Gaining muscle to the point that my clothes are tight?

I don't know if it would help to have some history on my weight loss journey or what. Sorry this will be a long post. In 6th grade, I was a 1X (16 in women's). By 7th grade, I was a size 8. By 9th grade, I was a size 4 and I pretty much was until I was 20 years. Due to some past professional problems, now at 23, I'm probably a 10 (approximately 38-31-45) and I've been trying to lose weight. However, my efforts in the past 3 years have only led me to gain muscle. I try to diet and exercise but I just keep gaining muscle. Today, even my underwear is tight. Part of me is wondering if I have more testosterone than most women or some sort of hormone problem. I just want to be a size 6 (approximately 36-28-38) and I won't complain after that. Any advice?

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I have a really unhealthy relationship with food and i don't know how to fix it.

This is a throwaway account because i am way too embarrassed to write this on my main account. I have been stalking this subreddit for a while and it seemed like a safe place to talk about this because everyone seems very encouraging. I was always a chubby girl. When I started my weight loss journey I was 163cm 78kg. I started my journey healthy. I went to a dietician and did pilates. Everything was going well I was down to 67kg in 3 months. After that I started to be more aware of my calorie intake. I calculated the calories on my diet list and thought "hey I can eat way less than that I don't think it will be that hard". And I slowly ate less and less to a point that I was only eating 100 calories a day. I was down to 58kg just like that. Everyone started to compliment my appearance and i felt confident again. It was the only time I felt like I mattered in the eyes of others. Until I started to get really sick. I was constantly in the hospital getting IVs. Which was odd because before losing that much weight I was never hospitalized for a flu. For a bloody flu. I started to lose control of my "diet" and started binging again. I gained almost all the weight back. Weighing 68kg now, I am so scared of eating. Yet when I'm hungry I lose control. I am also very scared of eating/drinking certian things. I just have this unhealthy relationship with food I don't know what to do. It feels like I am only valuable when I'm skinny. But food is also the only good thing in my life. It is the only thing I enjoy. I have gotten so obsessed with calories to a point that I am deathly afraid of eating something with unknown calories to me. I want to be healthy again. Not over eating nor under eating. I don't want to look in the mirror and feel worthless. I am so tired of feeling self conscious.

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Just weighed myself for the first time in years and I feel like I'm spiraling

The highest weight that ever showed on the scale was 250 lbs, in high school. I brought that down to 220, just as I was starting to get remarks from friends and family about my loss, then I just lost steam... Gained back to 230, maintained that for awhile.

My junior year of college I really hit a good stride. I had a gym at my apartment and I'd work out intensely 5 days a week, and loved it. Cooked all of my meals from scratch. I don't think I was weighing myself then but I'm sure I must have been losing weight.

A year and a half ago, I broke my ankle. Completely threw me off my workout routine, and my cooking. I let that excuse go for a lot longer than it should have. Went through a depressive episode, stress from finishing grad school and trying to find a job, just a general funk that lasted over a year. The thought of exercising more than walking my dog and having reasonable portions was just unthinkable.

Past few weeks the fog has started to clear. I've gotten back into cooking, portion control, exercise. I've been feeling great. I figured it was time to weigh myself. I thought about trying to take a picture or video of my weight without looking at it, so that I could compare my weight loss later on without having to actually be faced with how much I gained the past couple years. But that didn't feel right. So I looked.

274.4 lbs. 5'8" 23yo female. I want to throw up.

The thing is, I barely feel any different. My clothes still fit. I can't really see any obvious changes in my body besides stretch marks. But then again, I didn't feel any different when I was at 220 lbs. How can someone lose 30 lbs, then gain back 50, without feeling any different? How were other people able to notice that I was losing weight when I-- even when comparing before/after pictures-- couldn't see the slightest change, except for the number on the scale? I still don't understand that.

The one bright spot is that in spite of all this, I have been successful at making positive changes the past few weeks. Not just sticking to a calorie budget, but avoiding sugar (my main vice), limiting carbs, having bowls full of leafy greens every day (and enjoying it), identifying and acting on my triggers for overeating, and exercising not just for the sake of increasing my calorie allowance. I am terrified and so deeply ashamed. But I will try.

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Balancing Weight Loss and Boobie Milk

I am 7wpp and have been cleared for exercise, but I have been eating fairly unhealthy on and off for the past few months. I only gained about 25 lbs during my pregnancy, which I attribute a lot to weight lifting and an increased metabolism from pre and early pregnancy. I'm exclusively pumping (medical reasons for my babe means we have to track his intake) and I want to start getting my body back. I know horomones can make it especially difficult. I'm curious how any other mommas have been able to cut their calories and lose the weight without losing the milk (spouses/partners can weigh in too)!

FYI - Yesterday was my first day counting calories since I hit and maintained my goal weight of 145 about a year ago. I'm currently 160 lbs, 5'7". So far I've eaten plain oatmeal yesterday and today as that is supposed to help.

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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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