how do i know what is a healthy rate to lose

About a year ago i lost 80 pounds from being very overweight to still overweight. I kind of stayed around the same for a while again until again I started to put my mind to it.

My question is that even accounting for possible water weight loss, im losing a lot more that i was last time, anywhere from 1-2 a day consistently. I heard the heavier you are you can lose more but is this okay?

I don't feel tired or weak or anything. I feel better and better everyday, but obviously that is short term amd don't want to negatively affect myself long term.

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Thank you community of loseit!

Stats 28F SW84kgs CW78kgs GW?

I have an overall goal to lose 10kgs/22lbs this year, and found this community in January. It's such a wealth of knowledge, tips, successes and wisdom, and today when I was struggling with myself to hit the gym I thought back to this place, all the stories I read. One thing that stuck with me was to begin today, not next week like my procrastinating brain was telling me. I felt like I wasn't struggling alone, weight loss is hard but there are so many people out there trying and on this same journey. It sounds weird to write that lol but I was just so inspired in that moment to go to the gym anyway even though my dumb brain was arguing against me. So thank you, people of loseit. I hope you all keep on losing toward your goals too :)

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At 42 I’m today no longer obese!

So I’ve been obese for most of my life, since I was 14 and it wasn’t until my daughter came along two years ago when I finally had to change.

15 months ago I weighed 365lbs/ 165kg and today I’m 180lbs/ 81kg. In this time I’ve been losing around 1kg a week, a little more at the start and a little less towards the end. And I’ve been able to lose 185lbs/ 84kg, over half of my weight!

My trigger point for losing the weight was struggling walking in my living room getting my 1 year old to sleep. I didn’t have the strength to carry her without being exhausted. That was when I knew I had to change.

I managed a CICO diet, making sure to not drop below my BMR. I would have one “cheat” meal a week which was just 200-300 more calories in a day, which can help with maintaining weight loss for extended periods when compared to static daily calorie intake.

6 months into my weight loss I started walking and a month later I started going to the gym for weight lifting daily. My weight lifting has improved but mainly as much weight as I’ve lost.

I even picked up some contact lenses and shaved my beard. I’ve walked past people I know in the street and they don’t even recognise me. I really am a changed man.

I didn’t know it would be possible to lose the weight in my 40s. I thought you had to do it before 30, but it’s 100% possible. I’ve never felt this great in my life, it has truly changed my life around more than I could have imagined.

If you’re starting your weight loss journey, I hope you stick with it and keep on managing it. Some days it feels pointless and others it feels like nothing will change, but it does and it will, you just need a little persistence and patience.

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How do you not fixate on losing weight while trying to lose weight?

I've been trying to lose weight for years and one thing I always notice is how obsessive I get when I start. I go extreme, over do it, and give up in the end because it's taking too much energy. How do you distract yourself? Right now, I'm fasting intermittently and controlling my portions. I feel good so far. It's just my third day this time around so it's no surprise. But I've scoured the internet for advice, read success stories. Everything. I just want to focus on the doing part of weight loss and not think about it so much.

What do you do to occupy/distract yourself?

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Visited my parents after not seeing them for 4 years - already had our first weight related fight. My mom told me to lose weight if I loved my boyfriend

So I posted a while back about my concern about visiting my parents (specifically my mother) and then commenting about my weight. I took everyone’s advice and told her respectfully I’m visiting to spend time with them, I don’t want to have conversations about my weight. I struggle with unhealthy weight loss habits and it’s triggered a lot by my mother. She means well (supposedly), but also comes from this culture of needing to weigh 105 lbs to be beautiful.

I’ve been trying to lose weight for myself - but been working on it in a HEALTHY way. Working with a nutritionist, eating enough calories, and I’ve gone from 181 to 175 (losing about a pound or so a week). I’m trying to love myself regardless of my size and I’m trying to lose weight not out of dislike for myself, but love for myself and my health.

For the first two days we did great, I was so happy. She was respecting my wishes and boundaries. Recently she sits down with me and asks me “you love your boyfriend, right?” … I was like uh, yeah?

So she responds with “then you need to close your mouth and eat less”

I’m sorry what??? My response was shutting her down. Her response was that I don’t listen to her. she then tried to guilt me into this whole “oh I’m sorry I care about you, wow it’s my fault, you’re right, I’m wrong”. I then told her that she was right, she IS wrong - and that I wasn’t playing her crappy mind games anymore.

Needless to say I lost my shit. My boyfriend has never ever ever made me feel less than for putting on weight, he’s never been anything but supportive but it’s very heartbreaking to know that my own mother wouldn’t deem me worthy of someone else’s affection and love because of weight gain. I’ve worked so hard on building myself back up - I’m not going to allow anyone to tear me back down.

To all the people struggling with people like this in your life, I am so sorry. You are beautiful, worthy, and amazing no matter what. Don’t give up!!!!

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I want to start a weight loss journey but I’m not sure how (discussion/help)

I’m 18 F, 5’3, and I’m about 200 pounds. Every year I gradually gain weight and for the longest time I’ve felt very self conscious about my body and how I look. I want to lose weight but I’m not sure how or where to start.

At the start of the year I had gotten a membership with the YMCA but I always felt very uncomfortable going. I just felt so fat and everyone in this gym was already skinny/ muscular. This gym was also by my school so it made it even more uncomfortable when I saw girls from school because they would stare at me and I felt very judged. I would go work out,lose about 5 lbs, but then gain it back in a week. Eventually my aunt had to cancel our membership because it was too expensive.

I’ve thought about how I can lose weight and I thought about something I could do but I wanted to come here to see if it would be safe to do. I would have to drink more water than normal, no sodas and less sugar (candy,ice cream, etc). I like to walk and I have a pretty long driveway. I thought about walking for an hour with a little bit of jogging. I also thought of doing sets of workouts every hour or every few hours.

So for example I could make up a list of 10 squats, 10 jumping jacks, 10 push ups, then do those sets of workouts every 2 or 4 hours. I want to do workouts that will help me burn fat but I’m not certain what will help that doesn’t require gym equipment. If anyone could give me advice on workouts and how to go on this weight loss journey it would be very appreciated.

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Has anyone dealt with unintentional weight loss after trying to lose? And mixed feelings?

I was trying to lose weight for a couple of months. I lost maybe four pounds because I couldn't stay consistent. Then I started a new (very stressful) job and I completely lost sight of any weight loss goals and stopped paying any attention to what I was eating (more on this later). Then I went to the doctor after a couple months at this new job and the nurse was briefly concerned because I had lost like 17lbs without trying to. That's not a crazy amount to lose in that time period, I know, but considering I had been steadily gaining for the last six years? Kinda significant.

Could just be that I'm moving my body more. But it could be stress. I've been taking notice of my eating habits more lately and realizing I eat 1-2 meals on days I work, and these meals are not bigger to compensate for the meal or two I'm missing every day. I'm not starving myself; I always eat when hungry, and it's usually shitty, fatty food. I genuinely just don't get hungry much anymore.

And then, recently, I messed up my jaw. I know I'm grinding my teeth and clenching my jaw a lot lately from stress, and my disordered TMJ finally gave up, gave out, and made eating significantly painful 100% of the time. My issue isn't one that can be treated without surgery so I'm stuck like this for a bit. Sometimes the pain just isn't worth it and I give up on a meal after a couple of bites. I will grab a protein drink or something to substitute only some of the time.

So I'm losing weight. I can't be mad about that. I'm officially back in the "overweight" category for BMI instead of obese and this is exciting. But I'm not super well. My hair seems to be falling out more, my abdomen hurts, I'm tired and miserable. This isn't sustainable. I'm not building lifelong habits that will keep me healthy. I feel guilty.

And then I have already gotten one comment (from my mom) about the weight loss and so I've already had the experience of wondering why Sick/Stressed Me looks better than Normal Me.

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