Losing weight + being a stay at home mom, anybody else?

I’m a stay at home mom to an 11 month old. I started my weight loss about 80 (ish) days ago. Started at 315 and now down to 287. It’s been such a hard task to change my life completely surrounding food and exercise while caring for a baby, but it’s also been extremely rewarding and motivating.

I’d love to hear from other moms about their weight loss. Stuff like your lifestyle, what you do to stay active, your favorite dieting tips and hacks, favorite low cal meals?

I don’t have many mom friends and love some connections with SAHMs like me who’s on the same journey 🙂

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Keep going after the first month

Hi everyone,

I need to loose around 20 kilos. I put all that weight when due to depression. I went as high as 83 kilos and three years ago I managed to get to 64 kilos. My whole life I weighted between 53-56 kg.

Three years ago I moved in with my boyfriend and put some kilos back. Today I weight 75kg. I hate the way I look and I can’t even look at myself in the mirror.

Anyway, I’ve started counting calories and only a week and a half ago I’ve been consistently hitting my 10k per day. This week I started swimming (I’m aiming to go 2x or 3x per week). I’ve been counting my calories and my deficit is 1500.

I know it sounds silly but how in the world did you motivate yourself through the first month or so? I feel like I’m doing everything by the books right now and yet not losing anything. Last week I lost 700grams from Tuesday to Friday (probably water weight I know), and then I ate badly during the week and ended putting back 800 grams.

I just feel sad that I’m trying and trying and haven’t reach any results. I know is not going to happen so fast is just that I need a way to frame it differently.

How did you guys managed to push through the first part of your weight loss journey?

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Rapid weight loss

He guys this is my first post here and I was just trying to see if it is normal for someone to lose 31 pounds in 5 weeks. I’m 29 and I’m 6,1 and I weighed 328Ibs and now I’m down to 297Ibs. I have cut out sodas pretty much completely other than I might have a diet soda every now and then but I mostly just drink water. I’m not eating as much bread either and I’ve substituted tortillas for spinach wraps I’m still eating twice a day but I’m also walking 15 minutes a day after work. I aim to walk 5 days a week unless my son has a baseball game after work or it rains so most of the time I get about 3 days of walking in. Also I started having bad anxiety around the beginning of the 5 week mark where I was scared to eat unhealthy stuff so I cut my portions down a lot because of it. Just wanting to see if that much weight loss is alright for someone that was my size.

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Should I trust calorie calculators?

I decided to try one of them and the results got me kind of confused(?) I’m 5’2 and weight 145lbs, and it says my maintenance is about 2000 calories but I’m pretty sure if I consume even less than that I’ll gain, since I’ve seen it happened before… And it says for weight loss I should consume 1500 (even though I currently have a 1200 limit). Idk if I should trust it, seems like a lot for someone of my height but at the same time I don’t want to loose to fast.

I also go to the gym 1-2 hours 5 days a week, nothing too complex but ig I should note that.

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Can I still lose weight without lifting weights

Hi there! I’m female 27 5’6 and about 168 pounds currently. I’ve lost a little less than 10 pounds over the past month just from diet changes and some new training plans. Basically I’ve been weight lifting for around 8/9 years. Everyone always says strength training is the best for weight loss, however I was my smallest when I focused more on HITT and cardio workouts. I have been stuck in a rut for the past 2ish years of training really hard, weight lifting 4-5 days a week with some light cardio like walking/short runs but have been unable to lose ANY weight, like even 2-3 pounds was impossible.

Over the past month I’ve completely cut out weight lifting and transitioned to YouTube workouts and going on longer runs outside. I’ve been doing a mix of mat Pilates, kickboxing, dancing, HIIT, etc type of workouts on YouTube and some do include minor strength training with 3-10 pound weights and body weight stuff but nothing compared to when I was going to the gym and hip thrusting 250+. I’ve already noticed that I’m slimming down some, have dropped almost 10 pounds, and really enjoy the workouts a lot more.

Basically what I’m asking is can I continue to lose weight without incorporating strength training? Social media pushes lifting sooo much and makes it seem like cardio won’t help but I’m burning double the calories now than I was before so I’m not sure why every fitness influencer says that. Just want some advice or opinions from people who have went from strictly lifting to a more cardio/hiit based approach to weight loss? Am I losing muscle and not fat now?

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Comments after out / weight loss lol gym progress anyone else deal with this stuff ?

For instance i (m28) am on the bigger side . I let myself go for a while and ended up weighing around 290lbs. I work out of town often and started working out in the hotel gyms and running a mile these past 2 months . Ive lost roughly about 10-15 lbs and its noticable . The guys i work with are all on the bigger side and drink and eat fried foods everyday dont make changes . Recently they make little comments they never used to say while were working like “ hey man becareful walking up those stairs you know us bigger guys struggle hahah “ or “ man it sucks for us big dudes we cant do much like the smaller slimmer guys “ or just some random stuff like that and it just screams envy to me lol all i can do is laugh and keep grinding in silence but at times i just want to call it out for what it is why do people do that ?

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15,000 steps today all went down the drain because I ate 4 mcdonalds burgers

I was first kinda disappointed in myself today because I’m a week into my weight loss journey, and today I did 15,519 steps but all of it went down the drain because I decided to each a big bowl of bibimbap, 4 McDonalds burgers and fries, and giant nutella cookies 😋

Ate it spread throughout the day - but just wanted to share with anyone struggling with this, that it’s okay to have setbacks like this. I’m going to try again tomorrow and as long as you don’t give up or let it ruin your day and just KEEP TRYING, that’s perfectly normal! No one’s journey is straight forward. My next meal will be better!

HAVE A GREAT DAYY!

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