You never realise how far you've come until you look back

I wish I could of had the weight loss journey that everyone else seems to of had. My weight has fluctuated literally my entire life (since I was a toddler I think) and my health journey has been anything but linear. I first got serious about losing weight right before my 14th birthday, and while I lost weight I didn't keep it off. I yo-yo'd for YEARS and could never go under 190 lbs.

The first photo was taken 1/14/19 when I was 16 1/2 yrs old. At the time, I was experiencing intense anxiety and depression. All I'll say is it wasn't a time in my life where things were going great. I wasn't as heavy as when I was 13 (214 lbs at a doctors appointment, but I suspect my heaviest was higher) but I was at least 205-210 lbs. The other photo from this morning. I am now 18 and weighed in at 187.5 lbs. I didn't lose as much weight as fast as some other people, but it's the most consistent I've ever been with my weight loss.

I have always had MASSIVE respect for anyone who's had massive weight loss within the span of a few months and kept it off, but that has never been me. While doing this slowly has obviously created better results for me in the long run and now I'm confident I can keep the weight off for life, I gotta say it takes a lot more patience. I'm pretty sure I have body dysmorphia and it's frustrating to hear friends and family tell you how different you look when in your eyes nothing's changed. I have a phobia of taking photos, especially with my full body, but I'm glad I decided to take that photo at my heavier weight. I never truly realized how much I've lost until I saw these photos side-by-side. My biggest regret is not having photos at my true heaviest!!

In these photos, I lost "only" 20 or so pounds within the span of a year and a half. If you told me that a few years ago, I would of said "really??". Especially compared to all these beautiful amazing people on here losing 50+ lbs in a much shorter time (seriously you all are awe-inspiring). But in reality, these photos show a much bigger change than weight alone. It shows what took me years to learn - health is more than losing the most weight. Ironically, I'm at the lightest I've been in years.

Anyways, that's a lot of text sorry lol. Here's the photos: https://imgur.com/a/tg5wKf1

I don't really have a next goal weight. Maybe 10 more lbs? If I lose it I lose it, but I'm happy where I'm at :)

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Jereome

Hello every one! It’s my first time posting on here so take it easy on me! 😉 anyway I’ve struggled with being severely obese my ENTIRE LIFE as long as I could remember I was the biggest kid around. By the time I was 13 (bottom left picture) I was 330 Lbs. THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE! I staggered around 330-340 until I was about 17 and then I ballooned. A massive 397 lbs was my top weight. I’ve had enough. I’ve tired every diet nothing seemed to work, I lost all hope. One lonely evening I was in my moms basement playing Xbox and eating some sort of junk food (like usual) when out of nowhere every thing became clear, I knew what I had to do. That evening I set down my controller Coke and chips and set off for a hike. I made it about 4 miles before becoming so exhausted I couldn’t move any further. I was 390 lbs at the time. I knew I had to change. Let’s face it. I was a 21 year old virgin that no girl would touch and I mean can you blame them? My biggest problem was me always trying to lose with for all the wrong reasons. Never for my self. Well that was about to change. From that day on I disciplined myself to get active every day and go on a common sense diet. No junk. Lots of water and veggies. I managed to drop 40 lbs in under a month. I was hooked. From that day forward I was a new man. A man on a mission. This went on for roughly a year. It was my 22nd birthday I was about 330 lbs still very obese and nothing to be proud of. I took a chance and asked a co worker who I thought was cool to come hang out in my basement. She said yes. From that day on we haven’t been separated and my weight loss took off. Fast Forward 11 moths. I’m in love, weighing a husky 250 lbs. I’m 6 foot. My goal is 180 by oct-November. The photos featured are of me and my late grand dad Jereome (PopPop). R.I.P. the last time he saw me I was 390 lbs a High school drop out and going nowhere quick. Death came like a thief in the night and took his beautiful soul as he rested peacefully in his bed. PoPs if you could see me now I know you’d be proud. Thank you for reading. This is my favorite sub reddit. https://imgur.com/a/KSo6IFd

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Obsessing Over Scale

I’m new to this sub but I originally started my dedicated weight loss journey in January. I was working out 4x a week, 12 lbs down and got to 172 (from 184) by spring break (early March) However after spring break the world shut down and the weight all came back as I lost motivation and came to terms with the fact that all my plans were washed away.

Now, I’m ready to make this change stick. I’ve been eating 1200 calories a day for a week (not working out) and dropped about 2 pounds, so I think. The scale I have is older and weighed me in at 182.2. The thing that has me paranoid about the accuracy is my sister. She’s also working to lose weight and started at 196 at the beginning of this year. Without making many changes, she says she’s 180 now, on a different scale. She claims the scale I have at home weighs on the heavy side so I’m fixated on this idea that my weight is wrong, if even by 2 pounds.

I’m happy for my sister for losing weight but a part of me is jealous that she seems to weigh less than me even though I’ve been deliberate and she hasn’t as much. How can I get over this anxiety?

Also do you have any tips on how to stay consistent and reach my goal this time? All my life I’ve never liked my body and wanted to be smaller even when I was very small. I never got the tight tummy I was looking for but am determined to make my body exactly how I want this time.

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Just over 7 Months In And I Just Want To Give Up Now.

Ok, so I’m 17 years old, I’m a guy and when I started this weight loss journey I weighed 17.5st which equates to around 245 pounds. As I’m writing this, I’m just over 7 months into this weight loss journey and I currently weigh 16.8st and that equates to around 235 pounds. When I realised how little I’ve lost over these months, I just feel like giving up. I finally have a balanced diet, I only ever drink water and I have only drank water for the past 2-3 years now and I exercise most days for between 20-30 minutes. I’ve managed, for the most part, to stay away from junk food but, like the very best of us, I had a few slip ups but I absolutely managed to recover from it.

I had a few issues over the past few months, it was all to do with my diet. I felt I was eating too many carbs so I cut them all completely and I just eat fibre and protein, that wasn’t fun for me or my bowels I’ll admit that. Now, I added carbs back into my diet but I gained some weight again because I was eating too many. I have no managed to find that balance and I’m continuing it.

Every Monday, I weigh myself and I’ve been seeing the numbers fluctuate a fair bit, it goes up slightly and then down drastically and then back up drastically and down slightly, but recently I’ve noticed that I’m lingering around the same sort of weight, between 16.8st & 16.10st.

Does anyone have any advice on what I do now? I feel like my weight has plateaued and I’m not sure what to do really.

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

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I think I need an accountabilibuddy.

I can feel myself starting to slip. I was doing very well with the weight loss last year, but ever since starting this desk job and getting a place to myself I've become very undisciplined and am undoing all of the work I've put in so far.

I really think living on my own now has given me the realization that I suck at dieting when there's no one around. I need someone who I can reach out to daily--and vice versa--just to keep me on track with my diet. Someone who will message me everyday when I get off of work and remind me to eat a healthy dinner, or ask how my meals have gone so far. And I'd like to do that for someone else as well, someone who'd like another to ask them regularly how they're doing just as a reminder to stay the course.

Does anyone want to be that person for me? Does anyone need me to be that person for them?

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Intuitive eating to maintain weight?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has went from CICO or any other way of weight loss and switched to intuitive eating? From my understanding (haven’t done a whole lot of research) intuitive eating is basically listening to your body things like hunger signals, cravings, etc.... I know that weight loss is not something you can just give up on once you reach your goal it’s something you have to maintain for the rest of your life. I’m currently doing CICO and am only 8 pounds away from my goal but I don’t want to count calories for the rest of my life I don’t want to turn on my food scale so I can measure out what I’m going to put on my plate.... maybe that’s just me being unrealistic but I was wondering how others view intuitive eating or if you do it how do you do it/make it work for you?

-Thanks

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Cutting to 1,000 calories a day

So recently I started experience weird issues with my body that I have never experienced. So I chalked it up to me being overweight with that in mind I decided to take drastic measures and cut my eating habits. But I feared it wasn’t enough so I decided to restrain myself to 1,000 calories a day. I have been successful for about a week now going strong on week two and my family has commented that I have been losing weight. But the problem now is that I’ve been reading that for long term weight loss it isn’t sustainable. But despite numerous articles and papers I’m hesitant to believe it since I had a friend that had surgery to reduce his stomach size and he eats about 800 or less calories a day. In the three months or so since he had his surgery he has lost considerable amount of weight. So I wanna keep to this diet despite the amount of research against but I’m just not sure I don’t want my efforts to be in vain. So any advice?

For the record my friend and I were about similar weight he was 400+ pounds and I was shy of 370 pounds. Not sure if that information helps.

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