Hoping for 115LBs weight loss in a year!

I currently weigh 390lbs and would like to be down to 275lbs by Feb 2022 (down 115lbs). I am 31 and F. The reason I am looking to loose weight is to just feel more healthy and within the next few years my husband and I would like to have kids and I want to be able to teach them how to live a healthy lifestyle/have a healthy pregnancy. To maintain my weight I would have to continue to eat 4299 calories a day (yikes!) but I aiming for 2000. I plan to start doing beginner's yoga, as a low impact work out, along with just dancing (I love to dance). Once I get near 300lb I plan on doing more involved work outs.

Last year I focused on my mental health and got that in check (therapy and now on Zoloft) and this year I plan on focusing on my physical health.

Any advice or words of encouragement would be great!

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NSV : I'm choosing healthier snacks because I want them!

I'm lurked Loseit for a long time, and have been known to occasionally post (mostly on my old account). Most recently I posted that while I'm currently pregnant I'd like to use this period of time to equip myself with the tools I need for healthy and sustainable weight loss.

I can't say I've worked too hard for it, but in trying to gain weight (never thought I'd say that) for my baby's sake I've managed to pick up a few new habits.

NSV 1: I'm a massive late night snacker, and normally those snacks are chips, ice cream, binge food etc. Lately though I find myself reaching for an apple or some carrots and hummus and it's remarkably just as satisfying.

NSV 2: While I do still eat and crave sugary junk food all the time, the quantities and frequency in which I consume it have gone way down. Example, I got a family sized bag of chips. Normally that would be gone in an hour as I mindlessly much in front of a show, but instead the bag lasted me a week! I actually used a bag clip, and put it away in the cupboard.

NSV 3: I want healthy foods more now. It started as a "oh I should eat a veggie for baby's sake" and now it's more "oh remember to eat some veggies for /both/ of us.

NSV 4: Everyone told me my appetite would go way up with pregnancy, which terrified me. With my eating habits however, I find it's actually gone way down. Not being able to eat probably for a couple of months due to nausea definitely shrunk my stomach / appetite. I eat a "normal" sized portion most days and actually feel full!

As someone who's struggled with bulimia for nearly 10 years this is a massive win for me! Normally binging is all I have to cope with my emotions, and as I keep trying to learn new coping techniques, I've also learned ways to minimize the damage if I fall upon my old ones. A binge doesn't feel as bad if it's on an entire cucumber and a couple tablespoons of hummus, or on two ice cream sandwiches instead of the whole box.

I'm hoping that this is a turning point for me. I can't wait to have my baby and learn better habits for the both of us.

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Do you beLIIEEEVE in loss after loss? (after loss, after loss, after loss)

[F/28, 5'11", SW: ~300, CW: 261, GW: ???]

Hi all! For backstory, I started losing weight in late July and got down to 265 before the holidays. I was able to maintain through the end of the year which was great, but then kind of stalled out for a while. I work freelance and just got my first post-COVID gig so I've gone from mostly sedentary with full control over my intake to being on my feet 12-15 hours a day, with food provided and served for the sake of safety. Since I don't have much downtime for food or drinks and my anxiety keeps me from asking for them when I do have time, I'm now down 4 pounds in less than a week. I'm thrilled that I'm finally losing again but I'm scared to get too excited just to see it all come back when I'm back to regulating my own habits.

All of this to say, have you seen success after jumpstarting your journey with quick weight loss? I'd love to hear your stories/advice for transitioning back into less extreme conditions and continuing to lose!

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100lbs gone, many to go - I want to reduce my daily calories

Cis woman - 30 - 5'8" - SW: 467 - CW: 352.6

I'd like some assistance crunching numbers. I have some lofty goals for the next six months that I'd like to buckle down and achieve. I'm currently 352.6lbs, and would like to see 300 by July 15th. No special event planned, it's just the time frame that I can see myself getting to that goal. I currently have been doing 2-3lbs loss a week.

Last year, I lost 100lbs by eating at 1800 calories a day. I got a new doc last year who told me he wanted me to eat at 1500 calories, but I wasn't ready at the time. I'm currently at 352.6lbs and have been eating 1600 calories a day over the last two and a half months. I'm comfortable here for the most part, and occasionally still have challenging days because of issues with bingeing.

I feel like I can get to 300 by mid-July or so if I keep up the pace I had last year. It was a bit easier to drop a large number because of how large I was (last year I averaged 12.5 a month over 8 months), but if I can keep a 2lb/week pace up for the next 5 months, then I'd be thrilled.

I'm tempted to step this down to 1400 and see how I feel going at that pace for a short time. If I didn't lower my calorie goal for the set time period, would it be worth it to maybe mix in lower calorie days every so often?

Medical considerations: I have Hashimoto's disease and an extremely high TSH level (TSH was 33 when diagnosed last year, TSH of 22 as of last month). I've heard this affects your metabolism and weight loss. The bingeing is getting under control now. I switched PCP's and am on a low dose of topamax for migraines caused by my thyroid issues, which has an added benefit of curbing the compulsive eating. So far, 10 out of 10, huge improvement all around. My binges went from 2-3 a week to maybe once a month. I can deal with that haha.

I feel like now is the right time to make this happen, and would like to crowd source some ideas. I will not be increasing my calorie count from 1600 as I simply don't need it. How far can I step down? Thanks!

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doing makeup differently after losing weight

I didn't know where else to post this but I felt like this would be the best place to ask. Please let me know if it's not appropriate to ask it here, happy to delete. Context, I've (30,F) lost 10kg since the beginning of last year - it's part of a long term goal in changing up my lifestyle and health. No complaints about my methods (combination of CICO, cutting sugary drinks out of my diet, light running 3/4 times a week) or how long it will take to get to my goal weight since it's compatible with my lifestyle/ mental health.

What I didn't expect were the ways this loss of weight would change my face and in turn, the way I do my makeup. For all my makeup wearing life, I had hooded eyes and I learned how to do eye makeup to suit that shape. Now that I've lost this weight, the pocket of fat that created the hood is now gone and my old way of doing eye makeup doesn't suit it? Not complaining, it's kinda fun learning a new way of doing things but I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar to this. I know clothing/ fashion is the first thing that's brought up when it comes to weight loss, but I didn't see the makeup thing coming

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Advice/support specifically for very short girls?

I am 5'0" and I am really struggling right now. My tdee is 1500 which means that in order to lose 1lb a week I would have to eat 1000 calories daily. At some point relatively soon in my weight loss journey that will go down to 900 calories a day.

There is a lot of rhetoric about how no one should go lower than 1200 a daily, but if I were to eat 1200 a day instead of 1000 that would be an extra 1400 calories a week which is 0.4 lbs. I would essentially be losing a little more than half a pound a week; a much slower weight loss progress than it seems like mostly everyone else. Some people can even lose 2 lbs a week safely. If we extrapolate to the time when I'm supposed to be eating 900 a day to lose 1lb/a week then by eating 1200 I'd be losing 0.4lbs a week instead of 0.6 at 1000 a day.

Exercise does not seem to help much. For one thing you're not supposed to eat back the calories that you burned. For another, being a short woman also makes it difficult to burn calories. The same activity for a tall man will burn a lot more calories whereas for me might burn only 200 or less after significant cardio.

I also feel like it's very mentally taxing to count 1200 or less than 1200 calories. If you're trying to count 1000 calories a day, you can only eat ~3 300 calorie meals a day. That means that when I cook I have to be very religious about counting everything - I find cooking to be very difficult because very, very few things add up to a meal that's around 300 calories. The portions are mostly vegetables with very very little oil and some very small amount of protein that isn't even as big as my hand.

You also can't have any cheat days. Say I were to have a cheat day; it completely obliterates the 0.4 lbs that I've lost that week with just one day. I have to stay on this very rigorous low calorie diet for a long time to see any results basically.

I'm wondering if the only way for me to lose weight and keep it off is to spend several years working on some very intensive weight training that i will then have to keep up for the rest of my life. This might be other people's cup of tea, but honestly the idea of spending 2 hours a day working out every day for the rest of my life doesn't sound appealing at all.

Just feeling very demotivated by the very, very slow progress and seemingly road blocks every where I turn.

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My mom is unsupportive of my weight loss journey.

I’m 24, 5’3” and 275 lbs. I’ve always been overweight and each time I lose weight, more comes back. Nothing I’ve done has been sustainable over the years, from trying pills to dietitians so I’m considering weight loss surgery.

I tried to start the conversation with my mom and she gets immediately negative. Claims a family friend died from a botched lap band but still thinks negatively of the sleeve. Despite her telling me to lose weight, she is unwilling to entertain a real permanent solution, which is weird to me. I know she’s worried about the risk but my weight also comes with risks. She’s overweight too and always fails at attempting to lose so I don’t get the misunderstanding.

I still live with her so the solution isn’t as simple as shutting her out. From what I’ve read family members are initially unsupportive and come around but due to how she raised me my confidence gets crushed by disapproval. I set up a consultation and misled her by saying I was only looking at non-surgical weight loss. I hate having to sneak around like a teenager for my HEALTH but what the fuck else am I supposed to do?

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