A thread for people working on 50+ lb weight loss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we do a supportive check in type of thread? I’m down 15 pounds since mid-March but probably have 70+ to go. Hard to stay motivated. My main focus is lots of exercise. Also doing a very half assed attempt at IF. Basically 15-9, but only on Monday through Friday and with one Diet Coke in the morning. Anyone want to join me on this thread?

PCOS. Starting keto next week. Goal is 60 - 70 lbs.

Will start IF on week #2. Week #1 will be no bread/rice/etc, adjusting to keto.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all! I need to lose 70 (and want to lose 90), so this is the place for me. I have PCOS, so I'm trying to stick with low carb (I have a plan from my Dr with a 50g/day target) and intermittent fasting. Low carb is stupid and I hate it, but it's crucial for PCOS, and it works when I stick to it.

I've actually been doing IF for a while. It's not a magic solution, but it makes sticking to my calorie goal easier, and it has had a huge psychological benefit.

I gained 5 lbs or so at the beginning quarantine because I was eating way too much trash food. I've lost that now, so now I'm working on making healthier habits stick.

I've always been the type of person who would choose a book over physical activity, so I'm also working on creating exercise habits. My daughter and I enjoy hiking, and I had started going to the gym regularly before covid. I definitely need to do more!

Are you on meds for PCOS?

Saw an endo who wants to put me on cabergoline--then threw in that this would be indefinitely--after I pressed for details and/or anticipated length of time for taking meds. WTF.

[Anonymous]

Just checking in! I gained 3 pounds last week, but lost 5 this week. No clue why it's fluctuating so much....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anyone else feel that even at 50 pounds plus overweight, you have been holding back? I know I have portion control problems and a fondness for fast food, but I feel like visually it appears that I must have REALLY been enjoying myself with gallons of ice cream and a spoon on the sofa, and that is just not the case. I am not blaming hormones or a sluggish metabolism, but I do feel like the desire to overeat must have some biological roots. I know I could EASILY be so much bigger with very little effort and that is just frightening. I am aware we aren’t all the same and life isn’t fair. I am losing weight and exercising-maybe I underestimate how restrictive normal weight women have to be with their daily intake?

Yes, definitely. I'm super short and over 50. The daily caloric intake just for me to maintain is ridiculously low. If I ate how I wanted to, I would be so much bigger.

[Anonymous]

Every year I lose 35-40 lbs in 6-7 weeks while overseas. Put them back on by January. I’m about 80 lbs over my ideal weight. Can’t go overseas because of pandemic. I am starting cabbage soup diet. I did IF for a month ( about 1800 calories daily) and didn’t lose any weight, while next door neighbor list 17 lbs. Suffer from hormonal Imbalance that can’t be controlled by medication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every year I lose 35-40 lbs in 6-7 weeks while overseas. Put them back on by January. I’m about 80 lbs over my ideal weight. Can’t go overseas because of pandemic. I am starting cabbage soup diet. I did IF for a month ( about 1800 calories daily) and didn’t lose any weight, while next door neighbor list 17 lbs. Suffer from hormonal Imbalance that can’t be controlled by medication.

How is that possible? That is almost a pound per day! I’m rooting for you to find a way to stop that cycle! Or replicate it at home somehow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all! I need to lose 70 (and want to lose 90), so this is the place for me. I have PCOS, so I'm trying to stick with low carb (I have a plan from my Dr with a 50g/day target) and intermittent fasting. Low carb is stupid and I hate it, but it's crucial for PCOS, and it works when I stick to it.

I've actually been doing IF for a while. It's not a magic solution, but it makes sticking to my calorie goal easier, and it has had a huge psychological benefit.

I gained 5 lbs or so at the beginning quarantine because I was eating way too much trash food. I've lost that now, so now I'm working on making healthier habits stick.

I've always been the type of person who would choose a book over physical activity, so I'm also working on creating exercise habits. My daughter and I enjoy hiking, and I had started going to the gym regularly before covid. I definitely need to do more!

Are you on meds for PCOS?

Saw an endo who wants to put me on cabergoline--then threw in that this would be indefinitely--after I pressed for details and/or anticipated length of time for taking meds. WTF.

I’m not the pp but I have PCOS and take metformin.

[Anonymous]

I’m in. I’ll go by MLS. I currently weigh 253, which is a high for me. The most I’ve ever weighed as an adult was 182, but that was before kids. I have PCOS which makes losing weight feel impossible. I started noom this week and I’ve been walking more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:80 lbs overweight here.
I’m trying not to think about how long it will take to lose - it’s depressing to think 1-2 yrs if I’m lucky - and I definitely feel a lot of shame, too.

I hear you, I have been there on the shame and desperation of how long will it take... Then I realized all I was doing was delaying my action to turn things around. Take on day at a time, make good choices and eat real food. Move your body, know your triggers and control your environment ! You can do this! I am on the same boat as far as how much weight to lose.

[Anonymous]

Two years ago I lost 125 lbs over the course of 14 months. I achieved this through calorie counting and daily walking. The biggest advice I can give anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight includes:
1) eat your normal diet. Don't sign up for a fad diet. They are not designed to ensure long-term or permanent success
2) don't obsess about the calorie counting or any other aspect of the weight loss.
3) take one day at a time
4) remember that you are a good person no matter how much you weigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:80 lbs overweight here.
I’m trying not to think about how long it will take to lose - it’s depressing to think 1-2 yrs if I’m lucky - and I definitely feel a lot of shame, too.

I hear you, I have been there on the shame and desperation of how long will it take... Then I realized all I was doing was delaying my action to turn things around. Take on day at a time, make good choices and eat real food. Move your body, know your triggers and control your environment ! You can do this! I am on the same boat as far as how much weight to lose.

If you can lose 1-2 lbs per week it will take a year or so. Look at it this way. The year is going to happen anyway. You may as well aim to be lighter by the end of it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every year I lose 35-40 lbs in 6-7 weeks while overseas. Put them back on by January. I’m about 80 lbs over my ideal weight. Can’t go overseas because of pandemic. I am starting cabbage soup diet. I did IF for a month ( about 1800 calories daily) and didn’t lose any weight, while next door neighbor list 17 lbs. Suffer from hormonal Imbalance that can’t be controlled by medication.

How is that possible? That is almost a pound per day! I’m rooting for you to find a way to stop that cycle! Or replicate it at home somehow?

I swear it's gut bacteria and the US processed food diet. Even when you eat the good veggies and stuff in the US, it's not the same as the farm grown, non GMO, not chemically fertilized food you get overseas. We were so much thinner and healthier overseas! And almost effortlessly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:80 lbs overweight here.
I’m trying not to think about how long it will take to lose - it’s depressing to think 1-2 yrs if I’m lucky - and I definitely feel a lot of shame, too.

I hear you, I have been there on the shame and desperation of how long will it take... Then I realized all I was doing was delaying my action to turn things around. Take on day at a time, make good choices and eat real food. Move your body, know your triggers and control your environment ! You can do this! I am on the same boat as far as how much weight to lose.

If you can lose 1-2 lbs per week it will take a year or so. Look at it this way. The year is going to happen anyway. You may as well aim to be lighter by the end of it!

This is me. I have been walking 4 miles a day now for two months and I am losing . . . . one pound a week! My husband has watched me cut out all eating between meals, after dinner, alcohol, sweets, etc. and walk for 1.5 hours a day to lose a pound a week, and has finally concluded that there are indeed people who have to work REALLY HARD to lose weight. I had this very frank conversation with him where I stated that it really hurts to watch his family members make comments about how fat people are lazy when I watch my diet more than they do, work out a lot more and harder, while they eat cake. He's finally coming around to the fact that a lot of my problem seems to be genetic. (I come from a LONG LINE of German farm wives.)

[Anonymous]

Yes! Thanks for this. I have about 80 lbs to lose- end goal, but I am breaking it up to make it more doable.
Was overweight before pregnancies. Lost most after baby#1, then with baby#2 I lost weight during pregnancy but gained so much afterwards...
Last October I realized (or had confirmation) that my a1c was at the insulin resistant level and that was a HUGE wake up call.
I started low carb high fat diet, and there were great weeks and poor weeks. My main challenges was to go back once I stepped away from LCHF eating. Move a few months forward I found an endocrinologist who really understands of hormone imbalance and she has been treating me and helping me with this new lifestyle! I am doing an IF protocol and eating low carb/keto but not crazy high in fat. I have been on this journey for 3-4 months and lost 20 lbs total. Still having great weeks and some poor days, but the balance is positive. And going back to the low carbon path has been easier now, if and when I fall off and make poor choices. My new mantra has been: just come back! I am making it a life style and accepting that I can not expect perfection. Trying to incorporate exercise this month of July, starting slowly! IF is changing my life, it controlled my hunger and I thought I was destined to always be hungry and be controlled by cravings!
I read the Diabetes Code and that was also a wake up call to get my A1C under control. That book explained a lot of my hunger and cravings and pains here and there. I am young (early 40s) and want to live a long life to e joy my kids and family!
Love this thread idea and will plan to come back weekly to check in. Will call myself "Linda". ☺️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all! I need to lose 70 (and want to lose 90), so this is the place for me. I have PCOS, so I'm trying to stick with low carb (I have a plan from my Dr with a 50g/day target) and intermittent fasting. Low carb is stupid and I hate it, but it's crucial for PCOS, and it works when I stick to it.

I've actually been doing IF for a while. It's not a magic solution, but it makes sticking to my calorie goal easier, and it has had a huge psychological benefit.

I gained 5 lbs or so at the beginning quarantine because I was eating way too much trash food. I've lost that now, so now I'm working on making healthier habits stick.

I've always been the type of person who would choose a book over physical activity, so I'm also working on creating exercise habits. My daughter and I enjoy hiking, and I had started going to the gym regularly before covid. I definitely need to do more!

Are you on meds for PCOS?

Saw an endo who wants to put me on cabergoline--then threw in that this would be indefinitely--after I pressed for details and/or anticipated length of time for taking meds. WTF.

I’m not the pp but I have PCOS and take metformin.

I'm the first PP in this group of replies, and yes, I also take metformin.