53% of my goal achieved! Goodbye kangaroo pouch!

TW: abuse, suicide of a friend

When I was a kid, my mom would tell me I have a kangaroo pouch for a stomach. She was obese since early adulthood and said a lot of shit you just don't say to kids (or anyone really, but especially not to kids). My sisters and I have all been hyper-aware and concerned about our weights and at least one sister (that I know of) and I have struggled with disordered eating. After high school, I gained 18kg.

A lot of what went on when I was a kid (ie. Emotional, mental and physical abuse and neglect) led me to up and move thousands of kilometers away. I'm now married, a rabbit mom and I'm trying to figure things out.

The country I grew up in is notorious for unhealthy eating and the country I moved to is in most cases much more health conscious. I learned a lot about healthy living from the host family I originally lived with and from my husband and his family. It's been slow going and I've had trouble losing weight, despite making healthy changes. I lost 10kg pretty randomly a few years ago. When I moved, I weighed 90kg.

Last year I stayed at a psychiatric hospital for a bit and decided it was time to work on my mental health instead of working and studying all the time. This year, I was starting to do better, but wasn't completely happy with myself. I knew that was mostly a therapy topic, but I decided to focus a bit more on physical health. I started working out every other day. At first I was still not eating proper amounts and was drinking far too much far too often, so there weren't really any results. Slowly but surely, I started weighing food to learn proper portion sizes and trying to change my thinking (ie. "I could eat sour gummies or drink come, but I don't want to because I don't like what it does to my body" or "this workout is hard and I could stop, but I don't want to, because I want to lose weight and become stronger and I can do hard things"), which has been a really difficult, but seemingly effective change. It also really helped recognizing that I need control and finding a healthy way to exercise it.

This summer, I received a diagnosis I wasn't happy about and shortly after that, a friend of mine took her own life and while that was incredibly difficult, I surprised myself by being able to easily lean on working out (especially running) and drawing as a support, while processing, instead of alcohol and food.

I started this year at 80kg. I had a bit of a plateau after summer and felt discouraged, but I upped Cardio and worked on portion sizes and stated avoiding sugar and processed foods. This morning I weighed in at 69,6. I've achieved 53% of my weight loss goal. I'm so proud of myself for what I've achieved! I've always struggled with seeing myself in a positive light, so it's an even bigger deal for me that I can say that too.

Thank you all for your support and community!

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112lbs down in 1.5 years, still 33% body fat

Female, 183cm/6ft

Highest weight: 140kg/308lbs

Current weight: 88.8kg/195lbs

Goal weight: 70-75kg/154-165lbs

So back in June 2019, I hit my highest weight of 140kg, i knew when I saw that number I was not going to let it rise any more. Looking back I never truly realised how big I was, but I’m so glad I decided to do something about it. I admit it was not the healthiest way which is why I’ve come on here for advice. I pretty much ate all the same foods; fast food, chips, pizza, chocolate etc. but I limited myself to only eating 1 or 2 things a day, like if I knew I wanted takeaway I would put off eating until dinner time so I could eat it. I don’t think it was all on purpose, more of a too lazy to cook decent meals so I knew I would just snack on bad food. I also picked up skateboarding, and would use it to get around to work, the shops etc so I think that may have helped the weight loss, considering before this I wasn’t doing any daily activity lol.

Anyways, Ive ended up losing 51kg/112lbs since hitting my highest weight, and now I’m concerned as I checked my body fat % and It’s at about 33-34% which is incredibly bad. So is it possible I lost a lot of muscle mass as well considering my % is still that high? And how do I go about lowering it? Probably eating better but I have no idea when it comes to nutrition and what’s good for my body.

I still eat like rubbish, fast food probably once or twice a week, and I rarely cook meals at home. So if anyone has some simple but nutritional meals they could share that’d be great!

Tl;dr lost 50kg/112lbs, still have 33% body fat and wondering if I lost muscle mass lmao. And how to lower that %.

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How to workout when I’m exhausted?

Hi everybody,

I’m feeling rather stuck.

For a bit of a background: When I was in high school I weighed 135 lbs, and I’m 5’4”. That was a healthy weight for me and I was happy. When I went to college, I gradually gained 30 pounds over the course of the four years. When I graduated, I worked at a museum, and I was on my feet all day doing a lot of activities. While working there I was able to lose some weight and went from 167 to 155. However, I didn’t see myself being there long term as it was only a part-time job. I found a full time job at an elementary school as a paraprofessional in their significant needs department. I was still able to still come home and workout to continue what I had started with my weight loss journey. At this point I started to take anti-depressants which reversed some of the work I had accomplished, but I was determined to keep going.

However, when Covid started to become an issue and the schools shut down, I figured this would be a good chance to return to school for my Masters Degree. And I’ll be honest, by the time I returned to school in May and the elementary school went to summer break, I completely fell off with exercising and did not attempt again until August.

Now that schools are in-person again, I have just found I’m too tired to do anything when I get home. My job is mentally and physically exhausting, but do not get me wrong here I LOVE my job. I just support two students with veeeery different needs from each other, and I play with them at recess and participate in their school activities alongside them. My one student has behavioral issues and it can be a lot of redirection or chasing them down the hall.

By the time I get home at 5 pm, I try to catch up on school work if I didn’t finish it over the weekend or during my lunch breaks.

Either way I’m back to 165, and I just don’t know how to push myself to workout? It was easier when I did not have school work to worry about and my evenings were more free. I try to get myself on the treadmill but can tell I’m not putting my all into my workout.

I go to bed at 10:00 pm and wake up at 6:30 am, so I think I’m getting enough sleep.

I have tried energy boosters like C4, Lit, Assault (?), but I didn’t like how they made me feel and did not want to become dependent on them.

TLDR: I work 40 hours a week and spend a lot of my free time doing my school work for my masters. How do I find the energy to workout, when I get home from work and can barely keep my eyes open?

Thank you in advance!

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NSV: I'm getting carded again!

25F 5'7" SW:260, CW: 192. I'm in the US so drinking age is 21.

The title says it all. I remember being disappointed that I wasn't carded on my 21st birthday. I thought I just looked older. By the time I was 23 and started on my health journey, I was basically never carded.

Well, I've noticed that I'm getting carded a bit more at stores, but I always thought grocery stores carded a lot and I don't exactly go out to bars anymore in COVID times. But then this happened a few days ago.

I was traveling for the holidays (yes being careful yes social distancing) and the hotel I was staying at was offering free booze to guests over 21 (in to-go cups for you to drink in your room). After a long day of driving, some wine sounded nice, but I'd left my wallet in my room, so I decided to just ask before running upstairs to get it. Again, I'm very used to not getting carded.

Not only was I carded, but when I came down with my wallet, the person working the bar was surprised to learn I was 25 like I'd said. "You look so young. I thought you were a lying teenager. You really need to keep this on you." Part of this might have been the mask covering most of my face, but I was still shocked and flattered. I knew my face had changed with the weight loss, but I didn't think I'd lost 5+years in appearance! I guess I'll be more careful to have my ID from now on.

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I've fallen off the wagon and I'm getting back on

This is an accountability post for myself, I am manifesting it and putting it in writing so I can internalize it, hopefully if anyone is going through something similar they won't feel alone in it.

I have been overweight my whole life, and I got sick of it. At my heaviest I was 260+, after some lifestyle changes I unintentionally got down to 220 and decided this summer that enough was enough. I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to look and feel nicer, and back in September I started trying to lose weight. Through CICO and light exercise, I got down to the 190s, and I was doing great. My relationship with food changed, I was making sustainable changes, and I was really happy with the changes in my habits and appearance.

Then, my little brother passed away unexpectedly and I was a wreck. People were forcing me to eat because I wouldn't do it myself, I stopped exercising, and I stopped giving a fuck about anything in my life except that. I went back to my home country (NOT easy during covid) and was met with more food, even less exercise, and I started slipping back into the habits that had made me overweight before.

I didn't want to eat, I didn't think it would make me feel better like it had in the past, but I did anyway. I got a bit into the mindset of "x food isnt available in the country I live in now, might as well enjoy it while I'm here" and "I'll start back up again once I get home", I felt like I was existing in a little bubble of mourning but now it's been a month and I need to move forward. I was supposed to go back home yesterday but travel restrictions changed and my flight was cancelled. The soonest I can go back is in 2 weeks.

I need to get a grip on myself, I need to start the "moving forward" part and find a new normal, and I need to get back into dieting and exercising and caring about my body. It just seems so hard to do while I'm stuck in my home country, in my bubble. It doesn't seem like real life. I know I've gained weight since I've been here, I weighed myself yesterday and I'm at 198. This is the heaviest I want to be ever again, this is my new starting weight.

Tomorrow I'm going grocery shopping and I'm gonna stop eating the unhealthy stuff that's been made so readily available to me. I'm gonna start logging my food again. As soon as I'm done typing this post, I'm gonna go exercise for the first time in a month and it will be the start of my new routine.

The first milestone weight I wanted to reach was 180, right now I'm 18 lbs away. I'm 2 months away from reaching my first goal. I'm starting again now, and nothing else is going to keep me from continuing on my weight loss journey.

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No longer obese!

I am 22, I have been overweight my entire life and for the first time for as long as I can remember I am no longer obese. Of course with weight fluctuation i go above the 215lb mark (I'm 5'11), but it doesn't change the base weight.

I have been extremely worried about my weight loss since I have been bedridden due to a multi-story fall, some serious injuries. I started at 390 and I was ~225 42 days ago just before the incident. I knew healing takes up a lot of energy and sadly muscle atrophy does happen (my broken leg is ~half the size it once was) but I couldn't control my calorie intake too well.

Eating from boredom is a big one too. I was resigned to gaining weight and fully expected 230 on the scale. The relief was insurmountable. Just having reached this point has made it so I don't feel too bothered by the idea of gaining some weight now, since now I feel in control again. Not saying I am mobile, but I can now count calories and I'm no longer eating out of boredom (as much as I had been).

Onederland is coming early 2021, I can see it clearly

Stats: 22M, 5'11

SW+Highest: 390lb - March 2018

CW: 215lb - December 2020

Healthy Weight: 180lb

Goal Weight: 170lb

Back in March I was 300lbs, I had a year long hiatus of maintaining my weight, too.

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You know the face gains are real when you have to re-do your iPhone’s Face ID

For the past month I’ve been noticing that my phone’s Face ID is really finicky and won’t let me unlock my phone half the time. Yesterday I was sitting in a well-lit room with my phone straight in front of my face and it still wouldn’t work. My first thought was that I somehow messed up my phone and would have to resort to using a passcode from now on, until I remembered that my face has changed a ton this past year. Since January, I’ve lost almost 70lbs (225lbs -> 158lbs) and had serious face gains. I re-programmed my Face ID last night and now it works like a charm!

Thought this was a pretty cool but unorthodox weight loss milestone and wanted to share with you guys :)

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