my weight loss journey (keep forgiving yourself!)

I’d been on the bigger side since mid highschool after being a stick thin kid growing up. My eating habits were horrible, I ate next to nothing healthy, with daily visits to fast food establishments and the school canteen. Although, I put the bulk of my weight on during my first year at University. I was pretty depressed, didn’t take care of myself or think highly of myself at all. Had no personal hygiene, or drive to do anything really. My highest recorded weight was 100kg

A few weeks before my 21st birthday in 2016 I decided I wanted to lose some weight before my party and enquired into joining a gym.

Upon enquiry, I was told this gym had a lock in contract for either 12 or 18 months. I made an on the spot decision to lock myself in for 18 months. I decided if I was spending the money, I would make an effort to go.

I successfully lost 4 kilos for my 21st and felt pretty on top of the world, but didn’t stop there. Over the course of 18 months I went on to lose 27kgs, hitting 73kg! (I’m now on maintaining: and trying to get into strength training to tone up)

I think the best advice I could offer weight loss wise is to forgive yourself, and keep forgiving yourself (something I’m still learning to do)

I went to the gym about 3-5 days a week training cardio (treadmill on highest incline), and always had one day a week where I’d allow myself a “cheat meal” (note: not a binge) This could include a pub meal, high fat meal, dessert, whatever. There were instances (and still are instances) where I binged, and all of those times I’d wake up the next day, forgive myself, and keep going.

The worst thing you could do is feel sorry for yourself, and continue to binge for days on end.

Weight loss isn’t a journey that ever really finishes, rather a healthy outlook for the rest of your life

Here is a before / after pic (Sep 2016 / July 2019

I’m now the happiest I’ve been in my adult life!

Highlight of weight loss was noticing the face changes - couldn’t wipe the smile off my face for months!

As mentioned earlier, I’m now looking at beginning strength training to tone up so any advice on beginning that would be greatly appreciated :)

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Tantrum Tuesday - The Day to Rant!

I Rant, Therefore I Am

Well bla-de-da-da! What's making your blood boil? What's under your skin? What's making you see red? What's up in your craw? Let's hear your weight loss related rants!
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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Tuesday, 09 July 2019

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

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Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

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• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
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• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

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• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

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• [US Accountability Challenge]
• [EU Accountability Challenge]
• [Travel to neighboring communities!]

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[NSV] Ran Almost Five Miles Yesterday!

I've been on this weight loss journey for almost two years now, and at the start I spent a lot of time on the treadmill at the gym. I would do a run/walk for about 30 minutes, which usually ended up being around 23 minutes of 4.2 MPH and 7 minutes of 6.3 MPH. I gave it up because I felt like I wasn't making real progress and my feet would get very sore. I eventually turned to lifting because I saw more progress and it was less high impact.

Well, friends, eighty pounds later and I started running again a couple of weeks ago. The strangest thing was that even though I hadn't ran seriously in more than a year, I was already better the first time I got on the treadmill. Not having to carry around all that extra weight made the whole thing easier. I did about 15 minutes of running (6.5 MPH) and 15 minutes of walking (4.2 MPH). I've been running about every other day since, and I keep getting better. Around a week ago, I managed to run the whole 30 minutes and ran 3.14 miles.

Yesterday, I decided to set the time for longer because I had been reading on /r/running that increased distance is the best way to train. I ran 6.5 MPH for a FULL 45 MINUTES! I am so shocked that I was able to pull it off. When I hit the 45 minute mark it ended up being 4.87 miles.

Anyway, my legs are pretty sore today, but I am still so shocked I managed to accomplish what I did. Real change is possible! I even registered for a 5K in August, which I'm really looking forward to (which is something that would shock my former self).

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Didn't recognize myself!

A friend handed me his phone today to browse thru his vacation photos. I wanted to send a few of them to me, so i clicked 'share' and his contact list came up on the screen. Since i had texted him just before I met up with him, my contact photo came up first in his list of recent contacts, though I wasn't aware at first those contacts were sorted by most recent. So for a few moments I was looking at the photo, wondering who that person was, I didn't immediately recognize them. (Icon was small). So i looked at the name next to the contact photo, and it had my name. For another few moments I wondered who this person was who had the same name as me. And then I realized the man in the photo was me! He had snapped the photo of me a few years ago (and over 100 lbs weight loss since then) and i started laughing realizing that i didn't even recognize my former self at first.

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Women of Loseit: Shrining Boobs and Mammogram PSA

I recently had an abnormal mammogram and had to have additional diagnostic imaging. Having lost a lot of weight, my boobs are a mere shadow of their former selves. It never crossed my mind to mention this to the tech before the screening mammogram or the diagnostic imaging. The radiologist was confused when comparing my former imaging with the current imaging and asked me if I had a breast reduction. I told her it was due to weight loss.

She said weight loss can profoundly impact breast density and the ability to read the mammogram. She showed me a side-by-side comparison of the images and in the the new image of the now-smaller breast had a lot more structural detail in it. The old mammogram, from when I was overweight, was more solid in appearance.

So, for those of you whose boobs are shrinking, make sure you tell the tech before your mammogram! It will help avoid a lot of confusion on the part of the clinicians.

Edit for Title Typo: I have not had enough coffee yet and apparently can't spell Shrinking. No one has ever made a shrine to my boobs.

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For those that lost a lot of weight, when did your sense of body image actually change?

So I'm 34 years old, 5'11" and currently hovering at 205 pounds, down from about mid 230s at the beginning of the year. I was near this current weight a year ago which was down from near or above 240 from the year before.

Last time I lost that weight, I didn't feel like much had changed. Other people had commented but I my sense of my own body image hadn't changed. Even when looking at comparison pics that I take time to time, it was hard for me to notice much of a difference. When I finally started noticing weight changes was when I gained it back (was unemployed for much of last year and let myself go). It just felt less comfortable being in my own body. I just felt grosser (like eating food made me feel more bloated). Clothes felt tighter.

Since then, I've lost most of that weight again and I have noticed it a bit more in terms of how clothes fit better, but my sense of body image hasn't changed much. I get that me seeing my body every day makes it hard for me to see changes but I feel like there has to be some point in people's weight loss journeys where it's obvious to them. Eventually your belly fat is gone and it's impossible to not know that it was much much bigger years ago. When I started this journey I had no idea what my goal weight would be so I basically set the initial goal to 200 thinking that when I got there I'd have a better sense of how much more I needed to lose based on a vague idea of where my progress was in terms of looking and feeling healthy. I see a trainer twice a week and I can see the numbers going down. I can feel how I'm able to do things in the gym that I used to struggle with or not even be able to do. I know all that but that doesn't change my sense of body image. My belly still feels big because it hasn't changed all that much. Probably because being 40 pounds over weight vs ideal weight is a bigger difference in how it shows up on your body than the difference between being 40 pounds and 90 pounds overweight.

So my question is for those that lost a lot of weight, when did it really click in your mind that you look and feel like you look different from before? Is it just going to get more and more noticeable from now on? Will losing the next 10 pounds feel more significant than losing the last 20?

I'm still trying to figure out what my next goal should be. I'm not considering it too heavily since I need to focus on getting under 200 which I feel like I haven't been since mid high school (like 18 years ago). But I'm getting close and I have to start thinking about it. A long time ago I made a random guess that maybe 180 would be ideal weight but now I'm not so sure. BMI charts (which I know aren't always accurate) seem to think for my height, 175 is threshold between normal and overweight and the bottom end of normal is closer to 145, which seems absurd to me. I cannot imagine getting much lighter than 170. 145 just sounds unhealthy. But like I said, I don't really know. Maybe if I get to 175 I'll still have a decent amount of belly fat and realize that I still have a lot more to lose. All I know is I always assumed that if I got to 200 that I'd be over half way to my ideal body shape but as I approach 200, I don't even feel like I'm 1/4th of the way there as far as body shape goes. So now I'm wondering if I'm really that far away from it or if further losses make more noticeable changes to your body shape as you get lighter.

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