i finally have something to push me to reach my gw and i’m hoping it’s enough to get me there

i’ve been on my weight loss journey since late january, but in my mind i didn’t actually start until early march because i had NO idea what i was doing in the beginning and had all my numbers wrong so i wasn’t getting any progress. since then, i’ve lost 35lbs. i know that’s a good amount of weight and i’m proud of myself for getting this far. but when i started, i wanted to be my goal weight by my birthday. and with my birthday being next month, it would be impossible for me to lose 50lbs by then. the reason i haven’t made more progress than i have is because i haven’t been consistent. i had a really good few months where i stuck to everything really good and was seeing results. i’m not sure why i fell off, but i did. i started bingeing and going over my calorie goals, but one thing im proud of is that i never gave up. i have woken up everyday and decided to try again. im finally starting to actually get back into things. (not just eat good for a few days and then fall back into binging) it feels good. i planned a trip for may of next year and i think that i can reach my goal by then. 50lbs in 8 months? that feels doable to me, but i’m not sure if i’m being overly optimistic. either way, i’m excited to actually be back on my journey and taking it seriously. i’m excited to get as close to my goal as possible before my trip. i think this might be what actually gets me to take this a lot more seriously and see big results. i’m hoping so!

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Hard time believing the scale?

Hello I am having a couple of problems in my journey with weight loss and was wondering if anyone faced these issues.

I started in feb around 359 pounds and now I'm at 254/253/ I have a hard time believing the I am that weight, I put a 20 lb weight on it and the scale says its 20 pounds. I feel like maybe I'm losing the weight too fast or something? I don't know some times it feels too surreal. Did anyone else feel like this?

Also some days when I don't weight my food I get scared that I might over eat since in the past I use to gorge myself. When I started my journey I learned to eat smaller portions. Sometimes I will eat a small-medium portion (I used to eat huge portions in the past and multiple) and I won't get hungry for the rest of the day (unless I stay up late at night) My stomach doesn't feel hungry but if I were to have a little snack all of a sudden it gets hungry. I mean I'm fine with eating small portions (I miss big sizes) but sometimes I worry i'm eating too little. I try putting my deficit to 2100 calories. But some days I will eat very little, and when I see the numbers going up I get very scared. Did anyone else go through this?

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Tips for the low energy bit of weight loss?

So I'm trying to keep under 2250 calories a day and not really doing it well, but also the last few weeks I've felt like shit. Not depressed, but low energy, angry, hollow, just general ennui and hopelessness and it's fucking with my weight loss when I don't want to so much as empty the garbage.

Unfortunately that also means I've been kick-starting my energy for school and life with eating out, fruit, and other treats and consistently going over and gained back some pounds.

Any advice for the blargh part?

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What do you wish you knew when you started?

Hi, I am a personal trainer who is just starting out in the business after completing a post secondary diploma program specifically for personal training. I was very overweight as a child and at the age of 19 decided that needed to change losing over 85 lbs in 9 short months. In this process I realized a passion for health and fitness and decided I wanted to help others similar to myself lose weight, feel better and live healthier lifestyles.

I want to make content on my social media platforms (which I will not provide due to self promotion guidelines) helping people with weight loss. I decided what better way to do so then to ask you on reddit what you wish you had known when you started losing weight? Or even what you still want to know, and what information would help you or others in reaching their goals? I want to provide quality content that people actually want to know about, and will actually help them.

I will try my best to answer any questions in either the replies, or my private messages whenever I have time.

Thanks for your help, and I look forward to hearing your questions!

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Really struggling to not to tie my self worth to my weight as I see the number on the scale creep up

I am having a hard time lately.

I have had success with my weight loss journey thus far. In November 2020, I went to see a doctor to get a general physical on because I hadn't in a very long time (like 10 years) and it was made very clear to me that I had to lose weight. I am 5'0 but I weighed 197 lbs at the time.

My doctor sent me to a nutritionist (or a dietitian, I can't remember) and I tried to make a very conscious effort to track my food and eat actual reasonable portions rather than eating til I felt sick. I probably should credit my psychiatrist as well, who has been very helpful and understanding to my binge eating. That helped me lose some weight at the beginning, but the real progress came from me getting an under-the-desk bike that I could use while at work all day (DeskCycle 2). Five days a week, I am peddling to my heart's content. I was seeing my general physician every three months at that point.

I went from 197 lbs in November of 2020 to 142 lbs in March of 2022.

I last saw my general physician in January and she told me to make an appointment in March for a follow up but she didn't realize her schedule was full and I would not have been able to make a follow up appointment until July 30th. Needless to say, I never made a follow up appointment. Without the "fear" or "desire to gain my physician's approval", I found my weight stagnating for the first time in a year. I knew I would plateau eventually but now I find that the scale is ticking upward and I am upset about it.

I am not upset enough to change my eating habits again, apparently. I am really struggling to remind myself that it is worth it to do better. I see old pictures of myself and I wonder how I got to that point, but then I remember that I gorge myself when I get home from work, completely undoing the days exercise. I obviously know what I need to do, but then I think "well it's been a while since I made homemade macaroni and cheese!" And I get crushed by the weight of my own gluttony.

All this week, I've been teetering between 143-144lbs and honestly it is so crushing. I know that's really a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, but the moment I let my guard down, I could very well be back to 197.

I do still use my lil bike at work, and I'm actively using it for around 300 minutes a day during the work week, Mon-Fri. It's clearly my eating habits that are working against me. I don't know why my means of motivation are slipping. I see 144 on the scale and I'm sent on an emotional tailspin that only food can tame. It's a really destructive cycle.

My goal weight according to my doctor should be around 130 lbs. I have a vacation coming up and I've sworn to myself that I will be better once I return from it (end of next week).

I don't know if I can hold myself to it.

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Binge eating: the harder I try not to, the worse it gets

Anyone else deal with something similar?

I tried dieting this week and i failed miserably. I ate perfectly fine at work and the minute I came home, I binged on whatever I could find and then ate four Crumbl cookies on top of that. Probably ate 4,000 calories today. The same thing happened yesterday.

Is the secret to weight loss NOT keeping track of what you’re eating? Because it seems to me that the more I think about it, the worse I do.

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Exercise *can* DEFINITELY help you *fight* a bad diet

Most people think that going to the gym will solve their weight issues, when they’re already eating too much and then they eat too much based on thinking they burnt like 600 calories during their 45 min treadmill run when it was more like 200 or 250. You can’t eat 3 big ass serving spoonfuls of rice just because you went on the treadmill for half an hour…. These people need to focus on their diet as the thrust, by generally eating healthier or low calorie options. This will allow you to have some fun foods.

However, I’ve noticed personally that in maintaining weight loss and even losing weight, exercise definitely makes a big difference. If i do 10,000-20,000 steps & lifted weights & played basketball for an hour, I DEFINITELY get to eat more food. I look at the exercise as a subsidy. It subsidizes my shitty eating. But you gotta be careful…. Don’t overeat thinking you burned so many calories because you hopped on the treadmill for a bit. But this helps you stay sane and not completely collapse all of your progress after getting tired of your diet. I should mention that the thrust of my general activities is walking and lifting, supplemented with cardio from playing basketball a few times a week.

I also think that being active helps me not eat as many calories, because my mind is preoccupied. Where as if I’m home I’m bored, and therefore more likely to doordash order a bunch of little caesars. And i only got 2,000 steps that day.

Exercise has def helped me maintain my weight loss, by allowing me to eat more than i would be able to without the physical activity, while not gaining weight or as much weight. Being able to drink that extra boba or eat that mochi ice cream or in n out burger & fries helps you stay sane and prevent a collapse of your entire weight loss regimen lol

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