I hit a BMI Category Change Milestone!

I’ve lost 46 pounds since mid October. I’ve steadily lost about 3 pounds each week and today I have fallen off the extremely obese category into the obese category. I’m just obese!! I still have a long way to go, but I just want to take a moment to celebrate this with y’all. This community has been so inspiring for me-especially because people in my life haven’t really noticed. Maybe the winter clothes and masks are hiding my weight loss most of the time and maybe they didn’t realize just how heavy I was. Regardless, I have celebrated my milestones so far pretty privately and it has kept me motivated. Anyway, cheers to a new chapter of weight loss and a threshold I will never cross again!

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Dieting seems to make my mental health disorders significantly worse. Advice appreciated.

27M SW240 CW190 GW180?

I've been dieting and exercising on and off since January of 2020. I had amazing success when I dropped the first 40+ in less than 8 months. Now I'm just trying to get rid of those last 10-15 pounds of stubborn body fat that are sticking around to irk me.

Recently I've noticed a recurring cycle that I would almost label disturbing. Whenever I start dieting again, I notice a significant worsening of my anxiety and overall mental health that is already really not great to begin with. I stick with it for a week or two but keep deciding that my mental health is more important than having abs or whatever. Then somehow I quickly forget how bad it was and after a month of acting fat and happy I decide to try again, you guessed it, with the same effect.

What's crazy is that I feel like my initial charge in weight loss and exercise helped my mental health a TON and for a while there I thought I had things under control. Now it's almost as if the opposite is happening.

I know pretty much all of you here would agree that my mental health is indeed more important. But there certainly has to be a way to do both... Right? Any advice would be very helpful and I hope y'all have a beautiful day.

(Only because I know this will be a main point of interest, no I'm not doing a crazy crash diet or anything. I'm simply cutting about 500-750 calories, and I'm eating all macros. I do sometimes fast for significant portions of time)

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1 month into the journey, Overestimating Calories intake? need advice plz

Hello guys, I hope everyone doing well with their weight loss plan :D

21 Male, 155lb 5'9

Into my dilemma, its been almost a month since I started getting back to the gym, cutting calories. But since the beginning I've been noticing zero difference in the scale, I know the number is not important but I feel like I'm Overestimating my calories intake for me to lose weight. And kinda its frustrating. So Basically, I calculated my BMR through these calculators and then I've multiplied my BMR by 1.50 ( which is like equal to moderately active ), I saw several threads here recommend people to go Sedentary which is a big difference to what I'm doing. My lifestyle currently or since the pandemic is I spend almost my day at home "study online", I weight lift 6 times a week and I "intend" starting to do outside running for cardio and make it an everyday habit or at least any other cardio shape for a less than an hour. Based on my activity and lifestyle what rate is suitable for me to stick with for a month and monitor results? given that I plan to do some cardio daily along with weight lifting. But other than that, I spend most of my day at home, Don't walk a lot when going outside. "don't have an average steps unfortunately" I'm currently eating 2150 calories, the maintain on a moderate active is 2650and is it necessary to eat 2.2g per kg of protein while losing weight?

Any help guys is much appreciated :) :) thanks a lot. looking forward for any input.

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Unexpected Benefits.

So I’m still about 30lbs from goal weight but just shy of 70lbs lost. I started at a size 42 waist and last night I put on a pair of size 36 jeans (a size I haven’t worn for almost 20 years..).

Unintended benefit of weight loss: better sex.

I think it important we talk holistically about weight loss and I’m not sure this has come up, or if it did I must have missed it. I’ve experienced quite a spike in my already high libido, and...my penis is effectively, bigger. Since losing fat around my pelvis, I haven’t gained any inches or girth, only that there is less fat around my pubic bone. My partner said that she notices it in a non-trivial way. This never really mattered to me because we already had good sex, but now...it seems like I can just better use what I’ve always had.

Anyone else experience this?

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Weight loss help + getting toned during the pandemic + winter months?

Hi all,

I hope everyone is doing well!

Currently 29/M/260lbs. I little bit of my backstory:

In June of 2014, I started my weight loss journey at 420lbs. Between June of 2014 - March of 2019, I lost 180lbs and was sitting at 240lbs (the lowest I had been in a very longtime). From March 2019 - March 2020, I maintained that weight (my goal was 200lbs, but I plateaued and could not get over that hump). Queue March 2020 and the global pandemic, stress eating became a habit again and exercise became almost non-existent (I would mostly do cardio 3-4 times a week by either going to the gym, or walking around the neighborhood for at least an hour). As a result, I got back up to 260lbs.

With that being said, I wanted to ask what everyone is doing in terms of exercise during the pandemic. I have corrected my eating habits over the past week, so my diet is on track, but I also want to get fit. My wife and I are expecting in the Spring, and I do NOT want to be the fat dad that is unfit and can't keep up with his kids.

I've been thinking about buying some equipment for a home gym, but I don't know where to start (going to an actual gym in-person is out of the question at the moment, and outdoor cardio at the moment is pretty rough here with an average temperature around 5 degrees).

I appreciate any and all recommendations!

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Weight loss after recovery

Back in October of 2019 I was in a pretty bad head on collision on my way home from college, I won’t go into the details too much but I will say I had a decent amount of damage to my legs had to have several surgeries on my wrist a severe concussion and at one point there was a conversation regarding the loss of my right arm, fast forward to about 1 year later and I’ve made mostly a full recovery, I still have screws in my wrist and have occasional pain but other then that I’m pretty much back to how I was before the wreck, due to a year of inactivity unhealthy life choices and depression I gained a good bit of weight, in highschool I was around 160, I had jumped up to 222lbs, I was disgusted in myself(this being said there’s nothing wrong with being bigger, or with being any size for that matter, I was just disappointed in myself because I’ve always been fairly active and in my mind I had let myself go and given up) now come January I’m down to 165lbs and in the best shape I’ve ever been in (I started my weight loss in September of this past year) my goal is to cut down to about 155 then build back up to 170 as healthy as possible

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Gained 10 pounds in 1 month

Hi!! Long time lurker on this subreddit. I started my fitness/weight loss journey back on July 4th with the goal that I would lose weight for my birthday. I got down from 130 to 110 and I wanted to lose 10 more pounds to get to 100. (I'm 4'10" so I don't think it's that bad!!) However on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I just ended up treating myself because I wanted to enjoy the time with my family instead of exercising and counting calories. Whatever. But after New Years I haven't really stopped treating myself? And the motivation to count calories or the looming thought that I would gain weight if I ate too much just went away for the entirety of January. Now it's one month later and I've checked the scale and I'm up 10 pounds... 10 WHOLE POUNDS!! AHH!! I know it's entirely my fault it's simple CICO;; Even after checking body progress pics and seeing how much of a step I've taken backwards I can't bring myself to be motivated again, even though I haven't been counting calories/dieting for a long time. Any tips on how to get back on track? I feel horrible looking in the mirror again and seeing all of the progress I've made go to waste. Thanks!!

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