My (24F) success story

I have achieved something that I never thought I could. About 2 years ago, my weight was somewhere in the 225-230 range, clinically in the obese category for my height of 5’8.

I was overeating—frequently eating multiple large meals a day, boredom snacking, and an addiction to sugar. Then, I began my weight loss journey after being told that I was prediabetic. Since I have a family history of diabetes and high blood pressure, I would be that much more likely to develop these issues.

I began cutting my calorie intake as well as a little bit of moderate exercise, but 95% of it came from cutting my food portions. There were times that I exercised when I was obese, but I was still consuming too many calories which caused me to continue gaining.

Since cutting my food intake, I had lost about 40-45 pounds and have successfully maintained it since then. My normal weight these days usually hovers somewhere between 180 and 185. While it is nothing drastic like losing 100+ pounds, it is still a goal that I have achieved and maintained for a little bit over a year.

The secret is not necessarily changing what you eat, but how much you eat.

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Losing weight and the small victories + self image

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I've put on quite a bit of weight since this picture was taken of me in october 2018. But at this time I did not feel skinny at all, I still felt fat at a healthy weight. Currently at 19 years of age. I am just about 6'3 tall. I went from 116 kg(255 lb) to 86 kg(189 pounds) in a little over a year of eating properly, with portion control. I even indulged in sweets if I felt like it on the weekends because I did not eat a lot, and it only made a small dent. But it became an obsession for me, to be at my so called ideal weight of around 10 kg less.

This meant that I sometimes went a day eating a single piece of toasted bread for breakfast, and apple or 2 for lunch and a home-cooked meal from my parents which usually was eaten in one small portion.

I was still locked inside the mindset of being fat, or otherwise overweight even though I was at my best weight I can remember, I put on 2 kilos abroad on a trip to Japan, in the picture and felt terrible about myself but it was not at all warranted. I look perfectly skinny in that picture, and I can only realize that now that I am on the other side of progress again.

I put on weight again due to indulging back into snacks after being unable to work out for a month because of an operation at the hospital which made it so. Before that I was working out 3 times a week without having any problems with food whatsoever. When shopping I made it an exercise to just walk into the candy or cake isle, and just look at all the snacks. Then I would say to myself that I do in fact not need them but instead I enjoyed just the thought of eating them, or the thought of being healthy. Sounds quite strange typing it out but it helped me a lot when I was dieting to just accept that I would not be eating any of it.

As I'm sitting on the other side of the diet and going back in, I'm honestly excited to go back through my awesome progress in an even healthier way with a more balanced diet and a bit more food. But I hope to appreciate it more this time around, small victories are amazing for weight loss, and you should stay proud of yourself as you lose weight. Even if it's just 1 pound or maybe even less. Changing up your diet makes a huge difference too, I took out butter for my bread and weight started dropping like crazy, changed the sodas for water and controlled my portions. It's a battle and war but one you can win when you set your mind to it.

So please, when you are at your goal weight, or at the goal of the month, week, day, or hour, maybe even minute. Try to see what great progress you've already made. Take some pictures when you start and compare them to see what great progress you made, otherwise you will end up like me and just be looking towards losing more when you really are within healthy weight limits and look amazing compared to your starting point. Looking at your weight between 4-6 weeks can also make a large impact because you see a lot of progress at once. Getting to your goal also means, you now have to set a new one, otherwise you will likely fall into old habits.

Willpower is probably the biggest contributor to weight loss.(sorry for any grammatical errors or otherwise).

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Someone tell me it’s okay

Just need some validation. I’ve been making efforts to be a healthier person/body/mind for several months now but just started REALLY putting effort into my weight loss. I started at 205ish lbs and I’m down to 191 as of this morning. I’ve been counting calories and going to the gym 4x a week. I also do OMAD and 16:8 or 18:6. I’ve been pretty good about it. I’m finally starting to see progress and I’m excited about it. Today, I was going to go to the gym after work and then eat some taco soup. But...I started my period at work. I’ve got endometriosis so my periods are so bad, especially on day 1. I convinced myself to not go to the gym because I was in tears from pain, and then ate Cookout because I didn’t feel like cooking. I’m only at 1214 calories for the day with the terrible Cookout dinner, but I’m sitting here feeling so so guilty for not going to the gym and eating shitty. Someone validate me and tell me I didn’t just ruin all my progress, and that it’s okay to not go to the gym when I’m in pain. 😭😭😭 I will be better tomorrow

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Operation Transformation

There’s this TV series in Ireland called Operation Transformation and it is essentially a group of people trying to improve their lives by eating healthier and exercising more (and losing weight in the process) with the help of professionals. Essentially a typical weight loss reality show.

One of the people on the show this year lost 17lbs in one week and the show did something that could be considered a little bit controversial. They didn’t praise him for his weight loss. It turns out that the only reason he lost that much weight is because he refused to have a healthier diet and ate little to nothing for the week. Not only that, instead of having a healthy sleeping pattern, he apparently stayed up all hours of the night exercising. The TV show refused to praise his weight loss because the way he did it was so unhealthy and to be honest it is quite refreshing watching a tv show that does actually care about how you lose weight, rather than how much you lose. I often think we always get so fixated on numbers and losing as many lbs as possible rather than actually permanently changing your lifestyle to something realistic.

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Did it take any of you a while to recognize progress?

I lost 20lbs during the last few months of 2019, and I never really noticed a difference until I tried on some shirts I haven’t worn in a while and it all kind of hit me.

“Wow, I have lost weight”. I feel way more confident and excited. It all seemed so subtle until now.

I’m still in the process of losing more. I have about 30lbs to go until my initial goal. But I just feel so much happier and lighter.

I just started working out again, and I’m planning on being more intentional about my diet and habits everyday. Most of my weight loss was directly related to my environment becoming a lot safer and happier. :)

Smaller portions and inconsistent IF.

I plan on being intentional about my fasting and my diet is becoming more balanced. My husband and I also just started going to the gym 3-5 times a week and my energy levels have definitely increased.

SW: 189lbs CW: 168lbs GW: 140lbs

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shocked at not binging

so, background information: i used to have an ed and then decided to recover and developed bed. at the start of the new year i decided that i had been binging for long enough and wanted to lose weight healthily, and stop binging

well this i binged 4 times out of last week and the week before, which, to be honest, isnt bad. but it was still making me unhappy.

so this week i decided i needed to push myself harder to stop binging and stop giving in to it. it was just making me depressed.

this week ive been doing pretty well sticking to my calorie limit of 1300 (low, but its enough for me). however today, i ate 2000 calories.

normally, this would trigger a binge and i would eat everything because i had "already ruined the day".

but today i didnt.

im so proud of myself and really feel like my relationship with food has improved.

i dont know if anyone really cares, but im just happy today and i really feel like, even though i havent had any major weight loss, ive realised that i AM improving in other ways.

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[Tip] A reminder that it's not about weight loss

I've come across a lot of posts by people asking why they aren't losing weight when they're on a proper calorie deficit, and doing everything correctly.

Before increasing your deficit, know that your unit of measurement might be misleading. It's not about weight loss.

If you can see progress in any one of the following areas on your cut, be assured, you're doing it right:

• You're seeing more definition

• Your waist size is decreasing / clothes are looser

• Your lifts / fitness levels are increasing

• And, finally, weight loss

As someone currently on a cut (from ~30% bodyfat to currently ~17% and looking to hit 11%, having been 14% in the past), I'm at a phase where I'm starting to see weekly changes around my midsection. Knowing this, when I step on the scale, I want the reading to be as high as possible, because then I'll know I'm preserving muscle, or better yet, undergoing body recomposition (muscle feeding off fat loss).

It's easy to talk to people who don't know much about health and fitness about your cut in terms of pounds/kilos, but know that we don't gauge a company's success by only how much it spends.

This may come as common knowledge to some, but even experienced individuals need reminders and reassurance.

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