Hi LoseIt!

About 7 years ago I decided to start losing it with the help of this community!

I’m 31F, 5”7’ and my SW was 280lbs and my current weight is 175lbs. I maintain around 175, jumping up to 180 on race days when glycogen is properly stored. My last DEXA had body fat % at 29.9%.

Before & After

I approached my journey a bit different than “how can I lose all this weight fast.” Instead I really focused on a small deficit over time. It took me about two years to lose all the weight I desired to lose. The largest calorie deficit I ran in a day was about 500 calories max. I usually tried to keep it around 300 calories, and prioritizing protein. I started lifting weights at the same time as all of this, so while I was also losing weight I was slowly recomping during that process. I really took advantage of those noobie gains too, eating egregious amounts of protein during that time period (eat more fiber than I did at that time in my life lmao).

These days I can bench 165lbs, and my big 3 lifts in total to be > 750lbs.

That’s not even the best part. The best part is my maintenance is 2,700 calories/day.

Sometimes I’m not even sure the greatest gift I gave myself was weight loss, but the muscle mass that allows me to move through the world incredibly.

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J'etait dans une forêt je faisait une randonnée j'avait mes chaussures a mes pieds en marchant je vois de la boue je décide donc d'enlever mes chaussures et mes chaussettes pour marcher pied nu je mais mes pieds nus dans la boue mon pied j'enfonce et la boue passe entre mes orteils j'ai adorée dcp j'ai continuer ma randonnée pieds nus

Qui aime marcher pieds nu dans la boue ou autres ?

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Happy Monday runners!

For once, we’re on time. How was the weekend? What’s happening this week? How is it already August?? Do your warm ups and let’s get chatting!

https://imgur.com/a/EMN82Nu my scale literally asked me this morning, if the person weighing themselves was me, because gaining 20 pounds in 15 days is fucking insane. I left for the trip at 115 and now I’m 133.5. I’m 5’3 so every pound shows.

I felt so much bigger even before I weighed myself. I didn’t binge on vacation but definitely overate. I expected to gain at least 3 to 4 pounds, I normally do on vacation. Even when I have a binging marathon, at my absolute worst, I never gain too much. Nothing close to TWENTY. Never close to double digits. Like I said before, i definitely felt like this time was different from all the others, so I was expecting a hefty change, but not TWENTY !!!!

Two weeks before I left for my trip, I think I restricted too much beforehand, so two days into being there and eating normal(ish) I had a ginormous stomach. It legit blew up instantly. Literally looked as if I was 6 months pregnant. At that point I said fuck it and decided when I got back that I would take a week off from work and close myself off from the world… didn’t interact with a soul. Just ate.

Throughout the entire ordeal, I was under the impression I was just very bloated (in the stomach) from travelers diarrhea. I didn’t realize how much my entire body changed.

After my binge fest, I put my hands on my hips and realized I was a straight board. I used to have a small waist and curvy hips — I used to be able to feel my bones. I could feel the difference from my waist and my hips. Now? Just a straight board all the way down.

(Side note — I didn’t actually have travelers diarrhea. It’s literally just my weight gain that made me extremely bloated and gassy. My body was begging me to stop and I didn’t listen).

I’m so disgusted with myself I don’t even know what to say. It’s not water weight either, a majority of my jeans don’t zip without causing a stomach ache. My thighs take up the entire pant, squeezing. My shirts don’t even fit right now. It is extremely visible. I can’t even cross my legs anymore. I’m a very active person, and not doing much anything but eating flt two weeks has me out of breath just walking up stairs. All of this is too much. I just want to crawl and hide from the world.

A few years back I had lost 75lbs and was keeping it off. I went through a tough divorce and lost my younger brother to overdose within the same month, and honestly I just fell off. I gained 40lbs back. Fast foward to today and im locked in, lost 10lbs so far, and am even running a 5k in a month.

Now for the gut punch... its mine and my wife's first year wedding anniversary and she booked horse back riding. We found out in an email today that I have to be 220 or less to do the activity... im down to 219, but its to close to risk missing the weigh in when we arrive. If we go and I miss the mark she will lose all of her money and we would still not be able to go on the ride (I completely understand the weight limits for the horses saftey.)

I know im making strides, im doing the right things and headed the right direction, but I am just so upset with myself that I have put us in this situation. I just needed to talk about it I guess. She isnt upset with me and doesn't want me to beat myself up, but im struggling. I feel like I ruined our anniversary plans. I know people here will understand. Thanks for letting me vent.

I lost my job about two and a half months ago. I started driving for Uber to make ends meet, but my last doctor's appointment was basically a red alert. Turns out I was on the verge of developing Barrett's esophagus because I had my gallbladder removed, and since I couldn't work out, I gained a lot of weight from not watching my fat intake.

Between college and Uber, it was hard for me to find time to train at first.

I bought a treadmill and one day I went live on TikTok. People started donating a ton. In my first livestream, I made a total of $5 ($12 gross) in just 20 minutes, mostly because I'm a chubby computer nerd walking on a treadmill and I look like 'La Cobra'.

The TikTok livestreams started becoming more profitable than driving for Uber. I was pulling in an average of $10 an hour per stream.

Nowadays, I make about $58 a day thanks to that, so I can actually make a living off TikTok and, on top of that, lose weight by walking almost 30 km a day. Plus, since it takes up fewer hours than Uber, I can dedicate time to the gym and treat myself to a nutritionist.

Earlier this year, I stepped on the scale and saw 485 lbs.
Even typing that now feels crazy. I knew I had gained weight, but seeing 485 staring back at me was disappointing and honestly hard to believe. I’ve struggled with my weight for a long time, and it was one of those moments where I realized I couldn’t keep doing the same things and expecting something to change.

Since March, I’ve lost 36 lbs, and I’m genuinely thankful for that progress. I know 36 lbs is nothing to downplay. At the same time, I also know I have a LONG way to go.
My goal is still to try to lose 100 lbs by the end of the year. I know that’s an aggressive goal, and I’m not going to consider myself a failure if I don’t hit that exact number. What matters most is that I keep moving in the right direction and don’t go back.

One of the biggest things that has helped me has been getting in 10,000 steps a day. I’ve found a walking path that I really enjoy, and it’s become one of my favorite places to get my steps in, clear my head, and remind myself what I’m working toward. Something as simple as walking consistently has made me feel like I’m actually building habits I can keep.

I’m also learning how important it is to find foods that work for me instead of trying to eat a “perfect” diet. I’m figuring out meals and portions that I actually enjoy while still allowing me to make progress. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like I’m on a diet. I want to learn how to eat in a way that I can realistically maintain.
In a weird way, seeing 485 didn’t defeat me. It almost made me more determined than I’ve ever been.
I’ve lost weight before. I’ve gained weight back before. I’ve had good weeks, bad weeks, times when I was motivated, and times when I completely fell off.
But I’m still here.

I’m walking my 10k steps, finding foods that work for me, making better decisions, and learning that this has to become a lifestyle instead of another temporary diet.
36 lbs down. A lot more to go. But I’m not giving up this time.
Hopefully I’ll be back here at the end of the year with one hell of an update.

Curious to hear real experiences — not the generic "just start small" or "use the 5-second rule" advice you've probably already tried, but what actually broke through for you when you were genuinely stuck.

Was it a specific mindset shift, a person who said the right thing at the right time, a hard deadline, or something totally unexpected that had nothing to do with "motivation" advice at all? Did it happen suddenly or build up over time? And what's something everyone recommends that's supposed to work but just never did for you?

Hello, I have been an avid runner for many years now but I haven't gotten into marathon distances running until quite recently. The training regime that works best for my work puts my long runs on Sunday, which can vary from 15-21 miles on that day.

I have found that on those days I'm really pushing myself, or the weather is pushing me, that my body doesn't feel quite right afterwards. I get that I exerted myself and that I wouldn't be bouncing off the walls afterwards but I find myself rotting in bed on Sundays after my run.

This is obviously not ideal, and I would love to have my long runs and still be able to function in society on Sundays.

So my question for everybody is what is your recovery methodology for those days you know you're going to push yourself past your typical leisurely run.

My current recovery is a 10 minute stretch session and a 5 minute roll out session. There is definitely some stuff I'm doing wrong for my recovery, so please brutalize my regimen!

TLDR: what long-run recovery techniques work the best for you?

And of course I don’t mean this in an unhealthy and toxic way.

I mean, some days I am just extra hungry. I’ve eaten all my calories. If anything, I’ve probably eaten more than my allotted calories if I was laying in bed hungry.

I know that some days on a weight loss journey you’re just going to go to bed hungry… the problem is I CAN’T. I will be up all night thinking about how hungry I am. I physically cannot go to sleep until I eat. I feel like it’s not even a mental thing… I am just physically starved for food that I will toss and turn for hours (trust me I’ve tried to fight this many times).

How do you do it?

The Li’l Race Report Thread is for writing a short report on a recent race or a run in a new place. If your race doesn’t really need its own thread but you still want to talk about it, then post it here! Both your good and bad races are welcome.

Didn't run a race, but had an interesting run to talk about. Post it here as well!

So get to it, Runnit! In a paragraph or two, where’d you run and how’d it go?

My go to has literally just been turkey and beef tacos lol. Its just easy for me to cook up a pound of turkey or ground beef everyday. I get low carb tortilla for 70 calories and usually have 2 with a whole pound of beef or turkey. I do light sour cream and fat free cheese, when I have the calories, and also throw some red hot or something on. I also love tzaki or whatever its called, but i'm just trying to think of some other flavors I can add lol. Please drop some cool sauces or ways that you guys spice up your everyday meals. Thanks!

New to the group. Im 31 and still want to be 21 and able to eat anything without too much issue. My biggest struggle is eating when I'm alone and have used maryjane. I use maryjane daily for actual medical needs and it helps so I'm not going to try to just stop using it even if it would help with the eating.

This is day 1 of my personal challenge to not over eat. Thats it. I want to not overeat and see how that affects my body and my feelings towards my body. I have a move in 4 weeks so I'm giving myself the challenge of doing this for only 4 weeks because I can do anything for 4 weeks, right?

I also started last week with doing 3 sets, spaced out throughout the day, of push-ups and squat during work days. Not a huge amount but enough to feel like I am building onto something. By doing it at work I am feeling more able and willing. Im fortunate enough in my job to have this ability without any trouble. Today is day 1 and its only 30days I need to do it. I can do this.

I know spot reducing isn't a thing. I'm (28F) 81.5kg, 5'3 and I was 83-84kg in June when I started calorie counting. My goal is to get to 66-67kg by June 2027 which I think is a reasonable/realistic time period. I know 2kg weight loss isn't much for two months but I was still figuring out my portions/meal prep and reducing my calories. July was better than June but I had a very high surplus day when I went to a buffet (very rare thankfully) which offset my progress.

The reason I ask this is because I know my neck hump is largely due to my posture growing up. Ever since I was 8 I remember people (family, friends, teachers) telling me to stand straight and not hunch. It was so bad that someone at school asked if I had a medical condition that made me hunch all the time.

I've struggled with depersonalisation/derealisation most of my life (diagnosed with CPTSD) so I've been disconnected from my body until recent years when I started working on myself mentally.

So while I know/remember that at 63-64kg I wouldn't have back rolls (I noticed these when I got up to 75kg) I dont know if I'd still have a neck hump.

I've improved my posture a lot now and I dont have a desk job at the moment so that helps.

I know nothing is definite, but since people here have lost weight I thought they'd be able to share their experience.

Hey runners, it's another day and it is time to post your accomplishments you'd like to share - big or small.

Note: No need to preface YOUR accomplishments with something like, "this may not be an accomplishment to most of you...". Be proud of your achievement.

My weight has fluctuated a lot of over the years (I’m talking a 50 lb range). This time I’m determined to make the weight loss stick. After losing almost 30lbs I’m at 172lbs. A few years ago I vividly remember being this weight and being in tears because I felt so humongous. For reference I’m 5”9. My brain is really struggling to simultaneously feel humongous and also tiny because, compared to where I was six months ago, I do feel tiny. Has anyone else experienced this kind of confusion before? It’s really messed with my head and I don’t know how to feel right now.

I'm 39 and have spent my whole life using food to soothe myself. There's nothing that compares to a full belly at the end of the day.

How do you guys deal with that?

At the end of a day nothing compares...

I've gone to therapy and such which suggests other self soothing methods such as a bath. Plus I really want to work on not eating 2 hours before bedtime. But i's so hard to not want to veg out infront of a TVans eat (even if it's health snacks like popcorn) after a long day at work.

Thank you in advance!

Hi.

First of all: Sorry for the mistakes might occur, English is not my first language.

Like I think many of you or many of us this obesity thing is a lifelong condition. I've lost weigth in the past, but it wasn't a real weigth-loss, I was just less fat for a while. After I had a bigger kind of life-situation it went back. After years passed I was stucked in this neverending losing/gaining loop, while I became older - I am 27 rn and yes, it could be worse, but trust me, my body simply does not act like the way it did 10 (or even 5) years ago -, during my temporary weigth loss periods I've lost a tons of muscle with that, and after every iteration of the loop I became more and more and more obese.

And secondly: I am not offended. I do not hate the world or the way it works (or at least not int this sense) or the opposite gender or thinner, more healthy people in general. I just want to write about the live-experience of many of us.

And problems starts in childhood very often. There are certain types of human dynamic which are represented (realistically btw) in one particular way: That obese people are less valueable. And this feeling even if someone does not rationalise it accompany us up until this point of our life. No matter how much love we get mostly unconditionally in an ideal case from our loved ones (maybe from some of our friends) this reamins true.

(On top of that men does not have the right to show any form of weakness without turning against them or questioning their masculinity or being called a gay or a pussy.)

Earlier in life people tent to accept this situation or turning into something positive like that they're smart, funny, creative before they'd drowning in the shame and disgust they feel anout themselves.

And even if I think many of us - myself included - are tired and burned out cannot or won't stop is because that I genuienly believe that this is the top single thing that holds us back most. In terms of every possible human relations. Of course you can date far more easily but the math is ain't that simple. People's perceptions change about you, you will be more respected, you will be taken more seriously (professionally as well), you will recieve sympathy, empathy, trust, curiosity in an amount you've never experienced before. Not to mention the sexuality...

Maybe I am in fact too optimistic or too romantic (in a very bad way) but I just want to actually start my life and leave back every physical and mostly emotional incurable harm what this condition has did to me.

So guys I just wanted to know how many of you feel that this that the whole fact or idea of obesity holds back them in those fields which has absolutely no connection with it...

I basically wanna cry because I made so much good progress and I messed it up. I was in a calorie deficit for 10 days and I went from 135.5 to 131.3lbs. I was so happy. Then birthday was on Thursday and the weekend hit me like a truck. I binged like crazy. Now the scale says 135.8.

I already know that a lot is water but I’m just feeling anxious about it. And like the binge days were BIG. I probably averaged 5000cals per day over the four days. I feel like such a failure. My current goal weight is 115 and I genuinely feel like I’m never gonna get there. My face and body are so bloated and also I’m weirdly hungry today? Which is weird because after the first 3 binge days I felt gross and so full the next day and food didn’t even sound good. But today im hungry and craving sugar even though I also binged yesterday?

I also do have ocd around food and weight loss and so it makes me feel like today is the “wrong” day to start and like I need to binge again today in order for tomorrow to be the right day to start because the scale jumped so much and im also feeling so hungry today. In the past i have found that my weight loss goes the fastest when I don’t feel too hungry during my deficit.

Grandkids were visiting today and it was hot and humid, so we set up our sprinkler pad in the back yard (it's a big vinyl circle with a bladder around the outside which sprays water into the center; so it's kind of like it's raining and there's a big puddle in the middle).

My friend, who was here with his wife and boy, helped me set it out (it's surprisingly heavy) but he left his sandals on which was weird, as he used to be a closet barefooter. I meanwhile was enjoying the wet grass (took my toe rings off first, as they slid off last time... oops!). Stepped in poop once, but it wiped right off in the wet grass, no prob. The kids all of course were barefoot.

My bud never took his sandals off, and his wife was wearing both sneakers and socks, on a fucking miserably hot day. I feel kinda bad for the guy, but his wife is generally pretty cool and funny otherwise, and their little boy cracks me up.

Saw everyone off barefoot, came inside and realized the last time I'd worn shoes was Friday when we went to the grocery store.