Losing weight to train for an event is super motivating!

I've been trying to lose weight for a long time and always seem to hit these plateaus. In the past I focused mostly on CICO and did some light activity (getting in my 10,000 steps and running 2-3 times a week) and that approach has served me well. It's how I (repeatedly) lost my first 20-something pounds, but I always struggle with that next 20-something.

I think one thing that always held me back was the sense that I have unlimited time to lose the weight because I'm young and don't have any serious health problems, but in reality that was a way to justify not changing myself when progress got difficult and slow.

All of that changed when a few of my friends convinced me to run a marathon with them at the end of October. The beginning of training was really hard because I didn't change how I was dieting with my new levels of activity, but now I'm noticing all of the positive benefits.

I'm feeling way more physically fit and distances that were hard for me before are much easier. I think about my nutrition more seriously too; how will this meal make me feel before my run? How will this meal help me recover?

The biggest benefit has been stronger motivation. Even though I'm not always excited to go for a 5 mile run in the morning I'm always motivated to do it. Having a deadline and consequences for not following through, like a much more difficult marathon or not running and getting shamed by my friends and losing money, feels like a more constructive goal for me than reaching a goal weight at some far-off and undetermined time in the future. It would be nice if I hit my GW by race day, but every pound I lose will help immensely. I feel like this discipline has carried over to other parts of my life too, which has been great.

You mileage may vary, but if you feel stuck in a weight loss rut I recommend signing up for some kind of physical event you've never done before.

I'm documenting with progress pics so I'll let you all know how it goes after the race.

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Is this a solid workout plan?

I’m trying to go from 205 lbs to 150 lbs (at 200 rn woo!). I’m 5’4 so yeah...really bad. A YouTuber I like tweeted out pictures of their weight loss. They looked to be a similar body type to mine and around the same weight at the start of their journey. Their workout plan was this:

10 minutes of cardio

3 sets of: 10 bicep curls 10 wide curls 15 lateral curls 10 squats w/ weights 10 push ups 30 second plank

For right now I’m using 2 pounds weights bc 1. That’s all we have in the house and 2. I have literally no muscle. I had low muscle tone as a kid and while my mom tried to deal with it, I fought her on it and she ended up stopping because she didn’t want the constant battle anymore. My ultimate goal is a flat stomach so I can wear crop tops without feeling ashamed. Also, I’m doing wall push ups but will be building up to inclined push ups, kneeling pushups, and then real pushups.

I have no idea how long this took him or if he had any rest days. I’m probably going to have rest days because I work a job that has me on my feet my whole shift, which once we get back to normal around July will be like 5-8 hour shifts. I might do it every day, I might not, I don’t know how to go about this.

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Families Sometimes Suck

I began my weight loss journey in June 2020, easily was able to cut 1-2 lbs/week with my diet and exercise. I was tracking my calories and macros, and everything was going great until March 2021. I hit about 40 lbs lost from 198 to 158 around that time. It was wonderful being so dang close to my goal of 125-132 lbs since I do have quite a bit of muscle on my petite frame. The past couple of months my mom and grandma have been significantly pressuring me to eat bad with them EVERYDAY. Of course, there are times I have said no and go about business as usual but they begin complaining and having little fits that I don’t respect them or don’t want to be with them because I’m choosing not to eat the same foods. It’s been really frustrating since I do live at home with my mom. I am disabled and waiting for my partner to finish school so we can move in together. My mom will make me my favorites dishes or bring home all this fast food after I’ve already had my calories/dinner for the day. She’ll demand for me to eat them unless she’ll block me from showering the next day because she doesn’t “want her money wasted” (btw we only have one bathroom). It’s even more troubling with my 80 year old grandma. I’m a paid family caregiver, and I have shifts with her 1-3 hours a day, seven days a week. I’ll come for my shifts and she’ll have EVERY bad food that I’ve struggled with binging already prepared or waiting for me in tupperware. My grandma is more likely to flip out if I don’t accept and eat these “gifts” she provides me. Usually she’ll make me end my shift early and that hurts my paychecks. I’ve been buying my own salads, fruits, and veggies but with a college student budget I can only afford so much until it runs out. I’ve attempted to bring healthy foods to both homes (my mom’s and my grandma’s) to curb this so we can still all eat together and connect. But, even then I still have to deal with the BS fits and smart comments that I’m disrespecting them by not eating what they give me. I’ve been struggling so much that I gained some weight back and have been sitting between 167-171 all April and May. I’m really upset since I was at 158 ready to move forward out of obesity, and now I feel just like I’ll never get where I want to be living or being in these environments. I’d love any words of advice or just simply how to put boundaries up with them because even the threats to prevent me from showering have been working. I was really hoping to be in the 140’s or even the 130’s by my one year anniversary of my weight loss (June 2021), but my lacking progress and the home life situation has made me feel really stuck and hopeless.

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Keeping accountable

Hi, I’m a 23/f/Haven’t got the guts to weigh myself rn lol I’ve been losing weight on and off my whole life. I’ve also had pretty bad BED for a long time.

A lot of my weight loss and weight gain has been done in the span of only a few months, putting my body through hell back and forth. Through all of these trials and errors I’ve never had a single person to talk to about my journey or struggles. I think if I changed that, and put some accountability in myself, I could make some healthier and long lasting progress.

If anyone is interested, or if any of you know the best place to reach out and find someone who can help me by just existing and letting me message them? They don’t even need to reply or give advice, just so I avoid quitting to avoid having to tell someone that I did.

Im also happy to be there for anyone that needs their own accountability buddy, so I can be that too. Or if you know a good place to find one.

Thanks!

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I hit my goal weight

Hello,

I am 30 years old male. 190cm, 88kg. I did have mental health problems in late 2019. I gained ~15kg in half a year. Was overweight to begin with.

I was 115kg( 36% body fat) when I started working out and counting calories. That was last year september. Weight loss has been anything but steady. Did home workout like clockwork since march though, this month gyms opened. I havent taked progress pics or measures(other than InBody). Did a little calculations based on previous InBody measurements and I am probably at ~20% body fat. Next week I know for sure, i go to take a test.

So, hitting ideal weight, being and eating healthier, can walk very long, have more energy, more powerful. What I do? I change my ideal weight to lower and body fat percentage to lower, now I compare myself to males on those fitness pics and fitness youtubers. They probably in like 10% bf. I dont have any joy about this progress. I don't know is this the right place even post this?

I look at the mirror and i can only points faults at my body. My weight has fluxuating in short period of time (18months, i dont know is that short or medium?). That is probably a reason for these body issues. Has anyone else has this? How can I be content with being normal weight and being in good shape (physically).

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I seem to be losing weight fast, I'm nervous it may be too fast, need some thoughts/opinions

Hello, firstly this reddit is awesome, I've been lurking here the past couple of months and you're all just so positive, thank you!

So like the title suggest, I've been losing weight pretty quickly and it's raised my alarms a bit. When I started to change my diet and increase my exercise 6 weeks ago, I weighed in at 230 lbs, I'm now down to 214.

I'm constantly moving at work, walking at a brisk pace about 8 miles a shift. After work, I do some super sets of bodyweight exercises to stimulate my muscle groups and on my days off I take two 45 minute walks to compensate the decrease in activity. My current diet is about 1500 calories a day do go against the 2700 I've been burning a day. I eat oatmeal every morning, eat fruit and vegetables for lunch, and then finish the day with some protein (usually fish, I'm cutting back on red meat). I cut out (or limit) every carb heavy food I enjoy and stopped drinking sugary drinks outright.

That being said, am I doing something wrong? I've been reading about how losing weight too fast can be indicative of losing muscle mass and the problems that can create for the body, however I'm looking at my protein intake and my exercise routines and I feel like I'm getting plenty of muscle stimulation and I feel great every day

TL;DR I'm losing weight at what seems to be a very fast rate, I get plenty of protein and muscle stimulation, is my calorie deficit of 1200 effecting muscle mass or was my diet so bad that changing it drastically had an equally drastic effect on my weight loss?

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Advice on which abdominal plastic I should get after weight loss

Hi, a little info about me. I'm a 29 years old female. I recently lost around 65 kg. Going from ca. 130 kg to 65 kg now, with a height of 172 cm. So I'm at a healthy weight now, but I've got a lot of loose skin especially on my stomach that I'm getting removed very soon.

I have to decide which abdominal plastic I want to get done, either a hip to hip incision or a fleur-de-lis cut, where they cut from hip to hip, but also vertical along the stomach. The surgeon said I could benefit from the fleur-de-lis, but I'll get a long scar vertically on my stomach with that one compared to the other option, where the scar will go from hip to hip and might be hid with panties.

Ultimately the decision is up to me, but I have a really hard time deciding which one to choose. So this is here you guys come into the picture. ☺️ I would really love to hear from someone else who had abdominal plastic and what thoughts you guys had about it prior and after and if you are happy with the results/decision? This post got a lot longer than I meant for, but I hope someone will share their experiences to help me out a bit.

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