After 2+ years I made it to my goal weight

Weight loss journey pics A couple years ago I was in my first real relationship and we ate out all the time. Then on top of that I had a very stressful job. I was snacking all day on top of eating 2 dinners. I lost my job and my man and depression caused me to continue to eat until I got up to 210 lbs.

One day I was volunteering with my nephew for boy scouts and he took a picture of me on a horse...I couldn't believe it was me in the picture. At that moment I started counting calories and working out I dropped weight quickly at first.

No I wasn't consistent (plateaus suck). I would lose about 10-15lbs and take a break. Luckily on my breaks I maintained for the most part.

In the last year I discovered intermittent fasting and I combined it with my calorie counting. It's helped a lot.

Thanks to all the people that post on this sub you motivate me so much! Also I enjoyed participating in the challenge with team ghost as I hit my goal!

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Guilt about refusing food. Can anyone relate?

Apparently I’m going through a “mid-weight loss crisis” right now 😂 I just posted about my plateau struggle, and it made me realize a strange phenomenon going on in my journey.

Lately, I’ve been feeling a weird guilt every time I refuse food or opt out of a meal. This is especially noticeable at home with my long-term boyfriend (he’s a foot taller than me, loves to cook and loves to eat.)

Never thought I had an emotional eating problem, but now I’m wondering if I do.

When he comes home from work tonight at 9pm, he’ll cook a nice big meal and I’ll take 2 bites because I’m not that hungry. Why do I feel bad about that?

I also work in the food industry (a bakery, no less.) the chefs and bakers are always tinkering with new recipes and asking us for feedback. I feel some social/professional pressure to enthusiastically try everything offered in a day. This is really hard to track, and results in many un-accounted for calories in a day.

Basically, when I say no to food, I often feel like I’m saying no to a moment of social connection with someone. Does that sound familiar to anyone else? I think I need to work through this if I’m gonna jump into the next chunk of weight loss. Thanks 🙏

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For the first time, I got a comment on my weight loss from somebody who isn’t family.

My mom and brother are the only people who have noticed my weight loss (20lbs)

I have a acquaintance who works at Walmart. He messaged me after we exchanged hi’s, and told me I looked like a lost a good bit of weight.

I haven’t been able to see a ton of progress. Especially lately, since I lost 26lbs, but put 6 back on. I’ve been feeling bad about it, but woah, that made me feel so much better. It made me really see how much 20lbs really is. I have around 60-70 more to go till I hit my goal (currently sitting on 198lbs -5’8 female-) and I’m more motivated then ever. The positive comments from my long distance friends when they see me next year, the payoff of getting to buy the clothes I like, and feel good in them, feeling better physically, there’s so many things to look forward to.

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Exercising at 80-90% Max Heart?

Hey all- i have been working out really hard these past few months.

My goal is to burn my remaining excess fat so than weight loss since I am also trying to maintain and build muscle right now as my other goal.

For cardio I usually do 30 minutes HIIT on the elliptical (20 minutes of intervals and 10 of warmup/cool down) about 3 times a week.

On non-HIIT days (also 3 times a week) I do 45 minutes of however fast/moderately i can go. I break it up by doing a walk 20 minutes on the treadmill (for 1.25 miles) and then 25 minutes on the elliptical,

I use my fitbit to keep track of my HR and these past few weeks I've noticed that during my non-HIIT cardio days I can work out in 80-95% max heart range for most of the 25 minutes I am on the elliptical. Since I have been working out for 3 months now this elliptical sessions doesn't feel too tough for me but yet my heart rate gets so high.

Since I know a sub 80% heart rate is better for burning fat, should I try to go slower, even though I won't burn as many calories? also, is working out at such a high heart rate range ruining my "gains" muscle wise?

Let me know if you need anymore information. Thanks!

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Can you give me some real talk? Some motivation?

35F, 5'5, SW 178 (a few weeks pp), CW 159, GW 138(?)

First time Reddit poster, been lurking here a while. I think I'm supposed to apologise for mobile formatting? ;)

I've plateaued for a few months and I'm tired of it and have lost motivation. I don't eat particularly well and I've become quite sedentary lately. I stopped logging calories. I think the reason I've been pretty successful at maintaining my current weight is that I've been doing 16:8 IF for about a month now. I think I naturally eat less with that timing even though I'm not logging. I like that eating during a restricted window is simpler. I don't have to deal with as much food prep, which, you'll see below, I'm not really into.

I am in a slump. I'm trying to get a job after being off work over a year after the birth of my third child. I'm at a point where I have no desire to cook. I feel at a loss for trying to serve healthy yet tasty dinners to my family and don't even want to try any more. I'm starting to consider meal delivery service, or some type of chef who can cook a week's worth of meals ahead of time that I can reheat. Even those options don't feel great: expensive and you're basically eating leftovers. But at least I wouldn't have to cook. I don't even feel like eating out, it's so overpriced for what you get. I feel like I live off snacking right now. I don't have the mental energy to devote to cooking between the kids and the job search. I wish someone could solve this for me.

I used to love walking (used to get at LEAST 10k steps a day, if not much more) and even came to enjoy running this summer. Now with winter, I don't want to be outside much, and no, I don't have a gym membership although I do like lifting weights and have done so on and off for years.

I want to lose 2 lbs a week every week until I hit 138. I'm tired of being this weight. I've been roughly this weight for 6 years, or higher, with the pregnancies. And other than a few years of adulthood, always struggled with weight. I want my weight loss to be over and done with. Forever. I know maintenance will still take effort but I am tired of feeling like a failure for being overweight this much of my life.

I am also wary of eating too little. I have a history of trying to eat too little then falling off the wagon spectacularly, and for too long. My husband has seen what I've gone thru for the last 18 years of dealing with my weight and doesn't think I should be aiming for really anything below, say 1700 calories a day.

As you can see, my current mood, behavior, and history with dieting don't line up with my stated goal. I don't want to do shit and feel like I have a bad history with dieting, yet I want to lose 2 lbs a week for 10 weeks straight. I feel so stuck. Can I get some real talk here? Any advice?

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I’ve got a weight loss question that has a few factors.

I have been losing weight over the last 6 months. I was diagnosed with a thyroid issue and since I started taking levothyroxin I’ve dropped around 40 lbs. however, I started going to the gym and now my weight is stagnant. If anything, it’s actually gone up a few pounds. I’m doing a lot of weight lifting because I want to build muscle and lose weight simultaneously.

My question is: will I eventually start losing weight or do I need to switch to more HIIT exercises? I’ve noticed changes in my body. My chest, arms, legs and back all look a little more toned, but even if I’m all muscle I don’t want to be at my weight.

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A Quick List of Tips After 25lbs Down

Hoping this will be helpful to others. Here's a quick list of practical things that helped me lose 25lbs (36, M, from 215 to 190 and shooting for 180) over ~3 months after more than a few false starts over the past few years:

1. Without changing *anything* (no exercise, no change in diet) I started documenting my consumption in a calorie tracker for the first time (I use the free "Lose It!" iOS app) just to get a sense for how much I was overdoing it. I knew I was eating/drinking too much because I was gaining weight, but I was surprised to see I was exceeding the recommended calories by sometimes as much as 2,000 calories a day. For me this was a great motivator and helped me shift my attitude from "I over do it sometimes" to "Holy crap this is drastic, I need to systemically change this."
2. Don't buy snacks when grocery shopping. If you buy it, you'll eat it.
3. I would start to feel snacky around 9-9:30PM after cutting back my calories to a recommended 1,650 per day. Rather than fight with myself, I just started going to bed whenever those cravings hit.
4. I don't like working out in front of others so I signed up with Daily Burn and found a program I liked (LTF). I do one workout from that program every day (with skips every once in a while) from home. My schedule is pretty compressed with my work responsibilities, so having something I can do from home when I have 30-45 minutes free is perfect.
5. Workout videos and the like are great for aspirational goals, but it can get depressing watching videos of people ranging from fit to professional body builders effortlessly executing tough workouts. Communities like r/loseit are great for providing balance. Workout programs remind you of where you want to get to, and like-minded user communities remind you that everyone struggles in the process.
6. Don't trust your eyes, do trust the math. One of the main reasons I dropped out of weight loss efforts previously was because I wasn't visually happy with my progress over time. This time, with the data in the calorie counter app, I could trust that it was nearly mathematically impossible for me not to lose weight regardless of what I was perceiving day-over-day.
7. For me personally, the combination of working out + dieting was essential psychologically. Just dieting is pure deprivation. I'm not getting anything out of it other than very gradual weight loss (which I had to learn to be patient with). However, adding exercise gave me more rapid visual results (visible bicep/tricep definition, etc.) *and* felt like I was gaining something (strength) instead of simply depriving myself.

Some of these seem like common sense I know, but the combination of them is what helped me finally stick with it. Good luck all! If it was easy, everyone would do it. They aren't - but you are.

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