NSV: got told my trousers are flailing on me like sails. Just ordered smaller size and I'm pretty nervous. Also details about my weight loss after traffic accident injuries.

Hey, long time lurker here!

First, please, excuse me if my english is sloppy, it's not my first language. Feel free to correct me, I always learn something every day :)

I'm 30 years old man, my height is 184 cm and my starting weight was 138 kg (not exactly, probably even slightly more). I've always been on the fatter side but the weight skyrocketed after my traffic accident injury. Long story short - spinal fracture and among many others isn't exactly a good thing for at least a bit active lifestyle. The list of injuries goes on, but the other major one is that majority of ab muscles had to be removed (intenstine leakage in to open wound). Eventually it caught me in downward spiral of more intense chronic pain, painkiller abuse and of course, overeating in futile attempt to cope with that all.

My deteriorating mental and physical state and finding new lows finally broke me at June 2019. I guess I needed this adverbial punch to the face to finally wake up and start getting shit together. I went cold turkey on everything that is generally known as trash and 'bad' food and put myself on strict diet. No planned "just last McDonald's today and then I begin". It was like a lightning from clear sky. One day I woke up and told myself it's time to finally stop this shit before I drown in it.

Today I've lost about 26-30 kg. I feel much better. Granted, the chronic pain is still there but it's easy to overcome even without medication. Feels more like minor headache now. Everyday's walk from parking lot to my office doesn't feel like a Gladiator race anymore. I even refuse to take an elevator and prefer walking up the stairs (8 floors). Usually I walk up and down the stairs multiple times per day.

My weight loss didn't go unnoticed for long since most of my colleagues are women and they're usually asking me for weightloss tips. Feels kinda ironic, since I've been a massive fat blob and now even slim ones want to know my "secret ways". And also I've got asked by many of them when I will finally buy smaller trousers. Yes, I still wear my "fat" clothing, mostly bought from extra-sized stores.

I have few shorts that I bought but never wore them or returned them (you know, the "they're too small" is pretty shameful reason for return so I rather kept them as grim memento). One of them were size 40 by Wrangler and they fit me well today. So I ordered jeans of the same size. It's another attempt at shopping at "normal" size store so I hope they're going to fit. I'm pretty nervous but I'm still hoping for positive result.

It has a bit darker side but that's something I guess many of you feel too. I still see the same fat person everytime I look in to mirror. Major part of my motivation is coming from anger against myself from letting things to get that far, self-contempt bordering with some form of self-hatred. I'm getting compliments from everyone that knew how I looked before but I still feel like my progress is still "not enough" but it helps sticking to the regimen.

Ask away if you wish and have a nice day!

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Need some unique weight loss advice

Hey guys, hope I’m not posting in the wrong place. Anyway, I was recently diagnosed with Lyme Disease and it has made doing basic things very painful for me. Because of this, at least for right now, exercise is out of the question. I am currently about 25lbs overweight and would like to lose it by summer. I am 27F and my weight mostly sits around my belly and in my thighs. I am wondering what I can do to achieve this goal, because I know nothing about weight loss diets or what I can and can’t eat if I want to lose this weight, aside from the obvious like very carby or sugary things. I already lost 20lbs this year just battling Lyme and generally feeling unwell, but I’d like to lose the rest in a healthy way that may also make treating the Lyme easier too (eating well is apparently a big part of getting better). Any advice is more than welcome!

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Starting my journey, the healthy way (25F)

Hi All! This is my first post on r/LoseIt and i'm so excited to start a weight loss journey again.

When I was in college, I took the pursuit of weight loss a little too far and developed an eating disorder. I became severely emaciated and my health was incredibly compromised. Since then i've had to take a step back and rediscover how to eat normally - which I don't regret at all! I've recovered and happy. However, i've gained back the weight i lost and then some, probably 15 pounds more than I was back then. I'm not really comfortable in this current body and don't feel great or confident in clothes. Ive also developed some not so healthy eating habits and preferences and want to get back to looking and feeling my best , fueling with whole foods and improving my athletic performance.

I tend to avoid the scale due to my past, so i don't know my current weight. But I think progress pictures are not triggering - and i took my first few in months!!

https://imgur.com/a/2xMluio

I know I don't have *much* weight to lose - maybe 10-15 pounds at most. So I think employing some simple strategies may help me feel better.

1. Make sure I drink enough water
2. I already work out about 5-6 times a week, but I want to up the intensity of my workouts, add more HIIT and lift heavier. I'll probably purchase a workout guide to take the thinking out of it
3. Alcohol: limit drinking only to weekends, try to stick to vodka soda and white claw. This is definitely one of my biggest culprits.
4. Make veggies and fruits the focus of my meals and limit my processed snacks.
5. Track calories but give room for some untracked fun meals!

I'm posting for accountability and motivation, and i'm excited to get to know you all. I think I can do this safely and sustainably, and i'm excited to truly get healthier for the right reasons.

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3 years ago I started my journey and lost 30lb in basically 3 months, since then I’ve only lost 5lb

23F 5’3” SW:202 CW:167 GW:130ish full time retail worker

I started my weight loss journey 3 years ago and it started off great, I started a 1,200 calorie diet which I tracked on MyFitnessPal with no additional exercise other than my usual walks to and from work totalling 1 hour a day. I was feeling better, looking better and starting to get a healthier mindset. I then went on holiday for 2 weeks where I ate whatever I wanted because...well I was on holiday and thought I deserved to just enjoy myself. Since then I’ve been on and off dieting trying to find my groove again, so one month of eating healthily, seeing I’ve lost weight then rewarding myself with bad food and eating whatever I want to then put back on the weight the following month, and repeat. Since late December 2019 I started my 1,200 calorie diet again and lost 1lb a week for 5 weeks, since February I’ve lost nothing. I log everything from the extra teaspoon of sauce in a meal to a little chocolate my colleague offers me. After the first week of February I saw no scale change so I started to implement exercise. 3 or more times a week a 30+ minute run, 5 times a week 30 minutes of HIIT, and 4 times a week 30 minutes of weight workouts, as well as my 5 times a week walks to and from work totalling 1 hour each day. I weighed myself this morning and I’ve lost nothing still. Any tips to change things up to help me? I’m at a loss and feel disheartened that all my hard work is for nothing.

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Into Onderland: there's hope for those who are older and losing slowly

I finally hit onderland this week and 30 pounds lost!! It feels so good!! I can now see and feel the difference. After losing only 2 pounds all last month, I lost 2 pounds this week!

As a yo-yo dieter, who has crept steadily up over the past 15 years here's what I am doing differently as of June 1, 2019, nine months ago. As an older slower loser, I just wanted to share some success with other people in the same boat, that it can be done. Stick with it! Slow progress is still progress!

• I am mostly achieving CICO targets on a weekly basis or limiting my overages. I started at 1750 calories a day and am now at 1585. I use the Lose it app which is super easy. My calorie consumption has at least decreased by 750 calories a day from June 1 as I had no idea of how much I was eating before I started measuring portions and I can EASILY eat at 2800 calories a day.
• On Sept 1, I decided not to "eat back exercise" calories and dropped my daily target from 1825 to 1725. This really helped to push more weight loss.
• I have lost 30 pounds in 8 months (July went off track). So I am pretty much on track for four pounds a month, even with some three-week plateaus.
• I am now accurately measuring CICO (thank you food scale!! an excellent purchase). I am no longer eating three ounces of cheese and thinking it was one ounce or having 10 tablespoons of cream in my coffee and thinking it was 4 tablespoons.
• having 8 to 10 glasses of water a day;
• not feeling hungry or having cravings but still having treats like mozza burgers and IPAs but now having IPAs twice a month instead of twice a week. However some food are just not worth calories/carbs or water retention including most french fries, movie popcorn, chips, milk chocolate and store-bought cookies;
• Mostly OMAD with a snack (or two) and mostly IF are good strategies for me;
• figuring out my macros with higher protein, lower carbs and satisfying fats (55% fat, 25% carbs, 20% protein) has really helped to not feel hungry. I have to take the Goldilocks approach with carbs though (50 to 100 grams a day) as too many carbs trigger cravings but not few carbs trigger depression;
• am staying motivated with: progress pics, before pics, my Pinterest board, this lovely subreddit and the other subreddit, ProgressPics. Plus picking up the weight that I have lost in the grocery store. When I had lost "only" 16 pounds and was feeling discouraged at the slow progress, I realized that that was the same amount as the cat food bag and it was darned motivating to hold that much weight, it was really quite heavy.

I am FINALLY developing a workable long-term sustainable life time approach to healthy eating. I only wish I had figured this out 20 years ago! and congrats to all the people here who are generally much younger and figuring this out much sooner (but it still possible for older people to lose weight too!).

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what are your favorites to stop your cravings?

Doing some pretty heavy weight loss for the second time in my life unfortunately. The first I was very closed about it, all i did for over a year was basically work and go to the gym. I think I only went out with friends for 1-2 days every 3-6 months. I didn't talk to anyone or share my experience which i think in a way, helped me; but I also missed out on sharing my experience with others going through the same thing.

Today was the second day of my weight loss journey and i was craving sweets, which is expected this early on, of course. When i started craving, i did what i did the last time i was losing weight and I drank tons of water until i was full. Not uncommon for me even on a regular day as I often drink a minimum of 6+ liters of water a day anyway.

But I was wondering what sort of methods everyone else had for stopping their cravings and maybe myself of others can use some of these tricks.

A few things I had done last time I was losing weight was:

- Sunflower seeds. I always bought the packs that were still in the shell and I found that in the time it took me to crack the shell, eat the seed, and discard the seed, by the time I got through a handful, my craving was over and it wasn't many calories at all

- Pickles. This was one of my more consistent craving stoppers because pickles are apparently like 10 or less calories even for the big ones. they were surprisingly filling for me and due to the acid nature of pickles, i found they never left me with any craving like some other foods do.

- Grilled veggies. If i had cravings but I had a little more time for a work around I'd usually grill some veggies. like asparagus, zucchini, or peppers.

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Progress Pic - I (33/M/6'4") started CICO the day before Thanksgiving 2019 and have been doing 16/8 IF most of the time with some flex for life with little people. SW 226, CW ~217, GW 190; I run a lot (15+ miles/week). Looking for some advice about slow to little progress.

I've picked up running after a few years off in 2019 and ran close to 600 miles last year and will do similar this year. I ran a half-marathon for the first time in 2019 and running has made a world of difference for my mental health. However, it seems to have complicated or slowed weight loss. I have taken measurements, generally weigh in daily with Happy Scale, and try to do body weight percentage with a caliper.

I track in Lose It and have it set to lose a pound a week, on average I leave 2000-4000 calories unused in a given week while generally not feeling like I'm starving myself. I weigh everything I eat except eating out where I have to estimate more. I eat a lot more produce, especially salads, than I did before I started. I was losing 0.33 lbs/week average but recently that progress has stopped. 217 is my low point but I fluctuate between 217 and 220 over the past month or so.

I may have taken bad measurements to start with, but I've seen minimal measurement change including during the weight plateau. I might have loss 2" off of chest and just above hips but it's not clear if that's real. However, if I am doing calipers right I have lost 1 percentage point of body fat. I feel some differences in my stomach and some clothes are fitting better. I finally got around to writing this post because I think I have some face gains but I can't the picture to attach to this post.

Does anyone have ideas about why it is going slow and now plateaued? Is it just the running building muscle? I generally feel I just need to keep on it, but I'm curious if anyone has a similar experience. Thank you!

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