Down 14lbs and I feel fantastic 🏃🏻‍♂️🏋🏻‍♂️ 🥩🥬

I really can’t believe it, but I’ve been dieting, exercising and just being conscious about my health the past few months. I havent weighed myself in a while and just an hour ago I decided to see the scale and to my complete shock I dropped 14lbs! I really was surprised, I thought I’d drop like 5lbs IF anything but to see the scale tell me that I lost 14lbs left me shocked; I even pulled out another scale to see if that scale was having an error in accuracy, NOPE! Definitely lost 14lbs.

The funny thing about this though is that I really dont feel like I’m even dieting tbh. I feel like I’ve been eating REALLY good. I’ve changed my eating behaviors sure, but nothing excessive like only egg whites, chicken breasts and broccoli. I actually eat really good, fried eggs, white rice, oven roasted chicken, teriyaki sauce, etc etc. It doesnt even feel like a diet, it feels…natural to me and the food tastes fantastic. I think I found my rhythm and I’m sticking to it, later today I’ll be going to the gym and just get a great full workout. I feel really proud of myself, Im only 6lbs away from hitting my second goal. (Been losing weight for a while now) and cant wait till I hit my 3rd goal.

Anyway, just wanted to help motivate anyone else who struggles with weight loss, you can definitely do it, stick with it and see what works for you. Best wishes everyone, you can do it. 💪🏻

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I've lost a bit of weight and I've noticed that my thighs, buttocks, and stomach have like a bumpy...pebbly texture to them under my skin. Common, normal?

I haven't lost a lot of weight, but I have lost some. In any case, those areas, when I run my fingers/hands across them I feel what I can only describe as texture ..like you know how breast tissue feels kinda granulated? Like that quilty..bumpy texture? It's like that exactly but on my stomach and thighs and if I run my fingers 🤌🏼 firmly up my thighs for example I usually encounter a few larger 'bits'. Almost feel like a pimple in firmness but under skin. Anyone else have this come about after some mild weight loss?

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Has anyone else tried green tea extract for weight loss?

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40 lbs down, and not a single clothing size down. 😭

I know this isn't a very original variety of post, sorry. But even in a lot of the similar posts I've found here, it seems like OP's complaint is that they don't see a difference, not that there isn't a difference. Since April, I've dropped from 240 lbs to 200, at 5'3", and like... I thought I'd at least be dropping clothing sizes eventually, even if the change is hard to see. I haven't. Not in shirts, nor bras, nor pants. Nothing. It's like I haven't lost anything at all. I don't feel particularly better, aside from the general improvement after cutting sugar, but that kicked in within two weeks of beginning my diet so it's not a side effect of weight loss. I feel like my scale is lying to me at this point. How can I have lost 40 lbs invisibly? Are my organs evaporating? Did I lose a limb and I've just been hallucinating a full set?

I assume the actual answer is that it's a mix of very even, very dispersed fat loss, along with loss of the fat around organs, because I've heard that that doesn't usually make a big visual difference. And some muscle loss, but I've upped my protein to around 100–120g daily and I now exercise three times per week, so it shouldn't be too bad. Knowledge is power, I'm doing my best, etc. etc.

Still, it feels so unfair. I don't feel better, I objectively am not smaller, and I feel like I could lose 100 pounds and still not escape my size 18 jeans. 😭

Not on the verge of giving up or anything; I don't mind my diet and exercise, I know it's healthier even if I'm not feeling the benefits yet, and I know that there will, someday, be literally any change at all. I'm just sad. 40lbs feels like too much to still be wearing the same pants.

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Wait...the 35" waist measurement (for women) indicator for visceral fat is at the belly button?!

I was so excited a few months ago when my waist (slimmest part) dropped below 35", since it seems to be a generally accepted indicator of visceral fat. Which I'm trying to reduce since my weight loss motivation is long-term health.

But now I find out I should be measuring at the belly button and I've actually still got a little ways to go 😅

I'm not devastated, just surprised. Especially since I'm actually quite comfortable in my body for once. I feel good, I think my remaining belly is cute instead of cringing at it. And yet. And yet the general indications still say I'm within the risk range.

As someone who's been overweight her entire life (I, 5'6" female, hovered at 180-190 for a long time), and has now lost 30 pounds, it's so mind-bending that I, the chronic chubby girl, have to lose another....what equals 2-3 inches? 20 pounds, at least?

I don't even know if I want to be that small.

Anyway, just something to process. Curious to hear others' thoughts on the matter. Again, I'm not devastated, and I know this is just one metric among several others regarding overall health. But it's still a metric.

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Noticing less compliments and friendliness after weight loss

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Trying to lose weight. I have doubts.

Hey all.

To start with, I'm 6'2, currently running at 250 lbs, Male that just hit 30. I've been very on and off about losing weight, but I had my breaking point two months ago. The constant mistreatment and feeling like a joke for so long pushed me to buckle in and take weight loss seriously, for once. I just want to feel comfortable in myself, and wear the clothes that I actually want to wear, and feel attractive. I started at around 270 to get to this point, currently. This all kind of plays into why I'm making a post today.

Right now, I'm eating about 1700 calories, give or take at most 100 in any direction. I wasn't truly tracking my eating habits until recently, about 3 weeks ago, nor was I tracking my weight loss, though I do know I've made some decent headway. I'm fairly sedentary outside of what I'm doing for cardio, which is at least an hour of walking per day, usually hitting about 3 miles in that time for about 400 calories burned per walk, and rowing three times per week, which nets me about 250 calories burned in 20-25 minutes if I'm pushing. My diet is pretty rigid right now, and I'm logging literally everything I eat, down to the olive oil (cut that out completely recently) and cooking spray I use when I'm cooking, and pretty much eat the same 4 things every day.

The doubt is coming in through a few sources. For one, the math seems pretty air-tight, which is about a 1k calorie deficit every day as an average. I've been on this for about over a month, so I'm not worried about "breaking" or anything to overeat again, but I do notice that I barely want to eat at all, as of late. I'm worried that I'm eating too little, even if it's planned. The scale in particular is aggravating, due to the natural bounces due to water retention and stool and muscle inflammation, even if I know that I'm doing my best. It honestly feels like my body is stalling out now that we got the "easy" weight off. The doubt is also coming from my own family sometimes, as it feels like they're unsupportive like I'll just fail to stick with this or won't get very far at all.

I guess the reason I'm making this post is to genuinely ask people going through the same thing or have gone through it. Am I really doing this right? Is this sustainable? I plan on adjusting my diet and workouts month to month the farther I go, but it feels like I just won't succeed sometimes. I'm just planning on getting to 210-200 at a decent 12% body fat percentage and creating a new "diet" to maintain, but it feels like I may not even get that far sometimes. Does it always feel this hopeless?

Any criticism or advice would be appreciated. I can post my logs from myfitnesspal too, if that's needed. Thank you for taking the time to read this rambling session, either way.

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