There and back again: a fat girl's tale of fat to fit .. and back again.

Hey y'all!

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My stats: Female | 5'2" | SW: 165lbs | CW: 143lbs | GW: 135lbs

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TLDR; I went from 230lbs+ to 135lbs in about 2 years from 2012-2014. Maintained for two years then I went to grad school, lost a parent, and gained back some of the weight (maybe 30 or 40lbs?) and am now currently just about 8 whole pounds from my original of 135lbs.

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Progress pics including the transformation from 2012 to now! NSFW towards the end.

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I posted my weight loss story here in 2014 and holy shit has it been quite a ride since then. As my TLDR said, the spring before I started grad school I lost my dad, so that derailed my life in many different ways. I stopped exercising, eating right, and completely let go. Three months after my dad passed I learned I was accepted to grad school and began a new two years of hell. I moved back in with my mom and the double stress of home and school won out so I basically became a potato academic living in a dark cupboard we called our department. Anyway, in 2018 I successfully completed my degree (yay me!) and have since been trying to get myself back under control.

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I struggled. A lot. I knew what I had to do to make the weight come off but I just couldn't commit. I couldn't figure it out. Despite my past success it suddenly seemed like all the hacks I'd learned from 2012 and 2014 no longer applied, the knowledge was gone. Poof. But in January of 2019 a friend from grad school gave me access to her beachbody workouts and I slowly began the efforts of working out from home. I started easy with 21 Day Fix, but I didn't follow the beachbody meal plans in as much as I became mindful of what I was eating. After three rounds of 21 Day Fix, I moved onto 80 Day Obsession. I finished the program almost two weeks ago and have been taking it easy with yoga to stretch it all out again, but I fully intend to restart the program because I love lifting weights! And I want to take full advantage of the year long access to beachbody while I have it!

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In terms of eating, my meals are pretty much the same every day. I mass prep batches of vegetables because if I have to cook them every single day I'm not going to do it. I already know it. I have a history of going for the sandwich instead of the raw veggies. So when I mass prep I can just take the appropriate amount and plop it down with a protein and move on with life. I eat the mixed vegetables once or twice a day, depending. If I eat them with breakfast, I mix them with egg whites. If I eat them for lunch, I chop up a veggie burger and mix it together then toss it onto a low cal tortilla. I have fruit for a snack in between lunch and dinner. Dinner is something typically kid friendly, but usually includes some kind of chicken and whatever else side dish my niece wants to eat that day. Super simple to make life easier.

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This post has gotten long enough, but I just wanted to say YOU'VE GOT THIS. You're marvelous and each single little choice you make toward progress is progress. It builds up! Progress, not perfection. Take every day as a new chance to do the thing toward achieving what you want. We can do this!

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Six weeks into my journey and I found this community

Just a brief introduction, since this is my first time posting here. I started on my current diet and weight loss journey. My heaviest ever was almost 270 back in September of last year, I started counting calories and cutting out fast food and regular soda. I kept at it for about 2 or 3 months and lost down to 255. And stopped. I hovered around there but I had lost my motivation and fell into almost the same habits, I was still watching portions but eating junk way too often. Finally in May I've decided to get back on the journey, now I'm staying around 1000 calories even per day, walking 2-3 times a week, and I am seeing a weight loss doctor and have been taking phentermine. I know that it's not always the best option, but for me it has helped a lot with my motivation and the appetite suppression. Now I'm six weeks in and I had my weigh in follow up at the doctor yesterday, and I'm down 22 pounds to 233. There is still far to go before I will be done. But seeing those numbers is definitely motivation to keep going. I'm excited now when I go grocery shopping and I'm not just buying boxes of Mac and cheese and snack cakes. I hope that by following all of your posts and seeing your success that I'll learn some tips and gain some motivation from your stories. Stay sexy!

Highest weight 270/ SW 255/CW233/GW<170

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Questions about how to avoid loose skin and improve stretch marks?

Hi guys! So I’m currently on my weight loss journey right now I started last week so I’m not sure if I’ve lost anything yet. I’m completely avoiding scales or weighing myself because my dramatic weight gain and problems with eating started as a teen where I would compulsively weigh myself and really stress over it. So I just honestly want to avoid that and just base my weight loss on how I look and feel rather than a number. I know I’m going to have loose skin and I am riddled with stretch marks now as it is. I’m 21 so I have age on my side I guess but I am extremely pale and I scar easy. I don’t know how much I weight but I’m 5’7 and I wear like a size 22-24 in women’s (US sizes) if that tells you anything. I carry most of my weight in my stomach and boobs lol and I’m currently saving money so after my weight loss is complete I can afford to get plastic surgery to take care of any loose skin. I’d really really like to avoid getting any surgery on my arms because of the scars I’ve seen for loose skin removal on the arms. Mine have stretch marks and they certainly aren’t thin but I don’t carry as much of my weight on my arms. So really my question is is how to best go about this weight loss so that I can minimize my loose skin and also tone up? My legs and thighs have lots of cellulite that I’d like to improve if possible too. I’d love to have nice toned legs and arms and build some muscle if possible. Do you guys have any tips?

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Not sure where to begin.... again.

I’m a 36 year old male. I have been struggling with weight loss all my life. I have made many attempts to change my life for the better. In 2010 I worked out and did crazy diets which only seemed to last for about 5 months at most. I did However lose 60 pounds, which I kept it of for almost two years. I tried again last year. I got a gym membership, and started to go three times a week for maybe an hour or so at a time. I started juicing after I watched a documentary on Netflix. It went great, until around the Holidays and moving. Life got to me, and I stopped everything again. I lost 30 pounds and gained it back in as little as 4 months. I stress, I eat whatever I can to feel good for the moment. I’m a stress eater and it’s the only thing that I found makes me feel good after. My work had a health bus come this past Friday. So I said what the hell and went to it. I weighed in at 313 pounds, high blood pressure and not sure what to do about it. I keep telling myself I need to lose the weight. I need to get off the couch and do something about it. I just find it so hard to motivate myself to do it. I do t have a support group, and my wife supports me just doesn’t push me to do it. I think that has a lot to do with her wanted to as well and no motivation for her to do it either so I understand. I just don’t know where to go from here. I know nobody will have all the answers and I know most I will have to find for myself. Just afraid by the time I figured it out it will be too late.

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I am over being the fat friend.

I am done with feeling like the fat friend. The reality of the situation is that my friends and I are all overweight and are roughly the same size, but I am sick of feeling like trash about my looks all the time. My husband says I carry my weight very well and is very supportive of everything I want to do to improve myself, and my friends have been nothing but supportive if my various weight loss attempts as well.

The only thing stopping me is me.

I'm done stopping me. Now. It's time to make a change. I've been unsuccessful with calorie counting (although it has worked for me in the past, I just can never stick with it) so I am giving intermittent fasting a try.

SW: 248 / GW: 150 / F / 24 / 5' 2"

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Excel weight graph - motivational tool

Posting this cause it helped me and my wife keep motivated to lose the pounds so it might help others.

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My wife and I had both let ourselves get out of shape, working long hours, violation drift of what counts as a normal diet. We've recently moved to the states, working life is more chilled, weather is good, so we decided to sort our diet and lifestyle out. We did it simply by calorie counting using myfitnesspal. I really recommend it. It really teaches you what the energy content of your food is and how to make meals that are filling and low calorie. I'm a firm believer that weight is as straight forward as if energy in < energy out then weight reduces.

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Anyway, when you first start out it can be difficult. You have to get used to substantially smaller portions and you find yourself hungry a lot of the time. My wife found an absolute killer to her motivation and faith in keeping with the diet was when she'd weigh herself and weigh more than on the previous occasion. Many times I'd reason with her that you have to expect ~4lbs of variation throughout the day in your weight due to a multitude of factors: how hydrated you are, how empty your bladder is, when you last took a dump, for women the variability of total body fluid volume with menstruation, etc. I pointed out that with hardcore dieting you still only lose ~2lbs/week (I know with keto, etc people report much higher rates of loss so I'll put that to a side - I'm referring to calorie counting). The result of this variation is that is perfectly conceivable and occurs frequently that despite running a calorie deficit and losing body fat the scales can tell you you're heavier - cause you are. It's simply the other factors that have changed, not that you've put on fat mysteriously whilst in a calorie deficit. Anyway, to help reassure her and keep her motivated I made this excel spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y4W6SJZqzhQZJRGjNf6bx31Dqh14MBMx2HfreNPjZhk/edit?usp=sharing

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It's a very simple concept. You weigh yourself as often as you'd like, the more often the more accurate and reassuring it will be, it graphs your weight over time and produces a trend line showing your rate of weight loss. It's best to weigh at least twice/day and try to avoid gaming it i.e. just reporting lower weights. Each point also has standard error bars which help demonstrate the limits of the variation of a given measurement. Those with a maths grounding will understand but for those who don't you can imagine the bars as showing where your weight might have been had you taken a pee before hand, or if you hadn't just had a glass of water an hour ago, etc. Note that the error bars won't work in the google docs link - if you want them just import into excel. The key though is the trend line, if that's going down, you're losing weight regardless of what the most recent weight is.

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As an extra feature I also added columns for daily calorie intake, current calorie goal, deficit below calorie goal, current BMR requirement, deficit below BMR and cumulative deficit below BMR.

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In short the deficit below calorie goal column is just positive reinforcement to show that you carry on sticking to what you need to do to lose weight and also a little check on how many days you don't meet your target. More important is the current BMR requirement and current deficit below this. For those who don't know BMR = Basal Metabolic Rate - the amount of calories you use in a day simply by living. The deficit below this is this number + the number of calories you've burnt exercising that day - calories you've eaten. So this column aims to show your energy deficit over the day which will translate to your weight (fat) loss that day. The cumulative column then shows it over the duration of the diet. From this you can work out how much weight you might expect to lose as 1lb of fat equates to ~3500 calories. So you can use it to check how good you are at calorie counting i.e. that you're capturing all the info.

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Finally there are columns that calculate your average weekly weight loss (the average of 1 week's weights - the average of the weights the following week and another that projects how much weight loss you might expect based on your calorie deficit.

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Hope some find this helpful, it certainly helped us stick at it. To use it just wipe the current data, keep the formulae and input your own BMR. Link to a BMR calculator https://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html

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Any questions, just shoot.

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Progress is Progress, no matter how small

I just wanted to make a quick post here as an offer of support for those starting their fitness and weight loss journey.

I started 3 weeks ago combining dieting, cardio, and strength training with a goal of losing 25-40 pounds ultimately. I cheat sometimes and skip parts of my workout. But I'm doing my best to keep getting better.

After 3 weeks I am happy to say I just purchased a pair of shorts one size down! It's not a lot but it's a step in the right direction! And I'm lifting 5-10 pounds more than when I started

I am constantly inspired by everyone in this subreddit and just wanted to encourage those that are trying and expecting progress faster than they're getting it. This is a lifestyle change for us and any progress is worth being proud of. Everyone that posts about their amazing weight loss journey started with one pound. And then another. And never lost hope.

So keep going and keep trying to be the person you want! I believe in you and I'm excited to read about your accomplishments!!

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