Celebrating 20lbs down (again)!

Hey everyone, first time posting here. I'm sharing a bit of my journey as I've not really talked much about my weight loss this time around to people in my life because it feels embarrassing to be restarting. You all seem super supportive, I love the posts in this community.

I'm 25F and 5'5, and in 2024 I started my weight loss journey after years of depression, overeating and general just lack of care towards my body. I started off at 259lbs in September 2024 and lost 43lbs by Christmas 2024, through a calorie defecit and started going swimming which I quickly rediscovered my love for and adopted 3-4x per week. Previously I was super inactive because I hate sweating and exercise in general, and gyms are intimidating af to me, so this worked super well.

I lost my footing a bit going into 2025 and was on and off, lots of things happened - I was diagnosed with autism, my grandad that I helped care for passed away, and I ended up burning out hugely after a lot going on in general in my life. My weight loss stopped at 216lbs and as I was in a bad place I went back to old habits, stopped going swimming and piled all the weight back on. Literally all the weight.

In April I finally faced the scales and discovered I was back up to 258lbs. Devastating yes, but after being sick with burnout for so long I decided I was turning my life around, so I cut some duties that were burning me out from my life to focus on me and my health. I was also diagnosed with ADHD late 2025, which helps to explain some of my dopamine seeking habits with food and lack of impulse control, so this time around I was armed with some ideas of what to do to reduce this.

I started off by going back swimming again a few times, then ended up beginning to go with a friend I hadn't seen in years, after going round for an impromptu cup of tea and chat where it came up. Then I completely stopped buying all my binge trigger foods - family bags of crisps, chocolate and sweet treats etc - but allowed myself occasional dopamine giving treats (low cal crisps, bought a multipack of small chocolates which I still haven't finished now, just so the restriction didn't get too harsh that I'd spiral out). I didn't commit to too many weigh ins or proper calorie defecit just yet as I was still recovering a bit from burnout and it felt so overwhelming, but I aimed to eat vaguely as I remembered from the previous time around.

I'm now back swimming 3-4x a week with my friend and from the beginning of May I started calorie counting again properly, weighing everything out just like the first time, and I've been weighing in regularly again and today I weighed in at 237.5lbs - I'm now down 20lbs for the second time!

I'm so proud of myself for choosing to focus on this again because being fat is making me miserable. This time around I feel like somehow my cravings have really not been strong at all since removing things from the house and my appetite feels hugely shrunken (may be from coming off contraception recently), the defecit does feel quite easy at the moment - I'm on 1750 cals currently, but most days I only eat 1200-1500, and then sometimes use the banked calories for a treat meal or something at the weekends which can again help me to stop that restriction triggering to binge eating. Of course I will adjust calorie goals again soon whilst losing more weight.
I've even decided to start going to the gym for weight training and went to a gym for the FIRST EVER time this week which is literally a huge milestone as I'm terrified of looking like an idiot! I also got my personal best avg swimming pace EVER this week despite being heavier than I was on my previous best swim, and my resting heart rate has gone down hugely.

Truly I feel so positive this time around and I'm looking to a goal of around 180lbs at the end, maybe that will change at some point but either way I know that it will take a while to get there. It does suck that I reversed all my initial progress, but I'm working on being more forgiving on myself after years of self hatred as that's the only way I'm gonna progress. Thank you to this community because these online spaces make me feel less alone.

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Need serious help / advice

I'm using a friends account because of not meeting the posting requirements (i'm not active on reddit)

hi everyone, I need some advice on losing weight. I am 30 years old, weigh 124kg and am 164cm/5'4. This leads to a bmi of 46. As a kid i was always on the chubbier side, but my mom kept me in check and ensured i was never obese. She made sure i didn't eat too much and spent time with me coming up with diet plans and learning which foods were fine to eat and which might best be minimized in order to lose weight. All this meant that i usually ate less than my classmates but was somehow still a little heavier. When i left to live on my own i got fat quite quickly. Of course, i wasn't as rigid as my mom when it came to eating and also to be fair enjoyed the freedom to decide for myself what i wanted to eat. I think i gained about 30-35kg over the course of a year.

Since then i have made multiple attempts to lose weight, some more succesful than others. Over the last 8 years i have succesfully lost about 10kg three times. After which I can retain the loss for give or take 2 years and then let myself go a bit too much to the point where i regain the 10kg. The first two times were done using very restrictive diets of between 800-900 kcal a day. After the weight loss i would then pretty much retain the weight by eating normal/what i want (including fast food on some nights) for 5 days a week and then restricting myself for the other two days. This worked fine for me and i was pretty happy doing so.

Now i have lost about 13kg again while being less restrictive because i don't really think such a large calorie deficit is healthy and i remember feeling fatigued when i did it. This 13kg has been lost with a diet of about 1300kcal a day (and eating enough protein). However, i would really like to lose more this time around. I have set my sights on a weight of 100kg, which is still obese of course but would already be a big deal for me and who knows if i can then keep it going.

The problem is that i feel like the progress right now is too slow. I thought 1300 kcal was still definitely a deficit, because my base metabolic rate should be around 1966kcal. 1300kcal should make me lose over a kg a week. but often that just isn't the case. progress is slow with quite a few days where i just dont lose anything at all. I also notice that whenever there is any notion of going out to eat i instantly gain roughly a kg that day. For example, when we went for some chinese with my family last week i gained a kg and then spent the next three days making up for it. I of course know chinese isnt healthy and is maybe best avoided, but i just notice that it hits me way harder than for example my husband or than it did when i am not actively dieting. When i am not dieting i can eat quite a bit without gaining weight. This single bad meal makes the whole week not completely a loss but certainly not the result i hope for.

I have been to the doctor to have my thyroid checked to make sure there was nothing wrong there and the test results showed that it worked fine. Do you have any advice for me? i am contemplating just not going to any family dinners anymore for the foreseeable future to see if it can make the difference i need. On the other hand i wonder if that is really sustainable for the amount of time i would need to accomplish my goal. Restricting even more is of course also a possibility but i do really wonder if thats healthy. Please send help and advice, thank you!

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To lose or to maintain…

Hey!

Looking for advice on weight loss. I’m a 5’9 female in my late 20s. Throughout college and mid twenties my weight ranged mostly from the high 140s to low 150s (a healthy BMI). I dropped to a weight in the mid 120s last fall (a really quick drop that began around May 2025 and lasted through September). This was due to a combination of work stress, anxiety, & also probably some OCD related restrictive behaviors. However, due to binge eating disorder I very quickly regained the weight. I’m seeing a nutritionist now to help with the binge eating, but I currently weigh around 150 and feel lost. I no longer fit in some of the clothes I have from when I was underweight in the fall and I’m questioning what my current goal should be.

Obviously I want to feel safe around food and stop bingeing, but I feel like a range I’d feel happy with would be like 135-140. I don’t have a ton of muscle and even when I was underweight looked more “skinny fat” than toned.

I was thinking I’d try to eat in a deficit to lose a pound per week until I reach this goal range. Is this stupid considering I have a history of binge eating? Is further deficit going to just continue pushing me further from my goal? Should I just embrace a weight range closer to 145-150 and call it a day?

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How do I live now?

So I’ve lost the weight, I’m finally so happy with how I look and I don’t know what to do now.
I understand reverse dieting and reversing into maintenance, but I’m so scared to gain all the weight back I’m super scared of going off plan with eating and not tracking calories. I want to stop tracking eat out from time to time and start to live again, but I’m just so afraid of gaining all the fat back. How are you guys able to maintain and enjoy life after weight loss?
I need advice or tips or anything.

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Tips for not eating so fast (even after weight loss)?

Hey everyone, looking for some perspective from people who have navigated the final stretch of a massive weight-loss phase.

Over the last 15 months, I’ve dropped from 315 lbs down to 170 lbs (mid-20s, M, 6'1"). At my lowest I weighed around 165 lbs but have recently gained a couple lbs back. My ultimate goal is to get into a lean muscular range. I have been going to the gym and lifting about 4 times a week for about six months now. Recently, I started adding some running into the mix and I have been really enjoying exercise. I am now aiming for about 2500-2700 calories a day, but this is where things have been difficult over the past month:

Today, the "day-after" running hunger hit me hard and I ended up eating about 4000 calories. Logically, I know my body is probably recovering from a workout and run yesterday, but mentally, I am struggling a bit.

My immediate instinct is to go back to my strategy of weight loss and cut down my calories. To make things more frustrating, I realized that despite transforming my body so far, my actual eating habits seemingly have not changed. This past month especially, I realized I still eat incredibly fast and totally mindlessly, just like I did when I weighed my highest.

Has anyone else experienced these hunger spikes right as they approach their final goal weight? And does anyone have tips on how to really change

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What's your weight loss "cheat code"

I was recently fired from my job where I did 5 hours of walking. I lost weight fast, but now that I no longer work there. I'm finding it hard to get outside and walk if I don't have to

What's your "cheat code" to cardio weight loss. I found that fasting was the way to go, but I'm not just talking about method, I'm talking about motivation

How do you find the motivation to get up and walk 1+ hours a day ? Ik summer is coming up, but I don't think that's enough 😭

(Landscapers answer (or blue collar workers): I start a landscaping job tomorrow, did that help with weight loss ?)

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300lbs, Female, haven't been to the gym since I was an athletic teenager, please help!

Hi all,

I've had various success with weightloss over the years, with a 70lb loss being the best success, following with regains. The diet I have is pinned down, I'm working with professionals and am happy there. The problem I have is I used to be incredibly athletic as a teenager in many sports and competing in most of them. I'm older now (30s)

Now, I have no idea where to begin aside from cardio. My brain thinks I can still pull off some pretty complex tumbles or swim 10k at my old pace lol, but obviously I can't. I definitely have lost most of my muscel with my last weight loss success, but now after falling off track I'm wanting to do it right this time. But I have no idea where to start with strength training.

Please can you share and resources that you found helpful? I'm not able to get a personal trainer atm, so I'm looking to begin with a good start as much as I can. I generally do best with a routine that I can write down and follow.

Thanks!

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