Don't be like me and make losing weight your whole life

I guess this is a warning and a reflection on my part at the same time. I used to be 83 kg and lost about 35 kg to eventually maintain at aroun 48-49 kg (been maintaining that for 8 months, but maintained at 52 before that for 6 months). Today I realised that I made my whole life into losing weight. It was everything I thought about from waking up to going to sleep. When I went out with friends, I didn't go if I knew we would be eating out and I didn't drink.

I know that not all activities have to be about food, but I just didn't have fun anymore either. I lost interest in all things I cared about like reading, learning new things and many more because I was constantly thinking about losing weight. I thought losing the weight would make me happy. It didn't. Sure I am happier and more confident in myself. But I guess I am also a lot less confident in a lot of ways. I still think I look like a monster. I have some loose skin comparable to new moms I would say is the best explanation and I feel like all the hard work was for nothing sometimes. Revolving my whole life around losing weight was a mistake that I am now trying to undo. I want to maintain, but I can not let my body not looking like I would want it to look stop me from living my life. That's what I did when I was bigger and that's what I am doing again now.

The last few months I have found my old passions again, but it's a shame that I let weight loss consume my life the way it did. I am finally finding a balance, but I wish I would have tried to find that balance sooner. Losing weight doesn't solve all of your problems. It's healthier though and I am so much better at sports then I user to be, so it's worth it. But it's not all that's important!

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50 pounds down, my lowest weight in over a year!

Hey all, haven't really posted here before but wanted to share my progress with some likeminded people!
I have always been overweight and most of that time I have been obese or morbidly obese, first year of uni in 2017 I started going to the gym and dropped quite a bit of weight, but over the next 2 years I put it all back on and more. Realised around Christmas time that I had to make a proper change and stick to it. January 3rd I weighed myself for the first time in quite a while and I was 159.3kg(351.2lbs).

I started tracking calories with My Fitness Pal, signed up for the gym and started educating myself on ways to lose weight and get healthy. Things started well and I was losing 1kg a week on average until lockdown began and the gym closed. Over the next 13 weeks without the gym, and due to slacking a lot with my diet, I only lost 1.7kg(3.7lbs) over 13 weeks.

Here was the point that in the past I would have given up, but this time I made the decision to keep going. I was still unable to go to the gym but decided to start walking every day and to get back on top of my diet. I am averaging about 0.8kg(1.8lbs) loss per week over the last 9 weeks since then and feel like I am back in control.

My total loss as of today is now 22.7kg(50lbs), I weigh daily so it tends to fluctuate and it will be a little longer before my weekly average hits this amount, but just getting to that number feels like a big achievement. However the bigger achievement to me is the fact I have kept going at it. I am now 8 months in and that is by far the longest time I have continuously stuck to a weight loss regime.

I still have a long way to go, but I also still have plenty of ways I can make additional changes to get there and that excites me. For the first time I feel that my journey will result in a permanent change.

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Is it really that uncommon to not have any mental health issues around food/weight?

I have noticed a lot of people post on here about binge eating disorder, terrible emotional stress around hating themselves, guilt and value judgements in association with food, etc. But as with anything on the internet, you post about needing help with things you need help with, just because there are a lot of posts doesn't make something the majority of experiences.

But just then I was reading through a thread somewhere else on weight loss, and people kept saying there was an emotional component to it, over and over. Is it really so common? I would have thought maybe 50/50? Anyone have any actual stats on it?

(I'm defining people with non emotional involvement as people who just have bad habits, get tired and don't cook, eat foods with high calorie density, are pretty sedentary, etc. People whose biggest challenge is to get the habits set, and resisting good tastes of certain foods)

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ISO Advise: At a healthy weight but still have love handles?

Good morning!

I've leaned on this thread throughout my entire weight loss journey, so I'm hoping to seek advise for this particular reason.

I'm 22F, 5'6" and about 144 lbs. I usually wear just a sports bra and leggings when I workout and for the first time yesterday, I was curious about what my back looked like to other people. I used self timer and took a picture and I was mortified! I had no idea that I still had back rolls where my ribs ended and it made me feel so embarrassed because I felt so confident prior.

I emphasize back workouts, so I'm also a bit confused about why my bad looked the way it did. Not that I hate that I have them, but if I would've known, I would've found a way to cover them up.

Is anyone else in the same position? How do you work on reducing them? Or is it sometimes based on genetics? My waist is so small compared to the rest of my body so I'm fearful I'll have them for ever.

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How do I lose weight without calorie counting

I have been trying to lose weight since I was 12 (I’m 20 now) and one of the things I tried was calorie counting. While it worked for a little, I soon realized it was creating an unhealthy obsession within me for counting calories. I would frequently eat less than 1000 calories a day and if I went over my limit I would cry and be distraught. Every time I tried calorie counting it backfired and I gained back all the weight I lost. Safe to say, calorie counting caused a disordered pattern of eating within me and I never want to go through it again. I am looking for a sustainable method of slow, healthy weight loss but almost everyone I’ve talked to and every site I’ve looked at says some variation of “calories in, calories out”. Can anyone suggest something to me? I’ve been overweight for too long and I think it’s time for a change. Oh and idk if my stats matter but I’m female, 5’2” and I weigh 152.

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Down 2 BMI points since Feb! Next up: dropping another 2 BMI points by Feb!

Stats: 25 / M / 5'11"

SW: 195 in Feb, 210 last Sept

GW1: 180

CW: 180

Next GW: 166

Starting BMI: 27.1

End BMI: 25.1

Why 2 BMI points? It's an easy unit of measure to compare my weight loss with my wife who is much lighter.

How'd I do it? Weighing everything and tracking calories. My TDEE is around 2K but I've been consistently losing ~4lbs or less by targeting 1,300 calories a day. The difference is probably due to tracking error, but as long as things are moving in the right direction, I'll get there.

My current plan is to drop to 156lb, or the midpoint of my BMI range and then bulk up through exercise and slow weight gain.

Just writing this to give me a post to look back on!

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How I break through my plateaus

So, this is my first post here, but I’m slowly nearing the end of my weight loss journey. I am a 20M standing at 6’0”. I used to weigh 300lb and now I currently weigh in at 183lb. I thought I’d share some experiences or information that have helped me through my journey so I can potentially help others.

Disclaimer: Don’t take any of this information as medical advice, this is just something I know works for me, and might work for you.

For me and I’m assuming many others plateaus can really be demotivating. However, for me I noticed they usually occurred after several months being on a strict diet. What I do to combat this is I have a pretty bad cheat day, usually around 4K calories, then the next day I eat around my maintenance calories 2.5k and then on the third day I go back to cutting at around 1.7k calories. Sure, my body will need to take a couple days to burn off those extra calories, but every time I do this, I always get right out of my plateau and back to losing weight regularly.

I wouldn’t recommend doing this if you know you can’t trust yourself to have a cheat day. I used to be the same, if I ate bad one day I would eat bad for the next 20 days. I also wouldn’t recommend this to people who aren’t strict about counting calories. This is because your plateau may be occurring because your slipping up on your diet a little bit.

However, if you know you have been counting calories strictly, and you are confident in your mindset this might give your body a little jumpstart. Hope this can help at least one person stuck in a rut.

P.S. after your cheat meal, you weight will likely jump 3-5 pounds, this is just water weight and will disappear approximately 4 days of strict dieting again.

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