I have a butt! I can’t even say «finally» because I never thought it was possible!

TL;DR- I just wanted to share this because it might be motivating to those not finding any exciting goals for when the road seems too long, I hadn’t thought of this as a thing that could happen but I wish I would have!

I’ve (F23) lost about 25 pounds, which is still 20 pounds away from my goal, but I just realized today that it’s possible to grow my glutes (!!!!)

I have always, at least for as long as I have been overweight and unfit(which is the last 6 years at least) had a flat butt that just went in a straight line from my love handles/lower back fat. There was nothing there. What perked out on my body in a side profile were my boobs, but biggest of all, my stomach.

I lost half the weight I want to lose by now, and I’m feeling a bit deflated. Bored of eating the same foods and counting calories, plus my weight loss is slowing down and my motivation is starting to wear out. Also, as many of you might have experienced, my weight loss this far has just lead to me feeling equally bad, if not worse, about my image in the mirror. I feel like there is still such a long way to go, even after working so hard to lose all this weight.

I was looking at myself like that in the mirror every night for a week, seeing everything I was displeased with. And I started obsessing over my non-existing butt, and convinced myself that what would make me look way better would be getting a round butt, as opposed to the pancake flat one I saw.

I started one of those 30-day challenges you find everywhere (I just googled), and have only done it for a week — but I see the results! I’m growing a round butt! I’m shocked that it’s already visible, it’s probably because I examine my body in the mirror every day, but this makes me so motivated to continue working hard. It really feels like my work is paying off :D

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Are Artificial Sweeteners really bad for you and your weight loss goals? What the research says.

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Starvation Mode and starting over

Current stats 5’4”/38 years old female/ sw360/cw209/gw140-125.

I have lost 151 pounds in the last 11 months. And I have reclaimed my life. I lost 70 pounds before having a vertical sleeve gastrectomy in December 2018.

I continued to lose and get stronger. In July I hiked 60 miles on the John Muir Trail through the Sierras. I had not figured out my food and had a loss of appetite due to the altitude. As such in a matter of a week I lost over 20 pounds, hiking up about and down mountains with a 45 pound pack burns a lot of calories.

When I got home I did not weight myself, but I do know that I had a voracious appetite and really struggled to keep from seriously over eating. I believe I was under 200, and have regained 10+ pounds. I don’t believe in starvation mode, but my rapid weight loss was followed by a desire to eat, a lot. Anyway...

I am getting back on track. I’m doing what’s called a pouch reset, which is a liquid diet for 5-14 days which resets the restrictive feeling I get from my pouch. I am recommitting to measuring everything and not giving myself bigger portions just because I feel like it.

And I am getting back on my training. Hiking with weighted pack, doing C210k and weight training.

Just putting this in writing to really commit and be accountable to myself.

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Cold brew, cannabis, and confidence. the 3 c’s in my journey to body positivity/weight loss

Progress here

At the age of 16, I weighed 250 pounds at 5’10 and wore a 39 waist, XL and sometimes XXL T shirts, and most of all had no confidence.

Now (the right picture) at age 20, I weigh 168 lbs, a 32 inch waist, and feel (read: and look) the best I’ve ever been/felt. I went shopping today and all the shirts and shorts I picked out were mediums...OMG!

While I do feel puberty was a large factor in me losing my weight (been heavy all my life, from ages 6-16). True, I do work out and eat better now. But a huge part of it was seeing the difference in the mirror for myself, not what others told me. I’m putting this out there to encourage everyone that progress, and I mean any progress, is PROGRESS! Be proud of yourself for where you’ve come and where you’re going to go. Smoking cannabis and switching to low cal coffee has helped me to eat better and cutting soda was the biggest achievement (at one point I was drinking 3 cans of regular cola a day).

I went to the beach with some friends this summer and took my shirt off for the first time since I was 6 years old. 14 years passed by between that of dreading the beach because I wasn’t happy with my body. I still have some work ahead of me (toning/cutting a few areas), but am so thrilled with where I am now. Sorry if this is a bit rushed, I’m writing this in an uber lmao, but would love to hear more from you guys in the comments!

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I hate my face gains

Hello everyone,

I'm not really sure if this is the right subreddit to talk about this, but I'm not really sure where else to vent. Over the past year I have gone from 220lb -> ~175lb. And it seems like whenever I look at myself, I can't stand to see how I look. It seems like some people have complimented me on the weight loss, however, whenever I see a photo of myself I just feel like complete trash. I see practically no face gains and my face still seems really fat. I just constantly feel ugly when I look in the mirror. My face is too round. It looks fat and I can't help but wonder if loosing more weight will ever improve me. Have any of you struggled with this kind of self esteem? If so how have you overcome it?

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Does anyone get sick of talking about their weight loss?

So about 5ish years ago I started my weight loss journey. I was obviously obese (even though at that point I had already lost 15-20 pounds just by having a more physically demanding job), and I dropped another 65 pounds over the course of about 10 months. My weight has yo-yoed a bit, but for the most part I'm about where I was 4 years ago. My customers at my restaurant job (that I've had for 7 years) still will not stop talking about it. I seriously haven't been overweight the majority of the last 4 years. I'm sick of talking about how I lost the weight (CICO and switching to a vegan diet), and now that I've started going to the gym, I'm worried that if I lose more weight, people are going to want to talk about it more. I have never been super comfortable about talking about it with people besides family, and while it was flattering at first that people noticed, now I wish they wouldn't. Does anybody else wish people would just leave them alone about it?

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Patience development?

Hi there!

Now, as the weird tittle might suggest, i'm looking for patience exercises if such exist lol

Patience has been by far the hardest part of my weight loss journey

I've started out as a 120kg (about 250lbs) 186 cm (probably 6'2? idk) male 3 years ago and started the most bullshit yo-yo journey you can imagine. At some point i dropped to 80kgs (170-180 lbs) but gained it all back to 100 (220 lbs). And that is my current weight. I've tried it all and it all works. Keto, carnivore, raw vegan, everything works like charm. And its quick ;) but ITS NOT SUSTAINABLE. If only i decided to be patient three years ago, i would probably avoid all the eating disorders and yo-yo's i went through, and i would be at my goal weight (75 kg or 165 lbs). I will not make the same mistake again This time I'm going the conventional path, but i have these urges to speed up the process by fasting/over exercising etc. With my head i understand that it stupid and I'm aiming at fail, but i just cant wait to be skinny again.

Where do you guys get patience for the process? How do you stay dedicated?

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