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Friday, December 3, 2021

NSV: i ate at my maintenance calories for the day and i don’t feel guilty about it!

hi everyone! i’ve been active on this subreddit a bit, but haven’t really posted much on my own.

i’m a 20 year old female with pcos. i started well over 300 lbs, most likely around 325-335 lbs at my heaviest. however, when i began my weight loss journey, i was weighing in at 310 lbs. this was in 2018, and by january 2020 i was weighing it at 190! i felt great, i looked great, and i was maintaining for 6+ months.

sadly, i dealt with worsening mental health and was put on a medicine that caused me to gain weight massively (abilify, for anyone wondering). within 4 months i gained back 40 lbs, and at my heaviest since losing, i went up to 270 lbs due to a mix of the medicine and mental illness giving me trouble when it came to maintaining my healthy habits.

however, over the past month and a half, i’ve lost 15 lbs! my loss has been really consistent again and i’m feeling really great about it.

in the past, i might have been too restrictive because i had some serious trouble reaching my goal calories for maintaining my weight. (i didn’t really want to go lower than 190 at the time, as i found it would probably be difficult for me mentally to lose nearly 200 lbs to get to my ultimate goal weight of 130 lbs.)

today, though, i noticed that my mentality has improved greatly. i have friends visiting and one of my amazing friends offered to buy not only me, but my other friend and my father dinner.

at first i hesitated, but with enough willpower i decided to allow myself to have that dinner. the restaurant we ate at was one of my biggest fears due to the listed calories and the portion sizes, but i came up with a solution: i would eat half of the entree and my dessert and save the rest.

through my own experiences i’ve really learned the importance of moderation and being honest with your tracking. even today, i counted every calorie and ended up eating around 2200 calories, which based on my stats and activity (lightly active, i’m a student and i have a job that requires hours of standing, outside of that i dance and go on daily walks.) is my maintenance calories. most days, i eat anywhere from 1200-1600 calories.

and for the first time in so long, i don’t feel guilty about it!

it feels really, really great. i hope going forward i can continue to enjoy myself on occasion and realize it won’t undo all of my hard work.

this ended up being super long, thank you for reading!

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How do you guys do it?

I’m 23(F) currently on my highest weight ever, a number i’m too embarrassed to say out loud and i’ve never hated myself more than I do right now and I have read many of your guys’s stories and I am very proud but also very jealous about the accomplishments I am yet to reach

I’ve been wanting to lose weight for the longest time yet I hate the pain and the exhaustion i feel when i used to go to the gym, i tried starting my journey last month but i gave up after going once because of how much nausea, pain and exhaustion i felt after a very light 40 min cardio workout, and apparently to make weight loss and fat burn more efficiently i have to add on some weights (which i haven’t attempted) and the idea that i have to go on this journey to lose (in a healthy manner) over a 100+ LBS and thinking about all the pain i have to go through doesn’t motivate me at all

I’ve been down this road, i’ve gone 3 months working out and saw no changes in my body just in the scale, my parents apparently did notice that i had lost weight but to me my body looked just as bad

I cried very hard in the car because of the disappointment

I can’t quite afford weight loss surgery so that’s why i’m don’t think that’s gnna work out for me, cause it would technically be 2 surgeries one for weight loss and another for skin removal

I am horribly depressed so the thought of leaving my room is too much to bear

So please tell me how have you guys succeed??

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Changes after weight loss

I want to know what changed for you positives and negatives anything basically Changes after weight loss

Ignore this just to little content so I wouldn’t be able to post!

I want to know what changed for you positives and negatives anything basically Changes after weight loss

I want to know what changed for you positives and negatives anything basically

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My obese partner won't stop sabotaging me

I have been with my girlfriend for 5½ years. When we first met, we were both obese, and I had no interest in changing that part of myself. However, after being with her for 2 years, I had gained 50lbs and with no signs of stopping. I decided to make a big life change, and I spent 1½ years losing 75lbs. My girlfriend is still morbidly obese. Last year I gained back 20lbs, and I think I've realized why.

In the first month of my weight loss, I was living by myself while we were in between houses. In that time, I literally lost 10lbs without trying too hard. I have always found it really easy to eat healthy when I am in charge of my own food, because I just stop buying anything that doesn't fit my goals. I know for a fact that if I were living by myself, I would have been at my goal weight a long time ago. Living with my partner, however, means that she buys anything she wants and brings it into the house. For her, that means cookies, cakes, chips, pop tarts, literally all the things that I have no control around (and yeah, maybe that's a personal failing, but when I have a perfectly good solution..??). Before the pandemic, I was able to combat this by just literally never being home. I left for work at 6am, and after the commute home, walking the dog, and a gym session, I wouldn't get home until 6pm. Now that I work from home, I don't have that luxury, and have therefore gained a lot of weight back.

I have BEGGED her (literally said the words "I am begging you") in the past to please stop bringing this stuff home because it just makes me binge and it's not good for any aspect of my health, but her argument is that she's an adult and should be able to buy whatever she wants. And the worst part is, it's a fair argument! I don't want to police everything that comes into the house. I want her to be able to make her own food choices. But the problem is that it also directly affects me. I'm really at a loss at this point.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Any advice?

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Question about calorie intake

I started a physical job a few months ago (UPS). This job has been kicking my butt but i like it so far because i’ve lost about 20 pounds in 3 months from 225 to 205 with little change to my diet.

Now that i’m experiencing a weight loss, i really want to be around 165-170. Last time i weighed 165 was 10 years ago back in high school.

When i calculated my average daily calorie intake, it was around 3000. Last week, i dropped it down to 2000.

The main concern is that i get hungry towards the end of my shift and i wanted to see if keeping 2000 calorie intake would be a good idea for now. Because it is a peak season at ups, i work 6 days a week, 7-8 hours a day.

Thank you!

Edit: my height is 5’9

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This is YOUR Journey

I’m 2 months post-partum making my way back to my pre-pregnancy weight and let me just say the only person you can rely on to continue with your weight loss journey is YOU.

I love my husband dearly, he’s not overweight but decided to take this opportunity of me hitting the gym all the time to also get back in shape. Well after a month of consistently working out with me it only took one weekend bender to completely throw him off (he’s not a big drinker but his friend just ended an engagement so he was trying to be supportive lol). It’s been a week and he hasn’t worked out at all and just wants sweets. I just have to keep telling myself that “if you want to change then YOU have to do it!”. My point is don’t rely on someone else to hold you accountable you do what is best for YOU.

45lbs down 35lbs to go!

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The start of a hopefully successful journey

27 M 5’8 - SW 256 lbs - CW 249.8 - GW ~175

I’m mainly posting here cause I have no support in real life but wanted to celebrate a small win. I just started my weight loss about 3 weeks ago, due to seeing a video of myself reading a bedtime story to the GF’s son.

I saw myself as a blob in that video and knew I needed to make some changes but that pushed me over the edge.

At the end of last week, I was actually up about 2.5 lbs (damn Turkey day). Checking my weight every day this week, I’ve been dropping .5-.75 lbs a day and have lost more than 5 pounds now. It’s not much in total, but it’s a start, and I’m happy about it!

I’ve switched my diet a bit, picked up some Huel Black edition, 2 of those a day and one “sensible” meal for dinner. No hunger and shedding the weight currently. I need to find a way to add a bit of exercise into my day to day soon though.

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