Has anyone else noticed some people just do not know how to compliment weight loss?

27/F/5’7 SW: 199 CW: 164 GW: 145

So I’ve lost 35 pounds but I really “dressed for my weight” so the “you’ve lost weight!” comments are starting to happen more frequently. I thought maybe some of you could laugh, relate, and share some awkward encounters.

A normal conversation about my weight loss tends to go like this:

Person: “you’re look great! Have you lost some weight?”

Me: “oh thank you, yes I’ve lost about 35 pounds!”

Person: “wow congratulations! You‘re looking good!”

Sometimes there’s how did you do it talk, you know normal stuff. But about once a week I have conversation that goes more like this:

Person: “you look nice today, have you been losing weight?”

Me: “thank you, and yes I have about 35 pounds!”

completely shocked look

Person: “holy cow!! Wow yeah you’re looking really skinny”

Me: “thanks! I’ve been working at”

assumes conversation is over and starts to walk away/move on in conversation depending on setting

Person: very awkwardly I mean it’s not like you were fat before... I’m not saying you’re fat... I hope I didn’t... I... I just mean you look good. Not trying to be rude I just...”

And then I have to stick around to have an awkward conversation about how it’s fine and I was fat and it’s not insulting to say I’ve lost weight and blah blah blah

Has anyone else experienced these awkward conversations?!

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Was there a nail-in-the-coffin moment for you when it came to losing a lot of weight?

I'm (23F) struggling here. years of on off dieting, binging, weight gain, weight loss. I'm sick of it. Heaviest I've ever been, 265lbs. covered in stretch marks. I don't really look in the mirror anymore, because I feel like it isn't me. I was 140lbs 6 years ago.

Anyway, I've just looked at my arms and the stretch marks are now appearing on them too. ugh.

I have serious commitment issues (non-relationship) and just cannot find the drive to lose weight and keep at it. I know it's gonna take awhile and I'm a super impatient person. I think I'm gonna have to take action now.

Did anyone else have a moment like this? have you succeeded with weightloss since? I'd love to know.

thank you :)

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-80lbs face gains! Looking younger now than I did when I *was* younger.

http://imgur.com/a/68vzjlN

I was 17 in the first picture and somewhere around 280+ pounds.

I'm 22 now and 202 in the second picture.

Eating low carb & exercising has done wonders for my face. I feel like I look middle aged in the first picture and waaay younger in the second. A combination of being very heavy and having a bad haircut aged me horrendously. I spent most of my teen years looking like I was middle aged. I showed my Dad the second picture of me and he said, "You look like you're 17." So I decided to find a picture of me at 17 and compare the differences.

I can't believe just how much of a difference the weight loss made in my face. I actualy have a jaw line. My dimples are less pronounced now but I'll take that over excess weight anyway. Getting healthy has surprised me in so many ways and this is one of them. I am very excited to see what my face will look like when I meet my goal weight.

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Calorie counting, IF and exercising

I’m a 20 year old female, and I’d really like to lose just a few pounds of fat. I’d really like some advice on this. :)

I’m currently 5’1 and around 109 pounds (49kg). I’ve always been an active person - Running, walking and occasionally weight lifting and working out, so I have a reasonable amount of muscle mass, with only a few pounds that’s really bothering me, estimating, I’d like to lose about 7 pounds to get to around 102 pounds. Would this be reasonable for my height?

I’ve lost some weight before by running and calorie counting. I maintain on 2100-2200 calories, and I’m trying to cut to 1800 calories, buts it’s hard! I’m also a vegetarian. Do you know any easy, low cost (I’m a college student) healthy foods for weight loss? Also, I’m finding it hard to stick to the deficit (I’ve only started it two days ago), as I have a craving for junk food, especially at night.

I’ve also been doing intermittent fasting often. I don’t really plan it at all tbh, usually doing 16/8 hours daily (just due to my natural eating schedule), but once or twice a month 18/6 hours. I really want to try doing 20/4 or even a full 24 hour fast once a week. Any advice on this?

Also, I’m trying to start running and working out consistently over the week, where as before I just kind of did it without tracking my exercise. I run for about 40 minutes, and I want to do his about 3-5 times a week, as well as working out for about 5 days a week.

Can any of you offer some advice on how to stick to the calorie counting, IF and any other things I should be doing to start losing weight? Thanks :)

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How much weight can I lose by August 1st?

I am a 27 year old Male. I'm 5 feet 7 inches tall and I weigh 240 pounds. Is it possible I could weigh under 180 pounds by August 1st? What's the best diet to get there? It's the start of a family vacation. I dont have any experience dating. I have never even kissed or had a girlfriend. After weight loss, did you get a lot more attention from women? I have been overweight/obese all my life so I dont know what that's like.

I know that the fatter you are the safer you can lose fat quickly. I went to the doctor about my weight and he told me to eat 1000 to 1400 calories a day and keep that up for 2 months then come back for a check up. What do you guys think? Thanks.

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Food binging like I'm scared of getting to my goal-weight. Need advice.

TL:DR : It's hard to describe but I think I'm scared of get to my goal weight.

In the last 2 months, I went (it's not really real numbers because of water weight and the amount of food in my body) from 180 to 170 to 180 to 170 and now to 180 again in the last 3 days with hardcore binging. Glorious but painful to eliminate so much progress in a matter of days : https://imgur.com/JFHWgUp

My goal weight is 160 and every time I was so close to get into the 160s I struggled to keep motivation to continue, saw the scale not moving for a week and cracking under pressure and eat back weeks of progress in one go. Rince and repeat.

I'm writing this after 3 days of binging and back today on the diet I followed very well since the beginning of the year going from 190 to 170 in a matter of 12 weeks (I'm 31M 6f1). I'm still fragile emotionally but it's like the binging calm me down and I'm back in the wagon now fighting back to the 170 mark.

I tried to understand what happened and it looks like I'm scared of actually looking my best. On my last 170 day few weeks ago, we had a small family and friend gathering and my mother and others that didn't saw me in the past few months commented on how good I was looking and was scared of losing too much weight with the rate I "melted". Big difference between 190 and 170. I got those comments from co-workers, close friends, etc. It's tough managing the weight lost since it's a hard process but it's even harder now because it's like I have the expectation of others on my shoulders now. I can't go back to my old self now. A co-worker told me how good I looked and this was hard to take knowing inside that I binged so much food the past few days and felt almost guilty to receive compliments; like I wasn't deserving them. When I was 170 I told myself I wouldn't weight 180 ever again and seeing myself over 180 (if I get back in the wagon for real for the incoming 5-6 days it will probably normalized around the 175 mark to be honest because I didn't ate 35000 calories over maintenance in 3 days lol) feels like failing to my own motivators.

I know I'll be very happy getting to 160 pounds. It's my ultimate goal for 2019. I know I'll be looking great. I know I'll be able to run faster that way. I know after that weight loss I may want to get a bit of muscle on myself and flip few % of fat into muscle to help with my running. I know I'll be in the best shape of my life at that point. I feel it should be the greatest motivation of all. But no I keep falling back I asked myself why I can't keep up?

What is going on? Am I alone fighting those feelings?

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What piece of motivation did you discover or live even happen that lead you to accomplish your weight loss goals? How to did this change impact you in daily life?

I have been terrible about sticking to diets all my life. It seems I have tried every method that’s out there. I posted on this sub to keep a two week goal, one in which I have never accomplished before. After two weeks I lost fifteen pounds. I realize it was a lot of water weight but it’s a good start. A couple takeaways I had was tracking EVERYTHING you eat really helps your self control. Doing workouts for me in large are not a good idea because I just want to reward myself after I finish. What changed for me to be able to do this was my motivation. When I made my post you guys were so kind and inspiring that I really didn’t want to disappoint you guys. I plan to now set a goal for myself that is a little less strict that before but I will be going for a month. I would like to hear your stories on motivation. What lead you to finally accomplish your goals? What inspired to change your life? How has this motivation impacted your daily life. Love you guys. Just remember if I can do it so can you. Keep up the good work and stay strong! You can do this!

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