For people just starting out, it's important to not be embarrassed or ashamed about what you are doing

This is my first proper attempt at losing weight after my last failed attempt, I'm being much more conscious of what I'm eating, making small changes to the way I prepare food and buying low-sugar, low-salt, low-fat, etc. versions of foods I was eating anyway.

However one of the biggest changes I've made this time around is being more open and confident about my situation. I've accepted my faults and I've made a plan on how to improve them. For example whenever I would browse about weight loss, I would always use Incognito mode and throwaway accounts, I guess in my head I didn't want reminders of this stuff everytime I went to the computer.

Not any more though! The account I'm using to talk to you right now is my "official" or "real" reddit account and my profile on MyFitnessPal (same name as reddit) is chalk full of information about me. I've found surrounding myself with positive influences from this community and not hiding the goals in my life and from myself is helping so much, it's quite freeing. I highly recommend doing this!

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SV: 20lbs lost, wanted to share my journey

I began to take my weight loss situation serious about 4 months ago. I decided on not following any specific diet because I wanted to build my weight loss and future weight management around better eating habits.

My weakness? Overeating.

I love food, and I love eating. I'm also a sucker for "saving" on food, so that $1.00 in "savings" for a combo meal or a larger portion was a good deal. I don't normally snack on things like chips, but it wasn't unusual to eat two plates or a few extra slices of pizza in one sitting. I didn't realize how much I was overeating, and clothing sizes were creeping up slowly. Maybe I refused to see my weight gain, but it was happening.

What changed was that I began to slowly train myself to eat less. I used MFP to initially track my calorie intake and built a plan around that. It was seriously a struggle the first couple of weeks. Not feeling full, but "satisfied" was new to me. It was even harder to understand that it's OK to leave food on the plate. What helped was thinking that I'd be able to have three more meals the following day. In the end it helped, and slowly the numbers on the scale dropped. This motivated me to continue to be mindful about eating. I also changed my workout routine to include more walking and running. I try to aim for 7000-9000 daily steps on my Health app, anything above that is a bonus. I don't use a Fitbit or an Apple Watch, just the phone's data as a gauge for my step activity.

I want to point out that certain things did help. I don't drink soda and very rarely drink beer or liquor. I usually have coffee for breakfast and water or sparkling water for the other meals. I also keep unhealthier foods like pastries and donuts at bay, but sometimes I do treat myself to them.

Thanks for reading!

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(F/30/358)....I’m 6 months in and am losing around 7lbs per month.

Started out at 409 and 6 months in now I’m 358. I’m averaging about 7lbs loss per month for the past 3 months. I’m eating at 1800 calories a day with the occasional over calorie days. Is 7lbs a good rate or am I going too slow/fast? I also have a few questions for anyone else going through it

1: on days I workout, even a low impact 20 min workout, the scale shows about a 4lb gain for a couple days

2: I’ve been doing IF on days I know I will be eating junk food. So I won’t eat until about 3 or 4pm then eat my calories in pizza. Will this stall my weight loss if I’m eating below my 1800 calories? I’ve seen mixed opinions on if it will or not, curious from your person expirences

3: anyone on metformin notice a different in when you take your meds during IF?

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NSA: After a month of weights lifting I'm starting to see some small ab definition.

I have started doing more weightlifting at the gym on the weekends with dead-lifts, squats and bench-presses. Slowly I try to add more weight each week. Afterwards I have the feeling of doing a full body workout and mentally as well as physically it feels great.

In the days in between I try running to burn more calories as the gym is usually packed during after work peak times. I'm trying to also get back into doing brazilian jiu jitsu as it's a fun and challenging activity and gives me more of a motivation to cross train.

I was a little bit disappointed when my weight loss looked like it plateaued until I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed some small indents of ab muscles on the lower side of my chest. Overall, my body feels stronger, healthier and much more toned.

I'd imagine I feel I could lose more body fat and try to increase muscle mass, then I'd look much more well defined.

It's not a great loss that I was expecting but it really has given me more motivation to try to keep going and push myself further so I'll take it.

Maybe one day I will get a beach body (eventually lol)

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it's one of those times where i just can't stop eating

since friday, i just feel insatiable and that makes me feel so helpless, because i can't get it under control. and i feel like weighing myself usually starts that bingeing, even though i see a drop in the number, it's just not enough to keep me motivated and continue losing weight, i feel like i can reward myself (basic mistake, i know) and the next day i just keep eating for no reason and so on. i am here to ask you guys if you have any advices on how to stop that cycle or (even better) don't even start the binge. i have to admit it has gotton worse since my weight loss, and i am not sure if that is normal so if anyone else has also exerienced that, please tell me :)

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Plant-Based Weight Loss

Hello Everyone,

Some context: I've been overweight all my life. It's been a constant cycle of diet/binge. I started trying to lose weight again on January 6th. I had been vegetarian for about 5 years, but I decided to switch over to almost entirely to plant-based (It helps me keep from binging on the day-to-day because I can't go out to eat and encourages me to eat more whole foods.) My start weight was about 296 lbs and I am now down to 284 - 285 lbs. It feels very slow. I cut my calories down to about 1500 (which is what was recommended to me by cronometer / myfitnesspal for -2 lbs weight loss per week.) I only cheated once on the new calorie count during a family celebration.

About a week and some change ago I was stuck at 287 lbs for 5 days. I had about enough of it and cut my calories even further to 1200 and cut my carbs back to under 100 g. I ditched legumes and rice and mostly ate veggies, avocados, some fruit, oats, mock meats, tofu, nuts and seeds. 3 days later, I hit 284.7 lbs. It was then that I decided it would be fine if I added back in beans as long as I kept the carbs under 100 g. Maybe it was all the rice I was eating that was keeping me bloated with water weight. The next day I was 286.4. I went back to not eating them and now 2 days later, I am 285 lbs.

Here comes the question: I feel really confused because I had been utilizing beans as a healthy source of protein in my diet. It is filling and a cheap source of nutrients. Everywhere I have looked on the internet says that they are healthy and correlate with weight loss. I really don't understand why it would lead to this proportion of weight gain and it is discouraging to say the least because I'm trying so hard to stay on track. I do want to keep incorporating them.

Has anyone else experienced this and what should I do in this situation? Am I over-reacting? Are there any alternatives I can incorporate that do not have this effect? Thanks.

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Cutting out added sugar for a month challenge

So I've seen a few people do this claiming that it helped break their sugar addiction and massively aided in weight loss. I love foods with added sugar, I've been especially craving chocolate a lot recently actually. I have very little willpower and self control though, I can barely go a full week without breaking my diet :/ let alone cut out added sugar for a month. But telling myself that it's for a challenge / experiment may make it easier to stay on track.

So I was wondering if anyone here would like to give it a go too? To just go cold turkey on added sugars for 30 days to see the effects, a bit like an experiment that's also healthy since added sugars aren't good for you. It'd be a lot easier to stick to with group support. Maybe we could make a group chat or something, I don't really know how reddit works entirely but it'd be cool to give it a try with others trying to lose weight / get fit too :)

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