SV: Made it to ONEderland, even though I'm pregnant!

I am just floored right now, honestly, and I can hardly believe the scale!

A little background: I got serious about weight loss back in December with CICO and IF. All was going well, and then I got pregnant in March. It was planned so I was very happy, but I knew the weight loss was going to have to take a backseat (I was about 202 at this point). I needed to eat breakfast, for one thing, or else I'd be nauseous, and IF went out the window. I also stopped tracking because it was just too much for me, and I wanted to keep my brain as non-anxious as possible for the baby.

Well, I can't believe it, but I hit ONEderland today, 14 weeks in! I have not been dieting and have even been drawn to dinner foods like plain cheese pizza or mac and cheese because the blandness is so easy on my stomach. But the one thing I have been doing is prioritizing fruits and veggies throughout the day and healthy proteins like sardines, etc. Just making sure there's a great storage of nutrients for baby.

But I think even more than that is that 3ish months of IF and regular CICO changed the way I eat a bit. The binging is for the most part, kicked. Cravings are easier to manage. I can have 3 cookies or 5 crackers instead of the whole box.

Add to that that I'm not drinking and my body is now using extra cals for baby, and I'm losing weight, if only a tiny bit. At my BMI, I'm only supposed to gain 15 to 25lbs across the entire pregnancy, so this is very reassuring to me.

Just wanted to toss this out there--even if there's a lifestyle change that forces you to change some of the methods that have been working for you, it may be the case that you've picked up some good habits that can help you on your journey, however that changes over the years.

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800 days, 413.2lbs lost, and a new lease on life!

Some of you have followed my journey since I started posting in this subreddit over 2 years ago. I have had many ideas of what my end weight should be or where I want to end up. At first I just wanted to get down to under 300lbs, then 250, then under 200lbs. Today my weight is 188.8lbs. I feel this ultimately is my goal weight. Why this weight? I have a lot, and I mean A LOT of loose skin. There were people who weigh less than me who has skin removal surgery and had about 20lbs of loose skin removed. Considering I weighed more than them before I started I put my loose skin at around 20-30lbs. So if you remove all the loose skin I have, that puts my weight around the 160’s. Today also marked 800 days since I started, I went from 602lbs to 188.8 lbs., a loss of 413.2lbs!

• I went from not being able to walk more than 100ft to now running a 5K at the gym, 3 days a week.
• I bought a bike and this past weekend I scratched a bucket list item off my list. I rode a bike around Presque Isle, in Erie, PA. My wife and I packed a picnic lunch, rented bikes and we biked the entire park. It was 4.52 miles the first time where we got lost on a trail, then 14.72 when we restarted and stayed on the right trail. A total of 19.24 miles biked. bike route
• I signed up for the Warrior dash and in July will be doing my first 5K, there are also obstacles I need to climb over or through so it will be an experience. This past weekend I went to the neuromuscular research department at a local university to get my body fat percentage tested. They have a bodpod available for anyone to do testing with for a fee. I have a lot of loose skin and it causes issues trying to determine body fat and actual weight. They ran the test two times to make sure the numbers were accurate. Now before I give you my body fat percentage here is a little background information.
  I started going to a gym in August of 2018 and have gone 3 times a week since I started in August, except for when I had surgery before Christmas and was not allowed to lift any weight until the middle of February. I clocked in at 12% body fat!!! BodPod Results .
  While there they had a dexa scan machine and asked if I was interested in doing a study. I would get a dexa scan, another two weeks later, and then another in 6 months to a year. I signed up before she even finished her sentence, free dexa scans? Hell yea!

There have been a TON of ups and downs across this journey. I was featured in Men’s Health, MyFitnessPal success blog, a magazine in Australia, and another in Germany. I have had numerous people reach out to me asking how to start losing weight and how did I do it.
I started a social media page to follow my weight loss journey because I wanted to share my progress and experiences so others who were my size could see it’s possible to break away from the shackles of being overweight. When I started this journey I never saw anyone my size talking about losing weight or how they did it. All the videos I saw were people who were skinny talking about what to do to lose weight and I couldn’t feel a connection to them as I felt my struggles were things they never would understand.
I struggled with food addiction and an addiction to pop (soda for you people who pronounce it wrong). I always had to have this feeling of being overly full. I had to feel stuffed and every time it would take more and more food to make me feel that way. My calorie count was insane and now I realize why I gained so much weight.
I also struggled with friends who I THOUGHT were friends. Once I started losing weight I noticed a few of my friends never really cared about me losing weight or never said much. This especially happened when I got the point of weighing less than them. I even remember one saying, “Wow I need to do something because you weigh less than me and now I am the fat guy.” It hurt because were they only friends with me because I was fat and they wanted someone else to make them feel better about themselves? This same person still to this day never says anything about my weight loss and has pretty much gone radio silence.
My marriage is the best it has ever been! My wife and I are doing so much more together. We both get to experience new things together. From riding our bikes this past weekend to actually being able to go out to eat and not feeling like I was being stared at for being overweight. I love my wife more than ever, not because she stood by my side through all this but now that I see what she went through with me being overweight. The fact she would stay up at night to make sure I didn’t stop breathing in my sleep hurt a lot. I never realized how much of my mistakes were impacting her life.
Thank you all for cheering me on along my journey. This is only step 1 complete with so many additional steps to go. Next up comes loose skin surgery removal, men’s physique show, and weight lifting competition I want to do. This is my new lease on life and I plan to live it every day!.

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Weight Watchers style tracking for maintenance?

As I creep on my goal weight (and honestly, as I just get a little burnt out) I am starting to think about maintenance. I am currently around 125-126, and thinking I'd like to maintain around 123 (I have 120 as a goal weight, knowing I'll bounce up a bit once I start maintaining).

I got to a stage last year where I decided to maintain and tried intuitive eating. It works pretty well when I eat smart consistently, meaning low calorie/veg meals around 80% of the time. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to do that. Once I'm not accountable, that 80% of the time turns into 70%, then 60% and so on. I gained back around 7-10 lbs trying to maintain without tracking. So I'm trying to think of a way to track in perpetuity that's not quite as labor-intensive as my current method (weigh it all, track it all) but still keeps me on track.

Once upon a time, I did Weight Watchers. I liked the theory, but didn't like how hard it was to translate "points" into real life eating situations (for me - I know it works for lots of people and I'm good with that). I am wondering if I could adopt a WW-style strategy for maintenance... my thought is to keep my calorie goal at weight loss, probably 1/2 lb a week. Then, track everything but "free" foods - come up with a list, probably similar to the WW one, of foods that I get to eat without tracking. I'm thinking most fruits and vegetables will be "free" and making myself track things like proteins, dairy, carbs and high-calorie fruit and veg like avocados.

Has anyone ever tried anything like this?? Or have tips on maintaining without tracking absolutely everything?

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Can someone give me serious help and advice.

Hello /loseit, Let me start by describing my story. I never was a super skinny person but I never was obese. Until I turned around 14 (I am 18 right now) were I gained weight until I peaked around 222-230 obviously I wasn't very happy with myself because of this so about a year and a half ago I decided to make a change and got down to 186 from my first wave of weight loss. This happened in about the span of 4 month which is very impressive. But something changed in my psyche and body and in the span of the next year I could only lose another 16 pounds to my lowest point of 170 (I finally had no stomach!!! YAY!). This didn't bother me but scared me because I knew how hard this last 16 pounds was for some reason and that if I put it on I didn't want to wait another year for it to come off. Its also important to know that I have been dealing with on and off depression lately and I shaved my head from alopecia. Lately I am literally unable to keep food out my system, I don't know what is wrong with me. I've put on almost 15 pounds back on so I'm about 185 now. Please help me get advice or a system setup because I just want to be healthy and happy with myself. I've tried everything. I don't know what is wrong. Thank you.

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4 Healthy Pancake Recipes for a Healthier Mother’s Day

Accountability Post Day 1

38F CW:186lb GW:130lb

I am sick of wanting to lose weight. I know what needs to be done, why can't I just stick with it and do it?!?! This r/loseit community inspires me every day with it's success stories, I am ready to be a success story!

I have had some weight loss success in the past - as much as 30 lbs. But now it's all back on and I'm ready to wave goodbye to it again, for good.

I am going to start small - cut out junk food after supper (except a treat on weekends), and have a salad a day on top of a balanced diet. I'm going to track using the Lose It app and aim for 1500 calories a day. And some form of exercise each day.

My regular meals aren't bad but could use more veggies. It's the snacks that get me - I feed my feelings with potato chips and chocolate.

One day at a time, please help me get there!

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Starting my long-term CICO journey

Hey everyone, this post is really just to document my journey with properly following CICO and also to get a bit of encouragement. I have yo-yoed up and down with my weight over the last 2 years, going from my usually stable weight of 129 lbs down to 117 lbs at one point, and now I'm at my heaviest weight ever of 136 lbs. I know that these weights may be very low for some but I am not happy with how I look or how I feel and need a change. Today I'm on the shockingly low calories of 900 calories in order to achieve the 1lb a week weight loss, my basal metabolic rate is 1400 calories. This sounds very low but according to the maths, this is what must be done? Either way I want to thank the community for giving me the push to view my weight loss in a long-term way rather than trying to quickly drop 5 lbs.

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