/r/loseit Culture: Why We Post our Stats in /r/loseit, and How You Can Help

So my stats are

M55 5'11 SW:298 CW:183 GW:183 IT Field Tech, Walking/Lifter

One line that says a lot. You can figure out my starting BMI, you can figure out my TDEE, you can imagine my before and after. You can give me advice about preparing for my GW lifestyle. You can estimate my SW lifestyle.

And if you have my SW or GW, you can lean on me as a fellow traveller. Weight loss is a lonely business, and we're all doing our own lonesome journey but we're not alone. We all know a place where we can find people who are doing the same kinds of things: /r/loseit. The stats make that happen.

Reddit is undergoing a change right now. It was a website, with a few mobile users. Now it's becoming a mobile site, with some legacy website users. What's not changing is the focus on quality: the best submissions and comments will generally be the top ones. In the middle of that change is something called 'flair.' Flairs will be part of the redesign and there is mobile support for them.

Right now, my flair says "Maintaining 3½y ♂55 5'10½" 298→183℔ MFP+🚶🏋+TOPS" and maybe you see some or all of that on your mobile app or on the website. The place to set that is on the website, in /r/loseit, on the right panel: (see image) and if the redesign covers that up, try https://old.reddit.com/r/loseit and look at the right panel.

You can also just write it somewhere in your message. It doesn't even need to be relevant to your post, as half the point of it is to identify yourself with your journey for the purpose of the readers (most of which are lurkers).

Please post your stats and a general description of your daily activity...

Your stats should include your age, sex, height, starting weight, current weight, and goal weight, and a few words about the physical activity of your typical day.

Posting your stats helps others help you, if you need help. But it also helps readers get an idea about you or your effort, and become inspired by you when we're giving advice, celebrating a victory, or just checking in.

Aside from being helpful, it's a tradition. It's not required, but it is a custom and has been for years.

Examples:

• 25M 5'9" SW:225 CW:200 GW:160 Desk Job with jogging habit
• F/33 5'4" SW:14 stone (196 lbs), CW:14 stone (196), GW:not-sure at-home mom chasing the children
• 34F 168cm SW:73kg CW:68kg GW:whatever looks good -- full time busy retail clerk

So post your stats. Put them in your flair. Keep them updated. Celebrate changing your flair!! (It's both an SV and an NSV, worthy of the daily thread) and be sure to mention how you're achieving your victories!

The thing with a custom/tradition is it's self-reinforcing. If more people share their stats, more newbies will do it, too. Don't let this important and useful custom die: share your stats. Share them often. You posting your stats helps in many ways.

^{♂55 5'11/179㎝ SW:298℔/135㎏ CW:183℔/83㎏ [3Y AMA], [1Y recap] ⚖MFP+🚶🏋+TOPS}

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Feeling deflated, worked really hard but have only lost 1lb, what am I doing wrong?

So I [28F] started my weight loss journey exactly a week ago today. I was 12st 5.5lb (173.5lbs) and I am 168cm tall.

I joined a slimming class and have been strictly following the eating plan (basically making sure I eat more because I don't eat anywhere near enough as I should be) and I was told to expect to lose a lot in the first week.

My usual weight is 131lbs but due to medication and chronic illness I've piled weight on super fast in the last year and a half.

So today was weigh day, I was nervous but excited to see how much my hard work has paid off and I only lost one pound. I'm so disappointed in myself and don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The only thing that I think could possibly have affected this is the fact that I have been at the gym almost daily (3 rest days in total) every day in the last 2 weeks. I've been doing a mix of cardio and core. And there's a noticeable difference in the muscles in my thighs. Could the exercise possibly be the reason I didn't lose a lot? Previous to the last 2 weeks the only exercise I ever done was walking around the house while doing house work due to pain.

Hopefully next week is a better week. Any tips are appreciated.

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Feels like ive been cheating but im below TDEE

So, two days ago i went out with coworkers and had drinks and came in at 2400kcal, below my TDEE. Yesterday i had a houseparty to attend and had some cake and a bottle of wine. Coming in for the day around 2400, but had done cardio for 30 minutes. Today i have another event, but will make sure to go lift and do cardio.

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I feel crappy though. It feels like i am on a cheat binge, but realistically i am not even hitting maintenance. Normally i am at 1000-1500 kcal deficit (MFP sets me at a 1000 before i go into the red to lose 2 lbs a week and then i have 500 kcal from cardio).

How do people deal with this, not hitting their weight loss for the day. I thought i'd feel fine knowing i was still below maintenance, but it mentally doesnt feel like that. Granted, i am heavier bc of the water weight.

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fitness plan without squatting, main goal is weight loss

My Post got removed from /fitness due to their rule about medical conditions. I don't want medical advice though, I need weight loss/fitness advice during a time of possible injury. I'd a aprreciate any input.

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Hi guys,

First things first, stats:

I'm doing 5/3/1 for beginners, finishing up with week 1 of the 4th cycle tomorrow. I had to restart with weight lifting and fitness last fall after being in the hospital 3 times the year before which obviously stalled progress. I'm Male, 27, 5'9" (175 cm) , 187 lbs (85 Kg). My main goal is weight loss. I want to lose another 10kg, so roughly 20 pound. I started lifting a few years ago but never took it serious and it always was an on off kinda thing, some more serious and some off phases. I started with over 115kg/253lbs, so I already know how weight loss works in general ;). Right now I eat around 2000kcals per day with one cheat day per week and I'm losing roughly 500 g/1 pound per week, so it's all good.

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In the very beginning of weight lifting I never cared about form and it probably has already taken its toll on my joints. For the last 1.5 years I made a conscious effort to improve on form. I think my form is okay but I'm as flexible as a brick, which is something that I believe is a hindrance for improving my form. Now about the squat:

When I'm doing squats, my knees hurt like crazy. The pain starts during exercise and persists, sometimes for a day, sometimes for some hours or other times, squatting does not hurt at all but my knees hurt a day after.

I was doing squats wearing tennis shoes (only gym footwear I own) for the longest time but I started doing them barefoot a few weeks ago in the hopes that it would fix things but to no avail. Last Wednesday was the last time I did squats and my knees hurt so much that I decided to stop squatting until I can see a doctor. When I'm stretching and squatting as deep as I can without any weight (so doing a 'third world squat') my knees already hurt from the bent.

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So here's my problem: I shouldn't ignore this any longer so I first want to go to a doctor to know how fucked my knees already are. Where I live, the earliest I can talk to a specialist is in April though. I still want to reach my weight loss goals until then but I'm a one trick pony when it comes to fitness (read: weight lifting). I think doing 5/3/1 without squatting is nonsense and through this, I also came to think about my overall flexibility and form again. Should I perhaps start working on this before worrying about anything else? I want to emphasize that my main goal is still weight loss and not gaining muscle, which is secondary right now. I think that I would probably benefit from becoming more flexible. I can't do a third world squat without losing my balance for example and I could find many more examples of my inflexibility.

So what kind of plan can I do when losing weight is my main concern, knees need to be checked and flexibility is pretty bad. I still want to do a 'real' workout thrice a week, going to the gym and exhaust myself. And I would mind eating less than I already am during the week.

Sorry that this is all over the place, I already restructured this post twice ^^. I would appreciate any input.

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People who lost a lot of weight, when and how did you lose the tummy flap or is it still a struggle?

Hey all! If you have ever had that flap of skin and flab right below your belly button, were you able to lose it so you had a healthier flatter looking tummy? If so, how close to your weight loss goal were you and what did you have to do?

I’ve always been overweight, since I was a wee child, so taught, scarless skin will never be a reality for me ha. But the thing I’ve always hated about my body since childhood is that bit of tummy flab that droops over the mons pubis. Even though I don’t think it’ll ever be completely crease free, it’d be nice if it stopped getting droopier like a sad bag of water hanging off a countertop... I’ve lost 60 lb and am now 20 - 30 pounds from my goal. i’m hoping it starts lifting more the closer I get to a healthy average weight....

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Ugh - Mini plateau discouraging!

I was on a medically supervised very low calorie diet (VLCD) from December 9th through January 17th. My calorie goal was 800 calories per day, and I lost close to 40 lbs during those 6 weeks, the first 7-10 of which was likely mostly water and glycogen.

On January 18th, my doctor suggested I switch to a calorie goal of 1200 calories per day, and I haven't had a single lb of weight loss since that day. I did have one cheat day where I ate 1900 calories. I am a 44 yo, 5' 11" male and currently weigh 218.7 lbs with an estimated % fat of 30.5 based on Fitbit Aria measurement. My full data can be found here: https://goo.gl/RYkMm5

Based on LoseIt calorie intake estimate and Fitbit calorie burn estimate, my average net cals/d for the past 7 days (-2487) is only a 14% reduction from my average net cals/d since Dec 9 (-2886), so I know I must be losing fat unless my logging accuracy is way off target. And my % fat trend (per Fitbit Aria) is encouraging. Plus I know I haven't had a bowel movement in a week or more despite taking Miralax the past 3 days.

Rationally, I know that if I keep walking 10k steps per day and eating 1200 cals/day, I will continue to lose weight. I am under no illusions about starvation mode or other such myths. However, seeing this mini plateau makes me want to switch back to VLCD!

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When should I transition to my own plan?

So background; in high school/ early college my lowest weight was 230’s. I played football and then rugby in college. My mental health deteriorated in college and I became suicidal after years of horrible depression leading up to it. Finally after 2 long and struggling years I found a doctor who understood what my mental health problem and was able to help me fix it. In those years I was suicidal I stopped taking care of my body mainly because I was fighting for my life/will to live. In college and high school even when depressed I was active enough to keep my weight steady. Now that I am back to being healthy I am trying to get back to my former weight and live a better life for my fiancée and our future life. I have accomplished the weight loss by doing OPTAVIA diet but I am starting to want to switch back to eating normally and resuming a fitness routine. I struggle knowing where I should make the switch and what method I should use to do it. Should I do a low carb/CICO or is IF a good plan. For reference I am an endomorph body type, I know my fitness routine will be a lot of weight training and cardio on a bike or elliptical. I want to not only lose my weight I gained but get back my strength. In my prime DL: 550lbs, Bench: 225lbs, Squat: 375-400lb ish. Current age is mid 20’s. SW: 440lbs ; CW: 368lbs and I’ve been doing this diet plan for 3 months. Any help appreciate and sorry for the scatter brain post.

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