The moment I knew I had to make a change

I had to buy size 18 pants in November 2024 and they were already uncomfortable because of my stomach. December 2025 hit and the same pants were now too tight. That’s when I knew if I didn’t start now I would eventually reach a size 20. From age 7 to now I was always overweight for my age, but that was my breaking point. I reached 213 pounds by February 2026.

I started my weight loss journey February 19th of this year and now the size 18 pants are loose. I have to constantly pull them up and i keep forgetting to buy a belt. I am going on a trip and bought size 16 shorts because the size 18 shorts were too wide on the bottom. The shorts are a little tight, but in a few weeks they should actually fit. I am currently 194.7lb. I have so much shame about my past eating habits but all I can do now is move forward to never feel like that again.

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DAE feel like they’re saving money losing weight?

So I’ve seen post after post here - ‘I can’t eat healthy, it’s too expensive’, ‘I’ll never lose weight because weight loss food costs too much’…

…what?!

I am actually finding that I am saving money. I’m buying less for a start, as I don’t need so much food. Slight fun story now - I used to actually be deathly afraid of the fridge becoming empty. Yep. Stupid I know, as more often than not, most of it was spoiling and I had to throw it away.

Now I just buy smaller packs of things, and if something runs out then it can wait until I next go shopping to be replaced. No one’s gonna die, nothing bad is gonna happen - it’s fine!

I’m sure many of us across the globe are feeling the pinch currently what with everything going on, so this is great as I’m getting closer to zero waste, I’m saving money by not spending so much each shopping trip, and I can still carry on with my weight loss.

What about you guys? Do any of you feel the same?

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Practical weight loss mental strategies?

I studied marketing at uni and really enjoyed learning about the concept nudging from behavioural psychology/insights.

It’s super interesting to me and recently I was thinking instead of on a mass-scale for public health or corporations purposes, etc, what if I tried to use this concept to help my own weight loss.

It’s already super hard, but I do want it, so the question is how do you trick yourself into eating better/less each day?

One example of nudging for food (for meetings, coffee mornings, etc) is to make plates smaller to enhance the appearance of the amount. Using the same amount on a bigger plate mentally gives off the impression that there’s less food at this event, meaning you may like it less, etc, but with a smaller plate with the same amount of food, you show people there’s maybe an excess of food/it’s a good environment to be in.

Well, I know eating plates already exist (I even had an idea back in uni that trolleys should be sectioned into different colours, small area of red, medium of amber, large green space, to indicate how much should be in one sort of area, with the labels around the shop using the same colours next to the name of product- to potentially nudge buyers into making a healthier eating choice).

Anyway! Do people have any ideas/tricks like this that could work? I know people drink water when they feel hungry first/right before meal, but what else is there?

Like in a practical sense, is there anything else that could actually value into tricking one’s brain to help get through the day and manage initial cravings/desires/binged when it’s hardest at the start/consistently just make this a habit.

Appreciate any help! Let’s make this easier on all of us!

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My partner intentionally sabotages my weight loss

We do not live together. During the week, he and I both eat healthy and he even sends me pictures of his healthy food. Everything he buys is organic to the point where he only shops for food on a certain "plan" he makes for himself.

When I see him on the weekend, I am still eating healthy and he picks up Dominoes, Chinese, and fast food without asking. He brings it over and puts it right on the table in the kitchen. I have asked him to stop doing this. I have made progress and he will do this every weekend without fail.

He shames me for throwing it out in my own house.

I'm absolutely about to break up with him but am wondering why someone would do this? Is it really as malicious as trying to destroy someone's hard work and progress? It just seems so petty.

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officially 50 pounds down! 🥳

i started at 203lbs and this week's weigh-in has me at 152! a year ago, i would have never imagined this weight-loss. i was on biweekly injections for my allergies, asthma, and eczema for 5 years and over those 5 years, i gained over 50lbs.

august of 2025, i randomly decided to stop taking them because i felt like my body was too reliant on them. one month later, i was down 10lbs without any other changes. after i saw the scale actually move down, it motivated me to work out and meal plan.

it's crazy to think about my weight loss bc when i was in uni, i developed some really bad eating habits bc i was so desperate to lose weight. i had to be hospitalized and even then, the scale did not budge at all 😭

i truly thought there was something wrong with my body and that it would be impossible to lose weight. so to be able to say i've lost 50lbs, my mental health improved, and even my allergies/asthma/eczema are more controlled than ever feels so surreal to me.

i'm a little over 35lbs away from my final weight goal and 7lbs from my first goal weight! it all finally feels within my reach and obtainable. i'm very thankful that i found this sub to interact with, ask for advice, and see everyone's inspiration stories, along with vulnerable struggles that help me not feel alone. you guys have been a big help for me 🫶🏽

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Under eating unintentionally

Hi, so I just started my journey (for probably the 10th time) 2 weeks ago and am trying to do things right this time around. I use MyFitnessPal to track my calories, and I use a food scale to make sure what I’m tracking is accurate. My biggest issue is by the end of the day when I’m logging my last meals/snacks into MyFitnessPal, I’ve been consistently anywhere from 400-700 calories under my daily goal (1700 cals). I know this is not good. I’m not doing it on purpose, like I said I’m trying to do this the right way this time around (my previous weight loss attempts were always me just starving myself). So seeing myself so under on my calorie goal is bumming me out. I think the main reason this is happening is because I am pretty busy during the day and rarely at home. In the past I’d stop somewhere and grab something to eat but since I’ve been tracking calories and weighing my foods, I stopped doing that. Trying to make all my foods at home. I avoid anything I think might be high cals or considered unhealthy so if I don’t have anything that fits into my current diet goals around to eat, I just don’t eat until I get back home. I know I could carry snacks with me, but I really prefer to save my calories for real meals (I enjoy whole meals wayyy more than snacking). Is there anything else besides carrying snacks with me that I can do to make sure I’m reaching my cal goals for the day? Should I eat a bigger breakfast and dinner to make up for the midday calories being missed? I’m already pretty full though with the amount of food I’m eating for those two meals already though. Anyone else ever have this issue? What did you do? Any advice is appreciated.

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Help or just general advice with binge eating? (Really specific)

18F and Ive been trying to lose weight since I was 15. It started with me cutting my meal portions and it worked pretty well for a year or two, where I gradually lost weight. Eventually I reached the dreaded plateau and that's when I started really looking into nutrition and dieting and everything. I started doing intermittent fasting around 6 months ago (before that I just kept going with the extremely slow weight loss plus started walking a lot more).

Ever since I started intermittent, I've been completely obsessed over food. I know it's stupid but unconsciously I started feeling like, "I only get 6 hours to eat so I need to load up on food" which completely cancels out the entire point of this. Plus at some point I had started making one hour walks after meals mandatory for myself (I'm free these days) so that made me start to feel like since I'm already walking I might as well just eat one huge meal and walk 3-4 hours afterwards. This kept spiraling and now I'm at the point where I eat a lot, walk a lot, get immediately distracted during the walk by "I could eat something rn to make the walk count" and the cycle continues like that.

But the thing is I'm not even hungry when Im making myself eat all this. On days I have to be outside I can eat just maybe a carrot and find myself completely satiated for lunch. I find it easy to control myself when I'm around others. It's just the time restriction actually makes me want to eat more than I need by making myself think that I'm not "extracting the full value of the time I get". The entire urge to eat at all completely shuts down after the allocated time. It's eerie. Why am I able to somehow control myself in one aspect but completely give up all semblance of level headedness during the six hours window? I feel like if I give up intermittent, I can give up the obsessive walking to burn off the food, and the all consuming thoughts of food. But intermittent lowk gave me the best results so far and idk if I could take it if I started gaining more weight (I hit 48 kg as my lowest but today it's at 51 again)(48 was during the times I only ate one huge meal a day but I don't even have the self control for that anymore)

What should I do? Please

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