Gym shoes

Hey everybody,

This is my first post here. I’m on my weight loss journey, at the very very beginning lol. I’ve been overweight my entire life, with varying levels of activity. I had nine surgeries in one year back in 2017, and I’ve been on what I call a bender ever since. I actually lost a lot of weight right before those surgeries, about 85 pounds, but ever since the surgeries I’ve gained 180-ish pounds and I’m pretty much completely immobile. I’ve finally come to that conclusion and I’m not okay with it, at all. I used to be a backpacker, and now I get winded walking to my kitchen. I can barely climb stairs, I cannot walk for more than five minutes, and I have tears in my hips from my weight. On top of that, I have the several spine issues I was born with, but they’re definitely worse off with this weight. I’ve been lying to myself for eight years that my issues are just from what I was born with, but that’s not true. Yes, I’m disabled, but my weight isn’t helping me at all and it needs to change.

I weighed myself three days ago for the first time in 6 months. I thought I weighed 331. I now weigh 357. I’ve downloaded a walking app, signed up at my local Y, and have been walking for 15 minutes on the treadmill the last few days. It is excruciating honestly. It hurts so bad. But I’m going to keep this up because I’m only 30 and I want to live and actually go do things outside with my friends.

Anyway, back to why I posted this. I have very limited mobility with my spine, does anyone have any recommendations for easier walking shoes to put on than regular gym shoes? Like maybe from an accessibility shop or something? I CAN put shoes on but it’s just extremely hard and I’d like to make actually getting out of my house and to the gym as easy as possible right now until I can get past the mental hurdle.

Thanks for being here. I’ve been lurking this subreddit for a week and yall are so kind to each other.

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What are your tips for staying mentally locked into your routine?

I’m a 5’6” 24 year old female who’s been overweight or obese since I was a teenager. I started losing weight when I weighed 230lbs (2018) and went on my best streak of weight loss over 2 years to get down to 170lbs.

Over the past 4 years, I have regained some weight and yo-yo’d between 185-200lbs. I have experimented with all kinds of diet and workout regimes, found what worked for me and what didn’t. Learned I can stay away from binging if I allow myself some of my favorite sweets instead of going cold turkey, etc.

I’m still proud of myself for my initial weight loss, for not giving up, and generally improving my health and fitness despite my mistakes. But every single time I get to a weight where I start to feel confident, I start allowing myself to slip here and there and before I know it I am back up 5-10lbs. I am under 185lbs for the first time in 2 months, and this is generally when I start to have this problem.

I’m aware that this happens to me around this weight yet I can’t seem to break the cycle even after acknowledging that I’m going to start wanting to eat more. Eating clean and exercising makes me feel so good, why do I always allow myself to fall back into takeout/restaurant food/sweets?? Sometimes I don’t even crave the junk that I eat, some days I have a huge calorie deficit and I think “might as well, while I can (calorically) afford it”

What has helped you to break these habits?

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I know BMI get a bad rap but...

But what should I use for a gauge? I've got just a little bit of fat left to lose and I will have reached my goal, but if I get below 150lbs I will be considered underweight according to the BMI chart.

The fat in question is two maybe fist sized deposits in my lower back on either side above my hips.

I just weighed myself and I'm at 165, but probably closer to 167 actually. I'm slightly dehydrated and coming off of a fast. Not sure what the average number is but I think I carry around at least a couple pounds of food in my intestines in various stages of digestion, so that will come back over the next few days.

Anyway, is the 150lbs number okay to use as a lower limit? Can I get lighter than that?

Ive never really been able to talk to anyone in person about weight loss. Due to my body frame and having a good eye for clothes I didnt look overweight when I was at my heaviest (218 lbs) so any time I bring up weight loss goals people say stuff like "you look fine". Same thing they say when I'm over 50 lbs lighter. But that's just like...

Their opinions, man.

I want to get rid of these love handles , is the only way by reducing body fat%? Would it be more efficient at this point to eat closer to maintenance calories with just a light cut and try to build muscle mass to decrease bf% or keep cutting.

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42 lbs down in 90 days

So roughly 90 days ago I went to weight loss clinic and had myself weighed and found I was 400 pounds. This was a wake call for me and realized I had to make some changes asap. Cut out fast food and sweets and i started intermittent fasting 16/8. I also started lifting 3x weekly, walk 10000 steps and track my calories religiously. I don’t think the lifting really helped that much mostly think the weight loss came from cico. I weighed myself the other day and I was 358. I still have lot to loss but I have been so happy. I had to tell someone, so here a I am. I read a lot of the tips on here and joined cico reddit it has been lots of help. So, I just wanted to say thanks for some the advice you guys have given me. And I am just going to stick to what i have been doing.

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Unbelievable weight loss for me

For a long time I thought it was impossible for me to lose weight since I've been big all my life. I tried to lose before, but had a lot of food noise and obsessive thoughts about food. Well back in April I had to get dental surgery which limited the foods I could eat. For the first week I ate only soups and the food noise and obsessive thoughts was making me crazy since I couldn't eat what I wanted. However by week 2 the food obsession just disappeared and for the first time in my life I felt hungry. However when I finally started to eat I realized that I could use this opportunity to try and lose the weight this time since I'm not obsessing over food like I used to. Since I live at home and have no income I eat what my family eats. My family is a big family so it was easy for me to become 393lbs. I decided the best way for me to lose the weight was the stop snacking and to half all my portions. I still ate pizza or hotdogs, but I halfed my portions. I noticed over the next few weeks my body began to feel a bit lighter, I feel different. I thought it was just me being delusional and in my head. However I just came back from the doctor today and I was shocked. My current weight now is 379lbs. I lost 14lbs in two months. The nurse was shocked as was I and asked me what I was doing to lose that much weight.

Even as I'm sitting here I am floored that I actually lost that much weight so quickly. I think I can actually do this and lose all this weight. I am super happy right now and I'm super excited to continue pushing myself and keeping track of my portions and losing the weight. If you currently are really big like me and think it's impossible to lose the weight, it's not. I'm gonna update when I go to the doctor next month to see how much I lose next time. I'm so happy I wanted to cry when I walked out of the doctors today.

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Five Months into it and unsure where to end

Hey All, I'm a 36 year old male, who started at 210ish pounds at the beginning of the year to get to 167 just this week. I've been cutting calories using the Lose It! app, and trying to get 10,000 steps per day, drinking 3 bottles of water per day (after hardly ever getting any water ever), and that's basically all I've done. I've hit the gym a total of three times, but that's basically it as far as fitness goes.

At the beginning, my goal weight was 160, which I think I'll hit by the end of June or beginning of July. A total of 50 pounds seemed like a good goal. Now that I'm looking at BMI, I'm seeing the middle of the "normal" BMI would be around 22, which would be about 150 pounds. I'm okay with continuing (though I'm getting a bit burned out as of writing this and can't wait to not feel guilty about eating those "unhealthy" foods), but I don't know when to go to maintenance.

Also, as stated above, I haven't made going to the gym a priority, mainly because my goal is to lose weight, not gain muscle. And my workouts have been from walking/jogging. Also on that note, I started to do more running than walking, but I think I saw some slow down in my weight loss so I've been slowing down on running. I'd like to run and go to the gym, but that's not much in my personality like others, so I'd be doing the more "sweaty workouts" dragging my feet and kinda hating it at the same time.

Any advice one could give me? Specifically about goal adjustment and work outs? Thanks!

Edit: Also, does anyone have any issues with lightheadedness when they get up from a laying down? I'm also cold most of the time. Just seeing if I'm not the only one and if there are any remedies.

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I feel guilty

So I started my weight loss journey around 2 months ago, and yes I’ve lost 5kg’s. But I had a cheat day like a week ago and I couldn’t control myself since, when I see anything I kept saying “this is my last” “this definitely won’t affect it’s just one time” “what even are calories? It’s definitely some made up stuff by humans” And now I’ve travelled so I ate a lot. Like A LOT. At the restaurants, street food, snacks, everything (especially pizzas, which are so high in calories) . And I’ve gained it all back in one week and a half. It took me 2 months to burn, and I gained it all back. I feel so guilty. I don’t even know what to do anymore. Did this ever happen to anyone? Like I literally feel the regret squeezing my heart I can’t even explain it.

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