From 316.4lb to 246.4lb in 4 months... my journey.

I'd like to just start this off by saying I've never been interested in losing weight and always thought it would happen overnight. How naive of me! It's important, if you think this, to break it and get stuck into what you want to push for. Upon coming to the decision, after talking to my local bus driver, I started a low calorie, carb - pretty much low everything - diet. I looked up the best and most affordable options (I'm a University student) and I found one. They set you up with a personal nutritionist and a planned-out meal schedule. This helped so much! It's the real kick you need to get started on any diet weight loss in my personal opinion. It's very, very hard to get over your cravings and to keep pushing forward at the start; but with cleaning out all other food from your house... helps.

However, the diet was becoming a bore and I wanted to live life! Ya know, going out with friends to night clubs and having fun. This diet restricted my life to the point where I had to have a low calorie chocky bar while everyone else was getting stuck into a Wetherspoons (Uk pub) dinner. Not on. So, I took a step back and cracked on with the diet on my own. I used to live off Coke Zero, this changed to only, and I mean ONLY, water. I removed all snacks and found food I enjoy but was also good for me. For example, grilled chicken breasts dressed with a salad. Awesome meal and keeps me going all / most of the day.

I need to mention that I don't do exercise. Never have... but I plan to once my battle of the fat has ended. By going on a low-calorie diet plan, you can't exert yourself to the extreme. So, with this said, I was on board from the get-go! With the need to walk around town to get to University, around 30 mins to and from lectures, along with walking to and from the train station and bus stops - This came in at around 15k steps (200+ calories) which helped with keeping meals down. I am currently eating around 400-600 calories a day when I'm at home and on my computer working. When I'm in town at Uni, I'll have around 1.2k calories, with a lot of water.

It's not been easy, and you can get silly with it if you're not careful. For example, sometimes I eat too little. During the end of October, I hadn't eaten for 3 days straight - This was bad, and I needed to fix it. I was becoming lightheaded and my family and friends were getting worried about my diet intentions. I fixed this by breaking through the mentality to "batten down the hatches and keep on top of everything" - This worked for me at the start but was doing only damage to me at the later points. What did I do? I went to the Chip Shop! (Fast food) and had fish and chips. I felt awful afterwards, however, it broke that mentality and allowed me to get on the right tracks again. It pushed me but not to the point of not eating. I now go out every week, sometimes up to 3 times, drinking and having a good time. Why? because it's important to live your life while doing something so drastic like losing weight. I need to mention I'm extremely hard-headed and once I tell myself something, I do it. It's something I've lived by all my life and only now is it helping me.

I started at 22.6st (316.4lb) at the age of 19 on 24th October 2019. I'm now almost 17.6st (246.4lb) at the age of 20 on 23rd Of February. I weighed 20st (280lb) at 16 (2016). I'm happy with the outcome so far but there’s so much I need to carry on with. My ideal weight is 13-14st so around another 3 stone I need to lose. I’m quite broad and I’m dead on 6 foot so I need to find common ground where I don’t look TOO thin for how my body is built. With 70 pounds lost (14 house bricks) (5st) I look in the mirror at a different me, and I’m only halfway through. I can’t wait for the outcome.

TL:DR If you’re going through drastic weight loss, carry on! The moment people start to mention your appearance, as petty as it sounds, you feel really good about yourself and it gives you more motivation to carry on. It’s hard but when I tell you it’s worth it, it’s worth it! Keep it up. You’re doing great! 😊

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Sick of hearing about cheat days (vent)

I've been on the weight loss "journey" for over a year now and I'm now down to a 23.1 BMI for the first time in years. It was only a few days ago that I realised I have to accept that I'm addicted to food, and that I'll be in recovery for the rest of my life.

This past year it has been very clear to me that I can't do cheat days/meals. That results in me falling off the wagon for days if I'm lucky, but usually weeks or months. It's not for me. Yet, I keep hearing about it in real life ("you can afford to have a piece of cake, you're being too hard on yourself" etc), and what bothers me most, here on reddit, in subs that I consider safe. I see people talking about how it's actually a good thing to have a cheat day, and how it makes it more sustainable and realistic etc.

I get that it works for some people. That's good for you. But I see it being recommended as if it was this innocent thing, when it's actually really not. Would you recommend a cheat drink to an alcoholic? I know it seems like a dramatic comparison, and even unfair, but I really can't stop myself if I have certain foods. I eat in secret. I think about eating most of the day, it's disturbing how much I think about it. I've only recently realised most normal people don't think about food so much. When I hear someone say they just forgot to have lunch, I just can't wrap my head around it.

I'm still struggling with accepting how I'm going to handle this for the rest of my life, and seeing people so carelessly talk about it upsets me. Sometimes, it reads as if you have to have cheat days, we're only human and meant to enjoy life right? Well fuck it. I'm not enjoying this. I don't even enjoy eating anymore.

So my point is, you don't know who you're giving advice to. Please stop thinking that everyone can have a cheat day and go back to dieting the next day, because many of us can't. That's kind of why we're fat.

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I still have a big belly despite losing 18 kg/40 pounds

Hello, I would like to know the reason for this.

In December of 2017, I weighed 100.5 kg and then I came down to 82 kg in September of 2018 (the weight loss slowed down considerably after the first few months) and while I was visibly slimmer, I still had a belly.

I am around 5'10 tall and male. I used to be tall but not sure how tall, around 5'11-6'0, I have a spinal condition which is reducing my height (anterior pelvic tilt). You get the idea of what my weight should be, I am thinking 75-77 kg or 165-170 pounds assuming I am 5'10 tall.

After all this hard work, I still had to suck in my belly. Unfortunately, I had exams and let myself go and went back up to 98.8 kg in February of 2019. Although, I am down to 96 kg after a few days.

I just want to know how to lose the belly. Do I have to go down to something like 75 kg (instead of the still somewhat high 82 kg weight) perhaps?

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Disappointing day

Today was heartbreaking. I started my serious weight loss journey last November and have been counting calories religiously since January. I have been eating at a 300kcal deficit for 2 months and a 600kcal deficit for around 2 weeks. I know these are not very long periods but nevertheless I saw some progress and I felt good. People told me I looked slimmer and I was happy. Today I was so happy that I decided to take up sewing again. After all it was my favorite hobby for many years until my moving to a small apartment for university forced me to quit. I recently bought a home and set up my sewing station. So I decided to take my measurements for the dress I was making. Two years ago, when I quit sewing my measurments were chest: 102cm, waist: 81cm and hips: 110cm. Well today they were the same, except for my hips that were now 116, however this is due to some booty gains that I have been tracking. My waist is not a single centimeter smaller. I really thought I had lost some weight. Due to my mental health I cannot weigh myself, it has caused drastic measures before. When I last weighed myself (3-4 years ago) I (F20) was 173cm tall and weighted 81kg. I assumed I would be around 78kg now but now I am not sure. I have been going to the gym for 1,5 years but I ate too much for a long time, still I saw some muscle gains but not much else. I am heartbroken, because I thought I would see some change today, I did not. Any tips on how I can move onwards and upwards without taking too drastic measures?

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I never feel full...

A couple years ago, doing CICO (followed by warrior diet towards the end) I went from 250lbs to 125lbs. I did a big, life changing diet, with my boyfriend, and we were very successful.

I have since gained like 20lbs back, and (since Jan 1) have been re-dieting to get back to a goal weight. Maybe not 125, maybe 130-135 but just a general weight loss before summer hits.

Basically, my general concern about myself... is that I never have a "im full" feeling after meals. I definitely drink a lot of water/no calorie juices before, during, after dinner, but that has never seemed to help me feel full.

We will have tacos tonight... a large plate of chicken taco salad. its a HUGE plate, but still around 500 calories. (we have it often) and 3/4 of the way through, my boyfriend cannot finish. I could easily eat 2 plates. All while drinking and trying to get full.

I have always been like this. I feel like I can eat forever. When we weren't dieting, and/or before our huge weight loss, I could probably eat a whole pizza, plus a whole cake alone. Even at 125lbs, I could eat an enormous amount of food, and never get sick or full.

I think my stomach stretched out, when I was 250lbs. (I believe I was higher at one point, I just never weighed myself when I was obese) and it's probably still the same size, which is why I don't feel full.

I eat protein, whether chicken meats or protein bars and shakes. My boyfriend will grab a 200 calorie 16g protein bar, and literally say his stomach feels full after eating it. I don't think I have ever felt that way, after an enormous meal.

I don't know what to do. I just finish all my food, and still want snacks later. I stay within my calorie limits, but I just wish I could "feel full" so I don't have to eat so much....

I also feel embarrassed that I can eat the entire plate... whereas he couldn't. Then I still grab an english muffin, and some banana or granola bars immediately after dinner. Something snacky.

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A week after posting about my progress here, I've plateau'd and I'm worried.

I posted a few days to a week ago about my progress last month where I lost around 20lbs. Last week, the weighing scale stayed the same. It's odd too because last week I started lifting weights as well (in fact i went 3x). I'm not sure if I'm slacking off on my diet but I think that may be the case. Prior to last week, I would do intermittent fasting along with my ketogenic diet. But last week, when I got hungry, I'd get a handful of nuts and a teaspoon of cream cheese. I checked the calories on them and it still more or less fit my caloric limit for the day. I'm just really concerned right now because the scale isn't moving. So I've plateau'd. I was actually really happy with my weight loss journey so far. It's been more than 5 years since I could fit in size 34 jeans but today I did it. In fact, I bought 2 of them because the old bigger ones were getting too loose. Sigh. This sucks.

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Fed up of slow weight loss - help needed!

Hey everyone!

Long term lurker but never really posted anything.. until now.

I'm a 22F and have been trying to lose weight since last July. I've always been at around 48-50kg. I was the heaviest I've ever been in my life at 68kg back in July, which I was quite shocked about because I hadn't realised that I was putting on all that weight but I'd just been started on new medication, so I guess that was that. As I was getting joint and back problems, I didn't really want to carry on the way that I was.

Like I said, I started trying to lose weight in July and I've only just made it to 66.4kg today, and honestly I'm just fed up with everything. The joint pains have improved but not completely disappeared, but I still feel quite tired which is quite unusual for me.

I've been tracking my calories on the loseit app and have changed my eating habits an awful lot - like eating less sweets and not overeating and have managed to stay within my daily limit for most days. But why am I losing weight so slowly.

Activity wise, I'm pretty much on my feet all day at placement (I'm at uni at the moment), and am far too tired to do anything other than study, eat and sleep when I get back from placement.

Any advice would be very welcome and very very helpful. I am honestly just so lost

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