I got my husband in the weight loss train with me without even realizing it.

I've been diligently tracking what I'm eating and exercising for the past month. In that month I've lost about 5 lbs, which has been great! 5 to 6 lbs a month is my goal, and it's quite noticable on my at 5 ft 1 frame. I've been cooking healthy meals and meal prepping for myself. My husband has been eating the dinners and lunches I've made (and has also lost 5 lbs without trying due to this). But today he sent me a picture of his MyFitnessPal diary to say he's joining me! We've both gained a bit of weight since our wedding and have both lost weight by counting calories before. I'm excited to have a partner on this weight loss adventure!

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one year from the beginning

hello! i just hit one year from the day i set out to get (back) to my goal weight. i started at about 137lbs on august 10, 2020, and i've been maintaining at 122-125lbs since february 2021. i hit my actual goal of 125lbs on january 28, 2021. i’m 5’6”, female, and 32 years old.

how i gained it

i have fluctuated in my weight over the past several years, but i've never been over 135lbs until last year. between becoming sedentary (thanks, pandemic lockdowns) and drinking a lot more alcohol (thanks, pandemic stress), i started putting on a little more than i wanted.

how i lost it

• i track everything i eat, full stop. it isn't always super accurate, but it's accurate enough. started with MFP, but later switched to LoseIt! because it was snappier and prettier.
• logged my intake and weight into a spreadsheet, which feeds into the TDEE spreadsheet.
• i weigh myself (almost) daily and plug that into trendweight automatically with a withings scale. see my full chart here: https://trendweight.com/u/10b144a0641b49/
• i only eat breakfast on weekends. otherwise i do lazy intermittent fasting and tend to eat 12pm-8pm.
• i cut down my drinking from ~20 drinks a week to ~10 drinks a week. (thanks to /r/cutdowndrinking for the support.)
• i started playing ring fit adventure at the beginning of my journey.
• i went through a running phase, but remembered i don't really enjoy it that much.
• i bought an exercise bike and signed up for peloton digital, eventually switching to apple fitness+ for their classes. i was previously (pre-pandemic) doing a lot of outdoor cycling, but the cycle paths were slammed and made it no fun for me. doing way more outdoor cycling these days now that people have gone back inside, hah!
• i regularly do yoga classes offered by apple fitness+ and down dog yoga.
• i started training my dog in agility after a five-year break, then i got a puppy(!) who also requires a lot of training.
• i started and ended lifting several times. i'm still trying to figure out how to make it work for me. i seem to get injured too often (unrelated to lifting) to keep at it consistently.

notes

• i'm a vegetarian, but i don't like most veggies. my typical diet is lots of bread, dairy, rice, and beans (read: pizza and burritos). it works for me!
• maintaining is boring, but i love being able to eat more nowadays.
• losing the last five was infuriating to no end.
• the daily accountability posts here are awesome and helped me through the last few months.
• i let myself go wild for vacations and holidays, but i always tracked it.
• i thought about eating and weight a lot when i was losing, but not much at all now.
• cutting back on alcohol was the biggest win for me. not just for the weight loss, but i also feel better physically and get more restful sleep, especially on weekends. rarely having hangovers is great.

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Weight Loss Myths!

I feel like my brain has been in myth busters the last few weeks. I've started calorie counting to lose the unfortunate covid "19" lbs I gained over the course of the last year. Over the course of the last few weeks, I've learned so many ideas I've held to be fact/truth, are not in fact true.

1. I'm in starvation mode. Seriously, this has always been a hard one to believe for me but I felt like I wouldn't be led to believe something that was false. My logical brain however, would tell me, when people are actually starving, they are losing weight. Logical brain was right.

2. Basically everything to do with my metabolism. Stoking it by eating more. I've ruined my metabolism. I'm learning all the things I've heard and learned previously about my metabolism have not been entirely accurate. My metabolism is just fine (barring thyroid disorder and/or PCOS).

3. I'm not exercising enough. I've always exercised, always been athletic with muscular build. I'm learning that though exercise is key to health and can help with weight loss, as is frequently said here, you cannot outrun your fork. This is really tough for me. I love exercise. I wish it were as easy as, exercise to lose weight but unfortunately, I've found the truth of the matter is that I need to pay attention to what I'm actually eating.

4. Eat more to lose weight. Eating more got me where I'm at. Eating more does not help me to lose weight. I do see people post here, that they eat more and lose weight. Congratulations to you! I want to be you lol. I don't know how that works, so for me and my body, it's a myth.

What are some myths you have encountered on your weight loss journey? Retraining your brain is so hard!! Thank you all for sharing your myth busters with me, it's been a true learning experience!

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Grief, an ED and Depression walk into a bar

Pretty sure I got the cocktail of self destruction thrown my way during the summer of 2019. I've always had the eating disorder (BED) but it was semi manageable prior to the loss of my favorite human in June 2019.

I've been wallowing in self pity and grief since. Closing myself off from friends and family and eating myself into a 100 lb weight gain. I don't want to be this person anymore, my fav human would be so disappointed in me if he saw me like this now. If he knew how much I had let myself fall into despair over his death. He never wanted anything but the very best for everyone around him and I know he'd be bending over backwards right now to pull me out of this slump and help me find the joy in life again.

I've finally reached out to therapy provided through work and begun the healing process mentally last week. It feels good to say this all out loud. I wanted to post here as I can't quite bring myself to talk to my friends or family regarding everything as of yet but hoped you fine internet strangers would be the next best thing to an anonymous support group as I can get until I can find a local group to join.

If anyone has any discord/online groups open to members for BED or weight loss accountability etc I would love to have an invite. Lurking this sub has helped me so much and I'd love to find an online community of similarly struggling individuals to reach out to in times of need and stumbles.

It's time to say goodbye to this sad chapter and do better. Make a change. Be better.

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Portion Size: Blown Away

This is long, sorry. TL;DR: PLEASE measure your food carefully to really understand how much to eat. Just eyeballing the food isn't enough--newbies like me will underestimate the calories on the plate and end up gaining weight as a result.

I'm sure this will be absolutely no surprise to seasoned veterans on their weight loss journey, but I'm a clueless newbie and it was shocking to me, so I wanted to post this here as well, just in case someone else can benefit from my naivete.

I've been trying to lose weight, but I haven't really had much success yet. Other posts here have been very helpful. I understand now that 90% of losing weight is simply eating less calories than I burn each day.

My idea was to keep eating the foods I love (like Panda Express, for example. I know, I know...) but in smaller quantities. I went to the Panda Express website and printed out their nutrition guide. This is the guide that lists all their side dishes, main courses, etc, and shows how many calories are in each dish, along with other nutritional information.

Previously, I thought I had a GREAT eye for portion sizes, and I thought I could reliably judge the amount of calories on my plate just by eyeballing the portions. This is where everything was going wrong.

After getting a perfectly normal Panda Express lunch (fried rice, orange chicken, kung pao chicken), I took it all home and got out my new kitchen scale. I had my printed copy of the Panda Express nutritional guide, and I used the kitchen scale to measure out the food, according to weight, and the nutritional guide.

I was blown away. I had been messing up SO badly. I wanted to eat 500 calories for my meal, as measured by the scale. But this turned out to be like 5 bites of food. I thought I had messed up my measurements, but I triple-checked and it was right.

It seems that the people working at Panda Express who actually serve the food tend to put on MUCH, much more food than the serving size mentioned in the nutritional guide. For example, 500 calories of Orange Chicken is about 5.5 ounces. I put that amount of chicken on a plate and it's a TINY amount of chicken, it feels crazy. The amount of chicken that they put on my plate at the store was almost 11 ounces!

If I had eaten the plate as it was given to me at the store, it would have been almost 2500 calories. Just the one plate. I know they were probably trying to do me a solid by really heaping rice and chicken on my plate, but I had NO idea how many calories were actually on that plate.

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There are some things I don't understand about my body

This is the first post I've made on reddit so I apologize if I don't use proper etiquette when it comes to certain things so please let me know. So for some background on me, I'm 17 years old, around 5'7, and I weigh 187 lbs and I'm just curious about some things that I noticed about my body.

Over the past 3-4 years, my weight has fluctuated a lot. I went from starting highschool at 13 turning 14 being 170 and 5'1, and I took wrestling for 2 years. My first year of wrestling I lost around 40 lbs and went from 170 to 130 within around 4 months. Based off of a lot of the posts I've seen, that's is pretty unhealthy and most people don't maintain that amount of weight loss, especially since I didn't do anything involving counting calories or eating right. My day's consisted of either eating a sandwich and maybe a small meal for dinner because I was on weight for my weight class, or eating nothing to not risk it and drinking lots of water either way. I ended up sort of maintaining this weight while still not doing any calorie counting or and I slowly was eating more and more unhealthily, lots of snacking. I gained around 10 pounds by the end of my sophomore year. I stopped doing wrestling and the end of my junior year, I was around 5'5 and I weighed about 155-160.

Now that I've graduated, around 4-5 weeks ago, my weight skyrocketed to 209 pounds due to very poor eating habits and eating very late. I stayed up late, snacked on foods, drank sodas, and rarely exercised. So I wanted to make a change, however, even after reading and reading, and understand how weight loss works and knowing the steps that I have to take. I ended up not following any of it except for three things.I only eat when I'm hungry, and not just appetite stimulants, like eating while watching a movie or playing a game.I only eat if I feel that it is a healthy food, and I guesstimate all my calories. If I don't know exactly, I just assume things, like pasta = more calories, veggies = less calories, meat = not too many not too fewThe last thing I follow is a quote I heard off of a post on this subreddit, "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not really hungry."

Following those rules, I've gone from 209 to 186.4 at my lowest. I'm pretty sure this is probably unhealthy as I usually only have around 1 meal a day, and maybe a small snack as I'm rarely ever hungry when I really think about it, and I also don't exercise too frequently still. I'll have moments of hunger where I feel like I need something to eat, but then after about 10 mins, it's gone. I believe this is because hunger which derives from stimulants or activities in which you frequently eat during, causes this fleeting hunger which is not real hunger. If I'm correct real hunger does not just go away by forgetting about it.

So my questions would be:

1. One thing I randomly thought of when wondering how I'm losing weight without really trying that much, is the majority of this weight just water weight?
2. Do I have a fast metabolism but I just ended up getting out of control with eating? (I'm assuming no as the common symptoms of a fast metabolism do not relate to me)
3. Long term, will losing weight by only eating when I feel hungry and being aware of what I'm eating be alright?
4. I usually lose around 3-4 pounds overnight when I weigh myself at night vs in the morning, is this normal for a regular metabolism?

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I'm back and I'm feeling good! Here's what I've learned over the past year.

Hey guys! It's me again. One year ago, I started my weight loss journey, and I was pretty down in the dumps.

So here I am: fat, sad and with no trust in my own capabilities. I know I will probably fail again. But my body is aching, my clothes don't fit anymore and when I see myself in the mirror my brain is telling me: "this is not me, this is not what I look like". I want out.

But guess what? I didn't fail! I made a huge effort that following fall and winter, I got my SO on board, and I lost over 10 kgs. I made it my routine to plan my meals, count my calories, take two walks every day and log everything. I even played Ring Fit Adventure, an excercise game on my Switch, which resulted in my energy levels drastically improving. And of course, I've been lurking a lot in here.

I didn't stress out about the fluctuation of my weight curve - I knew that my hormones were pulling tricks on me and that cheat days were not devastating in the long run. My clothes started to fit again and my family were super supportive once I gave them the green light to talk about my body. I felt great and it was easy!

However, after Christmas 2020, I needed a break from it all. I hated looking at food and only seeing numbers and the potential for gaining or losing weight. So I stopped. It was a conscious choice and it was one I felt good about. I was 10 kgs lighter, I was happier and I was stronger. So I rewarded myself with giving back the joy of experimenting in the kitchen, baking delicious bread, and making exciting drink recipes. I knew that some of those kilos were inevitably going to come back, but I didn't mind. I remembered how easy losing them had been, and I knew I could get back on the train whenever I felt ready.

Now is that time. I gained back half of what I lost since Christmas 2020, but if I can repeat the same thing I did last year, I will have lost 15 kgs by the end of this year, which will still be progress from where I started.

And now that I'm here, I've realized that I never failed once on this journey. I took care of my body but also allowed myself to love life. Not once did I beat myself up whenever I cheated or lost control, instead I decided to do better the next day. I have learned so much over this past year about taking it easy and letting change take time, something I wish I knew when I was younger and really struggled to lose weight. This is a marathon that I will be in for life. But coming to this state of mind has been a very, very long journey, and it did take a couple of therapy sessions, too.

So to whoever is reading and made it to the end, here is the one thing I can share with you: take it easy, and do it in your own pace. You can get back in the game again whenever you're ready. You can always, always start again.

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