Hit onederland today!! -34.4lbs (15.5kg) and -7.5% body fat in the last 5 months, haven’t been below the 200s since early 2018!

24F, SW: 233.2 CW: 198.8 GW: 165

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Started my weight loss journey in May this year after tipping over 230lbs, my heaviest weight ever. After getting out of a toxic relationship and diving into therapy I was able to make and stick to subtle changes following CICO and not eating after 7pm.

In July I did some blood testing and learned I have PCOS, high testosterone and insulin resistance. Started keto July 6th as my Dr recommended it to help with the hormone imbalance. In August I got more serious about sticking to 16:8 IF plan with the occasional OMAD. I’m going to start incorporating 24-36hr fasts to help with loose skin.

The weight loss has been steady, but last night I tried on my work clothes that I could barely fit into back in January and they were all so loose!! I’m finally able to wear the cute clothes that I’ve had sitting in my closet forever since I never felt comfortable in them.

I’m so proud as I’ve been overweight my whole life and it finally dawned on me that I do have weight in my control. It might take some time to get to my ultimate goal weight, but it took me years to get to my highest so I’m good with sticking to this and seeing just how far I can go.

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[NSV] I just completed my first marathon!

Nearly two years ago, at my highest weight, I was 240lb and sedentary. Now, as of today, I'm 185 and completed my first marathon! Sure, I walked it — and it took me almost 11 hours, but I completed one!

I'm not really sure what to say, to be honest. I only have another 8lb to go before I'm no longer overweight and it honestly feels surreal. To anyone struggling with their weight loss, I would just say that yeah — it's hard. I've lost weight, gained some of it back, lost more, gained some of it back, and lost even more. There's no magic solution and it really, really sucks. I never thought I'd be able to accomplish something like this, and I guess I just want to share that not only is it possible, but it's achievable too.

I think it took me... 5 months of just weekends, but that means you can do it too! I started with 6 miles, then 10. Then 13. Then 18. At that point, I plateaued for about a month and a half. I did 22 miles, once, but then stayed consistently around 18. Finally, today, I decided that I would finally make it happen. And it was awful, honestly. I want to curl up in a ball and head to bed.

So yeah! I did it, and you can too if you just believe in yourself (and also put in way too much time walking outside in the heat)!

 

Edit: Oh, and also — I highly recommend making sure you drink lots of water with electrolytes. You get dehydrated amazingly quick outside in the heat. Sunblock is a must, too. The last thing I'd give advice on is to fill the time by calling friends and family — it makes the time fly on by, and you'll be thankful you got to spend time with them.

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Changing My Entire Life. 266lbs to 198lbs since March (20F)

It feels so strange to post this.

For years I'd read everyone's progress posts with the mentality that I'd be there eventually, but never had the drive to do it. It was always "well...I'll start tomorrow.."

I think I just realized after another failed attempt that...there is never a tomorrow to start trying, there is just a "today", the here and now. Because "tomorrow" will always exist and you'll keep stretching that as much as you can.

I've just let my weight define my life for so long. I never went to the beach, hated going out in public thinking people were judging me. So many of my insecurities were from my weight. I still am pretty insecure with myself and how I look, but I'm gaining back some of my confidence that I lost in high school.

Something I've noticed.. I started wearing nicer clothes. For the 3 years I was around the 250lb mark, I'd hide under a hoodie. It's weird finally discovering my "style" because before I just went by whatever could hide the fat. But now I love jean shorts, skirts, skin tight shirts (my previous nightmare) I went to one of my classes the other day (100 person lecture) and noticed a large number of people looking at me before we went in? I felt so embarrassed and thought I maybe had something on my shirt or something was wrong with me, it was just strange noticing people staring at me. I felt really anxious. Some guys (before we went into class) were more friendly to me and one asked for my number to be a study partner. Seemed good to me so I gave it. I normally could disappear into a class last semester but it seemed instantly people started talking to me. My friend is in the same class and I whispered this to her and she started laughing and said "He asked for your number because you look hot!" I started laughing because that was hilarious to me, but she gave me a look that she meant it. While I haven't yet gotten to the point of feeling that confident with myself, that really made me feel better someone would think of me that way? Not sure but afterwords I just cried.

To be honest, my biggest motivation for weight loss has been sex. (Yeah..😂) I'm in college and that type of craziness is something I'm really missing out on. I was ready years ago but just felt too insecure with my body. I really can't wait until I'm comfortable enough with my body but honestly that probably won't happen until I reach my goal. And I have a goal of 120lbs by April 2021! (I am 5'6)

I guess I just want to thank all of you on here posting every day and keeping me motivated. I have a long way but I'm happy I got out of the 200's. All the progress posts are so inspiring and I'm really proud of everyone. We got this! 😌

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quarantine got me good

First time posting anything like this anywhere but I've been so inspired by the loseit community that i guess i wanted to throw my own hat into the ring and share the beginning of my journey :)

i, like everyone else in the world during these crazy times, have been having a rough time these past few months. I was already struggling with my binge eating before corona really kicked in due to some depressive episodes but then shit really hit the fan when my best friend cut me out of her life. It was isolation on isolation and i did not handle it well. my binge eating got worse and worse and i couldn't find it in myself to care. For some reason i just didn't see myself having a future, i couldn't make goals or find it in me to care about my rapid weight gain and my academic failures because... well... it all seemed so obsolete. i mean, and i'm sure most can relate, i saw the weight gain and i knew i didn't like it and i knew i needed to stop and put it in reverse but i had 0 motivation to do so.

Today, and the last few days, i've been feeling so much better. i'm finally excited about things again. i care again. I cleaned up all aspects of my life: uni, relationships, work, bureaucratic things (ugh). the one thing left is my weight, and i finally feel ready to do something about it. I stepped on the scale, the thing i've been terrified about for months now, just a few hours ago and i wasn't exactly shocked by what i saw. The display lit up and i saw 174.4 lbs, which for a 5 foot tall girl isn't exactly the most ideal number. Also... i think it's my highest recorded weight

i feel mentally healthy and i would like my body to reflect that, so today i am starting my weight loss journey, and you know what's cool, i'm super motivated and just excited. usually, before when i've dieted, it's come from a place of hate, where i cry and glare at myself in the mirror, but now i just look at the number on the scale with a sort of researcher's gaze (if that makes sense). i'm sort of both the test subject and the scientist.

my plan is to eat around 1200 calories a day and work out, just a very basic in-out-schema. it's worked for me before and keeps me unrestricted enough that i don't just snap and binge out of spite. i suppose my goal weight is in the 130s, i like how it looked before, but honestly more or less i'm fine with either, i would just like to look healthy again.

thank you to whomever read this sort of stream of consciousness lil story of mine. i hope y'all have a wonderful day :)

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Obesity is like getting a failing grade

In order to graduate school, you have to pass each grade level. That requires effort on the part of the student. Absent that effort, you will continue to be held back. Nothing will change for you. Obesity is the same way. You will not lose weight absent the effort to lose weight. If you give up, you will be held back forever. For many people, it will mean never making it to age 50,60, 70. For some it means never feeling comfortable in your own skin. For me it would have meant never being able to play the sports I love again. If they told you that you’ve failed 9 times out of 10, you still aren’t going to be successful unless you try that 10th time. Today, I officially left the obese category and entered the overweight one. I was a 3 sport athlete growing up. I ate like one. Then, migraines hit. I stopped playing sports. I stopped being an athlete. But I didn’t stop eating like one. I was consuming just as many calories without any of the activity. Fast forward about 5 years and I decided to change things. A month into that...I tore my ACL. Most people think injuries mean the worst for someone on a weight loss journey. For me, it meant I would HAVE to be in the gym to rehab my knee, so why not also eat healthier? Why not also continue going to the gym even after my rehab is done? Since January, which is when I finally got off of crutches, I have lost 41lbs. I feel like myself again. I never would have gotten here if I gave up because of my injury or because so many OTHER people fail. Why do we care if other people fail at something? That doesn’t mean we can’t do it. It means they couldn’t. You are not a statistic. You are an individual human being. Do not give up.

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18M 5’7 SW: 194 CW:167 GW: 150 - I’m so excited about my weight loss and I just had to tell someone my story!!!

Im down 27 pounds in 6 weeks!!! I didn’t wanna tell anyone in real life because I’m a first year in college in COVID lockdown and I haven’t seen my old friends for a while and my dad who has never given me a positive compliment in real life would just tell me I look the same and that I shoulda lost more weight by now.

I started in mid/late July about 6 weeks ago at 194 pounds.

I got motivated because I’d been avoiding my annual checkup family doctor for the last year because of my weight. He was seriously a good guy and didn’t pressure me or make me feel bad but he warned me a couple times 2 years ago that my weight was increasing. However, I kinda let it slide and I felt embarrassed that I ignored him so I just didn’t go to the doctor for a year or two (probably another psychological thing with the abusive father). I had to see him to get vaccination reports for college so I went in about a week into my weight loss regime. He just said the same thing about my weight but I told him I’d seriously begun trying so he didn’t say much more.

Anyways, i started eating 1000-1200 calories a day. I also started doing 2 1 hour cardio workouts (burning 400-600 calories per hour very intensely) until the beginning of August, when my college was starting. Unfortunately, due to COVID and irresponsible students and college administration there was practically no way I could work out but I still tried to be outside and as active as I could. I would still classify my life in college as sedimentary as all my classes are basically online right now due to a COVID outbreak so I barely get out.

On top of this, dining hall food was only takeout and it was utter crap. I’m talking everything tastes like it was microwaved. However, the good thing was that it was easy to get exact calories for every set takeout meal since the university posted it online and there was not much variation. So I settled for 1 1200 calorie meal a day or sometimes 2 500-600 calorie meals. I’m still eating pretty unhealthy (just by nature of the meals) and hopefully the food gets better but at least I’m still at a calorie deficit.

Yet throughout all this, and the past 6 weeks, I’ve managed to lose 27 pounds! My goal weight is 150 and and by about every calculation I should reach it by early November.

Even until the mid 170’s, some days I felt like I didn’t see any gains (I have a lot of bloating when I eat) even though there definitely were. However now, I can definitely see gains throughout my whole body, legs to stomach to face. Maybe it’s just placebo but I’m happy even if it is.

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Just wanted to share! (F39 SW 298, CW 194)

Hope this isn't irritating but I just wanted to share progress somewhere, I don't like making my roomie feel bad (she's hit a plateau in her own weight loss and is upset about it) and I honestly don't want it to be all I talk about. BUT I hit the under 200 lbs mark and went down in my clothing size farther than I thought! No progress pics (sorry).

F39, I started at 298 lbs and at last weigh in I was 194lbs! I've gone from a size 26 pants to a size 12 recently.

I had hoped when I hit a year in I would have been in Onederland (sometime in May) but like everyone else in the world things have been stressful plus my Dad had a stroke this year during the pandemic.

Did it all with CICO (calories in, calories out) and then started trying to incorporate daily exercise when I had gotten down a bit. I'm sure this is true for a lot of people who start logging food but I honestly had no idea how much I was taking in calorie-wise. I had tried to change how I ate, used healthier things, added more veggies, and tried to avoid both fad diets and scales. But I still wasn't magically getting smaller.

Then I started logging my food. I was getting a burger and fries at Steak'n'Shake and running the calories just recently and I can't believe how many calories I was taking in from just a quick burger or a fast meal out. Even good meals (like grilled chicken with rice) can be too much on the calories. depending on portions. It completely changed how I was eating in one way: I changed my portions. I was still eating out sometimes, I was still trying to cook better, but now I was actually logging it and I actually made decisions like 'maybe half this meal and eat it later?' when eating out. I stopped drinking sugared drinks for the most part, switched to Splenda, and recently with iced tea season I started making our own liquid sucralose for all the tea I was making.

I do have days where I just want to eat without thinking about it when I'm in a mood but tracking my food really does help keep me from just mindlessly eating. I had to change a lot of thoughts on food and what was the 'right' portions size, reading the sides of boxes changes things. I also had to let go of the 'finish everything on your plate' mentality though it does still crop up. Food scales are amazingly helpful for portions and not something to be feared. I found out weighing myself actually helps so long as I don't obsess over the number. It's nice to keep up with how things are going and I usually weigh once a day and track with an app.

I just wanted to share with the group because I use this group as a way to keep myself motivated some days. It may seem like it's not going to happen but you can do it!! I wish I had started this journey two years ago now. The next goal is 150 and I'm really excited because it feels much more in reach.

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