21 Year Old Female Down 70 lbs Having Trouble Losing Last 30 lbs and Needs Help

SW: 230 lbs CW: 165 lbs GW: 130 lbs

Hello, I've been on a weight loss journey since June of 2018 which was very hard, but rewarding because I went from 230 lbs down to 160 lbs by cutting my portions and calorie counting, drinking green tea and water, no sweets and processed foods, doing yoga everyday.

However, I've been stuck at this weight for almost 6 months now and I don't know what to do anymore. Now I'll admit that when I lost my job and winter came around I became quiet depressed and began eating some sweets with my free tea and stopped regularly excerising. I still kept my portion sizes the same though so I didn't gain weight.

The scale just stopped moving and it was unnerving.

When the new year came I decided I was going to try and excerise and get back on track which worked for a bit. I went down to 155 lbs which was great. I didnt feel challenged though and when I ate more than a meal or a snack a day I gained so much weight back it made me depressed so I stopped.

I keep going back and fourth in this way. Starting a routine and quitting a week later.

After researching the internet I found out I needed to intensify my excerise routine so I began doing HIIT excerises and it worked for a while but I still wasn't seeing results. So I researched again and found out I was consuming too many carbs so I tried keto but I was getting really irritated and ravenous on the diet. It worked though I coukd see my muscle mass and my waist was getting smaller but I felt miserable. I bought weights to train and build more muscle mas and decrease my body fat but I don't know how to even use them and come up with a routine. So I just gave up and started eating incredibly unhealthy and just the stuff I refused to let myself consume for a whole year now.

Now my body is being very strange. I'm hungry and thirsty all the time. I can drink a whole 1.5 liter water bottle and STILL be thirsty. I can eat and I'll still be really hungry and I feel myself gaining weight and it's making me feel like a failure. Please help. I'm a college student working part time so cheap meal prep and and excerise routines would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading this.

Also does anyone have any advice on how to deal with people policing your body and telling you to stop losing weight or seeing you finally eat a full meal and making fun of your weight gain?

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My fiancé and I are getting married in August 2019, and this has been the tipping point of motivation to lose weight and pursue a healthier lifestyle.

I am currently a 28 y/o female, 5’8”, 225lbs. I was a typical college athlete that fell off the wagon when training and competing ended, and have especially struggled recently while balancing work, graduate school and raising a child. I’ve also struggled with anxiety and depression for the majority of my life. I want to flip my lifestyle on its head and make real changes. I am about to graduate, begin a new 9-5 position in a field I love, and will be getting married next August.

My main questions are:

1. At my current size, what is a reasonable weight loss goal within 1 year? I don’t want to set myself up for failure.

2. Where do I start in terms of eating? I’ve read about basic CICO, Keto, etc. I don’t want to start any kind of fad-like thing, just something that works and is reasonable.

3. How much cardio is necessary? I HATE running. My hips suck. But am open to anything else. How much should I be doing if I am lifting?

4. Any solid lifting routines to get back into the grind? I LOVE to lift, and have always been pretty strong. I just haven’t done it in years and don’t want to start with what I used to do for my sport - I might break myself.

5. What technology is helpful? I’ve got an iPhone and unopened Fitbit that’s been sitting in a drawer for 2 years.

Any advice is appreciated. I’m really serious about this and want to plan my journey and document along the way.

Thank you all!

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How do you all stay motivated

Hi all. As the title suggests, I’m having a little trouble staying motivated and I’m looking for tips.

Started last December at 291lbs. Did Whole30 for a month and then switched to a simple Macro limit range. Started exercising 4 times a week. Having good success so far, last Friday I weighed in at 227 lbs. which is awesome.

However, I think I am beginning to get frustrated and lose focus. First, for the past month or two, weight loss has been significantly slower than when I started. Now I understand that there are a few reasons for this: 1) as I get smaller it’s harder to keep losing and 2) I broke a finger so I cannot do my preferred cardio so in my down time I’ve switched to weight lifting and running so building muscle will also slow down loss.

But over the past month or so, I went from losing ~3lbs a week to ~1 lbs. Another part of the issue is I have 1 cheat day on the weekends. Obviously it doesn’t help but honestly it’s one of the few things keeping me sane. However every Monday I will weigh in up to 8lbs heavier then Friday. For example last Friday I was 227 and today I am 332. Again I know this is normal fluctuations and by Friday I will usually be at a net loss, but it is still disheartening.

I think my biggest issue is that I am really busting my ass dieting and doing these grueling workouts but I’m only losing a single pound each week and at this rate it’ll take another 2 years to reach my goal. Then, do have all the work ruined each Monday is pretty crushing. I realize the obvious answer would be to cut the cheat day but I feel like it’s one of the few things keeping me sane, I miss out on so much social interactions because of my restrictions already that to cut the last ones I have left would be too much for me.

My frustrations have led me to begin taking liberties that I would not usually (ex. Eyeballing an ingredient rather than weighing it out on a scale). I recognize this as my first signs of giving up (from past weight loss tries) and I desperately don’t want to. But with everything it feels like I’m losing the light at the end of the tunnel.

So how do you deal with frustration? What are your tips to keep going? I’ve done so good up until now and I wanna keep it up but it’s hard.

P.S. - I hope this post doesn’t come off as whiny, I realize a lot more people have worked through more than I have and I also know that a lot of people have worked harder for less results than I have seen. I just see the bottom coming up at me fast and I want to avoid that.

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[SILLY!POST] I'm married to CI/CO!

But don't worry, she's poly.

And my friend just pointed out that some people pronounce it "sy-ko"... LOL.

Jokes aside, I wanted to share something pretty lighthearted but also very sincere in its way. I recently decided to wear a pair of commitment rings to honor my CI/COntract (lol...) and express my dedication to weight management. I wear one to symbolize achieving my weight loss and another beside it to mark 1+ year of maintenance. So, they're very similar to wedding rings! And they're size 5.5, so I have to maintain my weight in order for them to continue fitting, LOL.

Has anyone else done something similar -- commemorated your commitment to the lifestyle symbolically somehow, like with jewelry, tattoos or other means? Please share! :D

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April 2018-April 2019. 15 pounds down!

Hello Reddit! I present to you: 15 pounds of weight loss!

My face comparison: https: https://imgur.com/a/FyzUxrP

I can honestly say that this journey has been a crazy taxi of a ride- and it’s not quite over, I’m still aiming for my high school weight, but I take it VERY slow. Since I made it this far though… if you don’t mind, I did want to talk about it.

Compared to the absolute ROCKSTARS in this sub, my lifestyle change was definitely smaller and less impressive. I was not at too bad a weight; at 5’6” 142 is still within a totally regular BMI if you subscribe to that. I was used to being a pretty active, skinny kid/teenager so, seeing that number on the scale (the highest I had ever been) I realized that if I continued my current habits, my weight would continue to increase and it could mean some bad news for me- note that even when I was a 115 pound 13-year-old, I had cholesterol higher than my then 50-year-old father. When I last checked it at 135 pounds it was still too high. I did not go to the doctor in time to see how it was at 142, but probably not good at all!

So I started on a Wednesday at 4pm in April of 2018. Here are some things I realized during this lifestyle change:

1) I identified my bad habits: I was seriously inactive (sleep, take the bus to work, sit all day at work, take the bus home, stay in bed and watch youtube till it’s time to sleep), I was definitely overeating (I was surprised by American-sized portions when I moved here, but it didn’t occur to me that eating it all would be bad for me!) and what I was eating was a mixed bag. I have always loved fruits and vegetables to the point where I’m sure I’m ethnically 40% tomato by now, so that was good! but I also have the hugest weakness for salty junk food- do not put French fries and burgers in front of me, I will inhale them and top it off with fruit gushers. 2) I went SLOWLY. With the habits described above, would you be able to eat 1200 cals and run a 5k the next day? Of course not! I did little things at first- went with the burger, but no fries. Went to the gym and simply walked the treadmill for an hour. Made the salads bigger and the proteins smaller. Oh, and the ever-saving grace of a good food scale! It helped me SO much to understand how much my body needed- much, much less than what I thought. 3) As time went on, the changes got bigger and bigger. I went from 1500 cals to 1400 to 1200. I started going to the gym 2, 3 times a week- then, every day that I could. I went from running one whole minute to keeping a steady pace for 30 minutes. I started walking home from work (1 glorious hour). I cannot tell you how many podcasts I have listened to, to keep me entertained for all this ahaha. I got leaner! And stronger! 4) The biggest changes started in 2019- PURELY because I felt like it, I have cut down significantly on red meats and have a more pescatarian diet. I go to the gym practically every day except Sunday, so I upped my calories to reflect that. And the hugest one of all: after a 27 year diet coke addiction, I cut from 5 cans (A DAY!), to 2, to 1 (this is when the withdrawal hit…condolences to the people who had to be around me those two weeks) to 0. Can I begin to describe to you how much energy I have now? I remember on day 2 of 0 cans, I got home after work and cleaned the whole house because I was THAT freaking manic. It was amazing!

Today: I am at an incredibly satisfying 127 pounds- a lil higher depending on bloat. I want to lose just a little bit more and maintain it. I am now an active person who has more energy to go out with friends, get her responsibilities done and feel better in general. I just got my results from my doctor and while my cholesterol continues to be higher than normal (it probably always will be, I have a double whammy on genetics for that one) it’s definitely at the lowest it has ever been…certainly lower than back when I was 13 whaaaat?? Never thought that would happen!!

But more than anything, even if it was me doing all this, do you know who’s responsible for it? That’s right, y’all. If it wasn’t for this sub, for this community and your advice, help and insane support, I have no idea how I could have continued. During the first 8 months my new “diet” was ALWAYS on my mind, and it felt great to have a space to not shut up about it to spare my friends/family. Thank you loseit. Thank you so much. You have helped me become a stronger, healthier person.

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Can’t seem to lose any weight!

Just looking for some advice if anyone has any better ideas than myself.

I’m F 23 5’3” and currently weigh 10st 4lbs. Had a c section 6 weeks ago and so haven’t been able to do as much exercise as I usually would - also used my entire pregnancy as an excuse to consume an immense amount of junk, so gained around 3.5st. Went down to 10st pretty quickly after giving birth and have been intermittent fasting 20:4 (as I had been regularly pre-pregnancy) for the past 2 weeks. I seem to be stuck at 10st 4lbs no matter what I do! Making sure I take a brisk walk for a minimum of an hour a day and stay active wherever else I can with a newborn and a 4 year old.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to kickstart the weight loss again? I just cannot understand why it hasn’t been dropping!

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[tip] I've found that High Fructose Corn Syrup absolutely destroys my diet, even in small amounts.

I'm sure that most of the people on this sub know that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is total shit. I have worked to minimize it from my diet as much as possible over the past year and rarely drink soda. I also gave up caffeine last fall which was incredibly difficult.

I've been intermittent fasting (8/16) for the past three weeks. I used this weight loss method in summer of 2017 to go from 235lbs to 195lbs, and then did it sporadically and abandoned it only to get back to 215 pounds last month. I had an almost perfect streak, until this past Saturday when I was at a memorial for a friend of mine who had died of a drug overdose. They had pizza and soda and I made sure to get a non-caffeine soda (Orange Fanta I believe) and drank one iced cup of it.

For the rest of the day I was starving. I could not stick to my fast and was hungry no matter what I ate. It wasn't the pizza, I have had that during the 8 hour window and had no issues sticking with the fast. HFCS totally messed my day up and I went way over my calories for the day.

I think that complete removal of HFCS (as well as artificial sweetness in diet products) from your diet could help you if you are struggling with weight loss. I don't think it's any coincidence HFCS became popular in the mid-late 80's (cheaper than cane sugar) which was around when the obesity epidemic began.

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