This is how i lost large amount of weight.

I have! On the 21st August 2016 I weighed and measured myself, measuring my arm, thigh, hip, waist, chest circumference with the aim of doing the same every month thereafter. I've dieted a few times over the years (I'm 38, have 2 children - 4 and 8) and had decided this is it. I was starting to feel old, my feet hurt, my hips and knees hurt and I wasn't happy (mentally) especially as I really didn't have much to be miserable about. My daughter was starting school and that was my focal point. I discussed with my husband if he would mind me shelving everything I should be about to be taking on for 9 months more (like going from part-time to full time working hours!) for sorting out my health. I did 3 key things - I read the book “8 week blood sugar diet” by Dr Michael Moseley, I watched the TV documentary “"fixing dad” which is based on the same principles. Reduce my sugar intake, stop such huge spikes in my blood sugar and therefore find it easier to maintain a healthy diet without needing to keep feeding my sugar addiction. I also downloaded the free Nike+ personal training app - I've done exercise in the past and it always ends with injuries so I wanted to make sure I'd have variety in my routine to stop that happening. The biggest change to my diet - no more bread, no more breakfast cereal! The blood sugar changes were instant, it took 3 days of feeling tetchy, headaches then I just suddenly felt ok. The diet itself has been bizarrely easy….feels odd saying that. I have my moments (once a month!) where all I want is carbs but then I just carry on. I take multi vitamins daily as I understand that such a restictive diet might need propping up. Ok so the results…. I'm not where I want to be (I still want to lose 10% body fat) but I guess I'm unrecognisable now. I was just over 18 stone on the 21st August. I am currently (8th May) 11 stone 12lbs (that's a uk dress size 20/22 down to a 12). I have NO joint pain at all, my skin is great, mentally - I can't remember ever feeling this good, I love the gym and have now started running 5k a week (I have never been able to run). I also have recently joined a boxing club which is brilliant - they have no idea about my weight loss and just judge me on my current fitness, which they deem to be good (hearing that made me so unbelievably happy). My tips:

Drop the bread, don't try to replace it or substitute it with a ‘healthier’ version just start eating different things.

Stop eating cereal, cutting out the sugar at breakfast has been key for me.

Don’t eat ‘diet’ food - just cook from scratch, eat healthily. If you are going to fall off the wagon make sure whatever it is it’s damn good and worth it!

The part in your evening meal that would be carbs just replace with green vegetables (kale, spinach etc..)

Cauliflower instead of rice is actually very good, there's plenty of recipes online EXCEPT replacing pizza dough - that's a crime and just makes you miss pizza more.

Don’t think of yourself as on ‘a diet’ - you are changing how you eat forever! So, if you wanna have ‘tea and cake’ (I am English!) then do it, because the rest of the day/ week you will be back to living and eating healthily.

When starting to exercise stay away from heavy impact (no running!) - if you are big, you'll wreck your joints and be in a lot of pain. It took me 7.5 months of body weight exercises (squats, press ups etc..) and strength training on my legs (twice a week) to get to a point of being strong enough (and light enough) to run. You will get there just go for consistency and sticking at it.

Get the Nike+ app, it's free and will give you all the exercises you need. My aim was to build lean muscle.

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Here's how I went from child hood obesity to healthy and fit!

Growing up in a Arab house hold, food was considered to be the life of the party and the topic of conversation in family gatherings. Portion sizes were never considered, and we ate fast in order to eat more (yes it was a race hahaha!). I'm sure many different cultures can relate.

We did not grow up learning nutrition, we grew up learning to love food and possibly create some sort of attachment to foods we love most and what our brains have learned is the most tasty and euphoric experience, maybe sometimes paired with entertainment sources like television or gaming. And finally, if you're the "product of your environment type" then certainly those around you who are overweight (may even be healthy weight) will seemingly make it "normal" to be and feel overweight.

In my experience, I was getting fatter every year of my adolescence, until about 10th grade. I found being fat to be normal, and living that type of life was normal to me, and eating/gaming and not being active was the life I wanted.

After watching my friends have the time of their lives outdoors and experiencing great things that would just tire me out and have me become a drag, I started training.

But training was not helping me at all because of my fixation with eating. I loved getting pastries, sodas, chips, and have that while I gamed. It was like drugs and I always needed it. You need to tell yourself that you can have this, but in a very small moderation.

What I did to kill this fixation was I cold turkey quit the sugary foods. What this does is, it will now start your withdrawl symptoms from the drug, sugar. You need to fight this as if you needed Rehab, because in a few weeks to a month, you will gag at the SIGHT of dessert food. Don't worry about working out or anything else, just focus your entire brain and physical on fighting you drug addiction to sugar, and treat it like a drug addiction too.

After I kicked my addiction to sugar, (when I say sugar, I'm talking about the artificial shit) and simultaniously cleaned up my diet, the numbers on the scale started dropping.

I began training and worked my way up to an expert level of training. I did cardio to the best of my own ability for at least 20-30 mins a day, and I hit those weights hard for an hour, counting ever second between reps and workouts, no chatting.

The numbers on the scale drop so fast, and In between all the weight loss, I started breathing oxygen more efficiently. The day I was able to breath this new breath of air, which the fat on my body previously was pretty much suffocating me, changed my whole life, and made fitness and healthy eating a lifestyle choice, rather than a time framed diet.

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I hope this helped someone!

When I say sugar, I mean refined, artificial, cancer causing sugar, which is designed to make you crave more food rather than to fill you.

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Old Clothes are the best NSV

F19 5'3 SW: 134lbs CW: 120lbs GW: 110lbs

I've been trying to lose weight for roughly 3 months now. Just the basic CICO and been doing the chloe ting 2 week shred challenge + minimal exercise and stretching before bed.

Just a bit of background, I was always an overweight child. It's either I never grew out of the baby fat, or the baby fat just developed with me and turned into teenage fat, point is, fat never really left me, it's been extremely loyal to me these past 19 years. I would always be the butt of the "big jokes" in my family, and the ugly jokes in my group of friends. I don't mean to offend anyone by this, but in my head, I assumed those two were connected.

3-4 years ago when I weighed 132lbs, I started to lose weight seriously over the summer before my 11th grade (which was in a span of 2 months). It wasn't the healthiest method. I would wake up, have a small breakfast and attend badminton practice from 9am-12pm, skip lunch or have a banana or two and drink lots of water, work in my parents' office/have driving lessons, then by 7pm, I'd attend zumba class with my mom until 9pm and skip dinner. And with that, I managed to lose roughly 10lbs. By the time I got back to school, my friends would compliment me and say I had a summer glow-up. It was the happiest I felt, I stopped avoiding cameras and actually made an effort on my appearance. My parents were so happy with my weight loss that they decided to buy new clothes since my old ones were getting loose and I was entering adolescence.

Unfortunately, after that period, I got careless. I gained back those 10lbs (I'm still surprised it was just 10lbs after 3-4 years) and a bit more. Those "new" clothes got tighter and tighter as months passed. I started feeling horrible again and decided to stash those old clothes underneath my regular clothes.

Just the other day, when I finished exercising and taking a shower, I suddenly remembered those old pairs of shorts that were part of my "new" wardrobe 3-4 years ago. I had like 5-6 pairs stashed there and tried all of them. To my surprise, they all fit! Not just fit, they were loose as hell! So loose to the point I could stuff both my fists into the waistband of the shorts and still have plenty of space left. I bet I looked like an idiot and weirdo just smiling at myself in the mirror with my hands down my pants!! XD

I thought to myself, "wow, was I really this big?" I was turning side to side, just trying to remember what I did look like not too long ago. It was just a few months ago and I couldn't even remember how big I used to be! I always felt like I looked the same through and through. I have never taken "before" pictures since I was too camera shy and awkward to take a mirror selfie and track my progress, I believed a scale was enough but boy was I wrong!

I never really had any sort of "goal clothes" where I pick out old clothes from my wardrobe and try to fit into them again. I lost weight just to gain more confidence in myself for college. Though I feel stronger, I never really saw a difference in my size/body until I wore those shorts. Yes, measuring helps, but you'll never notice the difference unless you try old/new clothes. I was happy my weight was going down, but I always felt like the numbers just weren't enough, like I was never satisfied or feel accomplished. I always read about people saying how clothes felt and fit different on them after they lost weight. I never got to experience that until a few days ago.

Sorry I had nowhere else to say this, I just wanted to share the idea that trying to fit into your old/smaller clothes might just be one of the best NSV yet. It's way better than seeing the number on the scale go down, or the measurements of your body grow smaller.

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I quit nicotine 2 weeks ago and it really affected my diet and weight.

I've been between smoking and vaping for the past 3 years, it's been something that's weighed on my back for awhile now. When I started my weight loss journey back in February I knew I'd eventually quit smoking but I didn't want to overwhelm myself. I've gotten to a point where I'm confident in my ability to lose weight, I trust the process and don't intend to give it up. So with this quarintine going on and my favorite vape shop closed I finally decided it's time to quit.

This isn't news to anyone but withdrawal was a bitch. I was depressed, anxious and unfulfilled and a whole lot of other conflicting emotions. My first week I ended up going over my budget several days and sometimes by a bad amount. But I will say that towards the end of the first week and now during this 2nd week im noticing some benefits.

Exercise has gotten so much easier. I used to take breaks during bike rides because I just couldn't stand the full trip. I've noticed that I'm able to go a full mile longer than I was able to before and sustain higher speeds. It was like an instant change. By the 2nd week I had pretty much fixed my eating schedule to about where I was before. I just forgave myself and moved on. Now that things are semi back to normal I realized that I was using nicotine to replace the hole that food left. Now that I've lost both I've been truly working on myself and my mentality. Focusing on not only my physical health but my mental health too.

Sorry if that's a little off the rails but my point is that if you're still addicted to smoking and you're well into your journey, I'd consider giving it up. Don't take on more than you can bare of course, buy after the first week it does get easier.

Edit: forgot to mention my weight, it did go up a few pounds which was disheartening of course. But it's part of the process and it's at this point stabilized.

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I look huge in the mirror, despite proven weight loss

So during the last half year I have been counting my calories, going from eating 1800 kcal in December 2019 to 1300 kcal in May 2020. I had a few weeks in April during which I loved how slim I looked and I was actually feeling like I was making progress, but then one morning I woke up and I looked gigantic compared to the day before. This happened fairly recently (as in a week ago) and it has stuck with me (as in I have not looked slim again) and I do not understand what has happened. The same week this happened I changed from eating 1500kcal per day to 1300kcal per day as I felt 1500kcal was getting ”easy”. Granted I have not had a very good time with my GI system lately as it decided to take a vacation, but that cannot be the entire truth behind this. I know that the first thing I should assume is weight gain, but I don’t think it can happen overnight? It is getting really frustrating as my new slimmer look was the only thing that didn’t make me want to cry 24/7 due to the corona isolation. Now my hatred for my body and especially for letting it go back to this, whatever I did to make it do that, is getting to me really bad. Has anyone got any idea what is going on and how I can fix it and work myself back to the slimmer version of myself? My stats are 20F, 173cm, SW 85kg CW 77kg GW 65kg

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My entire mental health is based on my weight loss

This is super bad for me. I have been trying for 6 weeks now to lose just 10 pounds. I have been intermittent fasting, exercising almost every day, and still managing to walk a lot. My diet could be a bit better but it's still not bad enough to warrant my not losing any weight. I keep fluctuating between 2 specific weights and no real progress has been made. I don't know why my body does this. I become a monster when I weigh in as the higher weight and I just want this fucking fat off, I cannot stand it any more and I am at my wits end as to why I am not losing anything. I track everything I eat, I dont fucking get it

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Started at 17st 5 pounds. I’m now 16st 11 pounds

Yes, I’m still not there yet but there’s finally some noticeable progress after my weight pretty much plateaued. I know it’s not a big deal to most but to see some decent progress really livens me up and I wanted to share it with everyone to tell you: YOU CAN DO IT!

I started my weight loss journey on January 13th and now, just under a week short of 4 months later, I’ve finally made some awesome progress! Keep your head up, keep going and please try to remember that no matter what, YOU CAN DO IT! It’s not easy or quick but if you keep at it, you will not remember the pain or struggle you experienced.

I hope this helps those that feel demotivated. We can do this, guys!

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