Tell me about your weight loss successes?

[WeightyMama]

Spur me on! I keep saying ‘tomorrow I’ll eat better’ and then there I am shovelling the chocolate down my throat. I need a kick up the arse.

Tell me about your weight loss stories, how you did it, how you felt and inspire me please!

I was sat on the sofa one evening stuffing my face with my Buddha belly all squished and uncomfortable and just decided I’d had enough. I felt disgusting, sluggish and unattractive-despite DH telling me I was gorgeous.

I got on the scales the next morning and logged my weight onto My Fitness Pal and started weighing and logging everything I ate.
I worked out my TDEE here and reduced the calories by 20% to get a weight loss calorie target.
tdeecalculator.net/

Nearly 3 stone down and now a size 10 - I still weigh and log food but have increased my calories to my maintenance amount. I never cut any food out but MFP has helped me make better food choices without depriving myself.

I've just started a weight loss plan. Went through freezer. Chucked out of date stuff. Drew up a meal plan for the month. Did online shop- prioritised fish, turkey and chicken and diff types of beans-haricot, cannelini, black, and red lentils, which I'm ok with in moderate amounts. Looked at online calculators to work out Basal Metabolic Rate i.e. how many cals I need to sustain myself. Decided on an exercise plan which is rejoin gym on cheap mornings only membership, do one AM workout, one AM spin class and one swim at weekend, plus a longer walk at weekends, and every day walk 30 mins. Subtracted the calories burned from those from the daily allowance. Started to enter my daily meal plan which won't change massively into a logging App so I can see that everyday I am getting enough vitamins, minerals, carb/fat/protein balance. Opted for 100g carb, 75g protein and 50g fat targets but not super strict if one is less or more. Now into batch cooking some of the meals over the weekend. Sunday will prep for the week ahead. Just been to the gym for induction and walking plus 5 mins of machines I am knackered! Had first healthy dinner and was great, cooking was fun. Now is the best time to have a health kick as the weather is also a boost. I did have a blowout yest on icecream but that is me done, frozen yoghurt only now.

This approach has worked for me in the past so I know it will again. What I am doing differently this time though is eating more calories, for two reasons, one is that the brain uses 20% of our calories and I have a mentally demanding job, I can't do with feeling weak, and two I plan to lose weight concurrently with exercise which will burn more and I can't be doing with feeling starving the day after exercise. I hope this will make it more sustainable than in the past where I have hit my target weight but eventually it creeps back up. I will also keep more of an eye for future too, but that's for thinking about later. Got to get there first! I always feel like I have more energy, besides fitting better in my clothes. That's my motivation-feeling happier because I have more energy. Sorry long answer but you did ask! What's your sort of plan going to be?

I eat less when I've exercised. It seems to curb my appetite, and also less time to snack!

Sept 2019 I hit rock bottom. My BMI was 54, I could barely reach to wipe my own arse, and I'd had enough. I summoned up the courage to walk back through the doors at Slimming World (I had done it before, successfully, but let it slip) and got back on track. At first I couldn't really believe that I would actually be able to keep it up, but I've now lost 7.5 stone, my BMI is 36, and I'm still losing. I can shop in normal shops, I can fit in normal chairs, and I feel really positive about my weight. It's all about mindset though. You need to have your head int he right place, see it as a positive change/choice you are making for yourself and not something you 'have' to do. If your head is in the right place it doesn't matter what eating plan you use as long as it works for you and is sustainable, the mental attitude is the main thing to get right.

Woke up on jan 1st 2018 and knew i had ti make some changes to my weight and my personal life

So I started going out for walks, joined slimming world, joined a walking group, threw my partner of 13 years out (awful relationship)

Really changed my mindset but it was hard at first

Lost 3 stone and kept it off and still off 3 years later.

I lost 2 stone during lockdown (11.5st to 9.5st). I walked for an hour every day as well as a 20 min run (having never run before). Used my FitBit to log all exercise and food and kept my calories to 1,200 each day. I also gave up alcohol. For me, I could still eat crisps/cheese/McDonalds as long as I kept my calories to 1,200 maximum. I feel (and look) so much better. I found once I got in the right frame of mind and saw the weight coming off, it wasn’t that difficult to stick to.

I was 20 stone after my second child and dad dying, when I'd always been slim previously. It was seeing people in small shops have to squeeze past me even when I had made space for them, or a photo of me having lunch with my friends and my chair is stuck out so the waitress had trouble manoeuvering around it.. lots of things like that. I thought "fuck this!" went on a shakes and low carb meal plan and lost 9 stone in 9 months and have kept it off for years with healthy eating, no exercise apart from walking.
I wanted the weight off quickly and to not have to think about food too much so it worked!

Following with interest. I'm in same position as you OP, after a great start to last year my weight has crept up during lockdown, especially this last one which I have found particularly hard to cope with. I try to walk most days and have started swimming again since the gym opened but its food that is my weak point and all I seem to do lately is comfort eat.