1 month pp and I feel like everything is against me losing weight.

TLDR at bottom.

So, long story short, I had my 3rd (and final) kiddo a month ago. My first two were completely natural, no complications. I developed pree with my 3rd and am now on blood pressure meds and med for my ppd/ppa.

I need encouragement or advice. My obgyn said I should have been able to lower and almost completely come off my BP medication, but we tried weaning off of it and I had to increase the dose back to the original amount. I am 28/f/5'3.5" and weigh 252. I've dropped 20lbs since giving birth, and am chomping at the bit to get back to exercising. The blood pressure medication I'm on, however, makes me dizzy and gives me headaches. The depression med also makes me dizzy (but I just started that one, so I know it will take a couple weeks to even out).

Has anyone else here experienced dizziness from blood pressure medication? How do you combat it in order to exercise? Has anyone experienced a similar situation and been able to finally come off blood pressure medication?

I worry because both of my parents have chronic hypertension and my dad just had to have heart surgery last year. We eat really well (my parents do a lot of fast food) so I'm hoping that benefits me some. I just want some hope. :( I'm feeling very down about it all because I want to ve back to where I was before getting pregnant with this cute little surprise. I was walking 5mi at least 4x a week and had gotten down to my pre pregnancy weight from before my first kiddo.

TLDR;; had third baby, got put on blood pressure medication that makes me dizzy and hard to exercise. Curious if others have experienced the same and if they have been able to come off it with diet and exercise and weight loss.

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How quickly should I lose weight if I am more than 50lbs overweight?

I am a 5'2 190lb female who currently does no exercise and eats whatever she wants whenever she wants. I do this horrible cycle where I get really healthy, then I have a big lifestyle change such as moving to a different city and I completely fall off the band wagon. My weight has fluctuated up and down about 50lbs at a time within the last 4 years, so once I lose weight this time I'm going to go see a dietitian to get some advise about preventing a "relapse".

Although this is not my first rodeo, this is the largest I've been. As such, I'm not sure what is considered "normal" or "safe" weight loss.

At this weight, with good eating habits and actually working out, I think I should be losing more per month than if I were 150lbs. But I'm not sure how much I should be expecting to lose. To those who have been in my scenario, what is considered "safe" weight loss? Is it unsafe if I lose for example 15lbs a month? Any advice on trying to avoid loose skin?

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Advice for depression after a setback

(TLDR) So, I was just diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome(runners knee). And I am shattered.

I’ve been working what is essentially a desk job for 2-3 years that kept me in essentially crap shape. There’s more factors to it like a baby and school, but the long and short of it is that I sat on my butt and let all of my prebaby muscles dissipate. I finally got a job with good insurance and my first order was get on phentermine so I had the energy to get in shape again, since I was starting from level 0. To give you an idea of where I was, when I went to the Doctor, I had a BMI of 31.2.

So, I slowly worked my way up. I start walking. After increasing my steps per day slowly over a month, I start incorporating jogging. Small increments. At some point before I started the jogging, my knees started giving me problems. It was minor, overall. I was sore anyway and assumed minor pains were to be expected. The jogging made it worse but I’ve always hated jogging because it exhausted me so much. I started only walk-jogging every other day.

And then last week, I started Charlie horseing while jogging. Everything hurt way worse this time, and the pain didn’t calm down after I stopped. So I went to the doctor. And I have to stay off of my knees. No more extracurricular walking, no more jogging until they hopefully get better.

I feel crushed. What is the point of these diet pills with extra energy if I can’t use it? I was doing SO good on my weight loss but that’s just stop. Every time my toddler goes up to the stroller and asks for a walk, my heart breaks. I had been taking him with me most days, and he really loved it.

I know the obvious solution here is “Find a pool, go swimming! It’s summer, there are tons of pools!” But the reason I was walking was because it was something I could do with my toddler. You can’t swim laps with a toddler. I’m working on getting him to a place where he hopefully likes swimming but for now, he freaks if his head/face get near water. I have to either hold him or place him in a baby floatie boat. It’s essentially child sitting in the water. Don’t get me wrong, I love spending quality time with my son. But the long slow process of getting him comfortable with water play is not physically productive.

I can’t go without him unless it’s early morning before he wakes up and the only pool open that early within a 20-30 min drive of me is the YMCA. In theory I can afford the monthly fee just fine, but not the startup fee until like a month from now. I know there are obviously other arm exercises, but I am shit at them. 3 push-ups is about all I can manage before I can’t do any more. I can’t lift weights because of much of the same problem. I know I could go with a lower weight for longer but I can’t wreck my arms to the point where I can’t pick up my kid, or I drop him. This is something I’ve accidentally done before unintentionally after helping with some heavy stuff for my job that is 100% not a normal part of my workday. And that’s what arm exercises do to me if I spend more than say, 10 minutes on them it seems. Swimming, oddly enough, doesn’t do this to me since it employs different muscles.

I’m honestly in a horrible depressed slump over this. I got used to being outside and while my progress so far hasn’t been like, awe inspiring, I’ve had no problem pushing through the soreness and pain to keep making progress. But now I can’t even do that, because I’ll make myself worse. I feel like all of this really hard work I’ve put in so far has been taken from me.

I’m sorry if this was a bit of a long rant, but I’ve been so upset about it since I’ve talked to the doctor. I don’t know how to make progress right now and I am shattered. My (worse) knee hurts even when I sit down, like a constant nagging reminder of what I’m not allowed to do anymore. And I’m not even close to my goal weight - I’ve only lost 12 of the 30 pounds I need to be back at my normal weight and then another 10 for my actual goal weight.

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Boss is treating me differently because of my weight

I work at an overnight summer camp and have started training this week. I’m a outdoor adventure counselor which is pretty much rock wall climbing with the addition of zip lines and vertical play pens. I’ve been doing this for about 6 years now and have always been a hard worker. I don’t brag about it but I’m silently confident in my skill. This is my first year at this camp and my boss is a middle aged man and the rest of the staff is pretty much all college aged kids. Early on in training I recognized that he was treating my differently than all the other girls working there. It’s not like I was the only new girl. At one point he took aside a new girl and told her she was picking things up faster than any other new people and so he would give her extra responsibilities. She has never done this before. I know this might sound unnecessarily jealous but he kept giving me a cold shoulder and treating everyone else better than me. After noticing this I attempted to be more friendly to him and vocalize that I like a job environment with a lot of responsibility. It was obvious he did not listen to me or even try to reciprocate the friendly outreach as he had with others. I am almost 200 pounds and have been really working on my weight recently but I can’t help but realize every other girl there is pretty thin and got a lot more attention from him than me. Maybe I did something that made him dislike me but I was also trying my best to make a good impression. It really could be my insecurities about my weight talking but I can’t help but feel that the only difference between me and the other girls is our weight. I’ve worked so hard to love myself and accept the weight loss journey I am on with a positive mindset. I don’t know how to handle a boss who possibly made his impression of me based on my weight. Side Note: I also overheard him talking about a new staff member with “not much going on up there” with another staff member so I cannot say it is past him to judge new staff.

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How do I count calories on homemade stuff ??

Hi!! I’ve been trying the CICO method for about two weeks and I’ve encountered a real problem woth counting calories for homemade stuff. I’d like to preface by saying I am completely illiterate when it comes to calories or weight loss or how the body works in general so please don’t assume anything is common knowledge to me 😂 I have always eaten a lot of homemade stuff and I have no idea how to count calories for that. Do I count the calories for every base ingredient (like flour, oil, tomatoes…) and add it up? Is there a way to eyeball it? Is there a general rule of thumb to follow? Just to give an exemple I like to make this thibg called a pizza (it’s not a pizza at all) it’s basically homemade bread dough with homemade marinara sauce and a bit of canned tuna on top and after you bake it, it’s better than what it sounds like. It’s something I make quite often so I was wondering how i was supposed to count the calories for that type of dish? Thank you so much to anyone who can help!!!

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Getting Skinny-shamed constantly, comparison to fat-shaming, i was not once shamed for my eating habits, or my drinking habits when i was bigger. [RANT]

No one cared that i was at a 32 BMI when i was obese, i was 200+ lbs, and i was miserable. But as soon as i get to a good weight of 20.80-21 BMI, and at my current weight 136ish lbs people lose their shit. Telling me that i'm anorexic, unhealthy weight, sickly, and pale. Then urging me that i must gain weight because i'm anorexic.

I can only think of 3 people who have been supportive of my weight loss, 2 of my closest friends, and my father. The rest are constantly trying to push their messed up ideas that i looked great before all of this weight loss, when i had a high blood pressure and my doctor urging me to not go above 200 lbs, for my already high blood pressure.

I was beyond joy when i reached my goal, only to get put down that i'm mentally ill, and anorexic, and that i'm an idiot for believing the BMI scale.

I don't necessarily care too much on this as I've grown a lot as a person, i just don't really understand what the problem is for a lot of these people. Getting skinny shamed on a weekly basis does get onto my nerves eventually.

But i would like to thank this sub, although i haven't commented, or posted here, i have however read a lot of the things here when i was myself bigger and i'm thankful the community and how supportive the people are to others in here.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 02 June 2019? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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