Inspo for people that lost and gained again -post here-
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Yep! I’m there too. Lost about 45lbs and have gained 15 back this last year.
Depression, major life changes, back pain for 2 years, death of a loved one... oh and stupid pandemic!
But yesterday I got sick of the self-loathing. Of making excuses. Of allowing food to lead my emotions. Of using that one glass of wine to unwind to be what satisfies me.
We’ve done it before, we know we’re capable of doing it. There will be ups and downs, but we can do it!!!
Goals for me are tracking everything, putting in at least 8K steps daily and begin adding exercise again mindful of my back. Drink lots of water. Only drink a glass of wine (vodka mineral water actually) in the weekend. And journaling, even if it’s just two things to be grateful for!!!
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Tag! I'm in this boat too. I lost over 140lbs/60kg in 2017-2018 using this app. I was maintaining my weight just fine until lockdown as I couldn't access my regular food/gym and got way off track and have since gained back 24lbs/10kg since March. I've been back for a couple weeks. Anyone wanting new MFP friends please add me. I log daily and love a chat 2 -
Nearly back into normal bmi, whihc for me is 81kg. I was there on Friday/Saturday but my weight was back up a bit this morning. It's good to be getting there (again) and then I am aiming for the 73 - 75 kg range. What I then need to get my head round is how to convince my psyche that 78kg is my "you need to do something" trigger and not 88kg...4
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weight went up 8 lbs, got it off and dont want it back. Made up my mind to have some junk food last day of the month only, we will see how this goes. Otherwise I am eating clean.1
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@brenn24179 I know you do low carbs so here is a recipe https://www.fineformcoaching.com/post/spaghetti-squash0
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I began struggling with my weight in middle school. In high school I struggled with atypical anorexia... at my low point I lived off of 500-700Cal/day & you could see my ribs through my back. Regained my final year of high school, but relapsed in college - becoming bulimic.
Finally broke the ED cycle halfway through college. Over the next couple of years I steadily gained - becoming overweight, then obese. Began dieting with DH & lost some, but not enough. Got pregnant, & hit 200lbs for the first time. Fought my way back to “overweight” by the time DS was a toddler. Moved overseas & my weight shot up. I became morbidly obese. Lost 40lbs in 2019; progress, but not enough to leave the “obese” category behind. Morbidly obese again by mid-2020, when I got fed up & decided to try again. I’m currently about 0.5lbs from “obese class II”.
It’s been 20yrs. Weight feels like the battle I’ll never win, while for so many others it seems so effortless. I’ve literally NEVER been a healthy weight in a healthy manner. I’m exhausted, but too stubborn to give up...10 -
It is a lifetime commitment, I guess...2
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In 2009, I graduated law school and weighed probably 180 lbs (I'm 5'4). I got my first job Jan 2010 and bought my first smart phone, immediately downloaded MFP. In four months I was down to 150. I stuck to it and by 2011 I was 123. I was a cardio bunny and at this point i felt i didn't want to be smaller, i wanted to have muscle so I started lifting.
Lifting weights is amazing- my knee pain went away, I was stronger, and the scale meant less. I got back up to 145 and felt that was a healthy weight for me with all the muscle I was gaining (my squat PR is 225!). I maintained this until 2016. I can peg the month- Nov. 2016- because I went to standing rock and that's when my routine went to the wayside. I crept into the 150's. I didn't think it was a big deal. In 2017, I bought a new scale that said I was actually more into the 160's. I didn't feel ashamed of my body- i was still running and lifting.... but I didn't like the number on the scale. i'm not sure how good I am at judging my own body tbh- part of me thought I looked good, another part of me thought i was repulsive.
Anyways, in 2018 I got both toxic hepatits and cancer and was on bed rest for three months. I have never been so sick in my life. I was supposed to eat a lot of protein to rebuild my liver. I'm a vegetarian so I just ate a lot. By the time I was ok to go back to work, I was 180 again.
I did IF and started exercising again (with doctor's permission) and got back down to 165-170. And this is where I am today.
The past year, I kept trying different things- I tried Keto, I tried time restricted eating.... none of this has really helped get me out of the 160's and I genuinely think it's because i am HAPPY. My fiance and I have our own house, my son got a scholarship to college... everything is good except when I look at pictures of myself. That's really the only time I'm bothered.
My reasons for wanting to lose have changed. It's no longer just for the pics (though it's great to feel like I look like a model, and it's kinda depressing to delete every selfie because I look like the Pillsbury dough boy), it's for my health. This belly fat I'm carrying around can't be good for my organs, it's also just so disappointing to not be able to do some of the things I could- like a pull up. I'm a really active person- I surf, I sail, I backpack- My weight has made those things harder (I fell out of my dinghy just last weekend in Puget Sound and had to pull myself back out of the water which luckily I could do!). My last backpacking trip, I was ashamed at how hard it was. Of course it was! I was carrying an extra twenty pounds!
Anyways, I have spend the last year or so trying to figure out the "key" to success and i have settled on it's totally psychology. I need daily interactions of motivation and excitement about this thing. When I lost before, I had a job that was honestly pretty low pressure so every day at work I spent a good chunk of time on these forums. Now I have a much more demanding job so being here isn't an option (after work I don't want to look at a screen) and the MFP app is crap- let's be honest. it crashes constantly. So I'm going to try to use my breaks at work to interact here more and get more motivation. I remember when i was losing before, my life felt like magic and I felt all powerful. I was achieving the unachievable! And I know I can do this again. WE GOT THIS.11 -
I started struggling with my weight as a child when I began making more of my own food choices.
Not wanting to be the fat girl, I went on my first diet around 13 or 14 and got down to about 160 lbs at 5’5.
I stayed around 160 lbs - 180 lbs all throughout college. After college, I just slowly put on more and more weight.
I discovered MyFitnessPal in 2016 after deciding enough was enough. I was 211 lbs then, which at the time, was my highest recorded weight ever.
I got down to 156 lbs in 2017, just 6 lbs sort of a normal BMI, before going through a bad breakup and not being able to maintain my weight loss.
I tried to get back on track in 2018 and did lose some of the weight I had gained, but eventually became discouraged, gave up, and just stopped caring.
Fast forward to 2020 and I weigh myself finally after avoiding it for ages and I’m a whopping 237 lbs.
I decided, again, enough was enough and so far, as of today, I have lost 20 lbs.
I want this to be the last time I let my weight get so out of control.8 -
I once lost 70 pounds but lost it the wrong way and as soon as I quit dieting I started gaining it all back plus some. Now I'm dieting the right way. I'm trying to learn healthy eating habits and find healthy foods that I know I'll continue eating for the rest of my life. Now I'm back down 30 pounds again and no where close to stopping any time soon.7
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About 10 years ago I lost 65 pounds. While I was still overweight I was no longer obese. I was happy with how I looked and felt. I maintained for quite awhile, then gradually put on about 35 pounds. It was so slow that I kept denying how bad it was until here I am- creeping toward pre-diabetes and other health issues. I finally decided to get serious about weight loss because of my health and the realization that I have a much better chance at age 61 of recovering from COVID if my weight is lower. I am also reading that the vaccine is less effective in obese people. I want to do all I can to maintain my health and that means taking control of my weight and fitness. I find it encouraging to read about other people and their journeys. Thank you for sharing.7
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I could blame lots of things, but basically it's just that I love food. I'm 63 YO, 5'3" and back up to 147 lbs. I've gained and lost a whole person in my lifetime, maybe twice. I've been as high as 165 and as low as 108 (over many years). My "best weight" is 125- less than that and people ask if I'm sick. Right now I'm blaming quarantine, because as of last Feb I was hovering around 130ish. Then I started baking; it kept me busy and sane, but my pants don't fit. Every time I stop logging food I end up gaining again. SO. Yesterday was the first day, today I'll keep it going. Tomorrow too. I'm choosing health, it's time... thanks so much for being here!!!4
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Hi,
I'm just posting again since 2017.
I've struggled with weight my whole life. Went on my first diet at 8. Did Nutri-system with my mom at 18, lost 60 lbs. - gained all that back. Did opti-fast in my early 20s lost about 75 lbs - gained all that back. Trained for and did a marathon at 30 was in the best shape of my life - my only regret was not owning a scale. Whatever I lost - I gained all that back. At 40 I lost 100 lbs doing shakes - gained all that back. In my late 40s I lost 70 lbs, "the right way", slow and steady - gained all that back and another 30 to boot. So here I am at almost 52 at it again, a week removed from my highest weight ever. I don't know what to say - I've tried it every way there is, it's hard to find hope and motivation that this will be the time it "takes" but I know the alternative is worse. I can't keep going up, daily chores are getting harder and harder and the older I get the more difficult they will be. Here's to being 125 lbs lighter...7 -
ZhivagosGirl wrote: »Hi,
I'm just posting again since 2017.
I've struggled with weight my whole life. Went on my first diet at 8. Did Nutri-system with my mom at 18, lost 60 lbs. - gained all that back. Did opti-fast in my early 20s lost about 75 lbs - gained all that back. Trained for and did a marathon at 30 was in the best shape of my life - my only regret was not owning a scale. Whatever I lost - I gained all that back. At 40 I lost 100 lbs doing shakes - gained all that back. In my late 40s I lost 70 lbs, "the right way", slow and steady - gained all that back and another 30 to boot. So here I am at almost 52 at it again, a week removed from my highest weight ever. I don't know what to say - I've tried it every way there is, it's hard to find hope and motivation that this will be the time it "takes" but I know the alternative is worse. I can't keep going up, daily chores are getting harder and harder and the older I get the more difficult they will be. Here's to being 125 lbs lighter...
Maybe it's not the method that's the problem, but the mindset behind it. Wish you all the best. I struggle immensely if my brain isn't in the right place. My best weight loss plan is regular therapy, lol. I still struggle with negative self-talk and self-esteem, but the better it gets, the better I seem to do at overcoming issues before I self-sabotage too much.2 -
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It was 37 years ago when I started my very first diet. I was around thirteen, healthy, but I got a pair of shorts that got too small. The reason was that I started to develop into a woman, instead of staying with the frame of a small tomboy. Sometimes, I wish that someone could have pointed this out to me to save me a lifetime of yo-yoing. But I probably wouldn't have believed it. The only thing I wanted was to stay in my superduper pair of jeans-shorts.
I started to drink lots of water, which I hated. I ate lots of celery, which I hated and resolved to stay off chocolate for the rest of my life. Furthermore I bought an exercise LP (yes, that really existed back then :-) and I was determined to do that exercise class every day. My mother looked at me with an inquisitive eye, she knew something was brewing, but she had no idea what was happening in my teenage mind, that little seed of insecurity that had been planted.
So, that was my plan. I had almost no notion of calories (no internet back then); a plateau was a type of shoe and a carb was to be found in my fathers' car engine. The only information I could get was from a French woman's magazine. Needless to say I was doomed to fail. If I can remember well, after 4 days of celery, I started with a 100gr bar of chocolate with hazelnuts - and that candy never tasted as gooooood as that day !
That was my start of a lifelong yoyo. Back then, I was probably around 60kg (130lbs). My all time high was 92kg (203lbs) after meeting hubby who likes to eat as much as I do. A few years ago I was 65 (143lbs), but that was due to illness. Since then, the weight started to creep up again, and then I would set myself to it and lose it again. If I should guess how many kilos I've lost during my life, I would say 200kg (440lbs), and then gained as much.
Last year, I was at my target weight of 69kg (152lbs), then I hovered a long time around 71kg (156lbs) and today I'm around 73kg (160), mainly due to a very sedentary lifestyle during Covid lockdown. My goal this year is to get and STAY at 71kg, as I have a very difficult time to stay under the 70 mark. I feel I have to restrain too much and that sends me into a binge every time again.
Long story short: in 30-ish years, I've managed to reduce the range of my yoyo kilo's from 30 to 5, which I'll take as a win!3 -
Good luck to you all !!
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I was always tiny all through high school until college when I had my first, then second child. The weight kept coming on after that. In 2015, I was somewhere around 200 pounds. I know I quit looking at the scale then. I hated the way I looked but didn't feel motivated to do anything about it. One day, my (now ex) husband left a search on the computer that was "how to convince your wife to lose weight". That was a changing point for me. I went from 200 pounds down to almost 145. While I felt good, I did it for the wrong reasons. I was working my butt off (literally) while watching him eat ice cream and junk food. It was hard and really never seemed to be enough. I would get reminded all the time about how I used to look in high school. After 3 kids, I knew I probably wouldn't look like that again, so I gave up trying. The weight gradually went back on. I was around 165 when we got divorced. Now, I am married to a man that doesn't care about the weight I am or what I looked in high school (he didn't know me then, and would have been in 6th grade when I was graduating
). He loves to cook and makes such delicious food! Since we have been together, I have been creeping back up to the 200 mark. While he doesn't care what I look like (when I ask him how he can even look at me, he sends me heart eyes), I care about how I feel. And it is not real great right now. I've struggled staying motivated because of our busy schedules (and let's face it, his delicious food), but this time I want to do it for myself. Because I want to look better, feel better and live a healthier life. Together we have 5 kids that keep us very busy with sports and other activities, so I am always looking for ways to make time for myself and still be available for them. It takes planning and motivation, but I can be done! Long term, I would like to be back around the 145/150 mark. But for now, I have a goal of 30 pounds by May. My son graduates in May and I just want to feel better about myself then. 2 -
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currently on a 2825 log streak, former member of the 100 pound club, starting all over again after kicking the booze, please drop me a friend request to watch me go fat to fit to run the cardiff half marathon for charity0
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GrumpyDumpty wrote: »currently on a 2825 log streak, former member of the 100 pound club, starting all over again after kicking the booze, please drop me a friend request to watch me go fat to fit to run the cardiff half marathon for charity
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currently on a 2825 log streak, former member of the 100 pound club, starting all over again after kicking the booze, please drop me a friend request to watch me go fat to fit to run the cardiff half marathon for charity0
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In 2008 when I was 19, I was 265 lbs, I lost 120 lbs and kept it off between 2008 - 2016. In 2016 I was 215 lbs, did keto and was losing weight due to pressure from my boyfriend (he knew I was big from the beginning, if he wasn't attracted than he shouldn't have dated me). So between 2016 - 2018 I lost a lot of weight with keto, I went from 215 to 130 lbs. Our relationship ended anyway, and then I moved on and got pregnant with my son. Now its been years later and my son is 4 years old and I got up to 315 lbs! I am so embarrassed, this has been my highest weight, but I have been losing weight since January this year and I am down 42 lbs. This time I am doing it for me and not to keep or attract anyone, I just want to be the healthiest and happiest mama around. I am counting calories, practicing mindful eating, and going for walks.1
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