Reached my first goal!!! 100lbs gone!

pbm89gt

Yesterday at weigh in I achieved my first major goal of dropping 100lbs! It took 315 days starting at 2200 calories to 1530 calories today. I started keto low carb but recently I've added a few carbs back like rice, beans and very rarely breads. I have splurged also and those weeks I did see either a stall or gain even staying under my calories. Which was frustrating but it showed that even staying under my calories when you eat the wrong unhealthy food it really does affect your weight loss.
I'm so glad I started back on this journey to get healthy. I feel better, my knees and ankles don't hurt as bad anymore. If I can do this anybody can, I've lost weight before but never this much so I'm hoping I can keep going.
Moving forward this year I'm going to work on building my strength and stamina. I have a Schwinn bike now that also has the arm handles like an elliptical. I want to lose another 40-50lbs, but I've been told that that'll be too much and I wouldn't look right. That would have me at around 190-200lbs.

CrazyMermaid1

Wow! I’m so proud of you!

neanderthin

Were you on the keto diet from the beginning? If eating those carbs were just a few days sporadically then it was probably water weight that caused the stall or slight weight gain.

pbm89gt

Yes, started Keto at the beginning, I still ate some veggies and fruits that wasn't keto.

tomcustombuilder

Those foods most likely made you retain water hence the lack of progress even though you were in a weekly deficit, calorie wise.

mtaratoot

Thank you for sharing your success. Losing 100 pounds in a year is pretty amazing.

As far as getting to 190-200 pounds, who's telling you it's too much? What's your current weight and height? Many people have friends that tell them they're taking things too far. I did. I had friends that thought maybe I had an eating disorder. This was in part because I kept tracking calories after I got to my goal weight. When they realized that this was the way I was maintaining and no longer losing, they accepted it.

Also be prepared for people to comment that you "look gaunt." There's two things going on. One is they're not used to seeing you that thin. The other is that sometimes after weight loss, you DO look a little gaunt, especially in the face. I did. It got better. Part was people getting used to it, and another part was my body adapting to my new weight and "moving things around."

I bet you're already planning on your strategies in maintenance. It's pretty much the same thing as losing weight except that you get a few more calories every day. That's really where the rubber meets the road.

A year from now I look forward to reading about you getting to your goal weight and maybe even being stable there for a while.

PAV8888

SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS, well done so far and I hope you keep at it on your quest to becoming healthier.

Correct decisions can be helped by some knowledge!

For details you can look up references to glycogen (and keto); but a quick run down goes like this:

Part of eating at a deficit and even more so part of eating low carb is that doing so leads to glycogen depletion.

Total glycogen in your non depleted ~70kg body would be about 520g. A bit more if you weight more or have extra skeletal muscle. Each g of glycogen stores 4 Cal of energy being a carbohydrate. So this storage represents approximately 2-2,500 Cal of "quick" energy reserves for your body. And it is stored in your liver and muscles bound to 3 to 4 times the amount of water. So your 500g of energy reserves represents about 2.5KG i.e. about 5.5lbs of body weight.

Whenever you lower or increase your carb intake this generates a disproportionate swing to your body weight since it comes with the associated 3-4x water multiplier attached to it.

None of it (going down or going up) represents a change to your adipose tissue (fat) reserves.

Onwards.

One year and 100lbs is an extremely significant and quite fast weight loss. Many of us experience a significant lag between our brains catching up to our bodies.

But change is also jarring to the people around us who are used to seeing us a certain way. This is exacerbated by us living in an environment where weight normalcy is not what is considered to be medically normal weight.

Looking at pre-pandemic NIH produced data as published by the NIDDK and derived from 2017-2018 NHANES more than 70% of the US population is either overweight or obese.


This means that only 30% of adults are normal weight.

Which may help explain why I still get comments from people who perceive me as "thin" when in fact I am hovering around BMI 25.

You would have to be unusually tall for 190lbs to be too low of a goal weight for your health

That said your big health win is that first century of weight. So no matter what else I did that's the core weight loss I would seek to protect!

EdgeofDesiree

Well done!

spiriteagle99

Congratulations. That is an amazing accomplishment.

Corina1143

100 pounds! Wow! Good for you! No matter if you lose more or not. No matter how much more you lose.
Celebrate what you've done! For your heart! For your joints! For your life! Riding a bike again! What fun!

dennis3031

Congratulations hang in there it can be done & maintained with support & persistence

km9xrv82qq

Amazing work! My goal is to loose 80lbs in the next year. Thank you for sharing your story!

sebedina

Amazingly inspiring. I have 84 pounds to lose to be at a healthy weight. I have eliminated wheat as I find I am feeling better without it. I am aiming for 1.5-2 pounds a week.

eliz_mcl

Just started out last week, diabetic and 100 lbs to lose…I am inspired by your story. Thank you and congratulations!!!

kaikeiki

Just starting...but i have to read more about your story..congratulations!

Whyohwhydidsheswallowthefly

Wow that really is amazing, well done

age_is_just_a_number

Congratulations!!!!!
That’s amazing.

Two questions re ‘ I've been told that that'll be too much and I wouldn't look right.’ —-> who told you that? And why are you letting them make that decision for you?
Remember, this is your life and your body and you should do what feels comfortable to you.