I have no jeans to wear and I love it!!!

I started my weight loss at 235lbs, 5’4” 58 female. I’m now still 5’4” but 61 and 168lbs!

I have nothing to wear, all my jeans are too big, yoga pants too long and sweat pants just slide off me. My tops engulf me, my knickers bag around my bum and my bras gape at the top, I could not be happier.

Not stopping yet, my goal is 150.

I didn’t start actively CICO until August 2021. It’s the first time I’ve ever made an effort to lose weight. I’ve been slim most of my life but age and menopause caught up.

I’ve had both knees replaced. Prior to that I was in a lot of pain all the time. Just sat around and drank too much.

I’m going to buy some new jeans today and couple of tops.

This isn’t the best day of my life but it’s really up there!!

Keep on keeping in people ❤️

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Milestones are a funny thing

I (30/F/5’7) have lost and gained the same 60 pounds my whole life, depending on how depressed I was at the time.

I thought I lost it for the last time in 2019 after ending a bad relationship… then 2020, new bad relationship, pregnancy, and then COVID, I gained it all back and then some.

In 2014 (in a skinny mode I thought would be permanent) I had a breast reduction, which was one of the best decisions I ever made. My breasts have always been disproportionately large and hurt my back.

I discovered my love of the gym in 2018 which helped my weight loss, so I got extra fucked over when Covid shut all the gyms and broke all the good habits I had built. I ballooned up to 215 (a new high) and lost all my muscle gains.

2022 brought new jobs, ending my bad relationship, and a wonderful rediscovery as my identity as a single woman. I have been happier now than I have possibly ever been. I’ve been working out since March, and have gone from a size 16, to size 10/12. My scale has been plateuing at 202 pounds for the past 6 weeks, which is incredibly frustrating because I’m stuck sooo close to a milestone number. I’m pretty sure it’s because I lift weights pretty hard, my single leg press weight is 240, so I think I have probably lost more than 20 lbs of fat and put on quite a bit of muscle as I continue to lift heavier and heavier. But of course I care about the number. Not just for the mental morale boost, but because I am eager for my frame to carry less weight, my feet (high arches), really hurt when I walk barefoot, and I want less pressure on my knees so that I can run outdoors without worrying about impact stress on my joints. So it’s a little frustrating. Instead I am making efforts to notice other markers of weight loss and gainz to keep my motivation up. Earlier in the week I noticed that my lower half is shaping up nicely, but more importantly this morning, I realized that half of the bras I bought when I hit 215 are too big!!! I am so glad because obviously it’s less weight on my back and gravity is nobodies friend, so it’s such a releif physically seeing the difference and fitting back into some of my skinny clothes. I know that if I wasn’t paying attention these things would be easy to miss and I could despair at ‘lack of progress’, so I hope others take note of this hopefully know what other things to look out for. Really excited to continue on my journey, and I know that breaking the 200 number is just around the corner anyway!

Anyway just wanted to share my good news!

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Realistically, can I lose 50 lbs without tracking calories?

I (21F, 5’7”, 200 lb) want to lose 50lb in the next 6-8 months, but I struggle with tracking on MyFitnessPal.

I typically track breakfast in my head, but by the time lunch (leftovers) and dinner (my parents’ cooking) roll around, I’ve lost control of the total. I’m not interested in weighing my food and becoming obsessive about it, but I think, “if I can’t measure every calorie exactly, why bother trying?”

I lost 30 lbs from Sept-April without tracking, but I tend to eat less and get more exercise when I’m away from home.

Any advise for weight loss without tracking calories? Especially when you fall into your teenage, lazy mindset while at home?

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Time to recommit (35M)

Back in 2020 I lost 55 pounds. I went from 305 to 250. It was the best I had felt since my college years and I was starting to get attention from a lot of people complimenting my weight loss.

In 2021 I gained 30 of it back and I’ve been sitting at 280 for almost a year now. It was a rough year for me emotionally and filled with depressive episodes and life altering events. I was ashamed of myself for letting my weight get out of control again.

A couple months ago I met a woman and things were going well at first. Eventually we had sex, and in the moment I could tell that she was uncomfortable with my “roundness”. I’ll admit she was a little out of my league and soon after that she started becoming disinterested. It wasn’t long until she gave me the “it’s not you, it’s me” schpeel and a couple weeks later she was all over social media with a dude that pretty much looks like Thor.

This time I didn’t get depressed. I got angry and began focusing on putting my health first. I know it seems wrong to want to lose weight due to being rejected, but mentally I can’t deal with that shit. Ultimately I’m doing this for my health and not a woman, but this needs to be one less excuse for someone not seeing my full potential. I’m sick of the rejection because I’m fat.

These past couple weeks I’ve been eating clean and I’m back in the gym. I’m already back down to 270 and I’m not stopping this time.

Fuck being fat.

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Negativity on Weight Loss Journey

Over the last few weeks my mother has made comments regarding my being over weight. She comments on the nature of my workouts and me not losing weight. She literally keeps telling me to go to a doctor because something’s wrong. Well I had it last night when she told me that I need to keep myself presentable. She also insinuated my husbands going to start being interested in other people if I don’t get it together. It’s like knocking someone when they are down. Why? It was just so hurtful to me. I’m trying daily and this doesn’t help. How did you deal with the negativity? Please give me tips because I’m still upset.

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I'm a healthy weight, is it bad that I want to lose more?

I'm a 22f, 5ft8, SW:~75kg? CW: 70kg GW: 60kg?

TW: brief ED mention?

hello! this is my first ever post so I hope that this is okay & some of you lovely people can maybe help - I'm sorry it's a bit long!

So, I started running around 8 months ago (I completed C25k in January!) and I've been running 3 times a week since then. I've never been a sporty person (in fact very much the opposite) but I've noticed a big improvement in my mental health - which is why I began running in the first place. I never intended to lose weight but I found myself doing so anyway (without consciously changing my diet or lifestyle in any way, apart from the running). I don't weigh myself regularly (nor do we even have scales in the house) so the only reason I know this is because my clothes started fitting a bit looser, I went down a cup size and friends and family mentioned that I looked slimmer.

Growing up, I never had a particularly positive relationship with my body. This was due to a few different things (I can go into more detail in the comments about the 30h mommy milkers I grew when I was 14 - and many other factors - if required) and it took me up until a few years ago to get to a point where I stopped actively hating my body. I was a uk size 12/14 and liked the way I looked and I feel like I had a really healthy mindset surrounding my weight; it wasn't something I often thought about and I didn't feel like I needed, or wanted, to change anything about my body. I was happy how I was.

However recently, having lost weight, I feel like my attitude has changed. For a while, I was so determined not to acknowledge that I'd lost weight or even entertain the idea of being 'proud of myself' because for me, celebrating that I'd lost weight, also meant being scared to put that weight back on. And that's how I feel at the moment. I've somehow gone from being so indifferent to my unintentional weight loss to becoming aware of my body and the food that I put in it in a way I never was before and I don't know if this is a good thing or not. I honestly LOVE that I've gone down a cup size though and I want to continue losing weight, if only to see if I can go down another few cup sizes. So, last week, I calculated my TDEE online and I'm currently using the MyFitnessPal app to track my caloric intake and I've not had to massively change what, or how much, to stick to my recommended 500 calorie per day deficit to lose weight. I'm not setting unrealistic goals for myself or eating below 1200cal but I'm still worried that this isn't the healthiest mindset to have?

I want to be kind to myself and I don't want to set myself up for potential problems with disordered thinking and eating down the road. I know myself and how obsessive I can get about things like this and I'm not sure I trust myself to maintain a healthy mindset around losing weight. I already feel like I care about this way too much, but I'm not sure I can go back to being as indifferent about my size as I used to be.

Has anyone here felt like this before? or had any of the same concerns during their weight loss journey? Does anyone have any advice?

I think I maybe just need someone to tell me that it's okay for me to want to lose weight. Or if I've developed an unhealthy way of thinking then please tell me that too - and I'll try my best to change it. It's veeerryy likely that I'm massively overthinking this - so if that is the case, then I'm sorry for the time you spent reading this that you'll never get back.

Thanks in advance guys x

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How to start without going overboard? *warning, ED mention

Hi community, hoping to get some advice/motivation in a tricky situation. I (30F) spent most of my life fit, around 130 pounds or less at 5,5”. I have an athletic build and was fairly active until about 25/26 ish when I had surgery on my foot/calf. I also have a prior hip surgery on the same leg so it’s safe to say that while I can be active I get sore quickly. I competed in a weight-based sport in high school that easily led to me becoming obsessed with losing/maintaining pounds. At around 21 I started having anorexic tendencies that developed into full-blown bulimia by 22. I dropped to about 117 pounds at my worst but worked hard to kick the habit (mostly) over the next 1.5 years. I still have a random bad day, maybe once every two months. I returned to my 130 pound normal.

Then at 26 my Dad died. I’ve worked the entirety of COVID as a frontline worker at a hospital and the last 3 years have had a lot of stress and depression. I slowly and steadily packed on weight with marijuana-induced munchies as a big contributor. I stopped playing rec sports with pandemic and stopped running after my surgeries. I sit around 157 but totally depends on my water weight and my (lack-of) bowel movements. Now, at 30, I feel in a much better place with a much better headspace and am ready to start a healthy and safe weight loss journey. I know I’m not obese but I can feel the extra weight and it is limiting my fun activities as I have more trouble not getting winded/fatigued. My worry is how to not go 110% into exercise and diet and counting calories because that can tumble back to obsessive tendencies easily. When I get afraid of that though I can’t seem to find motivation to even step a toe forward.

One goal I have is to force myself to walk during my lunch breaks as we have nice paths around the hospital. I’ve also thought about looking at Zumba classes or something as group fitness is much more appealing to me and I did my time with Olympic lifting/circuit workouts in college sports. I’m not focusing on the number on the scale but rather how I feel and how my clothes fit me (most have become tight or unwearable).

I’m not sure what all I’m asking, maybe just an encouraging word or something that helped you start. I never thought about weight in a healthy way so it’s a little scary to start. Thanks all.

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