People “jealous” of weight loss

Hello! Around January 2023 I started to lose significant amounts of weight without any explanation. In January 2024 I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was determined to be the root of the weight loss. I took this as an opportunity to change my eating habits and lose weight healthily. Because of my disease I cannot eat most foods and eating has become a miserable experience for me. I'm stuck eating the same 3 meals everyday and cannot keep food down some days.

I started at 195 and have now reached 140, so 55 pounds of weight overall.

After I dropped a noticeable amount of weight I started to receive comments on it from so many people. On one hand they felt validating, but the way people talked about it made me very upset and uncomfortable.

People would ask me how I lost the weight and I was always honest with them-- I am sick, and my disease prevents me from eating almost everything, and that has caused me to lose the weight.

This is almost always met with comments like "I'm sooo jealous; you are lucky; that seems like a blessing; I wish I had something to prevent me from eating the foods I like; etc" People have also started to be rude to me about it and comment on my eating patterns at social events.

I don't understand why people say these things. I am not lucky to have a disease. I am not lucky to miss out on eating foods that taste good.

Even though my weight loss has been intentional to a degree I just wish people would understand and take me seriously when I tell them that it wasn't "easy".

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Trying to recover

Hi i’ve been on a weight loss journey for a while now and i’ve been making progress which is really great but there’s a big problem that came with that. At one point during my journey, it felt like I had reached a point where all I thought about was how if I were to just eat one food that wasn’t in my diet i would lose all my progress. For example, last week i had gone out with family and had a couple of tacos (which i hadn’t had since i started my journey) and i felt extremely guilty and tried doing excessive amounts of exercise just to burn them off. I’ve been seeing on this app people trying to recover from feeling and thinking like that and I wanted to ask if anyone had any ideas or ways to try and get better from feeling guilty when I go a bit off my usual diet. Would really appreciate the advice.

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Feeling conflicted

SW 240 CW 190 GW 145-155

29 F 5'6

Hi all! I'm 11 months postpartum and have lost about 50lbs so far from my highest weight of 240. My pre pregnancy weight was 182, I was in the middle of a weight loss journey from gaining weight during COVID I went from 160 to 200. Growing up I was always thin and did sports (not by choice) my lowest at 5'6 was 120. That being said, now I spend a lot of time beating myself up on how I got here and what I did to my body. I went from one disordered eating (undereating) to another (overeating) and I just feel so disappointed in myself. I can't believe I've been overweight for almost 4 years. I know I shouldn't expect to get thinner overnight since I didn't gain all this weight over night.

What about this journey that's going well:

I'm slowly trying to build up healthy habits and daily movement that will be sustainable in the long term. Right now I've been consistently going on walks for at least 20 mins a day and another workout for 20-40 mins so an hour of activity 5x a week.

Food is the big one for me. I can't count calories because of my past, I know it would send me into an obsessive spiral. I've been mainly focusing on portion sizes, Whole Foods and high protein.

Recently a family friend saw me and commented that I'm looking good. It feels nice to be recognized but that the same time I'm so uncomfortable with my body and current size.

Sorry for venting!! I'm sure a lot of people relate and feel similar! Losing weight and having body issues feels so vulnerable.

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What do you think?

I was 205lbs and lost by eating less & working out to 180lbs and was stuck there forever. I went to the weightloss center and finally lost some more and now at 165lbs. The reason I went to the weight loss center(low carb/sugar/fat) is because I am going home(Korea) for a month and I want to enjoy time there eating whatever i want since it's been almost 5 years.

But now that I am at 165lbs, I feel like I don't want to gain all that 10lbs I've lost last month but also I do want to enjoy my 1 month vacation I will probably not have for next 5 years. So I am thinking about taking a weightloss pill just for 1 month. What would you recommend?

I never have taken weight loss pills because I don't believe in them. But I am thinking why not? If my goal is to just stay at 165lbs while I eat whatever I want in Korea....for 1 month. Thank you.

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14 days of vacation was the best thing in my weight loss journey!

I (F 19) started my weight loss journey around 4 months ago when I saw the scale is telling me I'm 163 pounds (74 kilograms). I'm five feet tall so I was technically obese. I've officially lost 21 pounds and I'm so happy for that.

I had a vacation coming up that i could NOT avoid. I was TERRIFIED of this vacation. I was afraid that i was gonna overeat and fuck up all my hard work.

I weigh everything with a kitchen scale and that was NOT available during my vacation. And I couldn't eat one big meal a day bc my extended family were there and i guess you all know how most people react to dieting. I decided that I'm gonna try my best to just eat small portions and I'm not gonna count the calories of my main meals. (I guess i should mention i rarely had any snacks during my vacation and when i did have snacks, I counted the calories of those snacks.)

Well the results were amazing. I realized that I'm not bad at guessing how much I should eat and I can maybe stop obsessing with my kitchen scale.

Keep in mind that I'm NOT saying using a kitchen scale is bad. It's a life saver and IMHO it's a MUST for people that wanna start their journey. But for those of you that have OCD (like me) and tend to obsess over weighing food, using a kitchen scale after some time MIGHT not be the best choice.

I realized that when I was so obsessed with weighing everything my brain was conditioned to believe that "if I eat less than 200 grams of white rice I'm not gonna be satisfied".

(In my culture, white rice is in ALL of our meals. So i basically cannot avoid it or "quit it")

But when i couldn't weigh my food, i ate way less than 200 grams of white rice and guess what? I was happy AND satisfied.

I did have 2 maintenance days on my vacation and unlike before i didn't feel guilty. (In my 4 months journey I only had 3 maintenance days). Also I did get to enjoy some ice cream on 2 days (didn't eat as much as everybody else though).

I came back from my vacation happy and satisfied. I also lost 2.5 pounds DURING my vacation. And I'm pretty sure it's not water weight or constipation weight bc i was not constipated and also it's been 6 days since I'm back and that 2.5 pounds is still gone!

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Is losing 1-2lb a week at 361lbs good or should I go faster?

So I’ve been on this journey for two years. I started off at 500lbs and am down To 361lbs currently after two years. I only just started tracking calories after going through a year of hovering from around 374lbs down to 361lbs. I wasn’t calorie tracking in the last year and therefore I think I didn’t lose anywhere near as much as I probably could have.

I only just started tracking calories recently and what I’ve noticed is both on the scales and in myfitnesspal I’m averaging out to 1lbs or just over 1lbs lost a week.

Currently my TDEE works out to 3100 cal. I’m averaging about 2500-2800 cal a day. I walk at least 15k steps every day (about 7km) and Gym it at least 4-5 days a week for an hour or so.

At 361lbs, is losing just over 1lbs a week considered good? Or should I be aiming to drop the calories even lower. Say aim for 2000cal a day.

I don’t know, maybe this is just me being too hard on myself. Lord knows based on other posts I’ve made I am WAY too hard on myself at times. I just see other people around me in the same weight range losing 4lbs in a week meanwhile for me, I see it fluctuate up and down and usually by the end of the week it seems to level down at just over 1lbs a week

And then I get down on myself thinking I’m not as good as others because I barely lost anything in a week by comparison and I think I should be melting it off at my size. At least that is my negative thought. It’s not a good way to look at this, I know. But it’s so hard not to compare yourself when social media shoves every weight loss journey in your face.

Good for those people btw, don’t get me wrong. I’m always happy to see people succeeding. But it does sometimes make me wonder “does that make me a failure because I’m barely losing over 1lbs a week and everyone else is killing it and doing it in half the time.”

I know, it’s a really bad mindset and it’s something I’m still trying to break as I continue to focus on me. I know comparison robs you of your joy. But fuck it’s hard not to compare when social shoves it in your face.

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Feeling tired, should I take a maintenance break?

30F, 5'2", SW 177 lbs, CW 157 lbs, GW 135 lbs

Basically title. I've read that it's okay to stay in a (reasonable) daily deficit until you're underweight, but I'm curious if folks tend to feel more energized if they take the occasional maintenance break.

Here's my situation:

I've been in a daily deficit of ~500-600 calories since I started tracking 73 days ago. 20 lbs down (11% weight loss, yay!). Of those 73 days, I've only eaten over my TDEE twice.

Besides calories, I also track my macros and pretty much always hit my targets. I eat very little processed food, get at least 100 g of protein every day (a huge win as a vegetarian), and take a daily multivitamin specifically formulated for a plant-based diet. I also exercise about twice a week (usually rock climbing) and walk my dog around an hour every day. Sleep-wise, 7-8 hours is the nightly norm.

In terms of nutrition and lifestyle, I've done better these last few months than ever before. Maybe too much screen time, but I have a desk job and love to veg out with a good show or video game, so what can ya do.

Nevertheless, I've been feeling quite worn out for the last two weeks and can't figure out why. Maybe it's hormonal, but I'm wondering if it may be because my body needs a short maintenance break. Is that a thing? Or do you think I should just keep on truckin' and hope the fatigue sorts itself out? Or (perhaps counterintuitively) should I try to exercise more and see if that helps to invigorate? I'd love to hear some outside perspectives/experiences!

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