First Post - Somewhere here recommended Happy Scale and it’s a Game Changer!

Compelled to make my first post because Happy Scale has just been changing my life this year. Early January I started using Reddit for real, for the first time, and quickly found my way to r/loseit - I read all of the intro recommendations, read new posts, searched keywords, and totally armed myself.

I think it was in the same thread, someone recommended to another newbie to use Happy Scale for weight tracking and to also watch the British Show “Secret Eaters” (it’s on YouTube) and boy I devoured it! It was wildly motivating because I didn’t have the same problems as these people! Which my little brain meant that I had all the tools I needed and none of the excuses I tried to hide behind.

So thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Beautiful human who took the time. I’m 17 lbs down so far this year and weight loss has been easier and more consistent than anything I’ve tried before. I’ve done a number of maintenance breaks, a vacation, special catered parties, and eating at maintenance has been so much easier than before, practically frictionless and totally intuitive. Something has finally clicked and I couldn’t be happier.

Proof provided! https://imgur.com/a/QzJGpa8

TL:DR: one new app gave me a way to look at my weight graph, changed everything.

submitted by /u/christinemayb
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/JtSYesx

Mental health is making this basically impossible

I've been trying to lose weight for a few years now, but have mostly been stuck around 170 lbs. I had a few points where I was REALLY stressed and gained 10 lbs but lost it fairly quickly, and others where I was able to control myself and went down but then gained it right back. In early 2016 I even managed to lose 20 pounds in a fairly short amount of time, but gained it all back around late 2017/early 2018 and I've been stuck there ever since.

For a while part of the problem was that I work out a lot; I'm a mountain/ultra/trail runner in the summer and a skimo racer in the winter so I do a ton of cardio (peaking around 12-15 hours/week, you can see weekly logs in my history) which can sometimes be counterintuitive to weight loss. Keep in mind, I train because I enjoy these sports, not just for weight loss (wanting to improve my performance has been a good part of my motivation to lose weight).

A few months back I did a brief consultation with a nutrionist to develop a diet plan that enabled me to train at a high volume, run a caloric deficit, and recover/not feel like shit all the time. It actually worked great for a few weeks and I was steadily losing weight at about 1 lb/week. But then my mental health took a nose dive again and I just lacked the willpower to control my eating habits. My job and commute have gotten a lot more stressful in the past couple of months and when I get home from work, the only thing I can bring myself to do is eat large amounts of bread, salty snacks, and cheese.

I had a few points during college where I'd gain a lot of weight because I was horribly depressed and just lacked any control over my eating. Furthermore, I also have a history of just mindlessly eating when I'm not even hungry at all as an avoidant behavior.

It's really weird for me because I'm generally extremely disciplined about my training and willingly get up at 5 or 6 AM to run laps up and down a hill for an hour or two, but when it comes to eating, I have absolutely no self control.

I do think I should see a therapist or even a psychiatrist about this, but my insurance currently makes that impossible. Furthermore, I've had some bad experiences with therapists in the past on this issue; a lot refused to recognize that my eating habits were problematic and they just gave me "oh that's fine, you're not even fat!" Like, uhhh, i'm pretty sure that mindlessly stuffing your face with crackers when you're putting off a homework assignment during an all-nighter is NOT something mentally healthy people do.

submitted by /u/AscensusMontium
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/MJWhT6P

Am moving onto maintenance phase--what do I gift myself?

Title kind of explains it, but I recently hit my goal weight after 7 months of CICO! (SW: 173 lbs CW/GW: 135 lbs, 5'8", 25F) This was a huge journey for me, and I rediscovered my sense of discipline and self-love after a reaaaaaally rocky 2021 where I gained 40 lbs in the span of a few months. My boyfriend told me I should treat myself because of how committed I've been, and I agree. However, I have no idea what to give myself! I'm down to spend a couple hundred bucks because of all the money I saved not hitting the drive-through after work, and I'd like to not have the gift be related to weight loss (like a pedometer or a food scale, etc) because I've already got everything I need there. I also totally recognize that this is a silly ask in the grand scheme of things, but I rarely treat myself to anything and just want to cut loose! What do y'all think? What would you treat yourself with if you were me? Thanks in advance!!

submitted by /u/anothergoddamnwriter
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/Cjo4w8f

How Do I Love Myself/Not Hate My Body During The Process Of Losing?

So, I’ve been doing really great lately. I hate to compliment myself, as I hope it doesn’t get in the way of my commitment to weight loss. I feel different lately, though. After years of eating disorders and lots of bs, Idk. I just feel very on track. I’m viewing things differently. I don’t see my calories as a restriction much at the moment, but more so a healthy boundary/line to stay in so that I can both be healthy and reach a goal. I’m finding ways to stay in my calorie range that don’t feel like I’m not getting what I want. And I just feel happier, lighter, more regimented. All of this can obviously change. There will be good days and bad days, but I see myself very much as walking in the opposite way of what I was doing before. Knowing that it will take me a long time to reach the place I want to be, but at least choosing to walk that way and stay on that path so that I will inevitably get closer to and reach that goal. Like I literally envision myself in the woods, lost, but deciding to turn away from my previous walking path and go down the one that will get me to where I want to be. Hopefully that makes sense and isn’t too schmaltzy lol. It’s helping me, though.

I have 170lbs to lose. I’ve had a rough few years. Lots of life crap. But now things are more stable and I’m working again and I have a stupid little crush on a colleague. I call him sexy voice because his voice is SO sexy. Fck. It’s the only way we interact lol. I don’t know them at all, but even just the crush makes me feel motivated to reach my goal so that I’d be able to know I wasn’t passed up just because of my weight. We’re remote right now and I pray we don’t have to meet in the office or anything before I lose a lot of weight. It’s really stupid. I’m sure they’re married or something haha, but just in case they weren’t, I want to reach my goal for a million reasons, but being able to be comfortable and confident in front of someone I have a crush on is just one of them.

Im proud of myself but I have so far to go. I will not see any real significance until I lose about 100lbs, I’m wagering. Like, that will be when I am much smaller than I am now, even though I’ll have almost another 100 to lose. That’s so crazy to me. And the excess skin haunts me even now, but I’d rather have that then be like I am now. I’d rather have the option of getting my skin chopped off than being this overweight and unhappy in my current body and clothing. For even a second longer.

Im sure most of you who have lost weight know what it’s like when you first are starting out. You feel like you’re doing so much, and then look in the mirror, or step on the scale, or see a picture of yourself. And then you’re smacked by reality. You’re not there yet. And it’s what makes a lot of us stop right when we’re beginning. It’s what’s made me stop for years, but I feel like I’m going to push through that this time. So, how do I deal with this. With having a mindset that I am going to lose this weight and be fit and happy, while I’m not. And knowing it will be that way for a long, long time. How do you stay motivated through that? Love yourself through that?

submitted by /u/EBeewtf
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/nJCzU2y

Don’t have much will or discipline to lose the weight out of fear of loose skin/taking too long

I’m 187 cm, and 322lbs. I was around 290 for a while but gained clearly a lot since January after I got kicked out. Weighed myself yesterday and saw I was 146kg or around 322 lbs. i feel like I want to be around 170/180 but I know I’ll probably have lots of loose skin if I do so…

Most of the reason I wanna lose weight is to be more athletic and also very much so for fashion, even now I’ll buy clothes periodically in size L just because I don’t want to have a bunch of XXL clothes. I’ve been seeing lots of weight loss videos and a lot of the 100+lb loss videos , they have lots of loose skin.

Even with girls and stuff, I would imagine being more fit would help my chances with relationships but having that loose. Skin underneath would likely turn off most. Anyway just ranting, i hate the way I look being so large and needing to lose at least 140ish lbs

submitted by /u/Glad_Knee9462
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/ytnR4bM

What keeps you motivated when you feel you aren't losing weight fast enough?

Longtime lurker, first time poster. 29F|SW:372|CW: 347|GW:170??

I got a bit of a scare at my annual physical back in February where my blood work showed that I was in the pre-diabetes range. I have been overweight all my life, hovering around 250-300 pounds during my teens and early 20's, but have never had any health problems arise from it. With that test result showing me I'm not immune to health problems, I made the conscious decision to actually do what I've been trying to do almost my whole life, lose a significant amount of weight, keep it off and get back in a normal A1C range.

I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while on February 15, 2022, and I was shocked that my weight had ballooned to 372. It's the heaviest I ever weighed. I started counting my calories and stopped getting fast food for lunch at work. I replaced them with meals I get from a local meal prep restaurant and my wife and I started cooking more from home for dinner. I make choices to get up and walk around more and do some exercise here and there. Back in the Fall, I was formally diagnosed with depression and started taking anti-depressants and they have helped me feel more productive. With those things alone, I've managed to lose 25 pounds.

My current frustration is coming from the fact that I have been hovering between 344-347 pounds over the past 3 weeks and it's starting to make me feel discouraged and lose the momentum I had. The negative thoughts of "this is going to end up with you quitting just like you always do" and "i thought this time i could do it for real", Keep circulating and while i haven't given up, it has put me in a pretty bad mood on top of all the crazy stuff going on in the U.S. right now. I want to do this so badly but I'm frustrated with myself for how much I let myself go and gave myself such a long finish line to reach. I don't want to miss out on things in life or have my life negatively altered because of my weight.

I'm pretty much rambling at this point, but I guess my question is what do you when you start to feel discouraged with your weight loss? Especially when there is so much going on in the world right now that all you want to do is stay in bed and eat whatever you feel like.

submitted by /u/International_Hall
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/CzsekIF

Not sure if my coping is healthy or not

Hi,

I'm a 29 y/o female and am trying to lose weight. Like many people, I've spent most of my life "trying to lose weight" in my mind but not really achieving much. This manifested itself by eating low-cal everything, convincing myself I must eat 1200 calories a day (while being 5"9) and repeatedly failing. I was never very big, but not as fit as I wanted to be. (My highest was about 150 lbs, and goal is around 120-125)

In the past year, I've changed my relationship with weight loss quite drastically. First, I began weightlifting and even though the scale hasn't moved much, I could see the difference in my body. A couple months ago I set on a journey to lose some fat, but the window of 1300-1400 calories I've set for myself ended up with me binging quite often (nothing too bad, but enough for me to maintain instead of losing weight).

I did find something that I quite enjoy, however. I really like walking, so I started just walking in 8s around my apartment. It's not the sexiest of cardio types, but I can do it for hours while listening to podcasts I like and it's quite relaxing. I know it's not as efficient as more intense forms of cardio, but I found myself effortlessly sticking to it for about 1-2 hours/day. This helped me increase my calorie intake to around 1600 and avoid binging, while also actually losing weight.

The one place I still struggle with though, is that I have a hard time controlling myself when I eat out. I always find it hard to stop myself from eating that extra pizza slice, etc. I don't see it as a huge deal since it seems reasonable for my body to be uncomfortable in a calorie deficit and want to eat more. I don't get mad at myslef, but I do feel a bit of frustration over the lack of control I feel.

What I did notice though is that I feel like I'm regaining a lot of this control by walking for, let's say, an extra half hour on the days this happens. This is setting some ED alarms in my mind since it makes me feel like I'm "punishing" myself for extra food, which seems like a big no-no. But it doesn't feel like that to me. It genuinely feels empowering, like I'm taking back control over my own body. I know it doesn't make up for the calories I ate, but it doesn't really matter a whole lot -- it just makes me happy not to feel entirely helpless.

I would really like some outside perspective on this, though. Do you feel like any "compensation" for extra food with cardio is unhealthy, or could what I'm doing actually be good for me if I make sure to keep checking that my brain doesn't it like a punishment?

EDIT: Just to clarify, the weight goal is extremely arbitrary. I'm focusing much more on how I look and feel, plus my fat%. I'm currently around 22% fat, but I would like to hit around 18%. It might mean that I would put on some extra muscle and stay the same weight, I don't mind that. I know this might not be sustainable for my whole life, and I'm okay with that, but as long as I have free time and the mental capacity, I would like to stay within the "athletic" range.

submitted by /u/BlazeTurtle93
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/UlvryJ0