Why are you on your weight loss journey? What's keeping you going?

I lost 30lbs in 2021 and I've been stagnant since Thanksgiving. I'm not even trying anymore. I'm eating too much. I'm eating too many calories. I'm not gaining. I'm just not losing.

I could do well all day, come home and just undo all my hard work at dinner. I'm not really sure what to do anymore.

So I want to know why YOU are losing weight. How much have you lost? What good thing happened to you recently regarding your journey? How did you convince yourself to stop eating all the food? Why are you losing weight?

I wanna hear from all of you. Give me your best brags. Tell me your new jean size. Brag about your accomplishments. Maybe something will click in my brain once I hear how amazing you all are lol

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Anyone here struggling to lose weight with Hashimoto’s or Hypothyroid?

I’m 22 F and have been diagnosed with hashimotos since I was 12. I pretty much know the ins and outs of this disease and how it impacts my body. I’m medicated and check in with my endocrinologist every 6 months. Everything looks “optimal” but at the end of the day, losing weight with this disease is so fucking hard no matter what.

The only times I’ve been able to lose any substantial weight was when I was running 5-7 miles a day along with walking an extra 4 miles. I would also only eat around 1300-1400 calories (as a 5’11 woman). This is so exhausting but if I don’t do this, I typically gain weight super quickly.

Anyways, I’m up an extra 20 pounds and I’m currently working at shedding it off. I refuse to partake in the hellish routine that I described before, but I’m scared I’ll only be able to lose 5 pounds and then plateau with a normal weight loss plan. Is anyone else struggling with this? It’s like no matter how active I am or how little I eat, weight loss is still so hard. Anyone have any tips that helped them? Does going gluten free help?

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Doing what I'm supposed to but not really seeing any weight loss

So I guess to start off I'm just a lil over a week into starting my weight loss journey to lose 130 pounds. I'm 5'2 and weigh 250 pounds. I've been eating between 1200-1500 calories a day and exercising everyday on a stationary bike for about an hour. And I've been getting into playing vr games like beat saber that are a bit more active. So I feel like I should be losing weight but it hasn't changed at all which super discouraging. Does anyone have any advice? Or know what I'm doing wrong or could do better?

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Pre-Menstrual Bloating

How do you ladies deal with pre-menstrual bloating? I restarted my weight loss plan this year and have been consistent with my food choices and workout schedules, so far, but I have been waking up to a very round tummy a week and a half before my predicted menstrual week. I noticed that I always get bloated around that period.

Should I make some adjustments during that period or should I just accept this? :(

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Thoughts on smoothies for weight loss?

Hello, new here. Hopefully this post is allowed, I'm just interested in hearing the thoughts of others. Lately I've been more interesting in taking care of my body. I go on walks with my dog 4 times a day and will soon be including cardio workouts at the community gym ( which is literally a 1 minute walk from my door, so no excuses there)

Anyway, I've been making smoothies every morning for the last few days, and I feel pretty good about them. They fill me up and I think I've chosen good ingredients, but I would love to hear what others think.

My smoothie: ~1.5cups almond milk (40 cal)

~1 cup frozen spinach

1 frozen apple

1 kiwi

1 banana

Some whole milk yogurt (don't really measure)

1 tbsp chia seeds

1 tsp honey

This makes about 3 whiskey glasses worth, which I drink throughout the day.

Also, I just bought some green powder stuff, I think it's mostly kale. Interested to hear what people think about that.

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NSV! Take those measurements!

I’ve been shifting from weight loss to recomp, and when I finally hopped back on the scale it went up a solid few pounds from my previous range.

Thoroughly depressed, I pulled out the measurements I’d taken before and laid them against new current measurements….they were ALL going down.

Not a lot, but solidly across the board they were smaller.

Take the measurements before you recomp! It’ll save you mental anguish.

Details:

5’2” woman in my mid-30s SW 124lbs, Sept 2021 LW 112lbs, Dec 2021 CW 116lbs, Jan 2021

Eating 1200-1300/cal day; TDEE is 1600.

Focus on protein and limiting carbs for the most part to vegetables with an occasional slice of pizza or other bit thrown in every week or so.

Aiming for 20g net carbs but occasionally go over.

IF 18:6 on weekdays.

In early December when I got to 112lbs I began a focus on recomp with:

Weight training 3x week Cardio through running (slow and short) 1x week Yoga 3x week

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This is terrible to say as an adult...but I hate vegetables.

I feel like - this and the desire to get dopamine from food ( I have ADHD) is a major hurdle in long-term weight loss. I have texture and taste issues with most of them.

So, I know you're going to tell me to "try and make them another way" - and this has made some vegetables edible for me, but still not something I'd choose for fun. I literally just eat them because they're healthy, and secretly feel like the meal would be better without them. As Marie Kondo would say...they do not spark joy.

I eat broccoli, cauliflower, beans, peas, lentils, carrots, corn, radishes, avocado...and that's kinda it? Also this gets repetitive...because it means I'll eat, say, broccoli 3 times a week because I don't have much to choose from.

There are vegetables I will literally not touch, and I'll need to sanitize my hands to get the smell off if I do.

I just...don,'t see a way around it.

I'm back on low carb now, which sort of works as it's mostly meat/fish/eggs - but still, even with that, I probably should eat more veg than I do now.

It's not like I'm a teen, either. I'm a grown-ass adult. This is basically my "adult setting".

I do like a lot of fruits, but many of them are sweet, of course.

Vegetables can be great to "fill' yourself...if you eat them, of course.

I can lose weight - but I have always failed at maintaining because I just don't like "healthy" food much. Everyone talks about changing your lifestyle...but, that's kind of the thing where it falls apart for me. I can be disciplined for a long time, but it still feels I'm not eating "nice things" (Even if I'm not hungry, doing a perfectly manageable diet).

I can try eating better, kind of force myself to eat more veg for half a year or whatever...and I still just don't like them much. I'm literally the person who will remove vegetables from my pizza or fish them out of a curry.

And at this point I'm better than when I was a kid - where I basically only ate peas and carrots.

I am currently still on track for losing weight, but I'm wondering what's sustainable long-term.

Has anyone else faced this? What do you even do?

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