Is it normal to feel worse after losing weight?

I just hit a huge milestone last week. 100lbs lost over the last few years. I’m arguably the healthiest I’ve been (and definitely the smallest) since high school 15 years ago. All this, and yet earlier today I was doing yoga and all I could focus on was my excess skin. Not just like a little bit of loose flab but rather my stomach looking like I have udders when I’m on all fours. My boobs are concave on the sides and I’ve lost 2 cups in my weight loss journey. I’m so disappointed and deeply confused living in this new body.

I look at photos and I’m proud of how far I’ve come, but I also knew how to dress my “before” body, how to flatter it. I never felt good in my skin when I was heavy, but I don’t know how to work with this new one. It doesn’t feel like me.

Can anyone else relate to this? I’m really struggling and wonder if this will get better or worse the more weight I lose. I also can’t afford skin removal surgery due to being unemployed during COVID so that’s not really an option I can look into.

Please help. 😕

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NSV: I fit into my prom dress.

I'm only 20, graduated high school in 2018, and have struggled with my weight since middle school. I do not exaggerate when I say that high school was the worst time of my life - my mental health was destroying, things were happening in my family life that were not great, so being overweight was just the cherry on top.

My weight made me miss my senior prom. (Well, more like my insecurity about my weight made me miss my prom.) I cried when I didn't really fit into my prom dress that year. It sucked. I had picked out a dress I was absolutely in love with for my first and only prom, and I didn't fit into it. So I didn't go.

Back in May, I started taking my weight loss seriously. Thanks to CICO (limiting my calories to ~1500/day) and occasionally working out (1-3x a week) I've lost around 30 pounds since then. And as I was cleaning out my closet to sell things before I move back out to college, I came across my prom dress. And I tried it on.

And it fit.

I was not expecting it to actually fit in the slightest. Sure, I was expecting it to be a little looser, but truth be told, I've had a hard time actually visualizing how much weight I've lost. This was one of those moments of clarity. For the second time I cried (only a little!) when I put on my prom dress, because it served as a marker not only of the progress I've made in my weight loss, but how far I've come since one of the darkest parts of my life. I've still got a ways to go in my journey, but after running into a mental wall, this was the push I needed to remind myself to keep going

https://imgur.com/a/yGKMsj7 (semi-obligatory pic of the dress in question)

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Skin care from the beginning on.

Hi everyone!

I've started my weight loss journey (again) last Monday and I really want to stick with it this time. I know I'll never be a supermodel, but a more healthy weight is my goal.

I count calories and am annoyed that the "tasty" food has so many of them. All good there. I'm not really into the sports thing (yet?), for several reasons but that's not really my main concern at the moment. So what is:

When (wanted to type if first, nope, won't do that) I lose weight I'll have extra skin. I know that, I can see that. But what are your personal tricks to get it somewhat more firm? Starting at which point? Ok, muscles help, but being female and because of the way my fat is distributed I wouldn't be able to gain this much muscle, so yes, that's good advice but not quite what I'm looking for. I'm interested more in skin care products and such.

Thanks for sharing your personal secrets.

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It’s All About Perspective & Thank You!

Between this sub, and all the CICO subs I follow, my perspective on weight loss has improved immensely! SW: 235 ish, was pregnant so not sure that counts. CW: 208 GW: 175-180.

1. Thank you to those who have posted realizations of habits of “skinny/healthy” friends. These posts helped me realize that my relationship and perception of food were off balance.

2. Thank you to all the support posts from people encouraging patience in this process. It’s about the long haul and healthy habits, not just an immediate weight loss.

3. Thank you to the brave people who post their successes AND downfalls. We all have ups and downs, and this has helped me beat myself up less about the bad days.

I’m 3 months postpartum today, as a FTM. I was my heaviest ever when I got pregnant and then gained about 35–40 lbs during pregnancy. In the first month, I lost about 20 of that.

After that 1st month, progress has been much slower. I was about 217 in June. I don’t strictly do CICO, as far as tracking, but that’s generally the weight loss avenue I use.

Weight loss is ANNOYING. One week I’ll have lowest weight of say 212, then my weight will go up a few pounds, then the next week I’m down to 211 or 210. This has been my process. Seeing the lowest, going back up, then seeing a slightly lower number the next week.

It requires so much patience, but these subs have helped me understand that this is normal. Going up and down, it being a slow process, and just keeping faith it will pay off.

So THANK YOU ALL. And I wish you the best in your journey of losing and getting healthier!

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Struggling to accept weight loss compliments

I've just hit my 4 stone weight loss mark (calorie counting and CrossFit), I started because I lost a lot of my confidence whilst gaining weight but also to be healthier. Its great that people are commenting on how good I look, but I end up feeling embarrassed about it. Because it makes me think I must have looked awful before, and also because I'm not doing it for people to have that reaction I'm doing it to be better for myself. I find myself down playing the hard work I've put in to try divert the attention and hoping people don't bring it up.

Has anyone else experienced this and how do you get better at having conversations about your weight loss with other people, particularly acquaintances you don't really talk to?

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Help with Birthday cheat day calories

Heya! I’m a 19 year old guy (5’8) who since April has lost quite a lot of weight (going from 192 to now 138) by eating strictly 1500 calories a day and weighing everything / working out multiple times a day.

My birthday is coming up on Thursday and I want to be able to have cake and go to my favorite restaurant for dinner (where I haven’t eaten since before I started my weight loss journey). My “goal” was 145, and even though I’m under that, I don’t want one cheat day to ruin my progress and potentially result in multiple pounds of weight gain if I eat 2000-2500 calories, when my body has been used to exactly 1500 for multiple months.

What should I do? Should I workout twice as much as normal and have my first cheat day in months (and probably only cheat day for a few more months), or eat/workout as normal but not celebrate my birthday?

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theory - lack of micro-nutrients is the main danger to fast weight loss; by eating nutritious foods, we can make up for that

im sharing this here to see if anyone else has had a similar experience in their weightloss.

hopefully we are all aware of the dangers of losing weight too quickly, from gallstones to unsustainable habits. However, I had a bit of an eye-opening experience with my current loss regarding this.

The times in the past that I have lost a considerable amount of weight, I always lose it quickly. I also usually face two consequences - hair loss and period loss.

This time around, I have also lost weight quickly (28 lbs in 12 weeks, 2.3lb/week, from 173lb to 145lb, my ideal formulaic weight being 135lb) but I have not had any consequences. This is even though I did 1200cal/day for the first 6 weeks despite not being short or sedentary. I DID face the consequence of low energy, which made me up to 1400 calories, and now I've become even more lenient with some 1600 days as I'm trying to build muscle and ease myself into maintenance.

What I did differently this time was that I only ate nutritious food. No refined sugars at all. Everything I eat needs to contribute some micro-nutrients to my diet. This translates to lots of veggies, fruits, quinoa, legumes, fish, eggs, and nuts/seeds. And 85% dark chocolate, my one true love.

I'm theorizing that the consequences I faced from weight loss were simply from low micro-nutrients, not from fast weight loss. Calories are just about energy level (which is a pretty big deal, not to undermine that, but not as alarming as halting bodily processes). Has anyone else experienced this or is everything I wrote total BS? :P

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