Has anyone else had a bizarre reaction to their weight loss?

I am down 28 pounds in the past 3 months. I started at 215 last year and slowly lost a little here and there, but really started my weight loss journey at 193 pounds in June. I am now 165.

I have been working hard; trying never to go over my count, exercising frequently, listening to food cues and conquering my food noise. I expected those around me to cheer for me and I guess be excited. But I am met with general indifference to where I question if I look that different even though I know I do, I see it and my clothes don’t fit.

My husband will comment nice things and says he notices (yay for him seeing it!). But my friends and family never say anything, even when I organically mention it. Is it not socially appropriate to comment on weight loss anymore?! I have had acquaintances compliment me and also ask if I am taking a GLP1. But even those annoying comments are better than the ignoring.

I was hanging out with a couple of girlfriends and we were swimming yesterday and nobody commented on the fact that swimsuit I started out the summer in was literally falling off my body. Except at one point someone who showed up as we were leaving commented “you’re wasting away,” I assume it was supposed to be a compliment. Just feels weird to ignored.

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Got 8% battery left to tell you that walking a lot is great

Alright guys, here's a weird little life update. I started a new job a month ago, and to save a bit of cash and move more, I decided to walk there. 45 minutes each way. At first, it was hell. I'd show up all sweaty, people in their cars staring at me at every red light, completly drenched in my work shirt, kinda embarrassing but whatever.

Then it just became a habit. I started taking detours to grab a bite, then to swing by a friend's place. Without even realizing it, I started walking everywhere. My freinds would text "meet at the bar in 30 mins?", I'd check Google Maps: 50-minute walk. My reply: "on my way".

The results are pretty crazy and not at all what I expected:

• My social anxiety has melted away. Before, the thought of being late or having to wait for someone stressed me out. Now, I'm the king of estimating walking times. I'm always on time, and super chill.
• I've become that annoying person who says "it's right around the corner" when it's like 3 kilometers away. Whoops.
• The little spare tire around my waist has definately gotten an eviction notice. I haven't radically changed my diet, but the constant moving made a visible difference in just a month. Lost a jeans size.
• Bad point: My phone hates me. Between the GPS running, Spotify in my ears, and the screen on to check my route, my battery doesn't last the day anymore. I basically live plugged into a power bank.

Biggest impact was about my hunger. I didn't understand why I was starving all the time. I ended up using a TDEE Calculator that takes your daily steps into acount, and it all made sense. My body was just telling me it needed more fuel for all that walking, even while I was still losing weight. It totaly changed how I see calories and weight loss.

The only real downside is my shoe budget, which has exploded. My old sneakers gave up the ghost in four weeks.

Anyway, if you hate the gym but want to see a real change, try ditching your bus pass or your car for the short trips. You'd be surprised what can happen.

Now if you'll excuse me, my phone's at 8% and I gotta get home.

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Day 2...attitude

You can find my 1st post from yesterday, 8/31 here https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/s/Dwqlzgk5lX

So in a little while I plan on doing my 1st running program. And I'm scared and excited. If my knees can't take the weight bearing stress yet, at least it will give me a barometer to measure myself against. But today I wanted to share my experience with a sode effect of weight loss and that is my overall mental health.

I've always been a decent person by all accounts, but the past 2-3 years I've just felt so bitter and negative constantly. I couldn't imagine how or why, but I had this inkling that it was tied to my ever increasing weight and poor lifestyle choices. Since my current weight loss journey began, I almost immediately noticed a change for the better in my overall mental health and attitude. I feel more "like the old me" again. My outlook on life is more positive again. Could our junk food and eating habits have such a profound effect on us so as to prevent us from being truly happy? Or is it just me? Granted I have comorbities that quite possibly also come into play. Despite this though, simply cutting back in sodium and processed sugars seems to have left a drastic change in me.

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Weight loss of 1kg/week for months, despite no change in calories

I've been on a diet for a few months now. I started at 100kg and have been losing weight at a steady rate of 1kg/week. I'm at 80kg now. While that's great and all, I don't understand why my plan is working and what my body is doing.

At 100kg I calculated a TDEE of 2644 calories. Then I made a plan for 1500 cal/day and stuck to that for the last 5 months. There have been 0 exceptions. I'm eating the exact same every day and my activity level has not changed in the slightest. But, somehow, 1500 cal at 100kg led to a weekly loss of 1kg, while 1500 cal at 80kg also leads to a weekly loss of 1kg.

The progress has not slowed down at all. On the contrary - it even accelerated slightly, since it was only at 0,8kg for the first few weeks and then went up to 1kg. Which makes even less sense, since you would expect to lose a lot of water at the beginning. Didn't seem to happen for me.

How does this make any sense? Does my body have a "limit" of how much weight it can lose per week, and that limit just happens to be 1kg? And if I eat less food, it will still cap at 1kg? I couldn't find anything on this topic at all.

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Petite trying to lose weight--what should I do?

I'm a 5'2 113 lb adult female trying to get down to a goal weight of ~100 (I do not have an ed and this was sustainable for me in the past). I've seen a lot of weight loss advice but I'm not really sure what to do. I'm following CICO and intermittent fasting, which has been helping take some of the weight down. I think part of it is the fact that petites tend to struggle a bit more with weight loss and a lot of the usual info isn't as applicable to us.

I'm confused on what to do long term. I've seen a lot of advice on switching between cutting/bulking, as well as advice on maintaining both strength training and cardio during weight loss. Right now, I'm just walking around 30 mins a day and it's pretty chill since I'm a student. I'm on a cut (~1200kcal/day), but I'm not sure if I should just keep up my current routine, or if I should introduce strength training to it right now instead of waiting a few more months to get the last few pounds off and begin "bulking." Is it more effective to cycle or to just do both? One of my worries is that the number on the scale is actually changing because of losing muscle rather than fat, so I've been considering incorporating some weights in. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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How do I make it stop?

To get some things out the way: I'm female, 250lbs aiming for 115 - 120lbs, needing to lose 135lbs, 18, and I'm 5'3.

I've been trying to lose weight for about 5 years, well trying to start. I've done more false starts than I could count with my hands that lasted 6 hours on average before I cave and eat dinner. I have 3 other people in my house and I don't buy groceries, nor can I influence too much.

My main issues start with how much food I overeat and when. Even if it's something seemingly okay like a stew, I'll eat about 3 bowls before I'm good. Then I'll eat some leftover stew the day after and other assorted kinds of leftovers before I move on to chips. It's all salt, I can stay off sugar. I've eaten food in sectioned plates but it's useless if the food isn't locked away before I can get to it.

The other issue is that my main motivation is as good as nothing. Negative self talk has achieved zero but it has put into perspective how worthless I am. I do know that I'm the problem, but unfortunately it's one I can't just get rid of. I know what I need to do, how to eat, on what schedule with what foods, which food is good (veggies, fruits, meat that must be cooked), and which food is bad (convenience food, conventional snacks, fried foods, fast food). I take the time to make sheets in Word for my new lifelong diet, tracked calories, and tracked weight and it's resulted in nothing but wasted ink and paper sitting on the desk that I use every day. Sticky note reminders and intrusive reminders on all my devices to stick to the plan does nothing.

It took all the brain power I had to just not eat for 2 hours. Whenever I thought about food, I took a good 5 gulps of water until the thought train happens 5 minutes later. I failed when I was called for dinner downstairs and I forgot like a goldfish about the plan.

I just want to stop gaining 30lbs per year. Is there a way to make my useless brain focus in on weight loss rather than focus on eating and eating until I die at 30? I'm afraid I've lost hope in myself.

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Should I be concerned?

So I started my weight loss journey in March at 292 pounds. I started walking everyday, working out intermittently, and cut my caloric intake to 1780c from who knows how high before.

In June I weighed 255 and also moved. After the move I stopped walking as much and was a little loser with cals which ended up keeping me at around 255 all of July and most of August. Two weeks ago I weighed 260.8 or so and realized I needed to get serious again and so I started doing exactly what I did before. Walking everyday and 1780C.

This is where im concerned. Ive dropped 13lbs These last two weeks and I feel its too much considering I was at a steady 1 to 2 lbs a week before I lost momentum for a moment. I didnt stop working out sporadically but I dont think that has anything to do with it. I dont want to lose weight in an improper way but I dont know what cause so much weight loss.

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