From January to March I did so well. Staying on calorie deficit and no binge eating. Then I traveled for a month & it went south. Then I had an appointment for weight loss surgery. After trying the very restrictive diet I keep binging & after more research I’ve decided to do weight loss without surgery. My stats are CW 475 height 5’10” and 32 year old female. I recently joined a gym. I’m feeling overwhelmed to start again.
Hello everyone! I'm a little bit concerned about the amount of minors I've seen lately posting about weight loss. Most of them are posting aggressive/restrictive/ED plans or regiments, or are just making generally worrying posts. I know this community is for everyone, but I feel like the posts from 12-16 year olds are often along the lines of "I want to lose an extreme amount of weight in a tiny amount of time and I'm eating under 1,200 calories per day." I know a lot of teens have to lose weight too (I was an overweight teen!!!) but a lot of the discourse on this sub could be dangerous for someone with a developing brain and body. Is there anything we can do about all of these posts? I can't be the only one who's worried about them. Maybe if we had a pinned post for resources or info for teenagers specifically, or a specific flair for minors? I feel like people often comment with the same advice every time (you're growing, this is dangerous, etc) and are supportive of these young people, while still trying to caution them and keep them safe. But so often I see people commenting and somehow not realizing that the OP is a teenager, and they'll be telling OP to do something that could be dangerous for them, which is why a flair for minors could be helpful. I'm not even really sure what the purpose of this post is, other than to express concern for this phenomenon. Anyone have any thoughts?
M, 22, 5'11, 185lbs from 335lbs, 150lbs lost
My journey is pretty much entirely documented in my account history as I've used this account solely for my journey pretty much from the very beginning, but to sum things up all this weight loss is largely from the past year and half. No special diets, no cleanses, no surgery, just plain CICO, exercise, and discipline.
I still want to lose roughly 30-40lbs~, tummy-tuck and possibly leg-plasty(?) are on my to-do list (lose skin sux 🙃), but I'm extremely happy with where I'm at! I feel I owe a lot to this sub for helping me through my various rough patches, and I look forward to the day where I make my final post on here. :)
Hi Reddit! Two years ago, I lost 80 pounds by restricting much lower than I should’ve been; after seeing fast results, I got fixated with numbers and would work off most of the 1000ish calories I was consuming a day
Naturally, I gained back 35 pounds when I focused on my mental health, but I honestly don’t mind because mentally, I’m the best I’ve ever been :) however, I am now 15 pounds overweight, and it can make me feel a little sluggish or uncomfortable at times (especially at the gym). Is there any way to lose weight effectively without fasting or calories in-calories out? I haven’t been able to find an alternative that works effectively since, but ideally, I don’t want to revisit a “numbers” mindset. Thank you!
Hello, I am a 23 year old college female , 5’0 ft and I weight around 64 kilos ( 141 pounds). My weight is definitely my biggest insecurity now ( it used to be my acne but I worked through that with skincare and feel confident in it now). My weight makes me feel ashamed to go out and socialize in college and I can’t wear the kind of clothes that I want to. I have a plan to get to 50kg by November so I hope to lose 14 kilos or 30 pounds by then. I want to do this sustainably and in a way that will be healthy. I have a few questions for people on this sub: 1. I hope to change my eating habits and cravings. My unhealthy routine involved usually skipping breakfast, not liking much of what I had For lunch and then ordering something very heavy in carbs and calories around dinner time and then laying around. What would you recommend to counter this? I plan to deal with cravings by allowing myself small amounts of say chocolate or a few bites of a burger every now and then. 2. I want to get active again. I used to run on the treadmill and jump rope. What other exercises could I look into to get more toned? 3. I hope to lose around a pound every week. Would you consider this too extreme?
Give me the best advice that has helped you get off and keep off the weight.
Thank you
Years of bad habits can't be fixed in a week. It's common sense, especially on this subreddit.
However, I see it a lot... the same narrative I went through. You cut your calories to 1000 when the calculations show that based on your BMR you should be consuming a minimum of 1200. The motivation you feel on monday might get you through the week, but by Sunday you are going to feel it waning as you stare longingly at the food truck across the street as you simultaneously gag down your green smoothie for the day. You've always hated them, but they are "healthy" and you need to fast track this whole diet thing, and it's easy to pick up at the grocery store.
"i'll just get used to this" you tell yourself. You head home tired and sore and reluctantly get yourself together for the third spin class this week. You remember to bring electrolytes this time because you felt a little bit faint the last time. You scoff at yourself a bit, what a wimp I am. But as you are in the midst of Kaylee's psycho 90 minute cardio class you start to think... Geez this whole lifestyle change thing sucks. It hurts my body, and it is kinda tasteless and unappealing. You start asking yourself questions; Do i really want to be thin for the beach this summer? Is it really worth it to be off this blood pressure medication? Is it really THAT bad to have joint issues at 32?
By the time you drag yourself home you feel defeated and empty. You stare at the vegan salad you bought in the fridge with disgust and then eyeball the pizza menu tucked up the side of the microwave.
You decide that its worth it to "cheat" a little bit. So you order up a large pizza and those first few bites are glorious and cheesy and stringy. It should be no surprise as you've just spent the past week eating nothing but flax and spinach leaves as well as trying to keep up with the psychos in your spin class.
You are basically malnourished at this point, but you don't realize it... or maybe you refuse to accept it.
You slowly slip further off the wagon, and the scale goes from being your friend to your mortal enemy. 2 weeks later you step on it again and discover all that water weight you lost appears to be back on your body, and then some.
You sigh, and the feeling of failure creeps in. You just can't hack it, this whole weight loss thing. Maybe you'll try again in a month.... and in fact, you do... and once again you rush headfirst into it... perhaps even harder and more aggressively than before.
See the problem?
Often when we have an "all or nothing" mindset we are behaving like a demeaning and controlling parent to ourselves. You are observing and punishing yourself for every little wrong move you make. You put yourself on a ridiculous, high pressure schedule because you need to "pay" for the bad choices you've made. At company lunches you tell yourself to enjoy looking at the food, but you can't touch it because you aren't ALLOWED to eat that, you CAN'T HAVE sugar. You push yourself to extremes on the treadmill because "this is the consequence of all those bad choices you made, so deal with it you wimp".
Can you imagine if your own self talk was a person? You'd hate them so much.
This is often how we talk to ourselves as we try to migrate into better habits and choices. There is no room for love in that "all or nothing" mentality. There's no opportunity for us to look ourselves in the mirror, and see that wonderful, miraculous vessel of a body that we have been responsible for our whole lives. There is no room for appreciating just how much it deserves to be fed well, and cared for, and handled gently.
Try to see that inner child again, that vulnerable part of yourself that feels afraid to fail, and get to know youself again so that you can listen carefully to all your own insecurities, hold your own hand, and thoughtfully think of solutions to make yourself feel good again. When you start there, the idea of a finish line begins to fade away and eventually disappear... because the idea of there being an end goal was always an illusion to begin with.
I mean, the point was always to give yourself a better life... right? Not to simply bully and bruise yourself into getting to the end, where you'll just hate yourself as much as when you started.
Today the scales hit 90kg (198lbs), which puts me at 27kg (59.5lbs) lost total and 10kg (22lbs) since the start of this year.
I've been doing CICO with some strength exercises since end of August last year. I did an update post few months ago with more details.
I weigh myself daily. Partially cause I'm impatient and also because it helps me see that there are normal variations, so just cause I was up one day doesn't mean I'm not losing anything.
But recently I may have fallen into focusing just on the most recent measurements and how my weight loss has been kind of slow over the last month (until like last 3 days).
The dots on the charts are actual weight measurements, the line is a calculated trend. So while the trend is going down, the measurements felt like they were stuck around the same values.
But then I was looking at the stats and noticed the 10kg total for this year and remembered I really should zoom out more and see how much progress I've been making.
Even if things are slow sometimes need to remember I'm still losing and making progress.
Now I just need to convince my brain that I also look different cause it still refuses to see it; But logically there is no way I lost this much weight and look no different.
