Maintenance Monday: August 31, 2020

If you've reached your goal weight and you're looking for a space to discuss with fellow maintainers, this is the thread for you! Whether you're brand new to maintenance or you've been doing it for years, you're welcome to use this space to chat about anything and everything related to the experience of maintaining your weight loss.

Hey gang, here's your weekly discussion thread! Tell us how maintenance and life in general is going for you this week! And if you missed last week's (or simply want to reread), here's a link.

If there's a specific topic you'd like to see covered in a future thread, please drop a comment or message!

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“You’ll be skinny in no time” is not a compliment

I recently just started a new job where I’m working 6 days a week. Talking to a friend yesterday about my new schedule they said “wow, you’ll be skinny in no time”. At first I didn’t think too much about it, but this morning it really resonated with me.

You’ll be skinny in no time IS NOT A COMPLIMENT.

While you may mean well, saying this to anybody is reinforcing unrealistic expectations about weight loss & body image. Especially if the person is self conscious already, or maybe they aren’t even trying to lose weight.

You don’t go up to someone who just went from a labour oriented job to a desk position and say “wow, you’ll be fat in no time”. So why do we do this the other way around??

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Can’t work out! What else can I do to help my weight loss?

I’m a 20f,5’3 and 185lbs. Since quarantine started I let myself go really badly and started eating a lot. I got on track and started working out but in june I had a nasty eczema outbreak all over my body and head and it hasn’t gone away since. Every time I work out my body and scalp burn really badly due to sweating. I’ve tried completing just 10min videos and yoga but once I start sweating it feels like I have razor blade cuts everywhere. Im giving IF a shot and counting my calories, according to the app my calorie intake is 1,299. Are there any extra tips I can use to lose weight faster or low impact exercises that won’t cause too much sweating. Thanks :)

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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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