I burned off 196350 calories - no one clapped. I did it anyway.

I wanted to share my story on here, because I’ve looked at social media influencers posting weight loss for clout, or sometimes worse; to feed their own ego. I’ll try to keep this short and to the point. In 2023, I was 110 kg. No muscle. No clue. Couldn’t even see my wrist bones, my veins, or better yet, my jawline. I was the fat kid who made people laugh so they had something other to focus on.

My clothes didn’t fit properly. I refused mirrors. I’d avoid photos like they could expose something I wasn’t ready to face. Every day felt like I was hiding behind something, until I got tired of hiding.

Time warp to 2025. I’m now 86 kg. Stronger, leaner, smarter. 49 gym sessions in. Don’t even ask how many calories that is, because frankly, I have no clue. But the title doesn’t lie, I actually burned off the equivalent of roughly 655 donuts, calculated at 300 kcal a pop. I counted. Roughly 200,000 calories.

I didn’t hire a coach. Didn’t ask an influencer. I opened ChatGPT and asked for guidende. ChatGPT helped me build my own plan, customised based on how I felt during my sessions. Although hard at times, I stuck to it. Even on days I wanted to quit. Even when the scale didn’t move. Even when nobody noticed. I kept going—because the version of me I was chasing didn’t have time to beg for validation.

I think people that are just starting their fitness/fat loss journey need to hear this. I don’t train to look good. I train to have a better chance of surgical success. I train to feel like I belong in my own body. I train to not be the guy people feel sorry for. I train to be impossible to ignore; even in silence.

You’ll never understand just how powerful it is to go from being fat in high school, being blamed, feeling out of the norm, to totally transform your body; and be truly proud of yourself. Unless you’ve been through it already. And trust me; its far better than pulling girls (don’t let this be your primary goal).

I’m not done. I’ll never be done. But if someone out there needs a sign to start?

Start now, so one day, you’re the one they don’t recognize.

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Body Recomp

I officially lost 60 pounds today and entered one-derland! I'm so proud of all of my hard work and dedication to myself.

I've been going to the gym, walking, running and playing pickleball and it's been firming my body up. Of course I have the extra skin that comes from weight loss and it's been difficult.

I know skin removal surgery is in my future and I'm not mad about it but I do have a question.

When did you see the most progress of weight loss on the lower part of your stomach? Were you a specific weight? Started doing specific exercises?

I've lost a bunch of visceral fat so it's much slimmer up top then the bottom part of my stomach and I'm happy about any of the fat I've lost, just getting unhappy about how it's looking.

I know you can't spot reduce and it will change in due time, I'm just curious of everyone else's experiences with it.

Also, did you notice more rapid changes per pound of body weight once you got into the 100's? I've seen it said a few times so I'm starting to get excited on seeing even more changes as I lose more.

Thanks!

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what’s it like to be thin?

especially after never having been thin before?

i’m looking to hear from people who’ve lost a significant amount of weight, particularly those who, like me, have never experienced being thin at any point in their lives—not even at their lowest weight.

what were some of the small, subtle changes you noticed after your weight loss? i’m not talking about the obvious stuff like clothing size or compliments from others, but more personal, everyday things—things that might seem minor to someone who’s always been thin but stood out to you.

were there physical changes that surprised you? things you could suddenly do that you couldn’t before? how did it feel, emotionally or mentally, to move through the world in a different body?

i’d love to hear the little things—those moments that made you stop and think, “oh wow, this is new.”

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NSV: Waist dog leash

I (NB, 26yo) started trying to lose weight about one year ago after being diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and was determined to make sleeping without the CPAP a few nights a year possible.

Through a mixture of well-rounded and frequent eating, and distance running, I lost 50lbs. When I started running with my dog I could barely wear the seatbelt-style dog leash at the smallest point of my waist right under my chest, which made me feel extremely dysphoric. I had my husband take a photo of me today during our run and I can wear the leash at my hips. I could even tighten it if I wanted to.

It feels good to have practical measures of weight loss. I hope that soon I can give my dog an extra inch or two of leash!

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How much weight lifting is too much?

I’m new to the aspect of losing weight and changing my lifestyle. SW:287 CW:261 GW:220??? 42 m.

I have been losing weight since the begin of February. I keep an eye on what I eat, cut out sugary drinks, excess beer (sticking with bourbon neat) and I am increasing my steps to minimum 10K a day. I recently got a cable weight machine and have been lifting weights the last 4 days in a row. This is what I have been roughly working on:

Upright Row 20@25 15@30 15@35 15@45

Seated Row 20@45 20@55 15@65 15@75

Standing arm curl 15 @25 12@25 12@25 12@25

Vertical Chest Press sets of 15@ 55 15@55 12@65 9@75

Tricep Pushdowns 20@35 15@45 12@55 4@65

Lateral Pulldowns 20@55 15@75 12@85 7@95

Pec Contractor 15@45 15@55 7@65 8@65

My question is, is there too much lifting weights that would hinder my weight loss. I really want to lose my belly fat and upper chest fat. Want to not be so self conscious of my weight. I want to give myself a solid year at-least to get to a spot where I feel comfortable maintaining weight.

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What's a "healthy" rate of weight loss?

"Healthy" in quotes because I know it's a subjective term that varies from person to person.

I began calorie counting in February, on Feb 21st is when I weighed myself for the first time in a while at 177lbs. (I'm female, 28 years old, and 5 ft 4 in) Since then, I have eased myself into ~1600 daily calories at a ~375 deficit. I average between 8-9k steps per day, and exercise doing strength and cardio 3-4x per week on a regular schedule. According to the gym scale, I'm now at 168 lbs and have definitely noticed that my waist has shrunk a bit and my clothes fit looser.

I am curious, as I have never counted calories before, (in a non-disordered eating way) if this is a sustainable rate to be losing weight at, as I don't want to end up crashing out because I was being too hard on myself, or being impatient and wanting to speed the process along.

I've lost just about 10 pounds in about 5 weeks - is this a sustainable weight loss rate or should I ease up?

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losing around friends who have had restrictive EDs

this is a hard one, and i think i have to make a hard decision that might impact my friendship but i want to make sure that i am NTA if i choose to do this.

so i an currently on a weight loss journey, and i have officially lost around 35 from 235 and have at least 50 more pounds to go. while i have been losing weight, i have been keeping silent about me intentionally losing weight because some of my friends have a history with restrictive EDs. as someone who has (pointlessly) gone through ED treatment lite for restriction, i have seen that they tell all people, big or small, that intentionally losing weight is pointless and doing things like calorie restriction will just lead to you gaining all of the weight back and being unhappy, even if you lose all of the weight. while i understand that for people who are very underweight/deep into their ED this is helpful information, its definitely not information that obese people need to hear. unfortunately this ideology is something that my friend has due to being in treatment, so bringing up healthy or unhealthy weight loss with her is pointless at best and triggering for her at worst.

so my friend had a restrictive eating disorder and had to go to inpatient treatment for a little bit and she left inpatient treatment around 2 years ago. since she’s been back, ive noticed that she will wait for me to eat/order something to eat and get visibly annoyed or upset when i don’t eat and won’t eat as well, which is something that is new and has only started happening after she got treatment. of course this made me upset but i felt like if i said something she would act like i was making it up!

the hard part about this is that we have been eating lunch and dinner together almost daily so it makes it hard for me to focus on my calories and nutrition and things when im also worried about not triggering her. an eating pattern that i’ve noticed when im around her is that i will eat more/be more careless with what im eating when im around her because of the guilt that i feel, which obviously is NOT her fault but its something ive noticed about myself. she also jokes about being skinny/weight loss/eating disorders but has undefined boundaries that im not really sure about so i thought it was okay to joke about it too. well apparently it wasn’t because she blew up on me and told me to stop talking like that around her (which is totally valid) but made me realize i had to make a change for myself too. so i think after today i wont be eating around her and sharing meals with her because its slowing down my progress and triggering me and i dont want to trigger her as well.

does this make me an asshole? i feel like this confrontation is a really good time to place some concrete boundaries so that neither of us are triggered or hurt. i will, of course, also cease to talk about or joke about weight loss in any fashion, which is something that ill admit that i shouldn’t have done in the first place.

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