200+ lbs to lose

You may be able to lose as fast as 2.5 pounds per week to start. Do you have a doctor who can monitor you (via blood tests and such) for any concerns while losing? That could be helpful and reassuring.

Later, as you get much lighter, it's likely that you'll eventually reach a point where 2.5 pounds a week is too extreme . . . but I suspect that you may also find that some of your weight-related health conditions will start to improve along the way, so that may be reassuring as well.

You have a busy life, it sounds like. A key thing will be figuring out what weight loss rate you can sustain alongside your other responsibilities and activities. If there are improvements you can make in your nutrition along the way, that may help with all of satiation, energy level, and health. Finding sustainable new habits is really key, IMO, but what that looks like is very individual.

I believe you can do this. I'm cheering for you!

You can do this! I am using the same strategy, when I stick with it, I lose in that range. Keto, IF & satiety work well for me.

i've lost almost 100 pounds. i didn't do it all at once, so it's taken time, and i'm much stronger and healthier overall, which is great. i lost the first 60 pounds by doing food substitution and nothing else. i replaced 2% milk with non-fat milk, regular yogurt with light yogurt (hint - dannon light & fit cherry, vanilla and peach are yummy!), regular cheese with light cheese and regular ice cream with light ice cream. there are some tasty alternatives and some not-tasty alternatives, so i always expect to experiment a bit to find the ones that taste good to me.

then i started doing 3 10-minute walks per day, which helped strengthen my legs and improve my overall fitness. i'm not talking about fast walking - just regular walking, not super slow and without stopping. after i had been walking for a couple months with no issues, i assessed what i was doing and made a few course changes. but without simply walking first, i don't think i could have progressed.

logging your food is very helpful as i had not the slightest clue of how many calories i was eating a day. when you start logging, don't make changes yet. just see a pattern so you can decide what to change.

for me, putting time constraints on each step made me feel more pressure, which slowed my progress. but you're not me, so you may deal more positively with time constraints.

best of luck to you, and you CAN do this!

Hello, greetings from another side of the world - Cape Town, South Africa. If anything, I have learned that losing weight as individual as there are obese people on this planet. It took me ages to understand, that I have to listen to my own body - there are just too many "magic bullets" out there; but we are all unique in some way or other and that needs to be considered. Over the years I also had to realize, that sadly many, many seriously overweight people carry with them some sort of baggage - anything from difficult early childhoods, to negative experiences during the teenage years and even during adulthood. In other words - attempting weight loss, usually involves both - mental and physical health. Getting to grips with my own past, finding the reason why I have been overeating for so long needs to be addressed as well. Slowly, very slowly I have learned where, what, how and when my trigger points are and how I can try to circumvent them. On the food and beverage consumption side long - term goals are nice to think about - but it is actually today, this one and only day, that counts. And then tomorrow. And then the day after. One tiny step at a time.... Exercise: it doesn't seem to help at all, to attempt to be a world champion overnight. At my highest weight (170 kg, 375 pounds) I started with a short walk around the corner - and my knees nearly collapsed after a couple of minutes. But it will get easier over time - and rest days are important as well. I have been told, that losing weight is 80 % food and beverage intake and 20 % exercise. I am now in my 5th year and so far have lost about 40 kg (90 pounds); there4 were lots of "plateaus" on the way, which my body needed to adjust to the lower weight. Stick to Myfitnesspal, get information, find out what suits you best - and proudly record every single ounce, you are going to lose. Lets do it!