[SV&NSV] Down 72.5 pounds (36.6kg) and ran my fastest mile time in four years Saturday!!

First and foremost, the before and after. The before picture was from sometime in 2018 and the after is from today, May 19th. I randomly got to meet Tim Ryan, one of the people running for president in 2020. I live in a tiny tiny town so I was kind of suprised!

So, January 2018 rolls around and I get a physical. At this point, I know I'm really fat. Like, I'm having difficulties wiping fat. It was embarrassing and when I stepped on the scale, I weighed 364 pounds! YIKES!! Well, I decided to make a change and I had lost 30 pounds in a few months but fell off the wagon. So, I decided to try again later that year. I started a new job after coming home, I had attempted suicide, and just knew I had to do something. This is my third time doing all this but this is the heaviest I had ever gotten. So, I gained about 26lbs back. So, I start my new job and I can't even jog a tenth of a mile. I could barely do the elliptical or anything for more than 5 minutes without being winded. I was just lifting five days a week because I was so scared to do cardio and I just couldn't do it. Well, thankfully my gym came out with a lazy man triathlon and that's where things really took a huge turn in my progress.

This lazy man triathlon was to swim three miles, bike 112 miles, and walk, run, elliptical, etc for 26.2 miles. We had six weeks to get this done and I decided I wanted to do it in four. So, there I was, biking, doing the elliptical, and struggling to swim. One lap up and down counted as one and for a full mile it was 35 laps. Long story short, I finished that lazy man triathlon in 3 weeks and 2 days. My cardiac strength boomed in those three weeks and I was hooked on cardio again. Swimming improved tremendously where I could barely get 10 laps done in an hour to now I can almost do a full mile swim in an hour, not very fast, but, I'm not a fast swimmer.

So, long story short on the diet, I did a lot of intermittent fasting and it was going great. Did a 16/8 split and skipped dinner except for my cheat meal on Friday. I do low carbs and loosely track CICO. I'm very mindful of what I eat and the quantity, but, I have continued to lose. I now eat three meals a day that are all protein based along with protein shakes and I did recently start taking creatine pills to help with muscle growth as I'm currently huge into lifting as well as cardio.

This past Saturday was my chest day, one of my favorites, and I like to do a HIIT warm-up before I start to lift, but, this time I decided to run. I have some tendinitis in my ankles trying to support my big body so sometimes I can run and other times i can't. Just depends and that will come easier with weight loss. But, I've gone from not being able to run a tenth of a mile to I ran 1.25 miles just a couple weeks ago for the first time. I've ran 5Ks in the past and I've even done one 10K which I would love to do again. My average mile time as of lat is about 13 minutes and 45 seconds. I decided on Saturday to see how fast I could do it in and I shave a minute and fifteen seconds off my time for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm so very happy with my progress. I can finally see it myself and that makes it all the better.

It hasn't been an easy road as my mom passed away back on March 2nd and I was traveling all over for her doctor's appointments and hospital stays. One thing I promised my mom after she passed was that I would continue to lose weight and lead a health lifestyle. I still can hear her say how proud she was of me when I said I was when I was down 60 pounds. This journey is for both me and her now and I know she's looking down smiling. I am planning to do my first triathlon at the end of June so I'm looking forward to that, so here's to another 50 pounds! Hope this inspires someone to start, just like all you guys and gals helped me get up and take back my life! (:

TL;DR- Fat man down 72.5 pounds getting better each and every day trying to make his mom proud.

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How do you balance weight loss with anxiety and depression?

Hello everyone. I’m a 26 y/o, F, 5’ 0”, and currently sitting at around 240lbs. I’m fairly new to reddit and this community and this is my first time posting here. I’ve always been overweight my whole life, and in turn that’s really messed with my self confidence and ruined relationships. Last year after a bad breakup and a terrible depressive episode (I was undiagnosed with depression at the time) I dropped 40 lb because I wasn’t really eating and was instead sleeping all the time. After loosing all the weight I got so many compliments from everyone about how great I looked, and it made me feel amazing for once in my life.

However since being diagnosed with persistent depression and anxiety and being placed on medication on top of having just finished graduate school, I have since gained all that weight back and then some and am feeling worse than ever about my appearance. How did you all start on your weight loss journeys and what has helped you over time to keep you motivated and keep up with it? I always find if I start a diet or working out I don’t keep up with it and I really want to this time. Any and all advice is appreciated!

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You never lose as much as you think.

I want to finish this post by sharing my progress alone, but i dont measure my progress by my weight loss alone. For those of you losing weight, remember that you are an inspiration to others that they can lose weight too. After 3 months of dieting i was down 67 pounds. I shared my progress with friends... family... coworkers... and ive gotten 3 friends, two coworkers, and 4 family members to diet. Several of whom are aleady 30 pounds into the diet as of this post.

My weight loss was significant, but as proud as i was of my own weight loss, i am infinitely more proud of the weight my family and friends lost.

Im now 4.5 months in, and about 88 pounds down. But i always measure my weight loss with the weight loss of the people i inspired... because its a bigger number, and it means way more to me.

I hope i inspire some of you to continue your journey too.

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31F 5'8 156lb: Averaged 2989kcal this week and I feel....

Absolutely fabulous! I've had surgery on my leg. I'm not allowed to exercise until next week. I have a wedding to attend 1st June and a great fitting dress to wear. I went into the surgery worried to THE max about breaking my exercise habits and I knew I'd boredom eat, which I have.

I went home for this last week to my parents so they could wait on me hand and foot and I could eat my mums amazing cooking. I had friends come and see me and we had great catch up times and drinks.

I have gained 1.5lb and you know what I've learnt - it ain't all going to pile right back on again over night - which is always my biggest fear.

I've had a good time. I've enjoyed letting my hair down and going wild with food and drink, but kept on tracking.

Next week when I can exercise again I'll get right back on the 1600kcal/day track again, and I'm confident I'll be able to. I know the first few days ain't going to be fun but I have my rice cakes and green tea ready to help me through.

For now I'm enjoying not having to deal with the mental anguish of watching what I eat while I let my physical health improve.

Yes I may be back a couple months worth of fitness/weight loss effort after 2 weeks binge but I will get back there, I have my entire life to lose weight and maintain so going to enjoy this break.

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This divorce is kicking my weight loss ass

Quick stats: 29F, CW: 177lbs SW: 240lbs GW: 160lbs

Sorry for the backstory but it's to demonstrate my emotional load. In early February my husband of 3.5 years asked for a divorce. He left a few days later and I've been on my own since. A month and a half ago he decides he doesn't want the divorce anymore. The real reason is that he doesn't want me to have half the house when we sell. I'm currently living in it. I've been grappling with him, trying to get him to finish the divorce process (he filed). I want to be free to move on.

I started losing weight in July of 2017. I started at 240lbs. I am now somewhere around 175lbs. My goal is 160lbs. The past few months I was either maintaining weight (not trying to) or I've lost a little. The past couple weeks have been bad, however. I haven't gained but I'm hovering between 174-178lbs. I have trouble not excusing relaxing my diet (1200-1300 calories per day to lose 2lbs a week). Weekends are hardest. On one hand, I'm eating better because he's not around. My diet is mostly vegetables and meat. But I do look forward to dessert and I have a problem with cereal, peanut butter, and chocolate. It seems so hard to lose that last 15ish lbs.

It's hard to pin down what exactly I'm anxious about. For sure I am reluctant to hire a lawyer to do something about the divorce. In our state, there's a cooling off period between the final papers that we sent out to the judge and that's passed. I had thought that by now I'd be getting a letter finalizing the divorce about now but instead I'm still married. The whole process of litigation is scary, especially because it will complicate and make our mostly polite relationship difficult. There is also an issue of cost. I don't make as much as I'd like and finding a new, better paying job is also always on my mind.

I think what I'm asking is: how do I navigate these huge life stresses and make sure I don't fall off the wagon? I stopped working out because I couldn't justify the high cost of our gym (it's a very nice one). Instead, I'm doing horseback riding and am thinking of doing martial arts instead. But I feel so flabby and weak now. And unduly stressed when I know I shouldn't be so worried about things. I feel like I'm losing my grip on the reason I started to get healthier in the first place.

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My boss seems to be insecure and my weight loss is making it worse.

I have quite a few issues with my boss as does everyone else I work with. She is narcissistic to an extreme degree and micro manages. We are all treated as though we are idiots and she favors those who kiss her ass (but will still talk shit about them to their colleagues behind their backs).

Here's a quick list of some of the things she's done:

• Refused to give me overtime "because you live too far", then complained about cancelling her DR appointment to cover for someone (right after I offered to cover)

• Makes personal phones calls regularly throughout the day and loudly talks about her personal issues

• Cannot go a sentence without complaining about some personal ailment (shoulder, stomach issues etc)

• Moved out of the departments room because of the fan noises. Still comes in every 20 minutes or so to talk about her personal life for 30 mins at a time

• Regularly talks about how she doesn't like working with women (I'm a woman!)

Anyway I think you get the idea. Here are the things she has done in reference to weight/weightloss

• Early in the year I mentioned I was excited to fit a new size of pants from Costco. She said she was wearing the same pair and "lets check". She flipped down the back of her pants to show the logo. I said I'd check later, she refused and wanted to check NOW. She tried walking over to flip down the back of my pants. I stopped her. She seemed insulted?

• While I was on night shift I was fitting a small bag of chips into my CICO. When she came in in the morning she checked the garbage and would say to my coworkers "I thought she was on a diet"

• She wanted my opinion on dinner for the team meeting. I said "something healthy" in what I thought was a nonchalant way. I later found out she thought I said "it HAS to be something healthy" and she responded by saying that since I had a cinnamon bun earlier in the day why would I want something healthy (again, fit it into my CICO). I offered to get something ahead of time instead. She responded in a mocking tone that she'd get me a chicken and salad.

• At said Team Meeting she openly asked in front of the entire team how much weight my coworker has gained since starting with the company.

• I had a 1 on 1 meeting with her to see why she was being difficult with me. I posed it as "how can I improve to make things better" and explained the cinnamon bun comment was hurtful. She first retold the story leaving out of the mocking tone then admitted to it, told me I said "HAS to be healthy" but quickly corrected herself when I recalled it differently, and then proceeded to cry. She admitted it was her insecurity coming through.

So how do I deal with this lol. Our probation period is a year long so I have a few months still. Once done I will be fully union and won't mind being a little more defensive. However until then it seems the more weight I lose the worse she gets.

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Lost 23 lbs eating a kind of shitty diet, now it's time to actually get healthy.

Title says it all. I (F21) lost about 23 lbs in the last year or so. I went from 138 lbs to 116 (I'm 5'3) just eating the same very unhealthy 'college diet', just a little less of it and sometimes a little more veggies and a little less meat and bread and stuff. Now that I reached me goalweight I feel like I should take the time to figure out how to maintain this weight actually eating healthy.

I've always liked healthy foods. I grew up loving my veggies more than mcdonalds. I've never been overweight, but when I went to college the 20 lbs beer weight started creeping on. We've all been there. I still love to cook healthy meals and my breakfast lunch and dinner are generally at least somewhat healthy, but the snacking and drinking was what got me there.

I lost the weight eating pretty much the same food but doing some CICO (very lazy) and now I'm just as unhealthy but a little smaller. I'm like the definition of what they call skinny fat. So now it's time to tackle that. The only thing is: in a few weeks I'm going back to my job at a restaurant, where dinner is always eaten together and not always healthy. Also my schedule is completely fucked because of working 9 hour shifts untill late with just a short break (after the kitchen closes). I feel like it's gonna be hard to push myself to eat healthy when I'm surrounded by all this amazing food (and drinks!).

I'm not even sure why I'm posting here. I just kinda wanted to see if there's other people in my situation who have some tips and tricks for keeping my health a little more in check. Also I felt like I just needed to write this down as a reminder to myself that I can (of course!) be proud of my weight loss, but that there is still a long way to go for getting healthy. Also I'm gonna have to start excersising.

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