Do you feel that people afraid to comment on your weight loss?

I am so darned proud of myself. I lost 50 lbs over the last 18 months, and loved the way I looked. My ego wanted some compliments! But no one mentioned it! I had assumed they think that it’s not polite or socially correct.

I bought new clothes. Got a few comments, but more like “are those new jeans?”

Then I got a great short hair cut. People felt like they could compliment that at least.

I was at a friend’s house yesterday and all 5 people there separately told me how great I looked. I got flattering comments about my jeans, my top, my sandals and my hair.

FINALLY !

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Looking for a fasting buddy

Hello!

Hear me out: I want to have someone to check in and keep me accountable while doing intermittent fasting during my weight loss journey.

I am still unsure what kind of fasting I will do, but my ultimate goal is to lose weight.

Happy to pair up with anyone interested or starting an even start a group for daily check, sharing tips, strategy, etc.

A bit more about me: I’m 36 yo guy living a moderately active life. I have consulted a nutritionist and developed a plan. My first goal is to lose 15 KGs and then take it from there.

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NSV, Down 22 pounds but the thing I am most proud of has nothing to do with the scale

Five months ago I started paying proper attention to what I was eating for the first time in my adult life. Not just calories, not just macros, but actually reading what was inside the specific things I bought every week without ever really questioning them.

The weight loss has been real and I am genuinely proud of it. But the thing that has kept me most motivated on the hard days has nothing to do with the scale at all.

My skin is the clearest it has been in about three years.

I know that sounds random in a weight loss sub but hear me out because I think it is actually directly connected to the same changes that are driving the scale results.

When I started this journey about five months ago I did the usual things. Started tracking what I was eating, cut back on processed food, cooked more at home, drank more water consistently. Pretty standard stuff that most people here are doing. What I did not expect was that paying proper attention to what was actually inside the food I was eating would have such a visible impact on my skin.

I had been dealing with recurring breakouts for a couple of years and had always treated it as a separate skincare problem. Spent money on products, tried different routines, nothing fully fixed it. It was only when I started reading ingredient lists properly as part of tracking my food that I realized some things I had been eating almost every day without thinking were probably not helping either my weight goals or my skin.

I started using a food scanner alongside my regular calorie tracking to understand what was actually in things at an ingredient level not just a macro level. Going through my usual groceries with it for the first time was genuinely surprising. Things I had assumed were reasonable choices were scoring really poorly once you looked beyond the nutrition label at the actual ingredients.

Made some swaps based on what kept coming up as problematic. Nothing dramatic, just more deliberate choices about what I was putting in my body.

Five months later the scale is moving in the right direction and my skin is something I feel good about for the first time in years. Two problems I had been treating separately turned out to have a lot of overlap when I actually started paying attention.

If you are on this journey and only tracking macros and calories it might be worth looking at ingredient quality too. Not instead of, just as well as. The overlap between what is good for weight loss and what is good for your skin is bigger than I expected.

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I did it! I reached my goal!!!

Lost 20 pounds in 6 months. Back to my healthiest weight after slowly gaining since 2020. And all it took was a calorie counting app and walking more! Now I'm going to try maintaining this weight without calorie counting, just with regular weigh-ins. Will not hesitate to start counting again if my weight starts to climb, though. Wish me luck!

To anyone with a similar weight loss goal, you can do it! The first month was awful. Sometimes I felt like a toddler throwing a tantrum because his ice cream had been taken away. But by month 3 I was doing alright. By month 6 I've established great habits, have learned so much about where my calories were sneaking in, and don't crave sweets anymore. YAY.

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Not losing weight

hello , I'm a 19 yr old female , 166 cm , weighing 63 kgs , I want to lose 6 kg of fat , i searched about my maintenance calories online and found out i should be eating 1450 calories to be in a deficit and i have been doing that , I eat 70-80 grams of protein and 20-30 grams of fiber daily and mostly whole foods , sometimes i have cheat days but that's like once or twice a month . It has been 2 months now and I haven't even lost a kilogram, even the measurements on my body are the same . I don't workout much , i workout once or twice a week but I maintain my calorie deficit , what should I do to lose weight faster? should I eat lesser calories or workout more often??

also I want to mention that a year ago I went into depression and didn't eat much for weeks and lost 16 kgs. Is that perhaps affecting my current weight loss journey?

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my legs hurt when I run, what can I do

I'm 24F and just started running for health and weight loss reasons. I want to build my stamina but I'm a little overweight with flat feet. I try to run for a couple minutes and then walk for a few minutes, but even from the very beginning it hurts my shins. after a while I have to walk for an extended amount of time because even if I don't feel tired and can keep going, my shins, knees and eventually my feet start getting really tired after a while. I already got running shoes to support my feet a little more but what can I wear on my shins and knees to keep them from hurting?

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Im so MAD at myself

so basically im pretty mad at myself I have genuinely lost so much weight like 100+ lbs

with 40 lbs remaining. losing the rest of the weight is proving hard because of one reason and one reason only. A L C O H O L. legit the only thing standing in between me and 175-180lbs is booze its honestly annoying and exhausting. I know what it is I have to do, I know how to cut, I know how to do good in the gym but this is frustrating because I have to literally evaluate my relationship with alcohol. See, I come from an interesting family my father is Yoruba (Nigerian) comes from a line of alcoholics. My mother is African American and Native American, comes from a line of alcoholics. Everyone in my family drinks. I get home? Younger brother is buzzed, older sister is buzzed Mom is buzzed. Dad is at work (we work at the same company hes in management but I work on the ramp at the airport) but when pops gets home? He's buzzed. So ive have bouts of sobriety I went 60 days once but its so hard because someone in my family will ask "Hey, want a shot?" its so fucking hard, because I want this weight gone Ive worked hard and I have gone so far. I have no clue what to do and I'm at a lost of words as to what I can do. I know I have the strength to get the job done. But its such a tough battle, I have no clue where to begin. I'm also even more discouraged because considering my family history this alcohol addiction might literally be in my blood at this point. I appreciate this subreddit it helped me so much seeing everyone posts and motivational stories about getting the fat off. Some days I feel genuinely defeated because of booze a little bottle that I've allowed to keep me from what it is that I want and the person I want to be. Those of you that have struggled with alcohol becoming a road block in weight loss, what did you do? Do you have any tips, and if you do what did you do to help yourself get to the goal that you desperately wanted?

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