Body recomp is so hard and discouraging

I'm going back into weight loss journey for the 4th time in my life. Since I really wanted it to be lasting I decided to join the gym instead of running 3x times a week for 3 (summer) months and leave it at that like I used to do it previously.

I started in May and I definitely see the difference in the mirror but I only lost 3 pounds. It drives me crazy and is so discouraging for a person who associates weight loss journey with exactly that - weight loss. I know, in my head, that muscles are heavier than fat, that it takes time but I'm kinda in a low place right now and don't feel it in my heart. I enjoy strenght training more than I did running but the results are slower. I hope they will be longer lasting since I can go to gym year-round and I can only run outdoors in the summer due to smog.

I don't know what is the point of this post, I guess I just wanted to share my hardships in the hope that someone here already passed them and can share a success story to show me that it's hard but possible and worth it.

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Struggling with acceptance

Hi all,

I am just at the cusp of losing 100 pounds. I started my journey last May. I’m about 2 pounds shy of 100 pounds down.

Went from 286 to 188. I’m 5’3.

Im struggling because I thought I would be really happy. And i am going to feel happy when I officially hit 100 pounds down. However the last few days I have felt really down on myself and depressed about my body. Because even though I’ve lost so much I still look in the mirror and see my old self 99% of the time. I struggle to see a real difference, apart from the times I catch my reflection in an off angle or a flash of a moment. I know I went from a size 22 to a size 14 but I still just view myself as a failure body-wise.

Anyone else struggle with this? How did you deal with it? Of course after going through long and emotionally difficult plateaus I am ready to keep going, but it’s just hard feeling like I have gotten to this major marker and I still feel uncomfortable and not confident in my skin.

Right now I’m coping by setting my focus on my first weight loss goal: 164 pounds.

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I’ve lost 52lbs in the last 52 weeks, thank you very much r/loseit community.

I started my weight loss journey 52 weeks ago and as of yesterday I hit 52lbs of weight loss. When I started last year I was 8 months postpartum and still breastfeeding. In the lead up to my weight loss I didn’t have the mental or physical energy worry about my weight, but had really secretly hoped that it would naturally fall off from breastfeeding. So when started feeling like I was returning to a normal person I stepped on the scale to find that not only had I NOT lost any weight, but I had gained 4lbs since the last time I had weighted myself putting me at 189lbs. I redownloaded My Fitness Pal that day and started tracking my calories.

Since I was breastfeeding, and my goal was to make it at least until my baby was 12 months, I consulted an online calculator someone recommended in the breastfeeding Reddit sub. I customized my calories, to that and have been counting my calories nearly everyday since then, with a two week break around Christmas and in May when I went to Europe for vacation. I do intermittent fasting most days, and two days a week I will eat OMAD. I started out walking and then eased back into running to try avoid injury. I now run about 4 days a week for 30 minutes at an easy pace (I did end up injured anyway 🙄).

When I weaned my little one in December, I set my calorie goal to 1lbs a week, I also ended up switching to the LoseIt app in September. But lately my calorie allotment has been tighter and tighter and I can feel it.

My original goal was to get to 135,now that I’m within 2lbs, I decided I want to keep losing since I don’t think I’m at my ideal weight yet but more slowly than a pound a week. I’ll do a custom goal for that puts me closer and taper that to a half lb a week until I’m good and then taper to maintenance.

I’ve really relied on r/loseit for advice and reality checks. So thank you everyone 🙏🏻. This community absolutely played a part in all the work I’ve done in the past year.

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has anyone else experienced this, when I lost a big amount of weight the “positive” comments people made triggered me so much

When I lost weight I got more attention from my family and friends, and women. Many comments were positive but you know, they were insulting my old self knowing that I had been fat for 80% of my life.

I felt so uncomfortable every time because im that person still, im still the same guy, I just ate less for a period of time.

I always knew people dislike fat people for just existing, I’ve been living it at my life. Ive had many instances where people just hate me from the first time they meet me because of the weight, people see you as being less than.

I hate that my weight loss made people feel comfortable with insulting who I was before. Plusim an introvert so every conversation being center around my weight was just weird to me.

It hurt hearing people tell me how they felt about me and my weight, they wouldve never told me anything before. But now that I lost the weight it was a free for all for weird comments about my body.

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Getting fit and healthy but always getting sick

Hello folks.

For the past 7-8 months I've been on a weight loss and getting fit journey. When I am well I am doing really good. Problem is though I seem to catch every single virus there is going and I end up having to take two weeks out of training to recover.

Question is, is this due to training and eating healthy? Taking too much out of myself? Or is it just because I have kids (germ magnets) and lock downs doing a number on us all?

So far this year I've had

Flu A Covid Bronchitis. Tonsilitus And now a bad cold

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What foods/minerals/vitamins helped you with diet fatigue?

Hi all,

I've been losing weight for about 14 weeks, and went from 82kg to 68kg eating (mostly) in a range of 1200-1300kcal and doing cardio everyday. I had been feeling energized - I haven't been working during this time, and yet my days have been much longer. I used to work flexible hours and always wake up late, but since quitting I've been following a good schedule in the evenings and waking up every single day at 6:30am, staying busy with studies and physically active. My mental health is much better, so my motivation is in an all-time peak.

In the past couple of weeks, though, diet fatigue has started to creep in. It hasn't affected my sleep much, and I don't feel sleepy during the day either, but I feel physically weaker. I had comprehensive blood work done a few weeks ago, so I know for a fact I'm not deficient in anything - iron, vitamin b12, vitamin d.

Other than the obvious factor of having been consuming less calories over a period of time, which is literally fuel for my body, I have some ideas of what could be causing this, but would love some recommendations and to read what might have worked for those of you that have gone through this.

• I'm wondering if my macro ratios need to be adjusted. Right now, the split is 20% protein, 43% carbs and 37% fat. I've always struggled with protein and have made a genuine effort to increase my intake, so there are days in which it is the same as carbs. Also, I do eat in a range, so when I eat less calories (closer to 1200 than 1300) carbs are the ones that I sacrifice. Not consciously, but because I mind protein more, that's what tends to happen;
• My diet is naturally low in salt. I don't eat much outside and don't use it a lot in my meals, so I'm often somewhere between 1000-1500mg. I also drink a lot of water (as well as unsweetened tea/infusions, and coke zero on occasion), so I'm wondering if this is causing some type of imbalance. It's probably between 2-3L per day, out of habit.

I'm a lifelong vegetarian. I eat a lot of vegetables (really, a lot), and fruit, so my diet is high in fiber. I haven't been hungry at all during this weight loss period, and, given that my meals are not usually high in calories, I can also snack comfortably and have not felt the need to cut anything off.

I should also mention that I've started to increase my calorie intake. As of this month, I intend to stay around 1400kcal/day and increase it by 100 every month until November, then stay in a very low deficit for 3-4 months, we'll see. My plan isn't dependant on the weight I'm at, since I'm likely to enter a healthy weight range this month and would consider anything after to be a nice bonus.

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the dark side of losing a huge amount of weight

By all means, I have to start off by saying weight loss was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have lose roughly 200lbs and have been able to maintain it for almost 2 years. I started at 398lbs in 2020. I am currently 26F.

Weight loss did fix alot of my problems. It also gave me a life I had never experienced. I have definitely experienced living in the past 2 years than I have in my entire life and for that I am thankful.

Now for the negatives.

1. My entire life and though process is calorie counting. If I stick to my calories, my mood is great, Ive done amazing, life is beautiful. If I go over my calories by even a few calories, my mood becomes trash, I get irritated, moody, etc.

2. My entire day revolves around food noise in the sense that Im either thinking of what to eat thats low calorie, when can I eat next, how to stretch every calorie, etc. its honestly exhausting. My husband can look in the fridge and throw a few things together and call it a meal. I have to plan carefully as to how I can engineer the meal to be the least amount of calories, highest amount of volume and highest amount of protein. Its EXHAUSTING.

3. I see more flaws in my body now than I did at 398lbs. maybe its because I care more and am harder on myself. But unfortunately I pick apart my body several times a day and on days where I am not mentally in the right mood, I cant look at the mirror without having an internal meltdown.

4. I am obsessed with the scale. I will be starving in the morning but refuse to weight until the exact same time every day before even getting a sip of water. Its a problem.

5. I have had 2 rounds of skin removal surgery and one follow up procedure. You would think it would be enough. Nope, Im going back in for another procedure to remove even more skin in some areas Im not happy about. It never ends. My husband tells me he finds my body so normal and beautiful but I cant seem to convince myself I am happy with it and I think I can always make it look better. Im sick of myself too.

6. I am terrified of having babies because I dont want to ruin my body again. I am so worried Ill gain weight or stretch out my surgery results that I am dreading the idea of pregnancy.

7. yea thats it for now.

I just wanted to write this to say that weight loss is great but it wont fix everything. but its still worth it to lose weight to live an overall healthier life. Do I have these thoughts, yes. But if you look at my life as a whole, you will see that although I have my issues, I have come a long way and have really changed my life for the better.

But yea I should see someone. This is pretty much borderline if not already an ED or something.

Drop some of your pros and cons of weight loss. Or opinions. Happy friday.

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