My weight loss transformation story (if i can do it, you can too)

Please note: this is the very first post/time coming out with my story. I've not really been the social media person.

When I was younger (about 14) I was teased and bullied about my weight- it really made me feel low and depressed.. i was also dealing with my parents divorce so it wasn't a good time in my life.

I remember I came home crying to my mum one day and I said I don't care what it takes, I'm going to lose the weight. So I started my weight loss journey. I got into a little sport (rugby) and that got me out of the house-I was losing some but not a lot. Also my confidence was crippled by everything what was going on around me.

Eventually I got a girlfriend around 16, (I was still chubby), but we broke up and again I had to pick myself up. By this time I was drinking on the weekend, still trying to escape reality. I felt really lonely but I realised the only one who can change me is me. I got into acting which helped rebuild my confidence. I ended up isolating myself and decided to really lose the weight and I had to change my ways.

I was doing home workouts and was eating well. That's when things started to change. I was working out 5-4x per week, Resistance training mixed with cardio and eating on a calorie controlled diet. Probs around 2000 kcals. Sometimes I mixed it up, by doing running, HIIT training (things that require very little equipment). I also loved the social aspect of a gym.

I got to the body I wanted and my confidence was really showing. I would talk to people and actually make eye-contact. I began to really respect myself. Got into meditation and yoga. It was then I realised that this is what I want to teach when I am older. So I came out of drama school, worked in the lowest degrading jobs (pot washer and cleaner), saved up my money and paid to become a qualified personal trainer. Btw I have a degree 2:1 in acting but it's got me nowhere. So if you're thinking about a degree-think smartly about your ROI. Think is there a need for this skill in the marketplace.

During my time at my gym I was working on different programs and exercises which had more of a creative twist to them. I created 3 programs and 2 classes from scratch - it was unheard of at my gym. I also realised the people in the gym just wanted to lose weight and didn't know how to. I always said it's 80% nutrition and you can get to your goal by doing workouts with minimal equipment. And as advice I've always suggested low GI foods (low sugar). Just look up low gi foods on google. But don't get it twisted, I still love pizza.. I say low gi because it worked wonders for me.

Fun fact: most major gym chains in England do not pay the instructors or personal trainers. Everyone trainer is on 100% commission and they don't actually work for that gym. Trainers get to use the facilities if they agree to work certain hours. For example: trainers work 12-15 hours taking classes, cleaning equipment, showing people around etc.. that's why it's so easy for these chains to get rid/replace trainers. To recap trainers are not paid per hour or per class. They don't get a penny. That's how they've expanded so rapidly.

I met a girl at the gym and we fell for each other. However, after the year mark she decided to leave me out of the blue and started making up excuses. I don't want to go into it but I know for a fact it's about money and she thought I'd be a lot further on by now. She also got a new promotion and it's coincidental how she started to fall out of love with me as soon as she got handed a well paying job on a plate. It's kinda hard and lonely being self employed but it is what it is. I cried a lot but now it's just pure f@!k it mentality.

I’m 26 now. Exercise has truly helped me through all of this and is a natural anti-depressant. I can talk from experience that exercise has been my best coping mechanism by far. Something to get the heart pumping and to actually sweat..

The first stage is to share my story. I don't know where this post is going to take me but if you've made it to the end I want to thank you for taking the time to read my story. Feel free to ask me anything.

https://imgur.com/J4IEvWV link to results

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I lost it yesterday with my friend and became that horrible skinny friend. 👎🏻

Hi there

So I have a friend, who I’ve been really good friends with for around 4 years. He’s very overweight (400lbs). I’ve lost around 90lbs altogether. Taking me to around 140lbs. I am in a healthy weight range.

He is always digging me out in social situations and I feel always trying to show me up about my weight loss. He will make comments about my appearance and about my eating. Which is fine for the most part. It doesn’t normally bother me hugely as I can see where it comes from & normally feel if it makes him feel better about himself telling me I’m too skinny then who cares.

Yesterday I was having a particularly bad day. I had to go to a friends birthday dinner, didn’t feel like going but I went. When I got there, I felt like he really laid into me. He kept commenting on my legs saying how they look like chicken legs and telling me how I shouldn’t lose anymore weight, telling me he thinks I have an eating disorder (not in a concerned way) and going on and on about other things to do with my weight. This is in front of other people, in a public space and I just wasn’t in the mood for it.

I didn’t shout at him but I told him to shut his fat face and that he’s boring me & why does he need to try & show me up all the time? You don’t see me telling you how fat you are at dinner or ever. So just shut up you fat tw**.

He left earlier than planned & then sent me a lengthy text about how he doesn’t think we should be friends anymore because of how I treated him and how he has self esteem issues and how I’m basically the bad person, not him.

I shouldn’t have sworn at him or called him fat. I’m not particularly proud of that but it’s unbelievable how someone can treat you that way and as soon as you give them a taste of their own medicine you’re the bad person 🤷🏻‍♂️. I don’t have the greatest self esteem as it is. His comments rub off on me. Just because I’m slim now it doesn’t mean I don’t look in the mirror and think I look like shit.

We used to be such good friends and hang out all the time. He’s one of the funniest people I have ever met. He was there for me when I came out and supported me hugely and it makes me sad I have lost a friend due to trying to better myself 👎🏻.

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Family messes with my weight loss

So to start things off, I have been overweight my entire life. I(24F) am 5’3, and at the moment am sitting at 265lbs.

At one point I was so on my diet and workouts, and dropped down to 240, which was the best I’ve felt in a long time.

But time and time again my family, who I live with, messes with my weight loss. No one else in my family is overweight, so when they crave pizza or anything fast food, they just go out and get and can’t see how this food just triggers my bingeing. Believe me, I go out and personally shop for myself and get healthy food but sometimes it’s so hard for me to say no, or they make me feel bad for saying no.

I just don’t know how to approach this topic with them, without them completely shrugging me off.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 09 April 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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Finding and addressing the thing that stands in your way

Hi lose it.

This community has been invaluable for me. I'm a 23f, 5'5" sw: 192, cw:160, GW: 135. Its taken me about a year and a half, but I've lost 32lbs with CICO and excersize and the help of a personal trainer. My weight loss has actually triggered underlying hormonal issues for me and I've been dealing with some benign but painful and annoying symptoms.

I've kind of stalled the past year, and it's been more maintenance than loss. I've gone to some dark places and dealt with shitty doctors who've ignored me and glossed over my symptoms and their persistence, even going as far as to say I was faking it. This thing has been drawn out too long. I'm tired. I'm in pain. The pain greatly interferes with my ability to do my work (work which keeps me sane). It's hard to put your best foot forward when pain is beating the shit out of you. Even harder to pay attention to your food, do dishes, prep twice a week. And it's easy for a recovering binger like me to just eat some garbage to feel better. I did that all my life! Its how i got in this situation. I find myself eating take out way more than I should. It needs to stop if i want to hit my goal. Standing in one place gives you time to think. And i want to figure out and move past what's keeping me here.

Plans take time and they take adjustments. It can be easy to feel shame when we fail, but one question has served me /so much/ when trying to analyze what went wrong.

We're in this for the long haul, we're going to do this consistently, right? So ask yourself. When things go wrong,

"What was the biggest block in my mind as to why i didn't stick to my meal plan today?"

For me, it's easy. I hate fucking doing dishes. I like the taste of the health food. Portions and macros are fine. I eat 5 small meals a day. When my food is prepped, its easy to just put it in my mouth. But my meal containers pile up and when it's time to cook again, I hate having 12 dishes and lids to wash in succession while I'm cooking. Its exhausting. The days where I eat stuff I didn't prepare are the days when I've been working all week and just didn't have time to make food for the day.

So I'm trying to build time into my schedule every day to take 10 mins and wash my dishes from the day of and put them away. So when its time to cook again, I can just retrieve them and fill them. Easier said than done. But I'm working on it! I did it successfully one week and cooking and packing was a breeze.

I think the key to consistency is finding the path of least resistance. Is sugar your weakness? Decide whether you need artificial sweetners or to cut it out entirely. Is it snacking? Is intermittent fasting right for you? Etc. These are the questions we gotta ask and work around. When you're on the path of least resistance, it wont feel like a chore.

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My 'start today' was nothing special

Hi all.

I'm the cliche lurker. I have been for the last few months. But I had a pretty significant SV and wanted to share. Apologies for the wall of text!

I am 27, 5'6 and in October last year my starting weight was 105kg (approx 230 pounds). I had no idea what my weight was for the longest time. I was always the 'fat friend' and had convinced myself I was okay with it. I avoided scales and had tried a few half assed attempts over the years to lose some weight but never really committed. I had all the usual excuses too. "I can't stick to diets." "I don't like the idea of gyms" "my schedule makes it too hard".

I knew I had gained over the last year or so. Clothes that I had bought recently were no longer fitting, and I had the general 'uncomfortable' feeling. October last year I fell sick and went to the doctor. Who made me weigh myself. I was generally pretty good at talking my way out of it but he insisted and I'm glad he did. Because the scales said 105kg. And this was after close to 2 weeks of not eating due to sickness before hand.

That number scared me. Terrified me actually. I knew I had to make some kind of change or else this would become my life and it wasnt what I wanted. That being said, I did absolutely nothing to change for the first month because I didn't feel 'ready'. But I was quite lucky, I had a friend who was currently on her weight loss journey who had 'fallen off the wagon' and was picking herself up. With her help and motivation and accountability I also started CICO in December.

I started logging everyday. I set myself a 1300 calorie limit. I started walking as often as I could. I researched high volume, low calorie meals, I gave up soda and dessert after every single meal. I've definitely slipped. And between Christmas and some holidays away with the girls I've had some pretty bad weeks. But I tell myself I have already come so far and a bad couple of days doesn't make all my hard work disappear. But giving up definitely will.

I was really struggling around the time I hit my 7.5kg weight loss. I felt like I should have been happy but I couldn't see the difference in the mirror. I am taking progress photos and measurements as well but I wanted to SEE a difference. My weight loss girl friend did the best possible thing. She dragged my feeling sorry for myself butt to the supermarket and started loading my arms up with bags of potatoes. And she didnt tell me what on earth she was doing until I was holding 7.5kg of raw potatoes and complaining about how heavy it was. There was something about seeing the weight I had already lost in front of me shook something loose in me. It seemed to click.

I am now 5 months into this journey. And I am 20kg down. I am currently 84.5 kg. My BMI is now in the overweight range, instead of obese. Clothes that were too tight are now too loose. But more importantly I FEEL better.

I really adamant about not thinking of this as a diet. I'm just changing my lifestyle and food habits to be healthier. Which means a 'bad day' doesnt mean I've failed, it means I overindulged. Which is okay once in a while. Its helped me stay out of the shame spiral.

I've been seeing a lot of 'start today' type posts recently. I think I just wanted to share that my 'start today' was December 3. There was nothing particularly special about that day. I hadn't binged the weekend before or emptied my house of snacks. I picked a day and decided it was time. Your 'start today' day doesn't have to be a big deal. Make a small change. Stick to it. Introduce another. Keep going. One bad day doesnt make everything before it disappear. But giving up definitely will. I have another 16.5kg to go my goal weight. Giving up isn't going to get me there. But the advice and support and will this sub has given me will.

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Hit a big plateau I can't seem to break through :( Any advice?

I started my weight loss journey in September and have lost 12kg so far which I'm very content with. The problem being that I've been stuck at 94-5kg for a bit over 2 months which is insane to me despite doing nothing different.

About 2 weeks ago I took a 3 day refeeding break and about a week ago I decided to give Keto a go and I'm still on it but nothing seems to really work if I'm being honest. 2 days after starting Keto I dropped 2kg and now I'm right back up to 95 this morning. I'm definitely in a deficit because I'm keeping close count of my calories so that's not it.

If any of you could share what helped you break through your plateau that would be great. Thanks!

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