Weight loss tips and tools

Hi, I am 25(F) currently 143lbs. My highest was 147.71lb. My goal weight is 125lb.I started taking weight loss seriously in July 2024. I have been going to the gym 3-4 times every week since then. Some days strength training, some days cardio. I tried KETO 1-2 times during this period of July- September 2024. I am unable to continue that diet. I’ve always had a habit of emotional eating. Since July I’ve been stressing a lot about my weight, I don’t see the scale move much, I don’t see any visible changes in my body. I am eating 1200-1400 calories each day. Today I measured myself and it was exactly the same as in June2024. I am a bit disheartened to see all that work but nothing to show for it. What apps or resources or tips can I use to help me in this situation ?

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It Can Be Done: Six Months of Managing CICO

M36, 5’8”, SW: 255, CW: 209, GW: 185? 175?

Hello, all. I’ve been looking forward to making this post. When I started on 3/15 of this year to get serious about my weight loss, I was daunted to say the least. I knew I had 50+ pounds to lose before I could even think about pursuing a lot of what I wanted to do in the second chapter of my life. I thought that level of weight loss would take years that would run out the remainder of my relative youth. I felt a lot of shame having gone from a fit guy in his early 20s with the confidence that brings to being morbidly obese and deeply unhappy with the way I looked and felt, not to mention my weight holding back progress on managing the intense grief I feel from having lost my wife to cancer two years ago. I can’t fully blame personal tragedy for the state of my health. I had bad habits for many years. I have forgiven myself for my actions during both periods and resolved to simply start losing the weight. As an only parent to a toddler, I knew I couldn’t allow myself to succumb to an early heart attack and orphan my son. As a widower seeking a second chapter of love, I simply wasn’t attractive and wasn’t going to get the opportunity to form connections at that weight.

Here’s where I am, 181 days later:

https://imgur.com/a/uNhKMVl

https://imgur.com/a/CbI3vTL

https://imgur.com/a/3ttFP4B

I have lost in six months what I thought would take two years or longer. While I’m not satisfied with where I am, I am ecstatic with my progress. I aim for a 750 calorie deficit per day, although I regularly fail. in fact, my calorie logging indicates I’ve eaten, in total, at maintenance over six months! Clearly, my TDEE and restaurant calorie assumptions are pretty conservative. I chalk this up to decent genetics (my siblings are pretty fit with some effort) and residual effects of intense weight training when I was younger. Except for an occasional long swim or Peloton ride, I’ve taken a long walk almost every day. I average just shy of 10,000 steps per day. That’s nearly 500 miles further than what I would have walked without making the effort consciously.

I have at least another 25 pounds to lose, if not more. I’m beginning the Jim Wendler 5/3/1 weight lifting plan as suggested by the r/Fitness community. Meeting both my strength and weight loss goals means I have probably another 12 months of activity ahead of me before I can enjoy any form of long-term maintenance.

If you’re like me, you went searching for the success story of someone with similar starting characteristics to convince yourself this is possible. Well, it is. Just get started.

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Opinions on bullying about weight loss

So I was just curious about what everyone thinks

When I was somewhat overweight (I was about 185 pounds when I usually sit at 140-150) and I knew that I put on weight, obviously I didn’t feel very great about it. A good amount of my buddies would make fun of me calling me names like fatty and what not, the usual things you hear from someone being an asshole. Now that I think back is that is honestly what fuelled and gave me the motivation to wanna get into the gym and kinda give them an f you for when I ended up losing the extra weight.

I was just curious, obviously fat shaming isn’t okay at all but curious if anyone else have had a similar experience to me and how much it motivated me. I honestly think that if I wasn’t made fun of so much I wouldn’t have tried that hard to lose weight

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How to get back to it?

I was consistently losing weight since March, and lost about 50 pounds. I think I hit 175ish around mid-July/early August?

But then I got covid, so wasn't able to get in any physical activity for the second half of July. After I recovered, in early August I injured my back while lifting, then sprained my ankle at the end of August. Now I won't be able to properly work out until October.

A huge reason for my weight loss was because I was finally able to change my eating habits because I was in college and away from my parents. I was making my own food. Then in the summer, my parents kept insisting I eat their food and I refused most of the time, but once I was sick/injured I had to eat that food since I was unable to cook myself (and I had no idea about the calorie count, it was all estimation). Now I'm finding I am going back to those terrible habits that took me so much mental work to break. Like eating out, buying junk food, eating until I'm stuffed. It's almost as bad as it was before I started working on those things. I still do track my calories and I am in fact, going over maintenance :(

Basically I have been measuring in around 175-180 pounds since August-present, though I am not sure how much of it is water weight because I have been eating quite bad, but certainly have not been losing weight. So I'm kind of maintaining/gaining weight, but I do eat over sedentary maintenance a lot of days (though at the moment I am unsure how to measure my activity level because I am walking to classes and such). I'm also not sure how much of it is water weight, but I have for sure not been losing weight.

Not being able to get in activity is awful because I would go and dance or lift instead of eating out of boredom, and now I can't do any of those things so I tend to eat out of boredom. I do walk to my classes so these days I get in about 8-10k steps a day, but I am trying not to do any extra walking so that I don't aggravate my ankle any more.

It's so disheartening because I wanted to be at 154 and finally be at a normal weight by the end of the year, but these things have pushed back my progress so much. I've also lost a lot of my motivation to lose weight just because I'm at home all the time now.

I've been dancing before I event started the deficit in March and I attribute a lot of my weight loss to dancing, so just not being able to distract myself from food like that is so upsetting.

I just don't know how to get back into losing weight, any advice?

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★OFFICIAL WEEKLY★ Medication Mondays: Tales of Transformation – Discuss Your Weight Loss Drug Journeys!

In our weekly recurring thread, "Medication Mondays: Tales of Transformation," we invite users to openly share and discuss their experiences with weight loss medications. This dedicated space aims to foster a supportive community where individuals can exchange insights, challenges, and triumphs related to their weight loss journeys. Whether you're currently on a medication regimen, considering it, or have successfully navigated this path, this thread serves as a valuable resource for gaining diverse perspectives and guidance. From sharing dosage details to discussing lifestyle changes and potential side effects, participants can engage in constructive conversations that empower and inform. The collective wisdom shared in "Medication Mondays" not only builds a knowledge base but also creates a sense of camaraderie, fostering a community that understands the nuances of using weight loss medications.

This is not a space to seek out medications without appropriate prescriptions or discuss using the medications in a way that violates our "No Promoting or Encouraging Unhealthy Weight Loss Methods" rule.

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F/22 Mom is unsupportive of weight loss

F/22 SW: 294 CW: 235.7 GW: 145 Total Loss: ~60 lbs over 9 months.

I’m really really proud of myself over how far I have come and I have no plans to stop but my mom is really negging me all the time about my eating habits. The other day I was making eggs, a whole wheat English muffin and making a breakfast sandwich with the eggs, muffin, some spinach, etc. She walks over to me and says “I’m feeling snacky, I’m going to make muffins. They’re not good for you but oh well, you don’t have to eat good for you all the time” I just continue making my food not acknowledging her comment and walk away and go back to work. Keep in mind, I eat “unhealthy” things but in moderation! A few days go by and my boyfriend comes over, he brings some protein bars, some pop corn, other miscellaneous things and she’s pawing around his stuff and she makes a face and looks at me and goes “Oh! He eats just like you do!” I just go “Yeah” and continue on doing what I’m doing. She’s constantly critical of my food “That looks gross. I don’t like that. Sounds disgusting” when she asks me what I’m eating I have just said “You won’t like it” and 9/10 times she doesn’t and I relish in her disgust. Dieting is fucking hard at times. Going to the gym is fucking hard. Having discipline is fucking hard. I do not understand the vitriol towards me literally bettering myself. How do you guys deal with things like that? I’m sure I’m not the only one. I don’t even force my lifestyle on my parents, they’re Type 2 diabetics. I cook dinner for them sometimes and they go out and get fast food. I make food for just me and I get negged? Thank you r/Loseit, you guys have helped me a lot as I have lurked. Just feeling embarrassed and outcasted. ❤️😞

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Scale is up. No inches lost. But the opposite of giving up.

I dont' care.

I was absolutely taken aback when I stepped on the scale and it was the highest it had been in years..... After spending the last month meal prepping macros by weight and in a calorie deficit, getting steps 5-12,000 steps a day in depending on the day,,100+oz of water and lifting heavy 2-4 times a week. I wasn't expecting a 20lb weight loss, but I sure as hell wasn't expecting the scale to go up.

I laid back in bed just to process what has just happened and tears filled my eyes for a second. I scoured through what I could be doing wrong.

As someone with a former eating disorder I know how to track calories/macros. Counting grams of everything from protein to condiments. I hadn't been perfect 100% of the time but it was consistently ~around~ that goal number, and a HELL of a lot better than the boxes of 4 Crumble cookies in a setting, or Tex Mex delivery for two, I had been consuming in the months or previous. I wasn't expecting something unrealistic. But I was absolutely not expecting the scale to go up by several pounds.

But I decided within a half hours time. I do not give a shit. This would be a fantastic opportunity to quit.... which will get me exactly no where. But I I KNOW I am doing all the right things. I can't explain the scale, but I am going to continue doing exactly what I'm doing.

My mental health has been fabulous the past month because of all these things. I have done all of these things in the past and achieved a body I wish I still had. So scale me dammed. Maybe it's just not enough time for the measuring tape to show anything. I am positive I am moving in the right direction.

So I guess I'm posting for accountability and to speak into the eather of the internet ---- this time, I'm not quitting.

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