Thinking about timelines for success

Hey all, I’m about a month in to my weight loss journey and have lost roughly 5 lbs (Yay!)

I am an impatient person by nature and definitely have a hard time with weight loss because it takes perceivably forever. Doing something that requires such significant lifestyle changes for this long of a time is hard work when your mental focus is generally only about 25 minutes long.

However, I am looking to lose roughly 30 lbs total. At a pound a week which is a pace I’d like to try to maintain, that’s just over half a year.

The good news, is that 1 of those 6 months is already behind me, and I think that usually for me, the first month is always the hardest (weight doesn’t come off right away, body is adjusting to being hungry constantly, general sense of not feeling any substantial progress). Upon realizing this, I’m trying to think about it less as a 6 month journey, and more of a month to month thing. A month of doing something is a lot easier than doing it for 6 months. And if I can last one more month, then I’m literally a 1/3 of the way to my destination. With the holidays coming, I know this won’t be completely linear. However, I’ve got a “feeding routine” and an exercise routine to help support my progress, and have a success mindset that will hopefully guide me through the upcoming season of a million + one temptations of food and beverage.

With one super successful month behind me, I’m just feeling very motivated to tackle the next month, and tackle just the rest of 2025. We will handle 2026 when we get there but for now, just trying to celebrate incremental wins and focus on incremental goals.

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I just weighed myself and I am 6 pounds heavier than my heaviest weight months ago

I'm freaking out. I was advised not to weigh myself when starting my weight loss journey with my dietitian because I have a bad relationship with the scale. So, I started working out and following my meal plan and haven't weighed myself since two months ago. Today, I felt really frustrated like I didn't know if I'm seeing progress after working so hard for two months. my family says they see great progress. I was upset and weighed myself today in the middle of the afternoon when I've already eaten a full day's worth of food. And ive overeaten. a bit in the last couple days. I'm about to get my period in a few days as well. So I know that can be a few pounds of water weight, but I am in disbelief right now that I am 6 pounds HEAVIER than my last weight when I was at my worst. best case scenario, im a few pounds less which means I have literally only maintained and not lost any weight. how is this possible? I don't understand I'm freaking out

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Have anyone else’s relationship suffered due to weight loss?

Let me know if this has been the case for you. For me, weight loss (went from 235 to 196 since 2022 to this time last year, then from 196 to 158.2 as of today), has definitely been a contributing factor in my divorce.

My ex is tall, 5’7”, but around 300 pounds, plus two years older than I am. The weight related health issues have really begun to hit. I feel like I’m aging in reverse while she gets less and less capable.

Plus, the spending on food and medical bills. She has $8k in medical bills that I did not know about until I got the filing paperwork, plus borrowed $3k for “living expenses” she needed because she had to go on disability from work for a while. Often, she can’t work a full 40 hour week because of some injury flaring up, or an illness, or depression, etc. etc. She basically expected me to carry the daily expenses to a much larger extent while she paid off about ~920 a month in debt repayments, without communicating this to me in advance.

Meanwhile, I work up to 80 hours a week and am now saving a ton of money by not buying food out of the house and only feeding myself.

She never really wanted me to discuss my weight loss and wasn’t supportive either, even making negative comments about my body. And as I got healthier, changed my diet, and was able to do more active things, I guess I got more clear eyed on the cost of obesity, and the things I was missing out on.

I could, for example, this summer, comfortably and safely go tubing and jet ski at a family get together on a lake because life jackets fit me and I was able to clamber off and on boats and devices at a reduced weight. If I should want to immigrate out of the US, my health will no longer be a barrier (I have both personal and professional attributes that make me a target for MAGA- people in my field have received death threats and had their homes set on fire). I’m unlikely to face employment discrimination, at least not due to my weight, since I’m a Midwesterner and now look very average.

But, more than that, I just feel better. My joints rarely hurt, mostly just my feet occasionally now because I walk a great deal. I sleep better. I breathe better. Asthma is essentially gone. I’m not constantly tired.

Having these experiences, I found myself getting more and more resentful. I no longer want to pay additional costs related to my partner’s poor health. I don’t want to just flop on the couch after work and watch Netflix. And she refused to do anything much to improve. No exercise, not even walks. I wasn’t “allowed” to discuss her weight in any way.

I guess I’ve lost 335 pounds, not just 35. Has anyone else experienced breakups or loss of friendship during and after large weight loss?

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When Quick Weight Loss Backfired...

I'm 28 and work in an office. Over the past few years, I kept gaining weight-5 kg, then 10, then I lost count. One day I decided: enough. I wanted fast results.

In two months, I tried four diets-keto, intermittent fasting, buckwheat-only, and juice detox. The result? Minus 12 kg. I was thrilled, buying new clothes and getting compliments. But why did I look so exhausted?
My hair started falling out in clumps-on my pillow, in the shower, everywhere. My skin turned gray and dry. My nails were brittle, and I was constantly tired and irritable. What had I done to myself?
The doctor was blunt: my body was in shock from nutrient deficiency. I had to change everything-real meals with protein and vegetables, healthy fats, and vitamins to help recover.

A month later, my hair stopped falling out. Two months after that, my skin looked alive again. The weight is coming off slower now, but I actually feel like a person again. Was the fast result worth this damage? Absolutely not.

Has anyone else experienced health issues from extreme dieting? How do you balance wanting quick results with staying healthy?

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Is this normal? Constant rehabbing (weight lifting)

I have never been a weight lifter and I know some people on a weight loss journey are still not. I started not too long ago and it seems I am constantly rehabbing smaller muscles. First time I had knee pain and PT explained I need to do some knee straightening exercises because my quads are weak. Then it was achilles tendonitis and i was told thats from weak calves. Now it's my upper traps they are overactive and compensating for my lower traps and rotator cuffs. I feel like I am constantly rehabbing (gentle exercising) parts of my body to help other parts I hired a personal trainer for 2 weeks just to watch me lift to make sure my form is decent, there were some improvements I made, but he said it was nothing that should cause injuries. I just wonder if anyone else new to lifting went through this?

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Loose skin destroying my confidence

I told myself I’d get into dating once I lost the weight. Here I am 78 lbs lighter, at 130 lbs and now I feel like I can’t date because of my loose skin.

I’m only 23F and look like I’ve given birth due to my apron belly. Then there’s the empty sockets of what used to be very big breasts that hang real low.

My biggest worry is that I’ll accidentally catfish someone because you can’t tell I have loose skin until I take my clothes off and they’ll just look at my body in horror.

I currently feel stuck in my weight loss journey because I’m torn between whether I want to be thinner and have even more loose skin, or stopping as I am now. Not to mention all the issues that the loose skin has been causing me such as humidity being trapped under my skin and rashes from my thighs rubbing together.

Surgery just isn’t an option right now, it costs more than my savings and insurance doesn’t help with “cosmetic procedures” where I live.

What can I do really? I feel like I’m wasting what should be my best years hiding in shame of my body

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Never ending cycle of starting weight loss journeys

I don't even know where to start.

I have "tried" many times to lose weight in the last 6 years and it's always the same thing. I begin my journey, I stop a couple of weeks in or I'm consistent one week and then not the next.

I've hired trainers, dieticians/nutritionists, bought programs, online trainers, joined WW, orange theory, etc. I just never stick to it long enough to see significant results. I'm always hovering at the 170's at 5'7 ft, I just want to lose 30 pounds but it's literally impossible for me it seems.

Has anyone experienced this? I feel like I'm crazy because I just don't understand why I can't be consistent. I'm still a little hopeful I can lose the weight but I've mostly accepted I'm just stuck at this weight.

I will say that hiring my last Dietician/Trainer was great, learned a lot from them and lost a couple pounds but nothing crazy since again I didn't stick to it and couldn't afford to keep paying to continue with them.

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