PSA: Buy new goal pants (if that helps you)

So, if you're anything like me a big part of your weight loss journey is for aestethic reasons. And that's okay! Sure, being healthy is great too but damn if we don't love to see ourselves in smaller jeans.

And for that reason I would like to invite everyone who needs a little extra push to by a new pair of goal pants. My original goal pants had never been worn and waited 4 years to be worn; and now they're a little baggy. I love those pants but fitting in to them has been strange as I'm not at my goal weight yet. So I thought, let's get a new pair of goal pants! I ordered jean shorts yesterday and they technically fit but are too tight to wear outside, here's to working my butt of to make them fit nicely this summer!

Disclaimer that this only works if you have disposable income and clothes are your nr 1 motivator, but it helps me a bunch and sometimes I feel like it's a taboo to say that out loud.

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When did your blood pressure change?

Moderately active 27F, 5’9”. Gained about 20lbs in quarantine (and should’ve been 20lbs less to begin with). My max was 215, now down to 207! Increasing to longer periods of exercise, making sure my meals are mostly plants, and cut way down on sweets and drinking.

I’ve been on a diuretic for years (started when I was 30lbs lighter and triathlon training, it’s genetics) but with the weight gain I’ve seen a spike - usually 140/90. My GP asked that I try weight loss before another med, and I’m in total agreement, but wanted some input:

When in your weight loss journey did you see a change in blood pressure?

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Feel increasingly crap, 1.5 weeks, scales ain't moving.

30F 5'6" and weigh exactly 13 stone, goal weight 11st. Breakfast: 1 medium poached egg, 1 slice toast with butter, tea, whole milk Lunch: half a handful pieces of meat and/or cheese scattered on top of a salad, sprinkling of balsamic vinegar. Dinner: stir fried veg, half nest of egg noodles, handful pieces meat/fish, half tsp soy sauce, half tsp hoisin sauce quarter tsp sesame oil, quarter tsp sunflower oil Snacks: 1 cup apple, celery and cashew salad with quarter tsp mayo and half tsp Apple Cider vinegar, 1 piece fruit (a nectarine or an apple, etc.), more tea with whole milk. Exercise: 30 mins Irish dancing, 30 mins dumbbell workout. 6 days out of 7. Rest day still involves a moderately brisk walk.

I strictly ate pretty much exactly like this all week last week. I weighed most of my ingredients and used volume measures for a few items, eg. oils and vinegars, counted calories and consistently came in at 1500 calories or less, before counting exercise.

My physique and posture is better due to the workouts, and I understand that those won't contribute much to weight loss, but I'm increasingly tired and grumpy. I'm hungry at night and either can't sleep until I eat another big helping of that salad first, or I wake up sweating and desperate to eat. This week I ended up just including that extra helping as a normal part of my intake, so that I could get some damn sleep.

I've only progressed my workout to 3kg dumbbells, so I doubt I'm gaining huge amounts of muscle yet. The tiredness has lead me to stop short of doing today's workout, should've been day 5. I struggled with yesterday's. Still did today's dance though, but now I just want to crawl back into bed.

I take supplements for vitamin D + minerals (I'm deficient without), and B12.

Am I deficient in something else? I'm not one to give up easily in a challenge but I'm absolutely hating this tired queasy miserable feeling. It feels like a punishment for eating carefully and exercising. I did have a borderline underactive thyroid once before but it wasn't severe enough to warrant treatment, is it possible that that's kicking off again and the sedentary overeating lifestyle was masking it?

Or am I supposed to just feel this sickly for some long period of time until the weight eventually begins to reduce?

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Where am I going wrong?

30F 5'5 SW: 320lbs CW 300lbs

Hi everyone. I'm posting again as I am still making no progress with weight loss. I'm hoping that if I lay out everything I am doing, someone might have some insight on where I could make changes.

I started trying to lose weight in June 2020. From the beginning I have followed CICO and IF.

I started on 1850 calories per day, and in the first two months I lost 20lbs. At the end of August the scale stopped at 300lbs, and it hasn't budged since (beyond 1-2lb day-to-day variation).

Since then I have slowly increased my efforts to try and get the weight loss moving again. I have lowered my calories gradually, and am now on 1500.

I let my diet go a bit for a few weeks around Christmas, and was eating around 2000 calories a day, but I didn't gain a single pound.

My current diet consists of two meals a day, plus a snack or two. I cook everything from scratch, eat tons of vegetables (but almost no fruit). I use a food scale.

A normal lunch for me is a sandwich (tuna, egg salad, chicken and lettuce), soup and bread, eggs on toast or a salad. Average around 400-600 calories.

I have a very varied diet with dinners, but that's where I have most of my calories. It's almost always cooked from fresh ingredients, with plenty of chicken, fish, and tons of vegetables. I have a weakness for cheese, but I don't believe I eat it to excess.

I have tried reducing my carbs before, cutting out bread etc, but when I do so I find the hunger absolutely unbearable, and I feel really unwell. So I stick to whole wheat, and am careful with my portions.

I can't go a day without eating something sweet, so I stick to things that are lower calorie. Low calorie ice creams, fun size chocolate bars etc. About 200 calories a day are spent on treats.

I was satisfied eating 1700 calories a day, but at my current budget of 1500 I am struggling with hunger.

I have increased my exercise, and am doing 30 mins, 4 days a week of HIIT or yoga. Some days I go for a long brisk walk instead. I wasn't great at drinking water, but am now drinking enough that I'm peeing all the damn time.

I have a desk job and I work from home, so I struggle to get more than 5-6,000 steps on an average day.

My current stress levels are high, mostly due to work. This is a recent and temporary situation (the last month or so), and before that I was fine. I manage my stress by meditating every day, getting outside when I can, and my regular exercise also helps. I am sleeping fine.

I am not on any medication. The only pills I ever take are multivitamins, antihistamines and occasional painkillers.

I have had full blood work and tests done recently, as I was worried that something medical might be holding me back. My thyroid is borderline (4.7 TSH) but not concerning to my GP (although we are going to check again in 3 months), and everything else, including my blood glucose levels, is perfect. Apart from my weight and the side effects of it (mild fatigue, irregular periods, migraines) I'm very healthy.

My GP has told me that, since obesity runs is genetic for me, I just have to try 5x harder than most.

I am getting fitter, and I have much more energy than I used to, thanks to the exercise I am doing. But I'm extremely frustrated with being the same weight as I was six months ago, despite structuring my whole life around it.

My optimism is non-existent. Even though I'm diligently sticking to the things I've committed to every day (because they make me feel better anyway, and help me cope with stress) I don't have any real belief that I can lose weight. I'm including this, because every "why aren't I losing weight?" listicle I have read always includes an entry about just believing in yourself. I don't put much stock in that, but perhaps it's worth mentioning that I currently do not believe in myself at all.

I have tried to lose weight many times, and never succeeded. I'm not one of those people that loses easily but just can't maintain. Every effort I have made my whole adult life, I lose a tiny bit at first, and then I get stuck.

Does anyone have any advice on where I might be going wrong?

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Overwhelmed and getting nowhere

Overwhelmed and don’t know how/where to restart

I’m a 25 female who has been overweight since I can remember but once I graduated university and got an office job the weight went up quickly. I’ve been fluctuating between 275lbs and 297 lbs (and 5’5) for 4 years now and can never stick to something long enough to have a substantial and long term weight loss.

I am now working a more physically demanding job as a nurses aide and I’m finding it hard to have the energy to complete workouts after work.

I’ve been trying to eat around 1700 calories a day and doing strength training 2-3X per week. But I normally maintain this for a week and then fall off of the wagon completely. My husband is not very supportive and always bringing in junk that I refuse to buy but he will and once it’s in the house I have a very hard time passing it up.

Any tips/tricks or even motivational podcasts. anything would be helpful at this point! I feel like I’m going to be stuck at this weight forever.

I do also have hypothyroidism and PCOS which I know can make things harder for losing weight but I’m tired of using that as an excuse.

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Starting my journey, any good tips ? ♡

Hello everyone, I wanted to post here to maybe encourage myself to lose the weight that's been bothering me since forever. I am a 25 year old female and this is my story So I was a veery skinny child, even though I ate a lot I used to move around a lot, I used to do gymnastics etc. As a teen I hated my body although I wasn't even near fat ( I used to weight 51 Kg for 1m58 yes I am short) but since graduating highschool I started gaining and losing weight on and off. My heaviest was in my 3rd year of university where I weighted around 64Kg and hence I started dieting by CiCo and went back to 57ish. I Didn't yo-yo back then because I moved around a lot but once I moved out from my country I gained 5 Kg, after that well, covid happened and I gained around 7 and weighted around 67 which is my heavies weight. Now I started dieting and I am back to 64 but I need more motivation. I started doing home exercices and I try to eat around 900/1000 calories, I try to add a lot of protein to my date and to complete the 10.000 steps each day (we have a very early curfew and I work so I reaaally try) I wanted to ask you guys some questions. if my calories intakes has a lot of carbs (which is not the case rn but I keep on carving them) would that be bad ? Like would my body not burn fat ? How can I afterward keep the weight off because honestly I am w binge eater... Are there any good meal plans that I can stick to because I want this to become a life change not just a weight loss because it really bothered me .. I am short and all the fat goes straight to my hips and butt and breasts which makes me really uncomfortable.. even a 2 kg gain is visible .. so I hope you guys can help me ♡

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Finally about to start my weight loss journey!

Hello! New to Reddit so please excuse any mistakes! I’ve always had a really tumultuous relationship with food, dieting, exercise, etc. Like many people I’ve had different kinds of unhealthy relationships with food. A long time ago I struggled with an ED and I’ve since started eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it. Obviously, this led to some weight gain and unhealthy habits. I feel like I’m finally ready to try to not only lose weight but become healthier. No one I know really understands my weird relationship with food so I’m glad to have a place here to just dump my thoughts and feelings. Thanks!

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