The best and worst part about weight loss is the new closet (also I'm out of the 200's!)

Stats:

• 5'3 trans man (2.5 years on T, 2 years post-hysterectomy, pre top surgery)
• HW 265 / SW 256.8 / CW 198.2 / GW 175ish? 170-180
• Size changes: XL -> M shirt / 44 -> 38 pants / 10 or 10.5 -> 8/8.5 shoe
• Haven't been exercising as of late (sick), hopefully starting again soon
• Food is usually around 1500 calories/day, I usually go for a more moderate carb diet but I still treat myself from time to time. I rarely have sugary drinks. I drink a lot of diet soda and coffee lol

The post:

I've always been one of the bigger kids. I was over 200 before I had turned 18, almost 230 by my 19th birthday, and 265 by my 20th. It seemed like I would never lose weight, so I always tossed my old clothes when they got too small. Sometime between my 19th and 20th birthday I threw away a ton of clothes that I figured I'd never fit into ever again. I thought I was destined to get bigger forever.

Well... A couple of months after my 20th birthday I started being more active and eating better. Now I'm 21 now and 198lbs. I'm not at my goal yet, but I don't have many clothes I like. I've been buying clothes as I get money and as things go on sale.

First, clothes are expensive. I have no idea how my parents took us once or twice a year, every year to the store, and bought us a ton of clothes all at once. Today I bought a shirt and I winced because it was over $20. Dad said he and Mom will help me buy some stuff. I don't really have much that fits that I like. I have a fair amount of winter stuff, lots of sweaters handed down from Dad, but nothing that I can wear during the summer. Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten rid of all those clothes.

However! My style has totally changed. Nothing I've bought since becoming a legal adult would fit, and I do not like how I dressed in high school. So maybe it's not such a bad thing that I donated/tossed everything?

I will also say, pants were really hard to find when I was at my HW. I wore size 44 jeans. Those were honestly too tight, but I legally have to wear pants when going out. I was really nervous to go to the store last week because it's usually a nightmare trying to find pants. But it wasn't too bad actually! It was still painful, but less so than normal. I also find there are cuts now that I wasn't able to wear before that fit really well now!

I'm also finding I can find clothes I like a lot more. Basically every store stocks my sizes. Sometimes I'm overwhelmed lol, like, there are so many things I want to buy, but I only have so much money! Not to gloat, but I think I'm more attractive now. I think that has less to do with my weight loss and more to do with the types of things I wear

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Maintenance Phase Podcast

Hey guys, I've been a lurker here off and on for years, received so much advice and motivation from you all and I feel it's time to give something back! I've really been enjoying a podcast called Maintenance Phase lately. I did my best at searching Reddit for recent posts and couldn't find any, so please excuse me if it's been discussed and I missed it! Personally, I love this shit out of this podcast, topics include growing up in households where those awful Snackwell cookies and low fat diets were worshipped, how harmful Dr. OZ and the reality show The Biggest Loser are and Halo Top Ice cream! Not to sound like a shill but I totally recommend it to any of you who need listening material. It's not necessarily motivational to weight loss goals but it really did help change my mindset regarding harmful fat-phobic thinking and general health. Hope someone here can get something good out of it as well!

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Not losing the amount you want despite counting?

Hello loseit folks! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this community and the help and motivation it provides for myself and others. I wanted to share my own thoughts and tips regarding one possible cause of lack of weight loss despite counting calories.

Especially for folks with low TDEEs, there is a low margin of error for weight loss. We all know how to lose weight here. Calorie deficit. But I’ve noticed many posts here get too caught up in the first part (calorie deficit) while forgetting the second most important thing. Calorie deficit over a consistent and long period of time. You can starve yourself 4 days a week and feel miserable doing it, but if you are overeating the rest of the week you may not lose weight. For many here, I wonder if a weekly calorie goal would allow more flexibility and better results than just a daily calorie goal.

For example, let’s say you have a TDEE of 1700. You aim for an average of 1200 calories a day for a weekly calorie deficit of 3500 calories, providing one pound lost each week. Let’s say this individual is meticulously weighing every morsel and logging accurately, no secret eating, binging, etc.

Now, it is very common for calorie counts on foods to be somewhat inaccurate. The calories listed for a food exists with a margin of error. So that piece of bread that says 90 calories could actually being somewhere in the neighborhood of 90-110 calories. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605747/. The FDA allows up to a 20 percent discrepancy on calorie counts.

Let’s keep a modest estimate since the average listed in this particular study was 8% more calories than what was listed on the package. So instead of 1200 calories, you are eating around 1300. Instead of a weekly 3500 deficit, you are at 2,800. So now instead of losing 1 pound a week, you are losing about .8 pounds a week. Over the course of 12 weeks instead of losing 12 pounds you have lost 9.6. Ok.

But that is assuming you are eating at a deficit every single day. But we are all humans here. Let’s say you have 5 perfect days a week, one day where you eat at maintenance, and one “cheat” day where you are eating over maintenance.

For the 5 perfect days you are at a 2,000 calorie deficit ( 5*(1700-1300)=2000). That would be about .57 pounds lost a week. For one day you ate at maintenance and neither added nor subtracted from your weekly deficit. On one day you ate over maintenance. Let’s say you ate 2,200 calories, exactly 500 over your TDEE. Your weekly deficit is now at 1500 for less than half a pound lost a week.

Factor in other weight loss wreckers such as not entering the correct portion size, not counting every single bite you put in your mouth, regularly going over your daily goal calories, and binging, and you can easily not lose weight despite sticking to your diet most days.

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might be a dumb question but if I’m in a deficit everyday should I expect to see weight loss everyday?

I’m new to weight loss, I’d say I’m already pretty lean but just wanna shred a few more pounds. I’ve been in a deficit the past week and have began to weigh myself the past three days. I’ve been doing it at the same time every morning, always naked right before I eat. I’ve been about the exact same weight the past three mornings, should I be expecting to see weight change everyday if I’m in a true deficit or sometimes does it take a few days then I’ll start noticing changes on the scale? I know it’s something I shouldn’t stress about too much but I do want to ensure I am truly in a deficit. (My scale measures to the decimal and its been exactly the same the past 3 days)

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Question about weight loss

Hi Guys,

I am recently on the calorie counting waggon. I am aiming for 1,500 calories a day. I log 95% of everything. I may not log soyasaouce, or some fish sauce or coffee with a splash of milk. I would prefer not be super anal about it.

My goal is to lose 2 pounds a week. I am 6.1 and I am currently at 212.

I am weighing myself weekly. This week I was a little light on exercise, but I did go for a 45 minuet bike ride, and I had a one hour walk and a 1 hour skateboarding session. I had two cheat meals. One was semi unavoidable.

This week I lost 1.5 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I can do to get to losing 2 pounds a week. Why did I not lose 2 pounds this week? Is it the cheat meals? Should excersie more? How do I figure out what to change for this upcoming week?

Thank you

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Needing a Little Encouragement

So I weighed myself today...

I do a weekly weigh-in and have been trying to keep my expectations in check so I don't lose my focus and motivation, but weight loss has definitely felt like a pretty slow process to me. I know everyone is different and some lose faster than others, but I still can't help but feel like I must be doing something wrong, or I'm not working hard enough, especially when I see some other people lose weight so quickly.

In any case, I'm down 1.2lbs this week. I know this is still progress, I know I should be proud, but I'm not... I'm just disappointed. This was by far the best, most consistent week I've had for staying in my calories and yet I haven't lost more than I usually do. In fact, I've had worse weeks where I've lost more. I'm also well over 230lbs, so losing weight at this stage should be much easier, and yet everything is so slow...

Worst of all, I did my waist and hip measurements today and apparently my hips are up by an inch... How is this even possible? My waist is evidently down by half an inch, which to me is even more confusing,

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I don't know if maybe I just measured myself incorrectly or if I'm just not trying hard enough, but I'm feeling so deflated and discouraged...

I'm just looking for some perspective because I definitely feel like I'm too in my own head to draw a clear conclusion, and I don't want to give up just because things aren't going perfectly the way I want them to right now.

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For people who had/have trouble with binging and overeating and gotten past it, when, if ever, were you able to incorporate nonessential foods back into your life?

Currently, I can’t eat things like nuts, sweets or carbs of any kind, protein bars, dairy, and some fruits because I always tend to eat them all in one sitting, no matter what. 100 calorie nut packs? There goes 1,000 calories (and lunch and dinner) down the drain. Loaf of sourdough and cheese? Gone in 3 days. I’ve learned that if I’m in the store and tell myself ‘This would be a good idea!’ it most definitely won’t be.

I’ve adopted an ‘if you don’t buy it you can’t eat it’ mindset, which really helps with the weight loss and forces me to find new things to do besides eat, but sometimes I wonder if I’ll have to leave these foods out of my life forever.

I want to be the person who someday can have sweets in the house last weeks instead of only just days.

Is my dream a possibility or am I doomed to only sticking to the basics for the rest of my life?

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