within my first few weeks of weight loss, i lost alot but put it back on?

Basically i'm currently on the slimming world plan. my doctor advised it for me.

In my first week i lost 7 and a half pounds. then, 2 weeks later ive gaines a pound. Ive been keeping to the rules and dutch yet ive gained. No i'm not doing any exercise, i'm doing this just by not eating as mutch and not eating anything bad.

I've not had any chocolate for 3 weeks witch is big for me as i use to eat like almost a thousand calroes a day on chocolate-avarage (wispa packs, full family bars sizes etc)

i have been craving like hard for some chocolate tbh, but, ive just not have any pluce none in the house for me to eat.

Anyway, how to i keep up at most 3 pounds a week weight loss? In weight watchers you dont have to count calories, ive swapped out my fizzy drinks for flavoured water (normal water makes me sick, ive tried it in the past, lost weight but then after a while it just made me sick). beed eating alot of fruit and vedge, aswell as alot of potato as it's a filling food. all last week i had a jacket potato and beans for dinner.

Ive been weiging my morning cereal and watched what i had for tea

yet i lost so mutch in the first week and gained back a pound within the following 2 weeks.

what am i doing wrong? how can i maintain losing weight if i'm not eating that mutch bad foods and i'm keeping to the plan?

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5’10 young dude trying to lose weight! Concerns about consistency, etc.

I need to vent a bit, I guess. I’ll try not to ramble, but there’s a fair amount of backstory concerning my fitness experience and concerns.

Turned 20 recently. My metabolism slowed way down this past year, so I’m no longer a lean green bean. I’m getting a bit of a belly, and I’m around 175lbs.

For a while, I got it in my mind that I wanted to bulk up and gain muscle, but recently I’ve been thinking that I’d like to lose weight and tone muscle more than build extra muscle.

Alright, now I’d really like some help losing weight through exercise. Here are some of the main concerns I’ve had with fitness recently—if you could help me address these, that’d be awesome!

1) I’ve heard many conflicting pieces of advice upon starting to do workouts, and I’m confused. Cardio isn’t too great on its own, but yet people slim down from doing marathons? Granted, they likely do more than run to prepare for those... but then I get easily overwhelmed I guess.

2) The bug kahuna—I have trouble with consistency. I really can’t make myself go to the gym (especially now) regularly for more than two weeks without something throwing a wrench in it. I think it’s often merely my mindset—I don’t see results in two weeks, so I don’t want to continue. I really, really, really want to lose this belly. I calculated it, and I think it’ll take me till October if I do everything right. So, I guess my question is: how do I know if the exercises I’m doing are working? I lose faith doing stuff when I feel silly doing it. Take, say, incline push-ups (using the Fitbod app) or some other exercise. The form doesn’t feel perfect, but I have nobody telling me that I’m not going down quite far enough, or I’m going just a bit too far—and then I quit because I don’t know if I’m doing a good job. I don’t know, and I can’t know. But personal trainers are out of my pay-grade, so... I hear form really matters, so I want to be sure I’m doing ok. And then there’s squats. I try to imagine that I’m sitting down; then, I lose balance a little bit when I go down; then, I wonder if my feet are in the right place; then, I wonder if my spine is staying straight; then—on and on. Good thoughts on some level, but too overwhelming.

3) Will bodyweight workouts alone, since that’s all I can do right now, get me to my weight loss goal (150lbs or so) by October? How should I think about this?

4) Should I run everyday? Should I run a little bit? Should I run a mile each day? Does that tone up my legs? Should I care if it does? Should I have being able to run 3 miles without slowing be a goal, for example? Argh.

5) Sometimes the app has me doing like 2 exercises of 3 sets of 15 pushups in a superset (on beginner) but I feel like I can barely do 5 pushups. Is it normal to be so weak when you’re out of shape? This leads to all sorts of fun self-esteem issues and more getting in my head.

6) Should it burn? Sometimes I feel like it just burns to run half a mile, for instance—should I power through, conquer my pain, and overcome, and such? Or should I listen to my body? This kind of relates to form in that I’ve heard there’s this way it feels when you know your form is right—is that a lie? I never feel 100% certain and good and comfortable.

I’ll stop it there for now. As you can doubtless see, my mind is kind of infernal. Let me know if you spot any hypocrisy or bad thought patterns—I want to grow! Please call me out!

And thank you for any help. I want to lose this belly, but I’m so overwhelmed and frustrated that I keep losing my streaks. I’ve never been this out of shape, and it’s hurting my self-confidence. I want to look hot and thin, but maybe that in itself is a problem, somehow...?

If it helps your mental picture at all, I have a year-long subscription to Fitbod, which conjures up workouts based on fresh muscle groups, and I have asthma (aside from which, I’m just really out of shape).

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I need to know where to start this the right way

I apologize in advance for the poorly written novel below. I’m on mobile and to be frank I’m just feeling all kinds of overwhelmed so this is just a super long rant and ask for advice.

Some background first:

I have never, I mean NEVER had a healthy relationship with food whether it be in one direction or another. I grew up hearing constant body remarks from adult family members, and I used food to cope with things as a kid. It has always been my comfort. There was a time in my life when I was really little where food was scarce, so when I was really little, if something was yummy, I’d eat it ALL. All of it. I’d hide it and scarf it down in secret or take enough helpings of dinner to make my stomach hurt and then I’d go back for more. I also had a crap ton of younger siblings who I’d care for instead of getting involved in doing anything physical. I wasn’t just a chubby kid, I was a huge kid. With absolutely no physical fitness know how or athletic ability.

At ten years old my (kind of distant) birth father told me one summer that I had to lose 50 pounds by Christmas break or I wasn’t going to see him again. That was the first time in my life I stopped eating. And yeah, I lost a bunch of weight. The adults in my life seemed pleased. And then at 12 I was sexually assaulted and I’m learning now through therapy that it’s not so uncommon that I began to eat to cope with that afterwards.

I got into a really shitty, toxic marriage as an adult and long story short, got up to 298lbs. I’m 5’3” and I was disgusted with myself. When that marriage ended (thank god) I basically was like “No way in hell am I getting up to 300lbs” and I stopped eating again. Or I’d eat to save face in public and then find the soonest opportunity to stick my fingers down my throat. There was a LOT of shit in my life that was out of my control, like $15k in my ex husbands debt I was paying, multiple pregnancy losses I was just then getting the opportunity to have feelings about, and to be quite honest I was on my OWN for the first time ever. I used food (or the lack thereof) to regain some control I guess.

I lost SO much weight. And nobody thinks to question the methods of weight loss when you’re that big. Everyone was super happy for me and the compliments came all the time about how great I looked. So it encouraged it for sure. I was getting attention I’d never before gotten in my life. I was kind of attractive and I knew it. I got down to 152lbs in the span of a year (yikes). But my periods stopped, I began growing all kinds of body hair that wasn’t there before, and I’d pass out all the freaking time.

I met my now husband, and he noticed something wasn’t right. He encouraged me to seek help and for a while I did. I began eating healthy and things were going really well.

Until they weren’t. We had a miscarriage in April last year, and I absolutely lost control again. When I was with my ex I had multiple losses. But knowing the problem was ME hit different. I’m still recovering.

I’m back up to 230lbs again from then to now and I’m absolutely disgusted with myself again. I feel like crap- I get out of breath walking up the stairs. I tried going back to working out but literally got laughed out of a gym (that’s a whole other story) and then tried to do it myself and tore my labrum in my hip, and basically used that as an excuse to do nothing again.

I’m back in counseling and I want to repair my relationship with food. But most importantly I want to be healthy AND lose weight this time.

I need some baby steps for this. I adore this group, and I’ve found it so much more helpful than any other online forum so far. Im looking for somewhere to start that is one, small step at a time.

I work 60ish hours a week. I’m in a program for my masters degree. I have 5 and 7 year old step babies. I know that I’m busy but I need to find a way to do this. And to do it right this time. I want to be able to play with my kids and not get out of breath. I want to have sex with my husband without being so self-conscious I can’t be present in the moment. I want to actually feel proud of how I do it this time. And, I don’t know, I’d like to actually not obsess over food in one way or another every waking moment of my day.

So, what works for you guys? What are some “baby steps” I can focus on? What is the very best advice, words of encouragement, accountability, or anything else you guys can offer? I’m tired of my “I’ll start next week” attitude. I’m tired of feeling this way. I’m ready to get started. I know I need help.

Thanks if you made it this far. I hope this is the right group to ask in. I appreciate you all.

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Need some advice.. How do I lose weight?

I guess I’ll start by saying I want to lose about 10kg. I’ve gained weight in the last year or two and am now just above the healthy weight range in terms of BMI. Plus I now feel frumpy and not as fit as I’m used to. I’m a 21 year old female, weigh about 71kg (157 lbs) and 163cm (5’3”).

This is my first time posting here, and you guys seem like a pretty supportive group so thought I’d ask for advice.

How do I lose weight?

I’m so overwhelmed, it seems like there’s so many different diets and methods but how do I pick just one strategy? Do I need to see a doctor or nutritionist?

What would you recommend as the best way to drop about 10 kg?

I feel like I have no self control around food, I can easily eat an entire family block of chocolate or big packet of potato chips. And I will still eat more after.

I’ve tried counting calories on an app (LoseIt) but this makes me feel restricted and I keep blowing it. I’ve also tried IF for a while but found I couldn’t keep it up. I’ve also tried cutting out sugar/bread and eating more vegetables (excluding starchy vegetables like potatoes) but couldn’t keep this up long term.

How did you guys start? Any success stories would also be appreciated!

TLDR - what are the best strategies for weight loss of keeping it off long term? Any advice or success stories are greatly appreciated! :)

Thanks!

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Just felt like sharing.

Male, 6’ maybe 6’1”. Can’t really give an accurate weight because I really have no idea if my scale is working properly or not. I weighed myself a few days ago and it said 245 but I certainly don’t believe I look 245lbs and neither does anyone else I tell that. I care more about the results rather than the number on the scale anyway. I’m 17, a couple weeks from 18, and started cutting out old habits around the end of February/beginning of March. I work in retail at a store that is literally a couple minutes from my house. Since I’m still in school (or was at the time thanks a lot COVID-19) and live with my parents I don’t have a lot of things to pay for which meant I had more money to spend on food. Every time I went to the store, which was basically once a day since it was so close, I would look at the sales on the 2-liter sodas. If they were on sale I would buy 2-4 of them. I definitely became addicted to soda. It got so bad to where I could drink an entire 2-liter in a day. It didn’t stop there. I began to fall in love with pizza, specifically Dominos. I would order the same thing every time I had it, which could be like 3-5 times a week. I would order a large pizza with double cheese, double pepperoni, and extra sauce... and yes I could and almost always would eat the whole thing in one sitting. Other days when I didn’t feel like having pizza I would go to McDonald’s because I fell in love with their signature sandwich, the Big Mac. My regular order was two Big Macs with extra pickles and extra Mac sauce, and a large French fry. No drink because I would take the food home anyway and drink whatever soda I had in the refrigerator. I ate more than just that of course but that’s all I’ll go into for now. This all went on for months. I was already pretty badly out of shape, but I could tell I was gaining even more weight. I was previously told by my doctor a while back I have high blood pressure and I should really think about quitting sugary drinks. Obviously I didn’t listen.

My parents started to notice I was eating fast food a lot, and my mom frequently would let me know I’ve gained weight. I know she wasn’t trying to be mean or anything and frankly I’m glad that she did let me know because that’s what eventually helped snap me out of this eating disorder I had. One night I just continued to think about what I was doing to my body and kept telling myself that I can quit. I guess my mom was thinking about me that night too because when I got up she wanted to have a serious talk with me about my food intake.

I would say it’s been about three weeks give or take since I started turning my life around. I’ve quit basically anything that someone could consider unhealthy. This is already a really long post so if you’re interested in specifics just ask in the comments. Currently I can tell I’m losing weight, and I’m happy. Plus I’m currently recovering from wisdom teeth removal so that’s probably also helping with weight loss too. If you actually read all this then I seriously commend you.

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Honestly, just quit all those weight loss support groups on Facebook (since often they do more harm than good) and stay active in Reddit communites instead

I'm actually terrified what I've seen in countless of FB groups over the past few months and by now I quit all of them. It's good to see the positivity and encouragement people give each other but whenever someone needs an advice, they just go apeshit. Like they heard something a long time ago and now they state it as a fact without actually knowing anything about the topic. Or just the classic "it worked for me, it must work for anyone". No, the body doesn't work that way. You can't even bring up science to argue them because they think you are some know-it-all and start to attack you. Toxic.

Many groups mistake dieting with anorexia. Seriously. People are posting their daily mealplan consisting of 5-800 calories with 20g of protein and people tell them to eat even less. I even saw some saying that your body doesn't need protein, wtf?? I saw some complaining about sudden hair loss and gum decay and everyone started to defend their diet immediately, it cannot be that. Sure. The only thing they changed was their diet, but it can't be.

People who just start on their diets get so many terrible advices in these groups, it's crazy. I'm so happy I started my journey on Reddit. Maybe my posts didn't get 30 replies in an hour, but way more useful than anything I read in those communities.

I was trying my best to help people out who were clearly damaging their health following some bad advices but someone always attacked me stating some bullshit with zero research to back it up. I know how it feels like when you suddenly change your lifstyle 180 and in that information-overload you don't even try to google the stuff you read, whatever someone says becomes the holy bible because you are happy if you can keep that little in mind at that time. But make sure that little comes from a valuable source.

And one last thing: before you jump into anything hardcore, like keto or OMAD, spend a few days reading tutorials and watching videos from reliable sources, and do your research. All of these extreme diets can be very much simplified but there are a lot of details that you have to pay attention on to have the right results without damaging your health. I learned it the hard way too. Suddenly losing weight doesn't mean you do it right. Hell, even cutting out sugars can cause a sudden weight loss. Many folks who start dieting are eating healthy for the first time in their life. They will drop weight eventually. It doesn't mean you are being effective with your diet, it "just works" but it can also backfire long term.

And please, please, eat your maintanance protein at least. You need it.

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Scared of new relationship with food

Hi all, I've been a lurker on this subreddit for a while now. I am morbidly obese at 317 pounds. If it helps, I am female and 5'11. Currently on a calorie deficit to lose 1.5 lbs per week, and should be under 300 by the middle of the year. However, I'm losing it quicker than expected because of my new relationship with food.

I started counting calories at the beginning of last month. Since February I have lost 12 pounds from counting calories. It's changing me in a way that makes me feel empty (emotionally) and afraid. I used to look forward to dessert every night. But now, my stomach hurts if I overeat even just a little bit. I can no longer eat/drink to the point where I feel full/satisfied. Otherwise, I get super uncomfortable and anxious, since feeling full now makes me feel sick. I find myself being repulsed by a lot of foods that used to make me happy, like chocolate, green tea, or sushi. I just no longer like how they make me feel.

At first I thought that this new relationship with food was a great thing. But now, I am skipping meals randomly, just to avoid the feeling of fullness. But whether I am feeling hungry, or full, it all just gives me an incomplete, empty feeling. It makes me feel, dare I say, depressed. Food used to bring me joy and now, it all kind of disgusts me, even water, tea, and coffee, which I used to love. I can't drink matcha tea because I now have a heightened sensitivity to caffeine. I can't drink herbal tea because it now gives me digestive issues. I now feel repulsed by most foods because since I started restricting calories, my body has become more sensitive to food. The only time I am actually hungry is after I do strenuous work (long distance walking, exercise, moving boxes, chores, etc.). I guess I used to really look forward to eating food. But now, it just gives me a really Hollow feeling, where I end up regretting taking a single bite of anything.

I guess this post is more of a vent, but I was wondering if anyone has ever felt a similar way. I'm really not sure how to navigate my new emotions surrounding food. I started this weight loss journey because I was worried about my health. But now, this new problem has arisen that makes me worry about both my mental and physical health. Any advice would be stellar. Thanks for reading.

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