My convoluted weight loss journey so far.

I'm a 175cm (5'9'') 22 years old male homo sapiens .

By December 2nd of last year I weighed in and was appalled when I saw 140kg (308lb) on the scale.I hadn't gotten on the scale for at least a year since I was too high to care about my weight. I've been heavy all my life but the scale always ranged from 122kg-127kg (270lb-280lb). I was completely shocked, but now that I look back I shouldn't have been since all I'd been doing the past 6 months was sit on my ass all day, drink unhealthy amounts of alcohol and smoke and nhealthy amounts of weed. Despite being completely out of my mind cause of the number in the scale I said fuck it and enjoyed the holidays without much to care for. I did try to no let the munchies get ahold of me, stopped drinking sugary drinks, but still consumed alcohol and weed, the latter being greatly reduce to just weekends (I smoked daily).

By January 2nd, I decided to start calorie counting. I calculated my TDEE, I took measurements and pictures. I packed my stuff and sailed the boat to healthy land. I've been using Lose It!, a food scale, measuring cups and spoons to keep track of my calories. I also decided to stop drinking and smoking! I started loosing weight immediately and a bit faster that I would've wanted to be honest. I want this to be sustainable and I want to be able to keep this healthy eating throughout my life. I was weighing myself every week and lost anything between 4 and 1 pound weekly.

I weigh in every Thursday and last Thursday I did not loose any weight I got frustrated for a bit but calmed down and decided to go on Lose It! to see what was going wrong. My daily budget is set to 2200cal with the app. I would sometimes not eat 300 or 200 cal and pasesed it off as okay. But I realized that week after week I was upwards to 2000 calories under budget and I started thinking and thinking and my stupid ass had not connected the dots that those 2200 calories already put me in a deficit according to my TDEE. I realized I had not been eating enough and got frustrated again thinking 'What if my body already got used to this low calorie diet and wont be able to loose more weight?'

So my question is should I just make sure I eat the 2200 calories religiously from now on and not worry about my body having adapted to a low calorie diet? I've had very unhealthy weightloss in the past where I did not keep a healthy relationship with food or myself for that matter and I DONT want to go back to that!

I've been going on ~1h, ~3.7mile walks every other day and do some bodyweight training at home on the days I don't walk doing 3 reps of 20 squats, 10 knee push ups, 20 lunges, 10 tricep dips(the easiest ones), 30s planks, 30 jumping jacks. I plan joining the gym to get some more weights in soon but I'm broke so at home training it is for now.

I try my macros to be 45% protein, 35% carbs, 20%fats but this is not alway the case I try no to worry too much about it.

As of today Im 123.9kg (273.2lb) for a total weightloss of 15.8kg (34.8lbs)!!!

I am extremely happy about my accomplishments so far and I plan to keep up my new healthy lifestyle till death do us apart, which is now further away!

The journey isn't actually convuluted I'm just a bad writer hence the title.

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[M/24/5'8"] Showing myself grace is important

Progress pictures [one, two], SW: 255 lbs, CW: 170 lbs, 8 months

Posting something just for internet points was something that usually doesn't make sense for me (I don't have any social media except reddit), but I'd really like some right now for encouragement!

I'm in the DC area, and the dating/hookup scene is so intimidating since gay guys here look like straight up models with chiseled bodies. It's hard to be nice to myself sometimes when I look at my loose skin and still-present lower stomach.

The "after" picture is also me when I'm looking/feeling bloated from eating a takeout burrito and a quesadilla on top of a full day's worth of meals already. I hated myself immediately right after eating this food. But rather than take a picture in the morning right after a workout, I wanted to take a picture when I wasn't feeling good about myself as a first step to showing myself grace.

I should be better to myself. I completely eliminated symptoms of my health problems from obesity (high blood pressure, sleep apnea, joint pains, lethargy, etcetcetcetc), and I should celebrate that. One day of indulgent eating does not negate 8 months of hard work and tears I put into it (and will continue to put into this). I learned fitness, weight loss, and nutrition and completely changed my lifestyle. I've worked on my binge eating disorder and that shit isn't easy. One day, a guy will see my worth, but I shouldn't need a guy to feel good about my body.

But! For today, I think I need internet points as a sign of support from you all because it's really hard to be nice to myself right now.

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Healthy, but still "stocky" and self-conscious because of it

Hey all. This is prob'ly just me looking for assurance and I'm sorry for complaining. I'm 31F, 5'6", 135lbs, down from a post-pregnancy max of 220lbs four years ago, mostly from cutting out alcohol, soda, and dinner (I've got a pretty consistent 18:6 IF schedule). Too self-conscious at this point to post pictures, but the body I see in the mirror is reasonably fit. There's some visible muscle. I lift weights (casually), do some cycling and running, and go to 3-4 aerobics classes every week. But I still feel too big for the daintier things in life. I feel like my ancestors must have been blacksmiths. I have broad shoulders and broad hips, big hands and big feet. I can still exchange some fat for muscle (and probably gain a bit of weight in the process), but - as I told a friend the other day - I can't get much smaller on account of I have bones. I didn't start out with a goal - or at least not a realistic goal (120 lbs? C'mon) - and now I don't know if I'll ever not be too big for the room.

I think it's partly a self-perception issue: I've always been the "big girl" in the group, and so I'll always feel like the "big girl," no matter what. I'm dressing better now, having a great time shopping for smalls. I've taken some pride and interest in trying new hair styles. My face looks nicer now that it's thinner. But I'm not ever going to be particularly feminine.

Whining over. I'm happy to be here at this point in my weight loss journey. I just need to set fitness goals that I can actually achieve and wait until I'm happy with what I see in the mirror.

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Weight loss when you don't like being the centre of attention?

I've got a lot of weight to lose, I'm 305 lbs, 5'8" F. I joined a weight loss group a couple of years ago and got down to around 230, but I gave up and weigh more now than I did before I started.

When I was losing the weight I found the attention it drew from my co-workers in particular quite difficult to deal with. I'm an introvert by nature and prefer to fade into the background, plus I work with a lot of immature, rude and quite unpleasant people whose company I would never choose to be in, I have to tolerate them because I work with them.

I don't want to go into detail about my job, but it's quite unique in the fact that it's quite informal and social and there's a lot of downtime in which there's nothing to do but talk to one another.

I'm a very private person and don't like to reveal much about my life and my problems to anybody except the few people I trust, but weightloss by its very nature is not something which can be hidden.

I grew to dread the cry of "WOW, YOU'VE LOST SO MUCH WEIGHT!" when I walked into a room full of people at work because it immediately led to the cessation of all other conversations as everyone turned and stared at my body.

I found the ensuing "HOW MUCH HAVE YOU LOST?!" very difficult to deal with as well, to me this is a very intrusive and rude question which I would never dream of asking anyone else. I suppose people mean well, but I can't help but wonder if they were absent the day tact and consideration were handed out.

I've even had someone announce that I'd really lost a lot from my stomach in particular! Yes, I carry a lot of weight in my stomach, thanks for pointing it out and drawing everyone's attention to it! Again, I would never, ever think of saying this to anyone else.

I've had people get very offended when I've refused cake etc at work, we often have a cooked breakfast at weekends and refusing it always leads to a discussion of the fact that I'm losing weight, I look so much better now than I did before (thanks?) and of course my favourite "SO HOW'S THE DIET GOING?! :D" What is the answer to this question? What answer are people expecting? Does anyone in the world still think before they speak?

Has anyone else dealt with anything similar? I want to start losing weight again but to be honest due to the above I'm dreading it.

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IBS completely taking away my quality of life, I need help

Disclaimer: This is about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, if you don't want to hear about such things, don't continue reading please!

For those who are reading, already a big thanks to you!

Let's start from the beginning: For as long as I can remember, I have always had a very slow digestion. Maybe one bowel movement every two days, sometimes more, most of the times less. According to my mom, as a baby I would have maybe one bowel movement a week.

By some miracle, even though for most of my life I have been eating literal tons of food, for a few years eating fast food at least two times a day and in quantities that I find absolutely repulsive nowadays, I never even dipped into an overweight BMI. My mom puts it down to me being a bad food converter, which might be true, I really don't know.

However, I have always felt that maybe losing a few pounds would do me some good when it comes to aesthetics and so I have started to just eat more mindfully. I used to count calories, but it only led me into a binge cycle so I have found that eating mindfully still leads to weight loss for me without the binging and restricting part.

The big problem is: I eat when I am anxious and for a few months now, my bowel movements have pretty much gone down to 0. Absolutely nothing, nada. I don't feel like I am constipated, but not having any bowel movements is obviously not healthy and its a constant thought on my mind that causes me a lot of stress and anxiety. My doctor just gave me a bunch of strong laxatives that I use whenever I don't experience a bowel movement in more than 3 or 4 days. For the past few weeks, the only way I could have any sort of bowel movement was through laxatives, but I can feel my body adjusting and I don't want to up the dosage at all, as it causes a lot of pain and discomfort.

It's horrible. I have to plan my days around using laxatives, I am constantly anxious which drives me to eat and so on, it's a vicious cycle. I have tried to adjust my diet, it's a lot healthier now and includes at least one veggie at every meal (except breakfast), my portions are really big in volume and I eat until I feel full.

What more could I do? At first, overeating at least had the pleasant side effect of inducing a bowel movement, but not anymore. I have a doctors appointment as soon as I am back home in a few weeks, but what could I do until then? I really don't want to visit a doctor in the country I live in right now, because of the hassle with international insurance and the fact that I don't yet 100% speak the language and I don't want to drag my boyfriend around as a translator for such things.

Any tips, own experiences or whatever would be greatly appreciated!

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Sunday, 01 March 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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Half way to my goal weight!!!!

Hi everybody!

Bit of background: 5'4", 24 F. CW: 158.0, SW: 186.6, GW: 130. I started a lil over three months ago. I've been overweight my entire life. My whole family is overweight, so I've never really had a good example of healthy lifestyle.

I don't really like discussing my weight loss, because it feels self-indulgent and braggy. And, if I'm honest, the superstitious part of me doesn't want to jinx it.

But!

I am actually super proud of myself and wanted to share with someone!!!!! I always find the stories on this subreddit to be motivating, so I wanted to contribute a bit of my own experience.

So far it's been almost exclusively due to diet changes, but meditation and therapy have also helped immensely. I've been very hard on myself my whole life and was the most depressed I've ever been from ~Aug 2019 - Dec 2019, but the therapy/meditation have helped me take things slow and not freak out or give up when I don't eat particularly well.

Anyway, good luck to all of you! Keep doing what you're doing and remember to be kind to yourselves. Y'all are killin' it.

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