/r/LoseIt, I want to share with you an incredible achievement, and say thank you from the bottom of my heart

One year ago I was 148lbs, today I'm 145. I have successfully maintained my weight loss for A WHOLE YEAR. Isn't that in itself an incredible achievement?

But, wait for it... in the last year, I have:

• Backpacked for six weeks, trying lots of new foods
• Adjusted to moving back home from another country
• Had to find somewhere to live, set everything up, furnish it
• Done grad school applications and interviews
• Completed a language class
• Planned and then called off my wedding, ending a long relationship
• Moved out, then had to move again
• Got a new job
• Dealt with an ongoing chronic illness that causes daily pain

AND I MAINTAINED MY WEIGHT LOSS. I'm so amazed by this I could shout it from the rooftops. Binge eating has been my coping mechanism since I was ten years old, and I thought I would never, ever escape it.

But I have, haven't I? In the face of an extremely tough year, that's clearly not how I cope any more. But this one is your victory too, /r/LoseIt, because there is no possible way I could have done this without you. You changed my life, and I will never be able to thank you enough.

I still have 9lbs to go until goal and I will absolutely get there, but honestly? Seeing that number on the scale is nothing compared to the absolute miracle of having changed my habits enough that even when severely tested, they don't slide. I mean, they have slid, repeatedly, and I have always got back on it thanks to the people here. That's been the one key thing, no matter how a day/weekend/month has gone, getting back to the good habits as soon as is practical.

For reference, those are logging with MyFitnessPal, trying to walk at least 5000 steps a day (my gym membership went by the wayside with moving) and regular weighing to keep accountable.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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How to stop eating SO much sugar?

Hello guys! I have a serious problem. I have successfully lost about 7kg (15lb) now but I still have about 8 or 9 (18-20lbs) to go to reach my goal weight. I am extremely active, I ride a bike and run almost on a daily basis and in addition to that I have been going to the gym. Shortly, I burn a lot of calories. That’s why the weight loss has been easy even with eating quite a bit of chocolate and ice cream every day.

This weekend I haven’t been able to exercise due to illness but I tried to count calories anyway. I have realized that it’s extremely difficult for me to stay away from sugar. I have a serious addiction. Without exercise it’s impossible to stay under my calorie goal or even at maintenance because I just crave sugar like all the time and after every meal and so on.

I have been able to eat a bit less sugar during the weekdays when I have been working but my job is now over and I’m going back to studying. That’s going to be a heck of a challenge because days studying are not that structured and I have no idea how to follow reasonable eating habits if I don’t have a strict daily rhythm. My weekends are always a mess with many servings of sugar. It hasn’t been bothering the weight loss as I have been able to stick to the maintenance and had a deficit during the working days. But from now on every day is like a weekend to me...

The main reason that I want to quit sugar is that it’s just not healthy. I also eat way too little protein and I think these two things show in my body composition. I don’t think it’s possible to lose much more with these kind of eating habits. During this illness I have had some heartaches (nothing serious, apparently just arrhythmia) but it really made me realize that I definitely don’t want high blood pressure, diabetes or anything dangerous to my health just because I haven’t been able to give up this addiction.

But I LOVE chocolate and cakes and ice cream and I crave them all the time. Any ideas on how to END this??

TLDR: I have a serious sugar addiction. I have no idea how to stop eating it all the time.

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[M / 187 cm / 25 ]On the road down again! (113.5 kg -> 87.1 kg).

Little backstory here:

After I was done with college, I was possibly in the worst shape of my life. Weighing 113.5 kg on the scale, no fitness at all, having messy long hair, pictures of me looking dreadful, ... you get the picture.

Then started work and figured I had to start working on getting pre-college levels of weight and fitness (around 93 kg, still heavy but sorta acceptable chubby). With one of my first paycheques I bought myself an elliptical, having read about those things thoroughly on the internet, i figured this would be less stressful for my joints as opposed to running right off the bat. And so I started training. 2-3 times a week, sessions of 20-30 minutes. Every 2 weeks I visited a dietician who sorted my food habits: chicken meat > all. Stepping away from soda with sugar.

Boy did the weight fly off. 1.5-2 kg’s / week. The dietician that was helping me was always surprised with how fast I made progress, this actually encouraged me to keep going as hard as possible. Stepping up training on the elliptical to 4-5 times a week with increased length ( up to 1 hour sessions). Once I got down to 93-ish kg i picked up running. With the basic cardio exercise i had from the elliptical, i managed to run 5 km in one go in a matter of weeks of interval training.

So I ended up with a, for me, record low weight of 83.6 kg around june last year. Best cardio shape I’ve ever been in. And then, winter came. Losing intrest in the whole losing weight thing and letting myself go at dinner and snacking, I gained around 1 kg / month during the last couple of months of last year and the first half of this year. After our holiday to scandinavia end of may, my weight was back upto 95-96 kg.

So i started cardio again and got back into that state of mind of cutting calories. Currently back down to 87.1 kg and almost back at running 5 km in one go.

Gonna have to force myself onto some weights at a gym soon though I’m afraid. Even though I lost alot of fat in my thighs and belly area again through cardio, my chest (honestly my whole body) is leaning towards ‘skinny fat’. Hope I can find a good gym around my area that does well with assisting in the process of muscle building.

I really do want to get to that point of looking super fit at least one time in my life. Sorta want to keep losing the fat through cardio until 75-80 kg and from then on start working on weights. People will advice me to start weights right away, but Im actually enjoying the cardio alot more atm. I feel super energetic after coming back from a run training.

So here a ‘brief’ summary of the progress, hope to be reporting back later more gains (or should i say losses) 💪.

Weight loss last months

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Feeling really proud of myself, even though my weight loss journey hasn’t been perfect so far

24F / 5’4” / SW: 202 lb / CW: 167.4 lb. / GW: 130 lb.

I’ve been struggling with depression, OCD, ADHD, and impulse control for a long time. My inability to stop eating junk to make myself feel better eventually landed me squarely in the obese BMI range. But last year, a medication change and a lifestyle change really helped me start getting my mind in a healthier direction. Last December, my psychiatrist told me that I seemed a lot better mentally, so maybe it was time to start focusing on my physical health, too, and try to lose some weight.

Mid-January, that had been on my mind for a month, but I hadn’t really done much. But one day, for whatever reason, I had a moment where I really committed. I felt so unhappy with my weight, and I knew that to lose weight, I would actually have to buckle down and keep track of where I was, where I wanted to be, and so forth. So I put up a piece of paper on my fridge. It had the date, my current weight, and my waist measurement. At the top, I had a long term goal, a short term goal, and a mid-term goal. Every week, I’ve written the date and my new weight. Every so often I’ll measure my waist, too, but not as regularly.

Guys, today my progress got to the bottom of that page. Looking over the page, I can see the plateaus, the times when I gained a little weight, and times I’ve done really well. But guys, I’ve lost almost 35 pounds. My waist is 4.5 inches smaller. I’m out of the obese BMI range and down into the overweight range. This never would have been possible before. Even when I had setbacks, I didn’t give up. For me, that is huge. So today, I’ve put up a new page. I still need to lose another 37 pounds to get to my goal weight. I can’t believe I’m still sticking to this seven months after I started. I’m halfway there, and it feels so much more doable than it did when I started.

Don’t let the bad days get you down, guys! Keep yourself accountable. Eat those vegetables! Have one cookie instead of three or five. Take a walk and get some fresh air. Drink lots of water. Be kind to yourself, but keep pushing forward. You don’t have to lose weight fast, you just need to keep working at it, and you’ll get there eventually. It feels so good!

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6 Months in, 54 pounds lost

For a long time I would come across posts from /r/progresspics and would tell myself that it would be me one day. I would "someday" start a journey to lose all this weight and be one of those people. Then I found /r/loseit and CICO finally clicked in my head.

In February, I got my tax return and I really wanted new computer parts or a 4k screen, but I kept thinking about how depressed I am about myself and weight, and that there was no point in spending that money if its just going to make me stay in my room more. So instead, I got a gym membership and also a food scale and downloaded MyFitnessPal.

I weighed myself on the first day and I was 395. I started with walking on the treadmill for 20 minutes and 30 minutes lifting weights. Slowly I reached a point where I am walking 2.5 miles or an hour (whichever comes first) and then doing PPL for another hour. I eat 1800-1950 cal and measure every single thing.

The hardest thing for me has been dealing with my family. They're all 30-50 pounds overweight, but no one has ever been my size. Since starting this, their attitudes towards me have become so negative. For decades I was told to just "move more and eat less", but now that I'm doing CICO, they all tell me I'm doing it wrong.

• They've argued that I could lose way more doing KETO, fasting, SlimFast, Atkins,etc the whole time

• Told me to not eat protein and focus on fats, then told me to focus on protein only.

• At my heaviest, I would be invited every where, but now I go weeks or months not hearing from anyone.

• Every time weight loss has come up and I've started talking, they tell me "ok we get it" sarcastically. Once every couple months someone will ask me if I'm still going to the gym and that will be the only mention.

• An uncle of mine was bragging about losing 15 pounds in 6 months, then called me a liar when I said I had lost 40 in 4 months (while he ate 6 slices of pizza at a family event).

• I'm always told to live a little and not to worry about what I eat, while they stuff their faces and feel miserable.

Even after all that, I FUCKING LOVE LOSING WEIGHT. I love going to the gym, I love the new food I'm learning to cook, I love that my body is changing for the better and that I am in control. I am stronger and faster then I have ever been.

Thank you /r/loseit

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Day 1 Was Hard, But You Helped

Over the past three years I have allowed my weight to balloon from 159 to 225 due to emotional eating. This week I started my last first week of school. For a long time I have had the goal to lose the weight I gained by the time I finished my degree. As I got closer and closer to that deadline I started to panic. Last week I went to see a nutritionist. I decided to start a total meal replacement plan using Optifast. This is by no means a long term solution. I just wanted to do something to kick start my weight loss because I know if I don't see results fast enough to begin with I end up losing motivation. Yesterday was my first day on the meal replacement. It was HARD. What I didn't think about as much when I decided to do this was how much of a role food plays in my social life. My husband and I generally go out for food most nights and on the weekends and not being able to do that really got to me. I'm not sure how I feel about it now, but I feel like I have to stick to this to lose the weight by the time I graduate in December. Everyone else's stories that I read on here (no matter where you are in your weight loss) are really helping me stay motivated and stay positive. So thank you!

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Started diet 8 weeks ago but I only lost 2.5lbs. How to stay motivated?

I work in advertising agency and eating healthy & getting enough sleep is a big challenge for me. I tend to binge when I'm over stressed. I decided 8 weeks ago that I wanted to be healthier when I started feeling heavy when getting up in the morning. I tried joining a gym for a month but I was only able to get there during weekends because of work. I started calorie counting which I think helped me. I also started eating fewer calories. I'm a Filipino (F) so cutting back rice was a challenge, from 3 meals with rice I only do half cup for 1 meal. I looked into my weight loss app today and was disheartened to know that after all the efforts, I only lost 2.5lbs. I do feel some small changes like I don't tire easy & I get up quicker in the morning. But I want to know what else can I do to fast track my weight loss. My current weight is 131lbs and I'm aiming to be at 121 by end of the year at least.

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