Here we are, again!

Well, r/loseit friends, it's been awhile but I'm gonna drop in and give the obligatory "Starting Over" post. I've dieted on and off for about 10 years now. I've always been a big guy, but now it's just out of hand. I'm 44 (in a few months), M, 6'3" and I started my newest journey a little over 2 months ago when my weight was at 493 lbs. My wife and I did keto for 2 months, knowing that while keto is great for a weight loss boost, for us it is unsustainable in the long run. Now we are adhering to CICO. As of today, I am at 481.3 lbs. I'm looking forward to dropping enough weight so that I can do some light exercise without hurting all over the next day.

Anyway, this is me, checking in and being accountable. Even though I don't post often, I lurk here quite a bit. This is such a supportive and awesome community. I'll keep you guys updated!

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How do I stop quitting?

I'm a 16 years old female who weighs 178lbs and is 5"6, and I'm not sure what to do anymore. My whole life I've been overweight and I've always wanted to lose weight. Some days I think I look fine but the majority of the time I hate the way my body looks. I dont feel comfortable in my skin and I want to lose weight. However, I keep quitting my weight loss journey.

In 9th grade I was 184lbs and decided to finally lose 50lbs. I got down to 152lbs and just gave up for no particular reason. From 9th grade til now (11th grade), I've gained weight and I'm 178lbs. I've tried countless times to get back to losing weight but after at most 2 weeks I quit again.

I'm not sure what to do but next year is senior year and I really want to enjoy my self and not be restrained by my insecurities. Also, being unhealthy makes me feel gross and I want to get to a healthier state.

I guess my point in posting is that I need help finding motivation that lasts and some tips for my journey. I'm thinking of maybe going vegan or possibly trying intermittent fasting but I'm not sure? If anyone has advice please share? And if anyone around my age wants to be accountability/motivation partners, I'm open to that as well

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Help! Weight Loss Is Slow!

Hi everyone! My wife is currently trying to lose weight. She’s 25F about 5’5” and 165 lbs. She’s been trying to lose weight for a while and it’s been difficult to say the least.

We started out by trying Keto and she actually lost quite a bit of weight on it. She made it to around 150 lbs. However, after doing it for several months we stopped because we heard the diet wasn’t sustainable and she not only gained the weight back but also put on extra.

Now she’s starting to try again and we’ve thrown the gym into the mix. She started to count calorie intake and she’s been very good about weighing out everything. We decided to try a form of intermittent fasting. The problem is that the weight loss has been SLOW. We’re talking maybe half a pound a week and that’s a good week.

I’m starting to worry for a couple of reasons. First, I think she may be starving herself. She’s eating 1200 (MFP defaulted to this for her) calories on days she isn’t fasting and 500 on days she is. Is this too little? We’ve gotten conflicting responses. Second, we’re both unsure where to go from here. It’s been at least a month and she’s been at 165lbs. All the resources online suggest cutting MORE calories to get over plateaus like this but she’s already eating so little that we’re not sure that’s the right course of action. I feel like there’s something fundamental that we’re not getting and I want to figure out what it is.

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Psychotherapist who is very uncomfortable at night needs help to maximize her chance of success

Stats:

Started CICO 3/2; I log onto MFP

46 yr old female 5’11”

SW: 220 CW: 215 GW: 170 Sedentary Daily calorie intake: 1390

Despite apparently nourishing myself adequately throughout the day and evening, I am finding that I am ravenous at night (just before bedtime).

I strongly suspect that my experience (anxiety, sometimes slight headache, feelings of emptiness) is psychosomatic. I am a psychotherapist who sometimes “empties” herself for clients. I’ve set a long term goal to “fill” myself in different ways than with food.

But in the short-term, I need some help. I am also open to the idea of tweaking my calorie intake, or timing of meals, or whatever, to maximize my success. Feeling shitty at night is depleting my reserves. I worry about petering out. I am not averse to very slow weight loss, as I wish to make a permanent lifestyle change.

I typically have about 80 calories to spare at the end of the day.

Ideas? Thanks so much. I am super impressed by this community.

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Hey y'all, I need meal replacement shake suggestions and non-refrigerated meal suggestions that can be stowed away. (Not for survival prepping)

So, long story, I'm posting for the first time, ever- the tldr is I'm in a bad living situation where I can't use the fridge or really leave food out, and I'm looking for suggestions for a meal replacement shake, mostly. Skip to asterisks below if you wanna miss backstory since it wound up long.

Backstory: Extreme circumstances wound me up living back with a parental unit (circumstances being, I got hit by a DUI driver and injured, and a month later my bf got diagnosed with cancer and had to have surgery and chemo for several months.) My mother somehow talked the insurance company into sending us the check (we shared an insurance policy) and she stole my entire settlement from under me, leaving me with thousands and years of medical bills - so I didn't get enough physical therapy and turned to emotional eating.

A few years prior I was 400 lbs, and was down to 180 at the time of the accident (I'm 5'7" and lifting a lot, I was still overweight but happy and felt good.) I am back up to 290 - I have finally paid off the medical bills in December but I absolutely hate what I've become in the process again.

My mom is a sabotager, was the first time I lost weight, and is definitely so now that I'm stuck with her. She has this weird, fixated jealousy with me, and extreme gluttony and it's made it impossible to meal prep. (Which is why I had such success before.) She'll eat a week's worth of food in a day, make a fake burp noise, complain it wasn't very good. I did a month's worth of meal&freeze prep two months' ago when I started feeling up to the weight loss journey again, and she ate it all in 4 days. 4 FUCKING DAYS. I had almost no money budgeted for food since I'd looked at meal prep as an investment - so I ate affordable garbage and made 0 progress. So I tried Clif bars for breakfast grab'n'go - she eats 2 as a snack and they are gone in 2 days again. (It's like eating a brick, HOW??) I pre-made some smoothie bags - gone in a day as well. (And yes, she is morbidly obese.) She sometimes goes through my things so I haven't been able to hide things either - I was hiding trail mix, beef jerky, peanut butter, apples and bananas, and some dry granola, etc randomly the last two months. But she'd eventually find it when I was gone for a long day at work. (You'd thinking paying half the mortgage payment would make her respect me, but no.) She then proceeds to lie about it, and even though I know better, I just feel defeated. (She steals more than just food as well, but that's not on topic for the post here. My bf and I were really aiming to move this summer or fall but Corona virus has put that on hold until... some time? Job transfer stuff. I was planning on having my own fridge in a few months - now I'm looking at locking file cabinets.)

** Honestly at this point I'm always hungry anyway so I've been thinking of trying something like Huel or some kind of meal replacement shake? I know it's not as good as eating a real meal, but I'm frankly, just trying to hold together mentally and find something that will be easy and I can hide. I want to at least get my nutrients in. (My guts would prefer something not soy-based.) I'm already stowing stuff like: meat jerky (I aim for low sodium but it's mostly what's on sale), real peanut butter, trail mix, craisins/raisins/dried fruit, apples. I'm also allergic to avocado so that rules those out. D: Thanks if you've made it this far. I realize this is only a band-aid for a toxic situation, but I feel like this is something I can do to make due, if that makes any sense.

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Calories In Calories Out vs Exercise to lose weight

When I was talking to my father about losing weight, I described to him about the concept of my eating less calories than I was burning. And he told me that kind of scientific reasoning is obvious. Then he proceeded to tell me about when he was at his healthiest weight, how much exercise he was doing then. It was obvious he felt that one got into a burning calories mode through exercise.

Even when I didn't care about my overweight self, my mother would make comments about how I should come over to use the treadmill at the same time she would ask me if I wanted to finish off the leftover pasta in the fridge.

When I decided to get healthier last year, I decided to join a gym. I figured I'd get into the habit of exercising regularly and then the good eating decisions would naturally follow. I had no idea the amount of work that goes into properly monitoring one's eating versus calories burned, and I grossly overestimated how much working out would go towards losing weight.

I only have my own personal anecdotal evidence to this, but my suspicion is that the general population overwhelmingly believes losing weight is tied to exercise. I see this often on this subreddit of people frustrated at their scale because they've been going to the gym for weeks and haven't lost a single pound and have even gained a few. I just saw a post where someone was devastated that someone would be shocked to see a fat person exercising, as if it wasn't a common perception of people that exercise = weight loss.

I love exercise, it helps my mental health so much and I make smarter decisions about every aspect of my life when I exercise. In that way, it helps me lose weight. But I don't lose weight through exercise.

If you frequent this sub often and you've been at this weight loss routine for awhile, you probably know that weight is lost in the kitchen. I know that if I run a mile this afternoon, and then go out and eat 3 pizza slices afterwards, I've more than cancelled out the caloric burn I did from the run. But does the average person know this?

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Some thoughts about body language and weight loss

Fellow redditers,

I thought a little bit during counting calories and i think this thought is mei intressting or helps one of you:

I think, that inside of you, there are two people. The one in your head, which controls your inner voice, your thoughts etc. and the one inside of your body, which controls your body functions.

Both are talking to each other and your actions, etc. are the results of it. For example: If you want to go to the gym, your head is telling you you don`t want to go exercise etc. (or called lack of will power). Your body you isnt telling you, you dont want to go to sport, tecnically your body is ready to exercise, its well rested etc. but your head may keep you away from exercise due to lack of will, or the head-you deciding it.

Weight loss isn`t just for your body-you, its also for your head-you. If you are overweight or underweight, there is no balance between those two yous. Weight loss is nothing else then bringing both in conclusion.

This thought is benefited by the following facts:

When you get a urge, to eat sweets or to binch eating, is your body-you is telling this or your head-you?

When you eat, do you eat because your body is telling you that you need to eat?

Weight loosing can benefit from it. I try to eat, when my body-you is telling me it needs food. When my tummy grawls, i know its time to eat. When i want (!) to eat, i dont do it usually, because its my head-me telling me to eat and not my body-you.

I hope you got my thought, and maybe it helps you to stop eating when you aren`t hungry or in generell during your weight loss journey :)

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Greetings

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