On a weight loss journey (again)

I’m 5’11 285lbs. I’m no stranger to weight loss, as in 2016 I went from 240 to 178 in the span of about 4 months. Since then I’ve put on over 100 pounds and struggled yearly to reach that weight again, I felt my best at that weight. I’ve tried many times and many times I’ve failed. So tired of giving up. My mindset back in 2016 was I wanted to see my body at its full potential and boy was it. Sex life was amazing, penis was about 1 inch longer no joke. It was huge. Now with the extra weight, my gf of almost 10 years still enjoys the intimacy but I know I’m just to heavy to give her my 100%. I am set on reaching my goal of 180 again no matter what I really want someone to join me on this journey to make the suffering of weight loss all the much easier. Let’s be real here, it’s 90% healthy eating habits/mind control and 10% exercise. There is only one way to lose weight and that’s the hard way I don’t care what anyone says. Let’s get it ladies and gents

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Tips for getting back on track without feeling terrible mentally/depression & dieting?

Hey there! I’ve posted on here before about my weight loss journey, and have been struggling for the last couple of months. I basically fell completely off track with dieting. I have gained at least 3lbs (fluctuates daily obviously).

Last week I decided I needed to get back on track to reach my goal weight, but was suddenly hit by a depressive spell (I am seeking therapy soon) that made the weight loss efforts very self-destructive and also pointless because my willpower ended up being zero at the end of most days.

Now my mind has cleared and I am ready to hopefully get into it in a healthy, happier way tomorrow. However I’d really love if anyone has any tips regarding

-how to feel less guilty about falling off track for a few months -how to actually get your weight loss habits back after being in a fed state for so long -dealing with depression/burnout while trying to lose weight.

Thanks in advance, I’d really just love to hear others experiences, it’s helpful:)

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Encouragement for the guys...

The most important thing that comes out of your weight loss is being healthy and happy. All of those pictures of the "ideal" male form or what women/men find "most attractive" are total BS. I'm a writer and I looked up "normal looking guys" for a character description and it broke my damn heart. Almost every pic was related to an article of how you're 'supposed' to look. Pages and pages of jaws that can cut glass and washboard abs that could shred cheese. It was absolutely absurd and unrealistic. Being healthy and happy is what makes a big difference in attractiveness. Don't let unrealistic standards get in your way.

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NSV: Giving Away Clothes

I still have a long way to go in my weight loss journey, but today I went through my entire dresser and my entire closet. I tried on everything. Things that fit went back from whence they came. Things that didn't fit went into one of two piles: 1) give away or 2) save because I love it. The piles were about the same size. The clothes that are too small that I love went into a box in the garage. I posted the giveaway clothes online and gave them away free.

The victory? Some of the clothes were too big!!!

I'm trying to lose weight postpartum. I gained a little while we were trying to conceive and a lot during pregnancy. After the baby came, I lost about 30 pounds rapidly without effort, but then I stalled. My maternity clothes were too big and all got packed away, so I wasn't wearing maternity anymore, but my clothes were still big. I'm bigger than I want to be. I'm still overweight (BMI 29.2 today) and want to get back to the healthy range. I've only lost about 5 pounds since I stalled, but I'm improving enough that I was able to give away some clothes that were too big and aren't maternity. It wasn't a lot, but it was something.

And now my dresser and my closet feel roomy!

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Under 200 for the first time in years!

Like many people I (M, 36, 5'11) put on a bunch of weight during Covid. My wife and I had our first kid in 2020 and I was stuck in a terrible job that left me constantly stressed and sleep deprived. I have never been super fit, but since college (when I was around 175) I've fluctuated in the 180-200 range. Over the course of 2020 and 2021 my weight just ballooned up to a max of around 230, by far the heaviest I've ever been. I basically did nothing for 2021 and the first half of 2022, fluctuating in the 220-230 range before getting serious about getting back in shape around August of this year. I clocked in this morning at 199, the first time seeing a 1 at the front of the scale since 2020.

What finally worked for me was getting into an exercise program I liked (I started boxing), everything else seems to have flowed from that. Even though most of the actual weight loss has come from diet, it's the exercising that's making it easier to eat better. I'm finding myself making smarter/healthier choices not because I'm trying to lose weight (though I am), but because I know that I'll feel way better for my next boxing class if I'm eating well vs if I'm slamming down junk. Hard to put in my all in a class if I was drinking the night before or if I was pigging out on junk food, but if I am eating right I feel so much better in class. The boxing itself is also helping, I feel way fitter and stronger.

Still quite a ways to go (I'd love to be back at my college weight before my birthday in early 2023) but I wanted to take a minute and enjoy this mini milestone.

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Why is it so difficult?

I feel like I’ve tried everything, which would be an exaggerating but I’ve been from weight loss programs and saw success; which lead to gaining all the weight back plus more. I’ve done meal replacement shakes and everything else i can think of. I’m this close to going back to these restrictive diet plans in order to reach my goal, only because I don’t know if I can do it on my own. I don’t know how to get in a calorie deficit or what’s required to keep the motivation going throughout the weight loss journey. I’ve bought endless cookbooks for weight loss but I still find it difficult to accomplish, I attempted to do keto and I don’t understand the basics of keto because it seems too complicated to understand

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Calorie counting as main method for weight loss

For those who use CICO as their main method to lose weight (i.e. they don’t do much exercise and rely on eating foods to maintain a somewhat substantial caloric deficit), how many months did you reap the benefits of this for? How many months until you plateaued? I’m a female in my early twenties with a somewhat active job on my feet for 12+ hours a day 4 days a week and generally use walking as my main form of transport. Aside from this I don’t really exercise but am seeing results on the scale just by restricting my calories. My main concern is that this method won’t help with my weight loss journey for more than a few months and I’ll eventually have to adapt to a new system that works for me (which is hard lol)

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