I’m so proud of myself!

Hello everyone! Newbie here! I know it’s not much but I’m genuinely proud of myself.

Stats- 19F, 71 kg, 164cm

So 2 weeks ago, I finally started my weight loss journey. I’ve been wanting to lose weight for years but I never felt motivated enough. My main problem was my asthma. I made so many excuses because of my asthma but I finally had enough.

I’ve always been a chubby person but this is the heaviest I’ve ever been. I decided to slowly cut my unhealthy eating habits.

Last week I went to the gym 4 times and I’ve felt so much better. Yes, it was hard to breathe but slowly I was getting used to it. I went to the gym today and I did a whole hour of cardio! And I did not struggle to breathe as much as I used to !

My main problem is binge eating when stressed but I’ll try to overcome it!

I hope I keep this up.

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I hope this is allowed- weight loss journey getting difficult with crappy worn down running/tennis shoes. Would love recommendations from plus size/heavier women who know of some good ones?

I’m 420lbs, and have a history of plantar fasciitis. I always need to wear supportive gym shoes even walking around campus or any distance really because of how heavy I am and how easily my feet hurt. Lately after having my Nike Air Maxes for the last 2 years they are due for an upgrade, they are worn down the support is basically gone and the edges make it easy to roll my ankle because they are so broke down. I find myself attempting to hike or walk and getting frustrated by the lack of support I have in my shoes.

Another thing to point out is I need wide shoes, I wear a size 10 and prefer shoes with a thick heel of some sort of support, cushion, bounce back (something to help the impact of my weight). I have had the Nike hair max shoes for a while but they aren’t wide and haven’t been as supportive. I would like to try to spend less than $100 on a pair of supportive but durable shoes (maybe with a subtle cute color or pink or blues) but I’m here for comfort more than I am the style portion.

I feel like my desire to exercise and just get out and walking has been hindered by my fear of plantar fasciitis swell ups due to the crap support I have now. Any suggestion on good tennis shoes for obese people would be wonderful. I also plan to go on a trip soon with a lot of walking involved and want some shoes that can be more reliable as well as useful when “hiking” (nothing severe just walking some slopes in a local waterfall park with hiking trails) or walking more.

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My mom and family really ruined food and body image for me.

Since I was really young my mom would always make food and eating an unhealthy relationship. They would let me try these crash diets that never worked, never talked to me about confidence. and honestly played on my insecurities as motivation for me, or even worse they would use comparison as a weapon.

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Whenever I got a stomach flu, or when I got braces she act like I told her good news and she would say something like, "you'll probably lose a few pounds". Lately these flash backs have really been messing with me. I really resent the people back at home. Especially now since I've had a very big recent weight gain and it's their funny looks and comments all over again. I just want to let them all have it,

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I remember telling my mom how people act towards me not too long ago and she was like, "well it sounds like ur still angry, you shouldn't be mad. and you did gain a lot of weight and ppl don't know how to react".

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I would think not an asshole. but I can't expect anything different from ppl I grew up with. I do not like them.

I've definitely been struggling with self worthlessness lately and I never want to go out and be seen. I even thought about vlogging my "weight loss journey" (I hate saying that now)... but the thought of ppl I know seeing me haunts me

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I'm going to stick with it for once in my life -

I'm going to stick with it for once in my life - I am 20 years old, 21 later this year, and I currently weigh 173.8 lbs.

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Long story short, I've never been comfortable with my weight and, being honest with myself, have been in plain denial about the my weight for most of my life. Not, "Oh, it's not that bad" or "It still zips even though it's obviously two sizes too small" (think trying to squeeze into a size 6 when I am a snug size 10), but "Oh, this is just temporary! I'm only 10/20/30/40 lbs heavier than I'd like to be! I still fit into the size six, I just need to drink some water and eat healthy for a week and I will most defintely drop down two dress sizes in time for X's wedding! This isn't my real weight, this is just because I had a lot of salt yesterday/ didn't drink enough water / it's that time of month" - the excuses have been plentiful. It was just plain denial of the hard work I needed to put in if I wanted to look good. A lot of my hangups on my weight affect other parts of my life e.g. not wanting to start a new book because, well, if I'm going to sit here and eat an entire bag of family size doritos, what's the point of doing any sort of self-care or being even remotely productive today? I know that I need to stop thinking this way, so I know I need to start today - no waiting until the perfect moment, the next Monday, the next new moon, whatever it is. I need to start now before it's the start of the next school year and I'm worse off than when I started.

I start my fourth and final year of university in late September. My first year my weight was about 155lbs - jeez, I hadn't even realized that until just now. There's been some ups and downs since then but I don't think I've ever once gotten below 154lbs in the past three years. My goal is to get at least to 155 lbs, ideally between 150-155lbs before the start of the quarter on September 26th. That puts my weight loss somewhere between 1.7-2lbs / week for the next 11 weeks. My ultimate goal is to reach between 130-135lbs by the end of this year - I'm not letting the rest of the year go by without making an effort to become the best version of myself possible!

Cheers! and good luck to everyone!

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I’m (still) always hungry

Just for some stats: 19 F/5’6/SW:~200lbs/CW:140lbs/GW:???

So I’ve steadily lost around 60 pounds this past year exclusively through CICO. Even at my heaviest, I was still pretty active (I swam competitively for 7 years and would go on walks daily) so my exercise routine hasn’t really changed from last year.

My eating habits on the other hand have done a complete 180. My weight loss and new eating habits started kinda accidentally when I started college. You can’t emotionally eat all of the time when you don’t have a pantry in your tiny dorm. Once I saw some slight results, I decided to start logging my food in myfitnesspal. Initially, I had it set so I was eating 1200 calories a day. My university provided all of the dining hall nutrition facts online so it was pretty easy to track. For the most part, I really stuck with staying within my calorie goal. The only problem was that I was hungry all of the time. At first I figured that was because I was significantly reducing my intake and that I would start to adjust to eating less over time.

But as the year progressed and I lost more and more weight, I was still just as hungry as I was in the beginning. When summer started, I decided to up my calories to 1330 a day which put me on track to lose about a pound per week. I thought that maybe those extra calories would help fill me up a little more but I’m still always hungry.

I’m really at a loss here and I’m not sure what else to do other than eat more food. I’m still in the process of losing weight and I really don’t want to slow down my progress. Any suggestions are appreciated :)

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27 F with 105 lbs to lose. I've got this.

I've been lurking Reddit for years, but I'm finally ready to post something, because I think this community might help me to be accountable to myself.

I [27, F] weigh 250 lbs. I'm only 5'1.

I have spent almost all of my life struggling with my weight. I've always been pretty chubby, but I've had some success with weight loss in the past. The summer before my senior year of high school, I hit 171 lbs and had a meltdown because that was the exact weight class that my boyfriend (now husband) wrestled. I lost about 40 lbs over the next 9 months, and weighed 130 by senior prom. I did this largely through extreme restriction of my diet, which was possible because of my unique schedule (I took classes at a local college for the second half of my school day, so if I ate lunch, it was alone, and then I headed straight to the campus rec center).

By the time I was about 21, I weighed about 165 again. Because of his job, I didn't get to see my husband for 7 months. I lost about 30 lbs in that time. I did this mostly by going to the gym for several hours a day and being extremely unmotivated to cook real food for only myself, so I ate a lot of cereal and Lean Cuisines.

Neither of these were sustainable forms of weight loss because they relied on my own isolation and were fueled through my self-loathing.

But here I am, years later, longing to be ONLY as fat as I was before.

I know there has to be a way to operate my weight loss from a place of self-love instead of self-hatred. I want to LOVE life. I have a great group of friends and I want to unabashedly cherish my time with them. I want to eat good food among friends and smile wide and run around with their children without worrying about how I look or whether I'm in view of a camera. I want to travel and explore the world without worrying that I won't fit in a plane seat or wondering if Santorini is such a great idea because there are so many stairs. I want to be healthy so that I can be around for a long time to enjoy the life I've worked so hard to build.

I know absolutely everything that I need to do in order to lose weight. I literally own all of the gym equipment that I need. My husband is immensely supportive of me and my desire to get healthy. We have enough money to purchase healthy foods and the skills to prepare them. I've been in therapy for two years and have access to any professional help I might need to overcome any emotional aspects of my weight.

So this is me stopping whatever bullshit excuses I've been feeding myself for why I "can't do it." It's not my shitty metabolism or my hormones or my childhood trauma or my busy schedule or my grief. It's only ever been me. And I've got this.

I weigh 250 lbs. My goal weight is 145. That's 105 lbs to lose. I'm dividing that up into smaller goals of 20 so that I don't feel so overwhelmed, and then I'll just have 5 left over at the end.

I'll see you all at 130.

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I met my weight loss goal for 2019!

As I have a long way to go on my weight loss journey, I have found it extremely helpful to break it up into smaller, more realistic chunks. At the beginning of 2019, I made a list of all of my ‘resolutions’ for this year, one of which included losing 30 more pounds. When I set this goal, a large part of me was concerned that I was being too ambitious, and that I had my eye on something that wasn’t realistic, leading me to a guaranteed failure. Since setting that goal, I have been consistently keeping track of each calorie lost, and have really found it motivating to see it all add up, instead of just looking at each pound individually. With all of that said, I celebrated my 25th birthday this passed weekend, and allowed myself to take a break on all of my calorie counting; I was determined that I was NOT going to feel bad about having a piece of cake, or enjoying a meal out with family, while still trying to make reasonable dietary choices that helped to avoid a binge, or at the very least, a stomach ache. Before stepping on my scale this morning, I was convinced that I had gained some of the weight back, or had maintained my current weight throughout my indulgence.... man, was I surprised to see that I had actually lost another 5 pounds in between weigh ins, allowing me to cross over my original goal for the entire year! Looking back, I am honestly really proud of this accomplishment, and it makes me want to continue to chip away the extra fat, and allow myself to finally be the person who I am meant to be. At this point, I am contemplating adjusting the goal to a higher number, but I don’t want to get too cocky and overestimate what is realistic for me and my body. Anyway, this was just something small that I wanted to share with you all, as I am so grateful for everyone who shares their own personal stories, struggles and successes on this sub. Thanks for the support, everyone!

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