Nearing 100 Lbs lost

So I've never really posted anywhere on Reddit before, but I've been a lurker of this sub for a long time. I found this place a little bit after my weight loss journey started and come back all the time to stay motivated. At the start of last April, I weighed 257 lbs the heaviest I ever recorded myself. I ended up finally getting braces and for the week I barely ate because my mouth hurt so bad. I ended up saying "what the hell" and hopped on the scale to see what effect it had, and I ended up being 248 lbs. I realized this wasn't that hard and that I could really lose weight for the first time in a long time. Honestly, I didn't accomplish my weight loss the "healthy" way. I starved myself and religiously watched the scale. For the first 3 months of my journey, I maintained a 1000 < calorie intake, don't get me wrong it worked and those numbers fell off crazy fast. Not too long after I hit that 3-month mark I was down close to 60lbs, but I wasn't as happy as I thought I would be. I realized all the starvation was making it impossible to actually enjoy my accomplishment. Eventually, I decided to ease back into a "normal" calorie-deficit diet and it was really nice. The difference between sub-1000 calories a day and 1500 - 1800 is astounding, I felt better instantly! I was doing really really fucking good, I had made it all the way down to 175 lbs only a couple of pounds away from a "healthy" BMI. Then I met someone, and it was amazing. For the first time, I had the confidence to pursue a relationship with this person and it somehow worked. It was unfortunately there when I got distracted from my goals, I was so focused on her and the relationship that weight loss became a side thing. I didn't gain it all back but rather maintained between 185 - 200 lbs. Skip to today a little over a year since I was at my best weight at the time 175 lbs. I realized that I wanted to get back into it at the start of October and have been busting balls to get back to where I was a year ago. I hopped on the scale today and it was 169 lbs. This was after eating and drinking and enjoying myself. I'm so close to that glorious 100 and I'm going to get it! If you ended up reading all thank you for taking the time and good luck on your guys' journey!

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Self esteem is like a roller coaster after weight loss

Obviously I am really proud of how far I have come and how I have been able to lose about 18kg now and keep it off for a pretty long time. My body objectively looks way better and I am fitter, I feel healthier and just better in a million ways.

Nevertheless I just have so many days where I look in the mirror and hate everything. It’s like my mind is tricking me into thinking I am still in my old body. You ever get those days where you struggle to even notice your progress?

And if you do, how do you get out of this? Sometimes my self esteem on these bad days is unbearable, I can’t even look at myself right now

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Is losing 100 pounds considered impressive?

Although I know objectively that losing 100 pounds is amazing, I don't feel like I've really accomplished anything...does anyone else feel this way? Maybe it's because I had an invalidation filled childhood I struggle to be proud of my accomplishment. Whenever people learn about my weight loss they are super surprised and impressed but a part of me feels like they are making a big deal. Idk I'd like y'alls feedback.

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Starting This Journey Again, 8 years and a medical scare later.

Howdy,

So this isn't actually day 1, it's more like day 18, but it's day 1 on r/loseit. Mostly just putting this here to get this off my chest. Unfortunately, I've hopped on the weight loss train a few times in my life and have always gained it back, something I plan not to do this time.

The first time I started getting overweight was all the way back in middle school, grandma encouraged boredom eating and overeating with the old "you're a growing boy" crap. I didn't learn about how my diet impacted my weight, I just ate like my folks, grandparents, siblings and cousins did. I was of the belief that exercise is how you took care of the problem, in my teen years, this worked to a certain extent, because I was extremely active, playing organized competitive sports at a relatively high level. By my later teens I was in reasonably good shape, still with some fat on me from my awful eating habits, but on the high end of the healthy BMI range still.

Since I still played a sport in college for a couple of years, I was still really active during the season and pre-season, but a pattern was developing, each off-season I would wrap myself in fat again, because I was consuming the same amount of calories and remaining mostly sedentary. When I stopped playing altogether, I gained weight fast, and finally recognized that I needed to track what I eat and remain at least moderately active. I worked my tail off, ate in a caloric deficit, used myfitnesspal daily, and by the time I graduated, I got myself down to the healthy BMI range for a 6' 1" male.

Upon returning home I had a plan to add some muscle and was lifting regularly, and swimming laps on non-lifting days. I thought I was in great shape, until I visited extended family for the first time at a healthy weight. Grandma berated me for "looking like a stick" and would guilt trip me into having second servings of whatever she had cooked for dinner. Aunts and uncles would ask me if I was eating, and try to talk me into eating garbage. Discouraged with the negative response, I slowly lost motivation to keep up with my dietary choices and workouts. I entered the workforce, moved away from home and rationalized that I could estimate calories accurately enough.

That work environment got stressful, I stopped weighing myself, and while I'd make a half-assed attempt at estimating calories, I largely stopped caring altogether. Eventually I left that job, and moved home to get back on my feet. I know this already long, so I'll spare all the details, but I went the route of self-employment, and I'm on the road a lot.

Anyways, fast forward 5 years, and here I am. I've made a few half-assed efforts at making myself healthier, but have been terrified of the scale, knowing in the back of my head that it's probably worse than I think it is, and knowing I've made all of the wrong dietary choices over this time. I started having this pains in the middle of the night, which I now know are gallbladder attacks. After an ER visit earlier this month, I decided it's time to get back to taking care of myself, so I redownloaded myfitnesspal, started following the ER doctor's advice on how to prevent more gallbladder attacks. A week later I had a scheduled dr. appointment and it was confirmed that the gallbladder needs to be removed. I dreaded stepping on the scale at the doctor's office, and was disheartened to see how bad things had gotten....259, which likely means I was in the 260s the week before, heavier than I've ever been. 11 days later I stepped on the scale at home to discover an encouraging result...254. So five pounds since the doctor's appointment, still with a long way to go and a surgery upcoming. The reality of how this impacts my health has finally smacked me in the face, instead of this being a matter of vanity like it has been in the past, and I'm hell bent on shedding this extra weight, and doing it the right way, and maintaining it this time.

2lb/week goal hasn't been terrible so far, in fact, my appetite is pretty under control right now, it's actually been a struggle to eat enough now that I'm just making better choices and getting more fiber into my diet, and eating less processed food. I may come back and update this, and share progress, but this post is mainly just because I needed to get this off my chest somewhere. Thanks to all the moderators and people who upkeep this community, I know it's not always an easy or pleasant task to maintain an online forum/community.

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I changed my eating habits because I learned what was in my food

First time poster! I have found a great community here reading through everyone’s posts. I wanted to share a tool that has completely changed my perspective on my snacking habits and has helped contribute to a 25lb weight loss.

Some background info: I (29F, 5’3”, SW: 185, CW: 159) have progressively gained weight throughout my 20s. As the years went by my mental health got worse (depression/anxiety/PTSD) and I turned to candy/chips and other generally high sugar and high fat foods for comfort. And as those years went by, I gained more and more weight. After not seeing extended family for the last two years, my partner and I took a trip to visit everyone and there were lots of family photos taken - it was my first realization of how out of control my emotional eating had gotten and how it was impacting me physically.

Throughout my 20s, I had tried (and failed) to make consistent changes to my diet and exercise routine. I’d try logging calories and stick with it for a few weeks, and life would seem to get busy and I’d stop (and the emotional eating/snacking would start again). It wasn’t until a family member shared the Yuka app with me that I was able to be successful in changing my eating habits.

The Yuka app is a barcode scanning app for food and cosmetic products. It informs you of any hazardous ingredients in said products, and offers recommendations for similar products that don’t have hazardous ingredients. It’s an independent app (companies don’t/can’t pay for sponsorship or have their products be classified as excellent if they aren’t), and it links to studies demonstrating why that ingredient is hazardous. For example, a scanned product could identify whether there are endocrine-disrupting ingredients, and link to studies demonstrating the research behind the health impacts of that ingredient.

Having this tool has completely changed my eating behaviours. I just can’t justify eating foods that are carcinogenic or are linked to other harmful health effects. Having the ability to see what is a better replacement has been huge. I did a mini experiment to see how I would feel making dietary changes to avoid foods that had any listed hazardous ingredients.

And, after a month of these changes, I felt great. I had more energy, and was able to incorporate more exercise into my day. I’ve lost 25 pounds in about 15 weeks by making better food choices to start & incorporating exercise after a month of diet changes (now doing 15 minutes of cardio before work 3-5x per week, and weight training for 30 minutes 4-5x per week when I get home). It started with the horrifying realization of how bad my food choices really were and why they were so bad. Once my eating improved, the rest (exercise and portion sizes) seemed to follow. I’ll try CICO to get to my goal weight, but the Yuka app is really what got me to where I am today.

I wanted to share, in the event anyone has struggled like I have!

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Turtle Weight Loss

I know that we celebrate NSVs, and this whole process is about the journey not the number on the scale, but MAN, I lose weight SLOW. I've been working with a nutritionist since July, stayed largely consistent with sticking to my macros, and in the past 5 months have only lost 13 pounds. I've been in the gym (CrossFit) 5 days a week since April, and this month bumped it to 6 days a week.

As the end of the years gets closer, I really thought I'd be at least 20 pounds further than I am. I am grateful for the gains I've seen in the gym, but I would looooooooove for the scale to reflect my consistency. It's especially obnoxious to see people lose 2-3 pounds in a week, when that's my average weight loss in a month :(

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Just feeling a bit bummed I don't have a large transformation to show off this Thanksgiving

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Sometimes I feel so alone…

I know that there’s a lot of people who live with loose skin after weight loss, but all I see lately are people with their dream bodies and all the others I see are in reference to how their surgeries have gone. I don’t think I’ll ever achieve the finances for surgery, and, in the grand scheme of things, my skin isn’t as bad as it could be (I’ve only been maintaining for a short time after a 125lb loss so I’m sure it will bounce back some). I just feel like I lost the war. I just want to love myself. I just feel so alone because there’s very few who see me without clothes… like I’m living a lie?

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