is there such a thing

so i just thought of it and i’m wondering if it already exists.. basically a place where you can put a mark that you started your weight loss journey today and you can see how many other people also started at the same time as you.. but there are also buttons like “failed” and “reached goal weight” so as days go by you can mark that you failed or see how many other people have failed while you still keep going or how many people already met their goals and that can motivate you more or sth. for example people that started weight loss journey on 1st of February, 2020: 271 failed: 13 reached goal weight: 7

maybe the app or thing doesn’t have it with weight but you get the point i would happily use it

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The beginning of my weight loss journey

Hey guys! This is my first time using this so please be kind! I’m starting on my journey of weight loss and to a more healthier lifestyle (and better body image) as a gift to myself this year.

A little about me, I am 25f, 5’7” and 167lb. My goal is 125-130lb, (but I’m not sure if that is possible). I tried before but after loosing about 10lbs in one and half month, I quickly gained it all back and then some due to stress from a job change. Growing up, I had a lot of body images issues. almost all my family and friends were skinny and I was never that. So that lead me to a lot of crash diets and unhealthy eating habits which actually ended up with me gaining more weight (I also have a really hard time loosing weight). I realized that it wasn’t working and just completely gave up after awhile. But now, I’ve developed a slightly better stance on body image and just want to be healthy.

I wanted to come on here because it’s really inspiring having a group of people with a similar goal and also as a way to keep me accountable and maybe share my journey? (also perhaps get/give support and trade advices!). Its really hard to control myself around food especially when I’m stressed about work,(I’m a stress eater!) so any starting advices would be really helpful! Thanks ! :-)

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 10 February 2020? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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The beginning of my weight loss journey

Hello everyone. This is my first time going on reddit and I want to say that I never really understood how hard it is to lose weight. I’m a male 20 years old currently at 240, the highest I’ve ever been. I really try my hardest to loss weight man but it’s so hard. It’s so hard to ignore the tasty food and have a cheat meal. For me, i have more cheat meals than healthy meals even when I’m trying to lose weight. It’s so god damn tempting... but i want to be strong and try to control myself better. The worst thing about myself with weight is that when i feel i lost some weight, i get really happy and decide to treat myself, only to let in the bad habits all over again. I know none of you know who I am but I feel that this group is a great group and will be here everyday to motivate me more to eat less bad crap and go to the gym more. It is incredibly hard for me to eat healthy, especially at the night when There’s nothing to do and the cravings start creeping up. Guys, this is to this group, and to myself, that TODAY WILL BE THE DAY WHERE I STOP WITH THE SHIT EXCUSES AND WORK MY HARDEST TO BE STRONG AND HELP MYSELF. I really am glad to find a group like this.... I’m gunna need all the support i can get

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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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