Things are looking up

I am so happy I found this sub, I read posts on here all the time and it has been so encouraging.

I am pleased to say I have been tracking for almost 2 weeks and have already dropped 1.8kg, just another 13 more kg to go ^{^}

Honestly I never realised the calories I was eating till I started tracking everything, I realised I was in such denial about the amount of food I was eating.

I now even got a fitness tracker to encourage me to be more active and challenge myself by trying to get my pedometer higher each week.

Thank you everyone who posts here and giving me the support I need to continue with my weight loss and the help to modify my behaviour around food and exercise.

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A weight fluctuation got me so down.

Hi everyone. My first time posting here and I am new to weight loss in general.

I've been working very hard to lose 10 pounds over the period of about 3 months. The weight loss has been very slow because my bmi is about 21, but I am tall with a very small frame, same frame width as a petite woman, so i do have a bit of subcutaneous fat I want to loose. I have a boyish body type that doesnt take extra weight well. I dont get "thick" and curvy, I just get a pot belly. bfp started at 27, is now 26. My goal weight is 5 pounds lighter.

I was doing really well with my diet and exercise, being so strict, but I got invited to a cocktail party and must have drank about 2,000 calories of cocktails AND binged for 2 days after on snacks.

I gained 6 pounds in a week and was SO disheartened. I thought at first it was just water retention from the drinking, but it didnt go away and just increased every day. I was actually depressed about it and beating myself up about it. Like what's the point in 3 months of work for it all just to be undone because of a few snacks?

But I stepped on the scales today and I am back at my lowest weight. So the whole time I was just beating myself up for no reason. Also, before I weighed myself I was feeling fat, but obviously this was just psychological because I'm the same weight as I was when I felt skinny.

I am learning that this is a very up and down journey and I just wanted to share in case anyone else is going through the same thing.

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Accepting defeat.

PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY DISCOURAGED. I don't want to harm anyone with my negativity.

I'm using a throwaway account, because at least on the internet no one knows I'm fat. I'm posting this because I need to vent. I need to get my feelings out there.

I've been struggling with weight since I was 9 years old. I remember going to the doctor one time and seeing on the scale 145lbs. Then by time I was 11 years old I weighed 190lbs.

I steadily gained weight. Then when i was 16 I weighed in at 240lbs. At this point I deiced to do something about it ( this was probably the only time in my life where I had will power). I winded up going on Atkins. I got down to 180lbs.

Unfortunately I developed a bad case of acid reflux during this time. The only thing that didn't irritate my acid reflux was high carb foods. So I winded up regaining all the weight loss plus some. That was the first and last time I had a major weight loss in my life.

Since then I've been gaining weight. I've tried multiple times to lose weight. I would lose 10lbs and then slip back into my old habits.

On top of all of this. I was diagnosed with PCOS at 21. Then earlier this year I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and borderline high cholesterol. And I'm only 32.

You would think all of this would motivate me to lose weight. Everytime I tell myself I will get myself together but I fail each time.

I have now accepted that I have no willpower. I accept that I am going to remain this way. The fact I've been trying to lose weight since my teens and fail each time, tells me that I don't have it in me to change my habits and lose weight.

I've looked into weight loss surgery. But I unfortunately don't have insurance of the funds to get it done.

I have no willpower to lose weight and too broke to afford weight loss surgery.

So I have accepted defeat. I have to accept that I will most likely be fat for the rest of my life.

I am at my wits end. As much as I want to lose weight, I just can't handle the failure anymore. I'm tired of being happy when I lose 10lbs and then crying when I gain to back.

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How Do You Deal With Wanting To Lose It All Right Now?

I am doing really well these first 6 weeks with 24 pounds down. That said, I want to be in amazing shape, like I was before putting all of this weight on, RIGHT NOW. Heck, I want to be in shape like yesterday...

I was wondering if you girls and guys have any tips for dealing with this nagging desire to accomplish more, faster, all the time?

This drive for more is something that is both good and bad. It makes me dedicated and a little extreme. This is true for the gym, playing sports back when I was in college, work life and anything that is competitive. And I’m sure all of us on this sub want to be in perfect shape right now too! That being said, im worried of this derailing my weight loss. Right now, I have been at a caloric deficit resulting in a 3 LB rate of loss per week. Aggressive, yes, but I have a lot of weight to lose and I have been at 2K calories but just exercising a lot. I am concerned that my lack of patience will lead me to either increase this deficit, which would be unsustainable, or get discouraged when I eventually start to lose less than 3LB a week, which is inevitable. https://www.livestrong.com/article/457829-is-3-lbs-per-week-weight-loss-healthy/

In summation, I know if I stay on my current track that I will accomplish my goals, but I am concerned that this need for more, faster, will lead to me getting discouraged and falling off the weight loss/health wagon, so to speak. Any tips/advice is greatly welcomed

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I lost 10lbs with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

14M 5’10 SW: 210 CW: 199

I started 2 months ago, and I absolutely love it. Now, i’m not a really fat guy. I have a lot of muscle. Earlier today, one of my instructors (who i love) said i look 160. Now, i was wearing all black, so that could be it. However, now only have i lost weight, I’ve gotten a lot stronger. I used to weight lift and I thought I was strong. Well, I am, but through BJJ I have a different kind of strength. It’s not only physically, but also mentally.

I have so much confidence now. Like holy shit I can walk around not ashamed of anything. This last weekend I went to the beach for the first time, and walked around shirtless like it was nothing.

Anyways, I highly recommend it, as long as you also do some conditioning right after you do BJJ. I can do a lot more pushups and my cardio is better and I just feel great.

What about the diet? It’s pure garbage. I eat school food at 10:30 and don’t eat again until 7-8, but i don’t watch what i eat at all. Now, i do only drink water and sometimes gatorade, but after I stopped drinking soda, i think it’s disgusting.

My weight loss “may” be attributed to my age and puberty, but either way it’s great.

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Barely losing with a decent deficit?

I've been sticking to a diet of about 1000 calories, occasionally raising to 1500. I track everything I put into my body that has calories. I enjoy exercise, and like to walk every day in addition to other workouts some days. I thought I'd be losing at least a pound a week, after calculating my BMR and finding that I have a deficit of 500-1000 but I only lost half a pound over the last week. I was losing much more a few weeks ago.

Could this be my metabolism slowing down? Could this be due to my consumption of teas? Or maybe it's my low-calorie energy drinks? I'm really not sure why my weight loss has slowed down so much.

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Fear surrounding weight loss?

Context: I'm a 19 y/o F and this is my first attempt at losing weight. I lost ~70 lbs in ~6 months and have been maintaining around there for the past ~5 months. My all time goal is to get down to 150 lbs which is another ~80 lbs to lose.

I want to lose more weight, really I do, but I think I'm also terrified. I have always been a bigger kid. I still remember the day when I was in seventh grade and my muffin-top started hanging out of the bottom of my shirt and I was embarrassed and ashamed and my mom said I could just wear my jeans on my hips instead of my waist and then my muffin-top would be tucked in.

There was a pair of shorts that I have from that time when I was about 12 years old and I pulled them out a couple months ago and they fit. They were snug, but they fit. All I can think is how crazy that is. I couldn't have been older than 13 the last time I wore them. They are a size US14. All I can think is that I was probably around 190 or 200 lbs around that time as a kid. I was a couple inches shorter then, and I just can't help but think...

I've never been this weight before at this height. Every time I lose weight, I'm not going back to some place that I've been before, rather I'm a new version of myself, someone I have never been before. And that's terrifying. I want to lose weight, but I'm a little afraid of the feeling I had after losing weight so fast that I didn't recognize myself as me in the mirror. I love the change and the feeling so much lighter. Of being able to move more freely and easily than in my whole life, but it's terrifying and I don't know what to do.

I want to lose more, but lately every time I get on track it's like I sabotage myself because I'm not sure I'm ready to deal with the full time job of thinking about my food and weight again and the feelings of fear surrounding my sense of self that has previously always included being overweight possibly becoming an association I no longer have? I'm holding myself back over these things and I know it, but I don't quite know how to move past it.

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