Weight loss buddy

mssanders0507

Heeey...my name is Bri. I’m 34 years old and I’m from Birmingham,al. I am really struggling with my weight. I’ve lost 100 before. I believe I can do it again. I’m honestly just not motivated enough I assume. I want to start a diet February 1-28 to challenge myself to lose 25-30 lbs. i want to challenge myself every 30 days until I reach my goal weight loss of 100lbs. I need a buddy who can push me as I push them. I would like to keep each other posted daily. Exercise together via video if possible and exchange information to benefit us on our journey. If you are seriously interested feel free to message me on here....Leeeets Get It! 💪🏽💋✌🏽

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tinkerbellang83

mssanders0507 wrote: »

Heeey...my name is Bri. I’m 34 years old and I’m from Birmingham,al. I am really struggling with my weight. I’ve lost 100 before. I believe I can do it again. I’m honestly just not motivated enough I assume. I want to start a diet February 1-28 to challenge myself to lose 25-30 lbs. i want to challenge myself every 30 days until I reach my goal weight loss of 100lbs. I need a buddy who can push me as I push them. I would like to keep each other posted daily. Exercise together via video if possible and exchange information to benefit us on our journey. If you are seriously interested feel free to message me on here....Leeeets Get It! 💪🏽💋✌🏽

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Are you expecting to lose 25-30lbs in 28 days? A healthy rate of loss is usually 1-2lbs per week, maybe 3 at a push if you're extremely obese and being medically supervised.

mssanders0507

I’ve lost a pound a day

tinkerbellang83

mssanders0507 wrote: »

I’ve lost a pound a day

That is neither healthy or sustainable long term, when initially changing your diet you can expect a large drop in water weight (i.e debloating) but for that rate of loss to happen long term you'd need a 3500 calorie deficit per day, which is more than most people's entire calorie burn for the day, so you'd basically have to not eat and then exercise unfuelled.

I presume you didn't gain the weight in a couple of months, why would you expect it to come of in a couple of months?

heybales

mssanders0507 wrote: »

I’ve lost a pound a day

What happened to those pounds that were lost?

Are you looking to lose any weight, like some fat, lots of water, some muscle?
Or interested in just fat weight?

AnnPT77

mssanders0507 wrote: »

I’ve lost a pound a day

Sure. And here you are back again, wanting to lose again. Maybe those two things are related? Worth a think, at least.

I'd like to see you succeed, long term. Betting those commenting above would, too.

mssanders0507

I had a baby and I got on birth control and BLEW UP lol...so here I am again 🤦🏽‍♀️

MaltedTea

Hey Bri! 👋🏾 The idea of challenging yourself is a good one, especially if you already know this is a way to stay motivated to accomplish a goal.

As you can see above, we're all just kind of worried about your pacing. It's not healthy. Period.

So if you're looking for buddies - especially here on MFP - then 9 times out of 10, you're likely going to find ones who are losing weight at clinically responsible rates. That's something like no more than 2 lb/week. Some people chose to lose even more slowly.

Have you chatted with your OB/Gyn or another member of your healthcare team about your weight concerns (especially in light of the fact you are using birth control)? If not, may I suggest you put in a call to them?

I hope you find a good, healthy buddy match here on MFP. More importantly, I hope you reach your goal and sustain it this time 'round. As a fellow mom, we both know how much our energy is needed every day.

AnnPT77

Without intending to be critical or judgmental, weight gain from medication is usually via one of 3 general pathways:

1. Increased fatigue, so lowered activity (including subconscious movement and things that people may think of as "metabolic").

2. Increased appetite, so higher calorie intake.

3. Water retention, which can add up to a surprisingly large amount, gradually, in some cases.

. . . or a combination of those.

The good news is that reasonably accurate calorie counting and attention to the scale can help minimize those effects. (I'm not saying it will be easy every minute, though.)

The bad news is that trying to lose weight at a very fast rate is likely, long term, to build those very same factors into big challenges, too, in and of itself.

With an excessively high calorie deficit (too-fast weight loss rate goal),

A. The body protects itself from what it perceives as "starvation" by down-regulating movement, including the subtle stuff, just as with point #1 above.

B. Appetite hormones, wired in by centuries and millennia of natural selection in mostly times of food shortage (rather than the modern surplus), are triggered, increasing cravings, and making it more likely we'll overeat, binge, or give up altogether, much like #2 above.

C. Stress-related hormones (such as cortisol) may increase water retention, gradually, and the water weight shows up on the scale, obscuring fat loss that's actually still going on, and making us think we're stalled, plateaued, not losing, much like #3 above.

Fast loss - or attempts at fast loss - have downsides.

(P.S. I'm severely hypothyroid, and post-menopausal, and pretty old (65 now), all of those being things that "people say" will cause weight gain or make it hard to lose, similar because of #1-#3 to the drug-related gain situation. I lost from obese to healthy anyway, maintained for 5 years since, FWIW.)