NSV: Waist dog leash

I (NB, 26yo) started trying to lose weight about one year ago after being diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and was determined to make sleeping without the CPAP a few nights a year possible.

Through a mixture of well-rounded and frequent eating, and distance running, I lost 50lbs. When I started running with my dog I could barely wear the seatbelt-style dog leash at the smallest point of my waist right under my chest, which made me feel extremely dysphoric. I had my husband take a photo of me today during our run and I can wear the leash at my hips. I could even tighten it if I wanted to.

It feels good to have practical measures of weight loss. I hope that soon I can give my dog an extra inch or two of leash!

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How much weight lifting is too much?

I’m new to the aspect of losing weight and changing my lifestyle. SW:287 CW:261 GW:220??? 42 m.

I have been losing weight since the begin of February. I keep an eye on what I eat, cut out sugary drinks, excess beer (sticking with bourbon neat) and I am increasing my steps to minimum 10K a day. I recently got a cable weight machine and have been lifting weights the last 4 days in a row. This is what I have been roughly working on:

Upright Row 20@25 15@30 15@35 15@45

Seated Row 20@45 20@55 15@65 15@75

Standing arm curl 15 @25 12@25 12@25 12@25

Vertical Chest Press sets of 15@ 55 15@55 12@65 9@75

Tricep Pushdowns 20@35 15@45 12@55 4@65

Lateral Pulldowns 20@55 15@75 12@85 7@95

Pec Contractor 15@45 15@55 7@65 8@65

My question is, is there too much lifting weights that would hinder my weight loss. I really want to lose my belly fat and upper chest fat. Want to not be so self conscious of my weight. I want to give myself a solid year at-least to get to a spot where I feel comfortable maintaining weight.

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What's a "healthy" rate of weight loss?

"Healthy" in quotes because I know it's a subjective term that varies from person to person.

I began calorie counting in February, on Feb 21st is when I weighed myself for the first time in a while at 177lbs. (I'm female, 28 years old, and 5 ft 4 in) Since then, I have eased myself into ~1600 daily calories at a ~375 deficit. I average between 8-9k steps per day, and exercise doing strength and cardio 3-4x per week on a regular schedule. According to the gym scale, I'm now at 168 lbs and have definitely noticed that my waist has shrunk a bit and my clothes fit looser.

I am curious, as I have never counted calories before, (in a non-disordered eating way) if this is a sustainable rate to be losing weight at, as I don't want to end up crashing out because I was being too hard on myself, or being impatient and wanting to speed the process along.

I've lost just about 10 pounds in about 5 weeks - is this a sustainable weight loss rate or should I ease up?

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losing around friends who have had restrictive EDs

this is a hard one, and i think i have to make a hard decision that might impact my friendship but i want to make sure that i am NTA if i choose to do this.

so i an currently on a weight loss journey, and i have officially lost around 35 from 235 and have at least 50 more pounds to go. while i have been losing weight, i have been keeping silent about me intentionally losing weight because some of my friends have a history with restrictive EDs. as someone who has (pointlessly) gone through ED treatment lite for restriction, i have seen that they tell all people, big or small, that intentionally losing weight is pointless and doing things like calorie restriction will just lead to you gaining all of the weight back and being unhappy, even if you lose all of the weight. while i understand that for people who are very underweight/deep into their ED this is helpful information, its definitely not information that obese people need to hear. unfortunately this ideology is something that my friend has due to being in treatment, so bringing up healthy or unhealthy weight loss with her is pointless at best and triggering for her at worst.

so my friend had a restrictive eating disorder and had to go to inpatient treatment for a little bit and she left inpatient treatment around 2 years ago. since she’s been back, ive noticed that she will wait for me to eat/order something to eat and get visibly annoyed or upset when i don’t eat and won’t eat as well, which is something that is new and has only started happening after she got treatment. of course this made me upset but i felt like if i said something she would act like i was making it up!

the hard part about this is that we have been eating lunch and dinner together almost daily so it makes it hard for me to focus on my calories and nutrition and things when im also worried about not triggering her. an eating pattern that i’ve noticed when im around her is that i will eat more/be more careless with what im eating when im around her because of the guilt that i feel, which obviously is NOT her fault but its something ive noticed about myself. she also jokes about being skinny/weight loss/eating disorders but has undefined boundaries that im not really sure about so i thought it was okay to joke about it too. well apparently it wasn’t because she blew up on me and told me to stop talking like that around her (which is totally valid) but made me realize i had to make a change for myself too. so i think after today i wont be eating around her and sharing meals with her because its slowing down my progress and triggering me and i dont want to trigger her as well.

does this make me an asshole? i feel like this confrontation is a really good time to place some concrete boundaries so that neither of us are triggered or hurt. i will, of course, also cease to talk about or joke about weight loss in any fashion, which is something that ill admit that i shouldn’t have done in the first place.

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does the speed of losing weight effect the amount of loose skin over time?

Hey, 24/F/5'7/276lbs, I'm still early in my weight loss journey (308lbs early Jan) but its going quite easy so far. my entire family is very obese and I want to be the first to change that and so far it has been very simple for me and I think I can lose even more with a few small changes but I was told by my family members to not lose too much too fast as it would create a lot of loose skin. I know this is a given and I expect loose skin at my weight/age but I am curious, in the end after all is done, does losing 2lbs a week result in less loose skin compared to losing say 5lbs a week? I know it would at first because it takes time for skin to bounce back to what degree it can, but I am wondering if I just lose more than 2lbs a week, will that loose skin still recover the same amount later on as if I lost less over time? (example being if I lose 100 lbs in a year or if i lose 100lbs in 2 yrs, at the 2 yr mark will i have less loose skin by taking longer to lose that weight than if i did losing it faster?) Thank you for any input c:

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I was told I looked better when I was overweight

I’m 5’2 and was at 170lbs and it was a slow and steady weight loss journey to ~107lbs.

Yesterday someone came over and asked me if I had an eating disorder and said once I start eating again I’ll just gain it all back. I have been eating. She said I looked cuter with chubby cheeks and now I have zero curves.

I do have a history with EDs, but they don’t know that. I don’t particularly like the way I look right now, but I’m happier with myself and don’t want to go back to what was considered “obese”.

This is the 2nd person to make a comment like this and it has made me self conscious. No matter what weight you’re at it feels impossible to not get body shamed in some way.

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Walking!

I just found out nearby less than a 10 minute walk away, is a running track, which has been such an game changer. Combined with coming here walking and working 30 hours a week, I wanna get 25k - 30k steps a day. Have any of you guys done this? How was the weight loss for you? I'm doing this for my health, I really wanna get active and walking is the only super enjoyable thing I like doing. (And one of the only things I'm honestly willing to do after a shift.)

I haven't been counting every calorie but I have starting being mindful of what I eat. Trying to keep it under 1400 a day. I'm 5'8 and 184 pounds.

Do you guys love walking???

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