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First time being under 200lbs in yeeeaarrss

Feels pretty good but i still want to lose more.

I got into a bad depression at the beginning of high school and stopped being active. Sat in my room and ate every day. Went from working out pretty much every day, to not and still eating the same. That got me real thick real quick

I’m in the process of making myself feel better, look better, and be better. With intermittent fasting, and just eating less, as well as basic daily exercising, I’m down to 195ish from 230+ in a little over a month.

I feel really great. I hope to one day be fit and… sexy… again, with only the stretch marks being a reminder of my former bigness.

I’m not completely happy with my weight yet. I wish I weighed less in this time, and there’s been a few times where i’ve given into my urge to eat, but I can only lose so much so fast and I just need to move on from those incidents.

tbh i’m only writing this to maybe convince myself that what i did is good enough for now. i need patience, i’ll be fit again one day. i just want it now

yeah thanks for the read wish y’all well with your weight loss journey god bless happy skinnying

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There is a lot of toxicity i see around weight loss i just want to address it since i see a lot of people lose hope like i did.

So i always see people online who will say they eat less for example 1600 calories when their tdee is 2200 for maint and can't lose weight.

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I also see these people get told they are wrong with their calorie counting / eating too much.
Now whilst i think this is the case of most people i also think in those cases people shouldn't just be saying "well count again if its not too much then your wrong since you can't lose weight" and that kind of shit.

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My reasoning behind this is i used to be the guy i ate 1500 calories a day and couldn't lose weight despite being morbidly obese....at the end of the day it wasn't the calorie counting that was wrong.

I went to the doctors and learnt not only had my body not been through puberty due to hypogonadism (lack of testosterone) i have a severe hypothyroid problem.

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After i had those issues fixed through medication i started to see that even at 1800 calories a day eating more (due to the hunger from having testosterone) i was losing weight.

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Im nearly out of morbid obesity due to fixing these health problem i went from having sever lack of muscle mass to actually having a healthy range of muscle now.

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Calories in and calories out is the whole story in a simplified version but i think people need to remember weight loss has a lot to do with other variables.

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If you are certain you are calorie counting correctly and are still not losing weight.

Goto the doctors and get reffered to a specialist it could be that you too have a health problem or two that impacts your metabolism.

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[SCV] I went to Yoga twice this week!

My parents were obsessed with my weight when I was a kid. They monitored all of my eating, they would tell my friends and their parents what they were allowed to feed me, and they would punish me whenever I didn't lose weight. Because of this, I ended up rebelling once I turned 18 by getting fatter. Not totally obese, but definitely fatter. I was so afraid that candy and junkfood wouldn't be available to me whenever I wanted that I would hide it by my bed and binge eat until I got sick and then starve myself for two days to make up for it.

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This unhealthy lifestyle contributed to major health complications, and I ended up having severe hormonal issues and seizures. Because of this, my anxiety got worse and I just kept bingeing.

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At my worst, I was 5'1 and 165lbs. When I felt my fat folds rub on each other while walking, I knew I needed to do something. But I still can't calorie count. When I do, I feel restricted and like I don't have control, and I will binge.

So, instead, I started just looking at what the calories were in a suggested serving of food. After doing that, I would choose to not eat that food or choose to only eat the exact serving. I still didn't track how much I ate, but really focused on portion control and not eating until I was full. By doing this, I lost 20lbs.

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I've been hovering at 142lbs-145lbs, but I'm still not ready to track my food. I know that is my ultimate binge trigger, and someday I intend to beat it, but for now I am taking steps in seeing my health as my form of control. So, this lead me to start taking yoga classes.

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I went on Tuesday and felt amazing. Then, yesterday, I was in full body pain. I still ended up walking 6 miles, but by the time I went to bed it was excruciating! Still, I knew I promised myself I'd go to yoga today, and I did.

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It was exhausting! My whole body hurt, and I was dripping sweat, but it felt SO GOOD to take control of my health and do something good for me that was also challenging!

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I'm super sore and I know tomorrow's yoga is going to suck, but I'm taking the weekend off from any yoga so the least I can do for myself is commit to taking this class. I'm going to continue going 3x a week until it becomes a habit, and then I'll increase to 5x a week. And I'm excited! I haven't been able to feel positive about weight loss and health before in my life, it was always a punishment. But I'm getting older, and I need to care about this stuff. I'm just so glad I've been able to make this much progress and I can't wait to lose another 20lbs!

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TLDR: Lazy chubby girl is being less lazy and is sharing this on here to make sure she doesn't give up on herself and bail on her yoga class tomorrow!

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EDIT: I am so sorry I miswrote NSV! I even was saying to myself "Non Scale Victory" as I typed it so don't ask me why I couldn't figure out words!

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Food as Fun

I’ve seen a lot of posts about emotional eating and using food as a reward, but I don’t think that’s exactly what I struggle with. It’s not so much the, “Food is my friend,” thing as it is a way to celebrate an occasion or make an otherwise uneventful event feel more festive and special? If that makes any sense? For example getting a pizza on a Friday night in makes it feel more like a Friday night than having a normal balanced weekday dinner.

I think cutting out drinking lately, which is partly for the weight loss effort, has actually made this even more of an issue for me.

I know the obvious suggestion is going to be to make something more interesting for a Friday night dinner that’s still healthy, but I’m more interested in actually changing my mindset somehow.

Does anyone relate to what I’m talking about? Any advice on how to overcome it? I think it’s partly that I like making things more memorable and interesting for everyone and it feels less eventful to just sit with nothing. I’ve been at this for a while but maybe it still just takes getting used to?

I would love to just feel satisfied with the event and my family and friends and leave it at that!

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NSV - I got approved for surgery!

This is the post I’ve been waiting to make since I joined this sub. I had one goal since starting this journey and I hit that goal today thanks to the help of r/loseit

About 18 months ago I was diagnosed with gallstones. Super duper painful, but I was newly pregnant at the time so they couldn’t do anything, just arranged for me to meet with a surgeon about gallbladder removal a few months after the baby was born. I was RELIEVED because I had been in pain for ~7 years at this point, had been tested for everything under the sun (except gallstones, apparently), eventually being told the pain was caused by “anxiety” and referred to the mental health team. So finally finding out what the problem was and being told there was a solution was awesome. At the time I was diagnosed I weighed 330lbs and had a BMI of 55.

Exactly a year ago I rocked up to my appointment with the surgeon, I’d had the baby and was excited and ready to get this awful organ out of me. And... the surgeon said no. I was too big and surgery would be too much of a risk. I had already lost some weight at this point due to being unable to eat fatty foods (but I could still smash carbs like a boss, so I hadn’t lost that much). They didn’t even weigh me at the appointment if I recall, just refused me on sight. He told me I had to get my BMI down to 35 before he’d consider me for surgery.

I sobbed for days. I thought losing that much weight was impossible for me. I’ve always been big, and I mean always. I was a fat baby, a fat toddler, the fat kid in school, and I just kept getting bigger. I’d tried bullshit diets in the past that I never stuck to and blamed everything else, before coming across the whole HAES crap on insta and deciding to stay fat because I thought that’s just where I was meant to be. So I refused to listen to the surgeon, went right out to the desk and made another appointment. Of course I got refused again. Undeterred, I got myself referred to a different hospital, the surgeon there said exactly the same thing. By this point I realised I was relieved when I walked out. I HAD to face up to this now, staying fat was no longer an option.

This sub showed up in my suggested subs around that time (maybe Reddit is listening idk) and the way everyone here spoke so matter-of-factly about weight loss and CICO finally made me realise that there’s no mystery to it, there’s no magic, it’s simple science. Put in less than you use. It’s not like that was new information but seeing it here and seeing it work just made everything click for me. I downloaded MFP and I took it seriously for the first time ever, not like the silly weight loss clubs I’d done before, just eating til I hit my calorie limit then stopping. Not treating every fleeting craving like hunger. Why had it never occurred to me before that I can say no to myself?

Shortly after I started, I found out I was pregnant again. God could that ever have come at a worse time. I was so poorly with my gallbladder I ended up in hospital for a while, but even from my hospital bed I was still logging my meals. I’d started and I wasn’t giving up for anything. I saw a dietitian and carried on losing weight throughout the pregnancy. I had the baby five weeks ago, and today was my consultation for surgery.

I knew what my BMI was going in, my weight today is 203lbs making my BMI 34.6 according to NHS calculations. I’d done it. I was still half expecting to be turned away and told I need to lose more weight, I am afterall still very much in the obese category, and I would’ve been ok with that since I know that I can do it now. However, my weight wasn’t even brought up at the appointment! He did an exam, pulled out a referral form and asked if I’m happy to go ahead. I could’ve cried!

Now, I may still hit a wall at pre-op since I’ve had other health issues recently that made the consultant very hesitant to put me on the list. So the likelihood of surgery actually happening soon may be slim, but right now I don’t care. I had one goal and I achieved it, and it may be my proudest moment. I still have a lot of weight to lose before I get to a healthy BMI but I’m prepared to get there, and I know I will. Thank you to this sub!!

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Lost more than I thought...

I started keto on the 1st of January. Not strict keto as I have had a few cheat meals here and there.

I knew I had lost some weight but I didn’t think much as I have been so swollen from the disgusting heat we have had.

But..... I have lost 4.3kgs (9.48 pounds).

I am so proud of myself! I am definitely on the right track to lose a decent amount of weight before my dream holiday in September.

There were times when I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere but you can surprise yourself. So everyone who is just starting out - stick with it! I know I will be :)

(I made a weight loss calendar but I have no idea how to link it)

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