when do you weigh yourself?

Hello everyone!!

F24, HW: 227 CW: 217

I've posted a couple times in this sub about my weight loss journey and everyone has been so nice, so involved, so cool. I treasure this community and I don't feel so alone on my way to my goal weight.

I've been weighing myself at night, around an hour or two after dinner, and i use that weight to track my progress - since I feel it is more accurate than a morning weight measurement.

Last night I hit 217.8 - maintained since last week - and was overjoyed, I've had some period issues and had my MIL over on Saturday (which led to eating out... hard to keep a deficit if you eat out twice in one day!) so seeing the scale stay the same instead of rising was awesome. I'm now down 10lbs from my heaviest!

I then weighed myself this morning and weighed a cheeky 215.2lbs. Felt like a kid sneaking a cookie, haha.

My question is this - when do you guys weigh yourselves? i find evenings to be the most accurate, but maybe I'm wrong!

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Am I doing this weight loss stuff right?

Hi! I am 27 and 5’3. I weight 163 and I would like to lose about 20-25lbs. I started exercising and attempting to eat better on Jan 25th. At most I lost two pounds since then. Not only am I trying to lose weight but I am also trying to adapt a new healthier lifestyle that I can stay consistent with. Since Jan 25th I have been going to the gym 4 times a week doing two upper body and two lower body days with dumbells only. I include 10-20 mins of cardio (stair master or treadmill) with my workouts depending on the time I have that day. My lower body days include 3 sets of 10-15 reps of RDLS, Bulgarian splits, squats, hip thrusts, goblet squats, split lunges, step ups. Upper body days - 3 sets of 8-12 reps of chest press,dumbbell rows, lateral raises, bicep curls, shoulder press and 4-5 abs workouts. On my rest days ill try to walk for 30 mins or ill go to the gym and do stairmaster for 30 mins. My diet consists of eggs toast and a fruit or homeade oatmeal and fruit fore breakfast with normally a homeade turkey sandwhich with wheat bread for lunch and for dinner ill usially have chicken rice and a veggie and water through out my day. I barely tend to snack but I do tend to overindulge on the weekends. I feel that my weight loss progress is slow for starting over a little over a month ago. I have noticed some definition on my biceps and my glutes have been a bit more noticeable. I worry that im eating too much and doing too little cardio which can be slowing down my weight loss. I try to eat 1700-1800 calories a day. I dont hard track them but I am always looking at the labels and trying to be conscious every meal as best as i can. Its quite discouraging when i see many women or men on here lose 10-15 pounds in just a month. I would appreciate some advice or improvement. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

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I realized that food saved my life

In June I was ready to kill myself. I didn’t because of food. I had just lost 46 lbs and was at my lowest weight ever at the time. But I still wasn’t happy. I didn’t think I had anything to live for and I couldn’t see a way out. So I ordered pills online and decided to end my life. The day came and I decided, fuck it, I can break with my healthy diet and eat and drink whatever I want before I kill myself. So I binge drank and ate and bought and smoked weed. Ultimately I never killed myself but just started binging every day. I gained back all the weight I worked so hard to lose and now I’m fatter than ever, probably around 200 lbs at 5 6. I have recently found a way out but now I am faced with the weight loss again and it is so hard. Right now (even though I have a way out in the future) food is still my only thing to live for. So I am stuck. Food saved my life in a way but it is also killing me at this point and I am so tired of having this horrible addiction and fighting and I don’t know what to even do at this point.

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I wish it was just a little easier

I’m overweight and I have always been since I was a child. I was a very active kid played sports year round and I was good not just a participation kid. But I’ve always been heavier which has always caused me shame. I had a golfing opportunity for college and I ended up tearing my ACL in high school and that is when I started gaining so much more weight. I had surgery and everything went downhill. I was in college doing physical therapy for 6 months just to get back to normal functioning. I ended up having some mental health issues and got put on some heavy medications that caused a lot of weight gain. I steadily gained weight as I tried different medications to stabilize my mental health. I continued to work out at least twice a week through college and graduate school but the weight kept coming. I ate decent not the healthiest but not a ton of food either. I quit drinking alcohol almost 9 years ago and didn’t lose weight. I’m 31 now and my knee has been giving me trouble. I met with the doctor today and he says I will need knee replacement surgery eventually but I’m still young so we want to hold off as long as possible. He also said I would have to lose weight before I could have the surgery which I know and believe me I’m trying. But with the pain from my knee walking is hard right now. We are trying cortisone shots right now to hopefully help with the pain so I can get back in the gym. My problem is these mental health medications the ones that work make me gain so much weight. I’ve gained 60 pounds since May because of the medications. I’ve been eating the healthiest I’ve ever eaten since I was in high school. I don’t drink sugary drinks or eat junk food but on occasion. I’ve had lab work done and everything is normal. I feel so defeated because I need to lose weight but I can’t walk because of the pain. I can’t come off my medications because I end up in the mental hospital without them. My insurance doesn’t cover weight loss medication and I’m embarrassed to go to the gym. I’m more determined than ever to lose the weight I want to go to the gym and I want to feel better. I don’t even know where to start. I just wish it was a little easier to lose weight and not so easy to gain it.

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Encountered an unexpected issue since losing some weight?

Hi all.

I've been a lurker/reader of this community since starting my own weight loss journey in Jan of this year. I've been in a deficit and have implemented daily walking for a couple of hours into my evenings every day, and thankfully I'm on my feet all day at work anyway, and I've dropped 3 sizes since then which I'm quite proud of. I think I'm most proud that this is my first attempt (very long overdue) and I've actually managed to persist and stick to everything.

The issue I'm facing is.... an unexpected one that's a bit hard to put into words? At least eloquently haha. Before I started losing weight, I had, unsurprisingly, a difficult time seeing myself which developed into also having difficulty being able to physically touch my body e.g. my hand brushing my stomach when getting dressed, or feeling my arms when putting them in sleeves and so on. This started to go away when I started to drop sizes after a couple of weeks this year.... but now that I'm down 3 sizes, and my body is becoming smaller (even if I can't 'see' it myself yet?) I'm facing this issue again all of a sudden, but for the opposite reason? I put my hand in my shirt recently to pull up my bra strap and brushed my collarbone. For the first time in a very long time, my collarbone looks and feels more prominent, which makes sense given the weight loss... but I retracted my hand quickly and felt the same way I did when this used to happen whilst 'accidentally' feeling the extra weight. I can't touch there, my neck, my wrists and certain points on my arms without feeling this almost repulsion or flinching / being a little bit freaked out by how it feels.

Disgust feels too strong a word? But it's uncomfortable for sure. Icky? Maybe it just feels wrong? But I don't know wether or not to be concerned essentially. Does anyone else have any experience with this by any chance? It makes sense that I used to feel this way when unhappy with my body, but I'm happier than I've been in many, many years at the moment, and did not expect to feel this way about being smaller. I'm a bit worried it'll continue or only grow worse as I continue towards my goal weight, which is a bit of a significant jump.

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how much is reccomended here

I keep trying to diet, I came off a 50kg weight loss diet a year ago but I gain 10kg back (currently 85kg, 6'3, male). I have the self control to probably loose it again but I am very physically active and I don't want to loose muscle.

I go to the gym 5 days a week for 9 hours total and do 2 hours of cardio and a 16k walk on weekend. I keep trying to start dieting again but 2 days into it I feel physically terrible until I eat. I need energy for the rest of my day and I value gaining strength and muscle more than weight loss but I still want to loose weight if possible. What sort of figure am I looking at in terms of calories,

I eat very healthy, oats for breakfast, chicken breast for lunch, mince and sweet potato for dinner sort of thing with maybe a ham sandwich if I need a quick easy snack. I eat probably an average of 180g of protein a day and 100g of carb a day

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30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 3

Hello everyone! Happy March!

Let’s talk day 3.

Log weight in Libra and share here: Missed this AM. Trend weight 377.2 lbs.

Fruit or veg with every meal, dessert once a week: Breakfast - 🍌 Lunch - 🫑🧅🧄 (meal prep chili) Dinner - 🥦

2,000-2,300 calories: 2,007 ish, air fryer salmon and roasted veggies with fruit for dinner, meal prep chili for lunch, boiled eggs and a banana with a fancy coffee for breakfast. Fruit intermixed when I need a little pick me up.

Log tomorrow’s meals: I have pre logged meal prepped breakfast and lunches for the work week ahead. Tomorrow’s dinner is going to be chicken thighs and roasted veggies.

Don’t spend $ outside of preset weekly budget: On it. Did some pre budgeted spending for a party for my partner’s bday next weekend.

Find a way to enjoy moving my body everyday: Going to take me for a walk. Also trying to shove in more incident movement into the day to deal with some body anxiety. When you can feel the anxiety sitting in your body like an itchy wet suit made of pipe cleaners, you gotta try to move it out. 2/3 days.

Today's gratitude or laugh list: Today, I’m grateful for my family of choice & the people I work with that are not annoying AF. I found joy in the sunshine and comfort in some programming about weight loss on Discovery plus.

Be outside or meditate (sensory grounding) for 5 minutes: Going to check the mail and I took a short little walk about outside during my lunch break. I will meditate before bed. Again, really trying to ground out some anxiety I have been really feeling in my body.

Self-care activity for today: Gonna take a lovely shower and do all the skin care. I’m also going to have a fun time wrapping my partner’s birthday gifts. I love wrapping gifts. I’m a happy little goth elf with my gift wrap station.

How was your day 3 folks?

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