(SV) Weighed myself for the first time in a LONG time, knew I had lost some weight but didn't realize how much. I thought the scales were lying!! I am now the lightest I have ever been in my adult life, by some distance!!!

First things first, I have been a follower of this subreddit for some time now and you all are genuinely an inspiration to me. Becoming a member of r/loseit was one of the best things I have ever done and genuinely don't think I could have done it without.

When I first decided that I wanted to change I was at my heaviest at 227lbs at the age of 19. I am now 21 and weigh 186lbs. This also means for the first time in my life I am now at a healthy BMI. Over the past couple of years changing my eating habits has been on my mind. I did not stick to a strict diet and some months I will have lost weight a lot more than others. I started off wanting to lose weight for the simple reason to look better. I don't think that there is anything wrong with this and recently I have been getting comments of people I had not seen in a while saying how well I looked/how much weight I lost. Undoubtedly it's nice to hear these things, however I have come to realize the greatest satisfaction for me is feeling better in and about myself. I have come a long way and still got some more to go but my god the feeling of disbelief and ultimately realization of what I have achieved was quite an emotional one. I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS LIGHT SINCE I WAS A KID!!!! I just cant believe it and like I said I couldn't have done it without you guys!

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Before today the last time I weighed myself was late August 2018 and I was 208lbs. The last few months have been my best for sure and I didn't even realize! Here's to the next few months of hopefully similar progression!

Here's what I have been doing the last few months:

• Intermittent Fasting - I had been using IF on and off for the last few years however started sticking by it religiously the last few months. I would not eat at all during the day and eat practically what ever I wanted for my daily nightly meal. I however didn't track my Calories but were calorie conscious of what I would eat. As I only normally eat one meal a day it would take some feast to consume enough calories that went over my TDEE. I wouldn't really advise this as I have seen the amount of success people have got from tracking CICO but this suited my lazy student budget lifestyle.
• Drinking Water - Like I mentioned above I have been following this subreddit for a couple of years. One thing I learned very quickly is that water is your greatest friend. Water became a staple of my lifestyle right at the start of my weight loss journey. I have gone from not drinking much water at all to actively enjoying drinking it. I can either taste differences in bottled waters and tap waters from different areas. I still drink the odd diet soda and sometimes the odd non diet but this is only when I feel like it which is rare these days.
• Exercise - Fortunately I was brought up playing sports and developed a love for exercise at a young age. I still carry on with some sports and also go to the gym. However I see exercise a leisure not a chore which I am grateful for. There have been days when I didnt want to go to the gym and I have gained motivation from you guys on this sub. Im enjoying exercise even more now I have lost weight and I am starting to develop a passion for the gym which I have previously not had.
• Making it sustainable - one thing I have learned about weight loss is that the key to success is doing it in a way that is sustainable. This means it can take a while which is something that I didnt want to happen. But getting on those scales today and seeing my weight that low has made me realise it's not been that long at all. Have cheat days, enjoy the odd soda because it does take time but it is definitely worth it in the end.
  

Thanks to anyone who has read this, I just felt super proud of my self like you guys make me feel all the time. If this post helps just one person gain a little inspiration I will be very happy indeed. Also any questions please feel free to ask. KEEP GOING LOSERS YOU ARE THE BEST!!

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Weight loss

Sorry if this in the wrong spot but I thought I would share.

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In high school, graduated in 98, I snacked so much and was so inactive that my weight went up at least 210 pounds. It wasn't until I was walking up to my date's house for prom that I thought 'maybe I should have worked out before this moment'. Course after that I didn't do anything about it until after high school where I went on the Atkins diet and began working out. For an entire year I didn't eat any bread and cut out all snacks. By the end of that year I was really craving bread so I went back eating fairly normally just cut out all snacks. While I knew I was losing weight, I didn't realize how much until one day I went somewhere, put on my large sized shirt and it was too big for me.

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Since then, I've managed to keep the nearly 50 pounds off by continuing to go to the gym, cutting out all sweets...which is hard to do between Halloween and Christmas, and trying to eat healthy

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Holidays Leave You a Little Heavier? 5 To-Dos to Lose the Extra Weight

Parties, feasts and treats of all kinds: The holiday season is full of indulgences that are nearly impossible to resist. And when the celebrations are over and the decorations are all put away, many of us carry a little extra holiday weight into the new year. A study published by the National Institutes of Health found that people who are already overweight add an average of five more pounds each year during the six weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The longer you keep those excess pounds, the harder the holiday weight can be to shed. That’s why today is the best time to take steps to lose the extra weight.

5 Surprising Reasons Winter is the Best Time to Lose Weight

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Start the year off right with these five proven and effective strategies to lose the holiday weight:

1. Clear out leftovers.

When the party ends, you often have a house full of unfinished cakes, pies, cookies, candy and other goodies—which all contributed to your holiday weight gain. You don’t want them to go to waste, but if you finish them you’ll be loading up on calories you also do not want. Gather the treats up—all of them—and take them to your workplace or share them with a local community group. You’ll be glad to see them gobbled up and you’ll spare yourself the temptation of eating them yourself.

2. Stand up more.

Here’s a little simple math that adds up to a big difference. The average person burns 100 calories per hour while sitting and 140 calories per hour while standing. Set a reminder on your phone to tell you to be on your feet for at least two hours every day. You will burn an extra 560 calories by the end of the week, which is about enough to help you drop one pound.

3. Sip tea.

A steaming cup of tea does more than warm you up on chilly days. According to a study published in the European Journal of Nutrition, tea help stimulates weight loss with two unique compounds. Catechins boost your metabolism and help your body break down fats. Polyphenols reduce the gut bacteria that is typically associated with obesity and increase the kind of bacteria that creates lean body mass. These compounds are found in both green and black teas. Better yet, tea has zero calories if you add nothing more than lemon juice, so you can enjoy it all day long.

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4. Write it down.

The simple act of noting each day what you eat and drink and your physical activity increases your chances for success when you’re trying to drop extra pounds. There is a “significant association between self-monitoring and weight loss,” according to research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Mindless eating is one of the most common causes of weight gain. Recording your food intake and activity helps raise your awareness about making healthy choices and shows you when your choices may be hindering your effort to lose.

5. Sign up for Nutrisystem >

People who participate in weight loss programs have much more success than those who try to diet on their own. Even better, the Nutrisystem program is more than a diet, it’s a plan for life. You’ll learn the keys to healthy eating and how to make the changes that help you drop excess pounds and keep the weight off. Nutrisystem offers you lots of delicious meals and snacks to choose from, so you eat delicious foods as you lose the weight. You also get invaluable support from the free NuMi app >,which makes it easy to track your daily diet and activity, and you also receive guidance from expert dietitians who answer your every question and help you get through any challenge. Best of all, Nutrisystem ensures you lose weight the healthy, sustainable way—no crash dieting, no strange ingredients combos, and no giving up the kinds of foods you love. You eat up to six times a day, so you’re not feeling famished all day. And with the unique Turbo Takeoff week plan, you start getting results right away.

Sign up now for your Nutrisystem plan and get rid of those extra holiday pounds before they stick around until next year >

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frustrated, but i’ll keep going

i started trying to lose weight on april 25th 2018 after years of hating my body and feeling terrible about myself and my eating habits. before this point, i would eat when bored. i was eating a full dinner’s amount around 3 or 4 times a day, as well as snacking and drinking 2, sometimes 3 cans of pepsi a day.

i am 16F, so this has honestly been quite hard for me because i’m not in complete control of what food is in the household. i don’t weigh any of my food, but i very loosely count calories (mostly just guesstimate) and aim for below or at maintenance. i also don’t exercise apart from travelling to school. this, as well as the fact that i’ve had many days of overeating during this journey, my weight loss has been extremely slow.

after around 8 months, i’ve lost 13-14kg (28-30lbs). previously around 75-76kg (165-167lbs), i now weigh 61.7kg (136lbs) as of this morning. i hope to reach 55kg (121lbs) and then assess whether i want to lose more weight, and i’m 163cm tall (5’4).

honestly, i am proud of myself for making change in my life, but some people haven’t noticed, which doesn’t help with the fact that i feel like i don’t look any different sometimes.

my weight loss has slowed drastically these past couple of months and i’m mostly just maintaining my weight right now, with lots of difficulty. when i started i thought the whole weight loss thing was easy, and was even worried about undereating. but now it feels like i have to do all i can to prevent myself from overeating.

i also am frustrated because if i was more disciplined, i could’ve healthily lost this weight in a matter of 5 months, but i’ve taken 8 months just to lose slightly more than half. it’s taking all i have not to gain it back, and i’m not even at my goal yet.

even though i feel this way, i have to keep going for my own sake. i can’t backtrack now. i need to keep in mind that even maintaining is a victory in itself, and i don’t want to let myself go back to being miserable. and i need to remember that this “journey” is really lifelong.

thank you to anyone who read this far, and i wish you luck on your personal journeys.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 07 January 2019? 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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How do you not obsess?

Hi all, I'm new here, and new to the weight loss journey. Im going to preface this by saying I am diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and am on medication to help me with it.

Some background on me:

Ive never seriously put forth an effort to lose weight until now. I'm a 30 year old female and I weigh 300lbs on the dot. I started this journey on January second at 302lbs. I am type two diabetic amd I have sever Obstructive Sleep Apnea. As far as weight loss goes, I've no idea what I'm doing. There are so many different programs and plans and methods. I've always been a bad binge eater with lots of takeout, pizza, sweets, and drinking gallons of soda. So i figured I would start with the basics and change up my diet and incorporate some moderate exercise as I can.

Well it's been working very well for me and I feel really good about what I've been doing. Ive fallen in love with the challenge. I've been eating much healthier, have successfully avoided all of my cravings and battled through my weak moments (so far, lol) I've been doing moderate exercises at home (jumpingjacks, crunches, "knee" pushups) and overall trying to be more active. My abs are very sore right now, who knew there were even abs under all this mass??

The only problem I'm having is that almost every hour of the day this is what's occupying my mind. I read this subreddit and others constantly, I want to talk about it all the time. I want to go to the grocery store and buy every vegetable they have in stock so I have something acceptable to snack on; I'm always planning my next meal, asking someone for advice, or thinking about how badly I want to stick with this.

My boyfriend (not on a diet) is very supportive of me, but tells me (And I very much acknowledge this) that I'm obsessing over this. when I get home from work I tell him everything that I ate that day because I am proud, and I want to share. But I dont want to be that person. That person is annoying af. But it is essential that I follow through with this for my health.

I know that this is a very important thing for me to be doing. It is. But I dont want my entire life to circle around my weight loss journey.

Like I said, I am obsessive compulsive, and I understand that this is probably a huge part of why I'm being like this, but surely, a large life overhaul like this....is there anyone else that obsesses over their new life choices?

I'm starting to feel bad for my poor boyfriend.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Monday, 07 January 2019

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

Interested in some side quests?

• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
• [Track with Me Thursday] Did we just become best friends?!
• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

Community bulletin board!

• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

If you are new to the sub, click here for our posting guidelines

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