i lost 20lbs , but cant seem to shed anymore.. help

im so excited when i got on the scale to see i was 20lbs less than when i started this... that was almost 6 months ago .. i haven't been able to drop anymore.. but at least i haven't gained it back ! ..

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27f . 5ft 3in , and currently 220 , my goal is to get down to 150 no real time restraint. i just wanna do this as healthily as possible. with the least amount of sagging skin as well.

i have a few food restrictions, peanut, egg, and shellfish allergies.

i tend not to eat pasta or bread often. maybe once a week or less. i allow myself to eat anything i want, but tend to stick with meat. veggies and rice. and a little bit of fruit. on the rare chances i bring junk food into the house as i still crave it, i wont binge eat it. i limit myself to small portions just to satisfy the craving.

i switched from regular soda , to diet. and hope to be able to wean myself off it and replace it with tea or flavored water. i like my caffeine. but cant stand the taste of coffee.

i work 3 days a week , and on my feet for the full 8 hour shift, but on my days off im pretty stationary, since i draw and crochet as hobbies/ side hustle. i do get up and clean for about an hour to two hours a day off and on depending on what needs done.

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i dont count calories. or carbs. because i dont know how exactly how to do that, and then how to balance it with burning it off... but i feel like i eat less than i use to. and make sure to stick to serving sizes.

i eat twice a day most days.. i do have a few days that i will nibble throughout the day. some days it could be junk food .. some days it could be fruit, jerky, or even air fried veggies.

i just feel like i hit a stand still when it comes to losing weight and need a push to resume the process. i know i need to cut out the junk food. but i also wanna be realistic and not end up giving up completely since i want my snack foods occasionally. not like im sitting there eating a cake everyday . just a portion of chips or few cookies here and there. im afraid if i cut it all out and not allow it at all. ill give up this weight loss thing up.

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i just order a few vitamin gummies that may satisfy one of my "candy" cravings while also getting something my body may need. apple cider vinegar, d3, b12, woman multivitamin with dha, and biotin.. is there anything else i could consider adding to the vitamin list?

any advice to get this weight loss started back up ?

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Accomplishment: My journey maintaining healthy weight loss. Over 300 to 175lbs.

In July of 2021 I started my weight loss journey well over 300lbs.

By January of 2022 I weighed 246lbs. In June of 2022 I weighed 200lbs.

It is now January 2023 and I can now happily report I weigh 175lbs!

I feel great!

Feel free to ask me absolutely anything!

The only “diet” I have stuck to consistently since 2021 is that I no longer eat mammals. That means chicken and fish only.

Besides that, my current diet has been fun and diverse with minimal calorie counting. I counted calories religious for two weeks to get a sense of what I eat and the calories of my most commonly eaten foods then completely stopped calorie counting.

My strategy has been literally trying to eat as little but as healthily as possible, knowing that I will have inevitable cheats like pizza on DnD night or dessert after Sunday dinners.

That means just water, plain black coffee, tea, and the occasional diet soda for beverages.

That means just a single, sugar free pastry with coffee until I have some nuts and carrots for lunch. I’ve learned to embrace hunger as the feeling and sensation of weight loss so I’m used to feeling it everyday.

I’m always very hungry when I get home from work, so I normally have pasta or Mac n cheese. I’ve never given up my pasta and Mac n cheese, I have only reduced the portions. Love me spaghetti.

I try to only eat salads (making sure to avoid sugary dressings) or vegetarian items when out at restaurants to reduce temptation.

In terms of physical activity, when I first started losing weight I went to the gym very often to do cardio and weight training. Lots of treadmill running and racing to beat my best mile time.

Since dropping below 200lbs, however, I only go to the gym once a week. I just make sure to walk a lot as much as I can and stick to my diet. At work (desk job) I take regular walking breaks to keep moving.

I’m lucky I live within walking distance of things like groceries and restaurants which forces me to walk if I want food.

I have a loving and supporting fiancé that loves me when I was fat and still loves me now. Relationship has only grown stronger and more honest.

I’m over all very happy with my life. I’m finally excited to take pictures and to share my weight with my family.

This sub Reddit has been very helpful and inspiration so thank you!

Best of luck on your journeys!

Ask me anything you a

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Short Review of Latest Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode

The last time I reviewed an episode of Maintenance Phase (it was the CICO episodes) it was well-received here, so I thought I'd do another review. This one isn't as in-depth as it didn't quite raise my ire the way the CICO episodes did, but this one hits on a few points that I think are important to highlight.

The episode in question: "Glorifying Obesity" And Other Myths About Fat People (link goes to Apple Podcasts - sorry for that, they don't seem to have a neutral episode list on their website).

Their description:

This week, we're talking about Aubrey's new book, "'You Just Need To Lose Weight' and 19 Other Myths About Fat People." And we're yelling about Piers Morgan as a little treat.

In short, it's a publicity piece for Aubrey's new book, but they do actually talk about some things of substance rather than a fluff piece promoting the book, which I appreciate! Immediate positive points for doing that.

Overall, I think it was a good episode. Aubrey and Michael engage in a reasonably good discussion about some of the issues and concerns a lot of fat people experience, and they promote healthy discussion about these things. Most importantly, one of the best nuggets I took out of their discussion was suggesting that one look at the questions they ask and determine why they ask a specific question, to examine the biases they are applying to certain things.

That in itself is something everyone should be doing most of the time anyway, not just surrounding the discussion of weight loss and fat people (their emphasis in this episode is on "fat people" and not necessarily weight loss, so I'm just sticking with that term). In general, too, I think Aubrey does a good job illustrating that the "Fat Advocate" side of the Internet is probably a very loud, vocal minority, and that most of the time, fat people are reasonable, sensible people that are trying to go about their lives and not get ostracized for being fat. This to me is a reasonable expectation.

The sticking points though is when Michael jumps in occasionally and throws in things like "set weight point" (which is absolutely not a thing) and there's no refuting that. I wish I could have provided notes and time stamps, but I was shoveling snow while listening, so I'm doing my best here. Throughout the episode there were little things like that from both of the hosts where they throw shade at CICO, while promoting similar HAES talking points to the idea of a set weight point.

But since the focus of the episode is on Aubrey's book, I am not really surprised they didn't go in-depth into a lot of topics like that. The bulk of the discussion is about the very real side effects of how bigger people are treated in society and online. Aubrey refers to an incident earlier in her life when she posted a picture of her in a new bathing suit, and was immediately subjected to some ugly comments on her public LiveJournal page. Also discussed was the notion that people are "glorifying being fat by simply posting a picture online" - I agree that this isn't really what's going on - Lizzo wasn't glorifying being fat by showing up on a scoreboard at a basketball game, she was just attending a basketball game.

At the same time, there is that loud vocal minority out there subverting the HAES movement that ARE trying to glorify fatness that was not addressed at all in this episode. I doubt that there is much content in Aubrey's book about it.

I'm sorry for the lack of cohesion in this review, I am going off the top of my head rather than notes as I did the last time I reviewed an episode of their show.

If I were to rate this out of 5, I'd give them a 3.5. Definitely a better discussion than their CICO episodes, but missing the point on a few things. If this was your introduction to myths around weight loss and fat people, it's not the best starting point in terms of debunking these myths. Discussions about examining biases (like why some people think they need to be thin to succeed in their career - which is a real thing) was the strong point of this episode.

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Weight loss has stopped. So frustrating. 2 month weight loss plateau. Has anyone actually gotten through a plateau?!

I’m 26 M 5’10” and started on January 1, 2021 at at 251 lbs and now I’m at 229 lbs. At one point during the summer I was down to 224.6 lbs. But with the holidays and some loss in my family, I’ve been stuck in a plateau for 2 months now at 229 lbs and it’s so frustrating. I’m starting to feel like I’ll never get that joy of losing weight again. Has the last year of losing weight all been a waste? Has anyone actually broken through a weight loss plateau? Because now I’m starting to think it’s never going to happen.

I’ve been doing hiit classes at my gym for an hour on Monday and Wednesdays for a year now, play full court basketball on Sunday mornings for 2 hours and do sprint intervals on the treadmill for a 5k like twice a week and also doing major calorie deficit according to my TDEE which 3142 calories burned so I’m eating over a 1000 calories under that on days I workout. Sometimes over a 1500 calorie deficit. I’ve also been intermittent fasting where I fast from 10pm to 1pm the following day to help restrict calories 5 days a week for the last year. I’ve read that lifting weights helps with the weight loss so I’ve included lifting weights with the Cardio and I weighed in this morning for the first time in a month and I gained 1.5 lbs but my stomach feels flatter and waste is thinner. Starting to feel that everything that helped me lose 22 lbs last year isn’t working anymore.

My goal is to be under 200 lbs by July 13th. Any tips on breaking through the frustrating plateau would be appreciated. Thanks

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8 weeks in

8 weeks ago I had decided that I had enough of being unhappy with my weight and trying every diet under the sun to just end up not succeeding. I haven’t cut out any of my favourite foods just eating junk in lesser quantities and monitoring my portion sizes. Just to prove that you don’t need to cut out your favourite foods I eat pizza for lunch 5 days each week as it’s most conviennent for me at work (two normal sized slices which fills me up the perfect amount). This morning was the first time I weighed in after those 8 weeks as I personally feel that weighing often has a negative impact on my mindset as I stupidly see little improvements as not good enough and that knocks my motivation off. Anyway my starting weight was 68.5kg and today I was 62.6kg. I am so happy with myself and can’t wait to keep succeeding. I still enjoyed myself over the Christmas period but didn’t fall into junk foods and chocolate as deep as I normally would have. Basically I just wanted to post in here for people like myself who once thought that they would never be able to lose weight, sometimes just eating mindfully and “forgetting” that you are actually on a weight loss journey is the best way to do it. Before this I used to centre my every day around calories and if I went the slightest bit over my limit I would binge, all I thought about at that moment was food but not anymore which for me seems to be the way forward. If I can do it you can too!

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Overwhelmed & Needing Help

I'll try to keep this short for your sake and mine. I'm sure if I start thinking too hard I'm gonna start crying. (Again)

I (19f and around 5'3"/5'4") had a doctor's appointment today earlier in the afternoon for a check up and to talk about my medications. I do the physical exam with the MA, I get on the scale, and I realize that I currently am at 200 pounds.

I don't know why I was so surprised to see the number, I've always been a bigger girl. Even when I was little I was chubbier than the other kids I went to school with. But looking down at my feet and seeing 200 pounds on the scale really just struck something in me.

It's been gnawing at me all day. Anytime I wasn't listening to music or focusing on something I would start thinking about it. I confess I've already started to bully myself about it a bit, even though it's just been a couple of hours.

However, I know that I can do things to change my weight, and I want to try my damnedest to lose it. One of the issues though, is I don't know where to start.

So my questions for you include: 1. Which foods do you recommend to help with weight loss? 2. What exercises would work best for overall change? 3. How do you curb your sweet tooth? Are there any specific smaller sweet things you recommend to push it back? (I have a particularly nasty sweet tooth, and tend to gravitate towards sweeter things even when I know I shouldn't.)

Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you for reading and helping a girl out. Have a good day and good luck with whatever journey you're working through :)

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Sorry for a sad post, but sometimes I get discouraged about one thing in particular

I am on my weight loss journey for a couple of different reasons. First, of course, is health. I don’t want to enter my 30s setting myself up for tons of discomfort and health issues all because of my weight. While I don’t suffer from anything life-threatening right now, I do notice those subtle but disturbing symptoms of carrying too much weight: aches, quickness to tire, rashes when it gets hot. Getting rid of those things alone is worth it to me, so I don’t plan on giving up.

But I can’t deny that I’m also losing weight for those superficial reasons: to look and feel better. But here’s where I start getting discouraged: I’ve never been “hot” or “attractive” in my life, even when I was near a more normal weight in high school. I don’t want to go into detail really, but people weren’t always kind to me.

I see people lose tons of weight, and while they were attractive even when overweight, they’re radiant and shapely once they hit their goal weight.

I just worry…what if I’m working to transform into a different kind of “ugly”? What if the body that awaits me is just as gross and awful as this one? What if I’m just not meant to look or feel attractive?

I know these are silly thoughts. I apologize.

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