Just bought some pants

For years I've been telling myself I won't buy new clothes until I lose weight. I'd heard that rewarding yourself with food isn't a great idea, and I've always wanted to have a cuter sense of style, so it made sense to buy some new cute clothes for my weight loss progress.

Well, it's been years, and the scale is moving entirely in the opposite direction. I actually just commented on another post here for the first time in a while and saw my flair..from 4 years ago. Starting weight back then was 208.... I ended up changing it to reflect my highest weight. It was pretty frustrating to see that, honestly. I had 4 years to accomplish my goal, and I completely lost sight of it.

Anyway, I've been putting off buying clothes for so long that the ones I have are falling apart. I've been wearing jeans to work with holes in the thighs (curse you chub rub) because I don't have any other options. It's embarrassing. So today I went online and bought 4 pairs of jeans and a pair of shorts. I was able to find a sale on plus size denim, which was why I felt like I could get so many pairs. Jeans are not cheap!

I guess the reason I'm telling you this is, I realized I've been inadvertently punishing myself for my weight and body shape by not buying clothes. I wore everything to the point where they're not wearable, and then I kept wearing them? I realize now that was not fair to myself. I hadn't really set myself up for success, and when I inevitably failed to reach my goals I just kept being stubborn about it.

So now I have 5 pairs of pants on the way, plus some cute looking underwear. The pants are all US size 18, and the underwear are 2XL. I haven't bought clothes in so long, I hope those sizes are right lol. I'm going to think of this as a fresh start. It's about time for me to start loving who I am today, not just who I could be tomorrow.

I still don't have a plan in place for how I'm gonna lose the weight. My personality makes it challenging for me to make lifestyle changes that stick. I might need to work on that first. In any case, this is me telling myself and you that it's ok, and probably very helpful, to take a good honest look at where you are right now and accept it. No hard feelings, no hate, just acceptance. I never accepted myself as I was, and looking back that's probably how I got to where I am. Here's to loving ourselves unconditionally.

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will I get loose skin if I lose 15 - 20 kg?

Hi! Idk if this question is allowed here. I hope it is. I gained some weight recently because of my thyroid which led me to be 6.6kgs overweight in terms of my BMI and everything, so not just me feeling fat but actually overweight.

I’m 22. I successfully lost 5.8 kgs since the end of January (so +- 2 months).

I’m on a good roll and I’m looking to lose more than just the 5.8! I’d like to lose 10 more, maybe 15 if it’s possible. At the rate I’m going now I seem to be losing a bit less than 3 a month. I’m worried about getting a lot of loose skin with this weight loss. Any advice or info?

Thank you!!

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A very emotional small victory

16F SW: 176 CW: 153

Hey guys it’s me again.

So, I posted a few weeks ago my achievement of losing 20 pounds! (176-156lbs). This was a huge deal for me as I’ve always tried to lose weight and nothing has ever worked, I’m so proud! However, I also made some posts about how strange my body has been the past 2 weeks, retaining water and gaining weight the whole week. I’ve been doing this long enough to know it’s just water, and I couldn’t have ate 3500 calories ABOVE maintenance to gain 1 pound of fat. But I didn’t lose weight that week, which when you’ve been on a roll is disheartening, but I didn’t give up and went into the next week open minded. Eventually, by Thursday I was back down to 11 stone 1lbs (155lbs), which was great, but was still hoping for a loss. This past Saturday, I stepped on the scale and had gone down to 11st (154lbs)!!! Was relieved and happy to know I wasn’t in a plateau, thank you to all the people who gave me advice about my water retention, it really helped. However, it’s Sunday now (21st March 2021), I stepped on the scale, hoping to still be 154 pounds and not gain water weight even though I’d been in my deficit perfectly. To my absolute suprise, I had got down to 10st 13 lbs (153lbs). I honestly could cry. My goal weight is 10st (140lbs) and seeing that number made me feel AMAZING. It’s so insane that I’m in the weight range for my goal weight. Yes, I still have 13 pounds to go, but I’m taking this small victory and running with it, I’m so proud of myself for getting this far. I just wanted say, anyone who’s on a weight loss journey and their weight has stayed the same for a week or so, or you’re holding onto more water, KEEP GOING! If anything, this was a blessing in disguise as I’ve learnt the scale only shows one side of the story! Even though I had more water weight, my body was still using up fat storages, and I was losing that pound a week, it was just masked by water retention. And funnily enough, I took my measurements today and my waist has lost 2 inches, please don’t just rely on the scale! Trust me, as soon as the body adjusts, however long it’s been since you had your last loss, you’ll probably get a small “whoosh” effect, it feels incredible. Again, thank you so much for everyone who has supported me and gave me advice over this weird phase, I appreciate you all immensely!

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My thoughts on weight loss

I thought I’d post some insights into a few things that seem to commonly crop up, and how I dealt with them.

1. Depending on how much you have to lose (in my case is was a lot) it’s going to take a while it took me almost two years (with a few regressions) to lose about 62kg / 9.7 stone / 138 lbs which is average at 1.6kg a week average.

2. Do not weigh yourself everyday, I went through a period of doing this and it made me despair, i have seen my weight fluctuate by as much as 1.3kg between days, this is heart breaking. So now I weigh myself only once per month.

3. Water, water, water... drink loads of water, put on loads of water weight, combined with weighing yourself continually is, well devastating. Don’t ever stop drinking water, it helps your skin retain its elasticity, which is important as you will have a lot of lose skin. When I put on weight that logically must be water it takes about 5 days for it to go back down again, yet another reason why daily weigh ins are bad, for me anyway.

4. Salt, I have discovered one of the reasons weight fluctuates or why mine does anyway, based admittedly on purely anecdotal evidence. I try not to eat too much salt, and won’t add any to food.

On the occasions I have had an excessive amount of salt the day after I weigh a thermodynamically impossible amount more, which is to say that the amount of calories required to the weight increase to be based in storage of energy as fat would have meant I consumed my over 8000 calories in a single day, I can most certainly assure I have not.

In conclusion, it’s hard, very hard, and it’s not instant gratification either. It may be the hardest things you ever do, do not stack the odds against yourself. Remember that if you stick to your plans you will make progress, it’s just that the progress will likely be slow.

Instead of weighing yourself, try measuring yourself instead, I only weigh myself once a month now, I do measure my % body fat and measure myself once a week.

I don’t know if any of this I especially helpful, I hope it is.

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Ankle Injury and Mental Health - share your stories

Hi friends, I'm posting this here because you have all been such a positive and encouraging community.

I rolled my ankle for the second time in about 4 weeks. It was my fault, I shouldn't have been so careless, but I was back to working out at about 80% capacity. I thought I was in the clear. I wasn't.

Well I drank too much and it happened again - and in addition to the pain, what hurts the most is knowing I may not be back to my normal workout routine for MONTHS. And knowing how much work I put in to get to where I am is what's making me so sad.

Working out has always been important to my weight loss and self love/body image work. It's been my free natural antidepressant. And now I feel so useless. I can't even take the dog out (the second injury just happened last night).

Anyway I'm super bummed and I need some help working through this if any of you are willing to share your stories.

Thanks in advance ✨

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Does your body look different depending on how you lose weight?

Hi, hope I am allowed to post this here. I lost weight over the course of 2018-2019, SW 89kg and reached 70kg. I am 5'2" F.

Unfortunately I suffered a bereavement and then regained the weight through comfort eating. I reached 88kg and have been losing weight since around mid-2020 up until now. I am 72 kg now.

I have noticed a lot of differences in my body this time round. I don't know if its perhaps because I'm older, but I'm not that much older. I was early 20s for the first round and now I'm in my mid twenties.

The first time I lost weight, I focused a lot on exercise (cardio, not weights). I would attend classes at the gym 4 times a week, more if I could. I went swimming every fortnight. I still ate quite a lot of food though, not really restricting at all, so the weight came off slowly.

This second time I've lost weight, I haven't been able to access the gym. I don't do well with home/park workouts, so I've been focusing on getting my steps in daily and restricting my calories, in a way that I didn't the first time I lost weight. My diet has been a lot better this time round, way more whole foods, fruit and veg, taking supplements. I feel better in and of myself, but I haven't done hard cardio the way I would at the gym for over a year.

My body looks so different! Before I mainly lost weight off my stomach, legs and waist, and shrank everywhere at a consistent but slower pace. My face remained chubby for a long time, only shrinking towards the 74kg mark.

This time my butt, boobs and face shrunk very quickly. I haven't really lost weight on my stomach, legs or waist. Weight in other areas is just not coming off. I look quite bloated as my stomach is bigger than my butt or boobs. My face looks too skinny for someone my size.

This is all based off measurements, photos and the way my clothes fit. To be honest I'm not as happy with the weight loss this time round, as my body just looks saggy. I hate the weight on my stomach but I can't seem to shift it. The first time round I got comments like 'your waist has come back' or 'you look much better in your clothes'. This time I've been told I look unwell, that I need a smaller bra. I've always had a big butt, even when I was 9 stone, which I was teased for when I was younger and then became fashionable as I got older. My boyfriend told me that my butt looks deflated, and that it looks flat for the first time since he's known me.

Does weight loss occur differently if your regime is different? I assumed it would happen the same because it is still the same body, but I feel upset that the results are so different this time round.

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Suggestion - If you struggle with portion size, stop midway your meal and wait for 10 minutes.

I always struggle with my portion sizes. Specially with rice. My food habits are very good - I don't eat junk food and fizzy drinks ( don't like them). I always cook my meals in very less oil. I make a lot of vegetables and lentils don't eat red meat and atleast 3 days a week I eat vegetarian meals. I make chicken stock from scratch, eat eggs and poultry. The problem I have always faced is, I ate ( still do) big portions and that's what have always Sabotaged my weight loss. Recently I discovered this by accident. One day I was eating lunch and someone came at my door and I had to leave my meal in between ( I washed my face, hands and drank half glass of water) and talked to them for 10 minutes and came back to my table to eat and I was not hungry anymore. And the best thing is, I had eaten one fourth of my meal. So, I thought I'll do an experiment and I started eating my meals while watching a TV show, I stop in between my meal and watch TV show and after 10 minutes, I finish my meal ( or sometimes just keep the leftover for later). This have been working very well for me and I thought I'll share here in case someone is also struggling with portion sizes.

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