Let's talk about professional help

I don't see many people talking about professional help on /r/loseit. I guess not everyone needs it, but I've found it to be very beneficial in my journey. Here are some of the professionals who can help you lose weight.

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Therapist - Especially if you're more than 100 lbs overweight, there are likely emotional problems contributing to your weight. I truly believe nobody reaches 400 or 600 lbs just because they love the taste of cake and burgers. Also, if you regularly binge eat (eat large quantities with an out of control feeling), overexercise to punish yourself, or relate to any eating disorder red flags, it might be a good idea to go in. Anorexia isn't the only eating disorder out there. Binge eating disorder and bulimia are real and they can affect people who are not thin.

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Dietitian - They can be very helpful, especially if you were never taught about healthy eating habits as a kid. They can also help you set a realistic calorie and macro target that is right for you. They can help you with any sticking points you encounter along the way. They can also set you up for success by creating a 'maintenance plan' to transition you away from needing their services.

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Your Doctor - Don't discount your regular doctor as a valuable person in your weight loss journey. They can perform checkups to make sure you are healthy, order bloodwork, etc. If you are so inclined, you can also ask about a medically supervised very low calorie diet. These have been shown to be very effective in helping people lose weight and keep it off. They can also prescribe medications to prevent gallstones if you are losing weight fast.

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Personal Trainer - I truly believe everyone who lifts weights needs to visit a personal trainer for at least one visit to make sure their form is correct. You can permanently injure yourself by lifting with improper form. Other than that, they can also be good long term to help you with motivation, identify weaknesses in your training that you might not notice, etc.

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Are there any other professionals you can think of that I haven't mentioned? Any thoughts on this topic? Please feel free to share.

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I'm in the awkward "middle progress" where my skin is looser and my clothes are too big and baggy on me.

5'6 f. Sw:200 cw:155 gw: 140ish

I honestly have less confidence about my body now then before weight loss.

I look like I'm wearing a bag for clothes.

I tried buying new clothes but after a month of more weight loss my ass looked so damn flat in them it was disturbing.

I know that I need to start lifting weights again but my focus right now is losing enough weight to be 10 pounds under the upper limit of a healthy bmi.

But yeah, I looked at body in a full length mirror today and was astonished to see how much of my butt is gone from this past month of IFing and CICOing. I've never had a problem with my butt looking saggy and felt nauseated when I saw how it sagged like a grandmas butt!

It's like I'm losing weight in all of the wrong places and keeping it where it needs to go.

I just feel really ugly right now.

Thanks r/loseit for letting me rant a little bit. You guys keep me going when I want to give up.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 16 December 2018? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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I Ate Pizza!!!

Hi to you all. Just a short entry so hope it makes it past the rules and onto the board.

As the title suggests I ATE PIZZA. Was here a couple of weeks ago saying I was craving it and loooads of you got in touch to say "Just eat it as long as you got room to count it in" and you know what, I had room yesterday! So I went out and got myself a frozen pepperoni thin crust pizza, 381kCal for a 1/2. 762 kCal for the whole shebang.

It was so good! I prepared the whole pizza as usual and sat down to watch The Muppets Christmas Carol (the true start of Christmas for me is when this film comes on). I was full before the last slice! But I ate it anyway and it gave me wind. Should have saved it for when I got home later, but it's so hard to leave one lonely slice.

Then.. I went out and had drinks for our works Christmas do. Calorie counted it all. I had been to the gym that morning which helped give me wiggle room. Had a mini life babybel between 2 rice cakes thrown in the microwave for post drinks munch. I'm the end came to -222 kCal on MFP linked to my fitbit (so some dancing had given me more wiggle room). Over my daily weight loss target but still well under maintenance.

Yesterday and the day before I weighed 168.0. Today.. 168.2 and I don't feel disgusting or bloated or ashamed of myself. Throw on top mother nature giving her monthly present to me and I'm still on track and fine!

Thanks to everyone for just telling me to (wo)man up and just eat pizza. If you don't let yourself eat what you want you'll get sad with the cravings. Just make sure you have space for it.

Well that turned out longer than I thought.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. I now know I'm not going to be scared on Christmas day because to me pizza was my biggest vice, but I've controlled myself and enjoyed it and I will do this again on the 25th!!

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I’m so confused by this weight loss business, HELP!

Hello lovely losers ! I love this subreddit and am a regular browser here, so I hope you can help a sista out !

I am a 5ft1.5 F/29 y/o ( soon to be 30!) / CW: 126lbs GW:112 - medium and petite frame, endomorph “soft” body type ( big bust , never had a flat tummy but still a shorty blah blah) . I have a really high body fat % for my height, though I’ve never had it measured. I can just see all the fat sitting all over my stomach in particular and I look flabby and out of shape and round.

Anyway! My dilemma is the following : for exactly one month I’ve been trying to lose weight, eating 1200 cals a day RELIGIOUSLY, to the point of being pedantic , using a scale , measuring condiments, milk in my tea etc.

In one month I weigh exactly the same as I did when I started :/ I don’t know wtf is going on ! During this process I’ve been lifting @ gym 4 x p/wk and trying to be as active as I can while working a sedentary , FT job. Basically, pushing myself a lot and , to be perfectly honest, feeling exhausted and crappy on 1200 cals a day.

My Q is - does this mean 1200 is my maintenance amount ? How can this possibly be ?! It’s so low and I feel like shit eating so few calories. Would I be better off trying to increase my calories and doing a body recomp instead ? Even though I do want and need to lose 15 lbs ? I am so scunnered with the whole thing ( to use a Scottish word!) because I thought that eating 1200 would guarantee a loss for my height.

Does anyone have any advice ? Is the lack of loss water weight from starting a gym routine as a newbie ? Could it be to do w my hormones ? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance kind redditors.

*PS -not sure if this is relevant but around the same time I started dieting I also took a break from the pill, as I ran out of it. I have endometriosis and the pill keeps it under control. I started back on it yesterday.

**PPS - a year ago I was at the same weight I am now and managed to get to my 112 lbs ( yo yo dieter , I know :/) by eating 1500 calories without doing any exercise ! So I am totally bamboozled as to why this isn’t working !

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Been having a hard time this week but had a big (to me) self-control win today.

It's that time of the year for us uni students: finals. I've been slacking in the past 1-2 weeks with the diet with several cheat days, luckily not gaining much but not losing anything either. I'd like to blame it on the stress of finals, but I also know I could be doing better.

Anyway, today I had decided I'd jump back on the diet, but as the day went by, 6 hours of studying can change your mind about things. I was contemplating ordering chinese from my favorite restaurant for like an hour, and I almost did, but then I put my phone down... and then picked it back up and ordered it. I was excited about it because I hadn't had it in several months, and started driving to pick it up. It was about a 12 minute drive there plus 12 min back, which means I had 24 minutes to think about this choice I'd made.

I began to be disappointed in myself for caving since I said I'd get back on the diet but I also didn't want to waste the food (an excuse I've often made after making a poor decision and having food leftover). But, once I got home, I made a decision I didn't know I was capable of. With the food actually in front of me, I called my sister who's really supported me throughout this process, and told her about the situation. I knew I didn't want to eat it but I needed that extra boost to solidify that decision. Ultimately, I decided NOT to eat any of it, and gave it to my roommate instead.

I was afraid this diet was going down a slippery slope, but this event has renewed my faith in MYSELF to be able to complete it. Also, I just wanted to thank you all for helping me by just always supporting everyone and also the contests you run! The Mario challenge was a GREAT way to kickoff the weight loss journey for me!

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Update: anyone else get ravenous?

A week ago, I wanted to eat everything in sight. I posted about it, and, amazing community that this is, I got confirmation that it’s normal, most people feel that way and just have to push through it. That helped give me strength to fight through the part that always beats me during weight loss. I also took a lot of your advice, and I think that really helped as well.

Today I tried on a pair of jeans that have not even allowed me to close the button at the top, let alone zip up. I buttoned and zipped, and happily wore them all day. Yes, they are definitely still too tight, but I was just so pleased I could get them on and off. The other advantage, since they are high rise jeans, is that the tightness made sure I didn’t over eat at my meals! I feel my fullness sooner than when wearing looser, stretchier fits. This is a double win, as I am currently at a time of the month where my body is bloated, and things tend to fit less well.

I haven’t been weighing myself, but I can see the results in what clothing fits already! (Still too nervous to weigh in. I get really caught up in the numbers.)

Thank you, r/loseit, for being there and constantly giving me motivation and strength. You are all amazing!

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