You guys saved my life

[305-190] [18,M,6'5]

Long read ahead;

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone in this subreddit know how much I appreciate them, you guys literally saved my life.

1 year ago today I was around 300 lbs, suicidal, and had no goal in life. I got kicked out of my school during my senior year, and got arrested. I had early diabetes symptoms, no girlfriend, and abusive parents. I've been suicidal as long as I can remember, as early as 6 years old. During the summer I found this subreddit. I have been overweight since I was in a stroller, and I didn't know how to lose weight, I assumed it was by exercising. I discovered CICO the day quarantine started here in Canada back in March. I decided to try it, and lift weights everyday and by September I lost over 100 lbs. I cried like a baby when I stepped on the scale and saw 85kg. Sadly with the weight loss I found out I have gynecomastia, but I'm seeing a surgeon soon, and the surgery is COVERED!!!

Before I lost weight I was unconfident, and had only talked to a few girls in my high school. Know virtually every girl my age I walk by look at me, and I've had tons of girls ask for my Snap/phone number, its confidence I never thought I would have. Ever. Weight lifting increased my testosterone, which other else than the insane sex drive, has improved my life in so many ways, my voice is deeper, and I'm more confident, and able to stand up for myself and not give a shit.

I somehow got into my dream university, and I'm studying animation right now. I finished last semester with a 3.9 GPA, and got offered a scholarship. 95% of my friends and family don't recognize me, I've looked some people in the eye, and they wouldn't know it was me until I said their name.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think I beat depression. I'm literally smiling for no reason all the time, I really hope everything stays like this.

You guys are the fucking best, I didn't need to see a diet coach or anything, this subreddit should cost money. If you we're where I was last year, lurking, please, please, please, please start right now.

Thank you so much I fucking love you guys!

(P.S I'm glad to post some pics too!)

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Trying to use this sub to be accountable in weight loss journey. Day 1 of accepting I'm obese, not overweight, and need to do something about it now.

I've been overweight my whole life. My weight has fluctuated, but for the most part, I've always been an XL-XXL. Overeating and a sedentary lifestyle are the main causes, and last year I slipped into a deep depression, and ate my feelings and would lay in bed for the whole day. The last time I weighed myself, I was 170 (I'm 32 and 5' btw) and I'd say this was four months ago. I weighed myself again today, and saw I hit 200- my heaviest weight. I was a little sad to see that I've gained 30 pounds, but my late night binge eating, lack of exercise, and lifestyle choices don't make it that surprising.

While I've been living in an oversized sweater + sweatpants for the past six months, I decided today to wear some tight fitting clothes to see my body. I also don't have a full length mirror so its been easy to just avoid looking at my body. I decided I'd try and hold myself accountable and start using reddit for tips/tricks / advice when it comes to weight loss. I've already committed to not eating / snacking after a certain hour, and cutting out junk food, to start. I've started doing weights + yoga, and tomorrow I plan to start walking daily.

I'd like to lose weight so that I'm in a healthy range / BMI- speaking, so I'm looking at 60-80 pounds of weight loss. I'm someone who's always been accepting of my weight, but I want to be healthy and and in shape, and beyond comfortable, I want to enjoy the body I'm in and be comfortable.

If anyone has any advice / tips / tricks for starting out for my body type, I'd appreciate it greatly. I included a picture I took today, just to kind of kick myself in the ass a little bit.

me

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I will soon begin my weight loss journey and I’m excited(and a little nervous) Here are a few of my goals.

Hey guys, so I never really thought I would actually post anything on this subreddit as I’m sort of a coward but here we are. I’m a 16(F) and I weigh over 200 pounds at 5”5. Truthfully, I’ve been overweight since I was around 10. I started dealing with a lot of mental health and body issues, so I would eat to help me feel better and it has gotten out of control. People say I don’t look it, but I can feel it and I don’t enjoy it. The hardest part is that my family buys a lot of junk food, so It’s a little harder to eat healthier but I’m going to do it! Besides eating healthy, here are a few of my goals!

1-Drink more water. I rarely drink water, I despise the taste of it so I drink primarily diet Dr. Pepper and drink a water maybe once a week despite my parents telling me to drink it more often. My goal is to drink mostly water with only a diet once a week starting out and slowly increasing the time in between drinking one.

2-Eating foods in moderation. I have a pretty bad habit of binging and eating when I’m bored. I tried before completing cutting things out of my diet, and when I failed I ended up eating a lot more than I should have, so although I may not completely be able to cut out all the bad foods I will eat a lot less of it and eat more healthy foods. I do like healthy food at least so that’s good. I will also watch my calorie count to make sure I don’t eat too much of the bad stuff and eat on smaller bowls as it makes you feel full quicker.

3-Walking more. I walk(on average) less than 2k steps a day, my goal is to walk more/jog/run. Even if it is just around the yard 100 times.

4-Working out more. I want to do more exercises like sit ups, planks, etc. I especially want to make my stomach muscles tighter(that is where a lot of the weight is).

5-I want to pick up dancing. I love watching hip hop dancing, I find it so fun to watch different routines so I am going to learn some, starting out easy and working my way up.

6-Increase my flexibility. I have never been able to do the splits, I hope to get closer.

So that’s all I’m going to type for now, but when I start my journey I will keep things updated on here!

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At what point do you say “I’m at a healthy weight”?

I’m in my early twenties, and I think I kind of messed up my image of “healthy weight” and “good looking body” when I was a teen. I was skinny all my young life, and once I started high school I started gaining muscle. By the end of high school I weighed 155lb, and had amazing physique with definitive muscles. I loved it. A few years go by and I slowly start to put on some weight. Last year I weighed 180 and decided to start dieting for the first time in my life. The problem is that calorie counting consumed me and I became obsessed with it and with my weight. I dropped over 30 pounds and ended up starting to weigh less at 22 than I did at 18 (I was skinny at 18). I didn’t realize how unhealthy not only my obsession with weight loss, but my own weight had become until looking back on it recently. I fell off that eventually and gained some weight back. But now I feel like I’m on the border of healthy weight and overweight. It seems I only think I’m overweight because I’m just not used to having any extra fat on me at all. But in reality I look more my age, I look stronger and larger (in a good way), and I don’t look like I’m starving myself and on the edge of life. Where do you find that balance? Where do you get that weight number where you tell yourself you’ll stick to that number?

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Started calorie deficit again - Haven't lost anything in 3 weeks

I'm a veteran at weight loss. Many times over I've been fat and skinny. I know what it takes to lose weight, but due to depression I gain it all back. I started 5 weeks ago, for the first 2 weeks I just ate normally, eating between 1700 to 2000 calories simply so I get my depressed self used to logging all my food and weight. - Regiment is extremely important for depressed people.

For the passed 3 weeks I've been keeping to 1500, sometimes under, sometimes over, but 9/10 days it's 1500. I weigh and log absolutely everything I eat, down to the gram, and use MyFittnessPal to log everything.

I started weighing myself out of pure determination so that I could see a trend eventually but not so I could see immediate weight loss. I log every day, weigh once a week.

I have not lost even 100 grams. I'm 35. I also have a massive history of medical issues. Do I need to cut down even further? To 1000 calories? I'm 116kg so I have PLENTY to lose.
I do zero exercise because of my extreme depression. I've done this many times before, I wasn't expecting any loss after 1 week, but after 3? I'm very much used to seeing results by then.

I'm fine with cutting down if my body demands it but I've never experienced this before. Usually the first few weeks has the largest results.

I'm perfectly fine at ignoring this and just going on for another month, but if my body is unique and requires even more of a deficit to lose weight then I can try that.

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Doctor ignored signs of cancer because of weight.

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Two years ago I started jumping through hoops to get approved for a gastric bypass. I was 425lbs. Every month for almost a year I had to go to my doctor and discuss weight loss. In October 2019 I mentioned to my doctor that I had a lump on my neck. I wasn’t terribly worried. My mother made jokes about it being my secret adult Adam’s apple (I’m a woman). I told my doctor that I thought it was getting bigger and causing pain and complications with swallowing larger bites. She said it was most likely a fatty cyst that would decrease in size with weight loss and that the swallowing shouldn’t be an issue, considering how fine I needed to chew my food post-surgery. She told me my insurance wouldn’t cover any testing unless I lost weight first, anyway.

In October of 2020, I went back to my doctor purely because of my worry over my neck. It went from being a mass the size of a golf ball to being the size of a grapefruit. The kicker? I was down 126lbs.(YAY! 200 CLUB!!) Doctor’s now worried. After testing, I get sent to a specialist. Results came back today that not only is it cancer, it’s most likely spread to my lymph nodes.

This isn’t my only health problem attributed to my weight. When I shattered my ankle, a previous doctor told me that it wasn’t broken but that it hurt because of the weight of my body standing on it. Six months later and still in pain, sent to a specialist to find it healed incorrectly and I’ll be in pain the rest of my life. For years I’ve spent at least two days a month every single month passing out and vomiting, completely bedridden due to my periods. I know it’s not normal. I can’t take birth control so I am told to “tough it out” and that it will all get easier when I lose weight. It’s been 136lbs. How much weight is enough to be taken seriously? How much do I need to lose before I won’t hurt anymore? I’m so angry. I’m so scared. I’ve worked my ass off, literally and figuratively to become a healthier person and I’m still ignored and tutted, like an ignorant child. If you read this, I appreciate it. I just want to be seen as a patient, not a fat blob by a doctor.

Edit: I wanted to say I’m only 30.

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Losing it... again. And keeping it off.

F26/5'6"/SW: 196lb/CW: 181lb/ GW: 168lb

Hi all, I just wanted somewhere to talk, really. I began my weight loss journey in December 2018 at 196lb. I got down to my initial goal weight of 168lb in September 2019 through jogging and CICO. The combination of hitting my first goal and running my 2nd ever 10k in the same month did something weird to my psyche. I stopped counting calories, stopped being mindful of what I ate, and always convinced myself that I was fine, I wouldn't put the weight back on.

Obviously, that wasn't true.

I avoided weighing myself until May 2020, at which point I was back up to 190lbs. I continued to creep back up until Nov 2020, at which point I hit a high of 197lbs. I panicked about not wanting to get over 200lb, and downloaded MyFitnessPal again, and started back up at ~1740cal per day (I don't do well being too restricted!). Thankfully, I haven't found it too hard being back in the swing of things, and have re-lost 16lb since November and am down to 181lb (it definitely helps me with all the restaurants being closed!)

So I now find myself 13lb shy of my first goal weight (again), which I am determined to hit (again). Has anyone got any similar stories of losing it, putting it back on, then losing it again and sticking with it?! It'll really help my struggling brain 🥺 thanks in advance

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