Small Steps

I’m just starting my weight loss journey (as in, this week), and I’m taking it really easy so I don’t overwhelm myself and give up. What I’ve started doing is just loading my plate with veggies at meals and having a protein source (tonight was sea bass and roasted veg). Instead of snacking on chocolate and sweets, I’m having fruit or drinking water. I don’t drink soda very often and I’m not a big drinker so I don’t really worry about drinking my calories (except my tea and coffee, but youd have to prise those from my cold, dead hands).

My next step is going to be slowly adding exercise to my routine - i have chronic pain (hips and back mostly, but ankles & wrists becoming affected) so I’m going to be doing low-impact things like walking, even just round the house to get my 10k steps in, yoga, and swimming lessons.

Once I’ve lost a bit of weight and I can see my body a bit better I’ll start muscle building.

((For context, I’m a 23F and I weigh 12st at 5,2.5”))

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Does menopause make weight loss more difficult?

I am a 43 year old woman who has had a complete hysterectomy (including having my ovaries removed), and I am not currently on estrogen. I am also about 70lbs overweight. I am wondering if the lack of estrogen makes any difference in my ability to lose weight? For the past month I have been very careful about limiting my portions and keeping track of calories, but I haven't lost even a pound. Thanks for any insight.

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How specific should your weekly weight-loss goals be?

Okay so thus might be a dumb question... I'm about two months into my weight loss journey, and so far I've been giving myself weekly goes, so for example this week my goal was to go from 162.6 to 160.5, I usually hit my goal but this week I didn't. I weighed myself thus morning and i was 161.6, but a few minutes later i decided to weigh myself again and I was 161.2.

I believe this is just weight fluctuation, but makes me wonder, should I add the decimal to my weight goal? Like should I make my goals 160.5 to 158.4 or should I just say I want to be 158 and not care what the decimal says because it can change on a dime?

Does it not matter? Will it hurt me if I view going from 160.1 to 158.9 the same as going from 160.9 to 158.0?

This might be a pointless or confusing question, but if you wanna help me out please do.

For reference: F – sw 173 – cw 161.2 – gw 132

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Advice on unsolicited comments about my weight loss (40lbs) as a minor?

So, a bit of background; I’ve always been noticeably chubby, and have been at around 65-70kgs as a 5’3 female for a while. With the pandemic in 2020, as well as it being my senior year of high school, AND the infamous weight gain in the first year of college, my highest weight was somewhere around 74kg. In September, I turned 18.

In the middle of this year, during our second lockdown (I live in Australia) I decided to really focus on losing weight, and as of right now I’m at 55kg (and still making progress towards my goal).

Like I mentioned, as this happened during lockdown, I haven’t seen many of my parents/family’s friends since this happened. Most of the people my age I’ve seen haven’t said much, with a few commenting on how I generally look better, or healthier - I think younger people (roughly Gen Z) find it less acceptable to comment on someone’s weight, regardless of if it’s positive or negative.

However, when I have run into my parents’ friends (or generally people >40) they’ve often made comments specifically on how ‘I’ve lost so much weight’ or asked what I’ve done to lose it.

And honestly, it makes me REALLY uncomfortable. Generally, I still don’t like people commenting on my body, but it also makes me feel super weird to think of people regarding my body as overweight when I was still a minor, y’know? I was just a kid, and it REALLY rubs me the wrong way when people mention it.

Am I just overthinking it? Should I be more gracious, or is it alright to feel uncomfortable?

I also wanted some advice on how I should respond, when I’d really rather redirect the conversation, as I don’t like making a huge deal of my weight loss, which is a really personal subject to me.

I have a large event tomorrow where the guest list is basically just my parents’ friends. How should I respond to stuff like this? Has anyone felt similarly?

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It's not onederland... but it's two-derland!

Story! So, I had a Thanksgiving break. I only exercised once. I left for break stuck at 307-315 pounds, constantly being stuck at that fluctuation. I came back and measured at... 303?? I ate terribly and exercised only once. So, I'm fully vaccinated... i then got covid. Luckily it was very mild and only stuck around for a few days, but I obviously couldn't go to the gym. I ate terribly because I had to order food, etc.... and yet. When I stepped on the scale once I was feeling better.... 301.2 . And then if I took my clothes off... 299.6 pounds. Under 300. I shamelessly cried in the bathroom. I've not been under 300 pounds for over five years, my junior year of high school. I started this year at 367 pounds, and it's took me more time than it was supposed to, but.... I'm here. I have 70 more pounds to go. I'm hoping the pace picks back up, but for now this is just... crazy. Even more crazy is that I dropped an inch during that time. I'm hoping I didn't lose muscle and that's why I lost the inch?

Wow. Sorry for rambling, I'm just in shock. Everyone around me is so casual about it, too. I went from wearing size 12 to size 10 underwear, 2xl shirts to XL, and 3xl shorts to loose 2xl. So much progress and a body I haven't been used to in years, and I still have more to go. I just really hope I can get on a good pace again.

And thank you guys for all of the encouragement. If anyone wants to maybe have an accountability group or just like a discord chat, I'm down!! It would just be nice to have a smaller group of friends that are comfortable talking about anything weight loss :) anything female and weight lifting would be cool. I'm losing the weight to apply to the Navy so anyone here who knows about that would be cool to chat with :D

Thanks! Happy finals week ;)

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How should I be eating? Down 85lbs in 4.5 months, but not sure my diet is ideal.

Started at 480 around 4.5 months ago, currently a little over 393 and steadily dropping. Feels weird saying a weight in the 300’s, wow. Never wanna go back to the 400’s ever again, under any circumstances- I cannot yoyo. Anyways. This didn’t all come off just via diet— you’ll see soon how imperfect it is—, but via a ton of hard, painful, excruciating hours boxing and in the gym. It was finding boxing that ignited this great big change- it was the first activity (probably the most physically demanding one, no less) I ever found in my life which I actually could tolerate. First session was a world of pain and soreness and discomfort, and normally I’d have quit right after, but there was something about it that kept me engaged and left me obsessed. I adore it. From the start, my coach tried to incorporate some strength and conditioning, but eventually I started going to a gym for that stuff, as well as to just keep active on my days away from him. Currently I go six days a week, usually for between 1.5-2 hours, mixing a wide range of exercises, sometimes boxing and weights and bike/tread, sometimes no boxing. At the beginning I was extremely strict with the diet and the weight was just flying off. Now I’m still strict and still maintaining an 18:6-20:4 (usually 19:5) IF unless there’s some social event I’ve gotta break it for (and yea, I’ve got to... don’t wanna be that guy lol), but not as strict as before. I plateaued around 400 for almost a month because my weekly cheat was just too much. Then I just took out the weekly cheat for now and am back on track- totally fine with no cheat as lately I’m not so perfect anyways and might have things folks might consider a small “cheat” every few days regardless. I did a drastic calorie cut from what I’m assuming was around 4,000 cal a day before if not more to about 1,500-2,000 when starting this new lifestyle. Some days I barely broke 1,200 honestly- bad, and not sustainable, I know. Nowadays I’m around 2,500 most days but try to keep lower. Usually just two higher cal meals and maybe a snack (usually a fruit). Usually two eggs and a meat and some veg for breakfast and then second meal can be anything reasonably healthy, but I try to keep healthy as possible.

My question is if I should be eating more protein or fibre or anything specific, and avoiding anything altogether? Doing the weight stuff I’m assuming I should be having more protein but what about the extra calories and fat that brings? Just trying to dial it in more and figure out what I can do/change to benefit my progress more, not necessarily to expedite weight loss since it seems to be going well, but more so to make sure muscles are going well and such.

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I’m (20F) stuck on how to stop eating simple carbs/impulse eating

Hi all! I’ve recently decided to try to be healthier, since I’ve never actually focused on that. I’ve been skinny-fat my whole life (I’m 5’7”, throughout high school I was about 135lbs with most of my weight carried in my stomach, not muscles, and my legs were very small). I’m currently 146lbs, but I’m looking to clean up my diet and lose about 10lbs, also increase my muscle strength and metabolism. However, I’m a very picky eater, gravitate toward simple carbs, and impulsively snack/boredom snack due to ADHD. I don’t like salads, fish, Greek yogurt, or oatmeal, which are pretty common weight loss/healthier foods I’ve heard of. How do I mediate my desire for simple carbs that give me no energy, like chips, cereal, etc? Also, any advice on how to deal with boredom and impulse snacking??

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