You can do it!

Its my cake day. So, i want to be an inspiration (to hopefully at least 1 perso )

Ive been a loser for about 18months and im down 90lbs with a bit more to go.

Its not a sprint, its a marathon and you need to pace yourself or you will gas out.

Find food you love to eat that is healthy, find exersizes you enjoy.... walk, swim, stand up and walk to the sidewalk and back once in a while. Anything and everything helps! All about those atomic habits.

Tell me your favorite snack foods! Mine is non fat greek yogurt with a bit of sweetner and berries on rice cakes.

I do monthly challenges... ive done a vegitarian month, keto month, maintenance month with a goal of gaining strenth in my lifts.... the monthly goals keep me focused and on track.

However, no one is perfect and i have and will fall off the wagon many times im my journey so far.... but, ive learned to catch myself and get back on track within a few days... 3 steps forward and 2 steps back is still progress. Dont let anyone tell you therwise.

I rarely share my weight loss story. So, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask... im not shy

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I will start my weight loss battle right now :) 20M, 198lbs, 5’11 @antiantibadhealth

July 12, 2020: I have always been insecure of my body and how I looked, but today is the day everything will change. I’m starting today with my new eating schedule and exercises. I don’t have an exact diet to eat from, but I am doing low-carb foods combining with intermittent fasting. My goal is to lose weight and uplift my self esteem. If somebody wants to give me support, I created an Instagram for it: @antiantibadhealth. I will be posting there regularly with my progress and things I do. Also feel free to give me hints and strategies on how I can improve my process. Thank you for the attention guys :) wish me luck

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Weight loss plateau at 406 pounds

So I have been dieting for 2 months now my biggest weight was 430 I lost a lot of weight fast 25 pounds in 2 weeks from IF 16:8,keto,walking,strength training and a calorie deficit of almost 2,500 then it all stopped when I reached 405 and has since gained a pound I have since increased my calories because I knew my deficit was to much I am now eating 2,000 calories a day at a 1,700 deficit and still no weight loss I’ve been stuck for 3 weeks now I have since tried a carb refeed day I tried increasing my calories and I increased my workouts it’s so crazy to me that I’ve reached a plateau at a such high weight for everything that I’m doing I would think the weight would be falling off !!! Does anyone have any recommendations on what should be done so I can break this plateau

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I just lost 4.4 pounds in one month in the healthiest way in my life!

Growing up, I was the fat kid, but for some reason I never noticed it. So to me, it was a great surprise that, one day in the summer before 8th grade, my mom forced me onto a salad diet. I’m talking literally just dry cabbage and shredded carrots for three meals a day for two weeks. After the first week I cried so hard that she added these overboiled dry ass pieces of cardboard pork. She also got me to start walking on the treadmill every day. Looking back I was grateful because I was almost 160 pounds as a 12 year old girl.

I guess puberty energy kicked in because I started to love running on the treadmill. I started a routine, I started eating less. From there started my annual cycle where each summer, I would watch what I eat and exercise religiously and then fall back to my normal eating and sedentary habits during the school year. To say my weight yo-yoed is an understatement. I was fluctuating 20 pounds every year!

Finally, fast forward to the end of college and thanks to depression, alcohol and anxiety, I was back to almost 160 pounds. I then entered a CNA program, which made me lose my appetite and over 27 pounds in one summer month again. Around this time I rekindled my love for exercise and started powerlifting. It’s a strenuous sport which requires calorie counting; I loved it so much that I decided to try bulking so I could build muscle. I thought it would be easy because I love eating but the resulting weight gain - however expected - made me so upset and depressed (that’s a different story though).

I am now on my cutting journey and for the first time in my life, I am losing weight at a healthy pace because of a healthy lifestyle! It’s the slowest weight loss I’ve ever had but I still feel great, I don’t feel guilty or stressed, and I still manage to eat what I want within my calories and macros :) I still gym when I can (hard because of covid) but even just counting calories is helping me so much. My goal is to make this a healthy lifestyle for me and not just another quick summer-time only success story! Thanks for reading my experience :)

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Desperate but can't stop binge eating

Hey y'all love reading all the stories on here, just wanted to share my own and get some advice/motivation/whatever.

I'm a newly(ish) fat person who is at my wit's end. I am 28 years old, female, 5'9, and tip the scales at 310lbs. Up until about 6 years ago, I had always weighed about 170lbs. 160lbs at my lowest ever and 180lbs during holidays and winter and stuff. I always worked out and did insanity style workouts 2 times a day and followed Sarah Solomon's IF protocol.

I became obese because I joined a fitness MLM, started training to be in a fitness competition, and then broke my leg. I was in a boot for 6 months, bedridden and totally depressed. I had been trying to move from 170 to 160 and no matter how much i worked out and how little I ate, the scale would not buddge, then I had my injury and all hell broke loose.

Up unitl this point, my lifestyle consisted of barely eating because I was so busy all the time so food was just something I shoved in my mouth at some point during the day to keep me from passing out.

Once I had my injury, I started binge eating like crazy! A typical day was like this: I'm talking full breakfast at Squat and gobble, then fro yo, then Starbucks, croissants and then eating a pack of bulk cookies from Wholefoods and then a pint or 2 of ice cream. This went on for about a year and then I got even more depressed because at that point I finally had to buy new clothes and then I thought F it I'm already fat as hell. I'd probably really only gained 50lbs at that point.

Anyway, It got to the point where I was struggling to even walk the distance from my car to the store. I'd be so winded and get hot. I managed to lose some weight and started exercising but at that point, I had gained over 100lbs.

Then I started having blurry vision and having to pee every 10 minutes and my doctor diagnosed me as diabetic. Again, I took it really seriously and cut out carbs and started exercising. I did not want to have to take medication. Now it's been 2 years and while I'm doing much better, I still cannot get my binge eating under control. I now Intermittent fast and eat about 2 normal and even healthy meals a day, but when nightfalls, I still devour sweets. I'm down to a pint of ice cream 3 days a week so while it's an improvement I still need to lose a lot of weight and have considered weight loss surgery because I'm so scared if I don't stop this I will have serious health complications.

Tl;Dr: I was skinny, developed a binge eating disorder, got fat and became diabetic, and am now desperate to lose weight and possibly considering weight loss surgery but want to try again to lose weight without.

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Midpoint Celebration SW: 275 CW: 226 GW:175

Hi all,

I am just about at the half way point of my journey to lose 100 pounds that I started March 2020 and in celebration of that I wanted to share a couple thoughts and a formula for weight loss that I've been thinking about for a while.

Let's start with some thoughts: 1. Weight loss starts with a commitment from within. No one can make you stick to the plan but you. You might fail a couple times before you really stick to something, just remember failure isn't failure until you stop trying. So keep pushing. I suggest you buy a scale and weigh yourself regularly. Once you see the weight coming off you won't stop. If that doesn't work for you, find your motivator and live by it!

1. The urge to eat a lot or not exercise will always be there. Don't give in. There are moments we face every day to do the easy thing or the hard thing. These moments last about a second, but they are critical to your weight loss and your happiness. I gained all my weight and went into a depression because I always gave in to the easy thing to do in those moments. If I was planning to exercise the next day I would wake up and do the easy thing and blow it off. If I was going to start to eat healthy, I would do the easy thing and give into my urges and go binge on McDonald's. These moments are life defining. If you learn to take advantage of these moments and choose to do what is hard instead of give in to what is easy, you will be successful in your weight loss goals. It's kind of like Nike's theme, just do it.

2. If your a big person and starting your weight loss journey. Once you get started you will lose a ton of weight. The rate you are losing weight will not keep up throughout your journey. This is important to make sure you remember to keep your expectations resonsible

3. make sure your having fun! If your all about weight loss 24/7 your probably gonna fail. It's too exhausting and we all need some fun. What I do is I take 1 day off a week where I don't care about food (I still eat responsibly and try to stay under 2,000 Cal's overall) and sometimes I drink a little with friends (drinks go into that 2,000 max Cal's).

4. Weight loss is 80% diet 20% exercise (I know I'm preaching to the choir). But, if you want to get fit and be able to eat a little bit more or loss weight a little faster you gotta make sure you exercise.

5. As this sub will always say CICO is king. And it is, but you will feel better and have more sustainable weight loss if you eat healthy real foods as well instead of getting you 1200 from junk food.

The Formula

So this is a little formula I came up with to explain how I lost my first 50 pounds. I don't know if it will help anyone, just wanted to share and see if you all have any critics

C1(CICO+Real food)+C2(exercise)= healthy sustainable weight loss

C1 = commiting to followg CICO (1200-1400 calories) 6 days a week and have 1 day a week where you can go up to 2,000

C2 = commiting to exercise 5-6 times a week. This could be a 30 min walk, a run, biking anything that gets your heart rate up for a little while

Let me know what you guys think. And thank you all. I am a long time lurker and the advice you have all given me has gotten me to where I am now. Just trying to share the wealth from my journey so far!

Keep up the good work losers!

(That's supposed to be a pun)

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how to lose interest in food

i think i’ve become too dependent on food for some sort of stimulation but also from paying too much attention to what i eat and my eating habits in general when i began caring about my body image and weight loss. i swear i’m in the kitchen every couple of hours bc i’m literally just waiting until it is next acceptable for me to eat again, whilst my other family members probably only enter the kitchen early in the morning and late at night and that’s it - it baffles me how they can go so long without being there. i was probably like that in the past too but my hyper-awareness has worked against me.

it causes me quite a bit of stress in general thinking about what i’m going to eat and whether it’s going to fill me up etc. it doesn’t help that i’m too lazy to meal prep but even planning what i want to eat in advance stresses me out as much as planning it on the spot. if i could just eat what i had planned without caring too much whether it will be satisfying, what time i should eat it etc, i think it’d be easier for me.

apologies bc this sounds really muddled but tl;dr is the title basically (+ how to stress about it less). any advice?

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