From a desperate standpoint: Do you sweat less?

Heya lose it! My problem is that I sweat too much. A year ago, I decided I can't take the sweat anymore and got a surgery called ETS where they burn some of your nerves to prevent you from sweating. This proved a very bad decision and the sweat from my head and hands transferred all over my body. Chest, back, legs, everywhere.

Now a five minute walk, even in winter, leaves my shirt soaking wet. It's gotten so bad that I seriously contemplated suicide in the summer. Winter is still a challenge. I am currently 115 kg and 178 cm. My question: Did you have a problem with excessive sweating and did it get any better with weight loss? If so, at which point did you see a marked reduction? I imagine it would be reduced, in fact I know it would. But I am at a point where if I don't see some affirmation every now and then, I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore. I already take antidepressants and anticholinergic medicine which results in constant mental fog. I can't get a job fearing the summer. I read everything there is from the Google results. Please share your experience regarding sweat. It is very valuable to me.

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Losing 200 pounds changed my life. No fad diets or surgery!

I was always bigger than everyone else. Even as a young child, I was heavier and taller than all my classmates. As I grew older, I also kept growing taller and bigger! I had a family that loved me, and I never thought I wasn’t loved. Except by the outside world. They were cruel and merciless. Taunting me. Making fun of me at almost every turn it seemed. Finally, when I reached 27 years old and 410 pounds, I decided I had enough. I was dying. Figuratively and literally. So, I started walking at night. Stopped eating fast food and drinking soda. Began consuming food that was natural and not processed. Day by day I grew more active, and the pounds started to come off. Fast forward 3 years of hard work, diet, exercise, dedication, perseverance, motivation, and determination...and I’m 200 pounds smaller!

I continue to exercise and I watch what I eat. I stay close to family and friends that have supported me along the way. I work to put behind me the negative comments about my excess skin because I know I worked so hard to be where I am. Every day is a battle, but I’m grateful to have a chance to fight!

Please read my story if you get a chance. I hope it can help someone!

Dramatic Weight Loss

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NSV - I glanced at myself in the mirror and liked what I saw!

I’m only 1 week in to my newest weight loss journey (lost about 30-35 pounds a few years ago and gained it all back, thanks grad school). Once I finished last semester, I was able to focus more on myself and my health, and I quickly realized I developed a LOT of bad habits and had let them go on for too long. What finally sent me over the edge was a family photo with my SO’s family - I knew I was bigger than I wanted to be, but I didn’t realize what I actually looked like until I saw the pictures.

Thankfully, that was just the kick in the butt I needed to start taking better care of myself! I’m down about 4 lbs (though at least 2 of those were likely bloating from all the crappy junk food I was eating) and feeling much better. I’ve been eating way more fruits and vegetables and using an app I like to track calories and inspire me to think about food in a healthier way.

I was at work today, wearing a form fitting T-shirt and jeans, and when I glanced in a mirror as I walked by I thought I looked pretty good! I haven’t had a moment like that in a while, so I wanted to celebrate it by posting. It’s not a 70 lb weight loss, but small victories are great too. 🤗

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5 ways to keep your workout motivation

If you feel your motivation is drifting and you’re ready to toss your New Year’s resolution to the wind, you’re not alone. In fact, due to the surge of people known to give up on their 2019 fitness goals around this time, January 12 has been deemed as “National Quitters’ Day”. While we don’t typically associate one single day for derailing our fitness goals, if the temptation to quit isn’t properly addressed, our chances of failing will significantly increase.

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Yesterday a stranger commented on my weight loss

I was walking to pick up my daughter from preschool when another mother stopped me.

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Other Mom: Your had a kiddo in preschool here last year too, right?

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Me: Yeah...

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OM: You lost a lot of weight didn't you!? Great job! I'm trying to do the same thing myself and you're really inspirational

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I [34f] still can't really believe someone said that to me. I've been overweight ever since I can remember, obese most of my life if I'm being truthful, and I come from a long line of "big boned" people. I grew up thinking that I was just destined to be fat my entire life because obesity and type 2 diabetes run in my family. Before I met my now husband at 26 I had gotten down to an all time low weight of 186lbs, I was working out around 6 days a week and overall feeling strong and amazing. I realize that 186 is still overweight, but after a lifetime of obesity it felt like a huge win and I was looking forward to being at a healthy weight before too long. Looking back I don't think I was netting a healthy amount of calories, and by a year into our relationship I had already packed about 30lbs back on. Cut to me getting pregnant (weighing 234lbs at the time), breastfeeding a baby, and getting pregnant again. I found myself in August of 2016 9 months pregnant with baby number 2 and weighing in at a whopping 283lbs. I had gained almost 100 pounds since meeting my husband. Whelp.

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I got done breastfeeding in February of last year and realized that I needed to get serious about losing weight. I struggled with being ravenously hungry pretty much all the time while breastfeeding and didn't lose any baby weight until I stopped, but without too much effort I found myself weighing 273 pounds in April 2018. I was ready to get serious about slimming down, and the first thing that I did was download MFP. I had used it to some success between babies, and managed to make it back down to 248lbs before plateauing and ultimately getting knocked up again. This time I got a food scale and holy cow was I underestimating so much! Cheese is a big vice for me, and I had no clue how many calories I was actually consuming until I started weighing it. I love a sweet and creamy cup of coffee in the morning. Couldn't be more than 70 calories, right? Wrong! 170 delicious creamy, sweet calories per cup (side note: can I call it intermittent fasting if I don't eat breakfast but I do have 300 calories of coffee in the AM? /s). It's amazing how much easier weight loss is when you are accurately keeping track of how much is being consumed. I've always loved to cook so meal prep isn't an issue, but the amount of olive oil/butter/cheese I use in my meals is historically staggering. I gave smaller amounts a try and it turns out that almost everything I cook is not only relatively healthy with less added fat, but it's just as tasty! My roasted carrots actually taste better with about 1/4 the butter I used in the past - life changing!

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Every day I'm amazed at how little I'm destined to be fat, and how much I was making myself fat. Fat doesn't run in my family, shitty eating habits run in my family. I feel grateful that my children are young enough that they'll only know a life filled with good nutrition, and ultimately I hope that I can be an example to my extended family.

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Yesterday morning I stepped on the scale and weighted in at 222lbs. I felt good about my progress but was feeling pretty down about the fact that I've come so far only to remain obese. Yesterday afternoon someone I didn't know told me I was an inspiration and I realized that if my 222 pound ass can be an inspiration to someone else that I can be a fucking inspiration to myself! Today I'm feeling more motivated than ever, and I'm ready to get to work on my short term goal of making it to onderland by April, and my long term goal of getting down to 150 pounds.

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I fucked up.

This community made me start my reddit account back at 2015, It was my doorway to reddit and my guide book for leaving morbid obesity into being a normal dude.

I'm 23, male 5'7, started this run 3 years ago at 114 kg(251 pounds), my goal weight was always 69kg(152). Two years after I started my slow but steady calorie counting diet, I had reached 74kg(-40kg/-88lbs) in july 2017...I was no longer 'overweight' by medical standards for my height! what a wonderful event that was. I had new clothes, started to enjoy the parts of life I had been kept away for most of my young years, I felt normal for the first time in a...long time.

During this journey, I had always seen the usual posts about people gaining weight again, or dealing with stress and struggling. I had my share too, there were hard times and...well..."less hard times", but still, I pushed through like most of you are doing or did, or will do.

I actually feel a strange feeling, a dejavu of some sort, coming here to report that after all this journey I'm obese again, yes, It hurts to admit and to believe, that I have gained 15 kilos in the last 8 months. My face is fat again, my thighs, naturally fat from my mother's part, again brush up one against another, something I had been able to eliminate. My pants don't fit anymore, the last one was so unconfortable it made me weight myself and led me here.

Like many before me, it is my time to go trought this experience, of not maintaining and having to lose again. I now ocuppy the shoes of those that I had seen so much during this journey, funny feeling.

It all began when i started planning to move to Europe. Having to learn a new language, planing a long staying away from home...I forgot all about my weight problems, and surely overate for a good while. I've been abroad for 5 months, the exotic food surely helped, but deep down, It was my lack of control that led to this.

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Standing close to where I started almost 4 years ago, I begin again this journey, I try not to focus on the hardships or the pain, but instead on the homely feeling that this trail 'evokes' upon me feel. By experience I know...there **is** a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.

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I don't know any of you, but I appreciate the support this community has always "silently" given me. May your weight loss journeys be light and happy in the end!

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I looked down at the scale and saw my "goal weight" yesterday. But a lot of nonscale victories along the way.

Hi! So I've been pretty active on /r/progresspics along with /r/1200isplenty. I haven't posted here yet because I wasn't sure if my story was relatable enough. I do want to say how huge of a role these communities have played in my weight loss journey. For the most part, I've checked in daily for recipes and motivation to keep moving forward. The people just starting out, I think that is my biggest piece of advice - stay motivated and get inspired by the daily incredible transformations that these hard-working, persevering individuals post here. Have some sort of anchor. Realize that everyone screws up, and tomorrow is a new day. And it's fun to compare before/after! I wish I had documented more than side underwear progress pics, but at least I have a few clothes pics to compare to.

Before/After

I was over 190, but don't know to what extent. I was scared to face the scale, but finally did at 189. I'm now 135. I think I'm going to go 5 more lbs just for some guilt-free fluctuation room. 5'5" for reference.

A little bit of my story: For the past few years, I was partying way too hard, finding any excuse to eat shit, and would never think twice about it. Regularly, my boyfriend and I would get into drunk arguments that I would ultimately wake up the next morning, puffy eyes, with no recollection about why we're mad at each other. My lifestyle was negatively impacting my job that I've held proudly for 7 years and looking back, I can't believe I wasn't fired. On April 22, 2018, I had the biggest wake-up-call of my life. I blacked out, fell out of my boyfriend's truck going 50+mph on the interstate at 9pm at night. My BAC was .410 once I arrived at the hospital. I could've been ran over, I could've broken my neck. Miraculously, I only suffered a broken nose, clavicle, sternum, and some real gnarly road rash. I could've ruined both of our lives. But I woke up a different person. I was done looking at myself in the mirror with shame. I used to always be a confident person, I wanted that back. I started counting my calories and staying below 1300 calories, logging everything on Myfitnesspal. I do have cheat days, but I log them and move on the next day. During my journey, I'd notice silly things between weighing myself. My eyes got "bigger". I actually had to buy a size smaller while shoe shopping, that one surprised me. Shaving was way less tedious. Hell, my belly button lost a mile of depth! People at work noticed. Most everyone was nice and supportive, but there's always assholes. Whatever. Also, I reeled my life back and learned to say "no" to hanging out every weekend. When I do go out now, i'm not gonna lie, I do drink, but I will log my drinks so I can keep track. My boyfriend has been the most supportive being I could ask for in this time. He never urged me to change my diet. Obviouslyl, we had a talk after my accident, once the drugs wore off about how I have to work on how I handle my liquor. I'm happy we've made it through my horrible patch unscathed. I feel so much more in control of my life and balanced and I can't believe I'm here right now to say I'm proud! Thank you guys for reading. : )

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