I've lost and regained my weight twice already, today is my first day at my third (and hopefully last) weight loss journey.

lost 30kg in 2017, regained it all back in mid2018. Lost another 30kg in 2019 and regained all half of it back in late 2019 (till now). This time I made a conscious decision to stop and to not baloon up to my original weight.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am still in a better spot than I was in just a few months ago.

I can do this, I can lose around 7-10kg in 2 months and be back at my lowest weight.

So, this is kinda my declaration and starting point for myself. I'll eat at around 1450kcal a day and force myself to stick by it for atleast 2 months.

Thank you for reading, I wish you good luck with your own weight loss journey.

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This wake-up call...

Howdy.

Long time lurker, I never actually showed the emotional strength to endure the process of stopping food binges and losing weight... Now I need doing it for real. Like an alcoholic who needs to stop drinking.

I went from 90 to 100kg in only one year (2018 especially was full of disappointment), and since got stuck here with some bumps on the road (102, 105, 98...).

I was found to have insulin deficiency in July 2019, and took Glucophage to help. Still taking it. I also take complements of Omega 3 and Chrome Picolinate.

Now I'm finding out that I have a Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and I'm freaking out.

So here I am, 185cm, 100kg (that's 6"1' and 220lbs roughly), ill from my eating habits at only 27 years old. As I live in Turkey, most of the food served in pop restaurants and work's canteen is not suitable for the new habits I have to take. Also my job as a flavourist, basically consists of tasting flavours in multiple supports as sweet water, cookies, chewing-gums, candies and the like, on regular basis... So it's fucking me up, too, to some extent.

Lastly, it seems this condition calls for a low-rate weight loss, for if I lose more than 1kg/week, my liver will get irritated of sorts. So it's a good rate to aim for maybe. Or even 500g/week.

I'm searching now some ways to adapt my eating habits. Basically I should cook, use raw veggies, avoid the popular pastries they have here for very cheap, avoid alcohol, avoid eating late, and increase my sports practice. It's something I can do. I already stopped eating carbs and big meat portions at canteen, and I already stopped buying chocolate bars and pastries when I'm out, which is a big deal, although the past habit already has consequences. The biggest practical challenge is to manage the quantities I buy and those I cook, in order to never have to throw some rotten leftovers I've forgotten or wasn't able to eat due to big quantity... It's already hard. My nights-out planning isn't consistent weekly, therefore it's unreliable to plan meals.

But do you know what's even more difficult, eating always has been my way-to-go cope for fighting negative emotions. Nothing will be there anymore.

How do you deal emotionally, with the deprivation of this sweet, sweet ecstasy. How do you introduce these good practices at the accurate times in your planning. Lastly, I don't know how to give feedback and follow-up on this loseit venture, do you suggest opening new threads every now and then, or maybe participating in these Wednesdays' superthreads? How to keep up the pace and ask for help when I feel weak-spirited? Any advice is welcome... Thanks a bunch.

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Advice on weight loss?

So I have finally decided to turn my life around I've been obese my whole life and something just kinda clicked in my head that I want to change my life and avoid an early grave

So I started eating a lot less (1000 calories a day) and begun getting headaches so I tried eating a little more and headaches subside a good amount

As it stands i try to eat under 2000 calories a day

Cut out soda entirely

Trying to minimize chips

Primarily eat chicken and broccoli or corn Lean meats wheat bread things like that essentially anything that is high in sodium or sugar i try to stay away from

And fasting for 8 to 12 hours of the day

Went to the doctor in terms of blood work I'm ok just very low vitamin D

Going January 1st I weighed 568

As of last Monday I am 543

Which I'm very happy with how ever had a mild staph infection and had to stop working out for it to heal

Worked out today and it was rough for me I'm assuming because it's been 2 weeks since I last did it and my body got use to not working out again

My motivations there just kinda clueless were to start up again its freezing at night where I am so can take my 30 minute walks

So anyone got advice on good home work out, as well as any sort of food that could maybe give me more energy feel more full?

And input on if I'm going about eating habits right?

Any advice is appreciated

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I think my mother is finally starting to take her own weight seriously

Been following this sub for a while. commented on a few things, but this is my first post. Since this past April, I've lost about 55 lbs. Started around 250, now hovering around 195. Just budgeting and getting more steps in. I'm fortunate enough that anyone who's said anything about my progress has been only been amazed and/or supportive. My only "issue" has been my mother. It seemed any time I hit a milestone, or talked with someone about weight loss, she had to mention any one of a slew of reasons she either couldn't lose, or was gaining. I get that it's harder for her. All her medical issues are perfectly valid. But every one of her reasons felt a little more tired when she'd get seconds every dinner, then a snack an hour later. I had to stop myself from saying something hurtful the last few times someone told me "you've lost so much weight," and she jumped in with "I found it." I knew it wouldn't help anything, but I was getting sick of the pity party while she was sabotaging herself.

But lately I've noticed her taking little steps to improve. Smaller portions at restaurants. Opting for unsweet tea and splenda, rather than sweet tea or soda. Or when she does get soda, it's just a few sips and she tosses the rest (next time I need to ask her if she just wants to fill the cup halfway). Then this afternoon, she asked me what app I was using to track my calories (Lose It!). And this evening she asked about connecting it to a fitbit or setting it up with other trackers on her phone. Is it too early to hope this isn't just a little burst of motivation that'll peter out?

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M33 5'10" SW:205 CW:160 GW:170 - Some thoughts, data, and my bare chest

A few days ago I hit 160lbs, down from my starting weight of 204.8lbs on October 9th, 2019.

https://i.imgur.com/2rrKdGN.png

I lost this weight at a pace of 0.35lbs/day, including holidays, birthday parties, and some blown days. My initial goal was an "ambitious" 170, but I rode my momentum to 160 which I consider my final goal. From here on I think I'll recomp.

https://i.imgur.com/kpBDrPr.png

Growing up I was an athlete and stayed at 10% BF or less until age ~22. From there on, without a team and coach to push me, I slowly began gaining weight over time.

As I slimmed down, colleague took notice, asking the typical "how did you do it?" and "what's your secret?". The more interesting question, I think, is why I did it;

WHY?

• To look and feel good.
• To increase my success on the career stage.
• To motivate loved ones.
• To lead by example and show my kids being healthy is important.
• To challenge myself.
• To see what my body can do, at the ripe age of 33.
• To see what it takes and how hard this is.
• To treat my body like the wholesome, serene temple that it is.
• I'm a nerd engineer and enjoyed logging, calculating, fine-tuning everything.

The biggest surprise was that throughout all of this, I learned a ton about nutrition, food, and the human body. That in itself was both a revelation and a punch in the face, as I now realize how utterly oblivious I was in the past with regards to nutrition. Armed with this new wealth of knowledge, I doubt I could ever go back to an unhealthy weight.

EXERCISE

• Exercise regime is roughly 2 sessions of each HIIT and heavy weight lifting per week.
• Lifts are improving slowly.
• I will now switch to more heavy lifting as I've hit my goal.

DIET

• Daily intake ranged between 1200 and 1800 calories, mostly around 1500.
• An averaged loss of 0.35lbs/day means I've been at a ~1200 calorie deficit, putting my TDEE around 2700 (bit hard to believe).
• Ate lots of lean protein, otherwise diet consisted of whatever's in the fridge.
• No junk aside from holidays and occasions (4000-6000 calories per day).
• I sometimes fast for up to 16 hours, I believe the main benefit of IF is pushing hunger off to a later time.
• Drank water from one of those annoying bottles that flashes at you every 20 minutes.
• Weighed absolutely everything on most days, including dressings and spicy sauces.
• Staples of my diet included; bananas, berries, nuts, avocado, every vegetable imaginable, chicken, tuna, greek yogurt, oat-based cereal, and almond milk.
• Never turned down a surprise snack or meal, so long as it wasn't a Krisky Kreme Donut.

ASSORTED TIPS, TRICKS, THOUGHTS

• If you're making progress, "Yesterday You" deserves mad props. Picture Yesterday You and high-five that person. It's strangely therapeutic and motivating.
• Sugar addiction is serious shit, cut that shit out.
• Being a parent is no excuse for gaining weight - cook clean for your kids and eat what they eat. A Mediterranean inspired diet is easy, fast and kids love it (nuts, berries, etc).
• Do yourself a favor and use a science-based approach to weight loss.
• CICO is science-proven. CICO is king. CICO is life. "Diets" are the methods by which you achieve CICO.
• There is no "best diet". People achieve success on all sorts of diets, good and bad. The one thing they all have in common is a caloric deficit. Diet programs help people stay on track and accountable to themselves.
• The words "detox" and "toning" don't belong in any weight loss or fitness program.
• Learn to quickly assess the caloric content of food; beef is 15% fat, 25% protein. Fat is 9 calories per gram. Protein is 4 calories per gram. Therefore a ~100g piece of beef should contain ~235 calories (google says 250, pretty close!).
• Same thing for fruit; you can weight the contents of a banana without peeling it, as ~65% of its unpeeled weight is pure edible fruit. You can do this with avocado, etc. Useful for weighing calories ahead of time.
• A shout-out to eatthismuch.com for meal inspirations.

Any questions, just ask!

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Afraid of face changing for the worse with weight loss.

I'm 5'10 and weigh around 160lbs, decent amount of muscle but still a ways to go in order to get to a desired body fat percentage. A couple years ago, at the beginning of my weight loss 'awakening' I lost 30 lbs in 2 months and ended up around where I am now. My face changed a lot, went from visibly chubby and full to...grim. The problem is my face is already quite long, narrow and generally unpleasant to look at. https://imgur.com/a/YMbqARb.

I am afraid my face will look worse if I go ahead with my plans to lose more fat. I'd hate to let this stop me from achieving my fitness goals but at the end of the day my face is the first thing anyone sees and I do not want to look uglier. Advice?

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Is it wrong for me to lie about how I lost weight?

Kind of a long story so TLDR at the bottom, also- this is a throwaway just in case lol

I moved into college last fall and I've been dieting/exercising pretty intensively for a few months now, but I really don't talk about/mention it much, so most of my friends don't know. I've since dropped about 25 lbs, which is relatively a lot since I'm 5'1. When people ask me about how I've done it and I tell them (counting calories, exercising a lot, a little bit of IF) I tend to get diet-shamed and generally get a cold reaction. I've seen a lot of people (especially women, though it can definitely still happen to men) post about how friends and acquaintances have been jealous/rude after they lose weight. However, I discovered (partially on accident) that if I brush it off as something I didn't mean to do or did accidentally, people don't really react as negatively (e.g. "Oh it was just quicker to walk every day than wait for the bus", "I'm just so busy I snack less", "Dining hall food isn't that good"). Since realizing this, I went home for winter break and played off my weight loss as mainly accidental just to avoid weird diet questions/comments. I didn't really see any problem with this, but my sister (who knows I've actually really been trying to lose the weight) took a lot of issue with it and said I should "own my hard work". It doesn't get brought up a lot, so I feel fine with the small fib, but is my sister right? Is it unfair to me or to the people I'm talking to lie about how I lost weight? I just want to avoid weird/awkward situations.

TL;DR: I lied and said I lost the weight on accident. Am I in the wrong?

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