Lost 20 pounds and i’m finally starting to be comfortable in my own skin

In a span of a month I lost 20 pounds. Perhaps a little drastic.

Some background: I have always been average. Always maintained the same weight but during college I slowly started to gain weight and it became harder to keep it off. Fast forward 4 years, I was at my heaviest, 176lbs. In my mind I wasn’t that fat. I was still “okay.” It isn’t until you see pictures of yourself that you realize just how big you’ve gotten. You see yourself in a completely different lens.

It hurt. I ate even after I was full. I was winded after eating! Ridiculous. I decided enough was enough. I hated adjusting my shirt when I sat to hide my fat. Hated passing a mirror and seeing how bloated I looked. Worst of all I hated my face. My ugly crooked teeth and my double chin that I had given myself.

I made up my mind to invest in braces, in myself. I needed my wisdom teeth extracted before I could start my journey. A week of pain, discoloration, and looking so swollen you could mistake me for a chipmunk. I could only tolerate drinking an excess of water and some occasional oatmeal for a week. I was starving. The next two weeks I spent more time cutting up my food into small pieces than actually eating it.

Then came my braces. I had all the luck. Some people are able to eat like before just after a week. But I was on a soft food diet for a month. I lost weight SO fast. My face slimmed down. My old jeans fit. No more muffin top! Best of all my body was getting used to eating smaller meals! Braces helped me cut all the sugary snacks I would eat throughout the day. Any snacking I considered were immediately shut down because the process of rinsing, flossing, and brushing afterwards, were just not worth it.

I am continuing to watch what I eat and have even begun to work out to tone down further. I can’t wait to get my braces off and feel confident in myself. I want to be carefree and not hiding in shame.

I’m sorry if this wasn’t the usual workout weight loss. I’m just so happy! I couldn’t believe the scale when I weighed myself. I don’t fear the holiday weight gain because I don’t crave sugar like I used to and if I do indulge my braces remind me to slow the fuck down because it’s not worth getting cavities :)

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After failing so many times I am starting my weight loss journey again. Need your advices.

hi guys, i been struggling with my weight my entire life. I am 35 and weigh 340 lb which is INSANE! I am no longer a normal functioning person anymore because of my weight. I cant walk for more than 2 minutes without my lower back being in pain because of my huge belly. I have to shop at big and tall now because no store has my size 3xl - 4xl (Canada). I am pre diabetic and will be diabetic if I don't stop soon. I constantly feel hot when everyone else are cold because probably i have high blood pressure because of my weight. I tried getting in shape so many times and only once few years ago i was able to get down to 250 and felt amazing but then met my wife 4 years ago got married and gained all the weight back plus more!! My wife is also becoming over weight because of me. All we do is eat watch tv and eat. I work from home so i am always sitting on my couch with my laptop working, eating and watching tv. I need help! The reason i am telling all this is to see if someone can guide us. I desperately need to get in shape or I will get serious health issues. We are planning a baby soon and i want to be healthy for my kid. I always start and end up giving up within a week. Its like my motivation doesn't exist and I have no discipline. I know I can do it though because i quit smoking 2 months ago and now I have to change my eating habits.

I checked my TDEE and it says that I need to eat 2500 calories to maintain and 2000 calories to lose 1lb a week. I am gonna be cutting few things from my diet completely such as white rice, bread, pasta, milk, candies, chocolates, fast food, fried food and processed food. I have a HUGE sugar addiction so i have to deal with that as well. I will use erythritol instead of sugar if needed. I will eat brown rice for carbs and veggies. I will start by walking every morning as much as I can and in evening lifting weights (something i can still do without problems). What are some of things you guys do to keep in track and stay focused towards the weight loss goals? What are the main triggers that you guys try to avoid? For example tv is a huge trigger for me, if i am watching something i need to snack on something. So i think i will have to limit my tv as well. Any advices guys will be much appreciated.

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When all clothes become an option...

Random, but here goes. I hadn’t realized until I started losing weight that I had so many clothes labeled in my mind. “I’ll wear that when it fits me” or “that’s cute but I feel fat in it” or “that shirt is too tight in X place”. And I don’t know if they really did look as horrible as my mind envisioned, but regardless, I wasn’t wearing any of them. And all of those things were limiting my wardrobe selection SEVERELY.

Now that I’m moving forward in my weight loss journey, and much closer to where I want to be, it’s as if my closet has OPENED and I feel fabulous in everything I wear. I no longer have clothes labeled as unwearable because I feel a certain way in them. And it is SO refreshing.

So if you need that extra little motivation today, take a look in your closet and think about the clothes you subconsciously push behind the rest because they haven’t been an option for so long. Work for those!

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So my roommate isn't exactly the most supportive dude

My roommate never encourages me with my weight loss. Though he's a healthy weight, he never exercises and eats whatever he wants. Which is fine, and he doesn't have to encourage me with my weight loss at all, it's my journey.

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But he always has snide comments to make about my weight loss. A few days ago I ended up cheating on my diet outside of my cheat day (probably for the first time in months mind you) and when I mentioned it to him yesterday, there were no words of encouragement, no reassurance that I can get back on track, just...

"and whose fault is that?"

Bitch. You're not even active. You don't give a shit what you eat. I fell off the wagon for one day, and I just wanted some support from you or advice about it, and you essentially say "it's your fault, you fucked up". Yeah, but for someone who always refers to my eating plan as "your stupid diet" and calls me inactive even though I work out 6 days a week, which is 6 more than you, don't fucking act like you know how easy or hard it is to stick to a diet.

It's fine that you don't give a shit about my weight loss, but keep your rude comments to yourself if you have nothing nice to say about it.

I guess it's kind of petty and not really a big deal, but I don't get his attitude really. For someone who always called me fat last semester, I'd think he'd at least be a little bit encouraging? Whatever, I guess I'm not gonna discuss anything weight loss related around him ever again.

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I Fear That I Am Going To Die

I am 27 years old. I am 5 foot 10 inches tall. I weigh 357lbs. I don't have any health complications from being overweight.

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But its true. I feel like I am going to die from being so unhealthy. I have been overweight for as long as I can remember. I have ALWAYS been big. I went to the gym yesterday, weighed myself, and walked out crying.

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I am not trying to have a pity party. I'm really not. I just don't know where to go. My whole life, I have had been told the age old anecdotes of "You are a growing kid", "You will get a growth spurt", "You are young, don't worry about it", "Its all about portion control, you can eat whatever you want". All of these I know we have heard before. And in a way, I still use these to this day to excuse my behaviors. But, I feel like I cant do it. I get into these phases of "Okay, I can do this" and then I look in the mirror and then I get sad and depressed and repulsed at the weight I have, and then I go back into my old ways and habits and say "fuck it" i'm gonna die anyway I might as well live it up. And then reality kicks in and I get back into the "I can do this" phase and it just repeats itself. When I get into the mode to where I can do it, I cheat all the time. And it just perpetuates itself. I feel like I cant live without Diet Soda.

The tough love routine doesn't work for me. It just makes me more depressed and I begin to resent people and myself. I've thought about weight loss surgery, but that's not the easy way out at all. If I slip up once I can potentially die. I just. I dont know what to do. I dont know what is helpful. What is useful.

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Can anyone give some advice?

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I just started working out and eating healthy so I can have a surgery to remove my ovaries in six months.

I have a predisposition to ovarian cancer, so my endocrinologist and my gynaecologist recommended to Lose weight and remove them as soon as possible otherwise I won’t be able to do the surgery. Unfortunately I am 40kgs overweight since my first broke up two years ago due to depression.

I am 23yo right now and 170cms tall.

My goal is to lose 2kgs a week so I can lose all 4 in about 6 months. Last 2 months I was already working out but it was just so I could handle the weight loss training without injuries.

My diet is minimum 800 calories minimum per day + what I can get if I can handle 30min+ bicycling that day.
Before I ate anything I wanted and probably around 2000 calories a day, which would be okay if I weren’t fat already or pretty much worked from home.

I log everything I eat and do on MyFitnessPal.

I am going to the gym every morning but Sunday because it’s closed.

Yesterday I fell off an old chair and cut my left leg as a piece of the chair was stuck on it. I basically cry everyday because it’s so hard working out. And because my leg hurts so much I can barely walk. (Have been Uber riding 700m to the gym everyday)

Props to my girlfriend who wakes me up with a warm coffee every day. She helps me taking care of my meals and exercises, and helps me walking up the stairs and around the house. She always liked to work out so she is going together to help me through these next 6 months ahead and beyond.

I hope that at the end I will be able to maintain a healthy life style. I just wrote this because I wanted to share with someone else, even if nobody is going to ready it.

PS: I MISS CHOCOLATE SO SO MUCH.

Give me any tips you guys have if possible. Any help is a big help.

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I feel broken. I wish I was raised to have healthy eating habits in the first place, like everybody else.

I don't understand how the vast majority of humanity just instinctively knows how to eat just the right amount of food. None of my thin friends need to weigh things out, make sure they eat only one serving, or give themselves "cheat days" because they know they can't help but eat a whole sheet of brownies in one sitting (most people don't even want more than one or two - my defective brain wants so many that it makes me puke). They just know how to eat like normal human beings. None of them have ever thought about their eating habits. I think that's what people mean when they say that some people "don't even have to try". Of course they're doing something, and their bodies aren't producing a healthy result with no healthy input. But for them, this behavior is just a natural part of existence.

For me, it's a lot more complicated. I'm about 10 lbs overweight, down from being close to 100 lbs overweight. Every day is a struggle. I have eaten at or slightly over maintenance for the past week and I hate myself for it. I wasn't raised with healthy eating habits at all. Till this day, no meal is considered complete by my family members unless half of the plate is some form of greasy potato. I wasn't aware that the point of a meal isn't to be so full that it physically hurts to eat more until I was an adult. So naturally, I did that too, and it became an intrinsic part of how I think. It doesn't just go away because I objectively know it's wrong and unhealthy. The feeling is still there.

I feel like I'll be stuck this way for the rest of my life and it sucks. It's so disheartening. I wish I could just be like everyone else and have this stuff come naturally to me. I'll never be able to cook a recipe without spending an extra hour weighing everything out, making sure I weigh out my portions, etc. otherwise I'll just inhale everything in sight. The second I stop counting calories meticulously, I'll be on the path to obesity again, because my brain doesn't work like thin people's brains do. It sucks so much.

THAT is the part of weight loss that's out of people's control.

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