Any of the other women here feel like they only get brief glimpses of what their actual weight is before that number gets shrouded again by hormonal water retention? I had one singular day between ovulation and since now getting my period where my weight dipped to my newest low of 64kg (14lbs) before it went up again to 65.2kg (143lbs). I feel like I've been stuck around 65kg for two weeks now but I guess that one day in between showed me where I'm probably actually at, if it weren't for all the water retention. It can be quite discouraging sometimes since I don't always get a dip like that in between ovulation and my period.

I’ve been doing a couch to 5k program for the last several weeks. I’ve never been a cardio person and always felt like it was something that I just wouldn’t ever be able to do, but I decided to challenge myself. I’ve worked my way up and today I ran 20 minutes straight through for the first time in my life. I wasn’t very fast, and I was huffing and puffing through most of it, but I did it. I did my cooldown walk and was almost home when a 12-ish year old kid rode past me on his bike and said “MOOOO”. I was the only person on the street so I’m sure he was talking to me.

It took me a second to register what he said and I ended up not acknowledging him or reacting at all and just walked into my house. I know kids can be mean and I’m an adult and realistically it’s not a big deal - but boy does the universe know how to knock you down a peg when you’re feeling good.

I’m gonna try to let it go and celebrate my win - I truly never thought I’d be able to run 20 minutes straight through and I’m genuinely SO proud of myself. (shoutout to Defying Gravity for being my ultimate running song)

I am a 26 year old male. I was 205 lbs as of last week. This week I am at 195 lbs. I am 5 feet 8 inches. My goal is to get into the healthy 140 lbs. my lifestyle was very sedentary and I indulged in super sized burrito bowls everyday until last Friday. It’s been 7 days and I’ve been consuming only 1000 calories a day. Starting from today, I am going to increase my caloric intake to 1500 and introduce some workout. Yesterday was my first gym day. I did 15 minutes of cardio - ran a mile in 12 minutes and did cooldown. Hit zone 5 fat burn, and surprisingly didn’t lose breath (basically I watched a treadmill session on Apple Fitness+ and did it exactly as prescribed). I plan to do that everyday, and maybe incorporate some weight training too - either body weight or actual iron. My plan is to do 3 sets of 10 pushups and crunches each everyday to start for the first 2 weeks. Is this a decent plan? My diet is not something I’m severely worried about… I have surprisingly great willpower - I managed to quit soda within a day last year after I damaged my tooth with the continuous soda intake. Similarly, now that I am awake regarding my fitness, I can very obsessively cut down on my food… in fact those nutrition trackers told me to eat more the past week because my food intake was within the starvation range.

So three questions: is it possible to lose 50 pounds? How rigorous should my exercise be? And what is a good caloric consumption amount per day to maintain weight loss?

Thanks!

PS: I am a picky eater, so supplement recommendations are most welcome for nutrition. I am also a grad student on a tight budget. No more than $15 a day on food so I don’t go into debt again. I’m also a novice with cooking and don’t get much time due to 90 hour work weeks… so dietary recommendations are welcome!

Low protein high carb diets.

Im trying to find a diet with a high carb to protein ratio. I know that isnt the typical health ideals, but i figure that there are all sorts of crazy diets for all sorts of things and i think that might be a better way for myself personally. I feel the healthiest eating 300 to 400g of carbs a day like 30g protein and a ton of veggies. With the majority of those carbs from who grains like brown rice and quinoa and a small amout of chicken and fish and wondered if other people do this too.

Ok jesus idk what else to really say. I keep getting taken down for not having a long enough post. Im asking a simple question not telling my life story. I cant understand why the min length is so long on a diet sub.

I wonder if this time its long enough Edit: yay it was

Hi everyone! I recently started seeing a dietitian and got on a sort of meal plan to add food at the start of the day and throughout the day to help with cravings and binging. Now we are looking at my reasons for loosing weight, since that is why I contacted her. I need to loose weight to qualify for a breast reduction etc. I don’t feel that hungry at night and my cravings have gone down, but I feel like I am in the habit of snacking throughout the night. I know myself to be able to change my habits when I have a good reason for it. If anyone is in the same position or has been what has been the reason that got you to lose the weight?

Man. I had my wake up call a few weeks ago. My daughter and I were cuddling, watching TV. My shirt rose up a bit and she said ‘dad, why do you have scratches????’ I have stretch marks, which is pointedly ignored for a year or so. This was the first time anyone’s commented on them.

I started dieting. I try to keep a 1k kcal deficit, but I do fall to 1200 or so on some days. My job is lightly physical.

6.8 pounds down in 19 days. I’m already noticing a difference.

Next Summer, I’m taking my daughter swimming every weekend. If I keep this up, I won’t be afraid to be shirtless.

After having my fourth child I ballooned to 120 kilos and being morbidly obese.

I finally started getting healthy and have now officially lost 20 kilo’s (even though I still cannot believe that!!)

The biggest mind change though is that I always had a sort of goal in my mind ‘if I can just get below 100’ I will have ‘reached’ my goal.

Now I am below 100, I realize it is only the beginning of the next step and I have many more kilo’s to lose! It’s a strange realization that the number that once seemed impossible to reach is not the end station but just a small celebration before the next part of the journey.

Just needed to share this with some one

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and really need some guidance. I just calculated my body fat percentage using an online calculator, and it came out to 44.9%(an obsessed female). Honestly, I’ve never paid much attention to my body or health before, and I’m not very socially active either. But now, I feel the need to make a change not just to lose weight, but to live a healthier life.

For some additional info, I eat three rice-based meals a day (it’s part of my cultural diet) and I have zero experience with fitness or weight loss.

I feel so lost and honestly ugly, and these thoughts are really affecting me emotionally. I don’t even know where to begin! For someone starting completely from scratch, what are your best tips?

Do you think it’s possible for me to transform my body and feel confident in my skin again? Any advice about workouts, diets, or mindset would mean the world to me.

Thank you so much in advance!

I struggled really hard with anorexia from grade 7 to grade 12. During this time I was obsessively counting calories, skipping most meals, and eating less than 800 calories a day. I was unbearably skinny weighing 100 lbs at 5’8.

Then the pandemic hit, I started university, moved to a city with unlimited fast food options, started antidepressant, and began a healthy relationship with my now fiancé. So much changed so fast that I just kind of stopped counting calories and discovered how good food is. It’s like my body was trying to make up for years of restricting and depriving myself from amazing yummy food. I of course realized I was gaining weight with the constant buying of new clothes and the abundance of stretch marks but I honestly started liking my body more than I ever did thin. I suddenly had boobs and a butt and curves and I didn’t hate myself for a while. I contributed my weight gain to my transition from my teens to adulthood.

But after sizing up from a 12 to 14 I realized I had a problem. I got the courage to buy a scale after not weighing myself since high school. In 4 years I doubled my body weight and am now on the opposite side of the bmi spectrum with obese staring at me. I immediately wanted to crawl back into the depths of my eating disorder and I just feel so embarrassed for letting it get this bad.

I started an exercise routine and a calorie deficit 2 weeks ago, but I can feel those bad thoughts and toxic habits creeping back up. Every pound I lose, and every skipped meal I feel myself slipping deeper into my teenage self again.

I can’t afford therapy, it’s way too expensive and I don’t have insurance. But I can’t give up trying to lose weight and let my health suffer. I just don’t know what to do.

Has anyone been here before and how did you get through it?

I started at 213 lbs last Christmas, got down to 190 in a few months, and gained back 10 lbs a few months ago. I’m now back down to 190, but I haven’t been able to stop eating all of a sudden. My goal weight is 160-165 lbs, but with how things are going now it seems impossible. I’m trying to eat 1200 calories a day, which is what I did before to lose my weight, and just like last time, at 190 I can’t maintain that. Is this normal? What do I do? I need to have all this weight lost to fit into a certain outfit I’m getting after Christmas.

just wanted to share a funny (i think) observation. for context i’m 27F cw93kg sw97kg and i’ve been in a deficit eating roughly 1400 cals for just over a month and i’ve lost about 4kg.

i started feeling really hungry the last few days so i decided to eat at maintenance for a few days so i don’t binge and go way over. Today is the first day of eating more and i have so much energy i can’t believe it. i guess just didn’t really realize how much eating at a deficit affected my energy levels (duh). i plan to incorporate a few maintenance days then go back to a deficit just so i don’t go crazy.

Have any of you experienced this strange sensation?

hi everyone! i used to be 245 and am now 140. ive been leaning out and have gotten ab definition, but my lower belly still has a little bit of an over hang and now that there is less fat from weight lifting the skin in crepey.

when i lean over it hangs a lot. but when i stand it’s not bad. i’m looking into morpheus 8 treatments to help. i’m too scared of a tummy tuck and honestly it’s not a lot, just in certain positions i hate it?

any advice? i’ve been weightlifting for 3 months!

thank you!

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Hello all, anybody else experiencing this phenomenon? Regardless of calories consumed--I've been consistently counting for several months now--weight loss does not seem to happen unless I bring my carb count near zero. Sad face because I love toast, etc etc. I am chalking it up to being a middle-age, (likely) perimenopausal woman on hormonal birth control. And also genetics. But yeesh. I suppose this is another reminder that despite what people say about losing weight, I have to find what works for me. No easy fixes, that's for sure, not any of the phrases that start with the word "just" that people reeeeeally love dispensing as advice smh. I've cut out beverages with sugar, simple carbs, whole-grain carbs except in very small quantities, most fruits, processed foods; tried adding cardio and resistance training separately and together (felt like I needed to eat more to compensate and gained weight); intermittent fasting, increasing protein; keto; you name it. Sigh. I accept my reality. I keep telling myself there are lots of enjoyable things in this world besides a perfectly-toasted slice of sourdough with Irish butter and homemade jam...

Edit: I will try some of these suggestions. Some of y'all are very strident. Very Reddit lol

Hello! I’m f21, currently weighing in at 237lbs.

I have a very limited appetite at the moment.

Over the last two years, my depression had taken over my life, and I had gone from 160lbs (10st9) to 17st5 (243lbs) in about a year and half, due to my medication and overconsumption of foods like icecreams and chocolates — anything I could get my hands on — and ate like there was no tomorrow. 3-5 meals a day, with snacks and pretty much daily, icecream.

As of the last week and a half, I’ve been working on myself because I want to get back what my depression took away from me and be able to look at myself in the mirror again without despising what I see.

I’m consuming about 150-350 calories, and burning 260 a day with a 40 minute walk (2.05km.) I workout once a day, doing as stated above.

I want to know, is there anything I can do better? Are there any workouts that are amazing for weight loss? How long will it take me to get back to 160 or lower? Thank you!! :))

Edit: and how do people stay motivated 🥲 it’s so hard Edit 2: thank you for the replies, I was taught to lose this way for a very long time growing up 🥲 not so much anymore, but it’s been engraved into my brain.

Okay, so on Monday, I weighed myself with my husband. He's 6'1 & I'm 4'11. He is 186 pounds and I weighed 188.8.

When I saw those numbers, I gave myself the ick, BAD. All the questions hit me. How have I gotten this bad? Why did I let it happen? What do I do now?

It was a slap in the face that made me realize I needed to get my shit together. I sat down and did the math, I was consuming around 2,500 - 3,200 cals a day. I have since lowered it to 1,620 and I'm being more mindful of what I'm consuming and I'm down 3 pounds.

I have to make the change.

So according to my favorite tracker, "Libra" on Android, I'm not too far from my lowest weight in more than a decade and on a solid downward trend. Yay, that's great! But my mood definitely *isn't* great and if I'm not careful I get "hangry" much more easily than when the weather was warmer.

This is only my anecdotal experience of course and I am finding this year that while I can keep to IF and break my fast in late morning, it can't be *too* late in the morning or I'm just flat out cranky!

Share your experiences of seasonal variance in appetite and energy expenditure, please.

40m 5'11" (SW: 264, GW: 175, CW:199)

At the end of August this year, I topped the scale at 264lbs and was overwhelmed. I decided to take some action. I was never an athlete, never lifted a weight before in my life, and had probably last ran a full mile when I was 12.

I downloaded MyFitnessPal, tracked calories (1600-1900/day), started weightlifting and began Couch-to-5K.

I started with the 3-Day Full Body Dumbbell Only Workout for 8 weeks. Then moved onto the 4-Day Full Body Dumbbell Only Workout. I run for 10 minutes before I lift, then high-incline walk for 20 after.

I can't speak highly enough of Cough-to-5K. When I first started in September I was counting down the seconds on the minute and minute and a half runs and felt like I was barely getting through the running. I stuck with it 3 times a week and after finishing it, ran my first Turkey Trot 5k in 28 minutes! On my non-lifting days I run for 30 minutes and have a goal increasing my pace to be able to hit 4 miles in that time.

I was losing about 5lbs/week at the start, but have now leveled out at about 2lbs/week for the last month. I hadn't seen below 200lbs in probably 15 years, but now have that beautiful 1 in front! I've gone from 2XL to L shirts, and down from 40"waist to 34" waist pants!

The last 3 months have hopefully started a more healthy phase of life. I'm on track to hit my goal weight in 3 months.

One of the biggest changes was shifting my sleep schedule, I was always a night owl (up till 2am most nights) and binged 2000+ calories after 9pm each night, My goal now is to be in bed by 9:30am each night and up by 6:30. I know not everyone has a schedule that allows that - but that has done wonders for my energy and food intake. It's enabled me to cut snacking out and I'm not going hungry by midnight anymore.

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I've been intentionally losing weight slowly since May. By slowly, I mean slowly. Stopping food addiction has been a hard process, and only the past month have I developed consistent discipline with binging. Female, 5'7", started at 173lbs. Not sure of my current weight as I don't like to keep a scale, but I weighed 160lbs in early October which is when I last checked - I've probably lost a little more since.

Well, I got nothing about anyone noticing it or mentioning it up until this week. Two coworkers have mentioned it! This week alone! I'm very happy. I personally barely notice a difference, but I suppose I'm going to be the person who blind to it the longest. I've also coincidentally had a coworker who suddenly, again, THIS week, keeps offering me chocolate... This didn't happen before, and he didn't ask anyone else in the room if they wanted some when others have been present. Suspicious.

Firstly, I want to be clear that I love olive oil. The health benefits are great, and I will continue to use olive oil whenever I can, but the calorie density is becoming a real deficit killer. The brand I use sits at 110 calories per tablespoon. Ouch.

I'd consider myself a "foodie" and a decent home cook, so no hate to air fryers, they just don't really fit the greatest into my lifestyle.

Fellow home cooks, what are your favourite alternatives, or what methods of cooking are you using to reduce use of oil and butter?

I have been wanting to lose weight since 2020. Recently, I have been going to the gym more consistently. Before November, I was only going a few times a month and now I am attending more, and trying to stick with a routine. However, I have only been able to lose 7 pounds. I don't want to drop my calories so low because I want to maintain my weight loss for life. I don't track my calories to the t, but I try to estimate. Also have been trying to cut down on sugar and carbs.

I'm concerned about daily weight fluctuations - is it a red flag that sometimes My weight can vary by 1-2 pounds, and sometimes even 4 pounds, when I weigh myself in the morning? Are there ways to improve my progress without resorting to a very restrictive diet?

F 5'3 - CW: 177 GW: 144

So back at this time last year I was at my highest weight ever at 414lbs. I am 5'4 and I had a severe knee injury I could barely move without pain. I could only get myself from my house to my desk job and that was all I could do in a day. For the past 5 months I have been lucky enough to be in a position where I can focus on only losing weight and nothing else. I have been working really hard doing the best I can because I just want my life back. I can now actually walk around more freely, do chores regularly, leave the house more often, climb stairs. I know it doesn't sound like a lot to normal people but these were things at my heaviest weight I couldn't do anymore. I now weigh 327lbs, that means I lost 87lbs but I feel like when I look in the mirror I see no change what so ever. My clothes are a little looser but not enough where I would feel like I lost 87lbs. I guess I feel a little disheartened to me 87lbs feels like a big number but I can't see a change. Is it common to lose that much weight but not be able to see it? My boyfriend says he see's it but I cant for some reason.

p.s - yes I know I have a lot more to lose and I am still working hard.

I am on week four of my calorie deficit and I have slowly lost just about all of my appetite over the last 3 weeks. I am female 5’4 and 183pounds right now. It can be hard to even eat 1000 calories at this point. I feel very uninterested in food, which is a blessing lol. I have been meal prepping and I have basically prepped the same thing for the last month.

On one hand it kind of worries me eating 950 cals in a day. On another hand I have a lot of weight to lose! Also wanted to mention that I always consume at least 100 g of protein no matter what.

My question is, should I force myself to eat more even if I don’t feel hungry?

Back in August I significantly cut back my everyday bottle of wine habit and only have a few drinks when I see my friends once a month. I have been doing CICO and getting 7,500-10k steps a day. Recently started incorporating weights. I’ve been too scared to get jump on the for fear of spiraling after seeing the number. I am getting married next year and want to get to 150 at least by then. Last time I weighed myself was 2022 and I was 205-208 at 5’4. 10/19 was my wedding dress appointment and below is my current measurements. I think it seems like progress is being made finally!! NSV!

10/19/24: Bust:43.5 Waist 39 Hip 49

12/12/24: Bust: 41 Waist: 36 Hip: 42.5

Hi there,

I [28M/5'9] have went from 206lbs in mid October to 189lbs as of today through being in a calorie deficit, walking a minimum of 10k steps a day and going to the gym. So far I am so happy with my results but I have another 20lbs or so until I hit my goal weight.

If I am right, I should hit my goal weight around the beginning of March next year, but I have a birthday party to go to in early February when I stil have another 4-6lbs to lose, I have not bought clothes for months and I was planning on going on a spending spree once I hit my goal weight, but I also want to look nice for this party.

If I was to buy an outfit for the party, could I still wear it again later or would loosing another 5lbs make it too big for me? I want to look nice but I also don't want to spend money on an outfit that may not fit me after a month. Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance.

Hey all,

I need some advice from those with a history of severe depression. I desperately want to lose weight. I'm not in a good place with my body. I'm the heaviest I've ever been and I think about my weight almost constantly. It's starting to affect my mental health and relationship. I SH'd yesterday for the first time in five years over it.

However, because I struggle with mental health (I've dealt with depression since I was 12-13 and it's not directly tied to my weight), I have such a hard time finding the motivation to exercise. How am I supposed to find the energy between being a full time student and part time worker with a physically active job? I also find a lot of comfort and happiness in junk food, especially sweets. I don't know how to fight a sugar addiction but I need to.

I guess this turned into a longer vent than I expected but I really could use some advice on how to address all of this? I came off my mental health medication because it was making me gain weight too easily and I'm currently in between therapists due to financial reasons. I probably sound like a lazy POS but I really need any advice you all can give

I’m wondering if I should recalibrate more than I have… I already do the step on step off thing on a flat surface to level the scale out. But today just to see if I truly was losing weight THIS slowly/if it was an accurate read, I put two 4.5 kg dumbbells on it. Each dumbbell being 4.5kg (9.9 lbs,) if exact, together should read at 19.8 pounds. But it reads at 20.8.

So I’ve been subtracting a pound from my morning weigh-ins. I weigh myself daily, though not necessarily always after a BM/pee. I am losing weight so slowly and I know that’s probably for the best. But I struggle a lot with discouragement from the scale. My only form of exercise right now is daily treadmill walks with the occasional stairmaster thrown in. I’m overweight so I’m focused on protein and cardio more than I am weightlifting and building muscle, though I would like to preserve muscle and am incorporating some light calisthenics.

I lost 40 pounds a year ago and gained it all back + 5 more pounds. When I lost the initial 40 it was so easy… it felt like I was down a pound or two every other day. I am much more healthy, regimented, and consistent with this routine (I developed a bit of an eating disorder with my original 40lb loss) and while I’m losing, it is snail mail. I’m not looking for anything drastic, but my god is it ever depressing. Is it harder to lose after having lost and regained? Have I damaged something? I am young, in my mid twenties, and I am a woman who is tall (5’10) if that makes any difference information wise. Currently weighing in at 203.

I don't know what's going on here, because before Thanksgiving I was doing incredible in terms of dropping weight, reaching my lowest at iirc 156 pounds. With Thanksgiving coming up I decided to let myself pig out for two days and have a break. I was mainly eating things like muffins and pie and pasta. very carb heavy stuff, with mainly water as my usual drink. After Thanksgiving, I shot up all the way to 170 and just told myself "It's just the usual water weight, I'll lose it in no time!" and yet, here we are today. I'm at 169 pounds despite reverting back to my usual calorie deficit. I don't fucking understand. I even decided to take a break from omad in-between that time and tried to split up my meals so that i'd have more energy for work during the morning, but I was still always maintaining an under 2000 calorie diet, which is what's required for me to be in a deficit. What am I doing wrong? I'll admit I've mainly been on a carb heavy diet with breads lately because of Thanksgiving, but could that be what's setting me back?

hello, i am a 68kgs heavy and 158 cm tall female, and due to my height I look pretty fat. a lot of people make fun of me due to this and it makes me feel bad about myself too. so i have been trying different workouts to lose weight for some time now and nothing seems to work. I think that's because I lose consistency after I think like 2 weeks, that's the most i can go on with a workout routine and then I get impatient and change it again if the results aren't visible, which they mostly aren't. i have tried many methods for this but nothing seems to work. what do you guys do to stay consistent?