Searching for Weight Loss Accountability Buddy

Hello, I am new to Reddit, but I am looking for a friend who will keep me accountable during my weight loss. Would like to lose about 20lbs. I am a 22 yr old female who just moved to a new city. I have no friends or family here and I live alone. It is all too easy to eat my feelings...I am a very impulsive person and unfortunately also an emotional eater. I have a fitbit so I would like to calorie count through that. I am looking for someone who is not afraid to talk calories and also who would like to check in with each other during the day to make sure we are staying on track. I am a very impulsive person and accountability is what I struggle with most. Everyday I tell myself that today will be the day that I change .... and then I don't...Maybe not feeling so alone in this will help.

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Finally starting my weight loss journey!

I (19M) weight around 164kg, at around 187 cm; I'm a big boy. Recently I've been feeling terrible about my body and my life in general. I know, I know, how cliche. But I'm finally willing to get off my ass and do something about it.

I was an athlete in secondary school, and even have medals nationally in wrestling, and played on the senior high school football and rugby teams. I guess my eating didn't slow down but my activity very much did.

I will attatch my actual, accurate weight tomorrow when I get access to a scale. I wanted to attatch my photo, but I am not sure how to add the nsfw tag.

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Frustrated, not sure where else to turn

Hi everyone here. I think I just want to get all my thoughts out in one place and I have nobody to talk to, so I wanted to make a post here.

I am struggling hard with this whole "weight loss" and "healthier life style" thing. I comfort eat constantly and I am completely addicted to food. I can wake up and instantly crave mcdonalds, and it will NOT get off my mind until I go get it. Its a cycle. I am fortunate that I am not super overweight yet, but I am not in a good spot and its going south fast. I am a 24 male, 6 feet tall 230 pounds and increasing. I was always chubby in high school, but when I graduated I went down to 180 and was feeling great, but the last 2 years I've gained 50 pounds back and it seems to not be slowing down.

I absolutely hate myself. I hate the way I am and I feel SO guilty every time I binge eat. It makes me so depressed and angry at myself. I also can't stand to look in the mirror. None of my clothes fit me anymore and im super self conscious. My mom, who is my best friend, has an overeating issue and I feel like I picked it up from her. She is 57 and probably 280-300 pounds and I am absolutely terrified of the health risks she may be facing soon if she does not change. Me and my mother are stuck in an endless cycle of "Okay, lets change and be healthy we can do this together!" to not trying just a few days later and pigging out on anything we please. I want so badly to find the strength in side of my to change my habits to show her "Look mom, we can DO this, I'M doing it. its POSSIBLE" but I just haven't found any success yet. The second there is a temptation in front of my I cave, I feel so weak. I really am starting to fear a bit for my mothers health soon and I want so badly for her to find the strength to beat her food battle (she has struggled her ENTIRE life) but I don't know how to help and I can't even seem to do it myself.

I feel like food is ruining my life, and it is also now causing me this fear. Does anybody have any advice at all? I know there is really not much to do other than to just DO it, but i am having such a hard time, and I dont know how to help my mom either. If something happens to my mom because of her weight I feel I will live the rest of my life with guilt wondering if I could have helped her more somehow, or if I lost the weight sooner if it would have inspired her.

I've suffered with anxiety and depression my entire life and food is my comfort and happy place, yet it is also ruining my life at the same time and causing just as much anxiety and depression as its supposedly numbing for me.

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Sunday, 17 February 2019

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

Interested in some side quests?

• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
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• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

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• [Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
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NSV: All My Exercise Paid Off

Just for a bit of background, I haven’t been actively trying I lose weight until early January. Before then, however, I had been working out in hopes of being healthier (and maybe losing a bit of weight, but i wasn’t trying hard enough diet wise to). I had been doing moderate intensity cardio about 3-5 times a week since about April 2018. No strength training save for a plank and some assisted pull ups (bee assisted I’m weakkkk)

So in pursuit of health and weight loss, I decided to pay for a few sessions with a personal trainer at the local YMCA. The first session was a free fitness assessment to see where I am physically. Now I am still slightly over weight (F18, 150ish and 5’5”). But when we took body fat percentage and resting heart rate, I was shocked. My body fat percentage was 29% overall. Still higher than it should be, but not at all bad. My stomach, my stomach where I thought I’d have the most body fat, was at 19%. The healthy range. But my resting heart rate was what shocked me. I had a resting heart rate of 62. I could barely believe it. I didn’t think the cardio I had been doing was that impactful.

I just needed a bit of a place to brag I guess. If this is an off topic post, I’m sorry. But in my quest to lose weight and be the healthiest version of myself, that was a MASSIVE victory. I’m ecstatic

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Having a hard time staying motivated

So, here goes another attempt at weight loss. Back story/Rant

I currently am not the heaviest I've been outside of pregnancy (2 years after highschool I hit 209) but I'm definitely the heaviest I've stayed, if that makes sense. I had my son 1 year ago on the 19th of the month. I lost almost all of my pregnancy weight in the first 4 months. I was only 7lbs away from prepreg weight. Then my son decided he no longer wanted to breastfeed, no big deal right. I figured I'd just pump and be okay. Well I was wrong, my body didn't respond to the pump. So I stopped producing. Within two weeks I had gained 18lbs. I didn't even realize until one day I thought "I wonder how much I weigh now" and hopped on the scale to see 190 looking back at me. I got so depressed and because of that I gained another 10lbs. So I was at 200lbs. I got motivated for about 6 weeks. I worked out every morning, ate better, and drank only water. I lost 8lbs and got stuck. I worked and worked for another 2 weeks then just gave up because I wasn't seeing any difference.

I was a wrestler in highschool and LOVED working out, I mean honestly I loved it. Everyday 3 hours a day except Sunday. I weighed 133lbs when I graduated and I was happy. I was in a very unhealthy relationship for close to 3 years after hs and put on a lot of weight. After I left that relationship the weight fell off, 209-152 in a little under 5 months. Fast forward and because of work and just being busy I stopped working out and settled around 152-158 which at first I was very upset about but then I realized I looked great still and felt fine so I was happy.

Just before I got pregnant we moved to Missouri, for a short time, for my fiances work. We had to live in hotels and travel with his company, it was awful. The first month there was no food within 15 miles of us expect McDonald's and a gas station. I gained 12lbs by the time we decided to come home. So I was working to lose that when I got pregnant. 168 was my starting weight, my midwife insisted that I gain 30-45lbs. I argued with her for weeks until I gave up. I ended up being 200 at delivery.

Now I'm 190.4 EVERY morning. It's so infuriating, I started interm-fasting about 3 weeks ago and really have been sticking to it. I lost 3lbs in the first week, but again. I'm fucking stuck.

I hate the way I look and the way I feel because of it. I just have never had such a hard time losing weight and it's very off putting.

I'm 24, 5'4" bmi is 33.6. I want to be 154 with my 28 bmi again.

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Why does it seem like you "suddenly" lose weight? Or that people notice weight loss happening in spurts?

So I've been steadily losing weight for a while and I've noticed a trend. I diet and exercise, the pounds are still coming off so I know there's progress, but I'm not seeing physical results myself. (As expected because there's apparently some psychology behind why we don't notice weight loss and gain in ourselves)

THEN one day all of a sudden everyone ELSE will notice how much weight I've lost. Only then do I run to the mirror, measure and actually see that it's true. Literally this happens in one day. As if somehow the last ten pounds that I dropped over the past five weeks occurred overnight. What is happening here? It's as if my body just deflated or "let go" of the weight. Why does it happen in spurts? It can't just be water weight can it?

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