As well as getting AWAY from being overweight, what are you hoping to get TOWARDS?

Hi! I’m 24 F, started at 238 pounds and down to 205 now over about 3 months.

I’m on my most consistent weight loss ever after about a 5 year struggle, and part of this I owe to my mentor.

Before I always just focussed on losing weight, but I learnt that when you try to get AWAY from something like weight as soon as you get distance from it you still feel like you have ages to go because you tell yourself every day ‘my body isn’t good enough, I’m not thin enough yet, I need to lose more’ then as you lose more you yo yo back because your drive decreases the further you get thinner, as you are further away from being overweight and start feeling comfortable. You look back at where you were criticising yourself before and think wow I was actually looking pretty good!

My mentor asked me, ‘what do you want to get TOWARDS?’

I recently started rowing and I’d love to be able to row a 2k in under 7 minutes. This goes hand in hand with weight loss: I need to build muscle and tone, improve my posture, eat good fuel for food and all this is helping me drop weight without really focussing on it as my main goal

What are you hoping to get towards today/this week/ this month/ this year?

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Doing some calculations and personal accountability, feel free to ignore.

I'm posting this for my own personal accountability. Feel free to ignore it and go about your awesome days. Just posting this so I have an accurate day/weight/thought process of what's going on.

I started actively losing weight on Jan 13 of this year, at 385 lbs. Today is 4/19 and I'm at 328 lbs. Averaging 3.8 lb/week.

I'm eating between 1300 and 1700 calories per day, averaging a fairly strict 1500-1550.

My next goal is to be at 300 by June 19th.

My goal is to get to 250 by Jan 13 of 2021.

My bonus goal is to maintain my current weight loss rate as best I can. Math shows that I can get to 235 (exactly 150 lbs lost) by mid-October. That would mean maintaining an average of 3.8 lb/week until then, which is doable if I begin to work out.

If I can hit 235 by Thanksgiving, I'll be ecstatic. Most of my family won't have seen me since my Grandpa's funeral in February. For the first time in my adult life, I'll be able to indulge without feeling bad about it.

I graduated high school at 6' 185 in 2004. I shot up in weight in my first two semesters at college to about 215. I went to a different school weighing 240 in 2007. I graduated that school at 330 in 2009. I maintained that except for a brief post-surgery stint at 299 up until the last three years, when I gained to 385. I was having trouble breathing while bending over to tie my shoes. My ass hit both sides of every chair I sat in and I had to be careful about smaller chairs catching my pocket knife clip. I was having trouble finding ANY shirt that fit in a regular store, and was basically relegated to overpriced XL stores. I was searching for a shirt to see a friend last minute, and I couldn't find one that fit at Target or Kohls. I couldn't find a dress shirt at all for my friend's 20's themed NYE party until I went to XL Casual Male. Even 3XL shirts from Duluth were getting snug. 44 pants were fitting tightly. 42s now fit better than 44s did then. Plus seeing 385 lbs on a calibrated medical scale, not to mention the fact that the truck scale at work read me at 380 was a big wake up call.

Feel free to ignore this post, I'm just posting so that when I go back in my profile post history I can get an exact time/date/weight for where I was. I'll probably keep adding to this post later on.

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Still struggling with diet. What's your favorite weight loss friendly snack foods?

I need help picking foods during this pandemic. I'm cooking a lot more junk than I ever have before, Knorr Pasta/Rice sides, mac and cheese, ramen, microwave burritos are basically fueling me right now and I can feel my blood coagulating in my veins. I need healthy, filling, fulfilling snack and meal ideas that will support me.

I'm eating a lot because I'm bored and it's literally killing me.

I want to lose weight to support increased mileage so I can do more backpacking/hiking after this pandemic is over. I need help and I'm not quite sure with where to start to lose weight and increase my fitness and endurance for that.

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I'm 10 pounds overweight. Here's why I've decided it's time to maintain.

I had a breakthrough with weight. I have been so focused on BMI for the last year that I've been fighting like hell to get back to a healthy weight according to BMI (I tend to float 10 pounds north of that right now). I was briefly 170 pounds when I was 22, but I realized this week that this was unsustainable. I was eating almost entirely raw vegetables and Israeli street food, and I walked up to 15 miles a day every day. While that sounds amazing, I was constantly sick (fevers, flu, parasites, constant fainting, chills, turned blue all the time). In fact, I was recovering from a middle eastern parasite when I hit my low weight of 170.4. That whole year, my hip bones and collar bones protruded. The hinge of my jaw stuck out of my face in pictures. My skin was grey. I wanted so desperately to be in the healthy BMI range that I ignored how skeletal and sick I was looking and how gross I was feeling, and I only noticed how scary I looked looking back on pictures from my year abroad this week.

I realized this week that since bouncing around in the 180s for a year or so, I haven't been sick at all. My complexion is better. I have defined features, but not skeletal. I did my body measurements--everything I've used except BMI says I'm a healthy weight, body fat percentage, etc. My ratios are good, I have a flat stomach (except for a small pouch of loose skin in my lower tummy), and I wear a size small to medium on average, even though I'm nearly 6 feet tall. That, and my fitness is the best it's ever been. I exercise nearly every day, sometimes taking walks or hikes that last four or more hours in the hills of northern Manhattan.

Because of all this, I've decided I'm done losing weight, and I'm done obsessing over the scale. I'm going to weigh myself every other Wednesday just to check in, and if I'm 190 or higher I'll weigh in once a week until I'm squarely back in the 180s. At the end of the day, BMI isn't the end all be all, and I refuse to be miserable and be a slave to a weight that isn't sustainable or healthy for me. I'd much rather live in a comfortable range that keeps me healthy, even if it is 10 or so pounds overweight according to BMI.

After three years and two months of attempted or successful weight loss , I'm officially maintaining. And I've decided this alone, quarantined in my apartment. So I figured I'd share here, because I'm really proud. I've lost around 100lbs from my high weight and have functionally maintained that for a year, but now am officially making the switch.

Hope everyone is safe and healthy out there. Be well, y'all.

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So close, but yet so far..... ~70lbs lost, looking to lose an additional ~10lbs to hit initial Goal Weight. But still feel very fat, need some advice/encouragement for a Yo-yoing food addict (Current body pics included)

28M, 6'2", SW 300, GW 220, CW 230

Started my weight loss journey a little over a year ago. I've mostly just adhered to CICO. Everything went well for the first 4-5 months. Steadily dropped from 300 to previous lowest of 237 in September. Felt pretty similar to how I feel now. Ballooned back up to 265-270 during the fall/winter. Bracketed back down on the diet and I have been doing 8/16 IF for the past 4 months. I've got my lowest weight in about 10 years and I'm now within roughly 10 lbs of my initial goal weight but I'm still very displeased with how I look. I still feel I look very fat (flabby stomach, man boobs, prominent love handles, overall pretty soft and pudgy) just a slightly scaled down version of it. I'm not sure how many more lbs I need to lose to get a relatively slim figure. 30? 40?

Pictures

https://imgur.com/a/M1yDCtv

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Body dysmorphia after weight loss?

As I reach the end of my weight loss it's hard to tell what is reality and what is in my head. I am 5'5. My starting weight was 205 and I'm down to 144 now. My original "realistic" goal was 140-145 but when I look at myself I feel like another 10-15 pounds off is in order but every time I mention that I get comments about how I don't need to lose more and that I'll look skeletal with another 15 pounds off. I know I have a touch of not seeing reality because even at 40lbs down I struggled seeing the change in myself. I've only now started to see the change in my body at 60lbs down. Anyone else struggle with this?

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Weight loss buddy / accountability partner?

F21 5’1 SW: 206 CW: 201 GW: 140

I recently started my weight loss journey and have been super happy with my progress so far! None of my friends or family members are in the same situation, and I feel that I might be annoying them talking about recipes, my progress, or other things related to my health (understandable.)

I would love to have a friend / accountability partner to talk with every now and then about our thoughts and feelings, and just to support each other! Whether you’ve already lost the weight, are currently doing so, or plan to in the future; I’d love to talk!

Feel free to PM me. :)

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