Starting this process again with a focus on happiness and quality over life rather than perfection

Finding my way back to this sub as I think once again about losing weight. I’m a 25F at 5’9” with SW of 250 and a CW of 247.

I have gained and lost weight many times over the past 5 years (started gaining after going to college, was a high school athlete), but am back now at one of my highest weights ever. If I’m honest with myself, my most “successful” runs at weight loss have been through self punishment, self hate, and disordered eating which was never sustainable. Then, I went through some very difficult family trauma last year, along with leaving college and being in a demanding sedentary job, which has got me up to this high weight that I have maintained for about 12 months

In the 12 months I’ve maintained (which is a positive, at least I didnt keep gaining), I started therapy, got on an anxiety med, moved into an apartment I love, and have been generally working on myself. My health is thankfully good though my doc wants me smaller.

Now that I am through a busy season at work, I have a craving to just work on living a better life, and part of that is weight loss. But this time, I don’t want to weigh myself every single day, obsess over every single calorie, or starve myself. I want to be happy and focus on things that make me feel good and focus on living a good life in the hopes that weight loss comes with it over time.

Eating home cooked meals with a focus on vegetables and whole foods, with some calorie counted treats and yummy additions makes me feel good. Eating 1100 a day and crying over a tbsp of butter makes me feel bad. Going on a walk around my neighborhood feels good. Forcing myself to run when I hate it is bad. Spending a Saturday out and about at a museum or the farmers market or with a friend feels good. Staying in because I hate how my body looks in that shirt and I need to isolate to have the time to count every calorie to perfection feels bad.

So, I am going to focus on joy. Sometimes that may not be the quickest route to getting skinny as fast as possible. Maybe that means my realistic goal weight is 170-180 rather than my high school weight of 150. Maybe some days I skip the exercise to focus on a new book I’m stoked about or maybe I eat at maintenance today because my friend wants to check out a new ice cream spot. But I also practice self love by healing my tendency to binge, rewarding myself with things other than food, and weighing myself every couple weeks to stay on track. I think this is a way for me to work towards living a life where I am happy, healthy, and yes smaller, but at a level where I am at peace. I want to built habits I can sustain for a life I am excited to live

Feel free to share your story or any tips, encouragement or ideas!!

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depressed

i was 94 kilos this time last year

i lost 10 kilos this year and have gained it all back, some due to inactivity from injury, some for diabetes issues causing constant hunger.

am so depressed.

I feel helpless and hate the way i look

i guess the only way forward for me is to just do walking every now and then and try and lose weight that way.

Since that seems to be the only exercise i can do without causing injuries that set me back.

I hate this so much i am so depressed about it.

Can anyone tell me also because i need to track weight loss to see see if my diet is working

Do you count the morning weight loss or the weight during the day?

I have gone up two sizes in clothing and that is generally how i tend to evaluate my weight loss.

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STOP DMING ME TO SELL YOUR WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS OR FITNESS TRAINER PACKAGES OR TRY TO STOP MAKING ME LOSE WEIGHT BECAUSE YOU FANTASIZE ABOUT OBESE WOMEN JUST STOP DMING ME

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wanting to lose weight and appear more toned

okay this might be more complicated than the title implies but i'm not really sure where else to ask these questions. Here's the thing I'm a competitive grappling athlete and i've decided to cut a little weight for some competitions i have coming up I've been on a bit of a weight loss journey for about 1.5 months now and i'm close to the weight i need to be at for competition i'm not worried about that. so far I've lost about 6 lbs by simply increasing cardio and ensuring i'm eating enough protein. CW is 133.2 ( im also 5'2") here's the thing though I am happy to cut a little bit to make a competition weight and give myself an advantage, but personally i would rlly love to see myself w a lower body fat percentage and just generally at a lower weight ( in my head that's around 122-125) i suppose im just nervous that if i achieve that weight i won't be able to maintain it and some of the muscle i've built over the past 2 years. (side note it is typically hard for me to lose weight and bf but no problem for me to gain muscle so i just look kinda big for my size most of the time which is rlly why i want to go down in weight and size) i realize i'm kind of rampblng but i suppose what i really want to know is has anyone who has a similar body type ig done this and been able to maintain their goal weight once achieved ?

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Day 4 of Losing Weight

Hey guys! 3 days ago I posted as my day 1 accountability post. I was 285 and I’ve really been working on myself. However today I learned I have minor scoliosis and back arthritis which is the cause of my back pain.

Hoewever, with yesterday being Halloween, I usually buy a bunch of chocolate and sour candies for ‘trick or treaters’ and then eat it all throughout the night. And although I did buy a huge bag of candy (500 dum dums from Costco) and we got a handful of candy from our neighbors after taking our 1yo trick or treating, I only ate 2 dum dums throughout the night and that was it. I was so proud of myself!

Today I weighed in at 281.4. So about a 4.6 lbs weight loss so far (probably all water weight but I’ll take it. My first goal is 270! Right now, until I get in touch about next steps for my back, I’m really only going to be changing my diet, going for walks with my son, and I’m going to be adding in some stretches I found online. I’ve been using the ‘lose it’ food log to track calories and I feel like I’m in the right track.

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Where do I start

I am 16F and 5’3 and 243 lbs. where do I even start to lose weight?? I have a workout plan and workout 4 times a week (cardio and weights) I just don’t know how to stick to this and where to start…. I have always been struggling with my weight and also not to mention I always try these diets and lose a few pounds then gain like 20 more. I guess my trouble is sticking to it and bagging self discipline. I also wanna hear what is working for everyone else concerning all aspects of weight loss, dieting and etc.

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Fat loss in specific areas

Does fat always get lost for you in the same order? For example, when I manage to trim down some, it’s always the belly first .

If you have gone through fat loss and then gained and lost it, does it always have the same order of loss?

For example, did you lose the belly first each time or was the first noticeable difference different each time?

I have made the decision to cut out alcohol for at least 60 days to jumpstart my weight loss and was curious if others seem to lose it first in the same place.

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100LB lost in 7 Months and my tale

So my tale begins 28.03.2022 I found out the day before my Aunty who I'm extremely close to has cancer, at this point I decided I need to get my crap together for myself and my family as I have been on a self destructive cycle for 10 years eating my way to a early grave not caring about anything or anyone and just making excuses. I'll do it later, I'll do it tomorrow, next week again and again and again. while destroying myself with nothing but self hatred which then continued to fuel this awful cycle. I was 390LB/177KG/27.12 Stone, I then started going to the gym 4 - 6 days a week doing session after session 10 minutes, 20 minutes and gradually building myself up and getting into a routine.

presently weight 285LB/129.27KG/20.05 Stone lost a huge amount of fat and Built a lot of muscle. not sure how much exactly, but I think I might have had about 84LB of muscle and the rest fat when I started as I compared myself to a friend of a similar height recently.

Now I'm:

• 154 LB Muscle (Approximately)
• 131 LB FAT (Approximately)

For a benchmark I struggled doing bench press on a Olympic barbell. I can now do 35kg either side at 12 reps. couldn't do squats I can now do it at 35kg either side.

I've dropped 3.5 shirt sizes nearly a XL from a 5XL. waist was 60inches now at 44inches.

it's been a combination of controlled diet with failures along the way. 4 to 6 days of resistance training. Afew months ago I have introduced swimming as a form of cardio.

chest arms shoulders and legs core back full body exercises

reduced my calories to 1500 periodically applied keto kind of... failed then re applied. I've struggled to keep it up for anything more than 2 weeks. however it has consistently helped me, throughout this process so if you can do it do so.

weight loss is 60% diet 40% exercise. find what works for you and keep at it every time you fail get back up and keep going.

it's not easy but it can be done and I still have along way to go in my eyes. I've wrote this more so hoping someone else will find it helpful to start their journey.

Useful Things:

• Muscle Burns 6Kcal Resting (1LB)

• Fat Burns 2Kcal Resting (1LB)

• You need a 3500 Calorie deficit to lose 1LB of FAT

• Fat is lost around your body at a percentage area's cannot be targeted...

• Sugar (CRITICAL this is you main enemy)

• Alcohol (body processes this before Fat)

• Carbs (Potato's,pasta,bread,rice,noodles reduce these even if you do not want to go into ketosis)

• Calories (a given)

• Fat (a given)

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