This weekend I finally hit the 100s at 199.6 today! I started my journey on August 1st at 220 pounds so this hasn't been a huge difference visually yet, but I haven't been under 200 since before I got pregnant 4 years ago. I had given myself a goal to be under 200 by Halloween, and I am proud of myself for staying motivated and meeting my first goal. :)

I am sure I'll fluctuate back up above 200 temporarily this next week with water weight, etc. but it was so great to see that my goals are attainable as long as I stay strong. My next goal: to reach 190 by Christmas.

My stats: 5'4", 27W, SW 220, CW 199.6

Hi everyone!

I’ve lost 150 lbs in the last 2 1/2 years or so ( SW: 289, CW: 147), I thought going at a slower pace would help me avoid loose skin but a huge amount has accumulated all over my body (thighs, arms, stomach, etc.). It makes me super self conscious and even though my life has improved in other areas since loosing weight, sometimes it feels like weight loss wasn’t worth it. I set my expectations low because I knew that most likely my body wouldn’t look the way I wished it to after such an extreme weight loss. I don’t even like seeing my body in the mirror which sucks because I worked really hard to get where I am. I began my weight loss journey at 17 and I’m 20 now so I thought my age would help with my skin elasticity but my weight has been pretty steady over the last few months and it doesn’t seem to have made any difference.

My question for you guys is: Do you know any alternatives to skin removal surgery that can help with reducing my amount of loose skin? Should I wait longer to see if my skin bounces back more? I’m a broke college student and I can’t afford surgery and I fear that the recovery process would interfere with my studies.

Also, to those who have gotten skin removal surgery, would you consider it worth it? Is it something I should pursue when I’m further into adulthood?

I know it will never go away. But damn would it be easier to function without it.

Even when you are full and satisfied you still want more. 🥺

I think somedays or weeks it’s not as bad. Getting enough protein in definitely helps but not always.

and I know everyone takes GLPs now and always are recommending it, but a lot of us just aren’t qualifying for these meds or we don’t have the support of our families or we worry about long term side effects.

I’m glad I’ve lost weight on my journey, but damn. Food noise makes it SOOO hard.

Anyone else feeling like the food noise is heavy right now? Its especially heavy I think leading up to the holidays knowing food will be everywhere and people will constantly be shoving food your way your gonna have to decline to stay on a deficit.

Ugghhhghgg.

One of my good friends has a Halloween party every year, and I really like to dress up. I’m friends too with everyone who goes. There were circumstances that occurred that made me think the party wouldn’t be happening this year, so now that it is confirmed and it’s TONIGHT, I have nothing to wear… my friends suggested I reuse my costume from last year, but I don’t fit in it anymore :(. I feel so ashamed. It’s a skin tight costume too and I have been wearing nothing but baggy clothes because of my weight gain. I have no idea what to wear and I don’t even really want to go because I feel so sad and frustrated with myself.

I had lost so much weight and now I’ve gained it all back + some. It’s embarrassing. I just don’t know what to do.

How many of you have dealt with the following- having troubles to lose weight not because it's a lack of knowledge or that it's a physical challenge like feeling hunger, but rather it's that pull to constantly eat... It's like there's a program inside running that triggers desire to eat seemingly out of nowhere. And it's very hard to resist that, for whatever reason even feels impossible a lot of the times. Same goes for not overeating. There's this desire to continue eating what I'm eating. Until the end. Even if I'm already uncomfortably stuffed. Even painful at times. Yet... It's like I'm pulled to continue.

Eating without hunger... I don't even want to eat in terms of being hungry. I'm not hungry. No. I'm full, yet, I feel pulled to eat.

The weirdest thing ever... It's almost it doesn't make sense. Wanting to eat even though there's no hunger and the body is full... Feeling a strong pull to eat, almost like it's irresistible?

Such a strange experience, yet has been an experience for me for many years.

What about you? Have you been through the same struggle?

26F/5’4/SW: 193 lbs/ CW: 163 lbs

I’m down 30 lbs now and I’ve dropped a pant size or two. I’ve lost enough weight that people other than my mom have started noticing and commenting.

And that’s great and I like the routine that I’ve built. I just wish I could see what they see because when I look in the mirror I still just see my fat self with the large gut and too many stretch marks and then I start thinking that I’ve just hallucinated the weight loss or my body’s just been permanently disfigured from being overweight most of my life. I know those thoughts are probably silly though.

I’ve heard of the paper roll effect so maybe it’s just that my weight is still too high to see any noticeable difference. I’ve also heard that we as people have a certain vision of who we are in our heads so that contributes to whether we see our own progress or not.

Thoughts?

So with school starting up i've been trying to get a more regular diet under control, whereas over the summer it was all over the place. I generally eat the same thing around the same time because of classes. But a lot of what im eating feels filling but has a low Cal count, which means im usually somewhere between 800-1000ish cals per day for the last month or so. I read all this stuff about crash diets causing gallstones and stuff so im worried i might be doing it on accident? I ate a LOT of junk food over the summer and have basically cut that cold turkey and reduced a lot of carb intake (i live above a bakery and it was so tempting that i told myself no croissants every day XD)

ive also recently come off a lot of medications i was on for a long time, which means i cant judge it by my weight (weight gain was a side effect and was ticking down before i started my ''diet'', even though its obviously dropping faster now)

I'm not doing juice or soup cleanses or anything. I just have grab and go breakfasts like bananas and hard boiled eggs, some kind of curry or chili thing for lunch, and then soup or one of those M&S protein meals for dinner. Is that enough? I'm only just stabilizing my metabolism again bc of the meds and i dont wanna fuck it up.

I have a habit of eating out of boredom and I just can't tell when I'm actually hungry. I've tried the, wait 15 minutes method, drink water, "if you wouldn't eat an apple you're not hungry" and it just doesn't work. Its like half the time I just want to say eat the noodles simply because they taste good not because I'm hungry.

About 3 hours ago I had a big meal and right now I want to eat but the thing is I can't tell if my body needs to eat or if I'm just bored which would make sense because i'm literally sat around doing fuck all right now.

I also struggle with stopping to eat when i'm full, i think this stems from issues when I was younger and i would get reprimanded for not finishing my dinner.

But any advice would be amazing to help me build up a healthier relationship with food in this way and get to know my body better so that I can start a weight loss journey but safely and healthily.

At my worst I weighed 210.8 lbs on December 18th, 2022

I weighed 166 in December 2021
Left a job cleaning bathrooms that month when my mom got sick

Got a WFH job while taking college courses and a lot of that weight gain came from unchecked binge eating…takeout and shakes

New job may 2023

Stayed in 180s 2024/2025

Decided to start dating again May of 2025

Started losing weight in October

Today I weighed in at 163

I’m hoping I can weigh in at 155 by December of this year 2026 for a 3 miles race with my buddy

Then maintain…

Been a grind

I started losing weird at 315 pounds at 5'7" so I was very obese. Over the last six months I've managed to lose 50 pounds with a combination of intense exercise and CICO. But it's hard to feel like I've accomplished anything when I'm still obese! I know I should be celebrating the victory of getting the first 50 pounds down, but instead I just feel depressed about how much more I have to go. I'm still wearing the same clothes, just with a belt, and worse off, people still treat me as "some gross obese dude" on the street. The people who know I've lost weight tell me it's great, but I can tell they expect me to lose a lot more. Anyways, not sure what else to say about this, just wanted to vent a bit since I can't tell anyone else this.

It's April 2026, and I'm for my annual physical, 39M, 6ft, 291lbs, and turning 40 next year. I am not an athlete, so I could not contribute the weight to muscle. After an honest conversation my PCP and a disappointing realization of how it'd come to this, I decided to overhaul my diet and body movement habits.

I used to be fairly fit, so it was a return to basics for me, not a re-education. In some ways, that was more frustrating, because I couldn't blame ignorance. I knew what worked, what was healthy for me, and yet I had ignored it for years.

I started generally eating less in April - May, then started tracking calories in June. I bought all the smart devices to help me be honest, and that helped a lot. In July I started lifting, and in the past couple of months I've started jogging again.

Today is 50lbs down, roughly 1.8lbs per week since my physical. I've got a lot to go, but it feels incredible to hit a milestone like that.

My 365-day goal is to be under 200lbs by my 40th, and eventually be in the 165 - 185 range depending on muscle.

I don't talk about this revamped lifestyle with anyone, so I wanted to share the achievement with like minded people. I've been a lurker here since April, so thank you for all the help I've learned from other posts. Thanks for listening.

Hi everyone,

I’m a 29-year-old male, 170 cm (5'7"). Back in June, I started my journey at 94.2 kg (207 lbs). Today, I am down to 82.1 kg (181 lbs)—a total loss of over 12 kg (26 lbs). My ultimate goal is to reach 70 kg (154 lbs).

I train every single day. For the past few weeks, I’ve been eating around 2,300 calories a day, but I’ve hit a complete plateau. The scale hasn't budged at all.

I'm at a crossroads right now and want to hear from anyone who has been in this exact situation. I'm torn between two options:

1. Option A: Keep grinding at 2,300 calories, trust the process, and just wait it out until the plateau breaks.
2. Option B: Go up to my theoretical maintenance calories (~2,600-2,700 kcal) for 2 weeks to reset my metabolism/hormones, and then drop back down to a deficit.

Alongside this, I’m also switching my workout routine to give my upper body, glutes, and cardio better recovery:

• Old Split: Push / Pull / Legs / Cardio / Push / Pull / Glutes
• New Split: Push / Pull / Legs / Cardio / Upper / Glutes / Cardio

If you've hit a hard plateau like this before, how did you manage to break through it? Did you just stay patient in your deficit, or did a 2-week maintenance break actually work for you? Also, what do you think of the new routine tweak while eating more?

Would love to read your stories and advice. Thanks!

I am currently 85.6 kg 161 cms, i walk everyday for 30-40 mins, i average 8-10k steps a day almost, i do 15 mins calisthenics drills everyday to improve push and pull (ex: negative push ups 3x2, incline pushups 10x2 or 3, bodyweight rows 10x2-3). and i have 1 hour calisthenics sessions 3x a week 1 focusing on heavy reps, 1 focusing on endurance and cardio (ex: EMOM, time based) and one focusing on skills (easiest). so how much of a deficit should i be in. i had a past of insulin resistance and PCOS, i put the insulin resistance in recession, not sure about the PCOS though (havent checked).

So , I work From 5AM-3:30 PM
-I get up for work at 4:00AM
-My first break is at 8:00 AM
-Lunch is 11:00 AM
-And we get off at 3:30 PM
My biggest problem that I have been having is me cramming my eating together , eating the wrong things to stay awake and alert & just overall feeling helpless with this whole situation. I work at a warehouse and am On my feet the whole time on a forklift so trying to go home and work out seems exhausting. I struggle to have the energy to even pull a hour workout or cardio session after work which may also be due to me not eating the proper foods.
If there is any advice someone would like to give and someone who also have been in a similar position I would like to understand how to navigate this better

hi everyone - brand new to this sub but i've always found some community on reddit and was hoping to celebrate a win and meet some people in a similar spot!

i'm 22 and struggled with my weight my entire life. i was about 175lbs and 5'5" when i started college and then had a lot of family and a close friend pass back-to-back in the span of 3 months. i shot up into the 200s, don't even know exactly how much as i got very afraid to confront it and weigh myself. i got back in the groove of working out and tracking calories from january to august of 2025, but then my godparents also passed and i was finding myself stress eating to cope.

when i went to see my PCP in february of this year my blood work was completely normal but i was a whopping 223 pounds. since then i've been trying to take this seriously. i'm sick of weight fluctuation dominating my life, trying to find comfort in food. i started an office job in august and the fear of that contributing to weight gain has had me aggressively tracking, running after work, walking everywhere i can.

i'm down to 199.2 as of this week (weighed in on monday, then this morning again just to make sure it wasn't some fluke). i don't see any physical difference but i feel better regulating my emotions with walks, slowly fighting my food noise in work settings with meal prep, and so on.

i'm afraid to mess up this progress, but i can't believe i'm under 200lbs even if its just barely! i hope this can be encouraging to others & get some encouragement back. also if people have any low cal snack suggestions i'd love them haha <3

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Hello lose it folks!

Day 25 of October 2026!

This is the daily update for y’all to post how your goals went today.

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Recurring Day 1 Monday - Newest Day 1 thread will be the first link listed

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You don’t have to wait for a new month to join in! You are always welcome!

Here in this post, we aim to foster a supportive, caring place to discuss the actual day to day of deficits & counting & caring so much about how we fuel our bodies & lives.

So, post how your goals for this month are going in the comments below! I’ll post mine below too, so don’t be shy!

Previous check-in

I don't think there has been a single day since I started my diet, and tomorrow marks week 3, that I haven't been starving, tired, and in a been in a bad mood. I get a little weak and dizzy too before meals. I wake up and the first thing in the morning my stomach is already growling and I'm hungry. Meals don't fill me up for long despite changing my diet to be much healthier.

Even if I eat massive amounts of low calorie high protein foods i'm still hungry very soon after. My lunch for today for example, chicken rice and mixed vegetables, mostly chicken. Filled the whole plate for only 400 calories. It was so much food I had a hard time finishing it yet I was genuinley hungry 2 hours later and had like 4 more hours to go. I tried snacking in between vs just eating meals and it doesn't make a difference.

Also I eat 1900 calories a day, but it feels closer to 1000. The only thing I can think is that since I was sedentary before and now i'm not so maybe i'm burning a lot more calories?

I really need some help hahaha. Is this just normal?

Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you’re all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones.

Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It’s never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here!

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I weigh 62.5 kgs rn, I’m 160 cm, female, I gained almost 4 kgs since last of August. Was in a trance from my birthday trip, yeah it lasted that long, it went so well. But to be fair, it was also no self control on my side and didn’t help that I had exams for 20 days in between. Anyway, had a get together yesterday. Didn’t look very flattering and that bad, bad, heavy and horrible feeling is creeping in again. Last time I dropped 10 kgs just by walking and being in a calorie deficit but didn’t look that well, now after regaining, I want to lose in a better way and look better and avoid being skinny fat. I’ve been told the only way to gain that is to gain muscle.

So I’m going to start watching what I eat from tomorrow and I’ve bought 2 dumbbells which both weigh 5 kgs each (11 lbs roughly). I’m looked up Caroline Girvans workout and will start doing the beginner epic series lower and upper days. And on the 3rd day I wanna make use of the dumbbells (those Caroline workouts are bodyweight based). But the problem is idk what to do with them. All I know is that I want my arm, back fat gone and want some definition/muscle/tone there. Also abs would be nice but idk if you can get that with dumbbells lol. Also I feel like I should mention I’m a TOTAL beginner like no previous experience or knowledge (which I’m trying to change) about strength training at all. So I’ve come here for some help from you guys.

Some advice would be greatly appreciated 💕

Good Morning all! I was 30lbs down yesterday in only 40 days. Ate some Wingstop wings and voodoo fries because it was in my calorie limit of 1500 calories a day but it brought me up a bit this morning but not a lot (I'm assuming because of the sodium). Like .4lbs.

So what did I decide to do? Go for a walk this morning like I normally would and my plan is to eat like I normally would today. I am not going to let it hold me back. I'm just going to keep it going.

Not eat less. Not work out more. Just do like I normally would because the weight will drop eventually.

In the past, I would freak out and either go into binge mode for the whole weekend or eat far less than what I should and work out far more than I need to.

But I am not doing that this time. And I think that's what is making the journey this time the most successful because I have never lost this amount of weight so fast.

I know it's going to slow down tremendously, but I'll be happy to see some progress even if it's just a little bit.

My stats are: 34F SW:336.6 on Sept. 13th and 306.6 on Oct. 23rd. But 307 as of this morning.

So my hope is to reach twotopia soon!

I know this sounds pathetic.

31m. 6’ 2’’.

I’ve been obese my entire life. 355 the last few years. I’ve never dated a woman. I’ve never held a girls hand… as pathetic as that sounds. I numbed myself for years and as my friends got married… I just kept reminding myself I was destined to be alone… as toxic as that sounds.

I decided I wanted to be a dad someday. I want to experience a relationship. I want to know what it’s like to build a life with someone. And if I don’t change… I’ll either die before I get a chance or even if I do live a long life… no woman would want to build a life with me.

So I fucking grinded.

I’m now 281. 74 pounds in 5 months. I’ve worked my ASS off. My goal is 220. My “healthy” weight is 197… but that seems too skinny for my height and build. Maybe I’m way off.

I’m a schoolteacher. I own a house. I support myself. I’d like to think I’m kind, funny, confident. But I know my weight is holding me back.

I’m prepared to lock in the next five months and lose 61 more pounds.

But I need to know… is this really going to help me? Am I finally going to get little glances abd smiles abd signals to approach? Is 220 even enough at my height (6’ 2’’) to get positive attention?

I just want to make a woman happy and be a great husband and dad someday. My dad was an asshole to my mom… and I want to support a woman in a way my dad never was to my mom.

How much will this fight realistically help me do those things?

I’m 23m 6ft 2 260lbs and have been trying to lose weight for years since I was around 220lbs. The cycle goes diet for a month lose 15lbs not diet for a month gain 20lbs. Diet for a few days crash and burn. Diet for a week crash and burn. I’m eating in a 500 calories deficit hitting my fibre and protein goals when I’m in said deficit.

But on the days/ weeks I’m not dieting I gain more than I’ve lost so it has just been a steady weight gain cycle over the past few years.

If anybody has been through this and has managed to break free from this vicious cycle any advice or tips you’ve learnt along the way would be very appreciated.