Am I being too impatient with my weight loss?

I changed my diet drastically on 11/5 so it’s been almost two months at this point. I have autoimmune diseases so I decided to try the autoimmune Paleo diet and it has put one of my illnesses into remission after 15 years, which is dope. But I’m annoyed because I’ve only lost 15 pounds and I can’t eat anything bad for me so I’m wondering where it’s coming from? I see lots of posts where people lose 20 pounds in a month and eat way more than me. I’ve gained a pound between this week and last.

My food intake yesterday (unweighed though with no calorie counts so I can’t complain ig) I usually eat more but I can’t eat food I don’t prepare myself to control the ingredients so I ran out of food and ate what I could. There’s usually like 2 days a week like this.

Yesterday:

Breakfast: turkey Breast approx 3oz with a little broth

Lunch: a fruit cup, an orange(mangoes and strawberries)

Dinner: 7 mini sausage balls (ground beef, onion, apple mixed together) air fried Brussels sprouts and rutabaga in 0 calorie oil spray and salt.

I didn’t measure these things but I can’t imagine I overate?

The day prior I ate leftovers (fake hamburger helper with cassava flour noodles, avocado oil, zucchini, garlic, ground beef). I ate that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (basically 3 servings out of four). And a 150 calorie yogurt with half a banana and raspberries for dessert. I started thinking maybe I ate too much that day and days like that are slowing me down.

The only day I know I have overate was Christmas but it was still vegetables and fruit and meat

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I need help I can’t seem to lose more weight.

I have been dieting and light exercising for going on almost a year and a half.I’ve switched between diets but mainly I’ve stuck to a calorie deficit of about 1500 . I try to keep my meals high protein low carb and low fat . I don’t eat or drink sugar. And I walk and get my 10k steps day as my exercise because I had back surgery about a year ago and I can’t over do on certain things. In the beginning the weight loss went well I went from 300 to 256 pounds and that was diet alone with light exercise. Then I got to 256 and I seemed to plateau and couldn’t seem to drop the weight after months of frustration I got help from my doctor who prescribed me the medications for weight loss. I drink water daily and I’m taking both the weight loss medications that both are to help and I’ve still not seen a drop in the scale. I’m getting frustrated as this is really becoming an issue that is causing me lots of stress. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 😊

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in 2024, i am breaking free from sugar, addiction, and losing the weight once and for all. who's joining me?

whaddup,

with 2024 coming up, i'm sure many of you have decided (like me) to lose weight for good in 2024. if you're anything like me, you keep making this resolution over and over, choosing mondays or birthdays or new years to start this journey, and then fall of the wagon after a couple of days.

well, as it happens, the new year starts on a monday - so that's twice as good of a starting date.

i'm looking for people who are committed to losing weight and keeping it off for good to join a support group. this group will focus heavily on quitting sugar and recovering from binge eating disorder along with weight loss. i have been in tons of groups like these and the problem is that they never stick around. so for this one, i'm specifically only looking for people who are fully committed and prepared to take this seriously. i want to build a network of dedicated people with specific rules and guidelines, daily check ins, and weekly online meetings. i believe that support groups are only effective through structure and actually getting to know each other - accountability, after all, only works if you give a shit about the people who are holding you accountable, and how could you give a shit about random usernames on your phone? similarly, i want to offer and receive genuine support from others who are as serious about bettering themselves as i am.

if you're interested, feel free to comment below. whether you are already sugar free or still struggling doesn't matter, however, i need you to be serious about it.

HOW TO JOIN

because i want to make sure that the group doesn't fall apart like so many others because of inactive or unmotivated members, there will be an application process.

to apply, i would like you to write a letter to yourself in which you detail your current way of eating, how it makes you feel, what it's holding you back from, how it's harming you. then, i would like you to imagine who you want to be exactly one year from now, as 2024 comes to an end - what you want your life to look like, how you want to eat and exercise, how you want to feel about food and your body, and exactly what habits you will have dropped or picked up to reach that point and remain there forever - this needs to be a realistic outline of a sustainable way of eating that is both healthy and enjoyable and that you truly can commit to. i want your letter to end with the whole hearted promise to yourself that you will achieve this. i am happy to send you a template to use per dm.

i ask that you reflect on this deeply and write your heart out, make it as personal as you can, dig deep. for your application, i want you to send me that letter - feel free to black out anything you don't feel comfortable sharing, but make sure to write it all down.

please send me your applications or drop a comment until december 31st.

i'm doing this with or without you and i am very excited for this. this will be my - maybe our - final pledge to break free from addiction and binge eating forever, and instead finally becoming who i - our we - truly want to be.

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Should I make weight loss a goal after giving birth?

I'm currently almost 6 months pregnant. 5'8" (175cm) and 91kg(200lbs). I'm not planning on striving for weight loss during pregnancy as honestly just maintaining my weight has been a struggle (up until about a month ago I kept losing weight due to HG and my husband and gynecologist found it to be very concerning).

Since I was a teenager, doctor's have attributed a lot of my chronic pain to weight and told me that if I lose weight then I should have increased mobility and less pain. (In 2019-2020 my pain was bad enough that I couldn't walk more than 500 steps a day. Physical therapy has helped and I can now do about 3,000-5,000 without issue. I can get up to 8,000-12,000 but I normally end up having a flair afterwards and being stuck in bed for up to 3 days recovering.) At the time when my pain and mobility were the worst though I was between 55-60kg (120-140lbs) and also was missing periods, my hair was falling out, I was so fatigued that I would sleep 16+ hours a day and still fall asleep while standing up in the middle of a conversation with someone and my anemia was pretty bad. I was always cold even in 40C(100F) heat.

I want to be as healthy as possible so that I can run and play with my child. I don't want to have to tell him that mommy can't take him to the park because her knees hurt to bad. With that in mind, should I make weight loss a goal post partum or focus exclusively on strength? I felt my best at around 75-80kg (165-175lbs). I know that's still technically an overweight BMI but would it be a good goal?

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I give up

I (M 34) have spent last decade oscillating between 100 and 130 kgs. After over a year, I managed to go on downward trend and reach 115 kgs in September. Then I had few months of intensive projects at work, had to finish my thesis, didn't have time to cook, started to spiral with snacks when stress earing, and today I almost reached my all time high with 129 kilos.

I'm disgusted with myself, and hopeless. I thought things will change after I was diagnosed with Insulin resistance recently, but medication won't work, I just can't stop stuffing myself with snacks. Even medication for weight loss doesn't help, as it just make me unable to eat anything but trash food.

That's it, time to accept being a fatass.

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How do I lose weight after a lifetime of being overweight? I don't know where to begin after hitting 400 lbs. Any advice?

Hi, I just discovered this page and am brand new to Reddit so I apologize in advance, this is going to be a long one and is basically my life story.

I have been overweight since I was about 8 years old. I was over 200 lbs when I was 10 yrs old. I was about 250 lbs all throughout high school even though I was active, in marching band and softball. I went to culinary school and yo-yo'd a bit, got down to 230 lbs but graduated at 260-ish lbs after a serious bout of depression. Moved back home after college, got a job I hated that made my depression even worse and got up to 280 lbs... that was in 2012.

In 2014 I decided to go back to school while working two jobs... I was STRESSED. And then my 2-year curse started. In October of 2014, I had to have emergency surgery and required me to take time to recover. Then in May 2016 I almost died from multiple pulmonary embolisms from a genetic condition we didn't know I had and I was in the ICU for 5 days and it took me months to recover fully and I now have permanent damage to my heart. This is where I really gained weight again. At this point I went up to about 340 lbs. I was determined to take care of my health though and got myself a membership to Plante Fitness and a Fitbit in November of 2017. I was really starting to make some progress and was feeling SO GOOD. I was going to the gym 4-5 times a week and eating healthier. By February I was down to 310 lbs, meaning I had lost 30 lbs. But it was 2018, and the curse struck again and my Dad unexpectedly died. I was really close to my dad and I was not ready to lose him. That sent me into a spiral for the next 6 months (and my final semester of school, a true miracle that I even graduated). Honestly, that time in my life is a blur. I was a shell of myself. All the progress I had made slowly disappeared as I ate my feelings and I got back to 345 lbs.

In January 2019 I moved into my own apartment and started to lose weight again as I tried to eat healthier and get back to the gym. I got back down into the 330s and in January 2020 my husband and I moved in together... just in time for the pandemic to hit. Honestly, it was very fortunate timing because I lost my job that March. I got super depressed again and jumped up to 360 lbs while I was out of work. Thankfully I started going to therapy at the end of 2020 and am now on some anti-depressants that have changed my life for the better. My husband and I got engaged in December of 2020 in Zion National Park, which was MAGICAL. I wanted to try to lose weight for the wedding but somehow with all the stress of wedding planning and changing jobs, I popped up to 390 lbs between 2021 and our wedding in September 2022. In 2023 I have steadily gained and am now sitting at my heaviest weight of 425 lbs.

My husband and I are now talking about the possibility of starting a family, which will already be iffy with a missing ovary, being on blood thinners, being 34 yrs old, and on top of it being severely overweight. All that to say, for once and for all, I just want to be a healthy weight. I'm tired of being fat, of not feeling good in my own body, of being embarrassed to not be able to participate or sit in a booth or a theater seat or be afraid the furniture will break under my weight. I'm tired of struggling when simply going for a walk or playing with my nieces. This isn't what I want for me and I feel like I'm dragging my husband down with me. He deserves so much more. He is the most loving, kind-hearted, giving man who does nothing but love and support me and always makes me feel beautiful and loved. I want to be able to care and do things for him like he does for me.

All that to say, can anyone here relate? How did you find weight loss success after struggling your whole life? I don't even know what it's like to be skinny as I've never been. I struggle with some of the motivators and advice other people give, especially from those who don't know the struggles of living in a 300 lb + body; let' be honest, there is a difference between losing weight at 180 lbs vs 380 lbs. I don't even know where to begin being this large and it's only gotten harder as I get heavier. I need to make a huge change to my lifestyle mindset if I want to have a family of my own and honestly, just for my own survival. If you made it this far, thanks <3

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Trying to figure out my reward: what are some activities (skydiving, bungee jumping, etc) that have a weight limit, that I'll be able to do after the weight loss?

Context: I realized the other day that skydiving, something I've always wanted to do, requires that you weigh less than 250 pounds, and that made me honestly excited for weight loss in a way I've not been in a while. So, I'm making a list of things that I'm going to actually do after I get below 250, skydiving and bungee jumping being first on my list.

My question is, what recreational activities have concrete weight limits that prevent you from participating, that I can use as a carrot on a stick to motivate me?

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