Keep it up "losers" 🙂

Hello good people! Just felt compelled to post on here. I've struggled with my weight since my accident a couple years ago & have put on a significant amount. About five years before my accident I was even larger than I am now by a lot. I got very motivated and lost almost 150lbs but tbh I wasn't happy I was obsessed. I thought the weight loss would make my body dismorphia less impactful in my life but it did just the opposite. Hours in the gym every day, obsessively weighing food & timing my fasts to the second. It was exhausting and I pushed away a lot of if not all the great people in my circle that had started off cheering me on. A few months ago I decided to do something about my weight. I want to lose it but I have completely different goals in mind now. I do t want to be "sexy" or a "beast" I want to be strong, healthy and in good enough shape to chase my two year old and not be out of breath lol. I joined some healthy bootcamp classes that I attend twice a week (which is about all my legs can handle) and go to the gym a few times other than that a week to lift or maybe bike. I eat smarter, I give myself a cheat day & refuse to make losing weight be miserable like it was the first time. I believe in all of you & I hope you all reach your goals but more importantly I hope you all will be happy with yourselves and the progress you make. 🙂

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If I ditch one meal a day, raise my calorie count to 1600 and exercise for 2hrs a day will i gain weight?

Hi. So I'm 17 5ft 8 and I weigh 137 pounds. I've been eating 1250 KCAL every day but people have been saying that this is too little for a male. I do 30 min exercise every Saturday and Sunday and 1hr on Thursdays (PE in in school, I love PE so I make use of it).

Also some stats missing - I walk to school on Mondays and Fridays and walk home on Fridays (that's about 25-30min of walking)

Let's just say I raise this to 1600 calories per day would my weight loss come to an end? My ultimate goal is 130 pounds. Thanks

The reason why I'm posting this is because people have been saying I eat too little. I went from 700 to 900, still too little then I went to 1250 and it's apparently still too little. I've been starting to wonder why I'm still harshly restricting myself but I think it's a habit at this point and maybe I should change it. Ive lost all my weight and my bmi is now normal so I'm thinking I should try to eat a healthy balanced meal each day but at the same time exercise. I'm just scared if I raise it to 1600 and stop eating once a day I'll gain every single thing back and go back to feeling depressed and ashamed

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27/F/5’ 11”/SW:280/CW:260 What have you done to increase your self-confidence?

As the pounds sloooowly start to shed off, I’ve come to the realization that I’m depending on my goal weight to magically fix all of my confidence issues. This really great dialogue has started opening up within weight loss circles around the mental health aspects of losing weight, and one of the common threads within these discussions is that losing weight isn’t a cure all. As I’ve been over weight all of my adult life (fluctuating between overweight and obese) I actually found this quite shocking (stupidly enough). I’ve always looked at my goal weight as this magical thing that will instantly make me more confident, happy, and content. Obviously this is not healthy or realistic.

I want to cut myself off at the pass and start setting the foundation for increased confidence so that when I do get to that magical goal weight, I’m not horribly disappointed. Essentially, I want to start working on the mental as I work on the physical.

I’d love to hear some of your tips/tricks for boosting confidence (both long term and short term). I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought losing weight would solve all my problems. I’d really like to start building my confidence now so I’m not disappointed when (not if) I get there, but I have no clue where to start! Any advice is appreciated—this is such an awesome and diverse community.

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I have gained and lost weight a million times

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I have gained and lost weight a million times. I am frustrated because no matter what I do; whether it be a holistic or scientific or spiritual or tough-love approach I take to weight loss, I always end up regaining it (and no, 180lbs at 5'5 is not a "healthy" set point- this is definitely some psychological issue) It never stays off. Does ANYONE have any advice on how to make yourself keep it off once and for all? for example, do you think weighing myself everyday would work?? sticky notes reminding yourself you were fat...IDK anything. any tips on how to keep it off forever would be appreciated. im seriously in fear for my gallbladder because i know losing and gaining is super unhealthy.

thank you for any advice you can give me.

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Sustainability

Hi all!

I’ve been lurking and barely posting here for a long time. I spend 2017 losing 40 pounds and then 2018 gaining 30 back. Ugh.

Yo yo dieting has FOREVER been my thing and I’m determined to put an end to it. The last few weeks I’ve been focused on adding more veggies and fiber to my diet, exercising a normal amount and not overdoing it, and counting calories but being flexible.

I’ve lost a pretty small amount of weight but already feel better about myself.

Anyone else out there a recovering yo yo dieter? What did you do to make your choices sustainable? How did you finally become PATIENT with your weight loss?

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I beat my addiction! (28M 300+ down to 188)

Disclaimer:

Everything I'm about to say is entirely my opinion; I'm not a doctor, or anything; I don't have background in nutrition; I'm just a regular guy that has a passion for learning about this stuff. I'm also going to talk about things in an "as a matter of fact" type of way, because it would just take too long for me to type out "studies x, y, and z show this", or for me to sit here, and try to discredit what I believe to be bad medical practices, and out dated studies with bad methodology. I'm sure my knowledge has countless gaps, but I think I know enough that I can get any relatively health person to lose weight. /Disclaimer

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To everyone out there struggling like I did for years, I'm here to tell you that it can be done! I'm not addicted to food anymore. I use to be able to eat until my stomach was ready to burst, and still sit there debating about eating another burger.

The greatest thing about my journey is (and I know this is going to sound arrogant) ... I think I figured it out... I really think I figured out. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'll learn that in time, but right now I'm pretty sure I know how to control any regular person's weight.

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We're regulated by hormones; Our hunger is regulated by hormones; What, and how you eat has a direct effect on your hormones. By slowly regulating how we eat we can modify our body's hormones, and make ourselves less hungry which will naturally lead to weight loss.

Simply put... I think looking at the issue as "weight loss" is a distraction, and we're chasing this problem from the wrong end. Deal with your cravings, and weight loss will come on it's own.

I basically did Keto/IF, but my experience with the communities is that people are hyper-focused on ketones, and plateaus, etc... and in general they don't really know anything about the relationship between hormones, and cravings.

I'm bad at writing from scratch so if anyone is interested, and want to ask questions I can use that as a much better spot to push off of.

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I wanted to throw up some before and after photos, but I just got called into work so I'll throw them up here when I get a minute. Also.... If I do say so my loose skin is doing amazingly.

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Slimming thighs

long-time lurker, first-time poster, etc etc.

Over my weight loss journey, I’ve lost almost 50lbs. While I’m no longer overweight (actually bordering underweight now) I notice that most of the weight I lose shows up on my upper body, while my thigh/calf measurements have not budged significantly. In fact, they remain quite large.

I’ve started doing leg lifts, glute bridges and the like to hopefully slim them down. I know spot-training isn’t possible , but I really want slender legs.

Has anyone been in this situation? How did you get through it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. If it helps, I took ballet for over a decade

tl;dr: how to make legs skinnier

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