Well, Here we go again!

I didn’t think I’d be creating a new reddit account and posting here again but here we go.

In 2018 I lost 40kg (88Ibs) and loved my new body. I went from over 150kg (330Ibs) down to 110kg (240Ibs). I loved the clothes I could wear and feeling so confident in my body.

Over the last year and a half I’ve slowly gone back up to 124kg (273Ibs) I am still so much healthier and happier than I ever was at my top weight and have a much better relationship with food but I haven’t been working to lose weight and I’ve just let myself put it back on.

So now it’s time to focus again, not put weight loss on the back burner like I have been. I’m a power lifter so I’ll still be going to the gym and lifting but I’m tracking my food again and cutting down on alcohol. I want to be back where I was in 2018.

Any tip/tricks/advice welcome

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CICO question - I was losing before, but now I'm not

I am a 30 yr old female, 5'8", 156 lbs (starting weight was 163 lbs) and I started tracking and being more active in March.

I'm aware that my weight might seem reasonable for someone my height, but my body doesn't carry it well. It's all in my stomach, back, upper arms, hips/thighs. My forearms, face, and lower legs are all very very skinny. So I have about 25 lbs of fat mostly on my torso. Every outfit looks so bad on me and I'm tired of it. My stomach hangs over my pants. I also have endometriosis and issues with my bodies mobility.

I work from home, so my life is pretty sedentary. I started becoming more active; I try to walk everyday, I workout at the gym or attend fitness classes 3x per week, and I am eating 1,300 calories per day. This isn't my first rodeo, I track EVERYTHING I eat. In the first 2 months, I lost 6 lbs total. In the last month, I've lost barely 1 lb.

The only differences between this month and the first two months are: I've had 1-3 drinks these past two weekends, and I've switched to working out more than hiking (I was hiking 3x per week before. Now I do 1x per week). My hikes weren't anything too strenuous so it's not like I burned a crazy amount of calories.

Besides, I always heard that weight loss is mostly about CICO rather than physical activity. So I am wondering how I went from losing 3 lbs per month to losing just 1 lbs in a month. The only differences in my calorie intake have been a couple of cocktails, but I included them in my calorie intake. I only went over my calorie intake a couple of times by only 200 calories.

This is the kind of stuff that causes me to lose motivation. :(

Any advice or encouragement?

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I'm 3LBS away from my final goal, but I'm still battling with body dysmorphia (just an explosion of feelings I needed to get out)

Trigger warning: body dysmorphia

I am dealing with a lot of conflicting ideas in my own head. Am I a horrible person for feeling better about myself because I'm an average weight and size? Am I doing this for myself or because of the society we're in? Does it make me a horrible body positivity advocate for me to do this?

I rejected even thinking seriously about weight loss for most of my adulthood. Annually, I would declare as a new years resolution that I would lose weight. That's what people expected to hear. Then I would go on as I did and nothing would change.

I did my best to love myself as someone who spent most of her adulthood 250+ pounds. Even now I'm not sharing my largest weight because I'm still embarrassed of it. I am so thankful for the fat acceptance and body positivity movement. I actually don't think I'd be here if it didn't exist. A lot of things contributed to my depression but my size and eating habits didn't help. Loving yourself in theory is much different than loving yourself in practice.

It's fucking hard.

In 2018 I was flying home for the holidays after the elections in Virginia, and the recount in Florida. Plane seats had never been comfortable for me but this was the first time i had to ask for a seat belt extender. I recall the feeling of humiliation vividly. I decided then something had to change.

And something did. One decision after another, and eventually the pounds started falling off. I recognize without a doubt that I am happier and healthier than I was two years ago. I have more energy. I enjoy life more. I also have a lot of anxiety around weighing in every morning and if i'm eating too many "bad" foods. I'm trying to change my mindset, but in my head I'm still a fat person and I'm too frightened to go back.

But I've also noticed other things. More attention ( positive or negative ) from men, other people noticing you more, being able to shop without going to a specialized store. Those things are bullshit. No ones value should be determined by their weight. All this is to say, our relationships with our bodies are complicated but don't let society attribute value to them.

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800 Days of Lazy Weight Loss

800 days ago I (5'6, F, 30's) downloaded MyFitnessPal and in those 800 days, I've lost 111 pounds from 272 to 161. I've also refused, for the most part, to make any drastic changes.

Sometimes I exercise but mostly I don't. Covid has made me very depressed and exercise when I'm depressed makes me feel worse. I enjoy weight lifting and hope to get back one day, but I usually only did 45 minutes twice a week.

I drink an absurd amount of soda. I did switch from Coke to Pepsi Zero for the sake of my calories but I drink a LOT of it and plan to continue doing so. I like it and it doesn't hurt.

We still eat pizza, fast food and cake, the Big Three of calorie density. We don't do it on a whim anymore. Stuff like that is carefully planned for. But it's still part of our lives.

I swapped out most high calorie sinks for lower calorie ones. Extra lean beef instead of lean. Low fat mayo instead of regular. Homemade desserts with sweetener instead of chocolate bars and store cakes. Less butter, cheese and oil overall.

But otherwise I eat basically all the same stuff. I haven't done much beyond counting it all and keeping myself to 1500-1600 calories a day.

I have been extremely lazy about weight loss and still dropped over 100 lbs in 800 days.

CICO works whether you run at it hard, or meander at it weakly.

You don't have to be perfect. Trust the process.

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Weightloss Existential Crisis?

I've been learning about weightloss for over a year on reddit, youtube, and general internet searching. I have been intermittently (I tracked daily for 6 months last year but stopped around the holidays) tracking my food and trying to be more active, but I haven't been successful at losing weight because I cannot stick to a reasonable number of calories per day. I started off at 1650 calories/day which was difficult to stick to. Generally I did well Monday thru Thursday, then promptly fell off the wagon Friday night until Monday morning. Rinse and repeat. Still haven't figured that one out. I'm an emotional eater and I binge eat, I have terrible coping skills of using weed/alcohol/food to deal with stress and other problems in my life. After the holidays I tried again, but I haven't been able to stick to a restricted calorie diet since last year. I tried bumping my calories to 1850 (which is approximately how many someone at my goal weight of 155 would eat to maintain their weight) but I keep going over that too. I am at the point now where I feel hopeless because I am trying to do this the right way but it feels impossible. I've never spent this much time focused on anything and still been a failure, just isn't how things go for me, usually.

I try to pick low calorie dense foods, but I'm still hungry all the time it seems. I hate being hungry, I can't focus on my work, I shake, I get nauseous, it's awful. I am hypothyroid and was retested recently, my numbers were in the normal range but my thyroid hormones have steadily declined for the last 3 years so I'm wondering if that could be contributing? I went to my doctor to talk about weight loss and they gave me a printout of the food pyramid and a list of apps like MyFitnessPal which I'm already using... That was a huge disappointment. I'm also in therapy but it hasn't really helped yet with sticking to my plan. My therapist just wants me to get back in the habit of tracking food but it feels pointless if I'm going over everyday despite my best efforts. I can't even picture a life of only eating 1800 calories day/on average. It doesn't seem sustainable. It's so much work to manage too.

I don't really know why I'm posting this but I just figured I should put my thoughts out there and see if anyone else has struggled with this and maybe has some advice.

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Slow & Steady Wins the Race (1.5 years of progress)

Stats: 5'2, 37F, 141 --> 110ish

Tale as old as time: I had some babies and took a long hiatus from my love of running, and as a result, gained a bunch of weight, especially after Kid #2.

Some takeaways:

1) Start small. You always set yourself up for failure if you jump in and try to workout every day for an hour and overhaul your diet. Pick one thing and just focus on making that change - whether it's working out for 10 minutes, 3x a week (what I started with), or swapping out your afternoon chips for carrots. Even now, if I'm not feeling a workout, I'll tell myself to just do 10 minutes - and inevitably, I just do the whole workout because I've built the momentum.

2) Get rid of all-or-nothing thinking. Someone once said to me, if you found a flat tire on your car, would you slash the other 3 tires? It used to be that if I ate a cookie or donut, I would immediately say fuck it, and spiral into blowing the entire day. Now I build a lot more flexibility into my diet and also don't stress about it too much, and just get back on track the next day. I live and die by the 80/20 rule, which means 80% of my diet is whole foods (vegetables, lean protein, fruit, complex carbs, healthy fats, etc.) but I live in a large city and there are SO many good restaurants and cafes all around, and there is just no way I am giving up my donuts.

3) It's been said here before, but weight loss is NOT linear. Don't miss the forest for the trees. If you take a narrow snapshot of my progress, it looks like this. If you zoom out, it looks like this. Your weight will fluctuate, you will plateau. It's NORMAL. Stick with it.

4) Move more. I know for pure weight loss, you don't need to exercise. But it's SOOOOOOO good for you. It helped me tremendously mentally, in feeling strong, feeling capable, feeling good about my body. I feel so grateful for the privilege to be able to move my body freely the way I want to, to have the energy and strength to smoke my kids in a footrace and chase them around the park. Having athletic goals (i.e. be able to do 10 pushups or 5 pull-ups or run a certain mileage or pace) helped me take the focus off every single calorie and the number on the scale, and more on how I was/am feeling and how my body is performing.

5) It's not a race. You don't get a medal for losing weight any faster. The only thing waiting for you at the end of this journey is the reality that you're going to have to maintain whatever you were doing FOREVER (with the addition of a few extra calories). You don't hit your goal weight and then go back to your old habits and old life. So whatever you are doing to get there, make sure it's sustainable for the rest of your life. It took me almost an entire year and a half to lose 30 pounds.

Right now, I'm maintaining and I've stopped tracking calories. I eat when I'm hungry, I try to eat whole foods and prioritize protein, but sometimes I'll smash a pint of Ben & Jerry's at night. I'd estimate that I'm probably eating around 1900-2200 daily, probably a bit more on the weekends since that's usually when we eat out or get takeout. As with all the other progress posts here, I'm not special and there's no reason anyone else can't do this, but it's not glamorous and there's no secret sauce, it's boring and tedious and you just have to put your head down and grind it out.

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Mindfulness and Weight loss. M33, 6'2, SW 291, CW 288.1, GW 199

I have been big my entire life but from my early 20's (when I lost over 100 lbs) until last year I never got over 250 and mostly hovered around 230. Yesterday, after a month of procrastination I got back on the scale and saw 291. It was a gut punch but not totally surprising. At first I felt terrible about myself but I decided to take a methodical and mindful approach this time around. I gridded out a calendar spreadsheet and nailed it to the wall in front of my scale to record my weight every day (no more avoiding the scale) and am going back into intermittent fasting which I have done before without sticking with it for more than a week or so. I am going to try 20:4 this first week to see how I do. With that short feeding window I hope to focus on deliberate eating without cutting everything out (will still eat pizza if it falls in the 4 hour feeding window). I am hoping that by inhabiting the present through the habits of weighing in, fasting and working out I will be less tempted to look forward to a future me that has achieved my goal weight of 199 lbs. Weight loss is hard but I am hoping to enjoy it this time around and really build good habits to take along for the rest of my life.

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