When someone compliments you on your weight loss how does it make you feel?

The first time I was on my weight loss journey it happened in August 2017. I didn’t tell my family about it. I remember I saw them at Christmas and the next time I saw them was May 2018 and they pointed it out asking me questions on how did I do it? How much weight did I lose, you look good etc and it honestly didn’t make me feel good It made me uncomfortable. I just want to know does anyone else feel like this or do you like getting compliments?🌸

Turns out the writing above is too short so I’ll give you a little detail about my own weight loss journey😁

I am a 19 year old girl who is currently on her weight loss journey, I started my weight loss journey on 16th December 2019 so far I have lost over a stone 😇 it has been hard work but it has been very rewarding when you see your clothes getting smaller and the number on the scales getting smaller too. I am 5ft 3 so I have a lot of weight to lose so I can have a healthy bmi. The foods I have cut out complete is dairy cheese because I loved dairy cheese and I had it all the time but it was very high in fat so I decided to switch to vegan cheese which has helped me a lot because It made me realise that I don’t need to put cheese on every meal. I don’t drink fizzy drinks anymore, I remember I previously cut it out for x amount of weeks and I tried it again and it didn’t taste the same so that’s why I cut it out fully. when I crave it now I drink flavoured sparkling water which I love! I’m still having hard time about chocolate... what do you do when you crave chocolate? I feel like It’s a on going cycle with me. I have a unhealthy relationship with chocolate because I’ll buy some so I can have it over the next couple of days but I’ll eat it all in one day and feel shit then I do it all over again which isn’t good ☹️

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Hot dogs for dinner?

I feel really dumb right now. The other day I was craving hot dogs, so I went out and got some as well as buns. I didn't check the info on either of them because I thought for some reason it wouldn't be so bad. I'm a 5'10 female and my weight is 165. I started my weight loss on March 25th weighing in at 172. The only time I eat is at 12 pm and 7 pm. I usually have honey nut cheerios 12 pm, followed by a small bowl of pasta at 7 pm. I'm afraid that I'm gonna be gaining if I have one for dinner but at the same time I can't waste them, since I live with my dad and he doesn't like hot dogs. What do I do? Thank you for your help.

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Mentally overcoming a plateau

I have been dedicated to living a healthier, more active lifestyle for most of this year. I started tracking my progress at the start of April by using chest, waist, and hip measurements. Due to a complicated history with food and eating disorders, I put my scale in my closet and I don't track my weight as I get too obsessed with that number and would weigh myself multiple times a day. Every Monday, I start my day by taking my measurements and recording them in my activity log.

For the first month, I was having some good results. Since Instarted tracking, I've lost a total of 6 inches. I'm really insanely proud of this, especially since I have been on lockdown for most of this and can't just go for a jog to get my cardio in. I've been doing DDP Yoga three times a week and cutting sugars out of my diet, but the last two weeks have shown no changes.

I knew this day was coming and that plateauing is a natural part of weight loss and getting healthy, but it is a real jab in my motivation to feel like I am not getting any better. How do you all get past the mental block of not seeing results like this? Thanks in advance!

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I'm struggling to reach my calorie limit, advice?

Hi everyone!

Last year I lost about 40lbs through CICO, which was great, however since then I have regained most of it as a result of moving abroad and life getting hectic.

So as a result if the whole covid19 situation I have been in lockdown for the last 3 weeks, and thought this would be a great time to get back onto loseit and CICO.

Things have been going really well, I'm in a positive mindset and am enjoying eating better, however I'm finding I'm really struggling to eat enough calories! My allowance is set for 1300 per day (I'm f/5'10/cw 183lbs), but this past week or so I've been only reaching around 900 calories per day, and then am finding myself having to make myself eat as I don't want to eat too little to an unhealthy extent.

Has anyone else had this issue? I'm worried not eating enough will actually hinder my weight loss efforts, but I'm simply not getting hungry (this has never been an issue before haha!)

Does anyone have any advice, similar experiences, or insight into how this will affect weightloss?

I'm not sure whether to just accept the decreased appetite or whether I should be making an effort to eat more?

Thanks in advance!

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Finally managing to shed weight, but still scared about loose skin.

Hi r/loseit. I am biologically male, 5'7", almost 30 and started doing intermittent fasting at about 230 pounds. My last weight was 209 today, and I'm really proud of myself. However, a big reason for my choice to lose weight is my body image. I care about health, but looking attractive is important too. Going off BMI calculators (I know, flawed, doesn't count muscle mass, etc., but they're easy to interpret), I am about 60-70 pounds overweight. My short term goal is 190 and long term is about 160. I've read large weight loss, especially late in life, will leave loose skin. I'm worried that will become a problem for me as I have had a sagging belly since I was adolescent. Loose skin could end up killing my desire to lose weight, since it'll make fitting clothes hard and look physically unattractive without surgery. I don't know if I'm too overweight, too old, or been fat for too long to expect a natural recovery. I've got stretch marks but most of them have turned pale by this point. I'd like to know what Reddit thinks and what advice I could take. Will this be something I have to worry about at this point in my life, or can I expect my skin to work for me?

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Just the beginning

As the title says, I’ve just begun my weight loss journey 2 months ago, but I’ve come a long way! I have lost 20 pounds since February 15, after 3 years of struggling with my weight. Senior year of high school I was 260 lbs, played football & was in really good shape (I’m 6’4) but once I graduated, it went downhill due to me becoming a stoner & working at McDonald’s (horrible combination) I reached 315 lbs by the end of 2017 & started having high blood pressure issues. I bull shitted for far too long & finally decided to get my act together. On February 15 I was 310 lbs, as of today I am down to 290! I’m no means done with my journey but I am proud of myself for being consistent. These last 2 months have shown me I can really do this. This sub has helped me so much. I’m thankful for the people here who are brave enough to share their stories! You guys help out more than you realize.

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I don't have many people to celebrate this with

Hi guys,

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This is my first time posting here, but around Mid-January this year I decided start a keto diet. I've heard on a lot of different podcasts that it might be a good way to lose weight and at the time, I was 386 pounds. I wanted to do anything possible to stop myself from reaching 400 pounds. So I started it thinking it would be fun to see if the claims of higher energy levels and weight loss were true if I kept this diet going for two weeks. So I did it for 4 days, and let me tell you those were some of the hardest days of my life. I had a friend who is pretty healthy and did this diet intermittently and he told me it would take around a month to really feel the effects. As soon as I heard that, I thought it would be impossible for me to keep it up for that long. It would effectively stop me from going to fast food restaurants, eating ice cream, and having pizza. Knowing that eating one single thing that has too many carbs could completely erase all my hard work of staying in ketosis made me keep going longer than what i thought possible. Then, I started realizing that I was dropping weight really fast. Fast forward to now, I'm still on the diet and I weigh 319 pounds. I haven't been that weight in over 3 years. I'm really proud of myself now and I would love to tell all my friends, but I haven't ever really talked to them about my weight and I'm still embarrassed to talk about weight. I'm also in quarantine right now so it's hard to even see my friends. But I wanted to share this news with someone, and maybe one of you guys will be inspired to keep going and lose weight too!

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