My butt looks like a raisin since losing weight..

So I lost 82lbs within a year and the past 4 months I have been maintaining my weight loss(I’m a guy by the way). Even though I’m doing strength training and do a lot of running and other parts of my body look good & I’m happy with them my butt looks atrocious.

I used to have quite a full well rounded butt because it was full of fat?. It looks all deflated now and I can see loose skin. I’m not very happy with it & feel a little self conscious of it if I’m honest.

Is this something I just have to accept about myself or will it improve over time? Any sort of surgery is not an option for me really.

Kind of just wanted to know if I’m alone in my struggle I guess?

Thanks for reading!

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100lbs down, 100lbs to go: What I've learnt so far! (CICO & gym)

At my highest ever weight, two years ago, I was 336lbs. Now I'm 235lbs, and I've lost over 40lbs in the last four months - ever since I joined r/loseit and got really serious about taking care of myself. My GW is 135lbs (I'm 5'5). I didn't really notice (LOL HOW) the other 50ish-lbs disappearing (they weren't intentional, it was a consequence of getting a job on my feet and moving somewhere where I HAD to walk/didn't have a supermarket next door), so I don't think about them a lot, but the last few months have been super life changing for me and I figured I'd share some things to give back to this great sub!

• Weigh your food, log your calories. When I decided enough was enough last October my first mistake was eyeballing my food. Bowlful of rice? That's like 50g, right? Tablespoon of peanut butter? That's like 60cals max. No it's not. It's super not. I got a 12 quid digital scale and I log everything - everything - into MFP, and I check/scan the packaging rather than just trusting the user generated entries on the app. This sounds a bit militant I guess but it became a habit really quickly, and you learn to make good swaps: 35g of sugary cereal isn't filling/is calorie dense, where was 50g of porridge keeps you full until lunchtime for half the cals.
• Don't make food a punishment, be mindful when it's a reward. I failed at dieting so many times before in my life because I would punish myself for being fat by eating very little, then binge because I was hungry and sad. Another mistake I'd make was 'rewarding' myself for going to the gym or similar by getting a foot-long Subway or a whole bag of sweets. Changing my attitude towards food as the cause of all my pain/the source of all my pleasure and deciding that what I deserved was to be happy and healthy and in control of my diet is the reason I'm so successful this time around and failed so many others.
• You don't need to go to the gym (but you'll feel better if you do). As the famous saying goes, 'You can't outrun a bad diet'. If you're under your TDEE you'll lose weight. That's a fact. For me, though, being active has had more of a tangible impact than just dieting. A physical therapist friend of mine said to think of weight loss like, 'diet alone is 20%, exercise alone is 20%, but together they make 80%'. It took me 30 minutes to walk less than a mile to work when I started at the gym. I couldn't last 5 minutes on the elliptical. I couldn't lift a 1kg weight. Now I do the walk in 15, last 25 minutes (at a much higher resistance/incline), and lift 6kg. Since October! If I only dieted I wouldn't have these victories to point to and say 'I am getting stronger, faster, better.' Which leads me on to...
• Not all your victories are numerical. I take a picture and measurements every four weeks. The pictures are on MFP, the measurements are in a notebook. Sometimes the picture shows a bigger difference than the measurements/scale (and vice versa), so I'm glad I have both. But you know what? I can cross my legs now. Shaving is not a massive chore. I'm satisfied with smaller (normal??) portions. I eat slower. I have more energy, I don't take unofficial breaks at work because my feet and legs hurt so badly, my plantar fasciitis has gone. My posture is much better, so I walk with my head up and my shoulders back. I have walked staring at the ground my whole life, and now I'm looking up - and forward - in so many unexpected ways.
• People do treat you differently. Cars stop to let me by when I'm walking through town. Strangers smile at me. Customers are much more polite now. My female friends include me in photos. Probably other things I've forgotten. And sure, some of this is because I'm not over (or more recently, close to) 300lbs anymore, but the biggest reason is because I am a happier person. My very worst days now are better than my best days before I started taking care of myself. My whole attitude has changed. Strangers smile at me because I'm smiling at them. Customers are happier with me because I'm more patient, happier to do or fetch things for them, quick to smile when I see them. I get invited into photos because I'm not hiding in my body anymore, and if I had to guess why cars are happier to stop for me it's because I'm standing waiting with my head up instead of slumped over looking like I already hate the day at 9am.

I've still got a long way to go, and there's been plenty of ups and downs (emotionally and on the scale - I'm looking at you, Christmas), but I'm getting there, inch by inch, day by day. I'm sure plenty of this stuff is common knowledge on this sub, but it never hurts to hear it again. Thanks for everything, r/loseit. Here's to next 100lbs :)

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I promise it gets so much easier :)

For all of you who are starting out, who are just losing their initial pounds and feel so strongly that this may not be working. It works. CICO works. And this whole process gets so much easier, I promise.

• I actually feel full with meals that I suffered so much with, with months ago. All I thought of was food, back then. Now restriction and hunger is hardly on my mind.
• I still get excited with cake and ice cream- but I feel full with so little.
• On days that I do overeat, I suffer. My stomach hurts. It is a long time before I repeat that mistake and learn again.
• There are no days I flop on my bed just because I am too full to move. Not after weddings, not after holidays.
• Noone asks you shit after eight months. They are probably tired of asking you to put on some weight and have accepted you.

Things that helped me along my journey:

• Be honest with yourself. Under/overestimating in your app will lead to inconsistent results. If you are consistently underlogging and don't lose weight, be honest enough to admit to yourself that you didn't log all that you ate. Don't hate your body or this process or the rate of progress.
• Sustainability is the goal. The goal is not to never eat another pizza till you lose weight, then go back to all that you were craving. Teach yourself to eat the foods you want to eat at some point. Maybe in different quantities. The goal of your journey is to develop a healthy relationship with food.
• Be aware of how you feel. How do you feel when you are craving? How do you feel physically when you eat 100 calories above maintenance? How do you feel when you see that number on the scale. We are emotional beings, it helps to acknowledge the emotions.
• Every step in the right direction is a victory. You refused ice cream thrice? Awesome. I am proud of you. You be proud of you too.
• Try not looking at food as a reward. The reward for not eating that pizza is not ice cream later that week. You eat ice cream later, great. No problem. But don't look at one food as a reward for the lack of another.
• It's been so long since I went there and ate that. There are so many food joints, options, choices, that we feel we are depriving ourselves if we don't go to our restaurant once a week. You can love the taste of a food and not have to eat it often to appreciate it.
• No food is bad, teach yourself portion control. That cake is fine. The fried chicken is fine. The soft drink is fine. BUT you have a daily budget that you kinda have to stick to. Drinking a sip of your friend's soda when offered and but finishing the veggies will leave you so much more room for dinner. You want the soda? Get the soda. Log the soda. Stay roughly in your limit everyday. If it is maintaining or cutting.

I understand this may not work for everyone because weight loss is a very personal journey. Just wanted to share what helped me.

<3

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Goodbye, r/loseit

I’ve spent years lurking here and other weight loss subreddits. I’m happy to say goodbye. I’m done telling myself I need to lose weight. I’m done asking myself why I can’t just lose weight, why can’t I just eat normally and exercise. I spent years treating myself like shit for my weight.

I’m done acting like I don’t have an eating disorder that consumes my life. I’m done calorie counting and having panic attacks for not going harder at the gym. I’m done ignoring my mental health struggles like they just aren’t there.

I’m ready to start the path to recovery. When my mind is healthy, and I’m ready to loseit, I’ll be back. Until then, farewell. I am so proud of you guys! Keep going.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Wednesday, 13 February 2019? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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Losing it

You guys, I’m about to lose it. And by “it” I mean my willpower. I’ve lost 47 lbs since October 2018. I have about 50 more to go. I’m doing keto/low carb and since October I’ve “cheated” on my diet for only two meals the entire time. I’ve planned my next cheat meal for my bday in two weeks. But tonight I’m feeling like I might just lose it and eat everything in sight. It’s 10pm and I should just go to bed, but it’s my relaxing time so I just want to chill for a bit. I’m also feeling like tomorrow is going to be a bad day and I’m going to indulge in something I shouldn’t. I feel like I’m bored of everything I’m eating. And then I feel I also don’t deserve a cheat meal for my bday. I just don’t know how to put these feelings aside. I realize my weight gain has mostly been emotional and I haven’t dealt with that, I’ve just been focused on the weight loss. ugh! Sorry I’m so incoherent. I just want to scream! Agh!

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Letting go of shame around highest weight

I don’t if anyone else can relate to this or if it was just me, but for a really long time I felt so ashamed of my starting weight, I was embarrassed that I let myself get to such high weight (130kg). When I starting losing weight and it became noticeable, I would avoid answering questions about how much weight I’d lost, what my goal weight was or how much I wanted to lose, in fear that they would do the math and figure it out; maybe I was just being paranoid, but it all stemmed from deep shame.

Last week i was having a conversation with my mother who is at a point where she acknowledges that she has to lose weight for health and overall self confidence, but confided in me that she feels hopeless as she has such a large amount to lose to reach her GW and doesn’t know where to start or how to break habits she’s had for years. This really stuck me and I could relate to exactly what she was feeling and her HW and GW were in a similar range to mine. I decided to tell them (my sister was present too) my highest weight and how much I’d so far lost (thus telling them my CW too). My mother said that this information gave her some hope for her weight loss journey, knowing that it is possible.

I can honestly say it was quite freeing, for nearly two years I treated my HW as some horrible secret, as something to hate and punish myself over; My mindset and attitude have been slowly changing, Instead i now view my HW as just the result of the unhealthy coping mechanisms I chose during a difficult time in my life. I’m in no way proud of it but I’ve accepted that it happened and not giving that number so much power and influence over me. I’m proud of myself for acknowledging I needed to change and gaining control back of my life and how far I’ve come. Though I’m still not at my goal weight, I’m currently 90kg, I’m proud of so far losing 40kg and continuing losing weight.

I wanted to add that I understand how daunting it can be to start losing weight when you have large amount to lose, what I found helps is setting small goals such as aiming for losing 1kg a wk, it eventually adds up and before you know it you’re so much closer to your goal weight than when you started.

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