I can't seem to stop eating.

At my lowest, I was down to 140 pounds, and man, did I look great. I felt better about myself, too, but I still thought of myself as fat, which I think was ultimately detrimental to my weight loss. Since August of last year, I've really struggled with my eating and have put 35 pounds back on. It's humiliating, and I'm ashamed of myself. I'm getting married next year and bought a wedding dress that doesn't fit me right now but will with some weight loss, hopefully, but it's really freaking me out that I'll be fat for my wedding. There are several reasons that could be contributing to my eating, such as the insertion of a copper IUD, a 2-hour daily commute to work, the completion of my Master's, starting a depression medication, and several more things. I'm seeing a therapist, but it's been more focused on me being happy with myself, not necessarily why I'm struggling to eat well when I was successful on CICO for over a year, and she is leaving her practice, so this will probably be it for awhile. Plus, it's expensive, and I'm on a tight budget. Ultimately, I guess these are just excuses, but I feel like if I figure out why I'm overeating so badly, I might be able to switch it back off and get to where I want to be. I don't know how to do that though and would be interested in hearing others' input who have had something similar and successfully turned it around. I'm sad and scared and angry that I'm here and just want to be back to where I was.

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Using my plant wishlist to meet weight loss goals

Not sure how much of an overlap there is here between plant people & people wanting to lose weight, but I saw this idea in one of my plant groups and wanted to share it! I lost ~40 lbs between winter 2017 and summer 2018, fell off the wagon hard and gained some back that winter. I'm still at 25 lbs lost, but the feeling of "failure" from gaining back lost weight (again) has been keeping me from having the confidence to get back on the wagon.

I'm really into plants and have 13 rare, expensive plants that I want but can never bring myself to drop so much money on. I feel too guilty. I've made a deal with my husband (he doesn't care if I buy these at all, it's a principle thing for me) that for every 10 lbs I lose I can buy one of these plants. I'm only looking to lose 80 more lbs at most so I will probably switch over to every 5 lbs towards my goal weight. I am super motivated to "earn" my dream plants!

I made a wishlist with pictures to look at when I need motivation

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I’ve lost 91 pounds and look so different, but it’s the little differences that mean the world to me.

My start weight was 230 pounds. I hit the 130s a few days ago. That puts me at a 91-pound weight loss at 18 years old. I look drastically different, of course. I’m no longer round and hiding all my rolls behind baggy shirts and leggings that awkwardly fit. I have an actual figure, and the words “petite” and “skinny” have been used to describe me.

So I’ve lost almost 100 pounds in 13 months. That’s a huge change! But I just noticed today that it’s the little things that are incredibly noticeable. Sure, to others, the biggest change is definitely the way I look, but to me, it’s the tiniest of things.

Stairs. I began losing weight early of last August. Later that month, I had a family emergency and my mom and I went to stay at her godmother’s house while we visited our sick family member. I live in a single-story house right now, so I don’t have to climb stairs, but my mom’s godmother let us stay in her guest bedroom upstairs. Now, I had already lost 10 pounds by this time, but I was still 220. That’s big. I also have asthma. Climbing those damn stairs at 220 pounds was a challenge. I could go down just fine, getting up sucked though! It wasn’t to the point that I had to stop at the middle landing and take a breather, but I was definitely short of all breath at the top. I had to do this several times a day because, well, I was staying there and all my stuff was upstairs. I couldn’t just hang downstairs all the time. And it was just ONE flight! Flash forward to today. A year and some months later. I got a job working in an Amazon facility. I have to consistently climb four flights of stairs each way to get to my station and then back down four flights to get to the break room. Several times a day. What a surprise to me that I’m able to do it with absolutely zero problems! I can even run up and down them if I’m in a hurry. And I’m never out of breath doing it! I also can walk a total of 21 miles in a week at the park.

Not worrying if I fit into a space. I was never HUGE huge, but I was definitely large and round. I took a trip in June 2017 and had to take a plane. Luckily, I still had an inch on the seatbelt and didn’t need an extender, but I was dangerously close! I took another plane ride this August and had at least a foot left on the belt!

Clothes. I wore the same stuff over and over at my heaviest because it’s tough to find cute clothes that would fit my 230-lb, 5’2 stature. I wore baggy tees and leggings all the time. I hated clothes shopping. My wardrobe was nonexistent. Once the weight melted off, I threw out my huge clothes (save for a few shirts I can now wear as dresses) and now my closet is bursting with bright colors and all types of different styles. In fact, I consistently have to donate clothes because my style is always changing now that I’m free to explore and wear what I want.

Compliments, intentional or not. I always got the “your face is pretty.” Nobody really ever said anything about my body, maybe because they were trying to be nice and not draw attention to it. Now that I’m a normal weight, I hear a lot of “you’re so petite!” and “you’re so cute!” Compliments flow in like a river. I don’t strive or try for them, but you can bet that it feels good when a coworker compliments me. I hardly ever received compliments at my heaviest.

So yes, I am literally half the girl I was before, but I’m twice as confident. It really is the small things that make it so worthwhile. Of course my health is the number one reason I lost the weight, but the little differences in my everyday life are important, too. No change is ever too small. If it impacts you in any way, it’s big. It’s important. Love yourself and all your changes. Not just the numbers on the scale or the progress pics. Everything.

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I hit a big milestone today

I started my weight loss journey about 3 months ago doing IF and calorie counting. I have been on a calorie restricted diet and have changed my eating habits substantially by basically stopping all red meat and almost all refined sugars. I have a disability that makes most forms of exercise painful or just downright impossible, so all of my weight loss has been exclusively through diet.

Enough about that, today i weighed myself and i was down over 30 lbs from my start weight. I feel so much better than i have in years, my clothes are finally loose, i even need a new belt. When i stand my knees don't hurt as much as they have been for years and i have so much more energy.

I am so happy for MYSELF for the first time in a long time and i just wanted to share my happiness with you folks. I get a lot of inspiration reading this sub and i have learned a lot too. This community seems to be one of the most comforting and supportive subs i follow. Having these posts daily helps me stay on goal. Sorry for rambling, i just needed to say this today.

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Need advice- how do you stay motivated to keep going when you feel like nothing's working or ever going to change? :(

I've definitely gotten a lot better at discipline and separating my goals from however I'm feeling about myself in the moment, but sometimes it really does get hard. I have a history of BED, and weighing myself always used to trigger a binge, so I haven't done so in months. With that, I haven't really known if I've lost any weight after all. So yesterday I finally thought to try on a pair of old pants that were tough to get on a couple months ago and I still couldn't get them on. So I figure after what I thought were days and weeks of hard work, planning out my meals, getting myself to the gym after a long ass day of work was actually doing nothing after all. Sometimes I feel like my body is definitely getting smaller but I guess yesterday was my answer that I'm definitely not losing what I hoped. I have PCOS, so weight loss is frustrating and tough enough considering I was super thin before I got diagnosed and now I can't seem to lose anything. I'm thinking of just biting the bullet and stepping on the scale because I need the actual evidence to keep me going and fighting for a goal, but I'm still scared that the initial weigh in will throw me into a depressive spiral for a couple of days. So, what do you do when you feel hopeless? I feel like I'll never reach my goals or love myself again so everything's pointless anyways!! fml

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Lucky 1 year dietversary to me!

Today marks my one year of logging. That's one year of trying to be a healthier weight! I have a bit more to lose and a lot to learn about maintenance, but I'm celebrating nonetheless.

I went from morbidly obese to a BMI of 22. I weigh 123; 2 pounds less than my original goal weight. I lost 104 pounds. I ran 20km this Sunday and will run half a marathon next month. My life has changed, hopefully forever.

Even though I started with the best intentions, I would never have believed you if you told me I'd get down to this weight. I had a goal weight, but it didn't sound realistic at all. Like 'if I'm ever president, I'll definitely implement sugar tax'. A healthy goal, but the premise is off.

I realised I've been overweight or worse since the start of high school, this is the lowest weight I've been as an adult. I've been 'big' since about age 22. It's weird to be just a regular person.

I don't have a lot of new information on how I lost the weight because it's the same way everyone else here uses, CICO and counting the CI. I literally read the quick start, read a bunch of studies, researched some motivational techniques and applied all of them, but that's it. What's working is just CICO.

So instead of telling you how I did it, I'd like to emphasize some points that made me feel lucky. I read so much on this subreddit and I felt almost guilty for being fat, because so many people had so much working against them and I did not. My friend told me that that's stupid, it doesn't devalue my experience. So I'm calling it reasons I'm lucky:

• I was raised in a fairly healthy household and my parents allowed me to become a vegetarian when I was 11. The ground work was pretty good. Eating veggies was not a problem for me, and although I am not an amazing cook, I have the basic skills to make healthy food.
• Everyone in my close circle of family and friends has always been thin, or at least not overweight. This made being fat especially horrible (always the odd one out). It made losing weight easier. They eat smart. They cook (moderately) healthy. There is a lot of veggies involved. They like the healthy food I cook now. Losing weight has had little impact on my social life.
• I have amazing friends and family and even if they didn't understand what I was doing or why it was so hard, they accepted it. They did not act jealous, they kept encouring me and did not try to sabotage me. They kept saying how great I look, didn't push food, even cooked special food for me on occasion.
• I live in a country that has made it very easy to do casual exercise (cycling, mostly. I do not own a car, I cycle everywhere and if I can't, I cycle to a train or bus stop). I do not count that as exercise, but it has ensured my weight loss has gone faster than the couch potato live I lead would suggest.
• The metric system we use and the obligation to put kcal per 100 gram on food has made my life much easier. And although fast food is readily available everywhere, I also have access to plenty of healthy food and even some great low cal dishes.
• I had a month between jobs, the month in which I started. I had enough money during that month to buy a scale, food scale and healthy food. That month gave me the opportunity to build some habits, experiment a bit with food distribution and recipes without any stress. Those habits made sure I could start a new job almost 15lbs lighter, convinced of CICO and motivated to keep my new behaviour up. Since I'm very sensitive to stress, I really needed that time to build a foundation.
• Although I've had plateaus, most of the time my weight kept going down. Even two week plateaus are hard, every weight fluctuation that can't be explained is hard. I see people doing everything right and being stuck on a plateau anyway. It's way easier to to eat right if you see results.
• I have lived alone most of the time I was losing weight. Although support of a family or a spouse can be amazing I'm sure, for me this has been really helpful. I'm making all the food decisions, if I want to skip a meal to save up I'm not hurting anybody, there is no extra food in the house. No-one is telling me I'm not eating enough or too much.

But though I feel lucky, you could also flip all those reasons. I had the very best of circumstances, and still got really fat. Like everyone, I will always need to be very careful. I eat quickly, too much and unhealthy if I don't pay attention. I still crave food, I can always eat more, sugar and fat still taste great. One year of being careful did not erase that.

Losing weight did not solve any of the underlying problems, I knew this in advance. It didn't solve all the problems in life, either. But some of my problems are definitely solved by some extra confidence and the knowledge that I f*ing did it! Although I would never judge someone of being fat, to me feeling fat felt like I had failed as a person.

Thanks everyone on Reddit who helped me! Reading r/loseit was so helpful!

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[NSV] Spent 2 weeks gorging myself in Japan and didn't gain a damn pound.

I'm so excited. I've been an on-and-off calorie counter since 2011, and for the past few months I have been working on my intuitive eating skills paired with IF to give myself a much needed break from calorie counting. I'm at a healthy weight right now, so fast weight loss isn't high on my list of priorities. I basically just want to work on building those sustainable habits to keep me going without relying on MFP to do the work for me.

So yeah, all of my healthy eating and IF routine went out the window in Japan.

Every morning, we'd have a combini feast of pastries, onigiri, yogurt, ice cream, piece of fruit. Pure carbs and sugar.

For lunch we'd have another fairly hefty meal of conveyor belt sushi, a big bowl of udon or ramen, gyudon or okonomiyaki.

And for dinner we'd usually hit up an izakaya (pub) and get lots of little plates of karaage (fried chicken), yakitori, edamame, rice, and all sorts of fried delights like mochi balls filled with cheese. And booze. Lots of booze.

Basically - 3 massive meals a day of mostly carbs, sugar and fat and deep-fried nonsense. Was it healthy? Heeeeell no. Was it worth it? Heeeell yes.

So to say I was a little surprised when I stepped on the scale after the trip would be an understatement. We did a heck of a lot of walking (around 15-25k steps a day) but I was still amazed to see the number.

It just goes to show that being active plays such a big part in the 'CO' part of CICO. Being on our feet for 8-9 hours a day somehow managed to cancel out our daily decadent feasts. Now I'm back to my desk job and lamenting the fact that I have to return to my usual smaller meals of healthy choices. But hey, it was a fun trip that we enjoyed to the fullest.

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