How Easy Was It For You To Lose Weight?

l911jnt

Ive lost 35 lbs. Some days were days and weeks were easy and some were really really hard. I hate working out. Seriously. Ive come to a place now where I have 20 more to lose and have upped my calories like you because I feel like if I dont, I will give up. Its still slowly coming off.... veeeeeeery slowly but I will get there. Im only striving for .5 lbs a week now.

mmnv79

l911jnt wrote: »

Ive lost 35 lbs. Some days were days and weeks were easy and some were really really hard. I hate working out. Seriously. Ive come to a place now where I have 20 more to lose and have upped my calories like you because I feel like if I dont, I will give up. Its still slowly coming off.... veeeeeeery slowly but I will get there. Im only striving for .5 lbs a week now.

0.5 lbs a week isn't bad at all considering you only have 20 lbs to lose. Keep it up the good work!

ZhivagosGirl

Losing it is easy - it's keeping it off that's hard. Throughout the course of the last 30 years I've probably lost and gained 350 lbs - not including the 60 lbs I've lost this year. I'm hoping that plain old CICO and exercise and a slower pace this time is the ticket and I'll finally keep it off.

Aerona85

For me losing it is pretty easy, keeping it off, not so much. The biggest challenge I have is having to prepare ahead. If I don't have tomorrow's breakfast and lunch packed and ready to grab and go in the morning, my whole day is in jeopardy. And weather can be a challenge as I don't have a gym or gym equipment in my house. But I am back on the wagon for the 3rd or 4th time now. I generally lose right on what MFP calculates as long as I eat within or a tad below my range. I do eat back my Fitbit cals. It seems to be accurate for me.

rheddmobile

Still a work in progress.

In general I do pretty well dieting and maintaining when my health is good. I was skinny growing up, despite very bad eating habits, stayed skinny throughout college, then developed lupus and became much more sedentary. About the same time I blew out my knee, and that put me over the line into completely sedentary for several months. Gained a bunch of weight over the next couple of years. Then my lupus gave me a break, and I lost fifty pounds in six months, getting back to my college weight - easy - kept it off for the next couple of years - lupus started acting up again and the pounds started to come back on, bringing friends. Lupus gave me another break eventually and I lost fifty pounds in six months again - only because I had gained more weight this time, that didn't get me back down to my starting weight. Somewhere on the internet still exists the blog post I made about how happy I was to have lost fifty pounds, followed the VERY NEXT DAY by a post about not feeling good, which was the beginning of heart inflammation and vasculitis caused by a lupus flare. Then I abandoned my blog and my diet both, because I was too sick.

This is my third go round. I still have lupus, but now I also have diabetes, and so losing weight and getting my insulin resistance to improve is much more important. I got a jump start on weight loss by losing twenty-five pounds in the single month before I was diagnosed, due to stress caused by pain from an ovarian torsion and benign tumor which was mishandled. I was a pretty sick kitty! I weighed 272 when I went to the ER with abdominal pain in November and 247 when I was finally operated on in December. After six weeks of recovery, I started working out and logging, and I'm now down 61 pounds from 247, with my goal weight still 20 lbs off. So I guess if you count the weight I lost while sick, I'm down 86 lbs.

Undiagnosed diabetes and ovarian tumor is definitely the quickest diet I've ever been on, but I don't recommend it!

When I first started my diet this time, I was eating about 1500 - 1800 gross calories, with about 400 - 600 calories exercise / day, and losing about 3.5 lbs / week. However, that rapid weight loss led to a plateau about three months in. My feet were dragging and I had stopped losing. I upped my calories, added some higher intensity cardio intervals, and the pounds started coming off again. While I was in the obese BMI range, I was able to consistently lose about 10 lbs / month while feeling good. Now that I'm in the overweight category, I've upped my calories again, and I'm aiming for 6 lbs / month. So far so good.

I know it's a truism that weight loss is not linear, but for the most part, mine is very consistent and predictable. I weigh myself every day, but only record the new lows, and the pattern is regular, with two week long exceptions which both represent illnesses. Apparently when I have a minor illness, my metabolism slows down - even when I factor in reduced activity - and weight loss stops temporarily. It's not water weight being retained, since there is never a whoosh later.

I know that eventually my lupus is going to flare again, and that this time I will have the added problems caused by my diabetes. I'm hoping that having constant feedback from my blood sugar testing will help me stick to an appropriate diet even when my health is challenging.

HeidiCooksSupper

amtyrell wrote: »

Very easy and very hard.
Very easy in that it is a simple rule of eat less than burn.
Very hard in that it takes willpower.

^^^THIS!!!^^^

JeromeBarry1

Machka9 wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

I already owned a treadmill. I didn't have to join a gym for that. Once I decided to do it, doing it was easy. Deciding to do it was hard.

Yeah ... kind of the same thing with me and my bicycles.

There I was struggling and wheezing up hills on my bicycle, and having a miserable time. Then one day in early December 2014, I thought ... "I could continue to have a miserable time ... or I could start to do something about it".

I started attacking the local hills and cycling a lot more ... and then in mid-Feb 2015, I joined MFP.

I've had my cheap mountain bike 37 years. Several years ago, long before joining MFP or even intending to lose weight, I decided to start riding it again. I replaced the saddle and took it in to a LBS for equipment updates and tune-up. That all turned into a good spend when I started riding more often in the past year.