I don't know who needs to hear this, but the best time to start is NOW, even if you start slowly.

I assume in this sub a lot of us probably struggle with motivation. With weight loss and getting healthy, if you've had whatever bad habits for a long time, it's mentally very exhausting trying to break out of them. I for example tend to eat poorly/too much to deal with certain emotions. I know I shouldn't, but I do. The issue is I'm really good at making a diet plan...then I barely stick to it, and I have my cute little excel sheet that I made with a start and finish date, and I keep immediately cheating, so I just repeatedly push the dates back. The old "my diet starts tomorrow".

I heard recently about something called "last supper syndrome", and that's essentially this. When you plan to diet/eat healthier in the future, if that's the near future, you'll use those few days before to really indulge. But what if you procrastinate and those few days turn into a few weeks? Then it's really easy to spiral and give up because your "last meal of freedom" has suddenly happened 30 times.

Recognize the cycle and stop it now. Even if a calorie deficit is intimidating, maybe try easing into it. If you've been gaining weight, maybe take a week to eat at your maintenance before going into a deficit.

Hope that helps!
- someone who's been pushing her diet back for almost a year and is tired of this

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In what ways did you change your relationship with food for sustainable/maintainable weight loss?

I'm coming to realize after having been overweight since my young teens, that I have a messed up relationship with food. Even now, no longer drinking soda, eating any sweets, completely having given up the junk food, it's still SO difficult for me to lose weight. I think I just consistently overeat. I would LOVE to hear from those of you further along in this journey than I am - how you changed your diet, habits and relationship to food for sustainable change. I really want to hack this once and for all so that I can stop yo-yoing and just being so uncomfortable in my body. I want to lose my 40 lbs and have them stay off. On paper I've done all the things, and am currently counting calories but that feels like white knuckling it. I want to know how to fundamentally change my approach to food and fitness so that I can truly maintain it over time. Please share your journey!

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Need some help

Hi I’m a 21F 177cm and 83 kgs

I have started my weight loss journey in 2022, and I was thriving, my original weight was around 90 kgs and I reached 75 this has been my lowest recorded weight. Ever since I returned back to my old eating habits and started gaining weight. Every time I decide to start dieting again I keep adding on more weight, my goal is about 68 kgs and I don’t know how to start correctly and gain willpower, as it has fallen down too much One thing that I struggle with is social events that involve eating I somehow just lose myself in these and end up ruining a weeks’ effort

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Dieting is so much harder when super stressed!

vent post, I guess

The overall win is that I'm managing to not regain, but I'm completely stalling my weight loss because I've got so much going on right now and it's oh so easy to overeat on a 1750cal diet (hate being a short girl when it comes to food!)

Like last night, I've been craving salty chips so I bought a big bag to share with my partner (over multiple days in theory)... and instead I ate half the bag and blew out my allowance by 400 calories, aka my whole deficit probably plus some

Which isn't so bad one day, but every few days going over adds up, and it's basically impossible to maintain a weekly deficit of any kind (especially when my little daily treat is all that keeps me going but that turning into a big treat has been my problem 🫠)

Worst part is, my ADHD dictates that if I stop seeing results for too long, it'll be super hard to keep trying and if I give up, who knows if I can restart and I have finally been getting myself healthy this year.

I'm just a mess and I'm getting tired... maybe I'll do better today now I've shared the struggle 😅

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Accomplished one of my silly goals.

Almost a year ago I posted this thread Weird Ways to Track Weight where I and others shared our strange ways of making the weight loss tracking more interesting.

Here's one of the ones I mentioned:

I have little kids so eventually I'll be able to stand on the scale with one of them and weigh less than I used to by myself.

My highest weight was just over 200. At his last doctor appointment my son was 42.9 pounds. Today I weighed in at 157.0. Together we're only 199.9!

I still have awhile to go to my major goals but it was fun achieving this one.

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Almost 20lbs down and I see no changes..

I am a 24 year old female and here's my weight information: Starting Weight: 250 Current Weight: 231 Goal Weight: 150

I have a long way to go in my weight loss journey... but now that I'm starting to see the number on the scale go down I was hoping I'd notice some changes in my body. I feel just as big. Does anyone else relate to this? 20lbs just seems like a lot of weight I just wish I noticed it. Anyone have advice on this? When did people start to notice your weight loss?

I'm definitely not discouraged! I still plan on continuing my diet to reach my goal weight. It's just irritating that I still look the same. Lol

Some context: I started my weight loss journey this April. My calorie deficit is 1,300 and I try my best to hit 10,000 steps a day. I've really only been following the CICO type diet.

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Any advice on how to safely achieve a calorie deficit if morbidly obese?

I posted last year about struggling with weight loss and I'm still struggling. I managed a calorie deficit for a short while and then couldn't maintain it and ended up undoing any good that had been done.

I am now 147kg/324lbs. 5'7.5". Female. 34.

I used this TEDD calculator and this body fat calculator which tells me that my maintenance calories are 1,775 a day. So, if I wanted a 500 calorie deficit to lose weight I am looking at around 1,200 calories a day. That is honestly terrifying. When I tried keeping a calorie deficit previously I was trying for 1,500 calories a day. That is what I am aiming for at the moment with an emphasis on upping my protein and I'm hungry all the time.

I'm wondering if I did the calculations wrong. Does it make sense to have a 1,775 maintenance calorie limit when my weight is that high? Before I put in my body fat percentage to the calculator it thought my maintenance limit was 3,027 which is more along the lines of what I was expecting. (If I'm right that maintenance is what your body is used to eating to keep you weight where it is?).

Anyone who is severely overweight, have you managed to restrict calories to 1,200 successfully? I want to do this in a way that is sustainable and I currently can't envisage how I would stick to 1,200 calories a day long-term (or even at all really).

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