Back down to my high school weight

At the very end of 2018 I decided enough was enough. I had contemplated for months if I had it in me to lose weight. On January 2nd I weighed myself. 272 pounds. The heaviest I have ever been. I have struggled with my weight since I was around 10 or 11 years old. I decided I would start my diet that day. I put on my Fitbit I had only worn once before, downloaded MFP and got started with tracking EVERYTHING. I may went a little overboard with the tracking in the beginning. Since then, I've only had one week where my weight increased and only by 1.2 pounds. I've had a few weeks with a plateau but I expected that. I didnt change my diet much at all. All I really did was accurately track calories and weigh my food. Ever since I started my weight loss, I have weighed myself every Tuesday. No idea why. Just something about Tuesdays I guess. Today I weighed myself expecting a weight increase because of my birthday last week. Nope. Lost weight. That brought my weight to 234.6 for a total weight loss of 37.4 pounds since January. When I graduated high school almost 5 years ago, I was at 235. I haven't been at this weight since. It feels amazing. And I'm noticing changes finally in my once a month weight loss progress pictures. I'm more confident. My mental health has improved. I feel great. I still would like to lose another 64.6 pounds for a total of 102 pounds. I'll get there though. I'm excited, but also scared, to see my adult face and adult body not covered in a layer of fat. And I'm excited to eventually get a wardrobe and hair makeover closer to my goal weight.

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Eating the same meals every day?

Hello!

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So I am wanting to experiment with eating the same meals everyday. I am horrible when it comes to eating whatever I'm craving and binging on junk food. I've put on a good 50 pounds in the last 4 years, and I've tried and failed to lose it. I'm generally pretty lazy when it comes to food prep; I love to cook sometimes, when I'm in the mood to, but on a day to day basis I can't stand spending ~1 hr cooking and then 30 minutes to clean up.

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I know I can't do this indefinitely, but I'm in a weird situation right now which has made it impossible to cook daily; I live with my bf and his brother, and often his brother has friends over or sits in the living room watching shows/movies with his girlfriend. I have pretty bad anxiety, so the idea of going out there and disrupting them so I can cook every day is awful to me. Not to mention that something that really helps me stay on track with cooking and not get bored is I love to put on a podcast, or music that I sing along to while I cook. Because of all this (and in addition not really feeling comfortable since it's not MY kitchen) my bf and I have gotten into a bad habit over the past couple of months of eating out for every single meal. Luckily my bf and I are moving into our own place in a little over a month, where I will be able to warble to my hearts content while I cook.

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Until then, I am wanting to try to get us on track toward losing weight(we both want to). I'm hoping that by eating roughly the same things every day it will not only help us lose a bit of weight over the next month+ but reset our taste buds and hopefully how we view food. We both have a very unhealthy relationship with food and use it as a comfort. I want us both to move toward thinking of food as fuel the majority of the time and only rarely viewing it as a special treat.

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I have the following planned as a sort of "detox" plan to reset our tastebuds and get us used to eating as a necessity rather than for fun. We're shooting to eat this 6 days a week, with one looser day(prob. have eggs and tempeh for breakfast, possible leftovers for lunch) and up to 2 "cheat" meals per week although only from a list I've made of relatively healthy foods like sushi, salads, and entrees from health conscious restaurants.

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Breakfast: Huel made with half Silk Protein Almond & Cashew Nutmilk and half water/ice.

Lunch: Salad w/ "bacon" tofu, black beans, half an avocado, and salsa OR

Salad w/ lemon pepper tofu, navy beans, half an avocado, and Newman's Own olive oil vinaigrette OR

Salad w/ spicy ginger tofu, kidney beans, kimchi, half an avocado, and Bragg's ginger and sesame dressing.

(Note: After lunch, take Deva vegan multivitamin)

Dinner: Cabbage, quinoa, and potato soup w/dollop of unsweetened coconut yogurt and w/ one slice of seeded bread.

Snack Options: Hummus with Super Seed crackers and/or veg(broccoli/baby carrots), fruit(berries, apples, clementines), pickles w/probiotics, 80% dark chocolate(more of an evening treat type thing), pistachios, almonds.

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So you can see I did create some variation with the salads which I think will be my saving grace. But they basically consist of the same things and will be SUPER quick and easy to prep. I'm pretty excited to start this tomorrow, my bf and I have had it with constantly feeling like shit because we eat like shit lol. It'll be nice to be a bit thinner when we move into the new place too, it'll be starting things off on a good foot.

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Has anyone else attempted to eat the same meals every day as a weight loss method? How has that worked for you? What do you eat?

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Sweat is just fat crying, right?

This could be a weird question but Google isn't providing much help so here I am.

I did keto for a few months and lost about 45lbs. After doing lazy keto and my weight loss stalled, I decided to change up my diet and start Weight Watchers. I've been doing WW for about 2 weeks now and I have noticed that I am SO SWEATY! Just doing regular every day activities ex. Getting ready for work, sleeping, doing minor housework, cooking, etc. Is this normal? What is going on metabolically and physiologically causing me to be so sweaty? When I was on keto I was cold all the time and rarely had random sweats.

So additional information that could be helpful to the answer. 32F, 5'7", 215lbs but an athletic stature. I go to 60-75 minute intense spin classes 3-4 times a week, will go on additional bike rides on the weekends if the weather is nice, walk my dog multiple times a day throughout the week, and do weight lifting/strength training 1 or 2 times a week. As far as I know I don't have any thyroid issues as my bloodwork showed normal last time it was checked.

Why so sweaty?!

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Is Pre-workout helpful or safe for weight loss?

Hey guys, I'll keep it short and sweet. I've lost 35lbs since January with the hopes of losing another 30-35 before I'm satisfied. I'm keeping on top of my diet, and I'm doing 25 minutes a night on an elliptical trainer to try to get in shape.

Here's where my question is relevant. Some days I get on the elliptical and I can smash through it no worries, and other days by the 10 minute mark my legs are stuffed and I'm struggling a bit. I'm assuming it's got to do with what I've eaten that day even though every day during the week I eat the exact same for lunch (salad with some meat)

So, keeping in mind my primary goal is to lose weight, gaining some muscle is a definite bonus but not number 1 on the list, would a pre-workout powder be beneficial for when I'm on my elliptical?

Thankyou 😁

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A different type of hair loss question

I know this topic comes up like every few weeks in here. I already know about telogen effluvium, and I have just started taking the necessary vitamins - and making sure my calories aren't TOO low. I actually set MFP to losing just 1 lb a week (1600-1700 calories a day, plus exercise calories) just to be sure. My protein is 80-100 grams a day, so that's good too.

But I have a couple other questions concerning hair loss, for those who have experienced it too.

1. If you get it easily just from dieting/losing fat, will you pretty much deal with it until you reach maintenance? I am really hoping not, because I have another 85 lbs to go. That could take over a year at the rate I'm going. I will be bald by then!
2. Has anyone seen it kind of start and stop, then start again? I first got TE in early 2018 when doing Keto. I lost FAST. Like 20-30 lbs in 2 months, completely just by doing Keto and my calories were way too low.. between 1,000 and 1,200 and I was over 250 lbs. SO that part makes sense. Over the last year or so, the hair loss kind of slows down, seems to get better, then comes back bad. Then goes away again after several months, then comes back bad. Has anyone else noticed this?
3. When you started losing hair, did you notice your hair texture also change? It seemed like when this started happening, my hair completely changed. It is limp, dull, dry, and no longer curly. I used to have spiral curly hair, now it's barely waves. It just seems connected somehow?

I should mention I was NOT taking my vitamins properly until like the last week, so I wasn't really doing much to help it. I was just yo-yo dieting a lot and stressing over losing my hair basically.

I am totally fine with a lot of the side effects of weight loss, including the loose skin. But the hair loss is seriously stressing me out - even if it turns out to be temporary.

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Renewing Motivation During Finals Week

*this is so long I’m so sorry lol*

I've literally lurked on this sub for so long and it's been incredibly helpful so far, and I love reading about everyone's journey, so I thought I'd share mine in an attempt to stop being such a fuckup and keep up with my goals, so here it is.

On January 27th 2019, I was 179 pounds, and I’m 5’3, so it freaked me the fuck out. I was never like a ~skinny legend~ but I’ve always wanted to be. Thinking about dieting always made me exhausted (because I didn’t know about CICO and thought I had to eat leaves, bland chicken, and then, maybe if I’m lucky, a single strawberry as a treat, so basically I was dumb lol) and I never had to worry about exercise because I played sports in high school, and my coaches always kicked my ass, so I never had to do it myself. Then college started and 4 nights a week of vodka, chasers, pizza, and ice cream (love you 24/7 dining hall) had me gaining the freshman 15, and the sophomore 15, which put me at a cool 30ish. Yikes.

This is so vain but I was like really really over the way I looked. All my friends are so tiny and they’d always assure me like “oh you look fine, you look great” and it kinda placated me into not really doing anything about my weight because apparently I looked fine, carried the weight well, and fit into mediums (which by the way, after looking at pictures, I absolutely didn’t, like sis get a larger size plz) But I knew something was off, I’m 20 and I want to be in the best health as I can for as long as I can, and I also wanna flex, ya know.

So after realizing how much I weighed and deciding enough was enough, I went cold-turkey, balls to the wall, hard af on weight loss, started running for 30 minutes a day 5 days a week, sticking to 1200 calories a day (mostly healthy foods, some def not, but all good) and now I’m down 30 pounds at 149. Which would be great, as I’m 9 pounds away from my first goal of being a healthy weight (my final goal is 115 which I haven't been since junior high but i'm dyin to get there).

But. It’s finals week. I have 3 papers due (and yet here I am lmao) and I ate 500 calories worth of Hot Cheetos today because I really don’t wanna write these papers and I’m so stressed. After I stress-ate the Cheetos, I got off my ass and did my usual run (that I’ve skipped for the last 4 days because of work which is also stressing me out) and I need to stay motivated to not use finals week stress as a reason to slide back down into my old habits because those sucked and they’re a trap. I’m scared once I stop being conscious of what I’m eating and start indulging too much, I’m gonna lose all my motivation. So if anyone has any advice on dealing w this please lmk because god do I want to just lay on a coach and hibernate for a year. Thanks and ily all so much :)

TLDR because this is a literal novel oh my god: I'm down 30 pounds at 149 from 179, but finals week is killing me and i need tips to stay motivated!

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Its my one year CICO-versary :D

(insert obligatory mobile formatting apology here)

On May 1st, 2018, I decided to officially take control of my life after being overweight-obese, most of my life, and after reading this and other weightloss/ health subs, I made my first food diary entry (MFP, but have since moved to other apps that suit me better)

I was a hefty 67kg/147lbs, 4”11’, very sick and tired and sedentary 18-year-old, with a few sensory/digestive and mental health issues, with obesity related problems not far from my future. My relationship with food seemed to be all or nothing- if left to my own devices I would cycle through times of binge & restrict.

I decided to track my food intake, started to eat cleaner, eliminating foods that caused me issues and finding a plethora of ones that didn’t. I stopped forcing myself to eat in the morning, stopped snacking later in the day, so I was fasting 16, then 18, then 20+ hours. I started walking in the morning first for about 30min a day, but slowly increased that to almost 2 hours.

It honestly didnt completely start out soley as a weight loss thing for me, but rather a complete health upheaval, which I think was paramount in my success.

Today, May 1st 2019, I have since lost 24kg/52lbs, and have been maintaining for a couple of months!!! I walk over 10k steps every day, have probably seen more sun in the past 6 months than I have for the past 6 years, and I sleep so much better now. I have also gone vegetarian and 75% plant based, cooking and prepping proper meals every day- eating the food I have come to truly love and also doesn’t make me feel sick! I still treat myself often of course (kind of have to now in order to hit my maintainance calories), but now I know how to not go overboard, how to keep my body and mind happy, how to not think of food as punishment or reward, but rather as fuel.

I’ve learned so much about myself. I’ve discovered that while I despise maths, I love data and calculations (as long as I don’t have to do it myself- I adore spreadsheets), which I think will be very helpful in the coming years of maintenance. I used to think I was nocturnal, but now I love the early morning!! I guess waking up and getting out of bed and being productive isnt a chore when you dont feel so heavy and bloated and sluggish constantly?

Tracking food isn’t a hinderance like I thought it would be, it's almost a hobby now, one that improved my mental health and wellbeing!!

I still have a lot of things to work on, mentally I know I still struggle with anxiety and depression- no amount of weight loss or vegetables will fix that completely- but I am ready to try and get better. I do mourn the youth I feel I missed out on sometimes, being so shut in and insecure and unhealthy, but I’m trying to focus on the future now instead.

I’m rambling- anyway, Thank you r/loseit, I’ve learned so much from all of you!! I honestly couldn’t have done it without all your guidance :D

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