2,5 years later update

Update from my previous post 2,5 years ago (I was shocked to learn 2,5 years had gone past already).

It started well, with the help of a nutritionist I managed to lose about 7-8kg over a year, which went fairly easy. I decided I could continue on my own without the nutritionist. It actually went quite well, did lose a little bit over the next months untill Covid hit. Staying indoors, work from home and have plenty of food readily available wasn't a great recipe. All the weight came back within 3-4 months and was almost back at my starting weight.

I decided to take restart again during the lockdown. Actually, as all sport schools were closed, there weren't much options. The only choice I had was to take a personal trainer and work with him in his private studio. It is very expensive, but I decided that it was worth it if he could deliver what he promised. I wasn't going on holiday anyway, so I signed up for 2 sessions a week at the studio + 1 workout session on my own at home, it also included help with nutrition.

Actually what surprised me how quickly I got used to excersising 3 times a week, especially considering I was doing absolutely nothing before. The first few months were tough, all the excersises were mostly limited due to physical pains and aches, but over time it did start paying off.

After almost half a year with the personal trainer the weight has come off. Not only that, a lot of fat has been replaced by muscle, that should help in maintaining the weight over time. I had my ups and downs, but the overall tendency weight wise was going well, hopefully hitting my GW end of this year.

Physically I feel the best I ever have over last 15 years. Everything is a bit easier when you have less fat and more muscle. Just simply picking something up from the ground is a no-thinker, while before it was almost a planned activity. However, I am still slightly dissapointed on the body aches, my back still hurts for no reason, I feel still quite stiff despite the excersising. I'm seeing a physical therapist also now in parallel, hopefully fixing also this bit, which should allow me to excersise a bit more freely.

Status now: 39M 184cm SW:130kg CW:113kg GW:99kg

post from 2,5 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/a8zj9h/my_first_day_im_ready/

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The grind is merciless and any falter destroys all progress.

I'm having a difficult time, friends. Right now I eat 2k calories per day and walk 2-3km every day except on weekends (Going to start doing weekends too now...). It is hard to maintain 2k calories and I am often struggling to keep it as such, so although I'd like to go down to 1800 I'll wait until I fully adjust.

I've been dieting for a couple of months now. I've gone down 5kg at most but always make it back. I went to a friend's party on Saturday and we ate junk food. I though "hey I've been eating well and going on my walks every day, I can eat some junkfood one meal and be fine, right?" Wrong. Gained 3kg from one evening destroying 2 weeks of progress. This is how it always goes. 2 weeks of discipline and hunger and one eveing that destroys all the progress. I'm so exhausted you guys. I'm sad all the damn time. Before at least I had food to get me some of that serotonin, how am I supposed to be hungry, sad and alone until I get some results? It feels impossible.

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Weighted myself again and glad to see the result! Though is my fat% too low?

I am F23, 52kg and 155cm

Title says it.. Weighted myself again in more detail and found out that: 1. Fat%: decreased from 34.3% to 3.0% 2. Muscle mass: increased from 38.0kg to 47.3 3. BMR: increased from 1274 kcal to 1450 kcal 4. Metabolic age: decreased from 35 to 14 5. Visceral Fat Rating: decreased from 6 to 1 6. FFM: increased from 40.4kg to 50.5kg 7. TBW%: increased from 47.6% to 63%

Full measurement here: https://imgur.com/gallery/DsmcGSF

Glad to see the improvement on my muscle mass, BMR, Visceral fat and FFM! But wondering if the fat% is really decreased that much and whether it is still healthy or not? Also is my TBW too high? I do drink lots of water…

Also do you have any advice to my current body measurements? Anything I should decrease or increase?

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my boyfriend and i weighed ourselves tonight and i feel so self conscious

so for some context, i love my boyfriend very much. we have been together for over a year and plan to tie the knot (not looking for criticism on that, love had no timeline). we are extremely comfortable with eachother and he has never been hateful or dismissive to my body in any way. anyways, tonight we were running around the house and had to change the batteries in the scale. for fun we decided to both weigh ourselves. he is on the skinner side and came in at around 140 lbs (63 kilos), and i was 160 (72 kilos). i was absolutely mortified and instantly felt self conscious. in retrospect, my health has taken a turn over thr pst year. i have switched anti depressants and birth controls which had directly impacted my weight. seroquel was the worst for me and caused a lot of binge eating and hunger. i used to be huge in the gym and went almost every day, but since my mental health declined i have ended my membership and stopped going. how do i eliminate this somewhat shameful feeling? i had struggled with disorder eating in the past, and many times when i start a diet it spirals out of control for me and ends in laxative abuse. does anyone have any advice?

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There are 1,440 minutes in a day

Hi guys! I never really post on here and just hide in the shadows, BUT if you find it challenging to work out, this might help you! As the title says, there are 1,440 minutes in one day. Looking at it this way, 30 minutes of ANY type of exercise (I love walking/hiking) is negligible in the grand scheme of things. You would still have 1,410 minutes left in the day to do whatever you want! Thinking about exercise in this mindset has helped me to push through those days where I don’t feel like working out. So put those 30 minutes aside to do something beneficial to your physical, mental, and emotional health! The benefits far outweigh the cost of being temporarily uncomfortable. Much love and keep on pushing friends! Thank you for motivating me to continue on my health and wellness journey. :)

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I think I messed up my metabolism. I don’t know what to do

I’m a 20 year old 5’7 185 pound female, I’ve lost around 20 pounds since I started to track my calories in April but I made the mistake of eating only 1100 calories. Everybody told me not to but I didn’t listen and now I can’t seem to lose anymore weight, I feel constantly nauseous and I’m starving all day and if I eat over my deficit the scale goes up. I wish I could start weightlifting but I only do around 1h of cardio daily, since I can’t go to the gym because of the pandemic (I live in a third world country) and I really don’t know which other exercise I could do besides jogging and jumping rope, does anybody know what I should do? I feel like I’m stuck and honestly my mental health is going downhill too. (sorry for my english btw)

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Proud moment at work today!

So I 35F 6’1” SW 205 lbs CW 179 lbs GW 163 lbs started CICO roughly three months ago and have lost 26 lbs so far. This means for the first time in six years I am no longer overweight! However, my weight loss has definitely stalled at this point and I haven’t really lost any more in two weeks now, so I’m feeling kind of discouraged.

So today I’m at the restaurant where I work as a server, and the manager gathers us to sing happy birthday for the chef. My coworker brings out a gorgeous chocolate cake. At this point I have eaten family meal and have only 400 cal left available. I save these for a light dinner which I eat after my shift and if I eat this cake now I will be hungry by the time I go to bed and risk going over my limit. What happens though is we sing happy birthday and the kitchen guys place the cake right next to my station and get back to setting up for dinner service. Um, a cake was brought out and is sitting there uncovered and no one is eating it I’m sorry what?!

So I go into self loathing mode as I try to polish silverware with the cake in my peripheral. Of course I’m the only one having major anxiety right now, I’m still fat at heart, I’m an embarrassment etc. Finally I decide I’ve had enough, I’m hungry and on a calorie deficit, screw this. I walk into the kitchen with the cake announcing without shame ‘I’m removing this from my line of vision!’ and place it on a counter. To which my coworker says ‘thank you!’

I’m drinking coffee now. They did cut the cake in there eventually but out of my sight. Out of sight out of mind.

I know this may seem trite but I’m proud I stopped blaming myself and did what I needed to do instead of enduring anxiety which would probably lead to eating the cake. I mean who just leaves an uncovered shiny cake out and can focus on work? Not me and that’s fine

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