I touched my toes today

Guys, I just wanted to share a huge triumph I managed to do today. I haven’t been able to touch my toes bending over, almost my entire life, and today when I was stretching during my P90 Sculpt 1-2 routine, I bent over and was able to grab my toes and do the stretch on both sides!!! I can’t even really describe the shock I felt in the moment. I think I was able to do it because of all the other ways I’ve been working towards my goal. I am more mobile than I was, and I’ve been strengthening many different parts of my body. I knew getting further into it I’d see results but this wasn’t one that was on my radar. After two months of work, I can bike for more than 6 miles, whereas before when I started, I would struggle to do even a mile. If you’re here in this discord and you’re just getting started, you will find you have little wins as you go along. The weight loss has been incredible to be sure- but I’m most amazed at what my body is capable of. Don’t be discouraged- and if you are, keep going. Because continuing on will feel so much better tomorrow than giving up!

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Fall in love with the process

A key realization I’ve had on this journey is that the best, most painless, and most fulfilling way to go about it is to learn how to enjoy the process. Life doesn’t pause until you lose the weight, and if you’re spending every day wishing to fast-forward to your goal weight, you’re gonna miss out on a lot and make your weight loss journey feel agonizingly slow.

From my experience, when you hate your body and are just counting down the weeks until you reach X goal or Y milestone, it’s like watching paint dry and just drags on and on.

Whereas, when you can manage to affirm yourself and treat your body with respect and kindness, the time seems to fly by. I’m not thrilled with how my body looks right now, but I still put on a nice outfit in the mornings and shut down any negative or self deprecating thoughts about my body. I still go on my run and do the best I can and just try to enjoy it, rather than waiting around to hit my goal weight.

Anyway, just a reminder to try to be present and enjoy where you’re at, don’t wait around to hit your goal weight or put your life on hold until you achieve your goal. Life happens in between goals you achieve, and it’s about finding happiness where you’re at while still taking steps toward your goal. This also helps prevent the logical fallacy of “I’ll be happy when ____”. Try to find happiness NOW, because the process will be much easier and you’ll look back and be glad you chose to enjoy the journey rather than treating your weight loss as a transition period. This IS your life, not some transitory period while you’re waiting for your life to start :)

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Before and after pics - take a before pic now, it’s worth it

I started my weight loss journey in June 2023. I have lost a little over 90 pounds to date. I’m 5’0 and 51 years old, so 245 pounds was a lot on my body.

Today I thought about putting together a before and after pic, and guess what. I hated getting my picture taken so much a year ago, there were practically no photos of my “before”. I found one finally, work related, where I had no choice about getting my pic done, thankfully.

My before and after https://imgur.com/a/p4mTmxs

I still have about 25 pounds to go to my goal weight, but I’m pretty happy about life these days.

The moral of my story is you should take those “before” pics when you start your journey. I’m sad I don’t have more, because it helps me to really connect to the positive changes I’ve made it my life. I know what it’s like to avoid the camera, but I promise, this time you’ll want the pics!

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Hit another plateau. I've run out of will to keep going. Strategies to break through?

Hey y'all.

So I've just gotten down under 300 a couple months ago and I'm super happy with the progress. About 53-57 pounds down since my highest weight depending on when I measure. My motivation last winter was getting diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes as my A1C barely crossed the threshold. This was a big wake-up call for me. My dad has Type 2 and my dad's side is prone to it, so no surprises there. January 1st hit and I put my nose to the grindstone. Eat less, go for walks, be smart. I already track 100% of my calories and I have been for years now. it's an unbreakable habit for me now. So I melted off 20 pounds from January to the end of March...

Then I got my bloodwork back. A1C is now down all the way to the threshold of pre-diabetic and "remission." I'm basically there! I fucking did it! Since I got my bloodwork back, I did lose about 6 more pounds and now... Now what? I slayed the dragon. And part of my motivation to lose weight was to be attractive to women so I can start dating again since I moved across the country. With this weight loss also came a big shift of my mindset. I'm getting my finances under control, I bought a house, I'm charging into bettering my already strong career... And I no longer care about dating at all. With so many other things to focus on combined with the way things are nowadays with my generation's dating methods, I've completely given up deep in my soul that I will ever meet the right person and I have genuinely not considered dating for almost 3 months. I already have good friends that respect me and bosses that praise me for my work so it's not like losing weight will have a tremendous impact on my other interpersonal goals.

I do know that I still need to lose literally 100 more pounds to reach my ultimate goal of being 190lb at 6' tall. That number is fucking daunting, incredibly intimidating. I just have to do this incredibly difficult thing I already did, not once but TWO MORE FUCKING TIMES. And it was hard enough. Now I'm lighter and the caloric intake is gradually continuing to tighten I'm really really struggling to keep my eye on the prize. The task is getting tremendously harder and the perceived payoff is just as far away as it's always been and from my point of view, seems smaller as well.

What can I do? What did y'all do?

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Short sedentary woman - how do I make a 1200 calorie diet as healthy as possible?

I'm short, I have an office job, and I also deal with hypothyroid so weight loss is a STRUGGLE for yours truly. 1200 is about the only way I lose any weight at all, unless I exercise which when I have time to do that I try to up my calories to 1400 on those days. Having to stay on such a low intake for a while (I have about 35 lbs to lose), I'm wondering if there are any ways I can ensure this diet stays as healthy as possible - minimizing deficiencies, muscle loss or any other unpleasant side effects that can occur from a low intake. I do not eat red meat (but do eat some chicken, fish, eggs, and dairy). I kind of struggle to eat, my stomach hates everything, so tend to eat pretty bland and boring stuff. Any ideas welcome!

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I’m 17 and 400lbs, advice needed please!!

Hi, this is a throwaway but I do intend to use this account regularly for weight loss updates. I’m 17F and as of today, 436lbs. I had a wake up call recently where I broke a chair in front of my class, and everyone laughed at me, so I really feel like I need to make a change now. I was in denial before I guess, even though I knew my weight was a problem. I’m from the UK if it makes a difference to anyone

I don’t really want to air out all of my personal business online but my parents don’t support me wanting to lose weight and think I’m wasting my time. They’re also morbidly obese and obviously I don’t know their weight but I think they are probably a similar weight to me, if not larger, which is probably why they think it. We stock up on unhealthy food a lot, and usually eat fast food around 4 times a week but sometimes more. I will admit quite a lot of my weight gain is my own fault too and I can easily binge about 4k calories regularly but I’m trying to stop that too. It’s definitely a work in progress but whatever.

I’ve looked quite a lot into how weight loss works, with different food groups and protein for example, I probably don’t know everything but I’m trying to learn? My maintenance calories are currently 3,316, would it be healthy to restrict to 2000 straight away or is that too soon and I should gradually decrease? I’m thinking of buying more healthy food from the store or throwing away fast food when I’m given it etc. I’m trying to exercise more too, I get tired very easily and I’m not able to do it for long but it’s a start

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SV: 240 to 212

Before and now

They're not perfect before and afters - the tops are screen grabs from when I was pole dancing. They are the same black shorts in all photos. Marked NSFW just because of the little shorts and the poles. In the top photos I was 240, and now I am 212.

I had lost 100 pounds 6 years ago, going from 220 to 120. But I did that only through dieting. I didn't exercise, so since then, I never focused on channeling my stress into anything else or finding alternative ways to cope. So I regained all the weight in those six years plus 20.

Two years ago, I started pole dancing as a way to cope with the stress of life and I loved it. But it was hard because I was so overweight. It also sucked that girls who were skinny or just smaller (and not necessarily strong) could do moves I was fighting to get just because they didn't have the extra weight. I tried not to compare myself, but it was hard knowing the comparison was something in my control. I also had a rotator cuff issue that hadn't been an issue doing workouts when I weighted 120, but were when I was 240.

I quit pole dancing a year ago because I was getting so upset I wasn't progressing like everyone else. I'd been doing it a year and was still stuck in the beginner class because I couldn't invert or climb up high enough when everyone I started with was in the Intermediate 1 or 2 class. I went to class 5 days a week, alternating the general class with the classes that were for specific skills (climbing focused classes or invert focused) and still just could not get it. The ladies at the pole gym were so sweet and encouraging, and literally no one was ever rude about my size. But I knew that was my issue.

In March I had some life shaking things happen, and had no way to get out the rage. I had nothing to focus on. I felt stupid going back to pole dancing because I knew it would be the same struggle again. So instead I decided to start losing weight just so I could try again after losing some.

My doctor put me on phentermine to help me not think about eating when I am stressed. For the first month, I maybe ate 1,200 calories a day and lost 14 pounds. My doctor said that was great, but asked me how I was using the medicine to change versus just lose weight.

That's when I started working out. The medicine helped me not want food when I was/am stressed, so I started working out instead. Now I'm eating at 1,500 calories a day and working out each day.

I alternate one of the programs by Chloe Ting (Get Peachy) with just an incline walk, and I get 10k steps a day on average. I've kept it up for a month. My weight loss slowed, but I've been losing inches like crazy (I've only tracked those this month, so I'm not sure what inches I've lost in total). In April I lost about 10 inches in my overall body.

I want to get to 180 before I try pole dancing again. I know I could technically try again now, but I can't afford the class again until at least August, so I'm not going to stress myself out about if I can do it now or not.

I didn't notice a difference until I sent these to my husband this week. I've started taking daily photos in the same poses so I can make better comparisons.

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