Weight loss: Found a pair of my size 76 pants. Currently in 46. Started at 650lbs. Currently 275lbs.

Found a pair of my size 76 pants. Currently in 46. Started at 650lbs. Currently 275lbs.
I saw a 2 as the first number of my weight since high school!
Doing my best to get healthy so I can be there for both of my sons. (100 pounds lost)
YSK That it doesn't matter if you are skinny, fat, fit, or none of the above; DO NOT be intimidated by others in the gym. If you are in the gym working out, NOBODY ELSE GIVES A FUCK about what you're doing but YOU.
At 40 years old I finally think I might actually have a chance.
I've done my first Couch to 5K run!
I think, for the first time in my life, I might actually lose weight and it's thanks to this sub
299.6 wow
Need some advice for quitting soda.
How often should you eat dessert?
I was about to feel guilty leaving the store with only vodka, wine, dog treats, and coffee before remembering what I would have normally left with.
Feeling so discouraged after today
[Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 10th, 2020
Happy Birthday To Me!!
Just binged again after 50 days into therapy :(
How do you course-correct?
I find the process to be stressful, and it worries me about my long term prospects.
Finally going to start cutting calories after exercising for six months didn’t work.
Portion Control is KEY Sis
This is when I would quit
So I've been doing really good recently, but...
What are you looking forward to when you hit your goal weight?
I find the process to be stressful, and it worries me about my long term prospects.

Found a pair of my size 76 pants. Currently in 46. Started at 650lbs. Currently 275lbs.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:18 AM PDT

I had posted in this sub on and off for a good while. I had another account I posted under that I deleted due to my current line of work (contained photos of me in my undies.)

https://imgur.com/a/9YANkVD

Went home over the holiday and found an old pair of 76" waistline pants.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the roads to bettering yourself are myriad. But, each one of them starts with the first step.

I posted a few years (5 maybe 6) back that I was depressed. I weighed 650lbs and had a horrible relationship with food. I felt like I didn't deserve to be better but that I wanted to be better for my daughter. I was recommended to seek counseling, which I did. This led me to exploring options that would actually help a person of my size.

Of course, of those options is gastric surgery and I worked towards that. I lost 50lbs before surgery. Did 6 months of therapy and did nutritional counseling.

I had surgery on Dec 13th, 2016. I recovered great but it was still a long road. You hear all about everyone that has surgery and gains their weight back before they make it a year out. It taught me to listen to my body. Taught me that there is a balance to sweets, take-out, and other traps into which we so often fall before realizing it.

It is not the easy way out. I struggle daily with my diet. I have very limited stomach space, so the choices in food I have to make have to be supremely wise. Chicken and potatoes make me sick. Sugar makes me sweat. I struggle to get a good 1000 cals of food without hurting my stomach. Some people can push through that pain and stretch it back right away. I will not throw away this progress.

After 3.5 years, I am currently hovering around 275lbs. And, if I have my excess skin removed, I would be very close to 200. I am still undecided on that as of yet as I am totally happy with my current quality of life.

Others in my family have followed suite. My sis had gastic surgery and is now below 150. My wife started only eating when hungry instead of the 3 meals a day model and has lost 40lbs. Due to our increase in energy, we have been able to stay more active with our daughter, who is not overweight but is greatly benefiting from the better choices we are making and I hope they last her a lifetime.

If you are at the end of your rope, sitting in your chair, debating pissing yourself because walking to the bathroom would be excruciating, hang in there.

There is a road to start down for everyone. Find the one that works for you.

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I saw a 2 as the first number of my weight since high school!

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:51 AM PDT

Let me start by saying I'm 28(m) and have been overweight my whole life. I reached 300 pounds my freshmen year of high school and have been above that weight until today. Around 2015 I reached my highest weight of about 395, after I saw that number I knew I didn't want to reach 400 and started my long slow journey of losing weight. Today I finally saw 299 lbs on my scale.

Around 2015 I started keto which worked well but I realized it wasn't a long term solution for me personally. I had gotten down to about 350 lbs and my weight flucutated after as I stopped really working on my weight. After trying multiple more diets throughout the years but not being able to really keep up with them I started intermittent fasting with mixing in a few days of OMAD. This worked really well for me as I was counting the calories of the meals I was eating and I only had to count one or two meals.

Along with diet I would attempt to supplement them working out. Of course everyone always told me to do cardio, but as someone who couldn't stand doing cardio I went out and bought a cheap weight rack. I started doing Stronglifts 5x5. I got to the point where I actually enjoyed working out as I was lifting. I could see my progress there more than cardio. Over time I have slowly been adding biking and hiking.

My journey has been long and slow due to me getting off track so many times. But along the way I learned so many new things. I still also have quite a way to go to finish my journey but this for sure has been the biggest milestone I've achieved along the way.

This subreddit has really helped me get back on track so many times with seeing the amazing progress so many of you make and it always gives me hope. So I want to thank all of those on here who post their stories and inspire people like me to get their ass in gear.

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Doing my best to get healthy so I can be there for both of my sons. (100 pounds lost)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:27 AM PDT

Over the past 5 years I struggled with almost daily non-epileptic seizures. I went to doctors and hospitals all over my state and even made my way to the mayo clinic half the country away. Nothing was working and the depression and inability to walk from the severe pain many days got the better of me.

Seven months ago, I looked in the mirror and hated the person who was looking back at me. I couldn't stand to look at myself. Knowing nothing had helped, I thought that I needed to try my hardest to get healthy in other aspects. Maybe I couldn't control the seizures but I could control my weight.

https://imgur.com/a/PEIRt44

Here I am seven months later a bit happier and a lot healthier. I was able to push through the pain and I've been having the seizures much less. Also, being able to keep up with my little guy is amazing and his brother will be born soon! So I have that to look forward to!

What I did to lose: Walk 2.5 miles 3 days a week ( helps with depression as well) Monday: 2 meals a day Tuesday - Wednesday: 1 meal a day Thursday - Friday: 2 meals a day Saturday - no food Sunday - 2 meals

On days I ate 2 meals I followed the 16 hour fast 8 hour eating window. Days I ate 1 meal would eat at 10 am.

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YSK That it doesn't matter if you are skinny, fat, fit, or none of the above; DO NOT be intimidated by others in the gym. If you are in the gym working out, NOBODY ELSE GIVES A FUCK about what you're doing but YOU.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:18 PM PDT

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At 40 years old I finally think I might actually have a chance.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:33 AM PDT

50 pounds down

I've struggled with weight since my early teens. I'd like to blame genetics but I've always had a bad relationship with food, and binge eating. To top it off my parents were clueless about nutrition so after going for a long walk my mom would give me bananas with sugar sprinkled on them as a "healthy snack". I feel like I was dieting from the time I was 13 on and never getting anywhere. I had to struggle to just stay a size 10. I joined Civil Air Patrol as a young teen and was very active and that helped keep weight off but once I got older, in high school and then able to drive and go eat whatever I wanted...it got real bad. By the time I was 21 I was probably around 275.

In 2003 I started dieting, exercising and got down to around 225 and was really happy. I met a guy who ended up being my first boyfriend and we eventually moved in together in 2005. All he would eat was fast food. No joke. Eventually I settled into it and back came the weight. After a couple years of it I got on adderall to help me at work and lost about 30-40 pounds. Broke up with my bf and started dating my now husband. Weight came back again slowly. At my highest weight I was 315.

In 2013 I started on Medifast. Between Feb and November I lost 100 pounds. Was so close to finally being under 200 for the first time since I was basically a kid. And then I got pregnant. Coming off a super restrictive diet and being pregnant a lot of weight returned quickly. The latter part of my pregnancy I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes but I buckled down and controlled it through diet and didn't gain a lot at the end. Had a healthy son and was really loving my life and not focused on my weight so it came back on. I wanted to lose some before having another but time caught up with me and I said let's just do this and I'll lose weight after I'm done having kids. Second pregnancy was hard. Required insulin, high bp throughout. Ended in a c section at 34 weeks due to pre-eclampsia. My son was 3lb11oz and spent 8 days in NICU...overall extremely strong and healthy. I spent 5 days in the hospital myself being pumped full of drugs to keep me from having a seizure for high bp, trying to get bp down...which gave me tachycardia and 125bpm pulse for several days straight leading to panic attacks. I was already dealing with permanent tinnitus I developed a couple months prior and overall my health was very poor, physically and mentally. Was afraid of never walking out of the hospital again. I'd sit and cry in my room. Unlike the joy of my first sons delivery having my husband with me and family visits I was mostly alone. Husband would encourage me to go visit my son in the NICU but whenever I did I either felt extreme anxiety due to his size and the pressure to try and breastfeed a baby that was smaller than my boob....or I would be holding him and struggling to stay awake because i had t had more than 3 hours sleep in 4 days. I had to be given Xanax to finally sleep for more than an hour.

There was a lot of guilt and fear and my body felt broken and weak. I spent months at home on the couch caring for my son and helping him to thrive. Today I'm happy to say he's no different from a full term child even 70% in height on the normal growth scale. I was broken though. I had been suffering from an anal fissure due to pregnancy constipation issues and I spent 18 months in horrific pain. A morning BM would have me in agony until 5pm. Sometimes the only time I wasn't in pain was during a bath. I finally had surgery for that the following February...2019. I had family who would show concern for my weight...even my husband...and I would just feel so alone in that nobody understood what I was going through mentally and physically.

Fast forward to February 2020. I'm healed, feeling better mentally and tired of being fat. I decide to start medifast again. Going fine for a few weeks and then one of my best friend passes away unexpectedly. He had been living with his wife in another state but he'd been in town the month before and we got together for breakfast and it was so great to see him. I was broken again. Instead this time instead of eating I just stopped eating. I did my medifast but i didn't care about food at all. Then Covid happened and there was so much about obese people being at risk. So I was afraid. Really afraid.

In the middle of all this we found our dream home and I became incredibly busy planning, dealing with all the logistic, trying to sell a piece of land we owned to help us furnish our new home with furniture, researching furniture...I think it saved me...it made me happy and kept me busy. At some point I moved away from medifast and just started eating healthier foods. I was the one doing the grocery shopping because my husband is 19 years older than me and I figured my risk was lower...so I could control all the food that came into the house. We didn't eat out as much because at first we were worried to. I was active, moving things from our townhouse to the new house.

We are fully moved in here now. The street we live on is about a 1/4 mile long and on a hill, and back in May I started walking it 3x a week. Now I walk it 5x a week. I do 5-7 laps up and down the hill. I feel like the bad relationship I have with food is gone. When I did medifast I would plan out my cheat times, vacations or whatnot. I remember going on vacay and going to a baseball game where I ate cheesecake on a stick and beer and was so happy. The diet I'm on now...I don't feel like I'd do that. I have dessert sometimes, no more than once a week. I eat food that doesn't leave me feeling hungry or wanting something sweeter. I love fruit. We have pizza Friday, taco Saturday, chick fil a tuesdays and I'm able to enjoy that and still lose weight because I don't overeat other times. Father's Day weekend we got ice cream at coldstone and I really enjoyed that but when it was over I didn't run out and buy ice cream at the grocery store. My husband still eats his sweets but I don't feel the urge to get into them myself. I was gifted some chocolate back in April and I have a piece every now and then and its satisfying.

I don't know how it happened but I feel like something is different. I feel like I could actually do this forever. Someone asked me "how much weight do you want to lose" and I didn't know how to answer that. I just said...I don't plan to stop eating and exercising the way I am now so I guess we see where I stop losing weight and then decide if I want to make any changes or if I'm satisfied. Overall I'm taking way better care of myself and I'm happy with myself. I'm still on bp meds and don't know if I'll ever get off them. My biological father died of a heart attack in his early 50s. I never got to meet him. I don't want to die early like that.

So that's my story. I always stayed away from these weight loss subs because everybody is so amazing with their stories and I felt like a failure, but now I feel like I have a chance to be one of those stories. I always felt like well I'm losing weight but I'll never keep it off....but now I think maybe I can.

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I've done my first Couch to 5K run!

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 12:54 AM PDT

On Wednesday I made the choice to download the Couch to 5k run app. It is a program that coaches you to run 5k over the course of 9 weeks by doing three runs a week. Yesterday was Week 1 Run 1;

Start - 5 min walk

Run - 60 seconds

Walk - 90 seconds

Repeat 7 seven times

End - 5 min walk.

I cannot believe I ran for a whole minute 7 FREAKING TIMES. I didn't even think I could run 20 seconds without dying. I am super proud of my first achievement. Unfortunately due to family visits (COVID restrictions lightening) I cannot run until Monday but I'm super excited for Week 1 Run 2.

My plan is to complete the program as close to schedule as possible and stick to the 12-Weeks NHS weight loss plan and see where I am in November. My goal is to loose about 10/15kg by christmas which should bring me to about 80kg.

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I think, for the first time in my life, I might actually lose weight and it's thanks to this sub

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:43 AM PDT

So, I've always been overweight. Ever since I was little, my parents (and especially grandparents) kinda stuffed me with food, 'cause they grew up poor and food meant love to them. I always was unhappy with this and also fully knew I was fat, but I could never actually change my behavior. I didn't like most vegetables (I still don't), I barely ever worked out because I didn't like it, and I didn't even drink water for my main source of hydration, instead drinkling literal litres per day of Coke and sweet tea.

I started keto last year, and I dropped a good 40lbs. Like, in two months. It was great. But then I fell back into my depression really hard, which I've struggled with ever since I was a little kid, and I barely had the discipline to wake up on time and brush my teeth, let alone keep up my diet restrictions. Basically got all the weight back again. Well, two weeks ago I was, by chance, on this sub, and had a thread where people really urged the OP to get the MyFitnessPal app and try their best. I always scoffed at these apps as pointless etc. But oh my god, it helped me so much.

I don't know why exactly, but just seeing the numbers helps me stay in check so much. Whereas I'd often eat very few vegetables, about 3000+ calories a day of shitty junkfood, and still not work out, I now keep track of what I eat and try to stay below 2000. I'm pretty tall, so I think even at a healthy weight I could eat 2300-2500, but I wanna lose weight and kinda started a bit harsh with 1700 max. I sometimes go a bit over. Today I had 2000, but it's still low enough to be at a deficit in total for the day. Just not as much as I'd like. I still don't eat particularly well, but I started to eat some veggies, like kale and mushrooms which I now really like. I also replaced all the soda and sweet juice with 90% water and 10% die coke. And while I still eat shitty foods like pizza or burgers without veggies a lot, at least I stop just stuffing my face with giant portions, and instead go "No, I'm at enough for today". I can't really say why seeing the numbers helps so much when I already knew this before, but somehow it's much easier to restrain myself at least, even if I can't implement all the changes I should, like eating more greens and moving more. But, it's progress at least. Maybe I can work my way towards actually changing the contents of my diet as well, even if it takes time.

I just wanted to say thanks for inadvertedly helping me!

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299.6 wow

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:42 PM PDT

https://imgur.com/a/YIJZCYJ

Without going into this huge thing. Being under 300 lbs is huge for me. As I've posted in the past I started at 465 and as of a few days ago I'm under 300.

This has been one of the "long term" goals. A mile marker if you will. It's just a validation that the work I've been doing is actually working and will keep working. I'm just at a loss for words when it came to this. As for my next "long term" goal I'm hoping to be at 250 lbs before my year on this current diet is over.

I've been dieting on and off for two years and this has been the longest and most productive stint yet. I plan on breaking my diet for one day and then resuming perhaps approaching it differently to see if it was just keto assisting me or just low carbs but never the less I'm over the moon.

Also let this be understood by everyone who lurks. This is obtainable. You can make it work for you. A diet is only as hard as you make it. Baby steps and find what works for you. :)

Starting weight: 465 Current weight: 297.3

Loss: 170.7

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Need some advice for quitting soda.

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:23 AM PDT

Hello,

I am a 17 year old going into senior year, and am above 325 lbs. I hate it so much, and have tried on and off for years to lose weight.

Recently, I discovered my problem. I drink way more soda than I thought I did, like probably a liter or 2 a day, coupled with insane amounts of food. My diet is something that is hard to fix, I just need to stop eating as much, but I wanted to focus on my soda problem first.

Ive tried supplementing it with things like water or milk or really anything, but I'm straight up addicted.

I think my main problem is the fizzyness, but the only sparkling water drinks I actually enjoy are this one called Ice. All the others just taste like garbage.

So, I come here asking for some alternatives. Unfortunately, I dont like Tea. Its too strong of a taste for me, and I drink water whenever I can. How do I get rid of the cravings for soda?

Thanks for any replies!

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How often should you eat dessert?

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:03 PM PDT

Seriously Curious: How often do you eat dessert?

F/20/5'6" CW: too much Im fat (in the process of losing weight) and I've never had a normal relationship with food. I'm genuinely curious how many days a week do normal people eat dessert? Every night after dinner? Once a week? Whenever you feel like it??? I genuinely don't know what's normal 😂

In the past I've eaten sweets every day, and eaten sugary snacks throughout the day. Now I'm counting calories and avoiding sugar in general which is part of the reason why I ask. When I'm avoiding sugar I don't know what a "normal" person would eat. Like I said, I've never had a normal relationship with food because I've always eaten too much.

I ask this question in the same vain as other posts I've seen people asking about how much regular people actually eat and how they do I'm just someone with a broken relationship with food and I wanted to see y'alls thoughts.

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I was about to feel guilty leaving the store with only vodka, wine, dog treats, and coffee before remembering what I would have normally left with.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:19 PM PDT

I'm going to have FaceTime happy hour with a friend tonight so I decided to pick up some drinks. Looking down at my cart, I suddenly felt guilty splurging on alcohol even within my calories. Then I realized that I used to leave the store with a cart full of food and drinks, regardless of what I already had at home. Might need this bag of chips? Grab another. Maybe I'll want this FAMILY SIZE lasagna tomorrow - get it anyways. Bread sounds good, I'll freeze an extra loaf. Beer? 24 pack. No problem. It's now occurred to me that even though I'm well recovering from eating and binging issues, the deep seeded fear of "not having enough" is what would continue to drive how much money I spend on food, groceries, delivery, etc.

Low and behold - All my cart had was vodka, one bottle of wine, dog treats, coffee, and Splenda. I didn't even think twice about buying less, eating less, and buying lower calories. It came TOTALLY NATURAL to me.

PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION! Proud of myself!

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Feeling so discouraged after today

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:43 PM PDT

Over the last few weeks, I finally felt like I had a hold on my binge eating / general unhealthy habits. I was on a new medication for unrelated reasons that decreased my appetite, and i felt amazing because i only ate when hungry. I could eat what I like without going overboard! What a concept! Now suddenly, it's like that part of my brain shut off and I'm back to my old self. I feel so so discouraged right now.. Why can't I ever stick to my goals? I'm sure everyone here has felt this way and this is no unique situation, so im sorry for this rant.. I could just use some encouragement at the moment

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[Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: July 10th, 2020

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:37 PM PDT

Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well!

For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other.

Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went!

Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here!

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Happy Birthday To Me!!

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:26 AM PDT

I've posted before, not too long ago but I'm down even more since then. But, going through a pretty rough break up that has left me where I have to take meds for both severe depression and severe anxiety. And then I have borderline personality which just makes it hard for me to let go. But right now, im so proud of myself for losing almost 30 pounds in two months.

I've been tracking calories, IF which I think helps the most, and even been "cheating" but I get right back to it and fast until I'm hungry again.

I'm just really proud of myself because it's been so hard to do anything I'm so glad I at least have control over my body right now.

It's my birthday and I'm sad I gotta spend it alone now but I'm also so excited because I just look and feel so much better.

Thanks for listening!! SW: 300+ CW: 270 pic

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Just binged again after 50 days into therapy :(

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:49 PM PDT

I don't have much to say. I am just sad that it happened. I weighed myself today, and the numbers had gone up a bit since yesterday (two pounds, probably water). My first reaction was going to the fridge to drink some water, and then it happened again. I lost control and when I "came back" I had already eaten four cookies, three tablespoons of Nutella and three veggie sausages. My therapist warned me that this could happen, but bingeing after a month and a half for the first time just reminded me why I started therapy. I know this one binge isn't going to make me put on much weight (I probably went 300-400 kcal over my TDEE), but I'm feeling gross, bloated and sad. Binge eating disorder is a bitch. How do/did you deal with bingeing when you have gone some time without them?

Edit: sorry for the (possibly) weird phrasing, I'm tired and English is not my first language.

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How do you course-correct?

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:56 PM PDT

I've felt myself drifting away from my intended goals over the past week. My motivation has diminished slightly in the face of work stress and just settling into the long-term tedium of weight loss. I'm still working at it, still tracking calories and exercising (and still losing weight!), but the tendency to 'cheat' and exceed my calorie goals has crept in more than I'd like.

My question to Loseit; how do you stop yourself from going off course? How do you fight against the inner voice that encourages you to go 'just a bit' beyond your calorie limit (whether that 'bit' is 20 or 2000 calories)?

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I find the process to be stressful, and it worries me about my long term prospects.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:26 PM PDT

Tl;dr: Calorie counting feels tedious/mentally taxing and it makes want to quit. Especially when I realize that, if I make my goal weight, I can never stop counting or I'll regain the weight. This makes me sad.

I find calorie counting quite stressful. The biggest culprit is the anxiety ridden countdown running through my entire day as I spend my calories. It's not the foods themselves, it's the uncertainty and the dual threat/promise that this daily, budgetary puzzle might never end, if I'm (un)lucky enough.

I've lost weight before and I know that, without calorie counting, I can't maintain a healthy weight. Part of the reason counting was so much more bearable when I was in college (when I initially lost weight) was the idea that I would "make it" some day. Pain now, happiness later.

When I regained the weight, I realized there was no later. There's just mental load now, and then mental load forever. If I'm lucky/determined, I'll count calories until the day I die, and I'll be shape (as much as I can be) until I die. This makes me sad.

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Finally going to start cutting calories after exercising for six months didn’t work.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:10 PM PDT

TL/DR: After reading the faq of this sub I realized I'm definitely not alone with exercise doing nothing. Six months of biking hasn't moved the scale much. Need to start cutting calories.

I was healthyish before I started working nearly 100 miles away from my house for four years. Commuting two hours each way every day sucks soooo much. And during that time I gained 30% of my original weight. The whole time I was so mad about the commute and how it was killing my health.

So after 4 long years of commuting 1,000 miles a week, I was blessed with a great job 8 miles away that I can ride my bike to. In the past six months I've probably driven my car 5 times (actually not good for the car, I think it's dead). This has transferred to a swap of 20 hours a week of driving to 6 hours a week of bike riding.

I feel great now, my clothes fit better, I sleep better, I'm tan from finally getting sun every day. I thought I was losing tons of weight, but didn't check until today. 5%... in 6 months!

I was so disappointed and then I found the faq on this sub how exercise doesn't actually do anything for weight loss and I feel like I actually have to cut calories.

So this is my day one of actually having a plan to lose weight. Cutting and tracking calories to 1,800 per day (I've checked and been eating around 2,800 per day). To deal with the hunger I'm going to start running a few miles at lunch every day instead of stuffing my face.

Cheers to day one! ☝️

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Portion Control is KEY Sis

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:42 PM PDT

Okay, so it's only been a few days, but I don't see this changing at all. I found a post on here that was sooo helpful. I've seen variations of it before but it really got through to me this time. I'd love to link the post but I'm not sure how. If I figure it out I will. Anyways, this redditor was talking about their husband and how he has these habits that make him really lean and a bunch of it was portion control by listening to his body. He would not stand for being full, and truly waited to be hungry. I've realized I don't really know what hungry feels like because I boredom eat, am always dehydrated and don't really listen to myself.

I'd stuff myself with food and then go for more but now that being intuitive, it's almost a struggle for me to meet my calorie goal. Part of that is because I exercise daily now and drink a lot of water. It just seems to be something I was seriously needing without knowing. I've been stuck in a plateau so we will see where I'm at in a few weeks with my weight.

I wanna ask if others have experienced this, and if it changed their relationship with food. I'm also wondering if this daily exercises will give me a whoosh with my weight. I know to be patient with myself and try to make sustainable changes, but I'm just so excited with my health lately, even though the scale hasn't changed. Have a great day and have amazing luck with your journeys ❤️

Edit: Wanna mention that I follow CICO

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This is when I would quit

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:55 AM PDT

I'm about 4 months in to regular working out and calorie counting. For the past month my weight has cycled up and down the same pound.

In the past I'd be frustrated and I'd quit. Why is it worth it if I can't break this slump? I'd rather be eating more and not working out if I'm not going to lose weight anyway.

But not this time. I won't let myself get in that mindset. I'm making lifelong changes. One month without weight loss doesn't mean my numbers won't keep going down. And even if they aren't going down, they also aren't going back up!

For anyone else in that slump, remember, we're in this for the long haul. Which means sometimes slumps will happen. But it's worth it!

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So I've been doing really good recently, but...

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:32 AM PDT

I've been falling in and out with my weightloss journey for years and recently I have actually been doing better than ever. For the first time in my life I actually felt motivated to exercise and I started to actually enjoying that.

The problem is I got sick. I mean it's just a cold, delt with worse, but between sneezing non stop and whining about being sick in the middle of summer ( lol ) I don't have enough energy to exercise.

And I've been through that many times. Actually starting to do something for my health and then for whatever reason stoping and going back to my old ways. I'm afraid this time it'll be the same exact story - I'll lose motivation before getting better.

Is there anything I can do to prevent that? Any minor exercises i can do to keep me motivated?

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What are you looking forward to when you hit your goal weight?

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:31 AM PDT

I'm 33, f, 5'6 and 151. Started at 168. Goal weight is 135. A lot of times when working out I think about alllll the stuff I want to do when I hit my goal weight

1) I have this reoccurring fantasy that I bump into certain superficial people again after several months of quarantine. Most notably people who have not been very inclusive with me in the past. They remark on my weight loss, which will be noticeable at that point. And I'll simply say "Have I really lost weight? I hadn't noticed."

Something about feigning indifference really makes me happy. I really hope they then persist so I can double down. Maybe I'll say I got a haircut!

2) I want to run in public in a neon bra and shorts combo. There's too many shirtless men running around uncaged by fabric in California. I want join the ranks of carefree shirtless Californians.

3) It's hard to make plans with covid but I have all sorts of fitness goals, like doing a half marathon, a tough muddier, bench pressing a person, doing the splits, doing a handstand. I can probably do these things before hitting my goal weight but I'll bet some will be easier to do with another 15 lbs off my frame.

4) The week I hit my goal weight, I want to do a glam day photoshoot where I my hair, makeup, light spray tan, etc. Then I will 100 percent do a photoshoot. In the past when I've lost weight I went out for a MEAL. This time I'll celebrate like this.

Anyway I'm curious to hear what you guys are looking forward to! Maybe I'll adopt your ideas too! It's a great motivator for me.

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I find the process to be stressful, and it worries me about my long term prospects.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:26 PM PDT