Just got to my goal weight of 140

Ive been up and down for years but I've just reached my goal weight of 140 !!! I started at my largest at 180 in april of last year and I've been very slowly changing all of my eating habits with lots of work and determination to get healthier.I got down to about 150 and then plateaued for a long time and honestly got complacent with my weight due to my doctor being happy with what I had lost. Well, recently I decided to start calorie counting to try to stop my plateau and to kick start my weight loss again and I've been scared of the scale recently b/c of the pandemic and my inactivity/ plain ol' laziness but I thought I should hold myself accountable and weigh myself this morning. I was exactly 140.0!!!!! I am so excited and can't believe it I've been wanting to get to 140 for 2 years and I am finally here!!!

Of course now I've got another goal of 130 :-) but i'm so satisfied with what I've done so far.

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To much advice on how to eat

Okay I'm on this journey of weight loss now. I've been online reading and have found so many freaking diets to follow with data to back them up. Reading from the side bar says counting calories works. If I eat 2000 calories a day which is a 500 calorie deficit I should lose 1 pound per week right? Does it matter if that 2000 calories includes a scoop of chocolate ice cream, a plate of chicken fettuccine alfredo, or a piece of 5 cheese garlic bread?

I liked the idea of keto, but I can't see myself doing it for life. I'd rather try eating less and adding more fruit/veggies while counting calories. Will this work because I'm reading online it won't work. It won't work because of insulin response. Anyone out there just decrease the amount of food by counting calories while still eating all types of food?

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Need to restart, but in a healthy way this time.

I’m 5’6 and at one point weighed 262 lbs. In 2017, I lost 90 lbs in 8 months. I wasn’t super healthy about it. I nibbled on small quantities throughout the day. If I finished an apple in one sitting it was a big deal. I got myself into an eating disorder program, stopped logging my calories, and I managed to maintain my weight loss for a year and a half without tracking anything. That was until I started a medication last year that caused me to quickly gain about 20 lbs. I’m off the medication now, but the weight gain has continued and I’m back up to 205 lbs.

I’m disappointed in myself. I know I’m capable of losing the weight, because I’ve done it. But I don’t feel the same motivation as before. I would like to lose the weight again, but this time in a way that is healthy for my body and my mind.

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(Re) starting my journey [27F/4'10/140lbs]

I was always severely underweight as a child and encouraged to eat anything and everything. I started gaining weight after 18 and gained about 35lbs taking me from 90lbs to 125lbs. I lost it all in about 2 years and was at my lowest at 96lbs in December 2018. Now, I had gone through a horrible relationship and severely depressed so it wasnt exactly healthy. I slowly started gaining weight back and it wasnt until 2 days ago I realized I now weighed a WOOPING 140lbs.

I had some chronic sickness. Went through an adult tonsillectomy, UPPP and Adenoidectomy. I have sleep apnea, borderline PCOS and a history of (managed and episodic depression and anxiety).

A lot of the new weight is definitely happy weight. I am happily in a relationship and def has put on the relationship 15+ some.

I joined I gym right before the shutdown since I enjoy lifting but not a choice at the moment.

I'm hoping to get down to 102lbs. Which was when I felt the best. But hoping to do it steady and slow and manageable.

I have been walking 5-7kms everyday and current calorie intake is around 1700cals.

I know for my actual weight loss I should be eating 1200 calories but that always makes me feel miserable and ends in bingeing. I am trying to do this as a life time strategy.

I would appreciate any strategy or advice you have!

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If you've struggled to maintain or continue weight loss during the stay at home orders

After reading so many posts and comments here (and elsewhere) about people struggling with their weight related goals during stay at home and quarantine orders, I wanted to share info that can maybe help someone out there.

I'm a woman in my late 20s, 6' tall, and weighed over 250 pounds in early January. When I went in for my annual check up, my liver enzymes and triglycerides were all super elevated. My primary care physician said it was likely due to my weight, but wanted to do an abdominal ultrasound just to make sure. Sure enough, the abdominal ultrasound came back normal. In the follow up appointment with my doctor, we had a pretty serious conversation about the necessity for me to lose some weight. She suggested that I try a prescription weight loss pill for 3 months to help kick start my weight loss and emphasized that the pill does not replace diet and exercise.

The pill I took was a lower dose of a widely recognized drug called phentermine (a stimulant, and a controlled substance). I took the lower dose 3 times daily before meals for 90 days.

The results for me were that I lost on average 2 to 2.2 pounds per week over the course of 90 days. I made sure I kept a healthy diet and ate a normal amount of calories for my height and activity levels. In the past when I had tried to lose weight, I averaged a 0.7 to 1 pound per week loss no matter how strict I was, so this does lead me to believe the prescription I was taking did give a little "boost" to the speed of my weight loss. Once the prescription came to an end, I'm now back to losing about 1 pound per week.

I know that prescription medication is not the answer for everyone, but I still wanted to share this info because it may help to talk about your weight loss struggles and goals with your doctor if you have that opportunity, once the stay at home orders are lifted. I also wanted to let you know that I was prescribed this by my primary care physician; in the past I used to think people only got weight loss pills from sketchy clinics that only cared about sales and marketing.

Also, I didn't share the brand name of my prescription here because I didn't want to advertise it or influence anyone to consider it. There are multiple different weight loss pills with different side effects, prices, dosage instructions, etc. and if it is something you want to try, then your doctor would know what would be the best route to take.

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Abdominal muscle cramps after significant weight loss. Anyone else?

6'1 / 185cm male, 42y, 380lb / 172kg -> 230lb / 105kg

I suppose I could lose another 30+ lb. or so to be truly trim, and I'm working on it, but I'm quite happy with where I'm at.

The issue I'm facing is cramps (charlie horses) in my upper abdominal muscles. Anything can set it off. A sneeze, laughing at something, shifting my body slightly, and so on. Most of them are very minor, and I can stretch out a bit and breathe deeply and they're gone, but they're still really annoying. And sometimes I get a really bad one, those truly suck =(

I stay well hydrated, get plenty of electrolytes, all that jazz. I lift weights including ab work. I do cardio as well.

I was doing a bit of reading, and one of the possible causes of muscle cramps I read about was tension on the nerves. 150 lb. is a significant loss, and I have loose skin. As a typical male, a lot of my extra weight was on my belly, so that's the worst spot for loose skin.

I'm wondering if the weight of the loose skin pulling things down could be putting tension on the nerves, and if perhaps that's the reason I'm having this problem.

So, j/w if anyone else has faced this issue, and what your thoughts and experiences are if you have. Heck, even if you haven't. I wouldn't mind reading any thoughts anyone has on this issue. It's really bothering me.

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How I fixed my scale anxiety without giving up my daily weigh-ins - it only cost me $30

I posted here a few weeks ago about how water weight was messing me up and how I used to dread standing on the scale some days when I knew my weight would be up.

The fact is, I love to cook and I love to eat. Both of these things kind of got me fat in the first place. Now, with OMAD, I'm finding a way to cook and eat almost anything I want while staying within my calorie goals and consistently losing weight. Unfortunately, my nightly OMAD is often decadent and salty, which leads to morning bloating. Still, I wanted to weigh myself daily so I could get a good idea of how my weight fluctuates and trends. I found in past weight loss efforts that weekly weigh-ins were unsatisfying, and sometimes if I "picked the wrong day" to weigh I would be left feeling awful for the next week. A few weeks ago however, my scale anxiety peaked, nearly to the point of derailing my weight loss efforts. I needed to find a way out without giving up weighing myself altogether, I wanted to have my cake and eat it too.

So, I found a smart scale on Amazon for $30 that doesn't need to be connected to your phone. This is the exact one I bought, but there are several other with the same feature in a similar price range...I encourage you to shop around. It stores up to 20 weigh-ins for you without you having to connect it to the phone app that stores your metrics. I stuck a piece of opaque tape on the digital display, and I spent an entire week weighing myself on it without looking. On the 8th day, I weighed myself with the phone app open, and it showed me my weight that day (2lbs down!), as well as a graph of my weight over the last week that I was able to look at impartially, with no anxiety or emotional attachment. Some days I was down, some days I was up. It was okay, because I was predictably down 2lbs that week.

Now, I weigh myself everyday, but, I am able to choose when I look at the weight and when I don't. Sometimes, I go several days in a row without looking, but I always know it's there. It's like having an assistant record my weight for me! I thought I would share, this has been a huge help for me in my battle with scale anxiety.

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