My dad is under the age of 50. This week, he had open heart surgery. I (24F) need to change my life and save my own heart.

Diabetes-induced atherosclerosis. That’s the condition that made his surgery necessary. He was an athlete through college and professionally for a bit, with a family history of Type 2 diabetes. He and I both love healthy food and are very active, but binge-eating and portion control in general are things we both struggle with (I am currently 235 pounds and 5’8” tall). I was also born with a heart murmur that does not cause me issues currently, but my doctor has warned me that if I do not take proper care of myself it could become an issue. Pair that with a family history of diabetes and heart disease, and I am absolutely terrified. I am ready to change my life for the better by losing some weight and being very selective about what I put into my body, before I find Type 2 diabetes and heart disease knocking on my door. Please, if any of you have conditions like these and have gone through the process of weight loss/transition to a heart-heathy, diabetes-friendly diet, I would be SO appreciative of any advice! Thank you in advance.

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I haven't posted here yet, but thought I'd share my progress for the year.

Hey everyone! As you can see in the image the one on the left was me a touch over a year ago and me on the right taken a couple weeks ago.

Sorry it isn't a full length images. I didn't have many images of myself. Anyway I guess I should throw in a story as to what I've been doing.

I'll start by saying I don't actually know how much I've lost. I weight 120kg on the left image and I am aiming for 90kg but I kind of thought there's no point having a goal weight because then I might stop and put it back on.

Anyway I credit most of this to a program called c25K. There's a sub: r/c25K and they are amazing! If you don't know what it's about, it's essentially couch to 5k. As the name implies, it's a program to get you to be able to run/jog 5ks. At first I was apprehensive and thought I wouldn't do it. But now I can comfortably run a 5k in 27/28mins and not even get out of breath!

Of course diet plays a big part in this too. Now I don't know really how 'impressive' this weight loss is, I'll let you be the judge. Anyway I didn't do some crazy ass diet where I cut everything and just ate water and air.

I started a bit unconventionally. I worked on my fitness First then diet. Usually most people tend to do it the other way. But I found I was more motivated to eat well so I could run faster. Typically I run 3/4 times a week, and on these days I will eat 2 pieces of toast in the morning, usually avocado. And have a ham and salad wrap and apple for lunch. Banana for morning tea, 2 coffees, a cup of tea in the arvo and eat like a pig at dinner. (But not a big portion size). I usually try to have veggies or salad with dinner. Once/twice a week I will eat ice cream or cake and have a couple snacks through the week.

I think one of the big things was cutting out beer and soft drink/soda. I have cordial once a day with dinner which is very weak. And have 2 or so litres of water. More on running days.

I work a sit down office job and found I have to eat well and run to maintain the weight loss.

Anyway I just wanted to share, and I hope this might serve as inspiration for others? Trust me, I was the typical fat, lazy slob. I'm still lazy at times haha, but not too bad. Anyway ask me anything you want, and thanks for the support over the year and everyone sharing their stories. So many people here are real inspirations!

(http://imgur.com/gallery/cIRj51G)

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Trying on old fat pants

Yikes. I was cleaning out my closet and found a pair of pajamas I wore at some point, probably around my heaviest. I remember they were so tight I only wore them a handful of times. I put them on just now thinking I could wear them around the house but I’m drowning in them. There’s nothing quite like the mindfuck of remembering how big you used to be. Like I know that I’ve lost weight but it’s like I forgot or something. I’m struggling.

(sorry if this isn’t appropriate for a whole post I just don’t really have anyone to talk to about weight loss that isn’t already tired of hearing me talk about it/ can’t relate)

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I [f26] stuck to my calorie goal for a month and lost weight (on purpose) for the first time EVER!

I've never been athletic, and always hated working out. I'm a weed smokin', video game playin', slightly chubby asthmatic and used those things as excuses for breaking my health goals over and over again. Although I've had a technically healthy BMI for years, at 158lbs and 5'7" I was just barely in the green zone.

I've started and abandoned weight loss/muscle gaining plans countless times. A while ago I stumbled on an askreddit thread where people were asking older redditors for advice for twenty-somethings. One of the top comments was "get fit while in your 20's and it will be much easier!" That made me realize I really have no excuse. I have no kids, no chronic pain, and plenty of free time. I was just being LAZY!

Last month I hit the gym and started counting calories and REALLY sticking with it. Not fudging serving sizes and then complaining CICO doesn't work. What's more, I started running 10-minute miles and increased my speed a little bit each time. Last week I ran a full mile in 8 minutes for the first time in my life! I started measuring my food and eating proper serving sizes. I chop up and portion out veggies for the week and make sure I have healthy snacks on hand. I started waiting until I actually feel hungry instead of eating when I was bored, or wanted a treat, or when it was "time to eat". My trick is to imagine eating a plain slice of turkey or a carrot or something, and if my mouth starts to water I know I'm really hungry and not just bored hungry.

I quit smoking weed and now staying under my calorie goal is so much easier. Who would've thought? Lol

My asthma is managable (also from quitting the ganj probably), my sleep is more restful, I have more energy, drink less coffee, and feel more confident! All of these things are happening because of an avalanche of small decisions that piled up!

I know it has only been a month, and 3 pounds isn't a lot, but its a huge deal to me because its the first time I've actually stuck with it and seen results.

Tl;dr I made several small, yet important changes and have seen weight loss results for the first time! I can do it, and you can too!

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Do you have weird things that your body isn't yours anymore after improving your diet/fitness?

Reposting from a different sub since I didn't get a lot of responses. Hoping y'all can help me.

tl;dr made improvements to my health, now my mental self is at odds with my physical self.

I rapidly gained about 70 lbs after I moved to a new city ~7 years ago and lived a very unhealthy lifestyle. About three years ago I started paying more attention to my health and very slowly lost some weight, but still not much. I wasn't very consistent with workouts and dieting and the weight loss kinda plateaued for a while. However, for the past four months or so, I kicked things into gear, made a lot of improvements to my diet overall, and have been consistently working out at least five days a week. I also started treating my (pretty severe) Vitamin D deficiency after about 8 or 9 years of completely ignoring it, and stopped weighing myself because it tends to discourage me and I end up falling back into the same old habits afterwards. I started to feel like I was finally at a place where I could sustain a healthier lifestyle for good.

What's weird is recently my body just doesn't feel like my own anymore. I'm having trouble reconciling it. It's confusing to me, because I don't think my current weight is anywhere close to what it was originally, and I never had this feeling of not being myself when I put on the weight (on the contrary, I didn't even notice how much I had gained until I saw photos of myself). I still buy and wear the same sized clothes even though I have probably gone down at least a size. I have all this energy that I don't know what to do with (I think largely due to Vitamin D) yet I still laze around when I'm home and am reluctant to do anything else. I'm a healthier person overall, but for some reason I just don't know how to act like one. I can't imagine myself as a smaller person wearing smaller clothes who isn't fatigued all the time and doesn't just lay around in bed at every opportunity.

Anyone else ever experience this? Were you able to push past it? I'm starting to worry that if I can't make it past this mental hurdle, I'll just revert back to my old ways. My weight usually fluctuates quite a bit and I've never been able to healthily sustain weight loss or make significant lifestyle changes until now.

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I need some help determining my goal weight

Hello guys!

First of all I have to say thank you to this sub for motivating me everyday. You guys are the best.

I'm 8 weeks into my weight lost journey and I'm down 30 pounds. There is no secrets to it. I started slowly then added new steps. I also binge 1 time a week up to 2500 when I go out with a friend I made; restaurant+alcohol are deadly... So it went kind of like this: -Week 0: Started with only stopping sodas and eating better. -Week 1: Started to go swimming 3x per week. -Week 3: Started gym with a program from a PT. -Week 4: Started CICO at 2000+Gym x3 +swimming x1 -Week 6: CICO 1800+Gymx3+swimming x3 -Week 8 (current): Cico 1200-1500+Gym x3+swimming x3+walking 30mins after gym.

I started week 0 at 360ibs and I finished week 8 at 329ibs. The pic I'll share with you is an in-body test that measure your body composition very accurately. It was taken friday november 9th, 3 days before I started going to the gym (week 3). I was weighting 351: https://imgur.com/a/rcPSzqc

My PT told me that 101ibs of muscular mass was a pretty big number and that we will not base results on BMI, but on waist measure. It surely comes fron the fact that I have sometimes been woodcutting for my father and that it is very heavy. According to him, I'll still be considered obese after my weight loss simply because of my muscular mass, but to ignore it (my bmi is at 50 on the test...). The thing is that I'm a guy that prefers to know where he is going and that the scale is a big motivation to me at the moment. According to my water mass+muscular mass, I weight almost 180 without my fat. You see where I am going?

So I don't know if someone could help me determine a good goal weight I could have for myself according to these stats? I would really much like it. Is being bellow 200 possible for me if I gain at least 10 pounds of muscle? Or it's not healthy?

I also do another test tonight and will update you guys with it. It will be interesting to see how much water did I lose vs fat and if I grew muscle mass or lost some. I'm also really curious to know from which part of my body the loss comes from (as you can see it shows separate composition for each body part).

Thanks a lot for your help!

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I feel like a failure unless I'm on Keto

There's a lot of back story involved with this post but basically unless I'm counting calories, and following the ketogenic approach (under 20 grams of carbs a day) I feel like a failure when it comes to weight loss. Weight seems to come off slower, and I've found myself caught up in binge cycles... I will stop limiting my carbs and tracking only calories but I soon stop tracking and constantly binge.... I then go back to Keto and restrict super bad.

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I know consistency, and lifelong changes are the goal but I can't shake the feeling when I'm eating anything I want in moderation that I'm still being 'bad' as I tend to make terrible choices when I allow myself sugar.

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I'm back on keto at the moment and being really strict. I'm miserable, and I have been for about 3 weeks now, but I feel a binge coming... I'm an all or nothing person in every single thing I do. I stopped visting the keto reddit as I felt some that place triggers some of those all or nothing mindset feelings.

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I originally lost 200 pounds via the ketogenic diet and calorie counting (370-170), and then regained back 40 pounds of that which I've started to re lose via keto and calorie tracking. I'm just tired of the all or nothing mindset and I'd like to do things in moderation.

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Any tips or suggestions? Also note this is not an attack on the ketogenic diet , It worked incredibly well for me and I'm thankful I was able to lose the weight I did. I think mentally it may have triggered some kind of weird behavior in me, or at least the keto militants contributed and made me feel like I'm somehow wrong for wanting to try CICO alone (unintentionally?).... I just seem to give up before I give it a proper go even though I know the science behind it, and I know it does work.

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