How it Started vs. How it's Going (9 Years of Weigh-Ins)

Hiii it's Boo Boo The Fool checking in 🤡

Link to the screenshots of my LoseIt weight graph spanning NINE years of struggles, wins, and loses: https://imgur.com/a/9IB7S7g

🫣 Is it really that bad?

So what's the deal? I must have been 19 when I first got the LoseIt app and just wanted to lose 10 or 15 pounds. And it was 100% for aesthetics. I didn't have a medical need or any bad side effects, I just knew I was most confident at 120 pounds and liked how I looked at that size the best.

I'm gonna yadda yadda through most of it because it's been nearly a decade and I don't want this post to be a novel and I'm sure no one wants to read that much either. One moment I want to retell is for most of 2020 I was circa 160, and I distinctly remember being in the bathroom after weighing myself and thinking, "My body is stretched to the absolute max. This is the worst it will ever be. There is no way I could ever weigh more than this. It would be physically impossible. Like, I can't comprehend how I would ever be 200 pounds. Where would another 40 pounds go? That's impossible."

I had many slices of humble pie and for the last month I've consistently weighed circa 200.

I think a lot of my issues are adjacent to my mentality at that time, that it's somehow impossible I'lll gain more although I don't do enough to stop it. I'm so confident that it can't get worse, but I don't make any changes in the present to ensure my future is better. It's hard to describe but I feel very disconnected from who I will be in the future, like she's a totally different person and what I'm doing currently doesn't impact her at all. It feels like my weight issues are Future Self's problem and she will have all the answers and solve it for me. Like, "One of these days I'm gonna get it together and shed this weight and live a healthy lifestyle, and I won't believe that I was ever obese!" Like she's got everything figured out magically. And I've realized it's unrealistic to think my future self will save me and be this infallible person with a picture-perfect life. I know how I act and think now determines how I act and think in the future. But it took a really long time for me to break out of that strange avoidant/denial mindset. I don't believe it anymore, but if it pops up out of habit I can identify it as procrastination and illogical very quickly. I'm curious if anyone else has struggled with that kind of avoidant behavior with weight loss, and what helped you focus on your current habits?

Any other pieces of advice are welcome, just be prepared that I think I've read all of it by now.

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Screwed up big time

Hello,

I'm just here to rant about my personal weight loss, and the negative impact it has had. I lost 40 lbs since February of 2025, but 17-18 lbs of those came from the month of May 2025.

The way I did it was through fasting, and blind-sighted from the immediate results, I continued to fast for 12 days, before giving up. I didn't fell for the refeeding syndrome, but have began feeling sharp pain slightly on the right upper quadrant of the body, after the fast. Based on the general location, it probably is Gallstones, and now currently in the process of accepting it, meeting professional assistance, and coming up with a better plan for losing weight, without the cost of doing the more harm than good.

Thank you for reading

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Beginner question

So, I (25f) am very new to this whole weight loss thing. I always had the opposite problem actually. Then one desk job and 60lbs later, I’d like to get back down to a healthy weight.

Height: 5’6 CW: 165lbs GW: 130lbs

My question is, rather than going into a 500 cal per day deficit, then adding food back in to get to maintenance when I reach my goal, could I theoretically just eat at the maintenance level for my goal weight and gradually drop down, and then I wouldn’t need to change anything once I hit 130? I know it would probably take longer, but would it WORK?

I’m nervous of implementing too large of a deficit because I definitely struggled with restriction as a teenager and don’t want to accidentally slip back into bad habits.

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Questions about post-deficit

Im on a 15kg weight loss journey. Ive currently lost 3.6 kg in 24 days, whilst on 1200 calories daily. I have been incorporating a few walks in a week, but nothing consistent, and no gym.

I’m worried about my post-deficit life as I’ve heard that being in an extended calorie deficit can lower your metabolism and lead to rapid weight gain afterwards. Will I be okay to continue losing with my calorie deficit, and then just increase to maintenance and begin hitting the gym, or should I think about incorporating the gym from now?

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Please help me understand why my progress is slow + give some tips

Hi I'm 17, male, 5'8, 165lb. I've been tracking calories and trying to cut since early April and today is the 49th day. I use an app called Cronometer to track my calories and it says my BMR is 1738, and my energy expenditure from exercise is 652 per day.

On the app it lets you choose your activity level and I chose "Lightly Active" which according to the app means light intensity exercise 1-3 times a week. I go to the gym ~5 times a week and I thought Lightly Active was an underestimation however my progress has been slow so I am a bit confused.

Since I go to the gym nearly daily my body uses energy for the muscles so I know that can slow down weight loss, however I sorta am confused if the slow progress is because of that or because I'm bad at counting calories too. I set my weekly target to -1.75lb per week so that way I could still lose weight at a decent rate even with my body recomping. It leaves me with 1517 calories daily as a target and I usually hit that.

I am a teenager so I live with my parents and my parents cook damn well so eat their food a lot too, and they don't really measure what they put in or anything since they're so used to it so I just tend to estimate the calories for food. They tend to cook while I'm at school so I can't really be there and measure it with them.

Between April 13th and May 17th I had lost 4.6lb. Thursday I ate a lot because it was a school event but I definitely went insanely overboard that day. Yesterday night I ate right before bed and so when I weighed myself this morning I was actually upto 165.7lb. I also went very hard at the gym yesterday, genuinely the hardest I have ever pushed myself and I feel soreness so maybe water retention too because I worked my glutes and they never really tended to get much work before?

I feel lost because there's so many variables and I feel as if I'm not really progressing as well as my lower end estimates. April 28th I was 165.3 and May 17th I was 163.9, that's just a 1.4lb difference in NINETEEN days, while I expected to lose atleast 1 pound per week (this is a low-end estimate bc according to my app I should be losing between 1.75-1.5lb and I went down to 1lb on personal estimations because of body recomp). I've thought about going lower in terms of calories but I feel like it would be insanely difficult to do so because I already have problems with hitting my protein goals. Thank you for any help!

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Possible better explanation for the whoosh effect?

For background, the only explanations I've seen for the whoosh effect seem to be that fat cells fill up with water again "just in case" until you've lost enough weight that they finally decide to just let go of it. This never really sat well since it doesn't align much with my understanding of fat cells.

I've been reading about the intersitium (fluid-filled space between cells) and I stumbled upon something that seems like a much better explanation. Basically, I think that the weight plateau and squishier feeling fat that you get before a whoosh is probably due to water retention in intersitual fluid and the process of remodelling the extracellular matrix that holds it together. When you lose weight, the extracellular matrix needs to remodel itself to accomodate the changes, and it seems that some chemicals that are involved in extracellular matrix remodelling such as hyaluronic acid are also highly hydrophilic, probably leading to water retention. The fact that restructuring is required during weight loss also would seem to suggest the existing structure is not sufficient, so that lack of structure and the different location of the fluid could possibly explain the tissue feeling different? Additionally, lymphatic drainage in adipose tissue is quite slow, so that could explain why it takes some time for you to see the water weight disappear.

I looked more into proposed explanations, and found this which discusses the current pervading idea that fat cells fill up with water. Although there was apparently evidence that water in adipose tissue increases during weight loss, it's poorly supported that it's actually inside fat cells. It also discussed some other proposed mechanisms, but I didn't find those particularly interesting since they don't explain where the weight actually is. Although it didn't really mention anything about intersitual fluid, I think the note that it's probably not inside the cells lends a bit of credence to the idea it's in the intersitium instead since that would be where most of the water in adipose tissue would be.

I'm no scientist so I could be wrong about some things, but I'm very interested to hear what other people think of this! Or is there some other research that sheds more light on this that I'm unaware of?

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Hers Weight Loss - Kit 1 Experiences

New to reddit but looking for support in starting a serious weight loss journey. I weighed myself this morning and it was much higher than I expected, very disheartening. I am working on a 6 day full body workout routine, focusing on 30 minutes of strength exercises in the morning with 1 hour of walking in the evening. I have just signed up for Hers kit 1 to assist in this journey and wondered if others had tried it and what their experience was? I'm 5'3" and 155lbs.

Mainly what I'm looking for is is this worth the money and have you noticed significant results? I have never used medication to assist my weight loss efforts but just don't have the time to weight for just diet and exercise.

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