My Journey So Far

Hey all. I've been following this sub for a while but never really posted anything. I just kind of want to share what all I've done/been doing in hopes that it could maybe help someone.

TLDR: I'm actually losing weight successfully for the first time in my life.

I started the year around 226 (I am a 5'4" 18 year old female) and that was just not great. I was still wearing all the clothes I had but had to buy a size up as I had gained almost 50 pounds after graduating/moving out and going to college. I had actually invested in a nicely sized wardrobe around 175/180 and literally none of that fit after about four months.

I spent a lot of my time in the biggest shirts I had and squeezing into clothing because I really didn't want to buy new stuff as most of my money went to rent and my car. Around February or so I used keto to get down to about 193 and then stopped due to just not caring. I stayed around 193 and then went back up to 202 around June of this year. I've always been somewhat overweight but when I was at 226 it was not great, I didn't really notice being that heavy but looking back on it now I was really unhealthy and dear god my eating habits were a mess.

Fast forward to October and I'm looking into joining the military. I choose the army for a number of reasons, and go into the recruiting office.Everything is going all well and stuff and then suddenly she asks to weigh me and I remember that I am definitely overweight and not in weight standards for enlistment. Anyway, we weigh me and I'm still 202. She just tells me I have to lose weight and sends me off to see me in two weeks.

I initially started this round of weight loss with just CICO but that didn't work super great for me. I would count calories on food that wasn't necessarily super nutrient dense, leaving me hungry and wanting to binge. There is no doubt in my mind that I have some variation of binge-eating disorder so this didn't work great for me. I went back to keto and lose about 10 pounds the first two weeks.

Things were all good, but then my weight stalled and I felt like a failure. I don't work out a lot as it is the last stretch for school and I work upwards of 50 hours a week at two jobs, but I was eating in keto and I didn't understand why my weight had plateaued. One day when I was watching keto videos I heard something on a video and realized something: I'm not counting my calories. Oh boy was that a mistake.

Not counting calories was literally the death of my diet. I lost enough but after it stopped I realized something was up. I started counting calories and I literally went down 5 more pounds in the first week, from 193 lbs. Counting calories has actually worked a lot better for me, along with the keto diet. The thing to remember here is that no matter what diet you're on, you can always still gain weight due to calorie surplus.

I've struggled with my body image/weight/eating habits for almost six years now, but this time I have finally been able to continually keep up with the process and I actually feel a lot better about food and my weight in general. I think maybe for me it was having a goal, because I literally cannot go into the army without losing weight and that is something that I really want to do. I'm just so happy I've been able to actually follow through and make a good dent in my weight loss journey in such a short time.

That said, my clothes are actually loose now, and I can fit into the clothes I bought back in high school. Being able to wear and completely button a shirt I literally couldn't fit into at the beginning of the year feels just so great, and even my smallest pair of pants is a little too big. I still have about 35 pounds to lose to get enlisted and 55 to my end goal, but everyday I feel closer and closer to success and I am so happy I can finally say I am losing weight.

I listen to the r/loseit subreddit readings a lot on YouTube as well as often browsing this subreddit and it has really helped me push myself in the right direction. I can't wait to get where I need to be and get what I want to get done done.

Thank you all for being so awesome, supportive, and proactive in other people's weight loss journeys. And those of you who are newer here, welcome, you can do this, and we're all here for you.

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Protruding tailbone and pain after losing weight!

I have googled this a bit and it seems to be a somewhat common result of weight loss but man is it annoying! I’ve lost almost 70 pounds since January and a few months ago I thought something was very wrong with me when I could feel the shape of my tailbone sticking out of my body between my butt cheeks. I ended up going to the doctor after a couple days of excruciating pain from sitting/lying down and she said I must have bruised it. That pain has gone away but I am constantly in a little bit of tailbone pain. Anyone else experienced that?? My BMI is 20.5 now and I have found that I am way more bony looking than I was when I was at this weight before (around 13 or 14 years old). Let me know your tips!

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People losing >150lbs: did you ever go through periods of no progress?

I started at 372lbs. I am currently at 220lbs. I dunno what my final goal is but I wanna at least get down to 155-160. I am female almost 30. I have binge eating disorder and I have had long stretches of time where it’s been under control.

It’s like ever 70 or 75 lbs I just can’t keep going. Last time, it was a life upheaval, death in the family, etc and I just stayed stagnant for months. I would track in the morning and eat whatever at night. Got back on track, down another 75 or so.

Now, a messy breakup (he loved me for what was on the inside aka it was r/deadbedrooms lol). And the last few months I just can’t keep to my calories for more than two days. I’ve probably gained 3lbs.

I dunno what to do. It’s like I am right back where I started. I’ve learned no lessons and my relationship with food is the same. I do the all or nothing mentality or the day is ruined may as well pig out. I tell myself I will start fresh tomorrow. I am just. So. Tired. At the end of the day, I fucking lose every coping skill I thought I had.

Anyone who had to do or is in a long haul of tons of weight to lose been here? Is it normal to go stagnant for a few months? What helped you get back to it? Should I go back to IF? Should I meal prep? Ugh.

I have a social life with some girl and guy friends and tbh it’s a mixed blessing cause people always eat at get togethers. I am starting to get the hardcore loose skin and I’ve come to the conclusion that I won’t be dating because it would require mutual attraction, which is not gonna be a thing for me. And it makes me feel separate from normal people like a weirdo. I am super into lifting and exercising which honestly just makes me fucking starving. I am realizing I gotta tone it down and it gives me anxiety cause I think I use my exercise to manage take the edge off my binge eating. I also get anxiety that I will just lose muscle mass and not fat, even though I eat all the protein.

I doubt I can access professional help for my binge eating disorder which objectively needs professional help the same way an anorexic needs it but here I am. Any advice? Are there eating disorder subs you recommend? Books? I honestly feel like I haven’t lost a pound in my entire life. I intellectually know everything that needs to happen, I’ve lost 150lbs, but I can’t seem to implement it. I can’t have my weight loss stall every time I have a life event!!

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Weight loss with whey protein to 'maintain' muscle mass. Anyone experienced with this?

Hello all, I'm trying to lose weight and have restricted my calorie intake to a certain limit. I'm told that with weight loss come both fat and muscle mass loss. But I've also heard from a few sources that, if I supplement this diet with whey protein, it will help me "maintain" my muscle mass (as opposed to building new muscle mass). So in that sense, the weight loss would be exclusive to 'fat loss'.

I want to ask anyone familiar enough with whey protein whether this mass building powder during weight loss won't actually be counterproductive. Even the supplement websites have said it still could be used during weight loss, but I'm still somewhat skeptical. Thanks for any help!

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This is so hard. [Day One?]

Hey all, I have no idea if this will be effective for me or not. I don't know why I've never posted before, I've been subbed for years at this point. I don't know where to start, I don't know if anyone will read this, but maybe this post is the spark that will set me on a healthier path.

A bit about me, I'm about 30. A father of two young kids, married. I just finished a doctorate in clinical psychology and work two jobs as a therapist (day job is a therapist at an inpatient hospital, evening work as an outpatient therapist in a medium sized practice). Some of my day includes light walking, but mostly sitting for about an hour at a time. Most days, I work about 12-hours, otherwise I work about 9. I usually work 2-3 hours on Saturday/Sunday. My hobby for the past 3 years as been painting miniatures, which requires minimal activity. I have a gym membership, but fell out of the habit of going.

I've been overweight my whole life (with the exception of when I was 18-19). At the moment, I weight about 260-ish, I'm about 5'9 in height.

The tough part about all this is that I'm very well educated on the science behind both the psychology and the biology of weight loss. I know exactly what I need to do in order to lose the weight.

Thing is, I don't seem to have the willpower or discipline to do it.

Although I'm a psychologist, I don't consider myself a social scientist, I'm a advocate for understanding human behavior through the lens of natural selection, evolution, neurodevelopment, etc. I often tell my clients/patients that the human mind is immensely sensitive to social pressure and I suppose that is what this post is for myself.

This is my plea for help. This is my plea for connection. My wife is a thin woman who doesn't eat much, my entire immediate family is overweight. My mother struggled with bulimia and anorexia almost her entire adult life. My father was a man with horrendous impulse control issues. I have no one to turn to who either understands what I'm going through or understands how to foster a healthy relationship with food and physical activity.

I want to have a healthier relationship with food, but when it comes to developing a plan and then adhering to it, I flounder.

I don't know exactly what I want here... other than, I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. I want to contribute here, I want to slowly adjust a lifelong pattern of behaviors into something that won't see me into an early grave (God damn getting a doctorate takes forever, I swear if I develop some sort of illness in my 30's-40's after sacrificing my 20's I'm going to freak).

At least for now, I think I'll write again tomorrow. If I don't, maybe someone could message me a reminder or some encouragement?

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54 F SW: 170 CW: 155 GW: 145 How do you feel about eating back exercise calories

So....I have finally lost weight, something I have wanted to do for so long but just couldn't get it together. I am 5'7" and was 170 pounds. I have a pretty larger frame, and am now down to 155. I feel great! But the weight loss is so slow now, in fact I have not lost an ounce in 3 weeks. SO FRUSTRATING.

I am really trying to hunker down to get the rest of this weight off. My goal is 145 (which I know seems a little high for my height) but it will be my lowest weight ever in my adult life, and I am 10 pounds from that goal.

I have been losing by just tracking my calories on "lose it". And I have also lowered my carb intake, and am exercising more....oh an I cut out my nightly glass of wine.

My question is this: If I work out - let's say run 3 miles on the treadmill - should I log that and take the calories that it gives me back? For example, today I did just that, I ran 3 miles, and the lose it app adds 250 ish caloiries back into my daily allotment. I am only eating 1200/day - so the extra 250 that running gives me makes a huge difference in my day. But then I wonder if that is why I am not losing - and am in this prolonged plateau state.

The other thing I am doing - is tracking every single bite to make sure I am on track.

Thanks for any advice!!

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Maintaining but still eating at a caloric deficit?

Hey! I’ve been on a weight loss journey for a while now, in the past few weeks I’ve been on a new-ish plan and I track my calories very closely and I’ve lost 6kg in 4 weeks. In the past few days my weight has stalled at 104.4 kg even though I’m eating the same amount (still at a caloric deficit), and it’s getting really frustrating! I know at the start you can lose a lot of water and stuff and then it slows, but it honestly doesn’t make sense to me that at a 500-1000calorie deficit I would be losing NOTHING. I know it will be something like hormones or weight fluctuations but I just need a reassurance that my weight will continue going down 😂😊

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