Hope my experience is encouraging: old folks (65) weight loss. NSFW because no shirt, otherwise G-rated. But old guy paleness MAY be terrifying!

While this is not interesting to those w/ upper-tier physique and/or ambitions to have one, if you're a regular guy frustrated with excess weight, chin up.

Dec 3 of 2019 I was a metbolic train wreck w/ BMI almost 35, terrible gout, skin tags sprouting up everywhere, etc. At that point I decided it was time to go all out to restructure myself, regaining some muscle mass and losing fat. Coincidentally: as soon as the news from Wuhan began rolling in, I became a ravenous consumer of early (non-peer-reviewed) studies that, one after another, pointed at inflammation, accelerated disease progress from high ACE, high viral load from excess adiposity, and so on. This became a mission. Fortunately I had access to good outdoor paths and a set of VERY dusty Bowflex dumbells in the basement.

I had many challenges, as we do when we age. Spinal and other injury histories prevented the important heavy lifts and as well as anything more than a brisk walk/slow jog, Premature Ventricular Contractions, etc... too much to list. BUT: if you can set aside fantasies about looking like Frank Zane in the 1970's and adjust exercises to protect connective tissue and precious joint health (hello, rotator cuffs!) you can do a lot. Be very conscious of your need to concentrate on BALANCE and FLEXIBILITY as you progress. These are additional challenges of aging and you cannot ignore them.

Also you really, really MUST have sufficient protein intake, especially as an old dude, to keep muscle tissue vibrant as sarcopenia knocks at the door. Finally, if you've a mind to do some fasting periods, don't be afraid of it, but go slowly. Wife and I now do a 40-hr once a week and it has made a world of difference. I still struggle with night eating from time to time, but otherwise all is pretty good.

Pics from a couple of weeks ago here .

As stated elswhere: as you age you can't get your skin to fit anymore in general, but it's not as loose as you might expect w/ almost 80lb down. Just under 19% Body Fat now (DEXA measure); my target of a few more % may not be possible. As you can see turkey neck def kicks in --- what the hell, I'm old, and we do what we can. My wife snapped the left pic when our daughters were fretting about the Old Man being endangered by COVID and general decrepitude. She wouldn't do the ab vac shot because it "looks gross, like the Walking Dead or something".

I have a couple of snaps that are captured right after dropping the dumbbells at the end of a 5 set breakdown, but frankly they're just temporary pumps. This is the real, wrinkly, genuine, Saturday morning me, and I'm OK with it. Believe me it beats the hell out of being breathless from tying your shoes!

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Need help staying motivated

Hi! First time posting here! I just really wanted some advice how we are supposed to stay motivated after reach a goal to not get comfortable and slip back into old habits. I am a binge/comfort eater and it is a battle everyday to listen to hunger cues instead of eat whenever I’m bored or uncomfortable or if I’m just in the food for some bomb 2000 calorie meal. Anyway, I am less than a pound away from achieving a goal of losing 30 pounds, but just last week I gained 6 pounds from a weekend of binging and I lost those pounds by eating very little for the week trying to reach my goal by the end of April. I tend to plateau often with my weight loss, which makes me want to stop trying. I know I’m only supposed to be losing a pound to 2 pounds a week. I’m doing cico with an allotted 1200 calories a day which has been working okay, but I see my best results when I eat way less than that (obviously) and it makes me get used to seeing the rapid weight loss, so I have made some unhealthy habits of weight loss that is more of an all or nothing (effort-wise approach). I got used to the good feeling of losing weight rapidly and in an almost unhealthy way, so I need advice on how to trust the process on slow and steady weight loss. Also I’ve been losing weight since November, so you can understand it definitely was not all at once, but my weight fluctuates soo often that I’m afraid I’ll give up on my weight loss journey all together if I don’t start seeing consistent results.

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Struggling to re-lose a small amount

In January 2018 I began my weight loss journey. I was overweight, living by myself for the first time and my eating habits were out of control. I’d put on a lot of weight rapidly and wanted to do something about it. It took me about a year and a half to lose 40lb and get to the lower end of a healthy weight. I was so motivated and making pretty regular progress. I started by tracking calories but after a while I didn’t need to, eating in a deficit became second nature. I didn’t really get bothered by hunger or feel too restricted. It wasn’t always easy but I was pretty good at sticking with it.

Since my lowest weight I’ve put on about 10lbs. Most of that has been in lockdown. I’m nowhere near overweight again, but I liked the way my body looked 10lbs ago and I’d like to re-lose 5-10lbs. I’ve been trying to lose weight for the past sixth months but I’ve pretty much maintained. I lose 1lb and then I gain it back. I’m really struggling to keep in a calorie deficit. I’m working from home and around food all day. I don’t have the willpower to say no to food anymore. I’ll be in a decent deficit for two days, then eat over on the next two. I don’t know why I’m struggling so much this time.

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Found some "Before" Photos from last year, also Onederland!

30 M 6'2" SW: 280 CW: 199 GW: 180

I was feeling down the other day. I still felt chubby, still felt fat. Even after I finally got a "1" in front of the scale. (first time since middle school!) Stretch marks and loose skin'll do that to you.

I vaguely remembered taking a few photos when I began seriously planning my weight loss. I was curious, so I searched and searched. I remembered I had emailed them to myself!

I opened the first photo and was shocked at how much I actually lost. I subconsciously still feel like I look like that guy, but just having both photos side by side made me tear up a bit! Having hard evidence of weight loss is invaluable.

Take before photos people!

Here's an Album of my Before and "After" After's not quite the right word, more like current.

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Losing the weight a second time. A year in weight loss and (mostly) maintenance.

TLDR: I had lost a ton of weight before, gained some again after a couple of trips and kept track of my weight loss. Click links at the end for pics.

Hi everybody!

My first journey started way before I found this subreddit. I had maxed out at 286lbs (129kg) when I had finally decided to do something about it. I slowed down on fast food and sugary snacks while outright giving up soda. I started walking which led to biking and going to the gym for weights which led me to r/bodyweightfitness. Small, incremental changes to diet and exercise helped me lose the vast majority of my weight. Hell, my diet wasn’t/isn’t even that great (I still don’t really eat veggies). It took about four years to reach my lowest weight of 172lbs (78kgs) in late 2017. From then on I had mostly maintained around the mid to high 170's. The entire time in those three years I never thought of myself as being on a diet. It was just a change of life-style. While I cooked almost all my meals, I never gave up having pizza or ice cream or cookies or anything really (other than soda, it’s the one thing I’ve completely given up). This had mostly worked for me until late 2019 and early last year.

I decided to stay in Mexico for about six months and then have a 2 week trip in Japan with friends. At the time I was trying food left and right and had regained a considerable amount of weight, mostly unnoticed as I had stopped weighing myself. When started up again in March of 2020, I had gone back up to 215lbs (97.5kgs). I was back home and able to fully control my diet and got back on the bike. And like riding a bike, where the bike is my mouth and my routine is my biking skill (is this metaphor working for you), it was pretty easy to get back into gear. Following my previous routine helped me lose the weight pretty quickly again. By July I was back to the low 170s (77kgs). From then on, it was maintenance mode.

It got a little harder once my brother moved back with me. We’re both big losers, but he has a better handle on his snacking and we had a thing that every time one of us would go grocery shopping, we would buy whatever new flavor snack (Reese's, Kitkat, Oreos and the such) we would find trying to one up each other. While this did affect my weight, got back up into the low 180’s (80’s kg), I got into the hang of things and I’ve been able to maintain mid to high 170’s since new years. Your routine can be pretty flexible as long as you know where treats fit into your routine.

I decided to keep track of my weight and take pictures through this process. Made a small gif, with front and side view for a year, I did forget to take pictures some weeks though. I don’t really have any major insights. I’m still not happy with my body. The extra skin/fat on the bottom of my tummy and sides seem eternal and ever-lasting and I’ll always be self-conscious about it. Don’t let that stop you though. Get a routine that works for you and modify it as you go, it’ll change depending on your goals. You will slip up and there will be plateaus. Don’t give up, pick yourself up and get on that mouth bike again. If you ever regain weight, trust in your routine. You’ve done it once and you can do it again.

Me at the start

https://i.imgur.com/sh1Qsli.jpg

One year before and after

https://i.imgur.com/EmqMKbe.jpg

One year progress gif

https://i.imgur.com/QDsuFUt.mp4

In case you were wondering, here is the ranking of appearances for the type of boxers.

Skulls : IIIII Dinos : IIIII Shark : IIII Skii Bear: IIII Unicorn : III Rabbits : III Sloth : III Aliens : II Otter : II Arcade : II Penguin : II Jellyfish: II Mushroom : II Dead Ox : II Planets : II Floaties : I Mushroom : I Smores : I Objects : I 

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Tell me your story of success without calorie counting

Alright yinz, been a long while since I last posted. I lost 20 lbs last year through calorie counting and exercise. I reached my goal in the fall, and then started in on my next goal, training for a 50k. I ran that in March and it was great!

Now comes to the part I wanted so hard to avoid. I wanted so badly for last year's weight loss to be the last time, to kick my yearly fluctuation. But here I am 7 weeks after my 50k, up 12 lbs from my low weight last year (so, not that bad, but still erased half my effort). The reason I'm here is because my binge eating habit came back in full force after my race, probably coupled with post-race blues and maybe some real depression.

I'm working with a therapist now (yay) to try and suss out the binge eating, because ultimately that's what sabotages me year over year. One of her first recommendations was to remove MyFitnessPal from my phone, which I agreed was a good call. I don't want to have to track for the rest of my life, though I had hoped to be able to go back and use that skill the next time I needed to drop weight.

And so... now I'm hoping some folks on this subreddit can calm my nerves with stories of successful weight loss without calorie counting. I preached it, it worked for me, but apparently it might not work well for my brain... so tell me what else worked for you, please!

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Is this normal?

M:20 H: 5’9” SW:170 CW:160 GW:155. So a few years ago I decided to lose weight since I was slightly overweight. I was able to lose the weight slowly over the course of a few months. The problem is from the fact that I’m always hungry. I can eat a pound of beef(or any food combo...I’ve tried them all) and a few hours later I’ll be starving. This basically makes me think about food almost 24/7. I tend to get a lot of protein and fat, fiber and a fair amount of carbs, but it hasn’t really been helping. I also do cardio in order to counter the large appetite, which is very helpful. My calories aren’t low at all as I average 3k calories. I’m hitting PRs in the gym and have great energy so I’m very confused. I was thinking that maybe a possible culprit is my antidepressants as I take Lamitcal, Prozac and Risperdal. Atleast one of them is known to increase appetite. Problem is, I was taking these medication before I lost weight and didn’t have any appetite changes. If I look at my sleep I’m always getting 8+ hours of sleep. I really don’t know what to do, I don’t want to undo the weight loss. Any tips?

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