Hello everyone! I've commented here before, but I've never done a full post. I'm also nor sure if I selected the right flair, but I picked what I thought was most appropriate.

This year, I made a commitment to finally lose weight after years of trying and quitting, and I've lost 37lbs since March! I feel amazing and very proud of myself. One thing that has made it realistic for me to stick to my goals is being able to treat myself now and again.

Yesterday, someone asked how often in a week people treat themselves, and some people said once every two weeks, some people once every month or two,and some people said not at all, which I found a little too strict.

Throughout my weight loss, I have treated myself a bunch. I took a trip for my birthday and ordered whatever I wanted including chicken and waffles, desserts, several cocktails, etc. I order junk food and drinks at the movies, and I eat high carb treats and drink tons of champagne when I go to parties, but I always know that I can't consistently eat like that. As soon as the fun is over, I go back to counting calories and eating lots of vegetables and protein, and it's served me well.

Essentially, I can't imagine never eating Mac and cheese every once in a while or never eating brownies again. For those of you who are extremely strict, how do you not feel like you're missing out on life, especially when it's possible to lose weight as long as you indulge sparingly? What do you all do at parties? Thanksgiving? Dinner with friends?

I have my cousin's wedding next month. It is exactly one month until the wedding, and I want to lose weight. I do not know how, as I have been consistently going to the gym for the past month, but I have not lost a single kilogram. In the first week of the gym, I lost 2 kg, but I gained those 2 kg back. I just want to get a slim waist. I am 5'3" and weigh 65 kg, and I really want to lose weight. Can anyone help or suggest anything? What should I do? Currently, I focus on a different body part each day: Mondays, chest; Tuesdays, back; Wednesday and Thursday, biceps and triceps; Friday, legs; Saturday, a mix of all exercises; and Sunday is my rest day. I spend approximately one hour at the gym, and I can stretch it to two, but I need a plan because I am clueless. Can anyone help me?

I’ve been taking propanolol for almost two months for vestibular migraines. During that time I’ve also been training with a coach. I’ve maybe dropped 1kg over the two months but struggling to lose more. I trained with them last year and lost two stone, and now following similar dieting/exercising I’m not getting the same results. The only real difference is the medication. Heart rate is dramatically reduced during workouts but everything else is mostly the same. I lift weights 4 times a week and do 4 cardio sessions as well as an average step count of about 14k and in a calorie deficit.

The propanolol hasn’t reduced symptoms for the migraines, could the medication be stopping my weight loss?

Hii Veterans,

Im 21yr , 92.8kg , ht 5'9.5ft

\~I want to change myself it's enough exploiting!!

\~ Situation: is I'm preparing for imp exam it's like future deciding one, regress 12hr sitting and all going on... THAT'S WHY UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T JOIN GYM. I know it's major set back for loosing wt but I can patience. FOCUS ON CALORIES DEFICIT and WALKING FOR 30MIN.

\~ Yesterday i brought my first ever food measuring device 🙃, I'll document my daily calories, SUGGEST ME BEST APP FOR GETTING IT CORRECT. 1820CAL/DAY AND 30 MIN WALK ..is it good to start my journey!?

\~GYM i gonna start immediately after exams session over , but till then I want to get leaner like I don't wanna wait to all over to start over my journey.

\~ i'd love to know review on this plan ,sanity logical flows in it !??!

Please guide me!

OK, so I’m trying to lose 8 pounds right now or 8 to 10 but it’s probably a little bit more realistic of what I ate throughout the day and I didn’t take a picture of dinner, but it was basically I went out to this Greek restaurant and I had two skewers of chicken kebab but they had vegetables in between each thing so probably only like eight total pieces and I had that and then I had like two spoons of seasoned brown rice. then after dinner, I just had a bowl of strawberries and grapes and then a kiwi.

Im a busy stay at home mom that can’t make it to the gym. What are some of your favorite YouTube workout channels? I’d like to follow one while my baby sleeps. Thank you!

So I'm currently trying to lose a little weight. Right now I go on a daily walk of about 5 miles and I use an elliptical twice a day for about 25 minutes each time. That being said my fitness apps are saying that I'm burning around 1000 calories from these exercises and I want to know if I should factor in some of these calories burned into my calories budget?.I can usually maintain my deficit but I always and up getting really hungry on a random day and I eat back basically my entire deficit

Female/32/72kg/5"3

I hate my upper torso, it's definitely what makes me feel insecure. Especially when I see old photos of how I used to look like. I gained a relationship weight, but now we're no longer together I'm left with flabs.

I struggle to be consistent, especially during PMS where I'm craving sugar and carbs. I know losing weight isn't easy, but it's bumming me out. (As I feel pretty unhappy with how I look) I'll take any tips. Cheap healthy meals plans. I also don't go out much now because of anxiety, so gym is out of the question.

I appreciate any help 💜

I have recently started my fat loss journey, starting with 10k steps now at 15k, additionally I am also doing calorie deficit diet with intermittent fasting, major portion of my diet being protein and fiber. And I am hunger and yes I know we are supposed to feel hungry, I keep on telling my body to eat the stored fat 🙃🙂 bit I have these cravings especially at night and I don't want to rely on nicotine or cola addiction. Do anyone have any advice, would be appreciated😊🙏❤

I’m planning on starting a workout routine very soon (currently building my home gym) and I want to focus on maintaining muscle mass while cutting as quick as possible. What do you recommend?

Basic Info:
• 111 lbs muscle skeletal mass
• 175 lbs total
• 62 inches tall
• ≈1600 calories a day
• 1 L -1.5 L of water of day
• I gain muscle quickly, but I lose fat slowly.
• EDS, a few surgeries related to it, and permanent injuries related

Success maintaining a healthy weight | 13-19
• Long distance running 1-2 hours per day.
• Light calisthenics for 15-30 minutes a day.

Problem: Several injuries no longer allow me to run anymore, main source of maintaining weight is gone.

Gained 10 lbs over 3 years | age 20-23
• Normal eating (no calorie counting, probably maintained 2000 per day)
• Weight training (free weights & machines)
• No longer running

-15 lbs over 60 days | age 23
• All vegan diet; no store-bought faux meat
• No calorie counting; probably maintained 1800 per day
• 3 workouts per day; morning aerobics, afternoon swimming, and evening weights
• Very hard on my energy levels, had to quit this routine for my health.

+15 lbs over 90 days, then plateaued | age 23
•1600 calorie diet
• weight training (free weights & machines)
• no longer swimming

+30 lbs over 1 year | age 23-25
• Covid lockdown I had no access to a gym
• Depression hit, I ate what I wanted but it was all home cooking, very little junk food.

0 lbs over 14 days | age 25
• Hired my first personal trainer
• 1200 calorie restriction
• HIT five out of seven days a week plus swim 1 day a week.
• Trainer quit because I didn’t lose any weight.

+10 lbs over 2 years | age 25-27
• Eating a fixed meal plan of 1600 calories a day
• Walking 1 mile per day minimum.

0 lbs over 90 days | age 27
• Hired my second personal trainer
• 1600 calorie restriction
• Rotation of HIT, weight, training, and calisthenics five out of seven days a week.
• Ended up moving so I couldn’t stay with my trainer.

0 lbs over 2 years | age 27-29
• Volume eating 1200 calories a day
• Walking 1 mile and 8 flights of stairs per day minimum.

0 lbs over 2 years | age 30-31
• Currently eating when hungry, allowing junk food when I crave it.
• Living very sedentary.
• Weight fluctuates +5 and -5 lbs every so often.

This year I decided to lose weight finally. In 5 months I lost 58 pounds through a strict diet. I am 19 years old at 6’2, I went from eating 3800 calories (most likely more) from eating 2000 calories a day. In those 5 months I went to the gym 4 days a week for about an hour. In the 6-8th month I’ve been stuck at 250 and haven’t been seeing any progress. It really has been demotivating so I stopped going. I don’t know what to do

It’s month 9 and Im just stuck at the same weight no weight or gain.

Any tips or advice suggestions?? Anything can help at this point

i know i want it bad enough, i have been unhealthy most of my life, and i basically daydream of losing the weight, it affects every aspect of my life, but i haven’t been able to do it yet : is it a self esteem thing? i genuinely cannot do better for myself, i’ve tried time and time again, i give up and default to this state of doom and despair, and i know that every kg i gain adds weeks of work to my toll. i’m not morbidly obese, but i don’t want it to get close, and i feel like im wasting my 20s.

any motivation advice? harsh or not, something NEEDS to happen.

May 2025 i weighed 159lbs and was happy for the most part with my physique. (M, 5'9)

But then something happened, i started allowing myself to eat more, i started getting alot of sweets. i started binging at night. And despite me playing basketball at least 3x a week , lifting daily, my weight skyrocketed to 175lbs and im disgusted with myself again. and at the fact im 5lbs away from the heaviest ive ever weighed.

I have done the calorie counting, and everything in the past and i know it works, but i could tell this time was different. i lost full control. i couldnt stop the binge eating. So i got prescribed Foundayo. Im down to 171lbs already. I want to get back down to 160lbs, preferably 155lbs.

It made me realize just how bad my eating had gotten with portion control. Especially since i like to drink and need more drinks than most to get a good buzz going, that dont help on the weekends either.

The nausea was rough day 1. but its been fine since. im looking forward to speeding up my weight loss and locking back in with food control. Especially since i like to drink, i know i need to eat alot more cleaner during the week than i was.

I was doing a perfect day from the activity and diet perspective when I had some junk at night. Calories estimation shows it will not effect the journey but in my experience i produce results when I am only on clean diet without adjusting for these junks in the daily nutrition requirements.

Anybody producing results while having some junk in the week where u r near maintenance or above maintenance calories 1-2 days a week?

I’m 18M, 6,1, 330 pounds I’m absolutely disgusted at myself for being fat I barely started to workout a couple of weeks ago but I only worked out for a total of 3 days because of how bad my body hurt. I’m also not sure if I’m doing the right exercises that I need to lose weight I’ve been so confused I just did random workouts with weights and cardio. I had a goal to try and get to 180 pounds but now that I’m thinking about it that seems impossible I have no idea what workouts I should do to loose weight and gain muscle. I’m trying to keep myself motivated because I really want to snowboard someday it’s been my dream ever since I was a kid but I’m not sure if I can even do it at this point.

Im really struggling with binge eating in the last few months. It hasn’t happened for 4 years and has suddenly started again. I’ve tried talking therapies and that didn’t help me. Does anyone know what else I can try?
Im really struggling because every time I go to a heath care professional they dismiss me because I’ve got “a smaller frame”. What I don’t think they understand is that I just want to quiet the food noise that’s constantly in my head and address my need to binge.
HELP!!! Xxx

How to lock tf in?

I used to be an elite swimmer working out 6 days a week 2 days with double practices 11 months out of the year. I did that for 6yrs of my life. Super disciplined.

I'm now 25, I have a freelance film/photo job that works often at odd times (could be 5am 15hr day, a midday 2hr day, or a 6hr evening day ending at 3am). Between I lift weights (midday) and am on a masters swim team (pracs evenings).

My issue is nutrition and working out. On a good week or month with less work or more predictable work I can workout and cook. But when things get busy and my days/nights are unpredictable and I'm having to miss swim pracs or don't have time to go to the gym, I'm stuck ordering in late night food, getting hungry at odd hours, and sometimes going a whole week without working out.

Issue is too I live in NYC and in a place where it takes forever to get anywhere via the subway (I live in deep Brooklyn, 48mins -1+hr to get to places). I have acquired a lazy mindset and frequently lethargic. It sucks that it takes 30mins to get to the gym and 1h15m to get to swim practice. Or just 48mins min to get anywhere I wanna go via subway (adds up quick)

Before I'd feel super guilty not working out and would shift my work around being able to workout, but with this economy and my promotion in my work I'm prioritizing working and scheduling my gigs first.

I have a hard time sticking to eating certain food cuz I get bored easily and will end up picking something out to eat on the go (cava, chipotle, lox bagel, etc).

I would love to get back to working out in the mornings for the gym and the swim in the evenings (pracs are 7-8:30pm). The issue is inalso don't want to get tired at 10pm cuz my work sometimes goes past midnight and I cannot be tired then.

Anyone have any tips for a crazy schedule.

I have always believed in the power of our internal monologue (& what we say aloud) in influencing our behavior, but I have a bad habit of joking about my eating habits.

“I’ve had a sweet tooth my whole life,” “I’m a big dessert person,” “I’m an eater,” etc. are phrases I use all of the time. I used to be much more self-conscious of my body and my appetite than I am now, and I found freedom that came with not being embarrassed of these things.

However, I also think that these scripts have reinforced these behaviors, and they’re behaviors I now want to change. I am serious about wanting to lose weight, and I am no longer accepting all of the excuses I’ve laid out for myself.

Has anyone practiced the power of mantras, self-talks, etc. in their weight loss journey?

Hey guys, random question. I recently got scouted and signed to a modeling agency, but when I went in for my development I was an inch too wide in both my waist and hips. They still want me, but I literally don't know how to lose weight for shows. Since I've been given advice on how to eat, all I think about is food. It's become a hyperfixation where I'm eating 5+ times a day and way more than anyone around me, which has only led me to gain 2 or 3 more inches since. I'll do deficits, but the days I have off I'll literally eat 5 times my calorie goal. It's not that I can't eat healthy food either, I don't mind that, it's the fact that's I'm always thinning about eating more. I've been trying the gym more recently, but I think after going I get rid of all my progress by eating so much. How do I stop hyperfixating on food?

A few quick details to provide context I guess?
32 F (181 lbs, 5’1) with 2 kids (4 and 2) work from home full time; currently on Wellbutrin, seroquel and Lamictal for mood disorder or bipolar or something (also do talk therapy once a week); recently found out pre diabetic (6.3 A1C)

I’ve been STRUGGLING since postpartum. I really thought the weight would just melt off esp with breastfeeding 😂 I’m having a hard time figuring out where to start. I’m overwhelmed with information. My goal is to workout (orange theory 3x a week; walk for an hour the other days of the week), eat Whole Foods (like not processed) for every meal, but also keep cooking to a minimum, stop ordering out so much; possibly start intermittent fasting? But I feel like idk where or how to start and stick with it. I signed up for OTF already and at first money was the motive to get the biggest bang for my buck, but that motivation quickly died. I order a bunch of groceries to meal prep (like the cowboy cavier stuff or soups or ground meat type of things) but I almost always let the groceries rot because of how convenient food delivery is now. I feel like I’m constantly failing and I’m not sure how to get started AND stick with. If you were me, where would you start and how would you ensure you would keep going?

I was so good for 2 months. Losing at a decent rate, not eating my trigger foods. (I have a true food addiction)
And yesterday, while I didn’t eat my worst trigger, I BINGED. Like, binge binge.
It was a hard day. I’m not ok. Why did I do that?
2 months clean, and I go and do that.
Today I still feel full and bloated.
Just really hating myself.

Hello! As someone who really has bad self discipline, paired with being really busy everyday, I need to know what’s the best way I can force myself to lose weight.

I’m like 115 kgs and 5’3 at just 19, and lately I’ve been feeling extra unhealthy, and I just really need to lose this weight for my own good. However, I have really bad self discipline because everyday can be kind of stressful and I eat to cope with it all.

I used to go to the gym, and the most effective way I lost weight was to limit myself to just 1.2k calories a day (I lost about 1.2-1.5 kgs per week), but it’s been very hard to do that now especially with school and everything else being so stressful.

What is a borderline unhealthy way I could do to lose weight because at this point, I just can’t seem to get myself to do it, and I don’t get too insecure most of the time so the whole negative self talk thing doesn’t really work.

I am 23f. 73kgs and 5'2

I need to lose some weight before chaath puja coz none of my clothes fit me and I can't afford to buy new clothes. I already have a few almost new clothes which are just been worn only once.

Simultaneously I am preparing for govt exams so I sit for longer hrs in library. This is one of the reasons that I am not able to get exercise.

I've stopped snacking in my library. Usually I used to eat a few pack of chips/ chocolate/ cold drink.

I've tried to do 10k steps. And only been able to do a few days .

Any help, suggestions?

Should I continue 10-20k steps with calorie deficit diet?

Last I checked my weight was in August end and it was 72.5 kg so I assume it's increased a bit.

I've been overweight for most of my life but over the last year I've let my weight completely spiral out of control. I've decided multiple times I'm not happy with it and want to stop but can never seem to drive myself to actually do something no matter how hard I try.

I struggle to motivate myself to do anything and always reach for the easiest routes to do stuff. I enjoy the gym but can never stick to it (often struggling to just get myself to go) and I make good progress with doest then as soon as I fall off slightly I'm completely done with the diet mentally. It's so frustrating.

I am determined to make an actual tangible change so was hoping I could maybe get some advice from people who were in a similar boat and managed it, or just general advice.

I'm 6ft tall, 140kg, 21 years old and male.

i ate like 2k calories of sweets and carbs over my maintenance but somehow still lost 0.2kgs the next morning. how and why did this happen?