Discouraged but also proud?

Hi everyone! I’ve never made a post on reddit before so this is gonna be all over the place!

So I’ve always had a yo-yo kind of journey but I’m 22 now and finally decided I am sick of being miserable in this body. I had a long distance relationship since December, and he was planning to come to see me in August so I wanted to get my ass in gear before then. It wasn’t just for him, but of course I wanted him to be attracted to me. I wanted to not be terrified of taking my clothes off in front of him for once in my life. He’s made me feel very comfortable in my own skin and loved my tummy and big legs so it’s made this weight loss journey different than any other one I’ve ever gone through. I’m lucky to have had his support.

Now I don’t have an exact start date for when I made my lifestyle change, but let’s say it has been a few months, maybe since April or May? I started adding the gym in only in June though.

I was at my heaviest weight I had ever been at before I started my journey and I felt absolutely disgusting and ugly. I feel like I look the exact same from when I first started and get really discouraged at my lack of progress. I have PCOS so it feels like I have to work harder than a person without PCOS (my mom for example, aka my workout partner), so that has also added to the discouragement. I more recently was only losing 1 pound a week, regardless of my hard work, especially with my diet. I have such bad cravings constantly, it’s quite mentally draining. I wouldn’t mind the cravings so much if I was actually losing weight like I would expect to. I know a pound a week is “good”, but I expect more from my body. Since my weight is not that low, I hoped weight would drop off more quickly.

I do care about what the scale says but I also care about what I look like and how I feel. I feel like I’ve made no progress, but I have to remind myself that the scale tells me I lost 20 pounds since my highest weight and that IS progress. I also dread looking at unflattering photos of myself so I don’t have any before pictures to compare to, unfortunately.

I have to step back and look at what progress I have made. I know I look in the mirror everyday and see no change, but I’m sure I do look different than I did with an extra 20 pounds. I don’t really have a goal weight, I just want to keep losing it until I start liking what I see. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad idea?

Thanks for reading!

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Worried About Sustaining Weight Loss - Need Filling Lunch SW:223 CW: 200 GW: 163

Age: Late 20s

Height: 5'9

SW:223 CW: 200 GW: 163

I've been lurking on this page for a few months and it's been really helpful so I want to thank the community for that.

I've been eating healthy and exercising but I'm worried about my progress, specifically lunch. I've been having salad with garbanzo beans and red onions. But I get *really* hungry. So I have to have some meat - chicken or fish. But even when I have one piece I'm still hungry.

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However, for dinner, I am quite full: eating rice, with meat and a vegetable.

I've been able to stay quite hungry during this period because I'm on summer break, but when school starts, I worry I can't sustain this.

Are there filling meals that are healthy that could help me sustain my current weight loss?

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NSV - No weight loss? No problem.

Everyday I come onto Reddit and I see people complaining about how their life is ending, the sky is falling, and clearly they were born under a cursed star because... *gasp* the scale hasn't moved in two days.

This thing we're trying to do? It's not about the scale. It really isn't. Take that thing and throw it out the window. Because when it comes right down to it, if you were exactly the size you wanted to be, you wouldn't care one bit if that number never moved. And while it might be difficult to realize, that size is really what we're striving for. We all want to lose inches, get better posture, have a better body and be able to move like we're supposed to.

That's part of why it irks me when I join discussions on here and mention that my weight hasn't gone down (in fact, I weighed in this morning at 208) since the end of June and immediately get five people telling me why I'm on a plateau. You know why I'm on a plateau? Because I work my ass off in the gym, and big bodies sometimes take issue with that.

So today, I wanted to post my one month progress photo to show that the scale doesn't matter worth a lick. I'm certainly no ballerina, but you can see the differences clearly enough. One month at the same weight. June to July with a carefully monitored 1200 calories CICO + two hours of cardio 5 days a week in the mornings.

https://i.imgur.com/wuFeLIb.jpg

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I went to my sister's home and ate like I would normally eat for 3 days.

I have gotten into huge fights with my family over my weight loss. They think I have lost 2 much and need to stop. So this time around while my mom is staying over at my sister's I decided to eat whatever I was offered at my sister's place while trying to keep portion control. I just logged what I was eating for these 3 days. Every day ranged from 2500 to 3000 calories. No wonder I was 100 kgs. My sister is 90 kgs on 5 ft 3 4 inches frames. My family has no sense of what appropriate portion size is for food. Growing up in India our relationship with food is still stuck in the white colonial rule era famines and hunger mentality. Anyone who gains weight is called becoming healthy and anyone who loses weight is said to have become weak. Having come down to 76kg and hoping to go to 70 kg it's going to be hard to maintain this weight if I wish to keep a relationship with my family.

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Injured. No gym. Weight actually decreasing, and while great, I don’t know why.

For the past year I have really kicked up my fitness game. I have been struggling with shredding my happy relationship weight gain.

Back story on my weight journey. I lost 135lbs after weight loss surgery in 2010. Bring my weight to 175lbs. My goal was to get to 150lbs (5’2” female) but my weight loss stalled and I couldn’t break through the plateau. I eventually just said OK, this is where my body wants me. I kept the weight off up until about 3yrs ago then my happy relationship 30lb weight gain emerged... which I was not happy about.

Working with trainers I have upped my fitness levels and I’m monitoring my nutrition with trackers and guidance from a dietician. I have lost 15lbs but for the past 2 months I’ve struggled on another plateau. I refuse to settle at 197lbs...

I pulled my back out 3 weeks (putting on my gym pants!!). I couldn’t move I was in so much pain. My doctor sent me to PT. During these three weeks I haven’t been able to work out at all. I have still been monitoring my nutrition but I haven’t been super strict. Stepping on my nutritionist scale two weeks ago resulted in a 2lb loss with 3.5lbs of muscle gain and some water weight gain. I asked if her scale was broken... This week my weight stayed the same but it also read an additional 1.5lb muscle gain and more water weight gain. The water weight this week is definitely PMS bloat but what is with the muscle gain!? She thinks had I not gained water I probably would have seen another over all weight decrease.

Her theory is that due to my injury my other muscles are more actively engaged and I’m holding them tighter to try to support my lower back. Therefore burning extra calories...

I’m glad for the positive numbers I’m seeing but I’m baffled. I’m starting to wonder if I wasn’t eating enough calories for the work I was doing in the gym.

Any thoughts and/or recommendations for me?

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Join the challenge: 4 weeks without unhealthy food (29 July-25 August)

Hi y'all, my weight loss journey has not been going well lately and today I woke up with some newfound determination. I have decided that, starting Monday the 29th of July, I will eliminate all super unhealthy foods from my diet for a minimum of 4 weeks. Under my definition of unhealthy, this means that I will not be eating chocolate, chips, candy, take-out meals, pastries, fried foods, and so on. So basically nothing with loads of sugar or saturated fat. Since it's always more motivating to work together, who's with me? Is anyone else up for the challenge? Of course we can continue the challenge for longer :)

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I’m on my way to being who I’ve always wanted to be.

I will try not to make this too long winded.

Most of my life I’ve been overweight and as most people, the sadness and frustration of seeing myself gain weight I comfort ate. I often wear baggy tops because I’m ashamed of my two stomachs and my lump and bumps.

In January I stepped on the scales and cried, 15 stone 2 pounds (212 pounds) the heaviest I’ve ever been. Then today I stepped on the scales, and I have officially lost 2 stone (28 pounds). I know I still have a long journey ahead of me to get to where I want to be (150 pounds).

I’ve tried to lose weight in the past but after 2-3 weeks I went back to bad habits because I deprived myself and stopped eating unhealthy things too quickly.

Now I’m enjoying my weight loss journey, because of my job I don’t have time for the gym so I’ve bought kettle bells, dumbbells and yoga equipment and began to walk to work instead of getting the bus. I feel so good after my work outs and when I can’t be bothered to work out I look at my fat photos I took when I first decided to lose weight and this gives me the motivation I need to get off my backside.

I still have treats but take aways and meals out are now only for special occasions. I no longer drink fizzy drinks, I swapped sugar for sweetener. My breakfast is porridge with fruit, my lunch is a fruit salad and dinner is whatever I fancy but smaller portions.

People are noticing my weight loss and I’m starting to become more confident, and in general I just feel happier. I have started to love water which I thought I never would.

This sub has helped me a lot with my journey so far, seeing people’s progress pictures and sharing their stories keeps me going, I tell myself “one day that will be me, one day when I’m happy with my body I will share my photos”.

For anyone starting their journey or need encouragement, keep going, we can do this together, we will be happier. And to those that are close to their goal weight or have reached their weight, well done and massive congratulations!

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