Ugh

I feel terrible.

So I’ve been doing amazing recently on my weight loss journey I’ve been doing a hiit workout every other day and a low intensity workout every other. I’ve been controlling my portion sizes eating what was right for me, low carbs, high polyunsaturated fats and protein but today I made a ‘healing broth’ of sorts. It’s really good. Usually I make it with white meat or tofu and if I have to maybe lean pork. But today I used pork belly and a lot of it. Yes, I was cooking for three but I made enough for three days if we had it for two meals on those days. Not to mention it also has potatoes (lots) it’s usually very healthy it’s light it’s high in vitamins and polyunsaturates but I ate tonnes. I ate three holdups with massive chunks of potatoes and waaay to much pork belly. There is barley ONE portion left. But I’m trying to work on it. I used to suffer from bulimia and I would used to you know do that if this happened but Ive decided no I’m not going to let that side of me win. I’m going to wake up tomorrow do a great hiit workout push even harder because I want those results. I WANT to feel comfortable in my own skin. So I am going to achieve this and I will be better from it.

Thanks for reading my rant I just needed to get it out.

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Long Anti-Rant

Some time ago, I lost a lot of weight (2x to medium), and got really muscular and fit, although I'm still chubby. I sent some pictures of me lifting a lot of weight and doing fitness tricks to someone as I don't do social media. Crickets in response. I got a phone call some months later, and it was basically, hi, how are you, are you still doing your exercise? Did you gain back your weight? I said, "why would I do that?"

A year later, they visited me and hadn't gotten fully in the doorway before they said, "you gained back your weight!" (I had not gained back any weight), but why is my weight the first thing that comes to mind, after not seeing you for years? I thought it was entertaining, just watching it objectively.

Again, another person I haven't seen in a while came over the other day. They said, "how's the gym coming?" Now, by that time, I HAD gained back some weight - just seven pounds, but more fit than before. I said, "you have eyes." They pressed. I said, "my kids can tell you." They said, "she's lost a whole lot of weight, but now she wants to look fit, like have muscles." They asked me, "how's that going, trying to get muscles?" I said, "you have eyes." They pressed. I showed them these pics. That ended the questioning.

https://imgur.com/a/GQsi5n4

https://imgur.com/a/oFUss6i

I might not have visible abs (yet), and I might still have a chubby waist, but I'm not going to get offended by other people trying to be passive aggressive about my weight loss. When someone says something about your body, and you are actively working towards bettering it, realize that whatever they are talking about is more about THEM and THEIR issues and not so much about you. Don't get your tissues - get your popcorn.

Share your comments you've received, so we understand that they are just a part of the weight loss journey, just another hurdle to jump over:

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4 years of college weight gains eliminated in 12 weeks

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I started college at 155 lbs. I’m 6’0 and was always slim throughout high school. I managed to maintain that weight my first 2 years of college, but as the stress of exams and internships caught up to me, I started gaining weight very quickly due to lack of exercise and using food as a coping mechanism for stress. I gained 33 lbs by the end of senior year. At graduation, I was 188 lbs, 35inch waist, and I just kept growing out of the new clothes I had to keep buying and I felt awful. Looking at my grad pics, I felt disgusted with how I let myself go. I know 188 can look good for a 6’0 guy but in my case it was all fat.

May 29, 2019, I started counting calories with my fitness pal. Although it was difficult the first few days, I stayed within the 1500 calorie limit. By the end of the first week, I was used to it. I ate whatever I wanted, just less of it. Basically what I used to do before I put on weight. I joined a gym and started doing the elliptical for an hour a day. I passed the time on the elliptical by watching Netflix shows, which made it a lot easier. Eventually I started running outside a couple of times a week - I do 4 miles in under 30 minutes now!

After the first week, I was down 3 lbs. I was very excited to see my work pay off and it gave me the motivation to keep going. I actually started to enjoy counting calories! The next week, I set up a spreadsheet in Excel and tracked my daily calorie deficits using my total calories burned from Apple Watch. At the end of the week, I summed up the deficits and calculated my expected weight loss based on the 3500 calories per lb of fat rule. This is what happens when an actuary decides to lose weight! Week after week, I stuck to the deficit and became addicted to seeing results. I loved how formulaic it all was. My actual weight loss was always within a couple tenths of my calculated expected weight loss. I felt so in control. If I ate a lot one day, I made up for it later in the week.

Honestly, the hardest part was the lack of support from my friends and family. I got used to limiting myself from eating junk food while going out and after I lost 10 lbs, my family started telling me I was becoming anorexic and needed to start eating more. Also, suddenly all of my friends and family members became expert nutritionists, telling me that I couldn’t keep losing weight if I didn’t drastically change my diet or start lifting weights. I just learned to ignore and focus on bettering myself and sticking to what I knew was working.

As the weeks went by, I stuck to the calorie limit and continued to exercise and the weight kept coming off. The weekend before I started my new job, I was down to 157. The lowest I had been in years. I rewarded myself by going out and getting an all new wardrobe for work. At this point, I was back down to a 31 inch waist and fit into my old “hot jeans” that at one point would not go over my knees. Today, I’m down to 153. I was pretty satisfied with my body at 160 but I wanted to hit my goal of 155 to prove to myself that I could. Now, my goal is to add some muscle and try to maintain my weight.

My favorite part of this weight loss plan was that I did not feel restricted at all. I ate whatever I wanted and kept losing weight! For years, I had been told that to lose weight you had to eat salad and vegetables and all the things I hated. I know, I know, eating nutritious food is better for you and I have to say that as my weight loss progressed, I started paying attention to my macros more and trying to eat nutritious food. But it made it easier to stick to it in the beginning when I was able to continue consuming the junk food that I love.

I learned that the power of CICO is real. There were days when I ate a lot over my goal but my tip is to track everything! Even on days when I had a family party or something and ate 3000 calories, I tracked it so that I could be aware of it and use it as motivation to be better later in the week. When it’s not tracked, it feels like it didn’t count. Also, if I was eating out and the restaurant didn’t list calories, I would look up the food and choose the highest calorie one listed in the app. Better to be on the safe side.

This sub was very helpful to me during my weight loss, so thank you! I realize that I was fortunate to catch myself before my weight gain really got out of hand and I know that what I did was not easy. I am a very disciplined person and I was able to use that to my advantage. But if you’re struggling at first, keep chugging along! Once you start seeing results, it becomes addicting, trust me. Best of luck to all my fellow redditors as they go after their personal fitness and weight loss goals!

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Think I'm finally done weighing myself daily.

Progress pics at the bottom if that's all you wanna see lol.

Yep. Think so.

Started my journey on December 26th of last year at 299 pounds and as of this morning I'm 213. It's been a wild ride of people giving plenty of compliments and of course the "How did you do it"s. Along with the concerns that I was just gonna "wither away to become a stick of a person" (spoiler alert: I'm not lol)

Lately though as I'm nearing the home stretch of my weight loss extravaganza I'm noticing the scale moving less and less (albeit still fairly consistent overall)

After the first few months of knocking all the "bad stuff" out of my regular diet I started to slowly reintroduce stuff like a slice of pizza every so often and other "normal not every day foods" to try and teach myself some normalcy and also to reduce those random cravings you get to just pig out on bad shit. Was pretty successful considering I still am able to enjoy food and eat like a regular human without worrying about eating an entire box of cookies which (second spoiler alert: I'm beyond capable of doing it still)

I've gone down several pants sizes and t shirt sizes as well...I've run into that problem of "Shit I've got NO clothes at all to wear..." I've started to enjoy closer fitting clothing as well in the past maybe two months where I firmly believe my eyes have finally caught up to what my body actually looks like. I had to replace a belt because my last one just couldn't keep up with me adding holes anymore and after a while the excess belt just had to get wrapped under loops and STILL stuck out through my shirt.

I've gained confidence (I mean...not a ton I'm still a rather timid person) but I've actually started thinking about getting back into dating again seriously after several YEARS of just thinking I was some hideous creature undeserving of companionship ( seriously...why do we do this to ourselves...)

My general mood has gone up and I can notice more and more walking by people...girls *but really everyone* that I catch out of the corner of my eyes glances and if I smile at someone they smile back. I just feel people are more accepting and don't see me as invisible despite being smaller and arguably harder to see lol.

I was hoping to make this post at the end when I could say "I've done it! I'm done with this phase of the adventure and ready to start in the second part being the rest of my life of trying to sustain this healthier me" but I don't know. The past few weeks the scale just is I think causing more grief than it should be. Like I said, it's moving down a little slower..my losses just aren't "noteworthy" any longer (I know this isn't true...just being all dramatic) and so I decided to make this a little ahead of schedule. Mostly because I'm done weighing myself every day. I'm thinking maybe once a week or even biweekly from here on out. I would rather lose the last bit of weight even slower and be slightly happier than constantly worried about that goddamn scale. Every morning I would make it my ritual to go pee and then hop on and see what was in store. I've gotten used to the fluctuations and never took it with disappointment as I started to notice the trends of the ups and downs and then the down downs leading to the actual losses that stuck.

And maybe it's because I know I'm relatively close to being where I want to be and I'm just getting anxious about it and ready to begin the task of maintenance but it's just getting to be too much lol. Obsessing over it isn't doing me any good and I would rather take this opportunity as I did after a few months in to start trying to practice a little more normalized way of life. I realized not much has really changed about me other than I can tell myself when to stop and my body knows when I'm good with food and don't need anymore. I still only have a slice of pizza and limit myself to that one serving of snacks. I guess I'm looking at this as more of a "pre-maintenance" period. If it takes me until the end of the year to finish out then that's fine too. I'll get there when I get there as long as I know I'm on my way to getting there.

I still log everything I eat and I'm still only drinking water and coffee. I will still pay attention to the scale but on a much smaller scale...lol.

I guess what I want to say is thanks to this community for inspiring me. I can't tell you guys how many times I would wake up in the morning to have a little coffee and maybe some breakfast and feel like I wanted to just pig out but instead I would come on here and read some threads about peoples' success and maybe even more so the slipups. It gave me realistic expectations for how I would tackle the day and the days to come.

And to the people that are struggling to get going or just looking for that little push to start or keep on track...do it. You CAN do it. We ALL can do it. We shouldn't deny ourselves happiness and health. We owe it to ourselves, really.

So I guess with that I'll post some progress pics:...

December 2018

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And...this morning

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Thanks guys you all rock

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How do I know if I'm actually losing weight?

I know it sounds like a stupid question, but I've never actually tried losing weight before. I'm currently 150 and I was looking to drop it down to around 135.

Every day when I step on the scale, it's different. Sometimes I'm 2 pounds heavier, sometimes I'm 2 pounds lighter. According to my Fitbit tracking, I've now lost 3 pounds, BUT if I eat a bit more or drink a bit more water and get on the scale, those 3 pounds are back. How do I know if I'm actually losing weight or if I'm just measuring the natural variation at the best times so it looks like I'm losing weight?

For example right now I weight 146.1, but if I go weigh myself after eating lunch, I'm sure it'll go right back up to 147 - 148, meaning I haven't lost any weight

My weight just naturally varies, so I'm afraid I'm selectively using the lower weights to show myself that I'm losing weight when in reality it's all just food and water

How do you guys measure your weight and eliminate the natural variation to see your actual weight loss/gain?

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Weight isn't shifting - too early for a plateau

Howdy folks. Looking to see if anyone can share some insight, experience or knowledge here.

Quick stats, I'm 5'9", 268lbs (19st 2lb). Maintenance calories for my size are approx 3,000.

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I've always hovered around 18stone, in the last ten years, I'd say, I've probably had 3 good weight loss bouts, were I've dropped weight off in fast time, before holidays and such (I'm talking like 3 stone in 3 months, about 3 times in my life, so quite big drops). Problem i've had in the past is I come back from the holiday, have nothing to look forward to, and gain the weight back out of boredom.

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This time things are slightly different, and I have already a few bits on for 2020 that'll make me want to get to a healthy-ish weight.

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My problem is that I am on holiday in October, to a theme park, and need to shift my initial weight fast. This has never been an issue in the past, the weight has peeled off me. But my diet has always been good, as has my exercise routine.

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I'd normally drop about 3 stone in 3 months, then hit a wall and start getting into 'realistic' weight losses of 1-2lb per week. Which is fine with me as a general rule of thumb. However, this time around, I started at 20st 7lbs (287lbs) and over 6 week I've gotten to 19st 1lbs (267). This week, I managed to actually gain 1lb!

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I know my diet is good. As far as I am concerned the only scientific approach to weight loss/gain is calories in/calories out, so that's the only system I use. I tend to eat lots of microwaveable ready meals (Spaghetti Bolognese, Lasagne, Chilli Con Carne, Sunday Roast dinners, Shepherds pie etc.) as they're pre-packaged and have a calorie count on the box (and they're cheap which is always a bonus). It means I can't feck up on the calorie side of things because it's already been worked out for me.

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I'm taking in between 800-1200 calories per day. I'm drinking lots of tea (ie; water), only soft drink I touch are the calorie-free versions, I used to swallow whole tubs of haribo and pringles in a single sitting, but not a single sweet, crisp or piece of chocolate has crossed my lips in nearly 5 weeks.

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I am completely stumped as to how I've managed to hit a wall without even getting beyond 19st (266lbs). I'm frustrated and bewildered.

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I've researched intermittent fasting, alternate day fasting, etc. but although these appeal to me now, they're not methods I've needed to use before. My exercising hasn't been great this time around, but I don't think that should impact too heavily on my weight loss, as it's more a diet thing (and I'm very happy with how diet's going).

Anyone got any ideas or strategies they can suggest? I'm looking at 5 weeks and I need to get at least another 1st 7lbs off (21lbs, and I have 38 days to do it, which although it sounds like a lot to ask, keep in mind I am already very heavy and initial weight loss for someone my size would generally be quite good).

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Cheers to anyone who has read this. If I had hit 16 or 17 stone and hit a wall, I'd be understanding of it, but this just seems too soon to be running into these issues.

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Thanks,

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KKV

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SV: No longer overweight!

Today after a week of stalling on my weight loss (just couldn't drop below 167, but I'm about to start my period so I tried to just stick with CICO and hope for a whoosh), I hopped on the scale and saw 165! I'm 5'9, so I'm officially in the normal BMI range!

My highest weight was 185 so it doesn't sound like that big of a weight loss, but I've been struggling with being borderline overweight for most of my life and felt uncomfortable in my skin, and even though I still have about 25 lbs to lose until my goal weight of 140, I feel great! My stomach doesn't feel bloated in the morning when I wake up anymore, my face looks more angular and I can see my cheekbones, and my hips aren't quite as wide. Here's to the first 20 lbs lost, gearing up for the second 25!

I'm constantly in awe of this group. People who have never struggled with food related issues or their weight have no idea what the emotional toll is like, and the support of this community has really helped me push address my emotional eating and the compulsion. Happy losing, everyone!

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