Will I get loose skin? 16y M

Hi! I’m 16yr male and I was 120kg last month I’ve lost 12 kilos weighing 108 this morning and now I’m classified as overweight by BMI standards. I want to reach normal weight preferably a bit less than 90kg. Which will sum up to 30 kilo of lost weight. My height is 191cm, and I’m expected to grow couple of cm more. So in a few years I’m going to get 197cm as a specialist estimate, so that should make my weight 90 or a bit higher. I’m worried that I will get lose skin from all the weight I will lose, but my fat distribution is not centered on a certain area. what should I do? Just your thoughts and opinions. If you are interested on how I lost the 12 kilos. I just lowered my food intake to a one third of what I usually eat, except of course healthy food. What is healthy food exactly? I don’t want to talk in a matter that neither I’m a specialist nor someone that has invested much time and thought on weight loss. But my meals go mostly like this. Most of the days I won’t eat breakfast but on a few days I will eat two eggs and that’s about it. Lunch consist of the average Iraqi dish that is okra or baked chicken, for okra soup a medium cup that should be 3/400ml or 200g of chicken and at times I just skip lunch entirely. As for dinner, most days I won’t eat only on specific occasions and no snack all day long. Mostly I did not get any headaches or cravings, my sleep is well and I wish the same for you.🌹 Best regards -Samaritan

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SV: Making Time - 45lbs down in 10 months

Hi everyone from the land of the rising sun. I’m male, 34, 5’8, and currently 150 pounds. I wrote this post to share with others how I gained 45 pounds over the past few years, and how I lost it while working a very busy and stressful job over the past 10 months. I hope it helps others who are on a similar journey.

I’m a teacher at an international school, currently working in Japan. Like many of you - this past year has been super tough for me. I have been feeling especially isolated living abroad, away from family and friends, and working 60+ hours a week has put even more stress on my mind and body.

I had already started to gain weight soon after I got to Japan. The work culture here is cold, intense, rigid, and hierarchal. We work long, long days, and the stress from students, parents, and administration is unlike anything I had ever experienced before (especially since I teach upper secondary).

I barely had time to do laundry, let alone cook, so I resorted to eating convenience store and delivery-food most nights, and slowly but surely, I began gaining weight.

At first, I was in denial because I had always been in good shape. I was a high school athlete and I’ve wrestled, done BJJ, and Muay Thai kickboxing for over a decade at this point. But your body doesn’t care about what you did 5 years ago, just that I was stuffing myself full of microwavable konbini food 3 meals a day while never exercising.

I first began to have to accept that I was gaining weight when I noticed that my dress pants weren’t fitting that well. Then they weren’t fitting at all. I had two pairs of “good pants” that of course had the elastic expander waist built in that I would wear each day. I’d have to wear these pants because the other ones wouldn’t even button at that point.

Then COVID-19 hit, and I started eating even more. My mental health started to deteriorate because I was trapped in Japan, and couldn’t leave to see my friends or family.

To make a long story short - I gained about 45 pounds by the time that lockdown happened in May. I was at my heaviest at 195 lbs. at 5’8. I kept making excuses for myself and saying over and over that “I didn’t have time” because of my job to make healthy choices like meal prepping and working out.

The lockdown gave me more time, so I figured I would take some baby steps and see what would happen.

I started walking an hour a day for the first week and it felt good. The next week I did two hours a day. I didn’t weigh myself at all this time, I just wanted to get moving.

Week three, I started to tighten up my diet. I switched from a very microwave-friendly diet to a whole food one. I tried to each as many vegetables as I could per day. I also cut out all alcohol and sugar during this time. I’m not a huge fan of counting calories so I just tried to go by “feel.”

About a month in I weighed myself and I was down 10 lbs.! This gave me a lot of motivation and I decided to stop making excuses and start “making time” for my health.

I started a couch to 5k plan that day. This was unfortunately during the rainy season in Japan and it rained every single morning and night but I tried to look at that as a test to see how bad I wanted to change.

I tightened up my diet even more and began weighing and measuring my food. Luckily for me, my weight loss was very consistent in that I would routinely lose 1 to 1.5 lbs. a week, every single week. I think this is because for the past ten months I would weigh/measure every single thing I ate. Meal prepping helped here.

This morning I hit my goal weight of 150 lbs., 45 lbs. down from my height of 195 from 10 months ago. While work still sucks, and I’m counting down the days until I leave here, I’m proud of my progress!

A few tips that helped me, and that may help you are:

1. Make time and put your own mental and physical wellbeing first.

2. Start with baby steps. James Clear the author of Atomic Habits has a good quote on this, “Consistency beats intensity.”

3. Make it easy. I would meal prep and get my running clothes ready the night before so it was easier for me to do the workout than to not do it.

4. Don’t get too hung up on different methods, techniques, diets, etc., and feel free to experiment. I got sucked into the keto, intermittent fasting, low carb, paleo, vegetarian, and vegan literature when I first started back into this journey. Each of those things can work. Dylan Wiliam is an educational researcher who has a great quote that is relevant here, “Everything works somewhere. Nothing works everywhere.”

5. Hold yourself accountable. For me, that meant I would weigh and measure everything I ate, and keep track of my weight at the same time each week. But that is just one way to do it. If that sounds terrible to you, do your own thing!

6. This one might just apply to me, but I needed to address the issues that led me to eat more in the first place. They were being isolated and working in a place that wasn’t a good fit for me. I reached out to some teletherapists and started seeing them regularly, which did help a lot too.

I know this is a long write-up. Hope this helps someone else. Let me know if you have any questions and have a great life everyone.

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Scales lie and it's rude

So my weight loss journey has been very slow compared to others but I mean, we're getting there. I started at 13 stone (so 182-ish lbs) and I was now down to 10.something or 153.5 lbs. Woop woop, it's taken me all year and that is fine (limited exercise due to a disability but still doing what I can). Statistically I lose about 1 to 2 lbs a week, but it does not feel like that as I go like 3 weeks = no loss, end of 4th week = 3lbs vanish. I'm a CICO and Vegetarian enthusiast who believes in the healing power of Tofu, lol.

Today I get on the scale and I gained 10lbs in like a day and a half. I obviously didn't magically gain 10lbs, but there it is at 163 looking at me funny. My weight loss goes into severe plateaus constantly but I can't reduce what I eat anymore because it's already very low (1200 club represent!), so I just have to do what I can to push through that. I'm working within safe guidelines and with a health professional before people worry about my low calories, and I don't go hungry :) - the calories hit different when you can't do traditional cardio honestly.

I just wanted to rant a bit because it's so disheartening to see the 163 after I got to 153 finally. I was sitting at 27lbs and now it's back up to 19, and knowing me I am gonna be stuck here forever. I want to get down to about 8 - 9 stone (so from 112 to 126, in the middle of that range) as that's a really nice, slim weight for my height and build, but weh.

I just thought I'd vent here and get back to counting the ole calories. Also this is likely water weight so please give me your best water burning tips (just don't worry about salt, I don't eat very much of it at all).

Also please talk to me about water weight in general, I want to know more about it and it's hard to find good things out there.

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Was it worth it?

I'm currently midpoint of losing weight, I've lost five stone and got about five more to go. It feels great to be in the middle of the road rather than starting out on it, but I think I've left it too late, I'm in my thirties, a lot of my close friends have moved away. I'm excited for my health to be better but I would be lying if I said I wasn't hoping to meet to find it easier to meet people due to the weight loss, but being thirty and having made a lot of poor decisions in my twenties I dont think it'll make a difference.

So some questions to people who lost weight what were the benefits? Do people treat you better? Do you feel better? Do you find it easier to meet people?

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Hello Everybody!

F 33, 5'7, SW: 238, CW: 219, GW: 200

I've been over weight most of my life. Like many of you, I come from a family that loved to eat carbs and then blame genetics on our obesity.

I was fortunate enough to find a profession that keeps me on my feet (I work in a nursing home.)

Unfortunately, I blew up to 238 and I was uncomfortably fat. I tried MFP and the LoseIt app but it was hard to do because my partner does most of the cooking and all his recipes are in his head.

And he doesn't measure anything. But I've found a workaround!

I read this article and it changed my life!

I started seeing food as just food instead of categorizing as "good" or "bad."

"My eyes were bigger than my stomach", was a common phrase in my house.

I cut my portions in half. If I wanted four scoops, I took two. If I wanted 4 slices of pizza, I took two.

I made eating a singular task. Similar to washing dishes or doing laundry. I put away my phone, take a bit, put my silverware down, chew and swallow. I repeat with the next bite.

I set times for myself. I work night shift weekends and keep the same schedule all week long. I wake up at the same time every day and eat at the same times every day.

I keep trail mix and popcorn in my work bag for a snack before I eat lunch to hold me over.

I drink lots more water. I feel much better in my own skin and I've noticed my digestion has drastically improved.

I've been weighing myself once a week for three weeks.

1st week: 238

2nd week: 224

This week: 219

NSV:

I'm a CNA in a nursing home and the first thing I noticed was the iso masks were a bit loose. I lost weight in my face!

I woke up tonight and reached in my closet for a pair of scrub pants. They are so baggy! I didn't have time to search for a different pair and they're staying up (as long as I don't put anything in my pockets.)

The third thing I noticed was my shirts are longer. I usually wear a thin t-shirt under my scrub top and my t-shirt went down a little further than normal. In my mind, I thought maybe I stretched it out...nope!

The final thing I noticed is when I bought leggings for the first time. All the women I work with swear by them but I was always too self conscious to wear them. I put on a pair of leggings for the first time and I have legs!

"I don't look all that bad...if I could just get rid of this belly and fit into some cute sweaters..."

What really pushed me is when The Boyfriend noticed. I put on my leggings for the first time and he says to me,

"You bought those to tease a man with all your curvatures!" (He was joking with me. He didn't mean it an offensive way)

And all I could think was,

I have curvatures????

I always saw myself as this giant blob that consumers everything in it's path.

Binge eating, stress eating, emotional over eating, grazing, compulsive eating - I've been victim to it all.

For the first time in my life, I don't feel guilty about food. I'm not obsessing over arbitrary numbers or jumping on the scale every single day and lamenting over water weight.

My weight loss, for the first time, is coming from a place of self love. Because I love me and I deserve nourishment. I deserve to be comfortable in my own skin. I deserve to improve myself.

I deserve to be a better version of myself. And to make such positive improvements in my life that it makes the people closest to me notice me.

None of this occurred to me until just now - it played like a montage scene inside my head.

Like, I'm really doing this. I'm sorry this is so long. It just feels damn good to be here. It's so weird to think I am 19 lbs away from 200.

Nineteen pounds! That's it. That's all that's between me and my current goal.

(I learned if my goal is too big, I'll get discouraged. I'm using baby steps.)

My next goal is to incorporate a workout routine into my daily life. I want to keep moving forward. I owe it to myself.

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Is it just me struggling to lose weight during lockdown(UK)

Hi, I'm 24 and 13 stone 3. Before lockdown, I worked out three times a week and was very active in terms of work. Since lockdown, I've lost a good chunk of my muscle mass, since it's hard to replace bench press/squats/deadlifts even with a home workout but I've gained weight in fat.

Previously, 1.8 calories would lose me two pounds of fat a week during a cut. Now 1400 calories might lose me a pound if I'm really strict.

Without the gym and work it's a real uphill battle. I've started meal prepping to help stop myself cheating. Must have lost half a stone of muscle at least and even with an hour's walk a day it's really hard to lose weight now. Crazy how much muscle impacts weight loss. (Or is this just in my head?)

Anyone else in the same boat?

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Does the urge to pig out on sweets lessen the more times you successfully do it?

I'm doing OMAD 6 days a week, and have seen pretty good results from that. But I still have the urge to just cram sweets into my face fairly frequently. In the past, I just gave into this. My weight loss has slowed as result, and I've decided no more.

I vowed this last Sunday. Wensday evening, an urge to eat my husband's jelly beans, rice crispy treats, an bowl (or two or three) of sweetened cereal hit me hard. I really just didn't care about my weight at that point, I just wanted the goods. But since I also started writing down everything I put in my mouth that had calories, and recording this data to put into a video for my weightloss youtube channel, I was able to talk myself down.

It might not have been much, but to me it seemed like a big deal. So anyone else that has the same thing happen to them, do the urges less the more times you just say no? I'm really hoping that is the case, but if it isn't I'd like to know so I can try to steel myself to reality.

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