first post here! first month on phentermine!

hi I thought I’d finally officially join instead of lurking and post about my progress so far!

I started at 220 and today I hit 210 I am 22f and am 5 foot 2

weight gain: my weight gain came mostly from when I got very sick a few years ago and got put on steroids. I was 173 and I gained up to 190. Last year I got diagnosed with gastrparesis and was down almost to my original weight because of how sick I was. I was put on zyprexa and that’s when I gained up to 220 and I haven’t been able to lose it, that has been attributed to my bad eating habits. I was doing OMAD and I ruined my metabolism completely. after zyprexa I was around 200 but since then because of how little I’ve been eating I have gained weight. I did have bad eating habits but I think I blamed myself too much. When I would eat a regular amount a day I would blame myself and say I binged. Eating normally or even past what I needed to maintain my weight just slowly piled up.

phentermine: I got put on this a month ago! I saw a weight loss doctor. I was having really bad adhd symptoms at the time and mentioned it and she suggested starting with phentermine at half a dose and then I could up it. First week I didn’t lose much and I felt horrible. I had to talked to my dietician and my main goal those first weeks was just trying to eat three meals a day and not skip meals. Two weeks ago I had a busy few days and didn’t eat well as in I did not eat enough and I gained. I decided to monitor my calories and that has pushed my weight loss further! I need 1,8k calories to maintain my weight. I have a goal of 1.2k calories a day. Its been weird I don’t eat junk food anymore and I’m hoping to maintain that relationship.

Last night I ate over my limit and ate potato chips I was so angry after!! But this morning I could just feel a difference in my stomach as in I felt smaller. I weighed myself and I had hit 10 pounds loss. Which makes no sense to me!

exercise: I am very sedentary that’s why I did the 1.2k I am also a woman and am 5 foot 2 i am 22 years old. I have POTS, FSGS, and because of this I have a horrible heat intolerance. I’ve been staying in so far this summer I wish I could go out and walk but I can’t. We have a treadmill and I pushed myself too hard a few days ago (I walked briskly for an hour) I am gonna maybe try and do 20-30 mins every other day but I also am always fatigued and tired from my disease and the deficit doesn’t help.

I am vegetarian, I was restricting junk food hard if I am not hungry for a meal I make myself drink an ensure protein max. It also helps if I’m feeling sick from nausea. My fave snack lately is pretzels and cheese cubes, cause it’s good protein. I also snack on pineapple and cherries. I was very down about all the high calorie food we have in America so I need to stop avoiding foods out of fear of being unhealthy. I don’t eat fast food anymore and only drink water about 3-4 liters a day

I hope that in posting this I will hold myself accountable. If you have any meal or snack ideas please let me know! I am working with a dietician! I am just hard on myself lately

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10 pounds away and I negate my progress on the weekends

Hey y'all.

I never thought I'd be posting on here since I usually just read for motivation and knowing that I'm not alone. I've been on my weight loss journey for 2 years now and I'm only 10 pounds away from my goal, but I've been stuck here for a year now. I'm very strict about sticking to my running (24 miles a week) and my weight training (5 days a week), and for the most part I'm good about my diet. But I have such a hard time not totally detailing everything on the weekends. Maybe it's because I'm not at work and the routine is thrown off, I'm not sure. I've stopped drinking, but I eat way too much and what I tend to eat isn't very great. What is something you have all done to help get your mind off food when you crave poor options?

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Nothing is more discouraging then sorting through your closet and finding all the stuff that doesn’t fit anymore.

Hey y’all! This is my new weight loss account because I didn’t want to clog up my feed on my other account with weight loss content lol. Plus I need a place where I can go all in. I’ve lurked/lightly participated in this sub on other accounts and look forward to diving deeper.

Anyway, Im currently at the very beginning of my weight loss journey. I’ve attempted off and on for several years, but I recently hit my highest recorded weight (238 lbs - I’m 5’4 and 24 yrs) and felt galvanized to change. I’ve been trying to reduce my caloric consumption and increase my intake.

Today I undertook a long overdue closet cleanout, as I will be donating many of the items to a clothing swap that is being hosted at my workplace. For context, I love clothes and fashion, particularly anything vintage/thrifted or anything I can rescue from clearance and make fun again lol.

As I sorted through the items, I started to get sad at all the items that I had outgrown, or items I had ordered from online secondhand shops that I thought would be so cute but didn’t fit, or things that technically fit but made my stomach or arms stick out in unflattering ways so I stopped wearing them. There were so many cute items that I wanted to keep but wouldn’t even zip up. It was a particular blow when I tried on one pair of pants that, at one time, only got when I was at a higher weight -except not they wouldn’t even go up my thighs.

The final and fatal blow to my mood and self image was when I found a top that was too small, but I wasn’t sure if it was worth saving for future weight loss (I wasn’t sure if it was my style). I brought it out to my brother, who knew I was donating clothes, and before I could even say anything he said “it looks too small - get rid of it.”

I looked at the tag and it was a large, and I was crushed. Do I really look that fat now? I immediately felt humiliated. I guess it can serve as motivation though. One day I’ll be able to fit into that damn top.

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Yay! I reached a milestone

My weight loss journey started last year. I was 175lbs. I’m 5’’5 female. I was about a stone away from being obese which I was terrified of.

Started my weight loss journey. Wanted to get to under 140lbs by winter. It gets to winter (around November time) and I weighed 141lbs. I absolutely hate winter so I kept up the gym but decided to stop keeping tabs on weight, calories etc. weighed myself in April and I weighed 143lbs so not awful considering.

Set myself a challenge to once and for all get below 140lbs. Weighed myself today and I weigh 138lbs!!

I sort of thought at 138 I’d look slimmer. My rib cage is more visible (wasn’t bothered about that happening but that’s what’s happened) but my belly still looks disproportionate in comparison to my body. Guess it’s just my shape but my next goal is now 133lbs.

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People who have slowly gotten to their GW: realistically how hard was it in retrospect?

5’1 F HW: 204 CW: 186 GW: 140

I can’t tell if I am underestimating this journey.

I lost that first chunk of weight just by doing very casual CICO and going on walks. Gave up for a few months unfortunately but 2 weeks ago I decided to join a gym and consistently track my calories again (between 1600-1800).

I’m feeling pretty good. The reduced calories are a challenge for a binger like me but I don’t feel like I’m starving. My workouts are usually 20-30 mins moderate cardio followed by various strength training plans that I find on Tik Tok. They make me sweat and I sure do get sore but I’m not miserable or dying or spending 2 hours at the gym. I’ve been going 3-4 times a week.

I got a bit discouraged today after meeting with a personal trainer and she told me that I should be trying to lose 80lbs instead. I then doom scrolled weight loss tik tok and found people consistently boasting a routine of 1300 calories a day with 2 hours every single day at the gym and it made me very stressed out.

I guess what I’m asking is …. is it ok to approach this in the casual way that I have been? Or am I simply just dropping water weight and this isn’t nearly enough work to get to my goal weight?

TLDR: Casual, slow/steady weight loss. Is it realistic?

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Help! Lost weight before, started BED and am at my highest weight now…

So, a couple years ago I was at my lowest weight ever, and to be fair, I think I took it to an extreme and should have stopped the cut earlier. Back in January 2021 i started MFP for the first time, and I was eating 1450 calories every day. I was scared i would overeat so I tracked everything. Like i put in my omega 3 capsules and things like gum. But I also was working out 5x/week, and didn’t want MCP to overestimate how many calories I burned. So my deficit was definetely too big. I was thinking about food way too much, i lost my period for 3 months, but I was not even seeing any of these things at the moment. I was also super stressed out with a bunch of things that were happening that summer. And in a way, being able to control the food became something I could control, in a lot of ways one of the only things I could control. I didn’t realize my eating behaviour was becoming disordered, until it swung back big time. I know the term starvation mode is overused, etc., but the only way I could describe to myself what happened was that my body was literally in starvation mode. The reason I say that is because I vacate super fixated on food. Still counting calories etc., but never feeling satisfied. And then the binging began. I developed BED. At the end of the year until April 2022 I was free from it, but then I relapsed and have been battling on and off with it. Struggling pretty badly again since January. I decided to not care about restricting food and just focus on my mental health for a while, but it’s hard. I don’t know what the best thing to do is. I am worried about my mental and physical health. I still try to maintain my healthy habits as much as I can but I am back to my pre-weight loss weight. According to BMI I am back in the overweight BMI category, and I see and feel the difference. I used to be so much fitter. Now I cannot do the workouts like I used to. I have to pause and do them at my own pace. I am disappointed, unsatisfied with my body, and not sure how to change it. I want change. But I’m also terrified bc of my ED history. Has anyone gone through this? How did you get out? I am so sick and tired of this. It’s the weight, it also all the other things that are in my way now. I just want to be healthy, mentally and physically.

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Allowing Myself to Eat at Maintenance

I'm still in the very early stages of my weight loss journey, I'm about a week in (on this go around anyway lol). I started around 293 and am sitting at 287 as of this morning. In the past, if I ate over my calorie budget I'd say screw it, and eat anything and everything I wanted, and that would be that. The past couple of days I've been ravenous, thanks to PMS symptoms, and I held strong yesterday. But today, I decided to give myself some grace and am eating at maintenance instead of completely blowing my diet out of the water. It feels awesome to be in the state of mind where I know I'll be back on track after this because I'm not beating myself up over it. Looking at it as a life style change and learning to compromise with myself in a healthy and sustainable way is totally new for me, and it feels really good! I know everyone's journey is different, and a small part of me wishes I could be more disciplined, but for me this is more constraint than I've ever shown with a diet so I'm okay with it as of now.

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