Quarantine weight loss

So through this quarantine, I've started eating pretty healthy, going on walks, and working out almost every day. But I haven't lost any weight and I'm not seeing any changes. I usually lose weight pretty fast and this is just frustrating. Normally if I were to do this I would lose five pounds in a week, how? No idea, I eat enough, I promise, and work out at a normal rate and it just comes off and now it's not happening any longer. I've only been doing this for two weeks and I know I can't expect to see major results it's just hard not to get discouraged. Any tips on how to deal with this? And not snack all the time? I would love to come out of this with a great summer body.

Thanks!

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5'6" and 148lbs. Want to get to 135lbs as soon as I can. Been using CICO, extra tips?

I started at 155lbs mid February and began my journey by eating 1200/1300 calories a day.

Its the end of march and I've lost 7lbs, I'm at 148lbs. I want to get to 135lbs (comfortable weight) by at least July, if not sooner. That gives me April, May, June. 3 months before summer starts.

Some days I do cardio on an elliptical for 30 minutes burning about 300 calories but ever since quarantine started I haven't been as regular since the machine is in a room that's constantly in use (I hate working out in front of people). I'll go on walks for 30 minutes to an hour on some days. Most of the time I'm at home though.

Because of a crazy sleep schedule, I've basically started eating around 1pm (When i wake up lol) and stop eating before 7pm. Sitting at home all day doesn't make me hungry, I've unintentionally been eating less calories as a result.

The only drink I drink is water, and my diet is majority healthy. Fruit smoothie (without milk) in the morning and a boiled egg, almonds or grapes around the middle of my day, and a nice salad or plate of veggies with some sort of meat component for dinner. Oolong tea with lime drops right after dinner (helps digest everything nicely). There isn't much junk food in my house, I couldn't eat it even if I wanted to. I've cut out bread, rice, and pasta. Stuck to straightforward ingredients.

I wish I was drinking more water though? Does it really help with the weight loss (aside from water weight)? How much should I drink? And obviously moving around more always helps, but how vigorous do my physical activities even have to be? Are there any other helpful tips that I can use, or is this just a waiting game? I've been pretty consistent. Am I doing a good-enough job?

Because I have "lesser" body weight, it's not easy for me to lose like 5lbs in a week or something. The most I can do is 2, but anything to get me to my goal weight so I can simply start maintaining.

This is also my first reddit post lol. I wonder how it works I have no idea what to expect but I'm hoping to come here for motivation, encouragement. Some helpful tips.

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General update and observations

I've been losing weight for about a year now. 18 Y/O F, 5'4", SW: 224 CW: 196 GW: none, just until It feels right and I can do a pullup :).

some interesting and occasionally obvious things that have surprised me -

- push-ups are exponentially becoming easier, in part by muscle gain, but mostly the weight loss

- My stomach doesn't look significantly smaller or anything, and I'm not positive I even look much different. But how I feel and physically and mentally MORE than makes up for it. I feel thinner, and that's a cathartic feeling

- eating sweets is... hard to do in quantities larger than Halloween size? I don't know if I can stomach a full kit-kat bar without feeling like shit, which is kinda unthinkable.

- man, I can walk SO much further. 4 mile walk? not easy but not painful either.

- Once I changed how I viewed food, it was not hard to eat more vegetables and the like to actually take care of myself.

- man, social eating makes it HARD to keep on your diet. Corona is probably gonna let me lose another 10 lbs faster than I have ever before (but still in a healthy manner).

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some tips for those still struggling -

- once you untrain habitual eating, it becomes SO MUCH EASIER to lose weight. For me what worked was a couple of weeks/months of IF and CICO totally re-worked how I thought about meals. now, even when I'm not following IF and CICO strictly I can eyeball stuff, and generally just eat within that range without thinking too hard. (still have to stay on top of myself to not overdo social eating though)

- never try to cut anything out all at once! focus on slowly reducing consumption of x, instead of "I vow never to eat this again". Set yourself up for success, not failure. so much easier to try to reduce something than unequivocally cut it out.

- don't get sad if your Plateauing! Happens to everyone, and is super natural. I Plateau for a week or two before dropping another 5 pounds over another week or two. It just depends on when I focus on losing weight and restrict a little more.

- It is perfectly fair and valid to lose weight for aesthetic reasons, but in my experience, it becomes harder to lose weight in a healthy way if my reasons are tainted by insecurity. For me personally, I had to lose the notion of losing weight to be pretty to begin losing at all. I began to understand that not only did I love snacks, but /I/ was the real snack all along. Losing weight was/is a health endeavor for me. again: totally fine to lose for aesthetic reasons, but for those who find aesthetic reasons to be a mental block, try finding other reasons to lose weight!

- sub tip, setting a goal related to but not directly tied to weight loss helps me a lot too - like wanting to do a pull-up. sure, I could gain massive musclez which is part of my goal, but losing weight would be just as if not more effective.

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A note: I've been talking about weight loss since my early teens, I mean, a LONG time. it was until I made these shifts in thinking and went to years of therapy that I was able to finally implement the changes necessary to lose weight. I made shifts for months before I saw any real results, too. Taking it slow is how I found success, which meant I had to change my goals from short term aesthetic ones to long term health ones.

Posting this update is just keeping my spirits up and keeping my eyes on the prize. I hope everyone is feeling good at home, and everyone is staying safe. Stay on track gang!

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Looking on the bright side.

Hello, I just needed to get some of my thoughts about my almost 3 year long weight loss journey out. Sorry it's long

I've been on this subreddit for almost 2.5 years. Mostly, I lurk except for the occasional comment. After struggling with my weight my whole life (I'm 19 years old), I decided to lose weight in September of 2017. I gained weight after struggling with three autoimmune conditions. I don't blame them for my weight gain, but they messed with my appetite and I was focused on feeling better, not necessarily my weight. I got up to 203 pounds. I wasn't happy with my body and felt out of control with my eating.

A little backstory about me: I was homeschooled up until high school. During high school, I attended a charter school where I only actually went to school two days a week and the rest was independent study at home (so still kinda homeschooled). I think I have always relied on food as a comfort for loneliness and a substitute for relationships. It didn't help that my dad loved to go out to eat and eat junk food, and my mom had a history of bulimia and binge eating. Again, no blame. Plenty of people grow up with a weird, maybe not so healthy, food environment. My past unhealthy relationship with food, paired with my health issues starting at 12 years old left me with food as a crutch and weight gain as the inevitable result.

So fast forward to 16 almost 17 year old me, who decided to lose weight. I'm not really sure what the catalyst was that sparked my weight loss. I didn't hate how I looked anymore than I had at any previous moment in my life. However, whatever caused me to attempt weight loss, I am grateful for it. I found this subreddit and started to count calories. Despite being young and not having the healthiest food role models, I didn't develop an unhealthy obsession with counting calories or body image. It was honestly pretty chill. I took each day by day and didn't beat myself up when I went over for special events (birthdays, holidays, vacations, etc.).

Finally, around my birthday in 2018 and one year anniversary of weight loss, I had lost 50 pounds and decided to take a break from dieting and try my hand at intuitive eating. I didn't really have a deadline to get back into dieting, but it ended up being January of 2019 (how original right?). Well, little did I know 2019 would turn out to be the worst year of my life. I struggled with binge eating, which I had never dealt with before. Things were stressful at home, I was graduating high school, and trying to decide which college to go to. Basically, the whole year was a wash. I was consistently trying to lose weight, but didn't succeed in losing anything. I took another break during Christmas (a shorter one this time), and decided to try and get back into things January 2020. The beginning of this year was rough (still is due to Covid-19). However, I finally feel like I'm in the swing of things again and losing weight.

Basically, all of this caused me to feel like a failure. I would tell people I was trying to lose weight, but realized I wasn't actually losing any. It felt like I was out of control. However, yesterday I looked at My Fitness Pal and all of my data since the beginning. I realized that losing 50 pounds in a year is a great accomplishment! And although I haven't been losing weight for 1.5 years, I have been successfully maintaining. This might be a longer journey than I expected, but I'm proud that my weight loss wasn't up and down, but down and flat. Hopefully, I can stay strong and lose the last 10-15 pounds. I'm still working on my relationship with food and the other stressors that caused my binge eating, but I'm feeling hopeful about the future!

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F/22/5’1, 153-138 lbs: slow but maintaining consistent weight loss!

So I’ve lost about fifteen pounds since august, which is not very noticeable since it’s happened really slowly but I’m really proud of myself!

The method I had used previously to lose weight in high school was borderline obsessive and almost if not absolutely some form of an eating disorder. It worked and I lost weight, but I didn’t lose weight because I developed a better relationship with food. I lost weight because I was seventeen and depressed. What I did to myself was destructive and not sustainable, and although I got the, “results” I wanted, I regret ever doing that to my body. It was too fast, too extreme, and actually resulted in me developing gallstones and requiring an emergency gallbladder removal. (I went from approximately 160-130 in about two months and lost an extra 7 pounds from surgical complications and an extended stay in the hospital . It was NOT worth it, it was preventable, and I gained most of the weight back over the course of four years)

That was about five years ago. Now, instead of focusing on limiting or reducing my intake I’m focusing on developing eating and exercise habits. I’ve developed a routine around when and what I eat. I don’t starve myself or refuse myself snacks, I just try and choose healthier and more filling choices. I still have cheat days, I’ve had cheat weeks even, but by maintaining on overall consistency I’ve found that I am still losing weight or at the very least maintaining. What has worked the best for me is timing when I eat. Although it varies, I try and have breakfast around 10, lunch around 3, and dinner around 7. I have snacks in between depending on if I’m hungry. Even on days where I don’t completely follow my schedule I try and maintain it. Although I might have a lot of snacks and drinks one evening, I’ll still eat the same as I would during the day.

I also set exercise goals. I’ve been jogging on a treadmill, and aim to train myself to jog for extended periods of time. At first I could only jog for about five minutes, this week I was able to jog for a full thirty at a speed of 5 miles an hour! Which apparently isn’t very fast but as someone who had exercise-induced asthma I’m happy I can run at all! I try and go on the treadmill at least five times a week but I don’t jog everyday currently.

Progress has been slow, but it’s working for me and it doesn’t require me to treat myself strictly and cruelly. The speed of my weight loss has increased though as it took me sometime to develop these habits and make them more sustainable. So whereas I only lost five pounds from August to approximately December, I’ve lost about ten since January.

The progress isn’t linear, but it’s developing a consistency that I’m happy with!

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Never thought I could do it, but today marks the day that I have lost 100 pounds.

When I think about what I look like, I still see this obese girl full of insecurities and the desire to be loved the way I knew I deserved to be. When I look in the mirror, I am shocked as to what I have become. With this weight loss, I have gained so much more knowledge on how to take care of myself all together. When I adapted into a healthier lifestyle, I guess it enabled my brain to realize that my physical health had been affecting my mental health as well. Today I am 177 pounds, exactly 100 pounds less than I was at my heaviest and I am so incredibly proud of myself. I still have maybe 20-30 pounds to go, but that goal is closer than ever and I am soaring.

Whoever needs to hear this: you can do it! Quarantine is the perfect time to get active with at home workouts or simply going on a walk. It will all be worth it. The results will show, I promise. Nobody is going to notice at first, but soon everyone will. Now is the time!

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Weight loss not continuing, no matter what I do.

I'm a 24 year old girl that needs to lose weight (still).
I'm currently 94kg (208lbs), and I'm 173cm (5'8") tall.

I started losing weight since autumn 2017, and until spring 2019, things went well. I was 110kg (243lbs) in 2017, and I always lost weight about 1kg (2lbs) per week, except sometimes it did stop for a little while and then started happening again, which is normal when losing weight.
But now, the case is different... It's almost been a year and the weight hasn't dropped from 94kg at all. 2019 was when I saw the scale showing 94kg.

I actually exercise more than before, and my diet is still the same what I had since 2017, but nothing happens at all. I've even tried methods that are said to be "helpful", but those ones don't help either.
My exercise plan and diet really helped me lose weight to 94kg, but now it's as if my life wants me to stay like this.
My exercise consists of doing cardio 45-50min 3-4 times a week (it used to be 30min 3-5 times a week back in 2017-2019), and when it comes to my diet, what I do is just keep the calorie intake low enough to make me lose weight. Nothing about cutting carbs or eating exotic ingredients that have some "magical" effect or whatsoever.
This is what helped me lose weight from 110kg to 94kg:
https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html
This calorie calculator is based on the "eating less calories than what you burn" concept. It really did help me, but now I have some crazy weight loss plateau thing going on.

I feel so embarrassed about this and sometimes I'm very anxious to talk about this because I'm scared that people will assume things about me that aren't true at all, or accuse me for nothing, etc.

If you want to know whether I have any health condition or anything like that, I'm diagnosed with hypothyroidism and yes, I have the right medication for it (thyroxin).
I was also diagnosed with endometriosis back in November 2017, and no, I have no medication for endo because the medication tends to be hormonal and I do not trust the hormonal medication for it.

I've tried literally everything, but nothing happens. It's all numb now. My body doesn't care about what I do.

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