Losing weight for theatre. And for my wife. 24M. 6’ 243 lbs starting

Hey all you awesome people. I made this account because I desperately need help. I’m a regular 24 year old guy in working my way through school. I’ve been married to my awesome wife for a little over two years. Anyways, I need some help being accountable in my weight loss journey. So I’m here!! I’ve got two reasons I’m losing weight.

1. THEATRE. So I’m a very good singer and pretty good actor. I’ve been doing it all my life and even though it’s my hobby, I occasionally land professional roles. I bet I could go full professional if I made some extra sacrifices. Problem is- I’m obese! I look decent I guess because I have a very large frame, but I’m just too damn heavy to play leading men on stage. I NEED to lose weight to get the roles I want to.

2. My wife. Shortly after getting married, we lost a couple family members unexpectedly. She fell into a deep depression, and I fell into weight gain. I don’t even look like the same person. I’ve got this massive double chin that came out of nowhere. I have stretch marks all over my body. Last night, she told me that one of the reasons our sex/love life has been suffering is because of my weight gain. She’s just not as attracted to me as she was when we got married. I’m hardly recognizable as me. And I can’t do the physical activities that we once enjoyed together- hiking, swimming, tennis. I just get too tired too fast. I think it’s a perfectly valid criticism and I want to do it.

So anyways, here’s to starting my weight loss journey! Please follow along if you want to. Any advice or motivation you can give me is much appreciated. God knows I need it.

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Eating healthy while depressed?

Since my mom’s cancer diagnosis last year, I’ve been steadily gaining weight. I’m now at a high of 273lbs and I feel awful about it. I’ve been struggling with horrible depression as well as burnout from my work as an in-home caregiver.

As far as food goes, I’m not really up for much cooking. I’ve been living on Amy’s and Lean Cuisine frozen meals, but those are getting pretty old. I prefer vegetarian but I’m somewhat flexible, though I try to stay away from pork. I also don’t really eat leftovers, so big batch cooking isn’t realistic for me. Also, I do most of my shopping at Trader Joe’s, if that makes a difference. I also have an instant pot and an air fryer.

Basically, I need help coming up with ideas for foods that don’t require a lot of cooking, don’t make a lot of leftovers, and are healthy/promote weight loss. I know my options are limited, but was wondering if anyone has any ideas?

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Hit my goal weight this morning!!!

56F, SW 279, CW 160, Weight lost 119 lbs.

I began this journey on 9/27/19. Goal was to lose 1.5 lbs per week. It took 53.5 weeks. Average of 2.22 lbs per week. The last two months have been the slowest, averaging 1 lb per week.

No surgery, no exercise (despite constant nagging 😂)

I did it through counseling at a non-surgical weight loss clinic at my local hospital. It’s hard to summarize a year’s worth of dietary counseling into a sentence or two, but mainly monitoring carbs and protein. At least 80g of protein per day and no more than 100g of carbs.

The biggest challenge was accurately counting the carbs and protein in non-packaged foods. MyFitnessPal has a database from other users’ inputs. It can vary wildly and be as accurate as you might guess.

So I’m basically on the Lean Cuisine diet 🤣. Anything pre-packaged that can accurately tell me what the counts are.

My biggest take-away from it all is how easy and scientific the process was. The weight just fell off. Calculations of basal metabolic rate versus food intake - hmmmm. Wow. Is that it?

Biggest challenge now is to maintain it. I hope it will be as easy as the losing part! I suspect it won’t be, though.

Good luck to all my fellow losers!!! There is hope. Get help. Seriously - get professional help. It wasn’t expensive. Basic doctor co-pay each month for first six months then once every two months.

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i have been eating below 1000 calories on the daily for 4 months already i cant seem to stop

hi reddit! this is my first time posting about this so please be kind. it's kind of long so i hope you bear with me.

im a 20-year old 5'2 female weighing around 53kg. i used to weigh around 70kg back in 2018 and i decided to lose some weight before entering college. i mostly just eliminated rice from my diet and did some cardio workouts 5 hours before going to bed. i went from 70kg to 63kg and i was so happy! i entered college feeling fresh, confident, and beautiful. i felt like i had a major glow-up because i became confident in the way i dressed, too. in short, i was very happy with my self-image.

and then quarantine started. aside from the fact that i was devastated (because i was a people's person + i was so afraid of my family getting covid), i also started to pinpoint the bad things about my body: flabs of fat here and there, things like that. i became so critical about my body. i hated how my thighs would and belly would jiggle and how my chest was too big. i had a short neck and fat face, too. i decided to lose weight. initially, i worked out (cardio) everyday without fail for an hour and a half. i diminished my intake of food too, but just by a little. 2 months later, i lost 2 kg and 2 inches around my waist. my family was praising me for the weight loss, i was still not satisfied. im pretty sure my self-dissatisfaction came from the things i see on social media and youtube. i keep seeing "lose 10kg in 3months!" and stuff like that and i... kind of pressured myself into doing so?

come july i decided to do an extreme calorie deficit: at first it was just a mild, healthy calorie deficit. i just substituted my rice with some vegetables. aside from that, i still continued my daily cardio workouts consisting of a lot of jumping. and it worked. less than 3kg later, i was still unhappy, and terribly so. i just started calorie counting really bad. my lunch would consist of a small pieces of meat or poultry and lettuce (because they were low in calories) and a shitton of water. i dont eat breakfast too because i'm A.) either asleep till 11am or B.) on the days i wake up early, i just wait till 12nn to eat. for snack, a single piece of wheat bread with butter and a cup of coffee, and for dinner, the same amount of food i took during lunch, sometimes even less. i dont eat beyond 6pm and wait till 12nn on the following day to eat. all in all, i know i eat around 900 calories a day or less. on good days, i take it up to 1000 or 1200, but the thought of eating beyond 1000 calories breaks my heart beyond words, and it's been going on since july. my aunt asked blatantly asked (but i can sense the genuine concern) if i had anorexia, and i denied it on instinct. our family shies away from mental issues so i didnt really know how to respond.

reddit, please help me. i know i should see a nutritionist, but the pandemic is forfeiting my rights to go outside and seek help. plus, it's expensive. i want to go back and enjoy food again, and be confident again like i was when i was at 63kg. i want a healthy relationship with food again, but i just cant seem to recover from this self-induced fever dream.

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What am I doing wrong?

Hello all! Just looking for some advise and maybe a little inspiration/motivation. Im female, just turned 40 I’m 215 lbs and 5’5. Before I had my daughter 4 years ago I was 130lbs so this weight has been kind of sudden, very depressing and I’m always tired. I started this weight loss journey 1 month ago by cutting out all processed foods and limiting my calories to 1400 a day. I eat lots of veg and lean protein. The first 2 weeks I lost 2lbs and now I’m not loosing anything. This morning I stepped on the scale and my heart broke, it took everything in me not to eat a whole pizza. The only thing that has changed is I don’t have time to do my lunch time walk or elliptical due to work and a busy schedule but I still get 10000 steps a day. Plus most people say it’s 70% your diet that looses the weight, maybe that’s bullshit? I don’t know.

Some thoughts, I’m 40. When I was in my 20s and 30s I could fart and loose weight and now it seems my metabolism is non existent. Is there supplements for this? I also went on a birthday and Halloween binge that resulted in copious amounts of booze and nachos but that’s only 3 days. Should I do IF? Reduce my calories further? Please help I’m feeling really defeated but I don’t want to give up.

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You're retraining your body - be sure you retrain your mind as well! A story of visualization.

I catch myself and so many others saying "but I've only lost XX lbs". Stop right there my friend. The physical efforts and mental preparation to lose that first pound is enormous, so please stop selling your efforts short by dismissing your little victories. The weight loss and transformation of your life is going to be a long series of little victories that lead to the big ones, that lead to the permanent ones. You will NEVER lose your weight in an instant, or overnight, or by thinking about a salad, or by thinking about taking the stairs. Results are acheived by turning your thoughts into action.

On the way to the grocery store a few weeks ago, my mom, who has struggled to manage her weight her whole life, was brave enough to share with me, "I know it's not much, but I'm down 3 more lbs in the last month or so." So I over exaggerated my reaction and celebrated this with her in a BIG way! High fives, tears, loud congrats. Yet she wasn't celebrating with me, she still seemed down on herself. She couldn't be happy yet because it wasn't ALL the weight gone; she was dismissing this victory as not good enough. So I had this bright idea that I saw on a TV show 10 plus years ago. We get to the store, we don't get a basket so our arms are quickly filling up with items. After gathering our things, I ask Mom to come with me to the fridge section, and to bring an open mind. I take the items from her arms and nod my head towards the butter and ask her to pick one up. I ask her what the weight of this butter is and she doesn't know (she knows, she's just playing dumb lol). I told her that's one entire pound. I asked her to really look at it, really feel its weight and really see the size of it. Then I asked her to pick up 4 more (her total is 5lbs down now). She's struggling to hold 3 of them as she reaches for the 4th and 5th one. "Mom, you're holding 5lbs right now. So when you say "I've only lost 3lbs" I want you to remember what those 3lbs look like and feel like. Now slowly put them back and feel how light your arms become." She wasn't stricken with emotion but I think I opened her eyes a little bit about what she's accomplished so far.

If you're stuggling to visualize and celebrate the weight you've let go of - go to your nearest store, and pick up that pound of butter, or 5 of them, or the entire box of 30- hold it for a few minutes, FEEL the weight of it and then set it back down. Walk away from the weight of that butter just like you're walking away from the weight you've released. Know your limits, lift within it ;)

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To those who have plateaued and then had a second wave of weight loss - Do you have any advice?

Hi there! Long story short about me: I'm 29F, 5'8. SW: 265, CW 221, GW 165 [44/100lb lost]. I have a sedentary office job (WFH) but I do 30min on my exercise bike 5 x a week. On weekdays, I eat 1300-1500kcal per day (normally somewhere around 1400) and at weekends I tend to eat around 2000kcal. My TDEE is roughly 2440 to maintain.

My weight loss has been as follows:

July -16lb

August -10lb

Sept -8.2lb

October -9.8lb

My October loss might seem like a lot, but I maintained for the last week in September and then lost 4.5lb on the weekend of Oct 3 (water weight?). Two weeks ago, I maintained 220, then last week I gained 1lb.

I'm still very happy with my overall progress and understand it won't always be consistent, but I don't want this to continue for a possible third week. I weighted myself this morning and I'm 221.8.

I haven't been walking as much because the weather has been bad, and I will admit that I did eat a high calorie takeout the past two weekends, but I've still been very well behaved during the week to try to make up for it, so I will be frustrated if I go into my third weekend without any loss.

I've decided to up my 30 min morning workout to 40 min, but I don't want to cut any more calories than I'm already consuming. I was even thinking of trying to up it to 1500-1600 and cut out the higher calorie weekends to make my calorie balance more consistent? Does anyone have any experience or advice they could share?

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