The scale is moving but my clothes aren't getting loose?

I've been on my weight loss journey since the end of November. My first goal is to lose my quarantine pounds. In the beginning of quarantine, I gained about 40 lbs and 3 pant sizes. I weighed in yesterday at 18 lbs down, so I'm about halfway there. However, I would have assumed since I've lost half the weight, I'd at least be down 1 pant size, but it really doesn't feel like my clothes are fitting any different. I've been taking measurements, and it looks like I've lost about an inch off my waist.

Does this mean I'm losing muscle not fat?

For reference, I've mostly been losing by calorie counting and volume eating (using Noom). My exercise plan has been this:

Cardio: 4-7 days a week, walking outside, walking on a treadmill on an incline, at home dance workouts

Strength: not doing too much of this, I have been doing some body weight workouts a few days a week at home, usually Chloe Ting and some yoga

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30 Day Accountability Challenge - February Sign Ups

Hello losers & holy guacamole, it's almost February!

A new month is starting which means a new Daily Accountability Challenge!

This is the sign up post to make your goals for the month.

There will be a daily post for you to post your progress on said goals.

At the end of the month, there will be a wrap up to talk about your general progress & how you feel about everything! If you miss the sign up post, you're always welcome to hop in, the waters fine! You can also read everyone else's progress & commiserate, congratulate & whatever else needs ating. Your goals can be weight loss or general health related, creative, self care or whatever else you need to focus your mental energy on. We try to foster a supportive place to chat about your successes & failures & what you've learned from both.

Leading by example, here are my goals!

Weigh in daily, enter into Libra & report here even if I don't like it: X lbs this morning, X lbs trend weight. Entering it even when I don't like it.

Stay within calorie range (1800): X/X days.

Exercise 5 days a week: X/X days.

Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, non food rewards):

Try a new recipe once a week: Always looking for suggestions! X/4 weeks.

Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Helps me keep my head in the game.

Your turn losers! Let's conquer this month & keep knocking 2021 out of the park.

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I stopped losing weight and I'm scared

I started losing weight this summer. I was doing really well - losing over 75 lbs in 6 months through OMAD. Everything was on the up-and-up. I started dating, my back pain is considerably better, and I had more energy than ever before.

In January, the 7th month since I started my weight loss journey, I didn't lose anything (and probably gained a lb). I also was probably in the process of experiencing a whoosh (I feel fatter than a month ago) so the actual fat gain could have been considerable. I was sloppy, not weighing myself and giving myself way too much slack with my IF plan.

I had every excuse to not lose weight this month:

• The country I'm living in is in full-lockdown.
  
• The girl I was dating ended things.
  
• I've been stressed with work
• I experienced regular insomnia for the first time in my life
• My family in the country I'm visiting took me in for the lockdown. I ate with them and they all overeat.

But I have always had a myriad of excuses for not losing weight. I thought I was finally past letting my problems control my life and prevent me from achieving my potential and "letting life happen to me".

The scariest part is that the last time I lost a significant amount of weight, I started gaining again at only 15 lbs above my current weight.

I messaged my manager yesterday and asked for a month of unpaid time off so that I can get back on track in life. He agreed. I really hope that not having work to distract me isn't going to further perpetuate this cycle.

I don't know what the real purpose of this post is but I really had to vent.

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Nearing my weight loss goal, pleased with my progress but not satisfied with my appearance, ways to calculate new goal weight?

Hey reddit :) 27 y/o female here, 5'6". Highest weight was 236lb and currently just under 158lb. My initial goal was 150lb. I have been using CICO to lose weight. My current goal is 1440 calories a day. I do HIIT workouts/strength training twice a week and hit 10k-14k steps 4-5/week. This month I have lost a little over 8 pounds. I am trying to reevaluate my goal weight as I am feeling like I will not be satisfied at 150lb. I held a lot of weight in my lower abdomen area and still do. After doing research I'm seeing 130-135lb being the most ideal weight for a 5'6" female my age. I am also seeing varying weights for extra skin after weight loss. I am very number orientated and have a difficult time looking at my body and feeling that it looks good... I worry I never will but am searching for that sweet weight spot... my younger sister, who has a similar frame/height as me, said she felt too thin at 140lb. We have broad set shoulders and wide rib cages, if that makes sense 😅 Thoughts on ideal weight?

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My Strategy to go from Obese to 'Normal' BMI in 2021

Hi all,

I'm sharing this as a way to reinforce it to myself and it might help some one somewhere. My first post and a it's a loooong one...

So I did the weight loss thing when I was 21, it took 2 years and I lost around 25kg (4 stone), I got my BMI down from 32+ to 24. I kept it off for 5+ years but then I went to college....fell in love and now at age 35 I'm back where I started.

But this is ok, for the past 5-10 years my health and fitness dropped way down my list of priorities and I think sometimes you should forgive yourself that if you've had a lot going on.

So this year I'm getting serious about it. What worked for me the first time around was calorie counting and exercise. Though I did a lot of yo-yo'ing and I know I focused on the wrong foods.

One other thing I've promised myself is that this is my main hobby or priority outside of work and family time this year. If I don't focus (or vaguely tell myself I'll eat less or exercise more) I lose track and don't get anywhere.

So I'm using an app called Trello (Google Keep or even a pen and paper works too!) and wrote down health goals for the year. Not weight loss goals yet, I went with health first as I want this to be a new lifestyle that will take me running, jumping and squatting into mid-life and beyond.

I made a daily manifesto:
Fasted exercise in the morning (can just be short walk)
Plan my meals each morning for the day to remove decisions (I love to make bad decisions!)
Focus on fruit and veg intake (not protein)
Limit added sugar
Exercise every day (this can be a workout or a walk)
Don't eat in the evenings beyond 6-7pm
Track calories on My fitness Pal

That sounds like a lot to remember and it is, so my morning routine now is to go for a short walk after waking up. Then when I get home take 5 mins to read the points above and decide what I'm having for my three meals.

Using the MFP app calculates my calories for me, I've set it to lose 2lbs a week. If I didn't use this app it feels like I would naturally eat 3000+ calories.

Sooo... I started on Jan 1st. The first 3 days were horrible, cutting out my sugar habit felt the same as when I gave up cigarettes. There is a real addiction issue there which I think is related to emotional eating...but that's a whole other thread. To get past the emotional eating I'm trying to stop and let myself feel stressed or sad or whatever it is that bothering me, rather than trying to bludgeon the emotion away with food.

Myself and my partner have been doing a home fitness routine from youtube (Caroline Girvan epic program), and we do that most nights or go for a 60 min walk if we don't do a workout that night.

So far since Jan 1st, i've lost 10.8lbs, lost 10cm from my belly and gone down two belt notches (that one is really satisfying!). With the focus on eating vegetables I really honestly have barely felt much hunger over the month so far.

I do think the lack of hunger is also down to the restricting of the sugary snacks from my diet, once those cravings for chocolate bars disappeared this has been soo easy. And i could have eaten my own weight in chocolate previously.

So in summary:
Decided to take massive action on my lifestyle
Focusing on health and sustainable lifestyle choices
Eating lots of berries, seeds, fruit, vegetable
No starving myself
Exercise every day even if it's just a walk
It's been a month and i'm super excited about changes I can see on my body already

Congrats if anyone made it to the end of my first post :)

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Am not the fat kid anymore, 60 pounds lost

15 year old here. Ever since the start of quarantine, at the start of March I wanted to impress my classmates by going back as the dude that completely changed his lifestyle, I started doing weight loss mainly to impress people and overall girls, I didn't think mainly to get healthy, but I wanted to do it to look better and impress people.

Checked my BMI and I was in the overweight category, and ALMOST falling down to the Obese category. Now I'm in the fitness category, and I'm trying to go down to athlete level category and I'm slowly seeing those muscle gains.

I did this all alone, no paid coach, nothing, I just one day decided to change my lifestyle, not even my parents forced me to do this, I just one day decided to impress people but now it has become a part of my life to workout regularly and I don't do it to impress people no more, but I use it as motivation whenever I feel tired in my daily workouts I remember all those times they used to make fun of me for being fat, and I visualize myself how I go back to school with my abs unpacked and all the people in my school being impressed.

For the first time in my life I am not fat anymore. Now my next objective is to unpack abs.

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My First Post EVER

Hey all! I'm very new to Reddit and am so glad I found this.. group? Subreddit? Idk any of the terms yet lol.

But I'm starting my weight loss journey (again) and I could really use this type of community! Between having 3 kids, meds for chronic illness, and stress eating during the past 4 years I have ballooned up and now need to lose about 90lbs. I started a few weeks ago, and while I've only lost about 2lbs so far I feel like going slowly is the only way to make sustainable changes. I've tried crash dieting before, only to cave and go back to old habits. I'm hoping taking baby steps will yield better results.

Thankfully I'm armed with the knowledge I need (I'm a nurse), I just need someone to give encouragement and knock those snacks out of my hands haha. Any takers??

Thanks so much for listening. 🙂

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