Am I losing too fast?

About a month ago, I was diagnosed with insulin resistance and put on metformin. At the time I weighed 137kg (302lb). I have always been skeptical about my ability to lose weight and my doctor confirmed to me that having this problem can make it much harder for me to do so. They recommended I cut down my calories to 1200 gradually and I did. I worked out my goal weight (50kg/110lb) and my BMR (which, for my height, is 1400 calories).

So far I have cut down my calories to just over 1200 and almost entirely eliminated refined carbs from my diet, and I have noticed the weight is coming off. At first it was a huge relief to me, because cutting calories was always difficult for me and my carb cravings used to be so bad. I am currently down to 128kg (282lb). However, I am concerned that the weight may be coming off too fast. Is this normal for weight loss?

(Just to clarify, I don’t feel physically bad and I’m not forcing myself not to eat if I’m hungry.)

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One year 80 pounds

I got out of the Navy approximately 4.5 years ago, shortly after my daughter was born. I had gained around 60 pounds during my pregnancy and since I was no longer working out 3-4 times a week and since I no longer had a PRT hanging over my head, I ate whatever I wanted and ignored my weight. A year after my daughter was born I realized I had gained even more weight on top of the “baby weight” and was on a destructive path of binge eating and straight up laziness. I stopped drinking soda and started making better choices when it came to food and lost close to 20 pounds. A few months in and I was feeling a lot better, then stress started to build up; I was in school full time, there was some drama with family and then, oh hello I was pregnant again. I lost my momentum and motivation and started eating whatever I wanted again (I have an out of control sweet tooth) and drinking several sodas a day. Fast forward to about a year ago, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw someone who I didn’t recognize, I saw someone who was struggling to keep up with her children, someone I didn’t want to be. I had at least 80 pounds to lose and I wasn’t sure where to start. I had tried a few diet plans and fitness apps off and on and nothing had stuck. I then stumbled upon an ad on Facebook for a new weight loss/fitness app an figured I’d give it a try. It cost money and I thought maybe if I paid for it it would force me to stick with it. Boy was I right! I have been using the app for almost a year now and I’m down 80ish pounds. I have mainly been focused on less calorie dense foods, smaller portions (eating off a “dessert” plate helps with this!) and sticking to 1200 calories a day. I recently decided to join a gym to regain my muscle tone. My goal now is to get back to my best PRT scores (which would be 60 push-ups in 2 minutes, 100 sit-ups in 2 minutes, and a mile and a half in a bit over 12 minutes -I don’t remember the exact time). I go to the gym 4-5 days a week and usually spend an hour and a half working out (there is a two hour time limit on the childcare provided) I use another app provided by the gym to track my workouts and help keep me focused as I tend to be a bit aimless on my own in a gym setting because Navy pt sessions are group oriented and have an appointed leader. I don’t know why I suddenly felt compelled to share my snippet of a story with internet strangers, it could be the two glasses of wine I had with dinner...who knows. I just hope I can be motivating to any one out there looking for encouragement. You can dooo eeet! same text post with before/after pictures

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It’s Day 1 and I’m so scared I sort of want to cry.

I’ve been chubby/large/overweight/whatever since I was a kid. And it’s....always sort of bugged me I guess.

I’ve always stress ate. Upset? Food. Scared? Food. Stressed to tears? Food. It’s a horrible habbit that I’m trying to shake, and maybe having more accountability will help me.

And now my body image issues have sort of brought me to a breaking point. I look in the mirror and I feel disgusting and I hate myself and my body so much. I feel...unfeminine and just “eugh”.

I’ve wanted to lose weight for a while. I’ve done short term exercising and saw progress (in like...tone or in how I felt, not in my weight) and that made me happy but I can’t stick to something. Not...well.

There is one thing I don’t hate about myself and that’s my “figure.” I have a large chest/hips and I think that’s been stopping me for so long. I’m so terrified of loosing the one thing that I can look at and say “that looks good, it isn’t disgusting at least.” Like...typing this has me in tears and it’s just fucking awful. I don’t want to hate myself more than I already do? I’m just...scarred. But I think for my health and sanity I need to start somewhere.

So I’m hoping perhaps this post will help me stay committed to this decision.

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Stats

Weight: 233 lbs Height: 5’5” Age: 19 Sex: Female Lifestyle: Sedentary College Student

Goals

Short Term: 200 lbs (next like..3-4 months? I’m not sure what a proper...rate of weight loss is yet.)

Long Term: 130-ish lbs to be in the healthy weight range for my size.

———————— I plan on doing a lot more reading on here and starting my calorie tracking tonight with dinner.

Any tips or advice are definitely more than welcome!!

I’m a bit of mess right now, but I did want to say thank you so much for a) helping be a part of such a supportive and educational community and b) for...reading all of this. I appreciate it.

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How different cultures value weight

Not sure if this is the right sub but just wanted to share a funny story that reminded me not to take myself/weight loss so seriously all the time. One of my coworkers who I hadn’t seen in a while came up to me in the med room (I’m a nurse) and super happily exclaimed: “I haven’t seen you in so long! How are you? Have you gained weight!?” I just laughed, I mean she was right, I had! goddamn Christmas baking😅 This coworker is Chinese. I’m born and raised in North America, but I’m African and my family back home used to call us “Fatty Boom Boom” and mean it with all the love in the world lol. Chasing health/fitness/confidence etc is always a great goal. But I guess I was just reminded that no matter where you are in your journey your body is still this weird/amazing/hilarious thing that we need to celebrate and sometimes laugh about. I hope this comes across okay, not meaning to make fun of any culture, I just think our differences/diversity is cool to reflect on

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[NSV] I think I have aged backwards in 10 years!

Hi friends! It's been ages since I last posted here, and I wanted to do an update. I used to come around here a bit, but then I had a baby and life got in the way.

In 2014, I was able to finally reach a 103 lb weight loss over the course of 3 years. I was so happy! Then, my husband and I had a baby in 2015 and I gained 50 lbs of baby weight. I've been on a slow road downward since then, but now I'm ready to get back to business and get back down to my 2014 weight of 147 lbs. Right now, I'm sitting around 170, but I have noticed such a huge difference in my face alone. I'm doing so much better in maintaining my mental health, my skin routine, and trying to keep healthy and happy. I feel like a lot of these things have helped me look so much younger than I did when I was bigger and depressed.

I had been struggling the last couple of years with shedding the baby weight, but hoping that posting will help keep me a lot more accountable now. Publicizing my journey before helped tremendously, so I hope that by going down this path again, that I will continue to have the strength to keep going and keep losing until I feel healthier and more in tune with how my body feels.

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Progress pic from 2008 - 2018

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My weight loss journey so far

Hey everyone, I've been following this subreddit for around 5 months not really active in the comments but I love reading other people stories.

So I've been on this current journey for just over 9 months, it's not my first time trying to lose weight but this is the longest by a long distance.

I started at 140kg currently down to 107 which is the lowest I've been in around 3 years. I don't really remember ever weighing my self between 100kg and 140kg it just seem to happen out of nowhere. I've been doing this slowly and I have had loads of ups and downs.

My macros currently are p:175 f:75 c:194 total calories:2150

Any questions will be answered bellow thanks guys

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Scared I will lose everything while losing weight.

I have had the same friend group for years. We are very close. We're work colleagues, best friends and spend a lot of time together, individually and together. Here is my problem. They're all big partiers. It's all we do together. One drink turns into many and then results in bad food choices and many missed workouts due to being out with them and/or being too tired and hungover the next day to workout or make good food choices.

This is severely affecting my weight loss. I am paying for a personal trainer and weight watchers and not making any progress because of this. I have made suggestions to friends previously that we find non drinking activities. This never works. I am concerned that if I choose to limit my drinking, I will lose all my friends. I don't have any other way of meeting people other than work. My partner and I have 5 kids between us so when they are with us, I want to be home with them.

My husband is a big drinker. This is how we met and this is what we do together.

I need to make a change but don't want my life to fall apart doing this. How do I make this work?

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