(Re) starting my journey [27F/4'10/140lbs]

I was always severely underweight as a child and encouraged to eat anything and everything. I started gaining weight after 18 and gained about 35lbs taking me from 90lbs to 125lbs. I lost it all in about 2 years and was at my lowest at 96lbs in December 2018. Now, I had gone through a horrible relationship and severely depressed so it wasnt exactly healthy. I slowly started gaining weight back and it wasnt until 2 days ago I realized I now weighed a WOOPING 140lbs.

I had some chronic sickness. Went through an adult tonsillectomy, UPPP and Adenoidectomy. I have sleep apnea, borderline PCOS and a history of (managed and episodic depression and anxiety).

A lot of the new weight is definitely happy weight. I am happily in a relationship and def has put on the relationship 15+ some.

I joined I gym right before the shutdown since I enjoy lifting but not a choice at the moment.

I'm hoping to get down to 102lbs. Which was when I felt the best. But hoping to do it steady and slow and manageable.

I have been walking 5-7kms everyday and current calorie intake is around 1700cals.

I know for my actual weight loss I should be eating 1200 calories but that always makes me feel miserable and ends in bingeing. I am trying to do this as a life time strategy.

I would appreciate any strategy or advice you have!

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If you've struggled to maintain or continue weight loss during the stay at home orders

After reading so many posts and comments here (and elsewhere) about people struggling with their weight related goals during stay at home and quarantine orders, I wanted to share info that can maybe help someone out there.

I'm a woman in my late 20s, 6' tall, and weighed over 250 pounds in early January. When I went in for my annual check up, my liver enzymes and triglycerides were all super elevated. My primary care physician said it was likely due to my weight, but wanted to do an abdominal ultrasound just to make sure. Sure enough, the abdominal ultrasound came back normal. In the follow up appointment with my doctor, we had a pretty serious conversation about the necessity for me to lose some weight. She suggested that I try a prescription weight loss pill for 3 months to help kick start my weight loss and emphasized that the pill does not replace diet and exercise.

The pill I took was a lower dose of a widely recognized drug called phentermine (a stimulant, and a controlled substance). I took the lower dose 3 times daily before meals for 90 days.

The results for me were that I lost on average 2 to 2.2 pounds per week over the course of 90 days. I made sure I kept a healthy diet and ate a normal amount of calories for my height and activity levels. In the past when I had tried to lose weight, I averaged a 0.7 to 1 pound per week loss no matter how strict I was, so this does lead me to believe the prescription I was taking did give a little "boost" to the speed of my weight loss. Once the prescription came to an end, I'm now back to losing about 1 pound per week.

I know that prescription medication is not the answer for everyone, but I still wanted to share this info because it may help to talk about your weight loss struggles and goals with your doctor if you have that opportunity, once the stay at home orders are lifted. I also wanted to let you know that I was prescribed this by my primary care physician; in the past I used to think people only got weight loss pills from sketchy clinics that only cared about sales and marketing.

Also, I didn't share the brand name of my prescription here because I didn't want to advertise it or influence anyone to consider it. There are multiple different weight loss pills with different side effects, prices, dosage instructions, etc. and if it is something you want to try, then your doctor would know what would be the best route to take.

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Abdominal muscle cramps after significant weight loss. Anyone else?

6'1 / 185cm male, 42y, 380lb / 172kg -> 230lb / 105kg

I suppose I could lose another 30+ lb. or so to be truly trim, and I'm working on it, but I'm quite happy with where I'm at.

The issue I'm facing is cramps (charlie horses) in my upper abdominal muscles. Anything can set it off. A sneeze, laughing at something, shifting my body slightly, and so on. Most of them are very minor, and I can stretch out a bit and breathe deeply and they're gone, but they're still really annoying. And sometimes I get a really bad one, those truly suck =(

I stay well hydrated, get plenty of electrolytes, all that jazz. I lift weights including ab work. I do cardio as well.

I was doing a bit of reading, and one of the possible causes of muscle cramps I read about was tension on the nerves. 150 lb. is a significant loss, and I have loose skin. As a typical male, a lot of my extra weight was on my belly, so that's the worst spot for loose skin.

I'm wondering if the weight of the loose skin pulling things down could be putting tension on the nerves, and if perhaps that's the reason I'm having this problem.

So, j/w if anyone else has faced this issue, and what your thoughts and experiences are if you have. Heck, even if you haven't. I wouldn't mind reading any thoughts anyone has on this issue. It's really bothering me.

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How I fixed my scale anxiety without giving up my daily weigh-ins - it only cost me $30

I posted here a few weeks ago about how water weight was messing me up and how I used to dread standing on the scale some days when I knew my weight would be up.

The fact is, I love to cook and I love to eat. Both of these things kind of got me fat in the first place. Now, with OMAD, I'm finding a way to cook and eat almost anything I want while staying within my calorie goals and consistently losing weight. Unfortunately, my nightly OMAD is often decadent and salty, which leads to morning bloating. Still, I wanted to weigh myself daily so I could get a good idea of how my weight fluctuates and trends. I found in past weight loss efforts that weekly weigh-ins were unsatisfying, and sometimes if I "picked the wrong day" to weigh I would be left feeling awful for the next week. A few weeks ago however, my scale anxiety peaked, nearly to the point of derailing my weight loss efforts. I needed to find a way out without giving up weighing myself altogether, I wanted to have my cake and eat it too.

So, I found a smart scale on Amazon for $30 that doesn't need to be connected to your phone. This is the exact one I bought, but there are several other with the same feature in a similar price range...I encourage you to shop around. It stores up to 20 weigh-ins for you without you having to connect it to the phone app that stores your metrics. I stuck a piece of opaque tape on the digital display, and I spent an entire week weighing myself on it without looking. On the 8th day, I weighed myself with the phone app open, and it showed me my weight that day (2lbs down!), as well as a graph of my weight over the last week that I was able to look at impartially, with no anxiety or emotional attachment. Some days I was down, some days I was up. It was okay, because I was predictably down 2lbs that week.

Now, I weigh myself everyday, but, I am able to choose when I look at the weight and when I don't. Sometimes, I go several days in a row without looking, but I always know it's there. It's like having an assistant record my weight for me! I thought I would share, this has been a huge help for me in my battle with scale anxiety.

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Looking for affordable meal ideas for metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance

Hi, title says it all! If you have any cheap meal ideas, or if you have any good resources otherwise, I’d love to read them. I’m quite overwhelmed with the google results on this and I keep putting it off because of that. I need meals that are actually cheap. I have an intolerance to tomato, onions and cabbage because of IBS, and I’m lactose intolerant, if that helps in making suggestions. I really want to start avoiding carbs more to see if I can get weight loss results easier that way considering my insulin resistance. Because of the coronavirus situation I can’t get to a dietitian at the moment, so I’m looking to make gradual changes at home.

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Here Goes!

This is a post about beginning my weight loss journey- please remove if not allowed!

I'm 25 years old, 5'7" and currently weigh 298lbs. Just short of my largest which was around 310. I've been obese my whole life. My BMI has sat in the 30s and low 40s for as long as I can remember. I live a very sedentary lifestyle and eat a lot of junky fast food and whatnot, and I've always just assumed I'd be like this for the rest of my life because it's my comfort zone and if it takes a few years off my lifespan, so be it.

Over the last year or so, though, I've been experiencing periodic chest pains and pain on my left side. I've had anxiety since college but I'd found ways to manage it for the most part; however this onset of pain caused my anxiety to spike and I started having fairly regular panic attacks. As it turned out, my blood pressure was seriously high and now I'm on meds for that.

I tried to adjust my diet many times but always found myself falling back into the trap of binge eating. It's just such a comfort for me. And I'm not the greatest cook, so the lure of eating out is a constant thing.

Now COVID 19 is happening. I'm an essential worker in a public facing job and this has wreaked havoc on my anxiety. I'm scared to death of getting it and I've had more panic attacks in the last month than I've had in a long while. I realized that I may actually become seriously ill or even die if I get it, and if I don't then it'll be a heart attack later down the line. I've never been so genuinely afraid for my health and my life.

So, today is day 5 of walking about a mile or so every day. The funny thing is I live in this amazingly beautiful place and there are hiking trails literally right behind my apartment complex. It's crazy how taxing it is even just to walk a mile, but I find myself feeling really really good and my daily walk is already becoming the highlight of my day! And I've been cooking real, good food. As much fruit and veg as possible. Still some junk here and there but I am making a conscious effort to think about everything I put in my body for the first time in a long time.

So I came here to put this all in writing in the hopes that it helps me stick to these habits. Do you guys have any tips for those days when I come home from work (I work overnights) and just don't feel like walking or making a nice healthy meal? I'm driven by fear for now lol, but I'm afraid that will only last so long.

TLDR: been obese for 20+ years, trying to find a good way to maintain a healthy lifestyle that I won't give up on.

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Failing again and again

As many here do, I have been battling with my weight my whole life. There have been different contributing factors for sure, hypothyroidism, injuries, mental health issues, but the bottom line is that I have never ever managed to figure out how to get even close to normal weight, or how to maintain even 300 lbs, as it now turns out. So this has happened to me before, I think I'm doing alright and even if I'm not losing, at least I'm not gaining. And then all of a sudden, I am back at my starting weight and then some. Earlier this happened when I would stop weighing myself, and then when I finally would, the truth would be revealed. This time, my scale failed me.

I got a new scale today, a fancy one, and stepping on it felt like a nightmare because it showed 65+ lbs more than the old one. At first I thought there must be something wrong with the scale, it actually refused to weigh me at first. After some tries, I got it to show 390. I was horrified, still am. The worst part is that even though I had had a feeling I was gaining some weight, I kept thinking it would show on the scale. Sure my weight fluctuated a bit, but I thought I had it under control. Life was busy, and I also have mental issues that make it very difficult to see myself in a normal way. So not for the first time, I gained a huge amount of weight back without realizing it. I am pretty much at a loss. I feel completely worthless, and even though the few people I told tried to make excuses for me, like I've had a very very stressful year and my mental health hasn't been great... I don't feel like making excuses. I feel like I have failed myself. I'm over 30, and I want to find a partner and get kids. That has been one of my main motivations to get healthy. It feels like I've just ruined my life with this.

Unfortunately it doesn't help wallowing in self-pity either. There's a part of me that's strong and resilient and she's already making plans, okay, let's get back to calorie counting, I already exercise daily but I can up my game with that etc etc, but then another part is just completely defeated... because I feel like I've been there, I've done that, I've lost weight but I always always end up gaining it back because it is not sustainable to be monitoring every single piece of food you eat for years on end so I always stop weighing my food and calorie counting after 6-12 months, and things can be fine for a while after that but apparently I always end up here. I don't know what to do. I probably need to admit that I can't do this on my own, stop avoiding my mental health issues and get back to therapy. Start thinking about weight loss surgery or some other measures. I just don't know at this point. It certainly doesn't help that there's a pandemic going on and I'm way worse in that sense too than I thought I was. Sorry about the rambling. Wise words are welcome!

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