I've tried to do this before and look the fool when I bail on it. That will not be happening this time.

A little about me. I'm 28, married with a kiddo, 6'3" and started the beginning of September 2018 around 330 pounds. I applied to a career fire department and knew to pass the first portion of the test I was going to need to be in better shape that I currently was. I got in touch with one of my good friends who is a collegiate strength coach and he developed my workout regiment and slowly started making changes in my life to help support the work I was putting in at the gym. I never really intended to diet or anything just wanted to be good for the test. Well, once I started lifting again I got hooked and my body has continually craved change both in my eating habits and how hard I push myself in the gym.

Fast forward to my weigh in last week I am down to 310.

Not sure why I posted, maybe just as something for me to put myself out there on this or to see if there's any support but I'm 110% committed to this. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

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This is So Much More Than Just Weight...

This is about healing...

I started this journey after discovering my estranged father lost part of his foot from Type 2 diabetes. 3-4 generations from that side of my family suffers from spousal/child abuse and emotional eating to cope with it. Well...sometimes we have to address the elephant in the room instead of paint over it (or cover it with a fancy quilt) and secretly hope not to be trampled.

The other big thing that made me rethink life was I recently found out I have arthritis, and for years my guy has had back problems. Did you know that our knees and other weight-bearing joints carry 1.5-3 times the pressure of our weight? Even small changes can make a big difference!

This has been a journey. I haven't been doing this to "be pretty"... In fact, at my age (40s), I am resolved with the fact I'll probably have a buttload of hanging baggy skin when this is over. I don't care. I just want to be able to keep up with my kids, and see them grow up strong and happy and not in pain or sick.

So, I am learning to cook. Our bodies are what we put into them, and I want us to be healthy and strong. I also want us to have delicious meals to sit down to. Food is so important when it comes to bonding, and I realize this is going to continue to take time, practice, and patience.

I'm trying to get us off restaurant food and packaged stuff 90% of our meals, and I'm trying cooking mostly vegetable/legume-based dinners. My guy isn't super thrilled right now as it has a big change for him (he grew up on meat/potatoes/Wonder Bread type diet), and I am still learning little tricks to making things healthy *and* yummy, but he has been so supportive—and I am so thankful for that.

It hasn't been long, but it is already doing wonders for our health. His blood pressure and my blood sugar have dropped into normal range (his doctor actually wants to wean him off his blood pressure meds). We do not hurt so much now—mostly a little ache on rainy days. We sleep so much better! He stopped snoring, and my reflux is gone. Our kids are running and biking with us. We do family activities on the weekend and work on our home and we have time for fun, too.

I had to stop a lot of the kids' after-school activities for this. Strangely, they don't seem to mind. Now they do little chores and have freetime to play with friends in the afternoons/evenings. Sometimes they do get bored (gasp). Gosh—what a strange thing that is by parenting standards these days. Our friends think we are aliens not bussing the kids around 3-6 days a week. XD

My weight loss has been an ongoing thing over a year, but we've only been really getting into this new nutrition/lifestyle thing the past 6-8 months. It feels good our family eats together, we are saving some money, and it is nice to eat home-cooked meals. I think we could live like this.

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