Weight loss for me has definitely been a long marathon

Been dieting off and on for 10 years, and the only lengthy success I have had was in the 12 months when I started to treat the whole thing as a marathon rather than a sprint where I could reward myself with a bunch of junk food at the finish line.

12 months ago I was at near the worst shape I have been since a decade ago when my BMI was 33. In early 2021 had a BMI of 31.2, I was depressed, demoralized, I had just gotten out of a toxic workplace, into another workplace where no one respected me. I knew I needed to get my life back on track, but didn't have the mental or physical capacity to get out of a bad situation.

So I started dieting. I cut sodas out and immediately replaced them with diet sodas (I know some of them aren't good). I cut the bread and replaced it with a grain free low carb bread. I attended a martial arts class 1 day a week, then eventually worked my way up to 3 days a week. months later I was down 35 pounds.... then I got really depressed again, tough things were happening at work, and the momentum died down.

Something that hit me was to try a different approach, to treat it like a marathon instead of a race. So I accepted that the momentum and willpower to diet was gone, but that didn't mean I had to just give up and binge. I could still loosely stick to CICO and just make sure i never ate more than the maintenance. I often subbed in some of those new eating habits that I picked up. I found that I was used to eating smaller portions. In the end, my weight ended up hovering around +/- 7 pounds over the course of the last 7 months without really trying at all.

A month ago I worked up the willpower to push my setpoint lower, I am once again losing weight at a good pace, and I am starting from a decent spot vs last time where I started obese and in a really bad spot(it is hard to notice results when obese). The momentum is back, and I am really proud of last year's me for choosing to hang in there instead of giving up and binge eating. I only have 15 more pounds to lose.

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(25/5'6"/M) I've lost 60 pounds in the past 10 months (138lbs currently). Having trouble getting rid of the last of my belly fat.

My weight loss has come to a bit of a plateau, and has become painstaking slow. I eat 1450-1500 calories daily since I'm a smaller guy and don't really need that much. These meals are all healthy, home cooked, and very limited sugar. I've cut out most processed food, and rarely drink soda anymore. I do cardio in the form of a rowing machine 6 days a week, and I started weight training more seriously 6 weeks ago. I've been making sure to eat enough protein, but since I'm in a calories deficit I should just be maintaining the muscle I already have.

I know I've come a long way, but feeling a bit discouraged recently. I have a vacation coming up 2 months. My goal for the last 10 months was to get fit for my next vacation (vanity, I know), and my deadline is coming up mid-june.

I guess my question is, does anyone have any advice on shedding those last 10ish pounds of belly fat?

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Weight loss and dating

How do people feel when dating whilst on their journey? Has anyone else felt like they will be instantly rejected when someone sees you topless?

Some context, I’m a early 30s gay man who was with my husband for nearly 10 years before he left for someone else. When we met I was 12 stone and in my early 20s by the end of our relationship had ballooned to over 19 stone and my 20s were behind me. I finally decided enough was enough last year and I’ve gone from 122kg to 105kg. I’m feeling happy with myself and was thinking maybe it would be nice to put myself out there again.

The problem is when I talk to guys (only online at the moment) I feel like anyone who shows me the slightest bit of interest must be pretending or maybe I take a good face picture and the minute they see me without a top they will be repulsed by my body. This in turn leads me to feel crappy about myself and go back towards food. Has anyone else struggled with this and if so how did you get through it?

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Stuck in a plateau

24F, 5'4" (162.5cm)

SW- 158 lbs/71.7kg CW- 138.5 lbs/62.8kg GW- 128 lbs/58kg

Hello, I have struggled with my weight for over a decade with my lightest weight being 131 lbs/59.4kg in 2018 and my heaviest weight being 164 lbs/76kg in 2020.

After Summer 2021, at 158 lbs/71.7kg, I decided to take my weight loss more seriously and began lots of meal prepping to help me stay within my 1200 calorie bracket (I changed this to 1400 calories in November).

From September 2021 to early December 2021 I lost 16 lbs/7kg. In December I put on a couple of pounds but I lost this by the end of January.

Since February, I have only lost 2 pounds which essentially works out as 1 pound a month. I currently weigh 9 stone 12.5 pounds (138.5 lbs/62.8kg).

I am doing the same thing as I have been since November which means eating 1400 calories during the week and most weekends not exceeding 1600 a day. There are some days every month that are more if I go out but it's rarely excessive. I use my fitness pal where I track everything and I aim for 100g of protein which I meet around 75% of the time. I definitely don't eat the cleanest i.e. I eat chocolate and crisps etc. but it is all within my calories. I don't do much exercise (lack of time and motivation) but I walk an hour to and from work 5x a week and I get around 14,000 steps a day.

My initial aim was to be at my goal weight by June and then start eating and exercising more to build some muscle and improve my fitness but I'm not currently on track to do this.

Other than lowering my calories, is there anything I can do to start losing weight again?

Thanks in advance!

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Best use of expendable income for weight loss?

Hi guys!

I recently got my first big girl job so I now have some expendable income.

I have a lot of weight to lose (like, at least 100 lbs). What would be the best use of my expendable income for weight loss? Meal plans? Personal trainers? Etc? What would help me have the best outcome?

Note: I’m NOT interested in anything surgical such as gastric sleeve, etc. Things like cool sculpting are okay, but those seem to be things to do much later in the process.

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I quit fast food cold turkey 13 days ago and feel so weak, is this normal?

Hi all! Been eating fastfood for most of the pandemic, put on 60 pounds and almost 2 weeks ago, I finally cut it all out my diet. No more sugar, soda, fast food , trans fat, I now eat a lot of fruits, vegetables, lean protein, white meat, fish, lots of good things. I want to specify I take a little bit of peanut butter and olive oil to have some good fat, I should now feel amazing ...but somehow I feel so weak and lethargic, is this normal? lol

I weight 228 pounds, 6ft, 2700 good calories a day to be around maintenance, not losing weight yet, just wanted to get off the fast food first but diet is amazing, I eat enough calories, I sleep very well, I just feel so tired and it makes it hard to go to the gym and do as much cardio as I'd like to, which will be a problem for weight loss when I start it.

Is this normal? Is this like withdrawal from fast food? Any idea how long this lasts? I quit almost 2 weeks ago but it's becoming problematic. I was mopping the floor at home and felt so tired I almost collapsed to the floor. lol I take fish oil supplements, vitamin D, blood test was perfect, not really any deficiency that we know of, copper seem to be okay, this is strange.

Thank you very much for the infos and insight, have a good night! =)

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1 full year without un-needed sugars. 60+lbs down.

I would like to preface this by telling everyone I wrote this in a rush, so sorry for my grammar mistakes!

Hi yall, It has been a while since I last posted, but wanted to update everyone on my weight loss journey. I will get right to it and say I am currently sitting at 207lbs instead of the 274lbs I was during last March. my physical appearance has changed so much and I am so happy that I started this life improvement journey. I have been very lucky through this entire journey as my family has been very supportive of my choice in losing weight. I have as of March 25th, 2022 have gone a full calendar year without none necessary sugar. This means I had cut all sweets of every kind. No candy, sweet desserts, etc. I have been very lucky to get over the cravings in the first few months and be able to hold so strongly after all this time. The only thing I really fell back on after 8 months of cutting soda was I now drink a sugar-free calorie-free soda every blue moon. One of the MANY things I noted on this journey is that my weight loss was that I blasted off like a rocket when losing weight in the beginning but eventually I hit a plateau that caused me not to lose weight for over 2 months. around month 9 I started to not lose weight as quickly as I did when I first began. I realized this was natural and over the next 3 I had lost slowly but surely another 10lbs. It was very discouraging at first, but after looking at this sub and how other people were going through the same thing I realized I was not alone. Every time I would get nervous or think something in my weight-loss journey was going wrong I would come and lurk here for a little bit and eventually find the right information that I needed. Just seeing how this community was here with all the information that it holds really did help me change my life.

Since summer is starting back after that harsh winter (which was colder than I remembered due to losing the 60+lbs of blubber I was carrying around) I am finally going to start going to a full-time gym instead of just using whatever I can find here at my home. I am also going to start following a set meal plan instead of just waking up and making stir fry for the thousandth time. I just wanted to let you guys know that I have not failed my promise to myself and I believe that if I can do it then most people can. Last bit of advice and motivation I will tell you now that the hardest step is the first. If you have trouble going for a walk getting the motivation for that first step will make you do that walk. Getting out with all your gear and headphones on will make you see you have come too far to turn back now. It is not a race it is a challenge that you have put on yourself to do better. Just one foot in front of the other my friends and take that first step. My final note and the best advice I can give to anyone trying to do the same thing as I did is pick your head up and look at yourself in the mirror. Take a deep long look and ask yourself "Is this the person I imagine myself to be? Is this the person I want to be seen as from the point of view of the rest of the world?" if it is? Then you are good! If not? well, get to it bud because you are about to change your life to what you want it to be.

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Sincerely your favorite swallow bore coconut,

The_Migrated_Coconut

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