Sedentary to dancer, and SO HUNGRY

Once upon a time I was 5'1 and 105 lbs. An injury, an illness, death in the family, and ten years has spit me out the other side at 5'1" and 157lbs. 165 is my highest.

I was 145 most of last year, until I joined a super stressful performance club and somehow got 10 lbs heavier. Enough backstory .

I just joined an intermediate ballet class 4x/week, and my college had a gym membership that my goal is 2hrs/wk at. I've also joined some active classes and have a campus to walk across now.

Since I was super strong and fit ten years ago, I feel like my muscles are responding well to the dance influx, but I'm struggling with food.

I joined Noom in November and have had zero weight loss. There are a lot of things that dont work, like me being on a crazy gf, vegan, and nightshade free diet (because of food intolerances), and because when I do eat prepackaged food, it tends to be highly caloric. I get protein from eggs (allergic to milk and meat, but eggs seems ok), and nuts and beans. I accept that I may need to carry a backpack of tupperware and ice packs with me, to avoid corn (the tiny devil allergy that hides in pretty much any prepackaged food) But my goal has been 1200 calories a day, and Cronometer says my bmr is about 1630, so that should be close to a lb a week. But on dance days they give me a few extra hundred calories and I feel hungry all the time, which is promoting cracker binges.

Should I up my activity level to "lightly active" now that I am running around more days of the week? (I was a tutor before this, and it was a lot of sitting). Should I eat at maintenance and focus on protein, to let my muscles rebuild now that I've thrown myself back into it? I'm lightly hesitant to maintain, because at 160 lbs dancing is much harder (as is just living, at five feet tall) but maybe a few weeks of muscle building will ultimately make me hate life less?

I'm slowly working cardio in with dance, acting classes, and the gym. It's harder to do stuff at home, but am down to add some more bwf into my routine.

Just exasperated right now. I'm getting very little help from the Noom app, and going over my calorie budget so consistently is making me feel like a failure, though I know my body is trying to figure out how to get energy and fuel for my new routine, so hunger is happening.

My game plan is to reduce added sugars, and try to have some prepackaged snacks (as in pre packing them myself, like carrots and hummus or an egg and granola, or something) for midnight snack binges. But I'm so tired of being this heavy, and even before the dance class was added I was getting very little progress. Halp.

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[F25] 2 years, 1 baby boy, and a divorce later- down ~160lbs

Weight Loss Timeline

Never posted here before so I'm really not sure what all to say. I'm 25, newly single, and also a single mama to a one year old boy! My relationship with his Dad was traumatic and left me with a lot of things to unpack and deal with, but in leaving him I found myself! And in having my son, I found reason to care about myself in the first place. 💖

For anyone wondering how I did it; I was very sick while pregnant with my son and after I had him I just didn't have the time to eat as much as I had before. I slowly stopped eating at night, starting with not eating past 11pm. Then 10, 9, etc. Now I don't eat between 7pm & 7am. My portion sizes for meals is smaller now, which was also an adjustment. I don't go to the gym or work out necessarily, I had complications during labor and my body doesn't handle it too well still. I do go on jogs pretty frequently, and I do yoga and random/simple exercises daily. ie; push-ups, squats, lunges, crunches, etc.

The most important part of all of this being able to happen for me personally though, was finally deciding to take care of my mental health. It's amazing what happens when you start giving a shit about yourself! 💖💪🏼❤️

March 2018 - 297lbs (highest) January 2019 - 215lbs on induction day. February 2020 - 130lbs (lowest since 2014)

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Why can’t I keep with it? Cycle of disappointment.

I’m 30 years old and since the age of 12 I have been Chunky, Big boned, overweight, shaped liked a bowling pin. F.A.T Fat. Over the last 10 or so years I have on and off had mini realizations and have amassed a lot of knowledge about working out and losing weight. I have had personal trainers and gym memberships at 3 or 4 different places. I work 55-60 hours a week and have been very focused on my career over the course of the last 10 years I have pushed my self to be better at work developed my skills to be a better leader and drive results in my profession. I’m on the verge of a promotion and am very happy professionally where I am. I also have an amazing girlfriend who supports everything I do and challenges me to do what makes me happy and I love her. But I’ve always battled with my under Demon when it comes to my body. I would always peak at 260 then focus on weight loss and get down to about 225. One venture I was down to 212 with the heavy focus of getting under 200lbs as my goal. I went from 212 and blasted back up to 273 then smacked myself and focused for a few more months only to yo-yo over the last 10 years. Every time is going to be the time I do it and make it last. Everytime is better then the last until it isn’t. I can cook, I can workout, I can stop playing video games that consume my life such as Warcraft and play less time consuming ones. I can listen to podcasts and watch YouTube videos but what I can’t do is control myself. It’s like a switch is flipped and I go from ultra caring and tracking my calories/weight to not caring overnight. I spiral and eat my stress and emotions. I have yet to find a way to consistently keep myself in check. I enjoy snowboarding and am about to go on a trip to slide down them slopes and have some fun! I’m not where I want to be physically and I definitely feel the effects on my body. I want to be healthy and able to do the things I want to the best of my ability. However I can’t figure out how to not fall off the wagon. I fail myself every time.

I’m currently 5’9” 287lbs the heaviest I have ever been. And I feel like it snuck up on me because I was in a video game,work stressed, emotional eating haze.

This stops today.

I can’t continue to yo yo like this. I have to prove to myself that I can maintain a healthy body but do the things I enjoy. I have to be under 200lbs for myself.

Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated. I believe this is the first time I’ve legitimately posted on this sub.

Please share your success stories and how you’ve overcome this type of situation. I’d really like to know.

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I lost 80 lbs and hit my goal weight today

weight loss

The before picture was taken at my sister’s wedding in 2016. I was at my lowest weight of 127 in 2014, but that was a year that I experienced a lot of trauma. After a series of unfortunate events that sent me deep into depression and alcoholism, I had gained 100 lbs exactly. I remember stepping on the scale a week before the wedding in 2016 at the age of 21 to see the number 227 on the scale. I knew something had to change. I felt like I had completely lost myself. I did not even recognize my reflection in the mirror. I saw an obese, utterly broken girl looking back and it hurt my heart so much not only for what she’d endured but for how she seemed to have disappeared completely and transformed into... something else.

The first thing I did was become vegan. I had spent my whole life as a vegetarian so it wasn’t that hard of a change for me. (I actually started eating meat for the first time in my life later on in my journey) Being vegan was very limiting and limited the food I could eat, which forced me to be more mindful of what I was eating. I lost the first 40 lbs this way. Eventually I got sick of being so limited and decided to add dairy products back into my diet and this triggered a 3-4 month long binge session of all the foods I previously cut out of my diet. I regained about 15 lbs and spent about a year and a half stuck at 170-185.

The real change occurred when I started eating meat in late 2018 and strictly sticking to a CICO diet with no food limitations. Then in May of 2019 I moved 2200 miles from home and started a new life. I was far away from toxic and abusive people and I really started to thrive. I dropped another 40 lbs and had no binge urges or regaining. I joined a gym and started working out consistently which is still a huge part of my life. I got into school finally and am working on my paramedic degree which has been a lifelong dream of mine. Today I weighed in at 148, and originally I could not imagine ever being back in the 140’s. This was my original goal but now I want to get into the 120’s.

You guys I’m just so happy! I feel like I’ve taken control back, and I can’t believe how much better life has gotten. I wish I could go back in time and tell thank that girl for not giving up. Life does get better. No matter what, it isn’t over yet.

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How to lose weight in a way that is HEALTHY and SUSTAINABLE without taking things too far

For the majority of my life, I was slim, healthy and happy with my body. I'd even go as far as to say I was confident... until I wasn't.

For most of my life, I was very naturally thin. Growing up, my Mum was very health conscious so I would always eat nutritious foods and only had junk/sweets as a rare treat. I was a swimmer and a runner, always active. But as a teenager, the combination of giving up swimming, puberty induced body changes and the independence to make more of my own food choices, I gained a lil weight. Nothing drastic, maybe about 4kg over a period of time. I hated this and became OBSESSED with dieting. I tried it all; low carb, low fat, low salt, dairy-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, atkins, paleo, 5:2, vegan etc. As a teenager, I didn't really know what I was doing and jumped from one diet fad to the next without seeing any results. It slowly became 'just one of those things' and although I wasn't losing weight, I wasn't gaining weight either so I wasn't too bothered and didn't obsess over each diet or my weight/body.

Going to uni and living alone resulted in me struggling a bit with food. For years as a teenager I'd told myself that carbs were bad, then sugar was bad etc - I had a completely black and white/good and bad mindset when it came to food. This, combined with more drinking, partying, the temptation of takeaways, stress eating etc made me gain a further 3kg over 2/3 years. Again, nothing drastic, nothing unhealthy for my height and weight. At 173cm, I went from 56kg as a teenager to 63kg during my late teens/early twenties. I know (and knew) that this wasn't unhealthy, but I couldn't help noticing the way my body had changed and the fat that I had gained. My arms looked chubbier, my stomach was far from flat and toned, and I just felt like I needed to make a change.

Unfortunately, the years of dieting with no success eventually pushed me to eventually lose weight quite drastically with a rather unhealthy approach - which I didn't notice at the time. Because my understanding of food and weight loss were so off, I just took things to the extreme. I'd hardly eat, fast for days, cut out certain food groups, exercise as much as possible... I ended up going from around 65/63kg to 52/51kg in just three months. My flatmates were worried, my family were worried and my friends were worried - but I was just happy that something was finally working! Long story short, when I finished uni I ended up gaining the weight back over the summer while living with family again, as I was unable to get away with keeping up such unhealthy eating habits. Looking back, I am well aware of how awful my eating habits were during my weight loss and I am glad that I did not take things further, that I was unable to take things any further.

However, now that I am in a better place, I still wish to lose a bit of weight but in a HEALTHY way. But with years of dieting and calorie-cutting/counting etc has completely damaged my understanding of how to lose weight. I find myself thinking, 'how does someone lose weight without taking it too far?' I've tried Googling but I've found this only makes things worse, as diet culture is so prevalent in EVERYTHING that it makes me confused. I really want to feel happy with my body again, but without feeling like I have to only eat one tiny meal a day or that I need to go to the gym for three hours a day.

So, in short, if someone could explain to me in a simple way, how can I lose weight healthily? And what can I expect from healthy weight loss? As from experience, I only know 1) struggling with diets and seeing no results, giving up and continuing that cycle OR 2) hardly eating, over-exercising, actually losing weight but also putting my health at risk.

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How do you reward yourself WITHOUT PASTA?

Hi everyone I started my weight loss Journey in January (yay very original !) and i've lost 8 pounds so far... Not great but not bad either !

I'm currently working my second 24h shift in 72h, and i have another one wednesday, and an exam i'm prepping for this week, and family drama, AND I WANT PASTA

How do you reward yourself ? If i wasnt working, i'd take a bath, watch a show, read a book (or reddit haha)... But since i'm working, how can I reward myself for getting through this long long day? Because all i can think of, is EATING PASTA !!!! (and I dont have the calories left) 😢

HELP ! (or maybe I should get the pasta and cheating is okay ? I should admit here i dont have the calories left because I ate a bunch of m&ms 😢😢)

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Was fat. Became skinny. Now I'm fat again. A shameless request for support.

23/F/5'7". I was one of these kids who believed that being fat was just... my destiny. That I was genetically wired to be fat and couldn't do anything to change it. Name a fatlogic myth, I believed it. One day, however, I decided to at least try. And once I realized that the only thing holding me back was... well, me, I really gave it my all. I shed my fatlogic, stopped eating like shit, stopped seeing the gym as a torture palace.

I started my weight loss journey at 174lbs in 2017. By the end of the year I was at 130lbs, looking and feeling great, and I was never happier.

Then I went through a nasty break-up, issues with a close friend who was diagnosed with a crippling mental health disorder, a major career change and some more nasty things in my private life. Turned to food for comfort. Stopped going to the gym regularly. Spent some weeks in bed. Today, too, was one of these days where I just stayed at home stuffing my face completely apathetic.

I. Don't. Want. This.

I'm at 154lbs now, and I'm determined to get back to my 130. Being depressed sucks, but it's no excuse. I know I'll feel better when I'm back to my old rhythm and motivation, and I do enjoy working out--it's just that it's so hard to even get up right now. Same with food. I love eating healthy and cooking great stuff- it's just hard not to give in to the temptations of comfort food right now. I also miss my sport of choice--aerial, which is just easier to do when you're not as heavy.

Well, today's a Sunday. Tomorrow the new week begins. Loseit, in the best times of my weight loss journey, I read you guys' posts like a bible but never posted anything.

Hold me accountable, will ya?

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